Chapter 089: First Arrival in the British Isles

Melissa has been dealing with the contract for the takeover over the last few days, while Robert Iger has been assisted by Edgar Bronfman Jr. for the handover.

The existing chairman and president of Universal Pictures will either be demoted or replaced, and Cang Yaozu will not care, and will be handed over to Robert Iger to deal with, and the degree of decentralization is so great, and the equity given to Iger will be transferred to Universal Pictures accordingly, and Marvel Studios and Legendary Pictures will exist as independent subsidiaries of Universal Pictures.

Cang Yaozu went to play with Giselle Bundchen without mentioning it, and Sherrill also went to her mentor to seize the time to hand over the work, Summers has a lot of students, and there are many people who want to be his office director.

Maybe in a few days Sherill will be able to take up the post, although this new owner is young and quiet, but she has already won a lot of industries, has a future, and her motivation is higher.

When the time came to December 30, it was almost 1997, and Melissa finally roughly settled the contract matters for Universal, and the follow-up work was taken over by someone from her own company to ensure a smooth transition for Universal Pictures and other subsidiaries large and small.

Kura's trip to London had to be set in motion and Melissa made an appointment with Chelsea Football Club chairman Mr Bates to watch the Reds and Blues clash between Chelsea and Liverpool at the Blues' home stadium on New Year's Day. No-shows are not good.

Cang Yaozu and Melissa, as well as Gisele Bundchen and the bodyguard team who had to follow them, embarked on a flight to England, but the media in Citigroup began a round of carnival.

According to this newspaper, the former ABC president parachuted into the world and stood at the peak of Hollywood.

Robert Iger bravely took on the heavy responsibility and wanted to save the world's life.

Less than a week after Universal lost the Hulk, the Hulk is back.

Universal and the Hulk have not yet fallen in love, and the new Hulk film is about to be filmed.

The world changed hands again, and Hollywood made waves.

The laid-off former chairman and president of Universal Pictures broke the news to the media respectively, and then Robert Iger was besieged by reporters, Universal Pictures is different from Marvel or Legendary Pictures, and has a great influence in the industry, which naturally attracts the attention of the media.

At that time, when Marvel was acquired, the internal secrecy work was still very good, and only a few small pieces of news came out, and then it fell silent. The handover of Universal Pictures can't be suppressed this time, Universal Pictures has changed new owners in recent years, it seems to be a little stormy, and people in the industry are generally optimistic about Universal's prospects.

Robert Iger soon initiated negotiations between Universal and DreamWorks to get full involvement in the distribution and merchandising of DreamWorks' live-action and animated films. Robert Iger had a good personal relationship with the DreamWorks Triumvirate, and the negotiations quickly came to an agreement. The media also quickly broke the news.

DreamWorks partners with Universal, and the new partner proudly provokes Pixar Disney.

The animation market is turbulent, and Pixar's position in the industry is difficult to protect.

According to industry insiders, Blue Sky Studio, which was acquired by Marvel earlier and now belongs to Universal Pictures, has also started the production of animated feature films.

With the media following up, Robert Iger's brief tenure at Marvel was also dug up. Journalists took a keen interest in him and interviewed Michael Eisner for this.

Eisner spoke highly of Robert Iger, and said that Iger's departure was only his personal choice, and Disney was very harmonious and absolutely did not suppress him. Eisner said that he and Iger have a good personal relationship, and now that Iger is at the helm of Universal, the cooperation with Disney will only increase.

The Hollywood news has been disturbing for several days, not only has not subsided, but it has also intensified, many rumors have also broken out, Universal Pictures is advancing various tasks step by step, and Cang Yaozu has also started a new round of acquisitions in London.

On the first day of 1997, at the home of the Stamford Bridge Blues, Cang Yaozu took two daughters accompanied by Chelsea Club President Bates, and watched the red and blue battle on the spot, Chelsea ranked seventh before the game, and Liverpool ranked first, but in the end Chelsea won the game with a score of 1:0, which made Bates very excited, although he only won one goal, but the victory was good, which shows that Chelsea's strength is still very strong, so that the value of the club will be higher, competitive, too competitive, win the top team.

The next day, Melissa and Cang Yaozu began negotiations with Chelsea, and Bates bit the price of 50 million pounds, and Chelsea's 48 million pounds of debt also needed to be borne by the buyer, so it was not too expensive, after all, Chelsea is a capital team, and it is not a fish belly.

Watching Bates continue to brag about Chelsea's strength, what potential is very high, the capital team, etc., Cang Yaozu began to ponder, this bad old man is very bad, how to pit Abu's money, I think about it, Chelsea Town, yes, he transferred a lot of assets to the company Chelsea Town, and finally forced Abu to spend a lot of money to package the Chelsea Town project, which can be regarded as wiping the ass of old Bates. Selling the team is followed by selling real estate, there is really a set.

The other issue is the stadium, the ownership of Stamford Bridge does not belong to Chelsea FC, but to the Chelsea Stadium owners company set up by Bates, which is abbreviated as CPO. The CPO company has provided fans with a permanent stake in Stamford Bridge.

To ensure that this stake is never forcibly taken away, the voting rights of each shareholder of a CPO company are limited to 100 votes, regardless of how much stake you own. This ensures that property developers can't get involved and buy off all the shareholders for a large sum of money to change the use of the land on which Stamford Bridge is located.

By the time Abu wanted to expand or renovate the Stamford Bridge pitch, CPO was one of the main obstacles to the Stamford Bridge redevelopment plan.

Even if he is as deep as Abu, he will not be able to buy ownership of the stadium at Stamford Bridge from the CPO company. Because even if Abu takes more shares, he will not get enough voting rights.

Hehe, you think too much, back when the CPO company was founded, Ken Bates had the foresight to get the CPO company to sign an agreement with Chelsea Football Club that would give them no right to continue to use the Chelsea Football Club name if one day Chelsea no longer used Stamford Bridge as their home stadium.

You are all clever little ghosts, this can tie Stamford Bridge and Chelsea Football Club together, but how the stadium is renovated and expanded, how the club develops, this is the rhythm of dying together.

The facilities at Old Stamford Bridge, as well as the low number of seats, have placed significant constraints on Chelsea's subsequent development. On the contrary, the price of the Chelsea FC deal is not a big question.

Cang Yaozu slowly raised his questions to Bates, and asked for clarification of the scope of the assets of Chelsea Town Company, which could not affect the buyer's control of Chelsea Club, and at the same time made it clear that Stamford Bridge Stadium must belong to Chelsea Club in order to facilitate the reconstruction or expansion of the stadium.

Bates didn't expect that Cang Yaozu, a young man, knew so much, and he was a little panicked for a while, he wanted to make another lot of money on Chelsea Club, but how did this yellow-skinned guy know that these cats were greasy?