"Adele, thank you so much for your hard work this time." George smiled and gave Adele a big hug, and took the luggage from the other party. "It must be a very tiring thing to negotiate with Sterling, the money-guarding slave, right?"

Why was George the only one who accompanied him when he attended the G14 conference and went to Germany to watch the Federation Cup? This was not because George felt that Adele was annoying when he was a light bulb, so he didn't bring her with him. But because he needed Adele to come forward and go to the United States across the Atlantic to discuss two businesses!

"Of course!" Although he successfully completed the mission goal after some twists and turns, Adele looked extremely depressed and his words were full of resentment. "I really didn't expect that there would be such a greedy guy. In order to sell the Clippers at a higher price, he has been steadily controlling the team's salary below the salary cap, and he actually traded several high-paying players to increase the Clippers' book assets. If it weren't for wasting too long on these things with him, I would definitely be on the scene to watch the finals of the Federation Cup with you, brother!"

The Los Angeles Galaxy and the Los Angeles Clippers are the main goals of Adele's trip to the United States. In order to cover up, it is claimed that Adele went to the United States to inspect the development and profitability of its affiliated companies such as Facebook and Twitter this year. After all, before the acquisition is completed, it is better to know that George has further expanded the territory of the sports empire and use this to open up Tottenham's market in the United States, the fewer people are better!

It is not difficult to acquire Los Angeles Galaxy. Before Beckham arrived, although the Major League of Professional Football was gigging on its face and claimed to be the fifth largest sports league in the United States, its own situation and business value were really not very good. To put it bluntly, all the teams in the entire professional football league will not necessarily be as valuable as the Yankees in New York (a super giant of mlb, which has always dominated the top three Forbes professional sports club value rankings) and a club. In this case, George naturally does not need to pay too much money to acquire Los Angeles Galaxy, known as "Real Madrid in the United States".

Although in the eyes of fans, the United States is a veritable football desert, in fact, due to the huge market and developed economy of the United States, even if football can only drink a sip of soup in the gap between the four major leagues, it is enough to make Tottenham a big profit!

Compared with the Los Angeles Galaxy, the acquisition of the Los Angeles Clippers is much more difficult. Although Sterling's Clippers are one of the most famous bad teams in the NBA, the Clippers' profitability is still quite good when they are backed by the big city of Los Angeles and Sterling's strict control of operating costs. Therefore, it is very difficult to buy the Clippers from Sterling!

Although the Los Angeles Lakers have obviously better conditions than the Clippers in all aspects, and Jim Buss, who is worried about the lack of funds, also welcomes George, a big money owner, to invest in the Lakers to help him share the pressure, at this time, George's personal wishes played a considerable role. The reason is very simple, that is, he doesn't like the Lakers' star Kobe Bryant, very dislikes it!

Kobe is indeed worthy of the title of basketball superstar, and is indeed the strongest shooting guard after Jordan retired, but in his previous life and now, George doesn't catch a cold with this star who only has a basket in his eyes. In his opinion, if it weren't for Stern's intentional support, Bass, who has got Kobe O'Neal and Gasol, and he pays huge luxury taxes every year to build an All-Star lineup, Kobe in his previous life would not have won five championship rings, let alone FMVP and MVP in his regular season!

The most important thing is that George acquired an NBA team not to switch to basketball, but to use the NBA platform to expand Tottenham's influence in the United States and achieve the goal of opening up the American market!

However, what similarities can an NBA team that relies on one of the stars to score singles and other teammates are waiting to take the blame when watching the show and Tottenham, which mainly plays in teams? Therefore, George will not use the Los Angeles Lakers with Kobe as the core as the candidate target for the acquisition!

Moreover, although the Lakers are much more popular in Los Angeles than the Clippers, as long as their grades are improved and their playing style is good enough, the Clippers' ability to make money will definitely not be much worse than that of the Lakers. In his previous life, the Clippers in their previous life used their ornamental alleys, dunks and excellent results to capture a lot of popularity from the Lakers. When George traveled through time, the Clippers' market value had risen to sixth in the NBA, reaching an astonishing $2 billion!

Therefore, after repeated consideration, George finally decided to let Adele discuss the Clippers' acquisition with Sterling - he didn't want this matter to be delayed for too long, which would affect a series of commercial promotion plans for Tottenham in the United States this summer!

Two hundred million US dollars, this is the final transaction price Adele and Sterling reached in the Clippers' deal. Although this price is a bit higher for the current Clippers, George knew that he was definitely making a fortune. You know, when Sterling was forced to sell the Clippers under the pressure of the league in his previous life, he sold a total of 2 billion US dollars, which is ten times the price!

As for whom to send to manage the Los Angeles Clippers after the change of ownership, George has already made a draft - Sam Presti, who had outstanding performance in the position of Thunder in his previous life, will replace Elgin Baylor, who can only choose parallel goods, and become the new general manager of the Clippers!

Although some of Presti's operations in the Thunder in his previous life were questioned (such as trading Harden for Kevin Martin on the decline, etc.), in George's view, these transactions are likely to be something that Presti had to do in order to keep profitable (the Oklahoma City where the Thunder is located is too small, and it is difficult for the boss to afford too many stars if his boss is unwilling to burn money). Now, with the boss behind Los Angeles, the big football market and the boss is allowed to pay a certain amount of luxury tax, Presti will definitely make better results in the Clippers!

Since George's primary purpose of buying the Clippers is to help Tottenham develop the US market, the Clippers must have enough eye-catching play and excellent results. Otherwise, who would pay attention to which football club a bad team formed a partnership with?

After Adele settled the two clubs, the Galaxy Los Angeles and the Clippers, and made preliminary preparations for Tottenham's gold rush scheduled to be held at the end of July, George quickly finalized a transfer - future Captain America Clint Dempsey entered the Premier League with a net worth of $1.5 million and became an official member of Tottenham Hotspur!
Chapter completed!