The day after arriving in London, Ronan visited William at the FA. The two were old acquaintances, and William also warmly received Ronan.

"Welcome to London." William shook hands with Ronan and asked, "Are you ready?"

Ronan smiled and said, "I made some preparations, but things were more complicated than I thought, so I came to seek confidence."

William smiled and said, "Didn't you have made a plan long ago?"

"I want to ask the FA's position." Ronan didn't go around in circles and said directly: "There is also the Premier League."

William said very seriously: "The Premier League is an open league, welcoming fans and players around the world, and investors around the world, as is the case in the Premier League."

Luo Nan took a reassurance and said specifically: "There are many investors everywhere. Is there a difference in investment?"

"Of course." William has been influenced by his childhood and understood what this sentence means: "The FA League is preferred to welcome friends' investment."

Ronan knew that this "friend" was not talking about personal relationships: "Relativity Entertainment has always been a friend of the FA."

From the first time we met William to the current acquisition of Manchester United, Ronan has not met William many times, but many of the work has been done privately.

To be precise, with Ronan's abundant financial resources, William felt the warmth of the sun.

Because of some special reasons, many things cannot be expressed clearly.

In short, Ronan understood that William, an important figure who has not yet achieved financial freedom in the royal family, also understood.

After staying in the FA for half a morning, having lunch with William at noon, Ronan said goodbye and left, and the official obstacles were basically eliminated.

Of course, if fans oppose extremely fiercely and even trigger large-scale protests, no one can guarantee whether the FA will change under the huge pressure of public opinion.

Half an hour later, Ronan came to the London Branch of Bank of America.

Because Judith said hello to the headquarters, Joanne Fisher, who was in charge of loan business in the branch, had already been waiting at the bank entrance.

The two parties have communicated about loans before, and Bank of America has also stated that it will provide loans.

Of course, the premise of a huge loan is to have corresponding mortgages.

But Bank of America does not know the purpose of the loan for the time being. Ronan came here this time to give the final explanation and handle the relevant procedures.

Joanne Fisher looked at the information that Connie gave her and confirmed again: "Does Mr. Anderson want a personal loan?"

Ronan said directly: "The purpose of this loan is for personal purposes, and it is explained above."

"Acquiring Manchester United?" Joanne Fisher was quite surprised.

Ronan said lightly: "I hope Ms. Fisher can keep it secret."

"Of course." Joanne Fisher said quickly: "Mr. Anderson, please believe in my professional ethics."

After she finished reading the information, Ronan said: "I used Amazon shares as collateral to borrow 500 million pounds from your bank."

Materials such as proof of equity have been passed to Bank of America long ago, and Joanne Fisher said: "The head office will approve the loan within a week."

"There is another point, I want to declare in advance." Ronan said directly: "If the acquisition of Manchester United Club is successful, your bank needs to apply for equity to relieve the pressure on me, and the loan mortgage will be replaced with the income of Manchester United Club in the next three years."

Joanne Fisher understands that this is to pass on personal loans into corporate loans.

"Under normal circumstances, we won't handle it." Joanne Fisher glanced at Ronan and then sold it: "But Mr. Anderson is the most important partner of Bank of America. As long as the legal channels can be accessed, we will do our best to provide services to Mr. Anderson."

She said: "The goal of this loan is to acquire Manchester United. If Mr Anderson acquires solely and the future creditors agree to this, it will be easy to achieve. If the joint venture acquisition is required, the consent of other partners must be obtained."

Ronan has communicated with Will Smith and Tom Cruise, saying: "There is no problem."

He knew that it was enough for Bank of America to operate legally. How to do it will naturally be communicated with Bank of America to deal with it.

The Glazer family has not appeared yet, and Ronan's team has not yet discovered the involvement between the Glazer family and Manchester United. Perhaps before the Glazer family decides to take action against Manchester United, Manchester United will change hands.

However, Ronan also borrowed some operational methods from the Glazer family's acquisition of Manchester United. Although the financial strategies used by both sides are fundamentally different, they have a common point - using Manchester United's future income to acquire Manchester United.

It used to be a classic business case of successfully using leveraged acquisitions.

The so-called "leveraged acquisition" refers to the acquisition's use of a small amount of capital to borrow a large amount of funds from investment banks or other financial institutions to carry out acquisition activities. After a successful acquisition, the company's income is used to pay the high proportion of liabilities arising from the acquisition, so as to achieve the purpose of using very little capital to make high profits.

At that time, the Glazer family had a net worth less than one billion pounds. They obtained loans from JP Morgan Bank and the three major hedge funds in the United States through leveraged acquisitions, and acquired Manchester United clubs that were close to their entire net worth.

After the acquisition was completed, Manchester United was burdened with a heavy debt burden, with debts exceeding 700 million pounds.

What's even more terrifying is that this debt has extremely high interest rates due to the leveraged acquisition.

If the mortgage acquisition used by Ronan is successful, Manchester United will also have huge debts, but the interest rate is very low.

By contrast, the strategy he used was softer.

There is no problem with mortgage on Manchester United's revenue. Manchester United's club's total revenue last season was 518 million euros and its net profit was 70 million euros.

This is the most financially healthy professional football club in Europe.

While Ronan was acting, a team of Jefferson was also working hard in the secondary market, constantly gaining access to the circulating shares in the market, and at the same time engaged in negotiations with several small shareholders she had contacted before, and reached acquisition agreements with many of them.

Before getting off work that day, Ronan had 9% of the Manchester United shares in his hands.

In the evening, Connie, as the spokesperson for Ronan, Will Smith and Tom Cruise, officially disclosed relevant information to the public, and issued an acquisition offer to Manchester United club in the name of Ronan, Tom Cruise and Will Smith!

The news spread quickly, and there was an uproar on the Internet first.

After the paper media reacted, the whole of Britain and Europe were in full swing.

Last year, Roman Abramovich acquired Chelsea, which caused a sensation. After all, it was a second-rate team. Manchester United is a top European giant, and its meaning itself is extraordinary.

Subsequently, Manchester United officially confirmed to the outside world that someone was indeed making "tentative contacts" with them about their acquisition intentions.

The emotions of Manchester United fans were instantly ignited, and the shareholders' league took the lead in making a statement that Manchester United would not sell, whether it was the euro or the US dollar!

Those conservative and stubborn fans in England are well-known all over the world. Manchester United's conservative fans organized the fastest speed and shouted an extremely loud slogan: Battle for Bloodline Defense!

Some Manchester United fan leaders have made a high-profile statement that as long as Manchester United fans unite, it will be the same as the last acquisition of foreign forces: they come and they see that they are unable to conquer them in the end.

The more infuriated fans began to rally in Manchester Plaza, further emphasizing the battle to defend bloodline, because Manchester United is the last purity and final dignity of British football.

This is not the most troublesome, the most troublesome thing is that these die-hard fans have a considerable amount of Manchester United shares in their hands.

Nine percent of the shares are enough to make Ronan the small group the fourth largest shareholder of Manchester United.

But Ronan is also very clear that it will take a tough battle to win Manchester United club.

Jefferson, who represented Ronan's three, had initial contacts with Manchester United's Big Three head coach Alex Ferguson, CEO Peter Kenyon and general manager David Jill respectively.

Like the information obtained from previous investigations, the three did not oppose the change of ownership of Manchester United's equity, but unanimously demanded that the stability of Manchester United club be maintained.

Afterwards, Ronan met with Ferguson in person.

Manchester United was in a period of change in this era. Ferguson was making drastic reforms to Manchester United, completely abandoning British style and introducing a large number of technical players.

Ronan promised him that as long as the acquisition is successful, the transfer fee is not a problem. He will not draw one penny profit from Manchester United in the next five years, and the club will have enough income to allow him to introduce his favorite players.

In a super luxurious estate in Chelsea, an Arab man in his thirties looked at two assistants with a serious expression on his face.

"The news is confirmed?" Chief Mansur asked.

The thin man answered first: "Yes, it's confirmed. After multiple feedbacks, Ronan Anderson joined forces with Hollywood superstars Will Smith and Tom Cruise to acquire Manchester United club. Before, they were not sending any news and were preparing secretly, so we didn't notice them. Now we are in the open, and it's not difficult to collect related news."

The fat man added: "Ronan Anderson and Will Smith are currently staying at the Ritz Carlton Hotel. Tom Cruise will take a flight from Los Angeles tomorrow and will soon meet with Ronan Anderson and Will Smith."

Mansour seemed to see the young figure back then again, and sighed softly: "Ronan Anderson, our old friend."

The thin man and the fat man looked at each other, and they were so smart that they didn't take this topic.

Of course they know who Ronan Anderson is! They also know what Ronan Anderson has to do with the Abu Dhabi consortium!

Mansour quickly got rid of that inexplicable emotion and asked, “Are they rich in funds?”

The fat man replied: "Absolutely not as abundant as us."

Mansour waved his hand: "The acquisition of Manchester United starts early, you will contact Manchester United's shareholders in person, and..." He hesitated a little and quickly made a decision: "Contact Ronan Anderson, I want to meet him."

It would be best if the other party took the initiative to retreat.
Chapter completed!