In the ninth round of the league, Manchester City will face Arsenal at home.
As Gao Shen said before, he has a lot of experience in how to defeat Arsenal. Over the weekend, he plans to demonstrate one more time. Who told Arsenal to always face Gao Shen in the Premier League?
While dealing with Arsenal and Wenger, Gao Shen couldn't help but start thinking about another thing.
Angelo Moratti brought another idea to Gao Shen.
Moreover, it is an idea that becomes more tempting the more you think about it, and the more you think about it, the more out of control you become.
Buy a football club!
Everyone knows that acquiring a football club is not an easy task and requires a large amount of capital.
Acquisition is only part of it, and funds must be invested next.
At the very least, certain transfer fees, players' annual salaries, etc. all require funds.
It is not uncommon for players or coaches to transform into club management, such as Bayern's Big Three.
But they don't own Bayern.
It can be said that in European football, cases like Bayern's are rare.
But Gao Shen is rich now.
Not to mention anything else, during the two summer transfer periods in Naples, the share given to Gao Shen alone reached more than 50 million euros, not counting the stocks and real estate that Gao Shen had previously invested in.
No one knew, not even Su Qing, that in May of this year, Gao Shen purchased 10,000 Bitcoins from an American programmer for thirty US dollars.
In the next few years, Gao Shen will continue to purchase Bitcoin, waiting for its future appreciation.
Just these ten thousand Bitcoins will be worth several hundred million in the future.
Coupled with his current career, he has escaped from the class that needs to run for money.
So what does he need to consider now?
Buy a lot of houses? Invest in a lot of company stocks?
neither!
Because all of this is just making the number in his wallet bigger and bigger, nothing more.
What he needs is assets and status!
The embodiment of wealth has never been money, but assets.
Money cannot buy status and influence.
After meeting Angelo Moratti, Gao Shen thought about buying a football club.
First of all, European football is where his career is; secondly, he is very familiar with this industry. From the presidents of FIFA and UEFA to ordinary players, he knows everything; and this is also the place where he has traveled through time.
The best way to monetize your abilities.
Once he can transform from the best head coach into a successful club operator, his status and influence in world football will become even more outstanding.
Before, he could say he had no money without thinking about it, but now he has money.
If you want to acquire a football club, you must first consider money. How much money does he have and how big a team can he play?
Next, which league club should be considered?
The Bundesliga was the first to be rejected by Gao Shen, because he could not enter this league; Serie A was also quickly rejected by Gao Shen, because he lacked funds, and he did not even own the stadium in Serie A, so he could not play at all.
In the end, only La Liga and the Premier League are left.
Obviously, La Liga is a restricted area for the two giants of the Spanish Super League. Apart from these two giants, the other teams are basically living in misery.
In Gao Shen's previous life, Ronaldo acquired 51% of the shares of Real Valladolid, a newly promoted La Liga team, and later added an additional 22%. However, three years later, when Gao Shen traveled through the world, the club had been relegated to the Second Division.
To some extent, Spanish teams are living a difficult life.
Then the answer is obvious.
If Gao Shen wanted to acquire a football club, he would definitely choose the Premier League.
But the Premier League is too expensive and he can't afford it, so he can only choose teams in the lower leagues of the Premier League.
For example, English Championship or English League One.
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“Buy an English football club?”
During the phone video, Su Qing was really shocked when she heard Gao Shen's idea.
"Do we have that much money?"
In everyone's mind, acquiring a football club is a very expensive affair.
Manchester City has burned hundreds of millions, and Chelsea has also burned hundreds of millions so far.
"The gameplay is different, and we are not chasing the championship. My initial estimate is to control it within 50 million euros. We can only choose low-level leagues, such as the English Championship and English League One. It should not be a big problem." Gao Shen explained.
In the past few years, because of Gao Shen, Su Qing has also begun to understand professional football. In addition, she videos with Gao Shen every day, so she is even more familiar with professional football than most senior fans and even some senior football reporters.
Be strong.
When she was studying, she was a top student.
"But the pressure to survive in lower-level leagues will be great."
"Then try to be promoted to the Premier League." Gao Shen said matter-of-factly.
If he acquires a football club with the Champions League as his goal, it would definitely be exaggerated and unrealistic.
He just wants promotion to the Premier League.
"How sure are you?" Su Qing asked with a slight frown.
In her opinion, it is still very difficult to be promoted to the Premier League.
Otherwise, how can we explain that so many English Championship and English League One teams have struggled to break into the Premier League?
"It's definitely possible. It's just a matter of time." Gao Shen said confidently.
Su Qing was startled, "Are you planning to coach yourself?"
"How is that possible?" Gao Shen immediately denied, "I'm not that stupid."
He is now a world-famous coach who can coach any team and earns an annual salary of over 10 million euros. Isn’t this sick if he goes to coach a team in the Championship or League One?
If nothing else, just from a purely investment perspective, it's not cost-effective.
So the best way is for Gao Shen to coach outside, buy the next team, and hire another head coach to coach.
With his connections and connections in European football, are he still afraid that he won’t be able to hire anyone?
"Let me tell you something. From the beginning of this season to 2013, the local broadcast fees for the three seasons of the Premier League will be 1.7 billion pounds. This is only local broadcast fees, as well as overseas copyrights, new media copyrights, etc.
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"You know how the Premier League broadcast fees are divided, right?"
"Well, you mentioned it to me before." Su Qing replied.
Gao Shen was stunned for a moment, she is a perfect female academic god!
"According to the Premier League's broadcast fee sharing method, even the deputy squad leader's income this season will be close to 40 million pounds. In other words, we will acquire a low-level league team at a price of no more than 50 million pounds.
As long as I can reach the Premier League, I can make money back in one year."
This is also the reason why all the English Championship teams are trying their best to reach the Premier League.
Even if you are relegated from the Premier League, there is still a so-called parachute policy to protect you.
"What you said makes sense. If you can break into the Premier League, the benefits will indeed be quite large, but..."
"I haven't finished speaking yet." Gao Shen stopped her with a smile.
"You know, I'm very familiar with David Bernstein of the Football Association, right?" Gao Shen asked with a smile.
But he was thinking silently, there was no other way, he could only pull David Bernstein out.
Otherwise, how can he explain the source of the data?
"He told me that in the next three years, the general expectation within the Premier League is that local rights will be sold for 3 billion pounds."
"Three billion pounds?" Su Qing was shocked.
Soaring from 1.7 billion to 3 billion, is this crazy?
"is it possible?"
"We are very optimistic. Moreover, it is only the local copyright in the British Isles. The overseas copyright will also increase accordingly. By that time, even the bottom and relegated teams will be able to receive at least 60 million pounds every year."
This is why Gao Shen becomes more and more attractive the more he thinks about it.
If he didn't have money, he could pretend not to see it, but now he has money, and the cake is indeed very, very big.
He didn't even dare to say that the broadcast rights for the next 16 to 19 years would be as high as 5.1 billion pounds.
The Premier League of the future will be a world where even a relegation team can earn over 100 million pounds.
Many people ask, why do so many foreign investors like to pour into the Premier League?
It’s because the Premier League is so crazy!
Just imagine, if Gao Shen now spends 50 million to buy a team, manage it properly, and then be promoted to the Premier League, it is equivalent to making a net profit from a Premier League team very quickly.
What an outrageous thing!
For most people, the most difficult thing about being promoted to the Premier League is to build a competitive team, but is this difficult for Gao Shen?
As long as he is willing, cheap and good players abound.
Only in this way can his advantages as a time traveler be realized to the maximum extent.
"Are you really sure of being promoted to the Premier League?" Su Qing asked again cautiously.
"First consider the English Championship teams. If everything goes well, they can enter the Premier League within two years. If not, you can still make a fortune by buying and selling players."
If Gao Shen was a nobody, no one would believe what he said.
But Gao Shen is a world-famous coach, and he has always been famous for selecting and training players. Su Qing must believe what he said.
And she also knew why Gao Shen seemed a little anxious?
A closer look at the selling price of Premier League local rights reveals an interesting curve.
The first auction of local copyrights was from 1992 to 2007 and sold for 190 million pounds. The second auction was from 1997 to 2001 and sold for 670 million pounds. The third time it was sold for zero.
From one to four years, it sold for 1.2 billion pounds.
But between 2004 and 2007, this number fell back to one billion.
From 2007 to 2010, it became 1.77 billion pounds, and from 2010 to 2013, it was also 1.77 billion pounds.
In everyone's mind, this is pretty much what the Premier League's local copyrights are like.
After all, this is already a very astonishing number.
But if the local copyright of the Premier League is sold for another 3 billion pounds, it will inevitably trigger another wave of acquisitions of Premier League and even English teams, and the value of English clubs will also rise accordingly.
Not to mention anything else, when the time comes, Gao Shen doesn't want it, he just needs to sell it casually, and the price difference can earn him a few small goals.
If you really can make it to the Premier League, the benefits will be absolutely astronomical.
Not to mention it was profound, even Su Qing was moved after hearing it.
She studied economics herself and is particularly sensitive to wealth and numbers. She naturally knows what this means.
"We must be well prepared and conduct investigations in advance. We must not act too hastily or take risks easily," Su Qing reminded.
"Of course, this is the biggest gamble in my life, and there is absolutely no room for error!"
"No matter what, I support you!"
In the video, Su Qing was twirling her engagement ring and speaking affectionately.
