At the high level, every move he makes involves the interests of all parties.
The British media also knew that Gao Shen's wife still lived in Cheshire, so they naturally paid more attention to him. Even if he kept a low profile, the British media would immediately know about it as soon as he returned to Cheshire.
This is actually nothing. For example, when Mourinho was coaching Real Madrid, he often traveled to and from London, which was normal.
The key depends on how the media reports it.
In recent times, Manchester City's performance has indeed been unsatisfactory, and their ranking in the standings is still lower than Leeds United. This has made the British media and Manchester City fans miss those days of advanced coaching.
When Gao Shen meets media reporters in Cheshire, he will try his best to provide them with convenience, but he will also make his own requests.
Don't write nonsense!
He is now the head coach of Real Madrid and does not want to cause any unnecessary trouble.
The media also knows that this is a mutual exchange of benefits.
Therefore, when Gao Shen was in Cheshire, he basically ate when he needed to, drank when he needed to, and saw friends when he needed to.
For example, he specially sent two boxes of fine wine to Ferguson, and Ferguson's wife Cathy even cooked a meal for the two of them and entertained the Gao Shen couple warmly.
Later, Manchester City's chairman Mubarak, consultant Brian Marwood and others also came over and had a meal with Gao Shen.
During this period of time, media reporters have been following and filming, and Gao Shen did not hide it. Anyway, it was a normal meeting of friends.
However, when they met, they brought up another matter.
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The market for the entire Premier League has really gone up.
According to the assessment given by many banks with football business, including the Rothschild family in the City of London, as soon as the local broadcast contract worth 3 billion pounds for 2013-2016 was signed, the market of the Premier League
It's gone up a lot.
"I heard that Cash Harris from Seymour Pierce Investment Bank has been in contact with you recently?"
At the dinner table, Mubarak suddenly asked with great interest.
Gao Shen was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "You are really well-informed."
Everyone around him smiled, and there weren't many secrets in this business.
The Premier League circle is very small.
Cash Harris is the biggest player in football business in the City of London. In his own words, almost all foreign acquisitions of English teams have passed through his hands to a greater or lesser extent.
Another outstanding person with great hands and eyes is Rothschild Jr. of the Rothschild Family Bank. However, this family is not as impressive as described in a best-selling book. He is just somewhat famous in the Financial City.
At least Gao Shen met Rothschild Jr., and his evaluation was not as good as Cash Harris.
"The royal family of Bahrain is interested in Leeds United." Gao Shen explained.
As early as 2003, when Leeds United was on the verge of bankruptcy, the Bahrain royal family was already interested in the White Rose. However, for unknown reasons, the negotiations failed and the matter was temporarily shelved.
Now, as soon as the Premier League's new three-year broadcast contract was signed, the whole world was shocked.
From 1.7 billion pounds, it suddenly jumped to 3 billion pounds. This is only the local copyright, and the copyright outside the local area is also soaring every year. It is conceivable how amazing the entire broadcast rights of the Premier League will be in the next few years.
increase?
Now that I think of entering the game, it is already too late.
Of course, it's just slow, but it's not too late.
"What price did they give?" Mubarak asked with a smile.
"100 million pounds, take 49% of the shares, and inject 50 million pounds each year for the next three years." Gao Shen replied.
It's clear that what the Bahrain royal family wants is cooperation.
But anyone who has done a little research and investigation can easily find that Leeds United's current foundation is very solid.
From the perspective of the club's administrative department, Leeds United already has a structure that will not lose to the wealthy teams. Gao Shen has been laying out this aspect for more than a year, and the people who are reused are professionals such as Lucas and Borrell.
The investment in this area is huge.
Not to mention anything else, this summer, Leeds United made more than 100 million pounds from selling players, but they are still ranked third in the Premier League.
This is of course a flash in the pan, but what is reflected behind it is the operational ability of this team.
After Mansour's Abu Dhabi consortium acquired Manchester City and made a lot of money, and the Qatar consortium acquired Paris Saint-Germain, causing a huge sensation, it is not surprising that the Bahrain royal family has rekindled the idea of entering football.
Especially in the face of this amazing broadcast contract from the Premier League.
Of course, Gao Shen couldn't tell them that this was just the beginning.
But even so, the offer given by the Bahrain royal family still surprised Mubarak and others.
Too high!
"I remember, you didn't spend much money to acquire Leeds United, right?" Marwood said with envy.
With these 100 million pounds taken away, Gao Shen will immediately become rich and free. Why else would he be a head coach?
More importantly, in the future, relying on the Bahrain royal family who are not short of money, are you afraid that Leeds United will not be able to survive?
"The structure is smaller, isn't it?" Gao Shen looked at Marwood and said with a smile, "We have close to 100 million pounds in our hands now, and the installment income in the next two years. With the current development momentum of our club, do you think we can sell it for 100 million pounds?"
Half the shares, is it worth it?”
Mubarak and Marwood looked at each other, and they both felt that Gao Shen's words made sense, but they also felt that Gao Shen's plan was not trivial. It didn't look like he was innocent and just wanted to be a training ground for a wealthy team.
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The current pattern of the Premier League is very obvious, and Manchester City is the only one.
Although Chelsea is currently ranked first, everyone knows that Manchester City has fallen slightly after the peak period of last season. In addition, Pellegrini needs some time to adjust due to the coaching change, so he played a little bit.
took a nap.
With Manchester City's strength and confidence, it is unlikely that they will win the Premier League championship from Blue Moon.
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During the meal, Mubarak also mentioned another consortium that was interested in Leeds United, the Dubai Investment Group.
This consortium almost acquired Liverpool a few years ago, but unfortunately, it failed.
Now, seeing that Abu Dhabi, which has the same origin, is doing well in the Premier League, it is natural that they are jealous and want to join the game.
But Gao Shen still declined.
He was not even interested in knowing the price quoted by the Dubai consortium.
"Leeds United is like my own child to me. It is just starting to learn to walk. I am looking forward to seeing what it will look like when it grows up. This will be a very wonderful process for me."
Gao Shen explained.
Mubarak didn't care either, he was just conveying his message to his friend.
Because of the new broadcast contract, there are many foreign consortiums eyeing the Premier League. With its high reputation, Leeds United has naturally become the focus of many investors.
But Mubarak was more interested in the profound.
"You seem to be very optimistic about the development prospects of the Premier League."
"Don't you think so?" Gao Shen asked with a smile.
Mubarak smiled.
"I have done some calculations. Starting from 2013, the Premier League's annual broadcast fee is 1 billion pounds, and overseas copyright sales are about 700 million pounds per year. This number will continue to grow in the future, and overseas copyrights will eventually be equal to local copyrights.
Even more than that.”
The key nodes are the North American market and the Asian market.
These will be the two areas where the Premier League will focus its efforts in the next few years, and will also be the areas where Premier League broadcast revenue grows fastest.
At the same time, it is also an area where Leeds United should focus its efforts.
At present, the team has established an Asian office in China, and will also set up an office in North America next.
In line with the development of the Premier League, these are two big pieces of meat.
"In fact, excluding transfer income, we basically broke even last season, and we are expected to break even this season, or even have a slight surplus, so we have started a plan to build a new training base with a budget of 5,000
to £60 million."
"So high?" Marwood was surprised. "Tottenham Hotspur's training base has built the first indoor training ground in the Premier League. The budget is only 45 million pounds. Do you also plan to build an indoor training ground?"
Manchester City is also under construction, and the specifications are higher than Tottenham. It can even change the venue conditions to simulate away turf.
"Yes, and our youth team stadium has stands and the player dormitories in the training building are all built according to the standards of a five-star hotel. From now on, whether it is home or away games or gathering before games, they will all stay in the training base.
"
At that time, the team's office will also be moved to the training base, and every inch of the Elland Road stadium, where land is precious, will be developed and utilized as much as possible to increase the team's match-day income.
Calculated this way, Leeds United's training base will occupy a larger area and have better facilities.
Mubarak and Marwood both noticed each other's surprise.
The ambition of Gao Shen is not small!
In the current great situation, especially as Leeds United has gradually opened up and is about to usher in a period of rapid development as a high-quality stock, what reason does Gao Shen have to sell it at this time?
What's more, is he short of money?
If he really wanted freedom from wealth, he would have been free long ago.
With the stocks of major companies such as Apple and Penguin, plus the Bitcoins he holds, and real estate in major domestic cities, if Gao Shen really wants to have wealth and freedom, he will be able to do so in minutes.
But this is obviously not what he wants.
He wants more!
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Because he was the head coach of Real Madrid, Gao Shen was not able to stay in Cheshire for too long.
After staying for three days, he returned to Madrid.
But this time he took his wife Su Qing, his mother and mother-in-law, and a group of four people from Cheshire south.
In Su Qing's words, she just came to take a look at her house.
As for whether she would return to Cheshire after seeing the house, she didn't say.
It must be said that the climate in Madrid is much better than that in the UK.
As soon as he arrived in Madrid, his mother and mother-in-law began to urge Gao Shen to finish the house quickly.
Apparently, they were fed up with the British weather.
After returning to Madrid, Gao Shen could no longer sit idle and immediately threw himself into intensive work.
The first is the performance of the national players in the national team and their physical condition.
Then it’s time to prepare for the upcoming devilish schedule.
Real Madrid's opponent in the fourth round is an away game against Sevilla, which will be a tough battle, followed by the first two rounds of the Champions League's death group, as well as Rayo Vallecano, Deportivo La Coruña and Barcelona.
Every battle is a very hard-fought battle.
What's even more troublesome is that Real Madrid's international players, as the core players of their respective national teams, have all played a lot of time in the national team, and even played in all two games.
After the players finished playing for the national team and traveled a long way back to the club, Gao Shen had to start cleaning up the mess.
