Li Yuan is full of ridiculous words, but the truth is actually very simple - everything revolves around the eyeball economy!
The acquisition of Sheffield United is undoubtedly for the sake of eyeball economy; the initiative to invite reporters from "The Sun" is also for the sake of eyeball economy; the current head coach's standard of trolling is also for the sake of eyeball economy.
If it can't attract attention, wouldn't this acquisition be wasted?
However, such nonsense made Huang Jiaojiao beside her burst into laughter. She really couldn't help it. She didn't expect that this man could talk nonsense in front of reporters.
Irving had already shut down on the spot. He was stunned for a while, still a little confused: "Uh... Li, does the top head coach you mentioned really know how to quarrel?"
"There is no way? I don't know how to choose a head coach." Li Yuan said with a smile, "But a head coach who is very verbal will definitely not be bad. Besides, don't you, The Sun, like it?"
"Um?"
Being reminded like this, I think it is right. Whether they are Jazz or Professor, they are all top players in the Premier League. Especially in the 1995/96 season, Keegan's Newcastle United once led the Premier League by 12 points.
So many, that in the end, the two old coins, Ferguson and Wenger, used their words to completely destroy Keegan's mentality, and actually allowed Manchester United to come from behind and stage a shocking reversal.
Of course, in the Premier League, Ferguson and Wenger fought to the death, especially the war of words between the two, which was a beautiful sight. Not to mention, there were rising stars like Mourinho later? They provided the media with
How many front-page headlines have you contributed?
If that's the case...that's not bad, right?
Sure enough, the sports section of "The Sun" soon published a long interview, which immediately caused a sensation in the British Isles and even spread to the entire Europe.
"A century-old British club fell into the hands of Chinese bosses";
"Sheffield United welcomes new owner, investing £500 million in the next five years";
"IT Myth creates history again and finally expands its territory to professional football";
"The Legend of Lee, the New Sheffield United Owner";
"Recruiting top head coaches, the standard is a war of words";
"The decline of traditional football, will it eventually succumb to money?"...
If we really want to talk about the sensation, the main thing is "500 million pounds in five years". This caused an explosion in the entire European football circle. Who is Na Hundan? Are you driving up prices like this? Do you understand the laws of football? Do you know?
——Money is not everything!
Anyway, there is envy, jealousy and hatred everywhere.
On the contrary, Sheffield United fans are polarized within them. One kind is very welcoming. It doesn't matter who the boss is, the one who can bring stars is a good boss.
The other kind is furious. What else is the Premier League and English League One? In the end, "there is a fate with Sheffield"? What a fate, a handful of ape dung will stick on your face! Are we fans begging you to buy it?
Also, will the head coach be a quarrel? Shouldn’t he choose someone who is capable, experienced, educated and personable?
Don't you think about the image of our club? Aren't you afraid that we will send out... British football hooligans? Ahem.
In the end, the fans of the club were quarreling among themselves and even had several fights in the street. This once again caused a sensation in the British Isles and the whole of Europe. I have never seen that there are people fighting among themselves within the club?
Not long after, a large group of fans protested every day at the gate of Sheffield United Club. They must drive away the Chinese owner Li Yuan. This caused a headache for the local police.
Come on! Li, a Chinaman, why is he so capable of causing trouble?
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At this moment, Li Yuan doesn't care about the bad things in Sheffield at all. Even if he knows there are protests, he will still have fun. Isn't that just eyeball economy?
Besides, Li Yuan and Huang Jiaojiao had already flown across the Atlantic and arrived in the United States...
Seeing Li Yuan finish signing the thick stack of contracts, people around him burst into warm applause.
An old white man smiled and stepped forward to shake hands: "Congratulations, Lee. From now on, you are the owner of the Colorado Avalanche (the North American National Hockey League NHL team), the Denver Nuggets and the Pepsi Center Arena."
"Thank you. I will definitely bring the championship to Colorado and Denver. Hahaha."
"..."
After acquiring the English Football Club, Li Yuan went straight to acquire the two professional clubs and the Pepsi Center Arena from the American company Ai Sheng Entertainment. The transaction amount was US$305 million.
In fact, in the original historical line, in the late 1990s, professional clubs in major North American leagues, except for the Lakers and Yankees, were not considered a good business, and they often went bankrupt.
risk.
Just like the current Ai Sheng Entertainment Company, they had already been numbed by losses. Therefore, a few years later, they sold it to the new owner for US$400 million, which was regarded as a timely stop loss and liquidation.
Of course, no one expected that there would be a new media called the Internet in the future. Especially NBA teams like the Denver Nuggets expanded into overseas markets dominated by China. Eventually they began to make substantial profits, and their valuations also rose to
$1 billion to $2 billion?
There is no doubt that the reason why Li Yuan purchased these two professional teams was also for the sake of eyeball economy.
To be honest, as the largest agricultural product processing center in the Midwest and a major oil and other energy center, Denver is now in a state of decline and its economic situation is quite bad.
If the economic situation is not good, how can the football market be good? So from a business perspective, many people are not optimistic about this deal.
However – agricultural processing? Energy?
Not to mention the future of shale oil and shale gas, which will turn the United States from the largest energy importer to the largest energy exporter. In addition, isn’t new energy energy?
It can be seen from this that the sunset industries now will be sunrise industries in the future. There is no need to worry about the economic situation of Denver, let alone the football market.
After the signing was completed, Li Yuan attended the press conference accompanied by city government officials. Unlike the "obscurity" of old Europe, Li Yuan still has a high reputation in the United States due to the popularity of parallel line technology.
So there are not many reporters present today.
As soon as we sat down, a reporter asked anxiously: "Li, I heard that you have become the owner of NBA and NHL teams?"
"Yes! We just completed the signing ceremony. I hope the team can bring a championship."
"Congratulations, you should be the first Chinese owner of the NBA and NHL."
"Thank you! In order to acquire these two teams, I have sold off part of the parallel stocks, just to build the sports entertainment territory in my mind."
In this acquisition, Li Yuan sold off 500 million U.S. dollars worth of Parallel shares. In order not to cause market turmoil, and to reduce income taxes, necessary investment is needed, so investing in professional teams is also a very good reason.
——For your own preferences!
The reporters here can all understand this preference. For example, future NBA team owners are said to be tech upstarts born in Silicon Valley, and they are the kind of toys that spend a lot of money on.
"Li, why did you choose the Denver team? This place is located on a plateau and has always been a small ball market. It doesn't have much influence?"
The face of the city government official darkened. But Li Yuan smiled slightly: "Now in Denver, of course I have personal business considerations. I am ready to fully cooperate with the new energy industry and agricultural product processing industry here to strive to create no less than 500 jobs.
jobs, and an investment of no less than US$100 million.”
The reporters were stunned, and the official was overjoyed: "Li, is that true?"
"Haha, of course it's true. Since I am the team owner, of course I need to consider the fans here."
In the future, Phoenix New Energy's branch will definitely be able to be placed here and marketed to the entire North American continent. In addition, there are central kitchens for Yeshan Hotpot, Yeshan Huizhui, etc., which also need agricultural product processing plants here. There is also the trade of agricultural products, at least here
There are tons of “disgusting chicken feet”.
In addition, since this is an agricultural product processing center, there must be a large number of farms nearby. You can also purchase some to form a North American agricultural product trading network and logistics network.
"Li, I have a question. When you bought these teams, did you pursue enjoyment and entertainment after becoming billionaires like the others?"
What the reporter asked was the founders of Netscape. When they became billionaires, they immediately became young models of luxury houses and yachts. What they pursued was ultimate enjoyment. Even Netscape's business development was somewhat relaxed.
Li Yuan smiled and shook his head: "I have been talking about a new concept - the Internet is new media! As a new media, of course it needs new media content. The broadcast of sports events is also one of the important contents of new media."
The reporters were all stunned, it seemed... Isn't it true?
In this era when broadband is not available, live audio transmission is impossible, let alone video transmission. How to broadcast these sports events on the Internet?
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All right!
The reporters couldn't understand it for the time being. However, Li Yuan's massive purchase of the team also caused a sensation across North America. Most people were talking about it - another upstart in technology had fallen and started a life of drunkenness and dreams.
However, no one knew that in the next few days, Li Yuan secretly met with Steve Jobs of Pixar, purchased a large number of 3D animation equipment and software usage rights, and reached an intention of strategic cooperation.
At this time, Jobs had not yet returned to Apple. He was focused on starting a second business at Pixar. He also achieved amazing success in the latest field of three-dimensional animation production. He also created a large number of outstanding three-dimensional animation works.
Currently, in this field, it is impossible to succeed without the technical support of Pixar. Therefore, Li Yuan spent money to buy technology and patents, forming a technology sharing between the two companies.
Of course, the labor costs of programmers here in the United States are too expensive. The production cost of a three-dimensional animated feature film is as high as hundreds of millions of dollars. So it was all transferred to China. Aren’t there those batches of laid-off female workers?
?
And the latest projects are two three-dimensional cartoons - "McDull Part 2" and "The True Story of Duck".
Speaking of the movie "The True Story of Chongya", you can imagine a group of cute little ducks running around. Their names are Chongya, and they also behave like Chongya——!
Anyway, Li Yuan now has enough trial and error costs. He can definitely give it a try. This kind of interesting project has never happened in his previous life.
Having said that, Li Yuan did not lie. In order to perfect the new Internet media, he is constantly expanding his territory in the two major industries of sports and entertainment...
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Return to Hong Kong.
As the latest news came from overseas, Li Yuan continued to acquire overseas teams and clubs. The people of Hong Kong were completely confused. Why did Brother Yuan fake a shot and actually go overseas to play?
However, within the past few months, Hong Kong's economic situation has gradually become tense. The collapse of neighboring countries and regions has finally affected this financial center.
Back to Peregrine first.
In the original historical line, the Peregrine incident had a great impact, causing huge losses to a large number of Hong Kong investors and even many bankruptcies. Ultimately, it severely damaged the Hong Kong economy, making the financial crisis worse.
The key is... procedural justice!
The new Hong Kong government is rigid in doing things, for fear of making a wrong step. Moreover, Hong Kong law does not give troubled companies a buffer time for restructuring, so Peregrine's creditors lost the opportunity to recover their losses.
On the surface, declaring an insolvent company bankrupt can certainly maintain market order, but this quick death method is indeed unfair to the debtor.
In the final analysis, those people are too rigid in doing things.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! But fortunately, Li Yuan now lends a helping hand. Due to the rapid capital injection from Han Palace Investment, at least Peregrine was not completely bankrupt and liquidated.
Normal operations soon resumed.
Of course, now the boss has been replaced by Li Yuan. This can give Hong Kong's economy a breath of relief.
But in August 1998, Soros and other predators finally took action, and international hot money began to sell Hong Kong dollars on a large scale, with the amount exceeding 20 billion.
At that time, the Hong Kong government’s foreign exchange reserves were US$92.8 billion. No one knew whether these foreign exchange reserves could defeat the Wall Street giants who were secretly supported by the US government. So under the instructions of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, international hot money sold off US$20 billion.
All Hong Kong dollars were recovered. At that time, the exchange rate between the US dollar and the Hong Kong dollar was stable at 1:7.75.
Let’s start with the stock market, which opened the tragic curtain... In the eight hours from the opening to the closing, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index plummeted 1,438.31 points, a daily drop of 13.7%, closing at 9,059.89 points.
On that day, 28 people committed suicide by throwing themselves into the sea, 6 people jumped off a building with their wives and children, and 3 people committed suicide with charcoal... The whole of Hong Kong was in mourning.
And by October, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority received a notification that more than 100 billion Hong Kong dollars were sold by hot money in the New York foreign exchange market. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority immediately issued two orders: first, buy all the Hong Kong dollars sold by hot money, and how much they sold.
, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority will take whatever it takes; second, increase the market interest rate of Hong Kong dollars and tighten the loans of major banks in Hong Kong.
The idea of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority is simple: to increase the cost of hot money speculation by raising interest rates, and to attract other users to buy Hong Kong dollars to make profits with high returns. But they do not know that this kind of rigid and rigid operation is exactly what Soros and the others want to see...
