In the conference room provided by the hotel, Li Changqing and the others reported the latest progress of the negotiations to Chen Dongcheng.
Enic Group is very interested in Li Changqing's offer.
It is really not easy for Tottenham Club to find a suitable buyer.
Zuckerberg was relatively interested, but he only made one offer and then lost track of him.
Therefore, Tottenham fell into a situation of price but no market for a while.
The shareholder composition of Enic Group is very simple. The major shareholder Lewis holds 70.6% of the shares, and the small shareholder is Levi, holding 29.4% of the shares.
Levy doesn't really want to sell Tottenham now. Even if he sells, he has to wait until the new stadium is built, and he will definitely get a good price by then.
But the big boss, Lewis, has a strong willingness to take action. He has little interest in football and is a typical speculator.
It was originally because he was optimistic about the potential of the Premier League that he acquired Tottenham's shares.
Compared with the initial investment of more than 20 million pounds, it has now increased many times.
Li Changqing concluded: "The main problem now is the quotation, and Levi is more stubborn.
Not only do you have to pay a billion pounds, but you also need to bear a debt of 400 million pounds.
You also need to continue to employ him as Tottenham's CEO, and his salary should not be less than five million pounds per year."
Chen Dongcheng frowned. He had read Levi's information and found that he was a very shrewd Jew.
But the conditions offered by the other party were too shameless.
With a salary of five million pounds a year, do you really think he is a fool?
"I will find another professional manager, and he must get out of here."
Chen Dongcheng refused without hesitation, among the CEOs of major Premier League clubs.
Three million pounds is a well-deserved high salary.
Not to mention five million pounds, that is simply a sky-high price.
It was no surprise that Li Changqing chose to reject Chen Dongcheng. He also felt that Levi's conditions were too harsh.
"There seems to be some problems with their stadium?"
Chen Dongcheng pointed to the information investigated by Li Changqing and others.
"Yes, Tottenham because the old stadium can accommodate too few fans.
Fans have always wanted the team to expand to a new stadium.
Although the application for construction of the stadium was relatively early, the UK also successfully passed the compulsory land purchase policy.
However, not long ago, Tottenham's stadium construction was suddenly stopped by the British High Court.
The specific time for resumption of construction is still unknown, and the worst consequence is that construction costs will skyrocket.
The stadium that was originally built for 600 million pounds is estimated to cost several hundred million pounds more."
After hearing this, Chen Dongcheng was thoughtful and asked: "So, Lewis's willingness to take action is very strong now?"
"According to our analysis, the construction cost of the stadium is too high, which may overwhelm Tottenham and make no profit for a long time in the future."
Li Changqing paused and then said: "And after we looked into it carefully, we found that the evaluation of Levi within the Tottenham team is also very bad.
Many players have asked for a salary increase, but Levi has always refused forcefully.
This has caused many players to have very serious psychological resistance.
We suspect that allowing Levy to take charge of the club for a long time may have a worse impact on the team's record."
The reason why Tottenham is not a giant is very simple.
Have you ever seen a few wealthy families?
Even if Real Madrid builds a stadium, it will not prevent others from buying it. This is a wealthy club.
It seems that Levy has contributed a lot to helping Tottenham stabilize their ranking and cut back on food and clothing every year.
But this is this era, and players are not fools.
Looking at people who are inferior to themselves, with twice their salary, who can still be willing to play sincerely?
Chen Dongcheng made a big X on Levi's name with a black pen.
Obviously, after he bought Tottenham, the first person he fired was Levy.
There are many capable managers, and what Chen Dongcheng needs is his absolute control over the club.
Cancers like Levi must be eliminated as soon as possible.
"You go contact Lewis and tell him that my patience is limited.
In addition, you have begun to contact Liverpool, isn’t their owner also interested in selling?”
Li Changqing nodded and said, "Okay, I'll contact you right away."
"Go ahead and wait for your good news."
Now that Chen Dongcheng has come to London, he must get things done before leaving.
In addition to acquiring Tottenham, Chen Dongcheng plans to purchase a property in the UK.
I come here occasionally and have a place to stay.
Before coming, Chen Dongcheng determined the criteria for purchasing real estate.
First of all, the price cannot be less than 10 million pounds.
Otherwise, it would be exposed by the media that the villa where the Tottenham boss lives does not even cost 10 million pounds.
How embarrassing that would be.
Secondly, the location of the villa is best in a neighborhood with relatively mature commercial facilities and not too far from the city center.
Generally, luxury homes that meet these labels have one thing in common: they are expensive!
With nothing to do, I made an appointment with a real estate agent. Chen Dongcheng took Xie Jingyu and others to look at the house.
The hotel provided a Rolls-Royce as a courtesy car for Chen Dongcheng, who was staying in the presidential suite.
With a room rate of 200,000 yuan per night, it is not an exaggeration to regard Chen Dongcheng as God.
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Kensington neighborhood.
The Rolls-Royce found a place to stop. Chen Dongcheng got off the car and walked, visiting the most traditional wealthy area in London.
London can be regarded as one of the cities where the world's richest people like to invest in real estate.
The influx of many wealthy people has also pushed up London's housing prices.
The person who showed the house was a blond white guy in his twenties, his name was Dylan, and he showed a pair of white teeth when he smiled.
Dylan is very talkative and became even more enthusiastic after learning that Chen Dongcheng is Chinese.
In recent years, in addition to the wealthy people from the Middle East and Russia, they will come to the UK to buy property.
Many of China's richest people also buy real estate in the UK.
Dylan had previously served a wealthy man from China and helped him purchase a villa.
It was a villa worth tens of millions of pounds, and the other party didn't even blink an eye.
For the first time, Dylan felt the wealth and wealth of the oriental tycoons.
"Mr. Chen, the Kensington neighborhood is home to businessmen and celebrities, and the famous football star David Beckham also purchased a property here.
After Beckham appeared, many landlords in the Kensington neighborhood raised their asking prices for homes.
It shows the prosperity and scarcity of the Kensington neighborhood.”
Dylan took Chen Dongcheng to the door of the villa Beckham bought.
The location is indeed great, right next to Holland Park.
If you live here, you can open the courtyard door and step into Holland Park and smell the freshest air.
Dylan's eyes couldn't hide his envy, despite the fact that he often visited various luxury houses.
But the price of such a luxury house is something he can't afford in his lifetime.
"Fucking world, Beckham originally spent 31.5 million pounds. Since he moved in, this house has become more valuable!"
Dylan's tone was a little sour. It's too easy for rich people to make money.
As a low-level person, he wanted to sell a house, but he didn't know how much talk he wasted.
Even so, there is still no hope for the house I want to buy.
Perhaps the welfare housing on the ground floor is his destination.
In order to address the dissatisfaction of the people at the bottom, the UK requires real estate developers to set aside a certain proportion of welfare housing for local low-income people in the areas they develop.
This also allows the original low-income earners in many areas to live in the same community with the newly moved high-income earners.
Chen Dongcheng listened to Dylan's half-complaining and half-complimentary narration, and then he felt the more naked class divisions abroad.
Although people at the bottom like Dylan can live in the same community as the rich.
But the rich live in million-pound villas, and they live in ordinary small apartments.
Not to mention that the children of the rich will all be classmates in the same elite private boarding school.
Most universities will study subjects such as law, medicine, or political economy.
After graduation, this group of second-generation white, rich, handsome, and wealthy people who work quietly for their fathers are likely to easily get internship positions in large companies or parliamentary offices.
Most of the families living in public rental housing and welfare housing are employed as plumbers, taxi drivers, etc.
Their children receive cheap government education.
For example, Dylan went out to work after graduating from high school.
Because his family could not support him to continue studying in college.
Dylan has a relatively healthy mentality and a fighting spirit.
"I made an appointment with Karida to buy an apartment for us in Merchant Plaza, two kilometers away from Greenfield Tower."
Greenfield Building is a welfare house on the ground floor in Kensington, London.
Merchant Plaza is a high-rise luxury apartment recently under construction.
The smallest one-bedroom apartment is priced at over one million pounds.
For ordinary people, it is extremely difficult to buy such a high-end apartment.
Dylan was very professional when introducing him. He paid attention to Chen Dongcheng's dress.
The Patek Philippe on his wrist and the bodyguards and secretaries accompanying him are all worthy of Dylan’s efforts to sell them.
After looking at a few houses, the Kensington neighborhood is indeed full of businessmen and celebrities.
However, the surrounding noise problem is also very serious.
Dylan was also helpless: "Many oil tycoons from the Middle East will come to London in the summer and drive gold-plated Rolls-Royces and Lamborghinis to hit the streets.
Kensington is the most prosperous neighborhood in London, so this is an unavoidable problem."
Let's put it this way, in Kensington, a neighborhood where the rich are everywhere, the smell of money is everywhere.
Chen Dongcheng doesn't want to spend tens of millions of pounds to buy a house and listen to others blowing up the streets every day. That's not asking for trouble.
Dylan had more than one apartment in his hands, and then took Chen Dongcheng to the Chelsea neighborhood.
Compared with Kensington, the Chelsea neighborhood seems more low-key and reserved.
It's just that it's low-key and restrained, and it looks like a house built in the 17th century. Chen Dongcheng thinks it's too old.
And one thing that needs to be considered is that once he is the owner of Tottenham and lives in the Chelsea neighborhood, it is inevitable that some extreme fans will criticize him.
Chen Dongcheng interrupted Dylan's introduction and asked: "Are there any other villas?"
"Well, yes, but the price of that villa is very expensive."
After some hesitation, Dylan decided to take Chen Dongcheng to see the house.
The houses introduced to Chen Dongcheng before were all worth more than 10 million pounds. Dylan felt that Chen Dongcheng should have the purchasing power.
"Mr. Chen, this house was purchased by a Greek real estate developer in 2013.
The purchase price at that time was 14 million pounds, and now the quoted price is 30 million pounds."
The mansion Dylan is talking about is located on a tree-lined avenue in St. John's Wood.
St. John's Wood is of historical significance to London.
Beginning in the early 19th century, St John's Wood became one of the first London suburbs to be built with a large number of low-density "villas".
It is completely opposite to the terraced houses that were prevalent in affluent areas in the 19th century.
Precisely because of its low population density, it has attracted a large number of wealthy people and celebrities to purchase real estate.
This has also led to the fact that house prices in this area are no worse than those in Kensington and Chelsea.
Dylan specially took Chen Dongcheng to see the place where the Beatles recorded, and some scattered tourists happened to visit here.
However, compared to the number of tourists in Kensington, they are less than a fraction of the other number.
Although the St. John's Wood area is not far from central London, compared to the crowded modern city, St. John's Wood has a stronger rural pastoral feel.
This is simply a wonderful dream home for many wealthy people who want to return to their countryside while not abandoning the prosperity of the city.
The car stopped at the gate of the villa, and after waiting for a while, a bald, middle-aged white man came over.
He is the manager entrusted by the Greek real estate developer and is responsible for regularly cooperating with the agent to view properties.
Dylan very humbly exchanged greetings with the bald white man and gave him another two hundred pounds as a reward for his hard work.
The bald white man was finally satisfied and opened the black iron door of the villa.
The area of this villa is really quite large, covering 25,000 square feet, equivalent to 3.5 acres.
But this is London, the St. John's Wood area where land is at a premium.
There are only a handful of villas with this size.
At first glance, you can see four columns with Roman characteristics, which are majestic.
Dylan opened the door and Chen Dongcheng walked into the villa.
In a foyer with a ceiling height of 13 meters, there is a golden crystal lamp above the head.
Going forward from this foyer is a marble spiral staircase leading upstairs, and an elevator that goes up and down 5 floors.
After walking a few steps, there is a very formal living room on the side, with a very unique and exquisite pink carpet.
The sofa brands are naturally owned by top luxury brands, and the quality is very good.
The living room and dining room are directly connected, and Gaggenau's built-in refrigerator is quietly placed there as expected.
The design of the smart study room is very novel, and the wrap-around bookcases are full of style.
Due to height restrictions in London, the basements of many luxury homes can be said to have racked the brains of designers.
This mansion is no exception. There is a 14-meter-long heated swimming pool in the basement with a jacuzzi.
There is a small bar next to the swimming pool, where you can sit and have a drink when you are tired from swimming.
Watching the woman you love swimming happily in the swimming pool...
Chen Dongcheng suddenly became alarmed, and his pure heart was almost corrupted by this kind of luxury.
What a pool party, I never thought about it...
Chen Dongcheng quickly averted his eyes, not daring to look at the swimming pool again.
Other designs are still worthy of the standards of top luxury homes.
There are ten bedrooms, each of which is a suite design.
A very formal home bar also comes with a wine storage, which can store about three to four thousand bottles of fine wine.
Various gyms, saunas, game rooms, home video rooms, everything is available.
What Chen Dongcheng likes most is the underground garage of the villa.
A hydraulic lift can accommodate four vehicles, and the underground garage is located behind a glass window in the passage.
Think about you going for a swim in the heated swimming pool, holding a glass of red wine from the best years of the five major wineries, and looking at the supercar named after you behind the glass window...
It is estimated that this should be the life that most people dream of.
After Chen Dongcheng read it, he immediately made up his mind to do this.
The price...
When a man buys himself a beloved gift, he still needs to check the price?