"Hello Mr. Zhang! Thank you for the banquet invitation!"
After Beckham approached, he greeted Zhang Yida.
"Hello Mr. Beckham, I saw you playing football on TV when I was a kid. You have a lot of fans in our country and everyone likes you very much!"
Zhang Yida shook hands with Beckham and said hello to Victoria, "Hello, Ms. Victoria! I didn't expect you to be more beautiful in person than in the magazine!"
Victoria smiled. Zhang Yida's compliment was very helpful to her, and she praised back:
"Hello, Mr. Zhang! You are really good at talking! You are also very impressive! The youngest Internet tycoon in the world!"
Zhang Yida looked at Cruz again and said with a smile: "Hello, little Cruz! Your song "If Every Day Was Christmas" is very good. I believe you will become a very good singer in the future!"
"Thank you, Mr. Zhang!" Cruz smiled, "I will definitely work hard! Thank you, Mr. Zhang, for your scooter. I like this gift very much! I will ride it to school every day."
"Then be sure to wear a helmet and protective gear!"
Zhang Yida looked at the chubby Little Seventh Princess again and said with a smile: "Hello, Little Seventh Princess! You are one of the most beloved children in China."
Princess Xiao Qi’s real name is Harper Seven Beckham. The word “Seven” in her name is similar to the number “Seven”, so she is also called Xiao Qi.
It is also said that Beckham particularly admired the number 7 and gave this number as a name to his daughter.
"Hello!"
Xiaoqi, who was only five years old, was held in his arms by his father and whispered hello to Zhang Yida.
Baby Ariel, a little internet celebrity standing next to Zhang Yida, was a little angry that the Beckham family interrupted her and Zhang Yida. She said hello to Zhang Yida and turned around to leave.
Cruz wanted to stay, but before he could, Baby Ariel turned around and left, and he had to watch the girl leave.
Zhang Yida witnessed all this and secretly thought, this boy must have inherited his love-hearted father! He wanted to have a girl when he was barely twelve years old!
I remember that in his previous life, when he was 14 years old, this kid showed off his affection to his girlfriend on Instagram, but luckily he was in the United States.
In China, believe it or not, you are asked to stand on the flag-raising platform and read a letter of repentance in front of the entire school.
"Mr. Zhang, I see that both Musical.ly and Green are aggressively entering the European market. Do you want these two companies to become global enterprises?"
Faced with Victoria's question, Zhang Yida admitted: "Yes, we do have this idea and we are implementing it according to the established plan!"
"That's amazing. You have achieved such impressive business results at the age of 21."
Zhang Yida shook his head and laughed, looked at Beckham and said: "Twenty years ago, the 21-year-old Mr. Beckham represented Manchester United against Wimbledon.
Standing in the center circle, he kicked off a long-distance lob. The ball flew over half the stadium, over the opponent's goalkeeper's head, and entered the net against the lower edge of the crossbar!
This goal was rated as one of the most exciting goals since the establishment of the Premier League.
Mr. Beckham became famous with this goal! It started his powerful football life!
Therefore, Mr. Beckham has achieved remarkable sports performance at the age of 21."
Beckham laughed. That goal was indeed awesome. It was enough for him to brag about for a lifetime. It was also the goal that impressed him the most, because it was also the goal that the media and friends mentioned most.
"I heard that Mr. Zhang Yida also likes to play football?" Victoria asked.
Zhang Yida didn't expect that this woman knew him so well, so he said with a smile: "Yes, I used to be a member of the university team. Later I started my own business, and then gradually fell into disuse.
If you don’t give up, you won’t be able to become a professional player!”
"Haha, really?" Victoria smiled, "If you really become a professional player, then there will be one less rich man in the Internet world."
"Mr. Zhang, have you ever considered buying a football team?"
After asking this question, even Beckham looked at his wife in surprise.
The smile on Victoria's face continued. Judging from her experience, this young rich man must be interested in the football team.
After all, you have become famous at a young age and have billions of assets. How can you do it without some exciting sports?
Nowadays, rich people like to buy sports teams and football, the largest sport, can promote their brands.
The best football teams are in Europe, and Zhang Yida's Green and Musical.ly are both entering Europe.
Buying a sports team and promoting its products not only satisfies your hobby, but also makes the money well spent.
After Zhang Yida was silent for a long time, he said: "I have this idea, but I am still unable to do it yet!"
With a wry smile, he added: "I'm different from those old wealthy people. Most of my assets are equity in unlisted companies.
The two listed companies are only small-cap stocks and are not large in size, so they do not have many liquid assets and even fewer assets that can be used to acquire teams."
After hearing this, Victoria's smile grew even brighter and she felt deeply proud of her business acumen.
However, she heard Zhang Yida's tone, as if the two companies listed on the market were just drizzle.
After she just saw Zhang Yida's appearance at the banquet, she secretly used Google software to look up Zhang Yida.
I was shocked when I checked on Google. It showed that he is the chairman and major shareholder of 10 unicorn companies.
Although she is involved in the fashion industry, she has also heard of the concept of unicorn, which refers to an Internet/technology company that was founded within 10 years and has a valuation of more than 1 billion US dollars.
Strictly speaking, Zhang Yida only has 8 unicorn companies, because 2 of them have already gone public.
However, the media likes to cause trouble, so they used two listed companies to make up the numbers. Two-digit numbers look more deceptive than one-digit numbers, and the news is more attractive.
Think about it in Victoria, the 10 unicorn companies are valued at at least US$10 billion. Even if you only hold 10% of the shares, you are still a billionaire.
The more she looked at the searched news, the more frightened she became. Ruixiang worth 30 billion U.S. dollars, Dioshu worth 7 billion U.S. dollars, Huimin Travel worth 6 billion U.S. dollars...
Come on, she searched out the translated version of the article that Huxiu.com listed on Zhang Yida’s assets some time ago.
She looked at it and found that Zhang Yida's total company valuation or market value was as high as more than 60 billion US dollars.
She also opened the financial website and looked at the market values of Yimin Wangjin and Yimin Wealth. One was US$6.5 billion and the other was US$2.5 billion.
She also looked at the shareholding ratio. Zhang Yida held 47.51% of the former and 33.84% of the latter.
In addition, she also saw that Zhang Yida cashed out more than 60 million U.S. dollars worth of Yimin Wangjin shares (not including investment bank fees) when it went public.
She calculated that Zhang Yidaguang's holdings in these two listed companies, plus the tens of millions of US dollars cashed out, already amounted to more than 4 billion US dollars in wealth.
So she encouraged her husband to come and get to know Zhang Yida, and maybe they could discuss some cooperation or business.
Even if you don't succeed, knowing such a rich man is still a good connection!
"Mr. Zhang, the shares you hold in the two listed companies are worth more than 4 billion US dollars.
This huge wealth is enough to buy any football team in the world.
Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Manchester United, which currently have the highest valuations or market values, are only between US$2 billion and US$3 billion!"
Zhang Yida laughed and said to Victoria: "I would like to buy these three clubs, but I can't buy them even if I have money!"
Victoria nodded, "Real Madrid and Barcelona have membership systems, and those fans won't sell them even if they kill them.
As for Manchester United, the Glazer family has done a good business. It acquired Manchester United 11 years ago for 790 million pounds, of which only 250 million pounds was its own funds, and the rest was financial leverage.
Manchester United had such huge loan pressure in those years and still achieved such good results. This is all thanks to Sir Alex Ferguson!
Manchester United is now a listed company on the New York Stock Exchange, with a market value of US$2.32 billion today!
The Glazer family are businessmen through and through. If Mr. Zhang can give them a satisfactory price, I believe they will be willing to sell the club."
Zhang Yida also likes to play football, so he naturally knows about the Glazer family and Manchester United.
Victoria is right, the Glazer family is indeed a vampire lying on Manchester United.
It was only with Ferguson's support that Manchester United was able to get through those difficult times. They had to pay off debts, recruit players, and maintain results.
As soon as Ferguson retired, Manchester United's performance declined severely, and its market value also shrank severely, plummeting by 1.2 billion pounds in a year.
When Zhang Yida was reborn in his previous life, the Saudi tycoon wanted to acquire Manchester United for 4 billion pounds, but the Glazer family was still trying to figure it out.
You can see his greed!
"Manchester United! The Glazer family is so powerful, I don't really want to deal with them.
Although I like Manchester United very much, I can't afford the lion of the Glazer family to open his mouth."
Beckham smiled bitterly. As Ferguson's favorite player, he also had special feelings for Manchester United.
He didn't expect that the Glazer family's reputation for being a bad street would spread to China.
To be honest, he also hates the Glazer family. They only know how to extract money from Manchester United but are not willing to invest it.
It would be best if a rich man came to save Manchester United and improve the club's financial situation.
However, Zhang Yida's Chinese identity made it emotionally difficult for him to accept it.
"In addition to Manchester United, Mr. Zhang can tell me about other clubs in the Premier League who are interested in him.
I have some good friends in British football who may be able to help."
Beckham smiled and said to Zhang Yida that in addition to Manchester United, Zhang Yida wanted to acquire other Premier League clubs, and he would be happy to help lead the way.
"I'm quite interested in Tottenham!"
Beckham pinched his chin and said: "Tottenham Hotspur's current major shareholder is ENIC Group.
The group currently holds 85.55% of the shares of Tottenham Club. The owners are two people of Jewish descent. One is Joe Lewis, the major owner who holds 70.6% of the shares. The remaining 29.4% of the shares are owned by the current club chairman Dan In the hands of Ni Levy.
Big boss Lewis is one of the top ten richest men in the UK and the world's top foreign exchange trader, with a net worth of more than 5 billion pounds.
He is not particularly interested in football, preferring foreign exchange trading and art collecting.
Danny Levy is different. He is an avid fan. ENIC owns five football clubs besides Tottenham.
At the beginning of his tenure as chairman of Tottenham, Levy made three commitments: to build Tottenham into a team capable of challenging the highest honors in the country and Europe; a new training center; and expanding the capacity of the home court.
At present, these promises have been realized one by one!
If you want to acquire Tottenham, as long as you are willing to bid, it will not be difficult to get Lewis, but it will be difficult to get Levi."
Beckham still knew the Tottenham club and its chairman very well, and took stock of the situation one by one to Zhang Yida.