David is a good cook. After meeting Sun Dahai, he became a regular customer of No. 9 Hot Pot Restaurant and became very familiar with old William.
When he heard that Old William was going to treat him to dinner, he naturally followed Sun Dahai and didn't regard himself as an outsider at all.
Old William invited Sun Dahai to dinner. Naturally, he couldn't do it at No. 9 Hot Pot Restaurant or Taotie House. He chose an authentic Brazilian restaurant and invited everyone to taste Brazilian barbecue.
The reason for Old William's treat was that Little William came to Xiangjiang during the holidays, and he wanted to introduce Little William to Sun Dahai.
This diminutive of Little William simply means that he is young. Therefore, Little William is not his son, but his grandson. If counted from Old William, Little William should be called - William III.
Wei San (Sun Dahai's concise name for him) is 25 years old and graduated from Loughborough University with a major in sports management. After graduation, he went to Banat Football Club as an assistant manager and has been there for three full years now.
Bannet is a satellite city northwest of London, only 20 kilometers away from the city.
Banat Football Club is located here, an old football club with a century-old history. Unfortunately, apart from its long history, this club has almost nothing worth mentioning.
Banat Football Club has always been at the bottom of the Britten Football League, only a little better than those amateur teams. In the four-tier Britten Football League system, it has been hanging around in the C and D leagues.
Since the establishment of Banat Club, it has changed owners many times. The current owner, Baia, is the owner of a local amusement park and has very limited personal financial resources.
Fortunately, the Banat Club is of a very low level and its operating costs are not high, so it has been struggling to maintain itself.
Old William's son, Wei San's father, is a famous cardiovascular and cerebrovascular doctor. He did not follow his father in Hong Kong, but has been living and working in London.
Although Baiya is only fifty years old and still considered to be in the prime of life, his heart has always been bad and he has undergone several surgeries. He is a chronic patient of Dr. William.
After Weisan graduated, he joined the Banat Football Club through his father's connections and worked as an assistant to the owner and manager Baia, so he could put his knowledge to use.
At this time, we are in the adjustment period between the two seasons, and the club's players have already taken a vacation. After working hard for a season, they are all happily enjoying this annual vacation.
The staff also had holidays, but they were much shorter than the players, only two weeks. Wei San followed the previous plan and went to Xiangjiang to spend the holidays with old William.
Sun Dahai and the others came to the restaurant, and after meeting old William, they went to the reserved seats and chatted while enjoying the authentic Brazilian barbecue.
Sun Dahai discovered that although Wei San was chatting and laughing with everyone, he was actually not in a very good mood and was not at all as excited as when he first traveled to a foreign country.
After chatting for a long time, everyone became familiar with each other, and the topic gradually deepened.
Big fat David is a pseudo-fan, probably because of his weight. Unlike other Austrians, he does not like cycling or ice and snow sports. He loves yachting the most, followed by football.
Because he has a friend who also likes yachting, the Austrian football star Herbert Prohaska in the 1970s and 1980s.
Born in 1955, Prohaska was the most famous star in Austria in the 1970s and 1980s. He was also the first foreign player after Serie A lifted its ban in the early 1980s.
Now he has returned to play for the Austrian team Vienna. After this season, his contract expires and he plans to retire and become a coach.
Because David was familiar with Prohaska, he was considered a half-hearted football fan. Now that he heard that Wei San was the management of the football club, David asked him about this situation.
Wei San knows all about his problems. Although the level of Banat Football Club is not high, the owner Baia has a bad heart and will easily fall ill if he watches too much football. Therefore, the club's work is mainly done by Wei San. He himself
He also graduated from this major, so he knows the ins and outs of the football club very well.
Talking about the club's performance, this year Banat Football Club finished 14th in the Breiten Third Division (24 teams), ranking in the middle of the Third Division.
This ranking is four places higher than last season. Everyone was congratulating Wei San, but in the end, Wei San was full of depression.
At the beginning of the season that just ended, the Banat football team once ranked at the top of the league and was considered one of the favorites to be promoted to the second division.
However, the Banat team is constrained by its economic strength, the strength of its players is limited, and the level of its substitutes is much worse. Therefore, as the league progresses and the status of the main players declines, the team's performance also declines.
There was a leak in the house and it rained continuously. The boss Baiya had a big mood swing and fell ill again and was hospitalized.
Although Baiya survived after emergency rescue, many doctors, including Wei San's father, asked him to stop working and take long-term rest to recuperate his body.
What's particularly important is that anything that might arouse his emotions is strictly prohibited.
Baiya has just turned fifty this year, so naturally he does not want to die young. He only has one daughter, who is already married.
So he came up with the idea of selling all his property, buying a small farm in the countryside far away from London, and spending his remaining years there.
Baia has two main properties, one is his playground and the other is Banat Football Club.
Most of the amusement equipment in the playground are rented and are worthless. What is valuable is the freehold rights of more than 50 acres of land. This is also Baia's guarantee to maintain the quality of life after clearing all the properties.
Land prices in London have been rising slowly in recent years, and the freehold rights of these more than 50 acres of land are currently worth 20 million pounds, or about 36 million U.S. dollars.
Therefore, Baia offers a selling price of 25 million pounds for its amusement park, of which about 10% to 15% can be cut off. In other words, it can be obtained for about 40 million US dollars.
This playground.
As for Banat Football Club, it is a complete money-loser. Every year, Bayer invests more than one million pounds in the club, and the club's annual income can be... three to four hundred thousand pounds.
The land of Baia's own playground is relatively valuable, but the annual income from the playground is very average. He invests hundreds of thousands of pounds in net investment every year for the Banat Football Club, and has done his best.
At present, the club's net book debt exceeds 2 million pounds. Even if the value of all current players in the team is calculated, the net loss of Banat Football Club will not be less than 1 million pounds.
