I Won a Prize of 100 Million at the Beginning, and I Became a Capital Boss

Chapter 264 Zheng Wentong's Champions League Final Prediction!

In early June, Zheng Wentong and Lin Feng appeared on the streets of Madrid, Spain. The two visited the Espanyol Building acquired by Wanda Group together.

The Espanyol Tower is a landmark building on the streets of Madrid, with a total of 25 floors and a height of 117 meters. It is adjacent to the Spanish Royal Palace and facing the Plaza de España, with an excellent location.

Wanda Group and the Madrid Municipal Government have gone through a continuous tug-of-war, and there is no result yet.The previous municipal government of Madrid agreed with Wanda Group to demolish the Espanyol Building, but it was replaced by a new mayor, who disagreed with Wanda's demolition and reconstruction.

More than 7 citizens in Madrid signed against Wanda Group’s demolition of the Espanyol Building. The Madrid side requested that the west side of the building and the two-story facade be preserved. After evaluation by Wanda Group, the technical difficulty of this project is extremely high, which made Wanda Group feel deeply I want to quit.

Wanda had previously made concessions, agreeing to complete the demolition and rebuilding with the original materials, shapes and sizes, so that the original appearance of the Gran Via neighborhood can be preserved.

The Gran Via neighborhood where the Espanyol Building is located has been a downtown area since the 20s, and nearby Classicism, Romanticism, Gothic, Baroque, Neoclassical, and various styles of buildings converge together and are completely integrated. It is a contemporary architectural museum, and the Gran Via neighborhood is also known as the Broadway of Madrid.

Lin Feng travels to Europe for a period of time every year. He is familiar with the architecture of the Gran Via neighborhood, and he is even more professional than the local tour guide.

Zheng Wentong felt ashamed, "What is a multi-talented person? I have experienced it from you. Is there anything else you don't know?"

Lin Feng smiled, "I studied in Oxford, and travel between EU member states is more convenient, so as long as I have a holiday, I will travel to other European countries. The football atmosphere in Europe is very good. You just need to talk about it. club, he'd be happy to buy you a beer."

"The Spaniards support Real Madrid, the Madrid people support Atletico Madrid. Atletico Madrid is the only team in Europe that has reached the Champions League final three times before and lost all of them."

"Madrid citizens' obsession with the Champions League will help us to control Atletico Madrid. Wang Dong is more anxious. If he first controls Atletico Madrid and helps the team make a breakthrough in the Champions League, then take over the renovation project of the Espanyol building. The opposition in the city will be much smaller." Lin Feng said.

Zheng Wentong explained for Wang Shoufu, "Wang Dong actually understands football, and Wanda Football Club has won many A-A championships. He is different from Boss Yan of Yongfang Real Estate. Boss Yan is actually a fake fan at heart. The fact that football clubs win the AFC Champions League is actually just a golden dollar football policy, which does not help to improve the domestic football level."

"Because the big boss likes football, Boss Yan will invest in football. If the big boss likes basketball, Boss Yan may invest in basketball. Yongfang Football Club is willing to spend huge sums of money to introduce foreign players, but they are unwilling to follow Wanda's investment in football youth training. The youth training base invested by Wanda in Liaodong City is still top-notch in China," Zheng Wentong said.

"I have also met many mainland investors in Hong Kong Island. I don't know why. I feel that they are very anxious about their investment philosophy. They don't even consider projects that will see returns in three to five years. They all like to play short-term. It’s like six months, just get a fortune and leave. Sometimes I can’t help but wonder, are these investors’ money borrowed? That’s why they pay special attention to short-term returns?”

"Everyone knows that only by doing a good job in football youth training can we help improve the football level in the mainland. However, the youth training system is slow to take effect and can't produce results. Many football officials don't have the kind of predecessors planting trees and future generations enjoying the shade. With tolerance, football investors like Wang Dong are in the minority after all." Lin Feng said.

Zheng Wentong remembers that Wanda completely withdrew from the football industry in 22. He left Liaodong Football Club with operating funds for three years and donated a football youth training base worth 16 billion to the subsequent controlling party of Liaodong Football Club for free.

After visiting the Espanyol Building, Zheng Wentong and Lin Feng appeared at the Wanda Metropolitano Arena, the home stadium of Atlético de Madrid. Although the team's equity was sold, Wanda Group is still the title sponsor of the Metropolitan Arena.

Accompanied by club staff, Zheng Wentong and Lin Feng visited this super stadium that can accommodate 67000 people. At present, the stadium has not been completed. It is estimated that Atletico Madrid will only start with consecutive away games next season.

Atlético de Madrid club. Chairman Enrique Cerezo and CEO Miguel Angel Gil are waiting for Zheng Wentong's visit.

Wanda Group invested in Atletico Madrid Club. Enrique Crezo and Miguel Angel Gil appeared at the Yanjing signing ceremony together. At that time, the richest man Wang was also presented with an Atletico Madrid jersey with his own name on it .

Enrique Crezzo is a local rich man in Spain and the largest shareholder of the club. He was the one who decided to sell 20% of the club's shares to Wanda Group and invest in the construction of a new stadium.Since Diego Simeone became the coach of Atletico Madrid, Atletico Madrid has won two runner-ups in the Champions League, several semi-finals and quarter-finals, and also won two league championships. The results are quite impressive.

Enrique Crezzo welcomed Zheng Wentong's visit. Everyone chatted about football. Zheng Wentong talked about the UEFA Champions League final held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff this year, Real Madrid VS Juventus.

Enrique said that as a Spaniard, he supports Real Madrid to win the championship, but as an Atletico Madrid man, he hopes that Juventus will win the championship.

Lin Feng said: "As far as I remember, since the restructuring of the Champions League, no team has defended the Champions League title, right? From this point of view, Juventus actually has a great hope of winning the championship."

Zheng Wentong disagreed with Lin Feng's opinion, "Records are meant to be broken. Cristiano Ronaldo is in good form this year. I am optimistic that Real Madrid will win with a big score."

Although Enrique is cautiously optimistic about Real Madrid, he does not believe that Real Madrid will win by a big score.If Zheng Wentong only wants to become a minority shareholder of Atletico Madrid, it doesn't matter if he doesn't know football, it's just a pure financial investment anyway.

If Zheng Wentong plans to hold Atletico Madrid, then Zheng Wentong must prove to Enrique Crezo and Miguel Angel Gil that he can manage Atletico Madrid, a top club.

Different from Enrique Crezo's attitude, Miguel Angel Gil is wary of Zheng Wentong's arrival. He is worried that after Zheng Wentong enters Atletico Madrid Club, he will replace him with Lin Feng.European football clubs are like a large enterprise, and Miguel is naturally unwilling to lose the high-paying job of Atletico Madrid CEO.

Moreover, serving as the CEO of Atletico Madrid also brings enough exposure to other industries under the name of Miguel Angel Gil, which is also helpful for his business investment, so there are many foreign bosses in the top five European leagues.

After Miguel heard Zheng Wentong say that Real Madrid would become the first defending team of the Champions League after the restructuring, he was not convinced, "I know that Mr. Zheng is an outstanding investor and also owns a large-scale Internet company. Internet The industry likes to use big data to analyze the situation of each player, but the data can only be used for reference after all, after all, players are not robots. I wonder how Mr. Zheng judged that Real Madrid can win by a big score?"

Zheng Wentong is not interested in convincing Miguel, after all, he is only a minority shareholder, and the final decision rests with Enrique Crezzo.

"According to our team's assessment, the current market value of Atletico Madrid is around 3 million euros, and we now hold 18% of Atletico Madrid's shares. We are also preparing to acquire 62% of Atletico Madrid's shares, becoming the controlling shareholder of Atletico Madrid, and will also take over Wanda Group's renovation plan for the Wanda Metropolitan Stadium."

"I want to make a bet with Mr. Crezzo and Mr. Gil, if Real Madrid can win with a big score of more than 3 goals, then Mr. Crezzo and Mr. Gil will sell your shares for 3 million euros. After we take over the Atletico Madrid club, we will invest 5000 million euros every year to help the club complete the signing work."

"If Real Madrid's score against Juventus is less than three goals, then I will use 5000 million euros to buy 15% of Atletico Madrid's shares. I will not participate in the specific operations of the club, but just make a pure financial investment. I don't know if Clay Are Mr. Zuo and Mr. Jill interested in making this bet with me?" Zheng Wentong said slowly.

Losing two consecutive Champions League finals, coupled with investment in the construction of a new home arena, the financial situation of Atletico Madrid is indeed not optimistic. They originally planned to introduce new external investors.Enrique Crezzo is just hesitating whether to sell most of his shares and retain his position as a minority shareholder, or sell a small amount of shares to ease Atletico Madrid's capital flow.

Lin Feng did some calculations, Tonglu Investment Fund bought 5500% of Wanda's equity at a price of 18 million euros, and the team's equity was worth 3.05 million euros.

If Real Madrid does not win by a big score, then Zheng Wentong will buy 3.33% of Atletico Madrid's equity at a price of 15 million euros, which is a full 18 million euros higher than the price of Tonglu Investment Fund's purchase of Wanda's 2800% equity.

Enrique Crezo and Miguel Angel Gil glanced at each other. They didn't know the source of Zheng Wentong's confidence in Real Madrid, but they were very interested in Zheng Wentong's proposal.

Without Zheng Wentong's investment, under the introduction of agent Mendes, they would have also contacted the Quantum Pacific Group owned by the Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer.

Itami also intends to invest in Atletico Madrid and become a minority shareholder of the club.They now just have to wait for the result of the Champions League final.

After many years, Enrique Crezo said in an interview with the media, "After Atletico Madrid lost in the Champions League finals in two consecutive seasons in 13-14 and 15-16, I sometimes think that Atletico Madrid is far from the Champions League. The champion just lacked a little bit of luck."

"Mr. Zheng just made a bet with me. I was thinking in my heart, if Mr. Zheng's prediction is successful, then he can bring good luck to our Atletico Madrid! Bring us back the first Champions League championship in team history. It turned out later that He did it!" Enrique Crezzo is glad that he sold most of the team's equity.

　One more chapter tonight

　　
　
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