For Li Mu, he had no reason to refuse the gift Davidson handed to him.
Moreover, he will not have too much sense of responsibility in accepting this gift. The most he can do is agree to Davidson and let HSBC Holdings be the lead underwriter of the future Makino Technology IPO. However, if Davidson fails to meet his requirements by then, I still won't give him any face.
As for the Manchester City Club, it is actually just a stepping stone for Davidson. I accept this stepping stone. If he does not perform well after entering the door, I will still kick him out.
Davidson certainly knows this.
Although HSBC Holdings is very strong, it is still slightly inferior in the U.S. stock market. Under normal circumstances, it is almost meaningless to be qualified as the lead underwriter of Makino Technology IPO. Now Li Mu can give himself this opportunity for the sake of Manchester City Club. , but if he doesn't perform well, Manchester City Club's entry will be in vain.
Davidson immediately took out the club's equity transfer contract. The transferor of the shares was a financial company of the Goldberg family in Manchester, and the transferee of the shares was Li Mu himself.
The terms in the contract are very simple. The transferor is willing to transfer 100% of the equity of Manchester City to the transferee unconditionally. The contract only needs to be signed by both parties to take effect.
After Li Mu took a minute to read the contract, he signed his name on the signature with the pen handed over by Davidson.
Davidson also signed his name, then exchanged the contract with Li Mu and said with a smile: "Mr. Li, congratulations on becoming the sole owner of Manchester City Club."
After signing the contract, Li Mu smiled slightly and said: "I am completely confused about how to manage a football club, and I don't know how to start."
Davidson laughed and said: "If you don't have money, it does take a lot of energy to run a football club well, but if you have money, it will be a lot easier. You can learn from Abramovich and first give the team enough salary. As well as bonuses and benefits, and then put a sum of money into the club, let the club buy players everywhere to add fresh blood, and then just wait to watch every next game of the game. Generally speaking, as long as the money is in place , the club’s ranking in the league will rise.”
Li Mu thought for a moment and nodded slightly.
He very much recognized Davidson's suggestion. Whether as a club owner or a business owner, there are only two kinds of help he can provide to his subordinates, either technical help or financial help. Regarding football technology, he Basically zero, then just provide good financial help.
At this stage, I don’t have the energy to manage the football club, or even find a suitable professional manager and head coach for the football club. However, there is one thing I can do, and that is to inject a huge amount of funds into the Manchester City Club. Buy good players.
Makino Technology continues to make profits, and Taobao and Taobao Logistics have also begun to make profits. The independent agent Miracle MU is still a cash cow in the Chinese game market. Money means you are qualified to be human. Li Mu can draw money from his personal assets at any time. Take hundreds of millions of pounds and throw them into the Premier League.
Moreover, for Li Mu, he does not have any advantages in the field of football. He has a very unique advantage, which exceeds that of anyone in the world of football today.
This unique advantage is that he knows very well who will become the stars of tomorrow in world football.
More recently, Rooney, Iniesta, Modric, Cesc Fabregas, Ribery, Robben, these world-class players who have become famous later, are still in the golden age of under 20 at this stage, and their level is Enough, but they have never had the opportunity to show themselves, which means that their current worth is almost very low;
And in the future, there will be Lewandowski, Neymar, Bale, and Ozil, the next generation of superstars who were born in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As long as the time is right, it is possible to spend only a few million pounds to make these stars. Everyone joins their own youth training camp. They start in the youth training camp and then play for the second team. When they are 17 or 18 years old, they can play for the first team.
At the same time, Messi has now become a seed player in Barcelona in La Liga. It is probably impossible to buy him now. However, Cristiano Ronaldo should not have joined Manchester United at this stage, and may even have just started negotiating a transfer with Manchester United, so it is not possible to poach him. No chance.
If these players were bought at the best time, they would have made a lot of money from the transfer fee alone.
As for Chinese player Dong Fangzhuo, Li Mu must snatch him away from Manchester United and let him start his Premier League journey at Manchester City, trying to prevent this player from making the same mistakes as possible.
According to this rhythm, in the future, the first and second teams of Manchester City Club must set aside at least one position for Chinese players, and the youth training camp must provide at least six positions. Li Mu wants more Chinese athletes to go abroad and compete in high-intensity, Hone yourself in a high-level league instead of wandering around in domestic clubs with a high salary.
The reason why the so-called first-line players in China in later generations are able to hang out in clubs with high salaries is entirely due to the protection of domestic players by the domestic Football Association. The number of foreign players in each Chinese Super League team has long been limited to 4+1, which is four non-Asian players. Foreign players, as well as an Asian foreign player, can only play 3+1 at most. That is to say, during the game, there can only be a maximum of four foreign players in an 11-man football team. Later, this number was changed to three.
The tightening of the number of foreign players in the team has resulted in each team having to compete for local Chinese players who are not strong enough but are extremely well-paid. These players are also protected by the policy and can live in the club with peace of mind. For them, It doesn't matter if you can't catch up with the foreign players in the team. As long as you don't get caught up too much by the local players of other teams, it's totally fine, because when the team plays, there must be 8 local players on the field.
Although the Bundesliga, Serie A and even La Liga also have restrictions on foreign aid, the key is that their local players strive for success and do not rely too much on foreign aid. Unlike many domestic teams, the entire team's scoring points always come from foreign aid.
Take a look at the scorer list of the Chinese Super League each season. Among the top 20, at least 16 or 7 are foreign players.
This has led to those local players who have been pampered and trained in the club to become accustomed to relying on foreign aid to score goals and win.
Once local players trained in such an environment are recruited by the national team, they are like a group of musicians specializing in accompaniment who have gathered together to prepare for a band competition. However, these musicians are usually instrumental accompanists, and no one can Sing well.
So, when these twenty or so people got together, they discovered that they were participating in a band competition, but there was no one in the team who could sing.
How can such a team make great progress in the world? Thank God for not regressing.
However, if we can bring out the truly talented players in the country, keep them away from the decadent environment where they live, and train them in a high-level league like the Premier League, it doesn’t take much, even if we can train three players, when they are When the national team is recruited, it can also greatly improve the team's strength.
Thinking of this, Li Mu asked Davidson: "By the way, there should be no foreign aid restrictions for Premier League clubs, right?"
"No." Davidson shook his head and said, "As long as he can get a labor certificate, it doesn't matter if the whole team is a foreign player."
"Labor certificate..." When Li Mu heard this word, he immediately thought that there were indeed some domestic players who had the opportunity to be signed by Premier League teams, but they all ended up being aborted because the problem of labor certificates could not be solved.
So, Li Mu asked Davidson: "If I want to bring more Chinese players to the Premier League in the future, who should I approach to resolve the labor certification issue?"
The British labor certificate is very troublesome, especially the Premier League labor certificate. It has very high requirements for the signing targets. Not only does it require the opponent to have a playing rate of more than 75% in the national team, but it also requires the FIFA ranking of the national team to be among the top 70 in the world. In this way As a result, many Asian players have been excluded from the Premier League.
And my impression is that this policy is gradually tightened and becomes more and more strict.
Davidson blurted out almost without thinking: "There is another introduction channel for Premier League labor certificates that does not need to consider hard indicators. I can help you solve this, don't worry."
Li Mu breathed a sigh of relief and smiled: "Then the issue of labor certificates for Chinese players will be a problem for you from now on."
Davidson nodded and said: "If you have any Chinese players that you plan to introduce to Manchester City in the future, just tell me directly and I will communicate with the government. However, the number cannot be too high. Otherwise, the media will keep watching and it will be difficult to explain. .”
Li Mu said: "My goals are not high. Manchester City's first team and second team will each have a Chinese player in the early stage. In the middle and later stages, we will find a solution based on the actual situation."
Davidson smiled and said: "If your goal is just to bring Chinese players to the Premier League for training, then you can loan the players to other European leagues first, and then apply for labor certificates through arbitration. I can also help you solve this. Believe me, I still have some strength in Europe, and loaning players to other European leagues is also a kind of training for the players. After all, the European leagues are more professional than the Chinese League."
Li Mu smiled and said: "Of course I believe this."
Davidson added: "By the way, did you know that Manchester City already has a Chinese player?"
"Really?" Li Mu was a little stunned and couldn't remember. He has no deep impression of the five major leagues before 2008, so he can't recall any Chinese players playing for Manchester City in the Premier League at this time.
Davidson picked up a thick folder from his hand. After flipping through it for a while, he handed it to Li Mu and said, "Look, it's him, SunJiHai."
Li Mu lowered his head and saw three familiar words on the page - Sun Jihai.
(End of chapter)