When the news footage of Li Mu's meeting with the royal family was broadcast on television media across the UK, Li Mu had already arrived in Manchester after more than two hours' drive.
Manchester is the second largest city in the UK, but its population is not large. The city's scale, development and pace of life are much slower than London.
Because the training base of Manchester City Club is in the southwest of Manchester, Li Mu did not enter the city center of Manchester. According to Davidson, the training base of Manchester City Club is next to the training base of Manchester United, about two kilometers away.
Nowadays, Manchester City Club has just entered the Premier League. In the past few years, it has been ups and downs in the middle and lower reaches. Life is not very comfortable, and now is not the stage where Middle Eastern tycoons will spend crazy money in the future. Therefore, the training base of Manchester City Club has never been It doesn't look very impressive from the outside.
Looking at the training base, it is basically a piece of football field. There are not many buildings, and most of them are low. Many players on the training ground are training separately. It seems that the first team, second team, youth team and even youth training camp They are all training on their own, most of them are teenagers, and most of them are around 10-12 years old.
Every club in the five major leagues attaches great importance to youth training. For any football club, more than half of the more than 20 main players come from the youth training camp of their own club.
Although it is not easy for our own youth training camp to produce superstars, it is easy to cultivate a very stable and loyal supporting force for the club. It is much like the leadership team of a city. Most of the senior leaders come from other places, but basically all the middle-level and grass-roots leaders are from the local area.
Davidson had notified the Manchester City club in advance. Everyone at the Manchester City club thought that Davidson, the new owner, would be inspecting the club for the first time, so they took it very seriously. For a club like Manchester City, most of the staff, coaching staff and even The home team players are facing many problems, the most important of which is lack of strength and reputation.
When the Goldberg family acquired the club, almost everyone in the club felt insecure. This was because the Goldberg family was very famous in the UK. Everyone believed that since Goldberg acquired the Manchester City club, they would definitely invest heavily in improving the club. They are worried that their strength and reputation will not match Goldberg's financial resources.
This is like a small start-up company being acquired by a giant company. Most employees of the small company will worry that they will be laid off after the acquisition because they cannot meet the high requirements of the giant company for employees.
Therefore, the club has been highly nervous since yesterday. Everyone hopes to successfully survive the new boss's inspection, otherwise it is very likely that the new boss will leave the club if he is dissatisfied.
It's not that the current staff and players of the club love this club. The main thing is that no one wants to be the one abandoned. If they want to leave, they have to leave voluntarily after finding a better one.
The motorcade stopped in front of the main office building of the Manchester City Club. The club's CEO Allister, head coach Kevin Keegan, and the management of many teams were waiting in line at the gate.
These people are not shareholders of the club, they are just professional managers contracted by the club. The Goldberg family fully purchased Manchester City. It not only purchased all the equity of Manchester City, but also purchased all the employees and player contracts of Manchester City. These professionals are still within the contract period. The manager is still maintaining the operation of this club while waiting for the new owner's strategic deployment.
After the car stopped, the driver and Davidson's assistant got out of the car at the same time. Davidson's assistant opened the door on Davidson's side, and the driver opened the door on Li Mu's side.
Davidson got out of the car first. After the club's management saw him, they hurriedly came up to welcome the new owner of the club. Unexpectedly, at this time, a young Oriental youth walked out of the other door, with sharp eyes. CEO Alister was stunned because he instantly recognized this young man from the East. He was the Li Mu who was reported wildly on the TV media today!
Others also recognized Li Mu one after another, which shocked everyone. They didn't know why Li Mu appeared here. TV reports said that he had just gone to Buckingham Palace to meet with the Queen and the entire royal family? Moreover, the Queen also awarded him the Grand Cross, the highest Imperial Order of Merit. How come he appeared at the Manchester City Club in such a short time
No one could guess what was hidden here. CEO Alister was the first to come to his senses. He first walked up to Davidson, shook hands with him, and said seriously: "Mr. Goldberg, welcome to Manchester City Club." , I am Alister, the CEO of the club, and I have met your son several times before."
Davidson nodded slightly and said with a smile: "He praised you very much."
After that, Davidson pointed at Li Mu and said to everyone: "Everyone, I know you are all waiting for the new owner of the club, but I am going to tell you a big news. Before coming here, the Goldberg family had already transferred Manchester City to the club. All the equity in the club has been transferred to Mr. Li Mu, which means that the new owner of Manchester City Club should be Mr. Li Mu, not me. I just accompanied Mr. Li Mu here today."
At this moment, the whole place was in an uproar.
No one expected that the owner of Manchester City would change hands again in such a short period of time. Previously it was the Goldberg family, and now it is Li Mu.
Everyone is extremely shocked by this news, because the current presence of Chinese people and Chinese Capital in the Premier League is too low.
At this time, Li Mu smiled calmly and said: "I am usually quite distracted. I may not have much time to pay attention to the club's situation in the future, so the future development of the club will depend on you all paying more attention."
After Li Mu spoke, everyone truly accepted this fact.
However, they did not accept the difficulty or psychological resistance at all. On the contrary, each of them felt extremely excited about this fact in their hearts.
They have no reason not to be excited.
First of all, Li Mu has almost confirmed his position as the world's richest man. The only thing he needs to wait for is the concreteness of the numbers after the listing. The higher Li Mu's personal wealth, the clearer the club's future economic situation will be.
Secondly, Makino Technology has basically secured its position as the world's largest Internet company in terms of market value. After its listing, the market value will probably be more than double that of the second place; this and Li Mu's personal wealth form a double insurance, which Manchester City Club will lack in the future. There will be no shortage of money for anything;
Thirdly, Li Mu is too famous, Makino Technology is also too famous, and Makino Technology’s publicity ability is too strong. After Manchester City Club becomes Li Mu’s personal club, the overall reputation of the club will definitely skyrocket, and Li Mu only needs to be slightly stronger from Makino Technology Allocating a little bit of our publicity capabilities to Manchester City Club is enough to ensure that the club becomes one of the most famous clubs in the world!
Moreover, a busy man like Li Mu actually came to the club to inspect in person. This shows that Li Mu himself is very concerned about the club, which is a huge benefit to the club;
The most important thing is what Li Mu just said to everyone.
Li Mu said that his energy is limited and that the future development of the club will depend on everyone's efforts. He showed his kindness to the current management team from the very beginning. This proves that Li Mu has no plans to lay off employees or change new players, at least not yet!
With so many huge benefits, how could the top brass at these clubs not be excited
Immediately, CEO Alister stepped forward, shook hands with Li Mu excitedly, and said, "I never thought that Mr. Li would become the boss of Manchester City. This is really exciting!"
Li Mu smiled slightly and said, "Mr. Alister, you will need to pay more attention to many things in the club from now on."
Alister nodded hurriedly and said extremely seriously: "I will definitely try my best!"
Then, Alister added: "Mr. Li, let me introduce you to the main management members of the club."
Under Allister's introduction, Li Mu met and shook hands with head coach Kevin Keegan and other team management. Then, Li Mu raised his voice in front of everyone and said, "Everyone just said I feel very excited, and I think everyone should feel excited, because in the coming season, I will invest a large amount of money and a lot of publicity resources into Manchester City Club. With your full cooperation, I will I believe we will definitely make Manchester City one of the best clubs in the UK, or even the best club in the UK, bar none!"
He promised everyone a large sum of money and a large amount of publicity resources at the beginning. Li Mu gave these people two large tubes of adrenaline as soon as they met, making everyone flush with excitement. Everyone clapped and applauded, and everyone was so excited. All beyond words.
At this time, Davidson said: "Everyone, why don't we move to the conference room and chat slowly."
Li Mu nodded and said, "Yes, let's sit down and talk slowly."
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Everyone arrived at the high-level conference room of Manchester City Club. Li Mu naturally sat at the head of the conference table, Davidson sat on his right, and the club's CEO Alister sat on his left.
As soon as he sat down, Li Mu said straight to the point: "Everyone, the new season has begun. Fortunately, there is still a little time left in the summer transfer window. Therefore, I would like to convey a few decisions to you next:
First, I will invest 100 million pounds in the club in the next year. The first 50 million pounds will be received in the shortest possible time. This money will mainly be used to rush for the summer transfer window. Bringing in some new blood to the club before closing;”
Everyone was immediately excited. Fifty million pounds was specially used to introduce players. At the moment, it was really a huge sum of money. It could at least introduce two superstars or four quasi-superstars to the team.
Immediately, Li Mu added: "Second, before I came, I communicated with my private scouting team and formulated a list of players to introduce. Every player on this list needs our team to be in the shortest possible time." Contact us within the time limit and try to find a way to bring him in before the transfer window closes. It doesn’t matter if the other party has a contract, we can pay liquidated damages.”
Having said this, Li Mu looked at head coach Kevin Keegan and said: "Mr. Keegan, please forgive me for overstepping. In the future, the team's tactics will be completely decided by you, but when it comes to the introduction of players, it must be done in a big way." Please follow my arrangements, I hope you can understand;"
Kevin Keegan nodded immediately. He might feel uncomfortable when other bosses said such things to him, but when Li Mu said such things to him, he really had no temper at all, because with Li Mu's strength, he could do it at any time. Replace yourself, and a bunch of outstanding coaches will squeeze their heads to cooperate with him. After all, he has too many resources and too much room for imagination!
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