On the morning of July 22, Lu Wenbin and Vichai signed a share transfer agreement, whereby Lu Wenbin purchased 30% of Leicester City's shares for 1 euro, with additional terms for increasing the equity until Lu Wenbin's equity reached 49%.
At the same time, Lu Wenbin joined the Premier League Leicester City as a free transfer, signing a five-year contract with an annual salary of 30 million euros.
Before the press conference ended, online media had already revealed that Lu Wenbin had confirmed joining Leicester City.
After the press conference, more detailed news began to flood the screens, and media and fans around the world were shocked.
"Lu Wenbin joins Premier League newly promoted Leicester City, the Foxes use 30% of their shares to get Lu Wenbin to join!"
"Superstars are coming to Leicester City! Here we come!"
"Will Lu Wenbin join Leicester City and lead the Foxes to create the miracle of a newly promoted team winning the championship again?"
"Playing football and becoming a boss, Lu Wenbin was awarded 30% of Leicester City's shares, and will fight for himself from now on!"
Leicester City fans are going crazy after it was confirmed that Lu Wenbin would join the team and might continue playing for the Foxes until retirement.
On July 23, a fan meeting was held at Leicester City's home stadium, the Foxes. The entire stadium was completely packed, and countless people were crying outside the stadium because they couldn't get in.
Countless people held up banners or large portraits welcoming Lu Wenbin, expressing their warmest welcome to Lu Wenbin's arrival.
Lu Wenbin officially landed in the Premier League.
However, Lu Wenbin did not have time to practice with his teammates.
Because Kate is close to her due date and may give birth at any time.
Vichai gave Lu Wenbin a villa in the suburbs of Leicester City, which has a small training ground, a swimming pool, and security guarantees.
On July 29, 2014, Kate gave birth to a son in Leicester City. Lu Wenbin named him Lu Ronghuan and became a father.
With both sets of parents, full-time doctors and nannies taking care of the children, Lu Wenbin couldn't help much. After staying at home with his wife and children for a few days, Lu Wenbin finally came to the Leicester City training base to meet with his coaches and teammates to participate in pre-season training and prepare for the new season of the Premier League.
None of the Leicester City players had any resistance to Lu Wenbin joining the team and becoming a shareholder. Instead, everyone was very excited.
Before Lu Wenbin joined, everyone was thinking about how to stay in the Premier League in the new season.
But now we have Lu Wenbin, who maintains a record of winning the championship as long as he participates in the competition at the club level, which gives everyone a lot of imagination.
Even if I just win a championship behind Lu Wenbin, it would be a happy thing.
He is both the boss and a world-class superstar, and it is foreseeable that he will stay in Leicester City for a long time.
Naturally, Lu Wenbin became the first captain of Leicester City in the new season without any objection from anyone.
As a newly promoted team, Leicester City's lineup is not strong, but the goalkeeper is the son of goalkeeper Schmeichel, also known as Schmeichel Jr., who is quite strong.
There are also midfielder Drinkwater, forwards Mahrez, Jamie Vardy and so on, who are all pretty good.
Although he is far inferior to Lu Wenbin's teammates in Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain, Lu Wenbin cannot ask for too much.
What more could a newly promoted polo team ask for
What's more, Lu Wenbin is now a shareholder.
When he was a player, Lu Wenbin hoped that the club would introduce more talented players to enhance its strength.
But now Lu Wenbin is a shareholder, so if there is an investment, he will also have a share and will have to invest the same proportion of money based on the equity distribution.
Therefore, Lu Wenbin will not ask the club to introduce superstar players.
Anyway, his ability is there, and as long as the team configuration is acceptable, he can lead the team to achieve good results.
Of course, we won’t bring in superstar players, but we still need to bring in a few talented players.
Lu Wenbin's ambition is naturally to lead the team to win the Premier League championship in the first season, then participate in the Champions League next season, win the treble, and then win the annual seven championships.
With Lu Wenbin's presence, Leicester City's attractiveness to many less famous but strong players has suddenly increased.
Even if the club doesn't let them go, these players will clamor to leave the club and come to Leicester City.
Before the start of the Premier League, Leicester City successively introduced Japanese national team member Shinji Okazaki, French young rookie Kante and others.
Although the star lineup is not as good as those of Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and other giants, the presence of Lu Wenbin alone is enough for the media to list Leicester City as one of the favorites to win the Premier League in the 2014/2015 season.
Players like Schmeichel, Vardy, and Mahrez, no matter how weak they are, are much stronger than the Chinese players.
Lu Wenbin was able to lead the Chinese team to fourth place in the World Cup, so leading Leicester City to win the Premier League title is not something out of reach.
The system tasks are still the same, so there is no need to elaborate on them. Anyway, Lu Wenbin now has more skill points than he can use up.
On August 16, 2014, the 2014/2015 Premier League season kicked off, with Manchester United facing Swansea at home in the opening match.
Unexpectedly, the final result was that Manchester United lost 1-2 to Swansea, which was surprising.
This also indirectly proves the difficulty of the Premier League.
In the afternoon, five Premier League matches started at the same time, including Lu Wenbin's Leicester City against Everton. Moreover, it was a home game.
When Lu Wenbin, wearing the No. 6 jersey and the captain's armband, led the other 10 starting players of Leicester City into the King Power Stadium, the more than 30,000 Foxes fans who were packed with fans all stood up and burst into huge applause and cheers.
If Lu Wenbin was not there, this would be a match between a strong Premier League team and a newly promoted team, and Everton's chances of winning would undoubtedly be much greater, even if it was an away game.
But with Lu Wenbin joining, things become unclear.
The broadcasting organization even gave up the match between Arsenal and Crystal Palace and broadcast Lu Wenbin's Premier League debut live to the world.
In this game, Schmeichel Jr. was the starting goalkeeper, Lu Wenbin and Kante were the defensive midfielders, Shinji Okazaki, Mahrez and Drinkwater were the central midfielders, and Jamie Vardy was the lone striker.
As players of the newly promoted team, Kante, Mahrez, Vardy and others were a little uncomfortable at the beginning of the game, but under the defensive command of the experienced Lu Wenbin, Leicester City was not broken by Everton.
After missing two one-on-one opportunities, Vardy finally received a long pass from Lu Wenbin in the 32nd minute to score the first goal for the Foxes, and Leicester City led Everton 1-0.
The game began to enter Leicester City's rhythm.
Lu Wenbin showed the Foxes fans his charm as a world superstar, with two assists, a free kick, a quick counterattack goal after dribbling past three people, and a direct goal from a corner kick.
In Lu Wenbin's Premier League debut, he scored a hat-trick and assisted twice, leading Leicester City to a 5-1 victory over Everton, driving the entire Leicester City into a frenzy.
Lu Wenbin's journey to conquer the Premier League has officially begun.
PS: I have been thinking for a long time and feel that I am not in a good state recently and am not suitable for writing novels. So today is my last day to write a novel this year and the last update. Thank you for your company, support and encouragement along the way. I am really a little tired recently, so I'd better take a good vacation and rest. I will resume updating in 2019! I wish you all a happy new year, prosperity, good health and all the best in advance!