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"This shouldn't be right! A provincial capital as big as ours doesn't even have a team?" Wu Hao obviously still didn't believe it. Seeing this, Hong Lei sighed and said to him.
"It is indeed like this. In fact, it still existed a few years ago, but the team was disbanded last year, and now there is nothing." Regarding the history of football in Sichuan Province, it started when domestic football first emerged. Not bad, it even ranked among the best in the country more than ten years ago. However, after changing hands several times, it became worse and worse.
Until last year, when they were directly relegated and had no money to pay wages, they were eventually disbanded. This team was the former Sheffield United, also known as Tiancheng Club.
Wu Hao felt a little speechless when he heard this. After all, no one could hear such a big province and city, and the economy was not bad but it didn't even have a team.
In fact, there are currently no professional teams in many provinces and cities in China. However, these provinces are relatively weak economically. At present, the places with the most football clubs in the country are Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Among them, Evergrande is undoubtedly the most popular in recent years. The most famous of the year.
Liu Ben on the side saw Wu Hao's speechless expression, then sighed and continued: "Since there is no team in our province yet, and Leizi and I are fans, we have recently been thinking about starting a club. Look, of course our thoughts are beautiful, but the reality is cruel, because we two have no money at all!" Liu Ben said and felt a little embarrassed here. After all, it was obvious that he wanted to find Wu Hao when he said this. Investment is coming.
Liu Ben would not have had such an idea in the past, but now that there is a super wealthy person like Wu Hao around him, no, in Liu Ben's eyes, Wu Hao is no longer a wealthy person, but has become a 'god rich'. path of.
Because Wu Hao, who dares to spend billions in his hometown, is not something that ordinary rich people can afford.
To put it simply, even the top ten richest people in the country are now ranked among the top ten richest people in the country. It’s not like they can just spend billions of yuan casually without asking for any financial return. Build a resort or something in such a remote place.
After all, they talk about tens of billions of dollars in assets, but most of them are the value of stocks. Stocks rise and shrink quickly. To put it bluntly, if something abnormal happens, their personal assets may be lost the day before. It is also claimed to be tens of billions, and it may shrink by half the next day.
and. How much cash can they take out at once
When Wu Hao saw what Liu Ben said, he immediately understood, but he did not refuse. To be honest, when he heard Liu Ben say that Sichuan Province didn't even have a football, even if he didn't understand football, he wasn't a fan. I also felt a little unhappy in my heart.
"So that's it. Then tell me how much money it costs to invest in football! Then tell me your plan."
When Liu Ben and Hong Lei heard what Wu Hao said, they both looked at each other and smiled, knowing that Wu Hao must have agreed, because in their eyes. With Wu Hao's approach, investing in football is nothing to him.
Because, are they going to build a big team all of a sudden? In the early days, the most I could do was play with second-division clubs. After all, it was a newly established football club. No matter how much money you invest and how many players you buy, you still have to start from the lower leagues step by step.
In China, except for a few amateur teams, there are about 20 teams in the second league every year, 16 teams in the first league and the super league. If the teams in the second league want to go further, they have to compete in that year. The second league can only be promoted to the first league by winning the championship, and the same is true for the first league. The teams at the bottom of the league can only be relegated. Then make way for someone else.
The Chengdu team also stayed in the Super League back then, but not for long. They hung out in Class A for several years, and in the end they were even directly demoted to Class B and disbanded.
Shuangqing City, a sister city adjacent to Chengdu, still has a team that was re-promoted to the Super League last year, which has not completely reduced the entire southwest region to a football desert.
However, this team is only in the middle and lower reaches among the 16 teams in the current National Super League, and its biggest purpose is to avoid relegation. They are not at the same level as the rich teams like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Even now, the expenses of those teams in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou for a season are already on par with those of European clubs.
It's just that domestic players are basically all "miserable". The goals scored by each team are all foreign players. When domestic players compete, there are simply few players who can score goals.
Soon, Liu Ben cleared his throat and said to Wu Hao with a slightly excited tone: "Brother Hao, actually it doesn't cost much to invest in football in the early stage, because Hong Lei and I just plan to set up a professional team first, and then Playing in the second league or something like that can be regarded as a seed for football in our province."
"The annual expenditure of a second-tier league team is about 10 to 20 million. I think this amount of money is nothing to you, Brother Hao. Of course, it must be astronomical to me and Lei Zi. Here are the numbers." After Liu finished speaking, he looked at Wu Hao a little shyly, and the look in his eyes made Wu Hao get goosebumps all over his body.
"Isn't it a little too little for only one to twenty million?" Wu Hao thought it would cost a lot, but he knew it was only one to twenty million. This amount of money was nothing to Wu Hao. He even thought it would be too shabby.
In fact, for a second-division team, one or two million yuan is already a wealthy team. Of course, if you have the ambition to advance to the first-division or the Super League, you will have to invest hundreds of millions of yuan every year. .
And when investing in football clubs, don't expect the team to make money. You can only try to ensure as little loss as possible every year.
Take the Lifan Club in Shuangqing City, a compatriot in Chengdu. This club was started by Lifan Group, a local company in Shuangqing City. Lifan Group is a manufacturer of motorcycles and cars, but its motorcycles and cars They are all at the bottom, with total assets of only about 20 billion yuan.
His Lifan Club has been struggling in the First Division for many years, until last year it showed its strength and rushed to the Super League, which also made Shuangqing City, a hot city in the mainland, the most powerful football market in the country.
During the Super League stage, the attendance rate for each game was more than 30,000, with the highest attendance reaching more than 40,000 people. Such attendance is quite rare and rare in China.
… (To be continued~^~)