Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1361 Big Housekeeper

Zhou Buqi's business in the UK is mainly in London, including the headquarters of EMI Records in London.

This is also the reason why he bought the team and wanted to buy Arsenal in the first place.

However, Arsenal's shareholding structure is too complicated, and the Americans and Russians are scrambling for bargaining chips and control of Arsenal.For this reason, there was a serious split within Arsenal, and the boss David Dunn left.Wenger believed that the sale of Arsenal to the Russian oligarchs was a policy risk, and he refused to live or die, preferring to choose stingy American capitalists.

Things are too complicated here.

Zhou Buqi couldn't get involved.

The only fortunate thing is that he contacted David Dunn and invited him to Ziweixing Sports Digital Media Company as a football consultant.

Manchester is far worse than London.

But there are benefits too.

There are too many world-renowned scenic spots for tourists to travel to London, such as Big Ben, the River Thames, Cambridge University, Buckingham Palace... Arsenal, Chelsea and other home games are not ranked at all.

Manchester is different.

Old Trafford is the biggest tourist attraction in Manchester. As long as you travel to Manchester, it is an essential part to check in at Old Trafford.

This is the biggest business card of the city.

On this day, Zhou Buqi went to Manchester United to watch a game: Manchester United VS Tottenham.

There is no winter break in the Premier League.

After Manchester United went to Osaka to win the Club World Cup in December, they returned to the UK to participate in the league non-stop. The state was greatly affected, and there was a wave of three consecutive draws.

As a result, Manchester United fell behind Liverpool by 8 points in the standings.

Maybe the boss was watching the game and gave the team a boost.

Manchester United scored in the first 3 minutes of the game. Taking advantage of a corner kick, central defender Nemanja Vidic scored with a header.

Zhou Buqi watched the game in the VIP box.

There is no way, it is not suitable to go outside, there are young and beautiful girls around, Xue Baoshan, Sun Guanran, Feng Muer, and Zhen Yu who just flew over from the United States.

Zhen Yu complained a little, "I can't finish the task you arranged for me."

"how?"

"It's too complicated and I don't have enough experience."

"No way?" Zhou Buqi was a little amused, "Didn't you do a good job when you were the president of Twitter?"

Zhen Yu said distressedly: "Can it be the same? Twitter is a small company. But Ziweixing's international business is drastic when it starts up. Several industry lines are launched at the same time, as well as movies and football. I can't take care of it. "

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Senior Sister Zhen, don't be discouraged."

Zhen Yu shook her head lightly, "It's not that I'm discouraged, it's that it's really hard. You still want me to help you manage the family's finances, and I'm beyond what I can do."

"or……"

"Give me another job?"

"Why don't you just do some supervisory and audit work, and be my big steward. In addition to helping me manage the finances of the family fund, you will also serve as a director of Ziweixing International Group to control the finances. And Manchester United, you also come to be a director. Well, if EMI is acquired in the future, you will also be on EMI’s board of directors. By the way, there are also directors of Marvel, Netflix, and Tesla, and you will replace me Got it."

Zhou Buqi's arrangement is very easy.

As long as you don't go off in person, the workload is very little.

Directors have a lot of power, but they have very little work. They don't care about what they do or how they do it. They just need to look at the report and see the results.It is common for a person to serve as a director of more than a dozen listed companies at the same time.

Zhen Yu breathed a sigh of relief and was very surprised, "Do you really want to buy EMI?"

Zhou Buqi said: "With this idea, it can form a healthy supplement to our industrial ecology."

"Are you rich?" Zhen Yu is now helping him manage the family fund and knows the inside story, "The family fund has only 1 million US dollars left in its account, and it is also helping Manchester United with a 6 million US dollar loan."

Sun Guanran and Feng Muer looked at each other, and both stuck out their tongues.

How scary!
What about the rich man, who owes 6 million US dollars outside!
Is it the richest man or the first loser?

Zhou Buqi didn't care, "It's only 6 million U.S. dollars. With Pluto Capital and Neptune Capital, there is no need to worry about cash flow."

Zhen Yu whispered: "Recently, the price rise has been quite good. Pluto has increased by 18.7%, and Neptune has increased by 14.4%. I think it can continue to rise. It is best not to sell."

Zhou Buqi said: "Of course I can't sell it. This is a value investment for me, and it's a long-term investment. But it can't affect normal life. Or...or I can go to the bank to borrow 10 billion or 20 billion US dollars in the name of Neptune, and then Neptune The capital will then lend this money to Fangfei Fund, which will be repaid with future dividends."

The United States is a financial empire, and capital operation routines emerge in endlessly. Whether it is physical mortgages or virtual mortgages, or even personal credit mortgages, there are various ways to get loans from banks.

Now that the world is flooding, loans are much easier than half a year ago.

Zhen Yu was a little worried about him, and frowned slightly, "You can get a loan, but I'm afraid...you have to be careful, just in case."

"Yes, Senior Sister Zhen is right." Xue Baoshan was also very concerned, "Student Zhou, you must not be careless. Terra Firma Capital is so powerful. It is known as one of the four major industrial funds in Europe. It also failed to deal with the loan problem. EMI Records may have to be confiscated."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "This is England, the birthplace of capitalism. Keynesianism, the more loans, the more income. Besides, in my capacity, three or five billion dollars in loans, is it a lot?"

Zhen Yu gave him a tender look.

Xue Baoshan pursed her lips, smiled without saying a word.

The recent state of Manchester United's game is really bad. The game was very ugly. Ferguson yelled on the sidelines and seemed very angry.

Zhou Buqi was not very interested in the game, so he said seriously: "Senior Sister Zhen, let me tell you the truth, you want to come to Manchester United as a director and focus on finance."

"Where's uncle? Where's Mr. Zhu? Also, didn't you joke that you found an assistant named San Dezi?"

"My dad is not good enough, and Zhu Jun is also very busy. San Dezi is good. He used to be the manager of Morgan's credit department, and he can be your pony in the future."

Zhen Yu nodded lightly, "Is there anything I need to do?"

Zhou Buqi said, "Buy an airplane."

"Didn't you buy it? You bought it in the name of Neptune. Airbus A330. I have already sent out 1.5 million US dollars for the price of 1.2 million US dollars. I just wait for the final payment to be settled at the time of delivery."

"That's for our own use. I mean, go buy two second-hand planes and use them for the executives of Manchester United. Did you hear that? Many big companies in the United States are selling planes."

"Yeah. I know."

Of course Zhen Yu knew.

The current price of second-hand aircraft has plummeted all the way, mainly because of the financial tsunami.

The place with the highest density of private jets is Wall Street. Many financiers even commute by helicopter between Long Island and Manhattan every day.Because of the financial tsunami, the financial giants suffered a lot.

When the market scolded, the financiers were ashamed to run around in private jets every day, and they were all selling planes.

Citigroup has 9 planes and wants to sell 6; Bank of America has 9 planes and wants to sell 7; Wells Fargo will only keep one plane for the CEO to use.

Manchester United's current main shirt sponsor, AIG, has seven aircraft, with four more on order.After the crisis broke out, orders for new planes were canceled and 7 more planes were sold.

Registered pre-owned private jets have increased 3 percent in the past three months, according to Private Aircraft Industry data.

The price of the new machine is also falling, but the drop is not too much.

The supply of second-hand aircraft exceeds demand, and prices have plummeted.

Zhen Yu frowned slightly, a little puzzled, "Buy a plane for the team?"

Zhou Buqi said: "It's not about buying a plane for the team. The team has sponsors, and there is a special plane for Manchester United to take. It's a Boeing 747. I'm talking about buying it for the executives of Manchester United. It's too shabby to travel by civil aviation. "

Zhen Yu was surprised, "Buy two?"

"Well, I want to reform Manchester United and split it into two parts. One part is the Manchester United headquarters, which is mainly the traditional sports part. The other part is a newly established subsidiary, Manchester United Business. I am planning to transfer the senior vice president of EMI, Gilber He was dug here to be the president."

"A bit extravagant."

"Buying people's hearts can reduce resistance to reform."

"That's right." Zhen Yu sighed softly, "As a foreigner, it's not easy to do anything."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "It's not that difficult. It's not difficult to deal with these football players. In the future, when David Gill and Ferguson go to other places to discuss player transfers, they can go out on the club's private jet. The guarantee is there. It doesn’t need to spend too much money, just two ordinary planes, and the budget is within 2000 million U.S. dollars.”

Zhen Yu asked again: "How much money is in Manchester United's account?"

"Not much, it seems to be more than 5000 million pounds. Broadcasting fees, game membership fees, etc. are paid at the end of the season, and there will be more cash flow when the season is over."

Zhou Buqi is quite satisfied with this.

Although Manchester United's commercial development is not satisfactory, but the expenditure is also very low.As long as the money is not used to repay debts, there will be no cash flow crisis.

Zhen Yu suddenly thought of something, "What about Lu Qi? Why don't you make arrangements for him?"

"There must be."

For this kind of thing, Zhou Buqi must not be stingy, and must conform to the general environment.For CEOs of Silicon Valley companies, private jets are all standard equipment, some bought by themselves, and some provided by the company.

After Musk made his first pot of gold, the first thing he did was to buy a private jet.

However, the aircraft for Landcraft cannot be as low-grade as Manchester United.

Zhou Buqi said: "We have to equip Luqi with a first-class business jet, and it is a new one, and the budget should not be less than 3000 million US dollars. There is no rush for this matter, and we will talk about it after Ziweixing is split. Get things done. By the way, Senior Sister Zhen, you will live abroad with your fiancé from now on, right?"

Zhen Yu's expression was indifferent, and she pulled her hair around her ears, "I can do anything."

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "I'll buy you a plane too, so it's convenient to travel between Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, London and Manchester."

"no need."

For some reason, Senior Sister Zhenyu's mood suddenly became less high, and the brows became cold.

(End of this chapter)