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Chapter 1839 Annual Financial Report
On January 1th, Zhou Buqi flew from Shanghai to the capital. After a short vacation, he returned to work.In fact, in his current situation, there is no vacation at all, and he has to work when he is on vacation. Every night from 4:11 to 1:[-] am is the required working time.

Just like last night... To be precise, in the early morning of this morning, one of the main meetings of Zhou Buqi was to communicate with Manchester United.

The winter transfer window has opened.

You can make an offer to Ajax for Suarez!

However, Manchester United's first offer of 2150 million pounds was rejected after five days of consideration by the opponent.The reason for the delay is that there are competitors joining.

Actually it's nothing.

Make a bid!
The current European football is still relatively cheap, the Middle East capital has not entered the field on a large scale, the football bubble has not been blown, and the value of the players is still very real.

Although Suarez is good, he has not proven himself in the five major leagues. After coming to Europe from South America, he only played well in the Eredivisie League, and the price will not be too high.

Zhou Buqi didn't care about the bidding, so he said it didn't matter, he could buy it even if the price was high!Manchester United and Liverpool are sworn enemies, grab people from them!

The big boss is willing to pay, of course everyone is very happy.

Unexpectedly, Ferguson did not agree, "No, Manchester United should not be taken advantage of in the transfer market. Liverpool has become a second-tier team, and they can only rely on super offers to attract players. Manchester United is not Manchester City, nor is it Liverpool. Manchester United With Manchester United dignity."

Zhou Buqi heard this and wanted to curse.

Depend on!
Can't spend the money?
These British people really have a kind of arrogance in their bones, as if it is shameful to spend too much money on a young player.

Zhou Buqi felt powerless, "Then what should I do?"

"No one can tease me in the transfer market." Ferguson was obviously very dissatisfied with Ajax's rejection of Manchester United's offer, "Suarez's offer cannot exceed 2800 million pounds, and his salary will not exceed 350 million pounds. No points! Let this kid choose for himself, whether to go to Liverpool for money, or join Manchester United for honor!"

The annual salary of 350 million pounds is about 180 million pounds after tax.

This kind of salary was quite high in the Manchester United team two years ago, and it could be ranked in the middle.However, after the boss Zhou took over Manchester United, he raised the salary level of the players. The annual salary of 180 million pounds after tax is basically the middle and lower in the team. For a young rookie who just joined, it is actually very suitable for the team. salary structure.

This is also in line with Ferguson's strong management of the team. A young man who can't get from the second-tier league can get more money than the heroes who have made great contributions to Manchester United in the past few years.

Zhou Buqi's negative emotions were emptied at once, and he felt that Sir Alex Ferguson's persistence was right.

He knew that Suarez was a future super killer and top player who would kill all directions in Europe. He originally thought about paying a transfer fee and a high salary to snatch him over.

Hearing what Ferguson said, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

Football is not a one-man game.

This is a team game.

For the team, the most important thing is the management of the team. It is necessary to live in harmony, be friendly and help each other, and have a standard system and fair values.

Otherwise, if you find a group of the best players, but there are many conflicts and ulterior motives among them, it will be impossible to play well.

No wonder Ferguson led Manchester United in the previous life. After Ronaldo left, Rooney could only play with a group of second-rate players. It can be called the weakest giant team in Europe on paper.But even so, Ferguson was still able to lead Manchester United to win the Premier League championship and also broke into the Champions League final.

He built a solid team and he played team football.

The balance of the team cannot be broken just because of a player like Suarez.

Zhou Buqi didn't say much, and expressed his unconditional support for Ferguson. He listened to him at the competitive level, and the big boss just provided reference suggestions.

The team's striker is actually quite sufficient, with Rooney and Van Persie sitting in charge.This season, Van Persie was only affected by the World Cup, and his condition was not very good. He only scored 17 goals in 4 games.

As long as he regains his form in the second half of the season, he will still be the top striker in Europe.

Besides, it doesn’t matter even if you can’t win Suarez, there are other sharp strikers, Ibrahimovic, Lewandowski, Cavani, Aguero, Falcao, Diego Costa, Higuain...and then have a look!
Suarez is not Messi and Ronaldo, and it is not worth breaking the team's balance for him.

Zhou Buqi supported Ferguson's opinion.

However, this does not mean that he does not want to introduce Suarez.

On the way to the capital, Zhou did not calculate the time, it should be the evening of the United Kingdom, so he called David Gill and told about Suarez.

David Gill hesitated for a moment, and said slowly: "The relationship between Ferguson and Ajax has never been good. At the beginning, he wanted to introduce Sneijder, and it was all negotiated. But Ajax broke the promise and sent Sneijder De sold to Real Madrid. He didn't want to let Ajax make a lot of money."

Zhou Buqi said: "If possible, we should try our best to facilitate this deal. Ferguson is about to retire, and he must leave a sufficiently strong, complete, rich and well-tuned lineup for the next coach."

He didn't say the deeper reason.

In fact, at the commercial level, buying Suarez will help open up the South American market.Manchester United fans are mainly concentrated in English-speaking countries and Southeast Asia, and the South American market is almost blank.

Even in the current Manchester United formation, there is not a single Brazilian or Argentine.

South America has been completely reduced to the base camp of Real Madrid and Barcelona.

This is not good.

Not only at the commercial level, but also at the competitive level.

With the development of modern football, training has become more and more scientific, more unified and standardized, and all modern players are created in the name of euphemism.

However, in addition to football skills, forwards need inspiration, talent and imagination. The modern assembly-line training mode almost ruins these characteristics of players.

Ten years later, there will be almost no outstanding strikers in Europe. Except for Harland, Mbappe and a few others, the younger generation is completely disconnected, and the generation born in the 90s is completely misfired.

The newly emerging talented forwards are all from South America who have not been trained in the European modern system in their youth. The giants are all eyeing Brazil and constantly robbing them, even starting to spend tens of millions of euros from the age of fifteen berserk.

In the 2022 World Cup, Brazil can even bring 9 forwards who have played for the top giants to the battle, and there are still several who failed to be selected.

Because of the lack of the South American market, Manchester United did not have the opportunity to take the lead.

It is imperative to lay out the South American market!
……

When I came to Ziweixing headquarters in the capital, I was mainly preparing for the board meeting in the middle of the month, summarizing last year and looking forward to this year.

The most important of these is last year's financial report.

Too much detail has not been sorted out yet.

But it doesn't matter, Zhou Buqi doesn't care about the details, as long as there is an approximate data.

The total revenue of Ziwei Star in 2010 was 296.1 billion yuan, which is divided into 6 parts.

New media business group: revenue of 104.2 billion yuan;

WeChat business group: revenue of 84.2 billion yuan;

Micro-point business group: revenue of 72.7 billion yuan;

Cloud computing business group: revenue of 23.1 billion yuan; (mainly paid by other departments of Ziweixing)
China-Taiwan Division: revenue of 7.6 million yuan;

Ziweixing Engineering Institute: revenue of 4.3 million yuan.

Although the financial reports of the three giants of BAT have not yet been made public, there is also a basic forecast that Penguin’s annual revenue is about 200 billion, Baidu’s will not exceed 100 billion, and Ali’s is about 50 billion.

There is no doubt that Ziweixing is already the largest Internet company in China, and this does not count the overseas business that has been spun off, and the revenue of those investment projects that have not been integrated.

Of course, the expenses are also big.

Traffic acquisition cost: 43.6 billion yuan;

Broadband cost: 11.6 billion yuan;

Depreciation cost: 14.2 billion yuan;

Sales, general and administrative expenses: 39.6 billion yuan;

Research and development expenditure: 33.8 billion yuan;

Equity incentive expenditure: 6.3 million yuan;

Business expenditure was 149.1 billion yuan, and business profit was 147.0 billion yuan.

In addition, sales tax and income tax expenditures were 22.4 billion yuan.

The interest is 7.2 million yuan.

……

In short, after deducting interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, other non-operating profits, equity incentive expenses, and investment expenses, Ziwei Star made a net profit of 2010 billion yuan in 39.2.

The main reason is that the scale of investment is too large and the capital support is too much. It takes money to continuously acquire land to build houses and cloud computing data centers.

According to the accounting standards of the United States, capital expenditures are not included in the financial report, but mainly consumption expenditures... Based on this calculation, Ziweixing's net profit this year can reach 20 billion US dollars.

There is no need to have too exaggerated bubbles. Based on Penguin's current PE of 40 times, Ziweixing's market valuation can reach 800 billion US dollars.

Guo Pengfei came to his office to look for him, and said with a smile: "I have also read the financial report. Nie Caijun said that with Ziwei Star's current strength, it can be called the third Internet giant in the world, and its valuation can reach 1000 billion U.S. dollars. If Adding overseas business together, it is estimated that it is not much worse than Google.”

Zhou Buqi glanced at him, "Are you short of money?"

"good."

Guo Pengfei laughed.

Zhou Buqi said: "Don't worry, when Jieyu Media is listed, Polaris Venture Capital will directly share a share, and everyone will have a capital feast together."

Guo Pengfei laughed.

Zhou Buqi asked angrily, "Why are you smirking?"

"I'm happy."

"Okay, what do you want from me?"

"Let's talk about WeChat's development plan for the next year. I have already greeted Zhang Yiming, Meng Houkun, and Fu Hongliang. They will be here soon."

Guo Pengfei was really self-assertive, so he dared to arrange Boss Zhou like this.

Zhou Buqi agreed, and said: "Well, chat products have a very key attribute, which is viral promotion. Whoever can take the lead and become the first in the industry will be able to firmly stand in the market. Helo is in We have all seen the core role of the PC Internet, and it is simply the mainstay. WeChat will also play the same role in the mobile Internet. Don’t worry about Michat, WeChat’s main rival this year is Qxin!”

(End of this chapter)