Chapter 335 Collection Club

Muddy Waters is short Antler Coffee.

In front of the short-selling giant, this Chinese company was unable to resist, and its stock price plummeted rapidly.

The US media used many words to report this short selling incident.

Countless local retail investors gritted their teeth and were once again bloodbathed by Wall Street's short-selling giants.

If retail investors cannot provide enough proof of assets or are guarantors for borrowing stocks, they cannot find investment institutions to borrow stocks for short selling.

Every time we encounter a short-selling giant, they are the ones who actually suffer the most losses.

Chen Pingsheng listed his newly purchased single-story headquarters on Tenghui Capital.

Mainly dry investment and share trading.

In addition to the team he brought here, he also advertised to invite some graduates from prestigious schools.

Basically, it is mainly foreign students. After all, he himself does not speak foreign languages, so it is much more convenient to invite domestic international students to communicate.

Very few people who have studied in the United States are willing to return to their country to find a job.

Unless your parents have a business to inherit.

Five days off, two days off, an eight-hour work day, and a high salary. In Mainland China, you can only take the civil service exam.

In just a few days, he also established a North American branch on Wall Street.

Tong Zelan often came up and asked him his opinion on the muddy water short selling. Chen Pingsheng had no opinion.

Tong Zelan understood instantly. No wonder Xiangjiang kept publishing some indifferent news without any clarification at all.

Chen Pingsheng himself is also thinking of robbing retail investors.

Okay, let Muddy Waters bring down the stock price.

When the stock price of Antler Coffee fell below the issue price, she was prepared to shell out several hundred million to buy some more.

Antler Coffee has developed extremely well in the country, and now it is mainly going into the global market.

We are planning to open stores simultaneously in several other developed countries, probably to compete with Starbucks.

Chen Pingsheng checked international news in his president's office and learned about the Premier League club.

Needless to say, football is still very attractive.

If you want a brand to quickly spread around the world, the best way is to directly win a Premier League club.

It's just that this thing is not an ordinary money-burning thing. Only the real rich can afford it.

Chen Pingsheng also has a more far-reaching idea, whether he can try to win a Premier League club and then select some outstanding young football players from China to train.

Only by avoiding domestic football mechanisms and starting training directly from abroad can Chinese football have hope of rising.

This is also the path Lao Wang has traveled before, and facts have proven that there is nothing wrong with him.

The only pity is that we shouldn’t play football in the country.

Chen Pingsheng told Tong Zelan about the idea of ​​buying a Premier League club. It was impossible to sell ordinary old and wealthy clubs.

The situation is different for non-rich clubs. Players who are a little bit better will be immediately bought by those top clubs.

If you don’t have money to play football, that’s absolutely impossible.

He is also planning to spend several billion to buy a Premier League club as a long-term investment.

After all, didn’t everyone here buy an NBA team?

Tong Zelan asked people around for consultation, and she really found a suitable Premier League club.

That is Leicester City in England.

Last year, this team miraculously won the Premier League championship two rounds ahead of schedule.

Afterwards, the leading stars were quickly bought out by major established and wealthy clubs.

Of course, this is also the most profitable way for clubs. Star transfers often require high transfer fees.

The owner of Leicester City is also an Asian.

Successfully running Leicester City has allowed his personal net worth to rise rapidly in just a few years.

It reached about two billion US dollars.

Net worth includes many types, including share value, business value, personal assets, etc.

It is impossible for a boss with a net worth of two billion to cultivate a wealthy club.

Unexpectedly, right after winning the championship, Leicester City's leading stars were immediately bought out.

Kante and Drinkwater were all bought by Chelsea, while Mahrez was sold to Manchester City.

Many players want to join a wealthy club, which is normal.

What Tong Zelan contacted was that the boss was interested in selling, and the specific price had to be discussed.

"Old Chen, with your wealth, you can run a wealthy club!"

A wealthy club means having to spend gold coins everywhere to buy.

The transfer fee for a high-quality star is usually not less than 30 million pounds.

As for those top stars, it is obviously even more exaggerated, and it can easily cost 5 to 6 billion yuan.

It is impossible to build a wealthy club without tens of billions.

"Let's talk about that separately. The key is to buy the club first."

"Okay."

Tong Zelan said: "I asked the team to contact you. Anyway, you are not short of money. If you can play in a wealthy club, it will be of great help to Antler Coffee's global road!"

Not only for Lujiao Coffee, but also for the entire Tengying Group, it was of extraordinary significance.

This means that he will officially enter the global market from the domestic market.

Negotiation is nothing more than a price issue.

The owners of Leicester City have made hundreds of millions of dollars from the club over the years, and they only won the league championship last year.

This is when the team offers the highest price.

Unfortunately, half of the star players on his team have transferred out.

Now quoted £250 million.

In 2014, its club valuation was only 39 million pounds.

In 2016, it rose to 100 million pounds.

Now it is directly quoted at 250 million pounds, which is equivalent to 2.3 billion yuan.

The price is acceptable, Tong Zelan suggested to talk about it again.

Seriously speaking, after losing Kante and others, Leicester City is not worth the money.

Chen Pingsheng still didn't hesitate too much and chose to sign the contract.

He took his own private plane and rushed directly from New York to England.

With his current strength, he is enough to support a semi-top club.

Important financial news and football news were also released on the day of signing.

Chen Pingsheng didn't need a loan, so there was naturally no procrastination.

All payments were made in US dollars to take the absolute controlling rights of the club.

He did not move the club's management team. After all, in his opinion, he was a pure layman.

But.

He also gave his own financial encouragement.

After all, the new boss is here, and he still has to burn three fires.

His rules are very simple, in the next 17-18 years of the English Premier League.

Whoever can score a goal will be rewarded with 10 million RMB.

In addition, as long as they can enter the top three, the management team will share 100 million RMB in bonus.

The team will share another 100 million RMB.

He learned this from Xu Pipi, and a brave man will emerge under a big reward.

In addition.

He also announced that he would take out 4.5 billion RMB to build a super stadium in England.

To put it bluntly, he is not short of money now, but he lacks global influence.

And a brand channel that will allow his brand to quickly go global.

Compared with the money he wants to make, the money invested in the club is nothing at all.

Tong Zelan still knows him and knows that he will definitely spend a lot of money after he comes.

Compared with the former owner of Leicester City, Chen Pingsheng's net worth is not a little bit higher.

In addition to rewarding players for scoring goals, the fastest way to quickly improve performance is undoubtedly to buy some top stars from other clubs at high prices.

Any club has scouts, and Leicester City is no exception.

That is, by analyzing the situation of other clubs, some potential stocks are bought.

Of course, if you want to buy a famous star, you have to have real strength.

In the past, the valuation of Leicester City was not enough to pay the transfer fee of Cristiano Ronaldo.

It is different now. Since Chen Pingsheng has entered the football field, he must spend a lot of money.

How can you do football well with small tricks?

He asked Charlie, who is responsible for poaching in the club, to boldly look for top stars.

The price is not a problem.

After the team changed hands, the new boss was full of a tyrant atmosphere.

The most important thing is that he did not interfere with the management of the team at all.

It is still the same as the group management, professional matters are left to professionals.

Compared with buying a team in China, it is much more impressive for him to buy a Premier League club directly.

There are also various news in China, but Chen Pingsheng didn't care about it.

He came out for such a trip, first spent 120 million US dollars to buy the headquarters in Manhattan, then spent 250 million pounds to buy Leicester City Club, and now spent 4.5 billion to build a super stadium in England.

It can be regarded as the initial completion of the capital expansion of the overseas market.

He stayed at the club for three days, and Charlie, the club's talent scout who was responsible for recruiting players, actually proposed to him to recruit a young French player, Mbappe.

Mbappe played for the French team in last year's European Cup.

Unfortunately, he missed a penalty in the penalty shootout, becoming the first player to miss a penalty in the penalty shootout in that European Cup.

Just a small mistake cannot cover up the genius of this young French player.

Charlie believes that their club is in urgent need of such a brave center forward who runs fast.

Chen Pingsheng didn't have much opinion, just let him talk.

Mbappe is not a well-known star, at most he is a potential stock with good qualifications.

It doesn't cost too much to negotiate a transfer at this time.

Because of his penalty miss, the club can't offer him too high a price.

Sure enough, the offer came out within two days.

The youth team of Monaco Football Club shouted out a sky-high transfer fee of 50 million pounds.

Chen Pingsheng didn't hesitate for too long and agreed directly.

If he can't build a world-class club, it's meaningless to him.

Charlie was so excited, the new boss was so generous.

He didn't even blink an eye for tens of millions of pounds.

Mbappe is still a young player and can't directly improve Leicester City's global reputation.

Charlie also proposed to buy a world-famous footballer.

That's Ding Ding, Kevin De Bruyne.

This one is difficult to buy. The first reason is that he is very famous.

The second reason is that his club is the giant Manchester City.

If you want to buy someone from such a football club that is not short of money, you will undoubtedly have to pay a very high transfer fee.

In July 2015, De Bruyne was elected German Footballer of the Year in 2015.

In August of the same year, De Bruyne joined Manchester City Football Club with a basic transfer fee of 74 million euros.

If he wants to buy, he must pay at least 100 million euros.

Of course, once this footballer can be bought, Leicester City's influence will be directly improved by three levels.

Chen Pingsheng knocked on the table and thought for a while, and finally decided to spend the money.

A club without top stars would have a big gap in influence.

What Leicester City lacks is top stars.

One hundred million euros is less than 800 million yuan, so he can still afford it.

Seriously speaking, he also wants to buy Cristiano Ronaldo.

The main reason is that his influence in China and the world is super strong.

With him, Leicester City's tickets will never have to worry about selling.

The transfer fee for this player will undoubtedly be higher, and it is estimated to be at least 100 million euros.

In addition to the transfer fee, the annual salary is also a big problem.

If too many top stars are dug up at once, the team's valuation will definitely rise rapidly, and the team's losses will also be immeasurable.

The team valuation is simply too virtual.

Once you don't think about selling it, it is something that cannot be cashed out.

But the cash paid is real.

He has already dug up a center position, and he also needs to consider outstanding players in other positions.

After all, football is a team battle.

If you support a football club, the money will really flow out.

I hope that spending so much money can achieve good results.

Chen Pingsheng can only wish this, and his Tengfei new energy vehicle is expected to be mass-produced in 2019.

So far, there has been no advertising.

Let's start with this football club, first make a name for it abroad, and when it returns to China, it will be a world-renowned brand.

The brand value will be high immediately.

This is also the reason why he spent a lot of money to acquire a football club.

Who is not for the ultimate commercial realization?

Chen Pingsheng also pointed to using Leicester City to make his Tengfei new energy vehicle directly become a world-renowned car brand.

However, he also wants to acquire a well-known new energy vehicle factory in the United States.

It's not because of how good its car is, but mainly because it has the new energy chassis technology that it is extremely eager for.

Once the amount of funds reaches a certain level, the acquisition will undoubtedly be the fastest technological expansion.

This matter needs to be done slowly, and the club should be managed well first.

Mbappe has been bought, and Ding Ding will have to talk slowly. It is estimated that there will not be much news for a while.

After all, Manchester United is a wealthy club, and those who can be called wealthy are naturally not short of money.

Ronaldo can also be contacted, as long as one of them can be bought.

For this, he has to pay at least 600 to 700 million yuan in transfer fees.

This is all small money.

Chen Pingsheng established a Leicester City Development Fund in England and invested 1.5 billion US dollars in it at one time.

Whether it is 4.5 billion yuan to build a super stadium or 250 million pounds to acquire this club.

And the 50 million pounds transfer fee for Mbappe, all are included in this.

In the later stage, it also includes buying Ding Ding and Ronaldo, and the club pays wages.

All are funded by this fund.

He didn't have time to stay in England for too long, so he invited a professional investor to take care of it.

The controlling party of the Leicester City Fund is still Tenghui Capital, which is located in the North American branch.

At the end of February, Chen Pingsheng took his private plane back to the Magic City with Tong Zelan.

It was cloudy outside, and it was obviously going to rain heavily.

Chen Pingsheng frowned, "It's not a peaceful day."

"You said this in a sarcastic tone, are you referring to something?"

Tong Zelan asked him with a strange smile.

"It is indeed referring to something."

Chen Pingsheng put down the curtain in his hand, "I always feel a little uneasy when I came back from Manhattan this time. Our country is in the midst of a major transformation of economic transformation. Once it continues to develop like this for a few years, it will inevitably form a huge industrial conflict with New York."

"You can see it too."

Tong Zelan said: "In fact, since the reform and opening up in the 1980s, we have been a full industrial chain cluster here, doing everything.

"But everything is done at a relatively low end. In the 1990s, we proposed to exchange market for technology, ushering in a large number of joint ventures, but the technology is still truly in the hands of those developed countries. "

"Now the country is vigorously developing new energy, supporting scientific and technological entrepreneurship, and vigorously advocating enterprises to conduct research and development themselves. Its purpose itself is to seek overall industrial upgrading.

"From low-end manufacturing to high-end technology-based industries, this is exactly the biggest advantage of the United States and those developed countries.

"You think it can quietly watch us move towards the high-end market step by step and steal their jobs?"

"Indeed."

Before 2010, China has always been known as the world's OEM factory.

The so-called OEM factory is to pick up some leftovers with cheap labor.

The real big profits are basically taken by those big companies that master technology or core technology.

They are responsible for technology and design.

We are responsible for OEM production, and then vigorously consume these products to the domestic demand market.

The share ratio has always been one for us and nine for others.

This will definitely not work in the long run.

Chen Pingsheng said: "We have to try our best to break through, and others will inevitably chase and intercept us, which is a contradiction in itself.

"The key is that we have the world's largest consumer market. Domestic demand alone can support a number of core technology companies with a market value of over 100 billion US dollars, which will make everyone highly vigilant."

For Chen Pingsheng, investing in a football club is obviously not as stressful as this trend.

Whether you can play well with 1.5 billion dollars in football depends on luck.

Compared with the general trend, football is just an inspiring sport.

To become a successful businessman, you only need a little luck and vision.

Chen Pingsheng felt that it might not be long before the battle between the two powers would start.

This is bound to involve the entire global economy and the future economic situation in China.

This is what he should really pay attention to.