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To be honest, Andy didn't care much about the acquisition of Manchester City by a consortium formed by the desert tyrants, because he was very clear about the nature of this temporary consortium, and the Manchester City club would eventually be allocated to individuals instead of being owned by the desert tyrants consortium as it is now. hold.

Of course, even if the Manchester City club becomes a toy of a desert tyrant, it is quite a good owner of money. It bought Manchester City for 200 million pounds and paid off all the previous debts for Manchester City.

Immediately, his generosity attracted the attention of global public opinion. The players of the whole team, regardless of the main substitute, each received a gold watch worth 170,000 pounds as a gift, just like giving candy to children.

British football has never seen such a wealthy foreign owner. Therefore, except for Manchester City's rich and wealthy fans, other teams in the Premier League are jealous and hate. Even Manchester United coach Ferguson is a little jealous and expresses the most straightforward: "Everyone pay attention , the wolf is coming!"

Almost at the same time as taking over Manchester City, the desert tyrants made this civilian team that used to be tit-for-tat against the aristocratic Manchester United glow. They spent staggering amounts of money, snatching Tevez from Old Trafford, Adebayor from Arsenal, and Robinho from Chelsea. . .

And what makes the UK talk about it the most is that the arrival of the desert tyrants made Chelsea owner Abramovich suddenly become a "little Abramovich".

Although these ridicules did not make Abu very angry, they were enough to disgust him. Well, it was very disgusting!

Andy did not refuse Abramovich's offer to form an alliance. He is not as fanatical about football as Abramovich, nor does he have the kind of popularity that Abramovich hopes to get from football. That's it.

Of course, I still need to talk to David Dunn about all this, and listen to his opinion. You can’t mix things you don’t understand, or you will become the ranks of people with rich money and stupid people. The Premier League thinks that money is awesome, and now the honest little Abramovich is looking at the wealthy local tyrants of Manchester City.

But before that, Andy picked up the phone and called Alvetrie first, "Al, tell me the details of the Desert Consortium..."

"Huh? Good boss, wait a moment..."

Andy heard Al ordering his subordinates to get the materials vaguely from the microphone, and waited for about a minute.

"Boss, the Desert Consortium was temporarily established in January this year. It gathered all the large financial institutions under it to form such a temporary consortium. The core purpose is to buy global high-quality assets in the overall situation when the global financial crisis comes, so as to expand the entire Desert Financial Group. Institutional investment diversity.

At the same time, by buying various assets at low prices, you can also get a lot of money through arbitrage transactions after the financial tsunami is over. It can be regarded as an act of robbing national assets and pursuing higher commercial interests. . . "

"Hehe, it seems that everyone who is not short of money wants to have a full meal in this gluttonous feast." Andy said with a smile, his eyes narrowed slightly, and the light flickered.

"According to the information we have, the Desert Consortium is closely negotiating with the British Barclays Bank and Citibank, and may take a stake in these two banks."

Hearing Al's words, Andy reached out and touched his chin, pondered for a while and asked, "What is the stock price of Citibank now?"

"Around $25, the market value has shrunk by more than half compared to 2006..."

"Hehe, it will be even lower, so, forget it, I'll leave it to Budstone to keep an eye on. By the way, when will Paulson come to New York?"

"The day after tomorrow, on the morning of September 4th, the two rooms will be officially taken over this weekend."

After smacking his lips a few times, Andy hummed lightly, then hung up the phone, and then called Bardstone without hesitation.

"Bud, how much liquid money is there in the company's account?"

"Currently, apart from 10 teams allocating USD 500 million in capital for free hunting, there are three main hedging teams in operation.

Among them, US$1.5 billion is used to short GM, US$1 billion is used to short AIG, and US$1 billion is used to short Citibank. At present, US$4.2 billion of funds can be called at any time in the account. "

Hearing Bardstone's report, Andy's mouth was almost crooked. When he allocated funds after shorting Bear Stearns, he only left $6 billion for Liberty City. Five months later, Now it has increased to 8.2 billion US dollars.

Although there are company briefings handed over to him every day, after all, it is impossible to update him with the details of the funds of his own company every day. He is definitely the happiest thing to hear the reports from his subordinates about making money.

You must know that after he mobilized funds to short Bear Stearns in March, he divided all the 26 billion U.S. dollars into four parts. The largest part was 10 billion U.S. dollars in Gaia, and then there were more than 30 billion U.S. dollars in the British branch. billion pounds, and $2 billion allocated to the Asian group.

Of course, there is naturally another 1 billion US dollars in his private account as his own pocket money.

The Liberty City Investment Company made a profit of 2.2 billion US dollars in five months, and the details of the third quarter financial reports of other companies that will be sent one after another will wake him up with a smile. Of course, this is also the confidence that Alvitre was able to tell him that he could mobilize 22 billion in cash in three days.

"So, Bud, add another $2 billion to short Citibank, using 10 times leverage!"

Hearing the request from the big boss, Bardstone quickly clicked on the stock price chart of Citibank and said, "Boss, do you want to break Citigroup's $20 support?"

"Hehe, Bud, my appetite has always been very big. Let the team shorting Citigroup be more patient and prepare for a long-term battle." Although Andy can't remember the specific trend of Citibank's stock price, he remembers it very clearly. A joke about the Citibank share price.

"When it fell to $36, a certain boss said that it was time to buy the bottom;

When it fell to 18 yuan, a certain boss said he was going to buy it;

When it fell to 8 yuan at that time, a certain boss happily said that he bought it so cheap;

When it fell to 3 yuan, a certain boss cried;

When it fell to 0.97 yuan, a certain boss died. . . "

So Citibank, which shocked the world at the time, had a penny stock that fell below one dollar. There is really a lot of room for manipulation. You can even press it alone to bleed. Then you can backhand buy the bottom, tsk tsk, don’t So happy!

After hanging up the phone, Andy happily turned the boss chair around a few times like a child, and the smile on his face became brighter and brighter. The huge cash flow made him more confident in buying low-quality assets. up.

Of course, as for those debts, Andy can ignore them and not let them affect his good mood. Besides, as long as all his companies make money, he doesn't have to worry about those debts, since they will be passed on to those companies anyway.

After being happy for a while, I picked up the coffee cup and drank the coffee. I checked the time. It was already past 4 o'clock in the afternoon. I saw the London clock hanging on the wall. After hesitating, I picked up the phone and called David Deng Well, although it is past 9 o'clock in the evening in London, I don't want to go to bed so early. You must know that this guy is also a workaholic, especially now that the Tottenham club is on the rise, and he is full of energy as the general manager.

Sure enough, as Andy thought, the phone rang twice and was picked up. When David Dunn heard that it was the call from the big boss, he immediately regained his energy and began to chatter and report to the big boss carefully about the recent club news. operation status.

The corners of Andy's mouth twitched. After all, David Dunn said the names of the players. Andy was really blind. He also said that David Dunn's speech was fast and organized, and he finished the report soon. Andy also told David what Abu said on the phone.

"Hehe, boss, speaking of this matter, the recent British media are full of sarcastic remarks, saying that the local tyrants in the desert don't understand football at all. They buy a yacht today, a plane tomorrow, and a football club the day after tomorrow. It's fun. They have enough money to spend in the showers, so they have nothing else to do but entertain themselves." . . "

Hearing David Dunn's words, Andy's face turned dark, and his face was pulled unnaturally, Nima, wouldn't this sarcastic remarks also bring him along?

Well, David Dunn suddenly realized something when he heard some unnatural coughing on the phone from the big boss, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he was tongue-tied and didn't know what to do, then he heard the big boss sneer Said: "These bastards are typically envious and jealous! After Jinyuan football was opened by Abra, it has become a rich man's game. Well, the alliance with Chelsea, you think about it, if the benefits are greater than Disadvantages, it’s okay.”

"Okay, boss, I will contact them to talk about it." David Dunn smiled wryly, regretting his slip of the tongue, fortunately, the big boss is not so stingy.