America's Road to Wealth

At the end of August, the European football world received two pieces of news that shocked fans and the industry.

One is Roman Abramovich, a rich man from the country of furry bears, who spent 120 million pounds to buy the Premier League's Chelsea Football Club.

Those who were shocked by this news were mainly Chelsea fans and some Premier League fans.

There were significantly more people shocked by the other news.

This news comes from American Abel Smith, who has just become the owner of Manchester United.

He announced on August 28 that the price was 110 million euros.

Purchased 95% of Paris Saint-Germain Football Club from Vivendi Global Group's Canal+ radio station.

Paris Saint-Germain Football Club is referred to as "Paris" by its fans.

It is a football club located in Paris, the capital of France. It was founded in 1970 and is a member of the French Football League.

The club's home stadium is the Parc des Princes, a stadium located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. It can accommodate 46,480 people and its property rights belong to the Paris municipal government.

As soon as this news was announced, many bosses of powerful European teams came forward to question it.

Like the Premier League team, the main competitor of the Red Devils, Usmanov, one of the major shareholders of Gunners Arsenal.

When he was interviewed by "The Sun", he said bluntly:

"The Americans are turning European football into gold-dollar football. I think this is a very bad phenomenon."

Not long after Usmanov.

Bernard Tapie, the owner of Marseille Football Club in France, also claimed in an interview with reporters:

"If one person can own two top European teams at the same time, then no one else has to play. Let Bill Gates come and he can buy the entire European football!"

When reporters reminded Bernard Tapie, the owner of Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester United, that he was another man richer than Bill Gates.

Bernard Tapie's response was, "Oh, that's easier. Then he can buy it twice, buy all the teams in Europe, and buy it twice directly!"

The obvious yin and yang aura can be heard by everyone.

Under pressure, UEFA also had to stand up and express its concern.

UEFA President Lennart Johansson also said in the newspaper:

"Obviously, Mr. Smith's transaction was not illegal. His transaction was legal. But although it is legal, it still needs to be studied whether it is reasonable."

Just when Lennart Johansson said he wanted to study it.

Another new news was announced that day.

That is Germany's Hoffenheim Football Club, which also officially announced that it had been acquired.

The acquirer is the same person as Paris Saint-Germain Football Club.

Before the Europeans could react.

The next day, September 4, AC Milan in Serie A also announced its fall.

Then September 6th.

La Liga Atletico Madrid Football Club also announced their new owner.

Since then, Manchester United Football Club, Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, AC Milan Football Club, Hoffenheim Football Club, Atletico Madrid Football Club.

The five football teams in Europe have all become brother football teams because they have the same "dad".

There is a big uproar in European football circles about the attractiveness of several major leagues that have already started.

All because of this super explosive news, it has lost its charm.

European fans, how can they be in the mood to care whether the game is exciting or not?

They just want to know, if the world's richest man does this, no one in Europe can stand up and stop him?

Are all UEFA dead? Can such an outrageous thing happen?

Due to the huge pressure of public opinion, the president of UEFA also had to leave UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland overnight.

Mr. Chairman rushed to Paris overnight to communicate with Abel Smith.

However, at Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, I was told that the boss had left Paris and had gone to Venice, Italy yesterday.

Lennart Johansson had no choice but to leave Paris and rush to Venice.

Venice, Italy.

September 6, 2001.

This day happens to be the third day of the Venice Film Festival.

Founded in 1932, the Venice Film Festival is the oldest film festival in the world and the first international film festival in the world. It is known as the "Father of International Film Festivals" and one of the international Class A film festivals.

Together with the Cannes International Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival, it is known as the three major international film festivals in Europe (the three major international film festivals in the world), and the highest award is the "Golden Lion Award".

It is held every year in late August and early September. This year's film festival will be held from September 4th to September 14th, lasting ten days.

Last night, Abel and others came here.

Lennart Johansson was rushing here from Paris.

Abel has already taken Anne and Jessica to visit this world-famous floating city.

Venice, long before Abel was born again, when he was in primary school.

There is a text on "Venice on the Water" with black and white illustrations.

That text impressed Abel deeply on Venice.

The impression of Venice is a magical city submerged by sea water, with rowing boats shuttled between buildings.

When Abel arrived last night, it was already relatively late.

No one went out.

Anne and Jessica happened to have their menstrual periods together by coincidence.

Amo Alamuddin was unlucky.

Legally Blonde took all the firepower on her own last night.

As of today, Anne and Jessica have become fully rested and can accompany Abel out with full energy.

Amo Alamuddin could only rest in the hotel.

After everyone left the hotel, they could easily see the waterways and wooden bridges that shuttled between the houses.

Occasionally, ferries pass under the bridge, and tourists sit on the boats and admire the surrounding scenery.

Even Abel couldn't help but want to play with this novel scene.

David had already made arrangements and specially hired a number of local specialty ferries - gondolas.

This kind of black coffin, which is completely black and looks like swimming quietly on the water, is definitely a major local feature.

Abel chose a four-seater boat. Anne and Jessica sat together on the fiery red seats. Abel himself was tall and occupied two seats.

The boatman slowly paddles the boat and wanders in the long water alley.

Of course, there were seven or eight similar boats around, all of which were his rock security men.

When visiting Venice, gondola is the most romantic and romantic journey that cannot be missed.

Abel relaxed himself and looked at Shuangjiao, who was still a little uncooperative across from him, and it was a bit pleasing to him.

The two girls are truly peers.

Jessica's birthday is in April and she has turned nineteen.

Anne will not turn nineteen until November.

At this age, they have not all grown up yet.

But they had accepted Abel's nourishment in advance and had completely released their beauty. What was missing was the precipitation of temperament brought by time.

In addition, it is the most tender age stage of European and American people, perfectly integrating youth and beauty.

Under the sunshine of Venice, they look breathtakingly beautiful, each with their own unique temperament.

Both of them felt a little uncomfortable when he saw them.

If only one of them was alone with Abel at this time.

Even if there are many other people around at this time, they will definitely throw themselves into his arms immediately and act coquettishly and get intimate with him.

But with another person around, they all resisted such thoughts.

I would rather be crowded with a woman I don't like than come over and make out with Abel when another woman is there.

Even during this period, Annie has achieved great success.

She would rather be with Amo Alamuddin than Jessica, even if it meant life and death.

Jessica is the same, preferring to be with Amo Alamuddin, a stranger who is actually very similar to Annie.

Just not with Anne.

The two seemed to have a bit of a rivalry, and it felt like they were fighting.

Abel was a little helpless about this, because he had some feelings for these two people.

He didn't want to use force when facing the two of them, and he didn't have any other good ideas.

He simply let the two of them fight, as long as the intensity was guaranteed.

In Anne and Jessica's feud.

The boat drifted aimlessly with the current, crossing bridges full of stories.

While admiring the beauty of Shuangjiao, Abel listened to the melancholy voices of the boatmen and boat musicians, listened to Italian folk songs, and looked at the magnificent or vicissitudes of buildings along the way.

The charm of this slow pace is indescribable, and to do so with two such beautiful and beautiful babes.

Abel felt that no matter how irritating things were, he would leave them behind and he could quietly appreciate the beautiful scenery. There was no need for excessive rhetoric, he just needed to see, listen and enjoy.

This made him adapt to the prosperous and luxurious heart, and gradually calmed down.

Abel stayed with the boat for more than an hour, until he got tired of it, before he ended his trip on the Venice boat.

With the blessings of the boatman and the musicians in dry English, he left the city of Venice with his two daughters and headed for Venice Lido Island.

Lido Island is a barrier island in the Venetian Lagoon. Lido is Venice's beach, an island that faces the lagoon across the Adriatic Sea.

It is an elongated island that stretches for about 12 kilometers between the Venetian Lagoon and the Adriatic Sea, bordering the ports of San Nicolo and Maramocco, and is only connected to the city and the mainland by regular water buses and motorized rafts Vehicle transportation.

Lido Island is one of the few islands in the lagoon with vehicle access.

It even has a small tourist airport.

Stylisher and more residential than traditional Venice, the Lido still offers small canals, a variety of dining and stunning views of the city across the lagoon.

In addition, it is also the top wealthy area in Venice.

It is more famous internationally for its beach strip and is the venue for the annual Venice Film Festival.

Ordinary people can only go to Venice Lido Island from downtown Venice by taking a water bus or waiting for the trestle to pass.

Naturally, Abel didn't have to squeeze into the water bus. A yacht handler took him and Annie over, and they went directly to a luxury pier on Lido Island.

After getting off the boat at the pier, Abel looked at the Venetian mansion in front of him.

This is the Venetian mansion that the real estate specialist of the family office spent more than a month specially selecting for him.

It is located on the corner of the long Lido Island, facing the lagoon in two of its four directions.

In both directions, there is a private beach of about two hundred square meters on one side.

On one side is a cliff terrain, and a small pier has been built that can berth ships with a length of less than 30 meters.

Abel and others logged in at the dock.

The real estate specialist of the family office is named Hanks. He is a guy with British, French and American nationalities.

Hanks has worked for top real estate agencies in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom.

This time he was recruited by the Smith Family Office and has since become the real estate specialist of the family office.

The main task of the family office real estate specialist is to acquire, add, sell and invest in various real estate for the Smith family all over the world. They are mainly responsible for the real estate invested, used and operated by the family office.

At this moment, Hanks is introducing this unique Italian-style mansion on Lido Island in Venice to his boss.

"This beautiful villa has an outdoor swimming pool of 185 square meters and an indoor swimming pool of 115 square meters. Both swimming pools have direct access to the private beach outside."

"It has 3 floors, each floor is spacious and comfortable. There is a 200-square-meter main living room, 4 kitchens, 14 bedrooms, each with its own bathroom and balcony, and wonderful sea views."

"Spacious spa area with direct access to the outdoor pool. Four large terraces, all equipped with barbecue grills and additional bathrooms."

"There are five staff apartments in the basement, okay."

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Unlike the British and Americans, Italy, which has experienced excessive weights and measures reforms, uses legal units honestly.

That is, the world's common standards for metric units such as meters and kilometers.

Abel directly interrupted Hanks' introduction. The real estate specialist didn't understand his boss's habits when buying a house.

"Just tell me how much it is." Abel said.

Hanks quickly replied: "It needs 50 billion."

The number he reported shocked Anne and Jessica, who were following Abel and were very satisfied with this large seaside villa.

Fifty billion? Dollar?

The beautiful eyes of the two girls who had never been abroad were widened.

“Don’t tell me how much it’s worth in lira, tell me how much it’s worth in dollars.”

"Sorry." Hanks said immediately: "If converted into U.S. dollars, it is 26 million U.S. dollars."

The euro issued in Europe was officially released on January 1, 2000.

But its circulation requires a process, and the euro is not currently accepted in Italy.

The Italian government announced that it will not officially use the euro until January 1 next year.

After that, the lira will be phased out gradually.

Before that, Italy used the Italian lira.

The Italian lira issued a single 500,000 lira note in 1997.

From this we can see how low the value of the Italian lira is.

The value is even lower than the Korean won, and it’s scary to say it when you don’t know the unit.

"Then buy it."

Abel then said to David next to him: "Just let Pharati's men come here."

David smiled and nodded in agreement.

But no one who was waiting for the Ferretti Yacht came here to see Abel.

A friend of Abel's in America.

After hearing that he was here, I made a special trip from the Venice Film Festival venue.

The man who came was named Walid, and he was none other than Desert Buffet, Prince Walid, one of the princes in the desert area.

The so-called "I am super rich" with a piece of cloth on my head refers to people like Walid.

Not long after.

Prince Walid, carrying a white cloth on his head and a large entourage, arrived at the mansion on Lido Island that Abel had just bought.

Walked in from the outside and took a brief look around.

Prince Walid came to Abel, smiled and said to him:

"Nice house in a great location. It's just a little small, twice as small as the one I had in the north end."

The house, which covers an area of ​​more than 10,000 square meters, was said to be small by him.

Abel wasn't angry either. He knew that the only people who could compete with him in this area were the oil sellers.

"Why are you here?"

Abel asked with a smile.

Walid is one of Abel's few business friends.

The two have occasional contact, and their relationship is pretty good.

"There are several films from our country that participated in this year's Venice Film Festival. I am the honorary chairman of this year's Tessa Kingdom Film Association. It is reasonable and reasonable to come here." Prince Walid said with a smile. .

"There are movies in Tessa's kingdom? Filmed by yourself?" Abel was surprised.

Walid said indifferently: "I knew you would have this expression when you heard it. My friend, the Kingdom of Tessa is also a modern country. It has cinemas and audiences, so it will naturally have its own film market and film industry. .”

The Kingdom of Tessa is a modern country.

Abel wanted to laugh, but was embarrassed to laugh, so he had to change the topic:

"Walid, people from Ferretti will be here in a moment. I want to order a few yachts. Are you interested?"

When the two met last year, they had a long conversation about yachting.

Walid was awakened by Abel at that time and determined to buy the most luxurious and largest yacht in the world.

Over the past year, Waleed has actually been in contact with a number of luxury yacht manufacturers.

Even the general intention is already there, all that remains is to sign the contract and start construction.

But now that Abel said this, Walid immediately smiled and said: "Of course it's no problem. It just so happens that my yacht hasn't been confirmed yet. Is it Ferretti? Maybe we can place an order together!"

"Haha~ Okay." Abel said with a smile.

The two simply chatted in the outdoor swimming pool of the villa under the huge sun umbrella.

While we were chatting, the people from Ferretti Yachts hadn’t arrived yet.

The President of UEFA finally found this place after traveling all day.

Abel was not surprised at all when he heard that Lennart Johansson was coming to see him.

"Who is Lennart Johansson?" Walid asked curiously.

"The president of UEFA, the nominal first person in European football."

Abel said casually, and then asked David to let him in.

Walid is already thinking about whether he should buy a team to play.

Then Lennart Johansson came in and had just finished chatting with Abel.

The president of UEFA heard Prince Walid next to him with a white cloth on his head.

"Sir, I also want to buy a European team. I wonder if Europe welcomes our investment?"

The gold-dollar game in European football has been opened up.