Seven Crowns

? Leicester City Club, nicknamed the Blue Fox, is a club located in Leicestershire, 180 kilometers northwest of London, England. It is in the same region as Nottingham Forest, called East Midlands.

Although Leicester City was established very early, founded in 1884, its history is lacklustre.

In addition to three League Cup championships, Leicester City has not won enough honors such as top league championships and FA Cup championships, let alone European honors.

The team has been in the low-level leagues for a long time. It was promoted as the number one in the British Championship last season, and will play in the Premier League this season.

This is a newly promoted polo team from the Premier League that has no sense of existence.

Before Leicester City announced that Lu Wenbin would attend their press conference on July 22, no one linked the world's number one superstar, Forbes Chinese billionaire Lu Wenbin, with Leicester City.

Everyone has thought about Manchester City and Chelsea, the two rich teams, Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and other giants, and even other strong teams such as Tottenham, Newcastle, Everton, etc., but no one has really considered Lu Wenbin. Newly-promoted Leicester City have been linked.

Undoubtedly, the current Leicester City fans are the most enviable and the happiest.

Then, all the fan organizations began to unite to make banners, slogans, flags welcoming Lu Wenbin.

Families of fans living in Leicester City bought Chinese flags one after another and hung them outside the windows to create a grand occasion to welcome Lu Wenbin.

Leicester City does not have the Eiffel Tower, nor the Bernabéu's Theater of Dreams. They can only spend more time on banners, slogans, flags, etc. to express their admiration and welcome to Lu Wenbin.

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As time went by, there were more and more five-star red flags and Chinese banners in Leicester City, and countless fans of Lu Wenbin rushed to Fox City from all over, preparing to witness Lu Wenbin joining Leicester City on the spot.

On the morning of July 22, the press conference room of the Leicester City Club was full of people. The media from all over the world couldn’t squeeze it in. Many people could only stand in the aisle, by the wall, or squat under the conference platform.

As a team that has been in the lower leagues all year round, Leicester City's press conference hall is really not big.

Those who participated in this press conference were media and reporters from dozens of countries around the world. Only British and Chinese media,

There are almost 100 photographers and reporters in total.

As for the press conference hall, tens of thousands of local fans of Leicester City and fans of Lu Wenbin were raging.

Everyone waved the five-star red flag with slogans and banners of support, admiration and love for Lu Wenbin, hoping to hear the news of Lu Wenbin joining Leicester City with anxiety and full of expectation.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the press conference officially began.

After the press officer of Leicester City introduced the history of Leicester City, he announced that the chairman of Leicester City and Thai Chinese owner Vichai Vichai, the vice chairman and Vichai’s son Xu Shengyuan, the team manager and head coach Ni Gale Pearson, superstar Lu Wenbin, Lu Wenbin's agent Mendes, personal lawyer and others appeared.

The moment Lu Wenbin appeared, the entire press conference hall was illuminated by the flashlights of the reporters. Vichai and Pearson, who had never seen so many reporters, were almost dazzled.

The British reporters even applauded excitedly, expressing a warm welcome to Lu Wenbin for coming to the Premier League.

Lu Wenbin is the topic, Lu Wenbin is the news, Lu Wenbin is the guarantee of newspaper sales!

Of course, everyone also expressed doubts about why Lu Wenbin brought his personal lawyer to the stage.

However, when Leicester City announced at the press conference afterwards, everyone understood why the lawyer appeared, and everyone was stunned.

Leicester City announced that Chairman Vichai sold a 30% stake to Lu Wenbin's wholly-owned 666 investment company at a symbolic price of 1 euro, making Lu Wenbin the second shareholder of Leicester City besides him.

At the same time, Lu Wenbin will also join Leicester City as a free transfer, with an annual salary of 30 million euros, a five-year contract, and a liquidated damages of 500 million euros.

This liquidated damages is a guarantee for Vichai, and its symbolic meaning is greater than its actual meaning.

Due to UEFA restrictions, after Lu Wenbin took a stake in Leicester City, he could not play in other European clubs.

In other continents, whether it is Asia, Africa, America, or Oceania, it is impossible for any team to pay 500 million euros in liquidated damages to take away Lu Wenbin.

In fact, if there are no accidents, Lu Wenbin is more likely to retire after playing in Leicester City.

At the same time, according to the agreement between Lu Wenbin and Vichai, the 30% stake is not the end.

In the future, if Lu Wenbin leads Leicester City to win the Premier League championship, the equity will increase by 3%, and if they win the Champions League, the equity will increase by 6%. The annual seven-time champion, including the Club World Cup and the Club World Cup, will increase its equity by another 10%.

The subsequent increase in equity is obtained free of charge according to conditions.

That is to say, as long as Lu Wenbin helps Leicester City complete the seven crowns, he can get 49% of the shares for only 1 euro, becoming the second largest shareholder after Vichai.

In the future, Lu Wenbin will share 49% of all movable and real estate and commercial income of Leicester City.

This is why Leicester City was able to impress Lu Wenbin and sign Lu Wenbin.

It's not how satisfied Lu Wenbin is with Leicester City, but that other giants can't reach Lu Wenbin's psychological bottom line.

The owners and shareholders of other Premier League teams are very repulsed by Lu Wenbin's investment, and there is still some deep-rooted discrimination against Lu Wenbin's yellow race and Chinese identity.

No matter how famous and powerful Lu Wenbin is, they only want Lu Wenbin to work for them, and they don't want Lu Wenbin to sit on an equal footing with them and share their commercial income as shareholders.

Even if someone agrees to Lu Wenbin's shareholding, the shares are very small, which means nothing to Lu Wenbin.

Only Leicester City, as a newly-promoted horse, has an extremely urgent need for relegation and championship, and does not have the confidence of any wealthy family. They hope that Lu Wenbin will join with a 10,000% urgency.

Moreover, Vichai, as a Thai Chinese boss with half Chinese ancestry who was originally from Fujian, has a strong sense of identity with Lu Wenbin, a world superstar of Chinese nationality.

Both Vichai himself and his son Xu Shengyuan are proficient in Chinese, and Lu Wenbin felt very cordial when meeting them privately.

The ideals of Vichai and Xu Shengyuan are to use the platform of the Premier League to promote their own corporate brands, and the other is to help train Thai and Chinese players. Leicester City’s youth training system is ready to tilt towards Thai and Chinese players.

The club has sincerity, the shares are generous, the boss is half a compatriot, and Lu Wenbin himself must conquer the Premier League and complete the main tasks of the club, etc., which have become the decisive factors for Lu Wenbin to join Leicester City.