The Godfather of Football

Ye Qiu chose to meet the guests from Brazil at the Theobald training base, because this is the only thing Tottenham Hotspur can show off, and the club is now in urgent negotiations with the London City Government, the Olympic Preparatory Committee and the Heritage Company, because the main venue of the Olympic Games has entered the substantive planning stage.

After entering the substantive planning stage, if Tottenham Hotspur has not been able to reach an agreement with all parties, then the main venue of the Olympic Games will inevitably be designed and built in the way of an athletics stadium. If Tottenham Hotspur wants to transform it into a professional football stadium in the future, the funds spent will be at least more than 100 million to 200 million euros. If other expenses are added, it is equivalent to asking Tottenham Hotspur to rebuild its own football stadium.

Therefore, Ye Qiu has clearly issued an ultimatum to the London City Government and all parties related to the Olympic Games. Either talk now or don't talk anymore. He will withdraw from the competition for the main venue of the Olympic Games. At that time, the London City Government and the Olympic Heritage Committee will wait to see how to clean up this mess.

The construction period received 300 million euros in funding, and after the construction, no one was found to take over. Nearly 10 million euros were spent on stadium maintenance and staff employment each year. These accounts are enough to discourage all parties involved.

Wembley Stadium’s previous record is right in front of us. In the three years of preparing to build the new Wembley Stadium, the English Football Association spent an additional 3 million euros per month in addition to the stadium construction costs. This money was used to pay employee salaries and other expenses.

In fact, anyone with investment intentions will be welcomed now. Even West Ham United, which is preparing to lease, and a university football club in London, which is going to save even the rent and intend to make money out of nothing, have received attention. Perhaps for Londoners, Tottenham Hotspur’s proposal is the most in line with their needs and ideas. The only trouble is only two.

One is that Ye Qiu is not British, but Chinese; the other is that Ye Qiu asked to transfer a piece of land at the southeast end of the stadium to Tottenham Hotspur free of charge. At that time, the team will build a five-star hotel integrating shopping, entertainment and leisure here. Moreover, this place is adjacent to the financial district and will be transformed into a park after the Olympics, with great appreciation potential.

There is no free lunch in this world. Ye Qiu paid 300 million euros in advance for the construction of the stadium, and took the initiative to bear all the expenses of the stadium renovation after the Olympics. As long as you calculate, Tottenham Hotspur will have to wait until the summer of 2013 to officially put the stadium into use, and the five-star hotel may take longer, so Ye Qiu did not get much advantage.

Of course, this depends on which angle to analyze. From the perspective of Ye Qiu and Tottenham Hotspur, 300 million gets a large stadium with a capacity of about 80,000, and it is located in the core area of ​​London, with convenient transportation around and adjacent to the financial district. No matter from which angle you look at it, it has great benefits.

As for the cost of future reconstruction, if it is considered to be transformed into a professional football stadium in the early stage of design, the cost is actually not high, 10 or 20 million euros will be enough. This is the case with Manchester City's City Stadium. Reconstruction was considered in the early stage of design, and the cost of future reconstruction is more than 10 million euros, which is not high.

At the same time, the land in the southeast can be used to build hotels and shopping centers. Although this money needs to be invested further, it will definitely make money in the long run. After all, Tottenham Hotspur can find someone to cooperate with at that time, and there is no need to do everything by itself.

Therefore, from the perspective of operational development, Tottenham Hotspur has made money, and it is a big profit.

But it must be said that now in the Premier League, who is willing to take out 300 million euros at a time in exchange for a stadium that can only be used in six years? Even Abramovich has begun to reduce the team's investment this season. Arsenal already has its own stadium, so in London, only Tottenham Hotspur has such ambition and courage.

This is also the reason why the outside world, whether it is the media or the fans, are full of confidence in the future of Tottenham Hotspur.

Ye Qiu has such ambitions because he not only made a lot of money in Leaf Technology, but also made a lot of money in the US stock market. In addition to continuing to invest in Leaf Technology and Google stocks, he also included Tottenham Hotspur in his plan.

Last season, Tottenham Hotspur's overall operation was very healthy. The team planned to build a new stadium, but also received a large amount of sponsorship. In particular, the team finally made it into the top three in the league and received a large share of broadcasting fees from the Premier League, making the club's finances relatively healthy. This is also related to the team's relatively low salary structure.

This year's salary pressure will be greater than last season. After all, many players have received salary increases, and the increase is not small. However, as the team's performance improves, commercial income has also been improved. In addition, this season has entered the Champions League. I believe that the team's operation will continue to be healthy and will not be in debt.

As for the Theobald training base, last season's investment was drawn from the surplus in the transfer market. This year, many teams want to get Van Nistelrooy, and the Dutch center also expressed his hope to accept new challenges in other leagues. If the transfer can be achieved, there will be no problem in using Van Nistelrooy's transfer fee to fill the funding gap of the training base.

Both Vodafone and Adidas have made it clear that if Tottenham can continue to maintain the high level of performance last season, they will not rule out further cooperation with Tottenham.

At present, Adidas has tailored a new set of jerseys for Tottenham for the new season, which will be announced after the new season training. At the same time, fans will be able to buy them in all Adidas stores around the world, and Tottenham will also be able to get a share of it.

You know, with a money-making machine like Beckham in the team, jersey sales will definitely be a considerable income, and other players in the team are also very popular with fans. I believe that Tottenham's jersey sales may not be comparable to those of the former Galaxy Battleship, but they are also capable of entering the first-class ranks.

After all, in the past season, if you open the football pages of major European mainstream media, there is news about Tottenham Hotspur almost every day. Many of them are Tottenham Hotspur's active cooperation with newspapers, which makes Tottenham Hotspur's exposure rate even higher than many top teams.

This is a kind of accumulation. As long as Tottenham Hotspur's performance improves, coupled with the attention of fans gained by long-term continuous exposure, it will surely make Tottenham Hotspur steadily step by step towards the ranks of top teams.

This time, Neymar's family of four came to London from Brazil. The air tickets and expenses were paid by Tottenham Hotspur.

Neymar's father was also a professional player, but he had always played in the Brazilian Second Division as a striker, but he broke his leg in a car accident and ended his career at the age of 32. Then he put all his energy on his son, hoping to train his son into the best player.

This is also what Ye Qiu has always felt, that is, many outstanding superstars have received formal training since childhood, laid a very solid foundation, and then cultivated outstanding ball sense, and then achieved it after hard training and continuous improvement.

For example, Robben's father is a professional coach who has been carving his son's technical details since childhood, so Robben's ball sense and pace are almost impeccable. Neymar is the same. His father is a professional player and naturally understands these.

In 2006, they went to Real Madrid for a trial and passed, but Neymar was dissatisfied with Real Madrid's arrogant attitude and the lack of attention to his son. In addition, Santos' retention made him finally decide to stay in Brazil.

It was just unexpected that they came to Europe again a year later, and this time there was no need for a trial.

Because the reason that prompted Neymar to decide to bring his son to London was a very detailed career plan book handed over by Ye Qiu through Tottenham Hotspur's agent in Brazil. There are more than 50 pages in total, which lists the scouts' analysis and evaluation of Neymar's training and games, as well as detailed plans for his future.

In addition, Ye Qiu has always been one of the best players in the world, which eventually led to Neymar's decision to bring his family to London.

When they entered the Theobald training base, they were really shocked by the club's generosity.

Although they were just sitting in the car, they were very impressed by this magnificent training base, which is considered to be the best in the world, especially considering that Ye Qiu has just taken over Tottenham Hotspur for a year. From this training base, we can also see Tottenham Hotspur's ambitions.

But this is just a preliminary impression. When they entered the first-team training area that has been put into use, and then visited the various facilities of the Theobald training base, they were all amazed at the perfection and advancement of the facilities of this training base, and even many training methods were never seen before.

As a former professional player, Neymar knew the role of these facilities and how much help they could provide to the players better than anyone else.

"No wonder he can succeed wherever he goes!" Neymar exclaimed to his family in Portuguese.

Neymar, who was only fifteen years old, had a shaved head, which was his habit. Old Neymar had strict family education. Even though Neymar was already paid at Santos, he still strictly managed every income and expenditure of his son, and even strictly limited his pocket money.

Even the Zeus mobile phone in Neymar's hand was bought by his father after he begged him for a long time. Both parties agreed that he must score 20 goals in the youth team in a season before he agreed to buy it for him. This is Neymar's treasure.

After visiting the Theobald training base, Roland took Old Neymar and his family to the training building. At this time, Ye Qiu and Eliza Moon had arrived at the Theobald training base from the White Hart Lane Stadium.

"Hello, Mr. Da Silva!" Ye Qiu politely shook hands with Old Neymar.

Old Neymar's name is the same as Neymar's, both are Neymar Da Silva, but according to the Brazilian way of calling him, he should be called Neymar I, but Ye Qiu certainly can't call him that.

"Hello, Mr. Ye Qiu!" Old Neymar politely shook hands with Ye Qiu, while introducing his wife, son and daughter.

After a few casual greetings downstairs, Ye Qiu, Old Neymar and Roland went upstairs, while Eliza accompanied Neymar, his mother and sister to walk around. In fact, almost all matters concerning Neymar were decided by his father.

He is a cautious person who also attaches great importance to his family!

This was the impression Ye Qiu had about old Neymar conveyed to Ye Qiu by his scout in Brazil.

"Pai!" Before Neymar left, he turned around, glanced at Ye Qiu shyly, shouted to his father, and then kept moving his hands in front of him, meaning that Ye Qiu and others couldn't see it. Yes, only his mother and sister were smiling.

The old Neymar chuckled and nodded, and then Neymar quickly turned around and caught up with his mother.

"What a shy kid!" Ye Qiu praised with a smile.

Neymar Sr. nodded, "He is still very immature, so we don't worry about him leaving home alone."

After a pause, old Neymar smiled at Ye Qiu again and said: "He is your fan. Look at his mobile phone. Just now he asked me to remember to ask you for an autograph for him. I hope Mr. Ye Qiu doesn't mind!"

Ye Qiu laughed after hearing this, and Roland on the side also laughed. Such scenes are not uncommon. Ye Qiu even has more fans than many big-name superstars, and there are a lot of people who don't even understand the rules of football. is his fan.

"Is it just an autograph? I'm also going to take a photo with him!" Ye Qiu said with a smile.

A group of three people came to the head coach's office on the second floor. It was not small, but not big either. It was divided into offices and rooms, with partitions in the middle.

"I also very much agree with what you just said, Mr. da Silva!" Ye Qiu just sat down and started talking about Neymar straight to the point, "First of all, the Brazilian Football Association now prohibits players under the age of 18 from transferring to Europe. Of course, there are ways to circumvent this, but it will be difficult for him to apply for a labor certificate in the Premier League for the time being."

Old Neymar knew that what Ye Qiu said was true.

"But we are very sincere about Neymar, and we have already had contact with Santos. I believe you know this. We hope to buy out Neymar's ownership first, but still loan him to Santos and continue to play in Brazil. , until the right time comes to the Premier League!”

"Of course, we hope that Neymar can come to London every season to participate in the team's training and joint training. I believe this can best ensure that he can adapt to the Premier League and integrate into our team in the future. At the same time, we will also specially Arrange technical personnel to provide professional analysis and guidance to ensure his growth and progress to the greatest extent.”

"We will specially arrange scouts to observe each of his games and submit game reports, and we will also arrange technical staff to go to Brazil every month to assist him, help him improve, and improve some problems and shortcomings. Of course, all of this will be done in a low-key manner so as not to cause any trouble to you.”

For Santos, Tottenham Hotspur has already reached an agreement. The team will still pay a training fee based on Neymar's situation. The current transfer fee to introduce Neymar is 3 million euros, which is a one-time payment. , which is indeed very high for a child who is only fifteen years old, but it is also enough to show Ye Qiu's appreciation and affirmation of Neymar.

After pausing for a while to allow the old Neymar to digest his words and to clarify his thoughts, Ye Qiu continued to further explain his plan.

"I heard that Mr. da Silva established NR Sports Agency in Brazil?" Ye Qiu asked with a smile.

This question immediately made Neymar Sr. feel embarrassed. He shook his head and said: "It's just a company registered. It's an empty shell. Now all the employees are our family. There is nothing to say."

Of course Ye Qiu knew the current situation of this company and smiled, "The Brazilian economy has made rapid progress in recent years. It is one of the BRIC countries. Its economic scale has even surpassed that of Argentina, which was the leader in South America in the past. Especially the sports industry. With the same rapid development, I believe that the value of Brazilian players will rise accordingly in the next few years.”

In the past, the reason why Brazilian players were cheap was mainly because Brazil was impoverished. However, in recent years, Brazil's economy has grown by leaps and bounds. It is now known as the BRIC countries along with China, India and Russia. It has great potential for future development, and the 2014 World Cup The hosting rights fell into the hands of the South American country.

In 2003, South American countries supported Brazil's bid to host the 2014 World Cup. With Colombia announcing its withdrawal from the competition in April this year, Brazil has become the only country to apply for the 2014 World Cup. It is almost a sure thing. I believe that Brazil will be the only country to apply for the 2014 World Cup. The domestic football industry will also develop by leaps and bounds.

At present, Eliza's agency is no longer just involved in the fields of brokerage and business operations, but has even become involved in more sports fields. Therefore, the next focus of development is one in London, England, because of the 2012 Olympic Games, and the other in In Africa and the Middle East, because of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, as well as the big conglomerates in the Middle East, there is also the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

Of course, there is also Ye Qiu’s home base in Asia, especially China. They have established a Chinese official website and have also registered publicity platforms such as official Twitter and Chinese mobile applications.

Ye Qiu has always felt that African and South American players will increasingly occupy a pivotal position in the four major European leagues. In fact, they are already very important now, but they will become more and more important in the future, especially Africa.

As for the market, the Middle East and Asia have the greatest development potential, and the market in North America is already huge.

"Our company also has quite a lot of business in Brazil. We will cooperate with many different companies. We are also very interested in cooperating with NR Sports Agency. When you return to Brazil, our Brazilian branch will contact you. So here, I wish you a happy cooperation! ”

Ye Qiu's words surprised Neymar Sr. His company has no business at all now, but Eliza Moon's agency is famous in Europe and has a lot of business in South America, especially In terms of commercial operations and advertising agencies, it can be said to be one of the largest companies in Brazilian football.

Under such circumstances, whether Neymar joins Ye Qiu or lets his company cooperate with theirs, it is a hugely profitable business for Neymar Sr. and his family, and he really has no way to refuse.

For Ye Qiu, the sports industry market in Brazil is too big, and his company can only be considered relatively strong in it. There is no problem at all in supporting the old Neymar. At best, it will give the old Neymar a piece of the pie. Marr, besides, this is not to do business for him for no reason. Old Neymar also has to work hard.

For Ye Qiu, this cooperation is just a piece of cake.

Moreover, the agency company is currently brewing and preparing a big plan. Once implemented, it will not only cooperate with more people and companies, but may even change the status quo of many agents and scouting circles.

Shocked by Ye Qiu's two consecutive moves, old Neymar really couldn't refuse. In the end, he only made one request, that is, Neymar should not be allowed to leave Brazil within a short period of time. Ye Qiu did not hesitate about this. promised.

Therefore, the two parties finally reached an agreement in just over half an hour.

After the Neymar family completed negotiations with Tottenham Hotspur, accepted Ye Qiu's invitation, traveled to London for three days, and returned to Brazil, Tottenham Hotspur's transfer finally began to come to an end.