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Today, as globalization becomes more and more popular, an economic crisis in a single region can trigger a worldwide financial disaster, such as the subprime mortgage crisis and the European debt crisis if not handled properly.

The whole world is watching.

Developed countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Australia, and Switzerland are all trying to find ways to contribute money and cooperate with the European Union to borrow money from Greece. Central banks of various countries are also promoting currency exchange policies to jointly bear financial risks.

In this regard, domestic strength is slightly weaker.

If the official solution fails, then we must rely on private efforts.

The Entrepreneur Club took action. Mr. Liu personally led the team and brought a group of people to the EU for business exchanges and friendly visits at the private enterprise level, with the intention of strengthening China-EU cooperation.

France has also prepared a "World Entrepreneur" award to be awarded to Mr. Liu. The last winner was Kazuo Inamori, a legend in Japanese business circles.

Zhou Buqi also received the invitation, but he did not go to France immediately.

It wasn't him who received the award, but him passing by made things difficult for the French.

Moreover, he also wants to watch the Champions League final!

On May 13, the UEFA Champions League final of the 2009-10 season started at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. The two sides faced off were Inter Milan, which had already won the Serie A championship, and Manchester United, which had already won the Premier League championship.

In this game, Manchester United fielded their strongest lineup, and Robben also returned from injury and returned to the starting lineup.

On the front line, there is the strongest trident combination of Bale, Rooney and Robben.

The atmosphere at the Bernabeu is great.

If nothing else, the infrastructure in this stadium is one level better than Old Trafford. Fortunately, the season is over, and Manchester United has launched a stadium renovation plan.

This year's renovation project mainly focuses on the reinforcement and expansion of the south stand.

The construction period is expected to take five months and may not be completed until November. After the project is completed, the capacity of Old Trafford Stadium will exceed that of the Bernabeu and can accommodate 88,000 people. Once completed, it is expected to bring an additional £8 million in ticket revenue to Manchester United each year.

The project cost is also extremely expensive, possibly reaching 60 million pounds.

This money is nothing to Manchester United.

Zhou Buqi has already seen Manchester United's unaudited financial report for this season, and the profit is likely to reach a new high!

Last season, Manchester United won three consecutive Premier League titles and reached the Champions League final, with a net profit of an astonishing £91 million. This season is even more exaggerated, with revenue exceeding 400 million pounds and gross profit reaching 140 million pounds.

This is largely due to the business reforms carried out by Boss Zhou for Manchester United and the income from the newly introduced player blind box project.

Because signings cost too much this season, even if a large part is paid in installments, 50 million pounds of this part of the signing funds will be allocated to this season's bills... In other words, even if 150 million pounds are spent this season Even buying players such as Robben, Robin van Persie, Yaya Toure, Lahm, and Barnes in the market cannot stop the fact that Manchester United has a strong ability to make money.

This season, Manchester United's net profit is likely to reach 93 million pounds.

Currently, Manchester United has as much as 190 million pounds of cash flow on its books.

From this point of view, after deducting 60 million pounds of engineering fees and setting aside 100 million pounds of liquidity for next season, Manchester United can still have at least 30 million pounds of net transfer investment budget this summer.

This is still under the condition that Boss Zhou will not personally inject capital.

After reading Manchester United's financial report, Zhou Buqi was very emotional.

Football doesn't make money, but Manchester United makes money.

In the previous life, Manchester United was really cheated by the Glazer family. Every season, they had to spend 60 million to 70 million pounds to pay the interest on the leveraged buyout. If there is still a balance, a portion of the profits will be used to repay the principal of the loan.

In this life, Zhou Buqi saved Manchester United.

And Manchester United's performance in all aspects did not disappoint him.

In the Champions League final, Manchester United showed the characteristics of a wealthy team, suppressing the whole game and launching attacks again and again around Inter Milan's half.

The offensive was overwhelming.

However, there are no weak teams in the Champions League final.

Mourinho's team has strong willpower and their defense is watertight. The semi-finals were against "Team Cosmos" Barcelona and they won. In the final, they once again adopted a defensive counterattack strategy, and the whole team was full of confidence.

In the first half, Manchester United mainly attacked and Inter Milan defended, the score was 0:0.

In the second half, Manchester United continued to attack, while Inter Milan remained defensive.

Then, something happened.

Inter intercepted the ball in the backcourt and counterattacked directly with a long pass. Milito directly formed a semi-single shot, dunked the defender and shot directly, hitting the target directly! 1:0, goal!

The leader is Inter Milan.

After losing the ball, Manchester United attacked more fiercely and had more space for defense. Inter Milan seized the opportunity again, counterattacked again, and Milito shot cleanly.

2:0!

The game ended with 20 minutes left, and Inter Milan almost sealed the victory!

No way, really no way.

In this world, no one can break the iron barrel formation of this team. Among the Mesozoic coaches in today's football world, Guardiola and Mourinho are the emperors in the south and the beggars in the north.

Guardiola made people breathless with his desperate offensive, and Mourinho made people breathless with his desperate defense.

Very miserable.

In last year's Champions League final, Manchester United was defeated by Barcelona's offensive storm. In this year's Champions League final, Manchester United may be defeated again by Inter Milan, who defends the iron gate.

At this moment, fans all over the world finally had a sense that Ferguson was old. He is helpless in front of the new generation of outstanding coaches.

In terms of the strength of the team's lineup, Manchester United may not be able to match Barcelona, ​​but it is definitely better than Inter Milan. But it's useless, this is Mu Niao's peak period, no one can stop him.

Sure enough, the 2:0 score remained until the end, and Manchester United finished second in the Champions League for the second consecutive season.

The morale of Manchester United is a bit low.

Zhou Buqi went to the hotel to encourage everyone and hoped that everyone would cheer up. There was never a loser in the finals. In this game, Manchester United played much better than their opponents. They were surrounded by the whole audience, but they just lacked a little luck.

Don’t be discouraged and keep trying!

Ferguson talked to Boss Zhou alone, "I will not retire."

Zhou Buqi breathed a sigh of relief, "This is the only thing I'm happy about today."

Ferguson said loudly: "I know the pressure on you, don't worry, I will definitely get you a Champions League trophy!"

"Thanks."

Zhou Buqi expressed his gratitude.

Things here are more complicated.

The timing of Zhou Buqi's acquisition of Manchester United was very embarrassing, as he chose it in 2008. That year, under the leadership of the Glazer family, Manchester United actually won the Champions League.

After Zhou Buqi took over Manchester United, Manchester United lost in the finals for two consecutive seasons.

At first glance, it seems that Boss Zhou is not as good as Glazer!

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Any problems with the lineup?"

Ferguson felt that he had never been so rich in his life. He smiled and said: "Very good. This is a very good team. Many young people are still growing up and they have played together for a relatively short time. Don't keep the current lineup." It’s a big move, just strengthen certain positions.”

"Which position?"

"Goalkeeper."

"Well, Van der Sar is 40 years old, right?"

Ferguson said: "Yes, he should retire after playing for one more season at most. At this age, his movement speed will decrease and injuries will increase."

Zhou Buqi said grandly: "No problem, goalkeeper! Well...then just pay attention to the World Cup in the summer. If there is a good goalkeeper, buy it. As long as the player is good, there is no need to be afraid of spending money."

The past few bosses of Manchester United were actually very stingy, otherwise Ferguson's coaching career resume could be even brighter.

In 2005, Manchester United had a shortage of goalkeepers, but Ferguson's budget was only 2 million pounds. In desperation, Ferguson could only buy the 34-year-old veteran Edwin van der Sar, and let him usher in the second spring of his career.

After the game, Zhou Buqi's plane went to Munich.

The Entrepreneur Club team has already gone to Germany.

We organized a Sino-German Entrepreneurs Roundtable, visited the Potsdam Innovation Center of the SAP Group, and participated in the inauguration ceremony and dinner of the Sino-German Cultural Exchange Project...

The next day, there were many activities, including a salon on the historical relations between China and Germany, a luncheon at the embassy, ​​and a visit to the Bayern Munich club.

I stayed in Germany for two days and then went to the EU headquarters in Belgium.

Zhou Buqi is not a senior member of the Entrepreneur Club, so he doesn't know much about some things, and he has no interest in asking. He just thinks that Mr. Liu is leading the team and he can just follow.

But after participating in it, it gradually started to feel like something was not quite right.

Mr. Liu is only in name only, using his brand name and overseas reputation to build relationships and do some pragmatic things. The one who is really running the big things underneath is Mr. Ma.

There are three famous CEOs in China, Alibaba and Penguin, both of whom are private entrepreneurs. Another great talent is Mr. Ma from China Merchants Bank, who is the official representative.

It is also a representative of the financial system.

Zhou Buqi has heard that 10 investment and financial companies in the Entrepreneur Club have held a joint corporate meeting, hoping to join forces with relevant investment circles in Belgium, France and Germany to jointly analyze the industry. , connecting enterprises.

The investment scale of these 10 companies is as high as 100 billion yuan in Chinese currency.

Most people may not really see anything.

But during this period, Zhou Buqi was operating under the financial wave of the European debt crisis. Knowing the international situation in this field, the financial system around the world was eyeing Europe.

Is this the national team?

It can be regarded as a new approach.

It is not convenient for Zhou Buqi to get too involved in this kind of thing. He only had a brief conversation with Mr. Ma and expressed his confidence in the stability of the European economy and the EU's emergence from the debt crisis.

Hope it helps them!

Zhou Buqi was unwilling to compete for power in this "civilian organization", so he followed along in a low-key manner. The first is to learn from excellent foreign business traditions; the second is to show a good image of China's private entrepreneurial groups and convey the true voice of the Chinese business community; the third is to discover and promote new business cooperation opportunities.

Another thing is to help Geely mediate.

Geely has completed its acquisition of Volvo, which has caused criticism from many conservative Europeans. The main reason is that they are afraid that after Chinese companies buy Volvo, they will directly take away the technology and fire all the workers, which will make Europe miserable.

This model is practiced by many European capitalists, and the most typical example is Bernard Arnault, the boss of LVMH.

When Dior's parent company suffered serious losses, Arnault promised not to lay off employees and promised to help the government solve this burden. The French government guaranteed him a low-interest loan and successfully completed the acquisition. After the acquisition, Arnault immediately changed his face and kept only Dior, selling all other businesses to third-party companies!

Then, third-party companies began massive layoffs, leaving tens of thousands of people unemployed.

The French government was shocked, so they found Arnault and wanted to prosecute him. Arnott plausibly said that he had complied with the agreement and that he had not laid off employees. The layoffs were caused by a third-party company and had nothing to do with him. The French officials were dumbfounded and fooled around.

This is the main task of Mr. Liu's trip to Europe. He often talks about it as a cliché, saying that IBM's personal computer business was in a state of serious losses. After Lenovo's acquisition, it did not lay off employees, but reorganized the company and changed its model. Soon, Great profits were achieved. The same goes for Geely's acquisition of Volvo. Don't worry, please believe in the commitment and strength of Chinese companies.

Zhou Buqi followed him throughout the whole process and gained quite a lot.

This business delegation is of extremely high standard. Dignitaries from the EU and other countries will come out to receive it, expressing their great welcome to European investment.