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Football is just a trivial business, Zhou Buqi wants to do something more. Investing in Manchester United is a hobby. By establishing a multinational football group, we actually want to explore a possible path that might make some changes for the national football team.

It is too difficult for domestic players to go abroad.

There are probably three reasons.

First, the domestic salary level is high, but you can’t earn as much money abroad and have no motivation;

Second, the club is unwilling to release the player for the sake of its own performance and is not responsible for the player's subsequent development;

Three, the level is too poor.

To say that the level of domestic players is really poor is not entirely true. At least in the youth stage, domestic teams are not much worse than those in Europe, whether it is technical level or basic skills.

What really widens the gap is after the age of 16, and after entering the professional sequence, the gap becomes visible to the naked eye. This shows that the backwardness of the national football team is not due to the lack of talent of domestic players, but to the lack of professional development in the later period. When I grew up, the professional system was too backward, and I got used to the rhythm of the Chinese Super League. Let’s go to Europe and have a look... Wow! Completely two sports.

If possible, players should be allowed to develop abroad as early as possible. They cannot go to Europe, even to South Korea and Japan.

However, Zhou Buqi felt like a mirror.

What you do yourself is more of a formality. Unless a miracle happens, it will be difficult to really work. It is more for the Chinese people to see and to seal their mouths.

By then, he, like other big football bosses, will not be able to change the current situation of the national football team, and there will be no blame for him. In order to provide domestic players with a channel to develop overseas, he did not hesitate to buy five or six teams around the world, which is bold and sincere enough.

The actual significance of this multinational football group depends more on the development of football in the local area and its blood supply to Manchester United through football advertising and the "Ziwei Galaxy" business.

Next, Zhou Buqi is going to Switzerland.

Mainly two things.

First, go meet and talk to the owner of the Zurich team.

Second, I was entrusted by the Entrepreneur Club to meet with Chinese investors in Europe.

The night before leaving Manchester, Zhou Buqi slept in Senior Sister Zhen Yu's room. After the clouds cleared and the rain cleared, he hugged her and talked, and he talked about this matter.

Senior Sister Zhen Yu was very cautious, "I think... I think you should not get involved randomly, or I will blame you if I lose money."

"ah?"

Zhou Buqi hugged him, a little funny.

Zhen Yu said seriously: "I'm not kidding you. I have done a special survey and found that our country's overseas net assets now exceed 1.7 trillion US dollars. However, in the past seven years, the income from overseas assets has been negative in five of the years. This year In the first half of the year, it lost more than $13 billion."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "This is different. Don't compare with Ziweixing. Our private capital only has a few dollars, and we don't need to bear too many national strategies. The strategic goal of 'going out' should be to pursue high-dollar investments." Profit, access to natural resources or expansion of the host country’s market share. It is almost impossible to satisfy all three objectives at the same time. Being able to meet one of these objectives is a valuable investment.”

It is certainly a good investment in pursuit of high profits and access to natural resources. But from a national perspective, if it can expand market share, it is also a very strategic investment.

For example, Zhou Buqi went to Switzerland to discuss a case in which the domestic engineering equipment giant Liugong Group wanted to acquire the construction machinery division of the Polish HSW Group.

This is a business unit with serious losses.

It will be difficult for LiuGong to generate profits after taking over, and they may have to add money to it every year. At first glance, it seems to be suspected of making money in the country to subsidize foreigners.

However, as its market share increases, LiuGong will be able to occupy an important position in Poland's engineering equipment field, which will open up Poland's infrastructure market and provide a basis for more large-scale infrastructure cooperation in the future.

After occupying the market share, if one day LiuGong runs out of goods to Poland, Poland's engineering equipment will encounter a shortage crisis, which will affect the infrastructure construction of the entire country of Poland and bring about a certain social crisis. .

The business landscape has indirectly affected the international landscape.

This is similar to the operating logic of Microsoft's operating system in China.

Microsoft is the most profitable technology giant in the world. It mainly relies on selling operating systems. The price is extremely high, so it has to be bought. However, in China, the price of Microsoft's systems is much lower than abroad, and it may even be free.

It's not because Bill Gates is pro-China and playing double standards to lick domestic users. On the contrary, domestic operating systems cannot be built. Part of the reason is that Microsoft's attitude is too friendly, which makes domestic operating systems lack the necessary market value.

In fact, it is dumping logic.

There are too many similar things. Most of the domestic products are priced lower abroad than at home, including shoes and hats, glasses, tires, glass, liquor, soy sauce, and toilet seats.

The difference is that the United States sells high-tech products, and its domestic foundation is too weak, so it can only sell some low-end things.

Zhen Yu's mood has been unstable recently, probably because her investment is not going well. She hummed: "In the final analysis, doing business still has to generate profits. I have now discovered that the world is a Ponzi, no matter what kind of asset it is, you must be careful Don’t be a receiver.”

Then, she picked up the walkie-talkie and said quickly: "Lulu, can you pour me a glass of water? Thank you for your hard work."

"The world is Ponzi? Why do you suddenly feel this way?" Zhou Buqi couldn't laugh or cry, "Senior sister, are you stimulated?"

"No!"

"What about the European debt?"

Zhou Buqi could guess a bit. In the past month or two, Senior Sister Zhen Yu stopped discussing the Greek national debt with him. She was probably frustrated.

Sure enough, when this incident was mentioned, Zhen Yu's expression collapsed, "Ponzi, they are all Ponzi!"

Zhou Buqi laughed.

Zhen Yu said: "The commercial market in this world is a Ponzi scheme. It has no real value at all. The key is to see the timing of the purchase and sale. Whoever is in the trap will suffer a big loss. If I put Greece in June If you sell the treasury bonds and buy them back at the current price, you might earn 1 billion US dollars. Now I feel more and more that what Li Chaoren said makes sense. Don't think about making every last copper. You have to run when you need to. The Ponzi bubble has burst and you can’t run away even if you want to.”

Zhou Buqi leaned over and kissed her on the cheek, "Senior sister, why do I feel that you are a little crazy?"

"Am I wrong?" Zhen Yu looked at him with burning eyes.

Zhou Buqi said: "Yes, but the level is a bit lower."

"ah?"

Zhen Yu gave him a cute look.

Zhou Buqi said: "If making money is divided into 10 levels, the world you are talking about is Ponzi... It is probably the 8th level. It is already a very high position, surpassing 99.99% of the people in the world. But this is still Not enough, there are two floors above. On the ninth floor, history always repeats itself. When I spoke at the Entrepreneurs Club, I said that many businessmen like to take some EBMA classes and then find various business jobs. If you look at management books, they are too low-end. Small bosses will be fine reading them. Big bosses still need to read some books on humanities and history in order to have a deeper understanding of the relationship between business and society."

"The ninth level you mentioned..." Zhen Yu was very smart and reacted immediately, "Period?"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Yes, cycle. I have told you before, don't worry, as long as Greece does not go bankrupt, there must be cyclicality. The short-term rise and fall of national debt will not affect the larger cycle. As long as Greece does not go bankrupt, it will not affect the larger cycle. When the European economy recovers and the crisis in Greece is over, the price of Greek government bonds can return to normal. Depending on the scale of your investment, you can easily earn five or six times. A small short-term loss is nothing at all. You are not afraid of losing money in a bear market. , just wait for the bull market cycle to arrive.”

Zhen Yu sighed softly and said pitifully, "Husband, I'm not qualified to do this. I don't want to do it. I'm worried and tired."

Zhou Buqi laughed loudly and went over to give her a long kiss. "If you don't want to do it, just do it. Happiness is the most important thing!"

"real?"

Zhen Yu's eyes lit up.

This kind of thing is easy to say but too difficult to do. In the current turbulent economic environment in Europe, bond prices fluctuate greatly. Paying attention to the market every day makes your head explode.

It's like a test. People without talent, even if they know the correct answers, will still fail in the test and cannot bear the stress of the test.

Zhou Buqi said nonchalantly: "If you don't want to do it, just don't do it. This business is just a game for you. If you don't like playing it, don't play it. Withdraw! Well, how much did you lose? 600 million US dollars, all lost." Gone?"

"Where is that?" Zhen Yu rolled her eyes. "The principal is 600 million US dollars, and now there are 1.19 billion US dollars in the account. If you withdraw now, even if you deduct taxes, you can make a net profit of 400 million US dollars."

Zhou Buqi said happily: "Isn't this great? The results are very fruitful!"

Zhen Yu said helplessly: "At the most, the total assets exceeded US$1.7 billion, and they have lost money again in the past two months. If we don't withdraw now, it may have to go down. Something seems to have happened to Spain's national debt, and something has happened. There’s a chain reaction.”

Zhou Buqi didn't force it. Since Senior Sister Zhen Yu was not that good, he didn't do it. He said with a smile: "Anyway, we made a lot of money! Well... we made 400 million U.S. dollars, and we just happened to be doing transnational football." As for the group, how about investing here?"

"It's all fine, you make the arrangements."

When there are many people, Senior Sister Zhen Yu actually holds her own and behaves like a strong woman, similar to Shi Jinglin. In private, in the two-person space with Zhou Buqi, she is much gentler, and Xiaoniaoyiren is very similar to Wu Yu.

At this time, Ning Lu brought two glasses of water, and Zhen Yu stopped snuggling in the man's arms. She sat up straight and pulled the quilt up to cover her round and white shoulders.

"Thanks."

Zhen Yu's face turned red, a little embarrassed.

Ning Lu pursed her lips and smiled, hesitated for a moment, and then whispered: "Just now I noticed that Jiang Shuying's eyes were red, as if she had cried. Isn't it bad to bully her like this?"

Zhou Buqi took a sip of water, and the old god was saying: "This training of women is just like the most profound investment philosophy, it is to endure, it is... Huh? What are the expressions of the two of you? Damn, I didn't tell you. Two. Forget it, women are a more profound knowledge than investment, and you don’t understand it. Go tell her, just say... Just say that I have free time these days, so I invite her to sleep with her and let her Don’t rush, be patient!”