Chapter 112 Old Friend

The Premier League ended half a month later than the English League Two - in fact, it was not too late, because the English League Two had to spare half a month to play the playoffs. The third team that finally advanced in the English League Two was Oxford United. They defeated fourth place Blackpin 2-0 in the playoff final and successfully advanced to the English League One.

However, Xiao Ming was not concerned about this game, but the Premier League championship battle he paid attention to - in the end, just like in history, Manchester United completed an epic reversal while falling behind 12 points. Ferguson used his excellent psychological tactics to drive Keegan almost alive and became a classic in Premier League history. Manchester United won the third league championship trophy after the start of the Premier League, and the midfield line that later became famous gradually began to take shape this season. Beckham scored seven league goals in his first Premier League season, with Roy Keane and six Ryan Giggs, eleven Paul Scholes and ten. This is a perfect midfield line. Everyone has good scoring and defensive abilities. In the subsequent period, this midfield meant no solution.

Ferguson is certainly worthy of being proud of this season, but Xiao Ming is also laughing at the result - the 500,000 pounds he suppressed before Christmas has increased tenfold after deducting taxes. With this 5 million pounds in hand, he feels he can do something.

And the next thing... is to stabilize the team.

During the period from the end of the league to the beginning of the European Championship, Xiao Ming, Hilton, Coft, Wilkins and others began to renew their contracts with players. Although most of the team's players signed the contract last season, the team's promotion and the players' value naturally increased. If a contract that matches the status of a Class A player is not given at this time, the team's morale will be stable in the next season.

After the season, Hilton and Wilkins both announced their retirement. Hilton is 46 years old and Wilkins is 39 years old. In fact, when Xiao Ming took over the team, they had already expressed their intention to retire. However, with Xiao Ming's efforts to retain it, they only played for two more seasons. After having a suitable replacement this season, everyone of their retirement was mentally prepared, and Xiao Ming did not treat these two veterans unfairly. Hilton's entry into the club transfer department has been confirmed long ago. Wilkins has played for more than ten years. No one of the active players has a greater prestige than him. He himself is also full of interest in being a coach. Therefore, in the new season, he will assist Xiao Ming and McDonald in managing the locker room. With his prestige, the atmosphere in the locker room will be more harmonious.

With their efforts, it is also because Leiden Oriental will participate in the League One and UEFA Cup this season, most of the main players' contracts have been successfully signed, and some players who are destined to be unable to play as main players in the team or even substitutes are not guaranteed to be allowed to find their next home. The club is now in a prosperous process, and all of this is going well.

After doing all this, Xiao Ming patted his butt and left London. Before leaving, he left a sentence to the club staff: "I'm going to travel around the world first, and then watch the European Cup... If someone comes to me, please come to me after the European Cup."

Hilton, who stayed at the club, couldn't help but smile bitterly. In fact, he also wanted to go on vacation, but Xiao Ming insisted that he stayed in the club. He really couldn't figure it out. Now that the club's affairs have basically been done, who else will come to him...

But the boss is destined, so he can only obey. Moreover, most people in the club are on vacation now, and it is really a bit uneasy to not have any senior executives left behind. He joined the club's senior executives as soon as he retired. It seems a bit unreasonable not to do more things.

Anyway, during his stay, he was happy to be idle. He came to the club every day to have a cup of coffee, and checked the information reported by the scouts. His life was still very comfortable.

On the third day after Xiao Ming left, Hilton finally knew why Xiao Ming asked him to stay in the club!

On this day, Hilton was flipping through the information sent by several scouts, and Miss Ella suddenly knocked on his door: "Mr. Peter, someone called the boss."

Hilton was stunned for a moment: "Oh, then I'll take it. The boss said that if someone asked him for a while, I'll be responsible for answering it."

Following Miss Ella to the chairman's office, Hilton picked up the phone.

"Is it Xiao? I'm Alex Ferguson."

The sound from the phone made Hilton stunned again. He was always good at football in England, but Ferguson, the Scotsman... It seems that few people can be older than him! Except for Bobby Robson and other just a few people...

"Mr. Ferguson? I am Peter Hilton." Hilton replied immediately.

"Ah, it's Peter, isn't Xiao here?" Ferguson asked in a little surprise.

"The boss is out to travel around the world..." Hilton thought about why Ferguson called Xiao Ming, and his tone was still very familiar, while answering honestly: "He has been away for three days and said that if someone looks for him, I will talk about it after the European Cup ends."

After saying this, Ferguson on the other end of the phone was silent. After a few seconds, a chuckle came from the other end of the phone: "Is that so? Xiao said this when he left? I understand... Peter, if possible, you convey a sentence to Xiao. He is really an interesting guy... Then ask him how much he has recovered his investment in Manchester United?"

"I will, Mr. Ferguson..." Hilton replied: "By the way, congratulations have not yet won the double championship in the Premier League and the FA Cup."

"I'm just about to congratulate Xiao... Participating in the League Cup as a British League One team is not a simple result." Ferguson smiled again, then hung up the phone after saying goodbye to Hilton.

Not saying that Hilton was confused on the other end of the phone, Ferguson thought about it after hanging up the phone, suddenly laughed, and shook his head.

"Xiao...you have a good idea! After the European Cup? Are you so confident in your players? Can Pobosky perform well in the European Cup? Will his net worth soar? Now... it's getting more and more interesting!"

Two days before Ferguson called Xiao Ming, Xiao Ming had already flew to the United States. When he boarded the plane, he was proudly thinking: "Who told Ferguson, you didn't look for me earlier? I guess it was the club's business, right? Then just look for me later. When the European Cup is over, it's time for the transfer market to open. Come and talk to me again... Without competitors, Pobosky can't sell it."

Xiao Ming was not worried about Pobosky's performance in the European Championship. The 96 European Championship was Pobosky's personal peak. Just shooting through Baia's goal, forcing Summer to foul in the final to create a penalty kick, would be enough to make him famous. Manchester United's competitors would surely have many...

This time he left was not just to delay time, nor to travel around the world—he did not have the time to do such things yet. This time he came to the United States, he just wanted to pave the way for a huge sum of money in the future...

Nasdaq Stock Market.

This is the world's largest stock trading market, and there are countless myths here. For example, the Microsoft myth began here, and it also witnessed the bursting of the Internet bubble - in 2000, the Nasdaq index reached its historical high, exceeding 5,000 points, but it fell to 1,108 points only two years later... During this period, I don't know how many Internet companies went bankrupt, and how much wealth evaporated in the stock market was unknown.

Xiao Ming was lucky enough to escape here, but now he wants to earn more here.

With an accurate judgment of the future, Xiao Ming will be invincible.

Before coming to the United States, Xiao Ming sold half of his Microsoft stocks. Now Microsoft's stock price is not much different from its peak. Microsoft, which cannot maintain its initial rapid upward momentum, can no longer bring him more profits, so he decided to look for the next target.

The news that prompted him to come to the Nasdaq stock market near Times Square was a piece of news he observed some time ago.

As a trader, all kinds of news are necessary to read every day. How to find useful information to you from the vast number of news is the decisive factor that determines the vision of a stock investor. Just a while ago, he saw a news that Yahoo, founded more than a year ago, is about to go public on May 13, 1996, and the listing location is Nasdaq.

Yahoo's listing was one month later than Xiao Ming's memory, but for Xiao Ming, the late month just gave him time to pull out funds from Microsoft's stocks. If it weren't for Yahoo's super stock whose stock market value increased by more than 20 times in two years, Xiao Ming wouldn't have withdrawn funds from Microsoft.

With the five million pounds he earned from a bookmaker, he now has more than 30 million pounds of funds, which is worth 40 million US dollars when he converts it into US dollars. Although Yahoo's stock is favored by most people, Xiao Ming, who has experienced that time, is very clear about investors' psychology - they will definitely not put eggs in a basket, because doing so is a taboo for stock investors!

But all Xiao Ming had to do was to make a fortune - buy as much as he could. Even if the price of the stock was twice as high as the original price of the stock, he would definitely be developed! Because now, no one knows better than him how Yahoo's stock will rise in two years!

In the past two years, Yahoo's stock has risen by 23 times. In the past two years, Yahoo is the most glorious company in the Nasdaq market and even the global financial market. The stock market value is more than 300 times the expected dividend, and it is more than six times higher than Microsoft!

Xiao Ming has sufficient funds for such a gold mine. If he doesn’t make good use of it, he will be a fool!

That night, Xiao Ming lived near Times Square.

Xiao Ming is actually very familiar with this place! Although this body may have never been here, in his previous life, Xiao Ming made his fortune here and was extremely familiar with every road and even every bar here.

So when he sat in one of the bars and ordered a glass of wine, he felt extremely comfortable.

Although he has been in London for two years - no, to be precise, it should be sixteen years, for Xiao Ming, he is still more accustomed to it.

Slowly savoring the wine in the glass, rejecting two or three women who came to meet him. Xiao Ming looked at the people in the bar. Today he came here, just planning to relive his life in his previous life, and did not expect anything else.

This is a very ordinary bar with not many customers. The dim lights exuded an ambiguous atmosphere, but Xiao Ming enjoyed this environment very much. Before his previous life was developed, I don’t know how many lonely nights he spent quietly in this bar alone.

The business in the bar was not very good, but after Xiao Ming had drunk half of his wine, the bar door was pushed open and a young man walked in with a hint of anger and helplessness on his face.

He walked to Xiao Ming's side and knocked on the bar: "Give me a glass of...the strongest wine!"

The black bartender rolled his eyes, feeling no surprise at all.

This is Wall Street, a place where people can get rich overnight and lose all their belongings overnight. Not to mention the strongest drinks to relieve their sorrows when they come in, they don’t know how many people jumped off the building.

After paying for the alcohol, the young man drank half of the wine in his glass in one breath. Perhaps because of his drinking too quickly, he coughed and his face turned red.

"Drinking alcohol too fast is not good for your health."

The familiar Chinese sounded in his ears, and then a tissue was handed to him. The young man subconsciously took the tissue, then wiped his mouth, and raised his head in confusion.

Xiao Ming looked at the young man in front of him with a smile on his face: "Qiao Ming, it's been a long time since we met."

"You..." The young man looked at Xiao Ming in confusion. This was a strange face in front of him, but it seemed to have a hint of familiarity.

"Don't you remember me?" Xiao Ming smiled: "No wonder we have been separated for sixteen years... We were only ten years old when I went to England for sixteen years."

"You... are you... Xiao Ming?" Perhaps Xiao Ming was just right, and the young man slowly let go of his confusion, and then he changed into a surprised expression: "You are really Xiao Ming? Damn, you were only ten years old when you went to the UK, why did you still recognize me?"

"Haha!" Xiao Ming laughed and patted the young man on the back.

Logically speaking, Xiao Ming should not be able to recognize this young man named Qiao Ming. Although Qiao Ming's father was Xiao Ming's father's good friend, the two came to the United States to explore the world together. Xiao Ming and Qiao Ming met almost after they were born. However, after sixteen years, the changes in people have been huge! Especially when they were separated, they were still children, but when they met again, they had become young people...

However, in Xiao Ming's opinion, Qiao Ming is a friend, colleague, and comrade-in-arms who he is extremely familiar with and grew up with...

In that space, he studied with Qiao Ming, went to college together, then studied from college together, and worked together on Wall Street... Later, he became the richest Chinese boss on Wall Street, and Qiao Ming was the most trusted general under his command.

How could Xiao Ming not know such a person? How could he not know him?

Of course he could not explain this reason to Qiao Ming. He just laughed happily and said, "You, there has not been any major change in the years...especially the mole on the corner of your mouth... If it weren't for this mole, I wouldn't have known you so soon."

Qiao Ming touched the conspicuous mole on the corner of his mouth and started laughing.

After laughing, Qiao Ming said excitedly: "It's incredible to meet you here! After you went to the UK, I thought we would never see you in our lifetime! Why are you here? What are you doing now?"

Xiao Ming did not answer his words directly, but asked back: "What about you? What are you doing now? Why did you ask for strong wine as soon as you enter the door?"

When talking about this, Qiao Ming felt depressed again: "Don't mention it... I studied stock brokerage in college. I had only been working for more than three years. I used to do pretty well, but the first few investments failed, and today... I was fired."

Looking at Qiao Ming's low look, Xiao Ming sighed in his heart. He was extremely familiar with Qiao Ming. He knew that this person was of level and ability, but he was relatively brave and had no adventurous spirit in doing things. When he studied with him, he started a business with him. It was the result of Xiao Ming's desperate encouragement. It seems that after history changed, he honestly came out to do things after finishing college, but he was not very lucky. On Wall Street, I don't know how many failed traders like him are. The food in this industry is not so delicious!

"It's because we guys are destined to meet you today." Xiao Ming stood up with a smile: "If you are fine in the evening, go to the hotel I stay with me. Let's have a good chat and talk about the past ten years... how about it?"

"Okay." Qiao Ming nodded immediately to agree. It is indeed rare for two friends who have been separated for more than ten years to meet in such an accidental situation.

"Do you want to bring some wine to drink?" Xiao Ming smiled and joked about the boy: "Didn't you just say you want to drink the strongest wine?"
Chapter completed!