“Lord, you really decided to buy the Southampton Club?”

In the BMW car on the road back to Bolin Manor, the housekeeper Paul held the steering wheel and looked up at the image of the young count who was resting in the rearview mirror. He asked with curiosity and concern.

"I do have this idea. Jerry is right. The Southampton Club, which is now in a trough, has a lot of potential to be tapped. If the acquisition is successful and a long-term system of future plans are established, the Saints may not be able to return to the Premier League." Arthur opened his eyes and said with a smile.

"Of course, the first thing is to be cheap, otherwise I can't afford it."

This seems like he still has a lot of money now.

In fact, Arthur himself was also envious and had no money to eat the saints. After all, even if the saints were frustrated or cheap, they would cost tens of millions of pounds to be sold. Arthur, who still had millions of pounds in his account, seemed to have only a share of staring blankly.

However, Arthur, who has learned a lot of financial knowledge recently, doesn't think so. In his opinion, as long as the price is low enough and there is room for profit, he can swallow the Southampton Club.

You should know that there is a method called leveraged acquisition that can completely satisfy the acquisition when he has no money. Leveraged acquisition is also called financing mergers and acquisitions, debt-raising operation and acquisition, which is a corporate financial means. It refers to the strategy of a company or individual to use the assets of the acquisition target as debt collateral to acquire the company.

In fact, to put it bluntly, it is also called making money from a waste of money. It uses the assets and future income of the Southampton Club to show bank financing loans, and then uses the bank loan to acquire the Southampton Club, and finally passes the entire loan to the Southampton Club.

Although he cannot get profits from the club before paying off his debts, the club belongs to him.

A typical representative of this type is Manchester United's Glazer family. It has to be said that Americans have super strong financing capabilities and can play the sixth most financial means. They use the leverage principle to use less than 800 million pounds to acquire Manchester United. Almost all of the funds are loans, and the debt is transferred to Manchester United. This is also why Manchester United fans hate Americans.

Why take debt and acquire a club that failed to join the League One?

No matter how you look at it, it is a bit unworthy of Arthur today, but Arthur knows that the future British football clubs will become more and more valuable, and football is advertising.

Especially in the UK, football, as the national football team in the UK, has a great social influence. Many celebrities are fans of the team. Buying a club is actually to buy a business card for themselves and let themselves truly enter the upper class in the UK.

Although Arthur, as the Earl, is a member of the upper class in the British society, he has no popularity. He wrote a popular book and dared not disclose it to the public. It is undoubtedly a very depressing thing.

When investing in football, you have a lot of attention and you can get everything!

As a local club in Southampton, Hampshire, Paul is also a fan of it, but he does not think that his own Count is a good idea to acquire the Saints. After all, playing football requires money. Any Premier League club burns much more money every year than his own Count.

In the Premier League today, you have no money and even owe money. No matter how thick your foundation is, you can use it to the point of being too bad?

Looking through the transfer records of Premier League teams in recent years, who doesn’t start with 20 million pounds? Others keep spending money, but you are still thinking about how to repay the debt. Even if you stay in the Premier League, you will probably be relegated when the debt crisis passes. If you don’t change the negative number in the account to 0, you have made a lot of progress. Graduate slowly, step by step, and get up from the bottom step to play in the middle level without worry. You can hope for the future. Do you think 10 years are enough? If you can stay in the Premier League, you will be lucky.

What's more, the Saints who are going to play in the League One this year, the English Championship, Premier League, and the Champions League... tsk, some are climbing!

The housekeeper Paul is now completely unable to understand his young count. He looks very smart, but he is doing everything he does to death. He wants to persuade him, but he doesn't know where to persuade him.

Arthur naturally didn't know what Paul was thinking in his heart when the butler was driving. However, even if he knew, he would not change his mind. Anyway, he had already borrowed a lot of money from the bank, so he didn't care about more.

Moreover, football development should be slow-cooked, and managers should also be patient enough. No one can expect to become rich overnight. "It may take ten years, twenty years or even longer to build a champion. It is enough to have plans for the future, dreams and expectations. At the same time, you must follow the internal laws of football. This is not transferred by personal will.

Of course, all this depends on what price the shareholders in Southampton offer. If it is really cheap, it is considered a bargain. If it is too expensive, it can only be forgotten.

"Ding"

The BMW car stopped in the square in front of the main entrance of Bolin Castle. The waiter and the maid heard the sound of the car's horns and were already arranged on both sides of the main entrance, and welcomed the return of the castle owner with a smile.

Looking at everything about the manor, Arthur couldn't help but feel a sense of peace from the bottom of his heart. Perhaps before he knew it, he had already felt belonging to the manor. It was so good to go home!

After taking a shower, I changed into a loose and comfortable casual outfit, and then enjoyed his exquisite afternoon tea. When the afternoon tea was almost over, Arthur's cell phone rang, and the phone was called by Jerry Fuller.

"Boss, I've met the major shareholders of Southampton Club, who offered £20 million..."

Arthur was not surprised when he heard this number, but the price was not acceptable to him, so he asked directly: "Is this their final offer?"

"Boss, this price can be negotiated, but the other party knows how sincere we are, so he gave me this price. Moreover, they will also announce their intention to sell the team in the near future."

"That's it..." Arthur held his cell phone, frowned slightly, and said, "You should replace me first, contact the other party, and tell the other party that I am very sincere in taking over Southampton, but the price of 20 million pounds is indeed higher than that of the current Southampton club. 10 million pounds, I think this price is the most suitable."

"Ahem..."

Not only did Jerry, who was on the other end of the phone, coughed a little unnaturally when he heard the offer, but even Paul, the butler standing beside Arthur, pulled his face unnaturally.

10 million? Still think it’s the most appropriate?

Well, Arthur's bargaining level really makes people wonder what to say. However, Arthur did not feel that there was any problem with his offer. Instead, he said: "The club is already on the verge of bankruptcy. If he really reaches the level of custody and falls into the League One and cannot sell players, the losses of these shareholders will be the biggest.
Chapter completed!