Football giants

Chapter 339 Southampton Second
Knock~knock~knock~
Sandro Russell sits in his office at Barcelona's Camp Nou.

Hearing someone knock on the door outside, he yelled, "Come in!"

I saw Josep Maria Bartomeu, the first vice president of Barcelona, ​​open the door and walk in.

"Is something wrong?" Roselle wasn't surprised at all.

Bartomeu is his number one assistant and runs to his office several times almost every day.

It's normal to come, it's abnormal not to come!
But soon, he noticed that Bartomeu's face was a little different.

The originally smiling expression suddenly became serious.

"What happened?" Roselle's tone also changed.

Bartomeu sighed, walked to Roselle's desk, sat down, and sighed deeply again.

This behavior of his old partner made Roselle a little dissatisfied, so he just looked at him without saying a word.

"Just received a call from the European headquarters of Qatar Airways. Paul Johannes officially notified us that the sponsorship negotiations will be terminated!"

"What?" Roselle stood up from his seat in surprise.

"Why? What's going on? Didn't we have a good talk before? Why did you suddenly announce the termination of the negotiations?"

It is terminated, not suspended, nor suspended!

Bartomeu smiled helplessly, "The other party didn't explain, but I went to find out. Someone in the circle revealed that the Southern Echo has an exclusive insider, and Qatar Airways will sponsor Southampton starting next season for a period of five years."

"Southampton?" Of course Russell knew this team.

That was the greatest shame in his life!

I still remember that in the summer of [-], he sold Ibrahimovic to Southampton at an unimaginably low price. This transaction, even now, is still evidence of countless Barcelona fans ridiculing and mocking him.

Some people even compared him with Gaspart, the most useless chairman in Barcelona history.

"Yes, if the news is correct, they chose to sponsor Southampton!" Bartomeu was a little frustrated.

Originally, Barcelona had the initiative in this negotiation.

When Barcelona introduced the Qatar Charity Fund, the two parties agreed that in the summer of [-], the Qatar Charity Fund could transfer this sponsorship to others, but it must be approved by Barcelona.

In fact, this was a foreshadowing move laid by Roselle.

You know, Barcelona has never had a commercial advertisement on the chest of the jersey for so many years. When the team management proposed to launch a commercial advertisement, the fans reacted very strongly, thinking that it would be corrupted by the commercial.

Therefore, the Barcelona management adopted a compromise method, first cooperating with charities, and after the fans are familiar with the existence of commercial advertisements, they will attract investment in the chest advertisements.

The plan was brilliant and went well, attracting the attention of many sponsors.

But who would have thought that something went wrong in the end.

Currently the most interested in the Barcelona chest ad is Qatar Airways.

According to Qatar Airways, they planned to get the sponsorship rights directly from the Qatar Charity Foundation, and the price was the same as before, but Russell quit, thinking that the price was two years ago and should be increased now.

Moreover, Roselle's negotiating attitude was as tough as ever. After more than half a year of negotiations, the two sides failed to make breakthroughs in many key areas.

Eventually led to Qatar Airways switching to Southampton!
After hearing what Bartomeu said, Russell had a gloomy expression.

He didn't understand, and couldn't understand, why Qatar Airways would give up a top club like Barcelona, ​​but choose a team in the English Championship?

Could it be that those Middle Easterners just wanted Southampton to be cheap?
"What kind of sponsorship are they paying Southampton?"

"Sixty million pounds!"

"What?" Roselle was taken aback again.

The price was even a little bit higher than what he had asked for before.

What he asked for was 3000 million euros!

A League One team is even more valuable than the majestic top giants Barcelona!

If this is said, what will fans all over the world think?
Bartomeu saw the face of the club chairman in his eyes, and felt quite uncomfortable.

The Southampton team is not at the same level as Barcelona, ​​but it has a lot of connections.

I still remember that just after the Chinese local tyrants acquired Southampton, they launched a pursuit offensive against Ibrahimovic.

A League One team in the third tier wants to introduce the world's number one center forward?
This made the whole world laugh out loud!

But in the end, Barcelona was really forced to send Ibrahimovic to Southampton.

That is, since the introduction of Ibrahimovic, Southampton has shocked the entire world of football time and time again.

The well-known Deloitte organization conducted a survey before. Among the fans, Southampton's popularity and attention can only be ranked eighth among the rich teams, but among non-fans, Southampton is ranked third.

Among the Internet and social networking fields where young people gather, Southampton is well-deserved No. [-]!

What is even more shocking is that the development speed of this team is astonishing, one step at a time a year, and it is bound to return to the Premier League next season. By then, the influence of the Saints will definitely reach another level.

It can be said that the more glorious Zlatan Ibrahimovic is in Southampton, the more embarrassing Russell's situation will be.

Now, the Saints have put their hands into Barcelona's pockets!

Russell was depressed for a while, finally suppressed the anger in his heart, raised his head, and looked at Bartomeu.

"Contact other sponsors immediately, we must take countermeasures!"

Bartomeu nodded with embarrassment.

There are only four months left after the end of the season. It is a bit difficult to get a chest advertising sponsorship in four months.

If he knew that the sponsorship from Southampton and Qatar Airways only took an hour, he would be so surprised that his jaw would drop!
"By the way, I received a message just now." Bartomeu suddenly thought of something.

Roselle raised his head again when he heard that he paid so much attention to it.

"I heard that a Chinese consortium is buying Atletico Madrid!"

"Chinese consortium?" Roselle was taken aback again.

Why are Chinese people so rich these days?
Could it be that they want to buy the whole world?

"Yes, and I heard that substantive negotiations have already entered!" Bartomeu said worriedly.

La Liga has always been a battle between Barcelona and Real Madrid.

The two giants are known as the duo of the Western Super League, as if they are giants, devouring the resources of La Liga.

They even account for 90.00% of La Liga broadcast revenue.

The other teams in La Liga share the remaining 20.00%, and there are too many monks and too few porridge, so the situation can be imagined.

This has further caused the expansion of the strength gap between the Western Super League duo and the La Liga heroes.

But things have changed over the years.

If it is said that Sevilla and Valencia's challenge to the duo is still within the scope of football, then the whirlwind brought by the strong entry of the Qatar consortium to Malaga will undoubtedly pose a threat to the duo of the Western Super League.

Now, there is another Chinese consortium.

It is conceivable that the pattern of the future La Liga will gradually be broken.

"Anything to do with that guy from Southampton?"

Bartomeu shook his head, "No, I heard that he is engaged in real estate, with a good background and strong financial resources."

"Will the Hill family be willing to sell it?"

"I'm afraid it won't work if you don't sell it. Atletico Madrid has been in debt every year. They had to sell Aguero before. As early as 5000, their debt was close to [-] million euros, and it was increasing at a rate of [-] million euros every year."

"In the past two years, Atlético de Madrid have been afraid to disclose their financial situation, but according to my guess, at least they are close to [-] million euros in debt. If they don't want to solve it, they will rot!"

The corner of Russell's mouth twitched slightly.

As a competitor, he is happy to see Atlético Madrid suffer.

But now that the Chinese consortium is in charge, will Atletico Madrid become Southampton's second?

Southampton second?

The guy who learned from Yang Huan?
snort!An upstart!
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Ha Qiu!

On the top floor of Tingyuxuan in Southampton, Yang Huan sneezed loudly.

Charlene Lahiri, who was sitting opposite him, couldn't help but smile.

"Did you become weak after getting engaged?"

Of course Yang Huan could hear the surprise in her words, sniffled his nose, wiped it with a tissue, and smiled cheekily.

"Who says it's not? Let me tell you, don't look at you women, you are usually extremely stingy when you hold small hands, hug and kiss, and you are always covering up after posting a message, and you are ashamed if you want to reveal it, but once you break through that layer of relationship, you immediately become needy and clingy."

Charlene Lahiri originally planned to tease him, but who knows that now he is teasing him instead.

A fair and pretty face was flushed.

She was a little guilty because she had read it with Yang Huan and burned it more than once.

The more I played the game, the more interesting it became, gradually becoming a bit addictive.

Especially when I sent a selfie to tease him, I felt panicked, nervous and excited.

I wonder what kind of feeling he felt when he received the photo?

Listening to Yang Huan say this now, it feels like she is talking about herself.

I was extremely ashamed in my heart, but my mouth was life and death refusing to admit defeat.

"You man, who is ashamed to hide your desire to reveal it?"

"Hey!" Yang Huan was very happy now.

You little girl, bickering with me?

"If you have the ability, don't hide it, just show it, if you have the ability, just show it to me!"

Charlene Lahiri knew that she had been tricked, and was so angry that she almost kicked him.

Oh, no, wouldn't he be gone if he kicked him with his feet?
"Think of me as the little white dragon on the water, nicknamed the honest and reliable little man, seven times a night man, I will be afraid of you 36 emperors?"

Seeing her appearance, Yang Huan became more and more arrogant.

Don't suppress you, you little girl almost don't pay attention to me!

Charlene Lahiri knew that she couldn't beat him, this fellow had a thick skin, he was invulnerable!

As for making jokes about her figure, well, she's already used to it and is insensitive!
"Okay, I admit defeat!" Charlene Lahiri had no choice but to admit defeat.

"Let's talk about business, I'm here to ask you for help today."

After hearing this, Yang Huan immediately became serious.

Frankly speaking, Charlene Lahiri has done him a favor and said good things about Southampton.

She needs help, so Yang Huan must be obliged.

"Let's listen to it." Yang Huan nodded.

"I want to make a show of my own!"

"Don't you already have a talk show on the BBC?" Yang Huan was surprised.

Charlene Lahiri is considered the most popular beauty reporter in Britain today, with more than 500 million fans on WeChat.

In addition to serving as a regular guest in daily matches, BBC TV also made a football-related interview program for her, but the response did not seem to be particularly good, and the ratings were relatively average.

"I don't like that program. There are too many restrictions. Many things have been planned before. Interviewing those stars is almost like interviewing the head of state. You have to prepare a question in advance, and you have to restrict what you can ask and what you can't ask. In short, it is very troublesome!"

Yang Huan also watched a few episodes of that show, and felt that it was too serious and not entertaining enough.

What you asked and what he said are all the audience can know from the news, why should people watch your show?
Isn't this just a waste of time?

But Yang Huan was a little strange again.

If you want to make a show, you have to find a TV station. Why do you ask me for help?

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(End of this chapter)