Football giants

Chapter 421 Killing two birds with one stone

In the afternoon, a silver helicopter from Nice Airport in France landed slowly at the Monaco Heliport.

This is also the only airport in the small country of Monaco.

The cabin door was pulled open by Zhao Yuanfang who came over, Long Wu was the first to get out of the cabin, looked around, and jumped down.

Yang Huan and Zhuang Ziqing came out slowly at this time, Feng Jiu was last.

"Hello, Mr. Yang Huan, welcome to Monaco!"

Domadis, the financial director of the Monaco Club who had been waiting at the heliport, immediately greeted him, and stretched out his hand from a distance, looking very enthusiastic.

"Hello!" Yang Huan shook hands with him politely.

Domadis didn't think there was any problem either.

This Young Master Huan is now well-known all over the world, and Prince Albert of Monaco has to personally meet the big man. In front of him, he is nothing at all. It is not bad to be treated with courtesy.

After being polite to Domadis, Yang Huan turned to Zhao Yuanfang and Pini Zahavi who were picking up the plane.

The Israeli seemed very excited. If he could make this deal, he would be able to get a lot of commission from it.

And he could feel that Yang Huan was paying more and more attention to him.

Judging from the current situation of Monaco in the French second league, once Yang Huan really takes over, he will definitely have to make drastic adjustments to the lineup. At that time, no matter whether it is signings or selling, he cannot do without him.

"Where's Prince Albert?" Yang Huan asked casually.

"Waiting in the palace!" Zhao Yuanfang leaned forward and said.

"They booked a room at the Grand Hotel de Paris, and they chose this hotel as the meeting place. I don't know if Master Huan wants to take a rest first, and then meet His Royal Highness, or first meet and discuss things, and then go to rest?"

Yang Huan glanced at Zhuang Ziqing who was beside him, his face was full of tiredness.

Monaco itself does not have an airport. Yang Huan and his party had to fly from London to Nice, and then transfer to a helicopter from Nice.

It is inevitable that there will be a lot of tossing in the middle, and it is normal to be tired.

"Wait a minute, let's send Ziqing to the hotel to rest first, and then we'll talk about things!"

Zhao Yuanfang nodded immediately, greeted Yang Huan to get into the car, and then went to tell Domadis what Master Huan thought.

The latter immediately contacted the palace as soon as possible so that Prince Albert could prepare early.

The purpose of Yang Huan's trip is to buy the Monaco club.

But it's quite troublesome!

The current shares of the Monaco Club are mainly divided into two parts, one part is held by the Monaco royal family, and the other part is owned by a company called Monaco Football Investment Company, referred to as MFI.

When I read newspapers in my previous life, many Chinese media confuse MFI with Khorabchin’s MSI when they reported on the acquisition of Monaco by the Russian rich man Rybonovlev.

MFI was established in [-]. In that year, Monaco was almost ordered to be downgraded due to the debt crisis.

As the backstage boss of the Monaco Club, Albert, who was still a prince at the time, used his own connections to attract rich people including Michel Pastor, Udrucci, Piccinini and other well-known real estate developers in Europe, and formed the Monaco Football Investment Company, which acquired [-]% of Monaco's shares.

The French Football League has strict regulations that any local government's annual subsidy to the team shall not exceed a certain percentage.

But at that time, Monaco had a debt of 5000 million euros, and it was obviously unable to support it.

Therefore, Albert and others used the method of establishing a company and acquiring club shares to inject capital into the club in disguise to avoid this rule.

Later, although Monaco reached the Champions League final and won the runner-up, the results were very good, but the finances were still beyond their means, and MFI continued to inject capital.

The most impressive thing is that it is rumored that in order to stabilize the hearts of Didier Deschamps and the team, MFI directly paid 600 million euros, and at the same time promised the team a high bonus, which finally led to Monaco reaching the Champions League final.

But in the end, they lost to Mourinho's Porto in the final.

Also because of the continuous increase in debt, MFI is also continuously injecting capital and continuously increasing its shareholding in the club.

At present, MFI holds 50.00% of Monaco's shares, while the Monaco royal family only has 40.00%[-], losing its controlling stake.

But even so, the Monaco royal family still has the life and death power of the Monaco club.

In other words, to acquire Monaco, Prince Albert must nod.

But there is also a little advantage, that is, after the trough of the Champions League runner-up in the past few years, Monaco has successfully got rid of the debt crisis, but selling players and cutting wages has made Monaco's competitive strength hover in the middle and lower reaches of Ligue [-], and even relegated to Ligue [-] in [-], and failed to hit the first division.

On the way to the Hotel de Paris, Yang Huan kept circling information about Monaco in his mind.

Among the three Ligue [-] teams he is interested in, the boss behind Rennes has made it clear that Rennes is not for sale.

As the saying goes, if you don't want to be strong, the boss is also a rich man, and he is not short of money. Even if Yang Huan wants to buy it, it is not so easy.

The other team, Marseille, is very enthusiastic and strong. The asking price is around [-] million euros, but according to Kesh Harris' investigation, Marseille still has about [-] million euros in debt.

This gave Yang Huan a headache.

A Ligue [-] team without stadium ownership, asking for [-] million?
So Yang Huan set his main target on Monaco.

This team does have a natural defect, that is, the home attendance rate is too low, but according to Yang Huan's investigation, the per capita consumption of Monaco fans in the stadium is quite high.

Didn't someone say that?
In Monaco, one out of three people is a millionaire!
More importantly, here is a tax haven.

In Monaco, the tax burden required to pay players' salaries is around [-]%.

In France, once President Hollande introduced the so-called special wealth tax, a 100% tax was imposed on individuals with an annual income of more than 70.00 million euros.

Calculated according to this tax calculation method, based on an annual salary of 1000 million euros after tax, in other Ligue 500 teams, the cost of the club is about 7000 million to [-] million euros.

But what about Monaco?

More than 100 million!
In other words, for the same amount of money, other Ligue [-] teams can only support one team, but Monaco can support six teams.

This is the biggest advantage of Monaco!

Even in Yang Huan's view, this advantage not only affects the Monaco club, but also helps Southampton to avoid taxes more reasonably and safely.

This is just the field of football, what if it is enlarged?

With the deepening of the European debt crisis, the EU has been unable to escape from the crisis. It is a certainty for countries to raise taxes to save government finances, even for Germany and France.

By then, tax havens like Monaco will be more attractive than ever.

In addition, there is another place in Monaco that attracts Yang Huan, and that is the Royal Yacht Club of Monaco.

This is an important top yachting organization in the world, with members from more than 60 countries and more than 1000 super rich people.

At present, many top yacht clubs in China hope to become members of the Royal Yacht Club of Monaco, including the yacht clubs of the Yang Group. If they can develop in-depth and close cooperation, it will be of great benefit to Sunseeker Yachts and Aston Martin under Yang Huan.

It is precisely because of various considerations other than football that Yang Huan made Monaco his first choice.

"Master Huan, we're at the Paris Hotel!"

Zhao Yuanfang in the front row turned around and said.

The car soon stopped at the gate of the hotel.

Immediately, soldiers of honor ran over to help open the door, and stood aside politely, with an indescribably respectful attitude.

“Welcome to the Hotel de Paris Monaco!”

Yang Huan and Zhuang Ziqing got out of the car at left and right, and they walked into this low-floor but extremely luxuriously decorated hotel, which is known as the top hotel in Monaco, arm in arm.

As soon as he entered the lobby, the manager who had already received the news greeted him immediately.

"Hello, Mr. Yang Huan, His Royal Highness Prince Albert has arrived and is waiting for you in the living room upstairs."

After a pause, the polite middle-aged Frenchman gave a gentlemanly smile again.

"In addition, the presidential suite reserved by His Royal Highness for Mr. Yang Huan is also ready!"

Yang Huan was very satisfied with this service attitude, and turned to look at Zhuang Ziqing.

"Go up and rest first, I'll come back to you later!"

Zhuang Ziqing knew that he had something to talk about, so she nodded without saying anything, and took Feng Jiu with her.

Yang Huan, Zhao Yuanfang and Pini Zahavi, accompanied by Domadis, took the elevator to the living room on the third floor of the hotel.

As soon as he got out of the elevator and walked into the living room, he could see Prince Albert who was half bald from afar.

"Hello, Your Royal Highness!"

"Hello, Mr. Yang Huan, welcome to Monaco!"

"Thank you!"

After the two shook hands, they introduced several assistants who participated in the negotiations.

That is, under the introduction of Prince Albert, Yang Huan met the famous European real estate developer Michel Pastor.

This old rich man is said to have seldom come forward, but this time he did so in person.

This more or less made Yang Huan feel the sincerity of Monaco.

"Mr. Yang Huan, this is the first time you come to Monaco. You must stay for a few more days. I believe there will be countless people who would like to have the opportunity to know you!" Prince Albert said with a smile.

Yang Huan is now a world-renowned diamond king, and it goes without saying that he is worth a lot.

Behind him is the Yang Group.

Now in the world, which place does not value Chinese consortiums?
"Okay, His Royal Highness invites you kindly, then I'd rather be respectful than obedient!"

When Prince Albert heard Yang Huan agree to come down, he burst into laughter.

It is said that he is a prince and has a noble status, but that is inherited from his father.

But actually?
This is to go out, in terms of influence, he can't catch up with Yang Huan.

At the very least, Yang Huan can make hundreds of thousands of people follow suit by shouting a few words on WeChat. Can he do it?

Prince Albert and the others also had this kind of self-knowledge, so when facing Yang Huan, they were very polite.

Especially when Yang Huan mentioned that he was very interested in investing in Monaco, the Prince of Monaco smiled from ear to ear and kept expressing his welcome.

Needless to say, it is really good to come to Monaco to invest.

If Yang Huan remembers correctly, in the next few years, the real estate prices in the whole of Europe will generally fall, but only Monaco, which has occupied the highest position in the world for a long time, is still rising continuously.

The reason is just like what Yang Huan said just now.

When the whole of Europe is raising taxes, the rich crowd frantically to Monaco in order to avoid taxes.

Real estate has undoubtedly become the first choice for them to enter Monaco.

Because they always have to find a place to live, right?

However, most of the apartment buildings in Monaco are very old, coupled with the shortage of land resources, so the demand for old city renovation and renovation of old buildings is very strong.

This is also normal.

Which rich man would like to live in that kind of dilapidated apartment building?
Of course, it is a new building with high-end atmosphere and high-grade!
Besides, Yang Group's investment can attract more Chinese who buy houses overseas, killing two birds with one stone!
Therefore, as soon as he heard that Yang Huan had such a meaning, Prince Albert made a decision almost on the spot, and he will definitely support it with all his strength!
　Begging for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)