Chapter 254 Champions League Quarter-Finals

After taking the team back to Manchester, the international break came.

Before March, there was a period of hiatus in the league. In addition to daily training and club work, Wansheng had other things to do.

In February, Tagolvan Group has officially begun to transfer funds from the United States to China. The Hong Kong stock market is the first choice. The group company has begun to acquire scattered Tengxun stocks.

In addition, the group company has also begun to pay attention to some domestic investment projects.

One of the investment projects aroused the interest of Kevin Tagore. He saw the potential for development, so he called Wansheng, "... Wansheng, I have studied it carefully, and I think this project has great potential and great development. Prospects. Now they have just launched and are in urgent need of foreign investment. Now Sutter-Hill-Ventures and Farallon-Capital Fund are optimistic about them. There is also a foundation in mainland China that has provided them with some funds, but they are still underfunded. I think we should give them more and better funding to develop."

Wan Sheng's head was a little dazed, he asked, "Stop, stop! Kevin, what exactly is this project?"

"Youku!"

"what?"

"Youku (Youku), yes, that's the name. Their website was launched in December last year, and it is centered on playing videos uploaded on the Internet. This form will definitely lose money in the short term, but in the long run, as long as When they have enough users, they can bring in a lot of money!”

"I'm optimistic about them!" Kevin - Tagore said clearly.

Wan Sheng was stunned for a long time.

"Youku? I K!" He finally realized what Tagore was talking about. Isn't that the fastest growing video site?

He really admires Kevin Tagore!

I have the memory of my previous life, but I never thought of such a good investment project as Youku, and Kevin Tagore took a fancy to it completely by his own ability. This is really a genius vision!

Kevin - Tagore said for a long time. Wan Sheng didn't reply. He thought Wan Sheng was favored. Unexpectedly, Wan Sheng said directly, "Invest as much as possible, and you should contact them as soon as possible. We need to invest as much as possible. We will strive for more shares and shares. !"

Wansheng doesn't know what the final market value of youku is, but it will definitely develop very well in the next few years. They have also become one of the most famous video sites in China. Just from this point, we know that many investors have made money on them. Money, and now they are just starting, need a lot of financial support, just the Tagore wan investment group. I just don't know where to spend hundreds of millions of dollars of scattered funds.

On the third day of finalizing the investment. Kevin - Tagore replied that youku only needs 10 million US dollars of financial support, if the Tagorewan Group invests 10 million US dollars, it will get 30% of youku's shares.

$10 million is already a considerable amount of money for a video site just starting out.

In fact, the current market value of youku is only 15 million US dollars, and their total investment has just exceeded 10 million US dollars. In their view, $10 million is already a lion's mouth. It's just that they didn't expect that this little-known Tagorevan investment group would be so "easy to talk" that they agreed without any "counter-offer" at all.

They can only sigh that foreigners are really rich!

Insiders at youku are also very interested in Tagolwan Group because they have never heard of this name before.

So they quickly went to find the details of the Tagolwan Group, and soon they found some confidence, that is the recent action of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange-this group is frantically acquiring the shares of Tengxun Company.

The acquisition of 'Tengxun Holdings' by Tagorewan Group can definitely be described as crazy.

A large part of Tengxun Group's shares are not sold on the stock market, but are held on a fixed basis in core members and a few companies that have injected capital. Those issued in the market are those public shares and scattered shares, and the stock price has always fluctuated around HK$80. This has been more than 20 times higher than the HK$3.7 when it was first released in 2004.

Before, many people believed that 'Tengxun Holdings' had reached an all-time high, so there were many cases of selling of individual stocks.

However, since the beginning of February, when Tagorewan Group started to acquire 'Tengxun Holdings', the situation has changed. No matter how many shares are sold in the market, they will be taken in immediately. As a result, 'Tengxun Holdings' has been in the market for 3 consecutive days. The daily limit in the morning, and then it started to rise intermittently and steadily, but now the stock price has also reached 110.3.

By the end of February, Tagorewan Group had completed the acquisition of 3% of the shares of 'Tengxun Holdings', and the scattered shares in the market were almost swept away. It is impossible to make further large acquisitions. The strategy is to eat slowly.

Although the pace of acquisitions has slowed down a lot, the Tagorewan Group has still attracted attention. Tengxun Group's 3% shares and a market value of nearly 300 million US dollars have been acquired for half a month at no cost. This is in the opinion of many financial people. is very unwise.

The Hong Kong media reported on the acquisition, but no one from the Tagolvan Group came forward to explain anything.

Due to the frequent visits of media reporters, Kevin Tagore himself was finally interviewed. It was the first time he appeared in the public eye as the president of the Tagore-Wan Group. The most important point he emphasized to the media was, "We are optimistic about China. Market, we believe that the Chinese market has the most potential for development in the world, so we will strive to transfer our shares and investments in the United States to Hong Kong and mainland China as much as possible within the next six months!"

Kevin Tagore's words were sonorous and powerful, and those who heard the report had confidence in China's development.

After that, Kevin Tagore talked about some issues such as the direction of investment in Hong Kong and the mainland, and he didn't talk about why he wanted to acquire Tengxun's shares on a large scale.

Kevin Tagore's public appearances still had a lot of influence, as he was quickly recognized as Wansheng's agent, who has made several previous appearances in the European media as Wansheng's agent. In China, there are not many domestic media reports on him, but as long as there are reports, you can know that he is Wansheng's agent.

All personal property in Europe is public. The media continued to investigate, and soon learned the details of the Tagorewan Group. The most surprising thing is that this newly emerging company, which uses stock investment as its main profit method, has assets of hundreds of millions of dollars. The largest shareholder of the investment group is actually Wan Sheng, the current head coach of Manchester City Club.

Wansheng?

That football coach who is famous in Europe, Mainland China and even East Asia?

The media who got the news didn't quite believe it at first, but if they believed that they knew about the rise of Tagolvan Group in a few years, they knew that the biggest controlling shareholder of Tagolvan Group and the well-deserved chairman of the board was Wansheng!

As a result, this news was quickly published in various domestic media reports, and was quickly learned by European media, and recently appeared in European media reports.

Many people knew that Wansheng set up a small company, but the investment company has been developing in the United States, so it did not attract much attention. Now, in two or three years, this 'small company' has grown into a scale of over 100 million. The cross-investment group?

This is incredible!

This is like a legend, even comparable to the legend of this Chinese on the football field!

Many people felt unbelievable. They believed it only when more media reported it. At the same time, many media reporters came to interview Wansheng for this news. Wansheng was a little overwhelmed. I don't accept interviews at all.

"I am the head coach of Manchester City. I only answer questions related to the team. As for the Tagore Group, I only own shares. Their CEO is Kevin Tagore. You can ask him about this."

Wan Sheng said seriously.

The media reporters who came to interview all had a bitter face, because they couldn't find Kevin Tagore at all.

In addition, they interviewed Wansheng because Wansheng was already very famous. If other people were the chairman of Tagore-Wan Group, then the need for interviews would also be lost.

It's a pity that Wansheng simply ignored the media's request. What he is most concerned about at the moment is Manchester City's results in the league.

In the 28th round of the league, Manchester City beat Wigan Athletic 1-0 at home.

Three days later, the 29th round of the league came, Manchester City beat Middlesbrough 1:0 away.

Two consecutive 1:0s seem to mean a decline in Manchester City's offensive capabilities. Some media also expressed their views on this, and they all believed that Manchester City's winning streak was coming to an end.

"According to this trend, Manchester City is likely to draw or lose to Newcastle United in the next round, thus ending their winning streak or league unbeaten!" "Daily Mirror" expressed its opinion.

"Manchester Sports News" also followed closely, "At present, Manchester City is starting to suffer from injuries, and their bench is not deep enough, which will have a great impact on Manchester City's next league results, and Manchester United will overtake in April. Chance!"

Wansheng has no mind to pay attention to the hostile media. He threw himself into the team and dealt with the upcoming Champions League matches.

Eindhoven lost 2-0 at home, but the Dutch media still gave Eindhoven support. After all, they are the only remaining players in the Eredivisie League. If they lose to Manchester City, there will be no ball in the Dutch League. The team entered the Champions League quarter-finals.

So before the game, many Dutch media cheered Eindhoven, "As long as they can score two more goals than Manchester City at Manchester Stadium, Eindhoven will win."

This statement is also true.

According to the rules of the Champions League knockout round, if the scores of the two games are the same, the promotion depends on the away goals. Eindhoven scored two more goals than Manchester City, and the score will naturally be the same. If they score three goals at the Manchester Stadium, The goal difference is naturally one higher.

But... it's all bullshit!

It is impossible for Manchester City to give the Dutchman such an opportunity, especially in his own appearance.

In the end, Manchester City blocked the Dutchman's mouth with a 1:0, and Manchester City easily defeated PSV Eindhoven 3:0 in two rounds to advance to the quarter-finals of the Champions League. (To be continued ~^~)