Chapter 342 Hot Investment Projects
In the eyes of the former prime minister of Thailand, Wan Sheng is a young man who is very worthy of attracting and investing.
For Manchester City Club, Wansheng is very influential among Manchester City fans. As long as Wansheng can be stabilized, Manchester City fans can also be stabilized. On the contrary, if there is a conflict with Wansheng, he will definitely be the chairman of the club. a lot of trouble.
In addition, Wansheng owns Tagolvan Group, which is a pure investment company. It has risen very fast in recent years, so Wansheng is also worth investing in.
But no matter what, it is necessary to have a good relationship with Wansheng.
After seeing Wansheng, Thaksin seemed very enthusiastic. He made Wansheng twice the coffee and handed him a cigar. After he was polite and sat down, Thaksin talked about the new season.
This is the most immediate question.
Manchester City is the link between Thaksin and Wansheng and Thaksin. The team's battle in the new season is very important.
If Thaksin took over the Manchester City Club, the team's performance has dropped significantly, then Thaksin will also have a lot of trouble, and even said that Manchester City fans may put the blame on the new chairman, because Wansheng has led the team to good results before. The results have been recognized by all Manchester City fans. Now the results are a little worse, and the fans will help find the reason.
In this regard, Wansheng promised, "This season, the team's performance will definitely not decline!"
This is not a guarantee, but absolute confidence.
The strength of the team has not declined this season. The positions of several stars who have left have been supplemented, and the depth of the bench has also been strengthened. The strength of the team will only rise and not fall, and the results are naturally guaranteed.
He was relieved to hear this.
He immediately said that if the team still needs to add players, the club will definitely support it.
In fact, the Thais feel that Manchester City's transfer this season is a bit 'unfinished'. Except for a real arrival of Torres and Carlos, who is on a free transfer, there are no particularly big stars. At the same time, Manchester City also sold the leading striker. Anelka, after all, Manchester City did not spend too much in the transfer market, and that money was less than a fraction of the funds injected into the Manchester City club by the consortium.
So Thaksin still hopes that the team can continue to buy a star, and then claim that the star was brought by him, which will naturally make him more supportive among Manchester City fans.
However, Wansheng said, "The team's lineup is complete, and the real preparations have begun. Even if new players are bought, it is not easy to adapt to the team."
Wansheng didn't say much on this issue, but his meaning was already obvious: the team's lineup is complete, and there is no need to add more.
It's not that Wan Sheng doesn't like new stars.
But the current team's lineup really has nothing to add. The existing players alone have several tens of millions of stars, and they have to sit on the bench in many games.
Even if it is not necessary to buy a star, one more 'Shevchenko of Chelsea' will have little use other than causing trouble in the locker room.
So Wansheng is still very determined.
Thaksin knew what Wansheng was thinking, so he did not continue to talk about the topic. After all, it is good news that the head coach did not ask for a big star. After all, Manchester City is not Real Madrid, and they don't have a "one star a year" plan.
The conversation between the two quickly turned to business investing.
Thaksin is very interested in the Tagolvan Group. At the beginning of the year, the Tagolvan Group withdrew its capital in the United States, which caused a stir among many people in the financial industry. Everyone did not understand why they did this.
In response to this question, Wan Sheng smiled, "I don't think it is safe for funds to stay in the United States."
"Oh?" Thaksin's interest was piqued. "Where else is safer than America?"
The United States is the undisputed financial hegemon.
There used to be people in the financial world who used fountains as a metaphor for the world's economic system. The United States is the center of the fountain. They don't even have to do anything. It is enough for them to sell technology, brand and reputation. Even technology is not the main thing. is their foundation.
As a result, the United States has printed a large amount of US dollar currency and issued it to the world, and has almost always been doing business without capital. The reputation has ensured that the US dollar has become the world's hard currency, and the US market is considered to be the safest market in the world.
Wansheng's point of view is not like this, "The United States is indeed very safe, but it is not the safest. I think the high credit in the United States has created enough financial bubbles, and when it reaches a certain level, it will burst with a 'bang'. Come out, when the time comes, Americans may not be affected too much, but foreign capital..."
Wan Sheng's meaning is obvious.
If there is an economic crisis in the United States, the United States will adjust its own economy, and the government will also come forward to support local enterprises, but the foreign capital will be affected, and the Americans will not care.
"So I asked the group company to transfer capital to the Chinese market. The industrial assets of the third world are the most stable."
Wan Sheng continued.
In fact, Wan Sheng never said these considerations to anyone else, not even Kevin Tagore, because it was related to the 'financial crisis' in his past life memory.
If expected, the 2007 U.S. financial crisis is about to break out, and even if it is said to be believed, it will not have any impact.
Thaksin was unconvinced.
The Shinawatra family industry is mainly in Thailand, and the US economy has little impact on Thailand.
However, Thaksin was interested in the latest investment plan of the Tagolwan Group. "I heard that you are planning to invest in a huge football school?"
Wan Sheng said, "That's mainly for charity, for the development of Chinese football." Of course he wouldn't give the real reason.
Thaksin nodded in understanding, thought for a moment and suddenly said, "If my family wants to take a stake in this football school, would you consider it?"
Wan Sheng was a little surprised when he heard it, and asked, "How do you plan to invest in shares? I just want to develop Chinese football. Most of this investment will be at a loss..."
"My family is willing to invest even if it doesn't make money. I only have one request," Thaksin said. "I hope that after the football school is established, some places will be allocated to Thailand."
Wan Sheng thought for a while and said, "It's hard for me to give an answer now."
He wrote back, "If there is an answer, let me know as soon as possible. My family is investing with great sincerity."
Wan Sheng was a little hazy until he left the chairman's office.
This Thai family wants to take a stake in their football school in China? No matter how you think about it, I can't understand it.
In a football school built in China, it is almost impossible to make money in a short period of time, so even if you own shares, it is a project that has been making additional investment and has no return. It is completely meaningless for real investment.
no return?
Wan Sheng thought about it carefully and knew what Thaksin was doing.
Simply put, win over and politics!
In the Manchester City club, Thaksin has just assumed the chairmanship of the club. A Thai is the chairman of the English club. He will definitely not get much support from fans. Thaksin is planning to live in the UK for a long time. He hopes to change this situation and hope to get more The support of the fans, so he must win over himself, who is very prestigious among the fans. Only by supporting him can he get more support from the fans.
This is wooing.
Considering the political level, it is necessary to talk about the influence of the Shinawatra family in Thailand.
Thaksin is a legendary figure in Thailand's business and political circles.
In 1981, after two business failures and a debt of 200 million baht, Thaksin finally discovered his strengths. Using his past relationships, Thaksin rented IBM computers to government departments, and the following year he founded Shinawatra Computer Services and investment company.
In 1986, Thailand opened the telecommunications industry to private operators, and Shinawatra Computer became one of the first telecommunications companies to obtain a business license.
In 1990, the company went public and almost monopolized the Thai TV satellite dish and mobile phone industry at that time. In the mid-1990s, Thaksin owned more than 50% of the four listed companies, and the media called him a "telecom tycoon".
At this time, Thaksin became the richest man in Thailand, and the only Thai among the Fortune 500 "tycoons" in the world.
After his commercial success, Thaksin did not forget his childhood ambitions and set out to enter the political world.
In a 1992 interview, Thaksin said: "Politics and business are inseparable. We have to accept this fact. Politics is like the sun, business is like the earth. If the earth is too close to the sun, it will scorch, and too far away, It's cold. But they can't be completely separated."
After entering politics, Thaksin served as foreign minister in the Chuan-Likpai cabinet from 1994 to 1995.
"Thaksin has always moved between business and politics, and his success is due to his ability to synergize the two fields."
Independent scholar Chris Baker said.
In 1998, Thaksin united 22 businessmen and scholars to set up the Thai Rak Thai Party, which not only catered to the disappointment of the Thai business community at the time for traditional elite politics, but also captured the hearts of farmers.
In the general election in January 2001, the Thai Rak Thai Party became the first political party in the history of Thailand's general election to win an absolute majority in the parliament and was able to form a separate cabinet. Thaksin then became the Prime Minister of Thailand. Thaksin not only changed the political landscape of Thailand, but also pushed the political influence of the Shinawatra family to a peak.
2004 was the peak of Thaksin's ruling achievements. Thailand's economy grew by more than 6 percent this year, the highest since 1997. The stock market index reached 794, triple what it was in 2001.
Thaksin's family business is thriving, and his personal wealth is estimated at $5 billion.
His biography, lecture collections and recordings flooded bookstores, and people were eager to learn about his life and the secrets to his success. In the face of next year's general election, Thaksin once again promoted "populism".
He inspected various places. In the northeast region, he promised the government to invest 100 billion baht to initiate construction projects; in the north, he promised a construction project of 6 billion baht; in Chiang Mai, he promised to eliminate urban poverty within three years; in Bangkok, He even invited all taxi drivers to the government building for lunch.
At the end of the year, Thaksin said: "In the next four years, Thailand will have no one to work hard and be homeless, no farmers without their own land...no children without education, no patients without medical treatment, no Lonely old people have no helpless disabled people."
But Thaksin's bold reforms touched the upper echelons of Bangkok.
Thaksin also attempted to replace the army's presence in southern Thailand with police forces, which sparked severe unrest in southern Thailand. The unrest not only killed nearly 6,000 people, but also made the army hold a grudge against Thaksin. Political enemies have been waiting for an opportunity to deliver a fatal blow to Thaksin.
In 2006, the Shinawatra family sold the shares of their telecom company to Singapore's Temasek at a high price. Political opponents attacked him for using preferential policies to avoid taxes and seek huge profits, and thus launched a protracted anti-Thaksin campaign.
As a result, when Thaksin attended the United Nations meeting, there was a sudden coup in the country, the Thai Rak Thai Party was dissolved, and Thaksin had no way to return to the country.
Thaksin's sudden exit has hit the Shinawatra family hard, but the foundation is still there, and the Shinawatra family still controls a large amount of assets and contacts in Thai politics.
Even now in exile in Britain and seeking political blessing from the United Kingdom, Thaksin needs to expand the influence of the Shinawatra family in Thailand.
In addition to the political-political-struggle in Thailand, constantly doing things for the Thai people has also become a way to expand his influence, so it is not difficult to understand that Thaksin chose to invest in the football school in order to fight for the 'Thai Academy quota'.
When the Thai people know that the influential top football school founded by the Tagorewan Group of Wansheng in China will admit Thai students, they will think of Thaksin's Shinawatra family, which is theirs credit.
Just being able to do this is enough to support Thaksin in doing so.
In the end, Wan Sheng thought about it and agreed.
This is not harmful to him and the Tagolwan Group. After all, the absolute controlling stake is in the hands of the Tagolwan Group, and Thaksin's capital injection can also help the group company to share part of the funds and risks.
However, the specific capital injection method of the Thaksin consortium still needs some consideration, and this aspect is left to Kevin Tagore to deal with.
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After walking out of the chairman's office, Wan Sheng had already made a decision, but he didn't tell Thaksin the first time, he just said that he had to think about it.
After that, Wan Sheng returned to the training ground and continued to lead the team for tactical training. After a day of training, the effect was still somewhat effective. At least all new players had a general understanding of the concept of tactics and what to do in the game. If you do, then in the future training, you will be familiar with tactics and cooperation.
That night, after the team announced its disbandment, Wan Sheng returned home after dinner and was about to call Kevin Tagore and ask him to send someone to discuss with the Thaksin consortium about taking a stake in the football school.
But as soon as he picked up the phone, the phone screen lit up, and it was Kevin Tagore who called.
"Kevin, what's the matter?"
Wan Sheng asked directly.
He knew that Kevin Tagore must have something to call him.
"Do you know Prince Waleed?"
Wan Sheng was stunned.
"It is Prince Walid of the Saudi royal family. It is said that he is the richest Saudi prince. He is worth tens of billions of dollars!"
"What prince?" Wan Sheng was even more confused.
Kevin - Tagore immediately explained, "I received a call just now, Prince Waleed's assistant, he said that Prince Waleed is very interested in investing in our football school project in TJ."
Wan Sheng was completely stunned.
When did the 'Football School Investment Plan', which was hard to make money and completely used to upgrade your football training master system, became a hot investment project?
First the Thaksin consortium in Thailand, and then the richest prince in Saudi Arabia? (To be continued ~^~.)