Chapter II Taiwan Development Investment
Early morning hours.
The streets of Madrid, the capital of Spain, are crowded, and a new day has begun, and people who go to work are ready for their busy work.
At the bus stop on the street, when someone is waiting for the bus, they go to the roadside newsstand and buy the latest newspaper to pass the time. After a while, they hear a shout, "Oh my God! Come and see!"
"What happened?"
Hearing the shouts, many people looked over, and a few walked over directly and followed the news in the newspaper.
This is an "Aspen".
"Aspen" is a well-known football media under the Spanish media group PRISA. It was founded on December 6, 1967. The founder is Luis Montiel Ballanzat, and its headquarters is located in Albasanz Street, Madrid, Spain.
"Aspen" focuses on football reports, and football has been the fastest-growing sports event since 1996, so its circulation has been rising for more than ten years. At present, the newspaper has a daily circulation of more than 200,000 copies. .
In the city of Madrid, there are newsstands on the street and small shops on the street, where you can buy "Aspen" everywhere.
The "Aspen" published this morning, the news on it surprised passersby, and the headline of the newspaper was very conspicuous, "The Chinese Mystery Company is negotiating the acquisition with the Hill family!"
"Little Hill wants to sell the club?"
"How is this possible!"
"Didn't we just qualify for the Champions League?"
"God!"
"I hope it's not true!"
"..."
After everyone discussed it, they continued to look down. People who couldn't get together simply went to the newsstand and bought two more copies.
Soon everyone knew the news.
"Aspen" did not report with great certainty. The source mentioned in the newspaper was "according to reliable Atlético de Madrid staff", but "Aspen" has a good reputation and hardly makes false reports. , that is to say, this thing is very likely to be true.
The details of the article basically say that the Hill family is negotiating with a mysterious Chinese company called 'Taiwan Development Investment'.
The Chinese company hopes to acquire a stake large enough to run Atlético de Madrid.
"What they mean is that it is best to acquire more than 90% of..."
With this incident, everyone around him started talking.
They don't even bother to wait for the bus to go to work.
These people live in the south of Madrid and are blue-collar workers in the city. In the eyes of many people, Atlético de Madrid represents the working class, so most of them are pure Atlético de Madrid fans.
In fact, Atlético de Madrid fans are not surprised that foreign capital wants to acquire Atlético de Madrid. There are so many rich people in the world who want to play football. The most popular football in the world are the Premier League, Serie A and La Liga. It's no surprise then that Atletico Madrid is the target.
Not to mention the Premier League, are all teams controlled by foreign capital?
But what Atlético de Madrid fans cannot accept is that the Hill family really started negotiations with that Chinese company?
Why did little Hill do this!
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When it comes to Atletico Madrid, many people can think of the old Hill.
From a certain point of view, the old Hill is the real icon of Atlético de Madrid.
When people talk about Atletico Madrid, they may not pay attention to the more than 200 players and 37 innocent coaches who have passed by here in the past 16 years, but they will never forget the old Hill: the visionary he brought to Atletico Madrid. Co, Vieri, Carminero, Hasselbaink, Juninho and Torres, who brought 2 Copa del Rey titles and 1 historic double to devout fans, plus In October 1993, it was hailed as the most classic game in La Liga in 10 years (when it was behind 0-3, it finally reversed 4-3 and defeated Barcelona, which was in full swing at the time); in 10 years, he found 3 league bests for the team. Top scorer, and of course two golden boots in two years in the B Division, and Resino breaking Zov's world record for consecutive clean sheets: over 1275 minutes...
True to his name, for Atlético de Madrid fans, he is the Jesus of Atlético - the savior of Spain's third-largest club.
Under a series of halos, was Old Hill's sharp eyes and unforgiving tongue.
But now, no one will regret the departure of old Hill, because "Jesus" did not really bring the gospel to Madrid, and many times he is more like Satan - after letting fans taste the joy of victory, they are always All kinds of disputes caused by him were tormented at a loss.
Old Hill is open-mouthed, reckless, and surly by nature. He was kicked out of Benab’s VIP box by former Real Madrid president Mendoza; However, regardless of the team's difficulties, his impatient coaching frequency has also set a world record: 37 coaches have been swept out by him in 16 years, and the shortest one just left after three consecutive defeats.
After leaving many famous coaches in anger, he finally put Atletico Madrid into hell: On May 7, 2000, Atletico Madrid was relegated to the second division after 66 years.
In the first season of the second division, Old Hill changed 3 coaches, but he still did not bring the team out of the crisis. At the same time, the team's debt was as high as 66 million euros. Old Hill also embezzled public funds with his two sons. They have been entangled with the court for 3 years, but in the end they have not escaped sanctions.
Rather than saying that the old Hill is physically and mentally haggard, it is better to say that he personally pushed the team to the brink of collapse.
In 2004, when the old Hill passed away, "Aspen" commented, "He is a real Atletico Madrid man, even embezzling public funds for Atletico Madrid to pay the transfer fee; but he is also a mercenary businessman, Atletico Madrid is in the His name is more to enrich his own pockets. His departure does not mean the disappearance of the "Hill effect", after all, he did not transfer his 95% shares of the club, but at least he can make this already The suffering club had a quiet summer, no arguments, criticism and infighting, just pure football."
"I have already lost a Raul, I don't want to lose Torres again, let Futre (former Atletico Madrid manager, current player's agent) stay away from Atletico Madrid, I hope you don't sell Nino (Torres' nickname)."
These were the last words Old Hill said before his death.
After Old Hill left office, the man who managed the club became his son, Little Hill. Little Hill was not inferior to Old Hill in terms of management enthusiasm, especially in terms of recruiting, and he also brought Madrid to Madrid. Athletics for better results.
Last season, Atlético de Madrid ranked ninth in La Liga. Although the results were not satisfactory, they were still able to pass. Seeing that the club was about to prosper, why would Hill consider selling the club?
Atlético de Madrid fans don't understand.
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One stone shocked a thousand waves!
After the "Aspen" report, the Spanish football circle suddenly became hot, and various Spanish media launched a detailed investigation.
"Aspen News" disclosed two points: one is that the Hill family is considering selling the shares, and the other is the name of the mysterious Chinese company - Taiwan Development Investment.
The second point is at the heart of their investigation.
Taiwan Development Investment, the name is too unfamiliar to the Spanish media, they don't even understand the pinyin name of 'taiwan', but everything is easy to do with a name. They quickly investigated the registration date of this Chinese company. In just one year, the registered capital is 100 million RMB, which is roughly equivalent to 10 million euros.
A company with assets of 10 million euros wants to acquire Atlético de Madrid?
What a joke!
This is absolutely impossible!
So the Spanish media continued to investigate, and even in order to know the details, some media directly sent people to China to conduct interviews and investigations, and the results were available only two days later.
This "Taiwan Development Investment" has only been registered for one year, and it has no business within one year, which is equivalent to 100 million yuan to create a company name.
Then they found the name of the registrant, "Kevin Tagore"?
Kevin Tagore?
The name sounds familiar...
Soon someone found the information - Kevin Tagore, CEO of Tagore and Wan Group, last year's Forbes list, Kevin Tagore ranked 901st, with a personal asset of 1.9 billion US dollars!
"Marca" immediately disclosed the news, "The registrant of the mysterious Chinese company that acquired Atlético de Madrid is none other than Kevin Tagore, CEO of Tagorewan Investment Group."
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No matter what the Spanish media reports, Atlético de Madrid fans are very dissatisfied with the club's talks about acquisitions. They don't want their favorite club to be controlled by a Chinese company.
In the eyes of many Atlético de Madrid fans, the only people in charge of Atlético de Madrid can be the Hill family.
The current chairman Cerezo is also the right-hand man of the old Hill. He has been the vice chairman of the club before. After the death of the old Hill, he officially took over as the chairman of the club.
Atlético de Madrid fans are satisfied with the situation, especially since 2005, the club's performance has been rising, last season's results were not satisfactory, but they believe the team will improve.
They don't want to see changes in the club.
Especially...a Chinese company takeover?
The future must have become uncertain.
So they were very dissatisfied. For two consecutive days, fans raised their flags to demonstrate in front of Atlético de Madrid.
Atlético de Madrid fans want to put pressure on the club, on the Hill family, not to think about selling the club.
Faced with this situation, the official Atlético de Madrid soon issued a statement saying, "Negotiations are continuing. Mr. Hill is not considering selling all his shares, but just wants to introduce some investment to Atlético de Madrid..."
This reassures Atlético de Madrid fans.
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Atlético de Madrid official said "Mr Hill is not considering selling all his shares", which is not the case.
Negotiations have already begun.
The two sides have been in contact for more than a week, and the Tagorewan Group hopes to acquire a 51% stake in Atlético de Madrid in the name of its subsidiary, "Taiwan Development Investment".
This is the bottom line.
The biggest problem is that the board of directors of Atlético de Madrid, that is, the distribution of shares, is a bit confusing, because if you want to acquire enough shares, you must have a name--
Miguel Angel Hill Marin! (To be continued ~^~)