Chapter 626 Bloodline Defense Battle

On the second day after arriving in London, Ronan first visited William at the FA. The two were old acquaintances, and William also warmly received Ronan.

"Welcome to London." William shook hands with Ronan and asked, "Are you ready?"

Ronan smiled and said: "I made some preparations, but things were more complicated than I thought, so I came to seek confidence."

William smiled and said, "Didn't you already make a plan?"

"I want to ask about the position of the FA." Ronan didn't go around in circles, and said directly: "And the Premier League."

William said very seriously: "The Premier League is an open league that welcomes fans and players from all over the world, as well as investors from all over the world. The same is true for the Premier League."

Ronan took a reassurance, and said specifically: "There are many investors from all over the world. Is there a priority for investment?"

"Of course." William has been fascinated by his ears and eyes since he was a child, and understands the meaning of these words: "The Football Association and the league give priority to welcoming investment from friends."

Ronan knew that this "friend" was not referring to a personal relationship: "Relativity Entertainment has always been a friend of FA."

From the first time he met William to the current acquisition of Manchester United, Ronan and William did not meet many times, but a lot of work was done in front of them in private.

To be precise, with Ronan's abundant financial resources, William felt the warmth of the sun.

For some special reasons, many things cannot be clearly expressed.

In short, Ronan understands that William, an important figure who has not yet achieved financial freedom in the royal family, also understands.

After staying at the FA for half the morning and having lunch with William at noon, Ronan bid farewell and left, and the official obstacles were basically eliminated.

Of course, if the fans' opposition is extremely fierce and even triggers large-scale protests, no one can guarantee whether the FA will change under the pressure of huge public opinion.

Half an hour later, Ronan arrived at the Bank of America London branch.

Joanne Fisher, who is in charge of the loan business of the branch, had already been waiting at the door of the bank because Judith had greeted her specially with the headquarters.

The two parties have communicated about the loan before,

Bank of America has also said it will provide loans.

Of course, the premise of a huge loan is that there is a corresponding mortgage.

But the Bank of America doesn't know the purpose of the loan for the time being. Ronan came over this time to make the final explanation and go through the relevant procedures.

Joanne Fisher looked at the information Connie gave her and confirmed again: "Mr. Anderson wants a personal loan?"

Ronan said directly: "The purpose of this loan is for personal use, and it is stated on it."

"Acquire Manchester United?" Joanne Fisher was quite surprised.

Ronan said lightly: "I hope Ms. Fisher can keep it secret."

"Of course." Joanne Fisher said quickly, "Mr. Anderson, please trust my professional ethics."

Ronan waited for her to read the information, and then said: "I will borrow 500 million pounds from your bank with the shares of Amazon as collateral."

Materials such as equity certificates have been passed to Bank of America, and Joanne Fisher said: "The head office will approve the loan within a week."

"One more thing, I want to declare in advance." Ronan said directly: "If the acquisition of the Manchester United club is successful, your bank will need to handle the decompression of the equity for me, and the loan mortgage will be replaced by the income of the Manchester United club for the next three years."

Joanne-Fisher understood that it was about shifting personal loans into business loans.

"Under normal circumstances, we won't handle it." Joanne Fisher glanced at Ronan, and then sold it: "But Mr. Anderson is the most important partner of Bank of America, as long as legal channels can be passed, we will Do your best to serve Mr. Anderson."

She said: "The goal of this loan is to acquire Manchester United. If Mr. Anderson buys it solely, and the future creditors agree to this, it will be easy to do. For a joint venture acquisition, the consent of other partners must be obtained."

Ronan has spoken to Will Smith and Tom Cruise and said: "That's fine."

It is enough for him to know that Bank of America can operate legally, and how to do it will naturally be handled by the people below to communicate with Bank of America.

Now that the Glazer family has not yet appeared, Ronan's team has not yet discovered the involvement between the Glazer family and Manchester United. Maybe Manchester United will change hands before the Glazer family decides to take action against Manchester United.

However, Ronan also borrowed some operating methods from the acquisition of Manchester United by the Glazer family. Although the financial strategies used by the two parties are fundamentally different, they have one thing in common-use Manchester United's future income to acquire Manchester United.

It used to be a classic business case of a successful leveraged buyout.

The so-called "leveraged buyout" means that the acquirer borrows a large amount of funds from investment banks or other financial institutions to carry out acquisition activities on the basis of very little capital. In order to achieve the purpose of using very little capital to grab high profits.

At that time, the Glazer family had a net worth of less than one billion pounds. They obtained loans from JP Morgan Bank and the three major hedge funds in the United States through leveraged buyouts, and acquired Manchester United Club, which was close to their entire net worth.

After the acquisition was completed, Manchester United was burdened with a heavy debt burden, with debts exceeding 700 million pounds.

What's even more frightening is that this debt has extremely high interest due to leveraged buyouts.

The mortgage loan acquisition used by Ronan, if successful, Manchester United will also have huge debts, but the interest is very low.

In contrast, the tactics he used were softer.

There is no problem with Manchester United's income mortgage. Last season, Manchester United's total revenue was 518 million euros and its net profit was 70 million euros.

This is the financially healthiest professional football club in Europe.

At the same time that Ronan was operating, a team of Jefferson’s was working hard in the secondary market at the same time, continuously buying the tradable shares in the market, and at the same time started negotiations with several small shareholders who had been in contact with them before, and reached acquisition agreements with many of them.

Before leaving get off work that day, Ronan's Manchester United shares had reached 9%.

In the evening, Connie, as the spokesperson of Ronan, Will Smith and Tom Cruise, officially disclosed relevant information to the public, and issued an acquisition offer to Manchester United in the name of Ronan, Tom Cruise and Will Smith!

The news spread quickly, starting with an uproar on the Internet.

After the paper media reacted, the whole of Britain and even the whole of Europe were boiling.

Roman Abramovich's acquisition of Chelsea last year caused a sensation. After all, it is a second-tier team. Manchester United is the top giant in Europe, and the meaning it represents is extraordinary.

Subsequently, Manchester United officially confirmed to the outside world that someone was indeed making a "exploratory approach" to them with an acquisition intention.

The emotions of Manchester United fans were instantly ignited, and the shareholder alliance took the lead in declaring that Manchester United would not sell, regardless of whether it was euros or US dollars!

Those conservative fans in England are famous all over the world. Manchester United's conservative fans organized as quickly as possible, and shouted an unusually loud slogan: Bloodline defense battle!

Some Manchester United fan leaders have declared in a high-profile manner that as long as Manchester United fans unite, this will be the same as the failure of the last takeover by foreign forces: they came, they saw, and they failed to conquer in the end.

More angry fans began to gather in Manchester Square, further emphasizing the defense of blood, because Manchester United is the last pure and final dignity of British football.

This is not the most troublesome thing, the most troublesome thing is that these diehard fan organizations hold a considerable amount of Manchester United shares.

A 9% stake is enough for Ronan, a small group, to become Manchester United's fourth largest shareholder.

But Ronan also knows very well that it will take a tough battle to win the Manchester United club.

Jefferson, who represented the three of Ronan, had initial contact with Manchester United's Big Three, head coach Alex Ferguson, chief executive Peter Kenyon and general manager David Gill.

As with the information obtained from previous investigations, the three did not object to the change of ownership of Manchester United's equity, but unanimously demanded to maintain the stability of the Manchester United club.

Later, Ronan personally met Ferguson.

Manchester United in this era is in a period of change. Ferguson is carrying out drastic reforms to Manchester United, completely abandoning the British style of play, and introducing a large number of skilled players.

Ronan promised him that as long as the acquisition is successful, the transfer fee will not be a problem. In the next five years, he will not extract a penny profit from Manchester United, and the club will have enough income for him to introduce the players he likes.

In an ultra-luxury manor in Chelsea, London, an Arab man in his thirties looked at two assistants, one fat and one thin, with a serious face.

"The news is confirmed?" Chief Mansur asked.

The thin man took the lead to answer: "Yes, it is confirmed. After analyzing the news from multiple sources, Ronan Anderson joined forces with Hollywood superstars Will Smith and Tom Cruise to acquire Manchester United. They were preparing in the dark, so we didn't notice them, but now that they are in the open, it is not difficult to collect relevant information."

The fat man added: "Ronan Anderson and Will Smith are currently staying at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Tom Cruise will take a flight from Los Angeles tomorrow, and will soon be with Ronan Anderson and Will - Smith joins."

Mansur seemed to see the young figure back then, and sighed lightly: "Ronan Anderson, our old friend."

The thin man and the fat man looked at each other, but they were smart enough not to answer the topic.

Who is Ronan Anderson, of course they know! Ronan Anderson once had any involvement with the Abu Dhabi consortium, they are also clear!

Mansur quickly shook off the inexplicable emotion and asked, "Are they well-funded?"

The fat man replied: "It's definitely not as full as ours."

Mansour waved his hand: "The acquisition of Manchester United will start ahead of schedule, you will personally contact the shareholders of Manchester United, and..." He hesitated a little, and quickly made a decision: "Contact Ronan Anderson, I want to see him one side."

It would be best if the other party took the initiative to retreat.

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