Chapter 13 Taking over the Saints

"British media is so boring!"

In a Bentley Mulsanne speeding on the M3 highway, Yang Huan put down the newspaper in his hand and said indignantly.

That tone sounded indescribable grievance, but it made everyone in the car feel very paradoxical.

Bored?

I'm afraid a certain population is wrong!

"Ordinary people in the UK like this style of The Sun very much. It is very entertaining, but it is very entertaining." Cash Harris is an Englishman and is very familiar with the British temperament.

"The Times used to be a very rigorous newspaper, but in the UK, only the elite at the top would like it. It was very niche and poorly managed. After being acquired by News Corp, it immediately went to cater to the common people. Now it's a newspaper that balances rigour and entertainment."

But it was such a newspaper that still gave a lot of coverage to Yang Huan, and it continued for two or three days.

Just two days ago, when the news of Yang Huan was about to fade, Cash Harris was interviewed by a number of media in the City of London and talked about Yang Huan. He frankly said that Chinese investors are interested in acquiring An English professional team.

In this interview, he described Yang Huan as another super-rich in English football after Abramovich and the Abu Dhabi consortium, which once again made the entire British and European media climax.

In less than two days, there has been an endless stream of news about which giant team Yang Huan is going to acquire.

From Manchester United of the Glazer family, to Liverpool of Hicks, to the tragic Gunners Arsenal...

Almost all top teams have a relationship with Yang Huan.

The news came back to China, and it also attracted the crazy attention of the media and fans.

Once successful, Yang Huan will become the first mainlander to land in the English Professional League!

But in fact, Yang Huan secretly won Southampton, a team in the third tier of England.

Right now, he's on the motorway to Southampton.

"Mr. Yang Huan, you asked me to help you contact the candidates for the head coach. I already have a few more suitable candidates here. Take a look." Cash Harris has been very busy these days. Gotta get over it.

If nothing else, just to help Yang Huan find a head coach, he doesn't know how many connections he has used.

Half a million pounds is a lot, but it's not that easy to earn.

Yang Huan took the document that Kesh Harris handed over and opened it.

The first page of the document is the former Real Madrid coach, Chilean engineer Pellegrini.

In this evaluation document, the evaluation of Pellegrini is quite high, and it is believed that the head coach is very suitable to lead the middle and lower teams. Although he was fired by Real Madrid, his coaching ability is unquestionable, and his Leading teams are often able to play hearty offense.

But there is also a problem, Pellegrini may not be willing to coach a League One team, especially after encountering Real Madrid's Waterloo, for the sake of value preservation, he must re-prove himself in the top league.

The second is the Czech coach Zeman who is currently out of work at home.

This coach is definitely not as famous as Pellegrini. After all, he has never coached a giant team.

But Yang Huan knew that he was a well-known head coach who did not care about his head.

Zeman has been out of work for two years, and it shouldn't be too difficult to invite him out.

However, he is not the world famous coach Yang Huan asked for.

The third is much more famous. Currently, the head coach of Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga is the Dutchman Van Gaal.

There is absolutely no doubt about Van Gaal's reputation. The world's top coach just led Bayern Munich to the Champions League final last season. Although he lost to Mourinho's Inter Milan in the end, he was invincible in German domestic competitions. Gall is best known for his football philosophy of attacking no matter what.

But as with Pellegrini's problems, Van Gaal's personality, and the fact that he's only just getting on the right track at Bayern Munich, with a move to League One and Southampton's chances are slim.

In addition, there are some other world famous coaches on the list, such as German national team coach Loew, Spanish national team coach Bosque, Chile national team coach Bielsa, etc., but are these willing to come to the League One team to coach?

On the contrary, it is more realistic for those who are not very famous, such as Adriance, Michel Laudrup and Pochettino, or the newly promoted young marshals in the past two years.

Yang Huan closed the report and handed it over to Zhang Ning, while he turned his head and looked out the car window.

Outside the window, the scenery beside the highway is rapidly receding.

There are more and more trees on the roadside, which is to tell the guests on the highway that Southampton is close.

Southampton is a bright pearl on the south coast of England, where the Titanic set off.

This is the second largest container cargo port in the UK, the most famous cruise terminal in the UK, and also the famous flower and tree capital of the UK. Almost every household enjoys planting flowers and trees, and the most famous scenic spot in the city is the capital Tudor Garden.

Southampton's badge has a tree and a white rose.

So, speeding down the motorway and seeing more and more trees means Southampton is getting closer.

"Kish." Yang Huan thought clearly, but he still had to go out himself.

After Keish Harris agreed, he continued: "Contact someone for me."

Yang Huan is very aware of the football trend in the next few years. He must adjust Southampton within the next two years. Otherwise, it will be difficult for this team to adapt to the future football trend in the future.

Therefore, Yang Huan's first head coach after taking over the team is crucial, and he will determine the future direction of Southampton.

This task is not something that anyone can do!

As if Abramovich took over Chelsea, the most correct thing to do was to keep Ranieri, let the latter lay an extremely solid foundation for Chelsea, and then further invited Mourinho with a similar style. , This has created the scenery of Chelsea in the past few years.

On the other hand, Manchester City is full of stars, but why can't they get results?

In the final analysis, it is still one, the coach can't do it!

Now Yang Huan has three very good candidates in his heart, and he must get at least one of them.

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The core city center of Southampton is an inverted triangle, with an Ichin River from south to north and a Test River from northwest to southeast, which meet at the end of the inverted triangle. largest cargo port.

To the west of the cargo terminal is the headquarters of the International Sailing Federation, and to the north is St Mary's Stadium in Southampton.

After Yang Huan came to Southampton, he specially asked the driver to take them around the city before arriving at St. Mary's Stadium.

When Bentley arrived at St. Mary's Stadium, Nicola Cortes, the club's executive chairman who had received the news earlier, had already led someone to wait at the door. As soon as he saw Yang Huan getting off the bus, he immediately greeted him.

"Hello, Mr. Yang Huan!"

Nicola Cortez is not old, only forty-two years old, wearing a blue suit and a red tie, the first impression is very good, but the eyebrows of the current Nicola Cortez Somewhat worried.

The owner of the club, Kasalina Liebherr, sold the team before he even received any news, which made him feel betrayed, but there was nothing he could do, because he was just a worker.

The new boss took over, and he had to start worrying about his future fate.

"Hello, Mr. Cortes!" Yang Huan shook hands with him.

Accompanied by Nicola Cortes, Yang Huan and his party entered the conference room of the administrative office on the first floor of Southampton.

As soon as everyone entered, Yang Huan unceremoniously took the boss's seat, Zhang Ning, Sun Yue, and Cash Harris sat on the side, and Nicola Cortes and the former Southampton employee sat on the side. On the other side, everyone is clearly divided.

"I believe that Mr. Cortes should have been notified!"

Cash Harris was the first to speak, "From yesterday, Mr. Yang Huan has officially completed the acquisition of Southampton, so from now on, everything in this team belongs to Mr. Yang Huan."

"I know." A trace of hatred flashed in Nicholas Cortez's eyes, but it was not directed at Yang Huan, but at Kasalina.

He is now like a hapless person waiting for the judgment of fate, a little hesitant and a little helpless.

"Mr Yang Huan is from China and is not very familiar with running a team, so after completing the acquisition of Southampton, he will not plan to make too many adjustments and changes to the team's existing management. And he is very sincere in wanting to keep Mr. Cortez in office, business as usual."

This surprised Nicola Cortez, but he soon let go, probably for the sake of a stable transition.

After Yang Huan took over Southampton, Zhang Ning and Sun Yue were both assigned to the core management team. The two of them were his own. Among them, Zhang Ning was in charge of finance, and Sun Yue was in charge of news public relations and publicity and marketing.

In this regard, the original management of Southampton had no say and could only accept this airborne appointment.

After making personnel arrangements, Yang Huan asked Nicolas Cotes to introduce the current situation in Southampton.

And this introduction, he discovered the reason why Kasalina was determined to sell Southampton.

"We have started construction of a new training base on the outskirts of Southampton, in the forest on the other side of the River Tester, but the budget has exceeded our expectations, and it is expected that it may be from the original 15 million pounds. It's more than £30 million, but at the moment the team doesn't have a single cent to put into this project."

"What?" Cash Harris lost his voice in surprise.

The total value of the entire Southampton is only 14 million pounds, but a training base costs 30 million pounds?

"You didn't mention this project at all in the report you submitted to us!" Cash Harris was both blaming Nicola Cortez and explaining to Yang Huan that he was also deceived.

"All the club's asset reports have not passed through me, so I don't know." Nicola Cortez has always been excluded from the trust of Casarina.

Isn't it £30 million?

Yang Huan was very calm, smiled and said, "It's okay, if you want to build a top-level giant, the top-level training base is a must, so I will continue to invest in this project."

In fact, this is a very common phenomenon, just like Ashley bought Newcastle and spent 80 million pounds, but after the acquisition was completed, after checking the accounts, it was found that Newcastle still had a debt of 70 million pounds .

It is because of this that Ashley's offer to Newcastle has always been 300 million pounds, and he will not let go.

Relatively speaking, Southampton is relatively good, there is no debt, and there is only a fixed asset investment project that needs to spend money.

Besides, fixed assets, basically as long as they are built, they will not lose money.

After a pause, Yang Huan said again: "However, I was not satisfied with the British infrastructure team, and they evacuated all of them for me. I am looking for someone from China. I believe that whether it is price, speed, or quality, at least Better than the UK side."

China's infrastructure strength is world-famous. The Yang family is also engaged in real estate and other development projects. It is not difficult to find a reliable infrastructure team to come to the UK.

On the contrary, Yang Huan is more concerned about whether Southampton has the ability to enter the transfer market.