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In the afternoon, a silver helicopter from Nice Airport in France landed slowly at Monaco Heliport.
This is also the only airport in the small country of Monaco.
The cabin door was pulled open by Zhao Yuanfang, who was approaching. Long Wu was the first to get out of the cabin. After looking around, he jumped down.
Yang Huan and Zhuang Ziqing came out slowly at this time, and Feng Jiu was at the end.
"Hello, Mr. Yang Huan, welcome to Monaco!"
Domadis, the financial director of the Monaco Club, who was already waiting at the heliport, immediately greeted him and stretched out his hand from a distance, looking very enthusiastic.
"Hello!" Yang Huan politely shook hands with him.
Domadis didn't think there was any problem.
This young master Huan is now famous all over the world, and a big man whom Prince Albert of Monaco has to meet in person. In front of him, he is nothing at all, and it is not bad to be treated with courtesy.
After Yang Huan and Domadis were polite, they turned to Zhao Yuanfang and Pini Zahavi who were picking up the plane.
The Israelis seemed very excited. If he could make this deal, he would be able to get a lot of commissions from it.
And he can also feel that Yang Huan is paying more and more attention to him.
Judging from the current situation of Monaco in the Ligue 2 league, once Yang Huan really takes over, he will definitely have to adjust the lineup drastically.
"Where's Prince Albert?" Yang Huan asked casually.
"Waiting in the palace!" Zhao Yuanfang leaned in and said.
"They booked a room in the Paris Hotel, and the meeting place also chose this hotel. I wonder if Young Master Huan wants to rest first, then go to meet His Royal Highness, or first meet to discuss things and then go to rest?"
Yang Huan glanced at Zhuang Ziqing beside him, and his face was not tired.
Monaco itself does not have an airport, Yang Huan and his party had to fly from London to Nice, and then transfer to a helicopter from Nice.
It is inevitable that there will be some tossing in the middle, and it is normal to be tired.
"Wait a minute, let's take Ziqing to the hotel to rest first, and then let's talk about things!"
Zhao Yuanfang nodded immediately, greeted Yang Huan to get into the car, and then went to tell Domadis what Master Huan thought.
The latter immediately contacted the royal palace so that Prince Albert could prepare as soon as possible.
The purpose of Yang Huan's trip is to acquire the Monaco club.
But it's troublesome!
The current shares of the Monaco club are mainly divided into two parts, one part is held by the Monaco royal family, and the other part is owned by a company called Monaco Football Investment Company, referred to as the company.
When I read newspapers in my previous life, when many Chinese media reported on the acquisition of Monaco by the Russian billionaire Rybonovlev, they confused the company with Horabchin's company. As everyone knows, there is a huge difference between the two.
Founded in 2003, that year, Monaco was almost ordered to be downgraded due to its debt crisis.
As the backstage owner of the Monaco Club, Albert, who was still a prince at the time, used his own connections to bring in the wealthy, including Michelle Pastor, Udrucci, Piccinini and other well-known European real estate developers.
Formed the Monaco Football Investment Company and acquired 10% of the shares of Monaco.
The French Football League has strict regulations that any local government should not give more than a certain percentage of the subsidy to the team each year.
But at that time, Monaco was in debt of 50 million euros, and it was obviously unbearable.
Therefore, Albert and others used the method of establishing a company and acquiring the club's shares to inject capital into the club in disguise, avoiding this provision.
Later, although Monaco reached the UEFA Champions League final and won the runner-up, the results were very good, but the finances were still unable to make ends meet, and the company was also constantly injecting capital.
The most impressive thing is that in order to stabilize the hearts of Deschamps and the team, the company directly gave out 16 million euros, and at the same time promised to give the team high bonuses, which finally led to Monaco reaching the Champions League final. .
But in the end, they lost to Mourinho's Porto in the final.
Because of the continuous increase in debt, the company is also continuously injecting capital and continuously increasing its shareholding in the club.
At present, it holds 51% of the shares of Monaco, while the Monaco royal family has only 49% and lost the controlling stake.
But even so, the Monaco royal family still has the power of life and death for the Monaco Club.
In other words, to acquire Monaco, Prince Albert has to nod.
However, there is also a good point. After a few years of lows in the Champions League and runner-up, Monaco has successfully got rid of the debt crisis. However, selling players and cutting wages have made Mona's competitive strength only hovering in the middle and lower reaches of the Ligue 1. In 2011, it was relegated to Ligue 2 and failed to hit the first class.
On the way to the Paris Hotel in Monaco, Yang Huan kept circling information about Monaco in his mind.
Among the three Ligue 1 teams he is interested in, Rennes's backstage boss has made it clear that Rennes is not for sale.
As the saying goes, if you have no desire, you will be rigid. The boss is also a rich man, and he is not short of money. Even if Yang Huan wants to buy it, it is not so easy.
The other Marseille team is very enthusiastic and strong. The asking price is about 100 million euros. However, according to the investigation by Kesh Harris, Marseille still has about 100 million euros in debt.
This gave Yang Huan a headache.
A Ligue 1 team without stadium ownership asks for 200 million?
So Yang Huan put his main target at Monaco.
This team does have a natural flaw, that is, the home attendance rate is too low, but according to Yang Huan's survey, the per capita consumption of Monaco fans in the stadium is quite high.
Didn't someone say it?
In Monaco, one of the three people is rich!
What's more, it's a tax haven.
In Monaco, the tax on players' salaries is around 7.5 percent.
And in France, once President Hollande introduced a so-called special wealth tax, a 75 percent tax was imposed on individuals earning more than one million euros a year.
If calculated according to this tax calculation method, with an annual salary of 10 million euros after tax, in other teams in Ligue 1, the cost of the club is about 65 million to 70 million euros.
What about in Monaco?
More than 11 million!
In other words, for the same amount of money, other teams in Ligue 1 can only support one, but Monaco can support six.
This is the biggest advantage of Monaco!
Even in Yang Huan's view, this advantage can not only affect the Monaco club, but also help Southampton to conduct a more reasonable and secure tax avoidance.
This is just the football field, what if you zoom in?
With the deepening of the European debt crisis, the EU has never been able to get rid of the crisis. It is already a sure-fire way for countries to raise taxes to save government finances, even Germany and France are unavoidable.
By then, tax havens like Monaco will have unprecedented appeal.
In addition, there is another place that attracts Yang Huan in Monaco, that is, the Royal Yacht Club of Monaco.
This is a top-level yachting organization that plays a pivotal role in the world. Its members include more than 60 countries and more than 1,200 super-rich.
At present, many top yacht clubs in China hope to become the member organizations of the Royal Monaco Yacht Club, including the yacht club of the Yang Group. All have great benefits.
It is precisely because of various factors other than football that Yang Huan made Monaco the first choice.
"Master Huan, we're at the Paris Hotel!"
Zhao Yuanfang in the front row turned around and said.
The car quickly stopped at the gate of the hotel.
Immediately left and right, there were soldiers of honor running over to help open the door, and they stood aside politely, with an indescribably respectful attitude.
“Welcome to the Grand Hotel Paris Monaco! No”
Yang Huan and Zhuang Ziqing got off the bus left and right, and they walked into this low-floor, but luxuriously decorated hotel, which is known as the top hotel in Monaco.
As soon as he entered the lobby, the manager who had already received the news immediately greeted him.
"Hello, Mr. Yang Huan, His Royal Highness Prince Albert has arrived and is waiting for you in the living room upstairs."
After a pause, the polite middle-aged Frenchman gave another gentle smile.
"In addition, the presidential suite that His Royal Highness has reserved for Mr. Yang Huan is also ready!"
Yang Huan was still very satisfied with this kind of service attitude, and turned to look at Zhuang Ziqing.
"You go up and rest first, and I'll come back to find you!"
Zhuang Ziqing knew that he had something to talk about, so she didn't say much, nodded, and went with Feng Jiu.
Yang Huan, Zhao Yuanfang and Pini Zahavi, accompanied by Domadis, took the elevator to the meeting room on the third floor of the hotel.
As soon as he got out of the elevator and entered the parlour, he saw the half-bald Prince Albert in the distance.
"Hello, Your Royal Highness!"
"Hello, Mr. Yang Huan, welcome to Monaco!"
"thanks!"
After the two shook hands, they introduced to each other several assistants who participated in the negotiation.
That is, under the introduction of Prince Albert, Yang Huan met Michelle Pastor, a famous European real estate developer.
It is said that this very old rich man has rarely appeared, but this time he did it in person.
This more or less made Yang Huan feel the sincerity of Monaco.
"Mr. Yang Huan, this is the first time you come to Monaco. You must stay for a few more days. I believe there will be countless people who want to have the opportunity to meet you!" Prince Albert said with a smile.
Yang Huan is now the world-renowned fifth diamond king, not to mention his astonishing worth.
What he represents behind him is the Yang Group again.
Today in the world, which place does not value Chinese consortiums?
"Okay, His Royal Highness invites you kindly, then I'll be more respectful than obedient!"
Prince Albert also burst into laughter when he heard Yang Huan agree.
It is said that he is a prince and has a distinguished status, but that is inherited from his father's generation.
But actually?
This is going out. In terms of influence, he can't catch up with Yang Huan.
At the very least, if Yang Huan shouted a few words on WeChat, hundreds of thousands of people could follow him. Can he do it?
Prince Albert and others also have this kind of self-knowledge, so when facing Yang Huan, their attitude is very polite.
Especially when Yang Huan mentioned that he was very interested in investing in Monaco, the Prince of Monaco laughed hard and kept expressing his welcome.
Not to mention, it is really good to come to Monaco to invest.
If Yang Huan remembers correctly, in the next few years, the real estate in the whole of Europe will generally decline, but only Monaco, which has been occupying the highest position in the world for a long time, is still rising.
The reason, as Yang Huan said just now.
When the whole of Europe is raising taxes, the rich go crazy to Monaco in order to avoid taxes.
Real estate has undoubtedly become their preferred way to enter Monaco.
Because they're always looking for a place to live, right?
However, most of the apartment buildings in Monaco are already very old, coupled with the shortage of land resources, so the demand for old city renovation and renovation of old buildings is very strong.
This is also normal.
Which millionaire would live in that shabby apartment building?
Of course, it is a new building with a high-end atmosphere!
Besides, the investment of the Yang Group can also attract more Chinese people who buy houses overseas, killing two birds with one stone!
Therefore, as soon as he heard that Yang Huan had such intentions, Prince Albert almost made the decision on the spot, and he must fully support it!
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