Chapter 1202 Efficient Acquisition

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Over the next week or so, Yang Cheng and Luo Yue played all the entertainment activities on the island, fishing, diving, beach horseback riding, surfing, and skydiving. The audience gave cheers and applause at the right time, vividly interpreting the role of the fans.

The Lunar New Year in 2016 passed like this. Yang Sen and Liu Yun flew back to New York on the "Yuanshan" in advance. They were different from Yang Cheng. After only a week's rest, the work piled up. If they don't go back, the company is about to shut down .

On Valentine's Day, Yang Cheng transferred a business jet from Singapore and took him and Luo Yue back to Los Angeles.

The reason why he didn't go back to New York was because Yang Cheng was going to complete an acquisition smoothly.

The conversation with Matt Sitz on Laucala Island made him decide to enter the American sports league again after the NBA and NFL, but this time the goal is MLS, which is the Major League Soccer.

And his target is a new army-Los Angeles FC.

Although the name is new, it does not mean that there is no historical background. The predecessor of Los Angeles FC was Chivas Regal USA, a team that has lived in Los Angeles for a long time. In 2014, due to the divestment of the former club, it was taken over by the MLS League until last year.

A group of celebrities in the cultural and sports circles in Los Angeles, together with the big money owners in the world, jointly won the shares of Los Angeles FC, and they are ambitious to challenge MLS. At present, the team has not yet obtained the right to participate, but the movement is not small at all. The city rival Los Angeles The Galaxy issued player transfer announcements at every turn, and Los Angeles FC would officially announce a new boss to join every once in a while.

If this progress continues, the number of shareholders may be more than the number of registered players.

But now that Yang Cheng decided to intervene, this matter became less complicated, and money opened the way.

As early as when he was tempted to acquire a major league team, Yang Cheng immediately ordered Ruiz to choose an acquisition target for him.

The team that Yang Cheng could take a fancy to had to be a team from a big city like New York or Los Angeles, and the last time it had to be Chicago or Houston, so the scope was narrowed down a lot.

New York and Los Angeles have a total of 4 teams. Needless to say, the New York Red Bulls are backed by the Red Bull Group and there is no shortage of money, and they are located in New York, so it is basically impossible to win.

The other New York City football team has a bigger background. Mansur, the owner of Manchester City, is behind him. He is also an old acquaintance with Yang Cheng. On the one hand, he is not short of money, and Yang Cheng is not easy to grab things from his friends.

Besides, Manchester City also bought it for the purpose of turning it into a satellite team. The other major shareholder of New York City is the New York Yankees, so there is no need to say more about its status in New York.

In short, the two teams in New York are the masters who can't win even if they spend money, so they can give up.

The boss of Los Angeles Galaxy is Philip Anschutz, whose wealth is not inferior to that of Yang Cheng. He has a strong family background and is one of the founders of MLS. Over the years, the Los Angeles Galaxy has repeatedly released big money, which is the result of Philip Anschutz's full support. Against this scale of investment, the opponent has absolutely no possibility of selling the team.

After counting and counting, only the newly established Los Angeles FC is easy to bully. First, there are many shareholders behind it, and when there are too many people, their thoughts will not be unified. Don’t look at what they said when they formed an alliance. Just bullshit.

Just relying on the brains of those sports stars, investing in the team is either for fame or for making money. Most of them are the latter. In this case, why is there any hesitation for Yang Cheng?

Even Ryze doesn't need to come forward for such a trivial matter, all he needs is to send his team to come and discuss with each other, and Yang Cheng has offered a budget condition of up to 20% increase, if they still can't get some shares, they can collectively pack up and leave up.

It’s not that within a short week of Yang Cheng’s vacation, the acquisition team efficiently acquired 31.7% of the shares at a lightning speed, costing only more than 50 million U.S. dollars. Los Angeles FC, which has not played a game, is now The value was raised to 150 million U.S. dollars by Yang Chengsheng, and this is because of the launch of the new stadium plan, otherwise it might not even be worth 100 million U.S. dollars.

But then again, for those cultural and sports stars, in just one year, they not only recovered the investment principal, but also earned more than 10% of the return. This is definitely an investment case that can be boasted in the first half of the year.

In fact, this is exactly the case. At all the parties in Beverly these days, the hottest topic is that there is a big local tycoon who frantically takes over the shares of Los Angeles FC in the hands of big stars. The entire MLS chanted wolf.

At the beginning, the confidentiality measures were done well. In order not to be slapped on the ground to raise the price, the acquisition team was divided into N groups, and they approached several shareholders for negotiations almost at the same time. They sold the shares as soon as they said that, and as the news came out one after another, when some smart people gathered together, those celebrities who thought they had taken advantage of it were shocked to find out that there was a big boss standing up to grab the cake. If they followed the big boss , wouldn't it be possible to drink more soup?

The small shareholders who sold their shares sighed, but it didn't help.

But Yang Cheng's good luck ends here, because those scattered shares that are relatively easy to obtain have almost been purchased, and the remaining shares are concentrated in the hands of major shareholders. Difficult.

I met Janklowski, the person in charge of the Los Angeles FC acquisition project in Jason Manor, a Belgian-American with Slavic ancestry, who has lived in the United States for more than 20 years, and his thinking and language have completely integrated into the American style. style, there is no barrier to communication at all.

"Boss, the team members are still working hard to contact shareholders with relatively few shares, but the efficiency has dropped significantly, and most shareholders are waiting for a price."

As soon as Yang Cheng entered the door, he saw Janklovski. Before he even had time to change his clothes, Luo Yue, who went upstairs to change, came down to help take off Yang Cheng's coat, and asked White to bring a cup of hot tea. Quite the demeanor of the hostess of the manor.

After Luo Yue greeted Yanklovsky, Yang Cheng immediately asked, "Temporarily give up contact with small shareholders, and go all out to attack major shareholders. Who currently holds more than 20% of the shares?"

Janklowski printed all the materials in his mind, and replied without thinking, "Chen Zhiyuan, a rich man from Malaysia, is also the owner of the Premier League Cardiff City team."

Yang Cheng pondered for a while, picked up his mobile phone and called Liverpool's Ian Ayre, "Ian, it's me, you contacted Cardiff City on behalf of Liverpool and bought 20% of Los Angeles FC's shares from them. In return, we can How many players to sell to them, the list is up to you and Mr Love to decide."

Ian Ayer was having dinner with his family at this time, and when he heard Yang Cheng's order, he almost instinctively said, no matter what he said, he should respond first.