Chapter 576 QPR

.. , the days when I played football with Da Luo

"Besides Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham, are there any Premier League teams in London now?" Ricardo asked his agent Farah.

On the other end of the phone, Farah obviously thought about it and replied, "There are Fulham and West Ham."

"Yes, there are also West Ham and Fulham, but West Ham is about to be relegated." Ricardo was confused and didn't think about it for a while. After being reminded by Farah, he immediately remembered the information about Fulham, "I don't know. Is Fayed interested in selling his team?"

"You want to buy a Premier League team?" Farah's surprise wasn't feigned. Although there have been deeds of professional players buying teams before, most of them were after the players retired.

Like Ricardo, in his prime of life, the behavior of buying a team without making money has never happened.

"That's right. To be precise, I'm going to buy a Premier League team in London."

"Chelsea is impossible, and Arsenal will not sell. Tottenham is very difficult and requires too much money. For Fulham, I can go and ask for you. I heard about it a while ago. Fayed is already dissatisfied with the continuous investment and no output, and plans to sell the team."

"Okay, please help me ask."

Ricardo continued to devote himself to the game. Even if you want to leave, you have to take the title of Triple Crown with you, right?

Although the team has been eliminated in the Carabao Cup, the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup still retain hope.

After losing to Liverpool, Manchester United defeated Chelsea, Bolton and West Ham United in the league in a row, showing signs of a strong rise, and Ricardo also recovered his form, scoring 5 goals in 3 games.

But the conflict between Ronaldo and Mourinho is still sharp, Ricardo also began to turn a blind eye to Mourinho, except for saying a few words when necessary on the training ground, he behaved towards Mourinho Very nonchalant.

Ricardo is the biggest player in the locker room, but he is not the leader of the Manchester United locker room. Rooney, Neville, Giggs, etc. will not fight against Mourinho for him. After all, Mourinho has led the team this year. good.

So it gave people the feeling that Ricardo was isolated instead.

Farah gave Ricardo an update ahead of United's Champions League quarter-final encounter with Chelsea: "Fulham are in a good financial position at the moment and according to Fayed he has cleaned up the team. all debts.

He does intend to sell the club. At the beginning, he bought the club for 120 million pounds. Over the past ten years, he has invested more than 200 million pounds. This time he hopes to recover a little loss. The selling price is no less than 200 million pounds. GBP. "

This is not a small amount, Ricardo hesitated.

He could raise the money if he sold all of his Apple shares and some of his Facebook shares.

But it is too bad to sell Facebook shares at this point in time.

And after buying the club, if you want to enter the Champions League, you need to continue to invest, buy players, renovate the stadium, and continue commercial operations. 200 million is just the starting point.

Moreover, the key point is that Fulham is not well-known, the stadium capacity is small, and there are not many fans. It is actually a disadvantage to buy at this price.

Just think about it, it would take less than 200 million pounds to buy the century-old giant Inter Milan, and you know whether this deal is worthwhile.

"Among the English Championship teams that are expected to be promoted to the Premier League this year, are there any teams from London?" Ricardo asked.

"Yes," Farah was supposed to be looking down at the information, and said after a while, "Queens Park Rangers, qpr (queens park rangers), are currently ranked first in the British Championship, and there is a great possibility of rushing to the Super League."

"Try to connect me with this team."

"no problem."

The status of Queens Park Rangers is not much different from that of Fulham. It is also a small club with few fans and low popularity.

However, its price should be much lower. If Ricardo bought it, he would have more spare funds to invest.

In the next quarter-finals of the Champions League, Manchester United defeated Chelsea 1-0 at home, and won another 3-0 at home, with a total score of 4:0 to advance to the top 4 of the Champions League.

Their opponent in the semi-finals will be Schalke 04. This season, Schalke 04 eliminated Inter Milan with a big score of 7:2, which should not be underestimated.

The other pair of opponents in the semi-finals is Real Madrid vs. Barcelona, ​​and the enemy has a narrow road.

Manchester United then reversed and defeated their city rivals Manchester City 2:1 in the FA Cup final, winning the first heavyweight championship of the year.

Beating Fulham, Newcastle and Everton consecutively in the league, as long as they win Arsenal in the next game, they can win the Premier League championship 3 rounds in advance.

Mourinho can focus most of his energy on the Champions League.

Farah also brought the latest news to Ricardo.

"The owner of Queens Park Rangers is also the owner of the F1 Renault team. His name is Flavio Briatore. He is Italian. Because Renault is involved in lawsuits, he is indeed interested in finding a home for the team. Currently There is a wealthy British businessman of Malaysian origin who is planning to buy it."

Licardo thought for a while, and seemed to have seen this news in a tabloid, "Is it Tony Fernandez? The president of Warner Music Asia, the CEO of AirAsia, the owner of the Lotus team?"

"Exactly."

Asian again. Asians are really rich. "Fabiano, I want this team."

"Briatore is asking £46m for his team and I'm sure you can afford it. But are you sure you want to? Do you have that much energy to run a team?"

"This is something I should worry about. Please help me convince Tony Fernandez not to bid with me."

"let me try."

Farah didn't talk too much.

Soon he brought the latest progress to Ricardo: "Tony agrees not to compete with you, but you must promise to be the image ambassador of AirAsia for 5 years."

"...Tell him, I agree. But AirAsia is going to be the sponsor of qpr." Ricardo sold himself without hesitation.

"He raised this point very consciously. So, you can now buy QPR with peace of mind. But I'm not professional in this matter, you should find some professional people to help you execute the acquisition."

Li Kaduo directly asked for a team from Yang Fan to take charge of the acquisition.

And he's focused on the rest of the season.

On April 26, Manchester United defeated Schalke 04 3-0 in an away game, and one foot has already entered the Champions League final of this season.

But after returning to the domestic arena, they did not eat Arsenal away, but their rival Chelsea also failed to win, so Manchester United still won the Premier League championship 3 rounds ahead of schedule. When the next game returns to the home court, an award ceremony will be held.

Under this positive stimulus, on May 4th, Manchester United slaughtered Schalke 04 6:2 and entered the final with a total score of 9:2.

Ricardo, on the other hand, set a record for scoring in the UEFA Champions League in a single season with 17 goals.

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