Chapter 151 The choice of right back
Anita's pregnancy has attracted countless media attention. European and Chinese media are better. They only report it as gossip news. Wan Sheng is already 34 years old, so it is not surprising that he suddenly has a child.
The American media is different.
Many American financial media hope to get more accurate news because Anita is also named the president of Dow Jones, and her every move is directly related to Dow Jones and its Wall Street Journal.
This aspect is also the head of News Corp. Anita's father Murdoch needs to consider.
Anita is Murdoch's favorite daughter and his legal heir. Although Anita is not fighting for the greatest inheritance of Murdoch's property like her two older brothers, Murdoch has considered leaving some property for her daughter.
Dow Jones Corporation is one of the most influential companies under News Corp.
In 2007, News Corporation spent nearly $6 billion to complete the acquisition of Dow Jones. Now the Dow Jones shares controlled by News Corporation have a market value of more than $8 billion. Murdoch mainly considers using the influence of Dow Jones and the energy of the Wall Street Journal, a subsidiary of Dow Jones, to expand News Corporation's influence in the US media.
Murdoch controls 30% of News Corp. That is to say, about $2.4 billion of the 8 billion market value of Dow Jones is Murdoch's personal property.
Three years ago, Murdoch was ready to leave his shares in Dow Jones to Anita, but his daughter had no ability and could only become a shareholder who "controls the largest shares but has no say."
Murdoch didn't want his child to be like that, so he asked Anita to take over Dow Jones, which was mainly to exercise her abilities.
After the media reported that Anita was pregnant, Murdoch also received the news as soon as possible. He did not know through the media, but the call from Anita, and Murdoch also began to consider the Dow Jones company's issues.
In the eyes of the American financial media, the Dow Jones company's eO resignation is a big deal, but in fact, in Murdoch, it is a small thing, because Anita does not actually control anything at Dow Jones. She is more about learning than actually taking charge of things. The one who is actually responsible for managing Dow Jones is still Les Hington.
Since 2007, Rice Hington has been in charge of Dow Jones. He is 67 years old and is an old man under Murdoch. In the 1960s, Hington has worked for Murdoch. He served as executive chairman of nes-international and successfully cut the cost of News Corp's UK newspaper business and tied all businesses closer together.
In terms of ability, Murdoch believes more in Les Hington.
Anita is Murdoch's daughter. From the perspective of family affection, he must feel sorry for his younger daughter, but Murdoch is not the kind of person who values family affection in particular. In the eyes of a pure businessman, everything has a specific value. His affection to Anita is his gift. On the contrary, he will not consider how much family affection Anita has for him. Therefore, if Anita is pregnant and Anita is allowed to step down from the eO position in Dow Jones Company, he will feel that he owes Anita.
After the news of Anita's pregnancy came out, there was no news from Dow Jones. On the third day, Dow Jones held a press conference to announce that Anita had stepped down as EO position, and Les Hington took over as the head of Dow Jones. That afternoon, Murdoch, who was in Los Angeles, appeared in front of reporters and threw a major news to the media, "I decided to donate 10 million shares of the Dow Jones shares I personally hold to my daughter Anne..."
This is big news!
The Dow Jones Company's stock market value is $100, which means that Murdoch personally announced that he would give a billion dollars to his daughter. This is the first time that Murdoch has publicly donated his property to his children.
Many American media analysts believe that "...this may be the beginning of the Murdoch property inheritance war!"
Murdoch now has six daughters and two sons. Even the most reused James Murdoch is only the chairman of Sky Broadcasting Corporation and is responsible for News Corp's European and Asian businesses, and has not truly inherited Murdoch's property.
The Waltz Daily analyzed that "after giving away billions of dollars in property to his youngest daughter, media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is likely to fulfill his promise to hand over the "media empire" to his son."
The "son" in the report refers to James Murdoch, who is familiar to Murdoch's eldest son, whom Wan Sheng is familiar to him. His younger brother Lachlan is also one of Murdoch's heirs. It is certain that Murdoch will definitely leave most of his property to his two sons, but there is no accurate news whether it is James or Lachlan who will become the biggest winner of the "Murdoch property battle" in particular.
Murdoch himself must have been hesitating.
"... The little daughter Anne directly received a gift of Murdoch of billions of US dollars, which also shows that Anne is Murdoch's favorite daughter, which is not a simple rumor... It is worth noting that for the young daughter Anne, a billion dollars may not be anything. His husband, football celebrity Wansheng, and the Tagorevan Group controlled by him have developed into a world-renowned consortium, and he himself owns the most shares of Tagorevan Group and is also the chairman of Tagorevan Group."
"According to an interview report, Tagorevan Group is expected to achieve an early listing in the United States next year. It can be expected that Wansheng will become one of the richest people in the world by then. Perhaps one day in the future, the inheritance of News Group will no longer become the focus, and the trend of the 'Wansheng Consortium' will be more important."
The reports of Dow Jones, Murdoch himself and the American media have had some impact in Madrid, Spain. Media continue to hope to interview Anita himself, but Wan Sheng refused at all. In his eyes, the billion-dollar shares given to his wife by Murdoch is not as important as the children in Anita's belly.
That is the only child in his past and present life. Where can some dollars compare to?
In the next few days, Wansheng's home became lively. His parents came, and the old couple rushed over to take care of Anita. For this reason, the servants at home became much more idle, and because of the cooking work, they were all taken over by Wansheng's mother.
After Wansheng's parents arrived, guests came to the door, and the reception was so busy that they were busy.
On the fourth day, Wan Sheng simply returned to the club.
If he stays at home, there will be guests coming to the door, which is so busy that he might as well work in the club. At least he works in the club. No matter who wants to come, he has a reason to stay in the office by himself.
There are many club companies, and the most important thing is transfers at the moment.
At present, the most important thing to add to the team is obviously the back line. After Domingos, Assongsang and others left, the main lineup of the back line was complete, and the substitute lineup was very pitiful. It was urgent to add to the back line.
Wan Sheng also submitted several player names before, allowing the club's transfer department to operate, but good defenders are not easy to buy, and even if they spend a lot of money, it is difficult to bring back those players who want to stay in the original club.
In more than ten days, the club's transfer department only completed one transaction, which was linked to Aguero's previous transfer, that is Jerome Boateng from Manchester City Club.
Boateng is also an old player under Wan Sheng, but in the two seasons he played for Wan Sheng, Boateng has never performed well due to his age, experience, ability and other issues and can only serve as a substitute on the back.
In the past three seasons, Boateng has also stayed at Manchester City Club. In fact, he has the opportunity to become the main player, but Manchester City Club has been constantly buying outstanding stars, which has led to Boateng not being valued and is still a semi-main player.
When Aguero completed the transfer, Atletico Madrid had reached an agreement with Manchester City. As long as Boateng himself agreed, they would give priority to selling Boateng to Atletico Madrid.
Later, Atletico Madrid had a competitor - Bayern Munich. The Bundesliga overlord hoped to bring Boateng to Munich to continue to strengthen the team's defense.
Bayern Munich's bid for Boateng is not low - 11 million euros.
Unfortunately, Atletico Madrid has just sold the "number one star" to Manchester City. With the connection between Wan Sheng and Manchester City, the Manchester City club must be inclined to sell Boateng to Atletico Madrid.
At this stage, the two clubs can wear a pair of pants, and with Boateng's own wishes, Atletico Madrid won Boateng for 10.5 million euros.
With Boateng joining, Atletico Madrid's defense line was slightly supplemented.
But, not enough.
The team's most lacking in back line is on the right. Felipe Kasmirski is a pure left back. Luis Perea can play in the middle and on the left. Other players, such as Godin and Rafael Varane, can only serve as the center back. Uyfalusi is good, but he is a little old after all.
Therefore, it is imperative to introduce a strong right-back.
Wan Sheng valued two players.
One is Juan Fran, who debuted at Real Madrid's youth training camp. His full name is Juan Francisco Torres Beren. In the 2003-04 season, Juan Fran played for Real Madrid's first team and became famous in the 2005 World Youth Championship. He was even hailed by fans as Figo's successor.
Unfortunately, Florentino's Real Madrid never valued its youth players, resulting in Juan Fran playing for only 6 games in two seasons at the Bernabeu.
Juan Fran has difficulty gaining a foothold in the star-shining Galaxy Battleship. He was first loaned to the Spaniards and then sold to Osasuna.
During the four and a half years of playing for Osasuna, Juan Fran took on the responsibility of organizing offense as the core of the team. Osasuna, who is on the verge of relegation every year, was able to stay in La Liga every year, and Juan Fran made an indelible contribution.
The most noteworthy thing is that in the 2008-2009 season, Osasuna fought to face Real Madrid in the last round for relegation.
After 90 minutes of fierce battle, the game ended. Real Madrid, which was 9 players, lost 1-2 to Osasuna away while leading by 1 goal in the first half, ending all the events of the season with a 5-game loss. After winning, Osasuna scored 43 points and successfully relegated.
In this game, it was Juan Fran who overtakes Osasuna.
During his four seasons at Osasuna, Juan Fran has always been the absolute main force of the team. Juan Fran played the whole game in the first 18 rounds of the league last season.
Such a right-back with experience, skills, strength, 26 years old, at the age of playing is exactly what Atletico Madrid needs.
Wansheng's words to the club's transfer department were, "At any cost, you must win Juan Fran!"
Chapter completed!