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Chapter 263 Attack the Champion

Wansheng brings more than the championship to Manchester City, what else? The Football News analyzed this issue from the perspective of the asset market value of Manchester City clubs.

Before Wan Sheng became Manchester City's head coach, Manchester City club was still in the storm.

Manchester City is a large club with glorious history, but its performance has been bad in recent years. After 2000, Manchester City returned to the Premier League by advancing twice in a row. In 2002, after Manchester City was promoted to the Premier League, the team's performance was also erratic, so the famous Kevin Keegan could only resign.

In this process, the operation of Manchester City club was greatly affected, with more than 70 million pounds of debt becoming the biggest obstacle to the club's development.

At this time, Manchester City club had more than 70 million pounds of debt, including players, stadiums and surrounding areas. All together, the market value was only about 150 million pounds.

After Wansheng became the club's coach, Manchester City's performance has risen sharply.

Manchester City won the league championship last season, and with the dazzling results this season, it is also likely to defend the league championship. At the same time, Manchester City performed well in the European arena and successfully entered the quarterfinals, which brought great benefits to the club.

It took Manchester City nearly two years to pay off more than £40 million in debt.

In the summer, Manchester City Club will receive the share of the Champions League and the share of the TV broadcast. Therefore, after clearing the remaining debt of about £30 million, Manchester City Club will also make a profit of more than £20 million. In addition, the development of Manchester City Club in the past two years, the fame of some stars in the team has increased significantly, and their value has also increased a lot. Until now, the market value of Manchester City Club is estimated to exceed at least £250 million.

"From the debt of more than 70 million yuan the year before, to the net income now exceeding 20 million yuan, even if the players in the team have increased significantly due to their outstanding performance, Wan Sheng has doubled the market value of Manchester City clubs in two years!"

"Manchester City has become the fastest growing club in Europe, no doubt about it!"

After the publication of the Football News, many media and fans were surprised by the value created by Wan Sheng. Some time ago, it was rumored that Wan Sheng held the Tagore Wan Group Company. The assets have reached hundreds of millions of dollars. But after all, it is an investment, not football, and it has little to do with fans, and it is not his main job. Now seeing this report, the fans' feelings are very real. Wan Sheng has been leading the team for two years, including the increase in player value, and other aspects. In total, it has brought at least more than 100 million pounds of profit to Manchester City Club.

By this calculation, Wansheng's salary is nothing.

Just like the London Finance News said, "Wan Sheng's annual salary before tax is nearly 7 million pounds, but he has generated more than 100 million pounds in two years for Manchester City Club. In addition, some players in the team performed well and their value has increased significantly. In a year, he is equivalent to creating more than ten times the salary for Manchester City Club!"

"That's understandable. Why Manchester City clubs are willing to pay the world's 'highest salary' in the coaching industry."

Many media and fans were surprised by these numbers, and many clubs also had their hearts on it. In fact, if you really think about it, Wan Sheng's salary is only equivalent to a superstar player in Real Madrid, which is not outrageous. If he goes to other teams, he can lead the team to achieve good results. Even if he is not as good as Manchester City's league championship, the second, third, or even fourth in the league is acceptable. As long as you have such a result, not to mention 7 million pounds, even if it exceeds 10 million pounds, 20 million pounds will be worth it. More importantly, after Wan Sheng arrived at Manchester City, he led the team to achieve good results without spending much transfer fees.

That is the real ability to lead the team!

Unlike Chelsea's Mourinho, Chelsea spends more than 100 million euros to invest in the transfer market every year, but the Portuguese still fails to bring a league championship to the team. Chelsea's performance is also good, but considering their investment in the transfer market, it is actually nothing.

If Wansheng can be invited to coach at the club, then providing an amazing salary contract is nothing.

I don’t know how many clubs have made similar thoughts.

Of course, it is not easy for them to invite Wansheng, at least there is no chance at this time, because Wansheng's contract with Manchester City will not end until next summer. Before that, even if something happens to the Manchester City club, it is unlikely that Wansheng will be tampered with a tyrannical dismissal.

Let’s return to the topic of Thaksin’s consortium’s investment in Manchester City Club.

The market value evaluation of Manchester City club is generally around 250 million pounds, but this is just the market value. If you want to acquire Manchester City club in full, the Football News will also have to pay at least 400 million pounds of funds.

This is different from the £790 million spent by the Glazer family to acquire Manchester United club, but considering the gap in history and influence between Manchester City and Manchester United, £400 million is definitely a terrifying figure.

Thaksin's consortium injects capital into Manchester City clubs is definitely not without purpose.

Thaksin is likely to hope to become Manchester City club chairman.

If you want to become the chairman of Manchester City club, you must hold decisive shares and directly use huge funds to inject capital. Perhaps it is a good method, because if the funds are sufficient, the Manchester City board of directors will be easier to pass, because they only reduce the shares in their hands rather than lose them. At the same time, having a large amount of funds will also allow Manchester City clubs to develop rapidly. The Football News expects that this fund will almost certainly exceed 100 million pounds, which is the most conservative estimate. With the market value of Manchester City club, it is almost impossible for 100 million pounds to obtain more than 50% of the shares, and Manchester City's board of directors will not pass.

Then, the amount of capital injection proposed by Thaksin’s consortium can be imagined.

The Guardian speculates that the amount of this capital injection will be around 150 million pounds, which is a very amazing number, but the media is not surprised because, according to the figures released by the Forbes wealth list in 2006, the Thaksin family owns approximately US$2.2 billion, and Thaksin is also the only Thai to be on the Forbes rich list.

Now, due to Thai political reasons, Thaksin has gone into exile to the UK, probably because he wants to live in the UK for a long time, so it is understandable that he wants to invest in a football club.

This Thai consortium's capital injection case has also become the biggest news about entering Manchester City club.

In the media's reports on Manchester City, the club's affairs did not affect Wan Sheng.

Just as the media said, judging from Wan Sheng's current performance, even if the club changes its chairman, it will not be possible to fire Wan Sheng, as it will be boycotted by almost all Manchester City fans.

So this has no effect on Wansheng at all. Instead, he is looking forward to the arrival of the summer transfer.

In the few seasons he coached, he has never had much transfer fees. Every summer, he has to look at the money he has in his hands. If the capital injection of Thaksin is successful, it will be different, then he will definitely have huge transfer funds.

"At that time, you can buy big stars directly!" Thinking of this, Wan Sheng was still a little looking forward to it.

In my past memory, Manchester City Club was acquired by Thaksin Consortium for such a year, but it is unclear how it turned out, but the Thais must have brought a large amount of transfer funds to Manchester City, and Manchester City also became a "rich club" from this time.

Wan Sheng knew very well that football in the next few years would be the world of "golden dollar football". The income of each football club will increase greatly. They will spend more money to buy stars, and the value of stars will also increase significantly. Therefore, it became even more difficult for small clubs to achieve good results.

So he has no resistance to the injecting funds into the team.

The only worry is if the club changes its chairman, will the new chairman intervene in the team?

Wansheng is not clear.

But it doesn't make sense to think so much now. We are going to continue to lead the team. Soon Manchester City ushered in the quarterfinals of the FA Cup, and the opponent was Blackburn.

In the quarterfinals of the FA Cup, it is already difficult to meet weak teams. There are only a few teams left at this stage, including Chelsea and Manchester United, so Manchester City's luck is already very good to meet Blackburn.

Blackburn is not a weak team, but there is still a gap compared to Manchester City. What's more, this game is a home game. Although the lineup is not complete, Manchester City still defeated Blackburn 1-0 and advanced to the FA Cup semi-finals.

The next day, all three other FA Cup games ended.

Manchester City are still lucky, their opponent in the semi-finals is Watford, while the other is a matchup between Chelsea and Manchester United.

After learning about this result, Wan Sheng said in the media with some gloating, "The confrontation between Manchester United and Chelsea is very attractive. It must be a wonderful game. Calculate the time... Well, it seems that they want to play two games in the league? It is really worth looking forward to!"

In the 35th round of the league, Manchester United will have a big battle with Chelsea. After that game, it will be the final of the FA Cup. The two teams will have another big battle in the FA Cup semi-finals after changing venues.

This kind of schedule...it's no wonder Wan Sheng said so.

A particularly important point is that Manchester United currently has 6 more points than Chelsea, but the two teams directly face each other in the league. If Chelsea wins, they are expected to tie Manchester United's points and rank second in the Premier League.

Therefore, the two teams will definitely face each other in the league. Similarly, the FA Cup semi-finals are related to whether they can enter the finals, and both teams cannot give up on the FA Cup, so the intensity of the two matches can be imagined.

However, Wan Sheng only commented on the media that Manchester City cannot relax at present, and the most important task in recent days is to attack the league champion!

"We must determine the ownership of the league championship as soon as possible!"

Before the match against Charlton, Wan Sheng said to everyone with great energy, "Three rounds in advance? Four rounds? I can't wait to see other teams lined up to welcome us!"

"Chelsea!?Liverpool!?You are looking forward to it too!" (To be continued.)
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