PS: "Additional updates and completion plan" Chapter 28

After the plane landed at London Heathrow International Airport, Zhuang Mingge went to the headquarters of the Arsenal Club as planned and politely visited Arsenal Chairman Sir Peter Hillwood.

There were many landlords and little nobles in Britain who started their business by relying on the Industrial Revolution and colonial expansion, and Hillwood's ancestors belonged to such a social class.

Hillwood himself is a wealthy man who lives by inheriting the property from his ancestors. He occasionally makes some investments and immediately sells it into cash after obtaining the profits.

Therefore, although Arsenal, under his control, has made profits every year, but has never repaired the Highbury Stadium and made no big investments in the team. Even if Wenger came here to coach later, Arsenal has always lived within his means. Even the money for building a new stadium was raised by the club through loans.

In Zhuang Mingge's eyes, Hillwood's stinginess is the key to preventing Arsenal from becoming a top giant. Even Barcelona and Manchester United, which were famous for youth training in later generations, would not be stingy with money. However, Arsenal, who was short of money, had to frequently tear down the east wall and repair the west wall. Although the effect was very good, the team was still not well-known.

Who would consider a club that relies on reselling main players to make money as their lifelong role?

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Unlike the owners of Serie A clubs, the owners of Premier League clubs generally do not interfere with the specific affairs of the team. The head coach of the Premier League team also plays the role of the team's manager and controls the team's transfer power.

It is precisely based on this point that when Zhuang Mingge tried to find out about Arsenal's tactical arrangement from Hillwood, Hillwood regretfully stated that he was an outsider who earned dividends from Arsenal every year and had no control over the team at all. At the same time, he also had a traditional British gentlemanly demeanor, so he asked Fiorentina, who was in charge of Zhuang Mingge, to show mercy in the game, and not to make him, a British gentleman, look too ugly.

Of course, Zhuang Mingge would not take this old guy's low-key seriously. Hillwood, the old fox, staged a good show of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger in the final of the Winners Cup last year, and it hurt Parma...

However, in general, this trip to Arsenal still made Zhuang Mingge very rewarding. The low-key Sir Hillwood praised Florence on the one hand, and on the other hand, he spared no effort to satisfy Zhuang Mingge and others' "inspection" requirements, which inevitably surprised Zhuang Mingge.

After all, in order to examine the business operation model of Premier League clubs, Zhuang Mingge specifically asked some questions about this during the conversation.

Unexpectedly, Sir Hillwood almost answered questions and asked his secretary to help answer the questions raised by Zhuang Mingge, without considering whether he would disclose the secrets of the club if he did this.

Especially Zhuang Mingge's experience in stadium management and television broadcasting, which he was most concerned about, he had almost no price to pay, so he had a more detailed understanding from Hillwood, which made Zhuang Mingge realize the abnormality: the legendary Sir Hillwood, who has a traditional British gentlemanly demeanor, performed more like a golden nouveau riche, trying his best to show off his team.

Perhaps, it is because the British team has been suppressed for too long in recent years that this old man is a little mentally ill? Zhuang Mingge is making boring guesses in a bad mood.

What Zhuang Mingge didn't know was that his guess was rare to be close to the facts.

Since the English team was suspended by UEFA for five years, the competitiveness of the English club in the European arena has plummeted, and Liverpool, the "Red Army" that dominated Europe back then, has long disappeared. In recent years, the English team has achieved terrible results in the European arena, and there are only two honors that can be achieved, one of which belongs to Arsenal.

In May last year, Arsenal, who was extremely low-key before the game, had a hard-working defense and fighting to defeat Parma from the Serie A League, known as the "Little World Cup", which made Hillwood, who was a soccer goalkeeper but had a tradition of British arrogant, breathed a sigh of relief.

Therefore, when facing Fiorentina, which also comes from the Serie A but has not achieved the same results as Parma in recent years, although Hillwood still has a tight tone on the secrets of the team's game, when he mentions other topics, he will unconsciously start to "sigh".

How about it? The TV broadcast fee we can get in the Premier League in five years is nearly 200 million pounds. Do you have this treatment in the Serie A? The stadiums of our Premier League teams are all privately owned by the club and can be commercialized on their own. Can you Italy?

Therefore, Hillwood, who was too proud, was unknowingly acquired many details about commercial operations by Zhuang Mingge.

"Sir Hillwood, I hope there will be a wonderful game tomorrow." Zhuang Mingge said when he left Arsenal headquarters.

"Haha, I hope your team can show mercy, Chairman Corleon." Chairman Hillwood said with a smile, like a cunning fox.

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The next day was the match day. As the game time approached, Zhuang Mingge gave up his plan to disturb the team's coaches and players. He knew that he needed to give his players uninterrupted space before the competition.

Zhuang Mingge, who made up his plan, gave up the plan to take a bus to the Highbury Stadium with the entire Florence team, and asked Karin to rent two Opels at the hotel's service desk. Together with an "exploration team" composed of Antonioni, Kenion and others, he went to Highbury for a "field inspection".

The car that Zhuang Mingge and others took did not drive directly into the parking lot set up near the Haibuli Stadium, but turned into an underground parking lot about 200 meters away from the Stadium.

The transportation near Highbury Stadium in north London is quite convenient, and there will be no large-scale congestion even when there are football matches. So, if you park your car here, you will certainly not consider whether there will be traffic jams after the game.

The main purpose of Zhuang Mingge got off here is to visit the business circle planned around Arsenal, because next to this parking lot is the shopping mall run by Arsenal Club.

"Arsenal Shopping Mall...The British are really uncreative." Zhuang Mingge looked at the signboard in front of the gate and couldn't help but complain.

"It's an arsenal, Tony." Karin corrected Zhuang Mingge's mistake on the side.

"I said, Karin... Arsenal and Arsenal are obviously the same word (Arsenal in English), how do you see it?" Zhuang Mingge's mouth twitched at Karin with a calm expression beside him.

"Women's intuition."
Chapter completed!