"This is incredible. Adidas is for sale. This is definitely the best opportunity for other sports brands to strengthen themselves! Umbro, Puma, and Nike are all thinking about?" After learning that other sports brands were not interested in participating in the competition, Zhuang Mingge felt a little relieved. He was not worried about running consortiums in other industries to compete with him. After all, it is like a mountain. It is a very high-risk thing to rashly enter this circle when he knows nothing about a certain field. After all, not everyone is Hammer (Amand Hammer, a business genius, has outstanding achievements in pharmaceutical, winemaking, cattle breeding, oil and other industries). There is only one time traveler like Zhuang Mingge in this world...

"Haha, don't be so fussy. This is Europe, Adidas' base camp, and it has nothing to do with Nike. A Reebok in the North American market is enough for it to have a headache now; as for companies like Umbro and Puma, a European market with rich interests has made their vision narrow, and they cannot understand the latest and fastest development and changes of the sports brand center of the US market. Perhaps they still think that the asking price of Credit Lyon is too high, or perhaps they don't have the ability and confidence to take over the big stall of Adidas!"

Listening to the situation about Adidas, Groz told him from the mouth of Xiaoxia, Zhuang Mingge felt that her analysis was reasonable and also made her, an outsider, feel like she was shaking the clouds and fog.

However, Zhuang Mingge also felt that Groz was too excited about the acquisition of Adidas, and he was not worried about how to run Adidas in the future.

Umbro and Puma’s big-name sports brand companies are not confident of taking over such a big company as Adidas. We two of us who started out by betting on football can run well? Zhuang Mingge expressed his concern about this.

"Ahem... I said Rebecca, the Credit Lyon Bank, which is usury, is asking for a price of 500 million US dollars! I don't think we have the financial resources to take these shares from the French." Zhuang Mingge considered it for a while and still raised an objection.

"Hmph~ I know~" Groz held his hands in front of his chest and said proudly, "I have my own tricks. Antonio, you will know if you follow me to France~"

"Okay, I'll go with you." Zhuang Mingge also wanted to see how this little princess-like person used "making money out of nothing" to take 70% of Adidas' shares from the mouth of Credit Bank of Lyon.

And it's August now, maybe taking Karin to France for a short trip is also a good choice.

"I promised in advance that Sister Karin will not go to France with you this time." Just as Zhuang Mingge was imagining, a jokey voice from Little Groz came from his ears, "I just told her that this time, only you and I are going to France for a while~"

It turns out that you were discussing this in the living room at the beginning!

...

"Rebecca, why do you say you are going to negotiate with the people from Credit Bank of Lyon, but you took me to Marseille?" After getting off the plane, Zhuang Mingge asked with confusion.

"Haha, you'll know later."

The person to meet was the head of Credit Bank of Lyon, but Groz Jr. brought Zhuang Mingge to the harbour city of Marseille in southern France.

Even if there is no direct flight between the two cities of Florence and Lyon, Zhuang Mingge does not think that the private flight of the Groz family deliberately stays in Marseille for some boring reasons. This shows that before negotiating with the people of the Credit Bank of Lyon, Groz will first deal with some related matters in Marseille.

"I said, we will live in Marseille today?" Seeing that the direction of the business car was not Lyon in the north of Marseille, but heading towards the south of Marseille, Zhuang Mingge thought that their destination was a hotel located in the southern suburbs of Marseille.

"You will know after a while. Now you can look at the scenery on the roadside." As if you had known that Zhuang Mingge would have such a question, Groz shrugged tacitly and took out a magazine from the shoulder bag she carried with her:

"And, not just today, I guess we will stay in Marseille these days. By the way, you should know the old man on the back cover of the magazine. I heard that he used to be a football player. It was because of this guy that we couldn't go anywhere in France this time, so we could only stay in Marseille!"

As he said that, Little Groz waved her fist seriously and tried to express his dislike for the back cover character. Zhuang Mingge was stunned by her cute movements for a moment. It took him half a minute to react and quickly turned his attention to the magazine in his hand.

Zhuang Mingge looked at the old man on the back cover of the magazine? Uh, isn’t this the French movie star Jean Renault? What can’t be recognized?

Wait, it seems that I have misunderstood this time. Except for the appearance of this old man is a bit similar to that of the international movie star Uncle Renault, the rest of the world is completely different! Did you see all the hallucinations just now?

A football player used to live in Marseille... Could it be him?

Seeing Zhuang Mingge's eyes projecting at him, Groz obviously expected Zhuang Mingge's idea and said, "It seems you have guessed it. That's right, the one we are going to meet now is Mr. Tapi, the boss of the former Marseille club."

It was indeed him!

As mentioned before, the Marseille counterfeiting case only involved the club's general manager Bain at the beginning, but as the case deepened, the French police felt that there was someone else behind Bain and finally dug out Tapi's name from Bain's mouth.

It was also in May this year that the Marseille counterfeiting case finally made the final judgment. Tapi was charged with the main conspiracy of the case and was sentenced to one year in prison and not allowed to watch the game in any football field within one year after being released from prison.

Tapi is now extremely down and out. He was once the owner of the Marseille team and the minister of the French city department. He was once a loser because of the counterfeiting case. At the same time, after the incident broke out, he was surrounded by enemies and lost all his money. His private yacht was auctioned, all his property was confiscated, and he was also in debt of more than 100 million US dollars.

Although Tapi, who is currently on bail, still lives in a good manor, in fact, 80% of his current income is deducted from his payroll and taken directly by the creditor.
Chapter completed!