"Adele, it's really hard for you this time." George smiled and gave Adele a big hug at London's Heathrow International Airport, and took the luggage from her hand, "Negotiating with that miser Sterling. , it must be quite a tiring thing, right?”
Why was Elizabeth the only one accompanying George when he attended the G14 meeting and went to Germany to watch the Confederations Cup? This is not because George thought Adele was an eyesore, so he didn't take her with him. But because he needs Adele to come forward and go to the United States on the other side of the Atlantic to negotiate two business deals!
"Of course!" Although she successfully completed the mission goal after some twists and turns, Adele looked extremely depressed at this time, and her words were full of resentment. "I never expected that someone would be so greedy for money. guy. In order to sell the Clippers at a higher price, he has been steadily controlling the team's salary below the salary cap, and he actually exchanged several high-paid players through transactions to increase the Clippers' book assets. .If I hadn’t wasted so long on these things with him, I would definitely be there to watch the Confederations Cup final with you, brother!”
Los Angeles Galaxy and Los Angeles Clippers, these are the main goals of Adele's trip to the United States. In order to deceive others, it was claimed that Adele went to the United States to inspect the development and profitability of Facebook, Twitter and other subsidiaries this year. After all, before the acquisition is completed, the fewer people who know that George has plans to further expand the sports empire and use this to open Tottenham's market in the United States, the better!
Acquiring the LA Galaxy is not that difficult. Before Beckham arrived, although the Major League Soccer claimed to be the fifth largest sports league in the United States, its own situation and commercial value were really not that good. To put it bluntly, all the teams in the entire professional football league combined may not be as valuable as the New York Yankees (a super-rich club in the MLB, one of the top three clubs in the Forbes professional sports club value list). Under such circumstances, George's acquisition of the Los Angeles Galaxy, known as the "Real Madrid of the United States", naturally does not need to pay too much.
Although in the eyes of fans, the United States is a veritable football desert, in fact, due to the huge market and developed economy of the United States, even if football can only take a sip of soup between the four major leagues, it is enough for Tottenham to make a lot of money. Pen!
Compared with the Los Angeles Galaxy, the acquisition of the Los Angeles Clippers appears to be much more difficult. Although Sterling's Clippers are one of the most famous bad teams in the NBA, with the support of the big city of Los Angeles and Sterling's strict control of operating costs, the Clippers' profitability is still quite good. Therefore, it can be said to be quite difficult to buy the Clippers from Sterling!
Although the conditions of the Los Angeles Lakers are obviously better than those of the Clippers in all aspects, and Jim Buss, who is worried about the lack of funds in his hands, also welcomes George, a big donor, to invest in the Lakers to help him share the pressure, but at this time, George's personal Willingness plays a considerable role. The reason is very simple, that is, he doesn't like the Lakers star Kobe Bryant, very much!
Kobe is indeed worthy of the title of basketball superstar, and he is indeed the most capable shooting guard after Jordan retired, but whether in his previous life or now, George is not very interested in this star who only has eyes for the basket. In his opinion, if it weren't for Stern's deliberate support, Buss brought powerful players like O'Neal and Gasol to Kobe, and paid huge luxury taxes every year to build an All-Star lineup, Kobe in his previous life would not have been able to get it. To five championship rings, not to mention two FMVPs and a regular season MVP!
The most important thing is that George's acquisition of an NBA team is not to switch to basketball, but to use the NBA platform to expand Tottenham's influence in the United States, and then complete the goal of opening up the American market!
However, what is the similarity between an NBA team that only relies on one star to score in isolation, and all the other teammates are waiting to watch and take the blame, and Tottenham, which focuses on team play? Therefore, George will never consider the Los Angeles Lakers with Kobe as the core as a candidate target for acquisition!
Moreover, despite the fact that the Lakers are now much more popular than the Clippers in Los Angeles, as long as their performance improves and their style of play is good enough, the Clippers' earning power will definitely not be much worse than the Lakers - the Clippers in the previous life were in After Chris Paul arrived, he stole a lot of popularity from the Lakers with his highly entertaining alley-oops and dunks as well as his outstanding results. When George passed through, the Clippers' market value had risen to sixth in the NBA, reaching an astonishing US$2 billion!
Therefore, after repeated consideration, George finally decided to let Adele discuss the acquisition of the Clippers with Sterling - he did not want this matter to drag on too long and affect Tottenham's series of events in the United States this summer. Business promotion plan!
Two hundred million dollars, this was the final price reached by Adele and Sterling in the Clippers deal. Although this price is a bit high for the current Clippers, George knows that he will definitely make a fortune - you know, when Sterling was forced to sell the Clippers under pressure from the league, he sold It cost a full US$2 billion, which is ten times the price!
As for who will be sent to manage the Los Angeles Clippers after the change of ownership, George has already made plans - Sam Presti, who had an outstanding performance as the general manager of the Thunder in his previous life, will replace Earl, who can only choose parallel imports. Kim Baylor becomes the new general manager of the Clippers!
Although some of Presti's previous operations with the Thunder were questionable (such as trading Harden for the declining Kevin Martin, etc.), in George's view, these transactions were most likely Presti's attempt to maintain the Profit has to be achieved (the Oklahoma City Thunder is located in a small market, and it is difficult to support too many stars when the owner is unwilling to burn money). And now, with the big market of Los Angeles on his back and the owner allowing a certain amount of luxury tax, Presti is bound to be able to achieve even better results with the Clippers!
Since George's primary purpose of buying the Clippers is to help Tottenham expand into the U.S. market, the Clippers must have a sufficiently eye-catching style of play and outstanding results. Otherwise, who would care about which football club a bad team forms a partnership with?
After Adele secured two clubs, the Los Angeles Galaxy and the Los Angeles Clippers, and made preliminary preparations for Tottenham's U.S. gold rush scheduled to take place at the end of July, George also quickly finalized a transfer - the future American captain Clint Dempsey landed in the Premier League with a worth of US$1.5 million and became an official member of Tottenham Hotspur!
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