Chapter 626： Lineage Defense

On the second day after arriving in London, Ronan first visited William at the FA. The two were old acquaintances, and William also warmly received Ronan.

"Welcome to London." William shook hands with Ronan and asked, "Ready?"

Ronan smiled and said, "I have made some preparations, but things are more complicated than I thought, so I came to seek confidence."

William smiled and said, "Didn't you make a plan long ago?"

"I want to ask about the position of the FA." Ronan didn't go around in circles, and said directly: "There is also the Premier League."

William said very seriously: "The Premier League is an open league. It welcomes fans and players from all over the world, as well as investors from all over the world. The same is true for the Premier League."

Ronan took a reassurance, and specifically said: "There are many investors everywhere, is there a priority for investment?"

"Of course." William was fascinated by his childhood and understood the meaning of these words: "The FA and the League welcome investment from friends first."

Ronan knew that this "friend" was not talking about personal relationships: "Relativistic Entertainment has always been a friend of the FA."

From the first time I met William to the acquisition of Manchester United, Ronan and William did not meet many times, but a lot of work was done privately.

To be precise, Ronan felt the warmth of the sun with his abundant financial resources.

Because of some special reasons, many things cannot be clearly expressed.

In short, Ronan understands that William, an important figure who has not yet achieved financial freedom in the royal family, also understands.

After spending half of the morning in the FA, Ronan left for lunch with William at noon, and the official obstacles were basically eliminated.

Of course, if the fans' opposition is extremely fierce and even triggers large-scale protests, no one can guarantee that the FA will change under the pressure of huge public opinion.

Half an hour later, Ronan came to the London branch of Bank of America.

As Judith greeted the headquarters specially, Joanne Fisher, who was in charge of loan business at the branch, was already waiting at the bank's door.

The two parties have communicated on loans before, and Bank of America has also stated that it will provide loans.

Of course, the prerequisite for huge loans is the corresponding mortgage.

But Bank of America does not know the purpose of this loan for the time being. Ronan came over this time to give the final explanation and go through the relevant procedures.

Joanne Fisher looked at the information Connie gave her and confirmed again: "Mr. Anderson wants a personal loan?"

Ronan said directly: "The purpose of this loan is for personal use, and it is explained above."

"Acquisition of Manchester United?" Joanne Fisher was quite surprised.

Ronan said lightly: "I hope Ms. Fisher can keep it secret."

"Of course." Joanne Fisher said quickly: "Mr. Anderson, please trust my professional ethics."

Ronan waited for her to finish reading the information, and then said: "I am using Amazon's shares as collateral to borrow 500 million pounds from your bank."

Materials such as equity certificates have long been passed to Bank of America, and Joanne Fisher said: "The head office will approve the loan within a week."

"One more thing, I want to make a statement in advance." Ronan said directly: "If the acquisition of Manchester United is successful, your bank will need to deal with equity decompression for me, and the loan mortgage will be replaced with Manchester United's income for the next three years."

Joanne Fisher understands that this is to pass on personal loans to corporate loans.

"Under normal circumstances, we will not handle it." Joanne Fisher glanced at Ronan, and then sold it: "But Mr. Anderson is the most important partner of Bank of America. As long as legal channels can be used, we will Do your best to serve Mr. Anderson."

She said: "The goal of this loan was to acquire Manchester United. If Mr. Anderson is to acquire it as a sole proprietorship, the creditors in the future will agree to this, it will be easy to do. For a joint venture acquisition, the consent of other partners must be obtained."

Ronan had talked with Will Smith and Tom Cruise and said, "There is no problem with this."

He knew that it was enough for Bank of America to operate legally. As for how to do it, the people below would naturally communicate with Bank of America.

Now that the Glazer family has not yet appeared, Ronan’s team has not yet discovered the involvement between the Glazer family and Manchester United. Perhaps before the Glazer family decides to take action against Manchester United, Manchester United will change hands.

But Ronan also borrowed some operating methods from the Glazer family's acquisition of Manchester United. Although the financial strategies used by the two parties are fundamentally different, they have one thing in common-to use Manchester United's future income to acquire Manchester United.

It used to be a classic business case of successfully using leveraged buyouts.

The so-called "leveraged buyout" refers to the fact that the acquirer uses a small amount of capital as the basis to borrow a large amount of funds from investment banks or other financial institutions for acquisition activities, and after a successful acquisition, the company's income is used to pay for the high proportion of liabilities arising from the acquisition. In order to achieve the purpose of using very little capital to grab high profits.

At that time, the Glazer family had a net worth of less than £1 billion. They obtained loans from JP Morgan Bank and the three major hedge funds in the United States through leveraged buyouts and acquired Manchester United, which is close to their net worth.

After the completion of the acquisition, Manchester United had a heavy debt burden, with debts exceeding 700 million pounds.

Even more frightening is that this debt has extremely high interest due to leveraged buyouts.

Ronan used the mortgage acquisition, if successful, Manchester United will also have huge debts, but the interest rate is very low.

In contrast, his strategy is softer.

There is no problem with Manchester United’s income mortgage. Manchester United’s total revenue last season was 518 million euros and a net profit of 70 million euros.

This is the healthiest professional football club in Europe.

While Ronan was acting, a team of Jefferson also made efforts in the secondary market, constantly taking in the circulating stocks in the market, and at the same time started negotiations with several small shareholders that they had contacted before, and reached acquisition agreements with many of them.

By the end of the day, Ronan's Manchester United shares had reached 9%.

In the evening, as the spokesperson of Ronan, Will Smith and Tom Cruise, Connie officially disclosed relevant information to the public and issued a takeover offer to Manchester United in the name of Ronan, Tom Cruise and Will Smith!

The news spread quickly, and there was an uproar on the Internet.

After the paper media reacted, the whole of Britain and even all of Europe were boiling.

The acquisition of Chelsea by Roman Abramovich last year caused a sensation. After all, it was a second-rate team. Manchester United is the top giant in Europe and it represents an extraordinary meaning.

Subsequently, the Manchester United official confirmed to the outside world that some people are indeed making "exploratory contact" with them for the purchase intention.

The mood of Manchester United fans was instantly ignited, and the League of Shareholders took the lead to declare that Manchester United will not sell, regardless of whether it is in euros or dollars!

Those conservative and stubborn fans in England are well-known all over the world. The conservative fans of Manchester United organized as quickly as possible and shouted an unusually loud slogan: the battle of blood!

There are high-profile Manchester United fan leaders who declared that as long as Manchester United fans unite, this will be the same as the failure of the last acquisition of foreign forces: they come, they see, they ultimately failed to conquer.

More agitated fans began to rally in Manchester Square, further emphasizing the defense of blood, because Manchester United is the last pure and final dignity of English football.

This is not the most troublesome, the most troublesome is that these diehard fan organizations hold a considerable amount of Manchester United shares.

Nine percent of the shares are enough to make Ronan this small group the fourth largest shareholder of Manchester United.

But Ronan is also very clear that it takes an uphill battle to win Manchester United.

Jefferson, who represented Ronan, had preliminary contacts with the Manchester United club's Big Three coach Alex Ferguson, CEO Peter Kenyon, and General Manager David Gill.

Like the intelligence obtained from the previous investigation, the three are not opposed to the change of Manchester United's equity, but they unanimously demand the stability of the Manchester United club.

Afterwards, Ronan met Ferguson in person.

Manchester United is in a period of change in this era. Ferguson is making drastic reforms to Manchester United, completely abandoning British style of play and introducing a large number of technical players.

Ronan promised him that as long as the acquisition is successful, the transfer fee will not be a problem. In the next five years, he will not take a penny profit from Manchester United, and the club will have enough income for him to introduce his favorite players.

In an ultra-luxury manor in Chelsea, London, an Arab man in his thirties looked at two assistants, one fat and one thin, with a serious face.

"The news is confirmed?" Chief Mansour asked.

The thin man first replied: "Yes, I have confirmed. After analysis of the news from multiple feedbacks, Ronan Anderson has united Hollywood superstars Will Smith and Tom Cruise to acquire the Manchester United club. Before, they did not talk about it. We prepared in secret, so we did not notice them. Now that we are in the light, it is not difficult to collect relevant information."

The fat man added: "Ronan Anderson and Will Smith are currently staying at the Ritz Carlton Hotel. Tom Cruise will take a flight from Los Angeles tomorrow, and will soon meet Ronan Anderson and Will- Smith meets Mansour seems to have seen the young figure of the year again, and sighed lightly: "Ronan Anderson, our old friend. "

The thin man and the fat man glanced at each other, and they both wisely did not answer the topic.

Of course they know who Ronan Anderson is! Ronan Anderson once had anything to do with the Abu Dhabi consortium, they also know!

Mansour quickly got rid of that inexplicable mood and asked, "Are they well-funded?"

The fat man replied: "Absolutely not as abundant as we are."

Mansour made a move: "The acquisition of Manchester United started ahead of schedule. You will personally contact the shareholders of Manchester United, and..." He hesitated a little, and quickly made a decision: "Contact Ronan Anderson, I want to see him one side."

It is best if the other party retreats actively.

Regarding money, the Abu Dhabi Consortium will not fear anyone, but this matter...