Katharina Liebherr on the other end of the phone exclaimed excitedly, and it sounded like she couldn't wait to rush to Gu Ran's side, hug Gu Ran's thighs and shake them hard.
"Gu, are you kidding? Do you really know Taylor Swift? Did you really write a song for her?"
Gu Ran smiled and said, "Yes, if you want to see her, I can do it with just one phone call."
Katrina said excitedly: "If you can get Taylor Swift to come to Germany for a concert and have a meal with me, then I can totally accept the equity plan of doubling the premium you mentioned!"
Gu Ran immediately said, "Great, Katharina! I'll call and arrange the concert. Once the concert schedule is confirmed, I'll send someone to trade your shares with you."
"Okay, okay, we have a deal!" Catalina's voice was filled with joy.
For her, the football club is not important at all. The happiest thing is to be able to chase entertainment stars up close.
After Gu Ran hung up the phone, he immediately called Taylor Swift and expressed his idea of wanting Taylor Swift to hold a concert in Germany, Europe.
Taylor Swift's original plan was to hold three concerts in North America. Suddenly giving up the North American concerts and holding them in Germany would completely disrupt Taylor Swift's plans.
However, as soon as Gu Ran opened her mouth, Taylor Swift agreed without hesitation.
Not to mention giving up the North American concert and holding a concert in Germany instead, even if Gu Ran asked her to come to the Dune Villa and sing only for Gu Ran, Taylor Swift would be willing to do so.
After finalizing Taylor Swift's concert plan, Gu Ran sent Mendes to the Liebherr Group in person and bought Catalina's shares at the agreed double premium.
In this way, Gu Ran’s shares in Southampton Club reached 89%.
This is equivalent to complete controlling stake and control of the board of directors.
Of course, Gu Ran is not in a hurry to step into the spotlight. After all, his current identity is a player. If he directly announces that he has acquired the Southampton Club, it will definitely cause a huge shock.
Gu Ran first found Old Rice, who was unemployed at home and went out to sea every day but could never catch any fish, and informed Old Rice of the current equity situation.
Old Rice was completely dumbfounded after hearing this.
Old Rice never expected that Gu Ran would be able to complete the feat of acquiring the club just one year later.
Gu Ran asked old Rice to come out and take over the operation of Southampton Club again.
Old Rice was a little reluctant at first, but when Gu Ran said that his goal for the new season was not only to win the League Cup and FA Cup again, but also to win the Championship and the Europa League, Old Rice's expression was visibly moved.
Gu Ran also told Old Rice that the current CEO Nicola Coster was too conservative and only wanted to share the money but not buy players. Only someone like Old Rice who truly understood football and the business was qualified to be the new CEO of Southampton.
Besides, old Les, don’t you want to create a miracle with me?
After hearing this, Old Rice slapped his thigh and agreed to Gu Ran's request.
A year ago, old Rice was the club's senior executive and Gu Ran was just a newcomer, but now, the situation has completely reversed.
Gu Ran asked Old Rice to keep his identity a secret among the club's top management and not to reveal his identity as the big boss behind the scenes, which would also make it easier for him to do his work behind the scenes.
Old Rice agreed readily.
Next, Southampton Club entered the process of high-level reorganization.
Old Rice took over Southampton's senior management with a letter of authorization, and cleared out Nicola Coster and other senior executives of the Liebherr faction from the senior offices in the morning.
Ever since Nicola Koster learned that the Liebherr Group was selling its shares, he had known that this day would come, so he left in a decent manner.
But he couldn't understand why the shares of Southampton Club suddenly changed hands.
Many sports newspapers also reported that the Liebherr Group had lost its controlling stake, and many media and tabloids reported that Gu Ran was the new owner of Southampton Club, but neither the Southampton Club nor Gu Ran responded.
The less you respond, the more buzz there will be in the news.
During the entire holiday period, the English sports media was almost entirely covered by news about Southampton.
After purging Southampton's top management, Gu Ran took a vacation and found time to return to his country to meet his parents and visit old classmates and friends.
Because of the traffic-generating effect of Ran Live, domestic media also welcomed Gu Ran home with the same standards as they did for Messi and Ronaldo.
On June 15th, the transfer window for all levels of leagues in the UK opened.
Under Gu Ran's secret control, Southampton Club began to make moves in the transfer market.
Gu Ran sent a list of players that needed to be purchased to Old Rice via text message.
Almost all the names on this list are names that old Rice has never heard of, such as Salah, who is still playing in the Egyptian league, Mane, who is still playing in the youth training camp of a Senegalese club, De Bruyne, Toni Kroos, Kante, Van Dijk, who is still a substitute in Groningen, Rudiger who transferred to Stuttgart U19 team as a free agent, Varane, who is still playing in Lens in Ligue 1, Neymar, Coutinho, who are still playing in the Brazilian league, and so on.
When old Rice got the shopping list, he was dumbfounded.
What Old Rice didn't know was that Gu Ran actually wanted to add the names of Mbappe and Haaland as well, but Mbappe and Haaland were still young, and their parents would not likely agree to them traveling across the ocean to train at the youth training camp of the Championship team.
Old Rice looked at these unfamiliar names and thought it was nonsense, but Gu Ran gave a transfer budget of 70 million pounds, and the players on the list were not big names, so after calming down, Old Rice still sent scouts to make contact.
A week later, scouts from all sides sent back news one after another.
Neymar, Coutinho and others decisively rejected Southampton's invitation. De Bruyne also rejected Southampton's invitation after hearing the price.
This was within Gu Ran's expectations. Although Neymar, Coutinho and De Bruyne are not yet hot stars, they have already made their mark in leagues of various countries and have received attention and contact from giants such as Barcelona, Liverpool and Chelsea. So under this circumstance, they certainly would not come to Southampton, a team that had just been promoted to the Championship.
The reason why Gu Ran wanted to quote a price was that he was just trying his best. What if Neymar, Coutinho, or De Bruyne had a brain attack? (End of this chapter)
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