Chapter 723 We are in big trouble!



Chapter 722: We're in big trouble!

It was another sunny morning with a cloudless blue sky.

A taxi from Madrid Capital Airport was driving quickly on the A6 highway.

Sitting in the driver's seat was a middle-aged man in his early forties, with a slightly plump physique common among taxi drivers. His service attitude was good, but he talked a little too much. Ever since he checked the WeChat location on his phone just now, he hadn't stopped talking.

"La Finca? Oh, that's where the richest people in Madrid live. And the place you are going to is halfway up the hill in La Finca. All the people who live there are super rich."

"Hey, who are you looking for? Tell me, I might know him!"

"This La Finca is home to many football stars, including Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Getafe. Last time I was bringing in a customer, I happened to see Tevez moving. Wow, I immediately jumped down to ask for his autograph, because I'm an Atletico Madrid fan."

"Another time, I was just picking up customers nearby, so I drove my empty car in for a spin. Unexpectedly, I saw Vidal taking out the trash, so I quickly took out my phone and took a photo of him, and sent it to the newspaper office. I even made over 100 euros in extra money, haha!"

"I'm telling you, I'm not exaggerating. I know exactly where each star lives in La Finca!"

"Look, get off the highway at the intersection a little further ahead and turn around, and you'll find La Finca."

Russell brought his two vice chairmen, dressed up a little, and sat in the back seat of a taxi. He endured the constant chattering of the taxi driver in the front seat, feeling very depressed.

But when I heard him say that La Finca had arrived, I immediately looked over in the direction the driver gestured.

Sure enough, the taxi quickly turned off the highway.

After getting off the highway, we soon arrived at the La Finca community.

The taxi driver was just as he said. He came here often and was familiar with the security guards at the gate of the community. After a quick check, he let them pass.

La Finca is a well-known wealthy area in Madrid. It is full of single-family villas, both large and small, and are neatly planned. However, the architectural styles are somewhat inconsistent. After all, some people like the traditional red bricks and green tiles, while others like the unconventional modern style.

The road is not wide, but there are not many cars, so we can go faster.

After passing through a densely populated residential area and entering a high-end area, there is a security duty room at the foot of the mountain.

This time it's more troublesome.

After the security guard understood the situation, he went back to the duty room to make a phone call, probably to confirm.

"This is my first time here. I heard that any house here costs several million, and the more expensive ones cost over 10 million euros!"

The taxi driver sat in the car, leaned over, and looked at the community ahead through the windshield.

In fact, you can't see anything. You can only see a lush forest with a building vaguely visible in the gaps between the trees.

"Okay, you can go up, but please slow down!"

After passing through, you enter the upscale neighborhood and follow the winding serpentine path all the way up the mountain.

At every important corner or intersection along the way, there were fully armed security guards on duty. When they saw their car approaching, they would immediately come out, stand straight at the side of the road to salute them, and show them the way.

This amazed everyone in the car.

Labor costs in Spain are so high and the entire mountain area is so large, how much does it cost just to hire these security guards?

The houses here cost over 10 million yuan. It is expensive, but many people can still afford it.

But the property fees here are probably quite expensive, and not everyone can afford to live here.

Following the security guard's gestures, the taxi arrived at an intersection halfway up the mountain, where they saw the security guard blocking the middle of the road, motioning for them to turn in.

It seems we have arrived.

"I'm not going in. You guys can just walk for a while!" said the taxi driver a little depressed.

Walking into this place, he felt a sense of inferiority and frustration.

Roselle and the others didn't force it. Since they had arrived at their destination, they got off the car.

The Barcelona president had just closed the car door when he suddenly remembered something and leaned back.

"Hey, aren't you a fan of Atletico Madrid?"

"Oh, yes, what's the matter?" the taxi driver nodded.

Roselle laughed and pointed to a modern mansion not far from the intersection. "That's the mansion of your Atletico Madrid boss in Spain. Remember that!"

"What?" The taxi driver was completely stunned.

But Russell didn't say anything more. He called his two assistants and walked towards the intersection.

The taxi driver was left sitting in the car, staring at the mansion deep in the intersection, stunned.

"Good morning, Mr. Russell!"

"Good morning, Mr. Longwu!"

Russell recognized at a glance that the person who came to the gate to greet him was Yang Huan’s bodyguard, Long Wu.

"Master Huan has been waiting for you for a long time. He is swimming now. You can go to the study first."

"Oh, okay!" Russell nodded.

The three people followed Long Wu into the mansion.

Yang Huan’s mansion feels a bit like a cabin in the woods. The architectural style is very unique, as if it was made up of various irregular geometric shapes. However, it is located in the woods, but seems to be integrated into it, without destroying the overall environment and quiet atmosphere of the woods.

Just walking in here gives people a very natural and harmonious feeling, and the air is particularly fresh.

Walking up the stairs and into the villa, one gets a very different feeling.

If the villa seems a bit small from the outside, you will have a sense of openness after walking in. The space is not small but very large and open.

Because the exterior walls are designed with glass curtain walls, the lighting is very good. Even the corridors and entrances that should have been quite dark are very bright. Especially when looking at the woods outside through the glass, one feels like living in a primitive jungle.

"This place is really great!" Russell couldn't help but exclaim.

"Yeah, I didn't expect there would be such a house in Madrid!"

"I remember seeing it in a magazine before. It should be designed by a famous designer and it seems to have won some international award!"

Unexpectedly, as soon as Bartomeu finished speaking, Yang Huan's voice rang out outside the door.

"Haha, what Josep said is absolutely right. This was designed by Eduardo Arroyo and won the World's Best Residential Design Award. Later, someone bought it and built it here."

"But after the house was built, the original owner went bankrupt due to the European debt crisis. The house was too expensive and could not be sold, so the purchase was delayed until a year ago, when I heard about this house and thought it was good. The owner was willing to give a discount on the price, so I bought it."

Yang Huan, wearing a casual home sportswear, walked into the study with a smile and asked everyone to sit down.

Eduardo Arroyo is a famous Spanish artist. He is not only a painter, graphic artist, writer and set designer, but I didn’t expect that he is also so good at residential architecture. What’s more respectable is that he is already very old, eighty years old.

It seems that the entire home furnishing was designed by Eduardo Arroyo. Even the sofa is simple and natural, but it can be seen that both the workmanship and materials are quite fine and valuable.

"By the way, have you had breakfast?" Yang Huan asked with a smile.

"I've eaten!" Russell replied quickly.

Yang Huan nodded and flicked his finger at Long Wu, who immediately understood and asked the servant to prepare tea.

Soon, a cup of fragrant hot tea was served to everyone.

"Try the tea I brought from China. You can't drink it outside!" After saying that, Yang Huan nodded at Long Wu.

The latter knew that they had something to talk about, so he nodded, stepped out, and closed the door.

"How is it? I heard that you've been in trouble recently?" Yang Huan looked at Roselle and asked with concern.

Russell knew that he couldn't hide it from Master Huan, so he sighed helplessly and nodded.

The Barcelona president has indeed been in big trouble recently.

After all, it’s still Neymar’s transfer!

In Yang Huan’s previous life, Rosell stepped down because Neymar’s transfer was full of shady dealings.

Yang Huan didn’t understand it before, and always felt that Rosell was greedy for money, but later he gradually understood and realized that this kind of transfer involving third-party ownership is often difficult to explain in one sentence.

There are a lot of gray areas here. Even after Rosell stepped down and Bartomeu took over, with the permission of Neymar's father, all the transfer terms and contracts were made public. However, there are still a lot of transfer details that have not been announced, which are full of doubts and cannot even be explained!

With the arrival of Yang Huan, Neymar was brought to Southampton early, and Barcelona no longer needed to hide anything about introducing Neymar, but problems still arose.

That is because the transfer fee is too high!

Barcelona signed Neymar at an astonishingly high price, which certainly excited the fans, made the entire football market boil, and made Barcelona's sponsors very excited, but it also gave competitors a weapon to attack Rosell.

Because in the past few years, Rosell has been committed to reducing Barcelona's operating costs, improving the club's finances, and expanding commercial operating income. But now, signing Neymar is naturally controversial.

Not long ago, former chairman Laporta publicly asked Rosell to disclose the team's financial situation, but was eventually suppressed by Rosell. After all, after Barcelona signed Neymar, both its competitive level and income level have been steadily improving.

But now, a new problem arises.

When Rosell heard Yang Huan's question, he immediately glanced at Bartomeu next to him. The latter knew that he had to make up for the ugly face himself.

As a last resort, he could only cough twice and said, "Master Huan, we are indeed in trouble, and for us, it is a big trouble, but for you, Master Huan, it should be a piece of cake."

"What do you mean?" Yang Huan found it funny.

You're complimenting me now, are you too good to say that?

However, when he thought about how arrogant these two guys were when he wanted to sign Ibrahimovic, but now, they came to him eagerly, Yang Huan felt very happy.

"According to our agreement with Southampton, we should pay another transfer fee for Neymar in June."

Yang Huan nodded and said, "Yes!"

After hearing this, he actually already had an idea in mind.

"But, Master Huan, we have a bank loan due in May, and we spent a lot of money to bring in Llorente from Juventus during the winter break, so..."

Speaking of this, Bartomeu felt a little embarrassed and found it difficult to speak!

"So... we are probably short of funds... but please believe me, we have tried our best to raise the funds."

Yang Huan knew that no matter how nice Bartomeu said, in the final analysis, Barcelona still had no money.

Frankly speaking, this is not Russell's fault.

On the one hand, Rosell is indeed not Florentino, and the ability gap between the two is extremely large.

But we should also see that when Laporta was in charge of the team, although the results were excellent, the team's finances were quite bad.

To be frank, Laporta is extremely lucky. The heroes of the rise of the Dream Team in the second phase, including Ronaldinho and other players, were all introduced by Rosell, and the Dream Team in the third phase just happened to catch up with the rise of local youth training players such as Messi, Iniesta, Pique and Busquets.

If this group of rare youth training talents had not emerged, Laporta's fate would have been quite miserable.

But who can blame him for being lucky and having such a good time?

When Russell took over, there were many financial problems. The Dream Team had reached its peak in the third period, so the results were bound to decline.

But even so, Rosell has done a good job in these years in Barcelona.

Even though many fans scold him for being stingy and accuse him of a lot of problems, we must see that the team's finances are indeed improving step by step. This is Rosell's greatest contribution to Barcelona.

So, we can only say that Russell has really bad luck.


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