Chapter 8 Lend Me Your Thighs

"Mr. Harris, you are really good at hiding!" Yang Huan looked at the little fat English man with amusement and laughed.

"Tell me, what's the name of your team?"

"Southampton!" Cash Harris smiled awkwardly. "Actually, strictly speaking, this team has not officially authorized the transaction, but I understand that the consortium behind it does intend to sell it."

After a pause, Cash Harris stared at Yang Huan and said with a smile: "Speaking of which, the consortium behind Southampton also has a great connection with China." He felt that this rich second-generation from China seemed to have a strong sense of Chinese superiority, so he catered to his wishes.

"Oh?" Yang Huan was indeed interested. "Tell me about it."

Cash Harris immediately delivered his prepared words.

"The consortium behind Southampton is the Liebherr family from Switzerland. It was this Liebherr family that invested in China and established the now famous Haier Group in China."

Yang Huan smiled after hearing this. This was a roundabout way to build relationships with the Chinese. But that was good. He liked it this way.

"Last summer, Southampton fell into a financial crisis. With the help of Swiss banker Nicola Coster, Marcus Liebherr spent 13 million pounds to buy Southampton, which was relegated to the English League One, the third-tier league in England. However, Southampton was deducted 10 league points due to financial problems."

"Without these ten points, Southampton should be in the promotion play-off zone and there is still hope of being promoted to the Championship."

Yang Huan did not comment on this, thinking to himself, if ten points were deducted, there would be no way to upgrade, is this a reason?

You were told at the beginning of the season that you would be deducted ten points, and you ultimately failed to get promoted. This can only be attributed to the incompetence of the team's management and coaching staff.

Speaking of it, this season's English League One is quite lively. Leeds United and Millwall were promoted, but teams such as Milton, which was renamed after Wimbledon, Leyton Orient, Charlton Athletic and other teams located in the London area are still there. Among them, Milton Athletic is located in one of the regions with the highest per capita income in the UK.

However, compared to these teams, Southampton is a high-quality asset.

If Yang Huan remembers correctly, Chamberlain, Luke Shaw, Chambers, Lallana, Lambert and Schneiderlin, national team-level stars who will be targeted by top teams and bought at high prices in the next few years, are currently in this team.

And one advantage Southampton has is that they are granted permission to select young players from Wales, which is why Gareth Bale joined Southampton.

When Cash Harris saw that Yang Huan remained silent, he knew that Yang Huan was seriously considering it, so he quickly continued his sales pitch.

"Marcus Liebherr had always had a heart disease and died of it not long ago. His daughter Katharina Liebherr inherited his 3 billion pounds fortune and Southampton, a club she had no interest in."

At this point, Cash Harris changed the subject, "But there have been rumors that Marcus Liebherr wanted the current chairman of the team, Nicola Koster, to control the team. This is unacceptable to Catalina, so she considered selling the team for cash because she is not interested in investing in football."

Yang Huan listened carefully. He thought it was normal. If he couldn't control it, he might as well sell it.

It seems that Catharina has some typical thinking of a rich second-generation.

"How much do they want?" Yang Huan asked calmly. He didn't want to show any interest at all.

Even though he does feel that acquiring Southampton now would be a bargain.

A great bargain.

"It's not clear yet." Cash Harris shook his head, "But it should not be less than the purchase price a year ago."

A year ago, Southampton was acquired by the Liebherr family for 13 million pounds. The latter actually got a great bargain. Under normal circumstances, the price of Southampton would be more than 20 million pounds.

Without saying anything else, just for the golden signboard of the Centennial Saints' youth training, it is worth the money!

"Mr. Harris, a year ago, they were relegated from the Championship to League One. Everyone thought they would be able to return to the Championship a year later, but a year has passed and they are still in League One. In terms of investment value, they have depreciated!"

Zhang Ning, who had been silent all this time, spoke again and refuted Cash Harris' words bluntly.

Promotion is a matter of one-shot effort. When a team has just been relegated, it has the strongest motivation to upgrade and has sufficient strength and financial resources. However, once it has been stuck in the low-level leagues for a long time, the financial revenue will become lower and lower, and the level of the players will also become worse and worse, and in the end the hope of promotion will become increasingly slim.

Just like Charlton, this is also a veteran strong team in England and is now in League One.

Yang Huan and Zhang Ning had already agreed on it on the plane, one would play the good cop and the other the bad cop. As a result, Zhang Ning naturally had to play the role of the bad guy, while Yang Huan always pretended to be the good guy.

In response to Zhang Ning's blunt rebuttal, Cash Harris could only smile bitterly, he had no way to refute.

This is a fact.

"Kash, we are friends, but I like to be clear when doing business." Yang Huan stepped forward again to ease the atmosphere.

"Well, I authorize you to negotiate with Katharina Liebherr on my behalf. If you can negotiate the price to less than 20 million pounds, I will give you a consulting fee of 1 million pounds. If you can negotiate it to 15 million, I will add another 1 million pounds. And I will only authorize you to one company."

Cash Harris was shocked. The purchase price of 15 million and the consulting fee of 2 million, the ratio was too high.

You know, when Abramovich acquired Chelsea, he only paid a total of one million pounds in consulting fees, but he spent a total of 140 million pounds to acquire Chelsea.

Two million pounds is a considerable income for Seymour Pierce Investment Bank. After all, they are not a big bank, and in the current economic crisis, this amount of money is considered good.

Moreover, after acquiring a team, they will always have to recruit players and buy and sell players in the future. These are all within their business scope.

Of course, they are not brokers, they are just involved in some financial transactions and investment businesses.

Cash Harris was indeed frightened by the conditions offered by Yang Huan, but he was also convinced.

"Okay, Master Yang Huan, I will do my best to facilitate this transaction."

"Good!" Yang Huan was also very satisfied with his attitude. He was not afraid that Harris would be greedy for money. On the contrary, he hoped that Harris would be greedy for money, the greedier the better.

As long as he is greedy for money, he will do his best to accomplish this task.

"But, Cash, I want an answer before July 20th, which is three days from now."

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After seeing off Cash Harris, Yang Huan asked Zhang Ning and Sun Yue to investigate Southampton's situation. He then slipped back to his room, took a nice bath, and walked out wrapped in a bath towel.

When he came out again, he found Zhang Ning sitting on one of the beds in the double room with a laptop on her slender thighs. When she saw Yang Huan coming out, her face turned red to her ears, and she looked extremely pretty and charming.

Yang Huan's heart was moved when he saw this. This woman was really beautiful. Every time he looked at her, he seemed to see something new and moving about her.

Walking to the bedside and reaching out to take the laptop, Yang Huan clearly felt Zhang Ning's delicate body tremble and her biting of her lower lip, which was so pitiful that he could not help but reach out and gently tidy up her long black hair on her forehead.

Her fingers gently slid down her forehead to her pink and jade-like cheek. She watched Zhang Ning raise her head slightly, her eyes slightly red, full of panic, but she was holding it back. At this moment, she was extremely beautiful, so beautiful that it was breathtaking.

"Can I borrow your thigh for a moment?" Yang Huan lay down on the bed and unceremoniously rested his head on Zhang Ning's legs, with his head facing her face, just looking at her.

Zhang Ning didn't dare to look at him and pretended to look away.

I don't know how long I watched, Yang Huan suddenly asked: "Have you ever liked someone?"

"Ah?" Zhang Ning's response was a little flustered.

"It doesn't matter, whether it's there or not, it doesn't matter!" Yang Huan laughed, "What's important is that this young master likes you, and from now on, you can only like me."

"So conceited!" Zhang Ning said angrily.

Yang Huan laughed out loud. He liked to argue with Zhang Ning.

"Are you vain? Don't you think you have changed a lot in the past few days?"

Without waiting for Zhang Ning to answer, Yang Huan continued, "When I saw you that night, you looked like a delicate, frightened little bird. You were beautiful, but too much like Lin Daiyu. I didn't like you. Relatively speaking, I like you better now. At least you are much more confident."

After hearing this, Zhang Ning couldn't help but ask himself, have I really become more confident?

If this is true, then where does my confidence come from?

Could it be that it came from him?

"Don't worry, I've said before, I'm romantic but not vulgar. I like you, so I will use all my methods and means to make you like me too. I don't believe that you can still like someone else when we are together 24 hours a day, even eating and sleeping together!"

This should be considered Young Master Yang Huan's unique skill in picking up girls, the ultimate technique of stalking.

Zhang Ning looked helpless. She had never expected that things would turn out like this.

She couldn't say that she liked Yang Huan, but she didn't hate him either. However, the more she interacted with him, the more she felt that Yang Huan was a mystery, a mystery that made people want to dig out the truth.

"Oh, by the way, I want to invest in a business of my own. Please help me buy as much of something called Bitcoin as possible."

"Bitcoin?" Zhang Ning had never heard of this thing. What is it?

"It's a kind of electronic currency. There's already a lot of it in the United States. You can buy as much as you can for me, but don't make too much noise."

Zhang Ning was puzzled. So, electronic currency? Is there such a currency? What is the use of buying this currency?

But just when she was full of doubts, she happened to ask Yang Huan for an answer. Who knew that the Young Master Yang who was resting his head on her thigh actually fell asleep. It didn't matter that he fell asleep, his right palm was pressed against the inside of her thigh, warm and scalding.

Although it was not in the sensitive area and there were pants between them, it still made her feel something.

At this moment, she had the urge to pull him up and kick him to death.

But the fact is that it is impossible to wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep, especially a pervert who is pretending to be asleep to take advantage of beautiful women.