Seven Crowns

Chapter 699 Wechat

?Leicester City Club, nicknamed the Blue Fox, is a club located in Leicestershire 180 kilometers northwest of London, England. It is in the same area as Nottingham Forest, named East Midlands.

Although Leicester City was established very early, founded in 1884, its history is lacklustre.

In addition to the three League Cup championships, Leicester City has not won the top league championship, the FA Cup championship and other important honors, let alone the honor of the European war.

The team has been in the low-level leagues for a long time. It was only promoted as the number one in the English championship last season and will play in the Premier League this season.

This is an unexistent Premier League newly promoted team.

Before Leicester City announced that Lu Wenbin would attend their press conference on July 22, no one had connected the world’s number one superstar and Forbes Chinese rich Lu Wenbin with Leicester City.

Everyone has thought about the two richest teams of Manchester City and Chelsea, and also thought about the giants such as Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool, and even other strong teams such as Tottenham, Newcastle, and Everton, but no one really considered that Lu Wenbin would play with The newly promoted Leicester City are linked together.

Undoubtedly, the current Leicester City fans are the most enviable and the happiest.

Then, all the fan organizations began to unite to produce banners, slogans, and flags welcoming Lu Wenbin.

Fan families living in Leicester have bought Chinese flags to hang them outside the windows to create a grand occasion to welcome Lu Wenbin.

Leicester City does not have the Eiffel Tower, nor the Bernabeu’s Dream Theater. They can only put more effort into banners, slogans, flags, etc., to show their admiration and welcome to Lu Wenbin.

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With the passage of time, there are more and more five-star red flags and Chinese banner slogans in Leicester City, and countless Lu Wenbin fans rushed to Fox City from all over to witness Lu Wenbin joining Leicester City on the spot.

On the morning of July 22, the Leicester City Club press conference room was crowded with people. The media from all over the world couldn’t squeeze at all. Many people could only stand in the aisle, by the wall, or squat under the press platform.

As a team that has been in the lower leagues all the year round, the press conference hall of Leicester City is really not big.

The media and reporters from dozens of countries around the world participated in this press conference. There are almost 100 people in the British and Chinese media, photographers and reporters.

As for the press conference hall, there are tens of thousands of local Leicester City fans and fans of Lu Wenbin.

With slogans and banners supporting, admiring and loving Lu Wenbin, and waving the five-star red flag, everyone was anxious and full of expectation to hear the news of Lu Wenbin joining Leicester City.

At 10 o’clock in the morning, the press conference officially began.

After the Leicester City press officer introduced the history of Leicester City, he announced that he would invite Leicester City Chairman and Thai Chinese-American owner Vichai, vice chairman and son of Vichai Xu Shengyuan, team manager and head coach Ni Geer Pearson, superstar Lu Wenbin, and Lu Wenbin’s agent Mendes, personal lawyers and others appeared on the stage.

The moment Lu Wenbin appeared, the entire press conference hall was illuminated by the flashlights of reporters. We had never seen so many reporters’ Wichai and Pearson almost dazzled.

British reporters even clapped excitedly and extended a warm welcome to Lu Wenbin for coming to the Premier League.

Lu Wenbin is the topic, Lu Wenbin is the news, and Lu Wenbin is the guarantee of newspaper sales!

Of course, everyone also expressed doubts about why Lu Wenbin brought a private lawyer to the show.

However, when Leicester City announced at the press conference later, everyone understood why the lawyer was required to appear, and everyone was stunned.

Leicester City announced that the chairman Vichai sold 30% of its shares to Lu Wenbin’s wholly-owned 666 investment company at a symbolic price of 1 euro, making Lu Wenbin the second shareholder of Leicester City besides him.

At the same time, Lu Wenbin will also join Leicester City as a free transfer, with an annual salary of 30 million euros, a five-year contract, and a liquidated damage of 500 million euros.

This liquidated damage is a guarantee for Weichai, and the symbolic meaning is greater than the actual meaning.

Because of UEFA restrictions, after Lu Wenbin became a stake in Leicester City, he could not play in other clubs in Europe.

In other continents, whether it is Asia, Africa, America, or Oceania, no team can pay 500 million euros in liquidated damages to take away Lu Wenbin.

In fact, if there is no accident, Lu Wenbin is more likely to retire in Leicester City.

At the same time, according to the agreement between Lu Wenbin and Weichai, 30% equity is not the end.

In the future, Lu Wenbin led Leicester City to win the Premier League title, then the equity increased by 3%, and the Champions League champion, the equity increased by 6%, including the Premier League, the League Cup, the FA Cup, the Champions League, the Community Shield, and the European Super Cup. For the seven championships of the year, including the World Club Cup, the shareholding will increase by another 10%.

All the additional equity will be obtained free of charge based on conditions.

In other words, as long as Lu Wenbin helps Leicester City complete the seven crowns, he can get 49% of the shares for only 1 euro and become the second largest shareholder after Weichai.

From now on, all movable, real estate and commercial income in Leicester City will be divided into 49% by Lu Wenbin.

This is why Leicester City were able to impress Lu Wenbin and sign a contract with Lu Wenbin.

It’s not that Lu Wenbin is satisfied with Leicester City, but that other giants can’t reach Lu Wenbin’s psychological bottom line.

The owners and shareholders of other Premier League teams are very repulsive of Lu Wenbin’s shareholding, and there is still a bit of discrimination against Lu Wenbin’s yellow race and Chinese identity.

No matter how famous and powerful Lu Wenbin is, they only want Lu Wenbin to work for them, and they don’t want Lu Wenbin to be equal to them to share their business income as shareholders.

Even if someone agrees to Lu Wenbin’s shareholding, there are very few shares, which is meaningless to Lu Wenbin.

Only Leicester City, as a newly promoted horse, has an extremely urgent need for relegation and championships, and there is no arrogance of any giants. Lu Wenbin is eager to hope that Lu Wenbin will join.

Moreover, as a Thai-Chinese boss with half Chinese descent from Fujian, Weichai has a sense of identity with the world superstar Lu Wenbin, who is of Chinese nationality.

Weichai himself and his son Xu Shengyuan are both proficient in Chinese, and Lu Wenbin felt very kind when meeting the two in private.

The ideals of Wei Guai and Xu Shengyuan are to use the Premier League platform to launch their own corporate brand, and the other is to help train Thai and Chinese players. Leicester City’s youth training system is ready to tilt towards Thai and Chinese players.

The club is sincere and gives a lot of shares. The boss is considered half a compatriot. Lu Wenbin himself must conquer the Premier League and complete the main tasks of the club. All of these have become the decisive factor for Lu Wenbin to join Leicester City.