In the afternoon, a silver helicopter flying from Nice Airport in France slowly landed at the Monaco Helicopter Airport.

This is also the only airport in Monaco, a small country.

The cabin door was pulled open by Zhao Yuanfang who was walking over. Long Wu was the first to get out of the cabin, looked around and jumped down.

Yang Huan and Zhuang Ziqing slowly walked out at this time, and Feng Jiu fell to the end.

"Hello, Mr. Yang Huan, welcome to Monaco"

Domadis, the head of the Monaco Club finance officer who had been waiting at the helicopter, immediately met him and stretched out his hand from a distance, looking very enthusiastic.

"Hello" Yang Huan shook hands with him politely.

Domadis didn't think there was any problem either.

This young master Huan is now a famous person in the world. Prince Albert Monaco has to meet with him personally. He is nothing in front of him. It is good to be treated politely.

After Yang Huan and Domadis were polite, they turned to Zhao Yuanfang and Pinni of Li Harvey who were picking up the plane.

The Israelites seemed very excited. If they could make this deal, they would be able to get a lot of commissions from it.

And he could also feel that Yang Huan was paying more and more attention to him.

Judging from Monaco's current situation in the French Ligue 2, once Yang Huan really takes over, he will definitely have to adjust his lineup drastic. By that time, no matter whether it is signing or selling, he will be inseparable from him.

"Where is Prince Albert?" Yang Huan asked casually.

"Wait in the palace," Zhao Yuanfang leaned over and said.

"They booked a room in the Grand Hotel in Paris, and chose to meet in this hotel. I wonder if Young Master Huan should take a break first, then go to meet with His Highness the Prince, or meet and discuss things first, and then go to rest?"

Yang Huan glanced at Zhuang Ziqing beside him, and his face was full of fatigue.

Monaco itself has no airport, so Yang Huan and his party have to fly from London to Nice, and then transfer from Nice to helicopter.

There is inevitably a lot of trouble in the middle, and it is normal to be tired.

"Wait a minute, we will send Ziqing to the hotel to rest first, and we will talk about the matter."

Zhao Yuanfang immediately nodded, called Yang Huan to get in the car, and then went to tell Domadis about Master Huan's thoughts.

The latter immediately contacted the palace so that Prince Albert could prepare early.

Yang Huan's purpose of this trip was to acquire Monaco Club.

But this is quite troublesome

The current shares of Monaco Club are mainly divided into two parts, one of which is held by the Monaco royal family, and the other part is a Monaco Football Investment Company, which is abbreviated as U1.

When I read newspapers in my previous life, many Chinese media reported that when Russian wealthy Reponolev acquired Monaco, they conflated UE Horabchin's M1 company, but they didn't know that the two were very different.

NP1 was founded in 2003, when Monaco was almost ordered to be demoted due to the debt crisis.

As the backstage boss of the Monaco club, Albert, who was still a prince at the time, brought wealthy people through his own relationship, including Michelle, the famous European real estate developers Michelle Praiser, Udruci, Piccinini, etc., and formed the Monaco Football Investment Company and acquired 10% of Monaco's shares.

The French Football League has strict regulations that the subsidy given to the team by any local government shall not exceed a certain proportion every year.

But at that time, Monaco was in debt of 50 million euros, which was obviously unable to hold on.

Therefore, Albert and others used the method of establishing a company and acquiring club shares to inject capital into the club in disguise, avoiding this regulation.

Later, although Monaco reached the Champions League final and won the runner-up, with good results, the finances were still not enough to make ends meet, and U1 company was also constantly injecting capital.

The most impressive thing is that in order to stabilize Deschamps and the team's hearts, U1 company directly took out 16 million euros and promised a high bonus to the team, which eventually led to Monaco reaching the Champions League final.

But in the end, he lost to Mourinho's Porto in the final.

Because of the continuous increase in debt, MPI is also constantly injecting capital and continuously increasing its holdings in the club.

Currently, NP1 holds 51% of Monaco's shares, while the Monaco royal family only has 49% of them and has lost its controlling stake.

But even so, the Monaco royal family still has the power of life and death of the Monaco club.

In other words, to acquire Monaco, Prince Albert had to nod.

However, there is also one advantage, that is, after the trough in the few years since the Champions League runner-up, Monaco has successfully escaped from the debt crisis, but selling players and cutting wages has made Mona's competitive strength only hover in the middle and lower reaches of Ligue 1, and even dropped into Ligue 2 in 2011, and failed to hit Class A.

On the way to the Grand Hotel in Monaco, Yang Huan kept circling with information about Monaco.

Among the three Ligue 1 teams he is interested in, Renne's behind the scenes has made it clear that Renne is not a seller.

As the saying goes, if you have no desires, you will be strong. The boss is also a rich man and you don’t have enough money. Even if Yang Huan wants to buy it, it will not be that easy.

The other Marseille team is very enthusiastic and has a strong strength, with a price of around 100 million euros, but according to the investigation by Kesh or Harris, Marseille currently has about 100 million euros in debt.

This made Yang Huan feel a headache.

A Ligue 1 team without stadium ownership is asking for 200 million?

So Yang Huan aimed at Monaco.

This team does have natural flaws, that is, the attendance rate at home is too low, but according to Yang Huan's survey, the per capita consumption of Monaco fans on the stadium is quite high.

Didn’t someone say that?

In Monaco, one of the three people is a rich man

More importantly, this is a tax haven.

In Monaco, the tax burden on paying players is about 7.5%.

In France, once President Hollande implements the so-called special wealth tax, 75% tax is imposed on individuals with annual incomes of more than one million euros.

According to this tax calculation method, based on the annual after-tax salary of 10 million euros, the cost of clubs in other Ligue 1 teams is about 65 million to 70 million euros.

But in Monaco?

More than one million

In other words, if you pay so much money, the other Ligue 1 teams can only support one, but Monaco can support six.

This is Monaco's biggest advantage

Even in Yang Huan's view, this advantage not only affects Monaco Club, but also helps Southampton to carry out more reasonable and safe tax avoidance.

This is just the football field. What if it is enlarged?

As the European debt crisis continues to deepen, the EU has never been able to get rid of the crisis. It is a foregone conclusion that countries have raised taxes to save government finances, even Germany and France are inevitable.

By that time, tax havens like Monaco will have unprecedented appeal.

In addition, there is another place that attracts Yang Huan in Monaco, which is the Royal Yacht Club of Monaco.

This is a top yacht organization that is important all over the world, with members including more than 60 countries and more than 1,200 super rich people.

Currently, many top yacht clubs in China hope to become member organizations of the Royal Yacht Club of Monaco, including the yacht club of the Yang Group. If in-depth and close cooperation can be carried out, it will be of great benefit to Yang Huan’s Shengxi Yacht and Aston Martin.

It is precisely because of various factors other than football that Yang Huan set Monaco as his preferred target.

"Young Master Huan, I'm at the Grand Hotel in Paris"

Zhao Yuanfang in the front row turned around and said.

The car soon stopped at the hotel gate.

The soldiers from both sides immediately came to help open the car door, and stood politely aside, with an indescribable attitude.

“Welcome to Grand Hotel Paris, Monaco”

Yang Huan and Zhuang Ziqing got off the car on both sides. They walked into this hotel with a low floor but with an extremely luxurious decoration. They were known as the top hotel in Monaco.

As soon as I entered the lobby, the manager who had already received the news immediately came up.

"Hello, Mr. Yang Huan, His Highness Prince Albert has arrived and is waiting for you in the living room upstairs."

After a pause, the polite middle-aged Frenchman smiled very gentlemanly.

"In addition, the presidential suite that His Highness the Prince also booked for Mr. Yang Huan is also ready."

Yang Huan was still very satisfied with this service attitude and turned around and looked at Zhuang Ziqing.

"You go up and rest first, I'll come to you again."

Zhuang Ziqing knew that he had something to talk about, so she didn't say much, nodded and took Fengjiu there.

Yang Huan, accompanied by Zhao Yuanfang and Pini of Li, took the elevator to the reception room on the third floor of the hotel.

As soon as I got out of the elevator and walked into the living room, I saw Prince Albert who was half bald from afar.

"Hello, Your Highness, Your Highness,"

"Hello, Mr. Yang Huan, welcome to Monaco"

"Thanks"

After the two shook hands, they introduced several assistants who participated in the negotiations.

It was under the introduction of Prince Albert that Yang Huan met the famous European real estate developer Michelle Praiser.

This rich man who is already old is said to have rarely come forward, but this time he took action himself.

This made Yang Huan feel the sincerity of Monaco.

"Mr. Yang Huan, I must stay for a few more days when I come to Monaco for the first time. I believe that there will definitely be countless people who hope to have the opportunity to meet you," Prince Albert said with a smile.
To be continued...