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 is a middle-aged man in his early forties.
He has a slightly chubby figure common among taxi drivers.
His service attitude is pretty good, but he talks a bit too much.
Since I just looked at the WeChat location on my phone, my mouth has been filled with laughter.
Never stopped.
"La Finca, that's where the richest people in Madrid live, and the place you're going to is on the hillside of the La Finca community.
All the people living there are super rich."
"Hey, tell me who you are looking for.
Maybe I know him."
"This La Finca is home to many football stars.
Many stars from Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Getafe live here.
The last time I invited guests in, I happened to see Tevez moving.
Wow, this is my first time.
I immediately jumped down to ask for his autograph.
Who told me that I am a fan of Atletico Madrid?"
"Another time, I happened to be soliciting customers nearby, and I went in with my empty car to take a look around.
Unexpectedly, I saw Vidal coming out to take out the garbage, so I quickly took out my phone, took a photo, sent it to the newspaper office, and made a hundred Extra euros, haha” "I'm telling you, I'm not just bragging.
I know exactly where each star lives in La Finca Community."
"Well, a little further ahead, get off the highway and turn around, and you'll find La Finca."
Russell, along with his two vice-chairmen, put on a little disguise and sat in the back of the taxi.
He depressedly endured the constant noise of the taxi driver in the front row, and the scream in his heart.
A depressing one.
But when he heard him say that La Finca had arrived, he immediately followed the driver's gesture and looked over.
Sure enough, the taxi quickly turned off the highway.
After getting off the highway, we soon arrived at 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 brief inspection, he let them pass.
La Finca is a well-known wealthy area in Madrid.
There are single-family villas here, some large and some small, and they are neatly planned.
However, the architectural styles are a little inconsistent.
After all, some like the tradition of red bricks and green tiles, while others I like the unconventional and modern style.
The road is not wide, but there are not many cars, so I can walk faster.
After passing through the dense residential area and entering the high-end area, there is another security duty room at the foot of the mountain.
This time it was more troublesome.
After the security guard asked about 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 down, and looked through the front windshield at the community in front of him.
In fact, you can't see anything, you can only see a lush mountain forest, with a faint building peeking out from the gaps in the forest.
"Okay, you can go up, but please slow down."
After passing through, enter the high-end community and follow the winding serpentine path all the way up the mountain.
Every time we passed an important corner or intersection along the way, there were heavily armed security guards on duty.
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When they saw their cars coming up, they would immediately come out, stand straight on the roadside, salute, and guide them the way.
This made several people in the car very surprised.
Labor costs in Spain are so high and the entire mountainous area is so big.
How much does it cost just to hire these security guards?
The houses here cost over ten million, which is expensive, but many people can still afford them.
But the property fees here are probably quite expensive, so not just anyone can afford to live here.
Following the security guard's directions, the taxi arrived at an intersection halfway up the mountain and saw the security guard blocking the road, gesturing for them to turn in.
It seems that we have arrived at the right place.
"I won't go in.
You guys can take a walk," the taxi driver said somewhat depressedly.
Walking in here made him feel ashamed and defeated.
Russell and the others didn't force themselves.
They were at the right place anyway, so they got off the car.
The Barcelona president had just closed the car door when he suddenly remembered something and came back.
"Hey, aren't you a fan of Atletico Madrid?"
"Ah, yes, what's wrong?"
the taxi driver nodded.
Russell laughed and pointed to the modern-style mansion not far from the intersection.
"That's the mansion of your Atletico Madrid boss in Spain.
Remember it."
"What?"
The taxi driver was shocked.
But Russell didn't say anything more.
He called to the two assistants and walked towards the intersection.
The taxi driver was left behind, sitting in the car, staring blankly at the mansion deep in the intersection, and he was stunned.
"Good morning, Mr.
Russell" "Good morning, Mr.
Long Wu" Russell recognized at a glance that the person who came to receive him at the gate was Yang Huan's bodyguard, Long Wu.
"Master Huan has been waiting for you for a long time.
He is swimming.
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 is made up of various irregular geometric figures.
However, it is located in the woods, but it seems to blend into it without any damage.
The overall environment and quiet atmosphere of the forest.
Just walking in here gives people a very natural and harmonious feeling, and the air is particularly fresh.
Stepping up the stairs and walking into the villa, it gives people a very different feeling.
If you look at the villa from the outside, it feels a bit small, but when you walk in, you will feel a sense of openness.
The space is not only not small, but it is very large and open.
Because the exterior walls are all designed with glass curtain walls, the light is very good.
Even the aisles and entrances that should be dark are very bright.
Especially when looking at the woods outside through the glass, it makes people feel like they are living in a primitive jungle. feeling in.
"This place is really great," Russell couldn't help but admire.
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"Yeah, I didn't expect that there is such a house in Madrid."
"I remember that I seemed to have seen it in a magazine before.
It should be designed by a famous designer, and it seems to have won some international awards."
Unexpectedly, as soon as Bartomeu finished speaking, Yang Huan's voice rang outside the door.
"Haha, what Josep said is absolutely right.
This was designed by Eduardo Arroyo, who won the world's best residential design award.
It was later bought and built here."
"But after the house was built, the original owner went bankrupt due to the European debt crisis.
The price of the house was too high and it couldn't be sold, so it was put off.
Until a year ago, I heard about this house and thought it was good.
The price was good and I was willing to give it a discount, so I bought it.”
Yang Huan, wearing casual home sportswear, walked into the study room with a smile and asked everyone to sit down.
Eduardo Arroyo is a well-known artist in Spain.
He is not only a painter, graphic artist, writer and set designer.
I didn't expect that he is also so good at residential architecture.
What's even more admirable is that he is already very old, eight years old.
Ten years old.
It seems that the entire home should be designed by Eduardo Arroyo.
Even the sofa is very simple and pursues nature, 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 raised his fingers towards Long Wu, who immediately understood and asked the servant to prepare tea.
Not long after, a cup of fragrant hot tea was delivered to everyone.
"Try the tea I brought from China.
It's not available outside."
After saying that, Yang Huan nodded towards Long Wu.
The latter knew that they had something to talk about, so he nodded, walked out, and closed the door.
"How are you doing?
I heard that you have been in trouble recently."
Yang Huan looked at Russell 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 Neymar’s transfer.
In Yang Huan's previous life, Russell's resignation was because Neymar's transfer was full of shady matters.
In the past, Yang Huan didn't understand, always feeling that Russell was greedy for money, but then he gradually understood, and it became clear that this kind of transfer involving third-party ownership is often difficult to explain clearly in one sentence.
There are a lot of gray areas here.
Even if Russell stepped down and Bartomeu came up, and with the permission of Neymar's father, all the transfer terms and contracts were disclosed, there are still a lot of gray areas.
The details of the transfer have not been announced and are full of doubts and cannot even be explained.
With the arrival of Yang Huan, Neymar was brought to Southampton early.
Barcelona no longer had to hide anything when they introduced Neymar, but problems still arose.
That's because the transfer fee is too high Barcelona signed Neymar at an astonishingly high price.
This certainly excited the fans, made the entire football market boil, and even made Barcelona's sponsors very excited, but it also gave competitors an opportunity to attack Rosell.
Sharp weapon.
Because in the past few years, Russell 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.
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Not long ago, former chairman Laporta publicly asked Russell to disclose the team's financial situation, but Russell was eventually suppressed.
After all, after Barcelona signed Neymar, regardless of competitive level or income level, are steadily improving.
But now, a new problem has arisen.
When Russell heard Yang Huan's question, he immediately glanced at Bartomeu next to him.
The latter knew that he still had to make this ugly face himself.
As a last resort, I could only cough twice and said: "Master Huan, we are indeed in trouble, and it is a big trouble for us, but for you, Master Huan, it should be just a piece of cake."
"What do you mean?"
Yang Huan found it funny.
Now give me a high hat, you are good enough However, when he thought about how arrogant these two guys were when he wanted to introduce Ibrahimovic, but now, they eagerly came to him, 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" Hearing this, he actually knew what was going on.
"But, Master Huan, it just so happens that we have a bank loan due in May, and we spent a lot of money during the winter break to introduce Llorente from Juventus, so" At this point, Bartomeu was a little embarrassed and it was hard to say anything.
"So we are afraid that we are limited in terms of funding.
Please believe that we have done our best to raise it."
Yang Huan knew well that no matter how nice Bartomeu said it, in the final analysis, Barcelona still had no money.
Frankly speaking, this can’t be blamed on Russell.
On the one hand, Russell is indeed not Florentino, and the gap in ability between the two is not that big.
But we must also note that when Laporta was in charge of the team, although the results were excellent, the team's finances were quite poor.
To put it bluntly, Laporta was lucky.
The heroes of the second period of the dream, including Ronaldinho and other players, were introduced by Rosell, and the third period of the dream happened to catch up with Messi.
The rise of local youth training such as Xi, Iniesta, Pique and Busquets.
Without the emergence of this group of hard-to-find youth talents, Laporta's end would have been quite miserable.
But who says people are lucky enough to catch up with good times?
When Russell came up, there were many financial problems.
The third phase of Dream has reached its peak, and his performance will inevitably decline.
But even so, Russell has indeed done well in Barcelona these past few years.
Even if many fans scold him for being stingy and accuse him of a lot of problems, it must be seen that the team's finances are indeed improving step by step.
This is Rosell's greatest contribution to Barcelona.
Therefore, we can only say that this guy Russell has really bad luck
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