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650、The Great Savior of Retired Players

The Cuckold of Lovren is not a temporary fabrication, but something that can be found casually.

This is definitely a heartbreaking story.

A tall and handsome man with a successful career, begged for his wife to stay for the sake of family and children, but his wife resolutely abandoned her husband and two children and wanted to pursue her love.

Anita must have true love for the lumberjack.

True love should always be respected.

So Long Shu tried his best to persuade Lovren to make a decision and prompted the teammate to transfer all the millions of pounds of assets under his name to the investment fund he just opened.

During the transfer process, perhaps because he was disheartened or because he had special trust in Longshute, Lovren used the method of "free donation".

He is not an investment, but a donation, which means that this multi-million-pound asset has no nominal relationship with him.

Then…he negotiated a divorce with his wife.

The children were raised by themselves, and Anita left the house with nothing but £100,000 as settlement fee.

Anita, who was determined to pursue love, unexpectedly did not worry about the issue of dividing property with Lovren. She left her husband who had been married to her for three years without even looking at it, and boarded a flight to Croatia.

Looking at the whistling jet, Lovren, who was staying in the parking lot, suddenly cried like a tearful person.

it's all over.

But it's just begun.

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Long Shute did not tell Rodgers everything, but it is impossible to hide the player's divorce from the team's head coach.

Rogers waved his hand and gave Lovren a two-week holiday, allowing him to recover a little and handle the follow-up matters properly.

At the same time, Long Shute also made a big move.

On October 27, the "Retired Players' Life Security Foundation" advocated by him and strongly supported by the FA and the Players' Union was officially established in Liverpool.

This is not a landmark foundation, because in the sports industry, there are enough foundations of various kinds. Almost a little influential stars want to get a share of the pie in this field, but due to poor management and lack of successors, most of them have loud thunder and little rain, and they quickly disappear into the dust of history.

But Long Shute obviously did not make a gimmick this time. He launched this initiative more than two months ago, hoping that both retired and active players can join the foundation. For this reason, he also contacted more than a dozen celebrities from England and Liverpool.

Perhaps his influence is really strong enough, or perhaps it is just that everyone has seen his ability to make money. On the day of the unveiling ceremony, the foundation’s account raised more than 80 million pounds!

This does not include Long Shute’s own start-up capital and the FA’s allocation!

Mainly BBC, Sky TV, Liverpool Echo, and Times, the relevant mainstream media have focused on this matter, and most of the comments put forward are positive:

"Yes, we all know that China Dragon is quite good at financial management and investment. It has dominated the first place in the global sports star money-making list for three consecutive years, and has led Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi with an absolute advantage. According to the evaluation of relevant institutions, the value of this football superstar has reached about 1 billion pounds! Compared with this number, his wife, the famous British film and television star Emma Watson, can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket..."

"According to Long Shute's own introduction, the Life Security Foundation of Retired Players is committed to protecting professional players who have no support after retirement, and provides them with corresponding employment opportunities based on the different situations of the players, so as to avoid having to sit and wait for death when they are in their thirties and forties..."

"What kind of spirit is this Chinese going thousands of miles to protect the retirement life of a group of English players? This is the legendary internationalist spirit! On the other hand, what have they done in the past few decades of government departments in our British Empire? In addition to issuing minimum living allowances, providing low-rent housing, and using taxpayers' hard-earned money to support lazy people, what else will they do?!"

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The foundation was not established, but because Long Shute was really kind and wanted to rob the rich and help the poor, but to gain a more positive social image in the UK and Europe.

Sports athletes have always been an extremely wealthy profession, but when most people retire, they will experience huge gaps.

For example, good health.

Most professional players experience injuries, and when they retire, these injuries often have a huge impact on their lives.

Due to multiple surgeries, Batistuta's ankle cartilage has basically been removed. Two bones collided directly when walking, which was very painful. At the worst, he was unable to walk. The bathroom was only 3 meters away from him but could not walk, and finally peed on the bed. The God of War is still waiting for the advancement of artificial ankle technology...

There is also Kaka, the injury in the groin once affected his sleep. In severe weather, he could only grit his teeth and shrink into a ball like a rheumatoid patient, and it was difficult to fall asleep all night, let alone normal husband and wife activities - so Long Shute's arrival probably saved his marriage with Caroline...

For example, economic income.

According to a survey by the British sports charity "XPro", 33.3% of British professional players will divorce their wives in their first year of retirement, and more than 40% of players will declare bankruptcy within five years after retirement. Even this number is not shocking, because more than 60% of NBA players go bankrupt within five years of retirement, while the percentage of players in the North American Rugby Major League NFL goes bankrupt is as high as 78%.

Chinese media reported that when Dong Fangzhuo was at Manchester United, he spent millions of yuan to buy multiple luxury cars. It is said that even Ronaldo and Rooney at that time could not compare with him. Therefore, he was jealous of the two bigwigs of the Red Devils and was quickly excluded and suppressed. He was also despised by Ferguson, who valued records. He only played in the first team for a few minutes from beginning to end.

This report was later denied by Dong Fangzhuo, but it is actually quite in line with the consumption psychology of most professional players.

You should know that the weekly salary of a Premier League apprentice is generally between 80 and 100 yuan, and once a professional contract is signed, the weekly salary will immediately soar to four digits!

In the general environment where the Premier League generally earns tens of thousands of pounds a week, spending money is a common phenomenon.

Luxury cars, luxury houses, nightclubs, and beauties are almost the best portrayal of some players' off-field life. They may have earned tens of millions of pounds in their careers for more than ten years, but when they retire, they will find that their bank account may still be negative!

Class 92 member Gillespie insisted on going to the bar for a long time to spend a big deal of £130,000, and eventually went bankrupt due to gambling losses of £7 million.

Former England goalkeeper David James, during the highlight of his money, if his shoes were worn, he would throw them away and buy new ones. If the car was scratched, he would buy new ones directly. The final result was obvious. He declared bankrupt one year after retirement, and then made a living by auctioning the jerseys he exchanged with Lampard, Cech and others...

Former famous star Li Hendry of Villa bought a big house for his parents, brothers and sisters, and aunts and aunts when he was a player. When he retired, he found that he had no financial resources to continue to pay off these mortgages. What's more unfortunate is that British real estate collapsed later, and his direct economic losses reached 10 million pounds.

Although young players will also receive education in youth training schools, such as Rashford will go home after the game when he was 19 years old, it is undeniable that most players have not very high education levels, so they rarely have the concept of financial management for personal assets. After all, not everyone is Beckham or Ronaldo.

For example, the legendary captain of the Red Army, Gerald, whose best score in junior high school mathematics was only C, which was 70 points. When he tutored his daughter for elementary school homework, he even had to post it online to seek answers.

The elementary school question that stumped Gerald was...4/5=?/15.

Of course, some people understand the principle of preparing for the future, but investment has always been a high-risk matter. Even the Chinese real estate industry, which claims to be "solid profits but not losses", may be trapped by unscrupulous developers or even run away with the money. What's more, European real estate has never been very prosperous.

Even if these players with developed limbs and simple minds want to invest, it is difficult to find a way. After all, not everyone, like Arsenal midfielder Flamini, can easily find an emerging industry with a market potential of 30 billion euros...

For example, former West Ham United and Australian national team captain Lucas Neal is the background board where "Grosso made contributions". His total career income of his players is as high as 40 million Australian dollars, about 200 million yuan. But he is very keen on high-risk investment, such as American real estate and British E-Runbao. In the end, all the money was wasted and he entered bankruptcy liquidation as soon as he retired.

For example, Ronaldo once invested in a social software Mobbito, which is said to be particularly powerful, equivalent to the Portuguese version of 58.com + Dianping + Meituan, and then, there is nothing else.

The same person also has Pike. Chairman Pi, who claims to be Pi, invested in a video sharing software called Viddy in 2012. When investing, the software claimed to be able to surpass Facebook and Instagram. As a result, two years later, the entire company sold more than $10 million, and even 30% of the original financing was not recovered.

Therefore, Long Shute proposed this idea to his business team, and those professionals quickly made various preliminary preparations. After he joined Liverpool, the plan officially began to be prepared.

In fact, Britain and China also have many similarities. Using the football carrier, Long Shute can quickly obtain a large amount of political resources, although these arrogant British people are not optimistic about his foundation.

But Long Shute doesn't care, his foundation has only two purposes:

The first is to build connections. From the grassroots coaches, players, referees, Football Association officials, to the upper-level government agencies, business tycoons, and celebrities, they can all be encircled in their own circles and improve their social status by the way - of course, this takes time.

The second is to absorb funds. Although the acquisition of Liverpool Club received strong support from domestic consortiums, Long Shute still paid a huge price to become the biggest discourse person. Therefore, when promoting new investment projects, he inevitably seemed powerless and could get tens of millions of funds, which is also a rare support force for him now.

As for the benefit of society, I will visit a few retired players every year, send a bag of rice and a pot of oil, then shake hands and have a chat, and let the TV station shoot the whole process. Isn’t this enough!

It really doesn't work... I just chose a key poor household and built two brick and tile houses for him. The land in England is not expensive!

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Chapter completed!
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