Perhaps if Barron wants to truly acquire Manchester United Club completely, he will still have to wait until next year - just like the Glazer family did in their previous life.
In the original time and space, the Glazer family took advantage of the internal strife in the Manchester United club and the conflict between the club's head coach Ferguson and the major shareholder, and used Ferguson and the team's consultant David Gill to complete the acquisition of Manchester United.
At present, Ferguson still has a very close relationship with John Magnier and McManus, the major shareholders of Manchester United.
In fact, the conflict between the two sides is very interesting. In the final analysis, the problem lies in a horse...
In addition to being a major shareholder of Manchester United Football Club, John Magnier is also a well-known horse racing tycoon in Ireland.
Previously, because of his good relationship with Ferguson, John Magnier gave Ferguson half of the ownership of a racehorse to thank him for his contribution to the club.
This also laid the hidden danger of the two sides turning against each other.
The reason is that this racehorse named "Rock of Gibraltar" is very famous. It has won the Group A championship for a record seven times in a row and won more than one million pounds in prize money in various competitions.
The racehorse will retire at the end of this year and become an excellent stallion, and a stallion can earn tens of thousands of pounds each time it has sex with another mare - it is estimated that "Rock of Gibraltar" is expected to bring in 50 million to 100 million pounds in revenue.
Ferguson has always believed that he should share in these profits, but John Magnier believes that Ferguson's ownership is limited to the racetrack and has nothing to do with the stallion's profits.
This involved tens of millions of pounds in revenue, so in anger, Ferguson went directly to court with John Magnier.
As the club's major shareholder, John Magnier also publicly accused Ferguson of using his position as the club's head coach to obtain many additional benefits in the club - including his son's agency making huge profits in the club's transfers. In addition, Ferguson's own contract also had problems...
So because of a horse, the two sides became enemies, which eventually led to the Glazer family buying the Manchester United club after winning over Ferguson and others, thus starting the history of sucking blood from this club.
Currently, DS Capital's shareholding is second only to Cubic Expression, which owns 28.7% of Manchester United's shares, and it is still continuing to acquire shares. Therefore, at this time, it is basically impossible for the Glazer family to complete the acquisition of Manchester United as in the previous life...
However, holding more than 20% of the shares is still not safe. After all, if the other party really buys out the shares held by Cubic Expression by some means, once its shareholding ratio exceeds 75%, it can try to privatize the club...
Therefore, DS Capital's current goal is to increase its stake in Manchester United Club to more than 25%.
In fact, this all depends on how much Barron is willing to pay to buy Manchester United. After all, if he really spends a lot of money and directly buys out the shares held by other small shareholders, once the shares he holds exceed the 28.7% held by Cubic Expression and he becomes the major shareholder of Manchester United, there are still many ways to dilute the other party's shares - such as increasing capital and expanding shares.
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Two days after Nigel went to Africa, Barron obtained more detailed information about the Imperial Shield military company and, after collecting intelligence, formulated a retaliation plan against the enemy armed organization.
In the end, Barron once again paid 15 million pounds to acquire full ownership of the "Imperial Shield" military company. After purchasing a batch of weapons and equipment through arms dealers and handing them over to the armed organizations that cooperated with them, they obtained the mining rights to a local gold mine.
In addition, the "Imperial Shield" military company began to recruit personnel from the UK again, and purchased two retired Lynx attack helicopters from the military.
The Lynx attack helicopter was developed and produced by the United Kingdom and France in the 1970s. To this day, the British Army still has nearly 100 Lynx attack helicopters in service. However, even after being upgraded, they are gradually being retired...
The latest British Army armed helicopters are still mainly the "Wildcat" helicopters, the successor to the "Lynx", and the Apache helicopters purchased from the United States.
It's not that Barron doesn't want to equip the "Imperial Shield" military company with more expensive armed helicopters such as Apache and Black Hawk, but it's mainly because there is no need - after all, at this time in Africa, most of the armed groups they face are black brothers who are armed with AK47s, riding in Toyota pickup trucks, and come and go like the wind. The "Lynx" armed helicopter is cheap and has sufficient performance to deal with the opponent.
If you really bought an Apache or Black Hawk, and the opponent got lucky and shot one down with an RPG, it would be a "Black Hawk Down" and you would be heartbroken.
So, with the help of "Empire Shield", the armed organization they cooperated with defeated the hostile organization in one fell swoop in the subsequent operations.
At this point, after his health condition improved, Melvin Coe, the founder of the Imperial Shield military company, completed the handover of the company and returned to England.
After receiving a price of more than 10 million pounds from Barron to purchase the Imperial Shield military company, Melvin Coy was ready to return to his hometown of Scotland, buy a piece of land, and recuperate.
After the acquisition, the Imperial Shield military company was renamed the Protector Military Services Company. The company will be held by an offshore company registered by Barron. Markel Paulson, the former deputy of Melvin Coe, will become the military director of the Protector Company - he will be mainly responsible for the Protector Company's African affairs.
In addition, Barron's security consultant Frank Water will serve as the security director of Protector. He will be responsible for recruiting veterans and special police personnel in the UK to set up a military contracting department for Protector. These people will soon go to Iraq to undertake part of the British Army's auxiliary work.
Yes, as early as April 9, the US-UK coalition forces had occupied the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, which also meant the official fall of Saddam's regime.
After occupying Baghdad and forming an Iraqi transitional government, the Iraq War did not end, but rather the beginning of another stage - a stage that would last for twenty years, until Baron was reborn in his previous life. Although the United States had promised many times to withdraw its troops from Iraq, it still maintained a military presence there.
At this stage, the problems they faced were no less serious than the war against Saddam's regime - after all, there were visible enemies before, but afterwards, there were countless small groups carrying out continuous attacks and harassment...
This is also the time when the US-UK coalition forces gradually reduce the presence of their regular troops and begin to rely on private military contractors to complete their personnel, security and even offensive tasks in the city.
Through Barron's acquaintance, the Duke of Westminster, who was then serving as Assistant Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Defense, the Protector Military Services Company also obtained an employment contract from the British government. Next, they will send a security force of more than 100 people to Basra to protect some British personnel.
After occupying Basra, the most important port city in southern Iraq, the main force of the British Army was stationed here. It can be said that this city will also be the main location for the British Army to be stationed in the future, and the business of the Protector Company will also start from here.