Starting Sign-In from a Billionaire God-Chapter 1041 - 1040

Yun City Football Club was originally owned by a tycoon in Yun City. In recent years, due to poor business conditions, the club's huge expenses, and poor management leading to no profitability, it gradually became a burden, and he wanted to get rid of this hot potato.

Under Wei Yue'er's negotiation, in the end, Mortal Group took over Yun City Football Club at a very cost-effective price, acquiring all the club's assets, including the current players.

After acquiring the club, Lin Fan reviewed the club's financial status over the years. With his top-level investment master skills, he discovered that under the tycoon, the club's management condition was extremely poor.

This was because the tycoon didn't understand football. When he originally bought Yun City Football Club, it was purely a commercial investment activity, wanting to make money through this project. However, due to a lack of understanding of the industry, there was a serious imbalance between income and expenditure, with frequent high investments yielding nothing, reaching a point where he had to drop it later.

Diving into an unfamiliar industry is a common mistake many investors make. They only see the red sea, but not the crisis. Outsiders leading insiders leads to being misled in the end.

Lin Fan bought Yun City Football Club with the initial aim of cultivating excellent football players to supply the national team, launching a sprint toward the World Cup.

Lin Fan's intentions were so pure. He wanted to bring glory to the country, make Huaxia football shine in the world, a truly innocent heart!

But as the head of a group, Lin Fan couldn't afford to do unprofitable business, he couldn't leave a mess like the previous owner, where everything fell apart.

Only under the premise of club profitability can the development of football be discussed.

Just like a person can only discuss ideals under the premise of being full, otherwise, if you're about to starve, what ideals can you possibly discuss?

With an investment master's judgment, Lin Fan decided to make drastic reforms to the club, and Yun City Football Club is about to face an earthquake.

However, the club members seemed very calm, as in their eyes this was just the new official burning three fires, making a fuss for a while, and it wouldn't impact them much.

As far as they knew, although Lin Fan was the richest man in Yun City, his understanding of football was certainly not better than the previous owner, as Lin Fan was also an outsider.

What can an outsider stir up? Just some ruckus here and there, and afterwards, everything remains the same as before.

Li Shanfeng, the head coach of Yun City Football Club, had this thought exactly.

As the head coach, he considered himself the most knowledgeable person about football in the entire club. If he claimed second place, no one would dare claim first.

The previous owner valued him greatly, whatever he said stood, since the owner didn't understand football, he could only listen to him.

Li Shanfeng took advantage of the owner's trust, pocketing a lot of gains.

To say football is a highly profitable sport isn't an exaggeration; it's because there are so many football fans. Globally, football is arguably the only global sport, with countless fans.

Popularity equals money.

An international football star, just by selling jerseys with his number, can earn a lot each year because there are many fans, meaning many people willing to spend. It's as simple as that.

Some less popular sports, like weightlifting, diving, gymnastics, have little popularity, and athletes in these sports, after retiring, sometimes can't even secure a living. There was a news report of a gymnast who, after retiring, had to perform on the streets to make a living—very pathetic.

This contrasts sharply with footballers living in luxury homes and driving fancy cars.

Let's not talk about world-class football stars like Ronaldo or Messi, whose net worth is in the hundreds of millions; even some not-so-famous athletes earn a decent salary. For instance, Huaxia's football players play terribly yet still make a lot of money.

Why so? Because football is profitable, and in a market economy, with a large football market, naturally, the industry's compensation is high.

Many are indignant, saying that the national football team plays so poorly, yet earns so much money; it's like spending money to feed a bunch of worthless bums, while athletes in other sports who actually win championships and bring glory to the country have worse conditions than those 'bums' in football. It's really frustrating.

But there's no choice; football just enjoys high popularity.

A writer who types ten thousand words a day with few readers earns barely enough for cigarettes, while a female influencer striking poses in front of a camera can attract tens of thousands of drooling male fans and get a seafront house within six months. It's the same principle.

As the head coach of Yun City Club, with the owner not understanding football, Li Shanfeng prospered greatly.

Even though Yun City Club now had a new owner, in Li Shanfeng's view, nothing changed; both were outsiders, and he merely needed to play the same tricks. After all, he was the one who knew football best in the entire club; the owner could only choose to trust him.

If the team achieved results, it would surely be to his credit as the coach. If the team lost, regardless of the reason, it was definitely not the coach's fault.

The previous owner was exactly the one he misled in this way.

Little did Li Shanfeng know that Lin Fan was exactly the opposite of what he expected, and he would soon collide head-on.

After the routine training that day, Li Shanfeng, surrounded by players, planned to leave the club. The scene was like a celestial star supported by the surrounding players, and Li Shanfeng was clearly the leader, with these players acting like his little followers.

Suddenly, Li Shanfeng noticed a limping middle-aged man approaching.

He let out a sound of surprise and quickly recognized this limping middle-aged man.

Scenes from the past immediately filled Li Shanfeng's mind!

Wu Da, once a football genius, he was hailed as the Right Golden Foot. Some said he was Huaxia football's descending lucky star, and with him, Huaxia football would usher in its most glorious era.

Back then, in the team Wu Da was part of, Wu Da alone stood out, radiating brilliance, while other players were overshadowed by his light and were left in darkness.

At that time, Li Shanfeng was one of them, looking up to Wu Da, appearing humble before him, like a little follower.

Times have changed.

Now, Li Shanfeng had become the head coach of Yun City Club, with boundless prestige, seeing that once-conceited genius now turned into a limping broke middle-aged man, wearing ragged and filthy clothes, resembling a beggar.

Li Shanfeng immediately started to jeer. The once humble little follower used the most bitter and acerbic words to trample this fallen genius, as if the past inferiority was being vented and transformed into an overwhelming sense of superiority.

The players might have felt that Li Shanfeng was excessive, but who dared to offend him? They all joined in mocking the limping middle-aged man.

At this moment, Lin Fan came.

"Hey uncle, what a coincidence! We meet again." 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

Lin Fan walked in, seemingly as if he hadn't heard what Li Shanfeng and the others just said, but instead walked directly to the limping middle-aged man.

The limping man felt happy upon seeing Lin Fan. Ignoring Li Shanfeng and the others, he said, "Young man, I'm here for the job application."

Lin Fan said, "Alright, welcome!"

Li Shanfeng and the others exchanged looks, who is this guy?