Regarding the acquisition of Umbro, David Pace replied two days later, and he was willing to cooperate with Xiao Yu.

The 39-year-old clothing merchant knew very well that this was likely to be a crucial career change, and if he missed it, he might be so frustrated that he would thump his chest in the future.

After finalizing the cooperation with David Pace, Xiao Yu immediately called John David from the United States, along with a whole business operation team he set up according to Xiao Yu's requirements, and because they had collected all the information about Umbro during their time in the United States, and the preparation was very detailed, so they immediately started negotiations with Umbro as soon as they came.

After several days of arduous negotiations, Xiao Yu finally managed to win the troubled Umbro for £180 million, while David Pace sold his clothing company and other assets to raise £40 million, taking a 20% stake in it, and became the president of Umbro.

While Umbro's changes in the company's business strategy and internal restructuring were in full swing, Xiao Yu and John David rushed to Silicon Valley in the United States and signed another acquisition agreement on the day they arrived, this time it was Xiao Yu's investment company in Silicon Valley that acquired a Pyra laboratory in Silicon Valley.

In fact, in 1999, when the bubble of Internet technology stocks burst and countless investors lost confidence in Internet technology, blogs have made rapid progress in this year.

The reason for this situation is the improvement of blogging technology, among which the Blogger publishing software launched by Pyra Labs is one of the best, and this company is one of the top blogging sites.

Since not many online companies have paid attention to blogs for the time being, the current value of Pyra Labs is not high, but in Xiao Yu's previous life, when Google acquired the company in 2003, it caused a great sensation, and later even large companies such as AOL and News Corp have entered the blog field.

It is precisely because he is well aware of the prospect of blogging, so Xiao Yu decisively took the cash-short pyra laboratory at this time, and intends to inject a sum of money to provide it to this company for further research on blogging technology.

At the same time, Xiao Yu was also attracted by Evan Williams, one of the founders of this company, who was later the founder of Twitter, and Twitter's boom in the next few years convinced Xiao Yu that the acquisition of this company was definitely a profitable business.

In addition to the acquisition of Pyra, Xiao Yu plans to set up a laboratory in Silicon Valley that will be dedicated to the study of web technologies, such as Internet social networking sites and video-sharing sites, both of which will be the lab's first research projects.

In addition to these known studies, Xiao Yu will give researchers the most free space to unleash their own creativity, giving each of them as many opportunities as possible to experiment, allowing them to put their ideas into practice.

Of course, it takes time to put this into practice, but with Xiao Yu's huge financial backing, everything becomes possible, and you must know that the successful precedents of investing in companies such as Google and Apple have made Xiao Yu's investment in the network field extraordinarily famous, which can be seen from the thousands of people signing up on the first day of the lab's recruitment.

However, while investing in these future prospect projects, Xiao Yu did not forget to continue to increase investment in Google and Apple, especially Apple, which is definitely the most worthwhile company to invest in the next ten years, and during the Silicon Valley in the United States, Xiao Yu met with Apple's president Jobs several times, and the latter also agreed that Xiao Yu would further increase his shareholding in Apple, and Xiao Yu used his vision for the next few years to communicate with Jobs about the core of Apple's development in the next few years.

Xiao Yu is very familiar with mp3, mobile phones, and tablets, although he couldn't afford such luxury goods in his previous life, but just like Xiao Yu is keen on sports cars, he is also very familiar with these electronic products, and it is the first thing to communicate with Jobs, and there are many exquisite ideas that have attracted Jobs's praise, which also indirectly contributed to Jobs' agreement with Xiao Yu's proposal to further invest in Apple.

In just a few days, Xiao Yu negotiated several big deals one after another, and the rest of the matter was left to John David and his team, and Xiao Yu returned to Manchester on January 14.

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After the replay of the third round of the FA Cup on January 13, the draw for the fourth round of the FA Cup was officially announced on January 14.

The much-anticipated scene of the new Manchester United meeting the Red Devils on Mars and the Earth did not appear, and the new Manchester United met Premier League powerhouse Chelsea in the fourth round of the FA Cup, and it was an away game, while Manchester United hosted Everton.

It is widely rumored that it is likely that the gimmick of the new Manchester United meeting Manchester United was too hot by the outside world, coupled with the previous game of the new Manchester United meeting Arsenal, so that the FA did not dare to control the draw too obviously, so this did not let the new Manchester United meet Manchester United.

But even so, English football has been very lively lately.

Since the last time the Brazilian media broke the Summons Gate incident, Edwards did not dare to stay in Brazil, but returned to Manchester, but unexpectedly, three days after his return to Manchester, the British newspaper found the Brazilian Chronicle Mary.

"I think I've tried everything a woman can do, but it took 4 hours for him to be able to ** with me, and it's very, very bad!" Mary's indictments of blood and tears appeared frequently on television and in newspapers in England.

There is no doubt that the media in England has always liked to dig up the most private scandals, in order to be able to create sales and ratings, they even do not hesitate to use the method of star-making-star-destroying, constantly creating English stars, and then at the same time of star-making, they continue to collect the star's ** and scandals, and wait until the star becomes famous, and then break out the scandal and destroy it in one fell swoop.

Now, Edwards' scandal is obviously more interesting than the Treble champion Manchester United's defeat to Brazil, so for a while, major media in Britain and even Europe began to pay attention to Edwards and dig deep into his privacy.

The first thing that was exposed was Edwards' peeping into the women's toilet, which is not the first time this kind of thing, but it was re-dug up and hyped at this time, which undoubtedly made Edwards worse.

Then the news media dug up Edwards' gold house, which actually had a silver nest only 6 kilometers away from his house, and in order to prove the reliable surname of this news, they even found Sarah Carter, a call girl who had been having an affair with Edwards for many years.

According to Sarah Carter's testimony, Edwards has also had affairs with many memorabiners in this place, and even held several surname parties and uncovered conventions, and in the eyes of this call girl, Edwards is a stingy, self-righteous, and perverted old man with a tendency to treat himself.

As soon as this news broke, it immediately caused a great sensation in English football, especially in the eyes of Manchester United fans, Edwards's image was even more unbearable than before.

Manchester United fans have long been unhappy with Edwards' desire to sell his stake in Manchester United, and now as soon as these scandals broke, fans immediately launched a series of criticisms of Edwards, especially after Manchester United returned from the defeat in Brazil, and the gate of Old Trafford was frequently seen in protest demonstrations.

Some of the more radical fans have even called on the Red Devils fans to refuse to go to Old Trafford in the form of a boycott to demand that the United board punish Edwards, because they believe that it is a humiliation for the Red Devils to stand with the unbearable Edwards.

Under these circumstances, it became clear that the United board could no longer sit idly by and they soon convened a meeting of the board of directors, at which the board members, after intense discussions, finally decided to remove Edwards as chairman of Manchester United and appoint his assistant Peter Kenyon as Manchester United's chief executive to succeed him.

However, despite the drastic personnel changes at the club's top, under the control of Alex Ferguson, the Red Devils have been riding high after returning to England and washing away Brazil's slump, which has become the most comforting thing for Red Devils fans in recent times.

But what most fans don't know is that the newly appointed Kenyon is still following Edwards's strategy in the club's governing policy, and is currently intensively planning a premeditated plan to increase the ticket price of Old Trafford next season.

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Entering mid to late January, the new Manchester United schedule was relaxed compared to before, which relieved the physical pressure on the players to a certain extent, and this also immediately allowed the new Manchester United to reap the results.

The Reds have picked up six points from their two national league games on January 15 and 18, and in those two games, Kicic has continued his consistent scoring rate this season, scoring three goals.

In the fourth round of the FA Cup on 22 January, the new Manchester United were unable to salvage the defeat at Stamford Bridge despite opening the scoring with a first-half header from Kic, losing 2-1 to Chelsea at home.

However, after the FA Cup defeat of the new Manchester United returned to the national league, they immediately showed strong attacking power, and the home team turned the visiting Hereford team into a sieve, and announced the strength of the new Manchester United in the national league with a 5-0 victory, washing away the frustration of the FA Cup defeat.

At the same time, in the third round of the FA Cup Winner's Cup on the 29th, the new Manchester United, who was playing away, defeated the opponent again and successfully advanced to the fourth round.

The new Manchester United then travel to take on second-placed Boston in a crucial battle that will determine the season's standings.

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