Yang Yang had not directly participated in Ajax's operations. He had arranged for Wei Zheng to join the Supervisory Board, placed a Chinese financial expert in Ajax's finance department, and, through Wei Zheng, facilitated a partnership between Ajax and China's Tencent Video. In the future, he also hoped to have Ajax cooperate with some domestic youth-training clubs.
But all of this was a long-term process. None of it was a petty maneuver; it was Yang Yang's open and aboveboard plan.
He had made his intentions perfectly clear when he decided to invest in Ajax, so Ajax was doing everything it could to cooperate with him in these matters.
At this stage, all Yang Yang needed to do was watch Ajax's reform and development. As for everything else, he only needed to pay. Thus, after Van der Sar and the other members of the technical group submitted their plan to improve the youth-training system, Yang Yang readily paid another ten million euros. The remaining thirty million would be transferred in installments over the next six months.
Put simply, as long as Ajax provided a spending plan, Yang Yang would pay. It was that simple.
Apart from Van der Sar and the others, Yang Yang also made a point of meeting with commercial director Menno Geelen. From then on, Wei Zheng would fully assist Geelen with his commercial promotion plans in Asia. Yang Yang's main purpose in meeting him was to offer encouragement and support.
After hurriedly spending two days handling everything, Yang Yang flew back to Madrid to spend Christmas with his wife and children.
On the twenty-sixth, Real Madrid returned to camp for training.
Pintus and Mseyidi had already prepared the implementation plan for the winter-break physical-conditioning program. All the players were divided into three groups and underwent enhanced physical