Messi transfers to "Paris"? CVC acquires La Liga ? Let’s take a look at what’s going on in La Liga. The following is pure practical information, and the estimated reading time is 8 minutes.
Trophy assets: La Liga kicks off in Spain
2 This Friday La Liga will kick off without its most famous face: Lionel Messi. La Liga starts this Friday, Popular king Messi will not be present. ⊙ sentence stem This Friday La Liga will kick off. La Liga starts this Friday. ⊙ Key words ★ trophy assets n. Trophy assets. This translation is not easy to understand. Simply put, it is an asset that can be used to show off. For example, some people regard beautiful girl friends as trophy assets. (Screenshot taken from Weibo: Guan Xin Sam) Example: "Rather than buying trophy assets with limited upside potential, this is completely different since it's a cash-flow play," Feder said in an interview with FORBES. " This is completely different from buying a status symbol asset with limited appreciation potential, because it is playing with cash flow," Feder said in an interview with Forbes. ★ kick off v. Commonly used expression: kick-off meeting, which refers to the "project kick-off meeting". It will be Spanish domestic football’s top division’s first season without him since 2004. This will be the first season without Messi in the Spanish domestic top league since 2004. ⊙ Sentence stem It will be the first season without him. This is the first season without Messi. ⊙ Key words ★ top division n. Top. division The term refers to the division of a sport. The former captain of Barcelona, the world's best footballer, was forced out of the team by bad financial management at the club and moved to Paris St Germain. Messi was forced to quit Barcelona and signed for Paris Saint-Germain.
⊙ Sentence stem
The former captain of Barcelona was forced out of the team.
Messi quit Barcelona team .
⊙ Key words
★ force out
v. Exit (current position), generally refers to resignation, transfer
Example:
In spite of his success in repositioning the brand, the CEO was forced out after five years.
Although the CEO has made great achievements in brand transformation, Despite his success, he was still forced to leave his job after 5 years.
★ bad financial management
n. Poor financial management.Bad is used very well here.
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Other clubs are scrambling for cash too, thanks to months of empty stadium s and a weak transfer market.
Other clubs are also scrambling for cash due to months of empty stadiums and a weak transfer market.
⊙ Sentence stem
Other clubs are scrambling for cash too.
Other clubs are scrambling for cash too.
⊙ Key words
★ scramble for
v. scramble for
Example:
There was an undignified scramble for the best seats.
everyone scramble for the best The position is really unbecoming.
★ empty stadium
n. Empty stadium. Empty games are a money-losing business for organizers.
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★ transfer market
n. Transfer market. A simple understanding is the part-time market for players.
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It is little surprise that La Liga is entertaining a €2.7bn ($3.2bn) offer by a private-equity firm, CVC, for a 10% stake of a new business that would manage rights income for the league.
It is no surprise that La Liga is considering accepting a €2.7 billion ($3.2 billion) offer from private equity firm CVC for a 10% stake in a new business that would manage the league's broadcast rights revenue.
⊙ Sentence stem
It is little surprise that...
It is little surprise...
⊙ Key words
★ entertain an offer
v. Offer (offer refers to quotation)
★ private-equity firm
n. Private equity firm
The offer has been greeted warmly by many cash-strapped clubs, but not Real Madrid and Barcelona, the two richest.
Many cash-strapped clubs welcomed the offer warmly, but Real Madrid and Barcelona, the two richest Except for clubs.
⊙ Sentence stem
The offer has been greeted warmly by ..., but not ....
The offer has been greeted warmly by ..., but not ....
The offer has been warmly welcomed by ..., but not ....
⊙ Key words
★ be greeted warmly by
v. Be warmly welcomed. This warmly is a good choice of words.
★ cash-strapped
adj. Financially distressed. The compound word of is , cash+strapped.
They believe it undervalues their future earning potential.
The two tycoons believe that CVC underestimated their future earning potential.
⊙ Sentence TML4TML4THEY Believe it
Real Madrid and Barcelona believe that ...
⊙The key vocabulary
★ L5V. Undervaluation. Compound word, under+value.
underestimate is also an underestimate, but its meaning is very different from undervalue. This "underestimation" is not that "underestimation".
Generally speaking, sellers will feel that their goods are undervalued (the price quoted by the customer is lower than the actual value, and the inner OS feels that they have lost money), while buyers usually underestimate the goods (the price of the goods is inflated, and the inner OS feels that I lost money).
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CVC has failed to strike similar deals in Germany and Italy.
CVC has failed to reach similar deals in Germany and Italy.
⊙ Sentence stem
CVC has failed to strike similar deals.
CVC has failed to strike similar deals.
CVC has failed to strike similar deals.
⊙ Key words
★ strike deals
v. Make a deal. Equivalent to making deals.
But it may well prevail in Spain thanks to La Liga’s sudden vulnerability.
But due to La Liga’s sudden vulnerability, CVC this approach is likely to prevail in Spain.
⊙ Sentence stem
It may well prevail in Spain.
CVC This practice may well prevail in Spain.
⊙ Key words
★ prevail
v. prevail. The adjective is prevailing, popular, common, equivalent to popular.
That’s it for today’s news. I accidentally deleted the first copy. I’ve read it twice.
