Since Todd signed Lin Hong, he spent three days translating and studying the relevant provisions of the Japanese Football Association and Japanese labor laws, and of course tax issues. These are things that agents must clearly understand.

After finishing all these things, Todd knocked on the door of Takeshi Okada's office on the fourth day.

Takeshi Okada actually knew that this day would come soon when he learned that Lin Hong had signed an agent, but he didn't expect that the Italian was so efficient.

Lin Hong's contract must be re-signed. This is something that both parties are clear about. The only difference is the starting point of interests.

Todd believes that Lin Hong's contribution to the team does not match what he gets. He also understands that Imabari FC still plays in amateur leagues and their income is very limited. He will not ask for it according to the standards of young European players, but Daisuke Yoshii's

The standard is already the bottom line that Todd can accept.

Takeshi Okada also wanted to re-sign the contract with Lin Hong, especially after Lin Hong's latest physical examination contract came out. Lin Hong's body did not have any problems. Although the bone density was still rising, the good news was that his bones did not.

Signs of calcification and brittleness, on the contrary, it is tougher and healthier. Doctors even joke that this is the re-evolution of human beings.

Takeshi Okada no longer stopped Lin Hong from practicing long-range shooting. On the contrary, he asked assistant coach Haruyama Shota to find many videos of long-range shooting masters for Lin Hong. He even hired a temporary long-range shooting coach for Lin Hong to teach him.

The result is very gratifying.

It can be said that Lin Hong's unexpected super surprise has made Takeshi Okada reset his goals for this season. He is even planning the lineup for next season, and everything is planned around Lin Hong.

But the core of the problem is that Lin Hong's contract can only be signed for two years at most, and no one can change this. The length of the contract cannot be changed. Imabari FC's core demand is to change the nature of the contract, that is, to change the reserve player contract

Become a professional player contract.

The new problem became how to let Lin Hong bypass the strict requirements of the Japan Football Association. For this reason, Imabari FC really thought of a solution.

As one of the poorest countries in the world, Liberia also has its own two-level professional football league. However, due to economic reasons, it is really difficult to operate Liberia's professional teams. Coupled with the turbulent situation, Liberia's teams have changed owners.

That's a common thing.

Since it is the poorest country, the transfer price of the team is naturally not much higher. Takeshi Okada flew people to Liberia after Lin Hong’s first league game, and then spent 50,000 US dollars to acquire a second-tier football club.

Monrovia Shakhtar, a team in the second-tier league. Apart from the two parties registering with the Liberian Football Association, the media had no idea that the capital team of the second-tier league had changed hands.

Because the Uchida Mitsumi who bought the team is a little-known figure in Japan, and Liberia is a corner that Japanese football and the media don't care about, naturally no one knows that the Uchida Mitsumi who bought the Miners is Okada Takeshi.

’s distant cousin.

In this negotiation, Okada Takeshi hoped that Lin Hong's contract would be voided after the end of this season, and then he would sign a formal professional player contract with the Miners, and then the Miners would loan Lin Hong to Imabari FC.

In this way, Okada Takeshi will be able to obtain Lin Hong's professional ownership, and Lin Hong will definitely be able to obtain higher economic benefits.

Takeshi Okada's operation is not considered innovative. Many European and American clubs are using this routine, and it does not violate the regulations of the Japan Football Association.

Although this may cause controversy with some regulations of the Japan Football Association, it is only a controversy. Coupled with Lin Hong's status as a Chinese player, as long as Lin Hong, Imabari FC and Monrovia Shakhtar do not have any disputes, the Japan Football Association will not

He would risk offending Takeshi Okada by meddling in his own business.

Being able to obtain a professional contract in advance to increase their income, Lin Hong and Todd naturally agreed, but they had differences with Imabari FC on the length of the new contract.

Todd insists on signing a two-year contract, but Imabari FC requires a new contract of at least three years. Plus this season has just begun, which means Lin Hong will have to stay at Imabari FC for at least four years.

Todd is very experienced. He knows that Imabari FC values ​​Lin Hong's growth and is optimistic that he can continue to improve. But he hopes that Lin Hong can have more time. If he can grow to a certain height within two years, he will definitely go to Europe.

Development. If he didn't think it was unrealistic, he would only sign for one year.

On the first day, the two parties negotiated for an entire afternoon on the length of the contract, but in the end there was little progress.

The next day, Takeshi Okada specifically visited Lin Hong before the training started. He didn't want Lin Hong to make any promises, but he just hoped that Lin Hong would not be affected by the contract negotiations.

At this time, Lin Hong felt the importance of having an agent. He only had to give his wishes and requirements first, and then sign the final signature. As for the white-faced character who had to consider every word during the negotiation, it was all done by him.

The agent plays the role, and the players only need to calm down and train and compete with peace of mind.

Lin Hong devoted himself to long-range shooting training. His "Bati Gol" proficiency has risen to 32%, and his shooting power is getting stronger and stronger. However, his left foot training has progressed slowly, which makes

Lin Hong regrets that there is not a guy with a very good left foot around him to let him activate the learning task about his left foot. It seems that he can only learn it slowly.

However, Lin Hong also noticed that his appetite had increased, which completely confirmed Lin Hong's title of Big Stomach Monster.

Negotiations continued on the second day, and Todd did not veto it outright. Instead, he demanded a weekly salary of 500,000 yen, and the appearance fee and other bonuses were also greatly increased.

Todd is a lion's mouth, and it is much higher than Kazuyuki Toda, who is currently the highest paid player in the team. This is definitely not acceptable to Imabari FC. Not to mention that they have no money, even if they have money, they cannot do this.

Because this is completely an offer that breaks the salary system of Imabari FC.

Faced with Imabari FC's outrage, Todd was not surprised at all. He just quoted a price that the club couldn't accept, which meant that it was impossible for me to accept the three-year time clause.

Of course, it doesn't matter if the club suddenly goes crazy and agrees. Lin Hong can make money is one thing. If he really performs well, the European clubs who want Lin Hong will definitely not care about the liquidated damages, because behind Lin Hong is the huge China

The market will soon allow European clubs to make money back, and it will not have much impact on Lin Hong's arrival in Europe.

Of course, if it was purely to sell jerseys and advertisements, Todd and Lin Hong would refuse. In that case, they might as well stay at Imabari FC.

In short, Todd's salary quotation is just a move. The rest depends on whether Imabari FC wants a three-year contract or a stable salary structure.

In the end, Imabari FC decided to compromise and sign a two-year contract after discussion. As a concession to Imabari FC, Todd finally agreed to make a huge concession in salary on behalf of Lin Hong.

In the new contract, Lin Hong can get a weekly salary of 100,000 yen, which is equivalent to a monthly salary of 24,000 yuan, which is almost the same as the salary of white-collar workers in Japan. In addition, Lin Hong can also get 10,000 yen per game.

The appearance fee and goal bonus have also increased from 20,000 yen to 30,000 yen, and the assist bonus has increased from 10,000 yen to 15,000 yen. Other bonuses remain unchanged.

Of course, these are calculated from next season. Lin Hong cannot sign a formal contract this season, so he can only follow the previous reserve player contract.

Todd's contract negotiation was very successful this time. Not only did he turn Lin Hong's reserve player contract into a professional player contract with more legal protection, he also significantly increased Lin Hong's salary. Next season, Lin Hong will be the only player.

The second highest salary in the team after Kazuyuki Toda.

However, Todd is most proud of helping Lin Hong obtain 50% of the image rights. This is what he wants to get most.

Speaking of portrait rights, many people may confuse it with a player's personal endorsement, and they can't tell that the money earned by the player must be divided with the club, or even not divided at all. That's because they can't distinguish between the club's portrait rights and personal portrait rights.

difference.

The so-called club image rights income refers to the commercial sponsorship income obtained by players as members of the club, such as wearing team jerseys to shoot advertisements, shooting sponsor advertisements for the club, etc.

The individual sponsorship of individual players by companies is personal image rights, which is not part of the club's contract negotiations.

Under normal circumstances, companies are definitely more willing to sponsor clubs than players, because sponsoring a club means that all players in the club have the opportunity to promote them, while the effect of sponsoring players is relatively one-sided.

Of course, this is not absolute. As long as the players reach a certain level, their personal endorsement effect will definitely be no worse than that of a team.

For example, when Beckham switched from Manchester United to Real Madrid, Florentino did not hesitate to offer the world's largest annual salary of 15 million euros after tax to get all of Beckham's club image rights. But behind Beckham

The agency team rejected this proposal. They would rather let Beckham take a "low salary" of 3 million euros and get 50% of the club's image rights.

Florentino took into account that Beckham has received sponsorships from almost all big-name brands in the industry, and the income from personal image rights has been extremely well developed, so he agreed to only 50% of the club's image rights income. Then sponsors from all over the world

The businessmen waved their checkbooks to sponsor Real Madrid, and even asked Beckham to wear Real Madrid jerseys to shoot advertisements for them.

Beckham readily agreed as long as it did not go against the interests of his personal sponsors. Later, the whole world knew that Beckham's agent team was extremely correct. Beckham and his agent team made a lot of money.

50% of the club's image rights bring him much more than 12 million euros per year.

Regarding the somewhat special terms of players' image rights, young players basically have no say. Unless players in lower-level leagues are special players like Kazuyuki Toda, their image rights belong to the club by default.

Imabari FC did not agree at first, because Lin Hong’s potential is very great. Even if his market appeal has not been reflected yet, don’t forget the Chinese market behind him. Okada Takeshi’s team has had two experiences with the Chinese football circle.

years of in-depth cooperation.

However, Imabari FC will be in low-level leagues in the next two years, and it is unlikely that they will obtain huge sponsorships before entering J1. This means that even if Lin Hong wears an Imabari FC jersey or takes over as an Imabari FC player,

The amount of the endorsement wasn’t much, so I finally agreed.

Todd doesn't think so. He thinks the Asian football market is a big treasure. Although the commercial development of Japanese football has been very good, if Lin Hong can perform at a phenomenal level, it is entirely possible to make the Chinese market crazy. This is different from theirs.

It doesn't matter whether it's a low-level league or not.

Todd feels that Imabari FC’s judgment is based on the previous Chinese overseas players. In addition to selling a few jerseys and helping the club win sponsorship from several Chinese companies, the rest is to easily contact them and earn appearance fees in summer warm-up matches.

.

The most critical problem is that none of them have been kicked out, but Lin Hong can. Todd is very confident about this. He even has a premonition that the whole of China will be crazy about Lin Hong in the near future, whether it is personal endorsement or club sponsorship.

Lin Hong made a lot of money easily.
Chapter completed!