On the private plane flying from Chengdu to Manchester, Chu Zheng crossed his legs in the luxuriously decorated lounge area of the cabin and was concentrating on reading the personal contract negotiated with Manchester City Club that Mario sent him via email.
This electronic contract has more than 70 pages, but the terms of the agreement on Chu Zheng’s personal portrait rights take up 42 pages.
After reading the 42-page portrait rights agreement word for word, Chu Zheng also saw in this contract how Mario battled wits and courage with Manchester City.
At this moment, Chu Zheng really accepted this Mario. He really was a tiger with no dog son. This negotiation ability was really terrifying.
Originally, Chu Zheng was ready to give up part of the income from his image rights, but he didn't expect that it would end up like this, and he actually let Mario negotiate it.
In this personal contract between Chu Zheng and Manchester City, Chu Zheng authorized Manchester City to use his image rights, but 100% of the proceeds belong to Chu Zheng personally.
In the field of football, clubs are authorized to use players' image rights for promotion and marketing activities, but this does not mean that players lose control of their own image rights. Chu Zheng still has the right to decide how to use his own image rights, and whether to cooperate with Manchester City
Carry out business cooperation.
In the context of highly mature European professional football, the commercial value composition of top players is very complex.
Personal image rights are what every football star is most concerned about.
In the game with the club, generally the higher the salary, the more image rights will be transferred to the club.
Therefore, Chu Zheng also paid the price. His original pre-tax annual salary of 15 million pounds was greatly reduced, leaving only more than 9.5 million pounds.
But Chu Zheng didn't feel distressed at all.
Because his income from personal image rights last year reached more than 3.6 million pounds, which was very close to his annual salary at Leicester City at the time.
After winning the championship with Leicester City this season and Chu Zheng's fame further spreading around the world, he and Mario specifically discussed the future benefits of his image rights.
At that time, Mario made Chu Zheng join a wealthy club as a prerequisite. It was conservatively estimated that Chu Zheng's income from image rights would double next season, and this did not include income from commercial cooperation such as endorsements and sponsorships.
Therefore, it is most cost-effective to abandon those false benefits that are visible but not necessarily tangible, and grab what you can get.
"Sir, we will arrive in Manchester in half an hour!" Just when Chu Zheng was distracted, a flight attendant walked to the rest area and reminded him softly.
"Thank you!" Chu Zheng closed the laptop, raised his head and nodded in return with a smile.
After the flight attendant left, Chu Zheng stood up and walked to the room, pushing the door open and entering.
Looking at Zhao Dudu, who was lying carelessly on the bed and sleeping soundly, Chu Zheng gently sat on the edge of the bed, with a teasing smile, and gently pinched Zhao Dudu's straight nose.
After a while, Zhao Dudu slapped Chu Zheng's hand away and opened his hazy sleepy eyes.
"We're coming to Manchester!" Chu Zheng stretched out his hand to help Zhao Dudu pick up the messy hair on his face and said with a smile.
Not only did Chu Zheng sign with Manchester City this time, Zhao Dudu, who had already obtained a master's degree from Loughborough, also found a researcher job at the Sports Medicine Research Institute affiliated to the University of Manchester with the active help of Manchester City Club.
What this job does is to explore and improve the understanding and practice of sports medicine through multidisciplinary research methods and cutting-edge technologies. Zhao Dudu mainly studies exercise physiology.
Seeing Zhao Dudu lazily sitting up from the bed, his hair disheveled, Chu Zheng stood up.
As a result, Zhao Dudu sat beside the bed, with his eyes closed and a confused look on his face, reaching out to Chu Zheng, gesturing for Chu Zheng to hug her.
Chu Zheng rolled his eyes, bent down and hugged her, and suddenly the warm and fragrant soft jade fell into his arms.
After washing, Zhao Dudu felt energetic. She was sitting in the rest area drinking hot coffee brought by the flight attendant. She suddenly smiled and said: "This private plane is quite fun."
“It’s very comfortable, it’s like a mobile hotel in the sky!”
Chu Zheng heard the sound of the string and knew its meaning. He put down his coffee and looked at Zhao Dudu, and said with a smile: "Do you like it? Then we will buy one next year."
"When the time comes, as long as we have a holiday and travel around the world, we will make great progress!" At the end of Chu Zheng's words, his smile suddenly turned a little lewd, and he even winked at Zhao Dudu.
Zhao Dudu didn't react at first, but when he saw Chu Zheng's strange expression, he immediately listened carefully to Pin Chuzheng's words, and soon understood. His face was full of anger, and he jumped into Chu Zheng's arms, scratching and pinching him.
"You've traveled thousands of miles a day, but with your salary, you can't even afford an airplane wing!"
"Just wait and see!"
Half an hour later, the plane landed.
As soon as I got off the plane, the car sent by Manchester City Club to pick me up arrived at the tarmac.
Seeing Manchester City Club Sports Director Begiristain getting out of the car, Chu Zheng once again felt that Manchester City valued him.
Under Begiristain's arrangement, Chu and Zheng moved into a luxury duplex apartment rented by Manchester City for Chu Zheng near the Etihad Stadium.
At eight o'clock the next morning, Chu Zheng, accompanied by Mario, who had arrived in Manchester from London early in the morning, arrived at the Manchester City training base near the Etihad Stadium.
This training base was built by Mansour after he took over Manchester City in 2008 at a cost of 200 million pounds. It took six years and was not completed until 2014.
The entire training base covers an area of 80 acres, which is equivalent to the size of 40 golf courses.
The base has 16 full-size courts, a small stadium that can accommodate 7,000 people, as well as a media center, a medical center, a rehabilitation center, a restaurant, a gym, a player apartment, an ice room and a series of other high-end facilities.
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This training base is also the training base for Manchester City’s first team, youth training echelon, and women’s team.
If there were no familiar staff to guide them, Chu Zheng and Mario would probably not be able to find their way.
At nine o'clock in the morning, after Chu Zheng accepted a brief interview with the media, he was taken to the medical center in the base for a physical examination.
As soon as Chu Zheng took off his clothes, the doctors and nurses in the room stared blankly.
As soon as Dr. Dirk Lawson, director of Manchester City Medical Center, saw Chu Zheng's sharp muscle lines, he knew that his body fat rate must not exceed 8%.
For a while, Dirk Lawson curiously chatted with Chu Zheng.
Dirk Lawson immediately understood when he learned that Chu Zheng graduated from Loughborough University and majored in sports science.
But he quickly shook his head, because to make the body look like this, professional knowledge alone is not enough, it also requires strong self-control.
Suddenly, Dirk Lawson thought of the fat man with a body fat rate of 26% who came over for a pre-season physical examination a few days ago, and immediately shook his head wildly, trying to get Nasri's fat swan out of his mind.
More than two hours later, with Dr. Dirk Lawson looking at him like a monster, Chu Zheng completed all the physical examination items.
After signing the report of passing the physical examination, Dirk Lawson looked at Begiristain and said in a shocked tone: "Unbelievable! He is the most physically fit player I have ever seen! So good that it's a bit abnormal.
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After getting the report that Chu Zheng passed the physical examination, Begiristan smiled very happily. He didn't bother to care about whether it was normal or not, as long as Chu Zheng was healthy.
Chu Zheng had a smile on his face. He knew his physical condition very well.
Every week Chu Zheng will modify the training plan according to his physical condition.
But being able to get this good is definitely due to the physical talent of that "steel-and-iron" body.
After leaving the medical center, Chu was taken to a studio to shoot a set of promotional videos for the franchise.
Here, he got his Manchester City jersey and the number that belonged to him.
Looking at the white number 10 on the back of the jersey in his hand, Chu Zheng was thoughtful.
Because he knows that this number has belonged to Aguero in Manchester City for many years.
Seeing Chu Zheng looking at the number in a daze, Begiristain who was standing aside came over and said with a smile: "Pep said that this number belongs to the leaders on the court and is a symbol of the core of the team. It was once worn by Pele, Ma
Ladona, Matthaus, Zidane, Baggio, Del Piero and other great players."
"I believe you can understand what Pep means!"
After finishing speaking, Begiristan urged Chu Zheng to quickly change clothes and take publicity photos.
Chu Zheng smiled, said nothing, took the jersey and entered the changing room.
Chu Zheng knew Guardio's intention in bringing back No. 10 to him. This was to place hope on him and to declare his status in the team to everyone.
But in fact, Chu Zheng really didn't care.
With the continuous development of football, the number of jerseys no longer has a fixed standard like before, and it can no longer reflect the player's position on the field, but has more symbolic meaning.
Chu Zheng only hopes that Aguero, who has been replaced by No. 9, will not have a grudge against him, otherwise it will be an unintentional disaster!
After the lunch break, at 2 p.m., Begiristain appeared again and led Chu Zheng to the Etihad Stadium.
After entering the Etihad Stadium, Begiristain went to the signing site to arrange the work.
Under the guidance of the staff, Chu Zheng became familiar with the relevant facilities and structure of the Etihad Stadium, as well as his position in the locker room.
At 3 o'clock, witnessed by hundreds of media reporters, Chu Zheng officially signed a contract with Manchester City.
At 4:30, Chu Zheng, wearing the No. 10 Manchester City home jersey, appeared on the Etihad Stadium.
The moment Chu Zheng entered the stadium from the players' tunnel, huge cheers erupted from the stands.
Chu Zheng circled the stands and saw that there were not very many Manchester City fans. He made a visual inspection and found that there should be more than 20,000 people. They were probably organized by the Manchester City club.
However, Chu Zheng actually guessed wrong.
As soon as it was announced that the club would hold a grand welcome ceremony for Chu Zheng, a large number of Manchester City fans responded positively, and Manchester City did not mobilize at all.
Chu Zheng first demonstrated his shooting skills for the fans.
There are no arcs or weird S-shaped curves, it just works wonders with great force.
But Manchester City fans just like this kind of blood-soaking violent aesthetics.
Seeing Chu Zheng's shot hitting every corner of the goal at a speed that was difficult to detect with the naked eye, the Manchester City fans in the stands cheered louder and louder.
Manchester City fans have been craving Chu Zheng for a long time.
Especially after being abused by Chu Zheng for two rounds last season, they saw how powerful and incredible Chu Zheng was.
Manchester City fans are in full support of Manchester City spending 100 million pounds to buy Chu Zheng. After all, their big boss is rich.
Now that Chu Zheng has bought it, it’s time for the people next door to feel uncomfortable. Let’s see if they dare to shout that the sky in Manchester is red every day.
When it came to the interaction with the fans, Chu Zheng kicked the more than 20 balls handed to him by the staff into the stands, which aroused thunderous cheers from the fans.
Since then, Chu Zheng officially joined Manchester City and started a new journey.
