After this game, the Bundesliga once again ushered in a two-week long international match day.
But on the second day of the holiday, Chu Zheng appeared at Wolfsburg Club with his temporary agent Mario Raiola.
Chu Zheng came here early in the morning for training.
There is no way, there is a small yard of more than ten square meters behind where he and De Bruyne live.
Biandianqiu is okay, but if you want to practice other sports, you can't do it without training facilities.
You still have to come to the club’s training ground, and you can also use the club’s gym for free, which can save some money. I really can’t afford it with an annual salary of less than 100,000!
After this period of continuous training, Chu Zheng can clearly feel that his passing ability continues to grow.
Now even if he encounters high-intensity physical confrontation from his opponent during the game, he is sure to send the ball to the designated area.
However, what Chu Zheng pursues is the ultra-accurate passing of Scholes and Pirlo.
But he is still a little far away from that realm now.
But he has seen the light, and he believes that as long as he keeps practicing, sooner or later, he will be able to issue such precise guidance from his feet.
After separating from Mario downstairs in the office building, Chu Zheng walked to the locker room with a frown.
He was a little worried.
Although age cannot be used as a criterion to judge and measure a person's true ability, Mario is a new person after all.
So he was a little worried that this guy would be tricked by a cunning old bird like Alofs who had been in the mall for a long time.
He had talked with Mario last night, and the two reached a consensus that the new year's salary should at least reach the average salary level of the Wolfsburg team.
It absolutely cannot remain at the bottom level of hundreds of thousands.
The current average annual salary before tax at Wolfsburg is 2,242,170 euros.
Chu Zheng does not ask for Gustavo's 7 million euros as the team's maximum salary.
Nor does Rodriguez’s second-highest salary of 5 million euros.
It is important for a person to be self-aware. He has just started playing professional games, and he cannot compare with Gustavo and others in terms of reputation, qualifications and experience.
In Wolfsburg's sports director's office, Alofs looked surprised when he saw Mario knocking on the door and entering.
Knowing that Chu Zheng would hire an agent to negotiate with him as soon as possible, Alofs thought that the other party would find a group of very difficult and famous vampires in Germany, but he never expected that Chu Zheng would be looking for a
Hairy boy.
Mario has been with his father Raiola since he graduated from college. His father would take him with him every time he negotiated for players and clubs, so he has seen countless people. You can tell Alofs at a glance
A feeling of contempt arose.
But Mario doesn't mind at all, this is what he wants to see.
After the two introduced themselves to each other, they started exchanging business information. If Chu Zheng were present, he would have goosebumps all over the place.
"Mario, this is the new contract we have prepared for Chu." Alofs's smile looked a bit treacherous, "I believe you will be satisfied!"
Mario took the document without comment and showed a business-like smile.
He was dressed very appropriately today, a well-fitting black suit with every button fastened, and a red tie tied meticulously. Even his bald head looked particularly shiny, which was completely different from his usual sloppy look of taking off shoes, shorts, and a T-shirt.
On the contrary, he looks like a business elite dressed up.
[Basic annual salary before tax is 2 million euros]
[Appearance fee 3,000 euros]
[5,000 euro bonus for not conceding]
【……】
[Portrait rights: 100% belongs to Wolfsburg Club]
After reading the new salary increase contract calmly, Mario closed the folder and put it on the table with a nonchalant expression, then took a sip of coffee.
Seeing that Mario didn't speak, Alofs was a little stunned.
He had been observing Mario's facial expression just now, but he found that the young agent Chu Zheng was looking for had no expression at all.
"Sorry, I reject this contract on behalf of Chu! Maybe there is no need for us to continue talking!" Mario smiled, stood up and left.
Alofs had a disdainful smile on his face and did not get up. He just sat on the sofa with his legs crossed and looked at Mario who turned to leave.
It is indeed a bit naive and stupid for a young man to play this trick with him.
boom!
However, the sound of the door closing was heard the next second, and Mario left the office directly, actually leaving!
“waht the fuck!!!!”
"Waht the fuck!!!!" Alofs stared blankly at the closed office door, really confused by Mario.
What kind of negotiation strategy was this? He was a little confused at this time.
He has been in the football circle for so many years.
He has seen some people pounding the table to ask for a high salary, some using public opinion to incite fans to put pressure, indirectly asking for a high salary or to achieve other goals, and some people stalking him, but he has never seen anyone leave so simply.
At this moment, Alofs felt a bit tricky!
This time, directly raising Chu Zheng's annual salary to 2 million to the average salary level within the team was not decided by him alone, but was set by the club's senior management after collective discussion. The upper limit is 3 million.
He gave 2 million just as a test. He was mentally prepared to argue with Chu Zheng's agent in advance, but he never expected that the plan would not keep up with the change.
He knows very well how much the club values the young player Chu Zheng.
Compared with other Wolfsburg players, Chu Zheng is the most special one.
Because behind Chu Zheng stands a huge and terrifying market of 1.3 billion people.
The commercial value behind Chu Zheng was spotted by the Volkswagen Group, the owner of Wolfsburg Club.
This is the reason why Chu Zheng's annual salary will be directly increased by twenty or thirty times from less than 100,000 this time.
On the one hand, it's because Chu Zheng's strength is worth the price, and on the other hand, it's because Chu Zheng is a Chinese player.
The Volkswagen Group has been attaching great importance to the Asian market in recent years.
Especially in the Chinese market, how could they not know the potential commercial value behind a Chinese star.
So in this contract, the focus is not actually the annual salary of 2 million. What Wolfsburg wants to get is 100% of Chu Zheng's image rights.
Because Chu Zheng was a gift, both Alofs and Dieter Heijing were bundled and sold to Chelsea for 800,000 euros, which was disgusting.
When they signed the contract with Chu Zheng, Chelsea reminded them that the contract lacked an image rights clause because it was too hasty.
But he didn't care about it at all at the time, because only the star's image rights were valuable.
In the view of Alofs at the time, Chu Zheng was a waste who had been eliminated by Chelsea. Even if he came to Wolfsburg, 99% would be abandoned by the team.
Therefore, it doesn't matter whether a player who is destined to be unplayable needs image rights or not.
The result was that Chelsea would never have expected to be so generous and just gave them a talented central defender, which even hurt themselves if they were cruel.
When Chu Zheng became more and more famous, Alofs realized that something was wrong and hurriedly dug out Chu Zheng's contract. He knew something bad was going to happen at a glance.
"A question about image rights?"
"Want a higher annual salary?"
"Bayern?"
"Dortmund?"
"Or are there already clubs outside the Bundesliga that have been in private contact with Chu?"
"..."
Alofs had various speculations in his mind.
However, his many years of negotiation experience made his thinking even more confusing at this time, making him unable to make accurate judgments at all.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that Chu Zheng might want to leave Wolfsburg.
Chu Zheng's performance on the defensive end has now been recognized by the media and fans in Germany, so it is not surprising that other clubs have contacted him privately.
Especially Bayern Munich, they have done this kind of thing a lot in recent years. If they can't beat you, I will buy your strongest players and kill you from another level.
Dortmund is in such a sluggish season this season. In addition to the impact of the World Cup, the departure of Lewandowski and Gotze is also an important factor.
Of course, it's also possible that Mario did this on purpose.
But he couldn't afford to gamble. If it turned out to be true, and Chu Zheng left Wolfsburg during the winter break, he couldn't bear the responsibility.
Chu Zheng had just practiced at the training ground for half an hour when he suddenly saw Mario coming downstairs, and his face was filled with astonishment.
This failed too quickly!
Mario saw Chu Zheng's surprised expression and grinned so much that his chin protruded, looking particularly confident.