Before, Wang Yi had two rules for choosing endorsement deals.
First: he wouldn't endorse brands from countries he didn't support.
Second: they had to be major brands with a good reputation.
Now, Wang Yi had added a third rule.
That was: when a domestic brand and a foreign brand in the same category both approached him for an endorsement, he would give priority to the domestic one.
Several car brands had approached him this year, but he hadn't agreed to any of them. A domestic automaker had been in touch with Zhang Qi and said it wanted Wang Yi as its endorser.
Zhang Qi was negotiating with those brands.
So whenever automakers from other countries approached Wang Yi about an endorsement, he turned them down outright.
After rejecting Audi, Wang Yi was getting ready for his pregame training.
It was three o'clock, two hours before the game.
His domestic agent, Zhang Qi, called. "Wang Yi, that domestic automaker can offer a maximum of thirty million yuan for three years."
Wang Yi paused slightly. "In RMB?"
"Yes. They say that's the ceiling for domestic car endorsements. Even Phelps's Mazda deal was only twenty million yuan for three years."
Wang Yi felt a surge of anger.
Thirty million for three years? Do they think that little of me?
Phelps's Mazda deal was worth twenty million yuan for three years, but that had been in 2009.
It had been fifteen years since then.
And you're comparing today's prices with prices from fifteen years ago?
Although he always prioritized domestic brands, that didn't mean he was doing charity work.
There was no denying that ten million yuan a year was indeed top-tier in China right now, but it depended on who was being offered the deal.
Most other people in China had influence mainly