Handling the Transfer and Endorsements, and an In-Depth Interview with Four Female Reporters

"Nine?" Zhang Kuang was surprised.

"Is that too much?" Matidal asked.

Zhang Kuang shook his head. "How can it be too many? It's just that there are too many people. It takes so long for one person to be busy. Let's do three at a time."

"Oh, man! Sure enough! It's quite distributed."

"What? You regretted it?"

"Repent? How is that possible? Just wait, I will make arrangements."

"Well, from now on, until early July, I want to get along well with you every day."

"Really?"

"Why did I lie to you? Just wash it off."

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On the morning of May 13, Jonathan called Zhang Kuang and asked him to go to the agency to discuss the details of the upcoming transfer contract, advertising endorsements, possible future work and life at Manchester, and other matters.

So, he quickly went to the brokerage company, and the brokerage company had a new front desk girl, a very beautiful and young blond girl.

She was very excited when she saw Zhang Kuang. She dragged him to take photos and ask for autographs. She also "hit people with the ball" many times. She even gave him her phone number and asked him to get together when she was free.

Zhang Kuang just smiled and took advantage, he had no other ideas.

Because he remembers one sentence: Don't play with poor girls!

It's not that he dislikes the poor and loves the rich. Zhang Kuang himself also came from a poor family. However, the previous situation where four girls betrayed him in front of the media directly proves that some girls will really do anything for money.

What is their purpose in contacting Zhang Kuang? Either to gain fame or money, or to gain him as a person and marry him, and gain both fame and wealth from then on.

But only the wealthy woman has a very simple purpose in dating Zhang Kuang: just for pleasure!

Of course, they would also be very happy if they could earn something else while having fun.

There is a saying that goes well: Never use money to test a woman, and never use beauty to test a man!

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Walking into the conference room, Jonathan and many other staff members were there.

"Zhang, come here, sit down." Jonathan was smoking a cigarette and typing on the keyboard.

At this time, the girl at the front desk also came in with a glass of water.

Zhang Kuang doesn't like drinking coffee, because drinking too much coffee hurts the brain. In his previous life, he saw a case on the Internet about a girl who had headaches at home when she was not at work. She was very energetic and had no headaches as soon as she went to work at the company.

Later I found out that it was caused by not drinking coffee at home but drinking two or three cups of coffee a day at work.

The caffeine in coffee can block adenosine receptors in the brain. Adenosine is the body's "fatigue signal molecule". The more accumulated adenosine is, the more sleepy a person will be, with a heavy head and swelling and pain.

After drinking coffee, adenosine cannot bind to the receptors, brain excitability increases, headaches and drowsiness disappear, and people become energetic.

After long-term regular intake, the brain has adapted to the "caffeinated" state: the body will compensate by increasing the number of adenosine receptors.

Once you don't drink coffee at home, the supply of caffeine is suddenly cut off, and a large amount of adenosine binds to the receptors unimpeded. Typical withdrawal headaches will occur within a short period of time, accompanied by fatigue and inability to lift energy.

So he almost never drinks coffee, only pure water or tea.

"Zhang, take a look at the terms we negotiated with Manchester United and see what you want to change. In addition, Manchester United said it wants to sign an advance agreement with you as soon as possible and implement this transfer as soon as possible."

Zhang Kuang took over the negotiation terms with Manchester United pushed by the assistant, "You can sign an advance agreement. As long as we have negotiated the terms, there is nothing wrong with it."

"Then take a look at the terms first."

Zhang Kuang When I picked it up and took a look, I found that there wasn't much content, just a dozen key points:

1. Transfer signing and signing fee. The transfer Manchester United signed a contract for 5 years. After the player signs the formal contract, the signing fee takes effect, which is 5 million euros before tax.

2. Playing, as long as Zhang Kuang is healthy and willing to play, and there is no major conflict with the head coach's tactics, the league and UEFA Champions League's appearance rate shall not be less than 80%.

3. Position, Zhang Kuang is the core frontcourt player of Manchester United. On the premise of complying with the head coach's tactics, the player's frontcourt position cannot be forcibly changed. Players will not accept changes in midfielder, defender and other positions.

4. Salary: £150,000 per week before salary and tax.

5. Prize money: The league goal prize is 10,000 pounds, the assist prize is 5,000 pounds, and the winning prize is 20,000 pounds. The prize money for Community Shield, League Cup, and Football Association Cup is 0.5 times the league prize money. The prize money for UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and FIFA Club World Cup is 1.5 times the league prize money.

This bonus does not include the annual performance bonus shared by the entire team, but only the individual portion.

6. Image rights, the club and the players are 20:80, and the club owns 20% of the players' image rights.

7. Liquidated damages, 100 million pounds.

8. Code of conduct and injuries. During the period when players sign with the club, they must not violate the club's relevant regulations on player codes; if they suffer injuries, they must be confirmed by the club and actively cooperate with treatment...

9. Controversies and other...

Zhang Kuang took a look at these 9 main contents. In fact, he doesn't have much of a big idea, but he has different views on salary and code of conduct.

Zhang Kuang: "These two items need to be changed. The fourth item is salary. I said before that I want the second salary in the team in the first year..."

Jonathan: "I know, but if we sign a contract, you will be the first salary. Rooney, the highest salary at Manchester United at the moment, is only 105,000 pounds. The second is Ferdinand with 100,000 pounds. The third is Berbatov with 79,000 pounds. The fourth is Giggs with 79,000 pounds..."

"No, no, no..." Zhang Kuang interrupted Jonathan, "Jonathan, you didn't understand what I meant. What I want is a floating clause, not a fixed one.

You have to know that the current salary structure of Manchester United is seriously out of touch with other strong teams in Premier League. Whether it is Chelsea, Manchester City, or Liverpool, their salary level is nearly double that of Manchester United.

Soon, believe me, in less than half a year, Manchester United's salary structure will be adjusted. Maybe by then my weekly salary of 150,000 pounds will become the fifth-highest salary in the team, do you understand what I mean?"

The reason why Zhang Kuang said this was because he remembered that Rooney and Manchester United had a dispute over a salary increase in the second half of 2010. Later, Rooney's weekly salary increased to 250,000 pounds, which led to a collective salary increase for the Manchester United team.

"Ah? Is that so? It seems that our investigation is not in place. We will renegotiate this. Are there any other terms that we are not satisfied with?"

Zhang Kuang: "The last dissatisfaction is here: code of conduct and injuries. I hope my private life cannot be included in this clause.

No matter what my private life is like, as long as it does not violate or violate morality, it cannot be included in this code of conduct. Even if there is a big gossip and scandal, the club cannot punish me for it."

Jonathan shrugged. "Okay, I've written it down, is there anything else?"

Zhang Kuang shook his head. "No, that's all. That portrait right is 100% my best."

"OK, I understand, then let's take a look at the advertising endorsements that have been selected over the past few months. Most of them are from China and Asia, and only a few sports brands are from Europe."

Next, Zhang Kuang picked three endorsements. He didn't want to do more than one, which was a waste of time.

The first one is Sina Weibo. His condition is that the endorsement fee is not required, but he wants 8% of the equity and free endorsement for 5 years.

The second one is Anta, an endorsement of 3 million euros per year, signed for one year. (3 million euros per year for a newcomer is extremely high. If Zhang Kuang had not had the bonus of China and Asia status, it would have been impossible for a newcomer who had debuted for half a year to get this price.)

The third one is Meizu, with a one-year endorsement worth 3 million euros. Their newly launched M8SE in the first half of the year gave Zhang Kuang a few mobile phones. Zhang Kuang tried it out, and it was okay. In this era, it tastes like iPhone.

In the end, I chose these three domestic brands to endorse. As for the others?

Zhang Kuang is not interested in Zhang Kuang. He doesn't want to talk about Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Adidas, Nike. When he has established himself in Premier League and has shown some performance in UEFA Champions League, he will talk about the big contracts of these brands.

"Just these few? What about the others?" Jonathan reminded, "If you sign a few more now, you don't have to share the image rights with Manchester United. If you join Manchester United and sign again, you will have to share 20%."

"Then I will try my best not to accept endorsements or shoot advertisements. In fact, I am not very interested in making this money. It wastes my time and distracts my energy. By the way, can non-World Cup players like us buy World Cup betting?" Zhang Kuang asked.

"Ah? You want to bet on World Cup? Don't do this, you will go bankrupt, and as a player you cannot participate.

According to the relevant regulations of FIFA (FIFA), all players, coaches, referees and relevant officials, regardless of whether they participated in the World Cup game or not, are strictly prohibited from participating in any football-related gambling activities."

"What? So strict?" Zhang Kuang was shocked. Then he had the answer but couldn't realize it?

In the end, Zhang Kuang thought of many 'plans', but in the end, through Jonathan's analysis, he could not turn World Cup's game results into gambling bonuses.

Zhang Kuang thought for a moment and sighed, forget it, forget it, there is no need to violate the rules and end up being suspended for this little money.

Why not invest in stocks such as Apple or Moutai, or speculate in stocks? That Bitcoin can rise to the sky.

Then he calculated the money he had saved during this period.

His monthly salary is 32,000 euros, and he has to pay 30% in taxes. After deducting the brokerage company's share, he actually gets about 18,000 euros per month. In 6 months, he can get 108,000 euros. Plus the goal and assist bonus, after tax deduction, he will get about 50,000 euros.

There is also a championship bonus. The league championship bonus gave him 500,000 euros. France Cup gave him 150,000 euros, and he got 450,000 euros.

The total income of this half-year, after deducting taxes and commissions, he can get 558,000 euros, but his six-month living costs are not small. Rent, water and electricity, car maintenance, insurance and gas expenses cost an average of 4,000 euros per month. In addition, he has to eat, dress, open a house to have fun, go out and so on.

In fact, he can only save 300,000 euros. With this little money, it will be even harder to do long-term business in stocks and currencies.

Therefore, the income from those three advertising endorsements is particularly important, including at least 8% of Sina Weibo shares and 6 million euros in cash.

After excluding taxes and commissions from these 6 million euros, Zhang Kuang can also get 60%, which means that it has an income of 3.6 million euros, plus 300,000 euros in salary income, and has saved nearly 4 million euros in cash in half a year. What else is there to be dissatisfied about?

So after making this calculation, he gave up the high-risk World Cup idea of betting on football.

After chatting with Jonathan at the agency, Zhang Kuang ran to the bureau where the four female reporters had made an appointment today, because these four reporters couldn't wait to conduct an exclusive interview with him.

They also need performance, and the interview with Zhang Kuang, a rising football star, is their performance.

This time, instead of having one person interview and three people playing around, all four people were interviewed at once, and they were also asked to videotape and take photos.

While Zhang Kuang was interviewed by four female reporters, CCTV-5's interview was broadcast on "Football Night" that night.

After the show was aired, the whole China exploded. Because some of Zhang Kuang's words were actually released by CCTV. This was too explosive for domestic fans. It simply tore open the most hurtful scar. It hurt!