Green Journey

Chapter 336 Everything is going well!
On the private plane flying from Chengdu to Manchester, Chu Zheng crossed his legs in the luxuriously decorated lounge area and was concentrating on looking through the personal contract that Mario had sent him by email, which he had negotiated with the Manchester City Club.

This electronic contract has more than 70 pages, but the agreement terms of Chu Zheng's personal portrait rights accounted for as much as 42 pages.

After reading the 42-page portrait right part agreement word by word, Chu Zheng also saw in this contract how Mario fought wits and courage with Manchester City.

At this moment, Chu Zheng really convinced Mario, he really is a tiger father without dog son, this negotiation ability is really scary enough.

Originally, Chu Zheng was ready to give up part of the proceeds from the portrait rights, but he didn't expect such a result in the end, and Mario actually negotiated it.

In the personal contract between Chu Zheng and Manchester City, Chu Zheng authorized Manchester City to use his portrait rights, but 100% of the proceeds belonged to Chu Zheng himself.

In the field of football, the club is authorized to use the player's portrait rights for promotion and marketing activities, but this does not mean that the players lose control over their portrait rights. Chu Zheng still has the right to decide how to use his portrait rights and whether to cooperate with Manchester City. Carry out business cooperation.

In the context of highly mature European professional football, the composition of the commercial value of top players is very complicated.

Personal portrait rights are the most concerned content of every star.

In the game with the club, generally the higher the salary, the more portrait rights will be transferred to the club.

Therefore, Chu Zheng also paid the price. The original pre-tax annual salary of 1500 million pounds was greatly reduced, leaving only more than 950 million pounds.

But Chu Zheng didn't feel bad at all.

Because his income from personal portrait rights reached more than 360 million pounds last year, which was very close to his annual salary in Leicester City at that time.

After winning the championship with Leicester City this season, after Chu Zheng's fame spread further in the world, he once discussed with Mario the future benefits of portrait rights.

At that time, Mario took Chuzheng's joining the giants as a prerequisite, and conservatively estimated that Chuzheng's income from portrait rights would double in the next season, which was not included in the income of commercial cooperation such as endorsement sponsorship.

Therefore, it is most cost-effective to abandon those false benefits that can be seen but not necessarily touched, and to grab what can be obtained.

"Sir, we will arrive in Manchester in half an hour!" Just when Chu Zheng was a little distracted, a big wave stewardess came to the rest area and reminded her softly.

"Thank you!" Chu Zheng closed the laptop, nodded and smiled.

After the stewardess left, Chu Zheng got up and walked to the room, pushed the door open and entered.

Looking at Zhao Dudu who was lying on the bed and sleeping soundly, Chu Zheng sat gently on the edge of the bed, with a teasing smile, gently pinched Zhao Dudu's straight nose.

After a while, Zhao Dudu patted Chu Zheng's hand away, and opened his sleepy eyes.

"To Manchester!" Chu Zheng stretched out his hand to help Zhao Dudu comb the messy hair on his face and said with a smile.

This time, not only did Chu Zheng sign with Manchester City, Zhao Dudu, who had already obtained a master's degree from Loughborough, also found a researcher's job at the Sports Medicine Research Institute affiliated to the University of Manchester with the active help of the Manchester City Club.

What this job does is to explore and improve the understanding and practice in the field 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 with disheveled hair, Chu Zheng stood up.

In the end, Zhao Dudu sat by the bed, closed his eyes and stretched out his hand to Chu Zheng in a daze, motioning for Chu Zheng to hug her up.

Chu Zheng rolled his eyes, bent over to hug and lift, and immediately warm and soft jade fell into his arms.

After washing up, Zhao Dudu was refreshed. Sitting in the rest area drinking the hot coffee brought by the stewardess, she suddenly smiled and said, "This private jet is quite fun."

"Very comfortable, it's like a mobile hotel in the sky!"

Chu Zheng heard the strings and knew what it meant. He put down his coffee and looked at Zhao Dudu, and said with a smile, "You like it? Then we'll buy one next year."

"At that time, as long as we have a holiday and go all over the world to play, we will travel far and wide!" At the end of Chu Zheng's words, his smile suddenly became 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 tasted Chu Zheng's words carefully, and soon understood, his face was full of anger, and he flung his teeth and claws into Chu Zheng's arms, scratching and pinching.

"It's still a long way, with your little salary, you can't even afford an airplane wing!"

"Wait and see!"

Half an hour later, the plane landed.

As soon as he got off the plane, the car sent by the Manchester City club to pick him up arrived on the tarmac.

Seeing Begiristan, the sports director of the Manchester City Club, get out of the car, Chu Zheng once again felt that Manchester City valued him.

Under the arrangement of Begiristan, Chu Zheng and the two lived in the luxury duplex apartment that Manchester City rented for Chu Zheng near the Etihad Stadium.

At [-]:[-] the next morning, Chu Zheng, accompanied by Mario who had rushed to Manchester from London early in the morning, came to the Manchester City training base near the Etihad Stadium.

This training base was built by Mansour at a cost of 2008 million pounds after he took over Manchester City in 2014. It took six years and was not fully completed until [-].

The entire training base covers an area of ​​80 acres, which is equivalent to the size of 40 stadiums.

The base has 16 full-size stadiums, a small stadium that can accommodate 7000 people to watch the game, in addition to a series of high-end facilities such as a media center, medical center, rehabilitation center, restaurant, gym, player apartments, and ice room .

This training base is also the training base for Manchester City's first team, youth echelon and women's team.

If there is no familiar staff to lead the way, Chu Zheng and Mario may really lose their way.

At nine o'clock in the morning, after a brief interview with the media, Chu Zheng 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 straight at him.

Dr. Deke Lawson, director of the Manchester City Medical Center, saw the sharp muscle lines on Chu Zheng's body, and knew that the body fat rate must not exceed 8%.

For a while, Dirk Lawson chatted with Chu Zheng curiously.

Knowing that Chu Zheng graduated from Loughborough University and majored in sports science, Dirk Lawson immediately understood.

But soon he shook his head again, because professional knowledge alone is not enough to make the body into this appearance, it also requires a strong self-control ability.

Suddenly, Dirk Lawson thought of the big fat man with a body fat rate of 26% who came to participate in the pre-season physical examination a few days ago, and immediately shook his head frantically, trying to shake Nasri's fat swan out of his mind.

More than two hours later, under Dr. Deke Lawson's monster-looking eyes, Chu Zheng completed all the physical examination items.

After signing the report of passing the entry medical examination, Dirk Lawson looked at Begiristain and said in a shocked tone: "Unbelievable! He is the best player I have ever seen! So good that it is not normal !"

After getting Chu Zheng's medical examination report, 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 was very clear about his physical condition.

Every week Chuzheng will modify the training plan according to his physical condition.

But being able to get to this extent must be due to the "reinforced iron frame" physical talent.

After leaving the medical center, Chu was taken to a studio to shoot a group of franchise promotional videos.

Here, he got his Manchester City jersey and his number.

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 the past few years.

Seeing Chu Zheng looking at the number in a daze, Begiristan, who was standing aside, walked over and said with a smile: "Pep said that this number belongs to the leader on the field and is a symbol of the core of the team. It was once worn on Pele, Ma Radona, Matthaus, Zidane, Baggio, Del Piero and other great players."

"I believe you should be able to understand Pep's intention!"

After the words fell, Begiristan urged Chu Zheng to change clothes and take a promotional photo.

Chu Zheng smiled, didn't say anything, took the jersey and went into the changing room.

Chu Zheng knew Guardio's intention to bring back No. 10 to him. This is to place hope on him and at the same time declare to everyone his status in the team.

But Chu Zheng really didn't care.

With the continuous development of football, the number of jerseys no longer has a fixed standard as before. It can no longer reflect the position of players on the field, and it is more of a symbolic meaning.

Chu Zheng only hoped that Aguero, who was changed to No. 9, would not be jealous of him, otherwise it would be a disaster for no reason!
After the noon break, Begiristan appeared again at 2 p.m. and led Chu Zheng to the Etihad Stadium.

After entering the interior of the Etihad Stadium, Begiristan went to the signing site to arrange 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, under the witness of hundreds of media reporters, Chu Zheng officially signed the contract with Manchester City.

At 4:30, Chu Zheng, wearing the No. 10 Manchester City home jersey, appeared on the Etihad Stadium.

When Chu Zheng entered the field from the player tunnel, there was a huge cheer from the stands.

Chu Zheng circled the stands. There weren't too many Manchester City fans. He checked with his eyes, and there should be more than 2 people, probably organized by the Manchester City club.

However, Chu Zheng guessed wrong.

As soon as the news that the club was about to hold a grand welcome ceremony for Chu Zheng was announced, a large number of Manchester City fans responded positively, and Manchester City did not mobilize much at all.

Chu Zheng first demonstrated his shooting skills for the fans.

There is no arc, and there is no weird S-shaped curve, it just works hard to create miracles.

But Manchester City fans just like this kind of blood-spitting violence aesthetics.

Seeing that Chu Zheng's shot went into every corner of the goal at a speed that was difficult to catch with the naked eye, the Manchester City fans in the stands cheered louder and louder.

Manchester City fans have been greedy for 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.

For Manchester City to spend [-] million pounds to buy Chu Zheng, Manchester City fans are all in favor, anyway, their big boss is rich.

It's all right now, Chu Zheng bought it, it must be the people next door who are uncomfortable, let's see if they dare to clamor that the sky in Manchester is red every day in the future.

When it came to the interaction with the fans, after Chu Zheng kicked more than 20 balls handed to him by the staff into the stands one by one, the fans cheered even more.

Since then, Chu Zheng officially joined Manchester City and started a new journey.

(End of this chapter)