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Chapter 373 The first wage earner in football?

A weekly salary of 260,000 yuan sounds like a lot, and it is actually a lot.

It has doubled Ling Feng’s current weekly salary of 130,000 yuan!

And it is the second highest salary in the entire Premier League, second only to Rooney!

However, this did not meet Mendes’ psychological expectations.

In Mendes’ view, Ling Feng is Manchester United’s savior and a superstar with the strength to compete for the Golden Ball Award!

Comparing horizontally with Ibrahimovic, who Manchester United just signed for free, Ling Feng’s transfer fee is expensive, but it is completely more cost-effective!

The 34-year-old Ibrahimovic is already in the twilight of his career, and his strength is declining;

The 21-year-old Ling Feng is rising, with unlimited possibilities and huge room for improvement!

The difference between the two is like an old man in his twilight years and a young man in his prime.

For Manchester United, Ibrahimovic is a short-term combat force, which can only be used for two years at most.

But Ling Feng is not only a combat force, but also the cornerstone of the team’s construction in the next ten years!

Such a superstar, who only gets a weekly salary of 10,000 higher than Ibrahimovic, does not conform to his identity and positioning!

“My client is the best player in the Premier League! Therefore, he must get the best weekly salary!”

So, Mendes directly opened an astonishing figure of 350,000!

For Mendes’ lion’s mouth, Woodward did not show any shock or anger, but smiled faintly:

“If Ling Feng has won the Golden Ball Award, I am very willing to pay such a salary. But he hasn’t, right?”

This sentence is a bit direct and a bit offensive.

Ling Feng couldn’t help but complain in his heart:

Damn, if I already have the Ballon d’Or, why would I transfer to Manchester United? !

Do you think your management is stupid? Or do you want traffic? !

Of course, it’s a negotiation.

Isn’t it just a game of you giving me a price that I can’t accept, and then I give you a price that you can’t accept, and finally both sides reach an acceptable price?

After a verbal battle, the two sides reached a preliminary agreement on a weekly salary of 290,000.

A weekly salary of 290,000 is the second highest salary in Manchester United and the second highest salary in the Premier League!

First of all, as a new player who has just joined, even if Manchester United regards him as the cornerstone of the team’s revival, it is impossible for his weekly salary to exceed Rooney, the veteran and captain who has played for the team for many years.

If you are a newcomer who has not brought anything to the team, and you take the highest salary in the team, it will definitely have a huge impact on the locker room.

However, as the most famous and strongest player in the team, Ling Feng’s value cannot be ignored!

Therefore, the weekly salary of 290,000, second only to Rooney, is a very reasonable figure.

290,000 a week, 52 weeks a year

This means that after Ling Feng transfers to Manchester United, he will get an annual salary of 15 million pounds (18 million euros) before tax!

This annual salary is enough for him to surpass Neymar and become the highest-paid player in today’s football after Melo and Rooney!

Moreover, in order to make compensation, Woodward proposed bonus terms such as goal bonus and assist bonus, helping the team win the Premier League or Champions League, being selected for the best team of the year, and being shortlisted for the Golden Globe Award.

If all the bonus terms in the contract are completed, Ling Feng’s weekly salary can even reach an astonishing 500,000 weekly salary!

Directly surpassing Melo and becoming the first wage earner in football!

It is worth mentioning that Woodward did not want to add a penalty clause to Ling Feng’s contract.

From the perspective of the club, he certainly hopes that Ling Feng will stay at Manchester United.

However, Mendes believes that leaving a way out for everything may leave some room for each other.

After negotiation between the two parties, Ling Feng’s penalty was initially set at 500 million euros!

This penalty figure is actually equivalent to nothing.

Because both parties believe that no football club will pay 500 million euros just to buy a player!

Even if the player is the strongest in football.

After discussing the weekly salary, the two parties conducted a second round of preliminary negotiations on image rights.

Image rights are a very important part of players’ income.

What is a player’s image right?

It includes the player’s appearance, name, signature, nickname, voice and even the iconic celebration method, etc. As long as it is related to the player, it is mostly within the scope of image rights.

Just like Ling Feng’s iconic “King of the World” celebration method, if any company

If an individual wants to use it, he must obtain the consent of the portrait right owner, Ling Feng, and pay a fee.

Of course, if Ling Feng agrees, he can use it for free.

With Mendes’ extremely professional agent, Ling Feng established his own portrait rights company two years ago.

However, compared with La Liga’s preference to take the player’s portrait rights and share the profits, the Premier League is much more relaxed about the player’s portrait rights.

Most Premier League clubs have the right to use the player’s portrait rights for free.

However, for some superstars with higher commercial value, the club generally pays a usage fee.

And this money will be handed over to the player in the form of salary.

Considering that Ling Feng will inevitably become a world-renowned superstar like Beckham in the future under Manchester United’s brand promotion, Woodward naturally hopes to get a share of Ling Feng’s face.

Therefore, he hopes to take 50% of Ling Feng’s portrait rights.

This means that Manchester United can get 50% of Ling Feng’s portrait rights income!

However, this proposal was rejected very strongly by Mendes!

Most of the Premier League only has the right to use the image rights of the players in the game, but not the right to share the income of the players’ image rights.

What’s more, with Ling Feng’s current high popularity in British football and even in the world football, the image rights fee alone can bring Ling Feng more than 10 million pounds a year!

Manchester United gives more than 10 million annual salary, and then takes 50% of the image rights income, which is equivalent to more than 5 million pounds!

This is definitely unacceptable to Ling Feng and Mendes!

Woodward’s attitude is also very firm.

The reason why these senior executives chose Ling Feng is that they saw his outstanding image and huge commercial value, which can bring considerable commercial income to Manchester United.

You know, Beckham and Manchester United fell out, in addition to the much-talked-about “flying shoes gate”, there was also part of the reason for image rights.

It can be imagined that the importance of image rights.

In addition to the issue of image rights, Ling Feng, as the most commercially valuable player in British football today, has more than a dozen sponsors!

Since Ling Feng’s personal sponsor and Manchester United’s official business partner have brand competition in areas such as cars and watches, the two sides have many details to finalize.

For example, Manchester United signed a 7-year contract worth 357 million pounds with the American car manufacturer Chevrolet, and Ling Feng is the spokesperson for Land Rover;

In terms of watch endorsements, Manchester United’s official endorsement is Bulova, while Ling Feng endorses Hublot watches.

There are many such examples.

These are important details that Mendes needs to negotiate carefully with Manchester United.

Of course, this is just the first meeting between the two sides.

As long as a preliminary joining agreement is reached, the remaining negotiations can be handed over to Ling Feng’s agency team and the club’s negotiation team.

Finally, this meeting, which will be called the “great meeting” by fans in the future, ended successfully after an hour!

. . .

“I hope our next meeting will be at Carrington Base”

“I hope so.”

Just as Ling Feng and Mendes sent Woodward and Mourinho out of the villa, at the same time.

On a private speedboat on the sea about 500 meters away from the coastline.

“Finally caught you!”

Boris, the chief reporter of The Sun, was wearing an orange life jacket, and his sparse hair was flying in the wind.

And his hands were holding a camera with a scary lens, pointing in the direction of the holiday villa on the island.

This guy is definitely a “loyal fan” of Ling Feng

But he is different from ordinary fans.

Ordinary fans regard Ling Feng as an idol and role model, but he regards Ling Feng as a cash cow!

Two years ago, it was in the United States that Boris, a small reporter of The Sun, made his first pot of gold in his life.

In the next two years, he has been following Ling Feng. Whether it is his daily life with his girlfriend or the photos of him attending various private events, they have become the main source of gossip reports for The Sun.

As Ling Feng’s reputation in British football and even in the world football has risen, the photos he took have become more and more valuable. He was even valued by The Sun and became the chief reporter!

As the chief reporter of The Sun, his purpose of appearing here this time is different from other paparazzi.

He did not come here to take some intimate photos of Ling Feng and his supermodel girlfriend.

Instead, he came here to take photos of Ling Feng and everyone except his girlfriend.

Precious photos of intimate contact with other women besides Ling Feng!

Of course, if it was a man, it would be even better!

However, the security near the holiday villa was tight.

No strangers could get close or sneak in, let alone a paparazzi with a camera.

So, in order to take pictures of Ling Feng’s exclusive and explosive news, he directly spent a lot of money, rented a speedboat, and disguised himself as a tourist watching the sea.

Then, looking for the most suitable time and angle, silently waiting for the overwhelming wealth to fall on him.

And just an hour ago, when he found that Ling Feng had left the beach after receiving a call and returned to the villa alone, he realized that

He thought Ling Feng was going to meet a woman or even a man in secret.

But he didn’t expect that the person who met Ling Feng was the CEO of Manchester United Club and the famous Mourinho!

Although it is not a popular gossip news.

However, Boris’s keen sense of news made him realize how valuable the news of Ling Feng meeting with Manchester United’s CEO and head coach was!

“I’m rich now!”

However, just as he was forgetting himself and taking photos of Ling Feng, Woodward and Mourinho, his identity was exposed by his overly professional shooting equipment!

Some security guards on the beach saw this man holding a “cannon” and immediately realized that something was wrong.

Several security guards immediately started the motorboat on the beach and headed towards the speedboat.

At this time, Boris, who was reminded by the speedboat captain, reacted.

He hurriedly put down the camera and immediately shouted:

“Hurry up and start the boat, let’s retreat!”

As a senior paparazzi, Boris was naturally fully prepared to be discovered by the bodyguards and security guards of the subject.

While disassembling the camera and lens and putting them in the box, he sat tightly in his seat and let the speedboat brother drive the boat.

The speedboat brother may often take people out to sea, and his driving skills are very good.

In addition, he is very familiar with the local waters, and soon used a drifting tail on the sea to shake off the security chasing behind him.

After a chase on the sea, Ling Feng also learned from the bodyguard brother that a paparazzi was secretly photographing on the sea with a super large lens.

The first reaction to hearing this news, Ling Feng’s mind suddenly emerged with the dead paparazzi who had been secretly photographing him for two years!

“Damn it, it must be that guy Boris again!”

And he was not wrong.

The next day.

The Sun beat all the media to publicize the explosive news that Ling Feng had a private meeting with Manchester United CEO and coach!

The photo of Ling Feng in the same frame with Woodward and Mourinho immediately caused an earthquake in the British football world!

The source of the photo is none other than Ling Feng’s exclusive photographer and chief reporter of The Sun, David Boris!

The Foxes fans are naturally heartbroken about the fact that Ling Feng met with Manchester United executives in private.

They find it hard to imagine and accept the cruel fact that “losing Ling Feng” is about to become a reality.

Manchester United fans are confused and puzzled:

“What? My demons have contacted Ling Feng?!”

“Fuck! Mourinho plus Ling Feng? Am I dreaming?!”

“Let’s all go, we are just a tool for them to raise prices.”

Fans of other giants rushed to the club’s official website and social media and began to swipe the screen:

“What are the club’s executives doing? Are they playing golf? Manchester United has taken action, what about you?!”

“Where is my car? Abramovich, come out and intercept it!”

On the other hand, Ling Feng, who is far away in Sardinia, is also swiping social media and news like an ordinary fan.

At first, he was afraid that his transfer application and rumors with other giants would make the Blue Fox fans very angry with him.

They would directly scold him on his social media account, or even burn his jersey live.

However, the reaction of the Blue Fox fans to his transfer application and rumors with Manchester United made Ling Feng feel relieved.

Fortunately, he did not listen to Mendes’ advice and leave the team in the summer window last year, but left after helping Leicester City win the Premier League and Europa League this year.

If he left when the team just achieved results and needed him the most, he would definitely be regarded as a traitor;

But leaving when he helped the team stand at the top of the league, it would be called a successful retirement!

As the first team he played for and the mother team that his mother supported since childhood, Ling Feng has a special feeling for Leicester City.

Even if he wants to join a bigger club, he does not want to fall out with Leicester City.

Of course, Ling Feng is still very grateful to Mendes.

Because the media

So there is a reason for guiding public opinion and letting the public know that Ling Feng is very loyal to Leicester City.

And that reason is Mendes!

In order to prevent Ling Feng’s personal image and reputation from being affected by the transfer, Mendes used his connections and relationships to let major media newspapers and magazines write articles and manipulate public opinion to speak well of Ling Feng.

Therefore, this made the Blue Fox fans not think that Ling Feng, who was about to leave, was a traitor.

Instead, they gave a thumbs up to his way of retiring after success and praised him as “loyal and loyal”

After all, except Ling Feng himself, no one knew that Leicester City could create the biggest miracle in the history of the Premier League a year ago!

(End of this chapter)