Chapter 281 Temporary Agent
Hu Lixin stood outside the toilet and watched his wife busy in front of the washing machine. She threw the curtains that had just been removed into the washing machine, poured in Hu Lai's favorite laundry detergent, selected the washing program, and pressed the switch.
She was humming the whole time.
"Why are you washing so late...you have to go to bed." Hu Lixin complained.
"I'll go to bed later and hang up the curtains after washing. You have to go to work tomorrow, so go to bed first." Xie Lan said to her husband.
"Why should I sleep? Don't you know that this washing machine makes as much noise as a tractor when it is spinning?" Hu Lixin said helplessly.
"Close the bedroom door, and I'll close the door here for double sound insulation..."
"Didn't you take a day off tomorrow? Can't you come and wash it tomorrow?"
"There are still things to do tomorrow. I have to clean everything at home tomorrow, clean the windows, mop the floor, wipe the furniture... Do you think I still have time to wash and hang the curtains?"
"As for that?" Hu Lixin curled his lips, "When he comes home, it's like celebrating the New Year."
Hearing this, Xie Lan said seriously: "It's just the Chinese New Year. He will go to winter training with the team during the Spring Festival next year, so our family celebrates the Chinese New Year in advance."
Hu Lixin hummed: "Then do you want to post Spring Festival couplets on the door?"
"You are right, I will post Spring Festival couplets and the word "Fu" tomorrow!"
"Nervous! It's only the beginning of November, where are you going to buy Spring Festival couplets?"
"Online, I've bought everything." Xie Lan pointed to the pile of express delivery at the door of his house.
Hu Lixin sighed, turned and walked to the bedroom, then closed the door and prepared to sleep.
Xie Lan didn't care about her husband's feelings. She sat on the sofa in the living room, crossed her legs, and checked her cell phone while waiting for the washing machine to finish washing the curtains.
On the phone is news about the final round of the Chinese League One.
Flash Star lost to Hexi Daqin 1:2 in the away game and was double beaten by their opponents this season. But no Flash Star fan cares about this.
Local media and fans are beginning to look forward to the new season eagerly.
Of course, some people are also paying attention to the World Cup at the end of the year.
But this is not what Xie Lan will pay attention to - she only cares about news related to her son.
Unless her son participates in the World Cup, she doesn't care about any of the world's top football events... Even the World Cup is not as important as her son!
She was reading a post analyzing Hu Lai's status and role in the Stars next season. Although she had a vague understanding of those professional terms, it didn't matter. She saw the author saying that her son would become the team's core shooter next season, and the head coach should build the team's tactics and personnel around him.
This shows that her son is very good, even the head coach thinks highly of him.
She still understood such a simple truth.
She smiled broadly, the dim light of the phone screen reflecting on her face. At the same time, a good smell came from the washing machine and gradually drifted into the living room. It was the smell of Hu Lai's favorite laundry detergent, which she had bought specifically for use.
When the time comes, she will hang the washed curtains back in Hu Lai's room, and the whole room will be filled with a faint fragrance.
I will be very happy when my son comes back.
Xie Lan thought happily.
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"Hu Lai, you will go home tomorrow, so when do you plan to negotiate a new contract with the club?"
At the door of the rental house, Yong Jun asked Hu Lai.
"Come back after your vacation? I won't stay at home for too long and will come back soon." Hu Lai replied. "Director Zhao also arranged targeted training for me."
"You don't even have an agent now. Are you going to talk to the club in person?"
"Yeah." Hu Lai nodded.
That day, when Yong Jun personally cooked and treated Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei to dinner, Yong Jun politely asked Hu Lai if he wanted to be his agent.
Then Hu Lai politely refused. He said that he had a good friend in high school who is now studying abroad. He has promised to let him be his agent, so he is very sorry...
Yong Jun didn't know if Hu Lai really had such a high school classmate. Maybe there really was such a thing, or maybe it was just an excuse.
Since Hu Lai didn't want to be his agent, Yong Jun didn't force him.
Nowadays, players are accustomed to signing contracts with agency companies, which are operated by more professional companies, which is much better than agents like themselves who work alone. If Hu Lai has this idea, that's normal.
But now that he saw that Hu Lai was about to sign a new contract with the club and he didn't even have an agent, he realized that maybe what Hu Lai told him before was the truth. Was he really waiting for his high school classmate?
Otherwise, if you just don't want to be his agent, and it involves such an important matter as signing a contract, why don't you find another agent and insist on negotiating with the club yourself?
The reason why he rejected him was just because he thought that he would have to ask his high school classmates to be his agents in the future, but it would be inconvenient to sign an agency contract with him now? For example, I helped him handle contract matters in the past few years, but when his high school classmate returned from his studies, he had to give up his position... Did he reject him because he felt that this was not good?
Thinking of this, Yong Jun said: "Do you think this will work, Hu Lai? As for me, I happened to be negotiating Qing Huan's new personal contract with the Flash Star Club recently. Qing Huan was on loan before, and his salary was still that of Tamron. Bian Ge, now that I'm transferring, all my personal contracts need to be renegotiated. Do you want to entrust me to help you negotiate with the club? Let’s talk about a new contract. Anyway, talking about one contract is a negotiation, and talking about two contracts is also a negotiation. We sign a single agency contract. The contract will expire after the negotiation, and it will not affect you in the future... Of course, if you If you need my agent to help you talk about anything in the future, you can also come to me and we will sign a one-time contract.”
The reason why he insists on being Hu Lai's agent is certainly not because he is interested in Hu Lai's talent and thinks that being his agent will be profitable in the future. Rather, it was purely out of the mentality of repaying a favor - Hu Lai helped Zhang Qinghuan get back on track. Is this a favor that can be repaid by treating him to a meal?
That's why he wanted to be Hu Lai's agent, help him deal with issues such as the contract with the club, and make more money for him to repay his help to Zhang Qinghuan.
No one hates money, right?
Now he hopes to help Hu Lai negotiate this contract with the club.
And he doesn’t take a penny of commission from it.
Because this is a favor, how can we collect money?
But he didn't tell Hu Lai, because he was afraid that if he said it, Hu Lai would reject him, which would be embarrassing.
When the matter is settled, he will just return the money to Hu Lai.
Hu Lai was a little surprised when he heard what Yong Jun said: "Is this still possible?"
"Of course, why not?" Yong Jun asked with a smile. "We sign a contract, and it is stipulated in the contract that my brokerage services are limited to this contract renewal negotiation. When the contract renewal negotiation is over, there will be no contractual relationship between us."
Hu Lai lowered his head and thought for a while, then nodded: "Then please leave it to Uncle Yong!"
"No problem. Let me first ask you what you think about personal treatment? For example, what is the minimum annual salary you want and the maximum you can accept? There is also the issue of contract length..."
Hu Lai said directly without thinking: "Can you mention the goal award to one goal... ten thousand?"
Yong Jun was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that Hu Lai's first request was a goal award... The annual salary is the big one, kid!
Seeing Yong Jun in a daze, Hu Lai hesitated: "Can't you, Uncle Yong?"
"Uh... no, although the goal bonus of 10,000 is a bit high, it's not out of the question..." Yong Jun explained quickly.
"That's fine. If the 10,000 club doesn't agree, the minimum is 5,000 per ball."
"Okay, let me write it down." Yong Jun took out his cell phone, opened the memo, and wrote down Hu Lai's request on it. "What about annual salary? What are your requirements for annual salary?"
"Annual salary...one million?" Hu Lai asked with some hesitation.
When Yong Jun heard what he said, he knew that Hu Lai had no idea about this. One million annual salary is an astronomical figure for him, but based on his performance, one million annual salary is an easy number to agree to in the eyes of the club. Lai Zekai can get an annual salary of one million for such performance. With Hu Lai's age and future development space, an annual salary of one million is simply too cheap, right?
But if the club can easily agree, it means that it can ask for a higher annual salary.
Thinking of this, he put down the phone: "Okay, I understand, I will talk to you, and I promise to try to get the best result for you."
"Then thank you Uncle Yong." Hu Lai said with a smile.
The stone in his heart fell to the ground.
Previously, he really planned to use his points to exchange for a trial pack of Charming Essence Lotion, and then put this on to go to the club to negotiate a contract. He didn't know if he could successfully negotiate and get the contract he wanted.
But now that I have Uncle Yong, a professional agent, I don’t have to waste points.
With these points, he can exchange for more training scrolls to improve his hard power.
"Why are you so polite? I still want to thank you. So, if we have anything to do, we can contact you via WeChat?" Yong Jun said, saying goodbye.
During dinner that day, Yong Jun, Hu Lai, and Wang Guangwei all added each other on WeChat.
Hu Lai was about to nod, but suddenly remembered something and said quickly: "Uncle Yong, can I ask for more signing fees?"
Yong Jun frowned. The signing fee only existed during transfers. The club would give this signing fee to the players in order to make up their mind to transfer. Later, it developed into a contract renewal that requires a signing fee, and the bigger the player, the higher the signing fee, which can even be higher than the annual salary.
It was not until the Football Association's salary limit order was issued that signing fees were included in a player's total income for a year, and this stopped the trend of sky-high signing fees.
However, because the signing fee is also included in the total annual income, the impact of the signing fee or the absence of the signing fee on the annual salary of the contract will be great.
If you want to negotiate a high annual salary, the signing fee may become a point of contention between the two parties.
"Don't you want it?" Hu Lai asked when he saw him like this.
Yong Jun did not immediately explain to him, but asked: "When you transferred to Flash Star, didn't you have a signing fee?"
Hu Lai nodded: "Yes, there is, just thirty thousand..."
Yong Jun almost blurted out, "That's it?", but he immediately thought that Hu Lai had not yet proven his worth in Flash Star. In the eyes of the club, he was just a young man who relied on Zhao Kangming's nepotism to join Flash Star. Just a team player.
His transfer fee is only 500,000, and a signing fee of 30,000 does not seem stingy. After all, some players may not have a signing fee at all.
"The signing fee is related to the annual salary, which is a bit troublesome. If you want a high annual salary, you may have to make concessions on the signing fee..." Yong Jun explained to Hu Lai.
"I don't want too much signing fee." Hu Lai said quickly.
"How many do you want?"
"Four hundred thousand." Hu Lai said.
"Ah?" Yong Jun's eyes widened.
"Is it too much?" Seeing this, Hu Lai was a little worried.
"No, it's too little... Are you sure you want that much?"
Hu Lai nodded, and then explained: "My family borrowed a sum of money from outside, plus the money I borrowed myself, I owe a total of 400,000. I want to use these 400,000 to pay off the debt, and I have to worry about it all the time. Regarding this matter..."
So that's it... Yong Jun nodded slightly, asking for money to pay off his family's debts instead of spending it on enjoyment. This kid was different from many professional players he had seen.
"Okay, I'll try my best to help you. It's just a signing fee of 400,000 yuan. I believe the club won't embarrass you so much unless they don't want to keep you." Yong Jun smiled, "After you scored eleven goals in half a season, If you want a lot of teams, even the Chinese Super League has them! As long as your manager is not stupid, he should be able to meet your requirements.”
"Then thank you, Uncle Yong." A relieved smile appeared on Hu Lai's face.
"Why are you thanking me? If the contract can be negotiated, the biggest credit goes to you. It is you who helped me reduce the difficulty of negotiation with your outstanding performance." Yong Jun does not take credit.
Hu Lai thought of another question: "Then why was Brother Lai unable to negotiate a new contract after scoring 16 goals?"
"Lai Zekai is old, and the annual salary he wants is too high... Do you know how much he wants?"
Hu Lai shook his head: "I don't know.
"He wants three million. Damn it if the club gives it to him."
"Then I..."
"You are different from him. You are still young, and there is a big gap between eleven goals in half a season and sixteen goals in a season. In the end, it is impossible for me to give you an annual salary of three million," Yong Jun said. .
Hu Lai then breathed a sigh of relief: "I think one million is enough..."
"It won't be one million. Don't worry about it. Anyway, I'll help you negotiate a contract as big as possible." Yong Jun waved his hand.
Hu Lai thanked him again and then entered the house.
Looking at the closed door, Yong Jun nodded lightly.
This child is still childish.
But it’s also a good thing that the childishness is still there, it’s simpler and purer.
Not so fancy.
It's really like Qing Huan back then.
But Qing Huan eventually became an adult. He hoped that Hu Lai could still maintain his childishness. That might be a good thing for his career. (End of chapter)