Chapter 373 The number one wage earner in football?
A weekly salary of two hundred and sixty thousand sounds like a lot, but it is actually a lot.
Ling Feng’s current weekly salary of 130,000 yuan has doubled!
And it is the second highest salary in the entire Premier League after Rooney!
However, this did not meet Mendes’s psychological expectations.
In Mendes' view, Ling Feng is the savior of Manchester United and a superstar with the ability to compete for the Ballon d'Or!
Comparing horizontally with Ibrahimovic, who has just been exempted from signing by Manchester United, although Lingfeng’s transfer fee is expensive, 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 on the rise, with unlimited possibilities and huge improvements. space!
The difference between the two is like that of an old man who is dying and a young man who is rising in the morning.
For Manchester United, Ibrahimovic is a short-term, immediate player, which can only be used for two years at most.
Ke Lingfeng is not only an immediate fighting force, but also the cornerstone of the team for the next ten years!
Such a superstar only gets a weekly salary of 10,000 yuan more than Ibrahimovic, which is not in line with 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 offered 350,000 Astonishing numbers!
Regarding Mendes's lion's opening, Woodward did not show shock or anger at all, but smiled faintly:
"If Ling Feng has won the Golden Globe Award, I am very willing to To pay such a salary. But he hasn’t, hasn’t he?”
This sentence is both direct and offensive.
Ling Feng couldn't help but complain in his heart:
Made, if I already have the Ballon d'Or, why would I want to transfer to Manchester United? !
Is there something wrong with your management? Or do you have traffic? !
Of course, let’s negotiate.
Isn’t it a game where you give me a price that is unacceptable to me, and then I return a price that is unacceptable to you, and finally both parties reach a price that is acceptable to both parties?
After a heated exchange of words, the two parties reached a preliminary agreement on a weekly salary of 290,000 yuan.
The weekly salary of 290,000 is the second highest salary at 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 is regarded as the cornerstone of the team's revival, it is impossible for his weekly salary to suddenly exceed that of Rooney, the veteran and captain who has played for the team for many years.
If you, a newcomer, have not brought anything to the team and you have 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!
So, second only to Rooney’s weekly salary of 290,000, it is a very reasonable figure.
Two hundred and ninety thousand a week, fifty-two weeks a year
This means that after Ling Feng transfers to Manchester United, he will receive 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 player with the highest annual salary in today's football after Melo and Rooney!
Moreover, in order to compensate, Woodward proposed bonuses such as goal bonuses and assist bonuses, helping the team win the Premier League championship or the Champions League championship, being selected for the best team of the year, being shortlisted for the Golden Globe Award, etc. terms.
If all the bonus clauses in the contract are fulfilled, Ling Feng’s weekly salary can even reach an astonishing 500,000 yuan weekly salary!
Directly surpassing Melo and becoming the number one wage earner in football!
It is worth mentioning that Woodward did not want to add a liquidated damages clause to Ling Feng's contract.
From the club's perspective, he certainly hopes that Ling Feng will stay at Manchester United.
However, Mendes believes that leaving a way out in everything may leave some room for each other.
After negotiation between the two parties, Ling Feng’s liquidated damages were initially set at 500 million euros!
This liquidated damages figure is actually equivalent to none.
Because both sides believe that no football club will spend 500 million euros just to buy a player!
Even if this player is the strongest person in football.
After negotiating 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 are players’ image rights?
This includes the player's appearance, name, signature, nickname, voice, and even iconic celebration methods, etc. As long as it is related to the player, it is generally within the scope of portrait rights.
Just like Ling Feng’s iconic "King of the World" celebration, if any company or individual wants to use it, it must obtain the consent of the owner of the portrait rights, which is Ling Feng, and pay a fee .
Of course, if Ling Feng himself agrees, it can be used for free.
With Mendes’ extremely professional agent, Ling Feng established his own image rights company as early as two years ago.
However, compared to La Liga, which likes to take players' image rights and share the profits, the Premier League is much more relaxed about players' image rights.
Most Premier League clubs have the right to use their players' image rights for free.
However, for some superstars with high commercial value, clubs usually pay a royalties.
This money will be handed over to the players in the form of salary.
Considering that Ling Feng will surely become a world-famous superstar like Beckham in the future under the brand promotion of Manchester United, Woodward naturally hopes to get a piece of Ling Feng's face.
So, he hopes to take away 50% of Ling Feng’s portrait rights.
This means that Manchester United can obtain 50% of the income from Ling Feng's image rights!
However, this proposal was strongly rejected by Mendes!
Most of the Premier League only has the right to use the player's image rights, but does not have the right to share the revenue from the player's image rights.
What's more, with Ling Feng's current popularity in British football and even world football, the royalties from the image rights alone can bring Ling Feng an income of more than 10 million pounds a year. !
Manchester United gives an annual salary of more than 10 million, and then takes away 50% of the image rights income, which is equivalent to a share of more than 5 million pounds!
This is definitely unacceptable to Ling Feng and Mendes!
Woodward’s attitude is also very determined.
The reason these senior executives chose Ling Feng was because of his outstanding image and huge commercial value, which can bring considerable commercial income to Manchester United.
You must know that when Beckham had a falling out with Manchester United, in addition to the much-rumored "flying shoe scandal", there was also part of the reason for portrait rights
As you can imagine, portrait rights importance.
In addition to the issue of image rights, Ling Feng, as the most commercially valuable player in British football today, has more than ten sponsors of various types!
Since Ling Feng’s personal sponsors and Manchester United’s official business partners have brand competition in fields such as cars and watches, the two parties 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;
As for watch endorsements, Manchester United officially endorses Bulova, while Ling Feng endorses Hublot watches.
There are many such examples.
These are important details that require careful negotiation between Mendes and Manchester United.
Of course, this is only the first meeting between the two parties.
As long as a preliminary franchise agreement is reached, the remaining negotiations can be left to Lingfeng’s agency team and the club’s negotiation team.
Finally, this meeting, which fans will call "the great meeting" in the future, ended successfully after an hour!
. . .
"I hope our next meeting will be at Carrington Base"
"I hope so."
Just when Lingfeng and Mendes joined Woodward and Mourinho As they were leaving the villa, at the same time.
On the sea about five hundred meters away from the coastline, there was a private speedboat.
“Finally caught you!”
Boris, the chief reporter of The Sun, was wearing an orange life jacket, and his loose hair was flying in the wind. In his hands, he was steadily holding a huge camera cannon with a terrifyingly long lens, aiming it in the direction of the holiday villa on the island.
This old man can definitely be called Ling Feng's "loyal fan"
But, he is different from ordinary fans.
Ordinary fans regard Ling Feng as their idol and role model, but he regards Ling Feng as a cash cow!
Two years ago, it was following the scandal between Ling Feng and Kendall in the United States that made Boris earn his first pot of gold from being a reporter for The Sun.
In the next two years, he also continued to follow Ling Feng. Whether it was his daily life with his girlfriend or photos of him attending various private events, they became the main source of gossip reports in The Sun.
As Ling Feng's reputation in British football and even world football has risen, the photos he took have become more and more valuable, and 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.
But to take precious photos of Ling Feng's intimate contact with other women except his girlfriend!
Of course, if it’s a man, that would be even better!
However, security is tight near the holiday villa.
No one else can get close or sneak in, let alone a paparazzi with a camera.
So, in order to take a photo of Ling Feng’s exclusive breaking news, he directly broke out his wallet, rented a speedboat, and then disguised himself as a tourist watching the sea.
Then, he looked for the most suitable time and angle, and silently waited for the overwhelming wealth to fall on him.
And just an hour ago, when he found out that Ling Feng had answered a phone call, he left. On the beach, when he returned to the villa alone, he noticed
He originally thought that Ling Feng was going to have a secret meeting with a woman, or even a man.
Unexpectedly, the person meeting Ling Feng was actually the CEO of Manchester United and the famous Mourinho!
Although it is not gossip news that one likes to hear.
However, Boris' keen sense for news made him realize how valuable the news about Ling Feng's meeting with Manchester United's CEO and head coach was!
“Now I’m rich!”
However, just when he got carried away and took a photo of Ling Feng, Woodward and Mourinho in the same frame, he was struck by his professional Excessive filming equipment reveals identity!
Some security guards on the beach saw this person holding a "cannon" this way and immediately realized 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.
Hurrying down the camera, he immediately shouted:
“Set the ship quickly, let’s evacuate!”
As a senior paparazzi, Boris was naturally ready Be prepared to be spotted by your subject's bodyguards and security.
While dismantling the camera and lens and putting them into the box, he sat tightly on the seat and let the speedboat man drive the boat
The speedboat guy may often take people out to sea, and his driving skills are very good.
Coupled with being very familiar with the local waters, he quickly used an elegant tail flick on the sea to get rid of the security guards chasing behind him.
After a chase at sea, Ling Feng also learned from the bodyguard brother that there was a paparazzi taking secret photos on the sea with an oversized lens.
When Ling Feng heard the news, his first reaction was that the dead paparazzi who had been secretly filming him for two years suddenly appeared in his mind!
“The guy who stepped on the horse must be Boris again!”
And he was not wrong.
The next day.
"The Sun" beat all the media and made the breaking news about Ling Feng's private meeting with Manchester United's CEO and coach public!
The photo of Ling Feng, Woodward and Mourinho in the same frame immediately caused an earthquake in British football!
The source of the photo is none other than Ling Feng’s exclusive photographer and chief reporter of The Sun - David Boris!
Blue Fox fans are naturally saddened by the fact that Ling Feng met with Manchester United executives in private.
It is difficult for them to imagine and accept the cruel fact that "losing Ling Feng" is about to become a reality.
Manchester United fans, on the other hand, looked confused and puzzled:
"What? My devil has touched Ling Feng?!"
"Holy shit! Mu! Rino and Lingfeng? Am I dreaming?"
"It's all gone, we are just a tool for others to raise prices."
Fans of other wealthy clubs rushed to the club's official website and social media one after another, and began to swipe the screen:
"Club senior management What are you doing? Are you guys playing golf? "
"Where's my car?"
On the other side, it's Sardinia. Ling Feng from the island, like an ordinary fan, is also checking social media and news.
At the beginning, he was afraid that the news of his transfer application and scandals with other wealthy clubs would make Blue Fox fans very angry with him.
Go directly to his social media account and start scolding him, or go a little too far and burn your own jersey in a live broadcast.
However, Ling Feng couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief at the reaction of the Blue Fox fans to his transfer application and the scandal with Manchester United.
Fortunately, I did not listen to Mendes's advice and leave the team in the summer window last year. Instead, I left after helping Leicester City win the Premier League Championship and Europa League Championship this year.
If you leave when the team has just achieved results and needs you most, you will definitely be regarded as a traitor;
But leaving when you help the team stand at the top of the league is called quitting after a successful career!
As the first team he played for and the home team his mother supported since childhood, Ling Feng has special feelings 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 there is a reason why the media guides public opinion and lets the public know that Ling Feng is very affectionate and 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 personal connections and connections to get major media newspapers and magazines to write articles and reports, and manipulate public opinion to say good things about Ling Feng.
That’s why the Blue Fox fans didn’t think Ling Feng, who was about to leave, was a traitor at all.
On the contrary, he gave him a thumbs up for his approach of retiring after his success and praised him as "compassionate and righteous"
After all, except Ling Feng himself, no one had done it a year ago. Who would have known that Leicester City could actually create the biggest miracle in the history of the Premier League!
(End of this chapter)