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Chapter 183 Chapter [040] against Nigeria 【Subscription, monthly ticket】

For Li Ning to come to his door, this was beyond Xu Zhou's expectation.After leaving, Xu Zhou called his cousin Robert Hughes and talked about Li Ning.After receiving Xu Zhou's call, Robert Hughes began to collect some information about Li Ning and started preparations for the negotiation.As long as it is before the negotiation, Robert Hughes has a habit of finding a lot of favorable information on the Internet, so that he can make himself invincible.

Not long after receiving Xu Zhou's call, he received a call from Li Ning Company. During the call, they made an appointment to meet, hoping to meet and talk.After negotiating a meeting time, Robert Hughes immediately flew to BJ to discuss this matter.At this time, Xu Zhou returned to the team's residence and spent the night peacefully.On the next day, that is, the morning of August 8th, the Italian Olympic team rushed to Shanghai.Because the semi-finals between the Italian Olympic team and the Nigerian Olympic team will be held in the Shanghai Stadium, and another game between the Argentine Olympic team and the Brazilian Olympic team will be held at the BJ Workers Stadium.

After arriving in Shanghai, the Italian Olympic team did not train immediately. The head coach of the Italian Olympic team, Casiraghi, let the players rest well. They did not have their first training in Shanghai until 18:[-]. Before that, the Italian Olympic team played in this stadium, and they are still somewhat familiar with this stadium.Therefore, in training, there is no adaptation. In training, the Italian Olympic team practiced defensive counterattack tactics much more than before, or it will be the most important tactic of the Italian Olympic team in the semifinals.

After half an hour of open training and an hour and a half of closed training, the Italian Olympic team returned to their place of residence.Before their training, the Nigerian Olympic team had already trained here, and the training of the Nigerian Olympic team was all closed.This also started the cautious attitude of the two teams before the game. It has reached this stage, and everyone will be more cautious, because there is no room for loss in this game.

In the evening, Robert Rest arrived at BJ, and began to conclude with Li Ning Company, and began to negotiate about Xu Zhou's endorsement of Li Ning.In the first negotiation, the two sides still could not reach an agreement on some aspects, but after trying to negotiate, the two sides reached an agreement on some issues.But there are still some places where no agreement was reached.If the negotiation failed the first time, naturally, this will be postponed until the second time.

And that night, after Xu Zhou finished training, he returned to his room and turned on the TV to watch the broadcast of BJ's Olympic games.At this time, news came from the TV that He Wenna had won the gold medal in the women's trampoline competition. This was also the first women's individual championship for the Chinese delegation on the trampoline.Xu Zhou was still a little surprised by this, he didn't expect that this tough chick could really win the championship.

After watching this, Xu Zhou fell asleep immediately. After all, there was a very important game waiting for them tomorrow.The Nigerian Olympic team is not easy to play. Their strength is still very strong. In history, the Nigerian Olympic team has also won an Olympic championship.

The Olympic men's football gold medal won by Nigeria in 1996 was the first Olympic gold medal won by an African. In the BJ Olympics, their goal is to win the second Olympic gold medal in men's soccer.The miraculous performance of the Nigerian team in the Atlanta Olympics was unforgettable. In the semi-finals, they were 1:3 behind and finally reversed Brazil 4:3, and defeated Argentina 3:2 in the final to win the championship. At that time, Kanu and others overwhelmed Bebeto and Ronaldo in the limelight, and such brilliance was enough to make the Nigerian team full of confidence in the Olympics.

Twelve years later, the Nigerian Olympic team used the 12 World Youth Championship team as their team. In the World Youth Championship in the Netherlands, these players entered the final with amazing skills and gained the upper hand in the match against Argentina.The team that included talented teenagers such as Mikel and Taiwo was shocking. According to that lineup, this Nigerian team is definitely capable of hitting the championship.Although Mikel did not participate, Taiwo, who played for Marseille in France, is the star player of the team. This left-footed full-back with outstanding skills shined in the World Youth Championship in the Netherlands in 2005. Now Taiwo has grown into the backbone of the Marseille team's defense.In the national team, he has also become the absolute main force. In this year's African Cup, Taiwo, who performed well, was also favored by the two Serie A giants Inter Milan and Juventus.

This Nigerian Olympic team should not be underestimated. The Nigerian Olympic team encountered strong resistance from Ghana and South Africa in the qualifying round. In the first three games, they only achieved one win and two draws, and ranked second behind the Ghana team in points.

Although in the qualifiers, they stumbled a bit.But entering the main match of the BJ Olympics, the performance of the Nigerian Olympic team was very eye-catching.After being tied by the Dutch Olympic team in the first round of the group stage, the Nigerian Olympic team defeated the Japanese Olympic team and the US Olympic team with a score of 1:[-] in the next two group matches, thus winning the No.[-] group with [-] points and successfully advancing to the top [-] of the BJ Olympic Games.

After advancing to the top [-], the Nigerian Olympic team met the Ivory Coast Olympic team, also from Africa.In this very civil war, the Nigerian Olympic team performed very well and easily defeated the Cote d'Ivoire Olympic team with a score of [-]:[-], thus successfully advancing to the semi-finals.Therefore, the Nigerian Olympic team is still very strong, at least much stronger than the Belgian Olympic team.

In the four games, the Nigerian Olympic team scored six goals and conceded two goals. The attack power is still very good, and the defense is not bad.Therefore, this game must be taken seriously for the Italian Olympic team.Moreover, in the last round of the competition, the Italian Olympic team was cornered by the Belgian Olympic team, and the Belgian Olympic team almost made a comeback.Therefore, in this game, the Italian Olympic team will be more cautious.

The time entered the morning of August 2008, 8. The two teams entered the Shanghai Stadium for field adaptation training. This time, the training of both teams was changed to closed training, and the outside media and opponents were not given any chance to study themselves.However, the BJ Olympic men's football competition is coming to an end, and the two teams have almost no secrets.It doesn't seem to make any sense to do so.

At this time, Robert Hughes started the second negotiation with Li Ning Company. This time their main problem was to solve the problem of endorsement fees.In this regard, Li Ning Company is only willing to pay Xu Zhou an endorsement fee of US$100 million per year.In fact, this endorsement fee is already very good, and it is still for a young star like Xu Zhou who has just made a name for himself.

However, Robert Hughes didn’t get what he wanted, because he had heard before that that Li Ning Company was going to sign the beautiful Serbian tennis player Anna Ivanovic for 220 million US dollars. It is said that the contract should be between 100 and [-] years, that is, Li Ning Company was willing to give this Serbian tennis star more than [-] million US dollars a year in endorsement fees, but they were only willing to give Xu Zhou [-] million US dollars. This is what Robert Hughes was not satisfied with.

Although, at this time Xu Zhou is not as famous as Anna Ivanovic.However, football is the number one sport in the world, and their audience is definitely larger than tennis.And now Xu Zhou's reputation is rising rapidly. Look, before the Olympics, Xu Zhou's worth was only worth 1000 million pounds, but before the Olympics were over, Xu Zhou's worth had already risen to around 2000 million pounds. Such a rapid increase in his worth also shows that Xu Zhoude's reputation is rising rapidly.Therefore, Robert Rest doesn't think that Xu Zhou can only be worth 100 million US dollars a year.

The two sides did not reach an agreement on this issue. Today, they started discussions for this two.When Robert Hughes raised this question, Li Ning Company did not deny that they had such a plan.However, Robert Hughes didn't know much about it.They wanted to sign Ana Ivanovic with 200 million U.S. dollars, but their contract period was 200 years. According to this, Ana Ivanovic's annual endorsement fee was [-] million U.S. dollars.However, Ana Ivanovic's endorsement fees did not reach [-] million US dollars a year.Because of the [-] million US dollars, they also bought out Ana Ivanovic's contract with Adidas.

Because at this time, Ana Ivanovic still has a one-year contract with Adidas, so it is calculated.Ana Ivanovic's annual endorsement fee did not reach 200 million US dollars, so it is fair for Li Ning to give Xu Zhou 100 million US dollars a year as an endorsement. This is what Li Ning said.

However, Robert Hughes didn't think so. Robert Hughes also knew about Ana Ivanovic's contract with Adidas.However, he will not express it in the negotiation, he wants to strive for the best interests for Xu Zhou.The endorsement fee he paid for killing Anna Ivanovic exceeded 200 million US dollars, which also left Li Ning Company with no choice.

At this time, Li Ning Company proposed to ask Robert Hughes to make an offer, and asked Robert Hughes to tell him how much endorsement fee Xu Zhou would be willing to sign with Li Ning Company.This is what Robert Hughes was waiting for. Seeing what Li Ning Company said, Robert Hughes immediately proposed that Li Ning Company should give Xu Zhou an endorsement fee of US$250 million a year.As soon as these words came out, Li Ning's senior executives were dizzy. The endorsement fee is too high.

Immediately, the executives of Li Ning Company shook their heads and expressed that it was impossible. At this time, Robert Hughes proposed to Li Ning that at this time, Nike Company had approached him, and Nike Company also wanted to sign Xu Zhou.Moreover, Nike’s annual endorsement fee to Xu Zhou has reached 320 million US dollars a year. If Xu Zhou hadn’t called him in advance, Xu Zhou might have signed a contract with Nike at this time. Today, Robert Hughes came to BJ because of Xu Zhou’s words. Robert Hughes said that Xu Zhou has Chinese blood in his body.

Although, listening to what Robert Hughes said, Li Ning's top management is still unwilling, after all, 250 million US dollars a year is indeed too high.Second, Robert Hughes didn't seem to let go, and the negotiations fell into a stalemate.And at this time, Li Ning himself appeared at the negotiation site, and his appearance exceeded the expectations of both parties.What was even more beyond the expectations of both parties was what Li Ning said next. As soon as he came in, Li Ning said: "We can offer Xu Zhou US$350 million a year as an endorsement fee!"

$350 million?This has stunned the heads of both parties. How is it possible? Just now Robert Hughes was still working hard for 250 million US dollars, and Li Ning Company was also working hard for 200 million US dollars.However, at this moment, Li Ning raised the endorsement fee to 350 million US dollars, which is really surprising.

"Mr. Li Ning, you must have your own conditions for offering such a price, so let's hear it!" Of course, Robert Hughes knew that there is no such thing as a free lunch. Since the other party said so, there must be his request.

"Of course, I'm willing to make an endorsement fee of 350 million U.S. dollars a year, but we need to change the form and duration of the contract!" Li Ning didn't mince words, and said bluntly, "I think, Mr. Robert also thinks that the current Mr. Xu Zhou is not worth such a high endorsement fee!"

"Please tell me!" Robert Hughes signaled that Mr. Li Ning could put forward his ideas. After all, it is very attractive that Xu Zhou can get 350 million dollars a year in endorsement.

"I hope to sign a ten-year contract with Mr. Xu Zhou!" Li Ning's words were shocking again, ten years?The deadline is too long, and there are too many unknown factors. No one can predict what will happen in the next ten years.Perhaps, ten years later, Xu Zhou could be proud of the entire green field. At that time, his worth was definitely not worth 350 million US dollars a year. Of course, it is also possible that Xu Zhou would be sitting in a wheelchair in less than ten years. At that time, Xu Zhou was definitely worth less than 350 million US dollars. Therefore, everyone was very surprised and baffled by Li Ning's proposal!

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