I just wanted to play football, but I became a Hollywood god

Chapter 163 This contract is crazy!Gu Ran: I'm just a kid!
After leaving the U18 training ground, Gu Ran followed Old Rice into the central complex building of the training base.

By the way, Old Rice introduced to Gu Ran the multi-functional gymnasium, multimedia tactical room, various coach offices, conference rooms, restaurants, physical examination and medical centers, physiotherapy rooms and other departments in the building, and finally brought Gu Ran to the The senior director's office on the third floor.

The layout of Old Rice's office is very simple, it can be seen that he doesn't come here often.

The most conspicuous thing on his desk is a photo frame with a gold border, and the photo in the frame is the photo of the young Bell with him.

The 17-year-old Bell... is really high-spirited.

During Bell's peak period, many people thought he was Ronaldo's replacement.

But who would have thought that 12 years later, Ronaldo is still the top player in the world, but Bell has already retired.

I heard old Rice laughing: "Gu, I have prepared a new photo frame for you, just waiting for you to shine in the Southampton club! At that time, I will put you and Bell side by side Here, haha, other old guys will definitely be envious!"

shit...

Unexpectedly, another big pie was drawn.

Gu Ran hurriedly said with full sense of reality: "Thank you Mr. Rice for your kindness! I will definitely work hard!"

Old Rice smiled happily: "Gu, how many times have I told you, don't be polite to me, this is your own home, come here, sit down, I'll get you a contract."

"Let me tell you," Old Rice said while bending down to open the safe on the other side of the desk, "This contract is definitely the strongest contract that Southampton Club can offer, I believe , after you read it, you will be very satisfied."

As he spoke, Old Rice took out a stack of thick contracts from the safe.

Gu Ran quickly reached out to take it.

This is the first contract of his career!

This contract is heavy...

At least thirty or forty pages! ! !
Gu Ran suddenly felt dizzy, and once again felt in his heart how important it is to find a good agent.

This was originally the job of an agent, but it was the first professional contract in life anyway, so it's good to study it yourself.

Gu Ran opened the "Star of Hope" contract and read it carefully.

Old Rice sat aside, squinting his eyes slightly and said nothing, as if he was taking a nap, or like a fisherman waiting for a big fish to take the bait.

...the biggest fish you can catch in your life!
Lamar Carter's words lingered in Old Rice's ears.

At this moment, Old Rice's heart was very happy.

Although he knows that it is not appropriate to compare Gu Ran's signing of the contract to a fish biting a hook, after all, this professional contract is really full of sincerity, but this kind of expectation that you can catch the fish... really It's wonderful!
Continue creating offspring tonight!
Old Les stood up... Forget it, next week.

...I can still watch Gu Ran play in the semi-finals next week.

Gu Ran didn't care about the fiery gaze of Old Rice, but read the contract carefully.

This contract seems to have many pages, but it is actually divided into four parts.

The first few pages detail the responsibilities and obligations of both parties as professional clubs/professional players, as well as many principles for handling various disputes, and also cite various arbitration rules applicable to athletes in the UK.

For example, the club cannot pay wages on time, or cannot provide players with standard training equipment and other problems.

Another example is how to deal with problems such as players who cannot come to the training base on time, or unprofessional strikes, disobedience to the head coach's arrangements, and so on.

It's so small...

This part is actually a standard contract, and all professional player contracts will have this standard.

Gu Ran quickly skipped over and directly transitioned to the second part of the contract.

The second part is different from the standard contract.

The second part focuses on the length of the contract, the club's positioning of the players, and the minimum termination clause.

It was stated in this part that the Southampton club will train Gu Ran by cultivating the "core of the future team".

Gu Ran is the third hopeful star player of the Southampton club, sharing the same training resources as the previous Chamberlain and Luke Shaw.

The signing period of the contract is 3 years-in the UK, players under the age of 18 can only sign a contract of up to 3 years.

Gu Ran noticed that a clause was added to his contract: when Gu Ran turned 18, the Southampton Club has the right to offer a new contract at any time that is not lower than the current contract salary and value, and Gu Ran must sign.

—Obviously, this is a small contract trap.

It's not a scam, but it's definitely Southampton Club's trick to bind Gu Ran.

Seeing this, Gu Ran couldn't help but smile knowingly.

This kind of small trap is actually nothing. After all, the club has invested so much resources for you. It is impossible to let you go after 3 years. You must sign a contract with a longer term and a higher termination fee after you reach the age of 18. contract.

The club's mentality is also fully reflected in the "minimum termination fee clause".

Generally speaking, there are express regulations in Spanish professional leagues that players over the age of 17 must have a minimum termination fee when signing a contract, so as to ensure the interests of young players.

In the UK, there is no such mandatory regulation. Not all players over the age of 17 have to sign a minimum termination fee, but as long as they sign a minimum termination fee, they will be protected and bound by the "Football Association Competition Regulations".

The termination fee is not only binding on the player, but also binding on the club.

If the club doesn't want the player anymore, or wants to lower the player's weekly salary, or wants to rent the player out, but the player is unwilling, then the player has the right to continue to enjoy the current contract until the contract expires, unless the club pays the termination fee and puts the player on loan. Player out.

Otherwise, players can come to play golf every day, play badly, and play golf easily.

The most typical example of this is...

——Gu Ran couldn't help but look up at the photo frame on Old Rice's desk.

When Old Rice saw this scene, he was even more crazily happy in his heart:

I knew it!It is still very useful to draw cakes for young people!

Gu Ran must be thinking about how to become a star like Bell!

Therefore, he will definitely sign the contract impatiently!
I saw that Gu Ran lowered his head again and continued to read the contract...

The restriction of the termination fee on the players is that when the player is not satisfied with playing in a small club and a big club offers a more attractive contract, the small club can use the termination fee to prevent the player from directly changing jobs and transferring.

As long as the small club does not approve the transfer of players, the current contract can only be terminated and the player can be taken away unless the big club pays the liquidated damages set in the contract.

In this way, small clubs have nothing to lose.

The amount of the termination fee is generally determined based on the total contract price and the club's assessment of the player's future.

Generally speaking, the termination fee for ordinary players is 1.25 times or 2 times the total contract price.

The termination fee of key players will be about 3 times the total price of their current contract, and the core players in the team will even reach about 5 times the total price of their own contract.

As for superstars like Ronaldo and Messi, they cannot be bound by multiples of the contract value.

As a "star of hope", Gu Ran is considered a key player in terms of termination fee.

So normally, Gu Ran's termination fee is about three times the total value of his own contract.

Gu Ran quickly summed it up in his mind: If calculated based on a weekly salary of 2600 pounds, then the total value of this 3-year contract is about 40 pounds, and his liquidated damages should be set at about 100 million-- Between £120 million.

Gu Ran flipped through several pages in a row, and finally saw the minimum liquidated damages set by Southampton below——

500 pounds.

What the hell!

Crazy?
Gu Ran rubbed his eyes and read it again...

£500 million indeed!
This is this...

I'm still just a kid!

I'm just a grassroots amateur high school student!
The first professional contract is so high! ?
The minimum termination fee of 500 million pounds, let alone the English Championship and League One teams, even the Premier League teams will be discouraged.

After all, 500 million pounds can buy a lot of well-known players at the Premier League level!
Gritting your teeth and adding another 200 million is enough to buy a Carvalho-level star!
Of course, such a high liquidated damages can indeed reflect that the Southampton club is really optimistic about Gu Ran's future and prevents them from being poached by other clubs in advance.

...This is really treating me like a baby.

I really want to sing a sentence that makes me like it and makes me worry~
Gu Ran secretly smiled and continued browsing.

The third part of the professional contract is about money.

This is the most important part, and it takes up the most pages. It is roughly divided into weekly salary, bonuses, fines, advertising revenue sharing, broadcast revenue sharing, portrait rights sharing, and other financial issues.

The first thing to introduce is the revenue sharing of league rankings and the revenue sharing of broadcasting revenue.

In Gu Ran's contract, the points for these two items are 0.

The contract used a relatively long section to explain why Gu Ran didn't have a ranking revenue share and a broadcast revenue share——

In League One, these two benefits are very low, and they cannot be compared with the scale of the Premier League's rewards.

In the Premier League, as long as they win the championship, all players in the first team can each get a championship bonus of about 100 million pounds.

As for the broadcast income of the Premier League, it is also super high. It is no exaggeration to say that it is absolutely the best in the world. There is no rival in the five major leagues.

20支英超球队能一起瓜分14.4亿英镑（2010年左右的数据，2022年达到本土50.5亿英镑收益+21.03欧元海外转播收益），排名靠前的BIG6拿的最多，能分走14.4亿英镑的25%，排名靠后的俱乐部每高出1个排名能多拿100万英镑左右。

The income from overseas broadcasting alone is enough to beat the local broadcasting income of the other four major leagues.

To hold or not to hold?
And what about the revenue of the League One?
According to the current data, the prize money that the champion team of League One can get is only 1 pounds.

The gap in broadcast revenue is even greater. The 24 clubs in the League One have to share 40 pounds together, and each club has less than 2 pounds.

So, why does every club rush to the Premier League like chicken blood?Why do Premier League clubs dare to spend money like crazy to buy people?

This is a world of difference between 40 pounds and 14.4 billion!
Seeing this, Gu Ran felt amazed and sighed in his heart!

Before he was reborn, he only thought that the Premier League was good-looking because it was the birthplace of modern football, and thought that their players were professional enough. It wasn't until this moment that he realized... This is really burning money to death!
When we have a chance in the future, we have to buy a club too...

In this contract, a supplementary clause was added: if the Southampton team can break into the Premier League in the future, Gu Ran's ranking share and broadcast share will be the second highest in the team, only lower than that of those who have the main contract. old players.

I have to say, this is really quite sincere.

Of course, if he could really help the Southampton club achieve the triple jump and return to the Premier League, Gu Ran's strength at that time would definitely not only be the strength of the second-tier players.

Therefore, this supplementary clause is indeed sincere, but it is actually a piece of cake.

Next, there is the sharing of advertising revenue and the sharing of player portrait rights.

For these two items, the Southampton club gave a 30% share.

This ratio is also very sincere.

There is no need to explain much about advertising revenue. Player portrait rights are actually equivalent to personal copyrights. As long as one's face, image, signature, etc. appear in commercial activities, the other party must pay for the portrait rights.

Player portrait rights are the bulk of the star's personal commercial income, and it is also an item that the club can directly obtain financial benefits from after buying the star.

However, for Gu Ran, it was too early to think about these things.

Although the proportion of this contract is sincere, but in a low-level league like League One, this is just a painting.

Next, is the weekly salary, bonuses, and fines.

The weekly salary is £2600, paid 52 weeks a year.

This price was revealed by Old Rice before.

Although not as good as Chelsea's £4000, for the Southampton club, this is definitely super sincere.

A rich friend who eats tens of thousands of dollars a meal gives you 100 yuan, and a poor friend who eats vegetables and radishes every day gives you 100 yuan. The emotional weight of these two 100 yuan is completely different.

The prize money is divided into two parts. The first is the "Best of the Game" bonus. As long as you get the best of the game in the professional race, you can get a reward of 3000 pounds.

This bonus is not set for Gu Ran, but the standard for all Southampton first-team players.

To get this bonus, you must first play as a first-team player in an official game, and you must also get the highest score in the game.

£3000 isn't that high.

But as long as you have the ability, you can get it every week, and the accumulation can be regarded as a considerable reward.

You know, in the League One, most teams do not have a "best of the game" bonus.

Even many English championship teams do not set this bonus.

The second is the "championship promotion" bonus within the club: as long as Southampton's first team can get the qualification to upgrade to the British Championship, then the salary of the first team will increase by 10%. Then the wages of the first team will directly increase by 12%.

In terms of fines, they mainly include being late, leaving early, fighting, breaking rules, disobeying arrangements, contradicting the coach, and so on.

The intensity of fines is also different. For example, the lightest fine is being late, with a fine of 50 pounds for each lateness. The heaviest fine is for contradicting the coach and beating teammates. reserve team.

After reading the part of weekly salary and bonus, the rest are various details.

For example, before officially signing a contract, you must complete the physical examination and evaluation of the team doctor, complete the physical examination and assessment of the coaching staff, and sign several waiver agreements, etc.

The minimum appearance rate that Gu Ran was most concerned about was indeed written into the supplementary clause at the end of the contract, and a detailed explanation was also made.

For example, if Gu Ran's physical fitness is not up to the standard after the assessment, or if he is injured or sick, or the coaching staff thinks that Gu Ran's state is not suitable for the game, then the minimum appearance rate clause will be discounted or voided, etc.

In a word, if the club signs you, they will never let you perform poorly.

——Professional players are bad, which means they are not professional.

After reading more than 30 pages, Gu Ran's eyes were almost blurred.

Fortunately, I finally got a general understanding of the professional contract.

During the whole process when Gu Ran was looking at the contract, Old Rice was staring at Gu Ran:

... My big fish, it's time to take the bait, right?
Seeing Gu Ran close the thick contract, he smiled calmly, "Mr. Rice, this contract is really great and sincere. I am very, very moved. I wish I could sign it now."

"but……"

Old Les covered his heart!

He is most afraid of this!He is most afraid of this!

For a moment, Old Rice suddenly felt that it was not he who was fishing, but the fish was catching him!

He felt that he was being manipulated by Gu Ran! ! !

But he couldn't believe it!After all, Gu Ran is just a 17-year-old grassroots amateur high school player!

Gu Ran smiled, "Mr. Rice, there are a few things that I need to discuss with you further."

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(End of this chapter)