Champion’s Heart

After being tortured in the tenth floor of hell for a week, Zhou Yi only felt that every day seemed as long as a year, which was very difficult.

Until one day, coach Bartlett said to him: Okay, this morning's training is over.

Zhou Yi froze in place: Huh?

Huh what? Bartlett asked.

Uh... the training is over? Zhou Yi couldn't believe it.

Of course. Haven't you practiced enough? Want to practice more? I don't mind... Bartlett said.

No, no, no! That's not what it means! Zhou Yi waved his hands again and again. I just feel... It's strange. I used to be exhausted and stayed until the end of the training. Why do I feel that I still have more energy today, and the training is over? Zhou Yi expressed his doubts.

Bartlett smiled: Ha! That means your physical strength has increased, idiot.

Zhou Yi was stunned, thought for a while, and found that this really seemed to be the truth.

So he jumped up again: Really?

Nonsense, just to prove it, do you want us to have a group of training?

Uh...forget it, ha, I'm going to eat! After speaking, Zhou Yi ran towards the restaurant of the training base in a flash.

Seeing Zhou Yi running so fast, Bartlet behind shook his head and said to himself: It seems that it's time to increase the intensity...

If Zhou Yi knew that he ran so fast and let him run from the tenth floor of hell to the twelfth floor, he would probably regret that he didn't crawl to the restaurant...

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The next day Zhou Yi found that he was still exhausted from the morning training. Could it be that what happened yesterday was an illusion? My physical fitness hasn't improved at all. Is Coach Bartlett lying to me or comforting me?

Facing Zhou Yi's painful doubts, Bartlett comforted him: Welcome to the twelfth floor of hell, Zhou Yi.

So Zhou Yi finally didn't have to worry that his previous week's training was wasted, but at the same time, he also had to be afraid of the next thing...

This is the twelfth floor!

If he remembers correctly,

Hell is eighteen floors, right?

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While Zhou Yi's training continued, his manager Schulze was not idle either.

He is helping him and the club in the difficult contract renewal negotiations.

Regarding every bit of progress in the contract renewal negotiations, Schulze will keep in touch with Zhou Yi and tell Zhou Yi by phone or email.

So Zhou Yi knows why this contract renewal negotiation is so difficult...

very simple. Because Schulze is a difficult and principled agent.

In fact, the contract renewal negotiation was originally proposed by the Dortmund club.

The season wasn't over yet. Zhou Yi just played a good game for a while. The Dortmund club took the initiative to express to Zhou Yi that they hoped to re-sign a contract with Zhou Yi.

If Zhou Yi didn't have an agent at the time, he might have signed it. But at that time, Tino Schulze was already Zhou Yi's agent, so he reminded Zhou Yi not to discuss this new contract with Dortmund as an agent. The reason was naturally that the new contract could not maximize the benefits Schulze wanted. .

Dortmund in order to keep Zhou Yi as much as possible. The contract given is in some respects more favorable to the club than to Zhou Yi.

So Zhou Yi refused to negotiate a new contract with the club at that time.

Later, there was a problem with Shaheen's contract renewal. The club found Zhou Yi again, hoping to start negotiations on a new contract with him.

Schulze declined again.

He explained to Zhou Yi that the future of Shaheen was uncertain. At this time, the club came to Zhou Yi to discuss the contract. In fact, the bigger purpose is to show Shaheen, hoping to put pressure on Shaheen.

In this situation. Dortmund may not be willing to really meet Schulze's request for Zhou Yi, it's just a waste of time. Moreover, from single-core to dual-core, Schulze saw that Zhou Yi and Shaheen were in a competitive relationship.

So Shaheen's future in Dortmund determines Zhou Yi's future in Dortmund.

Shaheen ended up staying with Dortmund and Shaheen left Dortmund. For the club, their positioning of Zhou Yi is different.

According to Schulze. Of course, Shaheen's departure from Dortmund will benefit Zhou Yi the most.

So before the contract renewal between Shaheen and Dortmund is not settled, it is not the best time for Zhou Yi to negotiate a new contract with the club.

At that time, he made an excuse for Zhou Yi. Let Zhou Yi tell the club that he wants to focus on the game now, so let's wait until the end of the season to renew his contract or something.

This excuse reflects Zhou Yi's idea of ​​putting the overall situation first. When Shaheen was in a bad state due to the contract renewal, Zhou Yi said that there was no flaw, and the club did not want Zhou Yi to be affected by the contract renewal negotiations, resulting in poor state. stable. At that time, let alone the second place in the league, the top four in the league may not be able to keep it.

So Zhou Yi said so, and the Dortmund club can't force Zhou Yi to negotiate with them for a contract extension.

Finally, when Shaheen's transfer to Real Madrid was a foregone conclusion, Dortmund found Zhou Yi again, hoping to start negotiations on a new contract with him.

At this time, Zhou Yi and Schulze had already known through different channels and methods that Shaheen was going to leave in all likelihood.

The time has come to negotiate with Dortmund.

So Schulze started negotiations with the Borussia Dortmund club.

Negotiations went smoothly at the beginning, just like what Schulze said to Zhou Yi at the beginning, when Shaheen left the team, Dortmund would definitely be willing to spend money in order to keep Zhou Yi.

But on the liquidated damages clause, the two sides fell into a see-saw stalemate for the first time.

Schulze believes that the liquidated damages of 12 million euros set by Dortmund for Zhou Yi is too high, and hopes that it can be reduced to less than 8 million euros, and it is best to halve it to 6 million euros.

But it is impossible for Dortmund to agree to this. Because Shaheen's liquidated damages clause amounted to six million euros. Dortmund has had enough of this loss - if it wasn't for the fact that Shaheen's liquidated damages clause is too low, why are they rushing to make Shaheen perform better and better when Shaheen's contract expires in three years? Renew? And in the end, because he didn't want to activate Shaheen's six million euro liquidated damages clause when there was only one year left in the contract, he had no choice but to sell Shaheen who had just had a fling with Zhou Yi this summer.

If Zhou Yi still needs a liquidated damages of 6 million euros, Dortmund's club general manager Zorc will definitely think of Shaheen's transfer deal, and he will inevitably think about Zhou Yi, will the club repeat Shaheen? the mistakes of...

Therefore, the two parties have been arguing for a long time about the specific amount of the liquidated damages clause.

Moreover, when the liquidated damages clause was arguing, Schulze threw out the blockbuster of portrait rights before letting Zork idle.

He does not wish to give the image rights to the club. Instead, he wanted to keep it in Zhou Yi's own hands.

If Dortmund wants to use Zhou Yi's portrait rights. Yes, just give the money, and the two parties negotiate an appropriate price or sharing ratio, as well as the scope of use. Everything is negotiated and written in the contract. That's it.

But Borussia Dortmund didn't want to do that. They hope to let the players transfer all the portrait rights to the club, so that when Zhou Yi's portrait rights are profitable in the future, the club can sit and count the money. You must know that the player's portrait rights are also considered part of the club's income. The club's commercial activities in the future. It is also possible to let Zhou Yi go to the platform, which will help the club to open up Asia. Especially the Chinese market is very favorable.

A wealthy club like Real Madrid must control the portrait rights of the players, and any player who joins Real Madrid must offer the portrait rights. In this way, the club earns a lot of profits in the commercial market.

For Dortmund, whose financial situation is not very good, Zhou Yi, who is backed by the huge Chinese market, is simply a cash cow.

But Schulze does not want to give up the money to the club.

Portrait rights are in the hands of the players themselves. Schulze is more motivated to win more endorsement contracts for Zhou Yi, after all, he can get a commission from them, and the more contracts Zhou Yi wins. The more money he makes, the more money he ends up getting.

Moreover, the right to portrait belongs to the players themselves, which is also a good thing for the players themselves.

Now many stars, the money they earn in the club may not be as much as they earn in business operations...

But the club cannot accept Schulze's conditions. If Zhou Yi's portrait rights are not in the club's hands, the club will have to pay more if they want Zhou Yi to cooperate with the club's commercial activities. For the financially troubled Dortmund club, this money can be saved if it can be saved.

So the two sides have been talking about it for a long time, and these two issues have not been resolved yet.

Renewal talks appear to be at an impasse.

However, Schulze himself seemed very confident. He told Zhou Yi not to worry, just to train, anyway, he would come up with a satisfactory contract in the end.

In addition to the contract, Schulze also brought Zhou Yi a piece of news that made him happy, that is, a large number of companies lined up to come to him, hoping to cooperate with Zhou Yi.

This is naturally because Zhou Yi's performance last season was really good.

In the Kicker magazine recently launched the best selection of the Bundesliga last season, Zhou Yi won the honor of the best rookie last season. The voters in this selection are players from all teams in the Bundesliga and Bundesliga. It can also be said that Zhou Yi's performance has conquered his peers, which is very remarkable.

In addition, Zhou Yi also won the assist king last season.

These honors have a very practical significance to Zhou Yi, that is, more sponsors will come to him, hoping to sign an endorsement contract with him.

Zhou Yi was very happy about this news, which made him feel less bitter in the hell-like special training.

Of course, more money is better, and anyone who comes is always welcome.

But Schulze told Zhou Yi that he can't refuse anyone who comes, and he can't just do as much as possible.

Choosing an endorsement brand is also very particular. Although you are a rookie now, you are indeed a supernova. It is no exaggeration to define it by your performance. In the first season of the league, you have 14 assists. The assist king and the best rookie in the Bundesliga, if you can continue this performance, I think you can compete for this year's European Golden Boy Award-such an achievement is not an ordinary rookie.

Schulze explained Zhou Yi patiently.

In this way, our standards for the selection of cooperative brands have to be raised accordingly. There are some third-tier and fourth-tier brands, and even brands that are not popular at all. In addition, although we will authorize in different brand fields...but also Be careful not to sign too many brand endorsements at one time, it is easy for your image to be abused, resulting in a reduction in commercial value, which is not good for you. For example, some brands do not like to use those who are overexposed , the image that can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys is the spokesperson...

Zhou Yi understood it as soon as he heard it: Understood, it's just forced.

Forced?

Oh, it's the style and grade. The rarer the better, the rarer the more expensive. Zhou Yi explained to Schulze the Chinese-style term forced style.

Yes, that's what it means.

In addition to these endorsement brands, there is also a very important endorsement contract, which is the endorsement of sports brands.

This is a big deal for Zhou Yi.

According to Schulze's feedback, three major sports brands are now interested in Zhouyi, one is Adidas, the other is Nike, and the third is Dortmund's jersey sponsor Puma.

Schulze was talking with these three companies at the same time to see which of the three companies had the most sincerity and the best conditions.

Of course, he didn't forget to ask Zhou Yi if he had a preference for the brand.

Some people just like Nike and don't consider anything else except Nike, and some people just like Adidas.

Zhou Yi has no preference for this. He often wears a mix of Adidas and Nike. He has been wearing Puma sneakers this season. Because Puma is the team's sports cup sponsor, those players who did not sign a separate contract with the sports brand either wore what the team provided or bought it themselves.

Zhou Yi didn't bother to bother, so he wore what the team provided. Anyway, after wearing Puma for a season, he didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

So he is not entangled with Nike or Adidas, and there is no so-called brand loyalty.

This is good news for Schulze, he can give full play to his ability and win the best contract for Zhou Yi. (To be continued.) Enable new URL