green knight

Chapter 3 and Two: The Torreses
Li Zihan feels that it has nothing to do with him whether his company will go bankrupt in the future or whether it will go to a new height like the previous IBM handover.

After reading the contract with Huawei, Li Zihan expressed his satisfaction.At least in terms of money, Huawei has been more generous this time.For a five-year contract, Li Zihan can get paid about 120 pounds per year.What Li Zihan has to do is to expand the popularity of Huawei's mobile business across the country and even in Europe. To put it more simply, "I am Li Zihan, and I will 'replace salt' for Huawei!"

Li Zihan and Susan talked more about this with Mark, the vice president of Huawei UK, and the prince was more of a formality.

Li Zihan has a good impression of this British white-haired old man, because he doesn't feel like a "tyrant" at all, but acts more like a friend he hasn't seen for many years.

Well, in fact, the gray-haired Mark is not very old, he is only in his early forties this year.

After talking about Li Zihan's personal treatment, the group immediately drove to Colney, Arsenal's training base.When Huawei intended to cooperate, Li Zihan once told Wenger the news in private.Wenger said it was a good thing and would help make it happen.

Arriving at the door of Wenger's office at the Kearney training base, Li Zihan checked the time and found that it was just right.So he took Huawei and his team into Wenger's office. It had been agreed before, so Wenger was already waiting for them in the office at this time.

Wenger's work style is very simple. Many important negotiations are generally carried out in his office, and then go to the comprehensive press hall or conference room.

Today is not just Wenger, but also Arsenal Chief Commercial Officer Tom Fox.

After two hours of negotiations, Huawei and Arsenal reached some preliminary intentions, and Li Zihan knew that the remaining specific operations and details would be left to the people below to discuss.During the whole process, Li Zihan was just as an accompanying guest, neither spoke nor suggested.He knew that he was just acting as a matchmaker in this regard, and the specifics still depended on the two parties themselves.

After the preliminary agreement was finally reached, Arsenal's chief commercial officer, Tom Fox, took Huawei's business team to the already arranged dinner.Originally, Li Zihan would also be present as a companion, but considering that he promised Torres to go to the other party's family dinner tonight, he didn't go with the big team.

Wenger didn't go either. These aspects are generally left to the club's business department below.

After everyone left, Wenger smiled and said to Li Zihan: "I knew that signing you would bring a lot of commercial benefits to Arsenal. I didn't expect this day to come so soon. I haven't even won a championship yet." , there have been Chinese consortiums coming one after another.”

Li Zihan said with a smile: "You underestimate the Chinese businessmen. They know that when Arsenal wins one or two important championships, maybe there will be another price. At this time, at least Arsenal have not won a championship for eight years. Yes, they have an advantage in the details of the contract."

Wenger rubbed his chin and thought for a while and said: "It makes sense. It seems that there will be Asian companies coming to cooperate again in the future. Should we push back a little bit and start negotiating after we regain the championship?"

Li Zihan shrugged and said, "It's up to you, anyway, it's actually a win-win thing in the end. The sponsors got what they wanted, and the club got the RMB in their bank."

Wenger laughed out loud, and Li Zihan could see that he was really happy.The professor is to Arsenal what a father is to a son. Who wouldn't like a son to live a better life and earn a lot of money?Besides, when the club has money, the board of directors will also increase the team's investment in the transfer market.

Although Arsenal is the benchmark of UEFA's financial balance policy, this does not mean that Arsenal's players must rely entirely on their own youth training. The necessary transfer investment is still needed.As long as you don't spend one or two hundred million pounds at every turn, as long as the club's financial balance is balanced, it will be fine.

In fact, Arsenal has made a lot of profits in the past few years. When all the giants in Europe are in debt, Arsenal has quietly made a lot of green pounds. Of course, they have paid for it for eight years. crown price.

The fist was retracted in order to punch out more powerfully. Now, it was time for Arsenal to punch.

Li Zihan didn't know that the professor, who appeared to be a gentleman on the surface, also had thousands of tigers in his heart. When he left the training base, the lights were already on.

Looking outside the gate, watching the Arsenal fans waiting for the star to come and sign, Li Zihan felt that the environment was really good.Li Zihan walked over to the fans and said, "Hey, don't you know? The training base is on holiday for the past two days, so if you want to sign an autograph, come tomorrow."

The fans all said that since they can't wait for other stars, it's not bad to have you, Li Zihan, signing here, at least the trip is worthwhile.

Li Zihan nodded with a smile, signed autographs for the dozen or so fans in front of the gate, and prepared to go back.A young fan asked: "Since the team is on vacation, why are you here? Is it really for extra training? I heard that in the team, your training intensity is the highest, and you often practice extra training?"

"Me? I'm not here for training today, I'm just here to play soy sauce." The British fans obviously didn't know what soy sauce was, and looked at him suspiciously.

Li Zihan didn't explain, waved his hand, and walked in the afterglow of the setting sun.

That scene looked beautiful, but it was actually nonsense, because Li Zihan found a problem that made his ass hurt.Susan went to the parking lot of the training base to pick up the car, and asked herself to wait for her at the gate, but she couldn't help walking along the road for 400 meters.
At 07:30 in the evening, Li Zihan and Susan brought Susu to Torres' home in Chelsea, London.Because it was a family feast, Li Zihan and Susan had no children, so they brought Susu here. As for Yiyi and his uncle's parents, it was naturally inconvenient to come and disturb them together.

When they arrived at Torres' home, the Torres couple had already prepared the food and put it on the table.There are no extra guests or other teammates of the team, only the Li Zihan and Torres families.

Li Zihan and Torres naturally chatted a lot during the meeting, from Spain and China to England, and then they talked about football, Arsenal and Chelsea.

Of course, Olaya and Susan were talking about women, and Susu was playing with Nora. Both of them spoke good English, so they could chat naturally.Torres' youngest son, Leo, perfectly played the role of follower. When his sister got off the table to play with Susu, he also put down the tableware and ran to follow. Olaya couldn't help but tell the two little friends to be careful.

Torres smiled and said to Li Zihan: "Because I don't have time, Olaya is taking care of the children. I gave birth to a Nora, and Olaya took care of it very well, but later Leo was a boy but was taken care of by her and his sister. With the character of a girl, I still expect him to play football and inherit my tradition."

Olaya glared at him pretending to be annoyed and said, "What tradition do you have? A goal, a championship tradition?"

Torres smiled awkwardly, then lowered his head and "concentrated" on the steak on the plate.

Li Zihan didn't expect the couple to be so humorous, and even made fun of themselves.

Li Zihan remembered a joke on the domestic Internet not long ago, took a sip of juice, and said to Torres: "There was once a Spanish player who only scored a few goals in the club. He could not play the main force in the national team. In the final He played at the last minute, but scored a goal, and at the same time he finally raised the big ear and Laudner cups, who do you think is this man?"

Torres obviously hadn't heard of this joke, but he instinctively thought of it to himself: "Aren't you talking about me?"

"No, I'm talking about Mata."

"Hahaha"

Li Zihan added: "A Spanish player went to England to play football and became the number one star in his team. However, he gave up the red jersey for something when the team had no championship for many years. He joined the new club. Euros after his first full season, you guessed it."

Torres said "Cesc Fabregas!"

Li Zihan's expression was pretty good, and he swallowed: "How do you know? Could it be that you often go to Chinese online forums or post bars?"

Torres shook his head with a smile: "When it comes to years of no championship, my first reaction is your Arsenal. Combined with the previous Spanish nationality, European Cup and so on, I naturally think of Cesc Fabregas in the Arsenal period."

Li Zihan: "."

"This season we will definitely win a championship, at least one championship." Li Zihan said firmly.

Torres said with a smile: "Don't underestimate Manchester City. Although our head coach has long declared that the goal is not the championship this season, Manchester City is very close to this championship."

Li Zihan curled his lips: "The pressure of competition in the league is high, so let's compete for the Champions League, and then there is the FA Cup. Four championships in a season, no matter what, we have to win one or two, right?"

Torres: "."

"I have always thought that you are a more introverted and reserved person like me, but I have to say today that your skin is much thicker than it appears on the surface." Torres said very "seriously".

"Anyway, bragging and not paying taxes, there is no loss."

"You are giving me a wrong message. Do you want me to bring the news that your goal is the Champions League to the Chelsea area? Then let us despise Arsenal? You think too much. This season, Arsenal invested a record 7000 Wan, who dares to ignore it?"

"Don't think that I will believe that your goal is not the league championship. Mourinho's psychological tactics are famous all over the world. At the beginning, there was old man Ferguson fighting with your head coach. Now that Ferguson has retired, Mu Rinho is almost No.1 in the psychological tactics of the coaching world."

"Although our professor is honest, he is not stupid!" Li Zihan finally concluded.

"Anyway, believe it or not, is it possible that I can still have any thoughts about the league champion in my state?"

"How was your scoring efficiency that year? Didn't you win the Champions League and the European Cup?"

Torres: "."

Susan looked at the two people who were arguing with red faces, and whispered in Olaya's ear, "Are they friends or enemies?"

Olaya concluded with emotion: "This is a man, this is a man who plays football, and this is a man who plays for competitors. Doesn't China have some good adjectives, what are they called?"

"Share each other? Heroes value heroes?"

Olaya nodded.

It's a good thing Yiyi wasn't there, otherwise she would have given a classic answer like: "I'm passionate!"