The Young Lion

Andrew's agent company is thriving, with more than 200 signed players, and most of the first-line stars are still Millwall stars.

Industry trends His company must be paying attention every day. For their business intelligence, one of the most important ones is the agent contracts of first-line stars.

Coincidentally, Henry's agent is about to expire. Since winning the European Youth Championship in 1996, Henry has had a cooperative relationship with this agent for four years.

The agent's contract is usually only two or three years. The contract between Henry and the agent is signed every two years. This year, it's just time to renew the contract.

At this time, not only Andrew, but everyone else, whether they are famous or unknown, all want to become Henry's new agent. They pretend to be serving Henry, but in fact they just want to make money.

Henry became popular much faster than he imagined, and he himself may not have adapted to this change.

Winning the league championship for two consecutive years, winning the Champions League, being the top scorer, and the national team winning consecutive international and intercontinental competitions, such a wonderful dream may not be dreamed of.

He hasn't been able to adapt to the changes yet. There is only one thing his agent needs to do in the summer: renew his contract with Millwall and try to get a good contract.

He is not greedy, and he is satisfied when his weekly salary rises from 25,000 to 40,000.

But what he didn't expect was that the agent messed up.

The contract renewal was not negotiated, and he was about to become the target of Millwall's criticism.

So he received a call from his agent on the way to catch the plane and said: Don't call me again.

This is obviously not to renew the contract with this agent.

Originally, the role of the 10% of the agent is to let the players play football with peace of mind. Other trivia brokers come to settle. Maximize player income as much as possible. But if you mess things up, not only will your ability to work be questioned, but you will of course be issued a layoff notice by your employer.

Less than three hours had passed since he received Aldridge's call to the time his flight landed in London.

In these 3 hours, many things happened, Millwall held a press conference, Andrew came to interview with Aldridge.

Henry got off the plane and turned on his phone again and got into a taxi. He got a call from Trezeguet.

Trezeguet told Henry the truth,

He met Henry at a coffee shop in the city on behalf of Andrew.

Henry looked at the time. It was not yet the usual training time for the team in the afternoon. He planned to go to the appointment. After all, Andrew's identity meant that the appointment was of great significance.

Sitting in the taxi, Henry was preoccupied. Andrew was an agent, and he had heard that many of his teammates were Andrew's employers. But we are mainly playing football together, and we have never talked about these.

But from the occasional chitchat of his teammates, he can vaguely understand Andrew.

Work efficiency comes first.

Klose wants to buy a new house. All the procedures were completed within a week, and he was very satisfied with the new house. Behind this, Klose must have entrusted Andrew to be busy.

Schneider, Nedved and the others jointly invested in a winery. They are completely hands-off shopkeepers, and Andrew single-handedly took care of it from the beginning to the end, which made them very satisfied. I heard that occasionally they will go to France together when they are interested. Taste fine wine in the winery, the winery is in France, and the flight to and from England is only three hours.

The most important thing is that these teammates have a lot of commercial contracts, but the schedule is very reasonable, and they will never delay. I often see them in fashion magazines shooting endorsement advertisements in groups. This is the most important thing if it affects your job and playing football.

Henry suddenly had a strange idea.

Why didn't Andrew come to the door and introduce himself as his agent when I moved to Millwall?

In fact, Andrew also wanted to avoid suspicion.

He became the agent of Schneider, Klose, Nedved and other players when these players had no agent at all.

When Henry transferred, he already had an agent.

Also because Henry is playing for Millwall, it is not easy for Andrew to come and recommend himself. If it is not good, it is easy to be misunderstood as the overlord clause. When a player transfers to Millwall, does it have to be signed by Aldridge's brother company? player?

The meeting place Andrew chose was not a hidden place, but at least it was not a place where paparazzi would often visit celebrities.

Henry was recognized by the waiter as soon as he walked into the coffee shop, but in this place of London, celebrities are often seen, and the public is used to it, and at most they will look twice, unless they happen to bump into fans.

Coincidentally, this is North London, where Tottenham’s local influence radiates. The waiter is a woman who pays attention to football, but is not fanatical. When Henry came, he neither asked for a photo autograph nor showed any special enthusiasm.

Andrew was sitting in a booth in the corner, and he could just see the entrance of the coffee shop. When Henry walked in, he stood up and waved with a smile on his face.

Henry casually asked for a glass of juice and walked towards Andrew.

Andrew stretched out his hand to invite Henry to take a seat, and the two sat opposite each other. After the waiter brought the juice, Andrew introduced himself, which was regarded as a formal acquaintance with Henry.

Henry's heart was still a little heavy. He didn't know what this man with the identity of the leader's brother would talk to him.

Perhaps, the boss relayed something through him.

If this is the case, Henry feels that everything has become sad to him, and he and the boss have reached a point where they can't talk directly, and this is something he could never have imagined two months ago.

Thierry, I have a question for you, do you still want to play for Millwall?

Hearing the other party's question, Henry raised his head with bitterness on his face, and asked after a long while: The boss asked you to ask me, that's it? Why do you question this?

Andrew shook his head and said: No, you misunderstood, I am not here on behalf of Millwall, nor Aldridge, this is a personal conversation with you, I am here to solve your troubles, To get you out of trouble. So I need to know what you think, and what we talk about next. It all depends on the answer to this question.

After a moment of silence, Henry said: Of course I want to stay in the team. If I were to leave, my mind would go blank. I don't know where to go. It seems that going anywhere would be a bad decision. But... ...

However, you feel that your willingness to stay and the club's willingness to keep you are stronger than the two. Millwall, lack of sincerity, makes you feel that you have not been treated fairly and equitably. Right?

Andrew’s words made Henry hesitate for a moment, and finally nodded.

In this era, money reflects too many things.

If Millwall has a small family and a small business, the club's maximum salary is 40,000, even if Henry gets 30,000, he will immediately sign a contract extension.

But the club has made a lot of money, and the financial revenue in the new season will definitely increase significantly. The team's maximum salary has reached 100,000 pounds. And he, not even half of it. Under such a strong contrast, if Henry thinks it is fair, then he is absolutely crazy.

Andrew took out a piece of paper from his briefcase, slowly pushed it in front of Henry, and said, Please look over this document.

Henry looked down, and the information on the paper was clear at a glance.

Name, weekly salary, loyalty reward, season bonus cap.

Nedved, 7, 100, 50.

Nedved in the first place, followed by Larsson and Southgate.

The fourth place is Pirlo, 5,50,50.

After Pirlo is Ronaldinho, but Ronaldinho has no loyalty rewards, because Ronaldinho plays for the first team, and the new season is only the fourth season, and strictly speaking, it has been two and a half seasons in the past.

After Ronaldinho are Schneider, Materazzi, and Zambrotta. The weekly salary is 4, the loyalty reward is 80, and the season bonus is also the upper limit of 50. Their loyalty reward is higher than Pirlo's because they are better than Pirlo. a year earlier.

After that, there are some substitute players. The highest weekly salary is Glenshire, 20,000, and the next lower is Lampard, 15,000. Gattuso will be promoted to the main force in the new season, and the weekly salary is only 30,000. .

The lowest grades are Keller, Villa, Joe Cole, and Ferreira, with a weekly salary of just 10,000 pounds.

At the end of the list, Henry saw his name.

The weekly salary is 5, the season bonus is also 50, and there is no loyalty reward.

Henry understands that 5 represents a weekly salary of 50,000. Simply calculating, the club may spend 3 million pounds in salary and bonuses on him a year.

Henry shook his head and said, I don't understand.

Yes, he didn't know the authenticity of this information, nor did he know what the number after his name represented. It was Andrew's wishful thinking that Henry should earn so much, or something else.

Andrew said lightly: You should know that I am the agent of most of the players on this list, and I personally finalized their contracts with Millwall in the summer, so this information is true, and you You can ask your teammates for confirmation in private. The point is you, Millwall has prepared a contract for you with a weekly salary of 50,000 and a season bonus of up to 500,000 pounds. The period is 5 years, but your agent refused, and Asking for a salary of 75,000 a week, a contract with a season bonus cap of more than 1 million pounds...

Before Andrew finished speaking, Henry interrupted him directly, shaking his head and said: No, that's not the case, no! I just want a contract with a weekly salary of 40,000 pounds, but the club is only willing to give me 30,000 pounds! That's the truth.

Hearing Henry's categorical words, Andrew chuckled and said, The truth? Thierry, I think you just need to calm down and think about it carefully to understand what is the truth. You want a weekly salary of 40,000, and Millwall only gives it to you. 30,000, a difference of about 500,000 a year, you only have two years left on your contract, Millwall rejected Juventus' offer of 40 million pounds, the truth?

In fact, the players themselves rarely think about these things, especially the terms of the contract, which are all managed by the agent, and the players can play well by themselves.

So Henry didn't think about this at all before, and now he is completely dumbfounded.

This is the simplest arithmetic problem.

Did Millwall risk losing 40 million pounds in order to save one or two million pounds?

Moreover, when you understand the salary system of Millwall's first team, you should understand that my brother, Aldridge, has unparalleled ambition, and he also has courage that ordinary people don't have. You can compete with giants, they also have to look like giants, but have you calculated how much the salary of the first team is? More than 60 million pounds a year! This is the bottom line, once Millwall wins one or two important trophies this season , Bonus expenditure will increase this part of the expenditure by about 10 million pounds. Four years ago, Manchester United, as the club with the highest operating income in the world, had a net income of less than 60 million pounds. By this time next year, professional football statistics agencies A big news will be reported that Millwall is the club with the highest operating expenditure among clubs in the world! Because the club also bought a special passenger plane for the team to use in global campaigns, and at the same time, the Lions Den stadium was rebuilt, and the entire business chain around the new stadium Building costs and so on, Thierry, do you know the figure written in Millwall's financial expenditure budget report for this season? 157.3 million pounds! Do you still think that the club will pay for the weekly salary of 10,000 pounds, or Half a million pounds a year's expenditure and you have gotten into trouble with you to this point?

Henry was both shocked and speechless by Andrew's words! (To be continued..)