Matt Dawn stood guard at the door of the club's athletic director's office, Jarrad Coleman, and when he saw the latter coming out of the room, he lunged up and stopped him.

“WTF！ Matt, you're scared the hell out of me! Coleman was genuinely taken aback — literally — and he jumped. After seeing that it was Matt Dawn, he cursed angrily.

But Matt didn't care about his swearing at all, instead stared into his eyes and asked, "Mr. Coleman, did the club make an offer to Lai Hu's club?" ”

"Report it, report it......," Coleman was impatient, "but we were rejected by the other party mercilessly!" I'll tell you, Matt, the club has done what you wanted, but how the opposing club reacts is not something we can control. I guess this should give you an explanation, right? ”

That is, some time ago, Matt Dawn, the team's video analyst, went directly to the club's new president, Evan Chichester, and frantically recommended to him a Chinese player he had never heard of before.

He also said that the Chinese player had just completed the "feat" of scoring five goals in nine minutes in an international match at the Under-23 level.

Speaking of this, Coleman finally had a little impression, he remembered that he seemed to have seen the relevant news somewhere before, but he couldn't remember where it came from, maybe it was some recommendation that popped up when he was browsing the web......

He didn't take it too seriously at the time, after all, it was an Under-23 tournament.

Besides, it's still a game far away in Asia, so what's the point of having a record in a place where the level of football isn't high?

We still have a record of 20 goals in a game in our 'Sunday League', but so what? Would anyone take this hilarious record seriously?

Coleman had in mind that the "Sunday League" was a general term for the English ultra-lower amateur league, because most of the games were played on Sundays, all over the country, organized by different communities, and the neighbors of a street could organize a team to participate in the league, and the name was different in each place, and it was collectively referred to as "Sunday League" when people mentioned it as a whole.

The level of competition is very low, and most of the participants are just having fun.

However, Matt went to Evan and made Evan a little annoyed, but it was not easy to refuse directly, after all, the club had just fired his good friend Tony Clark, and Evan still wanted to maintain a little demeanor in front of the club's "old man", not wanting to leave them with an impression of being too unkind.

So I let myself, the athletic director, deal with Matt.

As the director of athletics, Coleman felt that he was still very serious and responsible, and he really went to learn the basic information of Lai Hu, and found that he was a player of a Chinese league football club and was the main player. Last season he scored a lot of goals, which should be the reason why he was able to play the main team.

After knowing the player's basic information, he made an offer to the opposing club.

And then...... Rejected by the other party.

But Coleman didn't care, because it was an explanation to his boss - it's not that we don't pay attention to your advice, what can we do if people don't sell us?

Hearing Coleman's explanation, Matt was a little frustrated, but he couldn't help it.

He knows Lai Hu and knows that Lai Hu is the main player of a Chinese Super League team and has made great contributions to the promotion of the team.

People have just been promoted to the Super League now, and it is indeed not so easy to release people.

Seeing that Matt didn't speak again, Coleman bypassed him and planned to leave.

At this moment, Matt came back to his senses, saw that Coleman was leaving, and suddenly asked, "Mr. Coleman, would you mind telling me how much the club is bidding?" ”

Coleman didn't look back, his feet kept leaving, only the voice came: "Half a million." ”

"What?!" When Matt heard Coleman's answer clearly, he blurted out his surprise, and he hurriedly asked, "You guys just paid 500,000?!" ”

Coleman, who had gone away, did not answer him, and did not know whether he did not hear it or did not want to answer.

Matt looked in the direction Coleman had left, and it took him a while to react and scold, "Fuck me! 500,000 you want to buy Lai Hu?! No wonder they were rejected by the opposing club! You are so contemptuous! ”

In the game, Matt also spent a million pounds to dig up Lai Hu for Hammond Castle.

And that was Lai Hu a year ago, and the data is completely different from today's. With the release of the new version of "Godfather of Champions", Lai Hu's data has also improved more comprehensively.

Matt used to manipulate Hammond Castle to buy Hulai, but this time, let alone a million pounds, it was five million pounds, and the AnDong ShanXing club did not agree.

In the end, he had to use nuclear weapons to sign Lai Hu directly to the Hammond Castle team. Because the transfer budget of Hammond Castle in the game is not much, if he spends more money to sign Lai Hu, then the recruitment of other positions will be affected.

Even the game knows that it is impossible to sign Lai Hu for 500,000, how much water does Coleman's brain have to enter to think that such a small amount of money can make the other party give up his top scorer?

When Matt first heard that the club's offer was rejected, he wanted to go to Evan again to emphasize to him how huge Lai Hu's potential is, and now signing him before the other teams react is definitely a lucrative deal for Hammond Castle, and then whether it is for his own use or cultivation and then selling, from the club's point of view, it is absolutely not a loss.

But now he suddenly dismissed that idea.

Because he realised that Coleman's attitude was probably the club's attitude, and it was Evan's attitude.

It should be impossible to convince Evan again.

Besides, taking 10,000 steps back, even if Hammond Castle signed Lai Hu under his own persuasion, for that young man, the current Hammond Castle may not be a suitable environment for him to grow up.

If Tony is still around, then he will definitely let him convince the club's hierarchy to sign this promising talent.

But now......

Thinking of this, Matt sighed helplessly.

I'm afraid I'll have to work with Lai Hu in the game.

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With the glittering U23 Asian Cup winner's medal around his neck, Hule stands in the center with the trophy for the best player in his left hand and the top scorer trophy in his right hand. Next to him are Chen Xingyi and Wang Guangwei, the latter two only have gold medals hanging around their necks.

They were smiling at the cameras and flashes of the reporters.

This is the welcome ceremony held by the Shining Star Club for them.

The leaders have already spoken, and the contract renewal ceremony has also been carried out - in this welcome ceremony, the Shining Star Club also carried out the contract renewal signing ceremony of two players, Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei.

The specific contract renewal has been negotiated with the club through the work of the two players' agents.

Wang Guangwei also signed a new four-year contract with the club, and the good news is that Hulai can no longer ask him if he has a salary of 150,000 yuan a month, because he does.

But the bad news is that Hulai can ask him if he earns 250,000 a month — his new four-year contract puts him at 250,000 a month — and 3 million a year.

In addition to this, there is a signing fee of two million.

Hulai's goal award has also increased to 20,000 per goal, and if he scores 41 goals at the club last season, Hulai alone will get 820,000, nearly 1 million.

The new contract also stipulates that if Hulai can get the Super League Golden Boot within the contract period, he can get a reward of two million for each time he gets it.

It can be said that compared with the previous contract, it has been improved in all aspects, and through these monetary figures, it can also be seen how much attention the Shining Star Club attaches to Hulai now.

The annual salary of 3 million yuan is already the highest in the second tier of the Shining Star team.

After being promoted to the Chinese Super League, the Shining Star Club renewed the contracts of some players, including players like Hu Lai, Wang Guangwei and Zhang Qinghuan, all of whom have different salary increases.

After the contract renewal is completed, Qin Lin, who has four million, is still the player with the highest annual salary in the team. However, there is only one year left on his contract, and although he and the club have not said it publicly, everyone can guess that this year should be the last season of his career.

Outside of Qin Lin, it is Hu Lai's highest annual salary.

At just 20 years old, Hulay became the second-highest paid player in the team, but that did not cause resentment or jealousy from the rest of the team.

Han Xiangfei even took out the content of the chat with Hu Lai before he played for the team for the first time, to prove that Hu Lai is a genius.

At the beginning, Hulai discussed with him the issue of Lai Zekai's annual salary, and Hulai also asked himself whether the club would re-sign him to a contract and give him a salary increase at the end of the season.

"So how good do you have to be for the club to re-sign you in six months?" After Han Xiangfei repeated his original answer, he sighed with emotion: "As a result, Hu Lai signed a new contract every year, and his salary was raised every year!" Awesome! ”

Han Xiangfei's words also represent the thoughts of other teammates:

Hulai is awesome!

Because of the awesomeness, it is no problem for him to get such a high salary.

At the beginning, Lai Zekai had trouble with the club, and felt that the club would not give him a salary of one million, which was too stingy, too picky, and unkind.

At that time, Lai Zekai's confidence was only 16 goals last season.

What about Hulai? I've only been with the team for a season and a half, and I've already scored fifty-two goals.

With such a performance, he did not go to the club to argue for a salary increase, let alone keep complaining in the locker room that he was asking for food.

It was the club that offered him a raise.

Everyone has a scale in their hearts, and everyone knows who is worthy and who is not.

As a club run with a small capital, the fact that the Shining Star was able to pay an annual salary of 3 million and a signing fee of 2 million to renew Hulai's contract also reflects their determination to keep the team's top scorer.

Hulai stood out in the Chinese League last season, but the number of Super League teams he was able to attract was limited. It was the outstanding performance in the FA Cup that made many Chinese Super League teams set their eyes on him.

After his astonishing performance in the U23 Asian Cup, Hulai has completely become a favorite in the eyes of the Chinese Super League team.

Even the Poseidon Club came to Shining Star with a shy face to ask for a price, even though they knew that the price would be denied......

This shows how much people are hungry for Hulai.

After all, today's Chinese Super League, and even the entire Chinese football world, lack stable and efficient excellent scorers.

I don't know if the cultivation of Chinese football talents has been deviated by the world trend in recent years, or the problem of the tendency to introduce foreign aid, the local shooters in the Chinese Super League are basically the role of the team's foreign aid strikers, which may be very important tactically, after all, making the ball for teammates can also reflect the comprehensive quality of a player.

However, it is indeed a well-established phenomenon that local strikers have difficulty scoring goals.

The Chinese Super League has set up a "Best Local Goalscorer" in addition to the "Top Scorer", which naturally hopes to stimulate and encourage local strikers to score more goals.

But looking at the difference in goals between the top scorer and the best homegrown scorer at the end of the season each year, one has to wonder whether the original purpose of this award is to motivate local strikers to score more goals, or to give a consolation prize to those local strikers who can't score a few goals in a season.

Every old fan is full of emotion, and Chinese football, which has cultivated many excellent strikers, will also fall into the predicament of "weak forwards".

Against this backdrop, Hulai is naturally the scorer that many teams dream of.

No experience in the Chinese Super League is not a problem at all, and his performance in the two international competitions of the national Olympic team can already dispel many people's doubts.

Now, as long as you are not a fool, any insider can see that a super scorer in Chinese football is gradually growing up, and whoever can have his future can occupy a place in the Chinese Super League.

Therefore, when the three of them finished taking a group photo and the ceremony entered the reporter's question session, most of the questions were thrown to Hulai.

Poor Chen Xingyi, who contributed five assists in this U23 Asian Cup, becoming the player with the most assists in this tournament, stood next to Hulai, under the aura of top scorer and best player, almost dimmed......

Even if the question asked was obviously shared by all three people, it was Hu Lai who was the first to be named.

'Missing the first month of training does have a bit of an impact on us, but we'll try to make up for it later.' Hu Lai seemed to be able to feel this atmosphere, so he didn't talk about it in front of the camera, but simply said a few words, and handed the microphone to Wang Guangwei and Chen Xingyi next to him.

"Hulai, this is your first time participating in the Chinese Super League, do you have any expectations and expectations for the new season? Or what is the goal? ”

Hu Lai picked up the microphone and did not answer, but stretched out in front of Chen Xingyi: "You are also participating in the Chinese Super League for the first time, you can talk about it!" ”

Chen Xingyi resisted the urge to roll his eyes at Hu Lai in front of the camera: "I'm not, I have participated in the Chinese Super League." ”

There was a burst of laughter from the reporters at the scene.

Hu Lai was a little embarrassed in the laughter, he turned his head and handed the microphone to Wang Guangwei: "Lao Wang, you must be the first time, you come to ......."

Wang Guangwei blocked the microphone back: "Ask you." ”

The reporter who asked the question hurriedly added: "I also asked Wang Guangwei yours, but I asked Hu Lai ...... first."

Wang Guangwei didn't care: "Then I'll wait for Hu Lai to finish answering, and I'll answer." ”

Hulai had no choice but to say into the microphone: "The goal? The goal, of course, is relegation! We are a promoted polo team, and last season's promoted Mahexi Daqin and the capital Xiangyun have both fallen back, so our goal this season is very clear, that is, to try to stay in the Super League after the end of the season! ”

After speaking, he handed the microphone to Wang Guangwei again, and Wang Guangwei replied very simply: "I am the same as you, relegation." ”

The reporters were a little unhappy with the young man's cautious answer, and they tried to stoke the fire: "Hulai, you were the Golden Boot last season, and you also broke the original record. Then don't you have any ideas about the Super League scorer list this season? Coincidentally, the single-season goal record of the Chinese Super League was set by your head coach of the National Olympic team, Shi Wuyun, with 28 goals ......"

Hu Lai hurriedly waved his hand: "No idea, no idea, I just want to help the team relegation, as for the Super League Golden Boot, I haven't thought about it!" ”

When everyone saw that Hu Lai was so slippery, they were stunned and were not fooled, so they had to sacrifice a trick.

"And what you said at the end of last season is still valid?"

"What?"

"Of course, I said that I would fight Wang Xianke once I saw him in the future!"

As soon as he heard the reporters say this, Hulay sat up straight behind his desk: "Of course it works, it works forever!" ”