Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Role of Dual Identity

After Bayern beat Hamburg, the two teams came to the same starting line.

There are still nine league games left after that, and in fact the battle for the top spot between the two sides continues.

But since this battle, the mentality of both teams has changed.

Four days later, Bayern played Nottingham Forest at home.

With a big win in the first leg and the morale accumulated from the recent victory over Hamburg, Bayern defeated Nottingham Forest again cleanly 3:1 at home, and entered the Champions League semi-finals 8:1 over two legs.

Wu Jie scored another 1 goal in this game, and his Champions League goal tally has reached 7 goals, starting to lead the Champions League scorer list.

Hamburg, on the other hand, lost their mentality to Bayern and suffered a 5-1 defeat at Borussia Dortmund on the same day, giving up the initiative to Bayern.

Three days later, Bayern faced their city rival Munich 1860 and won another 6:2 victory, completely driving Hamburg to the second place in the league.

Wu Jie scored three goals in this game and scored a hat-trick for the first time in the league, and his phenomenal performance continued.

Bayern have also reached the sprint stage of the season, and the next Champions League and German Cup matches have reached the semi-finals, and the league must not relax, otherwise a loss will give Hamburg a chance.

At this time, Wu Jie paid more attention to the Champions League game, and Bayern's draw for the next stage has been released, and they have drawn another English team, Liverpool.

But there are no more signings at this time, and the other two teams that have reached the last four are Real Madrid and Inter Milan, neither of which will be inferior to Liverpool.

Also on the table at the end of March is the semi-final opponent of the German Cup, with Bayern drawing Eintracht Frankfurt, who are sixth in the league.

The German Cup at this stage was also not signed, and the other two teams in the last four were Hamburg and Kaiserslautern, both of which are in the top six of the league, and Eintracht Frankfurt is already relatively weak.

Throughout the month of April, Bayern have seven games to play, including three league games, two Champions League games, two German Cups, starting with the German Cup semi-final on April 1.

Before the start of this game, Wu Jie met with MSM agency.

Of several well-known brokerage companies in Germany, MSM is now the only one that has agreed to take only 25% of the business share.

Wu Jie has reason to ask for this percentage, because the Puma or Adidas contracts alone can reach millions of dollars, and of course he wants to raise the price a little higher.

But the 25% share is not easy to take, and Wu Jie requires that his annual pre-tax income must reach $3 million, otherwise he has the right to terminate the contract early.

However, it is important to note that these revenues must be made by MSM.

If he had made more money from his records, that wouldn't have been added to $3 million.

To put it simply, MSM had to help him get enough commercial contracts without allowing him to have too many commercial activities and advertising shoots.

In addition, the company also has to arrange a dedicated behind-the-scenes team for him, which can be no less than 5 people, who are responsible for handling his business development, image management, legal counsel, and acting as his life assistant.

These conditions are not undemanding, but MSM agreed after considering them.

Because Wu Jie has shown the level and potential of becoming the next king after Pele in just two months.

Although such conditions are harsh, the company still has ample room for profitability.

Moreover, signing such a superstar will give them a big advantage when it comes to recruiting customers in the future.

Wu Jie then handed over the contract negotiations with Puma and Adidas to the company, but MSM first brought him a record label.

The hegemon of the record industry in this era is naturally the Polygram Group, which was jointly established by the German company Siemens and the Dutch company Philips.

If his song "Glory Years" had an album on sale, it would have been on the streets of Hong Kong.

But the main reason for Polygram to come to the door is his song "Cry· On· My· Shoulder》。

In Bayern's last derby match against Munich 1860, his "ET family", which had grown to 100 people, sang the song on the pitch under the leadership of several liaisons.

The melody of this song is a very beautiful masterpiece after 40 years, especially the lyrics are inspirational, but also have the effect of warming people's hearts and healing the soul.

After the "ET House" sang this song on the spot, it was naturally interviewed by reporters after the game.

At this time, everyone knew that they were Wu Jie's support club, and this song was actually Bayern's pride, the great "alien" creation.

Well, Wu Jie immediately received interview invitations from several TV stations, and they all hoped that he could sing this song on the show.

Even Bayern approached him and said that he could adapt this song into a team song?

Bayern's current team song is too ugly, after Wu Jie's song is adapted into German, although the quality will definitely drop a lot, it will definitely become the best team song in the Bundesliga.

In addition, his "ET House" also immediately ushered in a wave of invitations from hundreds of people.

In this era, even in Europe and the United States, there are not many such fan support clubs, Wu Jie, the "ET family", not only has a cool name, but even has its own song, including the slogan written by Wu Jie himself: Live for glory, die for honor.

Fans in this era see such a cool organization, and many young people want to join in the fun.

If Wu Jie is a German, it is estimated that thousands of people will come to join the "ET family" in the next few days.

But even if he is Chinese, there are hundreds of people who want to join these days.

Wu Jie didn't dare to accept so many people into the club immediately, because MSM's legal department reminded him that this kind of support club must be registered first, otherwise it might be banned as an illegal organization, and he would get into trouble.

Therefore, he is entrusting a brokerage company to help him register, and only then will he expand the scale of the "ET family".

Before that, Polygram came to the door first, hoping to cooperate with Wu Jie and get the distribution copyright of this song.

Wu Jie naturally had to discuss it with his team first, and MSM had already set up a five-person team specifically for him in accordance with the requirements of the contract.

The five men are 28-year-old personal assistant Ida, a somewhat masculine married woman with five years of secretarial experience, who is quite capable and rigorous in her work.

The 40-year-old Felix is his exclusive agent, responsible for business negotiations and media relations in Europe.

The 36-year-old Andris is also his agent and is responsible for business negotiations in the Americas and Asia.

Jacob, 45, is the company's business promotion specialist, and he is responsible for developing a global business promotion plan for Wu Jie.

The 41-year-old is the company's legal counsel and specializes in resolving legal issues.

The five of them, Ida, Felix, and Andris, served him alone, and the other two mainly worked for him, and MSM gave him half of the resources.

Wu Jie naturally looked at their favorability in private, although no one reached the level of cordiality, but they were all normal and friendly, and there was nothing wrong with the background.

This negotiation with Polygram, he also handed over to the team to negotiate, but there were several basic requirements: he could not give up the copyright of the song, he did not sign a contract with the nature of a mission, and he only regarded music as a hobby outside football.

After meeting with PolyGram on behalf of Wu Jie, Felix quickly put forward his requests.

This made Polygram very difficult, Wu Jie didn't want to sign a contract, and he didn't want the company to help him write songs, and he didn't even need the company to help him promote it, and he completely regarded releasing records as a hobby.

These are nothing, the biggest problem is that he refuses to transfer the song copyright and record rights of his works.

However, as the world's largest record company, more than ten years, or even permanent "copyright transfer" is the bottom line that Polygram is unwilling to concede.

Wu Jie knows that this business is also not easy to discuss, and his confidence lies in the fact that he doesn't need others to write songs for him at all, and he doesn't even need publicity and promotion, and every game he plays is equivalent to promoting himself.

Polygram also knew that since Wu Jie didn't need anything, there was really no need to give up the copyright.

The first negotiation between the two sides naturally did not lead to any results, and Wu Jie was not in a hurry to sign a record company.

He is still relying on his outstanding performance in the game to expand his popularity, and even if Polygram does not agree to his conditions in the future, manufacturers such as EMI, Warner, Universal, and Sony will come to him.

So after learning that the first negotiation with PolyGram failed, he quickly found two English songs suitable for plagiarism in the offline database, one is "Don't·turn·off·the·light", which will be very familiar to Chinese fans in the future, and the other is the Spanish version of "La· Copa·de·la· Vida》。

He has long planned that those football-related red songs in the future, including the theme song of every World Cup in the future, and even the two team anthems of Bayern in the future, he can copy them in advance, ensuring that each of them can become a popular divine comedy in the world.

There is a deeper reason for this, if you are invincible on the football field, then as a yellow person, your influence is still limited, and eighty percent will continue to suffer from the difficulties of referees.

But if he can also become a singer-level figure in the world music scene, at that time, the influence of the two identities will be superimposed, and the referee will have to face more pressure from public opinion if he wants to embarrass him.

Imagine the Spanish version of "La· Copa·de·la· If Vida is the official theme song of the World Cup in Spain, should the referees in the World Cup in Spain be more cautious about his punishment?