Chapter 23: Signing with Borussia Dortmund

Scoring in two consecutive friendly matches, and scoring twice after 20 minutes on the bench, it is not appropriate for the German media to ignore Cheng Hai with the team.

Therefore, in the reports of several local newspapers in Germany or the Ruhr area that came out the next morning, the reports on Cheng Hai about Dortmund's second pre-season friendly match were not just a name, but a lot of content.

Borussia Dortmund's pre-season friendlies, one of the Bundesliga giants, were not very important, but in the absence of other major coverage, Germany's largest newspaper Bild also reported Dortmund's 5-0 win at Royždorf Frorichdorf.

Of course, it's not long, just a few paragraphs.

There is only one accompanying picture.

The key is that the accompanying picture is the moment when Cheng Hai scored the first single goal.

Although it is only a side, there is a line of small words below to illustrate: "Cheng Hai who is shooting." ”

This is enough to make Cheng Hai famous.

In the text, the reporter of "Bild" also praised Cheng Hai.

"Yesterday, Borussia Dortmund played a pre-season friendly away from home against Austrian Serie F Roy Zdorf to test the team's recent pre-season training results."

"In the game, Dortmund took complete control of the game with great strength and won 5-0 in the end."

Among them, Barrios and the newly joined Japanese player Shinji Kagawa scored a goal each, and Westfalen's darling Mario Gotze also performed well and scored a goal.

'The previous players were good, but there were better players and they weren't a regular player yet.

"The No. 99 striker, named Cheng Hai, was only substituted in the 70th minute of this game, but he scored twice in the 20 minutes he came on as a substitute to help the team win 5-0.

"With the addition of a goal scored in the last friendly match, Cheng Hai has scored three goals in two friendly matches, which can be called a brave state, and the performance of most players in the team is even better."

"But why is it that he is not a regular player for Borussia Dortmund?"

"Because at the time of press time, Cheng Hai was still just a young player who came to Dortmund from China for a trial."

It is understood that Cheng Hai has no experience in professional competition before, and he is not even from the youth academy of a professional club. He is an amateur college player in China who was recommended by Borussia Dortmund scout Emery for a tryout at the national finals of the Chinese University Football League in June. ”

"As a result, in the two friendly matches during the trial period, Cheng Hai scored three goals in a row in the two friendly matches."

"The background and the number of goals scored is inspiring."

"After Mario Gotze, Dortmund is expected to harvest another young talent."

"I hope to see Cheng Hai in the official Bundesliga match as soon as possible."

The coverage of Borussia Dortmund was not a front-page headline, not even an important part of the previous editions, but a relatively low piece of tofu article in the football section.

But even so, with the circulation and influence of "Bild" in Germany, Cheng Hai still became famous in one day.

Coupled with the reports of several other local newspapers in the Ruhr area, several Chinese media reporters who were editing news related to Artemisia Junmin in the Schalke 04 Club naturally knew about Cheng Hai's existence.

When I first saw this report, everyone still couldn't believe it.

But seeing that the latter media said so, everyone had to believe that there was really a Chinese player who participated in the trial in Dortmund and performed well, and even attracted praise from the largest media in Germany, "Bild".

At this time, someone remembered a report just after the end of the domestic football federation competition, and everyone quickly searched the Internet, and sure enough, they found news about Cheng Hai winning the national championship of the Grand Football Federation, winning the best player and top scorer, being favored by Dortmund scouts, and invited to Dortmund for trial.

This is a real hammer, and the news of the trial of Chinese player Cheng Hai in Dortmund can't be more true.

Everyone immediately became excited, immediately packed up their things and pounced on Dortmund.

According to the report in Bild, if Cheng Hai, who scored three goals in two friendly matches, cannot pass the trial and sign with Dortmund, then Dortmund's management will be blind.

At that time, there will be two Chinese players playing in the Bundesliga, and the Chinese derby in the Bundesliga will be staged in the hottest Ruhr derby.

It's exciting to think about!

What's more, even if the factor of the Chinese derby is put aside, Cheng Hai, as a college student amateur player, directly joined the Bundesliga giants Dortmund, which is also a news point, and a report returning to China will definitely be warmly welcomed by fans and readers.

Therefore, everyone rushed to Dortmund so eagerly and wanted to interview Cheng Hai immediately.

Of course, the Bild newspaper that journalists can see, Klopp, as a practitioner, is a must-see every day as well as the club's management.

When they saw the praise of Cheng Hai in Germany's largest newspaper, Klopp and Dortmund's management knew that things were in trouble.

If they don't sign Cheng Hai immediately today, they believe that there will definitely be a large number of scouts from other teams outside the Dortmund training base today.

Among them, scouts from Bayern Munich are indispensable.

Therefore, before the training began, the general manager called Klopp and asked him to bring Cheng Hai and Fu Hangyi to the office, taking advantage of the fact that Cheng Hai lived in the base dormitory at night, had not yet been exposed to today's latest newspaper, and had not started training, and the players who lived outside, such as Shinji Kagawa, and others did not have time to tell Cheng Hai about the report, and immediately restarted the signing negotiations.

The club's decision was the right one.

Cheng Hai and Fu Hangyi really didn't know that he was highlighted by "Bild" and was already famous, which will definitely attract Bayern and other Bundesliga giants, and even several other league giants.

As soon as the two of them arrived at the stadium and had not yet entered the locker room to change their training clothes, Klopp stopped the two and said: "Cheng Hai, don't participate in training first, go to the office building with me, and then talk about signing a contract." You did well yesterday, the general manager and the head of the athletics department are very satisfied, and there are some conditions that they think we can discuss again. ”

Cheng Hai and Fu Hangyi, who didn't know the specific situation, were naturally happy and happily followed Klopp to the club's office building.

As for training, Klopp naturally left it to the assistant coach.

In the club's small conference room, the two sides once again resumed signing negotiations.

This time, whether it is the general manager, the head of the athletic department, or the lawyer, they all put away their contempt and even contempt for Cheng Hai, and they are full of sincerity.

But Cheng Hai and Fu Hangyi didn't know the report of "Bild", and they didn't know that Dortmund was determined to sign a contract with Cheng Hai today, they only thought that yesterday's brace impressed the club.

Therefore, in the case of unequal information between the two sides, the negotiation process is fast and smooth.

It took less than 2 hours for both sides to reach an agreement.

According to the terms negotiated by the two parties, Cheng Hai signed a five-year contract with Dortmund until June 30, 2015, with liquidated damages of 50 million euros.

The liquidated damages of 50 million euros have been set high enough in Dortmund's view.

Moreover, in order to avoid making wedding dresses for others, Dortmund also demanded that the liquidated damages clause would not come into effect until at least three seasons had passed, that is, on July 1, 2013.

The high liquidated damages and the clause that takes three years to take effect are enough for Dortmund to think is sufficient. When the time comes, they will really pay 50 million euros to take Cheng Hai away, and they will not lose.

For Cheng Hai, 50 million euros is no obstacle at all.

For Dortmund, it is a kind of information asymmetry that they used Cheng Hai's ignorance of "Bild" to make up their minds to deal with Cheng Hai today.

But for Cheng Hai, he took advantage of the fact that outsiders didn't know that he had a system plug-in, so that Dortmund set a penalty of only 50 million euros, which is also a kind of information asymmetry.

He believes that with the help of the system's plug-in, his future value will not be a problem to exceed the world record of 94 million euros set by Ronaldo when he transferred to Real Madrid last year.

The only problem is that the liquidated damages clause that takes effect for three years is a bit long.

But after discussing with Fu Hangyi, Cheng Hai felt that for the 18-year-old Cheng Hai, although three seasons were a little longer, it was not completely unacceptable.

Because the club showed a posture of not signing if it did not accept this clause, Cheng Hai finally agreed.

Staying at Borussia Dortmund, a Bundesliga giant, for three seasons is not entirely unacceptable. Anyway, he's only 18 years old, and even after three seasons, he's only 21 years old, so he's still very young!

In fact, Cheng Hai didn't know that if he persevered to the end, it would be acceptable for Dortmund to take effect after two seasons of liquidated damages.

However, because of the asymmetry of information, this result was negotiated.

But Cheng Hai was already satisfied.

After all, it's much better than the club never accepting a liquidated damages clause at all.

negotiated a liquidated damages clause, reduced the contract period, and Cheng Hai also got more share of the image spokesperson.

From the previous team accounted for 9 percent to 8 percent, and it was limited to Dortmund's internal merchandise sales, that is, posters, jerseys, sneakers, etc. printed with Cheng Hai's name and avatar, Cheng Hai changed from only 10% of sales to 20%.

Then there is the global image endorsement except for Huaguo, and the two sides are reversed, Cheng Hai takes eighty percent, and the team takes two percent.

As for the image endorsement in China, the club is not eligible to be divided, and all of them belong to Cheng Hai.

This is also much more relaxed than the conditions that Dortmund gave to Cheng Hai before.

Cheng Hai and Fu Hangyi both felt satisfied, and they didn't ask for more in terms of salary and bonuses.

Of course, with the performance of scoring three goals in two games, the previously negotiated salary of 2,000 euros a week is also sorry for his performance and potential.

In the end, the two sides agreed on a weekly salary of 4,000 euros, although it is still the lowest in the team, but it is close to the weekly salary of Gotze and Shinji Kagawa, which is not a shame.

In fact, Cheng Hai didn't know that even if he asked for the same weekly salary as Gotze and Shinji Kagawa, the club would agree.

Because Dortmund must sign Cheng Hai today to avoid him being poached by other clubs.

But like the previous reason, because of the asymmetry of information, Cheng Hai and Fu Hangyi have less bargaining confidence.

For Cheng Hai, signing the contract early and getting the German reward for the signing task as soon as possible can get rid of the days when he had to rely on Fu Hangyi's translation as soon as possible, and he can better communicate with his coaches and teammates.

In addition to salaries, the terms of bonuses such as various goal awards and championship awards have also been slightly increased.

And, in the end, Klopp also offered a signing fee of 100,000 euros, and the general manager of Dortmund and others also agreed.

This became the last favorable condition that led to the conclusion of a final and complete agreement between the two parties and an immediate signing.

The two sides signed their respective contracts in Chinese and German, and Cheng Hai officially became an official player of Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga.

After that, Cheng Hai found a rental house, applied for a bank card, applied for a work visa and other things, and the club staff did it for him.

Of course, Cheng Hai still has to pay the rent for renting a house.

After all, he also has a signing fee of 100,000 euros. Converted to RMB, up to 1 million!

Although a large amount of personal income tax will be deducted, there is not much left!

This is also one of the reasons why Cheng Hai failed to persevere to the end and negotiate a lower contract period and the effective period of liquidated damages.

After all, for Cheng Hai, who was just an ordinary college student and his family conditions were not good, such a signing fee is really a lot, which can make his parents much less stressed.

Add to that the fact that you can get a German reward if you sign a contract, and that's how it goes.

Under the witness of everyone, the contract was signed, the general manager of the club and Cheng Hai both smiled, and Klopp, Fu Hangyi and others also applauded.

At least for the next three years, the two sides will be in the same trench!

At the same time, the moment Cheng Hai signed the letter, an electronic voice of the reward issued by the system also came to his mind: "Congratulations to the host for completing 'Task 2: Signing with Dortmund' and obtaining the German (daily use level) reward." Reward distribution ......"

Then, Cheng Hai suddenly had a hazy feeling in his mind, and he felt as if he was born to understand German.

But this feeling couldn't be grasped in his mind, so he wanted to say some complex sentences in German but couldn't say it, and could only clearly understand the pronunciation and writing of a few simple German everyday expressions.

This made Cheng Hai wonder: Is this the German for everyday use? It's too bad, isn't it?

At this moment, an electronic voice came from the system: "The German reward has been distributed, but in order to avoid the host's abnormal performance and suspicion from the outside world, the host's German is temporarily blocked for most of it, and it will be gradually unlocked in the next month according to the host's learning and life contact status, and the complete daily German listening, speaking, reading and writing ability will be obtained." Please leave Fu Hangyi behind, or hire another Chinese-German bilingual teacher to learn German. ”

Cheng Hai suddenly realized that it was to avoid being suspected of him suddenly learning German, so most of his abilities were blocked, and it would take a month to gradually unlock them.

No wonder he can't speak those complicated sentences now.

But it's already good, certainly much better than some players who don't know how to learn a foreign language.

After a month, there will be no more obstacles to his communication with his teammates and coaches, which will be even more beneficial for his career.

This makes Cheng Hai full of expectations for future Bundesliga matches.

Just when Cheng Hai was thinking about it, the system that issued the signing reward released a new task. Moreover, there are three of them.

Mission 3: Bundesliga Champion

Mission: Help Borussia Dortmund win the 2010/2011 Bundesliga title

Success Reward: 50 Skill Points

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Mission 4: Champion the DFB Cup

Mission: Help Borussia Dortmund win the 2010/2011 DFB Cup

Success Reward: 30 Skill Points

……

Mission 5: Champions of the UEFA Cup

Mission: Help Borussia Dortmund win the UEFA Cup in 2010/2011

Success Reward: 100 Skill Points

Seeing the skill points rewarded by the three tasks, Cheng Hai couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

If he can win these three championships at the same time and achieve the honor of the Little Triple Crown, then the 180 skill points awarded alone will be enough for him to directly add a lot of skills to the full value of 20.

Wouldn't he be even more perverted next season?

It's incredibly exciting to think about.

Of course, no matter which championship it is, it will not be easy, and Cheng Hai and his teammates need to fight with all their might.

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When Cheng Hai was thinking about it, Klopp, who witnessed the signing, had already thought about it, and immediately sold Langelof who was wearing the No. 9 jersey and gave Cheng Hai the No. 9 jersey he left.

Although Cheng Hai's current physical fitness doesn't seem to be able to play the main force, now that the two sides have signed a contract, the time is still very long!

Judging from Cheng Hai's progress during this time, Klopp believes that Cheng Hai's physical fitness can finally meet the requirements of playing a full professional game!

Cheng Hai's physical fitness was not good before, just because he had not experienced professional football training!

At the same time, Klopp thought about it, and he would ask the dietitian to add a separate meal to Cheng Hai, to gain weight and height.

Despite his good physique, Cheng Hai still has some disadvantage against the tall centre-backs of his opponents in professional football, especially when it comes to heading over.

Therefore, if Cheng Hai's height and weight can be increased a little, it will undoubtedly be more perfect.

Unconsciously, Klopp has put Cheng Hai in the same position as Mario Gotze, and he is going to be cultivated in an all-round way.

Just when the two sides completed the signing and chatted for a while about Cheng Hai's needs for accommodation and were about to end the meeting, a club staff knocked on the door and came in, and many German and Chinese media came from outside the office, asking for an interview with Cheng Hai.

The general manager and others knew the intentions of these reporters, and they were all attracted by the morning "Bild".

They also knew that in addition to the reporters, there must be a lot of scouts from other teams outside the base, and there were even people coming from farther away.

This makes everyone extremely happy: fortunately, Cheng Hai's signing has been completed.

Otherwise, let Cheng Hai know that he has been on "Bild" and is famous throughout Europe, I am afraid it will not be so easy to sign a contract.