Chapter 65: Mr. 100 million euros

The score turned into a draw and it became very cruel for Sevilla, who had to win.

They will have to score in the next few minutes to keep any hope of progressing to the knockout rounds.

Therefore, the Dortmund players only celebrated for more than 20 seconds, and Sevilla complained that the celebration was too long, and the referee greeted him to end the celebration, allowing Sevilla to quickly open the circle and start the game.

When the strikers were gone, Sevilla pressed all the players and bombarded Cheng Hai's goal.

They're going to score again, take the lead and win this game.

However, there is too little time left for them.

With Lewandowski and Cheng Hai both retreating to their own half to participate in the defense, Sevilla did not perform a miracle in the cheers of the home fans throughout the stadium.

It wasn't until the end of four minutes of stoppage time that the referee blew the final whistle and they couldn't score the goal to take the lead again.

On the contrary, in the 92nd minute of stoppage time, Cheng Hai's single hanging shot in a counterattack almost broke through Sevilla's goal.

This was an extremely rare single mistake by Cheng Hai, and in the end, Cheng Hai got the answer in the communication with the system: hanging shooting is also a separate skill.

Although Cheng Hai's archery has been increased to the full value, it has a certain bonus effect on the hanging shot, Cheng Hai's hanging shooting attribute should be very high, but it is not the full value.

If the full value is not reached, then Cheng Hai may make a mistake and not be able to score a goal.

This time, Cheng Hai's hanging shot was slightly over the crossbar and landed on the top net, much to the regret of Dortmund's players and fans.

In the end, neither side scored, and the final round of the League Cup group stage ended with a score of 3-3.

Sevilla FC only got one point and were destined to be out of the tournament like Cappadi.

Although Dortmund got 1 point and the points rose to 12 points, whether they can qualify as the top of the group depends on the result of another Capadedi vs Paris Saint-Germain match.

A few minutes later, the result of another match arrived, leaving Dortmund's fans delighted.

Because, after losing five games in a row and losing face, Capadedi finally stopped their five-game losing streak in the League Cup at home: they drew 1-1 with the mighty Paris Saint-Germain.

In the case of a draw between Sevilla and Borussia Dortmund, Paris did not take the opportunity to overtake the points, but continued to trail Dortmund by one point with 11 points, allowing Dortmund to qualify for the last 32 of this season's UEFA Cup as group winners.

Of course, this round of 32 knockout stage is not all teams that have qualified for the group stage of the League Cup, and only the top two teams in the 12 group stage have 24 teams in the League Cup.

The other eight teams, who finished third in the eight Champions League group stages, will be relegated to the last 32 of the UEFA Cup, and will compete with Borussia Dortmund and other teams who have qualified from the group stage of the UEFA Cup for a place in the round of 16 in a two-legged knockout round.

Until then, the bracket for the 1/16 finals will be determined by draw.

After returning to Germany and resting for a day, on December 17, UEFA held a draw for the round of 32 of the UEFA Cup.

Borussia Dortmund, who won the group in the Group of Death, did draw a top draw in the round of 32 draw, which was Borisov Bart from the Belarusian Premier League.

As the first team in the Bundesliga, Dortmund will basically not be at risk of being eliminated against the Belarusian team, and the difference in strength between the two sides is too big.

Although the weather may be very bad in Belarus for the 1/16 knockout round in February next year, Dortmund can also establish a huge advantage on their home turf.

As long as you win big enough on your home field, you won't be afraid to play away from home in the ice and snow.

Overall, this is a team that has been drawn and is much better than a team drawn from the top five leagues and the third place in the Champions League group stage.

After the draw for the round of 32 of the UEFA Cup, on December 18, Dortmund ushered in the 17th round of the Bundesliga away against Eintracht Frankfurt.

It was also the Bundesliga's last game before the winter break.

After this round of matches, the Bundesliga will be on holiday and enter the winter break, and the next game will have to wait until next year.

The weather was very cold, with snow falling on the first night of the race and temperatures dropping to around -10 degrees.

And, probably due to the mental stress caused by the long winning streak in the Bundesliga, and the excitement of the upcoming Christmas holidays, Dortmund's overall performance in this game was very poor.

In the first half alone, Eintracht Frankfurt took a 2-0 lead at home.

Although Eintracht Frankfurt did not score again in the second half, Dortmund could not pull a point back.

It wasn't until the 64th minute that Cheng Hai came on the field and then took advantage of a long run from a counter-attack to break through the Eintracht Frankfurt goal in the 79th minute.

But that's about it.

In the end, Borussia Dortmund suffered a defeat in their final game before the winter break, losing 1-2 to Eintracht Frankfurt, ending the first half of the Bundesliga season.

This result is rather depressing.

Fortunately, Dortmund is still 10 points ahead of second-placed Mainz and won the 2010/2011 Bundesliga halfway point by a wide margin.

As long as the second half of the season is not too bad, there is a high probability that the Bundesliga championship will be bagged this season.

After the end of this round of the league, the Bundesliga team officially entered the winter break, and the club arranged a celebration banquet before the holiday, which was not only to congratulate everyone on the good results of winning the halfway championship, but also to wish everyone a happy Christmas and New Year in advance.

At the celebration banquet, Cheng Hai was naturally the most popular protagonist.

After only half a season, Cheng Hai has become a top striker in football who is popular all over Europe.

His 24 goals in 23 official club games in half a season, as well as 14 goals in the Bundesliga to top the scorer charts, have conquered all the club hierarchy and coaches, players and fans.

Bigzer is even more popular.

After all, football is a real world. Cheng Hai's extraordinary performance is no longer the image of a young player, but the positioning of a top striker in world football.

I don't know how many people envy Dortmund and pick up a super big bargain.

And Emery, who used to be an ordinary scout, has become famous all over the world because of the discovery of Cheng Hai and has become the most awesome figure in Dortmund scouting.

Now, he is tasked with scouting players across Asia, and he is a high-profile and well-paid player.

All of this was brought by Cheng Hai.

At the celebration banquet, the drunken Emmori put his arm around Cheng Hai's shoulders and said, "Seriously, Cheng Hai, I thought it would be good if you could pass the trial and sign a professional contract." I never thought that you would be so genius to this extent, I have today, it is your light! ”

Cheng Hai naturally wouldn't say that it was because he had a green dominator system, and even his invitation to his own trial was realized under the control of the system, otherwise he would have a problem going to watch a college amateur match and invite himself to Dortmund for a trial.

Cheng Hai could only follow the routine and thank Emery for his invitation to tryout, so that he could be where he is today.

In the end, the two of them had a hard drink, and Emory got drunk directly and was carried to the hotel room by the staff to rest.

At the end of the celebration banquet, the assistant to the general manager of the club found Cheng Hai, and after the two sides touched the glass, the other party pretended to be unintentional and asked:

"Cheng Hai, we think that with your current level, the previous contract is not very suitable for your value, and the annual salary, bonuses, etc. should be increased, I don't know what you think?"

The 18-year-old Cheng Hai didn't expect the twists and turns for a while, but he just felt that this was a manifestation of the club's attention to himself, and happily agreed: "Thank you to the club for valuing me." ”

The assistant said happily: "Then you come with me, the general manager wants to talk to you about the specific conditions." ”

Just when Cheng Hai was about to follow the assistant to find the general manager, Cheng Hai, who had drunk some champagne and was a little drunk, seemed to suddenly turn his head around and said, "Wait, I don't really want to care about the renewal of the contract, I'll let the agent talk to you tomorrow." ”

The assistant's face changed and said, "It's nothing complicated, the general manager can tell you about your annual salary and bonus." After negotiating, just ask the agent to come over and sign the contract directly. ”

The more Cheng Hai thought about it, the more wrong it became, and he directly refused: "It's not good, let's let the agent talk to you, after all, this is his job, not mine." My job is to play football, not to negotiate contracts. ”

Then, Cheng Hai took the wine glass and went to clink glasses with other teammates.

The assistant couldn't help it, shook his head in disappointment, and could only reply to his life.

Originally, they planned to use Cheng Hai to attend the dinner until the end, half-drunk and half-awake, and fool Cheng Hai to revise the contract.

It is true that Cheng Hai's salary and bonus are raised, because Cheng Hai's performance is worthy of their salary and bonus, and if he doesn't increase it, he will be exposed by the media and be passive.

Their purpose in looking for Cheng Hai was actually to modify the liquidated damages clause.

When I signed the contract, I felt that the liquidated damages of 50 million euros were high enough to sit back and relax.

Unexpectedly, in just half a season, Cheng Hai's performance has reached this level.

Looking at it now, although Cheng Hai is not worth 50 million euros at this time, who knows in two years?

If Cheng Hai continues at his current performance and rate of progress, it will be easy to be worth more than 50 million euros.

The €50 million liquidated damages clause is definitely a major mistake.

Borussia Dortmund's hierarchy felt that this had to change.

As a result, Cheng Hai was not fooled and asked them to talk to their agent Baker. Baker is a big-name old man, and it is almost impossible for Dortmund Club to take advantage of Cheng Hai.

It seems that we can only honestly talk about the conditions.

After returning home that night, Cheng Hai called Baker to tell him about it, and Baker immediately told Cheng Hai that he had done the right thing, and that Dortmund wanted to take advantage of him and modify the liquidated damages clause while he was drunk.

Fortunately, Cheng Hai reacted and did not agree to any conditions.

Now Baker will be able to take the initiative.

In any case, Cheng Hai told Baker that he couldn't set more than 100 million euros in liquidated damages anyway, and he had to leave a way out for him to leave Dortmund.

At the same time, in the case of increased liquidated damages, salaries and bonuses must also be greatly increased, which must be in line with his current status as the top scorer in the Bundesliga.

Although it is impossible to increase to the highest salary in the Dortmund team at once due to seniority, it certainly cannot be at the bottom of the team as it is now.

The general requirement is that the salary and bonus can be lower, but the liquidated damages must not be high.

Baker also agrees with Cheng Hai, because he also doesn't want Cheng Hai to stay in Dortmund all the time.

Only with frequent transfers, the agent can get a larger share of the transfer fee. Although Baker is not a person who encourages players to keep transferring for the sake of making money, Dortmund should not be the team that Cheng Hai has stuck to all his life.

Cheng Hai's future must be among Europe's top giants!

In this case, Baker also agrees that even if the salary and bonus are a little lower, Dortmund must not be allowed to set excessive liquidated damages.

Anyway, everything has Baker to negotiate, and Cheng Hai doesn't care much about this.

He wants to take advantage of the vacation time to take a good rest.

However, Cheng Hai only had a day off, and on the third day, Baker began to attend various commercial activities, sign endorsement contracts, shoot endorsement advertisements, and so on.

Although many endorsements have not been accepted, Cheng Hai's reputation as the top scorer in the 100-meter world and the Bundesliga is too hot, and there are countless brands that want him to endorse, and there are only five European brands left to pick in the end.

Signing ceremony, on-site activities, shooting commercials, etc., Cheng Hai stayed in Europe for a week before he took care of everything and could return to China.

Before returning to China, Baker and Dortmund Club finally reached a consensus and revised Cheng Hai's contract.

The contract period is still the same, until June 30, 2015, but some key provisions have been modified.

Cheng Hai's weekly salary has soared tenfold from 4,000 euros to 40,000 euros, equivalent to an annual salary of more than 2 million euros, which is already similar to Bayern Munich's Lahm, Schweinsteiger and other stars, and is in the second echelon below Kyle, Shahin and others, much higher than Shinji Kagawa, Gotze, Lewandowski and others.

Goal awards, assist awards, appearance fees, season winning awards, and more have also been revised.

These treatments are worthy of Cheng Hai's current identity as the first scorer in the Bundesliga!

The premise of a significant increase in salaries and bonuses is naturally that Dortmund has amended Cheng Hai's liquidated damages clause.

They want to directly set Cheng Hai's liquidated damages to 200 million euros, so that any wealthy family can't afford it, and they can't directly take Cheng Hai away with liquidated damages, but this is obviously unrealistic, and Baker can't agree to it.

Originally, with Cheng Hai's current achievements and potential, his annual salary could be higher.

It was in order to bargain with Dortmund on the issue of liquidated damages, and finally lowered the requirements in terms of salary and bonuses, so as to obtain a liquidated damages clause that satisfied Cheng Hai.

In the case that Cheng Hai's side reduced the demand for salaries and bonuses, the final liquidated damages agreed by the two parties were 100 million euros.

This has exceeded the world's first value of Ronaldo's transfer to Real Madrid last year, and Dortmund feels that this is probably, should, and perhaps enough to ensure that Cheng Hai will not be directly poached by competitors for liquidated damages.

Baker, on the other hand, reluctantly agreed, because Cheng Hai told him that the bottom line was 100 million euros.

But Cheng Hai himself was quite satisfied when he heard that the final result of the negotiation was this.

You know, he hasn't started in a professional game yet, and he won the honor of being the top scorer in the Bundesliga.

As the game continues, the strength will be further improved, and after winning the championship at the end of the season, you can get a lot of skill point rewards, and your strength will be stronger.

After three seasons, Cheng Hai believes that he is definitely worth more than 100 million euros, and it is a certain thing to break Ronaldo's transfer fee record.

When the time comes, as long as someone is willing to pay liquidated damages to take him away, Dortmund will not be able to create any obstacles.

Cheng Hai and Dortmund signed a revised contract on negotiated terms, which can be regarded as a significant increase in their salaries and bonuses.

Now there are too many teams in European football who covet Cheng Hai, and after completing the contract modification with Cheng Hai, Dortmund also breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly announced the completion of the contract modification with Cheng Hai on the club's official website, saying that the liquidated damages between the two parties have been increased to 100 million euros, and Cheng Hai's salary has been greatly increased.

Although Dortmund's official website did not go into too much detail, the liquidated damages of 100 million euros alone were enough to cause an uproar.

Especially in China, the news spread out, making the national media and fans a little dumbfounded and excited.

Although liquidated damages are not equivalent to value, which Chinese player has been able to enjoy this level of liquidated damages before?

No.

Not only is there no liquidated damages, but the other party even wishes that he would only sign a one-year contract with a Chinese player, and if he can't do it, he will end the contract immediately, where would he do everything possible to tie Cheng Hai to Dortmund like Dortmund, and he was afraid that he would run away.

This is the value of Cheng Hai!

Many fans excitedly discussed in the news comment area:

"Oh my God, 100 million euros, close to 1 billion yuan, Cheng Hai is too awesome!"

"I can't imagine that Cheng Hai is so valuable in the eyes of Dortmund Club!"

"If Cheng Hai sells himself, will he be able to sell 100 million euros and become a billionaire in an instant?"

"Haha, the angle of seeing the problem upstairs is fresh enough! In fact, Cheng Hai himself will not get this money, he gets a salary, which is said to have an annual salary of more than 2 million! ”

"That's already awesome enough, more than 2 million euros, equivalent to about 20 million yuan, you can become a billionaire in 5 years!"

"Yes! I never thought that people who play football in China would be paid so much! ”

"But I think Cheng Hai has this level, so he should get such a high salary, which is much better than these domestic players."

"That's, it's a must, and I approve of it!"

"Cheng Hai is the first person in domestic football, there is no opinion!"

"I think it's not just football, it's the first person in the domestic sports world!"

"Right!"