Chapter 199: The Troubles of the Football Stars
After the match between St. Pauli and Bochum, the whole team had two days off, and Zhen Shaolong also used the time to complete a big thing - officially signed a contract with Cindai and became the spokesperson of Cindaini.
This is Zhen Shaolong's first advertising endorsement contract, and it is still very meaningful to him.
For example, he looked at the bank account and the 100,000 euros he had received in advance, and he couldn't help but grin.
Alice and Zhen Shaolong were in a similar mood.
As Zhen Shaolong's agent, she finally has her first blockbuster income, which can really be said......
It's all bitter!
Alice and Zhen Shaolong signed a 'trainee agent contract', and the agent's commission income is only a pitiful three percent, Zhen Shaolong's monthly salary is 75,000 euros, and the commission is only 2,250 euros left in Alice's hands.
This basic salary standard can only be compared with the office workers at the bottom.
Of course, Zhen Shaolong's income also includes a lot of goal bonuses, and his goal efficiency is also very high, the Bundesliga opened in August, and now in less than two months, he has scored eight goals, and the goal bonus can get more than 50,000 euros, but how to calculate the goal bonus, it is difficult to compare with the salary.
In May at the end of last season, Zhen Shaolong signed a new contract, and Alice received a signing fee of 5,000 euros, which is the bonus prepared by the club for the agent of the signed player, which is already the largest income.
Alice's income can't be said to be pitiful, at most it can only be compared with ordinary office workers.
Now she has a high income: 25,000 euros.
Although Cindaini did not pay all the 500,000 euros in one go, Zhen Shaolong considered Alice's financial situation and still paid all the commissions of the endorsement agent in one go, with a total of 15,000 euros.
Alice also got a red envelope from Cindaini to her agent: 10,000 euros.
It's an unspoken rule in private.
The agent wants to help the player negotiate the contract, and after contacting the company to negotiate, he will naturally give the agent some benefits, 10,000 euros is only 2% of the contract amount, which can almost be said to be 'labor fee'.
The tax of this part of the 'labor fee' is counted on Alice personally, and it has nothing to do with Zhen Shaolong and the Cindaini brand, but even if she has to file her own tax declaration and pay nearly 1,000 euros in taxes, it is enough to make Alice very happy.
Twenty-five thousand euros!
It doesn't seem like much to Zhen Shaolong, but for a female student who has just graduated from college, it is simply an unimaginable heavy income.
Alice's happiness is on the bright side, making Zhen Shaolong feel as if he owes her?
Or let her officially become an agent in advance?
"Let's talk about it later, the commission of the official agent is still too high, and my income is still too low!"
Zhen Shaolong vetoed the idea of sympathy, he looked at Alice's expression, and wanted to interview her after getting 20,000 euros, what was her first thought, "Do you think it's an honor to be my agent?" ”
"Maybe she's falling in love with me to death and decided to have a body-bumping celebration?"
"You can do it in the car......"
When Zhen Shaolong was thinking about it, he heard Alice let out a long sigh and said with great regret, "I knew that I could have so much income, and when I was in school, I should have applied for a student loan instead of letting Rawls pay all the fees." ”
This is...... Regretting gnawing old age?
"Why?" Zhen Shaolong couldn't understand it a little.
"Every time I see Rawls, I feel like I owe him." Alice talked about her personal feelings, "Although he is my father, the cost of university is too expensive, and I spent nearly 300,000 euros in four years. ”
"If he has an extra 300,000 euros, maybe he can start enjoying life with peace of mind and traveling around the world instead of continuing to run around for work, I know he doesn't have much money left."
Zhen Shaolong nodded when he heard this, sighed that Alice was really a good girl, and then said, "It's very simple!" You can save up to 300,000 euros and give it back to him in one go. ”
"Why?"
"Didn't you say you had a debt in your heart?"
"No, no." Alice immediately shook her head and said, "I've already thought about it, save enough money, the first thing is to buy a sports car first, if I have more money, I may consider buying a house, although the house is not very important, but having a house is like having a home of your own, and it can be regarded as an investment......"
Alice continued with the plan.
Zhen Shaolong felt that the sigh of the 'good girl' just now could be fed to stray dogs on the side of the road, because Alice put her guilt for Rawls behind buying a luxury bag, ranking tenth among all the wishes to pay money.
He roughly calculated.
"If Alice were to remember to pay back to Rawls, she would probably make more than two million euros, based on the agent's five percent commission......"
"Sign a contract with me alone, and I have to earn 40 million euros!"
"Poor Rawls......"
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In October, St. Pauli's first game was away at Mainz.
This is the seventh round of the Bundesliga.
Mainz got off to the worst start in the Bundesliga last season, losing all five of their first five rounds and almost being relegated to the Bundesliga at the end of the season, and they tried to avoid that, and in the end they achieved their goal, with one win, four draws and one loss in the last six rounds of the league, which is definitely not very good, but not too bad.
St. Pauli's draw with Bochum in the last round gave an early warning of the result, and the whole team is very serious about the game, and if the relegation team wants to successfully complete the goal, they must try to fight for the points they can get, and Mainz is the best opponent in the league.
It was an unbelievable race.
St. Pauli is away to challenge the opponent, prepared for the difficulty of the game, but did not expect Mainz to sit at home, did not play the form, only two minutes into the opening game, St. Pauli scored the goal, the credit is the striker Luz Felix.
In the sixteenth minute, the opponent fouled on the periphery of the penalty area, and Zhen Shaolong used a direct free kick to help the team break through the door of Mainz again.
After leading by two goals, St. Pauli went from strength to strength, and the away game against Mainz was pressed.
In the 39th minute of the game, Zhen Shaolong received a pass in the penalty area and scored his second goal with his head, which was also the third goal of St. Pauli.
As the clock ticked into the second half, Bergmann put a special emphasis on defence, but St. Pauli's attack was still good, and in the 70th minute, Hinkel scored from behind.
At this point, the score becomes 0-4, and there will be no more suspense about the outcome of the game.
When the clock came to the end, Mainz seemed to play better, but only after 80 minutes, a face-saving goal.
The final score was 1-4.
St. Pauli had a big victory, and it was nothing, but it was still relaxing to win so easily.
After the game, Mainz coach Krup was extremely disappointed with his team's performance, "I didn't know what they were doing for 90 minutes, everyone seemed to be confused. ”
"Probably the biggest impact was the goal at the beginning. But we were defeated not by St. Pauli, but by ourselves. ”
St. Pauli, on the other hand, rejoiced in the victory.
After the game, St. Pauli returned to Hamburg by bus, and the atmosphere in the team was very relaxed halfway through, with many players talking about other things.
In the small circle led by Zhen Shaolong and Jean, Jean was joking with Bor, "I used to think that Fabian was a veteran of flowers, but now I find that he is like an innocent little virgin-man, when I see him, I think of the reaction when I liked a girl for the first time in middle school." ”
"How?"
"I mustered up a lot of courage to block the girl in the road and ...... to her Haha, you know, she became my girlfriend later, and I used the pocket money given by my parents to buy her a lot of small gifts. ”
Jean talks about the past with great interest, but the vivid process has a tragic ending, "and then ...... After a month, I saw her kissing with another boy in a small park! ”
"I beat him."
"Then I told her that we were done."
Everyone else was sympathetic to the silence.
Jean was not affected, perhaps after so many years, he just took things as a joke, "Now Fabian is the same as I was then, thinking that he got the best and is willing to give everything, but what is the result......"
Bol knew Jean's personality, but was still a little uncomfortable to hear, "I believe in Edith. ”
"She's a very good woman, she doesn't come from a very good background, she's been working hard to become a model, yes, it's hard work, I'm sure she'll be successful in the future......"
Bol said very emotionally, showing an attitude that was indeed like a 'first brother who had just fallen in love', which also made others feel weird.
He's a Bol!
St. Pauli's most famous street prodigal son......
While a few people were chatting about gossip, Bergmann in the front row suddenly stood up and reminded everyone, "I think I should take advantage of this time to remind you of something." ”
'You all should know that we have a schedule, the UEFA Cup group stage is about to start, and in the next two months we will have four more games, but it is not as quiet as it is now.
"So I stress again, I don't care about your private life, but absolutely forbid anyone, go to the rope road for the night, and try not to go to the bar or anything. You should know what I mean. ”
"I'm talking about absolute forbiddenness!"
Bergman's tone was so stern that some of the players who were chatting about the rope road couldn't help but shut up immediately, but Bergman focused on Jean and Bor, he didn't know that the two had 'changed their ways', but the previous impression was that most of the players were 'brought to the bad'.
When St. Pauli played in the lower leagues, it wasn't a big deal, anyway, there were very few games, and single players went to nightclubs to vent, maybe they could make themselves in better shape.
It's different now.
The intensity of the Bundesliga is already high, St. Pauli has to participate in the League Cup, the impact is still very big, Bergman's expectations for the league is that there is no relegation pressure, they are doing well, he also hopes to play well in the League Cup, not to mention getting a championship trophy, can squeeze into the top 32, and can appear in the real European arena in the second half, which is also barely acceptable.
The premise is that the players need to be in good shape.
If there are players who have been on the rope road for a long time, it must have nothing to do with good form, and it is easy to bring some negative news to the team, Bergman feels that he must make a good impression on the media, and there are always players who go to nightclubs and are reported, doesn't it show that he is derelict as a manager?
It's definitely not going to work.
Bergmann suddenly became determined, even if he had an urge to go to the Rope Avenue experience.
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The beginning of October was St. Pauli's final break, as Bergmann gave the team a four-day break with a big swing of the win against Mainz.
The four-day holiday is still relatively long.
Zhen Shaolong is planning to really take a break and enjoy a leisurely holiday life, and then wait until the assembly training, the team will be nervous because of entering the League Cup stage, and it will not be easy to have a leisurely holiday.
However, the star's troubles came immediately.
He's going to shoot commercials.
Sendaini plans to complete the advertising shooting before Christmas, Zhen Shaolong can spare not much time, Alice communicated with the other party and learned that Xiandaini's spokesperson Diane Kruger has also been filming in recent days.
It is definitely the best way for two spokespersons to be able to shoot together without having to shoot separately.
Zhen Shaolong could only go to Berlin to shoot commercials.
The advertisement was filmed in an office building above a shopping mall.
Zhen Shaolong is a more punctual person.
The appointment time with Cindaini's advertising team was at nine o'clock in the morning, and he and Alice came at half past eight, and when they arrived, they were still making preliminary preparations.
Zhen Shaolong was warmly received, but he waited a little long, and the makeup artist was still not in a hurry at ten o'clock.
"Why don't you start yet?"
"Miss Kruger hasn't arrived yet." The head of the ad group was a little helpless, "Her makeup time is much longer, at least more than an hour. ”
Zhen Shaolong frowned.
The next thing was to wait, and at 11 o'clock, the ad team received a call from Kruger's agent that they had arrived in Berlin.
The wait was another hour.
At twelve o'clock at noon, the advertising team was about to start arranging lunch, and finally waited for the big star Diane Kruger, Kruger walked in slowly, not at all in a hurry, surrounded by a circle of bodyguards, which also showed the momentum of a big star.
The person in charge of the advertising team immediately went over to give a warm reception, and brought Kruger over to introduce Zhen Shaolong to each other, "This is Zhen Shaolong, the Chinese star of St. Pauli." ”
"This is Miss Diane Kruger."
Zhen Shaolong took the initiative to stretch out his hand.
Diane Kruger glanced at his hand, a hint of hesitation appeared at the corner of her mouth, and then she symbolically reached out and touched it, and without saying another word, she turned around and walked away and asked, "Is the makeup artist ready?" I've had lunch on the way and I'm ready to go. ”