Chapter 268: Not for the money
When Feng Quan made his choice, Zhao Shijie quickly got in touch with Atletico Madrid's general manager, Paul Fortre. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info and agreed with each other to meet in Madrid in the afternoon two days later.
Although the two sides have basically reached an agreement on Feng Quan's salary, the details of personal image rights, as well as bonuses for goals and assists, and game appearance fees still need to be further negotiated. Although this kind of bonus amount may not be "worth mentioning" compared to the player's "base salary", it also somewhat relieves the "financial pressure" for Feng Quan, who is also responsible for the salaries of two personal trainers.
Two days later, in the afternoon, Zhao Shijie went to the Westin Palace Hotel in the heart of Madrid, Spain, to meet with Paul Fortre.
After a heated "discussion", Zhao Shijie won Feng Quan an appearance fee of 5,000 euros per game (3,000 when he came off the bench), a goal bonus of 15,000 euros, and an assist bonus of 7,000 euros.
In fact, if it weren't for Feng Quan's participation in the Moscow Track and Field World Championships and the National Games track and field competitions in August and September, respectively, Zhao Shijie would probably be able to fight for him to achieve greater benefits. And, after the agreement was reached, Paul Fortre also vouched with his character: "As long as I am the general manager of Atletico Madrid next season, and the wind can perform as well as he did in the Bundesliga next season." Then next summer, we can further improve his personal treatment......"
The day after Zhao Shijie and Paul Fortre agreed on Feng Quan's personal treatment, the manager in charge of transfer matters at Atletico Madrid sent a transfer request to the Hamburg club.
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Although the morning training did not start until 9:30 a.m., Feng Quan still arrived at the Hamburg club's training base nearly an hour and a half early.
After a brief warm-up, Feng Quan pulled a special baffle for practicing free kicks, and then placed 5 footballs in the area of 234 meters away from the goal on the left side of the penalty area.
Immediately afterward, he took his own free-kicks before the team started training.
Since learning the skills of free-kicks from Van der Vaart, his improvement in free-kick scoring is still more obvious. His [free kick] attribute has increased from 50 points before the "apprenticeship" to 79 points now.
Although there is still a certain gap between the curve control of the ball path and the control of ball speed compared with Van der Vaart. But at least in the daily personal practice, Feng Quan's free kick accuracy can basically be maintained at about 6 to 7 percent.
Feng Quan believes that with the passage of time, as long as he can insist on at least an hour of free kick practice every day like this, it is estimated that he will have about another year at most, even if he does not use skill points for bonuses and relies solely on his own hard practice, he should be able to reach the same level as Van der Vaart.
Just after Feng Quan completed another wonderful curling shot and sent the ball into the top left corner of the goal, he was startled by the abrupt applause coming from behind him.
"Well done, wind, what a wonderful shot." Fink said with a smile as he clapped his hands.
"Uh...... Boss, why did you get here so early today? Feng Quan turned around and asked with a little surprise.
"Hehe, it's nothing, it's just that I got up early today, so I came over a little early." After a slight pause, Fink continued: "Did I interrupt your free-kick practice by doing this? ”
"No, no." Hearing this, Fengquan hurriedly waved his hand. "I've been practicing for more than half an hour, and I'm a little tired and want to rest for a while."
After a pause, Feng Quan casually pointed to the direction of the entrance of the training ground and said, "Moreover, everyone is almost here, and I can't delay the warm-up of other teammates because of practicing free kick shooting." ”
"In that case, you won't need to warm up in a while, will you?"
"Well, I came here an hour ago, and the warm-up was already done." Feng Quan nodded affirmatively.
"Oh, in that case, come with me to the office."
With that, Fink turned and walked in the direction of the exit of the training ground.
Before Fink could walk out of the training ground, he was confronted by assistant coach Lars Bittencourt. Immediately, Fink stopped, patted his old friend on the shoulder, and said, "Lars, I have something to talk about with the wind, and you can continue to follow yesterday's training after a while......"
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Although on the way to Fink's office, he didn't say why he found him, but Feng Quan's intuition told him that it should be related to his transfer.
Sure enough, after the two of them came to Fink's office and exchanged a few simple pleasantries, Fink began to get to the point.
"Wind, last night Jens [Meier, vice-president of Hamburg, who is mainly in charge of the team's transfer matters] told me that Spain's Atletico Madrid club has made a transfer request to us. After a slight pause, Fink said. "And the target of the reinforcement is you"
"Oh, they're really fast." Feng Quan said in a relaxed tone.
As soon as Feng Quan's words fell, Fink couldn't help but frown.
"So, Atletico Madrid has already approached you in advance, right?"
"Well, that's right. In fact, apart from Atletico Madrid, there are more than a dozen other clubs that have made back-to-back matches with my agent. And, among these clubs, there is also FC Bayern Munich. ”
Although the Hamburg club and Fink have given him a lot of help, and at the same time, after more than half a year of interacting with his teammates, he is also a little reluctant. However, since he had to choose to leave in order to complete his goal of winning the Golden Globe, and Fink took the initiative to find himself, there is nothing to hide.
Although it has been "guessed" that Atletico Madrid Club had been in contact with Feng Quan before applying for a transfer to Hamburg. However, to Fink's surprise, Feng Quan was able to be so honest without saying that he was "unaware".
However, even though he deeply admires Feng Quan's "sincerity", no matter what, Fink still doesn't want his team to lose this thickest thigh.
So, he tentatively said, "So, you're ready to leave Hamburg, aren't you?" Even if we're pretty much qualified for next season's Champions League, won't that make you change your mind? ”
Feng Quan shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Boss, thank you very much to the Hamburg club for giving me the opportunity to land in the Bundesliga." Of course, you and Coach Lars, and Rafael for helping me, I will always remember it. Therefore, wherever I go in the future, I will always be proud to have been a part of the Hamburg team. But ......"
After a pause, Feng Quan said with some difficulty: "But what I want, I can't ...... at all"
Before Feng Quan could finish speaking, Fink interrupted with a wave of his hand, "Hehe, is it because of money?" ”
Hearing this, Feng Quan was stunned, but then shrugged his shoulders in relief and said: "That's right, the salary offered to me by Atletico Madrid is indeed much better than my current contract." However, it should be stated that Bayern Munich Club is the one with the highest offer. ”
In fact, even if you really choose to leave because of money, it is not a "shameful" thing. For professional players who eat youth, they can get millions of high salaries, and they are probably only more than ten years, or about 20 years at most.
Moreover, if you suffer a major injury, you are likely to end your career early. How to earn as much salary as possible in his short career, so as to ensure that his quality of life does not deteriorate significantly after retirement, is a practical problem that every player must consider.
However, when Feng Quan mentioned that he had rejected the highest bid from Bayern Munich, Fink couldn't help but have more doubts in his heart.
"If you want to win higher honours, why would you give up Bayern in favor of Atletico Madrid?" Fink asked, confused.
"You're right, boss. Joining FC Bayern does make it easier for me to touch the pinnacle of European football, and it also allows me to maximise my financial benefits. However, if I choose to join Bayern, it will mean that I will have to fight against my friends at least twice next season. If that's the case, I'm afraid it's hard for me to give it my all in the game. ”
"I'm well aware that to say something like that proves that I'm not a very qualified professional footballer yet. But at least at this stage, I can't really give it my all against Rafael and them. So, in order to fulfill my dream of winning the Ballon d'Or when I entered football at the beginning of last year, and to avoid facing Hamburg next season, I chose Atletico Madrid. ”
Feng Quan has already said this, and Fink really can't say anything more. So he got up from his office chair, then walked up to Feng Quan, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Feng, you are a good young man." While I would love to be able to play alongside you in the Champions League next season, now that you've made your choice, I can only wish you a chance to achieve your dreams. ”
"Thank you, boss."
With that, Feng Quan got up from the couch and had a bear hug with Fink......
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Bayern Munich, who qualified for the German Cup final this season, has already won the Bundesliga in advance, and Hamburg, their opponent in the final, has basically locked in the Champions League qualifying places.
Therefore, after some research, the German Football Association decided to allocate the qualification for the Europa League, which was supposed to belong to the German Cup winners, to the team that finished seventh in the league.
As a result, after the first 29 rounds of the league, the Wolfsburg team, which was in tenth place in the standings and "had no desire" because it basically missed the top six, actually rekindled the flame of hope to hit the seventh place in the league.
Wolfsburg, who have won two consecutive league games in the first two league rounds, have risen to ninth place in the standings, and the ward is only three and four points away from Freiburg in seventh place and Borussia Mönchengladbach in sixth place.
In addition, Borussia Mönchengladbach and Freiburg will face Schalke 04 and Bayer Leverkusen respectively in the 32nd round of the league, two teams who are going all out for Champions League qualification.
Therefore, on the afternoon of May 5, the Wolfsburg team, which came to the Nordbank Arena to challenge, if it can defeat the home team Hamburg, is likely to surpass the Freiburg team and jump to seventh place in the standings.
However, for the Hamburg team, which is "theoretically" still likely to be overtaken by Schalke 04, it is obvious that they will not be willing to give up the three points. What's more, even if the team's main right winger Son Xingmin was suspended in this round because he received a red card in the last round of the league, the Hamburg team is still stronger than the Wolfsburg team in terms of overall strength.
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Despite replacing Bruma, who was suspended for five yellow cards, Michael Mancienne made a mistake in the first seven minutes of the game when he passed back to the goalkeeper at the back, and Wolfsburg's Orić seized the opportunity to take the lead.
But less than 5 minutes later, Feng Quan, who "didn't make an inch" in the last round of the league, staged a good show of three people on the left side, and finally helped Rudenevs, who was ambushed in the penalty area, equalize.
Only a win for Wolfsburg will have a chance to take the initiative in the race for Europa League qualification.
At the same time, because in the first Bundesliga the day before, the away team Bayer Leverkusen easily defeated Freiburg with a score of 2-0, so that with one more game, the advantage of one point temporarily surpassed the Hamburg team and jumped to the third place in the standings. Therefore, Hamburg, who qualify directly for the Champions League, must also win to regain third place in the table.
Therefore, the two teams that also had to win started a big offensive battle.
However, even if the away team Wolfsburg has the courage to press aggressively in order to win, their attacking players have the ability to compare with the mighty Bayern Munich team.
Thus, from the moment they "braved" (and stupid if judged by the results) chose to fight against Hamburg, they were doomed to defeat.
Because Machienny was busy with a mistake to "give" a point soon after the opening, the Wolfsburg team adopted a "high-pressure defense" strategy, trying to force the Hamburg team's back line to make another low-level mistake through the ferocious pressing of the front, so as to overtake the score again. Therefore, their formation is a little bit forward.
Although this does make it more difficult for Hamburg to play from the back, correspondingly, there will be very obvious gaps in Wolfsburg's midfield.
Perhaps, the Hamburg team, which emphasizes passing and cutting cooperation in attack, cannot reach the level of the Barcelona team, no matter when it encounters any opponent, it can pass through, and constantly pass and cut to tear apart the opponent's defense. But when facing a team that is weaker than himself and dares to play against him, he seems to be at ease.
In the 29th minute of the first half, although the sudden rush of Orić and Vierinha almost cut off the football at the feet of Badelli. However, Badelli, who stumbled away from the two, sent a wonderful overhead through ball for Feng Quan, who was ambushed on the left side of the frontcourt.
There was no suspense, and after shaking off the defenders who were marking him with the advantage of speed, he easily shook off the central defenders who were supplementing. Then, before Benario, who had abandoned the goal, pounced on himself, he sent the ball into the bottom right corner of the goal.
In the 16th minute of the second half, almost like a replica of the first goal, Feng Quan received a through ball from Van der Vaart on the left side of the field, and once again broke away from two opposing players along the left side and burst into the penalty area, and then curled a shot with his right foot into the top right corner of the goal.
Just five minutes later, Wolfsburg took advantage of a corner kick and set up Simon Kyle for Simon Kyle to pull a goal back, causing tension on the pitch again.
However, in the 36th minute of the second half, Hamburg's Janssen also took advantage of a corner kick opportunity to rewrite the score to 4-2, which completely killed the suspense of the game.
In the end, with the victory in this game, the Hamburg team finally sealed the qualification for next season's Champions League and regained the third place in the standings with a two-point advantage......