Mbappe's performance at the World Cup gave him another option, winning both the Champions League and the World Cup as a leading scorer in a single season, and Mbappe was not without competitiveness.

Of course, even if Mbappe wins the Ballon d'Or, he will not have the same influence as Ronaldo, but Li Chengfeng did not ask for an increase of 20 million pounds.

As for Mbappe, he is naturally willing, which is why he agreed to sign a new contract with Leeds United. Leeds United's new contract with him stipulates that if he finishes in the top three of the Ballon d'Or, he will earn £50,000 a week, the same as Salah, and if he wins the Ballon d'Or, he will earn £100,000 a week, which will become Leeds' maximum salary, while extending his contract for a year.

Leeds United is naturally willing to pay this money, but only 5 million pounds can bring Leeds United at least tens of millions of pounds of commercial income, such a high profit, enough to make anyone take risks.

It's not easy, but always give it a try. Mbappe's advantage is honor, the only main striker who has both World Cup and Champions League titles. In terms of honor, in addition to the defensive players, the only one who can compete with him is his national team teammate, Dembele, who won the La Liga title. However, Dembele is a substitute for both Barcelona and the French national team and cannot compete at all.

Mbappe's weakness is that he is not the most important player in either of these honours, with Mohamed Salah at club and Antoine Griezmann at national team. In addition, his stats are not explosive enough, and last season he only scored about 20 goals on all fronts, and more than 30 goals were created including assists. Although it is also excellent, it is not shocking enough after all. There is a big gap between Salah and Ronaldo, who have scored more than 50 goals, let alone Messi, who has scored more than 60 goals.

Well, the contender also has World Cup player of the year Luka Modric, who has won widespread praise for leading underdogs Croatia to the final. And the Champions League has also reached the final, and there is not much difference in honor.

Mbappe did not have an advantage among these contenders, and his fake fall at the World Cup had a very bad impact. Li Chengfeng has already educated Mbappe well, since the goal is the king of the ball, then word of mouth is also very important, especially now that the broadcast technology is so developed, don't learn this kind of behavior.

Fortunately, Mbappe is still young, young people are always easy to forgive, and the Ballon d'Or is selected across seasons, Li Chengfeng still has a chance to push him, that is, in the first half of next season, he will brush up on his data and improve his impression score. When the honor is excellent, Mbappe, who has exploded in data, will be the most favorable candidate, and of course, he had better not have those childish behaviors anymore.

Is it hard to farm data? It's not particularly difficult, as long as the ability is sufficient, and then given tactical tilt, it's easy to go up or two steps in the data. Just like Belotti, who scored more than 30 goals in a single season under Li Chengfeng, Salah even reached 40. Mbappe, if nothing else, more than 30 can still be done. Although this is still not sure of winning the Ballon d'Or, the hope is that it will be bigger, even if it is only a top three, it can attract some sponsorship for Leeds United.

Now Leeds United's commercial sponsorship will be hundreds of millions, which is far from the top giants, and it is about the same as Arsenal, which has not had an important title for more than ten years. You must know that Leeds United has won two Premier League titles and a Champions League championship in the past three years, and there are also American top Pulisic and African top Salah in the team, plus Li Chengfeng, Emily, Lin Chiling and Liu Yifei's blessing, this degree of commercial development is simply unbearable, and it must be at least doubled to make Li Chengfeng barely satisfied.

In addition to commercial sponsorship, a new stadium is also planned, with the latest plan being to expand the area and build a new stadium at Elland Road, just like Tottenham's new stadium. Research is currently underway, and if it can be approved, it can be started. With Leeds United's success over the years, the level of support they have gained in Leeds City, it has not been difficult. As for funding, with Li Chengfeng's reputation and Leeds United's achievements in recent years, there are already banks willing to provide at least £500 million in low-interest loans, which can be more than the amount of the loan if the cash flow can be better.

Of course, Leeds United is not short of money now, but the player's assessed value has exceeded one billion pounds, what Li Chengfeng needs to do is to keep the team competitive, if you want to compete for the Ballon d'Or, the team must be competitive enough. However, Leeds United have retained last season's squad as much as possible, with most of the key players in the squad signing new contracts offered by Leeds, with only N'Golo Kante, Leroy Sane and Pepe in doubt.

Sane was a problem with his mother and his own psychology, and Li Chengfeng felt that he could still convince him to stay. But Kante's problem is more troublesome.

After N'Golo Kante won the World Cup with France this summer, Kante, who has already achieved great honours, has no more pursuits and wants a higher salary. His agents, Gregory Dakade and Abdulkarim Duis, have made an impressive asking price of £300,000 a week.

Li Chengfeng naturally couldn't agree to this kind of price, even the top salary was far from their asking price.

After communicating with Kante, Li Chengfeng did not force him to stay. Everyone has their own pursuits, and they can't be forced. So although he still has four years left on his contract with Leeds United, Li Chengfeng promised to take him away as long as a team is willing to bid 100 million euros.

This asking price is not high, Kante, who is considered the No. 1 defensive defender in the Premier League and even the world's No. 1 defensive midfielder, is certainly worth the price, if it is not for the player to leave, money can't buy it.

Two greedy agents began to work hard, but not many teams could buy him.

The first to exit was Manchester City. Manchester City certainly need N'Golo Kante to replace the aging Fernandinho, but they feel Leeds United's asking price is too high and Lee does not want to sell Kante to a rival in the same league.

Barcelona have also given up, having already spent a lot of money this summer in the hope of being able to add players for a low price, such as Andre Gomez. But Li Chengfeng didn't look down on this player, and Barcelona he liked was unwilling to let go, so he could only run aground.

Real Madrid, who had just sold Cristiano Ronaldo for more than 100 million, was rich, but the greed of Kante's agent angered Florentino, who went so far as to ask for more than 20 million euros in commissions. Do they think it's Raiola or Mendes? Can the Galactic Battleship still be threatened by them?

So all that was left was the big Paris, who was very willing to bring Kante back to France, but Kante wanted a higher salary, but he didn't want to go back to France, where he was only 27 years old and hungry for glory.

Li Chengfeng now has a very high status in the football world, and soon learned some inside stories and told Kante directly. When Kante knew that his agent had been linked to Paris early and was ready to return to China, and he lost the opportunity to transfer to Real Madrid because of a large commission, he was really angry, he did not expect that the person he trusted would sell him because of money, and chose to terminate the contract with the agent.

N'Golo Kante then renewed his contract with Leeds United, with a weekly salary of £200,000, the same maximum salary as Salah, after all, he was also a PFA winner. However, the contract period has not been extended, and Li Chengfeng still agrees that as long as there is a suitable team, he can be released.

With Kante's professional attributes, Li Chengfeng is not worried that this will affect his investment on the field, but the lack of commercial income of the team still makes him feel uneasy. If Leeds United are eliminated from the quarterfinals of the Champions League this season, I am afraid that the team will be even more turbulent.

In any case, it is necessary to speed up the development of commercial income, and Li Chengfeng asked Cook to increase the commercial sponsorship income to 150 million pounds within two years, so as to make up for the loss of the Champions League in case it fails to achieve results.

If Kante and Sane only have thoughts of leaving, Pepe is really leaving. Pepe, who can only play on the right side, wants more appearances but does not have the confidence to compete with Salah and has made a transfer request.

Li Chengfeng is also very sorry for this, he is very optimistic about this young man, although not as good as Salah and Sane, but also very good. It's just that as a rotation player, although he is more capable than Pulisic, Pulisic's versatility and the American market behind him make him play more in the order.

In the end, Li Chengfeng loaned Nicolas Pepe to Inter Milan. Li Chengfeng has always had a good relationship with Inter Milan, and not only because he used to coach Inter. The rise to power of Inter's current Chinese boss is also related to him. Previously, when Indonesian Tohir tried to take charge of Inter Milan, he played the slogan of inviting Li Chengfeng to return.

Li Chengfeng's reply was unceremoniously, "I would never work in an Indonesian team." And I doubt that he really wants to run Inter Milan well, or just use Inter Milan as a money-making tool. ”

When the Chinese capital Suning Electric was ready to enter the market, Li Chengfeng also publicly expressed his support, believing that Suning Electric, which has strong economic strength and hopes to open overseas markets, will inevitably concentrate on operating Inter Milan as their best publicity.

In the end, Suning Electric successfully squeezed out Thohir to become the owner of Inter Milan, and the same Chinese background and connections also allowed them to support each other, and Li Chengfeng also provided a lot of suggestions for Suning Electric's revival work in Inter Milan.

Inter Milan was interested in him when Belotti was before, but at that time, Inter Milan was still in UEFA's FFP supervision, and they couldn't get so much money, otherwise the cooperation between Leeds United and Inter Milan could have been earlier.

(End of chapter)

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