Buying a car is not only a big deal for Chinese, but even for Italians, and even for these professional players who are making money every day. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, because of the relationship between income and car price, professional players generally have a lot more choices when buying a car than ordinary people. The high income allows them to choose a car they like, so the players' cars can also tell their respective personalities.

For example, Zhang Shu's teammate Baggio usually drives a Mercedes-Benz that looks more stable when he comes to the team for training, and he also likes to hunt and has a JEEP Grand Cherokee as a tool when he goes off-road. The more low-key Pep Guardiola chose Audi's Q7, and he only brought this car with him from Spain to Italy. The fierce-looking tough guy Di Biagio's favorite thing to drive is a 01-year-old Humvee.

In addition to these veteran players, the choice of young players seems to be more civilian, and there are few luxury cars in the vehicles parked in the training ground, most of them are mid-range cars, mainly Volkswagen and Fiat. Only Bacchini has a sassy Mercedes trot.

This is mainly due to the low level of wages in Brescia. As the highest-paid player in the team, Baggio made a free transfer from Inter Milan to Brescia in 2000 with an annual salary of 1.2 million euros after tax - a choice that Baggio took a pay cut in order to participate in the World Cup and pursue a central position, when he was at Juventus with the world's first salary of £5 million.

After 02, Baggio's contract expired, and the two sides renewed his contract, and due to his excellent performance in leading the team in the middle of Serie A for two seasons, Baggio's salary in the last contract of his career rose to 1.4 million euros after tax.

In addition to Baggio, even the likes of Pep Guardiola and Di Biagio have an annual salary of only about 600,000 euros after tax.

After signing a professional contract last season, Zhang Shu's salary is second only to these three veterans in the team, reaching 1 million euros before tax.

It may seem like a high figure, but European countries also have high taxes on high-income people, in Italy, the personal income tax of players earning more than 30W a year is as high as 43%, in addition to the 3% high income tax, the municipal tax of 1.74% collected by the municipality of Brescia and the government of the Lombardy region, and the social security fund of 8,000 euros.

In this way, after paying various taxes, Zhang Shu's actual annual salary after tax is only 50W, which is less than 1W per week when converted into a weekly salary.

And even so, his income is already the fourth highest salary in the team.

Fortunately, Zhang Shu's usual expenses are not large, except for rent and living expenses, there are almost no other expenses, in general, his car purchase budget is quite sufficient, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Aston Martin or something, although it is still almost, but there is not much pressure to buy an ordinary luxury brand car such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi, etc.

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"Accompany you to see the car? No, no, no, no, no! ”

Viviano rejected Zhang Shu's offer to invite him to buy a car with him, "Don't show off in front of a poor person like me!" ”

"The youth team doesn't have a holiday, so I can't go with you, I'm sorry." Turio also spoke in a regretful tone on the phone.

"Choosing a car? I have to go to class tomorrow. Han Yu said with a smile. You don't have to consider my opinion, just choose what you like. ”

So a few days later, Viviano and Turio, who had come to the dinner to celebrate Zhang Shu's pick-up, looked at the picture in front of them with a bewildered expression.

"Zhang... YOU THIS ... Which one is your car? Turio stammered.

There are two cars parked on the side of the road in front of them, and behind them is a white BMW X5SUV, which is quite normal, the price of the Italian BMW X5 plus optional accessories is about 7W euros, which is within the income consumption level of Zhang Shu. But the one parked in front of it is a bit strange.

It was a yellow Beetle - not a new Beetle, but an old Beetle that had been discontinued in Germany since '78 and moved to Mexico.

The Beetle is a childhood memory for many Italians, and almost all of Europe was dominated by this car until the 80s. Whether it is the German army during the Third Reich or the American movie "The Godfather" about Italian gangsters, this classic model has appeared.

But classics are classics, the problem is that this car is too old to be suitable for young people like Zhang Shu at all.

Volkswagen of Germany sees the Beetle as its most meaningful car. From the 30s of the last century to today for nearly 70 years, the appearance and structure of the Beetle have almost never changed, and the configuration and power are far from meeting the needs of modern people. So in '78 Volkswagen shut down the Beetle production line in Germany, and in '85 it stopped importing the old Beetle from Mexico to Europe and replaced it with golf. In 98, the new Beetle was put into production in Mexico, and on July 30 of this year, the last old Beetle rolled off the assembly line, and the Mexican factory closed all the old Beetle production lines, and since then this legendary classic known as the "people's car" has become a swan song.

Even in Europe, the old Beetle is rare on the road after 2000, and Zhang Shu's friends did not expect that Zhang Shu would come back with an "old antique" when he went to buy a car.

At first, they thought it was a means of transportation for the staff of the car dealership, but when the car stopped in front of them, they found Zhang Shu happily sitting in the cab, and the driver of the brand-new X5 was a young man in a suit and leather shoes.

No one will give their new car to the staff and drive each other's old car themselves, right?

That's why Turio wondered.

"Both!" Zhang Shu, who stretched out a head from the yellow mini car, replied proudly, "How is it?" Great, isn't it? ”

"Awesome you're big! Neurotic! Viviano couldn't understand Zhang Shu's nonsensical thinking mode at all, "Forget about the X5, what the hell are you buying this classic car!" ”

"O bumblebee! Transformers, do you understand! It's feelings! Zhang Shu was unconvinced to correct Viviano's misunderstanding of his car, "I found it by chance when I went to see the car, and the people in the car dealer told me that the car will be out of print after 03 years!" I used to watch Transformers and I wanted one for a long time! ”

Zhang told the truth, for many post-80s generations, Transformers is one of their enlightenment animations. In addition to Optimus Prime, Bumblebee is the favorite member of many children's Bopai. It's a pity that China has never imported a beetle, so when Zhang Shu saw this beetle painted like a bumblebee in the corner of the car dealership, he bought this "big toy" without hesitation.

"Why don't you buy a truck (Optimus Prime prototype) if you like Transformers so much!" Viviano covered his forehead with his hand, he was not a Chinese who had never seen a Beetle, for him this was an ordinary classic car, commonplace when he was a child, but it had no special meaning.

"Because I can't afford it, I asked, heavy trucks are more expensive than sports cars! And I can't drive my driver's license. Zhang Shu replied solemnly, as if he didn't hear Viviano's complaint at all.

"You're really going to ask!" Viviano was completely speechless.

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The four-day vacation was soon over, causing a commotion when Zhang Shu showed up at the club in his car.

"Good taste, it's a classic." Baggio commented euphemistically, "But, Zhang, don't you think he's too old for you?" ”

In contrast, other young teammates were much more direct, and Tony bluntly said to Zhang, "This is the style that my grandfather likes." ”

So Zhang Shu patted him on the shoulder and said "good". Then three seconds later, Tony, who reacted, chased four laps around the training ground.

Even Viviano blamed his poor performance in training on Zhang's new car.

"Zhang, can you change the car tomorrow? The space in the back of this car is too small! I'm so tall that I can only curl up in the back! And the shock absorption is poor, and now I have pain all over my body. On the way home after training, Viviano complained.

But Zhang Shu was happy, and the X5 had been parked in the garage for many days, until a phone call from Tinti found out about it and saved Viviano from the sea of misery.

"Zhang, you can't drive that car, you're a star now, and you're responsible for your own safety. The safety performance of the car you are driving now is not as good as Han's! Tinty persuaded him on the phone. I can understand that you like that car, you can keep it in the garage for a good collection. Isn't that car out of print? What if you break it? I won't even be able to find a replacement part at that time. ”

As it turns out, it was Tingi who understood the thinking patterns of children. Zhang Shu switched back to X5 the next day, and Viviano finally lived the days of training in a luxury car.

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Zhang Shu didn't expect that he would be able to change his car and create a turmoil.

Everyone knew that he used to take Han Yu's car to train every day, and everyone thought it was not strange at that time. Even the journalists, who have been guarding the club's gates for a long time, don't see any problems. Zhang Shu doesn't have a car, it's normal to pay for a driver.

Later, Viviano joined the team to "carpool" with him, and the reporters felt more normal.

Of course, it is not that no reporter has suspected that Zhang has any special relationship with this beautiful female driver, but because Zhang Shu and Han Yu usually have almost no dates and have no intimate movements, some reporters have failed to take valuable photos after squatting several times, and their focus on Zhang Shu has returned to the field.

After all, they are all professional sports reporters, and the combination of sports and gossip is not so close at this time.

But this situation changed after Zhang Shu got his driver's license and changed his car. Many reporters found that even if the driver of the car became Zhang Shu, the Chinese girl was still sitting in the passenger seat, while Zhang Shu's good friend Viviano was sitting alone in the back seat. And when Zhang Shu and Viviano got out of the car, the girl would drive away again, and would not pick up Zhang Shu and Viviano again until after the afternoon training, and Zhang Shu would drive away from the club.

This change is more intriguing, it stands to reason that since Zhang Shu got his driver's license, the female driver's mission should be over. Zhang Shu can drive back and forth with Viviano by himself, there is no need to make another move to let the girl drive the car away again.

What's more, Zhang Shu also changed to a new car, how can anyone hand over their new car to someone else to drive?

"Is Zhang Shu in love? Feel like he bought the car for that girl? Several Chinese reporters gathered around to discuss.

"I think it's possible." In the crowd, a reporter said, "Zhang Shu is a person in Italy, and it's normal to find a girlfriend." ”

"They seem to still live together, and the other players said it was Zhang's housekeeping staff and driver, but now it feels a little wrong...

The reporters felt that they had a faint smell of big gossip.

But for Chinese journalists, the speculation is limited to gossip chat. The media they work for are all traditional paper media, and serious paper media will not report such gossip news.

But the Italian media didn't have so many concerns, and soon, some small newspapers appeared about Zhang Shu's love.

"Brescia's new star love affair exposed, who is the mysterious Chinese woman"

"The love field on the court is proud, Zhang buys a luxury car for his girlfriend"

"Brescia player broke the news that Zhang may have been dating his mysterious girlfriend for more than half a year"

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"Damn, it's over, it's over. What should VV do now? As soon as he arrived at the club, Zhang Shu hurriedly dragged Viviano, who was going to the locker room, and he looked back cautiously to see that Han Yu had already driven out of the club gate before taking out a newspaper folded into small squares from his bag.

Viviano took the newspaper suspiciously and opened it, "What's wrong?" Any questions? He put the newspaper close to his face, carefully distinguishing the people in the photo, "It's not other girls, I thought you were photographed stepping on two boats." ”

"Don't talk about it! Help me come up with an idea of what to do! Zhang Shu jumped anxiously, "This is what I saw when I was having breakfast, Han Yu and Aunt Han don't know yet!" ”

"It's not a bad thing, the reporter will know it when he knows." Viviano replied lightly, "If you're afraid of reporters harassing Han, just talk to them, what a big deal." ”

Zhang Shu squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, he felt that Viviano could not understand his current situation at all.

Han Yu doesn't know about this yet, but it is estimated that he will know soon, and when the training is over in the afternoon, how will the two of them go back to face Aunt Han? (To be continued.) )