The five members of the band are gathering to discuss the arrangement of the new album.

The door suddenly opened, and the agent rushed in with a laptop in his hand.

"What's going on?" The lead singer asked, and the agent's panicked appearance made him feel a little uneasy.

"Look, I just found a video. At the Hong Kong Olympic Parade, an athlete sang a song. The agent placed the notebook in the center of the crowd and started playing a video. This is a clear video that the broker managed to find.

"When I'm different from the world, then make me different, and persistence for me is to overcome rigidity."

"If I compromise with myself, if I lie to myself, I can't forgive even if others forgive me."

“……”

"This, how is it possible, the lyrics are the same!" The lead singer exclaimed. As the author of this song, he has firmly remembered every word of the lyrics.

"And even the name is the same, it's also called "Stubborn"." The agent spoke.

At this moment, a possibility flashed in the hearts of everyone in the audience: the new album has been leaked!

"Could it be that our new album has leaked?" The band's guitarist asked.

"Impossible." The oldest drummer in the band said, "For this new album, we went to Japan and picked out 10 of the 27 original songs, and then the Japanese company produced them. At present, the media does not know the progress of our album at all, let alone leaked it. ”

After speaking, the drummer turned his gaze to the lead singer. The song was written by the lead singer only a few months ago, and several members of the band only heard the song after arriving in Japan, which means that if it is leaked, then the author of the song, that is, the lead singer, is the most suspicious. However, as a member of the team, the drummer did not suspect the lead singer, they have been forming a band for several years, and they are even more intimate with each other, he knows the lead singer as a person, and it is impossible for him to deliberately leak the new song.

The lead singer watched the video again, and then said: "Listen carefully, the arrangement is different from ours." ”

When everyone listened carefully, the singers sang in the same tune and rhythm as their works, except for the arrangement, although some parts of the music sounded the same, but if you listened carefully, it was different from theirs.

For a song, the music is obviously the soul, and if the arrangement is different, it also means that the song has a different soul, and in the eyes of professional musicians, it cannot be regarded as the same song. For example, many cover singers have changed their singing methods, changed their lyrics, changed English lyrics to Chinese lyrics, and changed Cantonese lyrics to Mandarin lyrics, but as long as the song remains the same, then it is considered a cover.

"It's a good arrangement, it's absolutely top-notch." The guitarist spoke.

The lead singer also nodded, in terms of style, this arrangement is obviously much more mature than himself, and he can feel that the song contains a deeper understanding and experience of life.

"The arrangement is great, it's top-notch." The lead singer frowned and thought for a while, and then said: "This level of arrangement is even more powerful than ours, so it shouldn't be able to copy our things!" ”

"What are we going to do now?" The drummer asked.

The lead singer hesitated for a moment and said, "Let's change the song, there are more than a dozen songs to choose from anyway." ”

"But this song is the title song of our album, and it's also your hard work, can you bear to give up?" The drummer continued: "And it's just the same lyrics, our arrangement is different from his. ”

"But there's no difference in nature!" The lead singer shook his head: "In the first half of this year, those things that happened to me, you should know, my grandma died, and some things in my family were also exposed by reporters, at that time I fell from heaven to hell, I felt as if the whole world had turned its back on me, people all over the world were scolding me, I almost wanted to give up, but I knew that I couldn't give up, and I wouldn't give up." So I wrote that song, which is my heart's voice, my pursuit of music, and my insistence on ideals. ”

"If someone else sings this song, I might stop it, I'm afraid they'll desecrate my music and my ideals." The lead singer paused, took a deep breath and continued: "But Zhang Guan is different, he is an Olympic champion, he broke the world record. I can understand that as a yellow person, he must have paid hardships and pains, and must have experienced setbacks and failures to get to where he is today. What he sings is not just a song, but an obsession with ideals. Each of us is on the road of pursuing ideals, maybe on this road, he is more persistent and persistent than us, but no matter what, we and him will go on stubbornly and will not retreat! ”

……

Manager Wang is the business manager of Naike Company, who is mainly responsible for contacting the track and field line, and last winter he went to Zhang Guan with the people from the Athletics Management Center, hoping to sign Zhang Guan as a spokesperson, but Zhang Guan refused, and soon entered the Olympic preparation stage, and the Olympic competitors stopped all commercial activities, and the signing of Zhang Guan was also forgotten by him.

But just ten days ago, when the news of Zhang Guan's record-breaking Olympic 100-meter championship was transmitted back to China, Manager Wang was directly stunned! As a Chinese, he is very pleased that the 100-meter sprint project can make such a big breakthrough, but at the same time he also regrets that if he could exert a little more pressure or raise the price a little bit at that time, maybe Zhang Guan would have signed a contract, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to sign a "world's No. 1 flyer" as a spokesperson, which is definitely a great achievement, enough for President James to impress him, and the possibility of a future promotion and salary increase has also greatly increased!

But now it is useless to regret it, and he received the latest instructions from President James, asking him to sign with Zhang Guan as soon as possible. The company has already received news that several rival managers have also been dispatched, all of whom hope to sign Zhang Guan as a spokesperson in order to increase their share of the domestic market.

So Manager Wang came to the Athletics Management Center, and he did not go to the center's leader in charge of the commercial operation of athletes, but to Director Sun. That is, Director Sun who took the contract and went to Zhang Guan to sign it last winter.

Leaders can't do everything personally, just grasp the direction of work and do a good job in decision-making, and when it comes to handling specific things, Director Sun is mainly responsible for it.

In the office, Director Sun drank tea, smoked the soft-pack cigarette that Manager Wang had just handed over, crossed Erlang's legs and said, "It's not easy to sign Zhang Guan!" To tell you the truth, several sports brands have already contacted us, and there are many other industries, so our center must also consider carefully and strictly control. It's also responsible for our athletes! ”

Director Sun's voice changed, and then said: "Of course, as the most well-known sports brand in the world, your company also has a deep friendship with our center, and there is definitely no problem in terms of qualifications. ”

Manager Wang smiled and nodded, but he was very unhappy in his heart, although Director Sun's high-sounding words sounded very good, but according to Manager Wang's understanding of these officials, the more high-sounding he said, the more prepared he was to kick the ball. If you continue like this, you will be in vain today.

"Director Sun, our company is very sincere, and we have also decided to increase the signing fee, didn't we talk about 300,000 last time, this time the company has increased tenfold, 3 million a year!" Manager Wang stretched out three fingers, and deliberately showed a very exaggerated expression on his face, as if the number of three million had shocked him.

But in fact, Manager Wang knew that the upper limit of the negotiation given to him by the company was not only three million, James told Manager Wang that if it was less than five million, he could directly agree, and if it was more than five million, he would report to him, as long as it was not too outrageous, the problem would not be too big. However, it is always good to save money for the company, so Manager Wang's skillful expression is exaggerated.

"Three million ......" Director Sun showed a smile, and then said: "As far as I know, the leadership does not recognize this number. It must be difficult to sign a contract with Zhang Guan for three million. ”

Director Sun said this, deliberately moved his body forward, lowered his voice and said: "Brother Wang, I will secretly give you a thorough explanation, the price offered by other companies is higher than yours!" ”

"Sure enough, the competitors have really done it!" Manager Wang thought to himself, but his face still had to show a flattered gratitude.

"I don't know what the price is more approved by the leader?" Manager Wang asked.

"Hehe......" Director Sun smiled meaningfully, pressed the cigarette butt in his hand into the ashtray, and then stopped talking, and sure enough, the chat stopped at "hehe".

Director Sun knows that although these multinational groups are rich, they are all not rabbits and eagles, and if Manager Wang wants to find out the news from him, it is impossible to rely on red mouth and white teeth alone, and he has to come up with something practical.

Manager Wang immediately realized that judging from Director Sun's attitude, this empty glove white wolf is unlikely. Manager Wang straightened up slowly, then took out a cigarette and handed it to Director Sun, and said, "Director Sun, let's go to the Regal Hotel in the evening, I booked a place, and the boutique Buddha jumped over the wall." ”

"Boutique Buddha jumping over the wall......" Director Sun pondered in his heart, there are 2666 boutique Buddha jumping over the wall in the Regal Hotel, which is close to his monthly salary, and he just listens to the name on weekdays, and it is impossible to eat.

"Okay, since Manager Wang is so graciously invited, then I will be disrespectful!" Director Sun smiled and continued, "I heard that the spa on the sixth floor of the Regal Hotel is very good. ”

Manager Wang scolded a few words in his heart, but he still said: "Don't worry, we have everything, we have everything, let's just go up to the sixth floor after eating!" ”

……

In the early morning, Manager Wang sent Director Sun to the car, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

After pretending to be a grandson overnight, Manager Wang has already gotten the offer of other competitors from Director Sun, and more importantly, he knows that the sports brand endorsement set by the center leader for Zhang Guan is 5 million!

"5 million a year is a reasonable value in terms of Zhang Guan's results, but according to the standard of endorsement fees for domestic athletes, it is a little high, but it is also within the acceptable range." Manager Wang had a triumphant smile on his face.

Naike has always maintained a good cooperative relationship with the field management center, and now he has known the reserve price of the field management center, and also knows the situation of competitors, so in the subsequent negotiations, the quotation can account for a lot of advantages. Although it cost Manager Wang more than 10,000 yuan this night, Manager Wang believes that he can earn back hundreds of times more at the negotiation table.

"If you can save a little more endorsement fee, maybe you can get an extra year-end bonus at the end of the year!" Manager Wang sighed in his heart.

He is just an ordinary person, and for him, working hard, getting a promotion, getting a raise, and then bringing a better life to his family is his greatest ideal. For this, he can give up his dignity and do something he would not have been willing to do.

It's just that whether it is Manager Wang or Director Sun, they don't know that Zhang Guan's agent team and the championship team have begun to operate in an orderly manner.

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The first chapter is delivered, and the recommendation vote is requested.

Many football and basketball novels choose to start their careers abroad, which can directly avoid the problem of institutional constraints, but when writing other projects, especially non-professional projects, the problem of agents is not easy to avoid, which is also the last plot of the second volume. The third volume will start to include some other track and field events, and judging from the first draft that has been written so far, the pace of the competition in the third volume feels a little faster. That's pretty much it, bow and leave.