"Forty thousand pounds?" George squinted at Kennedy in front of him.

The person in front of George is Duff's agent, Sean. Kennedy. There are many big-name agents in English football, and Sean in front of him. Kennedy was not. He can only be regarded as a small broker. Among the brokers, there is no number at all.

Even if he is a rising star, Allen, he is now far stronger than Kennedy.

But the kid was lucky, and caught Duff when he was young. Duff has been in excellent form since he started playing at Blackburn. Especially after George took over Blackburn, Duff's performance was even better.

Now just 20 years old, Duff has become one of the top wing-backs in the entire Premier League. And with the fact that Duff plays unlike other full-backs, the number of goals is very high. So the fame is rising.

With Duff now becoming popular, Kennedy is getting tougher and tougher.

Came to George to talk to Duff about his new contract, and the opening was a £40,000-a-week salary.

For Duff, George had long thought about giving him a new contract. Because Duff has signed three contracts with Blackburn so far. The first time was when he was sixteen years old, and the contract was only a hundred-pound-a-week contract.

When Duff entered the first team two years ago, Duff signed a second contract. At that time, Duff's weekly salary was £800, and with Duff's outstanding performance in the Premier League in his first season, George signed another new contract with Duff as soon as he took over.

That is, last summer, when George was relatively generous. For Duff, who had only one season of Premier League experience, George offered him £7,000 a week on a four-year contract.

However, last season's Duff was skyrocketing, scoring more than 10 goals in the league. All of a sudden, Duff's worth soared. George had hoped that at the end of the season, he would sign Duff to a new contract.

It just didn't happen that only a third of the way through the season, Duff's agent found himself.

But he opened his mouth for forty thousand pounds, almost making George slap the table. However, after being a head coach for so many years, I have also participated in a lot of negotiations. Although it is impossible to completely be invisible, it can also be similar.

George knew it was Kennedy's mouth, and he lost 40,000 pounds to him. Not to mention a small club like Blackburn, even Arsenal don't have a £40,000-a-week player at the moment. Pire, the main player in Arsenal's later unbeaten season, was only £40,000 a week at Arsenal at that time.

Even in the entire world football, the current weekly salary can reach more than 40,000 pounds, and they are all world-class stars.

"Mr. Kennedy, I hope you can give a realistic number. Forty thousand pounds, and you must not forget that Damien is only twenty years old. Last season's performance was a bit better, and you don't even think about £40,000. ”

George replied with a smile, but his tone was hard. Forty thousand pounds, what are you when I? What are you when we Blackburn?

'Coach Levy, Blackburn couldn't offer £40,000. Other clubs, however, can offer £40,000. "Sean. Kennedy also laughed and spoke, but it was completely-for-tat.

George then took a closer look at Sean. Kennedy. This kid is hilarious. Now is not the Premier League after Abou took over, and a young player like Duff can earn a weekly salary of 40,000 pounds as long as he is excellent and performs amazingly.

England now has a £40,000-a-week player, who can count on five fingers. And the team that can offer a weekly salary of 40,000 pounds is the only one in the Premier League.

"Mr. Kennedy, if you can find a club that is willing to pay twenty million pounds for Damien. I'm not going to stop it. George sneered at this time. Damien, with more than two and a half years left on his contract. If Mr. Kennedy is really not sincere, then let's continue to talk after two and a half years. ”

George went straight to the eviction.

Sean. Kennedy was stunned, he proposed that 40,000 pounds was indeed a trick to ask for a lot of money and repay the money on the ground. But I didn't expect George to be like a stone, oil and salt don't enter, and he is still so hard.

When I talked to George last summer, he was very kind. Give Duff a raise, and pay a lot of attention to Duff.

Duff is valued in George's hands, even more than Piret on the other side. This can be seen in the number of appearances of Duff. Kennedy thought that with George's importance to Duff, even if he offered an outrageous price, it would be easy to say.

But now it doesn't seem like that. That's when Kennedy thought of George, who was no one else. George is a well-known coach in the Premier League who fell out with his old club for the authority of the team. And also entered Blackburn. How can such a manager be threatened.

"Okay, Coach Levy. I'll be back in a few days. "Although George can't get off the stage, Sean. Kennedy was still very experienced. Still smiling and greeting George, he left George's office.

Seeing Kennedy leave, George closed his eyes and shook his head. Then after thinking for a while, he left his office and walked up to the top floor.

"George, you're here. You're such a rarity, the two of us are so close, and it's me who goes to you every time. You rarely come to me. "John who didn't know what newspaper to read there. Williams, seeing George come in, stood up with a smile to greet him.

Jack. Walker has rarely been seen at the club, where Williams is in charge. George and Williams also work pretty well together.

"John, I have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Temple. There's trouble. George sat down in front of Williams very casually, shrugged and smiled.

"What else can make it difficult for our Levy coach, to talk about it." Williams was a little confused. Blackburn have been doing well lately, with the exception of Sagnol, who has suffered a major injury, and the rest have been minor injuries.

There are no shortcomings in the team's lineup, and George should not be buying players at this time.

It's not this, what else is there that gives George a headache.

"Damien's agent came to me. I want to sign a new contract. George said this, and Williams already understood.

This is something that everyone has thought about for a long time, and once the results are good, the salaries of these players should be increased. After George purged a number of former Blackburn players, salaries are lower now than they were two years ago. However, if Duff's salary increases, then there will be a ripple effect.

Duff's current £7,000-a-week salary is not the lowest in Blackburn's arsenal. Cudicini's salary is the lowest in the squad at £140,000.

Now that Blackburn are doing well, Duff will definitely earn more than £10,000 a week once he renews his contract. What will happen to players like Pire, Miku and Deco? They will definitely have to change their contracts as well, and Blackburn's overall salary could be double what it is now.

This kind of thing George can't decide alone, or should he talk to Williams.

Williams nodded. An increase in salaries means an increase in spending. And it's not an average growth.

"George, have you ever done a rough calculation. How much will it increase if the contract is re-signed this time? ”

George thought for a moment. "I haven't done the math, but the weekly salary should be more than £60,000 more than the current total." With Duff signing new contracts, including Pire, Miku, Klose, Deco, Makelele, Hyypia and Cudicini, they will all have to be re-signed.

It's a systems project, and all of these people have new contracts. Then the increase in wages is not a little bit.

"Sign, sign. Anyway, sooner or later, it will be signed, and signing now is also good for the morale of the team. So George, you don't have to worry about this matter. You give me a list of players who have to renew their contracts, as well as an approximate salary. I set out to start negotiating with them. ”

With such a large-scale contract renewal, George, of course, is too busy as a head coach. And George doesn't have so much space, regardless of this kind of renewal.

"Okay, I'll put a copy out for you soon."

Seeing Williams take over, George breathed a sigh of relief. It's just a little bit now, and if Blackburn get better and better in the future. Then their salary requirements will be higher and higher.

…………

Williams is definitely not a mother-in-law. After George gave Williams his rough estimates, negotiations with those players began immediately. Blackburn was in the process of signing a new contract right away.

This time, the signing of a new contract involves a lot of players. Almost all of the main players are there, except for Rio Ferdinand, who has just arrived.

This kind of big move even shocked many of the media and newspapers in England. After all, all of a sudden, such a large-scale signing is either a team that has just been promoted or a team that has just been relegated. Therefore, Blackburn's action this time is still concerned by many media and newspapers.

The Sun's headline read, "Blackburn is showing his ambition!" ”

"After finishing fourth in the Premier League last season, Blackburn Rovers have been on the radar of English football. A lot of teams are thinking about how to poach Blackburn's players. However, this renewal of the contract completely broke their poaching idea. ”

"Most of Blackburn's players are very young, and Blackburn's large-scale signing of new contracts this time also shows their determination to keep their main players and want to make a difference."

But this move to sign new contracts on a large scale has not greatly encouraged the Blackburn players. On the contrary, when facing Milton away from home, the attack was weak. In the end, it was held to a 0-0 draw by Milton.

Blackburn then travelled to Moscow for the second match of the second round of the UEFA Cup, 1-1 away from home. Eliminated Lokomotiv Moscow with an aggregate score of 5-1 and entered the round of 32 of the League Cup.

(To be continued)