After Zhang Zhenren came to Wigan, he followed Zhang Tiehan back to the players' dormitory, he originally wanted to live here with Zhang Tiehan for a few days, but he frowned when he saw the environment of the dormitory.

"Tie Man, why do you still live here?"

Zhang Tiehan shrugged, "When I came here, the club said that it would arrange it for me as soon as possible, but there was no arrangement until now, so I have been living in the dormitory, which is not bad, and it is very close to the training ground......"

"No, Iron Man, this is a contempt for you!" Zhang Zhenren looked at Zhang Tiehan solemnly, "You are a professional player, the main force of Wigan Athletic, you will live in the dormitory arranged by the club like the players of the youth team, and no one will believe it if you say it, you will become a laughing stock of the media." ”

"Really?" Zhang Tiehan was a little incomprehensible.

"It's true, you look at your teammates, even the worst teammates, who lives in the players' dormitories?"

"That's not it." Zhang Tiehan replied, feeling that his cousin's words were very reasonable.

He's been at the club for almost two months, but the accommodation problem hasn't been resolved, and it's all right to see it as if the club doesn't care at all.

"So what to do?" Zhang Tiehan asked.

"Leave it to me!" Zhang Zhenren smiled, his mouth wide open, revealing a row of white teeth, "I'm here to improve your life." ”

Zhang Tiehan rolled his eyes, "That's all up to you." ”

Although the focus is on training, he also wants to improve his life, other teammates, whether they are married, unmarried, older, younger have a good place to live, but he is the only one who lives in the player's dormitory, and there are always youth team players to disturb him on weekdays, although it is lively and lively, but it still feels very bad.

After all, this is a player's dormitory, not a home.

Of course, there are reasons why I have been at the club for a short time, after all, I only came to Wigan after the first few rounds of the league, but the club must not have paid too much attention to it, otherwise I would definitely not be what I am now.

Thinking of this, Zhang Tiehan was a little dissatisfied, this may be the distress of not having an agent.

With an agent, everything will be arranged for yourself, and without an agent, even if many local clubs do not do well, they don't know what to do at all.

It seems that it is really necessary to find a broker.

……

The next morning, Zhang Tiehan went to the team to train, and Zhang Zhenren was also led by the staff into the office of Steven Nelson, the head of athletics at Wigan Athletic Club.

As soon as they met, Steven Nelson was taken aback by Zhang Zhenren.

This guy doesn't look like he's here to negotiate a contract at all, but rather to collect protection money.

Zhang Zhenren sat there and smiled at Nelson in a 'friendly' manner, and Nelson was a clever person in his heart.

But in fact, Zhang Zhenren just looks vicious, and he is much more nervous.

After all, he is still studying at the University of Munich, and he has never experienced any of this, but he has moved from China to Germany, and he is more mature and has some understanding of football agency, nothing more.

Zhang Zhenren is still very concerned about his current work.

Talking about the contract for Zhang Tiehan is simple, but in fact, it is also an experience that you can't find on weekdays. He didn't want to help out in Zhang Dabao's restaurant all the time in the future, and with this opportunity, he was determined to do a good job.

This is the first time he has come to the UK, and it is also the first time to negotiate a contract with someone in such an environment, although Wigan Athletic is not a big club, for him as a newborn calf, there is no difference between a big club and a small club, it is always the first time, and it is inevitable to be nervous for the first time.

Zhang Zhenren forced himself to calm down and maintained a smile on his face.

He needs to do a good job of superficial work so that the other person does not see his nervousness.

Just the first time, but what to do, he knows very well. He has not done anything related to this, but he knows that any club will focus on its own interests, and what he has to do is to fight for more interests for Zhang Tiehan and his cousin.

Zhang Zhenren wanted to show kindness, and his expression was also kind, and he kept smiling, even though it was a pretended expression.

It's just that he ignored a problem, that is, his appearance is really different from that of a normal person, although he keeps laughing, it is difficult for Nelson on the other side to understand......

In Nelson's view, Zhang Zhenren is fierce and vicious, and he looks like he wants to collect protection money.

But fortunately, this is his office, and the other party is negotiating the contract for Zhang Tiehan, so he shouldn't have started.

"Britain is not Italy, there is no mafia...... Britain is not an Arab region and there are no terrorist groups...... Britain is not Somalia, there is no war......"

Nelson kept muttering, making sure that the guy in front of him wouldn't move, and he exhaled a long breath, and his heart was much more settled.

He had no intention of greeting Zhang Zhenren for anything, so he took out a stack of printed contracts from the folder on the side and handed them over, "Mr. Zhang, this is our newly prepared contract, you can take a look at it first." ”

Zhang Zhenren took it and looked down seriously.

He skipped through the previous statements, directly found the most important clause, and immediately frowned and did not look at Nelson, and said with some annoyance, "Mr. Nelson, does Wigan Athletic Club deliberately want Tie Han to leave consciously?" ”

"Any questions?" When it came to the formal question, Nelson calmed down and asked with a chuckle.

Looking at Nelson's smile, Zhang Zhenren only felt that he was being despised because he had done a lot of work and learned a lot about player contracts before he came.

In his opinion, many of the contents of the contract do not match his cousin's current performance.

My cousin has been doing very well in the team and has scored a lot lately, so he has to be at least above the top of the first team in terms of treatment.

"Mr. Nelson, my cousin is the team's main midfielder and very young, I think his salary should be at least above the team average!" Zhang Zhenren said angrily, but his voice was extremely calm.

"Also, when my cousin came to the club, the contract was three years, and this contract is five years? It's impossible! We totally can't accept it! ”

In the face of Zhang Zhenren's inquiry, Nelson was noncommittal, but smiled and said, "This contract was prepared by Zhang when he came to the team, and we have not signed it, just because Zhang has no agent." And we think that the weekly salary of 5,000 pounds is very reasonable for Zhang, and the performance of young people is always up and down, whether it is you or me, we can't be sure that Zhang's state can be maintained forever. ”

"No!" Zhang Zhenren refused, "This is completely unreasonable, as far as I know, Wigan Athletic's average salary is also more than 6,000 pounds, and the team's number one star Andy Ridell is even getting a weekly salary of 20,000 pounds, while Zhang is only 5,000 pounds?" Mr. Nelson, do you think this is reasonable? ”

"If Zhang can stick to his recent form, of course we will come up with the corresponding treatment, but we can't be sure." But Mr. Zhang can rest assured that we can negotiate the salary......"

"What about the number of years?"

"We think five years is a reasonable period of time, Zhang is only 18 years old, in February next year, he will only be 19 years old, five years later, Zhang will only be 23 years old, if Zhang can continue to perform well, I think he will definitely not stay in the club for five years, this contract is just to give both parties peace of mind, we don't want Zhang to be only 21 years old, he can transfer to other clubs freely, I think Mr. Zhang you can understand."

Nelson was still smiling, but Zhang Zhenren commented in his heart that he was 'cunning and cunning'.

He shook his head and said coldly, "We can't agree, my cousin's current contract is only three years, and you don't forget ......"

"The liquidated damages for that contract were only four million pounds!"

After negotiating for so long, Zhang Zhenren was already very calm, and he knew that this was the biggest bargaining chip.

Zhang Tiehan was worth only £400,000 when he moved to Wigan Athletic, and because there was no competition from other clubs, the liquidated damages for the draft contract were only £4 million.

Zhang Tiehan didn't care about this figure at the time, and signed it casually, according to his cousin's current performance, there will be clubs willing to pay four million pounds to buy a future.

Nelson was silent.

He didn't care about Zhang Zhenren at first, but when he heard this, he knew that he had made the mistake of belittling, and the other party obviously had a chip in his hand, which was quite heavy, so heavy that he had to compromise.

"And what do you mean?" Nelson asked, looking up.

"The salary is more than 10,000 pounds! The contract period is still within the original three years! ”

"Impossible!"

Nelson interrupted Zhang Zhenren's words, "The salary is negotiable, but Zhang is too young, and the contract period must be five years." ”

"We can't accept it." Zhang Zhenren decisively refused.

Five years?

Five years later, my cousins were twenty-three years old. If the halfway way point cousin wants to leave and move to another club, then this contract will be the biggest obstacle.

Three years, and there is still something to talk about. Five years is too long!

"Like you said, the salary is negotiable, but the contract must be three years!" Zhang Zhenren said.

Nelson shook his head in disappointment, he knew that he would definitely not be able to talk about it today.

He walked over and shook hands with Zhang Zhenren, "We can't accept it either." ”

It's time to send off guests.

Zhang Tiehan's recent performance has been good, but everyone in the club knows that he is just physically strong and his skills are too poor.

Such a player has potential, he has talent, but his performance is likely to be inconsistent, especially in attack, and it is difficult to perform well.

If it is just a simple defensive player, the salary of tens of thousands of pounds is already very high, even Bregin only takes more than 7,000 pounds.

The most unacceptable is the length of the contract.

Zhang Tiehan was brought to Wigan Athletic by Jewell, and no one cared about the transfer fee of 400,000 pounds, and at that time I only felt that Jewell had found a substitute to enrich the strength of the bench, which was very necessary, after all, Wigan Athletic was the first time in history to enter the English League.

At that time, the contract period was three years, but now it is different, Zhang Tiehan showed strength, because of this, Wigan Athletic saw his potential, and he is very young, if he is trained for one or two years, he is likely to be an excellent player, and when Zhang Tiehan throws his hand and leaves, then Wigan Athletic gets what?

Nothing......

You can't eat the meat in your hand, you can only watch it float away, that's impossible.

So a five-year period is a must.

What Nelson cares about the most is Zhang Tiehan's liquidated damages, four million pounds, which is a lot of money in League Two, but it is not too high in League One, and many outstanding young people have this value.

But he doesn't believe Zhang Tiehan will leave Wigan Athletic.

The coach trusts him, his teammates have a good relationship with him, he has developed here, and it is the best choice to stay here until he grows up.

It is precisely this that Nielsen has taken a fancy to this and has a very tough attitude.