novelhk Chapter 188
Chapter 188
The front page headline of Marca: "Liverpool's winning streak breaks out in internal strife, reportedly due to dissatisfaction with the allocation of playing time!"
The front page headline of The Sun: "Emre Can and Wijnaldum had a big fight, reportedly Wijnaldum's mouth was bleeding, Emre Can's left eye was swollen!"
The description of The Sun is the most exaggerated, relying only on a blurry photo, and the rest of the content is all made up by their own mouth.
Of course, this is the style of The Sun. Fans familiar with The Sun know that this is a newspaper that has no bottom line in order to gain traffic.
Whatever can attract traffic, The Sun will make up.
Many of the gossips about players are mostly speculations of The Sun before they are confirmed. If they can be confirmed, they will become exclusive and top-secret news of The Sun.
If it cannot be confirmed, The Sun will issue an apology as soon as possible. This is their reporting style.
In the history of football, Liverpool fans must hate The Sun the most, because this newspaper once slandered and defamed Liverpool club and fans in the famous stampede and bloodshed.
Liverpool official club already hated The Sun Club and never cooperated with The Sun, but now The Sun has once again attacked Liverpool.
On April 15, 1989, a serious stampede occurred in the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, resulting in the death of 96 Liverpool fans.
This incident shocked the entire English football world at the time, but not long after, The Sun published a report titled "The Truth".
In the report, The Sun accused Liverpool fans of deliberately causing riots, fabricating a series of false information including Liverpool fans provoking the police, drinking too much, throwing debris at will, and maliciously causing congestion, and put the responsibility on the Liverpool fans at the scene.
This move is believed to help the relevant institutions at the time reduce pressure or wash away responsibility.
After the Hillsborough investigation results were released, it was confirmed that these fictitious situations did not exist at all, and The Sun immediately issued an apology statement.
But naturally no one would buy this behavior. Since then, Liverpool Club and Liverpool fans have had a grudge with The Sun, and Liverpool announced that they would never cooperate with The Sun for life.
When The Sun once again announced news about Liverpool, Mike was furious!
He must fight back against The Sun, but before that, he must first find out the insider.
From the perspective of the video and photo shooting, it must be the photos taken by Liverpool staff when they were working around the training base or passing by.
In the end, they were bought by The Sun and sold to The Sun at a certain price, which allowed The Sun to get the inside information.
At the same time, Mike needs to send players to clarify the matter as soon as possible to minimize the outside world's concerns about Liverpool.
Public opinion will always put pressure on players, and Klopp does not want any public opinion to affect Liverpool, which is currently in excellent form.
April 10, 8 am.
Sky Sports headline: "Today at 4 pm, Liverpool player Lin will be a guest in the live broadcast room to announce his new contract!"
Lin Chen took on the heavy responsibility, but his main purpose of visiting Sky Sports this time was to discuss his new contract with his fans and Liverpool legend Gerrard, and to explain this incident.
The perfect connection can not only help Lin Chen increase traffic, but also show Liverpool's determination to reward outstanding players with contracts.
At the same time, in a seemingly casual way, it also clarifies the lies made up by The Sun, killing two birds with one stone.
At 6 pm on April 9, Lin Chen was having dinner with the players in the cafeteria. When he was about to leave the club, Mike found Lin Chen, and the sports director was beside him.
Barnett had already arrived at the club. He received the news in advance and reviewed the new contract Liverpool prepared for Lin Chen.
As Lin Chen's agent, he naturally had to help Lin Chen gain more benefits.
The new contract offered by Liverpool this time was very sincere. For Lin Chen, the last contract was signed less than a year ago.
However, due to his outstanding performance, Liverpool will increase Lin Chen's contract bonus and give him a new contract that matches his current performance.
"Lin, you don't know how much effort I put into convincing the chairman to offer you a new contract so soon."
Mike said while hugging Lin Chen. In fact, he lied. The new contract was offered by the Liverpool chairman himself.
The reason why Mike said this was to facilitate the negotiations later, at least in a direction that would be beneficial to the party.
Both parties came to the Liverpool meeting room, and a newThe contract document was placed in front of Lin Chen. The terms were much more than the previous contract, and the bonuses and weekly salary had been fully upgraded.
"The original weekly salary of the previous contract was 40,000 pounds. After reaching a certain number of appearances, it will automatically upgrade to 80,000 pounds."
"Obviously this cannot match Lin's current performance, so in our new contract, the weekly salary is upgraded to 100,000 pounds, and there are also many clauses."
Mike stretched out his hand to signal Lin Chen to check. Lin Chen turned to the third page. In addition to his weekly salary of 100,000 pounds, it also included many rewards:
After reaching 30 appearances, an additional reward of 500,000 pounds will be given!
After reaching 50 appearances, an additional bonus of 1 million pounds will be given!
Winning the Premier League championship will give an additional bonus of 3.5 million pounds!
Winning the Champions League will give an additional bonus of 5 million pounds!
Winning the Premier League Best Young Player Award will give an additional bonus of 2 million pounds!
At the same time, there is a clause at the bottom: If you win the Ballon d'Or (indefinitely), it means that no matter when, as long as Lin Chen wins the Ballon d'Or during the validity period of this contract, he can get an additional reward of 8.5 million pounds from the club!
Compared with the previous contract, the bonus level of this contract has been comprehensively improved, and the weekly salary has also increased by 20,000 pounds, but Barnett is still not satisfied.
"Two problems, first, the weekly salary of 100,000 pounds is not enough; second, the signing fee of 500,000 pounds is not enough."
Concise and clear, Barnett and Mike are old friends, and if there are any problems, just speak up.
Mike looks a little embarrassed, because for Lin Chen's current age, this contract is about five years long.
Five years later, Lin Chen will only be 22 years old, and Lin Chen, who is so young and has already received a contract of 100,000 pounds, is also a rare existence in the world football.
"Barnett, just tell me your price. Let's reach an agreement as soon as possible. My wife is waiting for me to go home for dinner. You know her temper."
Mike knew Barnett's negotiation style. The longer he dragged it out, the more disadvantageous it would be for him.
Before the negotiation, Barnett had already asked Lin Chen about his wishes and spoke directly.
"We want 120,000 pounds for Zhou Xin, and the contract period will be changed from five years to four years. At the same time, the signing fee will be 1.5 million pounds."
"At the same time, we want to keep all the image rights in our hands."
Mike lit a cigar, took two deep puffs, and sighed.
"Deal!"