Chapter 284 Ronaldinho's Contract Renewal Problem
"I remember last time I said we just signed a new contract, Mr. Assis?" Ferguson said to the Roberts with a slight smile.
Robert sat on the sofa opposite, smiling on his face, as if he could not hear the discomfort in Ferguson's words.
"I'm good for the club," Robert smiled. "There are many rumors about my brother's transfer recently. I'm worried that Sir Ferguson have any ideas, so I took the initiative to come up so that Sir Ferguson would not think I had some small moves."
Sure enough, he still used Real Madrid as a bargaining chip for negotiations.
Just last summer, after Ronaldo helped Manchester United achieve five championships, Real Madrid asked Manchester United to buy Ronaldo, but Ferguson refused Real Madrid's offer without any hesitation.
During this season, Ferguson and Ronaldo had several conflicts, and the media hyped more than once that Ronaldo wanted to transfer, and the target was Real Madrid the most hyped. This is mainly because Real Madrid in the Florentino era implemented a superstar policy and signed at least one world-class superstar every year. Nowadays, Real Madrid is full of stars.
However, in this season, Real Madrid, known as the "Galaxy Fleet", was suppressed by its arch rival Barcelona. In the thirty-six rounds of La Liga, Real Madrid has accumulated 76 points, and with only two rounds left in the league, he is six points behind Barcelona, and has basically lost hope of winning the championship.
In order to regain the initiative in the championship next season, Real Madrid waved their checks again and targeted the world-renowned stars.
Manchester United, which has dominated Europe and even the world in the past two years, is the main focus of its attention.
And now, a season is coming to an end, and Real Madrid has once again offered Manchester United.
Not only Real Madrid is interesting to Ronaldo, but Barcelona, who lost Ronaldo two years ago because of Jiang Feng's intervention, has also been unwilling to give up on Ronaldo.
In addition, the two champions in Manchester United in the Premier League, Abramovich's Chelsea and Mansour's Chief Arsenal, also set their sights on Ronaldo, the core of Manchester United's three consecutive championships. Especially with the tacit approval of Jiang Feng, he can offer any Manchester United player he is interested in. Abramovich even made a sky-high offer of 50 million pounds to Manchester United.
Ferguson sneered and said, "Didn't Ronaldo say everything himself? He won't leave Manchester United?"
Robert spread his hands: "Yes, I believe he won't leave Manchester United. But you know, Sir Ferguson, there are always some flies in this world who like to harass the targets without getting tired of it... If Ronaldo doesn't have something that can be clearly rejected, my players will be annoyed, and this will also affect his condition... In addition, I think if Manchester United wants Ronaldo to be loyal, shouldn't the club do something?"
His last sentence is very real, it is just that it is unilaterally required that the players be loyal to the club, but it is unreasonable that the club is unwilling to pay at any price. It is no longer a ridiculous era when players' weekly salary must not exceed 20 pounds (Note: From 1922 to 1951, the maximum weekly salary of professional players in English football was eight brigades, fourteen brigades between 1951 and 1958, and the clubs in 1958 were mercy, and this number rose to twenty)
In fact, Robert's words have a very obvious threatening smell. Ferguson admitted that he was threatened, but he was powerless. Because he and the club really don't want Ronaldo, the world's number one player, to leave Old Trafford. This is not hoped that it is multifaceted. In terms of popularity, Ronaldo is the number one player in the football trained by Manchester United himself. He is now the number one player in the team. From a tactical perspective, Ronaldo's existence enriches the team's offensive routines, and Manchester United's victory is an important part.
No matter what, Ronaldo cannot leave. Although Ferguson had the idea of cleaning him because he lingered in the nightclub, that was definitely not now. Although Ronaldo did not work hard in the first year, he was not as ill as irresistible. Ferguson had not finally decided to give up this genius.
So he nodded: "Well, Mr. Assis, I admit that there is a little more reason for what you said. Ronaldo's current weekly salary of 130,000 yuan is indeed lower than his level and reputation. But we need to think carefully... How about I reply to you in three days?"
Robert didn't expect to get everything done on the first day, and he nodded in agreement: "Three days later, when you have considered it, please call me, Mr. Ferguson."
After Robert left, Ferguson began to think about Ronaldo's stay or leave.
Although Ferguson is unwilling to lose this talented player, since he repeatedly violated team discipline and began to cheat in his usual training, Ronaldo has no longer been indispensable in his plan.
Especially in the past two years, Manchester United's newcomers have grown very rapidly. The new generation of Manchester United represented by Ronaldo and Rooney has performed better and better in the game. It is also because of the excellent performance of young players such as Ronaldo that Ferguson has risen to the idea of cleaning up old players who have lost their ambitions in the team.
"Jazz, I already know your thoughts, and I also think that maintaining a certain degree of personnel mobility will help the team develop healthily. Moreover, I said two years ago that everything about the team is up to you, whether it is a signing or a transfer, so you can do it yourself about Ronaldinho's salary, Jazz. You should know what the club's baseline is."
Ferguson nodded again: "I know, Jiang."
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Three days later, Robert received a call from Ferguson, asking him to go to the club to negotiate Ronaldo's new contract.
This time, Ferguson offered a new contract with a weekly salary of 140,000 pounds, a five-year term, a signature fee, goal prize, assist prize, etc. are calculated separately.
Robert believes that the conditions are still a bit low and hopes to continue talking to Manchester United.
In the past two years, three super rich men, Jiang Feng, Mansour and Abu, have entered the Premier League, especially the latter two, who often wave checks to poach people everywhere, which not only pushes up the players' transfer value, but also has been over-pushed.
Take Jiang Feng and others just entered the Premier League, Keane's monthly salary of 90,000 pounds was already the team's fixed salary. However, just two years have passed, under the influence of Chelsea and Arsenal's significant increase in player benefits, Manchester United had to passively significantly increase the salary of the players. Now, there are several players in Manchester United's team with a monthly salary of more than 100,000 pounds. The average salary of the entire team is more than 20,000 pounds, which has doubled and reached the level of an average salary of 50,000 pounds.
In fact, Manchester United players, with various benefits such as championship prizes every year, have exceeded 70,000 pounds per week.
One day later, Tang En offered a new contract again, with a weekly salary of 150,000 pounds, a five-year term, a signing fee, a goal prize, and an assist prize will be calculated separately.
This is the current fixed salary in the Premier League. Even if Mansour and Abu waved their checks around, the maximum salary of their team did not exceed 150,000 pounds per week.
But Robert was still not satisfied. He once again showed Real Madrid's pursuit of Ronaldo to tell the story, which caused Ferguson to slap the table on the spot.
"Mr. Robert Assis, I think it's enough to offer a contract of 150,000 weekly salary at the club to show our sincerity. I'm willing to modify the contract, which does not mean that you can ask for a huge price! Manchester United is not a bank, and I'm not an idiot ATM. You can take as much as you want. Players' loyalty requires the club to pay the price, and we pay the price we think is appropriate. So should you also show the sincerity of the players who really want to stay here?"
So Robert proposed his "sincerity": his weekly salary was 200,000 pounds, his contract period was reduced to four years, and his signature fee, goal prize and assist prize were significantly improved compared to the figures given by Don En, and this salary increased by 15% every year.
In Ferguson's opinion, this was a robbery.
"You might as well rob the bank, Mr. Robert Assis, you might get money faster," he sneered and sarcastic.
In fact, he wanted to swear directly, but when he thought that he was not only Ronaldo's agent, but also Ronaldo's biological brother, turning against him might affect his relationship with Ronaldo, so he had to hold back.
The negotiations ended again unhappy.
Tang En also announced that the team's contract with Ronaldo will not expire in three years, and the matter of amending the contract before this will be released.
Although he temporarily won the battle with Ronaldo's agent, this incident greatly affected Ferguson's mood. During this period, his smile on his face was much less than before and his temper was a little hot.
In this case, Manchester United ushered in their FA Cup final.
In this game, Ronaldo unexpectedly performed very tenaciously and very excitedly. He helped Manchester United take the lead twice and finally scored a goal himself, allowing the team to win the game with a score of 3:2 and win this year's FA Cup championship.
This result made Ferguson very depressed. He knew that Ronaldo was protesting, and he wanted to prove to the world that he deserved a weekly salary of 200,000 pounds.
After watching this game, several clubs that were interesting to Ronaldo also raised their offer for Ronaldo. Among them, Chelsea, Arsenal and Real Madrid all quoted more than 50 million pounds (about 71 million euros), and Barcelona also made a offer of 45 million pounds.
At this time, the entire European football world focused on Ronaldo's transfer.
However, Manchester United has always been indifferent to these offers, neither directly rejecting nor accepting it. (To be continued. Please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!)
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