After being tortured in the tenth level of hell for a week, Zhou Yi felt that every day seemed as long as a year, which was very difficult.

Until one day, coach Bartlett said to him: "Okay, the training this morning is over."

Zhou Yi was stunned and said, "Huh?"

"Huh what?" Bartlett asked.

"Uh... the training is over?" Zhou Yi was a little unbelievable.

"Of course. Haven't you practiced enough? Want to practice more? I don't mind..." Bartlett said.

"No, no, no! That's not what it means!" Zhou Yi waved his hands repeatedly. "I just felt... strange. I was exhausted before and after the training ended. Why do I feel that I still have enough energy today, and the training ended?" Zhou Yi expressed his doubts.

Bartlett smiled: "Ha! That means your physical fitness has increased, stupid."

Zhou Yi was stunned. After thinking about it, he found that it seemed that this was the truth...

So he jumped up again: "Really?"

"Nonsense, to prove it, should we be doing a set of training?"

"Uh... forget it, haha, I'm going to have a meal!" After that, Zhou Yi ran towards the restaurant of the training base.

Seeing Zhou Yi running so fast, Bartlett shook his head in the back and said to himself: "It seems that it's time to increase the intensity..."

If Zhou Yi knew that he was running so fast and let him run from the tenth floor of hell to the twelfth floor, he would probably regret not crawling to the restaurant...

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The next day, Zhou Yi found out that he had finished his morning training exhausted. Did he have an illusion yesterday? His physical fitness has not improved at all. Is it Coach Bartlett who is lying to himself or comforting him?

Faced with Zhou Yi's painful doubts, Bartlett gave him learning comfort: "Welcome to the twelfth floor of hell, Zhou Yi."

So Zhou Yi finally didn't have to worry that his previous week of training was in vain, but he also had to be afraid of what happened next...

This is the twelfth floor!

If he remembers correctly, hell is the eighteenth level, right?

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While Zhou Yi's training continued, his agent Shurtze was not idle either.

He is helping him and the club have a difficult tug-of-war against the contract renewal negotiations.

Shurtze keeps in touch with Zhou Yi for every progress in the contract renewal negotiations and tells Zhou Yi on phone or email.

So Zhou Yi knows why this contract renewal negotiation is so difficult...

It's very simple, because Schultzer is a very difficult and principled agent.

In fact, the renewal negotiations were initiated by the Dortmund Club at the beginning.

The season was not over yet, and Zhou Yi had just played a good goal for a while. The Dortmund club took the initiative to express his hope to sign a new contract with Zhou Yi.

If Zhou Yi had no agent at that time, he might have signed it. But at that time, Tino Schultze was already Zhou Yi's agent, so he reminded Zhou Yi not to talk to Dortmund about this new contract. Naturally, the new contract could not maximize the benefits Schultze wanted.

In order to keep Zhou Yi as much as possible, the contract given by Dortmund is more beneficial to the club in some aspects, rather than Zhou Yi.

So at that time, Zhou Yi refused to negotiate a new contract with the club.

Later, when Shahin's contract renewal had problems, the club found Zhou Yi again, hoping to start negotiations with him on a new contract.

Schultze refused again.

He explained to Zhou Yi that the future of Shahin was uncertain. At this time, the club came to Zhou Yi to negotiate a contract. In fact, the bigger purpose was to show Shahin, hoping to put pressure on Shahin.

In this case, Dortmund may not be willing to really meet the requirements put forward by Schulte for Zhou Yi, but it is just a waste of time. Moreover, from single core to dual core, Schulte saw that Zhou Yi and Shahin were in a competitive relationship.

So Shahin's future in Dortmund determines Zhou Yi's future in Dortmund.

Shahin eventually stayed at Dortmund and Shahin left Dortmund. For the club, their positioning of Zhou Yi is different.

In Schultze's view, of course, Shahin left Dortmund, which was of the greatest benefit to Zhou Yi.

So before Shahin's contract extension with Dortmund was settled, it was not the best time for Zhou Yi to discuss a new contract with the club.

At that time, he made an excuse for Zhou Yi and asked Zhou Yi to tell the club that he now wants to focus on the game, so he renews his contract and other things, and then wait until the season is over.

This excuse reflects Zhou Yi's idea of ​​putting the overall situation first. When Shahin was in poor condition due to contract renewal, Zhou Yi had no flaws in saying this, and the club did not want Zhou Yi to be affected by contract renewal negotiations, resulting in unstable state. Not to mention the second in the league, the top four in the league may not be able to be kept.

So Zhou Yi said this, and the Dortmund club could not force Zhou Yi to negotiate with them for contract renewal.

Finally, when Shahin's transfer to Real Madrid was a foregone conclusion, Dortmund Club found Zhou Yi again, hoping to start negotiations with him on a new contract.

At this time, Zhou Yi and Shurce had already used different ways and methods to know that Shahin was probably leaving.

The time is for negotiations with Dortmund.

So Schultzer began negotiations with the Dortmund club.

The negotiations were very smooth at the beginning, just like what Schultze said to Zhou Yi. When Shahin left the team, Dortmund would definitely be willing to spend money in order to keep Zhou Yi.

However, on the liquidated damages clause, the two sides fell into a tumultuous stalemate for the first time.

Schultzer believes that the amount of the 12 million euro liquidated damages set by the Dortmund club for Zhou Yi is too high, and hopes to be reduced to less than 8 million euros, and it is best to be reduced to half to 6 million euros.

But Dortmund was unable to agree to this point. Because Shahin's liquidated damages amounted to 6 million euros. Dortmund suffered enough of this loss. If Shahin's liquidated damages were not too low, why did they rush to renew their contract with Shahin when Shahin's contract was still three years before it expired? And in the end, because they were unwilling to activate Shahin's 6 million euros liquidated damages when the contract was only one year left, they had to sell Shahin, who had just fired up with Zhou Yi this summer.

If Zhou Yi still needs a penalty of 6 million euros, Dortmund's general manager Zorke will definitely think of Shahin's transfer deal. He will inevitably think about Zhou Yi, will the club repeat Shahin's mistakes...

So both parties have been slandering the specific amount of the liquidated damages clause for a long time.

Moreover, when the liquidated damages were being argued, Shultze had not left Zorke idle, and threw out the bombshell of portrait rights.

He did not want to give the portrait rights to the club, but wanted to keep it in Zhou Yi's own hands.

If Dortmund wants to use the portrait rights of Zhou Yi, you can do it, just give the money. The two parties negotiate a suitable price or share ratio and the scope of use. Everything is agreed upon and written on the contract.

But Dortmund Club does not want to do this. They hope that players can transfer all their portrait rights to the club, so that when Zhou Yi’s portrait rights are profitable in the future, the club can sit and count the money. You should know that the player’s portrait rights are also part of the club’s income. In the future, the club’s business activities can also allow Zhou Yi to stand on the platform, which is very beneficial for the club to explore Asia, especially the Chinese market.

A wealthy club like Real Madrid must control the portrait rights of the players. Any player joining Real Madrid must offer the portrait rights, so that the club can make a lot of profits in the commercial market.

For Dortmund, whose financial situation is not very good, Zhou Yi, which is backed by the huge Chinese market, is simply a money tree.

But Schultze does not want to give the money to the club.

The portrait rights are in the hands of the players themselves, and Shurtze is more motivated to win more endorsement contracts for Zhou Yi. After all, he can take a commission from it. The more contracts Zhou Yi wins, the more money he earns, and the more money he will get in the end.

Moreover, the portrait rights are with the players themselves, which is also a good thing for the players themselves.

Nowadays, many stars may not make money in clubs as much as they earn in business operations...

But the club cannot accept Schultzer's conditions. If Zhou Yi's portrait rights are not in the hands of the club, if the club wants Zhou Yi to cooperate with the club's business activities, it will have to pay more. For the Dortmund club with financial difficulties, this money can be saved.

So the two sides have been talking about it for a long time, and these two problems have not been solved yet.

The contract renewal negotiations seem to be in a deadlock.

However, Shurtze himself seemed very confident. He told Zhou Yi not to worry, just train, and he would definitely come up with a contract that satisfies him in the end.

In addition to the contract, Shurtze also brought him a happy news to Zhou Yi, that is, a large number of companies lined up to come, hoping to cooperate with Zhou Yi.

This is naturally because Zhou Yi's performance last season was really good.

In the Bundesliga selection recently launched by "Kickers" magazine, Zhou Yi won the Best Newcomer honor last season. The voters for this selection are players from all teams in the Bundesliga and Bundesliga. It can also be said that Zhou Yi's performance has conquered his peers, which is amazing.

In addition, Zhou Yi also won the assist king last season.

These honors have a very realistic significance for Zhou Yi, which is that more sponsors will come to him and hope to sign an endorsement contract with him.

Zhou Yi was very happy with the news, which made him feel less miserable in the hell-like special training.

Of course, the more money, the better, and everyone will refuse.

But Shurce told Zhou Yi that he could not refuse anyone, nor could he just give him the better.

"There are also some things to choose an endorsement brand. Although you are a newcomer now, you are indeed a superstar. It is no exaggeration to define your performance. Before you finished the first season of the league, you had fourteen assists, won the assist king, and won the best newcomer in the Bundesliga. If you can continue this performance, I think you can compete for this year's European Golden Boy Award - such an achievement is not an ordinary newcomer."

Shurtze patiently explained to Zhou Yi.

"In this way, our standards for choosing cooperative brands must be improved accordingly. Some third-tier and fourth-tier brands, even inequality brands, do not need to be considered at all. In addition, although we will authorize in different brand fields... we should also be careful not to have too many. Signing too many brand endorsements at one time will easily cause your image to be overused, resulting in a reduction in commercial value, which is not good for you. For example, some brands do not like to use images that are overexposed and can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys as spokespersons..."

Zhou Yi understood as soon as he heard it: "I understand, it's just a sensation."

"Quality?"

"Oh, it's the style. The rarer the more you are, the more expensive things are. Rare things are expensive." Zhou Yi explained to Shurce the Chinese-style word "fashion".

"Yes, that's what it means."

In addition to these endorsement brands, there is another very important endorsement contract, which is the endorsement of sports brands.

This is a big deal for Zhou Yi.

According to Shultze's feedback, now the three sports brands are mainly interested in Zhou Yi, one is Adidas, one is Nike, and the other is Dortmund's jersey sponsor Puma.

Shurtze talked with these three companies at the same time to see which of the three companies has the greatest sincerity and the best conditions.

Of course, he did not forget to ask Zhou Yi whether he had a preference for the brand.

Some people like Nike, but other than Nike, they don’t consider anything else, while others like Adidas.

Zhou Yi has no preference for this. He often wears Adidas and Nike mixed shoes. He has been wearing Puma's shoes this season. Because Puma is the team's sports turntable sponsor, those players who have not signed separate contracts with sports brands are either provided by the team or bought by themselves.

Zhou Yi was too lazy to have trouble, so he wore the team provided it. Anyway, after wearing Puma for a season, he didn't feel anything bad.

So he is not confused about Nike or Adidas, and he has no so-called brand loyalty.

This is good news for Shulce, and he can give full play to his abilities and win the best contract for Zhou Yi. Mobile phone users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net
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