Chapter 376 15 million marks
On the street, there were Frankfurt fans wearing red and black shirts everywhere. Many fans drove their cars, humming songs, and wandering around the city with team flags. They were so unhappy.
When they saw Zheng Zhi passing by in a sports car, they immediately screamed.
"Zheng,"
"You are our hero!"
Zheng Zhi waved his hand and smiled and was soon surrounded by fans. He had to stop the car, take photos with everyone, sign, and do such things almost every day.
It's just a bit heavy today.
When he got home, Wu Di was already sitting in the living room.
“It’s almost done,”
"Look at the contract, if there is no problem, we will hold a press conference on the first day of the transfer market opening."
"Um,"
Zheng Zhi walked over, picked up the contract at the table and looked carefully.
"Is the annual salary so high? OK, your negotiation ability is getting more and more awesome."
Although he knew that his annual salary was not low, Zheng Zhi was still shocked.
2.5 million US dollars, the unit is US dollars! In this era, there are not many players who can get such a high salary. This salary is considered to be a middle-to-high level, and only stars have the benefits. This is to double his annual salary. If it is a weekly salary, it will be nearly 50,000 US dollars a week.
At the age of 19, he received a weekly salary of 50,000. If this is reported by the media, it will scare many people to death.
"No wonder, you have such a big business market in China, and this amount of money is nothing at all. They earned it back easily." Wu Di smiled, "Do you know what Barack's annual salary is?"
"He told me, $1 million."
"My annual salary is better for confidentiality, right? I don't want to ruin the calmness of the locker room."
“Yeah, we took that into consideration.”
At the turn of the century, players' salaries are changing dramatically and becoming more and more profitable.
In 1953, Fulham Hill's weekly salary was only 20 pounds. It was not until January 18, 1961 that the limit on the weekly salary of football players was abolished. Since then, the players' salaries have increased year by year. At that time, Fulham player Haynes' weekly salary reached 100 pounds. This significant increase even attracted many people's dissatisfaction because football players were more profitable than coal miners at that time and were unacceptable to many people.
In 1968, George Best became the first player to have a four-digit weekly salary, and his weekly salary reached 1,000 pounds. But in 1980, the Italian responded that Falcao, who joined Rome, became the first player to have a five-digit weekly salary, and Rome paid him a salary of 10,000 pounds. Ten years later, in 1990, Baggio, who joined Juventus from Fiorentina, received a weekly salary of 50,000 pounds, which also set a precedent.
If we follow the development of history, time has come to the new century. Campbell, who joined London's rival Arsenal from Tottenham in 2001, received a fat contract of 100,000 pounds per week, which also made him the first player in international football to get a weekly salary of 100,000 pounds.
In 2009, the frustrated Argentine beast Tevez transferred from Manchester United to his arch-rival Manchester City. The weekly salary he received this time doubled from Campbell, reaching 200,000 pounds. He was also the first player to achieve such a high salary at the time.
Later, Ronaldo ranked first in the world with a weekly salary of 430,000 pounds, and was soon killed by Messi, who received a weekly salary of 900,000 pounds...
Zheng Zhi’s current 50,000 weekly salary is just a fraction of Messi’s future...
Overall, Zheng Zhi did not find anything wrong with the contract, so he closed the contract.
"Just do it like that,"
"When we attend the team dinner tomorrow night, we don't want to talk about transfers, right? We'll have to wait until June 1st."
"Yes, you will attend the Bundesliga awards ceremony that day, and it's best to announce the transfer at that time."
"Well, then that's it."
"You're not curious about how much your transfer fee is?"
"You can guess it, it should be similar to Barack." Zheng Zhi shrugged.
"Yes, it's also 15 million marks."
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The next day, the entire German media were summarizing the Bundesliga this season. Bayern Munich won the league championship, Leverkusen ranked second, Hertha Berlin ranked third, Frankfurt, more than 50th Tymond, and sixth was Kaiserslautern. The top scorer was taken away by Pretz and he scored 24 goals.
Although the Bundesliga best will not be awarded until June 1, the media have predicted the ownership of awards such as the best player, the best rookie and other awards.
In the candidates for the best players in the Bundesliga, Mattus, Barakov, Effenberg, Hasler, Pretz, Barak and Zheng Zhi were all on the roster. Mattus was the most popular, and others may be running roles.
In the candidate for the best newcomer in the Bundesliga, three players, Barack, Zheng Zhi and Deisler, were shortlisted, and Zheng Zhi was the one with the highest praise. Deisler's results were not good, and Barack was also suppressed by Zheng Zhi, so naturally Zheng Zhi was sure to win the award.
The Bundesliga best players and best rookies were voted by authoritative experts and reporters organized by "Kickers" magazine, which can be said to be very fair.
While attending the team dinner, Zheng Zhi was also interviewed by the reporter of "Kicker" at the entrance of the hotel. When asked if he was looking forward to the award for the best newcomer, Zheng Zhi's answer was unexpected to the reporter.
"I don't deny that the Best Newcomer Award is an encouragement and reward for newcomers, but everyone should know that the most valuable player, that is, the best player, is the goal pursued by the players, so I don't feel excited."
"I think it should be Mattus or Pretz's this year."
Newcomer Award? Zheng Zhi doesn't catch a cold and doesn't care about it at all. He only wants the best player and the most valuable player award, but he knows that this year it will not belong to him.
"But I think the best coach should be Schuster. He almost accomplished another miracle. He led a relegation Frankfurt to become a champion-level Frankfurt. Of course, if Heathfield can lead Bayern Munich to the Champions League, he will be the best coach in the Bundesliga, and even the best coach in Europe." Zheng Zhi did not forget to wave the flag for Schuster.
"But in my mind, Shuster is the best."
"Who do you think Bayern or Manchester United will eventually become European champions?"
"Oh,"
"Manchester United."
"Why don't you be optimistic about Bayern Munich?"
Chapter completed!