December 23rd at 4pm.
Rowling and Nicole both came to Sacramento.
According to the agreed time, the private plane contacted by Good Nicole will take off at 5:30 pm.
At this time, at Nike headquarters in New York.
A blond woman who looked about forty years old was reviewing a stack of documents in the office.
This woman is not particularly beautiful, but she looks very capable.
In this six-story headquarters building, there are usually open offices, but his office is independent.
She is Ann Herbert, general manager and vice president of Nike North America.
At this time, she was immersed in reviewing a contract.
The brows sometimes wrinkle and sometimes relax.
This contract is Wang Yi’s contract drafted by Nike’s legal department.
The higher-ups have issued orders before, and Wang Yi must be signed no matter what.
Ann Herbert was looking through these contracts, usually muttering to himself: "Does this king really have that much potential? Is the boss so optimistic about him?"
Based on his past experience, is this investment too much?
But these are not things she should worry about.
There are specialized departments to evaluate whether a certain player has great potential and whether his market value is high.
All she has to do is decide whether to sign this player based on the evaluation reports of these departments.
But this time it's different from the past.
This time, before their evaluation report came out, they already received a call from their superiors saying that Wang Yi must be signed, so she had been urging the legal department to draft a contract since last night.
It's up to her to approve it in the end.
However, just as she was approving it, the doorbell of the office was pressed.
"Enter."
Ann Herbert continued to look at the contract without raising her head.
A male assistant walked in, looking a little unhappy.
"Vice President, we have just received news that Wang Yi will fly back to China in an hour and a half."
Ann Herbert, who was concentrating on reviewing the manuscript, couldn't help but pause when she heard this.
Then he looked up sharply and looked at the assistant: "Go and sign the contract?"
The male assistant shook his head slightly: "We haven't got the exact information about this yet, but according to my guess, it is probably to sign a contract, because they have been in frequent contact with a Chinese brand called Anta in the past two days."
Ann Herbert frowned tightly when he heard this.
After a while, she reviewed the remaining two pages of the manuscript as quickly as possible.
During this period, the assistant stood quietly, not even daring to breathe, as if he was afraid that his breathing would disturb the vice president.
After a moment, Vice President Ann Herbert once again looked away from the manuscript and suddenly looked up at the assistant.
"Contact him now!"
The assistant nodded and was about to take out his cell phone to contact Luo Lin.
But then Ann Herbert added: "Contact him personally."
The assistant was stunned for a moment.
Ann Herbert frowned: "Why, didn't you even get his phone number?"
The assistant shook his head.
Of course he has Wang Yi’s phone number.
It's just that for this kind of matter, the agent of the star is usually contacted, and it is rare to contact the star himself directly.
He dialed Wang Yi's number and handed the phone to the vice president.
Vice President Ann Herbert waited for the call to come through and got straight to the point:
"Wang, I am Ann Herbert, Vice President of Nike North America Headquarters. We have drafted your endorsement contract and we will send it to your agent as soon as possible. Wang, please take a look."
When Wang Yi heard the vice president's words, he sneered: "No need."
After saying that, he hung up the phone directly.
Ann Herbert was stunned.
Generally speaking, the stars she handles personally are basically big-name stars.
James, Kobe, Jordan.
Because Nike has a special status, generally speaking, no one will hang up on them even if they are super-big stars.
Even facing the god of basketball, Jordan, Nike's status and attitude are very low.
Jordan never hung up on them rudely, either.
For other players, Nike is superior. No matter which player receives a call from Nike, they are all excited and delighted.
After all, being able to sign a contract with Nike will be of great benefit to their own popularity, exposure and their immediate interests.
Therefore, players keep a very low profile when dealing with Nike.
Now, Wang Yi was lucky enough to hang up the phone with Nike.
But Ann Herbert is also considered a talent.
If a woman can climb to this position, she can also do what ordinary people cannot.
She dialed Huang Yi's phone number again.
When Wang Yi got through, she opened her mouth and said, "Wang, I want to interview you now."
"No need."
After speaking, Wang Yi hung up the phone again.
Ann Herbert is indeed resilient. She called Wang Yi for the third time.
This time, he opened his mouth and said: "Wang, our revised contract is 250 million US dollars in 10 years, and we will produce signature sneakers for you. We also promise to give you 2% of sales."
This condition can be said to be very generous.
The reason why James can get 5% of sales is because James has been playing for 20 years since his debut.
He reached his peak when he debuted and stayed at the top for 20 years.
His influence and market value are unimaginable to ordinary people.
Wang Yi has only been in business for less than two years and can get 2% of sales, which is already very good.
You know, even stars like Irving and Durant only get 2%.
Nike's sales in 2021 are US$40 billion.
Even at 2%, that's about $800 million.
Converted into RMB, it is nearly 5.2 billion.
In other words, even if Wang Yi is injured and does not play for a year, he will get 5.2 billion yuan from Nike alone.
This is definitely something that ordinary players would never dare to think about.
After Ann Herbert quickly stated this list of conditions, she became quiet.
Her expression is very confident.
Pick up a cigarette from the cigarette box on your desk.
The assistant next to me saw it and quickly came over to order it for her.
Ann Herbert took a puff and exhaled a wisp of smoke.
No matter how good that small Chinese brand is, it is far behind Nike in terms of market share.
If Wang Yiruo signs a contract with that small Chinese brand, he will lose a lot of money.
Calculated according to Chinese currency, it is estimated that he will earn less than 4 billion a year.
No one will have trouble with interests.
Therefore, Ann Herbert is determined to win over Wang Yi.
However, at this moment, Wang Yi's voice came from the other end of the phone without any hesitation.
"No need."
After saying that, there was a busy tone of beep - beep - beep - from the phone again.
This time, Ann Herbert didn't react for a moment.
After being stunned for a long time, I looked at the phone with a black screen in disbelief.
The assistant next to me was also confused.
After half a minute, Ann Herbert said in disbelief:
"Is he crazy? 4 billion! He will make 4 billion less a year!"
The assistant next to me also felt that her head was constantly buzzing.
Chapter completed!