Fox in the Penalty Area

Standing outside the toilet, Hu Lixin watched his wife busy in front of the washing machine. She threw the curtains that had just been removed into the washing machine, poured in Hu Lai's favorite laundry detergent, selected the washing program, and pressed the switch.

She was humming the whole time.

"What's the use of washing so late... I'm going to bed." Hu Lixin complained.

"I'll go to bed later, and I'll hang up the curtains after washing. I have to go to work tomorrow, so let's go to bed first." Xie Lan said to her husband.

"What am I sleeping on? I wonder if this washing machine makes as much noise as a tractor when it's spinning?" Hu Lixin said helplessly.

"Close the bedroom door, I'll close the door here too, double sound insulation..."

"Didn't you ask for a day off tomorrow? Can't you come to wash tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow still has things to do. Tomorrow, I will clean all the sanitation at home, clean the windows, mop the floor, and wipe the furniture...Do you think I still have time to wash and hang the curtains?"

"As for it?" Hu Lixin curled his lips, "It's like celebrating the New Year when he comes home."

Hearing this, Xie Lan said seriously: "It's Chinese New Year. He will go to winter training with the team next Spring Festival, so our family celebrates Chinese New Year early."

Hu Lixin snorted: "Then do you want to post Spring Festival couplets at the door?"

"I got it right, I'm going to post Spring Festival couplets tomorrow, with blessings on it!"

"Nervous! It's only the beginning of November, where can I buy Spring Festival couplets?"

"Online, I've bought everything." Xie Lan pointed to the pile of couriers in front of the house.

Hu Lixin sighed, turned and walked to the bedroom, then closed the door and prepared to sleep.

Xie Lan didn't care about her husband's feelings either. She sat on the sofa in the living room, crossed her legs, swiped her phone and waited for the washing machine to wash the curtains.

On the mobile phone is the news of the last round of the Chinese Premier League.

Flash Star lost 1:2 to Hexi Daqin in the away game, and was double-killed by the opponent this season. But no Flash Star fans care about this matter.

The local media and fans began to look forward to the new season impatiently.

Of course, some people are paying attention to the World Cup at the end of the year.

But this is not what Xie Lan will pay attention to - she only cares about the news related to her son.

Unless her son participates in the World Cup, she doesn't care about any top football events in the world... Even the World Cup is not as important as her own son!

She was reading a post analyzing Hu Lai's status and role in Flash Star next season. Although she has a little understanding of those technical terms, it doesn't matter. She saw that the author said that her son will become the team's core shooter next season, and the head coach should build the team's tactics and staffing around him.

This shows that her son is very good, even the head coach thinks highly of him.

She still understands such a simple truth.

She looked at it with a smile on her face, and the glimmer of the phone screen reflected on her face. At the same time, a pleasant smell came from the washing machine and gradually drifted into the living room. It was the smell of Hu Lai's favorite laundry detergent, and it was specially asked for her to buy it for use.

When the time comes, she will hang the washed curtains back in Hu Lai's room, and the whole room will be filled with a faint fragrance.

He will be very happy when his son comes back.

Xie Lan thought happily.

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"Hu Lai will go home tomorrow, when do you plan to negotiate a new contract with the club?"

At the door of the rental house, Yong Jun asked Hu Lai.

"Come back after vacation? I won't stay at home for too long, and I will come back soon." Hu Lai replied. "Director Zhao also arranged targeted training for me."

"I don't even have an agent now, are you going to talk to the club in person?"

"Yeah." Hu Lai nodded.

On that day when Yong Jun cooked the kitchen himself and invited Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei to dinner, Yong Jun politely asked Hu Lai if he wanted to be his manager.

Then Hu Lai politely refused. He said that he had a good friend in high school, and now he is studying abroad, and he has promised to let him be his manager, so I am sorry...

Yong Jun didn't know if Hu Lai really had such a high school classmate, maybe there really was such a thing, maybe it was just an excuse.

Since Hu Lai didn't want him to be his manager, Yong Jun didn't force him either.

Now players are used to signing with an agency, which is operated by a more professional company, which is much better than a solo agent like myself. It's normal if Hu Lai has this idea.

But now that Hu Lai was about to sign a new contract with the club, and he didn't even have an agent, he realized that maybe what Hu Lai told him before was the truth, that he was really waiting for his high school classmate?

Otherwise, if you just don't want yourself to be his agent, why don't you find another agent and have to talk to the club yourself when it comes to such an important matter as signing a contract?

The reason why he rejected him was just because he thought that he would let his high school classmates act as agents in the future, but now it would be inconvenient to sign an agent contract with himself? For example, I helped him deal with the contract matters in the past few years, but when his high school classmates returned from their studies, I had to step aside... Did he reject him because he thought it was not good?

Thinking of this, Yong Jun said: "See if this works, Hu Lai? As for me, I happen to be negotiating Qing Huan's new personal contract with the Shining Star Club recently. Qing Huan was on loan before, and his salary is still with Tenglong Yes, now I want to transfer over, all the personal contracts have to be re-negotiated. See if you can entrust it to me and let me negotiate a new contract with the club. Anyway, one contract is negotiable, and two contracts are negotiable. We sign a single After negotiating this contract, the contract will expire, and it will not affect the future...Of course, if there is anything in the future that needs the help of an agent, you can also contact me, and we will sign a one-time contract."

The reason why he is obsessed with being Hu Lai's agent is of course not because he has taken a fancy to Hu Lai's talent and thinks that being his agent will be profitable in the future. It's purely out of the mentality of repaying a favor—Hu Lai helped Zhang Qinghuan get back on track, is this a kindness that can be repaid by treating him to a meal?

That's why he wanted to be Hu Lai's agent, help him deal with the contract with the club, and earn more money for him, so as to repay his help to Zhang Qinghuan.

Nobody hates money, right?

Now he hopes to help Hu Lai negotiate this contract with the club.

And he doesn't charge a penny for it.

Because this is returning favors, how can you collect money?

But he didn't tell Hu Lai, he was afraid that if he said it, he would be rejected by Hu Lai, which would be embarrassing.

When the matter is settled, he will return the money to Hu Lai.

Hu Lai was a little surprised when he heard Yong Jun say this: "Can it still be like this?"

"Of course, why not?" Yong Jun asked with a smile. "We signed a contract, and it was stipulated in the contract that my brokerage service is limited to this contract renewal negotiation. After the renewal negotiation is over, there will be no contractual relationship between us."

Hu Lai lowered his head and pondered for a while, then nodded: "Then please leave it to Uncle Yong!"

"No problem. Let me first ask if you have any thoughts on personal treatment? For example, what is the minimum annual salary and the maximum acceptable? There is also the issue of the contract period..."

Hu Lai didn't even think about it, and said directly: "Can you raise the goal award to one goal... 10,000?"

Yong Jun was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that Hu Lai's first request was a goal award... The annual salary is the big one, kid!

Seeing that Yong Jun was in a daze, Hu Lai hesitated: "Can't you, Uncle Yong?"

"Uh... no, although the 10,000 goal award is a bit high, it's not impossible to talk about..." Yong Jun quickly explained.

"That's fine. If the 10,000 club doesn't agree, a minimum of 5,000 balls is fine."

"Okay, I'll make a note." As he spoke, Yong Jun took out his phone, opened the memo, and wrote down Hu Lai's request on it. "What about the annual salary? What are the requirements for the annual salary?"

"Annual salary... one million?" Hu Lai asked hesitantly.

Hearing what he said, Yong Jun knew that Hu Lai had no idea about this. One million annual salary is an astronomical figure for him, but based on his performance, one million annual salary is a figure that the club can easily agree to. Lai Zekai can get a million annual salary for such a performance. With Hu Lai's age and future development space, one million annual salary is simply too cheap, okay?

But if the club can easily agree, it means that they can ask for a higher annual salary.

Thinking of this, he put down the phone: "Okay, I understand, I'll talk about it, and I promise to try my best to talk about the best result."

"Then thank you Uncle Yong." Hu Lai said with a smile.

The stone in his heart fell to the ground.

Before, he really planned to use the points to exchange for a trial pack of Charm Essence Lotion, and then wiped it on to go to the club to negotiate a contract. I don't know if he can successfully negotiate and get the contract he wants.

But now that Uncle Yong is a professional agent, he doesn't have to waste points.

With these points, he can exchange for more training scrolls to improve his hard power.

"Why are you being polite, I still want to thank you. Then, let's get in touch on WeChat if we have something to do?" Yong Jun said, and he was about to see you again.

During dinner that day, Yong Jun, Hu Lai, and Wang Guangwei all added WeChat messages to each other.

Hu Lai was about to nod, but suddenly remembered something, and said quickly: "Uncle Yong, can I ask for more signing fees?"

Yong Jun frowned. The signing fee was only available at the time of the transfer. The club would give the signing fee to make the player make up his mind to transfer and join. Later, it developed into a signing fee for contract renewal, and the bigger the player, the higher the signing fee, and it can even be higher than the annual salary.

It wasn't until the Football Association's salary limit order was promulgated that the signing fee was also included in the player's total income for a year, and then the car of sky-high signing fees stopped.

However, because the signing fee is also included in the total annual income, whether there is a signing fee or no signing fee has a great impact on the annual salary of the contract.

If you want to negotiate a high annual salary, the signing fee may become a point of contention between the two parties.

"Is it okay?" Seeing him like this, Hu Lai asked.

Yong Jun didn't explain to him right away, but asked, "Didn't there be a signing fee when I transferred to Xingxing?"

Hu Lai nodded: "Yes, yes, only 30,000..."

Yong Jun almost blurted out "That's all?", but he immediately thought that Hu Lai hadn't proved his worth in Flash Star at that time. In the eyes of the club, he was just a young man who relied on Zhao Kangming's nepotism to join Flash Star. Team players only.

His transfer fee was only 500,000 yuan, and a signing fee of 30,000 yuan didn't seem like a stingy deal. After all, some players might not have a signing fee at all.

"The signing fee is related to the annual salary, which is a little troublesome. If you want a high annual salary, you may have to make concessions on the signing fee..." Yong Jun explained to Hu Lai.

"I don't want too much signing fee." Hu Lai said quickly.

"How much do you want?"

"Fourty thousand." Hu Lai said.

"Huh?" Yong Jun's eyes widened.

"Is it too much?" Seeing this, Hu Lai was a little apprehensive.

"No, it's not too much...Are you sure you want this?"

Hu Lai nodded, and then explained: "My family borrowed a sum of money from outsiders. Adding the money I borrowed myself, I owe a total of 400,000 yuan. I want to use the 400,000 yuan to pay off the debt. If I procrastinate, I will always think about it." With this matter..."

So that's how it is... Yong Jun nodded slightly, asking for money to pay off his family's debts instead of squandering it for enjoyment. This kid is different from many professional players he has seen.

"Okay, I'll try my best to fight for it. It's only a signing fee of 400,000 yuan. I believe the club won't be in such a difficult situation unless they don't want to keep it." Yong Jun smiled, "After scoring 11 goals in half a season, the goal I want There are a lot of teams, even the Chinese Super League! As long as our manager Dong is not stupid, he should be able to meet the requirements."

"Then thank you, Uncle Yong." A relieved smile appeared on Hu Lai's face.

"Thank you for what I'm doing. If the contract can be negotiated, the biggest credit is my own. It's my outstanding performance that helped me reduce the difficulty of negotiation." Yong Jun didn't take the credit.

Hu Lai thought of another question: "Then why couldn't Brother Lai fail to negotiate a new contract after scoring 16 goals?"

"Lai Zekai is old, and the annual salary he asks is too high... Do you know how much he asks for?"

Hu Lai shook his head: "I don't know.

"He wants three million. He'll be damned if the club gives it to him."

"Then I..."

"It's different from him, he's still young, and there's still a big gap between 11 goals in half a season and 16 goals in a season. In the end, I can't ask for an annual salary of 3 million." Yong Jun said.

Only then did Hu Lai heave a sigh of relief: "I think one million is enough..."

"That's not going to be one million. Don't worry, anyway, I'll help negotiate a contract as big as possible." Yong Jun waved his hand.

Hu Lai thanked him again before entering the house.

Looking at the closed door, Yong Jun nodded slightly.

This child is still childish.

But it's a good thing that the childishness has not been taken off, it is more pure and pure.

There are not so many fancy intestines.

It's really like Qing Huan back then.

But Qing Huan finally became an adult. He hoped that Hu Lai could still maintain his childishness, which might be a good thing for his career.