Starting from playing as a defensive midfielder for Real Madrid

Mendes has been quite happy recently.

And several of his competitors were almost crazy with jealousy when they saw Li Ang getting better and better at Real Madrid!

It's not because of Li Ang's performance at this age.

In terms of performance and appeal to fans, Dortmund's Gotze is now the first player in the new generation.

The main reason why these big brokers are crazy about Mendes is because of Li Ang's nationality.

A Chinese player not only performed well when renting out to Milan, but also helped Milan win the domestic double championship as a main player, and now he has truly established a foothold in Real Madrid!

When these factors come together and Mendes is about to become the first agent to successfully enter the Chinese market, how can the other big agents not go crazy?

But no matter how much they scold Mendes, saying that he has always been unlucky in his career, first he met Mourinho and Cristiano Ronaldo, and now he picked up Li Ang for nothing.

Nothing can change the fact that Mendes is now in contact with batches of Chinese companies to discuss cooperation.

In fact, since the first half of the year, when Li Ang joined AC Milan on loan, major domestic companies in China have been unable to sit still.

I had the foresight to offer a generous normal contract in advance, just to get the first piece of cake when Li Ang launched his promotion in China.

Even if a long-term contract is offered to those who do not have a long-term vision, the amount is still high.

At that time, Mendes' head went numb when he saw the quotations.

He listened to the advice of Cristiano Ronaldo and Mourinho and went to sign Li Ang himself. On the one hand, it was to give face to his two old friends, and on the other hand, it was indeed a bit of luck.

But he never expected that within half a year, Li Ang would become a favorite in the eyes of major Chinese companies through his performance in Milan.

It can only be said that Mendes still dare not let go of his psychological expectations to see the potential commercial value of Li Ang.

However, when he was confused by the Chinese business tycoons who used the amount of money, Mendes was still very clear-headed and personally flew to Milan to talk to Li Ang about the matter.

Li Ang also gave his answer calmly at that time.

"There is no rush. I will wait until I finish playing this season and return to Real Madrid to see the new offer."

At that time, Mendes also felt that Li Ang was a little overconfident and should take advantage of the rising popularity to negotiate at least one or two normal and generous endorsements.

But now it seems that he can only say that Li Ang is so damn right!

Because Li Ang did not have any championship titles on his head at that time, he was just an outstanding youth training player of Real Madrid.

And now?

Want to talk to Li Ang, a member of the Serie A and Italian Cup double champions, for endorsement?

Sorry, we have increased the price!

Even though the bottom line amount of negotiations has been significantly increased, the number of Chinese companies approaching Mendes for commercial endorsements has not decreased at all.

On the contrary, more wealthy predators personally sent emails of interest.

Now Mendes really couldn't sit still.

He knew that Li Ang was not in a hurry, he was really not in a hurry, but he was in a hurry!

Fortunately, this time, Li Ang gave him a positive answer.

In China, Li Ang wants to build a good reputation and will not accept any endorsements that pose product quality or reputation risks.

He doesn't want to do too many remaining commercial endorsements. He will only accept three by the end of this year.

How to select brands and conduct final negotiations, Li Ang did not intervene and let Mendes' team handle it.

But before formal negotiations, he also needs to talk with representatives of the partner to see the other party's marketing methods at home and abroad.

The second is the contract with Real Madrid.

Since the last time he renewed his contract with Real Madrid, Li Ang has four years left in his new contract with Real Madrid.

When the contract is renewed this time, Li Ang's salary requirements are actually not high, more than 3 million euros after tax.

Even just three million euros would be fine, but he didn't want to discuss his personal image rights.

He can continue to sign for another four years, and it doesn't matter if his salary is a little less, but his image rights are his bottom line and he cannot give away a single point.

Just kidding, when his reputation in China was about to fade away, Li Ang was very confident and did not give up his image rights.

At that time, Real Madrid saw Li Ang insisting and didn't care much about it.

After all, there was no place for Li Ang in the first team at that time, and Real Madrid was very likely to sell Li Ang directly to Real Betis in the end.

If Mourinho hadn't seen Li Ang's performance at Betis, he first transferred him to the first team, and finally decided to keep Li Ang.

At this moment, Li Ang may have already played in Betis.

Therefore, Li Ang, who is now more confident, is even more unwilling to hand over his image rights to the club.

But unlike Li Ang's imagination, Mendes did not support his idea 100%.

Instead, he immediately put forward different opinions after he finished stating his request.

After Mendes patiently explained, Li Ang finally understood that having 100% portrait rights in his hands would not necessarily bring him more income.

At least now, sharing personal image rights with Real Madrid, and with Real Madrid's commercial promotion and publicity resources, Li Ang can obtain more commercial benefits than he imagined.

Let’s use the simplest analogy.

If Li Ang can now rely on Mendes's publicity ability to sign endorsements and earn 1 million.

The image rights are 100% in Li Ang's hands, so Li Ang's gain is most of the remaining money after deducting the share for Mendes' team from the 1 million.

But if Real Madrid and Mendes work together to develop his commercial value.

Then what Li Ang may get is 2 million, half or even 60% of the 3 million.

This account is easy to settle.

In the past two or three years, it will be beneficial and disadvantageous for Li Ang to cooperate with Real Madrid to develop commercial value.

Therefore, Li Ang adopted Mendes' suggestion, but they also decided to try their best to gain the initiative in the negotiations.

So after the first round of the Champions League ended, Mendes discussed Li Ang's contract extension with Real Madrid, and the two sides directly fell into a negotiation deadlock.

The contract extension provided by Real Madrid is actually far more generous than the Mendes phenomenon, but the first requirement is for half of Li Ang's image rights.

After Mendes negotiated with Li Ang, the first requirement he gave was that Li Ang needed to retain 80% of his portrait rights.

Both sides are stuck on the first point, so how can we talk about it?

After two days of stalemate, and after all other terms were basically agreed upon, both parties returned to their first request.

Real Madrid took the lead in making concessions, demanding at least 45% of Li Ang's image rights.

But Mendes' team did not give in at all and even asked Li Ang to confirm it again.

Li Ang's original words were finally given.

"Only 20% of the image rights can be given. This is our bottom line."

Not surprisingly, before the start of the fourth round of La Liga, the two sides broke down again.

Li Ang was not surprised at all by this result.

After all, since Lafayette came to power, Real Madrid will have image rights requirements for newly introduced players.

Now that he has achieved huge commercial value in one fell swoop, Real Madrid has always attached great importance to the Chinese market, so it would be crazy if they were willing to give him 80% of the image rights.

Originally, the Real Madrid management wanted to give Li Ang a break and let him "think" clearly. Only by finally staying at Real Madrid could he maximize his commercial value.

But after this, Li Ang was completely unconvinced.

On the evening of September 18, Florentino seemed to be in a normal mood as he sat in a private room at the Valencia City Stadium.

Real Madrid will play Levante in the fourth round of La Liga today at Valencia City Stadium.

When the players from both sides began to enter the stadium, Florentino subconsciously became irritable when he saw Li Ang who appeared after Alonso.

He really couldn't understand why Li Ang refused to share the income from the image rights equally with the club.

Yes, Real Madrid did not pay enough attention to Li Ang before Mourinho took office.

At that time, it seemed that he could only play defense, but he caused a lot of trouble in China, and made a wrong judgment on his business potential.

But who never makes mistakes?

The key is to correct mistakes promptly after noticing them.

Florentino believes that the club has done a good job in the subsequent series of remedial measures.

He received an annual salary increase and actively contacted Milan to give him training opportunities on loan. Now that he is back, he was directly given the No. 10 jersey.

Isn't this sincere enough?

Thinking of this, Lafayette also felt a little headache.

"Let's see if we can find Jorge later to persuade Li Ang."

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This round of La Liga matches officially started at 19:00 on September 18th.

Because they just went away to play a round of Champions League games away from home a few days ago, Mourinho also enabled some rotations in this round.

Ronaldo, Kaka, Benzema, Marcelo and others all sat on the bench.

Today Real Madrid arranged a four-three-three offensive starting formation.

The frontcourt trident consists of Di Maria, Higuain, and Callejon.

In the midfield, Li Ang and Las Diarra served as the left and right central midfielders, and Alonso was in the middle and delayed to regulate the whole game.

On the back line, Coentrao, Ramos, Pepe, and Arbeloa formed the starting defense line.

The starting goalkeeper is still Casillas.

Speaking of which, Li Ang has once again played the left midfield position since leaving Milan.

The positioning of him and Las Diarra is also very similar to the "running duo" formed by Gattuso in Milan.

And Brother Long’s way of delaying and organizing today cannot be said to be exactly the same as that of Master Pi. Well, it seems that there is no difference at all.

Li Ang didn't have the guts to ask Uncle Bird if he had asked Uncle Jon and Milan for the right to use tactics.

But he knows that if any Milan fans accidentally watch this round of Real Madrid League, the Internet will definitely become lively again.

Mourinho didn't feel embarrassed at all at this moment.

After all, tactics are all about tactics. Although most respectable coaches have their own favorites, that doesn't mean they can't learn from others, right?

Hey, when it comes to tactics between coaches, you can’t just copy them, that’s all called learning.

Mourinho also tried it on a whim during the training sessions a few days ago, and he became interested as soon as he tried it.

Before Khedira returned from injury, Mourinho felt that he needed to try a few more starting lineups.

Kaka has to save some money, use Las Diarra to practice, just right, just right~

Ras Diarra, who was in high spirits at this time, did not yet know the identity of his experimental guinea pig.

At the beginning of the game, he worked particularly hard to sweep up the midfield.

Li Ang was relieved when he saw it.

On the right side of the midfielder, there is the physically energetic Las Diarra who is responsible for sweeping and intercepting, so he can do his job well in the left midfielder.

Well, maybe there will be a chance to go forward a few more times later to enjoy it.

After all, Brother Long is much easier to serve than Master Pi, and there is no need for him to rush around putting out fires and wiping his butt.

Maybe Brother Long will have to wipe his butt later, hehe

Real Madrid still has sufficient advantages in the midfield and frontcourt when facing Levante.

In terms of the fight for the ball in the midfield, Real Madrid's starting lineup today is fully equipped with the ability to steal the ball.

With Di Maria and Callejon on the wing who occasionally retreat to catch the ball and advance, Real Madrid's offense started quickly after gaining the initiative in the midfield.

Higuain played very comfortably today.

Last season, he basically started at the center position for Real Madrid before he was injured.

But most of the time he is not the team's top finisher. He has to make way for the more powerful Ronaldo, and he often has to be the fulcrum.

Whether he is willing or not, in Mourinho's tactical system last season, he had to do this kind of work.

Today Mourinho finally gave him another chance to fire with all his strength.

He occupies the middle alone and can shoot directly when he has the opportunity. There are good passers on both sides, and behind him there are teammates with strong steals who continuously help Real Madrid regain offensive opportunities.

In this regard, Higuain can only say that this feeling is really great!

And he also showed his fiery state in his first shot in the eighth minute of the first half.

Faced with Di Maria's cross after breaking through the defender, Higuain directly chose to volley and shoot sideways without stopping the ball!

It’s also thanks to Levante’s goalkeeper Munuya’s concentration.

In the end, he made a dangerous flying save and saved Higuain's shot towards the far corner!

In the next ten minutes, Higuain had two more chances to hit the goal, both times hitting the door frame.

The burning sensation on your feet is evident.

It's a pity that Levante's veteran center back Ballesteros and goalkeeper Munuya are also in good condition today.

In the first twenty minutes, the two of them relied on their individual performance to reject Real Madrid's fierce offensives again and again, which made Mourinho helpless.

Judging from the defensive strength Levante showed today, this team is by no means simple.

If there are any La Liga teams that treat Levante as a lower-tier team in the future, they will definitely suffer a big loss.

And Li Ang also felt that the time had come.

Anyway, Uncle Psy asked him to take care of things on the offensive end today, and when necessary, he would step in to support his teammates.

Li Ang felt that now was the necessary time!

In the 24th minute of the first half, Li Ang received Di Maria's pass back after the failed breakthrough, but did not pass the ball back to Brother Long.

Instead, he took the initiative to dribble the ball forward.

After advancing seven or eight meters, Levante's old midfielder Baquero stepped forward first to interfere with the defense, and Li Ang was not careless.

After calling Callejon to retreat and play a simple one-two with him, Li Ang successfully broke into Levante's 30-meter area!

At this time, Levante's midfielder Xavi Torres quickly rushed towards Li Ang, not wanting to let Li Ang continue to advance with the ball.

Levante's defensive deployment in front of the penalty area was also slightly chaotic.

Xavi Torres and Ivora both flanked Li Ang. Higuain knew that Li Ang had a good short pass ability, so he also raised his hand to advance.

With his move, Levante's two central defenders also had to retreat.

At this moment, Li Ang gave his pass just one second before he was about to be flanked.

It's not a straight pass forward, nor is it passed to Di Maria who has already started to cover the left wing, but it is given to Callejon!

Callejon's movement was very sneaky, when almost all Levante defensive players were watching the movements of Leon, Higuain and Di Maria.

He started to cut in from the position where he had previously retreated to give Li Ang the ball, and ran towards the space in front of Levante's penalty area!

In this position, because Levante's two midfielders double-teamed Li Ang and the central defender also retreated, a short defensive vacuum was formed.

At first, Callejon was not sure whether Li Ang had such a broad vision.

He just subconsciously ran towards the area he thought was threatening.

And he didn't expect that Li Ang would give him the ball at the most appropriate time without hesitation!

"nice shot!"

The Real Madrid bosses on the bench and Mourinho stood up excitedly at this moment!

Li Ang's horizontal pass was too stable and too coquettish.

Because he had been watching the movements of Di Maria and Higuain before.

Not to mention Levante's defensive players, even Real Madrid's players were mostly deceived by Li Ang!

Fortunately, Callejon was not stunned, and went directly to the edge of Levante's penalty area without stopping.

With no one defending him on his side or in front of him, Callejon took a deep breath, then adjusted his pace in the penalty area and directly chose to hit the goal with heavy artillery!

This is a powerful and powerful volley!

It is in line with Callejon’s technical characteristics, not too outstanding, but stable enough and not soft!

Levante goalkeeper Munuya, who had rejected Higuain's shots many times before, was powerless this time.

Callejon's power was so strong that the football broke through the air like a cannonball and went straight into the lower left corner of the goal without any hindrance!

Real Madrid also successfully broke Levante's solid defense and court balance in the first half!

Even Lafayette, who was least interested in his own youth training, couldn't help but stand up in the private room, smile and applaud.

In front of the bench, Mourinho and the Real Madrid substitutes raised their arms and cheered!

Real Madrid fans couldn't be more excited at this moment.

Two Real Madrid youth training players from Castilla successfully connected at this moment, helping Real Madrid take the lead in a difficult game!

Callejon and Leon, the Castilla brothers who were not very familiar before, laughed and hugged each other on the court.

Li Ang could feel the excitement in Callejon's laughter, and couldn't help but patted the other party's shoulder and back to express comfort.

After all, after leaving Real Madrid, he performed well at Espanyol and then got the opportunity to return. Callejon's journey was not easy.

The other Real Madrid players who swarmed over also smiled, patted Callejon on the head and congratulated him.

Also smiling heartily in the stadium at this moment was Mendes, who came specially to watch the game.

After seeing that Li Ang was not affected by the unsuccessful contract renewal and performed very well, he was completely relieved.

No, not only is he relieved, Mendes now has more expectations for Li Ang!

Half a year ago, when others said that his newly signed Li Ang did not have much future and could only defend and not win many personal honors, he might not be able to refute.

But now, if someone still says this to him, he will definitely give him a big mouth!

This awareness of forward penetration, this cool and unrestrained scoring shot from east to west, do you think this is a player who only knows how to defend?

No matter whether Li Ang has wider room for growth on the offensive end in the future, even his current passing talent is enough.

The Golden Globe Award is an honor that Li Ang cannot covet temporarily and may not be able to covet for several or even dozens of seasons in the future.

But for the Golden Boy Award, Mendes felt that Li Ang had great potential!

Gotze is very strong, but Li Ang's honor is not bad at all.

As for who will win in the end?

Oh, everyone depends on their abilities, let's see.