At the end of the season, Freddy and Dane's first negotiation on Qin Xiong's contract renewal ended with mutual probing and a friendly farewell.
Dane promised to reconsider the matter of increasing Qin Xiong's salary, and Freddy also promised to seriously consider Arsenal's contract.
But as he drove away from Arsenal, Freddy's mood was quite heavy.
Qin Xiong's contract renewal was not an exception within Arsenal.
The locker room's salary system was like a pyramid.
It was impossible to pull out the lowest building and put it on the top without affecting the other buildings.
He believed that Dane would not be perfunctory with him. After all, Qin Xiong's importance to the team was tacit. It was just that Arsenal's concessions and sincerity to the best of their ability might still be far from Freddy's psychological bottom line.
He did not persuade Qin Xiong to transfer away. After all, the decisive factor for Qin Xiong in every transfer was the competitive environment, and financial income was a secondary factor.
After Dane sent Freddy off, he was lost in thought in his office.
Arsenal was not a club that could spend money without batting an eyelid.
For example, the purchase of Qin Xiong for ten million euros last summer was the club's biggest acquisition. With a three-year contract, the annual expenditure was almost 1.5 million euros. In three years, their total investment in Qin Xiong was about 15 million euros.
In Dane's plan, an appropriate salary increase was inevitable based on Qin Xiong's performance.
But the reality was a little beyond expectations.
Originally, he intended to give Qin Xiong a contract with a weekly salary of 30,000 pounds this summer, which meant that Qin Xiong's salary would increase by more than 50%!
This was already a great deal of sincerity.
And in another two years, based on Qin Xiong's performance and contribution, it would increase to about 50,000 pounds. In the same period, it would also be a salary increase of more than 50%, which could make the player die for the club.
But the reality was different: Qin Xiong's performance last season was too outstanding!
Dane also knew that he couldn't take out a contract with a weekly salary of 30,000 yuan. It was simply lacking in sincerity. If it was serious, Qin Xiong and his agent might see it as a humiliation.
The first thing he said was a weekly salary of forty thousand pounds. Tacit understanding was that if they sat down and talked, Arsenal's side would definitely increase the remuneration. However, how much would depend on Arsenal's ability.
Dane rubbed his temples in distress.
There was a lot of work in front of him this summer. It was possible that Qin Xiong's contract renewal would really have to be delayed.
That was because he had to look at the progress of the team's contract renewals for other players who were nearing the end of their contracts, the income and expenditure situation in the transfer market, as well as the income and expenditure situation in other areas to re-examine the budget. It could be said that for a core player's contract renewal, Arsenal had to squeeze out a financial budget from all sides.
Giving Qin Xiong an extra twenty thousand pounds a week would be almost a million pounds a year.
For a football club, a million pounds didn't sound like a lot. But in a club's management system that controlled the financial balance to the limit and had a stable operating income, where could they earn back a million pounds a year?
Moreover, listening to what Freddy said, the contract renewal he wanted for Qin Xiong was at least sixty thousand pounds. Compared to last season, the annual expenditure on Qin Xiong would be more than two million pounds more.
This summer was destined to give Dane a headache. The contract renewal that he urgently needed to consider was not Qin Xiong, but the team's captain, Patrick Vieira!
.....
Arsenal held a grand championship bus parade in London. Qin Xiong appeared on the bus in casual clothes. Wearing sunglasses, he chatted with his teammates and occasionally waved to the fans who lined the streets to welcome him.
After all the celebrations for winning the championship were over, Qin Xiong and Fàbregas had their last leisure chat before the holiday in a coffee shop in the city.
Fàbregas had found a reason to invite Qin Xiong and ask him about the situation in the Netherlands. He had asked the right person. Although there were Dutch people like Robin van Persie and Dennis Bergkamp in the team, the more native they were, the less likely they would feel as strongly as the outsiders.
Just like when Qin Xiong lived in the Netherlands and asked Snede what was fun in the Netherlands, Snede probably couldn't say much because he might feel that the scenic spots in the eyes of outsiders were just so-so and not worth recommending to friends.
Qin Xiong had toured the Netherlands with Sylvia and her brother. Where was fun and where was slightly dull, he could say with great familiarity.
After he finished talking in high spirits, Qin Xiong asked curiously, "Eh? Are you going to play in the Netherlands during your summer vacation? "
Fàbregas shrugged and said, "I'm going to the Netherlands to participate in the FIFA World Youth Championship. It starts in early June and ends in early July. After calculating the time, even if I can reach the finals, there won't be much summer vacation left. I might as well walk around the Netherlands. If I'm eliminated early, I'll have more time to play."
Qin Xiong suddenly realized and suddenly remembered that it seemed that the China team would also participate in the FIFA World Youth Championship. As the captain of the national team, he was old enough to participate in the FIFA World Youth Championship. But considering that he was already the captain of the official national team and had been fighting in Europe for a season, the China Football Association could no longer force Qin Xiong to play in the FIFA World Youth Championship. The schedule was also conflicting. At the beginning of June, the China team still had to play in the FIFA World Youth Championship.
"Alright then, I wish you good luck! Uh, if you encounter the China team, I hope all the Spanish team you represent will be abnormal! "
Qin Xiong laughed after he finished speaking. It was just a joke.
Fàbregas was suddenly a little absent-minded and muttered, "I don't know if I'll meet him …"
"Hmm? Meet who? "
"Oh, it's okay. You don't know him either."
Qin Xiong did not take it seriously and waved goodbye to Fàbregas. He would set off to return to China.
After leaving the coffee shop, Fàbregas walked on the street, wondering if he would meet his good friend who was still at La Masia on the stage of the FIFA World Youth Championship.
That friend would play for Argentina. His name was Lionel Messi!
.....
When Qin Xiong and Freddy boarded the passenger plane to Beijing, China, the China national team also began to assemble in China!
In June, there would be three FIFA World Youth Championship qualifiers in the Asian quarterfinals. These three games were likely to determine whether the China team could advance to the 2006 World Cup in Germany!
At the same time, China's U20 national youth team, which had high hopes, assembled and went east to the Netherlands to participate in the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship in early June!
Among this group of national youth players, there was Dong Fangzhuo, Hao Haidong's chosen successor, Feng Xiaoting, Zhao Xuri, Zhou Haibin, the rising midfield stars Chen Tao and Hao Junmin, who wore the number 10 jersey, and Gao Lin, who was named "China's Ibrahimovic" by the industry, and so on.
In June in the summer of 2005, the China team attacked on two fronts. The FIFA World Youth Championship and the FIFA World Youth Championship attracted a lot of attention. At the same time, the China Football Association was also watching the final results of the China team in these two tournaments. Starting from the general environment of China's football, the China Football Association was brewing a strategy to implement, but everything had to be based on the results of the June tournament.
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