Venita and Miss Betti negotiated through a video call.
Li Ang thought that the negotiation between Venita and Miss Betti would go smoothly, but things were different from what he thought.
Venita and Miss Betti still had some differences on some details.
First of all, Venita hoped that Carlos could sign a five-year contract with Sporting de Gijón. Five years was the maximum allowed by FIFA to sign a contract with a player.
Signing a long-term contract with a young player, especially one with talent and potential, was obviously beneficial to the club. Naturally, the player's interests would be damaged.
Miss Betti strongly disagreed and suggested a three-year contract.
In the end, both sides had to take a step back and agreed to sign a four-year contract!
Then there was the salary. Miss Betti demanded an exorbitant salary of one million euros a year.
Venita was so angry that she almost flipped the table. In Sporting de Gijón's team, the highest salary was the former Real Madrid captain, Hierro, who received one million euros a year. With Hierro's experience and influence in the locker room, he only received one million euros a year. Carlos, who had just turned seventeen, wanted to enjoy the same treatment. How could it be possible?!
Venita was willing to offer four hundred thousand euros a year.
It should be said that for a seventeen-year-old kid, getting four hundred thousand euros a year in his first professional contract was something to be proud of.
However, Miss Betti was obviously not satisfied with the salary.
The salary was obviously the most important issue. In the end, both sides reached an agreement. Carlos's annual salary was five hundred thousand euros, but Carlos's annual salary would increase by no less than twenty percent every year.
Such an annual salary contract was a relatively common contract in the current football world. It was usually prepared for young but talented players.
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An annual salary of five hundred thousand euros was not a low salary. Among the young players, an annual salary of five hundred thousand euros was definitely one of the best.
In the eyes of the agent, Miss Betti, an annual salary increase of no less than twenty percent would greatly improve Juan Carlos's treatment in the team and consolidate his important position among the young players in the team. As they grew older and stronger, Carlos and the other youngsters would gradually become Sporting de Gijón's most important players. Now that they were ahead, Carlos's position and role would be even more prominent and important in the future.
After the salary and length of the contract were determined, other things, such as appearance fees, winning bonuses, championship bonuses, and player accident insurance, were not a problem.
Finally, ten minutes before the 3 p.m. press conference, Sporting de Gijón and Carlos finally reached an agreement on a professional contract.
Of course, the whole negotiation process was very difficult. Venita and Miss Betty were both very serious and proud women. Even the punctuation at the end of the contract had been carefully studied and finalized!
Three o 'clock in the afternoon, Sporting de Gijón's press conference room at the Malaio training base.
Sporting de Gijón's manager, Li Ang, and the team's young player, Juan Carlos, attended the press conference for the signing of the contract.
About thirty reporters had come to witness the signing of Carlos's first professional contract in his career.
Amidst the flashing lights, Carlos proudly signed his name on a four-year contract.
Then, Li Ang expressed the great significance of this signing to everyone. "Carlos is a player of Sporting de Gijón. Yesterday, he is now, and he will be in the future!"
This sentence was a direct warning to all the powerhouse teams who coveted Carlos to not have any ideas about Carlos.
At this time, a reporter retorted that Carlos would achieve more if he was in a powerhouse team, but it was obviously impossible for him to be in Sporting de Gijón.
Li Ang stared at the reporter. "He will get more in Sporting de Gijón because I am here!"
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At the press conference, Carlos expressed his loyalty to Sporting de Gijón very seriously to all the Sporting de Gijón fans. "I am very happy at Sporting de Gijón. I like it here. This is the first club I have played for."
It was believed that the Getafe fans would be very sad and unhappy when they heard Carlos's words at this time. It must be known that Carlos had played a game on behalf of the Getafe youth team, but they lost to Real Madrid's under-17 A team coached by Li Ang. Then, he was used as a scapegoat by Getafe for the loss and his contract was terminated.
At this time, Li Ang came out to expose Getafe's scars.
Li Ang patted Carlos on the shoulder. "Have you forgotten Getafe? Even though you've only played one match. "
The actions of the two men caused the reporters present to laugh. Obviously, Carlos's story was now well-known in Spain, and the termination of Carlos's contract became the evidence of Getafe's failure to recognize him. Of course, there were also media outlets that said that even if Carlos stayed at Getafe, it would be casting pearls before swine, because there was no one who could spot him. Maybe in Getafe, Carlos would continue to play in the center back position, which he was not good at. The final result would be that Carlos could only play worse and worse, and he would end up in a lower league, or even say goodbye to football completely. Therefore, in Carlos's growth story, Li Ang's role was very important!
When AC Milan, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia were ready to make a move on Carlos, Sporting de Gijón quickly completed the signing of the professional contract with Carlos, and also solemnly warned all the powerhouse teams that coveted Carlos. At the same time, Li Ang also used the most direct method to warn the teams that coveted other Sporting de Gijón players.
His team was not a supermarket for players!
After the press conference, Sporting de Gijón's officials officially announced to the public:
Sporting de Gijón's young player, Juan Carlos, received a special gift on his seventeenth birthday: a professional contract! Carlos proudly signed his name on a new four-year contract at three o 'clock in the afternoon. Carlos's past was here, he was here, and he would still be here in the future.
Today was Carlos's seventeenth birthday, and he received his first professional contract in his professional career.
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Mitra, a reporter from Sporting Gihon's mouthpiece, "The Voice of Gihon", wrote in a comment about the signing of the contract. "The panic caused by those famous and powerful teams seeking to purchase Carlos from Sporting Gihon fans can finally be put to an end! Sporting de Gijón's fans can finally breathe a sigh of relief and have a good night's sleep. They don't have to worry about waking up and reading the newspaper to find that their favorite young man has gone to Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, or even faraway Italy. Carlos said he loved it here, he was happy here, and he expressed his love for this team. Of course, what I value most is that I believe that as long as Manager Li Ang is in Gijón, Carlos will definitely be here! Will Manager Li Ang leave? Obviously not! He loves it here, he is a Gijón man! "
Mitra's article won him a lot of praise. The Gijón fans were very happy. Finally, they did not have to worry about Carlos leaving the team. As for the issue of the love period between Li Ang and Sporting de Gijón that Mitra mentioned at the end of the article, the Gijón fans did not care. Perhaps in their view, as Mitra said, Li Ang was already a Gijón man, and Li Ang could not leave here.
However, who could say for sure what would happen in the future. Perhaps even Li Ang himself could not say for sure.
PS: First update. Thank you, everyone.
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