June 17th is the second day after the match between England and Trinidad and Tobago. On this day, the whole world is paying attention to the matches between Argentina, the Netherlands and Spain. England's second match is already a thing of the past. The past is equivalent to the past. World Cup matches are one after another, and the discussion about one match is only one day. Except for England's own media, other media rarely care about past matches.'

But before many games started on this day, media around the world turned their attention to England again. No, it should be said that they moved to their players.

Zhang Tiehan...

What is associated with his name is not his outstanding performance in the World Cup, but a news announced by Chelsea's official website - Chelsea club has agreed with Zhang Tiehan on the contract, and Zhang Tiehan has officially become a Chelsea player.

This news is a bit outdated.

But when the news was released, everyone knew what it meant. Zhang Tiehan's transfer lasted for a long time because the funds involved in his transfer were too large, and the transaction of more than 100 million euros was not something to say. It involves all aspects of the problem, and it is already quite fast to be able to handle it completely within one month.

The clubs of both sides have reached an agreement.

Now Zhang Tiehan and Chelsea agree on the contract, and the transfer is truly completed. In other words, Zhang Tiehan has been a member of Chelsea from now on.

He really transferred to Chelsea!

Even though he was prepared, the result was still amazing. Zhang Tiehan and Chelsea have many stories about "having to tell". Abramovich wanted to get Zhang Tiehan two years ago, but a series of reasons led to failure in two years and two transfers. It is now the third time. Mourinho left Chelsea for this reason, and Zhang Tiehan finally came to Chelsea. But now his net worth is completely different. His net worth has increased from 15 million euros to his current net worth of over 100 million euros. Although his net worth is about eight times higher. In the professional football circle, some players' net worth can increase dozens of times in a season. But think about Zhang Tiehan was originally worth 15 million euros, and his net worth has reached the peak of world football. No one dares to say it later, but it must be unprecedented.

His transfer set a football history.

What the media cares about is Zhang Tiehan's salary at Chelsea. Chelsea's official official did not announce the specific content of the contract, but various media have absolutely great powers. The general content of the contract was discovered by the media that afternoon. The Sun announced the news. They immediately published a special article on the official website to explain the contract between Zhang Tiehan and Chelsea.

After tax, the annual salary is 9 million pounds, and the contract has been signed for five years, and the salary increases by 25% every year. At the same time, Chelsea owns Zhang Tiehan, a proportion of 40% of all commercial sponsorship contracts in the next five years.

The content of this contract is enough to shock many people.

The 40% ratio of all commercial sponsorship contracts means that Chelsea has 40% of Zhang Tiehan's portrait rights. However, his commercial endorsement was not included in it before. In fact, the two parties have been entangled on this issue and have been talking for a long time. However, Chelsea is willing to offer a high salary and will inevitably require a part of the portrait rights. This is understandable. The commercial sponsorship contract in the next five years is also the bottom line for the two parties to negotiate.

But the salary offered by Chelsea is indeed very high, and it is impossible to refuse.

A five-year contract with an annual salary of 9 million pounds after tax, and his annual salary increases by 25%. That is to say, as long as Zhang Tiehan has been at Chelsea for five years, he can get more than 72 million pounds alone, which does not include various bonuses. If he finally counts together, he will definitely get more than 80 million pounds, with an average of 1,600 pounds a year.

You know, this is after tax!

According to the UK tax rate, the tax rate for high-income people is about 40%, which means that Chelsea spends more than 26 million pounds every year to support Zhang Tiehan. In the face of such a huge salary, 40% of portrait rights is nothing.

But with Zhang Tiehan's current reputation, the 40% portrait rights are worth at least 5 million pounds. This assessment does not have a certain value, but if commercial operations are carried out normally, the gap will not be too big. In other words, Chelsea can use Zhang Tiehan's commercial sponsorship to make up for some salary expenses, but not much. Overall, Chelsea still took out a large pound to pay for Zhang Tiehan's salary.

This contract can guarantee Zhang Tiehan's average income of 300,000 pounds per week.

Such a huge salary can also ensure that Zhang Tiehan is rooted in Chelsea, because no club in the world has the ability to afford Zhang Tiehan's salary except Real Madrid.

You should know that player transfer contracts are a big problem.

If a professional player transfers from one club to another, his original contract will be extended. If a new club wants to sign this player, he must give him a salary at least not less than the previous contract, otherwise the player will not need to transfer - he might as well refuse the transfer, so the original club will have to continue to provide him with salary.

So with the guarantee of this five-year contract, even if any club is interested in Zhang Tiehan, it is difficult for them to afford the transfer fee.

After the Sun broke the news about Zhang Tiehan's salary contract, he compared this contract with the world's high-income stars. The only thing that can compare with Zhang Tiehan's income is Beckham. Beckham is the highest salary for professional players. What he said here does not refer to his salary. In fact, his salary in Real Madrid is only half of Zhang Tiehan's annual salary, but Beckham has a commercial sponsorship contract of US$40 million per year, of which Real Madrid will share 30%. Even so, Beckham's income of more than US$30 million a year can still be guaranteed, and his income is even higher than Zhang Tiehan.

Except for Beckham, there are almost no professional players who can compare with Zhang Tiehan.

Now he is the world's highest-paid professional footballer and has also become the second highest-paid professional footballer. In terms of Zhang Tiehan's commercial sponsorship, the Sun also conducted a series of analysis. Although Zhang Tiehan is actually far from Beckham in public, his performance has always been excellent. The Sun evaluated that if Zhang Tiehan can stabilize his current performance in the next five years, his commercial sponsorship income will soon catch up with his salary income. After five years, he will create benefits worth more than 160 million.

Such a huge income can be compared with Beckham.

Of course, those are the future, and now the media is talking about the contract between Zhang Tiehan and Chelsea. This contract is a bit amazing. The contract that Chelsea gave Barack before was enough for the German captain to become the world's highest salary. Not long after, the world's number one became the world's second. Many people can only sigh that the current professional football circle is definitely a circle of money. Without money, you really can't play.

A player like Zhang Tiehan is really a luxury to own even many football giants.

At this time, Zhang Tiehan was taking advantage of the day's holiday to visit Munich with Lola. They were with Beckham's family. They went out for a trip together during the holiday. Zhang Tiehan and Lola were both "landlords" in Munich. Zhang Tiehan grew up in this city since childhood. Lola studied at the University of Munich, and the two were very familiar with Munich. They took Beckham's family to relax and visit together.

Even after some careful dressing, Zhang Tiehan and Beckham were still wearing hats and sunglasses, but as soon as they went out, they were quickly recognized. They met many fans and media on the way. Fortunately, the fans here were pretty good, and at most they just came over to ask for an autograph. It didn't affect them much, and the reporters were also stopped by Zhang Tiehan's words of refusal to interview.

Beckham smiled, "Zhang, I really envy you sometimes, you actually said that to that reporter."

"It's a rest time now. If you want to take photos, it's too troublesome to interview. I don't want to face those annoying reporters on my rest day." Zhang Tiehan said.

Victoria had many different opinions on this.

This woman was born for interviews. She generally would not refuse media interviews. As long as she appeared at a high rate, she would always be famous. She has been doing this all the time. She knows how to get the public to pay attention to you. She also demands this from Beckham. Now that Beckham can become a heartthrob and is so famous all over the world, it is inseparable from the woman Victoria.

Zhang Tiehan doesn't care. He hopes that he will be more famous and more popular with fans. But if he looks like Beckham every day, he will not be willing to do so in the best state and make his life very depressed.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Zhang Tiehan also checked Brooklyn's learning progress.

He has been involved in Brooklyn boxing. Brooklyn has not slacked off from Zhang Tiehan's things. This set of boxing that seems very powerful to outsiders can already fight smoothly. However, Zhang Tiehan knows more than anyone else that most of the movements are bluffing and have no practical effect at all. He cuts out all the movements that may cause harm to the body, and these movements can play a role.

Zhang Tiehan naturally would not let Brooklyn learn these moves, which was not a big idea. His great-grandfather learned hard fists all his life, but ended up learning to make his body secretly injured. The strong genes that his old Zhang family inherited were like this, let alone Brooklyn. The genes of the Beckham family are not very strong.

If you rely solely on this hard qigong to practice "qi", you probably only have your own body.

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I spent a day shopping in Munich with Beckham's family, and returned to the team's hotel in the evening. The next day, everyone returned to the team and prepared to re-enter the training.

Two rounds of the World Cup group stage have passed, and England won two games in Group B, becoming the third team to qualify early. The third game they have to face is a game against Sweden.

However, before the match against Sweden, the English media was concerned about the situation and problems that the England team had to face.

The most important thing is Erikson's employment problem.

England's match against Trinidad and Tobago, British TV stations BBC, ITV and Skysports all made live broadcasts. When England started with the opening of the game, it was comparable to Trinidad and Tobago, and even a little disadvantage, ITV guest Venables couldn't help but say, "This is definitely a bad start! I think the most important problem is Eriksen, who turned Lampard and Gerrard almost into waste, and he has not solved the problem of the two people's position so far."

Another guest, Manchester City coach Pierce, said: "There was no fight at the speed, did you take a nap? The players seemed to have not woken up yet, and they had to shoot too gentlemanly."

BBC commentator Dawson said: "Erikson is too conservative. The tactics are too simple. Gerald and Lampard are a big problem. If one of them can perform well, it will not be like this now. Not only offense, but even England can't do well in defense."

Not only the commentator and the guest. After the game, the English fans who were interviewed on the spot said, "I found that we always play against Germany, and it's harder to see who plays. Now the only thing we want to watch is Zhang. Other stars don't play well."

Some fans also said, "Today's England team started is not very reassuring. I am now worried that Germany and Ecuador are not easy to mess with."

After the game, Venables said: "Although England won the game with a big score today, the credit was Zhang. Gerald, Lampard and even Beckham did not play a role. Irving, who played in the second half, did not perform at all. Eriksen's main problem was still too conservative. In addition, he had to solve the problems of Gerald and Lampard. Neither of them played, so it would be better to let alone play, otherwise it would be difficult to face Germany."

Although many people criticized England's game, England's two matches and two 3 points have never been so smooth since 1982.

"We are obviously better than last Saturday (1-0 win against Paraguay)." Eriksen praised the team calmly in the face of the media.

Beckham also talked about this in an interview, "We are doing better and better", but everyone, including England players and captain Beckham, have to face the fact that "of course, this is not our best performance, we are the favorites to win the championship. I saw yesterday that our odds were only higher than Brazil, and we still have Zhang. He has scored four goals in two games, but the rest of us have not played very well. The victory made our game prospects very positive, but we have to think about what to do when facing a strong team."

The England captain's comments were supported by former national coach Venables, who believed the team gained more than they were in the game on Thursday: "First of all, we achieved the needed victory against Paraguay and Trinidad and Tobago, and the team began to learn to rush their opponents with speed and create opportunities for scoring."

However, Venables also pointed out that the team's current parallel 442 tactics seriously limit Gerald and Lampard's contribution to offense. The most appropriate solution is to reduce one midfielder, and arrange a midfielder who specializes in defense behind the "Two Germans", such as Tottenham's young midfielder Carrick.

It is not known whether Eriksen will follow the advice and try this formation, but what people see is that the Swedes start Lampard and Gerrard again and again. Gerrard scored two goals in two games, but Lampard was unable to play at all. The media commented that Gerrard's goal was due to the tacit cooperation with Zhang Tiehan. Of course, this is also a consistent advantage, but no one can deny that Gerrard is not better than Lampard except for the goal.

On the other hand, the result of Sweden's narrow victory over Paraguay 1-0 on Thursday evening means that England may not be able to win the top spot in the group at the moment, but as long as they do not lose to Sweden in the final group stage, they can play against Group A in the first round of the knockout round.

Considering that the ranking of the upper half of Group A is still in a pending state, England has immediately denied the claim that they would "take the opponent" in the game against Sweden for the team's image.

"I want to touch Germany or Ecuador? I don't know, but we will do our best to beat Sweden," Joe Cole said in an interview.

But it must be said that this is a big problem.

There is no team that wants to meet Germany in the quarterfinals, so naturally the same goes for England. Most players and coaches do not want to meet Germany, and only a few players such as Zhang Tiehan hope to meet Germany. Hargreaves, who plays for Bayern Munich, thinks it will be interesting to meet teammates from many clubs in the World Cup.

Zhang Tiehan really wants to play against the German team because he wanted to join the German team before, but Klinsmann may be a bit racist and he always refuses to go outside the German team.

He wants to play against Klinsman's team and defeat them at that time, that would be really interesting.

He always thought so.

Now that the opportunity has come, Zhang Tiehan hopes to meet Germany in the top 16. "If I were asked to choose an opponent, I would definitely choose Germany. It would be interesting to play against a strong team, and eliminating the host is an interesting thing in itself," said Zhang Tiehan.

However, friends of his Munich neighbors definitely don't think so. He grew up in Munich since childhood. So Zhang Tiehan immediately stopped talking. After all, he has German nationality. In the eyes of Europeans, he is a German, which is really a bit suspicious of "selling-country".

Of course this is what the Chinese say. Europeans actually don’t think so. Since Zhang Tiehan joined the England team, he is a player of the England team. The German team only represents German football, not the entire Germany. Europeans will not associate the team with the country.

It is undeniable that fans who care about the situation in Group A and Group B are paying attention to the rankings of the two groups. Whether it is Germany or England, they will care about the collision of the top 16.

Judging from the current points, England has determined to qualify with 6 points, Sweden has 4 points, and basically one foot has entered the top 16. Trinidad and Tobago with 1 points still have theoretical possibility of qualifying, while Paraguay has certainly no hope of advancing.

In the last round of the group stage, the battle between England and Sweden will be crucial: If England wins, it will be the best in the league. After the defeat, Sweden depends on the situation of another game. If the Special League wins and wins enough goal difference, it is still possible to squeeze Sweden out; if England draws against Sweden, no matter what the result is in another game, England and Sweden will win first and second in the group respectively; if Sweden beats England, then Sweden will come from behind to win the top spot in the group, and England will rank second.

From the above analysis, we can see that England will surely qualify for the win, draw, and the difference is only the ranking issue; for Eriksen and his fellow Swedish people, the draw seems to be a happy result. But due to the situation in another group, things are not that simple - if the German team cannot defeat Ecuador in the third round, the host will qualify as the second in the group, so that the top spot in Group B will become a hot potato. After all, most people will not want to encounter the host too early in such a competition.

Then if Germany ranks second in the group after two games, then the finale of Group B in a few hours is likely to be in a rather complicated way.

For England, what they hope most now is the Germans to defeat Ecuador as they wish.

In that case, they will at least not face the embarrassment of "violating sports morality". As long as they score 1 point on the Swedes, they will face Ecuador in the round of 16 as the first in Group B. - the Germans do not want to encounter the England team, and the English do not want to encounter the host in advance.

However, once the German is tied or even defeated by Ecuador, the problem will be left to England coach Eriksen, which is a huge problem. Facing the Swedes who have been unable to win for many years, should England strive for victory, or will it deliberately lose to the opponent and choose an ideal opponent for its knockout stage?

Choosing the former is to send yourself to the situation of fighting against the Germans, while choosing the latter will be a scandal in the World Cup, and media around the world will ruthlessly use the most bitter language to mock the English.

In this regard, Erikson even told the whole team not to talk about this before the game.

It doesn't matter in the whole team that only Zhang Tiehan is. He even wants to meet the German team. If he staggers the German team this time, I'm afraid there will be no chance in this World Cup. It is not easy for England to enter the finals. Even if he lacks confidence in the team, he performs very well, but for the whole team... Zhang Tiehan doesn't want to comment on other people's performances. Such a team will definitely be a difficult game when it encounters a strong team.

The best result is that if Germany defeats Ecuador and wins the first place in Group A, everything will be simple. England and Sweden will strive for victory to qualify for the first place.

In fact, in this regard, the German team is also embarrassing.

The Germans absolutely did not expect that while they won all the two games, Ecuador, a small South American country, also scored 6 points, and even had two more goals in terms of goal difference than Germany. Germany could only rank first in the group after defeating its opponent.

Although Sweden may defeat England, Beckenbauer has made it clear: "We don't want to meet the English in the quarterfinals!"

But for the Germans who are the host, they definitely cannot accept the result of second place in the group, and they can only strive to be the first place in the group.

The question for the Germans is whether the Germans can win in front of Ecuador who is in excellent condition.

German media also expressed concerns about the prospect of the German team's final game. Bistro believes that "it is not easy to defeat Ecuador. They are a very mature team, with steady defense and extremely threatening offense. Their midfield and frontcourt will cause great trouble to the German team's back line. Unless the German team plays as well as Poland, it is not easy to defeat Ecuador."

The focus of everything is on the match between Germany and Ecuador.
Chapter completed!