This season is an important period for Liverpool. Their search for investors came to an end. American businessmen Tom Hicks and George Gillett bid 23,000 pounds to become the new owner of Liverpool club.

After Liverpool was officially acquired, the power was naturally in the hands of the new boss.

George Gillette becomes acting chairman.

Liverpool fans all hope that new investors can bring good changes to the team. What they value most is the Premier League championship. Liverpool has been unable to compete for the league championship for many years, which makes every Liverpool fan feel heartbroken. They all look forward to the team being able to strengthen their strength and enter the competition for the league championship.

George Gillette knows what Liverpool fans are looking forward to. If you want to stabilize people's hearts after successfully entering, the first thing you have to do is to give fans enough confidence.

Signings for the first summer are very important.

In terms of Liverpool's lineup, everyone is discussing the lack of the striker. It can introduce a top striker to help Liverpool improve the striker. It not only gets the support of fans, but also improves the team's strength, can achieve better results, and naturally creates higher benefits.

Liverpool's chief scout David Moss provided two possible candidates, one is Zhen Shaolong who plays for Saint-Paul and the other is Torres who plays for Atletico Madrid.

David Morse expressed his inclination to the former, "This Chinese striker is quite excellent. He can always score difficult goals, and his goals are like performances. Even without the support from the backcourt, he can still score goals by himself."

"In addition, his shooting skills are the best in the world!"

George Gillette doesn't care about David Morse's "Strength Analysis". In the mind of businessmen, putting aside business factors, players with similar value naturally have similar strengths. Does strength analysis still have meaning?

Then the business factors need to be considered.

George Gillette is considering that Torres is a Spanish player, and Spanish players have a more marketable market in Europe and are more likely to be popular. Zhen Shaolong is a Chinese player, and the commercial value of East Asian players is slightly worse.

Of course.

Zhen Shaolong has the potential of the Chinese market, but the Chinese market is relatively far away.

The money Liverpool clubs make in China is almost negligible, and it is not possible to develop the Chinese market in the short term.

In the end, George Gillette chose Torres, but at the same time he still had expectations for Zhen Shaolong, for example, Zhen Shaolong's liquidated damages were only 6 million euros.

"Since the liquidated damages are only 6 million euros, we may spend very little money to get him!"

When George Gillette received a call from Alice, he became extremely enthusiastic. He promised Alice a lot, "We will provide the highest salary contract and give him the best treatment. In addition, we can pay the top-notch, 2 million signing fee, of course, the unit is pounds. He will become our core and the most critical player, and he will succeed in Liverpool."

When Alice was listening very well, George Gillette added the last sentence, "But I hope to bring him to Liverpool by paying the liquidated damages..."

“That’s it.”

Alice explained the content of the phone call and then said to Zhen Shaolong, "I originally wanted to go to Liverpool and talk to the American man in person, but later I realized that they were not sincere because they were still running the transfer of Torres."

Zhen Shaolong nodded and asked, "Is it the golden boy of Atletico Madrid?"

"right."

Alice said, "I contacted Mendes, the very famous football agent. It should be said that Mendes contacted me and he told me the news."

"Mendes?" Zhen Shaolong knew Mendes, a professional player in Europe, probably knows this name. Mendes is the most influential football agent in Europe. "Why did Mendes contact you?"

“He wanted me to join Gasdiford International, his agency, and he talked about being interested in helping run your transfer,” Alice explained.

"Not it's free?"

"Of course," Alice said, "if I join his company, they will help run the transfer, negotiate contracts, etc., provided that I take a commission from my income."

"The agent is called the agent..." This is the first time Zhen Shaolong has heard of such a thing.

"This is very common. For large brokerage companies, sign some small brokers. I am a single-mixed broker." Alice shrugged, "I am considering whether to agree. If you join an economic company, they will be responsible for operating transfers and negotiating contracts. I only need to be responsible for business sponsorship and work related to your life. In the future, asset investment may also be involved..."

Alice explains the broker's job in a complicated way.

Zhen Shaolong's head was a little big when he heard this. He always felt that Alice was relaxed, but he realized that the agent had to do so many things, "Okay, okay! It's here."

Zhen Shaolong drove into the apartment and went upstairs with Alice. When he walked into the room, he saw Claudio preparing lunch. He greeted him and sat on the sofa and continued to talk to Alice, "How much is their commission?"

Alice also sat down and said, "Two percent of your salary income will be charged 50,000 euros each time you sign a formal contract. Don't worry, it's deducted from my agent's commission, it has nothing to do with you."

Zhen Shaolong frowned, "Then your income will be much less, right?"

Alice smiled, "It's acceptable because my job will be much easier, and they only get a salary income, which has nothing to do with income such as business sponsorship, bonuses, etc."

Generally speaking, it is indeed acceptable.

The income of a broker is linked to the player's income, but in fact, there are differences, because it involves a "tax" issue, and the broker and the player do not pay taxes together.

According to the German tax rate, a player with an annual salary of 1 million euros before tax will have an annual after-tax income of about 580,000 euros. The broker will be ten points and the income is 100,000 euros. He only needs to pay about 25% of the tax, and the after-tax income is about 75,000 euros.

If the broker earns less, he will pay less taxes, and the proportion of income to the player's after-tax salary will be higher.

Therefore, it is still acceptable to be a small agent with a low income earnings of two points for a player's salary, but Alice's situation is also a bit special. The agency contract she signed with Zhen Shaolong was only a pitiful five percent.

For ordinary football agents, the commission is about 10%, and those with higher scores can reach 20%.

Five percent...

So pitiful!

Zhen Shaolong had not carefully calculated Alice's income, but he was a little aware of the problem. He hesitated about 'providing Alice's commission ratio' and 'cough' and promised, "Okay, if I can get the highest signing fee, I will give you a part of the bonus."

Alice immediately smiled happily.

Zhen Shaolong changed the topic and said, "By the way, you just said that you have to be responsible for taking care of my life, right? I think I need to take care of it tonight..."

Alice's face suddenly turned red.

Zhen Shaolong glanced at the direction of the kitchen, immediately hugged Alice, and hit the upper and lower parts with both hands. A sneaky action officially began.

The silent assault lasted for nearly three minutes.

When Claudio walked out with a plate, he saw the two sitting on both sides of the sofa, as if they were having a conflict, and he had a tense face and said nothing.

"What's wrong with you?" Claudio asked.

Alice stood up and accepted the plate in Claudio's hand, and then said indifferently, "It's nothing. It's just that I'm too tired today." She turned to look at Zhen Shaolong, "By the way, Zhen, after lunch, I'm going to talk to you about the transfer issue. Let's go to my room, I have a lot of information on my computer."

“Ok.”

Zhen Shaolong quickly made a gesture.

Two days later.

The 32nd round of the Bundesliga started, and Sao Paulo challenged Frankfurt away.

After reaching the finals of the UEFA Cup, Bergman has become more cautious in treating the Bundesliga. He hopes that no accident will occur. Any main player who is injured will have a great impact on the team. The most protected one is Zhen Shaolong. Zhen Shaolong will be strictly restricted by the opponent in every game, and the chance of injury is still very high.

Bergman's principle of playing against Zhen Shaolong is, "Before the League Cup final, try not to play if you can, and everything is mainly about safety."

Sao Pauli ranked third in the league, with 4 points more than Werder Bremen, third, and 7 points more than Bayern Munich, fifth. As long as there is no big surprise, you are sure to stay in the top four, and there is basically no problem with the top three.

Bergmann's remaining games have completely become 'utilitarian', and everything is mainly about grabbing points, and if you can grab one point, you will get one point.

So in the away game against Frankfurt, St. Pauli took a defensive posture at the beginning. Except for Luz who was standing in front, everyone else retreated to participate in the defense, which also made Frankfurt, who was at home, feel very helpless.

Frankfurt wants to win, they are much more urgent than St. Pauli.

St. Pauli fought for the rankings in the first few, and Frankfurt fought for relegation. Their league ranking is fifteenth, with only three more points than Mainz, and there is a high possibility of being caught up in the next three games.

Fighting for relegation is a life-and-death battle. Frankfurt players fought fiercely, but they still don’t have many ways to face St. Pauli’s shameless human tactics.

The game continued to be stalemate until the 71st minute. Seeing that the 20th minute was over, Bergman was also moved to hope to win. He glanced at the bench and finally gritted his teeth and decided to replace Zhen Shaolong.

"We look at the sidelines, St. Pauli raised the substitution card! No. 13! Zhen Shaolong is ready to appear!"

"Frankfurt should be careful!"

Frankfurt no longer cares whether they are careful or not. They are all determined to score a goal, hoping to defeat St. Pauli and get three points, and the offense is still very fierce.

St. Pauli had no choice but to take the time to launch a counterattack.

In the 76th minute, just five minutes after Zhen Shaolong appeared, St. Pauli made a fast attack.

Sulentice passed Boer directly from the middle, and Boer quickly dribbled the ball across the center line, then found Luz in front with one kick.

Frankfurt's central defender was defending Zhen Shaolong, but Luz actually ran away when he got the ball. He dribbled the ball and rushed into the penalty area. When the opponent's defender who came to defend was found that he could not catch up, he simply dropped Luz to the ground.

foul!

“Beep…”

The referee blew a whistle to the timeout, showed a yellow card to the foul Frankfurt player, and then pointed to the free throw point in the penalty area.

St. Pauli won a penalty!

If it is just an ordinary penalty kick, but when St. Pauli gets a penalty kick, almost everyone thinks of a problem-

Zhen Shaolong scored as many as 40 league goals!

"Is it going to break the record?" said the commentator of Deutsche Telekom Sports in a complex tone. "This ball is for Zhen Shaolong to take the penalty, which may become a key goal to break the record, and will also become meaningful..."

"Gad Muller's league goal record may be broken in front of us soon..."

The commentator said that he didn't want Zhen Shaolong to make a free throw, and many German media reporters also hoped that Sao Paulo would send other people to make a free throw.

certainly……

impossible!

Luz got up from the grass and rushed over and hugged Zhen Shaolong, laughing, "Thank me! I'll give you a chance to break the record!"

The outside world could not hear what Luz said, but his movements and expressions, coupled with Zhen Shaolong's approach to the free throw point, could almost guess what he said, and many people immediately labeled Luz as a "traitor to German football."

This 'traitor' was laughing happily!
To be continued...