Chapter 35 Advertising Contract

On the night when Mark scored, Mark invited Momo to his home for dinner. Momo also liked this good opportunity to enjoy delicious food. Not only did Momo come to Mark's home, but there are also some Ajax players at Mark's home. Now, the Ajax players who come to Mark's home often come to Mark's home have many friends such as Babel, Vermallen, Van der Fate, etc.

Moreover, De Jong is invited by Mark from time to time to visit his home. De Jong is now able to play the main position, so there seems to be no competitive relationship with Mark. De Jong's mood has changed a lot, and he is not as full of hatred as at the beginning, so he is still very happy to go to Mark's invitation.

The small Ajax group dominated by Mark has basically been formed, with four first team members and one youth team, Virmulen. However, an excellent central defender like Virmulen will enter the first team sooner or later. After all, Ajax's defense line is not very abundant now, especially O'Brien, who lost with Mark, was sent to the reserve team, and Koeman did not draw personnel from the reserve team to supplement the team.

"Sister Yu, the dishes you cook are so delicious." Van der Fate ate while praising Yu Meng's cooking skills and said to Mark: "If it weren't for Sylvia's relationship, I really wanted to live here, Mark, you would be too happy."

"Haha, you can bring Sylvia here, there are all rooms anyway," Mark said with a smile.

After hearing Mark's words, Van der Fat knew that Mark was saying polite words, but if he really brought Sylvia here, Mark would not object. However, this matter is very impolite. You can stay at Mark's house for a few days for a while. If you live together for a long time, all the problems will come. Moreover, players with a net worth of Van der Fat need their own space, and he also has the ability to create his own space.

"How about this, let's just buy a house next to you, let's be our neighbor?" Vanderfart thought of a good compromise and said, "And I think the relationship between Sylvia and Du Chen is so good. They must have a lot of things to say."

Mark also nodded, and he agreed with Van der Fate's suggestion. If this is the case, it would indeed be better to bring the relationship with Van der Fate closer.

"When I get rich in the future, I will build a house next to your house. I won't have to cook anymore," Babel interrupted with a smile.

De Jong and Vermullen also expressed the same opinion.

"I'm going to become a canteen," Mark said loudly as if he was so painful, but Mark wouldn't be like this just because there were too many people coming to his house for dinner. This was completely like this expression Mark made for entertainment.

Mark's expression won everyone's laughter, and they thought Mark was so interesting.

"Di Di Di" At this time, the phone rang, "Sorry, I'll go and answer the phone." After saying hello to everyone politely, then came outside to answer the phone. Because answering the phone is very private, it is necessary to avoid everyone.

Everyone's good mood was not disturbed by the sudden call from Momo. They were still chatting happily, and then joked with each other, and the atmosphere seemed very harmonious.

Mark suddenly realized that De Jong, who had just joined his small group, was not as silent as his appearance. After opening the conversation, De Jong also talked endlessly about his things. Of course, these things are all interesting things, and how he galloped across the night club in Amsterdam! The matter of the women.

Everyone expressed disdain for De Jong's bragging. De Jong actually bet with these players that if his affairs were fake, he would lose 4,000 euros. If it was true, everyone, including Mark, would give him 1,000 euros.

In fact, this money is not much for professional players. Even the lowest-paid Vermullen now has a weekly salary of 800 euros, not to mention players like Mark and Van der Fate who get the maximum salary. In fact, everyone is gambled just to join in the fun. Men like Mark who basically don’t go to nightclubs are not very interested in this. Anyway, Mark is not bad for that one thousand euros. Since everyone is interested, Mark will also participate.

Of course, everyone could not go to the nightclub immediately and let Derong go to confirm. Since today's game just ended, everyone was tired, so even if Derong performed abnormally now, he had reason to defend himself. Everyone agreed to wait a few days to find a time before letting Derong prove his strength.

At this time, after answering the phone call, he came over. Mark did not ask who called Momo. Mark was not that boring. Anyway, if he wanted to say something, he would naturally tell himself. If he didn't want to say it, he would ask in vain.

Moreover, Momo and Mark are in an employment relationship. Mark is neither his boyfriend nor his guardian. Even if they are boyfriend and girlfriend, there will be privacy.

After everyone had enough food and food, they left Mark's home and Momo took the initiative to find Mark and talk about the phone call he had just received.

"I just received a call from the head of the advertising department of Li Ning Company from China. They hope to talk to you about advertising endorsement of their football shoes." Momo explained to Mark little by little: "The current football shoes of Li Ning Company are the iron series football shoes endorsed by Chinese player Li Tie. Now, since Li Tie cannot play in the Premier League Everton game, the exposure rate is not high, so Li Ning Company now calls me with their sincerity, hoping that you can endorse their iron series football shoes."

After hearing the patient explanation of Momo, Mark understood what was going on. It turned out that Li Ning wanted to find a new spokesperson for Chinese players who played football in Europe. This is definitely a good opportunity for Mark to let more people know him. However, in Mark's concept, although Li Ning is the top Chinese brand, it is still a bit worse than Adidas and Nike. Mark naturally has to ask about things he doesn't understand.

"Didn't Adidas and Nike have no intention of signing a contract with me? Li Ning seems to have never heard of the quality of their sneakers." Mark expressed his doubts to Momo.

"This is the thing. Nike and Adidas have not yet proposed to sign a contract with you, and Li Ning also wants to sign a one-year short contract with you and have priority renewal rights. After all, you are still a newcomer now, but I heard that the current situation of Li Ning is not very good. Multinational companies like Nike and Adidas have already put their strategic focus into the Chinese market. In addition, China also has domestic brands like Anta and Xtep who are good at local combat. Therefore, although Li Ning is still the overlord of domestic sports brands, they are also facing the embarrassing situation of being sandwiched. Now they are optimistic about your potential and will sign a contract with you. After all, they are playing outside of the four major leagues now. Once you become famous, it will be of great benefit to them." Momo continued to patiently explain to Mark.

"Sister, you are so awesome," Mark praised: "Where did you get this information? Even the internal secrets of Li Ning's company are very awesome."

In fact, Mark is very strange. After all, he is not engaged in market research, and Mark does not have any education. He naturally will not consider the analysis of these markets. However, Momo originally studied business. Now, anyone with some business knowledge will see Li Ning's situation. Moreover, Momo has classmates working in these companies in China, and this information is not a commercial secret, so Momo naturally knows something.

"Now I just want to know what your opinion is?" Momo asked Mark's opinion. After all, Momo is just Mark's agent now. If there is any contract signing and endorsement, Mark still needs to nod and agree to her before he can do it.

"No problem, you can do it." Mark naturally had no idea about such a thing. He had to entrust Momo to do it. Anyway, he believed that Momo would not be able to make it to his income. The more Mark earned, the more Momo earned. And if Momo dared to accept black gold on his back, Mark could sue Momo. Therefore, ordinary agents are on the same mind with their own contract players.

"By the way, there are still a few ad endorsements. I wonder if you want to think about it?" Momo continued to ask Mark and said.

"No problem, but the premise is that there is no conflict with training. You also know that our head coach Koeman is a very strict person. If I use training time to shoot advertisements, he will be unhappy." Mark expressed his concerns, and he was also worried about his main position. Although Mark's position is very solid now, if he really messes with coach Koeman, then isn't it a matter of Mark's words?

"This is OK. I will communicate with head coach Koeman in time. If you agree, I will negotiate with them." After receiving Mark's promise, Momo left Mark's villa and immediately negotiated with many advertisers.

In the silent negotiation stage, the 27th round of the Eredivisie also began. Ajax challenged Alkmaer away. Although Ajax defeated his opponent at home in the first half of the season, Alkmaer who returned to home was full of fighting spirit. In addition, Ajax's current players saw a relatively large advantage in leading second place Eindhoven, so their performance on the court was relatively lax, so it was reasonable that Ajax was tied by Alkmaer 1-1 away.

But Eindhoven seemed to have lost again in this game. Ajax's advantage over Eindhoven was widened to thirteen points, which was close to the league championship.

However, after the draw, Ajax's players seemed to have recovered after being scolded by head coach Koeman. In the 28th round, Ajax defeated Groningen 2-1 at home and still led the standings with a 13-point lead.

At this time, Momo, who went to contact the business cooperation matters, also came back. Momo brought back several commercial contracts to Mark. Some Chinese domestic brands such as Feiyada Watches, Lenovo Computers, etc. must sign contracts with Mark. Of course, Mark naturally cannot fly to China for the signing ceremony. These domestic companies also said it is understandable, after all, Mark still has a league to play.

These companies have rushed to Amsterdam, the Netherlands to sign contracts with Mark. Of course, shooting advertisements are naturally indispensable. Fortunately, the photography conditions in Amsterdam are pretty good, and they can basically complete the shooting of advertisements. Mark is now packaged by advertisers from head to toe. Basically, Mark now doesn’t have to spend money to buy what Mark wears. Not only are there free things to use, but these suppliers also provide Mark with a considerable endorsement fee every year.

Mark and these endorsement products share about 3 million euros. Although this money is not high for professional players, as an 18-year-old young man, Mark's weekly salary is about 2 million euros. With the sponsorship fee of 3 million euros, Mark's annual income can reach 5 million euros. This can be said that Mark can also be regarded as the number one player in Chinese football.

Because the media estimated that Li Tie ranked first with RMB 7.5 million, because Mark's new contract had not been announced before, so Mark was not counted. However, the media expected that Li Tie's weekly salary in Everton was between 15,000 and 20,000 pounds. Although he did not play any games due to injury, the income impact was not too great. In addition to some business contracts between Li Tie and Li Ning's company, the total income reached 7.5 million.

However, this algorithm is not correct, because even if Li Tie's salary is calculated as the lowest 150,000 pounds predicted by the media, he should earn about 780,000 pounds a year. Then, according to Li Tie's income in the UK, he will pay taxes according to the 2003 standard, no more than 30%. Let's calculate 540,000 pounds at 30%. According to the tax rate at that time, the exchange rate between RMB and pound one pound and 12 RMB, Li Tie can obtain at least 650,000 people.

The income of RMB, and Li Tie's salary is at least this amount, perhaps more than that. If it is calculated based on a weekly salary of 20,000 pounds, Li Tie's income will be 8.7 million yuan, and it is after tax. Moreover, the endorsement fee for Li Tie's various advertising and commercial activities cannot be only 1 million yuan. There is only one possibility now, that is, the Tianchao Football Association will share the income within Li Tie's salary. There should be no other reason except for such an explanation.

However, Mark did not consider this issue too much. This matter was not something Mark had to worry about. Mark used his rest time to shoot advertisements and signed a one-and-a-half-year contract. The deadline of this contract expires on July 1, 2005. During this period, Mark is obliged to help sponsors promote their products every year, and China will assist sponsors in commercial promotion at least once a year.

Mark naturally agreed to such a request. Anyway, he also needs to take a vacation, so it is not better to go where to go on vacation, and it is also something Mark wants to go home to visit his parents.

However, although Mark was very domineering on the court, he really encountered a lot of problems in the shooting. The photographer was always not very satisfied with Mark's styling and movements. Mark was posed like a toy, but after a long time of shooting, the Lenovo computer advertisement finally ended.

However, there are several advertisers such as Li Ning who need Mark to serve him one by one. Mark's hard life will continue, but after all, they paid for it, so Mark can only use this to comfort himself. Fortunately, Mark's experience has become more and more abundant as he continues shooting, so the shooting process is also much faster than before.

After finally sending all the filming staff away, Mark finally had a rest. These days, he tortured Mark was unclear. Not only did he take time to shoot advertisements every day, but he also had to miss training every day. Originally, when shooting advertisements, he silently suggested that Mark take a few days off, but Mark insisted that he could not break his record of not being absent from work and refused directly. Professional players should not miss training because of private matters. After all, football is the foundation of professional players' survival. Mark thought so and did this. Mark knew that the opportunity he could play in the professional league was hard-won, so he would rather work hard than miss every game, even if it was training, he would not be careless.

Originally, head coach Koeman was very dissatisfied with Mark's advertisement shooting. He wanted to find an opportunity to say that Mark should not affect his condition on the court because of off-court events. However, Mark still trains hard every day as always, so that Koeman can't say anything. However, now Mark has finally bid farewell to the annoying advertising shooting and can concentrate on the game.
Chapter completed!