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The Champions League H group staged a reversal drama that fans talked about.
AC Milan, who only scored 1 point in the first two rounds, qualified in advance after three consecutive victories!
Bruges, who has led the standings since the first round of the group stage and scored 8 points in four games, actually had to fight Ajax in the last game after losing a goal in the fifth round!
Ajax, who lost three games in the first four games, survived and regained the initiative in his destiny!
Celta lost hope of promotion and was eliminated early, and could not even get the qualification for the Europa League. Without the final round, he was destined to be at the bottom of the group.
The game against Celta became a milestone event that Qin Xiong started a well-known European football game.
The report card of two shots and one pass, and the last-minute final victory, made European football witness a stunning young player on the highest stage in Europe!
The Dutch media's tone was extremely fast, and Koeman became the master of tactics in their mouths. Combined with Ajax's strong performance in the last two rounds of the league, he won the Champions League again and regained the initiative. Ajax's technical and tactical transformation has begun to show results. Koeman made an indelible contribution and made him famous.
However, the media's position on football club coaches or players is not unwavering. Perhaps today's boast is to make even more ruthless when they take the blame tomorrow!
The higher you hold you, the more miserable you will see you fall!
In this way, there is no shortage of news, focus topics, and attention from the outside world.
It was already early the next morning when the team returned to Amsterdam. Qin Xiong slept in the apartment for eight hours. After getting up, he was about noon. He did some light exercises and went downstairs to prepare for lunch. He unexpectedly saw Dekoise, Rutmanson, Freddy and Pister set up a table of hearty food in the small restaurant.
Dekoise trotted out of the restaurant, stepped forward and hugged Qin Xiong, and smiled and said, "Qin Xiong, you were really amazing in the competition last night! Come on, we have prepared a celebration banquet for you!"
Old customers who came to restaurants to have dinner around also knew Qin Xiong and knew that an Ajax player lived nearby. They all nodded to Qin Xiong with smiles, and some young people would come up to ask Qin Xiong to take a photo and sign.
If the Dutch national derby made Qin Xiong famous, then the gloriousness in the Champions League would make him famous in the Netherlands.
It is hard to refuse the kindness.
Qin Xiong walked into the restaurant and felt a little strange.
Celebration banquet?
What to celebrate with four old men?
However, the atmosphere of the meal was still very warm.
After lunch, before Qin Xiong went to the club, Freddy stopped him, and the two talked in front of open-air tables and chairs outside the restaurant.
"This morning, Ajax's representative called me and hoped to update the contract with you."
Qin Xiong did not make a fuss when he heard this. In fact, Van Gaal also mentioned this topic intentionally or unintentionally once or twice, but Van Gaal was not responsible for the specific matters.
Qin Xiong fell into deep thought, Freddy said solemnly: "The specific conditions are like this: the contract period is extended for three years, your salary will rise to 12,000 euros per week, additional appearance fee will be 2,000 euros, goal 1,000 euros, assisted 800 euros bonus, and the basic weekly salary will be increased by 15% year by year. In addition, now, the contract is updated, Ajax is willing to give you another 200,000 euros signing fee and pay it immediately."
Qin Xiong's performance in the past three months proved that Ajax's signing him was a wise decision, but unfortunately, the contract Ajax signed with Qin Xiong three months ago does not have strong guarantees.
This is understandable, because Ajax may sign more than twenty young players every year, but most of them enter the U18 or even lower echelon.
When signing these players in the early stage, you cannot give too high rewards, otherwise, over time, the professional football success rate will not be high, which will easily lead to an increase in operating costs.
Players who have good performance and can make a name for themselves will update their contracts immediately, which is also a common practice. Ajax's reaction is already fast, especially considering that Qin Xiong entered the first team two months ago.
December is about to enter. According to Qin Xiong's contract period, in another 13 months, he will be able to openly negotiate new contracts with other teams and leave Ajax as a free agent in 19 months.
This must be something Ajax doesn't want to see.
So in order to retain players, of course, it is a salary increase and renewal. Eliminating competitive factors, the club's sincerity in retaining players is reflected in one word: money!
After all, playing football is a job to support a family for professional players.
Qin Xiong looked at Freddy and asked, "What about your response?"
Freddy said: "I did not make any promises and just said I would consider it carefully, but my personal advice is that now is not the best time to decide whether to renew the contract. First, the Netherlands is not the pursuit of your long-term goal. Second, if next summer and you can finally maintain the momentum of the last two months in this season, then you will have more choices. Even if there is no better club than Ajax to throw you an olive branch, Ajax's renewal conditions will definitely be richer than now, because next summer, your contract period will be only one year left, and Ajax will bear the greater risk of losing you without a return."
Qin Xiong nodded.
What he saw before him would be a contract that was a hundred times more generous than his current salary, but this was just the benefit in front of him. His career was just beginning. Although money is important, how to maximize profits should be considered carefully. You should not sign a contract with the club when you see money. Maybe you have made a lot of money, but looking at the long run, you may have lost a lot invisibly.
This is also the experience he learned from players such as De Jong Sneider. Their contract period is long. When they signed the contract that year, they felt that the reward was very good, but the entire football environment was changing, especially with the social background of the economic crisis, the football industry was a trend of perpetuity. The operating costs increased year by year, and the players' salaries also rose. After two or three years, Sneider and others looked at the contract remuneration and really felt that it was a loss to sign a long-term contract with the team that hastily that year.
"Ajax is actually very good. If it weren't for the reasons of the league's competitiveness, I might have the idea of ​​staying here for a long time. But like some of my teammates, and many Dutch local players' professional development trajectories as reference, no matter when that day comes, I have the idea of ​​leaving here. I know that renewal is a big thing that both parties must show sincerity. The club will give me a high salary, so I have to pay the price of freedom, which is reasonable. But since I am not willing to be restricted by a long-term contract, I don't have the confidence to ask the club to raise my salary. Kyle, my bottom line is that it will not extend the contract period and has nothing to do with the salary. I want to see if there is a chance to go to a higher level league in the next year and a half to carry out new challenges."
Kyle Freddy nodded seriously.
Qin Xiong coincided with his ideas.
Although Qin Xiong is only gaining a foothold in Ajax now, he should look forward to the long-term. This is an adventurous decision. If his condition declines, it means that his value will also drop. Perhaps there will be no better clubs in the future willing to take him away, and Ajax will not give him a better contract treatment than he is now.
But this is life. Every fork in the road has to make your own choices and take risks.
After formally establishing the bottom line of negotiations with Freddy about Ajax's contract renewal, Qin Xiong went to the club to participate in training.
Today will be a lighter-intensity restorative training, and the teammates will talk and laugh during training.
As for the story that happened in the game, it was not that everyone left behind, but that there was no need to mention it later.
With the ball dealers of Ibrahimovic and Van der Fate, that is not a difficult problem to figure out.
It’s nothing more than that your ability is not enough to put yourself above your teammates and cannot withstand the team’s difficulties. Then, don’t be selfish, it will not be of any benefit to yourself, because your teammates are not unknown people. The team chemistry and bursting energy they produce must be stronger than you personally!
Chapter completed!