Chapter 163 This contract is crazy! Gu Ran: I’m still just a kid!
Author: You want Cayenne
Chapter 163 This contract is crazy! Gu Ran: I’m still just a child!
After leaving the U18 training ground, Gu Ran followed Lais into the central complex building of the training base.
By the way, Laisi introduced to Gu Ran the multi-functional gym, multimedia tactics room, various coaching offices, conference rooms, restaurants, physical examination and medical centers, physical therapy rooms and other departments in the building, and finally brought Gu Ran to
The senior director's office is located on the third floor.
Old Les's office is very simply decorated, and you can tell from one glance that he doesn't come here often.
The most conspicuous thing on his desk is a photo frame with gold edges. The photo in the photo frame is a photo of young Bell and him.
17-year-old Bell... is really high-spirited.
When Bale was at his peak, many people considered him to be Cristiano Ronaldo's replacement.
But who would have thought that 12 years later, Ronaldo would still be the top player in the world, but Bale would have retired.
I heard Old Les smile and say: "Gu, I have prepared a new photo frame for you, just waiting for you to shine at the Southampton Club! When the time comes, I will place you and Bale on the left and right.
Here, haha, other old guys will definitely be jealous and crazy!”
Damn it...
Suddenly, another piece of pie was drawn.
Gu Ran quickly said with full sincerity: "Thank you Mr. Rice for your love! I will definitely work hard!"
Old Laisi smiled happily and said: "Gu, I have told you so many times, don't be polite to me. This is your own home. Come here, come here. You sit down and I will get you a contract."
"Let me tell you," Old Les said while bending down to open the safe on the other side of his desk: "This contract is definitely the strongest contract that Southampton Club can offer. I believe it.
, after you watch it, I guarantee you will be very satisfied.”
With that said, Old Les took out a thick stack of contracts from the safe.
Gu Ran quickly reached out and took it.
This is the first contract of his career!
This contract is very heavy...
There are at least thirty or forty pages!!!
Gu Ran suddenly felt a headache, and once again felt in his heart how important it was to find a good agent.
This is originally the job of the agent, but after all, it is also the first professional contract in life, so you might as well do your own research.
Gu Ran opened the "Star of Hope" contract and read it carefully.
Old Les sat aside, squinting his eyes slightly and saying nothing, as if he was taking a nap, or like a fisherman waiting for a big fish to take the bait.
...The biggest fish I can catch in my life!
Lamar Carter's words echoed in Old Rice's ears.
At this moment, Old Les felt very happy inside.
Although he knew that it was not appropriate to compare Gu Ran's signing of the contract to a fish biting the hook. After all, this professional contract was really full of sincerity, but this sense of expectation that he could catch a fish just before he saw it... was really
It's so wonderful!
Let’s continue creating heirs tonight!
Old Les straightened his back...forget it, let's do it next week.
...We can also watch Gu Ran play in the semi-finals next week.
Gu Ran didn't pay attention to Laisi's fiery gaze, but read the contract carefully.
This contract seems to have many pages, but it is actually divided into four parts.
The first few pages detail the responsibilities and obligations of both parties as professional clubs/professional players, as well as many principles for handling various disputes when they arise, and also cite various British arbitration rules applicable to athletes.
For example, the club cannot pay wages on time, or cannot provide players with standard training equipment, etc. How to deal with problems.
Another example is how to deal with problems such as players not being able to come to the training base for training on time, or going on strike unprofessionally, not obeying the head coach's arrangements, etc.
It’s so detailed…
This one is actually a standard contract, and all professional player contracts will have this standard.
Gu Ran quickly passed by and transitioned directly to the second part of the contract.
The second part is different from the standard contract.
The focus of the second part is the length of the contract, the club's positioning of the players, and the minimum termination clause.
This part clearly states that Southampton Club will train Gu Ran in the way of cultivating "the core of the future team".
Gu Ran is the third star player of Southampton Club, sharing the same training resources as Chamberlain and Luke Shaw before him.
The signing period of the contract is 3 years - in the UK, players under the age of 18 can only sign a contract for up to 3 years.
Gu Ran noticed that there was a clause added to his contract: when Gu Ran turns 18, Southampton Club has the right to offer a new contract at any time with no less benefits and value than the current contract, and Gu Ran must
sign.
——Obviously, this is a small contract trap.
It's not a scam, but it's definitely a ploy by Southampton Club to bind Gu Ran.
Seeing this, Gu Ran couldn't help but smile knowingly.
This kind of little trap is actually nothing. After all, the club has invested so many resources in you. It is impossible to let you go after 3 years. You must sign a contract with a longer term and a higher termination fee after you turn 18.
contract.
The club's mentality is also fully reflected in the "minimum termination clause".
Generally speaking, Spanish professional leagues have express provisions that players over the age of 17 must have a minimum termination fee when signing a contract, in order to protect the interests of young players.
In the UK, there is no such mandatory rule. Not all players over the age of 17 have to sign a minimum release fee, but as long as they sign a minimum release fee, they will be protected and restricted by the Football Association Competition Regulations.
Termination clauses are not only binding on players, but also on clubs.
If the club no longer wants the player, or wants to reduce the player's weekly salary, or wants to loan the player out, but the player is unwilling, then the player has the right to continue to enjoy the current contract until the expiration of the contract, unless the club pays the termination fee and
Players kick out.
Otherwise, players can just come and play golf every day, swing it around, and play golf easily.
The most typical example of this is...
——Gu Ran couldn't help but look up at the photo frame on Laisi's desk.
When Laisi saw this scene, he was even more crazy and secretly happy:
I knew it! It’s very useful to draw cakes for young people!
Gu Ran must be thinking about how to become a star like Bale now!
Therefore, he will definitely be eager to sign the contract!
Gu Ran lowered his head again and continued to read the contract...
The restriction of the termination fee on players is that when a player is not satisfied with playing in a small club and a big club offers a more attractive contract, the small club can use the termination fee to prevent the player from directly changing jobs and transferring.
As long as the small club does not approve the player's transfer, the big club will not be able to terminate the current contract and take away the player unless it pays the liquidated damages set in the contract.
In this way, small clubs will not lose anything.
The amount of the termination fee is generally determined based on the total contract price and the club's assessment of the player's future.
Generally speaking, the termination bonus for ordinary players is 1.25 times or 2 times the total contract price.
The termination bonus for key players will be about three times the total price of their current contract, and for core players in the team, it will even be about five times the total price of their contract.
As for superstars like Ronaldo and Messi, they cannot be restricted by multiples of their contract value.
As a "star of hope", Gu Ran can be regarded as a key player in terms of termination fee.
So normally, Gu Ran's termination fee is probably less than 3 times the total value of his contract.
Gu Ran quickly made a mental calculation: If calculated based on a weekly salary of 2,600 pounds, the total value of this three-year contract is about 400,000 pounds, so his liquidated damages setting should be about 1 million -
Between £1.2 million.
Gu Ran flipped through several pages in succession and finally saw the minimum liquidated damages set by Southampton for him at the bottom——
5 million pounds.
Damn it!
Crazy?
Gu Ran rubbed his eyes and read it again...
£5 million indeed!
This, this, this...
I'm still just a kid!
I’m just a grassroots amateur high school student!
The first professional contract is set at such a high price!?
A minimum termination fee of 5 million pounds is something that teams in League One and League One, let alone the Championship, cannot afford. Even Premier League teams will be daunted.
After all, 5 million pounds can buy a lot of well-known players at the Premier League level!
If you bite the bullet and add another 2 million, it will be enough to buy a Carvalho-level star!
Of course, such a high liquidated damages really shows that Southampton Club is really optimistic about Gu Ran's future and prevents him from being poached by other clubs in advance.
...You really treat me like a treasure.
I really want to sing a line that makes me like and worry me~
Gu Ran smiled secretly and continued browsing.
The third part of a professional contract is about money.
This is the most important part and takes up the most pages. It is roughly divided into financial issues such as weekly salary, bonuses, fines, advertising revenue sharing, broadcasting revenue sharing, image rights sharing, etc.
The first two items introduced are league ranking revenue sharing and broadcasting revenue sharing.
In Gu Ran's contract, the share of these two items is 0.
The contract uses a relatively long paragraph to explain why Gu Ran does not have a ranking revenue share and a broadcast revenue share——
In English League One, these two benefits are very low and cannot be compared with the scale of rewards in the Premier League.
In the Premier League, as long as they win the championship, all players in the first team will receive a championship bonus of about 1 million pounds.
As for the broadcast revenue of the Premier League, it is also extremely high. It is no exaggeration to say that it is definitely the best in the world and has no rivals in the five major leagues.
The 20 Premier League teams can share 1.44 billion pounds together (data around 2010, reaching 5.05 billion pounds in domestic revenue + 21.03 euros in overseas broadcast revenue in 2022). The top-ranked BIG6 can get the most, and can share 1.44 billion pounds.
25%, lower-ranked clubs can get about 1 million pounds more for every higher ranking.
The income from overseas broadcasts alone is enough to beat the local broadcast income of the other four major leagues.
Do you want to hold it in your mouth or not?
And what about the revenue from English League One?
According to current data, the bonus that the Championship team of League One can receive is only 10,000 pounds.
The gap in broadcast revenue is even greater. The 24 clubs in English League One have to share 400,000 pounds, and each club only has less than 20,000 pounds.
So, why is every club trying to attack the Premier League like crazy? Why do Premier League clubs dare to spend crazy money to buy people?
This is a huge difference between 400,000 pounds and 1.44 billion pounds!
Seeing this, Gu Ran was filled with wonder and sigh in his heart!
Before his rebirth, he only thought that the Premier League was good because it was the birthplace of modern football and that its players were professional enough. Only at this moment did he understand... This was really a waste of money!
When there is a chance in the future, we will have to buy a club to enjoy ourselves...
This contract also added a supplementary clause: If Southampton can break into the Premier League in the future, then the ranking share and broadcast share Gu Ran will receive will be the second highest in the team, only lower than those with the main contract.
old players.
I have to say, this is really quite sincere.
Of course, if he can really help the Southampton club achieve a triple jump and return to the Premier League, then Gu Ran's strength will definitely be more than that of a second-tier player.
Therefore, this supplementary clause is indeed sincere, but in fact it is just a piece of cake.
Next, there is the sharing of advertising revenue and the sharing of player image rights.
For both items, Southampton Club has given a 30% share ratio.
This share ratio is also very sincere.
There is no need to explain the advertising revenue. A player's portrait rights are actually equivalent to personal copyrights. As long as his face, image, signature, etc. appear in commercial activities, the other party must pay for the portrait rights.
Players' image rights are the bulk of a star's personal commercial income, and it is also an item from which the club can directly obtain financial benefits after purchasing the star.
However, for Gu Ran, it was still too early to consider these things.
Although there is sincerity in the share ratio in this contract, in a low-level league like English League One, this is just a picture.
Next, there is the weekly salary, bonuses, and fines.
The weekly salary is £2,600, paid 52 weeks a year.
This price was also revealed by Laisi before.
Although it is not as good as Chelsea's 4,000 pounds, for the Southampton club, this is definitely very sincere.
A rich friend who eats tens of thousands a meal gives you 100 yuan, and a poor friend who eats vegetables every day gives you 100 yuan. The emotional weight of the two 100 yuan is completely different.
The bonus is divided into two parts. The first is the "best of the match" bonus. As long as you win the best of the match in the professional competition, you can get a reward of 3,000 pounds.
This bonus is not set for Gu Ran, but is a standard for all players in the Southampton first team.
To get this bonus, you must first play in official games as a first-team player, and you must also get the highest rating in the game.
£3,000 is not too high.
But as long as you have the ability, you can get it every week, which adds up to a considerable reward.
You know, in English League One, most teams do not have a "man of the match" bonus.
Even many English Championship teams do not have this bonus.
The second is the club's internal "championship promotion" bonus: as long as Southampton's first team can qualify for promotion to the English Championship, the first team's salary will increase by 10%. If it wins the English League Championship and is directly promoted with championship qualifications,
Then the salary of the first team will directly increase by 12%.
In terms of fines, they are mainly for being late, leaving early, fighting, violating rules, disobeying arrangements, contradicting the coach, etc.
The intensity of the fines is also different. For example, the lightest fine is for being late, with a fine of 50 pounds for each late arrival. The heaviest fine is for contradicting the coach or beating teammates. Depending on the seriousness of the case, a person will be fined up to 3 months' salary and will also be demoted.
Reserve team.
After reading the weekly salary and bonus section, all that is left are the various details.
For example, before officially signing a contract, you must complete a physical examination and evaluation by the team doctor, complete a physical examination and assessment by the coaching staff, and sign several liability exemption agreements, etc.
As expected, the minimum appearance rate that Gu Ran was most concerned about was written into the final supplementary terms of the contract, and was explained in detail.
For example, if Gu Ran's physical fitness is not up to standard after evaluation, or he is injured or sick, or the coaching staff believes that Gu Ran is not suitable for the game, then the minimum appearance rate clause will be discounted or voided, etc.
In a word, if the club signs you, it will never let you fail.
——Professional players are not professional, which means they are not professional.
After reading more than thirty pages, Gu Ran's eyes almost blurred.
Fortunately, I finally have a general understanding of professional contracts.
During the whole process when Gu Ran was reading the contract, Laisi was staring at Gu Ran and observing:
...Is it time to take the bait of my big fish?
Gu Ran closed the thick contract and smiled calmly, "Mr. Rice, this contract is great and sincere. I am very, very touched. I can't wait to sign it now."
"but……"
Old Les covered his heart!
He is most afraid of this! He is most afraid of this!
For a moment, Old Les suddenly felt that he was not fishing, but the fish was fishing for him!
He felt like he was being controlled by Gu Ran!!!
But he couldn't believe it! After all, Gu Ran was just a 17-year-old grassroots amateur high school player!
Gu Ran smiled and said, "Mr. Rice, there are a few things that I need to discuss with you further."