Soon, the news that Zhao Yang scored a hat trick to draw with Espanyol spread to the country.
It turns out that the league Zhao Yang plays in is too low. Although Zhao Yang scores a lot of goals, fans still don't pay much attention to him.
But Espanyol is a La Liga team and the rival of the dream team Barcelona.
After being acquired by a Chinese owner, Espanyol's domestic influence has greatly increased. Although it cannot be compared with Real Madrid and Barcelona, teams like Atletico Madrid and Sevilla cannot compare with Espanyol.
The Segunda B team actually drew with Espanyol. If Zhao Yang were not in the St. Andrew's team, the Espanyol team would definitely be ridiculed in China.
Now, all Chinese sports media and fans have forgotten to mock Espanyol and are pursuing Zhao Yang.
"The West Bing marksman defeated the parrot army with three arrows"
"The Green Devil defeated the Spaniards by himself."
“Amateurs score hat-trick against Espanyol.”
"The Green Devil is actually Chinese?"
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After this wave of hype, Zhao Yang finally let the Chinese media and fans know who he was, and also gained a lot of fans for himself.
A few days later, an even more important news came out.
"Espanyol wants to buy La Liga B players for 2 million euros."
"Espanyol's acquisition target actually comes from Segunda B."
"Zhao Yang is about to transfer to Espanyol."
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As soon as the news broke, it immediately made headlines in the sports pages of major domestic football media and portal websites.
Almost all Chinese fans can't help but wonder after a Chinese player signs with a top European team. Are the European teams interested in the player himself, or are they coveting China's domestic market?
This kind of thing has happened many times. For example, Zhang Zhe of the Bundesliga did not appear for a minute at Wolfsburg and became the mascot of the water cooler.
There are also players in La Liga, such as Zhang Dong loaning out Rayo Vallecano.
There are also some in the Premier League, such as Dongfang Zhuo joining Manchester United.
These people can enter the top teams because of the domestic market behind them.
Although Zhao Yang also has a huge Chinese market behind him, his performance in La Liga C was too eye-catching, scoring consecutive goals in the play-offs and warm-up matches, and two days ago he even scored a hat trick to draw with Espanyol.
Many fans believe that the Espanyol team was convinced by Zhao Yang.
According to the tradition of Europeans and Americans, if you can't beat them, join them. It is common sense that they want to acquire Zhao Yang.
Spanish domestic media are also paying close attention to this news.
"Daily Sports" and "World Sports" both introduced in detail Zhao Yang, the "scandal" target of the Espanyol team.
"The object favored by the Parrot Legion actually comes from a newly promoted team from Segunda B."
"The player Espanyol wants to sign was an amateur player six months ago."
"Sweeping through West C and drawing with the Spaniards, he is the big devil Zhao Yang from China."
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Even the media in Madrid reported this rumor. "Marca" even exaggeratedly said, "Messi will face a mysterious opponent, and the Barcelona derby will detonate China."
With such reports by Chinese media and Spanish media, Zhao Yang's transfer immediately attracted the attention of fans in both countries, and everyone is waiting for the truth about this transfer to come to light.
Guasco was dissatisfied with the 2 million euro offer from the St. Andrew's team, so he negotiated with the St. Andre's team while doing the work of Zhao Yang's agent Martinez.
After Zhao Yang said that he would not force San Andre to go to San Andreu, Martinez, who was assigned by the company as Zhao Yang's agent, became the target of Guasco's lobbying.
Martinez was very dissatisfied with being sent by the company to be Zhao Yang's agent. He believed that Zhao Yang was just a Segunda B player with no future and no money. It was a pure waste of time, so the time spent meeting Zhao Yang
Not even as good as Zhen Li.
Until Zhao Yang drew with Espanyol and was favored by Espanyol, Martinez discovered Zhao Yang's value and immediately agreed to Guasco's request to force San Andre's club to lower the transfer fee.
Martinez found Carlos and expressed his opinion, but Carlos still had his original idea and would not lower it at all.
Seeing that Carlos could not be moved, Martinez encouraged Zhao Yang to stop training and play missing, forcing the St. Andrew team to make concessions.
Zhao Yang was disgusted with Martinez's statement and said that he would never stop training or miss games. He would let the two clubs discuss the transfer so that Martinez would be less involved.
He also wanted to persuade Zhao Yang, but Zhao Yang warned him not to participate, otherwise he would apply to the company to change his agent.
Martinez didn't expect this young man who was just starting out to have such a personality, so he had no choice but to do what Zhao Yang said.
The negotiations were deadlocked for a long time. The turning point came from another warm-up match of the St. Andrew's team. In this game, Zhao Yang once again scored a hat trick to help the team win.
After this game, the new owner of Espanyol, Chen Yansheng, became impatient and took the initiative to give St. Andrew's 2 million euros to secure Zhao Yang before the start of the season.
After settling the St. Andrew's Club, the Spaniard began to negotiate Zhao Yang's transfer contract with bestofyousports.
Bestofyousports didn't pay much attention to this matter at first and thought it might be a rumor. The possibility of Zhao Yang transferring to the Espanyol team was not considered. When they saw that the Spaniards really paid out 2 million to buy out Zhao Yang, bestofyousports hurriedly
He sent his strongest agent to negotiate with the Spaniards and strive for the best interests for Zhao Yang and his company.
Espanyol gave St. Andrew's a super high transfer fee, but they were not so happy with the annual salary they paid Zhao Yang.
With the efforts of bestofyousports, in the end, Zhao Yang's annual salary was only 50,000 euros higher than La Liga's minimum standard, but it was floating, starting at 200,000 euros, and the signing fee was only a pitiful 10,000 euros.
This is the result of Zhao Yang's insistence.
Zhao Yang's annual salary is linked to his number of goals and assists. The more goals and assists he has, the higher his annual salary will be.
The Espanyol team is very satisfied with this condition. They will not suffer any loss anyway. If Zhao Yang can really score so many goals, the annual salary they offer will be worth it.
However, bestofyousports is a little worried. In their view, it is still a question whether Zhao Yang can make his debut in La Liga, let alone score so many goals and assists.
Zhao Yang and the Espanyol also had differences over image rights and advertising sharing. Zhao Yang hoped to get 50-50, but the Espanyol wanted to get everything.
In the end, Zhao Yang received a 10% share.
The two parties signed a three-year contract, adopting a two-plus-one model, with a fixed validity period of two years. In the third year, Zhao Yang needs to complete more than one-third of the playing time before the contract can be renewed.