Chapter 31 Waiting for a Price

When Li Qing saw La Pangzi and Mendes in the crowd, he knew what these people were here for. Apart from his dislike for the notorious La Pangzi, he had no such feelings for other agents, and even had yearning and appreciation for Mendes.

As a future professional player, he must not avoid professional football agents.

In Europe and the United States, where football is well developed, football agents have become an indispensable bridge and hub between clubs and players.

After all, people have limited energy. As a player, it is natural to focus all your attention on the court and repay the club and fans with your excellent performance, which leads to no time to take into account the signing of treatment contracts and advertising contracts outside the court.

For many people, the negotiation process is a very headache and headache.

There is a saying that is very true, every profession has its own specialty, and professional people do professional things.

With the gold-dollarization of football, the annual salary of professional players often reaches millions of euros, and top players like Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar, and Bale even have an annual salary of tens of millions of euros.

In this regard, everyone will inevitably continue to deal with it for their own interests. If the players do it themselves, it will definitely affect the state of the field, thus leading to a decline in personal commercial value, which is not worth the loss.

Therefore, the football agent industry was born.

According to international practice, agents can extract 5% to 20% of the player's contract amount as commission, and enjoy 10% to 20% of the player's income from advertising, management, etc.

No matter how small the mosquito is, it is meat. Every penny is earned by the players through personal struggle. It is more or less painful to hand over hundreds of thousands of euros or even millions of euros to the agent every year, so there are more and more players' relatives serving as agents, so-called... fat water does not flow to outsiders' fields.

Back to the point, Li Qing also thought about finding a relative to be an agent, but the problem is that his parents have passed away, and he has almost no relatives, and only an uncle is in China.

Obviously, none of them are suitable.

Finding a competent professional agent can indeed save a lot of trouble. Ronaldo and Mourinho can focus all their attention on the football field, which is entirely due to Mendes managing their other businesses in an orderly manner and receiving unanimous praise. Therefore, Li Qing has already made a choice in his mind.

As a future superstar in world football, he must find a suitable agent.

Jorge Mendes is the most suitable person.

Of course, this does not mean that Mendes is the only one with good reputation and character in world football, but as a person who has experienced it, he does not want to take a chance, and Mendes, as the boss of the agency, can come to find him in person. What does this mean?

Pay attention!

Although the future relationship between the two is related to the word "interest", but... people can only provide solutions to problems, and when the problem is solved, they will naturally pay a reward.

Li Qing's brain is running at high speed, standing in place, waiting for the arrival of several big agents in world football.

With so many people, he can only choose one, naturally... he has to wait for the price.

Mendes is the most famous agent in the world of football. Even Lafatto, who has gained considerable fame in the European football agent circle in recent years, has to give him face.

Mendes, who was at the front, walked up to Li Qing first, took out a business card from his suit, handed it to Li Qing, and introduced himself in a low-key manner: "Hello, I am Jorge Mendes, a professional football agent."

Several other people introduced themselves one after another: "I am Pere Guardiola, Manchester City coach Josep Guardiola is my brother, if you become my player, I will recommend you to my brother."

"I am Casey James, manager of WMG Group, Liverpool legends Steve Gerrard, Michael Owen and Jamie Carragher are all former customers of our company..."

"I am Tony Joseph, manager of Stellar-Group, Gareth Bale is a customer of my company..."

"I am Walker Strut..."

...

Several business cards were placed in front of him, and Li Qing didn't know which one to take, so he simply interrupted them: "I know why you are here, but this is not the place to talk."

The implication was that they should talk somewhere else.

Mendes was not dissatisfied with Li Qing's indifference. On the contrary, he climbed up the pole: "This is really not a place to talk. Let's go to the best coffee shop in the city center to talk. It's absolutely quiet."

As he said, he made a gesture of invitation.

Li Qing glanced at the other agents and shook his head: "I heard that Central-Perk Coffee Shop is very good. It's next to the largest shopping mall in the city center and it's easy to find."

Regardless of whether these people are willing to go or not, he got into a taxi directly.

Mendes shrugged his shoulders, turned and got into the back seat of the Rolls-Royce, followed the taxi and entered the main road.

Several other agents looked at each other, and one of the young men couldn't help but complain: "What the hell? It's just a youth team player who is so arrogant. I won't sign him at most!"

Another agent who was not much older snorted coldly: "That's right, he doesn't have the fate of a star but has the disease of a star, bah!"

Raiola and the other three old-timers shook their heads in tacit agreement, as if to say that young people are young people.

Five of the seven luxury cars that had parked at the Blue Shirt Middle School were heading toward the city center, while the other two complaining young people were heading in the opposite direction.

Li Qing waited in the cafe for about half an hour. No one else came except Mendes, Fatty La and the other three middle-aged and elderly agents. He got straight to the point: "First of all, I am very grateful to everyone for putting down the urgent things at hand. Thank you here first."

The five people couldn't help but nod their heads at the same time, and their impression of Li Qing improved a lot, and they all said that it was okay.

Until Li Qing's mouth corners slightly raised and said cunningly: "Everyone is a wise man, everyone... please show your sincerity, if you think it's appropriate, we can sign the contract immediately."

Suddenly, the five people were stunned.

As Li Qing said, everyone is a wise man, and... Li Qing seems to understand even better! ,

He waited for the price and reaped the benefits.