Chapter 138 Nike Ends, 25 Million Vows to Sign Lin Quan!

The benefits of unexpectedly becoming popular are beyond Lin Quan’s own imagination!

When Lin Quan unexpectedly became popular thanks to his two Champions League semi-finals.

Nike, another giant among sports brands, was alarmed.

After watching Lin Quan’s game highlights in the league and the national team and his rapidly rising popularity on social media, Nike immediately realized that this might be the next Messi and Ronaldo-level player.

He must be signed immediately!

Therefore, they immediately sent people from the United States to Europe to contact Lin Quan and his agent to see if they could persuade him to join Nike and become their contracted player.

Nike has not signed many football players in Europe. The bigger stars include Cristiano Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic, Neymar, Falcao and others.

Their previous signings such as Henry, Ronaldinho, Drogba and others have retired or are at the end of their careers and are no longer able to carry Nike's banner in football.

Although the 28-year-old Ronaldo is still in his prime, his peak period can only last four to five years at most.

Nike needs to find new and influential spokespersons as soon as possible who can succeed Ronaldo and carry their brand image in the football field.

This is why they spent a lot of money to sign Neymar!

Nike was originally very optimistic about Neymar, because many football experts believed that Neymar was extremely talented and could become the third player besides Melo.

But now, Lin Quan's emergence has given them a new choice.

The outside world's evaluation of Lin Quan and his outstanding performance in the Bundesliga are enough to prove that he is a truly capable player.

When signing a contract with such a player, his current performance will be the guarantee, so Nike will not suffer heavy losses due to misunderstandings.

More importantly, Lin Quan is still very young and his future potential can be said to be unlimited.

Nike can save a lot of costs by signing him now before he has fully established his reputation and worth.

In addition, from the perspective of commercial development, Lin Quan is of yellow race.

Signing him might also help Nike develop its business in Greater China, something Neymar cannot do.

Therefore, after an analysis by professional analysts within Nike Group.

They made a judgment: Lin Quan's importance ranks above Neymar and second only to Ronaldo.

Therefore, it must be done as soon as possible without any delay.

Once other brands take the lead and sign contracts with each other, it will be a huge loss for them.

…

With his previous experience with Adidas, Pere was not surprised by Nike's visit.

However, after the other party made a contract offer, Pere's heart couldn't help but beat wildly.

Nike really spends a lot of money!

Adidas was only willing to offer a three-year offer of 9 million euros, while Nike immediately offered a five-year offer of 21 million euros.

The contract amount doubled and the duration was only two years longer.

On average, you can get 4.2 million euros from the opponent every year.

It's a full 40% more than what Adidas gave me.

However, after seeing the amount of the contract, Pere shook his head and refused:

"Sorry, we cannot sign this contract with your company."

"Why? Have you already signed a contract with another company?"

Nike's football director Barberi was shocked when he heard this, thinking that they were finally a step too late.

Lin Quan is currently playing in the Bundesliga, and Adidas is most likely to contact him.

Barberi was filled with worry when he thought that Adidas had signed another player with such a promising future.

"Haha, although this involves commercial secrets, because of your company's sincerity, I can tell you that my players are not currently signed with any company."

Barbery was relieved when he heard Pere's words.

It’s fine if you don’t sign a contract. Not signing a contract means that Nike still has a chance.

However, the other party has just clearly refused to sign a contract with them. Why is this?

The first thing he thought of was that the other party was not satisfied with the amount of the contract, so he tentatively asked:

"Since Lin Quan has not signed a contract with any other company, why not consider Nike?"

Perret knew that the other party was testing his attitude, but he didn't intend to hide it:

"My player needs a contract worthy of his strength and status. Your company's sincerity is a little lacking."

Sure enough, it was about the contract amount, Barbery suddenly understood.

This problem is easy to solve, but not easy to solve.

The easy part is that you only need to spend money to do it.

The difficult part is that his authority is not wide enough, and he may not be able to pay the price the other party wants.

"Lin Quan is indeed a very capable player with great potential. We at Nike have great sincerity in cooperating with him."

Seeing that the other party was unmoved, Barbery gritted his teeth and gave a quotation that he felt was very high, and at the same time it was also a quotation that was close to the limit of his own authority:

"The contract value remains unchanged for five years and becomes 25 million euros. What do you think?"

Perret raised his eyebrows. This amount was increased by 4 million euros. On average, it is 5 million euros per year.

Although it is not as big as Ronaldo's contract, it is 70% higher than Adidas' contract.

This is probably the other party's limit, right?

No matter how high the estimate is, it is not something that a person of his level can achieve.

"I feel your company's sincerity, and I will convey your company's sincerity to Lin."

After hearing what the other party said, Barbery finally breathed a sigh of relief.

With these words, this trip was not in vain.

He can go back and wait for the news!

…

"25 million in five years? From Nike?"

Lin Quan received a call from Pere and was a little surprised after hearing Nike's offer.

They say Nike spends generously, and he learned the lesson today.

The price is much higher than that of Adidas, which is indeed very attractive.

But for some reason, he was not interested in either Nike or Adidas.

In addition, the length of the other party's contract is too long. If he really signs it, he will be the one who suffers.

“Don’t rush to answer them now, let’s see how other brands react!”

Anyway, he is not in a hurry now, what is anxious is the sponsors.

He wanted to take advantage of the quotations from Nike and Adidas to test the reactions of other brands.

See if they are interested in you.

…………

With the energy of Adidas in Germany, they knew immediately that people from Nike came to see Lin Quan.

"Did you get the inside information? How much is Nike's price?"

Adidas is a little worried about the contact between Nike and Lin Quan.

Nike has always been a big spender and not stingy with money.

Their influence in the football field is not as good as Adidas, but they are willing to spend money!

Jimmy Danault was very worried that Nike would offer Lin Quan a very high price, and he was even more worried that Lin Quan would be impressed by the amount offered and sign a contract with Nike.

Although it has only been less than half a month since they last contacted Lin Quan, during this period, Lin Quan's influence in European football has once again been greatly improved.

At this time, he is no longer the unknown little star before, but has become a real star.

What's even more terrible is that with his growth rate and the spread of his influence in football, he has vaguely begun to move towards the road of superstardom.

This made Adidas, which was originally confident in its offer, become less confident.

If this continues, Adidas may have to increase its contract offer if it wants to sign him.

"Not yet, but Nike has always been generous. Our people said that Barberi left Bremen with a smile. This shows that their contact was smooth. Nike probably offered a very high price!"

When Jimimedano heard this, he immediately couldn't sit still:

"Send someone to Bremen again!"

"Is it still the same contract as before?"

the assistant asked.

"Increase the amount by 1 million and give him 10 million in 3 years. He should be satisfied now, right?"

Jimmy said through gritted teeth, as if the 1 million were pieces of flesh cut from his body.

Faced with Adidas's second offer, Lin Quan simply rejected it after hearing only the contract amount.

One million more?

Isn’t that the same as not rising?

This contract from Adidas can be said to be completely without sincerity.

…

In the 31st round of the Bundesliga, Werder Bremen challenged Bayer Leverkusen away.

For Werder Bremen, this is a battle of revenge.

They had lost to Bayer Leverkusen 2:4 at home before, and their unbeaten streak at home was broken by the opponent.

Due to De Bruyne's absence, the team could only let Lin Quan lead the team with a single core in that game.

So Werder Bremen was not convinced by that loss.

Since the second half of the season, Werder Bremen's condition has gotten better and better, and their competition results have also improved.

Therefore, the players have long been working hard to regain their place with Leverkusen and avenge the original defeat!

This game is irrelevant to Werder Bremen, whose points are enough to lock in a Champions League spot next season.

As for whether they are ranked third or second, there is not much difference. Anyway, they have no points in the European competition, and they will most likely be relegated to the third tier in the Champions League.

But for Leverkusen, this game can be said to be quite critical.

With Schalke 04 having already defeated Hamburg, if they lose this game, their lead will be reduced to 3 points.

There are still three rounds of the league, and a 3-point lead is not safe.

Therefore, in this game, Leverkusen has to maintain a tie and win.

At least get a point against Werder Bremen.

Although other teams are afraid of Werder Bremen, Leverkusen is not.

After all, they have defeated Werder Bremen before and have a certain psychological advantage.

After the opening, Leverkusen thought about using the opening attack to catch the opponent off guard like the last time.

Unexpectedly, Werder Bremen thought the same way, and Werder Bremen's offense was more threatening than them.

In just one minute of play, Werder Bremen completed a very high-quality shot, posing a huge threat to Leverkusen's goal.

Leverkusen, who was startled, quickly reduced its troops and built a fence to defend the opponent's offensive first.

As before, they chose to focus on defending Werder Bremen's forward players.

The last time they defeated Werder Bremen, they used this trick, and it achieved miraculous results, completely shutting down Werder Bremen's offense.

However, this time they repeated their old tricks, but did not achieve very good results, and even seemed to be self-defeating.

With De Bruyne, they can't freeze Werder Bremen's defense by marking the front line.

De Bruyne also has strong finishing ability.

In the 20th minute of the first half, after continuous cooperation with his teammates, De Bruyne received a pass from his teammates at the front of the penalty area.

He used a heavy shot with a ball speed of over 100 kilometers per hour to blast away Leverkusen's goal and open the scoring for the team.

After cooperating with their teammates for a whole season, Lin Quan and De Bruyne are completely familiar with their teammates' playing habits.

And the teammates can keep up with their rhythm. This goal was initiated by Lin Quan from the wing, taking away the defensive players and creating space for De Bruyne to shoot long range.

Moreover, the team's center Anautovic acted as the fulcrum and passed the ball back to De Bruyne, allowing him to shoot this high-quality shot very comfortably without being defended.

Leverkusen's players thought that conceding the ball this time was due to their opponent's good luck, but they didn't know that this was actually due to Werder Bremen's tactics.

And they quickly pay the price for not realizing this!

In the 38th minute of the first half, Lin Quan launched the attack in almost the same way. After breaking into the penalty area to attract the attention of the defensive players, he passed the ball to his teammates.

The teammate passes the ball to a player in a better position and then inserts the player to help the opponent complete the shot.

It was De Bruyne again. He once again completed a long shot from a place much closer to the goal than the previous one.

The speed of this ball was even faster than the previous one. The goalkeeper had no reaction and could only watch the football fly into the net.

2:0!

De Bruyne, who missed the last game, proved himself to the Leverkusen fans with a brace.

If you underestimate him and don't pay attention to his defense, the consequences will be serious!

Leverkusen obviously learned their lesson, so they immediately strengthened their defense against De Bruyne and no longer gave him a chance to shoot from behind.

However, Werder Bremen, led by Gemini, is not afraid of one-on-one marking.

After all, if you can see one of them, you can't see the other.

Especially the other one is a crazy person!

So, when Leverkusen focused their attention on De Bruyne, Lin Quan immediately stood up.

In the 53rd minute, his breakthrough caused Walscheid to foul.

The latter received a yellow card and gave Werder Bremen a well-positioned free kick.

De Bruyne did not choose to hit the goal directly, but made a tactical cooperation with Lin Quan.

After receiving the ball, Lin Quan quickly broke through to the right side of the penalty area. After attracting Leverkusen players to defend, he immediately passed the ball back to De Bruyne.

After De Bruyne received the ball, he sent a through ball and hit the defender behind.

Leverkusen's defenders had no time to turn around and saw Lin Quan rushing past.

In desperation, they took action and knocked down Lin Quan in the penalty area.

The referee was near the spot of the foul and could clearly see the pulling action on the Leverkusen player's hand.

So he decisively took out the yellow card and warned the opponent while pointing his right hand at the penalty spot.

Lin Quan quickly got up from the ground and walked to the penalty spot. If the opponent didn't pull him, it would be difficult to score the ball. There are still many defensive players in the penalty area!

But the other party probably made the wrong choice without thinking carefully when he made the move.

But since the other party took the initiative to give a big gift, Lin Quan naturally wouldn't be polite.

He personally took the penalty kick he created and scored it steadily, extending the lead to 3 goals.

With this goal scored, Leverkusen basically had no hope of making a comeback.

Schaff also quickly made personnel adjustments, replacing teenagers Phil Kruger and Peterson so that they could play more games and get some exercise.

As the season comes to an end, Werder Bremen's coaching staff have to consider a very practical problem:

Next season, how will they play without Lin Quan and De Bruyne?