"Fox of the Forbidden Zone"

"...The latest news is that the King of Madrid failed to reach an agreement with Hu on transfer matters...The King of Madrid officially refused to disclose the reason for the failure to reach an agreement...It is not known whether the King of Madrid club will re-submit an offer to Leeds City..."

When Meli Banega in the car heard such a voice on the radio, a smile appeared on his face.

If he wanted, Houlai rejected the King of Madrid-the news would not say so, but Meli knew that it must be Houlai who rejected the King of Madrid, not that the two parties failed to reach an agreement on personal treatment.

After receiving a sudden call from Hu Lai, Mellie had a vague premonition that Hu Lai might not come.

Sure enough, he didn't come!

This was really the best news Melly had heard recently, and it also made the stone in his heart fall to the ground.

No matter where Hu Lai is going next, at least they can continue to be opponents, and he also has a chance to defeat Hu Lai.

After getting out of the car and leaving, Meli entered the locker room of the team's training base, and heard the team's last player, Rafael Fonseca, talking loudly.

"If I were stupid, I wouldn't come either. After all, the previous incident was hyped up by the media, which has already made many Kings fans feel dissatisfied. If he still wants to show face, he shouldn't come..."

"I don't think so, Rafael. The so-called fans' opinions are all excuses. If you really want to transfer, this will not constitute any resistance at all." Fonseca's Brazil national team teammate Dudu Carlos has different opinions . "The failure to negotiate can only be due to personal treatment issues."

Carlos' words won the approval of many people.

After all, this is the King of Madrid. Apart from personal treatment, it is really hard to imagine other reasons that would prevent a player from joining.

Unless Hou Lai is an "anti-king element"-this is a general term for those who dislike the King of Madrid and oppose the hegemony of the King of Madrid.

But judging from the photo of Hu Lai and Francis, he should not be an "anti-king".

So it can only be the salary issue that led to the failure to negotiate in the end.

Meli glanced at Therados, who was changing clothes with a blank expression, and had no intention of participating in the discussion at all.

Indeed, with his sensitive identity, how can he participate.

Everyone knew that if Hu Lai was coming, the most threatened one would be Alexandra Celados.

How should he comment on this matter?

And many King Madrid players actually don't understand the club's thinking. Serrados has just won the World Cup and has reached the peak of his career. There is absolutely no need to buy Hu Lai now to replace Serrados.

But if Hu Lai was not bought to replace Serrados, it would be a huge waste for Hu Lai.

They did a good job as the core in Leeds City, and they went to the King of Madrid to play as a substitute?

Of course, there is no such precedent. But this kind of thing seems impossible for Hu Lai...

Now Hu Lai has rejected the King of Madrid, which is good news for Serrados.

It shows that his position in the team is still unshakable-at least for two seasons. After two seasons, the 35-year-old Celados' career has come to an end, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to hold on to his position as the King of Madrid.

Either retire directly and become one of the few players who can retire with the King of Madrid.

If you are not willing to retire at this point, it is very likely that you will leave the King of Madrid as a free agent. Anyway, the King of Madrid should not easily renew the contract with Serrados.

Melly withdrew her gaze and walked to her closet as usual, and began to change clothes.

He didn't dare to reveal his inner joy, otherwise it would attract everyone's attention, and he insisted on breaking the casserole and asking the end.

He just kept praying to God in his heart, let Hou Lai go to Catalan or Madrid Pirates!

Catalan is the best, and the Madrid Pirates are also very good.

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"The Catalan United, the Torino Bulls and the Madrid Pirates, these are the three teams currently in the finals. Let us first exclude the Catalan United, which you don't want to go to, then only the Turin Bulls and the Madrid Pirates are left. They The conditions offered are similar, which one do you want to go to? Both are good.”

Song Jiajia called and asked Hu Lai.

Hou Lai replied: "Since they are almost the same, I will choose Madrid."

Song Jiajia laughed: "I knew it! Is it because of Qingqing?"

"There are reasons for her, but it is not the decisive factor. If you go to the Madrid Pirates, you can play against the King of Madrid and Catalan in the league. If you go to the Turin Bulls, you can only wait until the Champions League, but the Champions League is not always It depends on luck to be able to meet the King of Madrid and Catalan United. It’s not fun.”

Hu Lai added: "And among these giants, only the Madrid Pirates have won the Champions League the least. They reached the final four times and won the Champions League twice. It was fifteen years ago. If I can win the Champions League in the Madrid Pirates Isn't it more difficult and more interesting to win the Champions League than to go to the King of Madrid to win the Champions League?"

"Okay." Song Jiajia nodded in agreement. "And the treatment given by the Madrid Pirates is also good. The annual salary after tax is 9 million, which does not include various bonuses."

Looking at the numbers alone, nine million is not much higher than Hu Lai's annual salary in Leeds:

Leeds City renewed their contract with Hou Lai last summer. In order to keep Hou Lai for a long time, they gave Hou Lai an annual salary of 6.76 million pounds, or about 7.9 million euros. This is still the figure for the first year, and every year thereafter will increase by 5% on the basis of the previous year.

That contract made Hou Lai a top-paid player for Leeds City.

However, it should be noted that the annual salary figure of Leeds City is the pre-tax price.

The United Kingdom imposes a 45% tax on the rich. The annual salary that Hu Lai can actually get is about 3.72 million pounds, or about 4.35 million euros.

It can also be seen from this point that Leeds City is indeed far from the giants. The after-tax annual salary offered by the Premier League giants to players may be similar to Hu Lai's pre-tax annual salary-and it is not the annual salary level of the top players in the team.

Although the injection of Chinese capital has given Leeds City the confidence to spend money like water in the transfer market. However, compared with the one-time transfer fee, the annual salary of the players in the team that has to be paid every year is the bulk. Therefore, Leeds City still has to carefully control the team's salary structure to avoid a financial crisis.

The Madrid Pirates are the real giants, although their name is not as loud as the city's sworn enemy, the King of Madrid.

But they are one of the thirteen super giants in Europe.

The treatment offered to Hu Lai was 9 million euros after tax.

The tax rate in Spain is similar to that in the UK, both are 45%. An annual salary of 9 million after tax means that Hu Lai's annual salary before tax is 16.36 million euros.

This number not only makes Hu Lai the highest paid Chinese player, but also the highest paid Asian player.

The Pirates in Madrid are also the second-highest annual salary after top star Maxi Carey.

In terms of portrait rights, it’s not the same as being 100% owned by Hou Lai in Leeds City. If you want to transfer to the Madrid Pirates, you need to transfer 50% to the club, and you only keep 50%-this is not bad, if If you go to the King of Madrid, you have to give 100% of your portrait rights to the club.

In addition to a fixed annual salary and income from portrait rights, Hu Lai also has various bonuses.

The goal award is a fixed bonus item and must be available.

For every goal scored, Hu Lai can get 70,000 euros.

In addition to the goal award, Hu Lai also has an appearance fee this time. Every time he plays—whether he is a starter or a substitute—he can get 50,000 euros. If there was an appearance fee in Leeds, Hu Lai could get 4.8 million euros for this alone...

In addition, if Hu Lai wins the La Liga Golden Boot, he will also receive an additional two million euros in bonuses and three million in the Champions League Golden Boot.

If the Madrid Pirates win the La Liga championship, Hou Lai can get another three million. As for the champion of the Champions League, the bonus is 4 million euros.

Hu Lai's agency specifically proposed the terms of the team winning the championship and individual players getting bonuses. Because there was this clause when I was in Leeds City before, there is no reason to give up after changing the team.

The Madrid Pirates Club didn't object either, they just bargained over the specific amount - they cut the five million Champions League prize money to four million.

After all, they signed Hu Lai, hoping to hit the championship, especially the Champions League.

The Madrid Pirates have no shortage of league titles-they have won a total of 20 La Liga titles in history, second only to the King of Madrid and Catalan United. Just four seasons ago, the Madrid Pirates also won the La Liga title in the 2022-2023 season. But the Champions League championship is what the Madrid Pirates have been pursuing hard. Fifteen years have passed since they won the championship last time. The Madrid Pirates Club hopes to relive their old dreams and win the Champions League again.

Since the player offered the championship bonus, he has to pay more and do his best to help the team win the championship.

And once they win the championship, the benefit the club can get is far greater than the bonus they gave to Hu Lai.

In addition to this, there is also a bonus, a special goal award: when Hu Lai has accumulated 40 goals in various club competitions, he can get a bonus of 1.5 million euros. If it is achieved in one season, then an additional 500,000 will be rewarded.

These bonuses are completely tailor-made for Hu Lai's characteristics of being good at scoring goals. For example, other offensive players will require some assist awards, but there is no such thing as Hu Lai.

Assuming that Hou Lai scored 40 goals in the first season of joining the Madrid Pirates, won the La Liga Golden Boot and the Champions League Golden Boot-in fact, if you want to win the La Liga Golden Boot and the Champions League Golden Boot at the same time, forty goals may not be enough , but for the convenience of calculation, it is assumed that only forty goals were scored.

At the same time, he helped the Madrid Pirates win the La Liga and Champions League titles, and played 38 league rounds and 13 Champions League games. Then he will earn 19.64 million euros after tax.

This is not counting the portrait rights.

Through this transfer, Hu Lai's income has been greatly improved compared with that in Leeds City before.

Although money is not the primary consideration for Hu Lai's transfer, it does not mean that he can accept a salary cut to play~lightnovelpub.net~ Then it is settled, I replied to the Madrid Pirates and signed a contract with them. "

"Okay, you can figure it out. Just notify me to go for a medical examination when everything is done." Hu Lai was relieved to leave everything to Song Jiajia.

After all, in this world, if even Fatty Song can't trust him, who else can he trust?

"One more thing..." Song Jiajia hesitated to speak.

"What did you talk about together?"

"Since you have decided to go pirate in Madrid, and Qingqing is in the same city, should you two consider...buying a house in Madrid directly?"

Hu Lai froze for a moment, he really didn't think of this just now.

He just wanted to live with Li Qingqing, just rent a house.

As a result, now that I think about it, it seems that I can really buy a house.

Anyway, with his annual income of more than 10 million euros, buying a house is not too much pressure.

The key point is that this will be the home he and Li Qingqing share—in the traditional and simple thinking of Chinese people, the rented house cannot be regarded as a "home", and only the bought house belongs to oneself.

"Buy, buy, buy! You decide, let's do it together!" Hu Lai waved his hand and delegated the authority to Song Jiajia.

"Fuck, I'm your sports agent, not your real estate agent!"

"Oh, it's hard work for those who are capable. Who told you to be capable, Fatty? The most important thing is that I trust your aesthetic taste, Fatty. The house you choose must be something we all like!"

This made Song Jiajia very proud: "Nonsense, I don't even know who your brother is..."

So everything was decided.

Whether it's a transfer to the Madrid Pirates or buying a house in Madrid.