Chapter 185 Endorsement fees are rising

After defeating Hull City, Manchester City has now won three games and is at the top of the Premier League standings with nine points.

Considering that their goal difference is 10, even if teams such as Liverpool and Tottenham beat their respective opponents and achieve three consecutive victories, they cannot shake their position.

After this game, Premier League teams finally began to take Manchester City seriously.

Before the game, all parties felt that Manchester City had made too many summer signings. It will take some time for these players to integrate into the team, so Manchester City's results at the beginning of the season may not be very good.

But no one expected that they would start off with three consecutive victories and sit directly at the top of the standings.

This made the teams dare not underestimate them and put them in the championship group's camp together with several other giants.

The opponent's attention is a recognition of Manchester City's strength, but this attention will cause them to encounter greater resistance in the next game.

The focus of this round of the Premier League is the last two games: Manchester United challenges Liverpool away, and Arsenal faces Tottenham at home.

After forcing back the powerful Chelsea, Moyes' Manchester United still fell at Anfield.

In the double-Red Club matchup, Liverpool can always perform at a super level when facing the Red Devils at home.

Although in recent years, the Red Army's record in both the league and the Champions League has been far inferior to Manchester United, Manchester United just can't take advantage at Anfield.

In the past six seasons when Manchester United visited Anfield, their record was - one win, one draw and four losses.

This record can be said to be one-sided!

Moyes has just taken over this season and has not yet fully grasped the team. In this case, when he comes to Liverpool's home court, the result can be imagined.

Only four minutes into the game, Liverpool captain Gerrard assisted teammate Sturridge to score.

This was the only goal in the game, but even if there was only one goal, it was enough to defeat the Red Devils.

The loss of this game was very detrimental to Moyes.

After playing against two opponents in BIG4 in the first three rounds, Manchester United's record was one draw and one loss.

This record can be said to be very unsatisfactory!

Manchester United, which had only won one game in the first three games, has dropped to seventh place in the standings and has fallen directly out of the championship zone.

Considering that they will face the hot Manchester City in the fifth round of the league, once Manchester United loses again in the same city derby, the Red Devils' ranking will definitely continue to decline, and this season's Premier League champion may have to say goodbye to them. !

Some people are happy and some are sad. Moyes was frustrated at Anfield. Arsenal's Arsene Wenger defeated North London's rival Tottenham with the same score at the Emirates Stadium. After an unexpected loss in the first game, he stopped it with two consecutive victories. Decline.

Arsenal have currently won two consecutive games and are temporarily ranked 4th in the standings. Although they are 3 points behind Manchester City and Liverpool, the point difference is not huge. As long as their opponents make mistakes, they can definitely catch up.

With his crazy performance in the first three rounds of the Premier League, Lin Quan was selected as the best player in the Premier League this month.

This is the first award he has won since joining the Premier League, and he is also the youngest foreign player to win this honor.

The Premier League is indeed much more popular than the Bundesliga. After joining the Premier League, Lin Quan's number of Twitter followers soared rapidly.

Originally, after playing in the Confederations Cup, his number of fans increased to around 2.8 million and then stagnated. However, after joining Manchester City and playing only three games, his number of fans increased by more than 1 million, and now his total number of followers is approaching 4 million.

Affected by this, Lin Quan's commercial value has also increased.

There is almost a long queue of sponsors who come to him for endorsement, and there are so many that Perret is almost overwhelmed.

In line with the idea of ​​​​preferring to be short-lived, Lin Quan asked Perret to reject most of the commercial endorsements.

"Both Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have approached me, and they want to work with you."

According to Lin Quan's request, Perret retained some big international brands with relatively high prices and high sincerity.

"What are the prices offered by the two companies?"

Lin Quan doesn't drink much carbonated drinks, which are harmful to professional players.

But it doesn't matter to ordinary people. As a happy water for fat people, Coke has huge sales around the world and is also extremely well-known.

Business cooperation with them will also be helpful to expand Lin Quan's own influence and popularity.

This kind of mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation is what he yearns for.

"Coca-Cola has a greater influence, so their price is relatively conservative, giving a three-year contract of 9 million euros.

Pepsi-Cola's influence is slightly smaller, so it pays more in promotion fees. The contract they offered is 14 million euros over four years! "

After calculation, Coca-Cola's annual revenue is 3 million euros, and Pepsi's is 3.5 million euros.

However, Lin Quan prefers Sprite in Coca-Cola. Drinking a bottle of iced Sprite in the summer does not make you feel too sour, but if you drink too much before a meal, you will feel full and get hungry quickly...

So he said to Perey: "You can sign a contract with Coca-Cola, but you have to ask them. I will only endorse Sprite. See if they are willing?"

"Well, I will negotiate with them!"

"In addition, Nike and Adidas are unable to sit still and have contacted me one after another, planning to re-price you."

"There's no rush. We'll talk to them after the Champions League starts. Let's talk slowly!"

A few months ago, Lin Quan rejected offers from Nike and Adidas. At that time, he had not yet determined his next home. In addition, his popularity was limited to the Bundesliga and he did not have much fan base around the world.

Therefore, the two major sports brands only regarded him as a potential new star and did not make too high an offer.

But things are different now, even though only one summer has passed.

But after winning the Confederations Cup and joining Manchester City with a sky-high signing fee, his influence in football has greatly increased.

At this time, neither Nike nor Adidas can treat him as a young player anymore.

Although he is indeed very young, his current influence is no less than that of those top stars, or even more so.

Therefore, they have to show their sincerity again.

However, Lin Quan was not in a hurry about this kind of thing, because he knew that his influence had not yet expanded to the extreme.

As long as he continues his current outstanding performance in the two most watched competitions, the Champions League and the World Cup, then his influence will further expand and he will truly become a superstar comparable to Melo.

In addition to commercial endorsements, Lin Quan is also thinking about how to spend his money.

His salary last season was not high, so he didn't think much about investment.

But after joining Manchester City this season, Lin Quan received a sky-high signing fee of 100 million pounds.

This money is not a small amount of money!

Considering that the price of the pound will continue to depreciate, if you don't spend it early at this time, you will suffer a big loss when the exchange rate plummets after Brexit in a few years.

But what to invest in?

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After the third round of the Premier League, FIFA match day has arrived.

Lin Quan left the club and rushed back to Spain to report for the national team.

Spain has not gathered for more than a month after finishing the Confederations Cup.

There was originally a friendly match with Ecuador in the middle, but Del Bosque didn't recruit any main players. He directly promoted a group of young players from the youth team and handed them over to assistant coach Tony to lead the team.

Tony led this group of young players to beat Ecuador 3:0, which made Del Bosque very satisfied.

The score is not very important. What is important is that the old coach has begun to look for candidates for Spain's next generation main framework.

Spain's current lineup includes a large number of players born around 1985.

After playing next year's World Cup, there is a high probability that they will not be able to participate in the 2018 World Cup.

Therefore, Spain needs to start preparing for a rainy day now.

However, with Lin Quan here, the reconstruction work will be simple. After all, the core of the team does not have to worry.

"Tsk tsk, our big star is here!"

Lin Quan arrived at the national team's training base and happened to meet Ramos, Casillas and others.

After Morata saw Lin Quan, he ran over, punched him in the chest, and then gave him a bear hug.

"How's it going? Is the Premier League fun?"

"It's okay. Do you want to come to the Premier League too?"

"How is it possible? I am devoted to Real Madrid. My favorite club is Real Madrid. I will never go anywhere except Real Madrid in this life!"

Morata spoke eloquently, as if he were a loyal dog of Real Madrid.

Lin Quan glanced at him and didn't believe a word of Morata's words.

This guy is a 'dreamer' in football. When he left Real Madrid to join Juventus, he said that his dream since childhood was to join Juventus.

When he left Juventus and was repurchased by Real Madrid, he also said that he had dreamed of becoming an emperor since he was a child, and he always dreamed of succeeding in Real Madrid.

When he left Real Madrid and went to Chelsea and Atletico Madrid, he said this again.

In view of the fact that Morata dreams of joining so many teams, fans gave him the title of ‘Dreamer’.

As for which team he really likes, probably no one knows except himself.

Seeing Lin Quan coming, Ramos and Casillas also walked up to greet him.

Ramos circled around Lin Quan, squeezed his strong muscles, and said:

"Not bad, not bad. I've grown a lot stronger. It seems that my previous worries were unnecessary. With your body, even a defender in the Premier League can't do anything to you!"

Casillas warned: "Don't be careless. Premier League defenders are rough and commit a lot of fouls. Don't fight with them to avoid hurting yourself."

Speaking of this, several people thought of David Silva, who was absent due to injury, and couldn't help but sigh.

Silva was injured in a Premier League match and will miss at least three months.

For a professional player, a three-month layoff due to injury may very well mean that their main position is not guaranteed.

Before they were injured, they may have been the indispensable main force of the team, but by the time they returned from injury, their main position may have been taken away.

Moreover, many players will leave a psychological shadow after being injured, and their physical functions will also be affected. Their game status may plummet, and they will disappear from the public.

It is no exaggeration to say that injuries are the biggest enemy of professional players.

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In this training camp, there are many new players in the team.

Real Madrid's Nacho and Manchester City's Garcia were both selected for the national team for the first time. Manchester City's Negredo and Navas were also selected.

If you include the injured David Silva, Manchester City have five Spanish internationals.

"Busquets is injured, Xavi Garcia is here to take his place!"

Bosque made a special explanation.

But this is only a superficial reason.

Spain has no shortage of midfielders. Xavi Garcia is 26 years old and is no longer a young player.

He recruited the opponent into the team. In addition to replacing Busquets who was absent due to injury, another important reason was to help Lin Quan.

Del Bosque has been paying attention to Lin Quan's games in the Premier League, but after watching three Manchester City games, he found that Manchester City's midfielder did not provide Lin Quan with enough support.

The core of Manchester City's midfield is Yaya Toure, but this guy is not a midfielder who likes to assist his teammates, but a midfielder who likes to attack with the ball himself.

He rarely passed the ball directly to Lin Quan, let alone provided assists to Lin Quan.

Most of Lin Quan's goals in these three games came from his excellent individual combat ability, with relatively little support and help from his teammates.

The person who gave him the most assists was not Manchester City's midfielder, but the team's striker Aguero.

Originally, when David Silva was not injured, he could still provide some help to Lin Quan.

But now he's injured and can't help.

In view of this, Del Bosque decided to promote more Spanish players in the Manchester City team.

Give them more opportunities in the national team and let them cooperate more with Lin Quan.

In this case, when they return to the club, they can provide Lin Quan with greater support and help.

Navas, Garcia and others did not know this, and both were excited about being called up by the national team.

The World Cup is getting closer and closer, and football players from all over the world are now desperately competing for the main position of the team.

Even if you can't get the main position, it's good to successfully enter the 23-man roster.

Especially for the Spanish national team, which is the favorite to win the championship, if they can enter the national team roster.

Once the Spanish national team wins the World Cup next year, they will have a chance to win the Hercules Cup!

The other players in the national team have similar ideas. During the team's training, it can be clearly felt that their attitudes are much more serious.

On the contrary, because the players were too serious, in the team's training matches, some players even almost had conflicts with their teammates because of serious tackles.

Del Bosque will be both pleased and a little worried about the state of his players.

He is satisfied with the progress of the players, but is worried because the national team roster is limited and cannot bring all these outstanding players to the World Cup stage.

This time, many main players are absent due to injuries, but this does not mean that they will always be absent.

Therefore, many players who were called up this time may not appear here during the next national team training session.

I don’t know if they can accept this cruel reality.

After three days of training in Madrid, all members of the Spanish national team took a plane to Helsinki, the capital of Finland in Northern Europe, to prepare to face the opponent of the Finnish national team in the group stage.

This game is the penultimate game of Spain's group stage. As long as they can win against Finland, they can qualify first in the group two rounds in advance and directly advance to the 2014 World Cup.