Chapter 895 - 2012 Summer Transfer (6) (1st Ticket Request)
Fang Jue looked at Raiola, this was not the first time he had met with this super agent, but there was no intersection between the two sides before, at most it was a public greeting.
The stocky man who always wears a baggy T-shirt and jeans, and glasses doesn't seem to have anything to do with glamour.
However, as far as Fang Jue knows, this fat man currently has personal assets estimated to be close to more than $60 million.
By forging family-like bonds with his players and squeezing the fortunes of the clubs they play for in any way they can, Raiola now has a client list that is unrivalled in today's football.
Ibrahimovic recalled his first meeting with Raiola in his 2011 autobiography, I Am Zlatan, when he was startled by Raiola's scruffy look, and thought he had seen "some actor from The Sopranos."
Ibrahimovic was looking for an agent for himself at the time, and Raiola was the first person he met, with two more agents waiting for him to meet.
Raiola said to Ibrahimovic: 'The watch you're wearing is expensive, isn't it?' ’
Ibu nodded, "It's very expensive, yes." ’
Then Raiola asked: 'So how many goals did you score?' ’
It was a difficult time for Ibrahimovic at Ajax and he replied: 'Six goals. ’
Then Raiola said, 'It's only 6 balls, you're embarrassed to wear this kind of watch?' You don't deserve it. ’”
Two weeks after Ibrahimovic's autobiography was published, more than a dozen professional players were approaching Raiola to hire him as their agent, and they expressed their appreciation for Raiola's straightforwardness.
Raiola's style of form is very direct, he doesn't get used to his players, he doesn't say what the players like to hear, he just says what he thinks.
In Raiola's own words, he knows how to get into the hearts of his players and unleash their strongest ambitions.
Above all, Raiola does not hesitate to go to war with others for the sake of his own customers.
Many agents are afraid to fight for their players when negotiating with the club because they are afraid of having a bad relationship with the club and losing the opportunity to do business in the future.
However, Raiola never seemed to care about that, and for him the player's interests came first.
Focusing on making a lot of money (for clients and for himself) despite the odds, and sometimes even pushing for complex and unpopular transfer packages, are the characteristics that have put Raiola on the opposite side of some of the big clubs, making him one of Ferguson's most publicly disgusted agents.
But because of this, he is also the most reliable ally of young players such as Ibrahimovic, Balotelli and Paul Pogba.
Fang Jue pondered the person Raiola, and he was surprised to find that most of Raiola's players are not good players, they are all the kind of players with perverse personalities, and even bad boys who can be attributed to the position.
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No matter how 'notorious' Raiola was before, the meeting between Fang Jue and Raiola turned out to be quite harmonious.
Fang Jue came with sincerity.
After Bale moved to Real Madrid, Raiola also realised that the opportunity for his most important star, Ibrahimovic, to join Aston Villa.
Compared with going to the new local tycoon Paris Saint-Germain, being able to go to a championship team like Aston Villa, whether it is Raiola or Ibrahimovic, is more satisfied.
The hardest thing for Raiola is to demand a high salary package for his players, and it can even be said that he is greedy.
However, Fang Jue was very generous this time, and he directly offered to offer Ibrahimovic a weekly salary of 260,000 pounds.
That's about 9.8 million euros a year after tax, which is not enough of the €12 million Ibrahimovic package PSG offered, but it's higher than the €9 million Ibrahimovic earned in Milan.
On top of that, it would allow Ibrahimovic to surpass Manchester United's Wayne Rooney's £250,000 a week (there have been many theories about Rooney's weekly salary, but here is a unified £250,000 rate) to become the Premier League's highest-paid player.
This satisfies Raiola, whose players come to the Premier League with a maximum salary, which is not only Ibrahimovic's success, but also the result of his Raiola's victory and work.
Fang Jue only happily offered Ibrahimovic a weekly salary of 260,000 pounds for the Premier League maximum salary, which was also considered by him.
Bale's transfer to Real Madrid has a great impact on Aston Villa, and many media are talking about it, and there is a strong voice saying that Aston Villa will be the next Arsenal and will go downhill.
In response to this voice, Fang Jue chose to respond by signing Ibrahimovic, the number one star in Serie A, and giving him the Premier League's top salary.
It is also the most direct and effective response.
Conspiracy theories that Bale's move away was due to Aston Villa's reluctance to offer sky-high salary packages can also be silenced.
Ibrahimovic was also very happy.
The last time I talked to Fang Jue, he had a good impression of Fang Jue.
And this time Fang Jue was very happy to give him the top salary of the Premier League, which also made Ibrahimovic very happy, he felt respected, and the most important thing is that Fang Jue did not lie to him:
Fang Jue said last time that he regretted not being able to sign Ibrahimovic because the team couldn't afford the high salaries of the two top players, and now, Bale is gone, Fang Jue immediately signed him and gave him the maximum salary, so he believes that what Fang Jue said at that time was true about respecting Zlatan.
Raiola is indeed very detail-oriented, and he has prepared two new pens for Ibrahimovic's personal contract.
Fang Jue also signed on behalf of Aston Villa FC, and the two sides presented each other with signature pens.
It also means that Ibrahimovic's move to Aston Villa is a foregone conclusion, and all that remains is the completion of the transfer contract with AC Milan, but it is a formality.
Of course, Ibrahimovic still needs to sign again, and that is at a public press conference, which is all for the sake of publicity.
Having completed the main work of Ibrahimovic's personal contract, Raiola has come up with another matter.
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