Chapter 244: Renewing the Contract?
Chapter 244 Renewal?
After winning the league title, the players of Atletico Madrid were naturally rejoicing.
With the league season over, Atletico Madrid has one game left to play this season – the Champions League final. The Champions League final is on June 6, and there are 15 days, half a month.
As a result, Simeone decided to give the team three days off. With games to play, Simeone didn't dare to let the players relax all at once, and he still needed to maintain a certain level of training to maintain his condition before the game. If you suddenly get the players into the rhythm of the holiday because they have been on vacation for too long, it will be difficult to get back nervous. Three days is neither long nor short,
After a stressful schedule, the players can also take a short break to take a good break.
The players can rest, but the coaching staff can't.
In fact, Simeone already has a plan for how to play the Champions League final, and it would be good to make some minor adjustments according to the actual situation, which is not a big problem.
He's now setting his sights on next season.
The first thing in front of him is Li Qingshan's contract renewal.
As the team's number one star, he was the number one contributor to winning the league championship this season. If the contract can be renewed before the Champions League final, this will undoubtedly be a shot in the arm for Atletico Madrid!
It's just that the power to negotiate the renewal is not in Simeone's hands, and the only thing he can do is to urge the team's top management to complete the contract renewal with Li Qingshan as soon as possible.
Li Qingshan's contract is only over a year old, and a contract renewal is imminent, and if the player's contract is still a few months left, the team will be even more passive.
There is no doubt that Simeone will never be willing to let go of Li Qingshan, and the same is true for the Atletico Madrid hierarchy.
Everyone has a consensus on keeping Li Qingshan, and the only problem is the conditions for renewing the contract.
Whether it is Cerezo, the president of Atletico Madrid, or Miguel Angel Hill Marin, the club's CEO, they are waiting for the end of negotiations with China's richest man Wang Jianling, and after there is a capital injection, they are talking about contract renewal and salary increases with Li Qingshan and other stalwart players.
It's just that now the negotiations between the two sides have reached an impasse. Wang Jianling wants to fully control Atletico Madrid, but Hillmarin obviously does not want this, the Hill family is not willing to give up control of Atletico Madrid, he is only willing to sell Wang Jian's part of the equity.
It's just that in this way, Wang Jianling will not inject too much money into the team.
This is actually understandable, if Wang Jianling can control Atletico Madrid, then Atletico Madrid will become his team, and there is of course no problem with injecting funds into his own team. But if he is just a shareholder and does not have any control over the team, then now let Wang Jianling, who is a businessman, pay out of his pocket to Atletico Madrid, Wang Jianling is obviously unwilling to be the wrongdoer.
The sale of club shares has not yet been discussed, and Li Qingshan's contract renewal must also be put on the agenda.
As soon as it comes to this contract extension, Miguel Angel Hill Marin has a headache.
It's not that the player is thorny, but Li Qingshan's agent is simply too difficult to deal with, and the oil and salt don't enter.
In fact, after the end of last season, the management of Atletico Madrid Club contacted Raiola to discuss the renewal of Li Qingshan's contract, but at that time, Raiola directly opened his mouth and scared Atletico Madrid away - Raiola opened his mouth to ask to match Real Madrid Ronaldo's salary, what is Ronaldo's salary in Real Madrid, and Li Qingshan will also get as much as Atletico Madrid. How is this possible for Atletico Madrid. And at that time, the renewal of the contract was not a very urgent matter, and Atletico Madrid shrank back after the trial.
Now, Hillmarin has to take the initiative to talk to Raiola about it. And now it's a different time, if last year's Li Qingshan was not very qualified to be tied with Ronaldo, then now, after a complete La Liga league is over, just from the performance of the league, Li Qingshan has beaten Messi and Ronaldo and become the most dazzling player in this league.
In the Champions League, Li Qingshan led Atletico Madrid to the final of the Champions League, and may even defend the Champions League!
In this case, Raiola's request is not too much when you think about it.
Of course, Shirmarin also knows that Raiola's lion's opening is only a means of negotiation, and Atletico Madrid certainly can't have such a high salary budget.
But even if the salary is not as good as Cristiano Ronaldo, at least it can't be too different. The problem now is that Atletico Madrid doesn't even seem to be able to meet this requirement..........
Moreover, Atletico Madrid is not unaffordable to Li Qingshan with a high salary, but Atletico Madrid's income in recent years is quite good. It's just that the question is, if Li Qingshan is given such a high salary, what about the other Atletico Madrid players? With such a large salary gap, it is inevitable that they will be unbalanced, and the knock-on effect is that other players will also demand a salary increase.
So Atletico Madrid can't stand it.
Now Hilmarin is counting on the richest man from China to be emotionally committed and help Atletico Madrid pay part of his salary.
Isn't Li Qingshan a national treasure of your country, and it's nothing to contribute some money for a national treasure, right?
Hilmarin's calculations were quite shrewd. He is now a procrastination, anyway, there is still time, and in the negotiation with Wang Jianling, he will not retreat if he can not retreat. Anyway, it seems that China's richest man is still quite interested in taking a stake in Atletico Madrid.
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No one doesn't like money, even Li Qingshan.
When Raiola called him and said that Atletico Madrid wanted to renew his contract, Li Qingshan's biggest concern was, of course, the issue of salary.
Everyone likes money, and in addition to money, salary also represents the value and status of the player to some extent.
Li Qingshan's performance in competition is impeccable, but when you look at his salary, it is quite shabby. Even Casemiro, who works in blue-collar jobs at Real Madrid, has a higher salary than him.
It's hard to bear.
It's like being in a company, the business is at the top of the industry, but the salary is really at the middle and lower reaches of the industry, who can tolerate this situation?
It's just that this is definitely not the player himself, and the role of the agent is just that.
Now Li Qingshan has become the top card under Raiola - for Li Qingshan's affairs, Raiola is the first priority, even Ibrahimovic and Pogba must be ranked behind Li Qingshan.
Therefore, Raiola personally came to Madrid to deal with the renewal of the contract.