Chapter 439: Establish an agency and recruit Haaland and Mbappe in advance!

After signing Lin Quan, Mercedes-Benz immediately sent out invitations to heroes, inviting reporters from mainstream media around the world and some celebrities, and prepared to hold a press conference at its own headquarters to announce this matter to the world.

As soon as this news was announced, it immediately aroused heated discussions among the public and also made several of Mercedes-Benz's competitors feel a little nervous.

"That old man Dieter is really generous. He is willing to give 200 million euros in endorsement fees for 8 years!"

As Mercedes-Benz's competitors, BMW and Audi are very familiar with Mercedes-Benz's situation.

Previously, when Mercedes-Benz invited Schwarzenegger, Beckham, Federer and others, the highest endorsement fee was only 12 million a year, but in order to sign Lin Quan, they actually doubled the price.

It seems that Mercedes-Benz has spent a lot of money to win over Lin Quan!

But in the eyes of Audi and BMW, Mercedes-Benz's money is well spent!

Not to mention Lin Quan's influence in Europe and even around the world, just based on his influence in China, this endorsement can help Mercedes-Benz further widen the gap with other competitors.

If BMW and Audi want to avoid being left behind by Mercedes-Benz, they must spend a lot of money to hire Chinese superstars.

But these stars do not have international influence, their influence is limited to mainland China.

Compared to Lin Quan, an international superstar, this money is not very cost-effective.

In addition, China currently does not have any phenomenal sports stars, and the rapid turnover of entertainment stars means that they have to be replaced frequently.

But these problems do not exist for Lin Quan. As long as he is active in the European arena, he will not lack exposure.

Even after the older generation of stars such as Messi and Ronaldo retire, his popularity and fame will further increase and he will become a king-level player.

Such a brand spokesperson who can maintain popularity and constantly upgrade is simply the best among spokespersons!

Thinking of this, the marketing managers of BMW and Audi all wanted to slap themselves:

How come they didn't think of such a great candidate when they were in front of him? Experience is always the best!

Old Mr. Dieter really has something!

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Dieter Zetsche, the president of Mercedes-Benz, who is feared by BMW and Audi, is accompanying Lin Quan on a visit to the headquarters of Mercedes-Benz.

Dieter did not look down on Lin Quan at all because of his young age. Instead, he attached great importance to his visit and personally explained to him the people and objects displayed in the exhibition room, as well as the age and origin of the photos.

Mercedes-Benz has a long history. Its founder is Karl Benz, the inventor of the car. His invention changed the world and also changed human life.

After visiting the headquarters of Mercedes-Benz, the two sides had lunch together. After having a good meal, Dieter proposed: "Mr. Lin, I plan to let the group's design department design a car for you. It will be designed in the style of football and green stadiums. What do you think?"

Designing a car with a football theme?

Judging from the other person's expression, it didn't seem like he was joking.

And as far as Lin Quan knew, such a thing was not impossible.

After Federer retired, given his long-term partnership with Mercedes-Benz, Mercedes-Benz designed a car in the style of tennis, and Federer himself reportedly participated in the design work.

Lin Quan knew nothing about car design, but he had no objection if the other party was willing to do so.

After all, if someone gives him money, there is no reason for him to refuse it! Some top basketball stars have special sports brands design exclusive signature shoes for them. If these shoes are sold, the stars can get a certain percentage of the profit.

This is not a small amount of money, so only real top stars can have such a contract.

Compared with sneakers that cost hundreds or thousands of dollars, cars that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars are much more expensive.

Therefore, even if the sales volume is a little lower, the profit from the share is still considerable.

Therefore, the two parties signed another contract for the new car in addition to the original contract.

In this contract, Mercedes-Benz's share is 10%.

This is nearly double the normal share of sneakers! Of course, Lin Quan also understands that there is no such thing as a free lunch.

The big picture that Dieter painted is certainly tempting, but whether the money can be obtained depends entirely on whether the car can be sold.

If you can’t sell it, you won’t be able to eat it no matter how beautiful the cake is.

Overall, Lin Quan was very satisfied with this trip to the Mercedes-Benz headquarters.

The other party was indeed sincere and wanted to minimize the impact on Lin Quan's work and life.

Apart from participating in a few fixed business events every year, Mercedes-Benz will negotiate with Lin Quan at other times. If he is willing to go, he can go, and if he is not willing to go, the other party will not force him.

Of course, as a sponsor of many events, some of Mercedes-Benz’s commercial activities are beneficial to the players themselves.

If Lin Quan has time, he would participate in these activities. After all, there is no reason to refuse something that is mutually beneficial and win-win.

Lin Quan was very happy to sign this big contract, but there were people who were happier than him.

"Uncle Pere, you've been grinning all the way here, are you really that happy?"

"Haha, how can I not be happy when someone gives me so much money?"

Perez was counting on his fingers how much money he could make from this endorsement. Generally, an agent's commission is 10% of the player's income, but because Perez is Lin Quan's relative and elder, his commission is only 5%.

A contract of 200 million euros, even if he only takes 5%, he can still get a huge sum of 10 million euros!

It is true that choice is more important than strength! If he had not chosen the right person and had embraced Lin Quan, how could he have had so many opportunities to make money?

Even if he signed his brother Guardiola, he wouldn't be able to make so much money!

Although Guardiola's salary at Manchester City is quite high, his commercial value is far lower than that of football stars. He receives only a few advertisements a year. Guardiola is also very disgusted with endorsements and lives on his fixed salary.

Moreover, there is no transfer fee for the coach, let alone any commission on the transfer fee.

This item alone is much lower than the players' commission.

In fact, it’s not that Guardiola really doesn’t shoot commercials. Lin Quan remembers that he shot quite a few commercials between 2007 and 2010, about 20 to 30 a year.

However, the amounts of these endorsements are not high, and they are not from well-known brands. It is purely Guardiola's way of making extra money to supplement his family income before Barcelona gives him a salary increase.

After all, he was raising a large family, including four children, and the pressure was huge! After Barcelona renewed Guardiola's contract in July 2010 and increased his salary, the frequency of his advertising work decreased.

Although Perez's commission rate is relatively low, Lin is a superstar and his annual commercial sponsorship amount is not high. Even if it is calculated at a rate of 5%, including wages, endorsement fees and the like, it is no problem to earn several million euros a year.

In the football world, there are not many agents who can surpass him, probably only a few big names like Mendes and Raiola.

However, the reason why Pere felt that the money was not enough was mainly because he planned to expand the scale of his company, recruit more talents, and sign more potential players.

After counting the money, Pere breathed a sigh of relief, looking very satisfied.

Suddenly, he looked at Lin Quan beside him, his eyes rolled around, and a plan came to his mind:

"Lin, Pep often told me that you have a very good eye for people and can always spot some potential stars. My uncle's company has something to deal with. Can you help me?"

"You want me to help you recruit people, right?"

The moment the other party rolled his eyes, Lin Quan felt like he was being stared at by a hungry wolf.

Pere's expression was almost unconcealed.

"Do you agree to this?"

Pere rubbed his hands together, looking as if he was going to get rich.

Pere's topic aroused Lin Quan's interest. He happened to be studying how to invest during this period. After making a fortune from Mercedes-Benz, he not only had money to buy stocks, but also had some left over. He might as well invest it in his uncle's brokerage company.

In this way, it can not only help, but also be a good investment channel for Lin Quan himself.

With his advantage as a time traveler, it is not difficult for him to dig out those young players before they become famous.

Imagine if you could recruit all the future stars like Mbappe and Haaland, and when they become famous, you could make money without doing anything.

After making up his mind, Lin Quan asked, "Is your company still in need of a major shareholder? How about I be one?"

Pere was stunned for a moment. He had originally just asked Lin Quan for help, but he didn't expect that he would actually join.

How could he possibly refuse such a thing?

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Lin Quan's influence in the football world is enormous.

During this period, the best way for his agency to sign young players was to tell them that Lin Quan was under our company and that they would have a chance to get Lin Quan's autograph if they came to our company! This alone was enough to fool Lin Quan's little fans.

If Lin Quan really joins, then when he goes out to recruit people in the future, he can tell the other party openly: Our boss is Lin, yes, that's right, Manchester City's number ten, the God on the court, the omnipotent Lin!

If Lin Quan knew what Pere was thinking, he would probably beat him up!

So shameless!

Can you please have some shame? Besides, not everyone is a fan of Lin Quan.

Mbappe’s idol is Cristiano Ronaldo, but I don’t know if that has changed now…

In South America, most young players like Messi, after all, Messi is a South American.

Lin Quan's influence is greater in Europe and Asia. Almost all young players in East Asia regard Lin Quan as their idol.

But the problem is that Asia is a football desert and there are not many good talents there!

Maybe the ones from Japan and South Korea will count in the future? The three-ball king Kaoru Mitsumi is not bad, and South Korea's Kim Min-jae is also okay. In addition, there are some young players who are very good in Asia, but they are relatively ordinary in Europe and are not particularly outstanding.

On the contrary, there will be many stars in Europe in the future.

In addition to Mbappe and Haaland, there are also France's Chuameni, Spain's Gavi, Portugal's Leo, and many young stars from South America, such as Enzo and Alvarez.

If all these people can really be signed, their agency will definitely become an important presence in football in the future.

Perez may not know this, but he fully supports Lin Quan joining his agency.

Therefore, Lin Quan increased the capital by 10 million euros and acquired 50% of the company's shares, with the uncle and nephew each holding half of the shares.

After investing this money, Lin Quan was completely penniless.

So, in addition to the big contract with Mercedes-Benz, Lin Quan also took advantage of this period to take on some other endorsements.

These are short-term contracts covering all aspects, including clothing, food, watches, and even children's toys.

It's outrageous! However, these endorsements brought Lin Quan tens of millions of euros in income, making his money abundant again.

At least I don’t have to worry about running out of money.

However, he took all the commercials he could in one go. After shooting so many commercials in a row, Lin Quan almost vomited. It was much more tiring than playing football! Influenced by this, he probably wouldn't consider taking any more commercials in the next year or so.

While Lin Quan was busy shooting commercials, Bosque led a group of young Spanish players and achieved two consecutive victories on the court.

On October 10, they swept Luxembourg 4-0 at home. Luxembourg is very weak and ranks only 93rd in the world.

Considering that the other side’s total population is only 600,000, this result is actually not bad.

In this game, Valencia striker Paco scored twice and performed well.

Morata continued his outstanding performance in the Champions League, contributing a goal and providing an assist as a substitute, and his performance was equally wonderful.

Before the final whistle, Cazorla scored another goal, making the score 4:0.

If Spain won the first game easily, then in the second game, after encountering the tough opponent Ukraine, their performance was greatly reduced.

The Ukrainian football team is ranked among the top 30 in the world. Such a team is by no means a pushover even in Europe.

Faced with such an opponent, the true colors of these Spanish rookies were exposed.

In this game, Spain performed poorly and even lost control of the field in the first half, with a lower ball possession rate than their opponents.

Just as Spain was about to lose, the opponent committed handball in the penalty area, giving Spain a penalty kick.

However, what was astonishing was that Paco, who took the penalty kick, kicked the ball into the sky, returning the gift given by the opponent.

Seeing this scene, Bosque in the coaching booth felt a surge of blood rushing to his forehead, and the old coach was almost angry to death on the spot.

Paco was considered a promising player because of the previous match against Luxembourg, but he didn't expect to make such a mistake in this game.

This guy's psychological quality is far worse than Lin Quan's.

He had never seen Lin Quan miss a penalty kick, not even once.

This guy missed the first penalty for the national team. Well done, that's awesome! After missing the penalty, Paco was almost depressed.

The penalty should have been taken by the captain Fabregas, but Fabregas felt that the coach was promoting young people, and Paco had performed well in the previous game, so he generously gave up the opportunity.

Unexpectedly, this move led to trouble.

Sure enough, not everyone is Lin Quan. In the early years, everyone took turns to take penalties in the Spanish team.

Whoever misses a penalty will have someone else take the penalty in the next game.

As a result, all of Spain's penalties were given to Lin Quan to take, but this was not because Lin Quan had any privileges.

But after it was his turn to take the penalty kick, he never missed a shot.

Therefore, Lin Quan automatically became Spain's first penalty taker. As long as he was on the field, no one would compete with him for penalties. This also led to other players in the national team lacking opportunities to take penalties, and their ability to take penalties was more or less affected.

The reason why Fabregas gave the opportunity to Paco, besides taking care of the newcomer, was that he felt he hadn't taken a penalty for a long time and was not very confident.

Unexpectedly, Paco also missed the penalty.

Now, Paco will inevitably be criticized by fans and the media after the game because of this penalty.

For a newcomer, this is too miserable! (End of this chapter)