coach legend

Chapter 229 Contract Renewal Storm
"Forty thousand pounds?" George squinted at Kennedy in front of him.

The person in front of George is Duff's agent, Sean Kennedy.There are many big-name agents in English football, but Sean Kennedy in front of him is not.He can only be regarded as a small agent.Among the brokers, they are not ranked at all.

Even the rising star Allen, his current strength far exceeds Kennedy.

But this kid was lucky, and caught Duff when he was young.Duff has been fantastic since his start at Blackburn.Especially after George took over Blackburn, Duff's performance was even better.

Duff, who is only 20 years old now, has become a top winger in the entire Premier League.In addition, Duff's playing is different from other full-backs, and the number of goals is very large.So the reputation is on the rise.

As Duff is now popular, Kennedy is getting tougher.

Come to George to talk about Duff's new contract, and the opening is a weekly salary of [-] pounds.

For Duff, George has long thought about giving a new contract.Because Duff has signed three contracts with Blackburn so far.The first time was when he was 16, when the contract was only a £[-]-a-week contract.

When Duff entered the first team two years ago, Duff signed a second contract.At that time, Duff's weekly salary was [-] pounds, and with Duff's outstanding performance in the Premier League in the first season, George signed another new contract with Duff immediately after he took over.

That is, last summer, when George was relatively generous.For Duff, who has only one season of Premier League experience, George gave him a weekly salary of [-] pounds and a four-year contract.

But last season, Duff skyrocketed, scoring more than ten goals in the league.All of a sudden, Duff's worth soared.George originally thought that after the end of this season, he would sign a new contract with Duff.

It's just that he didn't expect Duff's agent to find him after only one third of the season.

But he asked for [-] pounds, which almost made George slap the table.However, after being the head coach for so many years, he has also participated in many negotiations.Although it is impossible to completely hide emotions and anger, it is also possible to achieve similarity.

George knew that this was the mouth of the Kennedy Lion, and it was thanks to him to say the [-] pounds.Not to mention a small club like Blackburn, even Arsenal currently does not have players with a weekly salary of [-] pounds.Pires, the main player in Arsenal's later undefeated season, had a weekly salary of only [-] pounds at Arsenal at the time.

Even in the entire world of football, those whose weekly salary can reach more than [-] pounds are all world-class stars.

"Mr. Kennedy, I hope you can come up with a more realistic figure. Forty thousand pounds. Don't forget that Damien is only 20 years old. He performed well last season. Don't even think about forty thousand pounds."

Although George answered with a smile, his tone was firm.Forty thousand pounds, what do you think I am?What do you think of us Blackburn?
"Coach Levy, Blackburn can't offer £[-]. But other clubs can offer £[-]." Sean Kennedy also spoke with a smile, but it was completely tit-for-tat.

Only then did George take a closer look at Sean Kennedy.This kid is pretty funny.Now it is not the Premier League after Abramovich took over. A young player like Duff can earn a weekly salary of [-] pounds as long as he has outstanding strength and amazing performance.

Now England has players with a weekly salary of [-] pounds, which can be counted on five fingers.Moreover, Manchester United is the only team in the Premier League that can offer a weekly salary of [-] pounds.

"Mr. Kennedy, as long as you can find a club, you are willing to pay 2000 million pounds for Damien. I will not stop it." George sneered at this time. "Damien, there is still more than two and a half years of contract. If Mr. Kennedy is really not sincere, then let's continue talking after two and a half years."

George immediately chased away the guests.

Sean Kennedy was taken aback for a moment. He raised the [-] pounds really as a trick to ask for an exorbitant price and pay back the money.But I didn't expect that George is like a rock, oil and salt can't get in, and he is still so hard.

When I talked to George last summer, George was very kind.Give Duff a raise, and pay Duff a lot of attention.

Duff is valued in the hands of George, even more than Pires on the other side.This can be seen from the number of times Duff played.Kennedy thought that given the importance George attached to Duff, even if he asked for an outrageous price, it would be a good deal.

But that doesn't seem to be the case now.Only then did Kennedy think of George, who was no one else.George is a well-known character coach in the Premier League. He fell out with his old club because of the authority of the team.And also took over Blackburn.How can such a head coach be threatened.

"Okay, Coach Levi. I'll come back in a few days." Although George couldn't get off the stage, Sean Kennedy was still very experienced.After greeting George with a smile, he left George's office.

Seeing Kennedy leave, George closed his eyes and shook his head.After thinking for a while, he still left his office and walked up to the top floor.

"George, you're here. You're such a rare visitor. We're so close, I always go to see you. You rarely come to my place." John Williams, who didn't know what newspaper to read there, read When George came in, he stood up and greeted him with a smile.

Jack Walker has rarely appeared in the club, and Williams is managing everything in the club.The cooperation between George and Williams is also quite good.

"John, I don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing. There is something troublesome." George sat in front of Williams very casually, shrugged and smiled.

"Is there anything else that can embarrass our coach Levy, talk about it." Williams was a little puzzled.Blackburn has done very well recently. Except for Sagnol's serious injury, the others are all minor injuries and illnesses.

There are no shortcomings in the team lineup. George should not be buying players at this time.

Not this, what else is giving George a headache.

"Damien's agent came to me. He wants to sign a new contract." When George said this, Williams already understood.

This is what everyone has thought about for a long time. Once the results are good, the salaries of these players should increase.After George purged many of the original Blackburn players, the current salary is lower than it was two years ago.But Duff's salary increases, then there will be a chain reaction.

Duff's current weekly salary of [-] pounds is not the lowest among Blackburn.Among the main lineup, Cudicini's salary is the lowest, only [-] million pounds.

Now that Blackburn is doing very well, once Duff renews his contract, his weekly salary will definitely exceed [-] pounds.What about players like Pires, Micoud and Deco?They must also modify the contract, and Blackburn's overall salary may be doubled by then.

George can't decide this kind of thing alone, so he should talk to Williams.

Williams nodded.An increase in salary means an increase in spending.And it's not just normal growth.

"George, have you roughly calculated how much it will increase if you re-sign the contract this time?"

George thought for a while. "I haven't calculated specifically, but the weekly salary should be more than [-] pounds more than the current total." With Duff signing a new contract, including Pires, Micoud, Klose, Deco, Makelay The contracts of Lai, Hypia, and Cudicini must all be re-signed.

This is a systematic project, and the contracts of these people are all signed new contracts.Then the salary increase is not a little bit.

"Sign, sign. Anyway, it will be signed sooner or later. Signing now is good for the morale of the team. In this way, George, you don't have to worry about this matter. Just give me the list of players who must renew their contracts, and roughly Give me a salary of about [-]. I will start negotiating with them."

With such a large-scale contract extension, George, a head coach, is of course too busy.And George doesn't have that much free time, regardless of this kind of contract renewal.

"Okay, I'll sort out a copy for you soon."

George was relieved to see Williams take over.This is only a little bit now, and if Blackburn gets better and better results in the future.Then their salary requirements will be higher and higher.

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Williams is definitely not a mother-in-law.Negotiations with those players began immediately after George sent Williams his rough estimate.Blackburn immediately entered the climax of signing a new contract.

The signing of the new contract this time involves many players.Almost all the main players have it, only Ferdinand who just arrived is not included.

This kind of big move even alarmed many media newspapers in England.After all, such a large-scale signing all of a sudden is either a team that has just been upgraded or a team that has just been relegated.Therefore, Blackburn's actions this time still attract the attention of many media newspapers.

"The Sun" headline read "Blackburn is showing his ambition!"

"After winning the Premier League No.4 last season, many Blackburn players have received the attention of the English football world. Many teams are thinking about how to poach Blackburn players. But this time the contract extension completely broke their poaching ideas."

"Most of Blackburn's players are very young. Blackburn's large-scale signing of new contracts this time also shows their determination to retain their main players and want to make some achievements."

But this large-scale signing of new contracts did not inspire Blackburn players.On the contrary, when facing Milton in the away game, the offense was weak.In the end it was a zero-to-zero draw by Milton.

Then Blackburn went to Moscow, the second game of the second round of the UEFA Cup, a one-to-one away game.With a total score of 32 to [-], they eliminated Lokomotiv Moscow and entered the top [-] of the UEFA Cup.

(End of this chapter)