All-round Athlete

Chapter 89 The Ideal of Two People

The five members of the band are gathering to discuss arrangements for the new album.

The door of the room opened suddenly, and the manager rushed in holding a laptop.

"What's going on?" the lead singer asked, the manager's flustered appearance made him feel a little uneasy.

"Look, I just found a video. At the Hong Kong Olympic Parade, an athlete sang a song." The manager put the notebook in the center of the crowd, and then started playing a video. This is a clear video, and the agent found it with great difficulty.

"When I am different from the world, then let me be different. Persistence is for me to overcome rigidity with rigidity."

"If I compromise with myself, if I lie to myself, even if others forgive me, I will not be able to forgive."

"..."

"This, how is it possible, the lyrics are the same!" The lead singer exclaimed. As the author of this song, he has firmly remembered every word of the lyrics.

"And even the name is the same, it's also called "Stubborn"." The manager said.

At this moment, a possibility flashed in everyone's mind: the new album has been leaked!

"Has our new album leaked?" the band's guitarist asked.

"Impossible." The oldest drummer in the band said, "For this new album, we traveled to Japan specially, and selected ten of the twenty-seven original songs, and then produced them by a Japanese company. Currently The media doesn’t even know what we’re doing with this album, let alone leak it.”

After the drummer finished speaking, he turned his attention to the lead singer. This song was written by the lead singer a few months ago, and several people in the band only heard this song after they arrived in Japan. That is to say, if it was leaked, then the author of this song, that is, the lead singer most suspected. However, as a member of the team, the drummer did not doubt the lead singer. They had formed a band for several years, and they were even more intimate with each other. He knew the lead singer's personality, and it was impossible for him to leak the new song on purpose.

The lead singer watched the video again, and then said: "Listen carefully, the arrangement is different from ours."

When everyone listened carefully, the singer's singing tune and rhythm were the same as their works, except for the arrangement, although some parts sounded the same, but if they listened carefully, they were different from theirs.

For a song, the music is obviously the soul. If the arrangement is different, it also means that the song has a different soul. In the eyes of professional musicians, it cannot be regarded as the same song. For example, many cover singers have changed their singing style, changed their lyrics, changed English lyrics to Chinese lyrics, and changed Cantonese lyrics to Mandarin lyrics, but as long as the song remains the same, it is considered a cover song.

"This arrangement is very good, absolutely first-class level." The guitarist said.

The lead singer also nodded. In terms of style, this arrangement is obviously much more mature than his own. He can feel that the song contains deeper life insights and experiences.

"The arrangement is great, it's top-notch." The lead singer frowned and thought for a while, then said: "Arrangers of this level are better than ours, so they probably won't copy our stuff!"

"What shall we do now?" asked the drummer.

The lead singer hesitated for a moment, and said, "Let's change the song, anyway, there are more than a dozen songs to choose."

"But this song is the main song of our album, and it is also your painstaking effort. Do you have the heart to give it up?" The drummer continued: "And the lyrics are the same, our arrangement is different from his."

"But there is no difference in essence!" The lead singer shook his head: "In the first half of this year, you should know about the things I encountered. My grandma passed away, and some things in my family were exposed by reporters. At that time I fell from heaven to hell, I feel as if the whole world has turned its back on me, the whole world is cursing me, I almost want to give up, but I know, I can't give up, and I won't give up. So I write That song is my heartfelt voice, my pursuit of music, and my persistence in ideals.”

"If other people sing this song, I may stop it. I am worried that they will desecrate my music and my ideals." The lead singer paused, took a deep breath and continued: "But Zhang Guan is not Similarly, he is an Olympic champion, and he broke the world record. I can understand that as a yellow man, he must have paid hardships and pains, and must have experienced setbacks and failures. What he sang, not only It's a song, but an attachment to ideals. Each of us is on the road of pursuing ideals. Perhaps on this road, he is more persistent and persistent than us, but no matter what, we and him will be stubborn Go on, you won't back down!"

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Manager Wang is the business manager of Nike Company who is mainly responsible for contacting the track and field line. Last winter, he went to Zhang Guan together with the people from the track and field management center, hoping to sign Zhang Guan as the spokesperson, but Zhang Guan refused. Entering the Olympic preparation stage, the Olympic contestants stopped all commercial activities, and the signing of Zhang Guan was also forgotten by him.

But just ten days ago, when the news that Zhang Guan broke the record and won the Olympic 100-meter championship was sent back to China, Manager Wang was immediately stunned! As a Chinese, he is very pleased that such a breakthrough in the 100-meter sprint event can be achieved, but at the same time he also regrets that if he could have exerted a little more pressure or raised the price a little, maybe Zhang Guan would have signed the contract. Signing hundreds of thousands of "world's number one flying man" as a spokesperson is definitely a great achievement, enough for President James to admire him, and the possibility of future promotion and salary increase will also greatly increase!

But it is useless to regret now, he received the latest instructions from President James, asking him to sign a contract with Zhang Guan as soon as possible. The company has already received the news, and the managers of several competitors have also been dispatched. They all hope to sign Zhang Guan as the spokesperson in order to increase their share in the domestic market.

So Manager Wang came to the Field Management Center. Instead of looking for the center's leader in charge of athletes' business operations, he went to Director Sun. That is, Director Sun who brought the contract to Zhang Guan to sign it last winter.

It is impossible for a leader to do everything by himself, as long as he has a good grasp of the work direction and does a good job in decision-making work, but when it comes to the handling of specific matters, it is mainly at the level of Director Sun.

In the office, Director Sun was drinking tea and smoking the soft pack of cigarettes that Manager Wang had just handed over. He crossed his legs and said, "It's not easy to sign a contract with Zhang Guan! To tell you the truth, there are already several sports brands and We have contacted, and there are many other industries, so our center must also carefully consider and strictly control. This is also responsible for our athletes!"

Director Sun changed his voice, and continued: "Of course, as your company is the most famous sports brand in the world and has a deep friendship with our center, there must be no problem in terms of qualifications."

Manager Wang smiled and nodded, but he was very upset in his heart. Although Director Sun's high-sounding words sounded good, but according to Manager Wang's understanding of these officials, the more high-sounding the words, the more ready to kick the ball . If this continues, I will be in vain today.

"Director Sun, our company is very sincere, and we have also decided to increase the signing bonus. Didn't we talk about 300,000 yuan last time? This time the company increased it tenfold, 3 million a year!" Manager Wang stretched out Three fingers, with an exaggerated expression on his face, as if three million had already shocked him.

But in fact, Manager Wang knew that the company’s negotiating upper limit for him was not just three million. James told Manager Wang that if it was less than five million, he could directly agree, and if it was more than five million, he would report to him. As long as it was not too high, It won't be too much of a problem. But it's always good to save money for the company, so Manager Wang's skillful expression became exaggerated.

"Three million..." Director Sun showed a slight smile, and then said: "As far as I know, the leaders don't really approve of this figure. It must be difficult to sign Zhang Guan with three million."

When Director Sun said this, he moved forward on purpose, lowered his voice and said, "Brother Wang, let me reveal to you secretly, other companies offer higher prices than yours!"

"As expected, those competitors have really made a move!" Manager Wang thought to himself, but still had to show a flattered gratitude on his face.

"I don't know what price is more acceptable to the leader?" Manager Wang asked.

"Hehe..." Director Sun smiled meaningfully, pressed the cigarette butt in his hand into the ashtray, and stopped talking. Sure enough, the chat stopped at "hehe".

Director Sun knew that although these multinational conglomerates were rich, they didn't see rabbits or hawks. If Manager Wang wanted to inquire about news from him, it was impossible to rely on his red lips and white teeth. s things.

Manager Wang immediately realized that, judging from Director Sun's attitude, it was impossible for this empty glove to be a white wolf. Manager Wang straightened up slowly, then took out a cigarette and handed it to Director Sun, and said, "Director Sun, let's go to Regal Hotel tonight, I have reserved a seat, the boutique Buddha jumps over the wall."

"The exquisite Buddha jumps over the wall..." Director Sun pondered for a moment. There is 2666 of the exquisite Buddha jumped over the wall in the Regal Hotel. possible.

"Okay, since Manager Wang invited you so kindly, then I'll be disrespectful!" Director Sun smiled, and continued, "I heard that the spa on the sixth floor of the Regal Hotel is very good."

Manager Wang cursed a few words in his heart, but he still said: "Don't worry, we have everything, we have everything we want, and we will go to the sixth floor after dinner!"

...

In the early morning, Manager Wang sent Director Sun to the car, and he let out a sigh of relief.

After pretending to be his grandson all night, Manager Wang has already obtained the quotations of other competitors from Director Sun, and more importantly, he knows that the sports brand endorsement set by the center leaders for Zhang Guan is 5 million!

"Five million a year is a reasonable price based on Zhang Guan's performance, but according to the standard of endorsement fees for domestic athletes, it is a bit high, but it is also within the acceptable range." Manager Wang's face A triumphant smile appeared.

Nike has always maintained a good cooperative relationship with the field management center. Now that he knows the reserve price of the field management center and the situation of competitors, then in the subsequent negotiations, the quotation can take a lot of advantages . Although this night cost Manager Wang more than 10,000 yuan, Manager Wang believes that he can earn back hundreds of times at the negotiating table.

"If you can save a little more endorsement fees, maybe you can get an extra year-end bonus at the end of the year!" Manager Wang sighed in his heart.

He is just an ordinary person. For him, working hard, getting promoted, raising salary, and then bringing a better life to his family is his greatest ideal. For this reason, he can give up his dignity, and he can do things that he is not willing to do.

It's just that whether it's Manager Wang or Director Sun, they don't know that Zhang Guan's agent team, the champion team, has already begun to operate in an orderly manner.

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The first chapter is delivered, please ask for a recommendation ticket.

Many football and basketball novels start their careers abroad, which can directly avoid the problem of institutional constraints. However, when writing other projects, especially non-professional projects, it is difficult to avoid the problem of agents. This is also the second volume The last episode. After that, the third volume will start to add some other track and field events. Judging from the first draft written so far, the rhythm of the competition in the third volume feels a bit faster. That's about it, bow and exit.