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Chapter 153 About Contract Renewal
Although he was mentally prepared, Shi Bo was still a little hesitant and worried before he stepped into Class 2, Grade 1 the next day.

After all, it was somewhat embarrassing to admit that he had lost in front of so many classmates and to fall in love with Wang Lie.

So he lingered outside the door for a long time before going in.

But what he didn't expect was that Wang Ziqi, who was talking about Wang Lie's performance with his classmates, seemed not to see him.

Until he was discovered by other students: "Shi Bo! Did you watch the game yesterday morning?"

When the fateful moment came, Shi Bo remained calm. He replied calmly, "I saw it."

"Hehe, are you going to become a fan of Mr. Lie?!" The classmates laughed with glee.

Shi Bo took a deep breath and was about to say something tough, but Wang Ziqi spoke up, "It's not time yet. Right now Tyne is ahead of Sofia only because of the goal difference. Let's wait until they are sure to qualify for the Champions League."

Shi Bo was a little surprised that Wang Ziqi was willing to let him go...

He breathed a sigh of relief, but suddenly remembered what his father said.

Wang Ziqi's words seem very generous. Does he also want to win the support of his classmates?
Doesn't he seem to be unable to afford to lose by doing this?
No! We can't let him get ahead!
Thinking of this, Shi Bo raised his head, waved his hand and said in a carefree manner: "No need! I admit defeat! I admit defeat, isn't it just being a fan of Wang Lie? I am a fan! From now on, I am a fan of Master Lie!"

Everyone, including Wang Ziqi, looked at him in amazement.

As Shi Bo looked at their expressions, especially Wang Ziqi's shocked look, he felt more and more that he had done the right thing:
Look, look! Even if I am a fan of Wang Lie, I will do better than you, Wang Ziqi, a toxic fan! Then, everyone will admire me more, and I will make you look like a clown!

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There were other Premier League games the day after the game, but few people paid attention to them.

The whole of Europe... no, the whole world of football, was discussing Wang Lie's god-like performance, his six goals and three assists, and the series of records he created in this game...

Wang Lie became a top star in world football.

This makes those who curse that Wang Lie's popularity and traffic are all marketing-generated very embarrassed.

From Europe to Southeast Asia, from South America to Africa, even in North America, a football desert, as long as there is an Internet signal, Wang Lie is the name most mentioned.

Even many people who don’t watch football, don’t understand football, and have never been exposed to football will always hear Wang Lie’s name through various channels.

In China, Wang Lie's victory over Sofia was even broadcast on the 7pm news broadcast the next day after the match...

The number of views and likes of his goal highlights against Sofia United on major video platforms is also increasing rapidly.

If he just scored six goals in an ordinary game, I'm afraid there wouldn't be such traffic.

But this is a "battle of revenge".

I don’t know how many bloggers have earned enough traffic by explaining to everyone the grievances and hatreds between Wang Lie and Sofolian.

Not to mention Wang Lie himself.

Thanks to Wang Lie's rising popularity, Tyne, a small club in Newcastle, became famous all over the world overnight.

The Tyneside Club also understood this very well and immediately struck while the iron was hot by releasing a documentary short of the match between Tyneside and Sofia United.

Show the details of each stage before, during and after the game.

These included three speeches by Wang Lie before the game, during halftime and after the game.

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"He really did criticize the team's performance during halftime?"

After watching this documentary short officially released by the Tyne Club, Anna Katic asked her husband in surprise.

Matis Katic nodded and curled his lips: "Yes, he really said that."

"Sometimes, I really can't understand his thinking... Even though we were leading by four goals in the first half, he was still not satisfied and even unhappy about it..." his wife Anna shook her head and sighed.

"It's not just you, there are many people in this world who don't understand him. Now there are many people on the Internet criticizing him for being too cruel and ruthless to his former club," said Katic.

"What about you? Do you understand him, dear?" The wife turned and looked at her husband.

Katic did not answer this question, but talked about something else: "In yesterday's game, Wang told me that entering the Champions League is definitely not his ultimate goal."

"What is that?" The wife was indeed attracted by this topic.

“Champions League champion.”

Hearing her husband's words, the wife raised her hand to cover her open mouth, staring at him with wide eyes.

"My dear, you said that in the last moments of my career, it seems... not impossible to win the Champions League again, right?"

The wife came back to her senses and asked: "Are you moved?"

"Honestly, a little bit."

"So are you going to renew your contract with Tyne?"

Katic shook his head: "No. Even if I want to renew my contract with the club, I don't think the club will be happy. After all, I will be 37 years old when the contract expires..."

"What's wrong with being thirty-seven? Wang can still score six goals in a single game at the age of thirty-eight."

Katic was amused by his wife and burst into laughter: "You compare me with the king? Ha! Should I be happy or cry?"

"Aren't you smiling now?"

Katic stopped laughing, but the smile on his face did not completely disappear: "I have never seen a monster like Wang, don't compare me with him. When Wang was 38 years old, he could still score six goals in a single game, but when I was 38 years old, I just wanted to bask in the sun with you in Madrid. I don't have the same ambition as him."

"So you finally decided not to go crazy with him?"

"That's not it. I will do my best in the last two seasons of the contract. At least I can't let myself hold Wang back, I'm a professional player. But I won't renew my contract with the club. If Wang still can't realize his ambitions in the next two seasons, it's not my responsibility. I tried my best and have a clear conscience."

"Two seasons? But doesn't Wang and Taien's contract end next season?"

Katic chuckled: "Do you think he won't re-sign a contract with the club after leading Tyne into the Champions League?"

The wife suddenly realized.

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"Didn't Wang say that he would start the contract renewal process with the club once he was confirmed as qualified for the Champions League?"

Sam McNeill looked at Will Foster, the club's general manager, who came to see him, with some surprise.

The latter came to him to discuss the renewal of the contract with Wang Lie.

"I know that after we beat Sofia, we are already fourth in the league. But we are only ahead of Sofia on goal difference. We have three rounds left, and we'd better win them all to secure qualification for the Champions League."

Will Foster nodded in agreement with McNeill's statement, but he also raised his own concerns:

"I know Wang said that. But... in the world of football, many things are changing, and previous promises may not be counted. Just before the game yesterday, didn't the Sofia United club deny the rumor that they would not discuss the issue of Heldon's coaching position before the end of the season?"

McNeill joked: "They didn't discuss it, they just fired him."

Then he continued, "Don't worry, Will. From what I know about the king, he means what he says. If he changes his mind, he will definitely inform us..."

"Of course, I don't doubt Wang's spirit of contract. But what about Wang's management team?"

Seeing that McNeil was about to speak, Foster quickly gestured to him to wait until he finished speaking.

"As far as I know, other teams have already contacted Wang's agent."

McNeill was stunned. "Huh?"

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Wang Lie handed two shrunken footballs with names signed all over them to his wife and said, "Give these two footballs to Qiqi and Linlin."

Tang Xingmei was a little surprised: "Take them all back?"

These two deflated footballs were the balls used in yesterday's game.

She thought her husband would keep at least one of them by his side.

"Well, take them all back. After all, we have two children. We have to treat them equally."

Tang Xingmei felt that what her husband said made sense.

So she took the football and put it in the suitcase.

She is packing her luggage.

Tomorrow she will leave for home with her parents.

It has been exactly one month since they arrived here in early April.

She was fine, but her parents were obviously homesick, especially her mother.

I even asked her privately when she would return home.

After all, the elderly can't get used to living in a foreign country...

We just finished the game yesterday and the team has a day off today.

Other players will use this holiday to spend time with their families or relax and have fun.

But Wang Lie, the "protagonist" who is at the center of public opinion in the world football, spent most of this holiday helping to pack luggage and preparing for another farewell.

This was not a farewell on impulse. The couple had already agreed to return home after the match between Tyne and Sofia. Even before she came to the UK, the time of her return had been decided.

why?
Of course, it is because Wang Lie needs to stay focused and not be disturbed before such an important game.

Tang Xingmei and her parents must provide logistical support for Wang Lie.

And after returning to China this time, Tang Xingmei will not come to the UK again until the end of this season.

Because the season is coming to an end - Tyne's last game of the season is the 38th round of the league away challenge against Kensington.

On the last day of May.

After this game, Tyne, which has neither domestic cup games nor European competitions, can disband and give the players a holiday.

Wang Lie may stay for two more days to negotiate a contract extension with the club.

But that won't be long. Then he'll go straight home to his family.

On the one hand, the couple had become accustomed to this kind of on-and-off life, and on the other hand, perhaps because they would be able to go home in more than twenty days, they did not feel reluctant to say goodbye this time.

Just then Wang Lie's cell phone rang, so he turned around and went outside to answer the call.

The call was from agent Fernando Clemente.

"Wang, I just received a call. Guess who called?" Clement's tone was smiling on the phone.

"Will Foster?" Wang Lie guessed.

After all, the Tyne Club had always wanted to renew his contract, even though he had promised to do so. But now that the team was ranked fourth in the league, it was normal for their general manager to call him in a hurry.

Besides, Wang Lie couldn't imagine who would call his agent at this time.

"Ha, it's not him!" Clement couldn't help laughing, "It's Jonathan Hall!"

Even though Wang Lie had seen a lot of storms and had witnessed all kinds of scenes, his brain still froze when he heard this name.

"what?"

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McNeill frowned. "Has a club contacted Wang's agent? Which one?"

Will Foster shook his head: "I don't know, I just heard the rumor, but I would rather believe it is true."

McNeill wanted to believe it was true.

Because of the state that Wang Lie has shown, especially in the game just now, it is not surprising that he will win the favor of other teams.

Even if it is a top club, they would definitely like to have a strong player joining next season. Besides, which top club doesn't need a striker who can score goals?
So he immediately understood why Foster had hurried to come to him to discuss renewing Wang Lie's contract - he was worried that Wang Lie's original intention to renew his contract with the club would waver...

Didn’t Isa Munich have a “scandal” with Wang Lie before?

And it's not just Isa Munich. Wang Lie's agent flew all over Europe looking for a team willing to accept Wang Lie.

Although those clubs gave up for various reasons, the two sides are always connected.

Now that he sees Wang Lie's performance getting better and better, it's normal to start having ideas again.

In the football world, it is very rare that after being rejected once, people will never have any further contact with each other.

It all comes down to interests. If the interests coincide, then we can cooperate.

However, McNeill still feels that Wang Lie will not easily leave Tyne and go to other teams, even if the other team is a wealthy club.

He couldn't give a reason, it was just some intuition.

This intuition made him believe that Wang Lie would not betray them.

So he continued to reassure Foster:

"Don't worry, Will. Now that we have the opportunity to participate in the Champions League next season, the appeal of those giants to Wang will be greatly reduced. He is not the kind of rookie who has never proved himself in a giant club. Besides, what the giant clubs can give him, we can also give him, and what the giant clubs can't give him, we can still give him. In terms of appeal to Wang, Tyne is now leading by a gap."

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When Tang Xingmei saw her husband coming back from the phone call, there was an indescribable weird expression on his face.

I asked, "What's wrong? Who's calling?"

"Fernando."

"He brought you bad news?"

"That's not the case. It's just a piece of news that I don't know how to describe. Hall called him..."

"Which Hall?" Tang Xingmei heard the key words and interrupted her husband in shock.

Wang Lie spread his hands and said, "Who else could it be?"

"The general manager of Sofulian?"

"correct."

When Tang Xingmei heard that it was Jonathan Hall, the general manager of Sofo, who called agent Clement, the expression on her face was exactly the same as when her husband first entered the room:
"Jonathan Hall? Why did he call your agent? Does he still want you to come back?"

Wang Lie laughed: "Ha! You guessed it right! He just wanted Fernando to ask me what I think about returning to Sofia."

Tang Xingmei showed a helpless expression: "Does he think that the club has shown goodwill to you by firing Helden, and you will let go of your grudges... Is he betting that your ten years of relationship with Sofia United is worth half a season with Tyne?"

Wang Lie curled his lips: "Then he really doesn't understand me."

The wife smiled and nodded: "Indeed, I don't know you at all."

A vibrant team that has everything it needs except a championship.

And an aging, dilapidated team that is in a mess.

Which one should I choose?
As long as Wang Lie doesn't lose his mind, he knows which one to choose.

If you want to use your feelings to kidnap Wang Lie, your plan will fail. Even if he has feelings for Sofia, he will not choose the wrong direction at the critical juncture of his career. He will not give up the pursuit of championship honors for the sake of deep feelings. Otherwise, he would not have insisted on going from Beaune in France to Atlético Barcelona in Spain.

"So how did you get back to Fernando?"

"I asked Fernando to reject Hall. I told him that I was very happy in Tyne and would not go anywhere. Then I asked Fernando to inform the Tyne club and start contract renewal negotiations with them, and then try to announce the successful contract renewal when we have secured qualification for the Champions League next season."

The couple had already discussed the contract renewal with Tyne, so Tang Xingmei was not surprised by the decision to renew the contract. What surprised her was the timing her husband mentioned: "Didn't you say before that you would start contract renewal negotiations after securing the Champions League qualification?"

Wang Lie explained: "Plans cannot keep up with changes. I think we should give the club some confidence so that they don't have to worry too much."

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"What you said makes sense, Sam. But I still need to contact Wang's agent and ask him to renew his contract with the club. This is our attitude, and whether it succeeds or not, the attitude must be expressed clearly. At this critical moment, our Tyne Club must not be absent, and we must always remind Wang of our existence."

Will Foster took out his cell phone and prepared to find Fernando Clemente's phone number in the address book.

But at this moment, a ringtone rang, and the name of Fernando Clemente appeared on the screen of the phone in his hand.

The latter called him!
He was stunned for a moment, then quickly answered: "Hello, this is Foster. Is this Mr. Clement?"

Fernando Clemente on the other end of the phone said: "I am Clemente, Mr. Foster. I called you because the king entrusted me to convey a message to you..."

When Will Foster heard Clement say this, his heart suddenly started beating violently.

He felt that he could already imagine what Clement would say next:

"We formally inform your club that Wang will not renew his contract with Tyne. Because we have a better option..."

Even though there was no reason for it, he couldn't help but worry about it.

Fortunately, Clement didn't have the bad habit of panting when speaking, so he didn't wait for this vague worry to take shape in Foster's mind, and said directly:
"We are ready to start negotiations with the Tyne club on a new contract."

"Ah?" Will Foster was stunned at first, then he immediately reacted and said quickly:
"Okay! No problem! We can start right now! Mr. Clement, when are you available?"

After agreeing on a time to start the negotiations with Wang Lie's agent, Foster put down his phone and shook his fist at McNeill:
"It's stable! Sam! It's stable!"

McNeill laughed at him: "I told you there would be no problem with this. You are the one who is suspicious."

Foster laughed dryly to cover up, then quickly changed the subject: "How many seasons do you think we should sign with Wang this time? If we cancel the existing contract and start counting from the new season...what do you think of '2+1'?"

The so-called "2+1" means the contract is valid for two seasons, plus a floating clause for an additional season.

After the first two seasons, the player and the club will sit down and discuss whether to continue to fulfill the "+1" one-year contract.

If the player performs consistently and well in the first two seasons, activate the remaining year of the contract.

If the player does not perform well, the club can choose not to activate the contract, and the contract between the two parties will end at the end of the two seasons.

For older players, this is a more routine and safe operation.

Even the contract term proposed by Foster greatly favored Wang Lie, because for veterans of this age, many clubs would sign them with a "1+1" contract, or simply a one-year contract.

But McNeill shook his head: "I don't think so, Will. '2+1' is worse than just giving Wang Lie a three-year contract."

"why?"

Foster wondered, isn't this a common practice?
"'+1' is a practice that sets certain additional conditions. This may make Wang feel that you don't trust him, because Wang needs to meet certain conditions you set before the third year of the contract is activated. He will feel that you are doubting whether he will be able to do it by then... I know you don't mean that. But Will, Wang is not an ordinary player. You can't talk to him with the same mindset as you would with an ordinary player."

Seeing that Foster was about to defend himself, McNeill stopped him and continued:

"What he values ​​most is trust. If you don't trust him, he won't accept any conditions you set for him, no matter how easy they are to accomplish. If you trust him, then trust him completely and act as if you are placing all your bets on him. Trust or distrust, there is no gray area between the two. This is also my experience in working with him for half a season, Will.

"If you don't believe he can maintain such a good condition in two years, then just give him a two-year contract. I believe he won't be dissatisfied."

After hearing what McNeill said, Will Foster fell into deep thought.

But he didn't think about it for too long, and soon clapped his hands: "Okay! Then give Wang a new four-year contract!"

McNeill: “Huh?”

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