"Li, don't practice today. Come with me to Mr. Alex's office.”
Li Qing looked doubtfully at the head coach, Neil Critchley.
Neil Critchley smiled as he explained to Li Qing,"The U18 is different from the age group you've been in before. Being nominated for the U18 means that you've passed the first round of the professional player selection and received the recognition of the great Liverpool. It's also time to sign a contract with the club.”
Only then did Li Qing reveal an expression of understanding. Starting from U6-U9 to U15-U16, unless the player was exceptionally talented and received free or reduced tuition fees, they would need to pay a considerable amount of tuition fees to the Kirkby Academy. However, it was different when they reached U18. This meant that the player had already met the most basic requirements of a professional player.
It was precisely because of this that the club that the academy belonged to had to sign a preliminary professional contract with the player, which was an apprentice contract. The academy would sign the contract with the player.
A real professional contract could only be signed when one was seventeen years old at the earliest.
Of course, it did not mean that all players who signed an apprenticeship contract could sign a professional contract after the age of 17. It was still the same sentence. Professional football required strength. If the strength was not enough to renew the apprenticeship contract, they could find another job.
According to Li Qing's understanding, the weekly salary of an apprentice wasn't too high. It was basically around a few hundred pounds, but even so, it was still quite a lot when converted to RMB. Taking a weekly salary of 100 pounds as an example, it was close to 1,000 RMB when converted to RMB. Multiplied by four weeks, it was already more than most of the working class.
Moreover, with the talent that Li Qing had displayed, he naturally wouldn't be at the bottom of the 100-pound weekly salary.
Based on the talent that he had displayed, how much was his weekly salary worth?
Five hundred? Eight hundred? A thousand? Or higher?
As he was thinking, he had unknowingly followed Neil Cricchley to the door of the office of Inglethorpe, the head of the youth training.
"Dong dong dong ~"
As soon as Neil Critchley knocked on the door, Inglethorpe's voice came from inside."Please come in."
Li Qing and Neil Critchley entered the youth training director's office together. Other than Inglethorpe, there was also a middle-aged man whom they did not know.
When Inglethorpe saw Li Qing and Neil Cricchley enter, he put down the things in his hands and shook hands with the two of them. Then, he introduced another person to Li Qing who had come to the office."This is the head of football affairs, Nick Marshall. He is in charge of your apprenticeship contract.”
"Hello, Li."
"Hello, Mr. Nick."
The two of them politely shook hands. Marshall went straight to the point and directly handed the apprentice contract that he had prepared to Li Qing. He solemnly said,"Take a look first. If there's no problem, sign it directly.”
Li Qing received the contract and thought,'System, can you help me see if there are any problems with this contract?”
"Ten gold coins."
A system notification sounded.
Li Qing couldn't help but roll his eyes. It costs gold coins to read a contract?"
"Of course."
Li Qing was speechless at the system's reply, but he didn't spend any gold coins. After all, he didn't have a lot of gold coins left. Moreover, this apprentice contract only had two pages. It was simple and clear, and it wasn't like a job contract where the Club could scheme against him.
Besides, he had never eaten pork before, so how could he not have seen a pig run?
Before transmigrating, Li Qing was also considered a fan, so he still understood the key points.
The apprenticeship contract was very simple. It didn't have the complicated goal bonuses, assist bonuses, glory bonuses, and appearance fees of professional contracts. It only had a basic weekly salary.
As a player, apart from salary, the signing period was also very important.
The weekly salary was completely out of Li Qing's expectations. It was a full 1200 pounds!
If converted to RMB, that would be more than 10,000…
This was a week's salary!
Although Li Qing didn't know what the maximum salary of the U18 youth team was, he knew that a weekly salary of more than 1200 pounds was definitely not a lot. It was even possible that it was considered an average salary for the U23 team.
There was no problem with the length of the contract. It was just that…he felt that it was a little too long. It was only for two years.
This…was he not being valued?
When Inglethorpe saw Li Qing's frown, he thought that Li Qing was not satisfied with this contract of being the top apprentice of the U18 youth team. He said unhappily,"Li, are you not satisfied with this contract?”
Li Qing did not hear the unhappiness in Inglethorpe's words. He scratched the back of his head and said," This... the duration of the contract?"
Marshall thought that Li Qing felt that the duration of the contract was too long, so he smiled and said,"Li, two years is the longest period of an apprentice contract. It can't be any shorter. You'll be 17 years old in two years, so you can sign a professional contract with the club.”
Li Qing originally felt that two years was too short and thought that he wasn't valued. Now, it seemed that signing the contract for the longest two years was a form of respect for him. As for the fact that there wasn't a outright clause, it was very easy to understand.
The longest duration of an apprenticeship contract was two years. In England, one could sign a professional contract after reaching the age of seventeen. According to Li Qing's understanding, if his strength did not meet the requirements of the first team, the club would not sign a professional contract with him. At most, he would renew the apprenticeship contract.
What Li Qing did not know was that the original club had priority to renew the contract with the same treatment, unless the other clubs offered higher treatment after the contract expired. Moreover, according to the UEFA's relevant provisions, the club that signed the player whose apprenticeship contract expired needed to compensate the original club financially. This also meant that the buy out clause was dispensable.
Of course, any club would pay a high price to keep their own promising stars before the contract expired, unless the other party's asking price was too high.
A weekly salary of 1200 pounds and a two-year contract. In principle, Li Qing was very satisfied, but after a short period of consideration, he decided to add something. He carefully said to Marshall,"Mr. Nick, can you add a clause at the end of the contract that says,'If Party B continues to perform well, Party B can modify the contract benefits during the contract period?'”
Inglethorpe, Marshall, and Neil Cricelli looked at each other. They could see the surprise in each other's eyes, but they did not feel disgusted at all because Li Qing's request was logical and in line with their pursuit.
What was the purpose of modifying the contract?
Wasn't it all for a raise?
Under normal circumstances, a raise might be too much, but what he meant was that after his performance continued to be outstanding, a raise would become difficult to refuse.
In the end, this apprenticeship contract had an additional clause added according to Li Qing's suggestion under the circumstances of a weekly salary of 1200-if Party B continued to perform outstandingly, they could modify the contract's treatment during the contract period.
However, Marshall, as the representative of the club, naturally would not let the owner suffer too much, so he added another point.
The cycle was once every half a year at most.
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