Chapter 40: An Overreaching Agent

Chapter 40: An Overreaching Agent

Jason jumped off the treadmill, huffing violently as he had just finished an intensive 30-minute run at above-average speed, and sat on the floor while mopping some of his sweat away with a towel.

Team training for the Porto Juniors hadn't resumed as they were supposed to be resting after their game just over a day ago, but Jason would never lay on the couch that long in the name of rest.

He would rather up his grind at every moment, continuously trying to better himself as while he had been given a second chance, he would still have to work extra hard to make good on this chance and achieve his dreams.

He hadn't been given a system or some sort of cheat ability like in those books with similar situations to what he had experienced, so he had to work extra hard if he wanted to change anything from how it was in his previous life.

Things had already begun changing and he was already walking a very different path from his previous life, but that was not going to stop him from working hard.

Rather he was going to up his work rate, increase his training time, and do as many body conditioning exercises at every chance he got.

If Cristiano Ronaldo could make it to the top of the football world with hard work combined with his talents, then Jason didn't see any reason why he couldn't do the same...

... Even though things hadn't gone that way in his previous life despite how hard he worked, that wouldn't dampen his enthusiasm and efforts CHeCk for new stories on no/v/el/bin(.)c0m

As soon as he caught his breath, he stood up again to continue his run on the treadmill, while thinking to himself,

'Rico should have contacted the club management, or maybe he's even meeting them already.'

Rico Gulaz was Mylo's agent whom he had hired to help negotiate his contract with the PC Porto club management.

Rico was the one who would contact the club and negotiate a contract with them before getting back to him with the results of the negotiation and asking for his input if he was unsatisfied with the deal or his signature if he was satisfied.

It was probably too early to be expecting Rico to have come to an agreement with the club as he had just hired him the day before, but Jason couldn't help feeling eager to put pen to paper as soon as the deal was finalized.

'I hope that guy doesn't mess things up,' Jason couldn't help thinking to himself.

***At the same time at Estadio do Dragao***

"At least 30000 euros weekly," Rico said self-righteously.

This time, Sergio and Rafael couldn't keep their faces straight and Rafael immediately interjected as he couldn't stay silent,

"Don't you think paying 30000 euros a week to a player who doesn't have more than a single professional game under his belt is a bit over the top?"

"If it's for a player with as much talent as my client, then no, I don't think it is," Rico immediately replied, not willing to take a step back.

"No one is saying he doesn't have talent, we just haven't seen a consistency of such performances in games to give him such a salary," Rafael began trying to explain, but Sergio could no longer stay silent and took over the explanation,

"That's why it's only a two-year contract, and when he has proven himself to the team, the club management, and the fans, then paying that much or even higher isn't a problem," Sergio countered Rico's reasoning.

"But-..." Rico began but Filipe suddenly interjected,

"Is this a demand of your client?" he said, his voice dropping dangerously low.

"Well, I'm here to represent my client an-..." Rico began again after realizing that things may end up getting out of hand, but Filipe interjected again,

"IS THIS... A DEMAND. OF YOUR CLIENT?" he asked, slowly spelling the question out.

"I believe my client would fully agr-..." Rico tried to play it off but it seemed that Filipe was intent on not allowing him to finish any sentences as he interjected once again,

"Do you know who the highest-paid person in the FC Porto team is?" Filipe asked, but then went ahead to answer the question himself,

"It's Pepe, a three times champions league winner and he has a weekly salary of about 55000 euros,"

"The average weekly salary of our players is just about 24000 euros..."

"But now, you are demanding an amount above the average salary for a player who doesn't even have an academy experience ," Filipe fired away, his words harshly scratching against Rico's ears.

"I'm very sorry, but if those are your demands, then there is no point in negotiating," Filipe said the last words any agent would want to hear with conviction.