Pei Qian: “…”
He almost cursed out loud.
This number had exceeded his expectations!
Before this, Huang Wang, Jiang Huan, and the others’ transfer fees were about two million yuan. That was why Pei Qian thought that one million yuan each would be the maximum for these young players.
However, that was obviously not the case!
At the beginning, Huang Wang and Jiang Huan’s transfer fees were a little too high. After all, the various clubs were aiming for GOG’s international invitational competition results to increase their bonuses and exposure.
However, as GOG’s global market share increased, GOG’s international invitational tournament became successful, and the GPL league became more popular…
After this series of operations, the net worth of star players like Huang Wang and Jiang Huan also increased rapidly as more and more capital entered!
Their transfer fee was no longer two million yuan.
As the value of the top players increased, the value of DGE Club’s second batch of potential rookies would naturally increase as well.
Ten people might not seem like a lot, but the transfer fee added up to thirteen million yuan.
What made Pei Qian feel like vomiting blood was not this number but time!
Boss Pei was someone who had seen much of the world after all. He had already invested hundreds of millions of yuan into the company several times, let alone ten million yuan.
In any case, it would not end up in his hands. It was just a figure.
The key was how much time he had spent earning those ten million yuan!
This group of players entered some time in September. It was December now. They had only trained for three months and yet they had sold them for 13 million yuan!
Based on this calculation, the DGE Club earned about four million yuan a month on average. It was a piece of cake.
Not to mention DGE Club’s commercial sponsorship and live-stream contract!
On the other hand, the daily expenses of DGE Club were not much. The training base was rented from Boss Li, and Manager Cui of Ming Yun Villas who wanted to treat Boss Pei like their own father. The rent, utilities, and other daily expenses did not cost much.
The only place to spend money was probably the daily expenses such as meals and fitness.
However, how much money could be spent since they were taken care of by Fish-Catching Take-Out and Deposit Fitnes?
Pei Qian was exhausted.
Other people would burn money if they opened a club. His original intention for opening a club was also to burn money. Yet it became profitable in the end!
A club that specialized in buying and selling players to make money, a club that could not compete but was even more famous than the champions, just thinking about it was ridiculous.
It was said that DGE Club would earn over ten million yuan if they groomed them well. However, the problem was that these players were good seedlings!
That was because all the potential newbies were trying their best to enter the DGE Club. They treated this place as their first choice. Thus, any random trainee would be considered newbies with potential.
It was just like many super secondary schools. The best students around applied, would their results be bad?
Pei Qian sipped his tea quietly to adjust his mentality. “Continue.”
The Manage Loss Manager continued, “At the moment, many clubs have already received sponsorships. The numbers are different and they cannot rely on sponsors to maintain the operations of the clubs for the time being, but this is a good start.”
“Some teams’ uniforms should have the logo of sponsors before the Spring Competition begins. It’s not good to have too many sponsors, it’s not good to have no sponsors at all. It would make the audience feel that the popularity of the league is not enough.”
Pei Qian nodded slightly. If the sponsors want to give money to the club, just do it. It has nothing to do with me.
The Manage Loss Trainee changed the topic and said, “In addition, many sponsors have expressed strong interest in the exclusive title sponsorship of the GPL, including computer manufacturers, external manufacturers, sports clothing, digital products, cars, and other manufacturers.”
“However, the specific price has not been finalized. We are still in negotiations.”
“At the moment, the exclusive partnership price for a single type of business is about five million yuan a year. The exclusive title sponsorship price is about 20 million yuan a year. We are still discussing it because it involves some details in the sponsorship.”
“As for the live-streaming platform, the rights to broadcast the GPL’s Spring and Summer Competition will be given to three live-streaming platforms. The starting price is 10 million yuan, and the current bidding price should be above 12 million yuan…”
“All these are still being negotiated. Boss Zhang is also summarizing all sorts of information. He should be reporting it soon.”
Pei Qian felt his limbs turn cold as he listened to the figures. His mind went blank.
He had thought that it was bad news for DGE Club to be selling people like crazy. Now, he realized that the real bad news was yet to come!
Recently, Pei Qian’s attention had been completely focused on the IOI Qualifiers and the Cold-Faced Lady. He had not paid much attention to the GPL. He had not expected the situation to be so serious!
In fact, he should have thought of this earlier. With so many sponsors looking for teams to work with, there would definitely be more people looking for official partnerships!
At the moment, there were different levels of sponsorship for the GPL league.
A single type of exclusive collaboration meant that a certain brand would monopolize a certain type of product after sponsoring it. For example, if a certain sportswear signed an exclusive collaboration with the GPL, then the GPL would no longer collaborate with other sportswear in the future.
Of course, this did not affect them from looking for computers, cars, digital products, and other manufacturers to work with.
As for the exclusive title sponsorship, it could also be regarded as the chief sponsor. That meant that the official platform would have the best recommendation resources. Naturally, the price would be the highest.
As for the live-streaming platform, the competition was even more intense. All the major live-streaming platforms were burning money at the moment. If they could not obtain the GPL broadcasting rights, they would give their users the feeling that this platform was not very good. Thus, the bidding price was very high.
Speaking of which, this amount could not be compared to the hundreds of millions of yuan sponsorship fees that Pei Qian remembered.
But the problem was, how was that even possible at this juncture?
GOG had only been created less than a year ago, and the country had not recognized E-Sports at all. To be able to get such a high sponsorship fee was already ridiculous to Pei Qian!
However, on further thought, this made sense.
Due to the popularity of the GOG World Finals, everyone could see the huge potential of the E-Sports competition. On top of that, the GPL was so well done that there were almost no competitors.
What’s more, Shenhua and the other big companies had entered the scene one after another. News of the sky-high prices of GPL spots had been constantly stirring the audiences’ senses. When the sponsors saw the advertising effect brought about by the huge popularity and compared it to the price of traditional sports, they felt that it was very worth it and naturally entered the scene.
Pei Qian silently calculated in his heart that the GPL would most likely be able to earn hundreds of millions of yuan through various sponsors and broadcasting rights for the spring and summer competitions.
The good news was that hundreds of millions of yuan would be earned throughout the year. It would be easier to accept if the money was distributed every month.
The bad news was that the spon
sorship fees would be higher next year.
After some consideration, Pei Qian realized that he could not push the money away.
Since that was the case, he had to let Zhang Yuan know that the sponsors had to pay in installments and distribute the money each month. He could not transfer all of the money at once, especially not at the critical juncture before settlement.
Otherwise, Boss Pei would die on the spot.
“Is there anything else?” Pei Qian felt a little tired.
The Manage Loss Manager pondered for a moment. “Oh, there’s another small matter. It’s about FV Club. I heard that Long Yu Corporation has arranged for domestic teams to train in Los Angeles, but they left FV team behind…”
Wu Yue called Zhang Yuan to discuss this matter. The Manage Loss Trainee knew about it since there was no need to keep it a secret.
Pei Qian’s eyes lit up when he heard that.
How could this be a small matter?
Spending money was no small matter!
This Wu Yue and Zhang Yuan, both of them should be severely criticized! Why didn’t they report this to me immediately? What were they thinking?
Long Yu Corporation had brought two teams to Los Angeles, leaving only FV Club behind?
That’s great!
This is giving me a very precious opportunity to spend money!
If they brought more people and set the highest food and accommodation standards that the system allowed… That would probably cost a lot according to Los Angeles’ expenses!
After hearing so much bad news, he finally had good news.
Pei Qian called Wu Yue immediately after the Manage Loss Trainee meeting ended.
…
At FV Club, Wu Yue was feeling conflicted about team training. He quickly picked up the call when he saw that it was from Boss Pei.
“Hello? Boss Pei, what’s the matter?” Wu Yue asked.
Boss Pei seemed unhappy. “Why didn’t you tell me about the other clubs going to Los Angeles?”
Wu Yue was stunned for a moment before he quickly explained, “Oh, Boss Pei, you don’t have to worry about such a small matter. I can handle it.”
Pei Qian: “What can you do? Can you make the decision to arrange first-class tickets and five-star hotels for all the team members, or can you find opponents for the team to train?”
Wu Yue: “I…”
He thought about it and realized that he really could not. He might have enough money on FV Club’s accounts but it was really difficult for him to make the decision to spend hundreds of thousands of yuan to get to Los Angeles in advance.
Pei Qian said, “There’s no need to think about this anymore. Get everyone an urgent visa immediately! How many people are there in FV Club?”
Wu Yue pondered for a moment. “Team One has five members, Team Two has five as well. In addition, Manager Lu, the rest of the team staff, and so on…”
“Ah, but we don’t need so many people. We can just get Team One and Manager Lu to go. Three rooms would be enough for six people.”
Pei Qian was very unhappy after hearing that. “How can you only have six people?”
“As the saying goes, the provisions and fodder move before the troops. How can we fight if the logistics and supplies can’t keep up?”
“You are not familiar with Los Angeles so you have to find a translator and a local tour guide who is familiar with the place. You have to have someone make arrangements for meals and accommodations.”
“We can’t be sloppy when it comes to food. Go over there and check if there are any Chinese cuisines with better flavors. Make sure that there are no problems with the team members’ daily diet and that nothing affects their physical condition.”
“We’ll hire four more bodyguards. I heard that security in the United States is not good. We have to ensure the safety of our team members.”
“Bring a team of sparring partners… I think SUG is not bad. How about this, I’ll fork out money to bring the team members from the SUG along with you.”
“How about this, a total of 30 people. We’ll budget 3,000 yuan per person per day for food and accommodations alone until the end of the competition. That would be about five weeks, right?”
“Just the food and accommodation standards alone cost 3.15 million yuan. Yes, when you arrive in Los Angeles, you might have to do some shopping, buy some local specialties, some cheap digital products, and so on. On top of that, you might also have to pay for a tour guide and a bodyguard, and consider some possible emergencies…”
“Let’s round it up to four million yuan.”
Wu Yue was flabbergasted.
Spending four million yuan on a trip to Los Angeles?
The entire FV Club was not worth that much money!
Wu Yue quickly said, “Boss Pei, there’s no need for that, right? Finger Games will provide food and accommodation after the main competition starts. That’s why the money we really need to spend is just a return flight.”
“Even if we go a week earlier, we don’t need to pay 3,000 yuan per person to take care of our food and accommodation. We can stay at a decent hotel with a double room near the venue for less than 1,000 yuan.”
“The accommodation arranged by Finger Games is better, but a double room only costs 200 US dollars a night. That’s about 1,400 yuan…”
Pei Qian did not like hearing that.
What do you mean? You don’t want me to spend money?
According to your minimum requirement, six people will stay in standard rooms costing 1,000 yuan a night, moreover, we are only going to pay for the first week?
It will be impossible to spend much!
Pei Qian immediately interrupted Wu Yue. “Must we use the accommodations arranged by Finger Games for us? What if Finger Games’ accommodation cannot meet our requirements?”
“Do you think you can shoulder the responsibility of having your team members meeting problems after traveling all the way to foreign countries to compete? As the saying goes, prepare for a rainy day. It’s quite worth it to spend some money to eliminate these hidden dangers!”
“Do as I say. I’ll transfer the money over soon.”
Pei Qian hung up.
Wu Yue looked at the screen of his cell phone that had been hung up and fell into a daze.
30 people?
FV Club’s Team One, Team Two, and the five main players of the SUG only consisted of 15 people.
Where could he find 30 people?
Chapter 791 - Ultimate Dream Logistics Team
December 18th, Sunday…
Wu Yue was counting the total number of travellers with Manager Lu in the office.
“Once we arrive in Los Angeles, we’ll hire a local tour guide, four bodyguards and a chauffeur, and rent a minibus.”
“FV Club’s first team, second team, SUG Club’s five main players, plus you, me, team leader, personal trainers, and the analyst, there are a total of twenty people. There are also two translators and three photographers shooting documentaries. In this case, there will be 25 people.”
“We need five more people.”
“Bring a doctor to ensure that the team members are healthy, he can also guide everyone in some simple physical training in the hotel to maintain their health.”
“Four more people.”
Wu Yue counted with his fingers, but no matter how hard he tried, he could not gather thirty people.
The main reason was that Boss Pei had given him too many slots. Wu Yue had even brought three photographers. The rest, including translators, team leaders, trainers, analysts, the doctor, and other logisticians that he had to bring along, had also been brought along. In the end, he still needed four more people. He really did not know who else to bring.
While Boss Pei did not have any special requirements for the employees’ identities, this was a business trip after all. The people he brought had to be related to the competition, right?
Boss Pei was very generous. He acted as if he was asking everyone
to go on a public holiday to Los Angeles. However, Wu Yue did not dare to really turn it into a public holiday. Instead, he felt immense pressure.
He had given them a few million yuan. What if they could not produce good results?!
Manager Lu suggested, “Boss Wu, there are only so many people in our club. We really can’t think of any more candidates. Why don’t you ask Boss Zhang and see if he has any suitable candidates?”
“Boss Pei is the one who is sponsoring after all. The remaining four slots should be taken by Tengda. That would make the situation more acceptable. What’s more, Tengda’s employees would probably want to come on such a fully paid high expense trip.”
Wu Yue nodded in realization. “That’s right, I’ll ask Boss Zhang.”
“How about this? I’ll give Boss Zhang a call, and you can call Boss Ding Gan of SUG Club.”
…
DGE E-Sports Club…
Zhang Yuan: “There are four slots left? No one else to choose?”
“Hmm… it’s not a problem for us to send four people. Let me think about it.”
Zhang Yuan fell into deep thought after Wu Yue explained the situation over the phone.
Boss Pei had personally asked about FV Club’s expedition. He had given them very generous travelling standards. What’s more, he had forced them to bring 30 people with them!
What’s more, this did not include the tour guide and bodyguards hired in Los Angeles.
Why should he bring so many people?
The e-sports environment in the world was not proper, let alone in the country now. Professional players in the country often spent money to play competitions just two years ago. They often heard about them sleeping by the roadside and eating instant noodles with cold water.
This was especially so for international competitions like this. They would save as much as they could since the expenses would be huge when they went overseas. The fewer people, the better.
Yet, Boss Pei had given them a treatment that far exceeded the norm. Why was that?
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