"There is only a unified standard contract. This one should be to establish mutual trust between players and clubs, with less routines and more sincerity."
"Well, in terms of contracts, the club does There are some problems with it."
"DGE sold players' contracts before because other clubs signed directly with us, so they didn't dare to play tricks."
"If they are free agents. What kind of contract traps will you encounter when joining these clubs?”
Zhang Yuan is very clear that under the current model, the contracts prepared by many clubs are actually full of pitfalls.
For their own interests, the club must lock in the most promising players at the lowest cost, and the players must pursue higher salaries and more opportunities for their own interests.
The behavior of the two is blameless and they are all for their own interests, but the problem is that this will actually seriously damage the mutual trust between the club and the players.
In order to snatch a certain star player, the club will often propose a high price, but then lay various pitfalls in the contract waiting for you to be fooled.
This is just like the routine of many e-commerce websites. On the surface, they give you discounts, but in fact they set barriers for you in other places.
You may have said it well during the negotiation, but in fact once the contract was signed, you were dumbfounded.
The result is that the players do not trust the club, and the club does not trust the players. In many cases, it becomes a zero-sum game, and the interests of the weaker party are harmed.
In most cases, the weaker side is the player.
After all, big clubs have their own legal teams, which give them an absolute advantage when signing contracts.
The standard contract required by Mr. Pei is for everyone to clearly mark the price, and not to do anything false.
Clear all the previously complex contract terms and make changes only in terms of time limit, liquidated damages, transfer fees, specific salary, special terms, etc.
The special terms here are not to restrict players, but to ensure that the club’s commitment does not become a blank check.
For example, if there are two clubs competing for a certain player at the same time, the former will pay more and the latter will pay less, but can guarantee playing time. At this time, the player will have more choices.
Many times the reason why players are hesitant is not because of greed.
Each company’s contract is different. Those who pay more have hidden pitfalls, and those who pay less may not necessarily have a good conscience. You can’t take the contract back and study it slowly. How can you do it hastily? Make a decision?
This is like selling something. Each buyer does not pay a certain amount, but a lot of complicated terms. If players want to avoid being cheated, they have to spend a lot of energy. To screen.
But the problem is that the players are not specialized legal professionals. Finding a specialized legal team is time-consuming and laborious, and not all of them are reliable.
Professional players are just young fans, with a lifetime income.Your future may be concentrated in the one or two years at your peak, so how could you not shop around?
When clubs buy players, they also choose between many outstanding players. This is normal business behavior and there is nothing to criticize.
But the club’s ability to resist risks is much stronger after all. Signing the wrong person is nothing more than spending more money to support a water dispenser player, and the team’s ability to resist risks is much weaker.
Once something goes wrong, an outstanding young player may have his entire career in trouble.
So, Mr. Pei’s goal is very clear. Don’t make false claims. Just these few rules can be understood by players who don’t have much legal knowledge and they can make their own choices.
Free agent players can contact all clubs. Each of these clubs will make a commitment, and the official will act as an intermediary. Whoever reneges will pay liquidated damages.
The club should not think about picking up players at low prices and making players slaves; individual players should not think about getting around with high salaries and taking advantage of the club.
Everyone take a step back, don’t cheat anyone, let the team members’ income roughly match their value, and don’t go too far.
The secret auction method is to prevent those wealthy clubs from maliciously raising prices and squeezing the living space of small clubs. At the same time, the interests of the players will not be damaged. Clubs cannot unite to lower prices. Really capable players can also get high salaries.
Moreover, this contract does not harm the club's interests.
The club’s interests are mainly in three aspects: the attention, heat and brand awareness brought by the game; the tangible economic benefits brought by sponsors; ensuring that after training the players, they will not benefit others. Make a wedding dress.
In terms of popularity and brand awareness, Mr. Pei’s supervision will not have any impact on this;
In terms of sponsors and economic interests, there is actually no damage;
Clubs can still sign long-term contracts with players and collect transfer fees, and their interests in this regard have not been affected.
However, if the club wants to lock a certain player in a contract and hide him permanently after having a conflict with the player, it is impossible to happen, because the standard contract required by President Pei obviously does not support this. a little.
Once this happens, Pei will always find a way to get the person out.
This standard contract does not allow the clubs to starve to death, but allows them to eat less and spit out part of it to return to the players.
In this way, mutual trust has been established between the players and the club through the official intervention of Tenda, and there is no need to play tricks on each other. Any demands that clubs or players have regarding the contract can be left to the officials for mediation and resolution.
Of course, there is no absolute fairness in this world, but at least relative fairness can be pursued.
Is the contract given by the club fairer? Or is the contract given by Mr. Pei fairer?
This is obvious.
BecauseIn the final analysis, clubs and players want to safeguard their own interests, which is understandable, but this also means that they will not consider the impact on the entire e-sports environment.
Mr. Pei is completely objective and fair in his stance. From his statement, we can see his determination.
Other tournament organizers have the same interests as the club. In many cases, they do not dare or have no need to offend the club, so the players can only suffer a loss.
But Mr. Pei’s attitude is very clear. He will not tolerate the players, but he will not tolerate the club.
The clubs that do not agree to this standard contract must have their own little Jiujiu in their hearts and want to play some tricks with the players on the contract.
If this is the case, then I'm sorry, I can't control other areas, but you should not participate in GOG's e-sports competitions. You would rather give up the popularity and resources brought by this club, and maintain the entire e-sports. The fairness and justice of the system.
Thinking of this, Zhang Yuan couldn't help but sigh, this is the determination of a strong man to cut off his wrist!
In the short term, this move will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among many clubs, and may even lead to a decline in the popularity of GOG e-sports competitions and a reduction in player salaries.
But in the long run, the entire ecosystem will be healthier.
Even if the player’s salary is reduced, it also avoids huge risks for them.
Obviously, Mr. Pei thinks it is a "good deal" because he believes that the importance of a healthy league ecology is far greater than the popularity brought by a few clubs. He believes that regardless of whether these clubs come to support or not, he is confident that GOG Start the league!
Now, taking the opportunity of the establishment of the GPL league to establish the access system for each club, it is actually to nip problems in the bud.
Because the GOG branches of various clubs have just been established not long ago, even if these clubs withdraw and Mr. Pei finds a new owner to take over or even packages them up, it will not cost much and the impact will be controllable. within the range.
If the popularity really picks up in the future, it will be even more difficult to establish these norms.
This is just like treating a disease. Prevention in advance is definitely better than having surgery after the disease is terminal.
As for why there is a special stipulation that DGE only needs a minimum transfer fee?
Zhang Yuan didn’t understand at first. Wouldn’t the interests of the DGE club be damaged in this way?
But on second thought, this is exactly an important supplement to the entire mechanism!
Many new players actually have no bargaining power at all when they have not achieved results.
This is normal. After all, clubs have to take risks when buying players. Some players have good rankings but fall apart as soon as they play games. Wouldn’t it be a huge loss for the club to spend a lot of money to buy them back?
Therefore, newcomer contracts are often priced very low.
But this has given rise to a new problem: those truly talented players can only sign rookie contracts at the beginning, with low prices and long terms.If you perform well but cannot get the corresponding salary, you may even fall out with the club and may be frozen out.
Many players are only at their peak for one or two years. If they are not careful, their entire careers will be ruined.
There is no right or wrong in this matter, it is all for your own benefit, but it will cause a de facto waste.
When a talented newcomer is paid a low salary, his mentality will definitely fluctuate, which will affect his performance in the game; if he falls out with the club and is hidden, this outstanding player will be buried forever, which is a huge blow to the entire league. kind of loss.
So, the DGE club only needs the minimum transfer fee, which is actually good news for these newcomers.
If you are a newcomer with strength and confidence in yourself, you can choose to come to the DGE club first. You will not fall into the pit of the rookie contract. If you perform well, you will naturally be bought by a better club.
DGE Club is equivalent to completing a screening, trial and error for the club, and also provides players with an opportunity to prove themselves.
For the DGE club, this is not a loss.
Because this move will allow more ambitious and outstanding newcomers to rush to join the DGE club, it will ensure that the quality of the new players in the DGE club is higher than that of other clubs, and they will always maintain a relatively high level of strength. , which is conducive to maintaining the brand value of DGE.
Although they are not playing games, they can bring these new faces to the league to make their presence felt in front of the audience.
Whenever a brilliant newcomer appears, the audience will find that they are from DGE, and they will naturally pay high attention to the DGE club.
As attention gets higher and higher, sponsorship will naturally get better and better. Moreover, when other clubs buy people from here, although the transfer fees are small, they are still there.
The beauty of this decision is that other clubs cannot learn from it.
Because DGE’s operating model is different from that of all other clubs. It does not participate in competitions and does not need to produce results. It only needs to train players. There is no competitive relationship. In fact, it is mutually beneficial.
What’s more, this move can better maintain the ecology of the entire GOG League, and the entire Tenda Group can benefit from it.
Isn’t it cost-effective to sacrifice a little bit of DGE’s immediate interests to gain long-term benefits?