Salif Seydoux, who was training, suddenly sat down and covered his knees. At first, everyone was stunned because there was no confrontation at all and there was no one else within a five-meter radius around him.
Everyone thought he was tired...
But soon everyone realized that Seydoux was injured!
"Hell!" Assistant coach Sam Landill cursed and blew the whistle to interrupt the ongoing match.
Then the team medical team on standby quickly came in to check Seydoux's condition.
At the same time, head coach Clark also strode towards Seydoux, and at the same time he signaled other players to get off the field and rest first, and not to watch.
The players obediently walked to the rest area on the sidelines to replenish water, but they still turned their attention to Seydoux, appearing very concerned.
Clark did not stand directly next to Seydoux, but stopped a few steps away so as not to disturb the work of the team medical team.
Tom Middle had not finished the examination, but just looking at the painful expression on Seydoux's face, Clark could guess based on experience that Seydoux was almost seriously injured.
Leeds City are really unlucky this season. They spent 30 million pounds, setting a club transfer fee record, and bought what they thought was a great player. However, the performance on the field was mediocre, and he is still injured in training.
It stands to reason that the 29-year-old Seydoux is in his prime, and he does not have a glass body. He only suffered three injuries at Berlin-Gössen Utd, and none of them were major injuries.
As a result, the first major knee injury caused Leeds City to catch up!
Thirty million pounds just wasted...
Clark's guess was good, and soon Middle came over and whispered to him: "Sedu said his knee was very painful. I think there should be a serious problem with the knee ligament... We need to send him for a detailed examination...
"
"Okay, no problem." Clark nodded calmly.
Then he walked to Seydu, leaned over and patted his shoulder, comforting him: "It's okay, Salif. It's not a big problem. You will be fine. Now go for a checkup with peace of mind..."
After comforting Seydoux for a while, he asked Midel to help Seydoux go for examination.
As Middle and the others left, they happened to pass by assistant coach Sam Landill.
Randhir did not stop the other party to ask another question, but patted Sedu on the shoulder to express comfort, then watched the other party leave, and then found Clark: "How is the situation?"
"I think Seydoux will be out for this season, Sam..." Clark expressed his judgment.
"What the hell!" Randhir cursed.
"Do you know what this means, Sam?"
"It means... uh, it means we lost a defensive midfielder?" Randhir tried to guess.
"It means I have to go to Eric and ask him why our recruitment work in the defensive midfielder position is progressing so slowly!"
The coaching team did not decide to continue to introduce defensive midfielders after Seydoux was injured. Clark had finalized several transfer targets with Matt Down long before that and submitted the list to the club.
As a result, there has been no progress so far.
Seydoux's injury raised this issue again and it has reached a point where it cannot be ignored.
"But Nevin is in charge of the signings." Landier reminded him that Nevin Ball, the club's football director, is the person in charge of transfers.
"I know, Sam. But why go to Navin if I can just go to Eric?"
Hearing Clark say this, Randall grinned. From this sentence, he could tell how dissatisfied Clark was with the club's recruitment work.
He wanted to use general manager Eric Duffy to suppress Nevin Ball so that he, the head coach, would not be able to speak well.
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"We have bad news, Eric."
When Clark knocked on the door of the club's general manager's office, he spoke straight to the point to Eric Duffy, who was sitting behind the desk.
"Seydoux is injured and the whole season is over."
Eric Duffy was stunned for a moment and stood up from his seat. He had already realized why Clark came to him specifically to tell him the news.
Logically speaking, if a player is injured, there is no need to notify the general manager. He has many things to deal with, but player injuries are not under his control, and he is not a team doctor.
Clark's appearance here today is to express his dissatisfaction with the club's recruitment work in a tactful way.
So he explained: "Tony, Nevin has been flying around Europe during this period just for the names on your list. But I'm sorry, either the other club won't let him go, or
The asking price is too high... It's no secret that we lack a good defensive midfielder, and people want to take advantage of it."
"Europe?" Clark asked, "Did he go to Asia?"
"Uh..." Du Fei was speechless.
Looking at him like this, Clark knew that Nevin Ball didn't go. He didn't get angry, but sighed.
Hearing his sigh, Eric Duffy felt even more guilty. He quickly explained: "We initially planned to give priority to introducing players who play in Europe. After all, players who have played in Europe are easier to adapt to...
"
Clark did not argue with Duffy, although he felt in his heart that Naven and Duffy might just not want to deal with that damn fat man... But he did not say it out loud, but chose to accept Duffy's explanation, and then said
: "Then Naven can go to China now, right?"
"Go, go, make arrangements immediately." After saying that, Duffy picked up the phone and called football director Nevin Ball in front of Clark.
Since Clark led the team to win the Premier League championship, his status within the club has increased significantly, and even the general manager does not dare to offend him easily.
After all, a head coach like Clark is popular wherever he goes, but it is hard to say whether Leeds City can find such a quality head coach after giving up on him...
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"I'm full, thank you Brother Lin and sister-in-law."
Morikawa Junpei stood up from his chair as he spoke, and then bowed to thank Qin Lin and his wife.
"Oh, I told you not to be so polite..." Wang Yuan waved her hand, feeling that Morikawa Junpei was too stubborn. "Anyway, we have to eat every day, and having you here just means adding a pair of chopsticks. It's really not a bother."
Qin Lin raised his head and looked at Morikawa Junpei who stood up: "Morikawa, why don't you move out? You are not used to living in such a big apartment alone."
"Thank you for your concern, Brother Lin." Morikawa Junpei shook his head and said, "But this is my home in Jincheng. Where can I live if I don't live at home?"
Qin Lin had seen Morikawa Junpei's stubbornness, but now he just shook his head and did not continue to persuade.
"Well, Brother Lin, sister-in-law, I take my leave." Seeing that neither of them had anything to say, Morikawa Junpei nodded his thanks again, then turned and went out.
"I'll see you off." Qin Lin also stood up.
Morikawa Junpei did not reject Brother Lin's kindness. He just stopped and bowed again: "Thank you, Brother Lin."
Qin Lin waved his hand, then put his arm around his shoulders and went out with him.
But it was just at the door of his yard. He squeezed Morikawa Junpei's shoulder hard and waved goodbye.
Then Qin Lin stood at the door and watched Morikawa Junpei cross a road, arrive in front of the large white palace-like villa, and took out the key to open the door.
After opening the door, he turned around and looked towards Qin Lin. Seeing that Qin Lin was still at the door, he bowed again.
It wasn't until he saw Qin Lin waving his hand for him to hurry in that he turned around and walked into the house.
The heavy door was closed with a muffled sound.
"The same goes for this kid Morikawa... Wouldn't it be scary to live in such a big house alone?" His wife Wang Yuan's voice rang in Qin Lin's ears. "Just our house, let Qiqi and I live there.
I dare not turn off the light..."
Qin Lin looked back at his wife who was standing beside him at some point, and then continued to cast his gaze on the white house in the dusk.
"Indeed, I'm afraid of living alone in that house," he said.
Wang Yuan and her husband looked over together, still nagging: "This kid Morikawa is very pitiful. Hu Lai and the others have left, so I am left alone to look after the house. The Japanese team did not recruit him for the Asian Cup, just because of him
He stayed in the Stars and played in the Chinese Super League... He was still able to play in the World Cup half a year ago, but now he can't even play in the Asian Cup. Oh, it's really..."
"I remember Lao Zhao said that Morikawa's ideas are very different from ordinary people, so others often can't understand him. Privately, I feel that he..." Qin Lin pointed to his temple when he said this. "Whether it is in a domestic club in Japan
, it’s still like this with the Olympic team. It doesn’t seem to have changed after joining the national team. He doesn’t have many friends in Japan.”
Wang Yuan nodded. Based on her contact and understanding of Morikawa Junpei, she could also feel that this man's spiritual world seemed to be very different from ordinary people.
"But in Flash Star, he made friends. This house must have extraordinary meaning to him. We think it's scary for one person to live in such a big house, but he thinks it's better to be bigger. Only when it's bigger can we accommodate it.
He and his friends..."
"But all his friends have left. Didn't they also agree that this house will be vacant?" Wang Yuan asked.
Qin Lin looked at the villa and said: "That's why Morikawa's ideas are different from ours. He doesn't live here to live, but to protect it. Because if the house is not occupied for a long time... it will be broken down."
While he was talking, orange light came from the windows on the second floor of the villa.
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Junpei Morikawa closed the door of the villa, changed his shoes and walked through the dark and empty living room. He turned from the right and walked up the stairs to the second floor. He first turned on the lights in the corridor.
Then he turned and walked to the bathroom.
After a while, there was the sound of running water in the bathroom. Then he reappeared in the corridor with a mop and started... mopping the floor.
Mopping the corridor from one end to the other. Then he used the key to open the door of Wang Guangwei's room, turned on the light, and mopped the floor.
After mopping the floor, he turned off the light and came out, then locked the door. Then he turned and went to the bathroom to wash the mop.
The sound of water sounded and then disappeared.
Junpei Morikawa walked out empty-handed and returned to his room.
After turning on the lights to brighten the room, he sat down at the desk and spread out a notebook on the table.
This is a health duty record.
When they rented this villa together, they regularly hired hourly workers to clean the common areas of the villa.
But everyone's room is cleaned by themselves.
Now that they are all gone, no one cleans their respective rooms, so Morikawa Junpei took over the job.
He was alone and had to train and compete, so he didn't have much time to do housework. He could only find time to clean one room today and another room tomorrow.
Just like this, day after day, it took a week to clean the rooms of all six of them.
In order to avoid forgetting which room was cleaned or not, he prepared a sanitation duty record with the names of six people written on it.
For all rooms that have been cleaned, put a check mark under the corresponding name.
Now he took up his pen and added a new "√" under "Lao Wang", which meant that Wang Guangwei's room had been cleaned by him this week.
After recording, he closed the duty record and put it aside.
Then I picked up the tablet on the other side of the table, and under the two Hu Lai jerseys hanging on the wall, I hunched over my desk and started learning English with the APP.
The room with the solitary lamp on soon began to be filled with the sounds of English reciting in two tones.
