Madrid Pirates head coach Ettore Parotti was sorting out previous training reports uploaded by coaches on the computer in his office, when the unlocked office door was pushed open.
He looked up and saw the tall Maxi Carey striding angrily.
He smiled: "Hey, Maxi, who made you so angry? Are you being besieged by the media again?"
Carey walked up to him and stared at him: "Palotti, is it true that the club spent 100 million euros to introduce that Chinese kid?"
Parotti looked at him and shook his head: "No, not really. It's actually 120 million euros."
Kyrie was stunned for a moment, then reacted and shouted to his head coach: "Damn it! Whose idea was this? Is it LeRae?"
Parotti spread his hands: "It was the idea of the two of us."
Maxi Carey looked directly at Parotti, and Parotti looked directly at him.
After a while, Carey frowned and asked, "Palotti, do you think the team doesn't need me?"
"Why do you say that, Maxi? When you were injured before the World Cup, your contract with the club only had one year left. As a result, the club immediately renewed your contract. If the team really didn't want you, how could they do it?
What happened?" Parotti asked.
When the World Cup in the United States and Canada was about to begin last year, Maxi Carey, the star player of the Dutch national team, had no choice but to withdraw from the World Cup because he was injured during training.
This injury kept him from recovering until March this year.
After recovering from injury, his condition was not as good as before. Until the end of the season, he failed to return to the main starting position.
"But I can't even play as the main force!"
"I told you, Maxi. You have to change your way of playing after the injury. The knee injury has made you no longer fast. If you still insist on the way you played before, I really can't always reserve a starting spot for you.
"Parotti said. "It's not that your ability has declined, but that continuing to play in the same way as before will greatly increase your chances of getting injured again."
"Yes, you told me to transform me into a shooter, play simpler and pay more attention to efficiency in front of the goal. But now you plan to introduce a pure shooter? Sorry, Parotti, I didn't follow your behavior
I can see that you still need me." Kaili shook his head, his tone still bad.
Parotti was not angry, but continued to explain: "This summer, we lost three forwards, Luca Bertolini, Korola Baikal, Vasilios Melisopoulos. Bring in a forward
Isn’t that normal?”
"Spend 120 million to introduce a striker with the same characteristics as me after my transformation? Parotti, ask Leray, after the player who spent so much money on the club came, is he here to beat me?" Kyrie
He hummed. "Even if he agrees, does that Chinese guy agree?"
Parotti smiled: "That's what you said...Maxi, are you afraid of competition?"
"Don't provoke me, Parotti. I'm not afraid of competition, but it's two different things. To be honest, the reason why I'm dissatisfied is because your introduction of that Chinese boy means distrust of me. I don't like this.
This feeling. Maxi Carey has played for the Pirates for seven seasons and has never disappointed except for the injury last season... You can't treat me like this!"
Maxi Carey said angrily.
"You just thought that I was old, seriously injured, lost the speed I was proud of, and could never regain my former self. So you found someone to replace me... I thought I deserved respect, but in fact I didn't.
!”
After venting his anger, Kaili turned around and left without waiting for Parotti to say anything else.
Behind him, Parotti didn't say anything to persuade him to stay, he just sat in his chair and quietly watched the club's top star slamming the door out.
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A minute later, Jesus Valentin, the assistant coach of Madrid Pirates, knocked on Parotti's door and asked as soon as he came in: "What's wrong with Maxi? I just met him downstairs and saw him overturning the stairs."
The trash can outside..."
Parotti pinched his temples with his hands: "Let someone clean it up..."
Then he told his assistant the exact conversation he had just had with Carey.
After listening, Valentine didn't know what to say: "This is really..."
Parotti himself laughed: "Actually, I can understand Maxi's mood. Although he is a little excited, I can completely understand him. Since returning from injury, he has been under a lot of pressure... he is sensitive and fragile.
A little spark would explode, and the news we brought in about Hu was that spark..."
Valentin shook his head: "Fortunately, no one else saw him when he vented into the trash can, otherwise he might be on the front page of the media again tomorrow. But his fierce opposition is not good news for us.
.As the number one star in the team, if he makes some waves, it will be big."
"There's nothing I can do about it, this is Maxi Carey. He is just such a person. I just hope that Hu is an easy person to get along with, otherwise..."
Parotti did not continue.
If there really is no room for two tigers in one mountain, it would be really lively.
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Sitting in his car, Maxi Carey was still angry despite having just overturned a trash can, so he took out his cell phone and called his agent.
As soon as the call was connected, he asked directly: "Jim, I want to leave the pirates. Do you have any ideas?"
The agent on the other end, Jim Castian, was surprised: "Leave the Pirates? Are you crazy, Maxi?"
"They don't respect me, so why should I continue to stay here?"
Castian sighed: "Is it because they spent 100 million euros to introduce Hu?"
"It's not 100 million, it's 120 million. Parotti told me personally, Jim."
"Okay, it's 120 million... But if you want to leave the Pirates at this time, it's not a good choice. After all, when you were injured, the club took the initiative to renew your contract. And now that you have recovered from your injury,
I just want to leave... It doesn’t make sense because of emotions and reasons, Maxi." Agent Castian tried his best to persuade.
"And, let me be blunt. Maxi, based on your performance last season, there are not many suitable teams for us to choose from. It is very likely that you will spend the whole summer, but still not be satisfied with the results."
Home."
Kaili seemed to think that the agent was right, but in fact the idea of leaving was impulsive.
Now he had calmed down, but he needed a step up, so he asked stiffly: "Then what do you think we should do?"
"Just wait and see what happens, take it one step at a time. First of all, at least you have to perform well again at Madrid Pirates..."
"Okay. But I won't apologize to Parotti."
"Of course, if you don't want to, don't go. No one can force you to do something you don't like, Maxi."
Castian coaxed and lied, finally making Carey angry, and specifically asked him not to speed while driving home.
After hanging up the phone, he thought about it and called Pirates head coach Ettore Parotti.
As soon as the call was connected, he heard Parotti's laughter: "I knew you were going to call me, Jim."
"I heard you had a big quarrel with Maxi, Ettore?"
"What didn't happen was that he scolded me unilaterally and then left after scolding me."
"Maxi called me just now and said he wanted to leave the team..."
"Is it so serious?" Parotti exclaimed over there.
"I persuaded him to back down. He just got carried away with his anger for a moment."
"Actually, I can understand him, Jim. Since returning from injury, he has been unable to return to the state before the injury. He is under a lot of pressure..." Parotti said.
"Thank you for your understanding, Ettore. I hope you won't take his angry words to heart."
"What you said...I didn't take it to heart. Although I only worked with him for two seasons, in the past seven seasons, he has been the most trustworthy person of the Pirates and has become a symbol of this team.
Already."
"That's good, that's good. Also, Ettore, I'm calling to ask you, now that the Pirates have signed Hu, how do you plan to treat Maxi?"
"Jim, since you asked that, let me tell you: I don't think the two of them can't coexist."
"Okay, I understand. Thank you, Ettore."
"You're welcome, Jim."
After hanging up the phone, Castian exhaled softly.
He got a promise from the head coach - a promise, so to speak.
But he couldn't tell Kyrie directly. It was obvious that Kyrie didn't trust Parotti, even though they had cooperated very well - last season, Parotti led the team in the first season of coaching Madrid Pirates.
Winning the Europa League championship, Maxi Carey performed well and was the biggest contributor to the team's victory.
As Parotti said, after a serious knee injury, Kyrie seemed to have lost his confidence. Although he was still saying crazy words, they turned into some kind of bluff.
When he was injured in training before the World Cup, no one took it seriously at first, including him and Kyrie himself.
But when they returned to the Netherlands for more detailed inspections, they discovered something was wrong.
That is definitely not a conservative treatment. The injury will heal slowly with rest and rest.
He had to undergo surgery, and the recovery after the surgery was very difficult and often repeated.
In the end, the tortured Kyrie recovered from his injury and found that he had lost one of the important abilities he had relied on for survival - speed.
In the past, Carey was called the "Flying Dutchman", which shows how fast he is. Some commentators believe that he is not running on the court, but flying at low altitude.
However, a serious knee injury prevented him from being able to dexterously change directions and perform breathtaking tricks while running at high speeds as before, which also dampened his confidence.
He becomes sensitive and vulnerable.
Jim Castian only hopes that Parotti can do what he said. No matter what, there is still a place for Maxi Carey on the team.
This Pirates hero who played for Madrid Pirates for seven seasons, played 299 games in all competitions and scored 221 goals for the team, should not be kicked out so easily.
After all, the Pirates of Madrid are not the impersonal Kings of Madrid.