Matthew Miller unzipped his backpack and saw the football he grabbed from Hu Lai's signing ceremony, with a happy smile on his face.
With with me with his hands outstretched, he didn't expect that the first ball Hu Lai kicked would land right next to him. He just opened his hand and easily caught the ball.
There is Hu Lai’s signature on it!
He looked carefully, were these Chinese characters?
ˆ is really very different from our English...
After reading it, he zipped up his backpack again, put it on his back, and opened the door to his house.
As soon as he entered the door, he saw his father, David Miller, standing at the door with his hands on his hips, staring at him, while his mother and sister stood beside him.
His brother leaned out half of his body at the corner of the stairs on the second floor, telling his brother with his mouth and expression: You are finished...
“Where have you been?” Dad asked in a deep voice.
Matthew immediately admitted when he saw this: "I went to Hu's joining ceremony."
The father seemed not to have expected that his youngest son would be so straightforward. He was stunned for a moment and became even more angry: "Are you not even willing to lie?!"
Matthew said while changing his shoes: "Dad, didn't you always teach us not to lie?"
“…” David Miller was speechless, and then became furious: “So many of us didn’t go, don’t you know why?”
"I know. But Dad, what does that have to do with me? I didn't agree with your actions from the beginning, and I never said I would join your actions." Matthew Miller raised his childish face and faced
His father, who was taller than him, bravely stepped forward to meet him.
The brother who was on the stairs behind his father saw this and winked at him, making a cheering gesture.
Mother stood up worriedly and tried to persuade her: "Okay, little Matthew, please stop saying a few words and go back to your room quickly..."
But little Matthew did not listen to his mother's words. It seemed that he was going to have a decisive battle with his father today. He stood where he was and continued to look at his father.
"Just because the club agreed to 'Dad''s resignation, you don't allow all of us to go to the team's games. You can express your attitude by not going, but you can't let us all go. You
My son is still playing in the Leeds City youth team. What should I do? Should I quit the team? What if, I mean what if one day the club chooses me to be a ball boy, what do you want me to do?
The club said? That my father will not allow me to have anything to do with you because you fired coach Lauren Galli? Dad, you know how much I long to be a caddy at Flanders Stadium and lead Lorenzo.
Esposito, Pete Williams...their hands were on the turf of Flanders."
The father was completely angered by his son's resistance. He waved his arms and roared loudly, as if he was going to punch his son: "It's because of people like you that the club turns a blind eye to our protests! They put their service to the team behind
The meritorious coach of thirteen years has been abandoned like a wild dog! Trampling the club’s tradition underfoot! And they expect us fans to continue to support them? What a fucking dream! Damn it!”
His face turned red, as if a dynamite keg was about to explode at any time.
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“Hey, Uncle Yong. Speaking of which, Leeds City Club really directly fired the man who led the team to promotion and relegation. Isn’t it a bit too crazy?”
Having just viewed one house, Hu Lai and Yong Jun were chatting again while sitting in the car preparing to look at another house.
Today he went to the club for the first time, so he was more concerned about the club's affairs.
"About this matter..." Yong Jun obviously knew more than Hu Lai. He thought about it and said, "To say it's absolute, it's definitely absolute. But it's not absolute without reason..."
Then on the way to the next house he told Hulay what he had learned.
To put it simply, in the first season of promotion to the Super League, after Lauren Galley led Leeds City to a thrilling avoidance of relegation, he hoped that the team could continue to increase investment so as to escape the fate of relegation.
As a team head coach, it is natural to have such thoughts, and it can even be said that every head coach should have it.
But the problem is that after successfully reaching the Super League, he has already asked the club to increase investment, but the results of the increased investment are not very good. The team did not survive the thrilling relegation until the last round. There were two reports that this meritorious coach might be dismissed.
The news is obviously not groundless. It shows that the head coach's performance in leading the team to the Premier League is unsatisfactory.
Increased investment in the first season of the Premier League did not result in an improvement in strength, and the club also incurred huge debts.
Under such circumstances, if they continue to increase investment, let alone whether the club has so much money to burn, it will be difficult to pass UEFA's financial fair play policy. Although the Premier League's TV broadcast fees and match day fees are both
It's quite a lot, but Leeds City Club also invested a lot.
After being promoted to the Premier League, Leeds City purchased a lot of players. To compete with other teams, they must offer more attractive conditions. The transfer fee must be higher, and the wages must not be less.
Through this process, Leeds City Club is getting closer and closer to the debt deadline of 39 million pounds within three years stipulated in the Financial Fair Play Policy.
If the dead line is broken, Leeds City will face penalty points in the new season. This is a fatal blow to the relegation team. After all, when relegation is over, the whole team has to fight for every point. If it fails at the beginning of the season,
Having been handed seven or eight points from the beginning, Leeds City could have been relegated.
In order to alleviate the debt situation, the club had to start a fire sale mode. Some players who were bought last season and played for a year but performed poorly were sold at low prices. Compared with the value when they were originally bought, the value of these players has dropped a lot.
Selling them now is actually selling them at a loss. But the club still has to sell them, just to save salary expenses.
Simply selling underperforming players is not enough.
So the club sold Sean Barnett, a talented forward trained by the team, to North London Wanderers before the start of the 2024-2025 season in exchange for 25 million pounds.
The transfer fee, which set a record for a player transferred out of the Leeds City club, greatly eased the club's financial crisis, but it also angered Lauren Galley, who brought out Sean Barnett.
He publicly criticized the club's management in the media and scolded the director of football Nevin Ball. He believed that this young man was destroying the foundation of Leeds City. He also angrily criticized Urge Hodge for no longer
He loves his club and criticizes the club’s commercial director Harry Bradley, an American who doesn’t understand football at all. He works as the club’s commercial director and is a complete layman directing an expert…
In short, this "dad" who is lenient with players but always has a bad temper with management has scolded almost all the management of Leeds City Club, making Leeds City Club panic...
Preparations for signings for the new season have also been greatly disrupted.
"...I think Lauren Galli's resignation may be a way to blackmail the club. I thought that with his reputation in this team and this city, he already resigned, how could the club be forced by public opinion?
He bowed to pressure." Yong Jun analyzed to Hu Lai.
"Unexpectedly, I met the stubborn club chairman Jug Hodge, and he agreed... Then the matter became irreversible. If we look at it from a neutral point of view, you have to say that the fans are
Len Galli deserves to be grievances. But is Yog Hodge a heinous bastard? Galli coached the team for thirteen seasons and was a major contributor to the team's promotion to the Super League. Hodge is also for this
The owner has dedicated ten years to this club, ten years of continuous investment and management... Isn't it the owner's credit for the team's upgrade? Who supports Lauren Galli's signing targets? Is it Hodge's money?
Is it brought by the strong wind? Hodge is a local businessman, and his affection for Leeds City must be no worse than anyone else. Is it unfair for the fans to attack him so crazily? "
After hearing what Yong Jun said, Hu Lai sighed: "This is like a palace fight. People just want to play football..."
Yong Jun smiled and said: "Actually, these things have nothing to do with you. Just like you said, you just need to perform well. And the good news is that at least the head coach is on your side. Another good news is that the club management
Because this matter is also tied to Tony Clark, they can only go to the dark side and fully support a head coach who is optimistic about you. So I think your position in the team should still be guaranteed, as long as
You can show good condition in training and convince your teammates."
Get in good shape during training...
Hu Lai thought that he still had the 100,000 points and ten advanced training scrolls for shooting and stopping the ball that were awarded to him for completing the Chinese Super League Golden Boot task lying in his system.
Training scrolls are used just at this time.
As for the 100,000 points, he planned to keep them until he had a chance to play.
It is said that everything is difficult at the beginning. One hundred thousand points can be exchanged for three [Spirit Cards], so that there are three people in this strange team who can have a tacit understanding with him, which will be of great help to his start in Leeds City.
But there is something to be said for choosing who to use the [Lingxi Card]. It does not mean that you can just randomly select three people in the lineup to match you.
For example, choosing goalkeepers and central defenders to use [Lingxi Card] is a bit wasteful. They are so far away from you that it is difficult to contact them, and it is really not of much help to you.
So Hu Lai plans to get familiar with his teammates in daily training and finally select the target.
As long as you have a chance to play, use [Lingxi Card] on the selected target. I believe it can play a key role in making the final decision.
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In fact, both the father and the son know each other's positions, and there have been frequent quarrels over this matter.
The whole family is used to the sound of quarrels at home from time to time.
After all, it is still the same.
The father stood for Lauren Galli, while the son stood for the club and the team.
There is no one who must be wrong...
It may be difficult to distinguish right from wrong in this matter.
Even within the large group of Leeds City fans, there are still different groups with widely divided opinions. Some people, like David Miller, chose to express their protest to the club by not attending the game.
Some people will still go to every home game to cheer for the team. They think that if the fans' protests end up relegating the team, then the original intention will be lost. After all, I believe Lauren Galli is the same.
He doesn't want the team he worked so hard to bring back to the Championship.
The quarrel has not produced any results even now.
Having said all that needs to be said, Matthew Miller stopped talking nonsense and planned to bypass his father.
At this moment, David Miller snorted: "Do you really expect that Chinese forward to bring anything? Don't you know Hodge's tactics? He just wants to take this opportunity to attract Chinese investment. And
That Chinese striker is just a tool for him to defraud money from the pockets of Chinese people! It’s just a shiny advertising sign!”
Matthew Miller turned to look at his father and shook his head with a smile: "But Dad, I have seen the highlights of his games in the Olympics, and I trust my vision and judgment. You know, your son is in the Leeds City youth team.
Where’s the core!”
After saying that, he bypassed his father and went straight upstairs.
David Miller stood there and said no more harsh words.
Because his son’s last words left him unable to refute.
After all, his youngest son, Matthew Miller, was a young Leeds City genius who made his whole family proud just a year ago.
But now, this young genius has become a "traitor" who disobeyed his father.
This makes David Miller feel extremely complicated.
