"How do you feel about training the next day, Hu?"
In the evening, Yong Jun applied oil and massage to Hu Lai as usual while chatting with him about what he had seen in the team today.
"It's good. I got along with my teammates today..." Hu Lai said excitedly. He was very happy to have a good relationship with his teammates. After all, a person like him can't go without the help of friends wherever he goes.
If you don't support it, you won't be able to play at all.
He has never been the kind of person who thinks too highly of himself and looks down upon everyone if he thinks he is awesome. Otherwise, how could he be so popular in Flashing Star?
In the beginning, there was some incense in Liz City because of the first time I arrived, and I didn't figure out any situation. In addition, after listening to Uncle Yong's analysis before I came, there was a sense of gap.
It’s just that young people’s emotions come and go quickly.
No matter what the "office politics" is, those who should integrate into the team still need to integrate into it.
Football is not table tennis, it is a team sport. It cannot be done by one person.
Yong Jun heard what Hu Lai said, but he was a little surprised and took another look at the scars on Hu Lai's body. He was relieved after confirming that they were not caused by a fight.
Then he asked: “How do you get involved with your teammates?”
Hu Lai: "I sang to them... Oops!"
He let out a cry of pain because he felt that Uncle Yong's hand was obviously pressing harder and it hurt him.
“Uncle Yong, what’s wrong with you?” He turned over and asked strangely.
Yong Jun looked at him nervously: "Did they really beat you?"
Hu Lai was stunned for a moment, blinked his eyes, and then came to his senses: "Uncle Yong, is my singing so bad?"
Yong Jun also came to his senses, and then he bent over with a smile and kept waving his hands: "Sorry, sorry..."
Hu Lai turned to look at the camera while laughing: "This part is cut off! It is not allowed to be broadcast!"
Yong Jun massaged Hu Lai, who was lying down again, and said at the same time: "Anyway, it's a good thing to have a close relationship. You are here alone and you are not familiar with the place. You really need an excuse. It's okay to sing if you don't listen to it, but it can help.
You fit into the team..."
Seeing Hu Lai move, as if to refute himself, he slapped Hu Lai on the back and told him to be honest: "Have you ever heard of such a saying? A newcomer who wants to join a group should just
You have to learn to shame yourself and expose your shortcomings. When everyone in a group knows your shortcomings, it means that you are accepted. And the shortcoming of singing poorly is simply innocuous, but the effect will be very good... Anyway,
You have finally made a good start now. Once you get to know your teammates more and more, and there are no problems with the coach, the road will be smoother..."
Hu Lai didn't speak this time. He seemed to have listened to Yong Jun's words.
Then Yong Jun discovered that Hu Lai seemed to have fallen asleep again...
It seems that Leeds City's training intensity is indeed very intense. When Hu Lai played at Flash Star, he had never heard of such a situation.
At that time, after training, they returned to the big villa they rented, and they still had extra energy to continue playing football...
Yong Jun also experienced the gap between the advanced level of European football and Chinese football at close range. And this is Leeds City, a team relegating in the Premier League, not one of those wealthy teams...
In fact, Yong Jun accidentally made a mistake. Leeds City is currently fighting for relegation. However, Tony Clark, who has attended an advanced and orthodox coaching training class, now brings advanced concepts to Leeds City.
This is not the training level of an ordinary Premier League relegation team.
Seeing that Hu Lai fell asleep again, Yong Jun gently covered him with a quilt and quietly left the room with the photographer.
Before leaving, I didn’t forget to turn off the light for Hu Lai.
About five minutes after they left, Hu Lai, who was lying on the bed and snoring, suddenly got up, jumped out of bed, and turned on the bedside lamp.
Then he found a Bluetooth headset, put it on, opened the music APP, and started humming along with the rhythm:
“…I am still the same boy as before, without any change…”
Listening to the singing voice coming from the headphones, it was as if he sang it himself. Hu Lai shook his head and felt good.
What is self-defeating, what is exposing one’s shortcomings...
never heard of that!
I have only heard that a man should get up from wherever he falls!
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Hu Lai walked into the locker room of the training base early in the morning with his bag on his back, and then faced a group of teammates and said loudly: "Guys, I have to prove my strength to you! So I went back last night and practiced hard all night.
I promise I won’t roll over again this time!”
Everyone in the locker room was busy with their own things, but when they heard what Hu Lai said, they suddenly became nervous.
Hulai didn’t even put down his bag before he started to speak.
Yesterday, I was stopped in the middle of singing. It felt like going to a KTV to sing, but someone cut off my song when I got emotional... If I hadn't thought that I represented China's national image, Hu Lai would have gone berserk.
Already.
So he must let these foreigners see his strength!
Seeing that Hu Lai's mouth was open, everyone in the locker room hurriedly raised their hands to cover their ears, some buried their heads in the cabinet, and some reached out to Hu Lai, their eyes widened like bells, with expressions of horror on their faces.
…
Fortunately, at this critical moment, captain Lorenzo stepped forward and gave full play to his leading role as captain. He rushed to Hu Lai and covered Hu Lai's mouth with his big hands: "Don't talk, I'm one of our own."
!”
"Uh huh..." Hu Lai struggled hard, but failed to break free from the captain's iron-like arms. He was tightly held by Lorenzo.
At this time, he fully realized the importance of strengthening his core strength.
If his core strength is enhanced, then who can stop himself from singing loudly?
He heard that Western clubs seem to have a tradition, which is to let new players sing in front of everyone. Before arriving in Leeds City, he began to look forward to this scene.
That’s the result?
I was pinched halfway through singing!
Hu Lai wants to avenge his previous humiliation, but now his thin arms cannot hold up his thick thighs.
Captain Lorenzo was still saying: "Hu, calm down, calm down! As long as you don't sing, we can talk about anything!"
Other teammates also echoed: "That's right, that's right!"
Hu Lai's mouth was covered and he couldn't speak. He wanted to refuse, but looking at his posture, if he didn't agree, his life would be at stake here... so he had no choice but to nod in agreement.
Seeing Hu Lai nod, Lorenzo carefully let go of Hu Lai's mouth, but did not completely remove his hand, as if he was ready to pounce on him and cover his mouth at any time.
Hu Lai looked at the captain and his teammates as if they were facing an enemy, and curled his lips. This action almost made Lorenzo cover his face again...
“As for it? I said it’s not for you?”
Joe Taylor, who proposed to let Hu Lai sing yesterday, nodded with lingering fear: "It's too extreme. I still regret my proposal yesterday..."
“I still heard your singing when I got home yesterday. I felt like I was going to die. I don’t even know how I fell asleep at night..."
“Yes, yes, it’s like a devilish sound!”
Hu Lai became more and more outrageous as he listened. He asked with a dark face: "Is it really that unpleasant?"
The teammates looked at each other, and finally Charlie Potter came out and said: "It's not bad, Hu... I don't know how to describe the feeling of hearing you sing... It's like scratching on the blackboard with your nails."
Plant it..."
“Okay, Charlie, stop talking. Hu is still pretty good, but you are making it seem like everyone is ostracizing him...”
It was better for the captain to see this. When he saw this, he quickly stood up and stopped Charlie Potter from continuing to describe it. The main reason was that after he heard Charlie Potter's description, he already had goosebumps on his body.
He turned to Hu Lai again: "Everyone is just joking with you, Hu. Don't take it to heart."
Hu Lai nodded quickly: "I know, captain. I..."
“As long as you stop singing,” Lorenzo continued.
“…” Hu Lai’s smile froze.
The teammates all burst into laughter.
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In the morning, the players of Leeds City's first team conducted simple set-piece tactics training at the training base to make final preparations for the FA Cup match in the afternoon.
After lunch, the first team disbanded.
Those players who are not selected for the FA Cup match in the afternoon can go home and move around freely, no one cares about what they do.
The players selected for the match squad will take a nap directly at the club’s training base, and then go to the stadium together when they wake up.
There is no need to take a bus, you can just walk there.
Because the Flanders Stadium, Leeds City's home stadium, is right next door to the training base, and the straight-line distance between the two points is 80 meters.
In order to facilitate players to go to home games, there is also a dedicated air corridor at the training base directly connected to the internal channels of the stadium.
This sky corridor is about four meters above the ground, fully enclosed, with transparent glass walls on both sides. Fans in the square can easily see Leeds City players going to the stadium to play.
So whenever there is a home game, a large number of Leeds City fans will gather under this sky corridor to applaud and cheer for the Leeds City fans who walk to the stadium. TV broadcasts will also set up seats here.
Filming footage of Leeds City players entering the stadium.
This is unique in the entire Premier League and has become a characteristic of Leeds City Football Club.
After their promotion to the Premier League, this unique landscape was widely publicized as a feature of their club.
After all, it is indeed too special... In everyone's impression, when professional teams participate in games, the players take buses from their hotels or training bases, and then drive to the stadium. In the cheers of fans and the cameras of reporters
, wearing a suit and headphones, carrying a backpack, and holding a handbag, filed off the bus, then waved to the media cameras and fans, and walked into the passage.
As a result, Leeds City players actually walked directly from the training base to the stadium... Their buses are only used to transport players when they go to away games. There is no chance for buses to appear in home games.
Other teams do not have this situation. After all, their training bases are in suburbs far away from their home stadiums.
Leeds City also has a training base in the suburbs, but that training base is specifically used for the club’s youth training.
The first team and the reserve team train at the training base of the same name next to the Flanders Stadium.
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“It’s still affected by the departure of the previous head coach...” Hu Lai sat in the box, waiting to watch the FA Cup game with his agent Yong Jun and the CCTV camera crew.
Matt once introduced the club Leeds City to him. Although it does not have any great achievements in history, the fans here in Leeds City are very loyal and fanatical. He once said: "No matter which league it is in
, Leeds City’s attendance is the highest in the league!”
But today's FA Cup match is about to start, and you can still see large areas of empty space in the stands, which look like patches of hair loss on a person's head.
Scars, like leprosy.
Leeds City fans are expressing their dissatisfaction with the club in this way.
etc.
Fans are dissatisfied with the club.
FA Cup matches.
The head coach has also been questioned.
Hu Lai suddenly had an inexplicable sense of déjà vu, even though Tony was not Tony, and Leeds City was not Nottingham Forest...
When the club chairman Urge Hodge and football director Nevin Ball appeared on the big screen, there were still some boos directed at them in the stadium.
"It seems that the conflict between the fans and the club will not be easily eased... If the fans don't support the team, relegation will be difficult..." Yong Jun sighed.
At first, I thought Hulay would move to Leeds City. With a head coach who is familiar with him, it would be easier to adapt than going to other teams. If Leeds City is used as a springboard to become famous in Europe, it is a perfect fit.
Starting to go to a team that understands him better will be of great benefit to Hu Lai in adapting to European football. After Hu Lai has adapted, it will be easier to go to other teams, even wealthy ones.
At that time, I really didn’t expect that Leeds City fans and the club were so divided.
This kind of disagreement means turmoil and great pressure.
And some of these pressures will be passed on to Hu Lai...
After Yong Jun finished speaking, Hu Lai heard the long-lost voice ringing in his mind:
“Mission: Help Leeds City successfully avoid relegation. Mission reward: Points × 200,000, [Powerful Charming Essence Lotion] × 1.”
Hu Lai didn't care much about the 200,000 points rewarded by the mission. Although he needed points, it was a routine operation. What he cared more about was what appeared in the mission reward for the first time: [Powerful Charming Essence Lotion].
He once had a mission that rewarded him with a similar [Charm Essence Lotion Trial Pack].
He still doesn’t know what the use of that thing is... So after he used it to make some vanity, he never spent money to buy it from the mall again.
As a result, the mission now actually rewards an upgraded version...
He was curious about what use this thing could have.
【Powerful Charming Essence Lotion】: After applied on the face, it will greatly enhance the charm of the user, even your mortal enemies can impress you. It lasts for two hours.
Small print note: It can also be used off-site. But please use it with caution. All consequences will be borne by the user alone.
This thing...
Is it used to pick up girls?
This was Hu Lai’s first reaction when he saw this prop.
The second reaction is that I remembered that Uncle Yong said that Leeds City fans may not have a good impression of me. I wonder if using this thing can improve my reputation among Leeds City fans...
“Hey, don’t you think this is a coincidence, Uncle Yong.” Hu Lai, who exited the system, smiled and continued what Yong Jun had just said.
“What’s a coincidence?”
“Speaking of the experience of relegation, I am not aiming at anyone since I came out of Flash Star...” Hu Lai patted his chest, “What I am best at is relegation!”