The day's training has ended. Although it is still in the training period, Tony Clark will not impose high-pressure management on the team. As long as everyone completes their daily training, there will be no strict restrictions on what they do in the evening.
Anyway, as long as the players' condition during training the next day is okay, he doesn't care.
This is true for most European teams, and Leeds City is no exception.
After training, the players can do whatever they want, even if they want to go out to bars or nightclubs, it doesn't matter.
After all, this is their private time, and it is difficult for the coach to interfere.
And if their off-field activities affect their performance on the training field, the coach will naturally take action. He may not directly blame the players for their actions, but will ask the players to increase the amount in training, or take him out of the lineup during the game.
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Although Pete Williams never said he would treat Kamala to dinner, he finally decided to fulfill the promise Hulay made for him.
He is not giving Hu Lai face, he just thinks that Hu Lai is right after careful consideration. When he wants to win someone's favor, he does have to pay some price. It is impossible to do nothing and make people think that you are like this.
People are trustworthy.
So...he invited me to this meal.
But just when he and Hu Lai were about to go find Kamala, someone put their arms on their shoulders from behind.
"I heard everything." Charlie Potter's voice sounded from behind them.
Hu Lai didn’t say anything. Williams asked in confusion: “What did you hear?”
"I heard you were going to treat that kid Kamala to dinner." Porter whispered. "I'm telling you, you have to take me with you, or I will yell so loudly that everyone in the locker room knows you want to treat him, hey!
"
Williams did not expect Porter to be so despicable. He was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to say.
Hu Lai said: "Charlie, don't you dislike Kamala? We are going to have dinner with Kamala, why are you joining in the fun?"
“Haha, I really don’t like that guy, but I like the free dinner.”
“You need some face, Charlie.”
“What’s a face in front of a free dinner?” Charlie Potter said confidently.
Williams was speechless: "Okay, count you in."
No one who paid the money had any objections, and Hu Lai naturally had no objections either.
The three people went to find Kamala in this way, and Hulay conveyed the meaning: "Let's go, Ismail, Peter found a good Turkish restaurant, let's go eat Turkish kebab."
Kamala saw one more person and didn’t care. He stood up, put on his backpack that he had packed long ago, and followed the three of them out of the locker room.
After they walked for a while, Matt came to the door of the locker room, grabbed Quinn who had just come out of it, and asked, "Is Hu still there?"
Quinn shook his head: "I left early."
“Ah…” Matt was a little disappointed.
“What do you want from him, Matt?” Quinn asked.
"Forget it..." Matt waved his hand, "Thank you, Farek."
“You’re welcome, I can’t help you much.”
Matt returned with no success and gave Clark a reply: "Hu Lai left as soon as the training was over. I don't know where he went. I didn't find him in the locker room."
Clark waved his hand: "There's no need to rush for just one or two days, Matt. Helping Kamala is a long-term matter. Find him another day."
Matt nodded.
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In a restaurant decorated with a strong Middle Eastern style, four people, Hulay, Pete Williams, Charlie Potter and Ismael Kamara, were sitting around the dining table.
They had just sat down and were about to order food.
“I’ll have some!” Charlie Potter volunteered and grabbed the menu.
Williams hesitated for a moment, but still did not stop him. It happened that he could also use this time to have a good chat with Kamala and enhance their relationship.
“Um, Ismail... which team’s youth academy did you receive training in before?” He planned to start by getting to know Kamara as a person.
After listening to Hulay's translation, Kamara said to Hulay: "I have never received youth training. I played football on the streets before I was seventeen."
After listening to Hulay's translation, Williams' eyes widened in surprise. Even Charlie Potter, who was looking at the menu, raised his head and cast a shocked look at the Frenchman.
Kamara, who played football on the street, joined a professional team without even a day of youth training at a club, and now he has completed the triple jump and directly became a member of the Premier League team...
Everyone feels incredible about the way their boss Tony Clark looks at people. How did the boss fall in love with him?
While Williams was shocked and didn't know what to say, Hulay started chatting with Kamala: "Wow, then you are almost the same as me."
Kamara also felt strange: "Did you also play football before you were seventeen?"
Hu Lai shook his head: "No, I didn't even receive football training before I was sixteen."
“…” Kamala was stunned for a moment, and then showed a very strange expression, “Why do I think you are deliberately showing off to me, Hu?”
Hu Lai waved his hand quickly: "No, no, you are overthinking. What is there to show off? I didn't discover my football talent until I was sixteen."
Kamara thought of Hulay’s performance in the first half of the season after joining Leeds City and asked: “How old are you this year?”
“Not yet twenty-two years old.”
Kamara opened his mouth, was stunned for a few seconds, and then sighed: "I thought it only took me two years to go from playing street football to a Premier League player. I didn't expect that it took you five years to go from playing street football to a Premier League player."
An ordinary person who has never received any football training becomes a Premier League player...it's even more exaggerated!"
Williams finally came to his senses and asked Hulay curiously: "What are you talking to him about?"
“It’s nothing, business is mutual.”
Williams: “What does that mean?”
“You can think of it as getting closer to him.”
Williams suddenly said: "Oh"
Hulay pointed at Williams again: "This kid is also a super genius. He has been playing in the first team at the age of sixteen. Now he is considered to be the leader of Leeds City for the next ten years. At the end of last season, he renewed his contract with the team.
After the appointment, the whole city of Leeds was celebrating."
"What are you talking about..." Williams asked curiously when he saw Hu Lai pointing at him.
“I praise you.”
Kamara looked at Williams and nodded. Although he has only been with the team for less than a month, he can already see the importance of this young man in the team. Although he is young, he speaks in the locker room.
But he is very important and everyone listens to him.
At that time, he still didn’t quite understand it, but now after hearing Hu Lai’s explanation, he suddenly understood.
No wonder Williams has such a high profile in the dressing room.
Outstanding talent, the most important thing is that it was cultivated by the youth training of the team. The double halo blessing has led to the current status.
Charlie Potter, who was about to order food, heard Hu Lai say that he was praising Williams to Kamala, and quickly said: "What about me? Praise me in front of that kid!"
Hu Lai then pointed at him and said to Kamala: "This man is here for a meal, so you can ignore him."
Kamala looked at Potter, who was smiling, and nodded slowly.
Potter was very interested in what Hu Lai said: "How did you praise me, Hu Lai?"
Hu Lai said casually: "I said you are also very strong."
"Hey!" Porter believed Hu Lai's statement and happily raised his hand to call the waiter, he wanted to order food.
Upon seeing this, Hu Lai asked Kamala: "Is there anything you want to eat or what you can't eat?"
Kamala shrugged: "I can do either."
Hu Lai nodded and said to Porter: "Whatever you want, Ismail has no taboos."
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After ordering the meal, the four of us got together and started chatting.
Because of Hu Lai's previous foreshadowing, even Charlie Potter's impression of Kamala has changed. After all, Hu Lai praised him in front of Kamala. He is embarrassed to continue to be cold to Kamala, right?
?
Charlie Porter, as the team's "team favorite", is always good at adjusting the atmosphere.
I have to say that although he was coaxed and frightened to come here this time, bringing him here did play a very good role.
He kept initiating topics, and Ismael Kamara told the three teammates present about his past.
Kamara is indeed worthy of the name of a genius. He has never received formal echelon training from a professional football club since he was a child, and his family is too poor to learn to play football. He relies entirely on playing football with other children on the streets.
to gain growth.
Before he turned seventeen, his talent was discovered by a Flemish club and they signed him. He became a professional player in this way, even though he was only a professional player in the French third-tier league...
But to him, it was already a change like a carp leaping over the dragon's gate.
Kamara is confident in himself because after entering Flanders, he found that his teammates who had received professional team training were not as good as him.
"...On my first day of training in Flanders, I embarrassed the big guys in the team. I passed them over and over again, and they couldn't even hold my clothes back..." At this point, Kamara's face
There was a hint of pride on his face.
Whether it's Pete Williams or Charlie Porter, no one has ever seen Kamara play, so they don't really believe what he said. But they didn't show it. Pete Williams is for
To help Kamara integrate into the team, he naturally cannot show any disdain.
Charlie Porter praised Hu Lai in front of Kamala. At this time, he still had the baggage of being an idol. Of course, he had to work hard to maintain his image in the eyes of Kamala.
However, through this conversation, they also cleared up some of their previous misunderstandings about Kamara. His indifference was not because he looked down on his new teammates, but more because of the language barrier and his wariness in the new environment.
Now under Hu Lai's translation, both of them saw a talkative Kamala, not the taciturn Kamala in the locker room who always hides in the corner playing with his mobile phone alone, wearing headphones, and loves no one.
During the conversation, Kamara also learned about Hulay’s past. He knew that not only had Hulay not received any football training before he was sixteen, he was even a middle school student before he was eighteen and had never entered a professional career.
team.
He was even more surprised by what Hu Lai could achieve now.
After the food was served, they continued to chat while eating, and even ordered a bottle of wine to add to the fun.
By the time Williams went to pay the bill after the meal, Charlie Potter and Kamala were already leaning against each other.
Porter spoke in English and Kamala spoke in French. The two bypassed Hulay and had a heated exchange directly.
Williams came out after paying the bill to see the situation and asked Hulay in surprise: "Can the two of them understand what each other said?"
Hu Lai shook his head: "Of course I don't understand."
“Then they...”
“The atmosphere is here, it doesn’t matter what you say specifically.” Hu Lai waved his hand.
Williams looked at the two people chatting and laughing, smiled and said with emotion: "It's really good..."
But Hu Lai beside him frowned: "I feel bad."
“What’s wrong?” Williams asked strangely.
"The effect did not meet my expectations..." Hu Lai said solemnly.
“What is not achieved? I think the effect is very good. Look at how affectionate the two of them are... If not, I would have thought they were friends who have known each other for many years!”
Hu Lai continued to shake his head: "It's just a temporary superficial phenomenon. It seems that just asking for a meal is not enough..."
Williams grabbed Hu Lai and waved his hands repeatedly: "No! No! I think one meal will be very effective. Your Chinese five thousand years of oriental wisdom is indeed powerful! Whatever problems you have, this meal will solve them."
!No need to ask for a second meal..."
“It’s just that Charlie’s opinion of Kamara has improved today, but as for other teammates, they are still prejudiced against Kamara…”
Williams held Hu Lai's arm tightly and asked him in a serious tone: "Hu, I think you just want to spend more time with me?"
Hu Lai sneered: "Who do you think I am? Is a few meals enough? How many people do we have in the first team?!"
“Goodbye!” Williams turned to leave.
This time it was Hu Lailai who stopped him: "Peter, where is your sense of honor and responsibility? You are going to be the leader of the team. Does a few meals scare you? You disappoint me so much...
…”
Williams was too lazy to talk nonsense with Hu Lai and raised his middle finger at him.
