Chapter 20 - Chapter 21 The moment of parting ()

"Ha ha!"

Hearing Daniel say this, Xiao Ming couldn't help laughing. After all, it was a happy thing for his own efforts to be recognized, and the expression of the young man in front of him was so sincere that people would not doubt his sincerity at all.

"It doesn't matter, we will only stay in the previous year in the English and C. Next season, we will return to the English second grade, then the English first, and then the Premier League!" Xiao Ming said proudly: "Young man, you have to work hard too. In the future, Leiden Oriental will need the help of many outstanding young men! Leiden Oriental has not played football in the top league yet, but I hope to create this history! You guys, you also have the opportunity to create this history. As long as you perform well in the future, you will have the opportunity to create this history with us!"

Young people are easily motivated. When Xiao Ming said this, the young Daniel blushed with excitement. He only nodded repeatedly and couldn't even speak.

Although Xiao Ming is not old, his psychological age is not young anymore. Of course, he knows that what a young man needs is encouragement. After encouraging Daniel, he got up and went to meet the players.

These few words of encouragement are nothing to Xiao Ming. He will not be reluctant to say these words, but he doesn't know how big a turning point it has brought to the fate of a young player!

Xiao Ming had already gone upstairs, but Daniel was still looking at his back, and the excited expression on his face had not yet disappeared.

Lao Sun smiled with a hint: "Daniel, are you satisfied today? A few days ago, you didn't even say that Chairman Xiao is your idol. As soon as he took office, he also changed his mental outlook in the past few months... Why don't you ask for an autograph when you see your idol?"

"Ah, I forgot." Daniel touched his head embarrassedly and said to his father excitedly: "I was in a bad mood today. The coach always doesn't like me very much. I want to leave Leiden East!"

Lao Sun was startled: "You have been playing football since you were a child. You finally joined the youth team of Leiden East. If you go up one level, you can enter the adult team. How can you say you don't play? "

"I'm not saying I don't play football, I just want to leave Leiden East!" Daniel said dissatisfiedly: "The coach of the youth team doesn't appreciate me, and I don't have many opportunities to play... But if I don't say it, it's different now! I didn't want to leave Leiden East. The chairman praised me like this today, so he must have an impression of me. I must work hard, strive to impress the coach with his performance, and strive for the opportunity to join the first team!"

Lao Sun was relieved: "That's right! Son, come and help the chef and make your chairman happy. Maybe you will be transferred to the first team next season!"

"I hope so!"

The cups were serene and the atmosphere was warm.

Buckets of beer were brought up, and then empty barrels were moved down one by one - the British were indeed not covered when drinking beer. They drank wine like water. Xiao Ming was not so fond of beer, but there were not many people coming to fill his wine. The boss always wanted to give him some face.

The atmosphere was not very warm at the beginning. After all, I don’t know how many people will stay in Leiden East next season. However, after a few glasses of wine, the players’ emotions were also mobilized. They all started to make a drink.

Xiao Ming happily looked at the players who were drinking with a glass of wine. He was not a stingy person. Besides, how much can he drink alcohol?

Kasso walked over with a glass of wine. The midfielder who was not very satisfied with Xiao Ming in the locker room at first also untied his heart. He began to show his ability in the last few games, and more than half of Leiden Dongfang's goals were related to him.

"Boss, I want to say sorry for my performance this season." Kasso raised his cup and said sincerely to Xiao Ming: "You scolded me for awakening that halftime break... We were indeed spoiled before."

"I'm very happy that you can think of this." Xiao Ming "ding" and touched him a glass, then took a sip.

"There is also the boss, I have to tell you something in advance." Kasso raised his neck and drank all the wine in his glass, and said with a hint of drunkenness: "I want to leave Leiden East next season...Stoke Port invites me to go, and the salary they offer is very good, and I also... want to stay in the English League Two to play. Sorry, boss." He lowered his head.

Xiao Ming nodded: "No need to say sorry, Steve. You are a very outstanding player, and you are not young anymore. You shouldn't waste a year in the English CPC."

Casso raised his head: "I am twenty-six years old and am playing, but I won't leave like this. Stoke Port is very sincere, and my contract with Leiden Oriental is still two years away. The club should be able to receive a good transfer fee and make up for the club's finances. This is the last thing I did for Leiden Oriental."

Xiao Ming smiled: "This is good news."

Casso nodded and said nothing more. In fact, he wanted to thank Xiao Ming. If Xiao Ming hadn't gotten angry during that halftime break, he might not have performed so well in the next game. If he hadn't suffered from him, Stoke Port might not have taken a fancy to him. As Xiao Ming said, Leiden East was relegated and they could leave, but no club would need a bunch of garbage.

Kasso left with a wine glass. This was just a small episode and not many people noticed it.

Xiao Ming still held a glass of wine and looked at the players in the carnival. He knew that many people would choose to leave. He would also launch a major purge in the club. A group of veterans would leave. Some newcomers would get more opportunities in the new season. He also had several goals to introduce. Next season, Leiden East will be a brand new team, a team full of vitality and vitality.

The banquet lasted until 8 o'clock in the evening, and the players who had almost finished drinking left one after another. I don't know who was the leader. Every player hugged Xiao Ming when he left, not for the sake of parting, but for thanking Xiao Ming for arousing their ambitions and fighting spirit.

Even if they are not playing football in the East, they have to perform best, because they are not playing football for the East, but for themselves and for their careers.

This is a moment of separation. Many players will leave Leiden East forever after today. For Xiao Ming and his Leiden East, they will also say goodbye to the past and usher in a new and brilliant tomorrow.

This will definitely be the case.

After sending off the last player, Xiao Ming looked at the gloomy sky and said to himself in his heart.

Alvin McDonald was packing his own things in the office, and today the last league game ended, and he knew that his mission in this club would be over.

Thinking about how bad he has done in the past half season. Although he won the next few games, he also knew that it was not his credit at all, but the chemical reaction brought by the young chairman.

He has never been to the training ground, and even now he has not even figured out the technical characteristics of most players, but he seems to be much better than himself in on-site command. Sometimes he just asks about the characteristics of the players and sends them to the field, which can often have miraculous results.

Thinking of this, McDonald couldn't help but smile bitterly. Even an outsider is better than him in on-site command. What ability does he have to be a head coach? After this failed experience, I'm afraid he can only go to the amateur team to be a head coach.

Just as he packed all his belongings into a cardboard box, McDonald stood up and prepared to pick up the box and leave.

"Alvin, what are you doing?"

Xiao Ming's voice sounded at the office door. MacDonald was stunned for a moment, and when he turned around, he saw Xiao Ming standing in front of the door, looking at him with an interesting look.

McDonald shrugged: "The season is over and my mission is over... I have not brought anything to this team, nor have the confidence to bring something to this team next season. So I plan to leave."

Xiao Ming smiled: "If I were you, I would never choose to leave... because Leiden East will soon unfold a legend. If you stay here, you will become a part of the legend creation."

McDonald is over the age of striving for his dream: "But I know that no legend will leave a useless person. The reason why legend can be legendary is because it can enable everyone to exert their maximum combat power, and those involved are the best, but I know that I am not the best."

Xiao Ming nodded, sat down in front of McDonald, and then signaled McDonald to sit down: "To say something offensive, as a head coach, you should not say it is the best, even ordinary people can't say it's... A good head coach will always have a keen feeling on the sidelines of the court, letting him know when to do what... and I haven't seen this in you."

McDonald nodded with a wry smile. He is not a coach who doesn't work hard. Before every game, he always does a lot of preparations, observes the players' status and investigates the opponent's intelligence. However, on the side of the court, he can only put the strongest combination he thinks is step by step, and he can't do anything to adapt to the situation.

Seeing McDonald admit this calmly, Xiao Ming began to have more favors for the coach he looked down upon at the beginning: "You are not a qualified head coach, but I think you can be an excellent assistant coach... Although you have only been to Leiden East for half a year, you have a deep understanding of every player, knowing what they will do, what they can do, and what environment and tactics they can play a greater ability. This is what you are good at and I value it."

Xiao Ming said this was not a whim. In fact, in these games, he did find that McDonald was not a good head coach candidate, because he was too rigid in on-site command and could only passively arrange tactics. There was never a lack of surprises on the football field. No matter how outstanding the head coach was, it was impossible for him to let all the games be played on the track he expected. Whether he could make correct and timely reactions in the face of accidents was the biggest difference between a top coach and an ordinary coach.

Of course, he found not only these things. While he realized that McDonald could not be a good head coach, he discovered another advantage of McDonald - he was very familiar with every player in the team and knew the advantages and disadvantages of these players. Whenever Xiao Ming wanted to make a tactical change, he could quickly answer what type of substitute players he had. Moreover, the substitute players he chose were very targeted. Although there were only five substitutes on the bench, in addition to the necessary goalkeepers, the other substitutes he chose were of all kinds, which made Xiao Ming more at ease in the selection of personnel.

Moreover, McDonald has a very good personality. He oversaw his authority and commanded several games, but he had no objection at all. Instead, he tried his best to help him when asking about the characteristics of the players. Such a personality will not conflict with others. Even if he finds someone with extremely tough personality as the head coach in the future, he can still do a good job in assisting.

Another assistant coach in the team, Colin Reitz, is young and in his thirties. He is good at training players rather than others. Now most clubs are still in a mode where the head coach is equipped with two or three assistant coaches. There are even many teams with one head coach and one assistant coach. It is not like later, a giant family may have a coaching team of more than ten people, and all work is infinitely detailed.

In the 1990s, European football began to gradually move from incomplete professionalism to absolute professionalism. The Boseman transfer rules that began to be officially implemented two years later changed the pattern of the entire European continent. The biggest cake was divided by those wealthy teams. What Xiao Ming had to do was to draw on the operation experience of those big clubs in later generations and spend a few years to make Leiden Oriental Club comparable to those wealthy clubs in hardware.

Of course, this is not something that can be achieved overnight. Xiao Ming didn't want to be known to everyone from the beginning. He gradually increased the number and ability level of coaching staff, expanded the scouting system, and expanded the facilities of the training base. It was a waste that half of the Leicester training base was empty as big as half. A good training base and a mature youth team training system are quite important.

So Xiao Ming wanted to keep McDonald not to let him be the head coach, but to make him an assistant coach. Sometimes for a head coach, an assistant coach who is familiar with the situation and has excellent abilities is more important than anything else.

When Xiao Ming made this request, McDonald was stunned. It was not that easy for a person who was used to being a head coach to go back and be an assistant coach. After all, the former is a leader and has absolute authority in the team. This is especially true in English clubs. However, no matter how outstanding the assistant coach is, he has to follow the instructions of the head coach. In later generations, famous coaches can also become the focus of flashlight gatherings, but who would pay attention to how outstanding the assistant coach is?

However, for MacDonald, who has already doubted his abilities and is not tough in character, Xiao Ming's invitation undoubtedly opened a new sky in front of him.

After thinking for a while, McDonald raised his head and said resolutely: "Boss, I accept your invitation... No matter who the next head coach is, I will do my job to help him."

Then McDonald smiled and stretched: "It's just right, so I can do what I like, and there's no more trouble... Less worry, maybe I'll get older."

Xiao Ming laughed haha, then patted McDonald on the shoulder: "Okay, let's help me do something next. Tomorrow, I have something to let them do... Also, if you have any knowledge, a scout with good level, I recommend it. Leiden East cannot always tap potential inside."
Chapter completed!