Chapter 126 Chris’ invitation

It's another Christmas.

This is the third Christmas after Xiao Ming’s rebirth. A while later is the third anniversary of Xiao Ming’s entry into Leiden East. Time always passes without realizing it. No matter whether you are busy or bored, whether you are rich or poor, whether you live a meaningful or meaningless life, but time is fair.

Thinking about what happened in the past two years, Xiao Ming couldn't help but feel a little sad. When he came to England, he had no one to ask for money and no money. When he thought about the process of making his first pot of gold through the World Cup gambling, Xiao Ming felt sad. The transfer fee in the first season was sold and several players were exchanged. He just survived the first season with hundreds of thousands of pounds. Looking at the current, it was logically rich. Now, if you sell Yahoo stocks on Nasdaq, you can get back 100 million or 200 million in cash, but it is still quite far from your ideal.

But then again, the backstage boss of a wealthy family is not a rich man. If you don’t spend tens of millions of dollars every season, you can maintain your competitiveness. In recent seasons, you can rely on a small amount of funds. It’s because the players’ value is not yet close to terrifying. Just think about how much Abu spent on Chelsea. He doesn’t need to repair the stadium yet...

Moreover, now that I have focused on leading the team, I will definitely not be able to work hard in the financial market as wholeheartedly as in later generations, so I have to take shortcuts. Fortunately, there are quite a few talents in the club now, and I don’t need to do some meticulous things myself, otherwise I will have to eat less and do my best like Zhuge Liang.

Although Leiden Oriental's recent achievements are good, Xiao Ming has new troubles.

The top four in the English League One is a gratifying thing, but the gap between the top three is not small. Bolton and Barnsley's performance this season is simply amazing. Leiden Oriental has performed quite well in the past two months, but the gap with them is still eight points and seven points. Wolves are still two points ahead of Leiden Oriental. If there is any mistake in the next game, Leiden Oriental may not be able to enter the top two and advance to the Premier League directly, which is unbearable for Xiao Ming.

However, entering the quarterfinals of the League Cup is a very brilliant result. It has already entered the quarterfinals of the League, and Xiao Ming cannot give up such a game. You must know that every step forward in Leiden Oriental will create a new history, a glorious history of a second-tier league team in the League Cup!

Maybe this result will not be remembered for a long time, but just now, Leiden Oriental is not less well-known in Europe than those traditional giants. People are always curious. Even if fans from other countries see a team in the League One that has entered the quarterfinals of the League Cup, they will be happy to check the team.

As long as they are people, they will be curious. Although Leiden Oriental has no history, there is now. If they find that Leiden Oriental was in the quarterfinals of the League Cup this season, in addition to entering the quarterfinals of the League Cup this season, it was even an English-Central team two seasons ago, but they won the league championship and promoted to the first level for two consecutive seasons, they would probably be impressed by this team.

Just a week after Leiden Oriental reached the quarterfinals of the League Cup, Leiden Oriental Club received several letters from fans from other countries. This has never happened in previous years. It is just the quarterfinals. What if it reaches the quarterfinals? What about the finals?

Originally, the schedule of the League One game is quite dense, almost every week is a double match. Moreover, the situation in League One is very complicated. In addition to the relatively large advantage of the top two, the gap between the three and ten is not very big. After each round of the league, the big flag changes on the city wall, and the ranking will always change and fluctuate. If you make any mistakes in the league, let alone enter the top two, you may lose the chance of the playoffs.

Although the two-round matches of the League Cup quarter-finals were held in March, it was the most critical moment for the league to go. What to do then is still a difficult question.

Moreover, after Christmas, the FA Cup is about to begin. When the League Cup has been eliminated, Xiao Ming does not want to give up the FA Cup, because if he wants to appear in the European arena next season, it will be too difficult to win the League Cup and participate in next season's European competition. The FA Cup is the only possibility.

Xiao Ming is now like a greedy child. It’s good to see this, that one is great, this one wants, that one wants, that one wants...

He was very rational before the start of this season, thinking that the most important thing in this season is the League One. Just play soy sauce in the League Cup. The best way to enter the European Cup next season is to go through the League Cup or the FA Cup. However, in the League Cup, Leiden Oriental was not lucky and was eliminated in the second round. Instead, after the lineup gradually got together, he performed better and better in the League Cup. Now he has entered the quarterfinals in one go. If he has made a few steps forward, he will have a chance to compete for the championship...

This temptation is too great for Xiao Ming. The League Cup championship is not comparable to that of the League Cup champion. Although it seems that the two are only one word different from the Chinese translation, the difference is very different. One is the second cup in England and the other is the second cup in Europe. The gap between them is probably the same as the gap between the Qualification Cup and the League Cup. Perhaps only the most loyal and arrogant British fans will think that the honor of the League Cup is more important than the League Cup, and the significance of the FA Cup is greater than that of the Champions League...

Xiao Ming and the coaches discussed this issue several times but couldn't discuss it. It's important to advance to the Premier League, but it's very attractive to get good results in the FA Cup, not to mention that the League Cup has entered the quarterfinals, which cannot be given up.

No one dares to say which game should be given up to protect which game. Xiao Ming also knows that this idea can only be taken by himself. The coaches can help him solve his training troubles, but such a decision can only be made by himself.

Xiao Ming was strolling on the street. Now there were not many people on the street. People cut turkeys with their relatives at home, arranged Christmas trees, and prepared Christmas gifts. The procurement was basically done two days ago, and today is the time to enjoy it.

Even the average person can enjoy family happiness with his family today, but Xiao Ming can only stroll on the streets alone. He has no relatives and not many friends. Although he has many subordinates, everyone is accompanying their relatives today, and Xiao Ming has no relatives.

Sparse snowflakes were falling in the sky, and the snow trampled by pedestrians on the ground had become solid ice, and the feet were creaking and creaking when they stepped on it. They spread far away from the quiet streets. The dim street lights shone on the street, carrying a little desolate atmosphere.

Looking southwest from afar, it is still quite lively. The famous Trafalgar Square is located in central London, almost nine miles from Leiden where he is. On the eve of Christmas, a tall Christmas tree stands there, becoming a major feature of Trafalgar Square in London during Christmas. Every year, many tourists choose to visit there at this time, and London locals rarely go there.

Compared with the brightly lit West End, the East End seems much behind and quiet, just like football in the two major regions.

Even if the famous teams in the East are added to Leiden East, there is only West Ham United, and Millwall is barely considered to be from the East. In the West, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, Wimbledon... there are not too many strong teams.

However, this is why Xiao Ming is confident to lead Leiden East to continue.

If Leiden East is in the West End, then Xiao Ming might just do it casually and leave it alone. After all, it is difficult to make a new team in the West End where strong enemies are gathered. In the East End, their actual competitor is West Ham United, who is robbing territory from their mortal enemies. Leiden East fans are very happy to see it.

West Ham United have not achieved any results in the past two years. However, Leiden East, which they have not paid attention to, has become the focus of England more often.

But, this is just the beginning. In the future, the boss of the East End of London will be Leiden East!

Xiao Ming was strolling while thinking about his thoughts. When he stopped, he found that he had unknowingly walked to the door of Sawyer's bar...

If this continues, he will become an English alcoholic - but the atmosphere of this bar is something he likes very much, and there is a warm feeling here. Sometimes he even feels that this place will bring his home feeling, rather than the cold one that is cold as soon as he closes the door, and there is no other people's home except himself.

If Xiao Ming was still the same as Xiao Ming in the past, he would not have felt this way. After all, No. 15 Warren Street was the home built by Xiao Ming himself before, so he would not feel unfamiliar with the place he built, but Xiao Ming now does not have that feeling.

So he prefers to walk alone on the streets rather than lock himself up at home.

The door of the bar is closed, and it is less than nine o'clock now. At this time, the bar is the best time for business, but today is an exceptional day.

After standing at the bar entrance for a while, looking at the bar where people are usually crowded but today, Xiao Ming felt as if he was empty.

Sighing, Xiao Ming was about to turn around and leave, but a "creak" sound came from behind, and the wooden door was pushed open...

Chris stood at the door with two bottles of wine, shouting in surprise: "Mr. Chairman!"

"Ah, Chris, Merry Christmas." Xiao Ming stopped and turned around and laughed: "What, does Sawyer still want you to work in the bar today?"

Chris smiled, so amazing that Xiao Ming couldn't help but burp his eyes. Today she was wearing a pure white fur-collared coat, which made her face look even more white: "No, my father was preparing for a Christmas dinner at home and found that there was no alcohol at home, so he asked me to take it... Do you want to come to the bar today to have a drink?"

Xiao Ming quickly denied: "No, I'm just walking around..."

Chris pursed his lips and thought: "If nothing happens, I want to invite you to my house as a guest... OK? Every Christmas I spend with my father, and there are only two people in the house, so boring."

Xiao Ming looked at Chris and felt a little moved.

It is obvious that Chris saw that he was lonely for Christmas alone, so he invited him to visit and found a reason why he was lonely...

What an understanding little girl, Xiao Ming sighed in his heart.

"Is it appropriate to go now?" Xiao Ming didn't understand the etiquette of British people on Christmas, but for Chinese people, it was very impolite to visit other people's houses on New Year's Eve: "I didn't prepare Christmas gifts, and I have no place to buy them now..."

"No need." Chris smiled sweetly: "Tonight, even Christmas singers (who sang and heard good news from house to house, probably equivalent to those who come to China for the New Year) will receive refreshments and gifts. Today, the only one who gives gifts is the head of the family."

Xiao Ming sweated for a while, but he didn't expect that he would be treated the same as the Christmas singer, but he was also a very free and easy person. Since someone sincerely invited him, it wouldn't be like not to go? Besides, he was bored anyway, and he also thought he was relieved by talking to Sawyer, not to mention that there was a beautiful girl Chris next to him, which was better than playing with mice alone at home.

"Okay, then go and disturb me." Xiao Ming replied readily.

Hearing this, Chris seemed very happy: "Then I have to get some more wine, these two bottles are only enough for my dad."

After saying that, Chris ran into the bar and started to flip inside. After a while, he took a bottle of wine in one hand: "Sir Chairman! Your favorite stout!"

Seeing Chris holding a big bottle in one hand, Xiao Ming couldn't help laughing again. For some reason, after seeing Chris, his originally depressed mind had been wiped out. He laughed more times in the past few minutes than the whole day today.

"Don't call me Mr. Chairman, just call me Xiao." Xiao Ming walked up and helped Chris get the bottle together with the two bottles he had held before, and then picked it up: "How can I let the lady do rough work... Although I am not a pure British, I am also a gentleman."

"Haha." Chris turned around and locked the bar door, and said with a smile: "My dad would definitely not agree with this."

"Ha, has Sawyer been resentful of that matter? You know, I have never been angry even if I was hit by him." Xiao Ming said with a smile.

Chris locked the door, turned around and walked with Xiao Ming, and replied, "Of course I still remember... No one has ever dared to treat my father like this... He has always been very fierce, especially when he was with Uncle John and others. Since I was a child, I knew that my father was very powerful. In this area, basically no one dared to mess with him, but he basically did not bully people. I still remember that when I was in junior high school, two classmates bullied me, and my father beat them up and beat the two classmates' fathers alone. Later, no one dared to bully me at school."

Xiao Ming nodded immediately: "I definitely believe this... This is the first time I was hit by an orange in the hospital."

Chris smiled again: "Later, when Uncle John and the others said that you still punched Dad in the parking lot, I thought you were a guy who was even more fierce than Dad." She stretched out her hands and gestured: "At least it is so tall and so strong."

Xiao Ming looked at Chris' gesture and remembered a sentence: "I am eight feet tall and my waist is eight feet."

"But later I realized you were not." Chris smiled and turned to look at Xiao Ming: "At that time, I knew you would definitely be able to lead Leiden East to achieve good results."

This sentence made Xiao Ming stunned: "Is there any relationship between this?"

"A person who dares to swing his fists in that situation must have extraordinary courage." Chris said seriously: "With such courage, are you still afraid that you can't lead our team forward? Mr. Wood is a good chairman, but he has a good temper. He can make Leiden East very stable, but may not be able to lead us to create glory. We need a courageous chairman, and God has sent you here."

Such praise made Xiao Ming feel a little uncomfortable because he did not regard Leiden Oriental as much importance at the beginning. To put it bluntly, Leiden Oriental is a toy in his hand, a toy that can make him feel pleasure and accomplishment. He had no feelings for Leiden Oriental team. If he had not bought Leiden Oriental while traveling through time, he might have bought a Premier League team directly after making enough money, and would never be interested in a British and C team.

After leading Leiden Oriental to achieve a series of good results, he was just happy to achieve such achievements. If the name Leiden Oriental was removed and replaced with the names of other teams, he would be happy, because it was "his team" that brought him a sense of accomplishment, not a certain team.

The only thing that gradually changed was the feelings brought by time, and the feelings he had gradually developed for Leiden East after he felt the enthusiasm brought by loyal fans of Leiden East. After all, he was not the Xiao Ming, who had started watching Leiden East in his teens, but Xiao Ming, who had only known Leiden East for less than three years.

Seeing that Xiao Ming did not answer, Chris stopped talking. She accelerated her pace and took Xiao Ming toward her home.

Looking at Chris's back jumping in front, Xiao Ming shook his head, then accelerated his pace and followed Chris forward.
Chapter completed!