After breakfast the next day, almost the entire Leeds City team knew Hulay's ambitious goal for the new season.
Everyone came to Hu Lai to confirm: "Hey, Hu, is it true? Are you really going to compete for the Golden Boot?"
“Hu, are you really going to score thirty goals?!”
Faced with everyone's concern, Hu Lai could guess with his buttocks that Charlie Potter must have spread the word. Sure enough, he saw Charlie Potter winking at him in the crowd, and Hu Lai stared speechlessly.
I glanced at him and then explained to my teammates: "Yes, that's right. My goal is to score at least 30 league goals this season and win the Premier League Golden Boot!"
As Hulay expected, the goal of the second task last night was to ask him to win the Premier League Golden Boot.
However, this mission did not have a punishment mechanism like the first mission. This made Hu Lai relieved. It seemed that the system was only going crazy intermittently, rather than completely going crazy. He still had a chance to save it.
Even though there is no penalty mechanism in the task, since he can compete for the Golden Boot if he can score thirty goals, Hu Lai simply set the Golden Boot goal generously.
He has to complete the task of scoring thirty goals anyway. If he cannot complete the task, the already poor family will be even worse...
Although everyone had heard the news from Charlie Potter before, some people still suspected that Charlie Potter was talking nonsense, so they came to directly seek confirmation from Hu Lai.
Now that they heard these words coming from Hu Lai's mouth, everyone was shocked.
What the hell is this!
Farrak Quinn sighed in the crowd: "It's a pity that players are not allowed to bet, otherwise I will definitely bet on you, Hu!"
Charlie Potter turned to him and asked: "You think so highly of him, Quinn?"
Quinn shook his head: "No, I bet he loses."
Hu Lai raised his middle finger to Quinn from a distance, causing everyone to burst into laughter.
This was of course a little joke between Quinn and Hulay.
However, it does illustrate part of everyone’s true thoughts:
Even the Leeds City teammates who train and compete with Hulay, based on their understanding of Hulay, think that Hulay wants to complete 30 Premier League goals in the new season and win the Premier League Golden Boot.
It's like a fantasy.
What is the concept of the Premier League Golden Boot?
It does not mean that a person is strong enough.
It is no longer the Premier League 30 years ago. The tactical concept of football has developed to the present, and more and more emphasis is placed on overall coordination. If a forward does not have the support of a strong team and no star teammates to feed him the ball, how can he become a league player?
Golden boots?
Since the beginning of the new century, all previous Premier League golden boots have been won by six "BIG6" teams: Park Rangers, Tramed, Manchester Athletic, London Bridge, Warships Harbor and Nordic London Rangers.
, there have also been cases where players from two BIG6 teams shared the Golden Boot.
This shows what?
It means that if you want to win the Golden Boot, both the team and the players themselves need to maintain stable and good performance throughout the season.
Stable and good performance is a test of the team's overall strength - if the overall strength is not strong enough, it will gradually fall behind in the long season. Small teams are affected by the thickness of the lineup. Once there is a wave of injuries in the league, they will fall behind.
It is difficult to maintain combat effectiveness, and naturally there is no way to provide sufficient support to forward teammates competing for the Golden Boot.
In the Jinyuan football era, the strong always became stronger, and the winner took all. The championship was won by the wealthy, and the golden boots were naturally also in the possession of the wealthy. They spent so much money to introduce a large number of star players, and naturally they had to get something in return, otherwise who would
Are you willing to spend money to be taken advantage of?
Marvin Stones, who won the Golden Boot at Manchester Athletic last season, did not play for Manchester Athletic two seasons ago. He relied on his outstanding performance at Widgerstown to win the favor of Manchester Athletic and was able to join the Manchester giants.
of.
And in his best season at Wiggerston, he scored fifteen Premier League goals on behalf of the team, which was far from enough for him to win the Golden Boot.
But after moving to Manchester United, with the help of Manchester United's All-Star lineup, Stones scored 32 goals last season, creating the best score of his career and also winning the Premier League Golden Boot.
From Wijston's fifteen goals to Manchester Athletic's thirty-two goals, the seventeen goals in between are the difference in strength between Wijston's civilian team and Manchester Athletic's giants, as well as their class.
barrier.
The odds of Hulay scoring more than 30 Premier League goals are 436 to 1, and the odds of him winning the Premier League Golden Boot are as high as 1,020 to 1.
This is just the odds offered by one gaming company. There are many large and small gaming companies active in the UK, and their handicap data are different. For example, the odds of giving Hu Lai the Golden Boot are a thousand and zero.
Twenty's is a relatively serious company. Some small bookmakers set odds as if they were a joke.
For example, a bookmaker called "Millennium" offered odds of Hulay winning the Golden Boot as high as 1 to 4,000.
This odds has one meaning, telling all the punters and gamblers who place bets: It is absolutely impossible for this kid to win the Premier League Golden Boot, so don’t waste your time on him. Our bookmaker is too lazy to analyze how many times he fell to the ground.
There is a chance to get the Golden Boot, but it is impossible to get the Golden Boot anyway, so why waste the energy of an actuary?
However, there will definitely be people who dream of getting rich overnight and bet on players with such odds. But they basically lose everything without exception.
In fact, Hu Lai is not the one with the highest odds among the Premier League Golden Boot contenders. After all, he scored 11 goals in 15 league games last season, and he still showed potential. You must know that there are some forwards with higher odds.
It's scary - everyone knows that there is no way those people can win the top scorer in the Premier League.
The odds of these forwards scoring less than ten goals in a season are surprisingly low and they are widely favored.
Just from the odds, we can see the world's "malice" towards them...
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The topic of discussion among the players spread to the coaching staff, so the coaches also knew about Hu Lai's ambitions.
People, including assistant coach Sam Landill, expressed disbelief.
Matt Dawn, who knew the inside story, glanced at Tony Clark, who quickly waved his hand: "I just said that if he can get the Golden Boot in the future, I will treat him to red peppers. I didn't say it was this season...
I don’t believe that a meal can be so exciting, and it certainly has nothing to do with me.”
Other coaches heard what Clark said and asked him curiously. After asking, they learned about the agreement between Hu Lai and Clark.
"I've also eaten red pepper. To say it's delicious...it's really delicious. But it's not as good as this, right? How can just a meal of red pepper make Hu so excited?" Sam Landill rubbed it.
He groaned with his chin.
“Perhaps the Chinese food at Red Hot Chili Peppers reminded him of his hometown? The homesickness turned into motivation?” Anthony Clemente, the team’s strength and conditioning coach, guessed in English with a Spanish accent.
Clark waved his hand: "No matter what his reason is. It is a good thing for us that he has this idea. If we want to successfully avoid relegation, we must score goals. At the end of last season, I was worried that after his outstanding performance in his first Premier League season,
I will be proud and lax. Now it seems...there is no need to worry about this problem at all."
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After breakfast, the Leeds City players went back to their rooms to rest.
On the way back, Pete Williams approached Hu Lai: "About the golden boot and thirty goals... are you serious, Hu Lai?"
When he asked this question, he looked directly at Hu Lai with a serious expression, not like he was teasing Hu Lai.
Hu Lai also gave him a serious answer with a serious expression: "I'm serious, Peter. I really want to hit the Premier League Golden Boot and see if I can score 30 goals in one season."
The above goals.”
After receiving the answer, Peter stared at Hu Lai's eyes for a few seconds, and it seemed that he really saw "seriousness" in Hu Lai's eyes.
He finally nodded: "Although I think this is incredible, I have never had such an experience before - saying that I want to compete for the Golden Boot before the league has even started... But since you want it, then I will help you
Yes, Hu."
“Thank you Peter, you are such a good person.” Hu Lai smiled and gave Peter a good person card.
"You're welcome, Hu. This is what I should do. You helped Leeds City successfully avoid relegation last season, and you also helped me teach Sean a lesson. I should help you both publicly and privately."
Charlie Potter also joined in: "I will also help you, Hu. As long as you get the Golden Boot, don't forget to go to Red Chili Pepper and treat me to a meal, hehe!"
Hu Lai thought about the agreement he had made with head coach Tony Clark, and nodded with a smile: "Okay. Of course, no problem!"
Anyway, if we really want to treat guests then, I, Hu Lai, will definitely not be the one paying for it!
Then he looked at Kamala, who had been silent next to Peter Williams, and asked him in French: "Ismael, will you help me?"
In order to be able to complete the task and avoid being punished by the system, Hu Lai worked really hard, even Kamara, who did not perform well in the warm-up match, came to find him.
Unite all the forces that can be united and mobilize all the people who can be mobilized to help him complete his mission.
But his attitude surprised Kamala. He widened his eyes and asked Hu Lai: "You... still need my help?"
Hu Lai was confused by him: "Why don't I need it? Of course I do!"
As long as he can score 30 goals this season, he is even willing to struggle to get out of bed at zero o'clock on the top of the Himalayas in the snow and ice, lying on his side in the hot summer, wearing a down jacket, eating hot pot, a gold toilet on his head, carrying a Simuwu tripod with a machete stuck in his ribs, and doing somersaults backwards for ten
In the middle of the week, Thomas spun 1024 degrees, vomited blood, rolled around, and knelt down in tears, begging everyone to help him. He fed him with cakes and vomited him, and even after he vomited, he continued to feed him!
Kamara pointed to herself and asked again: "Do you need me?"
"I need you, Ismail." Hulay also grabbed Kamala's shoulders, looked at him, and repeated face to face. "I need you 100%!"
Kamara glanced at his shoulder, which was scratched by Hu Lai's hand. But he also confirmed that Hu Lai really needed his help.
It seems that no one has ever said this to me before...
Nicolas Farina of Flemish wanted to pass the ball to him, but he would only yell, "Why don't you pass the ball to me!" "You should pass the ball to me!" "You must pass the ball to me."
ball!!"
The same goes for everyone else on the team, not even the head coach...none of them said to themselves, "I need you, Ismail" or "We need you."
The eighteen-year-old bad boy, the troublemaker who fights with his teammates in the locker room, and the "lone wolf" who is considered to only fight alone, said under Hulay's gaze: "Okay.