Nicholas poked her finger at the sleeping girl's face, and she snorted and moved. He leaned over to kiss her, and she quickly woke up.

"Nick, aren't you gone yet?" the girl's voice was a little hoarse.

"Do you want me to go so much?" he cupped her face, a little angry.

"It's not. What time is it?"

"Half past five. ”

Lu Ling slowly came to his senses, Nick's face was very close, and he looked a little tired. Taking over a new club is inevitable, and almost all managers have been wearing dark circles all year round. They didn't sleep for a few hours last night.

"Before the start of the Babe season, you have to go to Liverpool. He said.

"I try. ”

"No, you have to go. ”

"Nick, I hate that tone, I said I'd do it as much as I could. ”

Lu Ling sat up as he spoke, feeling that his shoulders were cold, and hurriedly pulled the quilt up. In London in July and August, the average temperature is around 20 degrees, and the early morning temperature is only a dozen degrees. Nicholas looked at her amusefully as he reached out and pulled at her quilt.

"Nick, I'm cold!"

"Babe, I'm leaving soon. ”

The girl let go. Nick almost didn't make it again.

Later, Lu Ling thought on the way to Harrington that they hadn't dated since they got together. Although it is no longer a sensitive relationship, it is unlikely to date publicly. Sneaky feeling. No one knew they were together, except for Pat. Although it was in a rather embarrassing way for him to know, he was indeed the only one she didn't want to hide. Nick doesn't really care, but if this incident is exposed, it will obviously have a greater impact on her. Maybe she should move to Surrey, the apartment in Knightsbridge isn't that good after all.

After the first training session in the morning, Zixiang came over to her and said, "Coach, you should check out one of James' recent tweets. Although it's just gossip, I think you should know about it...... But don't get too angry after reading it. Then he said mysteriously, "Also, Pat has been doing well lately." His "notbad" tone was frustrated, and Lu Ling smiled and frowned, probably imagining what he was referring to.

When she got back to the office, she first checked James' Twitter. He retweeted the latest tweet from a Twitter account called QueensParkRomance.

Lu Ling clicked in, and this account has more than 20,000 followers.

The two most recently updated tweets went like this:

I think it's average, but it doesn't seem like the protagonist of our romance thinks so. 】

The link to the image is a photo of her and Nick in front of the Marseille Hotel.

[I really don't understand why Flores went to Everton, you know, Everton doesn't have such a sweet assistant coach. 】

The link to the image is a photo of her bikini.

The first picture was taken the morning she and Nick went to Nice, and Nick said at the time that someone was filming them, so she wasn't surprised. As for the second one, Lu Ling vowed never to let the media have a channel to get this kind of photo again. At that time, Zixiang and Ian said that if they wanted to post Instagram, she should refuse. Now this picture is everywhere.

The only good news is that the account doesn't really know about her relationship with Nick. She flipped it up again, oh, actually, and her and Pat's. As she said ridiculously, her mind flashed back to how sad Pat had been that morning. The feeling at that time was just as ridiculous. She didn't want to think about it.

There was a knock on the door. Lu Ling raised his eyes. It turned out to be Tony.

It was the first time she had seen Nick since he left. Malaysians have been very busy lately with the construction of a new stadium, NewQueens Park. The Loftus Road stadium was too small to accommodate less than 20,000 people, and the re-promotion to the Premier League made the construction of the new stadium rushed. The original plan was to move in 2018, but Tony seems to want to move in after the season is over - a bit difficult with the progress Lu Ling understands.

Before she could stand up, Tony had already walked over with a smile and saw what she was watching.

It's embarrassing.

"Oh, this account. "I'm concerned." ”

Lu Ling almost choked to death with his own saliva.

Tony also seemed to feel that something was wrong, and explained, "I mean, it has to do with our club, after all. Oh, Christine, don't worry too much. A lot of people, like me, just watch the excitement and don't really believe what it says. ”

Why didn't Lu Ling think Malaysians were so ...... before? Gossip.

Tony stepped back across from her desk and pulled up a stool to sit down.

"Christine, the manager of the team has been decided, Marcelo Bielsa. I told him that I want you to continue as a teaching assistant, but he may have to bring an assistant, so I think it's important to tell you in advance. ”

"Maniac" Bielsa?

Lu Ling pondered. Bielsa is a figure of his own in world football, having coached Argentina and Chile, and in recent years has spent club experience in Europe with Athletic Bilbao in La Liga and Marseille in Ligue 1.

His unusual approach and crazy style of football have fascinated many fans, but they have also attracted a lot of criticism. His favorite 3331 formation is regarded as a model by many tacticians, but many believe that it is tantamount to a suicidal style of play.

Seeing that the assistant didn't speak for a long time, Tony thought she wasn't very satisfied, and quickly asked, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, Tony, thank you for letting me know in advance. I'll do some homework. I hope to have a great time working with Mr. Bielsa. ”

****

Nick laughed for a long time on the phone, and Lu Ling was a little angry.

"You're just happy to see me be a teaching assistant forever, right!?"

"You're only twenty-seven, Babe, I think about it, when I was twenty-seven, oh, I was a scout, watching all over Europe, and ......" he didn't continue, and the girl might not be upset to hear the rest of the words.

"Fuck all over Europe, isn't it?" Lu Ling imagined that kind of Nick, a little unimaginable. But faintly, it's also a little uncomfortable.

"Honestly, I'm not proud of that. But, Babe, your tone doesn't sound like you care. Nicholas took one look at his office, it was Dembele's agent, and he smiled at him, then whispered to his girlfriend on the phone, "We'll talk in the evening." I miss you. ”

Lu Ling then hung up the phone. Seems to have forgotten something, oh, Pat's lace. So she searched.

It turned out that he was photographed in Barbados by fans, who sold the photos to tabloids in England. The photo shows a beautiful boy topless with a hot bikini girl.

He does look good. Lu Ling closed the page. She never contacted Pat again, and Pat didn't contact her. She's busy, and presumably the boy doesn't want to be disturbed, maybe Pat...... He needed time to digest something.

Later in the evening, Nick told her that Everton would sign Dembele for £40 million. This really made Lu Ling unbelievable, why did this talented French boy choose toffee?

"Because I speak French very well. Nick said.

"Nick!

"I'm serious. Nicholas opened the door.

His house in Liverpool was great. Much bigger and more luxurious than in Surrey. Everton offered him a relatively high annual salary of £3.5 million. Previously, Toney gave £1 million at QPR.

Christine hadn't been here yet, and he thought she'd love it too.

"Nick!"

She kept calling his name in anger over there. He likes to tease her like this.

"I do mean it. I speak French very well, so I won't have a problem communicating with Osman, which is important for the manager. Does Babe want me to teach you French, oh and Spanish?"

"I'll think about it. You continue. ”

"I called him and promised him three things. With a weekly salary of £70,000, a position in the main team, and the possibility of activating a release clause in his contract if he can't play in the Champions League next season, he can leave for a reasonable amount at that time. You know, he's going to play in the best European teams now, but maybe he can't sit in the main team, he's still young, so why not choose to stay in a club where he can sit in the main team for two years. And, it's the Premier League, great platform. That's it. ”

"Sounds really good. If I were him, I would have been persuaded by you. However, Lu Ling quickly thought of Pat's 10,000 pounds a week's salary, which seemed a little unfair in comparison. However, when Knick was still in QPR, he discussed with Tony that he would increase Patter's weekly salary - whether it was to make him play more comfortably this season or to sell it at a sky-high price later, anyway, when Pat came back, his weekly salary would definitely be much higher than it is now.

"Oh, it's a lot easier if it's you. Nicholas lay down on the bed. He's a little tired, it's late, and in five or six hours he'll be back at Vinci Farm [Everton training base] again. Of course, he enjoyed the fatigue. Being a manager has been his dream job since he finished his playing career. It's just that he misses her a little. In the past half a year, we have been getting along day and night but can't fall in love, and we have just fallen in love and are about to separate, which is really frustrating.

"Why is it so much easier for me?" Lu Ling asked strangely as he came back to his senses.

"All I have to do is dedicate myself. ”

"Oh Nick, you're so arrogant. ”

Nicholas smiled and cut to FaceTime, "Babe, let me see what you're wearing." ”

****

Ousmane Dembele's choice has left countless media outlets and fans as a surprise.

Even José called Nicholas and said he robbed his man. Nicholas himself was pleased with the reaction. Everton have always positioned themselves in the Premier League as a mid-table team. This positioning is somewhat sad. In other words, there is hope for Nu to play in the Europa League, but it is always difficult to play in the Champions League. He didn't come to this club just to do that.

Iranian owner Farhad Moshli became the majority shareholder of the team in February this year. The successful rise of Chelsea and Manchester City over the past decade, as well as the myth created by Leicester City this year, have made the Premier League a big piece of the pie, with both the ambitious rich and the manager wanting the biggest piece of the pie.

It is also the fundamental reason why the Spaniard left the QPR, because in his opinion Tony Fernandez has no ambitions, at least not for the time being.

In addition to the club-record £47 million (€60 million) spent to bring in Dembele, Nicholas has managed to retain several key members of the squad, including defender John Stones, midfielder Ross Barkley and striker Romelu Lukaku. Lukaku's stay was the most difficult, as a number of European giants were interested in him, and Paris Saint-Germain even offered a sky-high price of 50 million pounds, but in the end Nicolas persuaded the Belgian striker to stay with the Toffees.

At the same time, the Spaniards also carried out a considerable purge of the team, including the in-form winger Milaras, the veteran Pinard, Osman, and Hibbert.

The new season has not yet started, and many fans have already lamented on Twitter that Everton has a good squad this season. However, the odds offered by Bo/Cai Company to win the championship, they are only ranked eighth.

The top seven are: Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham, Liverpool, West Ham. Defending champions Leicester City did not finish in the top eight, which is a bit of a surprise.

****

Marcelo Bielsa has finally taken up his post on Loftus Road.

Lu Ling saw him for the first time in the conference room. Most European coaches, she has been in contact with each other to some extent, but this Argentine she really hasn't seen before. However, Bielsa is well-known in football, and she admires him for her superficial knowledge of him. When she talked to Nick about him earlier, Nick said, "Oh, Babe, you're going to learn a lot from him. After all, Pep learned a lot from him. ”

If so, she naturally couldn't ask for it.

Bielsa was sixty-one years old, a little chubby, a little bald, and a little strict. Behind the lenses, the eyes of the female teaching assistant are full of research. The assistant he brought with him was called Diego Reyes, who followed him for many years.

The Argentine was originally a pedantic head coach, claiming to have watched tens of thousands of football games, and brought 7,000 tapes with Argentina when he played in the World Cup. He watched every game of the previous season thirteen times at his last club, before taking over at Marseille, and before Marseille played Schalke 04 in Europe, he studied the footage of forty-two matches.

What an interesting person.

They shook hands without much of a word.

Then the meeting began.

We got along very well for the next week.

Lu Ling felt that Bielsa's attitude towards himself was getting better and better after he gradually got to know himself, but his assistant Diego Reyes didn't like him so much. This is obvious.

With less than a week to go before the start of the first round of the Premier League season, Lu Ling met Pater on the grass in Harrington on Sunday afternoon, after a month's absence.