54.Chapter 54
[Tina, I'm on vacation. There's nothing to talk about between us and I'll stay in the team. x】
Lu Ling looked at this message for ten minutes. She typed, delete, type, delete over and over in the chat box. Eventually, she was about to call Pat, but the phone was turned off. He had left London, she thought.
Nick sits on the couch and checks his mail on his iPad. He's going to move to Liverpool the day after tomorrow, and then they'll probably only see each other once a week or two or more.
"What did Patrick tell you?" Nicholas asked casually without looking up.
Lu Ling's gaze was a little sloppy, "He went on vacation." He's a little ...... I don't know, maybe I'm thinking too much. ”
Nicholas raised his head and stared at her intently, as if trying to see something.
Lu Linghui was normal, walked over with a smile, and sat down beside him, "Nick, what's wrong?" ”
Nicholas put down his iPad and took the girl into his arms, "It's just looking at you." He said that on purpose on the loudspeaker, he just wanted to sue Sù Patrick that it was him. Of course, you don't need to let the girl know about this.
He kissed the girl on the forehead, "Babe really wants to take you to Liverpool." (This refers to the city)
Lu Ling lay in his arms for a long time without speaking, and after a while she asked, "Did Tony mention your successor?"
"I'm surprised you're only asking now. Nicholas rubbed his head around her neck, "I recommended you to him, but I don't think he would choose you." ”
Lu Ling suddenly broke free from his arms, "Why?"
"Babe, are you really that naïve?"
Never played professional football. Never led a professional league team on his own. Not even thirty years old. Female.
It's naïve indeed. Lu Ling smiled self-deprecatingly, her chance to stay in QPR as a coach is indeed the greatest, but that's because the chance of going to other teams is almost zero.
"It's not that there is no chance at all, it's just not now. Tony was happy when I said I wasn't going to take you, he seemed to appreciate you and your teaching assistant position wasn't going to change. Babe, be patient. ”
Nick said it lightly, and that's because he had already got a job that he was happy with. Lu Ling was silent, was her choice really right? she chose to stay with him instead of going to Everton with him. She didn't know, she just knew that if she had gone back to yesterday, she would still have chosen this way.
"No regrets. Because I'm not at all. Last night was special for me, the most fantastic night I have ever had. Nicholas looked at the girl and said softly.
"For me, too. Recalling last night, Lu Ling bit her lower lip, but the appearance of Pat in the morning made her feel very guilty and embarrassed......
Nicholas took the girl to his lap and kissed her in small pieces.
After a while, she asked in a daze, "Nick, ...... you and Sophia?"
"It's not that relationship anymore, it's just friends. "Girls are jealous.
"Anyone else?"
"There used to be. ”
"And now?" her voice sounded concerned.
"It's just you. ”
Half an hour later.
"Oh, I've got to go to Harrington. Nick, come back in the evening...... Nick, stop ......"
Lu Ling was late for a long time this morning, but no boss reprimanded her.
****
End of July, Caribbean, Barbados.
"Thirty-four-year-old Spaniard Nicolás Flores has had an impressive record since he landed in the Championship. After successfully leading the QPR to promotion, he did not stay at Loftus Road, but became the manager of Everton. Everton didn't have a good season this past season, and at one point they were in the top six in the Premier League. In the David Moyes era, the Scots made this team competitive in the Premier League. And after the defeat of a young Spaniard, what will another younger Spaniard bring to this team?"
This was the comment from Liverpool's local newspaper, The Echo, about Nicholas taking over Everton.
Ross Barkley looked at his phone and pouted. But then he saw another piece of news.
Exclusive: Flores will bring Amber to Goodison Park
Exclusive:FloressettobringAmbertoGoodisonPark
- The Daily Mirror
"Holy**, Pat, are you coming to our team?" Rose had begun to call Patrick's nickname as well.
Patrick was lying on his left-hand side, and the pretty boy was looking at the sky, not knowing what he was thinking. There was no expression on his face.
The kid disappeared in the dressing room on the night of the defeat to Portugal and was not seen on the team bus afterwards, and Rose asked Gary Neville to find out he had left early. However, when talking about the vacation location in Barbados before, he actually came, but he didn't bring a woman. Of course, this will not be a problem in resorts.
"Patrick, did you hear me? The Mirror says you're coming to our team. ”
Patrick glanced at Rose, "Overmydeadbody."
"I went diving. Patrick said as he stood up from his recliner.
"Everton is so unpopular with you!?" Rose was a little annoyed.
"It has nothing to do with Everton. ”
Rose was stunned, it turned out that Pat and Flores had such a bad relationship.
Patrick didn't feel like his body. The feeling of diving under the water should have been great, but he had a strong feeling of suffocation. A face recurs in my mind, and every muscle hurts when I think about it. He soon returned to the yacht.
The phone in the chair was vibrating, and Rose looked at it and helped him pick it up, "It's Christine." Actually, Rose was a little curious, since coming to Barbados, he hadn't seen Pat contact Christine. Last month in France, they had FaceTime almost every day.
Patrick took it. He looked at Tina smiling on the screen and didn't know what to do.
It's going to be cut off soon, he thought. He hurriedly connected.
"Tina. He called.
"Oh, thank God, Pat, for finally knowing you're alive. ”
"Tina, what's the matter?"
The Tina was silent for a long time before speaking, "When are you going back to London?"
Ian and Zixiang, along with most of the players, have already returned to training, and he will be a month late because he played in the European Championship and played in the knockout rounds.
"A week later, maybe. Patrick said, looking at the blue sea. There was no sound from Tina's side for a long time, he hesitated for a moment, and asked calmly, "Are you in London? or Liverpool?"
"Of course it's London, we just came back from the warm-up game in Malaysia yesterday, don't you know the team?"
"Oh, Zixiang told me, I forgot. He just wanted to know if she was with the Spaniard at the moment.
"Pat. ”
"What?"
"Sorry......"
"Why apologize?"
"I don't know...... Because I didn't go to Lille?"
He paused, "Tina, I have to hang up." ”
"Good. ”
"Tina. ”
"What?"
"I'm not mad at you. And also...... I miss you. ”
"Pat ......"
"Goodbye, Tina. ”
****
Pat quickly hung up the phone, Lu Ling felt that he was normal, but it was a little strange, she couldn't tell.
She put down her phone and continued to work.
QPR's hierarchy have recently been in talks with new managers, with names such as Nigel Pearson (former Leicester City boss) and Marcelo Bielsa (Argentina) among the media.
Nick was right, Tony didn't look for her.
At the moment, she is leading the team with first-team coach George, who deals more with the players and focuses more on the arrangement of training sessions and the arrangement of tactical details. George, although he is a little old-fashioned, he is not difficult to get along with, Lu Ling has cooperated with him a lot in the past half a month, and she feels more and more that Nick kept him for a good reason.
During the week of the warm-up tournament in Malaysia, she received a lot of attention, giving interviews to various local newspapers and a television station. The local media exaggerated that she would become the next QPR manager. She wished so.
During the pre-match training camp, the atmosphere in the team was a little gloomy, because the new manager had not yet arrived. Many players are a little nervous about next season. However, with a few young players such as Zixiang and Ian, there will still be laughter from time to time on the training ground. Moreover, the departure of James Barton has also allowed some of Lu Ling's acting head coaching affairs to not encounter too many obstacles.
Because the new manager has not been put in place, the main reinforcements have been delayed. However, Lu Ling and Tony applied to finalize the renewal of Timothy Fosu Mensa's loan. The young Dutch defender has played a key role in QPR's promotion, with new Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho not having the idea of using him for the time being, so he has agreed to move Mensah on loan to QPR.
As for the team's first new signing, Northern Ireland boy John O'Connor is yet to join the team. Northern Ireland were eliminated in the group stage and his holiday will be slightly shorter than Patrick's. Should arrive in Harrington in the next few days.
After the transfer window opened on July 1, clubs began to buy like crazy. Only QPR made the smallest move, with fans on social media bombarding the Twitter messages of the team's owner, Toney, urging him to act quickly.
Lu Ling glanced at the comments casually and laughed, if Tony was so easily impressed, then Nick would not have left.
Oh, Nick, she hadn't seen him in three weeks, and she kind of missed him.
Everton have only recently returned from a warm-up game in the United States. When he was in the United States, she was in Malaysia, and the jet lag was amazing, and almost every phone call or FaceTime would not exceed three minutes.
Nick is having a good time at Everton.
Soon after his arrival, he has already made three signings, strengthening the left-back, centre-back and winger positions, at a cost of £38 million. But it doesn't seem to be over yet.
The Iranian boss is really willing to pay for it. Here's what it looks like to aim for the top four.
According to media rumours, the Spaniard wants to sign a heavyweight attacker for Everton in order to achieve their goal of breaking into a top-four finish. Now there are two candidates: one is his former team at QPR, Patrick Amber, and the other is the talented Ousmane Dembele, who helped France win the European Championship.
Lu Ling shrugged his shoulders when he saw these two names. It's impossible for Pat to go, that's the media's conjecture. But Dembele knows Nick has always admired the young French winger. But Dembele's value has skyrocketed this summer, with Rennes asking for €35 million but now at least €60 million. After all, the French boys shocked the world at the European Championships, scoring four goals and providing four assists in all seven games.
At present, Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Bayern are all chasing him, and there are also competitions from Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea and other teams in the Premier League. How can the Toffees, who have no European competition to play next season, recruit Europe's hottest talent?
That's when Nick's call came in.
"I'm reading the news about you. Lu Ling said.
Nicholas smiled and asked, "Do you miss me so much?"
"No, just a little. "Maybe a little more.
"Oh, I don't believe it. Babe I'm in London now and I'll be back to Liverpool tomorrow morning, if you can get off work early, we should have ...... 12 hours. ”