Gary Lineker?

Zhang Yang was stunned for a moment before he realized who the other party was.

While working in the BBC Sport's foreign media department, he was also a guest on the radio group's 'Premier League Voices' before Lineker admired his ability to analyse matches and decided to drop him to work at BBC headquarters.

At that time, Lineker's statement was that "there will be opportunities to co-host the show together in the future", which is equivalent to inviting Zhang Yang in advance to host his football commentary column together.

Zhang Yang did not choose to go to the BBC headquarters, but agreed to Gligory's invitation to come to Millwall to work as a 'match instructor'.

Since then, the two have not crossed paths.

Zhang Yang didn't expect Lineker to take the initiative to call him, and he replied politely, "Thank you, it's just luck that I became the interim head coach." ”

"It's not a matter of luck!" Lineker's voice is still full of surprise, "I remember that when I was retiring, I also considered becoming a football coach, which is the way out for many professional footballers, but in the end I followed Jeff's advice and came to work at the BBC. Although I didn't become a football coach, I also know how difficult it is to coach, let alone a young person who has no professional football experience, even if I want to be a coach, I have to start from the bottom, and maybe I can't coach a professional team now. And I've heard that your manager did a good job and led the team to win the game yesterday, and Millwall are level on points with Wolves. I can't believe it! In the first half of the game, I always thought Millwall would be relegated! ”

Lineker said a lot in one breath, and Zhang Yang was a little big when he listened, so he simply replied, "Mr. Lineker, you called me, probably not to compliment me, right?" ”

"Of course...... No. ”

Lineker laughed and said seriously, "I want to invite you to be the guest of honor to explain the Champions League game next week, I don't know if you have time." ”

"The Champions League game should be in the evening, right?"

"It's night."

"I need to look at the time, I've been too busy lately and the schedule is a bit intense." Zhang Yang hesitated. ”

Lineker said directly, "I've seen it, it's the second day of the next round of the Championship, there is a week between the two league rounds, and Millwall should also be on holiday, right?" ”

"There should be a holiday."

"Well, what about your reply? You know, I have to get the guests on as soon as possible, because the show has to talk to you about pay and stuff, and I don't like that, but it's something that has to be done, and no one can work for free. ”

Hearing Lineker's straightforward statement, Zhang Yang hesitated slightly, but still agreed, "Okay, anyway, I'll rest that day, I will go to the BBC when I have time, and I will call when the time comes." ”

"By the way, do you have an agent?"

Lineker reminded, "If there's an agent, it doesn't take time, the agent can do everything." ”

Zhang Yang responded vaguely, "I'll think about it." ”

After putting down the phone, Zhang Yang continued to lie on the bed, thinking about what had just happened while continuing to sleep in the morning.

Lineker invited him to be a guest on the show?

If it had been before Christmas, he would have been very happy, perhaps influenced by Denise's enthusiasm for his work, and he also felt that being on TV shows, especially on big TV shows, was a great job improvement.

But now the situation doesn't make sense.

He was the head coach of Millwall, and there were media interviews and reports almost every day, and he just felt like a big media interview when he was a guest on the BBC's football channel.

Actually, it's not a big deal.

Lineker's invitation was a bit of a surprise, he had refused to work at the BBC headquarters before, and the two had little to do with each other, but he didn't expect the other party to invite him.

Brokers are also a problem.

Looking for Andy?

Maybe that's the only way, he doesn't want to sign a brokerage contract with someone who doesn't know, and then hand over the future to the other party.

Andy is a bit of an amateur, but it's enough to cope with small contracts.

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Because he was in his office, he was not in a hurry to get up and go to work, Zhang Yang rarely got out of bed, he washed and dressed up and went to the club cafeteria to find something to eat, and jogged twice on the first-team stadium after eating a little.

By the time everything was done, two hours had passed.

At this time, Zhang Yang remembered to call Andy, he hesitated slightly, and dialed directly, and the phone was connected after only one ring.

"Andy?"

"Zhang? I was about to call you, and you called, what a coincidence! ”

Zhang Yang was a little puzzled, "Is there something wrong?" ”

"It's Denise. Something happened to Denise! It's really worrying! I was working hard, but today's task is too heavy because Spohr has given me all the work of Denise! Andy yelled and began to nag about the heavy workload.

Zhang Yang was confused when he listened, "What's wrong with Denis?" ”

"She's gone!"

Zhang Yang was stunned for a while, "You're not mistaken, are you?" Denis? Will she quit? Are you sure you're talking about Denise? ”

"That's the way it is, she quit, otherwise how could I have worked so hard! Spole said it would be best to get Denise back these days, but it didn't help me to persuade her, and she seemed to have made up her mind not to do it. ”

Andy complained for a long time before explaining, "Her show is gone, it's that food show, no, it should be said, she was replaced, she was doing very well, but a second-tier female star replaced her job, so she decided not to do it in a fit of anger." Zhang, you should help persuade her, I think she has been hit hard. ”

Zhang Yang took a deep breath, thinking that Denise was replaced again, he suddenly felt a little funny, but as a friend, it was better to sympathize, "Okay, I know, otherwise, let's go see her this afternoon?" ”

"Okay, that's it, I'll hang up first, today's work is too heavy." Andy was about to hang up the phone, only to remember that Zhang Yang took the initiative to call him, and he immediately asked, "By the way, you called me, what's the matter?" ”

"Let's talk about it when we meet!"

"Okay."

After the two made up their minds, Zhang Yang had one more thing, that is, to comfort the 'lost' Denise.

For the rest of the morning, Zhang Yang patiently studied his next opponent, Brighton.

It's a team with a lot of ups and downs.

In the 80s, Brighton & Hove Albion were still an English top flight team, they used to occupy the top flight for a long time, but in the 90s, their finances became extremely unstable, and then they continued to perform poorly, and even in 1997 they were relegated to the fourth division, and even their home stadium was forced to sell, and for the next two seasons, Brighton had to play at Priestfield Stadium, 120 kilometres away, until three years later, after making huge concessions to the local population. Brighton have finally been granted a lease of the Westdam Stadium.

From this time on, Brighton re-emerged.

In the 2000-2001 season, Brighton won the fourth division and were promoted to the third division, before former Leicester City manager Peter Taylor took over, and Brighton won the third division the following year.

Brighton's fall and rise have been a bit jaw-dropping, but in the second tier, it's not easy to move up the ladder, and they've had to adapt for a few seasons, with a long way to go before they can get promoted.

Brighton are currently 17th in the league, a little worse than Cardiff City, but they can't relax if they want to finish relegation.

In fact, such an opponent is not very easy to deal with, and it is still a headache.

Each league has a rule: in the final stage of the league, the opponent of relegation is no better than the opponent who is promoted, because the team with the pressure of relegation will work very hard, they have no choice, for a professional team, relegation is equivalent to stepping into the abyss, will suffer extremely huge losses.

There are losses for the teams, and there are losses for the players.

Whenever this happens, unless it's a definite relegation, everyone will try to fight.

So Millwall had to deal with it with 100 per cent energy.

In the afternoon, Millwall regrouped for training.

Due to the game in Cardiff the day before, many players still looked tired, Zhang Yang did not arrange special tactical training, but asked Aldous and Frederick to take everyone to do some simple warm-up activities to assist the players to better adjust their physical condition.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, when all the players left, Zhang Yang went to the gate of the club, and he quickly waited for Andy.

Andy drove to pick him up.

The two then walked together on Frank Cruphyllis Boulevard and stopped two blocks in front of a commercial residential building.

Denise lives in a commercial residential building.

Downstairs is a five-story large shopping mall, there are hotels, restaurants and various shops nearby, the business atmosphere is very strong, Zhang Yang glanced at the surrounding environment, "It's not bad here, it's very convenient to do anything." ”

"But it's not habitable." Andy added.

"That's right."

The location of the commercial and residential building is very good, but the neighborhood is too noisy, and the place where the crowd gathers will also be dirty and messy, which is really not suitable for long-term living.

Dennis lives on the twenty-third floor.

Andy is also the first time to come, he only knows the specific address, the two looked for a long time to find the elevator in the corner next to a store, there are many people in front of the elevator, they have to go to each floor, the elevator stopped a dozen times, only to reach the twenty-third floor.

Zhang Yang paid attention to the time.

Fifteen minutes have passed since the two found the elevator.

"It's not easy." Zhang Yang sighed, "For the first time, I found out that the place where I live is so good, at least I don't have to wait for time to go home." ”

"yes."

Andy also sighed a little.

The two came to a door as they spoke, Andy knocked on the door number, the door was poorly insulated, there was a TV sound inside, mixed with the sound of busyness, and after a while, the door was opened.

A 'scruffy' version of Denise appeared in front of him: casually draped hair, pajamas and jeans were worn together, and shoes were a pair of home slippers......