A three-goal win at home to Tottenham and a home and away win over Fulham narrowed the gap between second place Chelsea and Chelsea in the Premier League table by one point while qualifying for the semi-finals of this season's FA Cup. In the midst of a difficult three-week-and-three fixture schedule, United delivered an impeccable answer for all.

In this regard, public opinion from the outside world naturally praised one after another, singing praises for Manchester United and Ferguson. What great Manchester United got back on track, what Ferguson's wise guidance revived the Red Devils, and so on, "sweet words" smashed at Ferguson and Manchester United as if they didn't want money.

Among them, since replacing Howard's starting goalkeeper position, Li Lei, who has performed almost perfectly, can be called the best performance in Manchester United's team in recent times, and naturally has received a lot of praise.

Although his goalkeeping style is still firmly in the mainstream of professional football circles, in the world of professional football, only the actual performance on the pitch is the only criterion for judging players. In addition, the professional analysis of any experts is not in the eyes of fans and the media.

Unless Li Lei really made a major mistake in the actual game because of the goalkeeper play, otherwise, no matter how bizarre, deviant, and bold his goalkeeper style is, the outside world will not pay attention to the voices of these experts, and will only be amazed by Li Lei's whimsical ideas and unbridled imagination in his original doorman play.

Although after Li Lei really made a major mistake on the pitch because of the goalkeeper's playing style, these adjectives of praise will definitely change 180 degrees all of a sudden, turning into cranky, unprofessional, crazy people who show off their skills and other critical words. But at the very least, none of that will happen until that moment comes.

Now is when Li Lei is popular, in addition to the overwhelming praise of mainstream public opinion, in some local tabloids in Manchester and a small number of Manchester United fan groups, even the voice of Li Lei is the absolute main force in front of Manchester United in the next 10 years.

Such a situation made Li Lei's Portuguese agent Mendes happy.

At that time, he did not expect that this young Asian who had only received a few months of professional football training would sit in the main goalkeeper position of the world's top giants like Manchester United this season. Its rise is so fast and the momentum is so fierce that it far exceeds his original more optimistic Ronaldo, and it is directly to the extent that he is dumbfounded.

The 19-year-old main goalkeeper of the giants, I have dug up a new Buffon?! Or New Casillas?!

Although the value of goalkeepers in world football is generally lower than other positions, the real world's top goalkeepers are also a scarce resource in football, as long as the transfer is done properly, the value is a lot of room to explore, Buffon's sky-high price of $46 million in 01 is the best proof.

Therefore, Mendes is equivalent to picking up a big gold ingot on the side of the road for nothing, how can this make him unhappy.

It is precisely because of this that Mendes's attention to Li Lei has been significantly improved recently. Although he couldn't find time to meet and talk to Li Lei in person due to his busy work, the frequency of calls was getting higher and higher, and the intensity was even more terrifying than when he pursued his first girlfriend.

In the end, if it weren't for Li Lei's unbearable bothering and "threatening" Mendes that if he did this again, he would have to transfer to someone else, I'm afraid Mendes would have to call him every night.

Of course, this so-called "threat" is just a joke by Li Lei.

Mendes also knows this. But what he didn't know was that Li Lei's sudden mention of changing agents on the phone this time was not a casual mention, but there was indeed another reason - after he officially became the main goalkeeper of Manchester United, other agents have been harassing him, trying to persuade him to terminate his agent contract with Mendes and switch to the court.

And this agent is none other than Ferguson's second son, Jason Ferguson.

Ferguson and Cathy had only three sons and no daughters. Among them, the eldest son, Mark, is in New York, USA, and is engaged in the financial industry. Except for a few photos in Ferguson's home, Li Lei has not seen it so far.

The youngest son, Darren Li Lei, has met a few times, but as the only one of Ferguson's three sons to inherit his father's business and become the head coach of football, Darren naturally does not have much time and opportunity to go home throughout the year, and is more in contact with Ferguson and Cathy by phone. In this way, Li Lei naturally didn't know him well.

Compared with Mark and Darren, Ferguson's second son Jason is the one Li Lei has met the most and is the most familiar among the three. A week after he and Li Xin'er moved into Ferguson's house, he met Jason Ferguson, who was running a football player agency based on Ferguson's connections.

However, familiarity does not mean intimacy.

In fact, from the first meeting between Jason and him and Li Xin'er, the second son of Ferguson has behaved very coldly. Except for casually thanking him for his help to Ferguson, he never said a word to Li Lei and Li Xin'er.

Li Lei could accept this, even if Jason's attitude was mixed with a hint of annoying arrogance and contempt, he didn't find it strange.

First, he and his sister Li Xin'er are the strangers and intruders in this family, so it is reasonable to get this treatment from Jason.

Second, since he and Li Xin'er began to live in the slums on their own, Li Lei has long been unaware of how much he has been looked down upon and despised by others. The background in the slum will make others subconsciously look down on their brothers and sisters, this reality Li Lei has long accepted and is not surprised.

What's more, he also knew very well that even if Ferguson and Cathy were as kind to him and Li Xin'er as they were relatives, he couldn't ask Ferguson and Cathy's relatives and children to do the same to them. Otherwise, the world will be too ideal and beautiful, and he will be too naïve and simple.

It's just that if that's the case, Li Lei may not be able to retreat three points from Jason and be reluctant to make more contact with him. The crux of the matter is that Jason Ferguson's sudden affection after he made a name for himself in English football made Li Lei, who had been living cautiously and cautiously in the slums since he was a child, immediately wary of him.

And not long after Jason's attitude towards him and Li Xin'er changed drastically, he pretended to talk to Li Lei about the agent's affairs from time to time, which proved that Li Lei's intuition was correct.

Although he was only 19 years old, since he could pull his sister to grow up in the slums, Li Lei naturally would not be as stupid and sweet as most people his age, and immediately understood Jason's intentions.

It stands to reason that no matter how much Mendes' ability and character satisfy Li Lei, with the close relationship between him and Ferguson, he should be more biased towards Jason.

But from Jason, Li Lei keenly smelled a little familiar, a little smell he had smelled in the people he had dealt with countless times in the slums—greed.

This time, after he officially became Manchester United's starting main goalkeeper and was unanimously recognized by the outside world, Jason's popularity suddenly rose to another level of false enthusiasm, which confirmed his judgment.

Li Lei, who came out of the slums, knew that dealing with and cooperating with this kind of person would definitely suffer a loss, and he would never know when the other party would be, because of the interests that would bite him.

So, of course, he wouldn't agree to Jason's advice to quit Mendez and switch to his agency.

It's just that the decision is easy to do, but it's hard to say no. After all, no matter what, Li Lei had to take into account Ferguson's existence, and he didn't want to cause a rift in the relationship between him and Ferguson because of this incident.

It is precisely because of this that he is in such a dilemma as he is now.

Compared with others who are troubled by the pursuit of media paparazzi and the infringement of their personal private life and space, Li Lei has tasted the trouble brought by "fame" for the first time.

How to deal with Jason's problem is really difficult for him and makes him irritable.

Whenever his phone rang and Jason's phone number was displayed on the screen, he would have a headache, grit his teeth, and curse in his heart: Damn!

Damn it!!

Damn it!!!