After a night's rest in the hotel, Ferguson did not arrange any training assignments for the United players the following morning, but continued to rest in the hotel because of the 90-minute battle against Arsenal. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Aside from the prohibition of playing outside, it's basically the players' own breaks.

This made Li Lei a little embarrassed. Because, he is usually too cold, and he does not have a very good off-field relationship with any other Manchester United player except Keane.

He can't play with the elderly, and he doesn't have a good relationship with young players such as Cristiano Ronaldo, which directly leads to his lack of participation in the collective activities of Manchester United players when he is off the field.

If you're busy training, it's nothing. But at this point, the shortcomings are revealed. While the Manchester United players gathered in groups to either chat or play games, Li Lei stayed alone in his room, watching a Greek soap TV series that he didn't understand at all, and he was really bored.

In the end, he couldn't help it, and once again took out some videos of goalkeeper saves that he usually watched repeatedly. A morning that could have been a good relaxation turned into a study morning by him again.

After a boring morning, the United players finally gathered together in the afternoon and went to a local training ground. However, it's not a serious training, just jogging and ball training with a very small amount of training.

But for Li Lei, that was enough. Either way, it doesn't make him more uncomfortable than a morning with nothing to do.

In view of his slight waist injury, he did not do any saving training, but followed the goalkeeper coach of the coaching staff to start leg flexibility training and a certain amount of physical training.

Such training content not only made Li Lei himself not enjoyable at all, but also made Ronaldo, who has been eyeing Li Lei since he came to the training ground, very dissatisfied.

Originally, he wanted to take advantage of this time to compare with Li Lei again, completely take off the title of "water delivery worker", and enjoy the "cordial" service of the "sworn enemy" Li Lei in serving tea and water. But seeing that the team doctor has been paying attention to Li Lei throughout the whole process, he knows that this competition will definitely not take shape.

This kind of arrangement and plan for Li Lei, which was obviously only made after Ferguson personally gave instructions, Ronaldo would not dare to violate no matter how arrogant he was.

In fact, what he didn't know, compared to him, Li Lei was the one who regretted it even more. After spending such a boring morning, if you want to find something interesting to do, Li Lei is the most urgent person, not to mention that this matter can also allow Ronaldo to saddle him up again, so that he can enjoy the treatment that only the landlord and old wealth have.

But in the same way, since it was Ferguson's arrangement, he did not dare to disobey it.

In this way, after the Manchester United team doctor personally came forward to block Ronaldo's request to play again, Li Lei and Ronaldo both passed by with regret in their eyes and unhappy.

With such a mood, just after jogging two laps, Li Lei felt that he no longer had any strength to continue running, so he walked directly to the sidelines and sat down, drank water and rested.

But at this moment, a disdainful voice with obvious ill intentions suddenly sounded in Li Lei's ears: "I really don't know what is good about someone, it's just a rookie who is lucky and occasionally plays well, and he can get such treatment." ”

Although Li Lei was not very familiar with the owner of this voice, and there was no conversation between the two until now, he still immediately guessed who this person was. No way, after all, I just heard this name last night, and I was still very impressed.

When he turned his head and looked, it was the big bald head from the United States.

When Li Lei looked at him, Howard's gaze did not leave Li Lei, but cast a red striped disdain at him, with a "I'm here to provoke, what can you do with me" expression.

In fact, Howard didn't care about Li Lei, a "nobody", at all. Even when the news that Li Lei replaced Barthez as Manchester United's third goalkeeper caused a stir throughout England, he did not take Li Lei seriously.

There was no other reason, he didn't take Li Lei, a rookie who had just received less than a month of professional training at that time, in his eyes, even though Li Lei replaced French goalkeeper Barthez at that time.

At the beginning, when he first received the invitation from Manchester United and Ferguson, Ferguson had clearly told him that Manchester United bought him to make him the main goalkeeper, and then get rid of Barthez, who was in decline.

So in his heart, it doesn't make a difference whether a little third goalkeeper is the old French guy or Li Lei, a layman rookie, after all, he is the main goalkeeper of Manchester United appointed by Ferguson.

Then, even when Carroll was unexpectedly purged, and Li Lei successfully became Manchester United's second goalkeeper again, he didn't care too much about Li Lei in his heart.

The reason is also very simple, at the time, he did not see Carroll, the Northern Ireland goalkeeper, and Li Lei as his potential competitors. He is still very confident, but he has paid a little attention to Li Lei, who trusts Manchester United's second goalkeeper.

But this situation changed dramatically after Manchester United's narrow win away to Arsenal, and he suddenly discovered that Li Lei, a rookie who was not worth mentioning at all, could really overturn his position as Manchester United's main goalkeeper.

Injured at home, he watched the fierce match between Manchester United and Arsenal on TV at home, and every time Li Lei made a good save, his sense of unease increased by a point.

After witnessing Li Lei's amazing performance, he asked himself that even if he replaced Li Lei in front of Manchester United, it would be impossible for him to play better. Although he didn't want to admit such a conclusion, his heart was completely confused.

A rookie who didn't know what to call scared me, which made him uneasy and annoyed at the same time.

Especially when he saw the praise of Manchester United fans for Li Lei on the Internet after the game, and even began to shout the slogan of letting Li Lei, a red imp with good roots, be the main goalkeeper, Howard, who had been alone and very confident, could no longer sit still and could no longer be as calm as before.

Reminiscent of Ferguson's obvious preference for Li Lei, Howard immediately secretly pressured Manchester United's top management through his agent. and completely gave up the idea of resting for another game, and rushed to Greece that night, snatching Li Lei's starting opportunity in this Champions League group stage, and completely suppressing Li Lei's rise stone.

He believed that between himself and the rookie Li Lei, Ferguson would make a wise decision. And the result of the matter was indeed as he imagined, and his pressure got the desired effect.

But that's not enough.

He didn't want to admit it in his heart, but in fact, he already regarded Li Lei as a strong competitor, a big trouble, and a big enemy who wanted to steal his job. It is precisely because of this that he said such things to Li Lei at this time today, you must know that he and Li Lei had never said a word at all except for pretending to greet each other, and he had not even looked at Li Lei a few times in his testimony.

The purpose of this is that in addition to venting his resentment against Li Lei, Howard did not hold Li Lei, a stupid man who can only do his hands, and beat him up again like he did with Carol.

He didn't believe that after the news of Li Lei beating his teammates broke out again, Ferguson would be able to protect Li Lei again like last time, just as Ferguson was the big boss of Manchester United.

But the faint look of expectation in the depths of his eyes did not deceive Li Lei's eyes, which had been completely trained by the life in the slums, to be very shrewd.

For this kind of secret fighting, Li Lei has a lot of experience. Just a little thought, he had completely guessed what the idea of this American bald head was again.

His eyes were staring into Howard's eyes with deep meaning, but he didn't say a word.

This kind of look that seems to be completely seen through by Li Lei inside and out, Howard can handle it at first, but over time, the uneasiness and discomfort in his heart can no longer be hidden, and it is all visible in his flickering eyes and changing face.

"Huh."

Looking at Howard's evasive eyes and uneasy face, Li Lei hooked the corners of his mouth, shook his head, and laughed disdainfully. Such a gesture made Howard, who was looking at him, suddenly straighten his face, his eyes widened, and he looked annoyed and angry.

If in the past, after Howard showed this appearance, Li Lei would definitely not give up, and would definitely continue to tease again until Howard could no longer hold back his anger.

But when he thinks of Ferguson's conversation with him last night, it is not good for him to be like Carroll again, and to make the contradiction between him and Howard clear in front of the whole team, which can only be difficult for Ferguson.

Holding back the aggressive blood that was already boiling in his body, Li Lei stood up, ready to leave out of sight and out of mind, otherwise, if he continued to stay here with Howard, he really couldn't be sure that he could hold back his temper.

It's obviously not his style to just leave like this, so before leaving, after standing up, he suddenly leaned into Howard's ear, and said in a cold voice: "Coward!" I know you're already afraid of me, Yankee! Play well tomorrow, I promise you won't be sitting under your ass for long. I'll kick you out of Manchester United personally, I promise! Goodbye, American coward!! ”

After saying that, he didn't care how blue and ugly Howard's face became behind him, and left directly.

There was a calm and calm gaze in his eyes.

This represents his confidence and strength.

Soaring self-confidence!

The strength of the lion fighting the rabbit!!