Chapter Twenty-Three: Famous
If a small club like Sunderland had signed a young player out of nowhere, perhaps no one would have paid attention to that young player. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but Manchester United is different, as the absolute hegemon of the Premier League, the world's top giants, his every move will be observed by the outside world under a magnifying glass, even if it is an unknown young player like Li Lei.
Besides, even a qualified football journalist can probably find great news value in Li Lei, the young goalkeeper who has suddenly signed Manchester United. With a brief analysis, it becomes clear what this means.
Although the news that Butters has been completely abandoned by Alex Ferguson because of his poor performance last season is not new, the signing of a 19-year-old rookie goalkeeper and the near-humiliating relegation of the French goalkeeper to the reserve team is still a bombshell news that can scratch all English football journalists.
As France's main goalkeeper, he couldn't even keep the position of Manchester United's third goalkeeper, and he was replaced by a young man who was only 19 years old, although he didn't know why Ferguson did this, but reporters with a keen sense of smell have already smelled a news selling point that can be hyped for a long time.
However, in this way, they will have to make some changes to their reporting in the future compared to the original plan. News coverage of David Beckham will be reduced to the Manchester United section they write, and in its place will naturally be freshly crafted stories about the trio of Lee Lei, Butters and Alex Ferguson.
And that's exactly what Ferguson wanted to see. What happened next was just as he expected.
On the evening of the day Li Lei signed the contract, the entrance of the Carrington base was already crowded with reporters, photographers, and news reporting vehicles, and they were waiting for the main owners, Li Lei and Ferguson, to appear.
For a moment, the scene was almost like a noisy poultry market.
This is the time for the United players to go home after a day of training. Almost every Manchester United player who walked out of Carrington was chased and stopped by reporters, and their cars looked like they were caught in a mudslide.
If it weren't for the help of the security guards at the base, who themselves have a lot of experience in dealing with this kind of scene, it would have been difficult for them to escape from this frenetic, noisy scene.
As for these journalists, they are really happy. Knowing that because of the media ban issued by Alex Ferguson some time ago, these players will not answer their questions at all. They are still frantically surrounding and questioning them, and they will not let anyone go.
In the end, when Ferguson drove out of the Carrington base gate with Li Lei, the scene finally reached its climax. Boom, it's like a flash flood!
In an instant, as if they had lost, the reporters stretched out the microphones and recorders in their hands one by one and frantically squeezed towards Ferguson's car. It was completely surrounded in the middle, leaving no gaps, and even the security guards just now didn't know where they were being squeezed into this crazy crowd.
"Coach Ferguson, why did you make such a decision, do you really think that a 19-year-old rookie can be more reliable than a French goalkeeper?"
"What does Butters himself think of his decision to delegate the reserves?"
"Does this mean that your relationship with Butters has broken completely?"
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These were for Ferguson, and many for Li Lei. No way, who called him that colorful hair was too eye-catching. These reporters may have only seen a picture of him on Manchester United's official website, but it was enough to impress them with the maverick hair.
Even, to some extent, the reporter who asked Li Lei was more excited than Ferguson. The reason is very simple, because Li Lei took Ferguson's car, these reporters immediately keenly discovered that Li Lei's news value may be higher than they thought before.
What is the relationship between this Asian kid and Ferguson, who can rub into Ferguson's car? Is it because of this relationship that he can squeeze out the position of Butters' third goalkeeper? Now that he's in Ferguson's car, are they going to have dinner together? ......
These are just some of the journalists' thoughts and questions, but they are all relatively normal. But the ideas of other journalists are much crazier than that.
Did even this Asian send money to Ferguson? God, is this the signing of a monetary deal? Manchester United's black and gold scandal? ......
Well, these journalists have gone crazy and cranky. They don't want to think about it, if there is really any black gold scandal, will Ferguson still hang the news of Li Lei's signing on the official website so blatantly, they have simply lost their minds.
But no matter what, no matter what kind of reporter they are, their eyes are fixed on the car with an indifferent face, and they are already completely crazy. Their faces have long since become hideous and disgusting because of greed, eagerness, and longing.
To put it bluntly, at this moment, they are like mad dogs with a hala because they saw meat and bones, and they still have the elite demeanor of their usual hardcover dress.
Even Li Lei, who had been prepared in his heart, couldn't help frowning in disgust after really seeing the reporters look a little disgusting.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! ......”
Seeing that Li Lei and Ferguson were both sitting peacefully in the car, not showing any intention to answer their questions, they even began to pat the windows in unison.
Li Lei in the car even saw a blonde sexually attractive female reporter, who was not afraid to squeeze away from the male counterparts around him, and the snow-white little hand slapped the window next to Li Lei without hesitation, and at the same time shouted something loudly in his mouth. Even if the hair and makeup that are not usually taken care of enough have already become messy, I don't care at all.
Seeing this female reporter look so crazy and even a little vicious, Li Lei suddenly had a deeper understanding of Ferguson's constant reminders in the past few days -- a crazy reporter.
In this chaotic scene, their voices couldn't help but become louder, and they all wanted to overpower the noisy voices of their peers around them. In fact, they may not be unclear in their hearts, and with the style of themselves and others, I am afraid that even if Ferguson and Li Lei want to answer questions, they will not be able to hear their questions clearly.
But they are already crazy, and they have already thrown aside their rational judgment, and the whole person's emotions are in the excitement of fierce competition, for fear of falling behind their peers by half a step.
This situation lasted for a long time, until the support of the security guards in the base came out to help, and it was not resolved. Ferguson's car, which had been dragged by frenzied reporters for 20 minutes, finally drove away from the chaotic Carrington base gates.
In this way, Li Lei could still see from the rearview mirror that there were already reporters driving the car to catch up with him, looking like he wanted to follow him to the end.
"How does it feel?" At this moment, Ferguson, who was driving, suddenly asked. He didn't speak just now, just to let Li Lei personally experience the madness of reporters.
"It's an eye-opener." Li Lei said with some sighs. The scene just now really broke his previous perception of the journalist industry. He almost thought he was back in the slums and fighting.
Although Li Lei's tone was a little surprised, it could be seen from his flat look that he was not frightened. Seeing this, Ferguson nodded and retracted his gaze with confidence.
Although he was very confident in Li Lei's psychological quality and believed that he could cope with today's scene, he could only be completely relieved after he really confirmed it with his own eyes.
It can be said that it was only at this moment that Ferguson breathed a sigh of relief and completely put his mind at ease.
Then, not surprisingly, the frenzied reporters chased them all the way to the outside of Ferguson's house. Most of them even stayed outside Ferguson's house, ready for a long fight.
After confirming that Li Lei followed Ferguson back to Ferguson's home, they couldn't help but think about whether this Asian kid lived in Ferguson's house.
And this made them, who were already crazy, more fanatical than they could not suppress. At this time, even a fool can see that there is a big article in the relationship between Li Lei and Ferguson, let alone reporters who have always had a keen sense of smell.
In this era of the explosion of the Internet, apart from state secrets, there are no secrets that cannot be discovered by the vast number of journalists. What's more, what happened between Li Lei and Ferguson is no secret.
So, in just one night, Li Lei's details were completely figured out by the reporters. Even the fact that Ferguson was saved by him in the middle of the night in a small alley was exposed in the mouth of a Carrington base staff who was bribed by reporters. It was the three unlucky Manchester City fans who were found out by the reporters who didn't know where they got the news.
19-year-old Chinese, both parents died, and a younger sister. Living in a slum, it seems that there is also a background in the underworld. There was no background in receiving professional football training, and it was not until more than half a month ago that he began to receive professional football training in the Carrington training base because of saving Ferguson. ......
When such a film story was put in front of football reporters, it was difficult for everyone to be at a collective climax. If they used to use Ferguson and Butters as the protagonists, and Li Lei as a background supporting role, now the situation has changed drastically.
Early the next morning, Li Lei, a poor boy who stayed in the slums not long ago, completely detonated the entire English football world!
Public opinion is in an uproar!!
In a way, it's the same thing Ferguson said to Li Lei last night.
"Boy, you're going to be famous!!"