After the game, Puel picked up the car from the training base and drove to his home in the suburbs. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Unlike many coaches, Puel is accustomed to buying his own home wherever he goes, rather than living in the accommodation arranged by the club. Puel believes that this will help him to identify with the team and concentrate on coaching.

Driving the car with the evening breeze, Puel was in a good mood.

Puel came to Lille in '02 and now it's been 4 years now, and he is already familiar with life here and has fallen in love with everything here.

The relaxed coaching environment allowed him to slowly shape his team, and the team was built step by step according to his own plan.

After a few years of hibernation, Lille has gone from being a relegation underdog when he came to a favourite to being the favourite.

Now it seems that it is also harvest season.

Puel, who is in a good mood, still has the leisure to look out the window at the familiar scenery, a road that has been made countless times in the past four years, but never tired of it, because the picturesque scenery along the way, especially in the dead of night, has a unique charm.

It's just that the scenery is good, but it's not far from home, and Puel soon got to the outskirts of the residence.

Parking his vintage roadster in the garage, Puel gently opened the door and entered.

It was pitch black in the room, and Puel was not surprised, for it was already twelve o'clock, and the family was already asleep.

Puel's wife and children also came to Lille with him. He is 45 years old and has a 10-year-old daughter, which is his spiritual sustenance in addition to football, and of course, his wife, Chrissy Anel.

Pouel changed his shoes, hung up his briefcase, and tiptoed upstairs to his daughter's room.

Sure enough, her daughter was already asleep with a stuffed animal, and Puel took advantage of the moonlight from the window to re-cover her with the quilt that had been kicked off, kissed her lightly on the forehead, and then carefully exited the room and closed the door.

Puel didn't go to the master bedroom because he knew that his wife's sleep was very light, and she would wake up as soon as he entered the room, and his wife would have to wake up early tomorrow and need enough sleep.

As usual, Puel went to the guest room.

The room was very clean, because Puel often slept here, so the daily necessities were complete, and his wife knew that Poul was back late, and there was a glass of cold boiled water and a box of anti-anxiety medicine on the table.

As soon as Puel finished washing up in the bathroom of the guest room, he heard the sound of the phone vibrating, walked to the bed, picked up the phone, and looked at the caller ID on the screen: Miselle Seydoux.

Chairman? Puel was a little confused, he had a good personal relationship with the president of Lille, but it was still a little strange to receive a call from the chairman at this time.

Puel walked to the window with his phone and answered the call.

"Hi Claude, good news for you, I've got a star for you!"

"Micel, it's twelve o'clock at night, are you sure you're not talking in your sleep?"

"Hey, am I that unreliable? I'm telling the truth. And that one is only 29 years old, the year of footballers. ”

It doesn't sound like a joke on the phone, but Puel still doesn't believe that a club like Lille can't attract a 29-year-old star to play unless there is no ball to play, no ball to play? Thinking of this, Puel had a rough guess in his heart.

"You're not talking about Kluivert, are you?"

"Hehe, that's right, I didn't lie to you, he is indeed 29 years old, and he is still a star, an absolute superstar on the front line."

"But Kluivert is a problem, and you don't know his current level of competition, and he is not far from retiring."

"You asked me to find a veteran in the front line, and after looking around in the transfer market, he is suitable. If it weren't for the fact that he was a nuisance, we wouldn't have been able to find it. And with his ability, the main force can't play, and it's enough to be a substitute. ”

Puel knows that the chairman has a difficulty, the deadline is approaching, the right ones in the transfer market have been almost selected, and the temporary search for a target will definitely be offered a high price by the opposing club, but Kluivert?

Kluivert is one of the best goalscorers in Dutch history, and in addition to his nickname as a former wind-chaser, he also has the nickname of a murderer and rapist, not to mention a whole host of off-field rights and wrongs. And Kluivert's form has declined so badly, he is only 29 years old, he has no ball to play, and he has been swept away by the Dutch club this summer and no one cares.

'You hear me, he's played in the Champions League, he's won the Champions League, he's won the Eredivisie and La Liga, he's the Dutch national team goal record-holder, we're too young and we need experience the most. It is the experience that Kluivert can bring to the table, and compared to that, the off-field troubles are nothing. ”

Puel knew that the chairman was right, and Kluivert's tournament experience was indeed what Lille needed the most, so he walked back and forth a few steps, thought for a while, and then said slowly, "That's him, but you have to promise me a request, otherwise I won't welcome him to Lille." ”

"You just say it, the team is up to you after all."

"If his off-the-field wrongs have an impact on the team, I won't show mercy."

"Naturally, you have the final say, the team's results are the first, and we are not a nursing home."

In addition to Kluivert's experience in the tournament, Puel also has other considerations, Reeves's four young players went to nightclubs to remind him, there are too many young people in the team, and they need to set an example, the positive is not convincing, the negative is definitely impressive, Kluivert is the best negative example.

Compared with Reeves's performance in the last game of last season, Kluivert is the real goal to become famous, at the age of 18, he beat AC Milan in the Champions League final, and his talent is not inferior to the alien Ronaldo, although because of off-field factors, the peak period is very short, and at the age of 20, he has entered the late stage of his career, and he has no ball to play at the age of 29, which is absolutely shocking.

Faced with negative cases every day, he doesn't believe that the little guys are not touched.

Puel wants the players to understand that a talented player like Kluivert has entered the end of his career early because of clubbing and other off-field reasons, and who has no right to squander his talent.

Plus, he hopes Reeves can learn something from Kluivert.

At his peak, Kluivert was the perfect striker model in the hearts of all coaches, with textbook skills, body, and awareness, except for poor shooting stability, other confrontations, strategies, organization, shooting, and running were omnipotent, almost all the elements needed for a striker, especially the ability to do the ball, which can compete for the best in history.

Although Kluivert's downhill was very fast, Puel felt his skill and awareness were retained.

Puel wants Reaves to learn from his playmaking and strategy, and now that Reaves is outside the team's system, he is already starting to integrate, but Puel wants to speed up the process.

It's harvest season and Puel doesn't want to miss it.