Chapter 9: Internal Strife and Foreign Aid

The Xinhua Sports News is much simpler, as a mainstream newspaper of Chinese descent, they are still very interested in the news that Willingham will select football players from among the Chinese teenagers. Especially after knowing that the news would be published in the London Evening Standard tomorrow, the editor-in-chief, Jonathan Chen (a second-generation immigrant from Chaozhou), immediately arranged an exclusive interview with Liu, and Lao Liu also asked Jonathan Chen to arrange a meeting between him and his partner, Ma Dexing, the London correspondent of Sports Weekly, as soon as possible.

If "Sports Weekly" follows up on Liu Luxi's Willingsim team like it follows up on the Yanjing Olympic team in the United States, then football fans all over China will basically know the information here for the first time, and Lao Liu's next plan will have a lot of room for development.

Since Ma Dexing is now returning to China to participate in the national audition of "Sports Weekly" and Hunan Satellite TV's "Kick Out My Dream", and is not in London for the time being, Jonathan Chen promised to try to get "Sports Weekly" to publish his interview with Lao Liu as soon as possible, and then the two sides agreed that the launching ceremony of the Chinese selection will be hosted by "Xinhua Sports News" in two weeks.

After everything was finalized, the two shook hands with each other and said goodbye, and before going out, Lao Liu looked at Jonathan Chen with a smile, "Man, in the future, I think we can cooperate more deeply." ”

"I hope so" Jonathan Chen nodded in agreement, but he didn't expect that Lao Liu's so-called in-depth cooperation would add endless troubles to him in the future.

There have been too many things in the past few days, so that Lao Liu has no time to go to the training ground to watch the team's training and prepare for the next second division league, and at the same time, Mike wanted to report to him several times but his idea was rejected, he just looked behind the window and saw that the morale of the players was relatively high, so he went with them with confidence.

But the afternoon before the team's next away game, before the end of training, there was a slight upside: Mattis and Jean got into a fight over an unintentional collision in the last training session, and although no one was injured, stern assistant coach Mike made the decision on the spot to leave them on the Stoke Harbor squad. This time, all the team members, including the two of them, were blinded. Without these two people, Willingsmu's strength will be reduced by half, due to the lax management of the previous team, such skirmishes are often not resolved, and even when Babu leads the team, he needs to go to the players on both sides of the conflict to say good things. Now that Mike dared to treat them like this, it was when they had just seen a glimmer of hope for the team, and Matisse and Jean didn't care about the "fierce" battle between each other just now, so they abandoned their previous suspicions and came to Liu Lu to complain together.

After quietly listening to the statements of the two, Liu Luyi made two decisions: first, let the two go to the next room to write a reflection on the incident; Second, ask Mike to come over and have a one-on-one chat.

When he walked out of the room, Jean said to Matisse, "It's really a new official, and I still have to write my opinion, but this time I guess that black-faced policeman has no good fruit to eat." Matisse frowned and remained silent.

Before Mike could speak, Liu Lu asked him, "Without these two people, do you dare to lead the team to fight Stoke Harbor alone?" Can you take care of any problems alone? Mike was still expressionless as usual, and replied simply, "If you don't remove me now, my answer is, yes." After speaking, he closed his mouth tightly, with an attitude of letting it be disposed of.

Liu Luzhen circled Mike twice, patted him on the shoulder, sighed and said, "You know, Stoke Harbor is in the middle of the league, but they are characterized by winning or losing and only one draw, and they are known for their strong attack and all-defensive style, if the two of them can't play, we may fall into a thousand miles and come back with a heavy defeat." ”

Mike looked up at Lao Liu, and lowered his eyes after a while, "I understand you, but if you let them play, I will resign immediately, I reserve my opinion, the team must have rules." ”

"Okay, you sit down and wait a while, and I'll announce my final decision." Lao Liu motioned to the two team members to hurry over after finishing writing. After a while, two simple texts were handed over to Lao Liu. Matisse was slightly remorseful, but Jean just wrote about Mike's no.

After reading it, Lao Liu called Murphy and the other three coaches in, and loudly announced his final decision: Matisse is temporarily suspended for one game, Jean is temporarily suspended for two games, and asks the two to apologize to Mike and the whole team.

This decision stunned everyone present, and just when everyone didn't have a sense of it, Liu Luyi ordered Mirren to immediately notify everyone on the team of this decision and write it on the team's journal.

"Why, we came to you with you as the boss, why do you have to increase it, it's not fair, I can't figure it out." Jean shouted. Matisse had a gloomy face, and he was also quite dissatisfied.

"I want to know why, tell you, everyone in the room listens to me, Lao Tzu only has rules in his eyes, there are not so many fucking bullshit consequences, if you think I'm unfair, you can leave at any time, as long as you still want to mix in Willingsmu, you have to abide by the team's system, and you have to respect your obligations as a professional player," Liu Luan's voice roared louder than Jean, "Coach Mike handled it right, you come to me again, it means that you don't recognize your mistakes, Jean, you haven't repented at all, It means that you don't deserve to be a professional player anymore. My punishment is light, leaving you a way back, where to go, think for yourself, Willingham leaving no one is the end of the world. ”

Turning to Mike, he just said, "Thank you, please for the next game." Then he gestured to end the meeting, everyone was overwhelmed by his momentum, and even Matisse and Jean left the office silently, Mike walked at the end, turned around and looked at Lao Liu, there seemed to be crystal tears in his eyes, nodded heavily, and gently closed the office door from the outside.

Mother, these players really can't be worry-free, but such a fuss also helped themselves, Lao Liu thought, anyway, this ball is lost, can pick up the grass to beat the rabbit, piggyback hands to strengthen the team rules, good, but the scouting thing really has to be grasped, you can't get a few capable people to come over, here can never form a catfish effect, give enough pressure to this group of stupid b, in addition to that Maoli, it would be better to have someone like that, while thinking about this, Liu Lu was scratching something on his notebook.

Early the next morning, under the leadership of Mike, the team went to Stoke City, where Stoke Port is located, to prepare for the away game, Matisse and Jean naturally stayed at the club, Stoke City is about 300 kilometers from London, the game will be played at 8 o'clock in the evening of the same day, Liu Luyi was supposed to go with the team, but before leaving, he received a phone call, so he had to postpone his trip.

The caller turned out to be Uncle Wang, vice chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in London.

"Xiao Liu, I want to ask you to talk again, what, I heard that I have to go to you, is the young man angry, is it three o'clock in the afternoon, still here with your uncle, how about it, let's talk alone." The tone obviously changed a lot, this change made Liu Luzhen also unexpected, I wanted to entangle with his subordinates for a few more rounds, but I didn't expect to cut to the topic so quickly, I don't know if it's good or bad, but such an opportunity must go, so he told Mike to go and arrive before the start of the game, calculate the time, if he can start from Chinatown at five o'clock, he can still sit in the VIP seat at the home stadium of Stoke Port before the whistle.

Also five minutes before the appointment time, at 2:55, Liu Luyi came to the front desk of the China Trade Building, the same beautiful and moving Hong Kong girl, brought him into the reception room on the eighteenth floor, and unlike last time, this time Uncle Wang was waiting for him in the reception room, his subordinates were not there, but it was not alone, there was a young man in casual clothes sitting next to him.

Seeing Liu Luyi come in, Uncle Wang waved his hand and gave up his seat, and said straight to the point, "I agree to cooperate with you, I want to talk to you about the details." ”

"Oh, that's right, but I want to know why you changed your mind first, I didn't expect you to decide to venture into this field that is very new to you so quickly, I don't think it's the right attitude for a successful businessman, can you give me a reason to understand?" has been studying with Murphy in the official face, and Lao Liu is somewhat unable to enter.

"Okay, good," Uncle Wang suddenly laughed, "The future is terrifying, although I really don't understand football, but I see the shadow of me when I was young in you, I have read the plans and plans you left me, to be honest, I think it's very good, and this," said and took out a newspaper from the table, Lao Liu looked familiar, took it and took a look, it turned out to be Donald's interview with "Wellingham insiders explain the reasons for the victory in detail, and the Walsall head coach disagrees with the crooked moves"," Do you know what a book I've read all my life? Spring and Autumn and Sun Tzu's Art of War, I have only seen the surface of my life, but in this report, I saw the use of the Art of War in football, which shows that you have your own strength, and the last time you were able to talk to me like that, it shows that you have the guts, such a courageous and knowledgeable person, why should I miss it, you can understand it. ”

Hey, what Lao Jiang said was different from others, and he actually commented on things he didn't know, Sun Tzu's Art of War, I don't know if those in the villain's book count, but he was able to deal with this old Jiang so easily, Liu Luyi was still very happy.

"It's still him," Uncle Wang turned around and pointed to the young man beside him, "The drastic change in my attitude these two times is largely due to him. He took a sip from his teacup and moistened his throat, then said, "He's my grandson, a huge football fan. ”

"Hello, Mr. Liu, I'm Wang Dona, my English name is Diego Wang, it's a pleasure to meet you." The young man got up and shook hands with Lao Liu. Wang Dona, Diego Wang, Damn, from the name is professional enough, Lao Liu looked at his burly and athletic body, and asked suspiciously, "Do you play football?" I mean, are you professionally trained? ”

Dona Wang's eyes darkened visibly, and Uncle Wang took over next to him, "He has always wanted to get the best football training from elementary school, I sent him to the Chelsea junior team, but in a team game, a malicious foul, he was kicked by an Englishman and broke his ankle, had to stay away from football, after painful treatment, now he can only jog. Hearing this, Lao Liu looked at him twice, and sure enough, the muscles of the upper body were obviously much more developed than the lower limbs.

"But he still can't leave football, he goes to watch any game, and when he comes back, he tells us about the situation of the players, and I can see that he is still in pain, so I hate football and football-related things very much, you come to me, my first reaction is very repulsive, but after I told him the whole thing, he persuaded me from another aspect, he said that if there is a club that provides more opportunities for the Chinese, this vulnerable group in English football, How many Chinese children's football dreams can be realized, this newspaper is what he found me, so I decided to cooperate with you. ”

Wang Dona raised his eyes and looked at Lao Liu firmly, "I want to help those Chinese children who want to play football, you can realize this wish of mine, so does your club mind having an extra staff member who doesn't need a salary?" ”

"No, my club doesn't want a staff member who doesn't need a salary," Liu Luzhen seemed to be a little moved, "We will give you the salary you deserve, but it will be very small now." ”

Uncle Wang and Dona Wang's eyes were full of smiles, and for a while, the reception room was full of warmth.

"But I want to warn you, I'm a businessman, I want me to invest, I need a good plan with returns, now can we talk about your future plans."

"Okay, that's what I mean."

Time passed quickly, as soon as he raised his eyes, the clock had pointed to five thirty o'clock in the afternoon, Liu Luyi suddenly remembered that in Stoke City, three hundred kilometers away, there was a team with a seriously irregular lineup that was about to start the game, he screamed, and the Wang family was startled, I heard that this was the case, Wang Dona pulled Lao Liu, "One of my main sports now is racing, I will send you over, by the way, take a look at your team, let's go." ”

Three minutes into the race, when Dona Wang parked his twelve-cylinder Porsche in the parking lot outside the Stoke Harbor stadium, the stadium erupted in cheers as the two men reached the first step of the VIP seat.

Ah, did Willingham just concede the goal?

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