England goalkeeper Nell Martin, who previously played for Crystal Palace, Leeds United and Everton, sat at his dining table at home.

While opening a copy of today's newspaper, he picked up the hot coffee on the table with his right hand.

He blew on it, then took a sip with his mouth on the rim of the cup.

After putting down the cup, I turned to the next page of the newspaper and turned to the sports section of the Yorkshire Post.

At first glance, I saw the biggest headline.

"New Stars Shine in London"

The photo accompanying the report is split to the left and right by a lightning bolt symbol, with Arsenal's Theo Walcott on the left and Arneson and Charlotte Black hugging Leeds United after scoring.

The report devotes a long space to a number of young players from both teams, mainly the three players in the photo. And in the end, out of preference for local players, I finally wrote a paragraph about the expectations of young players such as Arneson, Blake, and Delph.

"Is that just a few young guys on your team?"

"Ah~" Martin was startled by the sudden words of his wife behind him.

"I read what the newspaper says like it's very powerful." Martin's wife continued, apparently having been behind Martin for a while.

"It's okay, the newspapers must have praised them all the time, really......"

"Actually, what?"

"It's actually really good, at least George has a good eye for player selection."

"Hehe~" Martin's wife covered her mouth and laughed.

Then he handed Martin the bag in his hand.

Martin took his wife's bag and got up and hugged his wife.

"Really not coming with me to Germany?" Martin asked his wife again, apparently he had already asked.

"No, I just moved back to Leeds, I still have a lot of things to buy, so I asked Mrs. Black to go to the supermarket today."

"Which Mrs. Black?"

"It's Charlotte Black's mom in your newspaper, I met at a nearby fried chicken restaurant." Mrs. Martin pointed to the picture in the newspaper.

"Okay, stay safe." With that, Martin kissed his wife on the cheek.

"You too, dear."

After that, Martin drove his car to the Thorpe Arch training ground.

Fifteen minutes later, Nair Martin pulled up to the training ground's parking lot.

As soon as he opened the car door, he saw a figure running past him.

"Harry, good morning~" Martin greeted people passing by him.

"Woo woo woo~" Leeds United's scout Harry Maddison's mouth was stuffed with a sandwich and he couldn't say anything at all, so he could only wave back and continue to run forward.

At this point, a car pulled up next to Martin's car, and a man got out.

And when Martin saw the car driving towards him, he stopped and waited where he was.

"Good morning, Nair."

"Good morning, Eddie."

The "Eddie" who greeted Martin was not the club's director of football, Eddie Gray, but Eddie Howe, who had just joined the team's coaching staff.

Eddie Howe, who previously played for Bournemouth, chose to retire at the start of the season due to injury.

Originally, he was going to be a reserve coach at his former club, but then Bournemouth manager Kevin Bond introduced his own protégé to Brian Kidd through his friends.

Kidd recommended Howe to George Lee in turn.

At this time, George Lee decided to expand his coaching staff and agreed to the request.

In fact, Leeds United already has a lot of members of the coaching staff, but because the two members of the current coaching staff, Peter Schmeichel and Alf Haaland, will be leaving after the end of this season, George Lee is ready to find a replacement for the two in advance.

As for why Schmeichel and Haaland left, it starts with the successful acquisition of two clubs in the Nordics by David Lee, sent by Michael.

After George Lee proposed the MCO operation model to Michael, Michael Lee immediately took action. From the start of the season, their cousin David Lee has been busy buying clubs in the Nordics, eventually buying both clubs with a large amount of pounds.

They are Stavanger in Norway and Limby in Denmark.

It is expected that by the end of the season, the entire process will be completed, and the general manager of the club will also be David Lee.

It's just that the general manager has not officially taken office, and he has taken the lead in digging up the corner of George Lee.

He wants Kasper Schmeichel and Erling Haaland to be the managers of each of the two clubs.

Schmeichel originally had an indifferent attitude towards this idea, but after seeing Haaland's strong will, he was also a little moved.

Therefore, when George Li didn't know what was going on, he found that his two assistants were about to run away.

In this case, Nair Martin and Eddie Howe became members of George Lee's new coaching staff.

The two of them went to the café at the training ground, took a cup of coffee, and then went to the office.

Turning on the computer, it didn't take long to receive a video invitation from the head coach, in which George Li assigned today's training tasks. Lee has already traveled to Germany three days ahead of schedule to prepare for the third round of the Champions League, along with Chris Kasper.

George Lee and Casper were on their way to watch a league game against Bayern Munich in their next Champions League game, looking for a way to break the opposition.

The meeting was over, and the coffee was finished.

Martin got up and went to train his players, and today he was tasked with training with Kasper Schmeichel to train the goalkeeper and the backfield players on the ball.

After returning to Leeds United, Martin gradually discovered that his former team-mate George Lee was a young manager with a lot of ideas.

For example, he pays more attention to the goalkeeper's passing and receiving training.

In his time, goalkeepers were supposed to be honest in the small box, even on the goal line. Unless the opponent will attack when he is alone, he will stay in the penalty area.

But now, Martin finds himself on the verge of losing track of George Lee.

A group of people were playing ball grabbing drills, but it was two players who grabbed the pass from four players, and one of the four players was a goalkeeper. After a certain number of passes, the goalkeeper must pass the ball to the front court with a big foot.

Anyone with a discerning eye can tell at first glance that this is training the goalkeeper's ability to attack, but why do you have to make so many passes before the long ball?

Martin looked to the other side with confusion.

There, Eddie Howe was following Haaland into a high-pressing run against the attacking players, and it was clear that Howe was getting into the role quickly, starting to point out some of the players' running mistakes, and even having a tactical exchange with the team's captain, Smith, who nodded his head repeatedly.

Martin saw a soccer ball next to him and tried to kick it out of the target area in front of him.

However, the ball flew off the touchline.

^^^

In the afternoon, Martin flew with the whole Leeds United team to Munich, Germany, to prepare for the next round of Champions League matches.