Chapter 631 Who betrayed whom
Matthew Miller unzipped his backpack and smiled happily when he saw the football he grabbed from Hulay's signing ceremony.
He was so lucky. Unexpectedly, the first ball Hu Lai kicked fell right in front of him. He just opened his hand and easily caught the football.
There is Hu Lai’s signature on it!
He looked carefully and asked, are these Chinese characters?
It is really different from our English...
After reading it, he zipped up his backpack again, put it on his back, and opened the door to his house.
As soon as he entered the door, he saw his father, David Miller, standing at the door with his hands on his hips, staring at him, while his mother and sister stood beside him.
His brother leaned out half of his body at the corner of the stairs on the second floor, telling his brother with his mouth and expression: You are finished...
"Where have you been?" Dad asked in a deep voice.
Seeing this, Matthew simply admitted: "I went to Hu's joining ceremony."
The father didn't seem to expect that his youngest son would be so straightforward. He was stunned for a moment and became even more angry: "Are you not even willing to lie?!"
Matthew said while changing his shoes: "Dad, didn't you always teach us not to lie?"
"..." David Miller was speechless, and then became furious: "So many of us didn't go, don't you know why?"
"I know. But Dad, what does that have to do with me? I didn't agree with your actions from the beginning, and I never said I would join your actions." Matthew Miller raised his childish face and faced His father, who was taller than him, bravely stepped forward to meet him.
When my brother on the stairs behind his father saw this, he winked at him and made a cheering gesture.
Mother stood up worriedly and tried to persuade her: "Okay, little Matthew, please stop saying a few words and go back to your room quickly..."
But little Matthew didn't listen to his mother's words. It seemed that he was going to have a decisive battle with his father today - he stood there and continued to look at his father.
"Just because the club agreed to 'Dad's' resignation, you don't allow all of us to go to the team's games. You can express your attitude by not going, but you can't let us all go. You My son is still playing in the Leeds City youth team. What should I do if I quit the team? What if, I mean, one day the club selects me? I'm going to be a caddy. What do you want me to tell the club? That my dad won't allow me to have anything to do with you because you fired coach Lauren Galli? Dad, you know how much I long for Flan. He worked as a caddy in Germany, holding the hands of Lorenzo Esposito and Pete Williams as they stepped onto the turf of Flanders.”
The father was completely angered by his son's resistance. He waved his arms and roared loudly, as if he was going to punch his son: "It's because of people like you that the club turns a blind eye to our protests! They put service to the team behind The meritorious coach of 13 years has trampled the club’s tradition under his feet! What a fucking dream!”
His face turned red, as if a dynamite keg was about to explode at any moment.
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"Hey, Uncle Yong. Speaking of which, Leeds City Club really just fired the man who led the team to promotion and relegation. Isn't it a bit too extreme?"
Hu Lai and Yong Jun, who had just viewed one house and were sitting in the car to see another house, started chatting again.
I went to the club for the first time today, so he was more concerned about the club's affairs.
"About this matter..." Yong Jun obviously knew more than Hu Lai. He thought about it and said, "To say it's absolute, it's definitely a little bit extreme. But it's not absolute for no reason..."
Then he told Hu Lai what he had learned on the way to the next house.
To put it simply, in the first season of promotion to the Super League, after Lauren Galley led Leeds City to a thrilling avoidance of relegation, he hoped that the team could continue to increase investment so as to escape the fate of relegation.
As a team head coach, it is natural to have such thoughts, and it can even be said that every head coach should have it.
But the problem is that after successfully reaching the Super League, he has already asked the club to increase investment, but the result of the increased investment is not very good - the team did not survive relegation until the last round. There were two reports that this meritorious coach might be fired. This is obviously not groundless. It can be seen that the head coach's performance in leading the team to the Premier League was unsatisfactory.
Increased investment in the first season of the Premier League did not result in an improvement in strength, and the club also incurred huge debts.
Under such circumstances, if they continue to increase investment, let alone whether the club has so much money to burn, it will be difficult to pass UEFA's Financial Fair Play policy. Although the Premier League's TV broadcast fees and match day fees are high, Leeds City Club also invests a lot.
After being promoted to the Premier League, Leeds City purchased a lot of players. If they want to compete with other teams, they must offer more attractive conditions. They must pay more transfer fees and not less wages.
With this going back and forth, Leeds City Club is getting closer and closer to the debt deadline of 39 million pounds within three years stipulated in the Financial Fair Play Policy.
If the dead line is breached, Leeds City will face penalty points in the new season. This is a fatal blow to the relegation team - after all, the whole team has to fight for every point during relegation. If they are penalized for seven or eight points at the beginning of the season, Leeds City can stay where they are. Downgraded.
In order to alleviate the debt situation, the club had to start a fire sale mode. Some players who were bought last season and played for a year but performed poorly were sold at low prices. Compared with the value when they were originally bought, the value of these players has dropped a lot. Selling now is actually selling at a loss. But the club still has to sell them, just to save on salary expenses.
Simply selling underperforming players is not enough.
So before the start of the 2024-2025 season, the club sold Sean Barnett, the talented forward trained by the team, to North London Wanderers in exchange for 25 million pounds.
This transfer fee, which set a record for the transfer of a player in the history of Leeds City Club, greatly eased the club's financial crisis, but it also angered Lauren Galley, who brought out Sean Barnett.
He publicly criticized the club's management practices in the media and scolded director of football Nevin Ball bloody. He believed that this young man was destroying the foundation of Leeds City. He also angrily criticized Urge Hodge for no longer loving his club, and criticized the club's commercial director Harry Bradley, an American who didn't understand football at all. Being a commercial director is completely a matter of a layman commanding an expert...
In short, this "dad" who is easy on the players but always has a bad temper towards the management has scolded almost all the management of the Leeds City Club, making the Leeds City Club panicked...
Preparations for signings for the new season have also been greatly disrupted.
"...I think Lauren Galli may have offered to resign in order to blackmail the club. I thought that with his reputation in this team and this city, he already resigned, how could the club be forced by public opinion? He bowed to pressure," Yong Jun analyzed to Hu Lai.
"Unexpectedly, I met the stubborn club chairman Jug Hodge and agreed... Then the matter became irreversible. If we look at it from a neutral point of view, you have to say that the fans have worked hard Len Galli deserves to be grievances. But is Yog Hodge a heinous bastard? Galli coached the team for thirteen seasons, and Hodge was also a major contributor to the team's promotion to the Super League. The owner has dedicated ten years to this club, and ten years of continuous investment and management... Isn't it the owner's credit for the team's upgrade? Who supported Lauren Hodge's signing targets? Is it caused by the strong wind? Hodge is a local businessman, and his feelings for Leeds City must be no worse than anyone else. Is it unfair for the fans to attack him so madly? "
After listening to Yong Jun's words, Hu Lai sighed: "This is just like a palace fight. They just want to play football..."
Yong Jun smiled and said: "Actually, these things have nothing to do with you. Just like you said, you just need to perform well. And the good news is that at least the head coach is on your side. Another good news is that the club management Because this matter is also tied to Tony Clark, they can only go to the dark side and fully support a head coach who is optimistic about you, so I think your position in the team should still be guaranteed, as long as it is. You can convince your teammates by showing good performance in training.”
Come in good shape during training...
Hu Lai thought that he still had the 100,000 points and ten advanced training scrolls for shooting and stopping the ball that were awarded to him for completing the Chinese Super League Golden Boot task lying in his system.
Training scrolls are used at this time.
And he plans to keep the 100,000 points until he has a chance to play.
It is said that everything is difficult at the beginning. One hundred thousand points can be exchanged for three [Ling Xi Cards], so that there are three people in this strange team who can form a tacit understanding with him, which will be of great help to his start in Leeds City.
But there is something to be said for choosing who uses the [Lingxi Card]. It doesn't mean that you can just randomly choose three people in the lineup to match you.
For example, it is a bit wasteful to choose the goalkeeper and central defender to use the [Lingxi Card]. They are so far away from you that it is difficult to contact them, and it is really not of much help to you.
So Hu Lai plans to get familiar with his teammates in daily training and finally select the target.
As long as you have a chance to play, use [Lingxi Card] on the selected target. I believe it can play a key role in making the final decision.
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In fact, both the father and the son know each other's positions, and there have been frequent quarrels over this matter.
The whole family is used to the sound of quarrels that would reverberate through the house from time to time.
After all, it's still the same.
The father stood for Lauren Galli and the son stood for the club and the team.
No one must be wrong...
I'm afraid it's hard to tell right from wrong in this matter.
Even within the large group of Leeds City fans, there are still different groups of people with very different opinions. Some, like David Miller, choose to protest against the club by not attending the game.
Some people will still go to every home game to cheer for the team. They believe that if the fans' protests end up relegating the team, it will lose the original intention. After all, I believe Lauren Galli does not want the team he worked so hard to bring back to the British Championship.
The quarrel has not produced any results even now.
Having said all that needs to be said, Matthew Miller no longer talks nonsense, he plans to bypass his father.
At this moment, David Miller snorted: "Do you really expect that Chinese forward to bring anything? Don't you know Hodge's tactics? He just wants to take this opportunity to attract Chinese investment. And That Chinese striker is just a tool for him to swindle money out of the Chinese people’s pockets! ”
Matthew Miller turned to look at his father and shook his head with a smile: "But Dad, I have seen the highlights of his games in the Olympics, and I trust my vision and judgment. You know, your son is a member of the Leeds City youth team. The core! ”
After saying that, he bypassed his father and went straight upstairs.
David Miller stood there and said no more harsh words.
Because his son's last words left him unable to refute.
After all, his youngest son, Matthew Miller, was a young Leeds City prodigy who made his whole family proud just a year ago.
But now, this young genius has become a "traitor" who disobeyed his father.
This made David Miller feel extremely complicated. (End of chapter)