Chapter 634: I am professional about relegation
"How do you feel about training the next day, Hu Lai?"
In the evening, Yong Jun applied oil and massage to Hu Lai as usual while chatting with him about what he had seen in the team today.
"It's good. I got along well with my teammates today..." Hu Lai said excitedly. He is very happy to be able to have a good relationship with his teammates. After all, people like him can't go anywhere without the help of friends, otherwise they won't be able to have fun at all.
He has never been the kind of person who thinks too highly of himself and thinks that everyone will look down upon him if he is awesome. Otherwise, how could he be so popular in Flash Star?
At first, he seemed a little unfamiliar in Leeds City because he had just arrived and didn't understand anything. In addition, after listening to Uncle Yong's analysis of him before coming, he felt a little alienated.
It's just that young people's emotions come and go quickly.
No matter what the "office politics" is, those who should integrate into the team still need to integrate.
Football is not table tennis, it is a team sport, and it cannot be done by one person.
Yong Jun was a little surprised when he heard Hu Lai say this. Although he had some understanding of Hu Lai's funny personality, it was beyond his expectation that he could integrate into the team so quickly - including meeting everyone in the restaurant. Is this only the third day?
So he asked: "How do you get along with your teammates?"
Hu Lai: "I sang to them... Oops!"
He cried out in pain because he felt that Uncle Yong's hand was obviously harder and it hurt him.
"Uncle Yong, what's wrong with you?" He turned over and asked strangely.
Yong Jun looked at him nervously: "Did they really beat you?"
Hu Lai was stunned for a moment, blinked, and then came to his senses: "Uncle Yong, is my singing so bad?"
Yong Jun also came to his senses, then he smiled and bent over, waving his hands: "Sorry, sorry..."
During the laughter, Hu Lai turned to look at the camera: "This part is blocked! It is not allowed to be broadcast!"
Yong Jun massaged Hu Lai, who was lying down again, and said at the same time: "Anyway, it's a good thing to have a close relationship. You are here alone and you are not familiar with the place, so you really need an excuse. It's okay to sing if it sounds unpleasant, but it can help. You fit into the team..."
Seeing Hu Lai move, as if to refute himself, he slapped Hu Lai on the back and told him to be honest: "Have you ever heard of such a saying? A newcomer who wants to join a group should just You have to learn to shame yourself and expose your shortcomings when everyone in the group knows them. Finally, it means that you are accepted. And the shortcoming of singing poorly is simply innocuous, but the effect will be very good... Anyway, you have finally made a good start. As you get more familiar with your teammates, If there are no problems with the coach, the road will become wider..."
Hu Lai didn't speak this time, seeming to have listened to Yong Jun's words.
Then Yong Jun discovered that Hu Lai seemed to be asleep again...
It seems that Leeds City's training intensity is indeed very intense. When Hu Lai was playing at Flash Star, he had never heard of such a situation.
At that time, they returned to the big villa they rented after training, and they still had extra energy to continue playing football...
Yong Jun also experienced the gap between the advanced level of European football and Chinese football at close range. And this is Leeds City, a team fighting to avoid relegation in the Premier League, not one of those wealthy teams...
In fact, Yong Jun accidentally made a mistake - Leeds City is currently fighting for relegation, but Tony Clark, who has attended an advanced and orthodox coaching training class, now brings advanced concepts to Leeds City. , this is not the training level of an ordinary Premier League relegation team.
Seeing that Hu Lai fell asleep again, Yong Jun gently covered him with a quilt and quietly left the room with the photographer.
Before leaving, I didn't forget to turn off the light for Hu Lai.
About five minutes after they left, Hu Lai, who had been lying on the bed until he was snoring, suddenly got up, jumped out of bed, and turned on the bedside lamp.
Then he found a Bluetooth headset and put it on, opened the music APP, and started humming to the rhythm:
"...I am still the same boy as before, without any change..."
Listening to the singing voice coming from the headphones, it was as if he sang it himself. Hu Lai shook his head and felt good.
What is self-defeating, what is exposing one’s shortcomings...
Never heard of it!
I have only heard that a man should get up from where he fell!
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Hu Lai walked into the locker room of the training base early in the morning with his bag on his back, and then faced a group of teammates and said loudly: "Guys, I have to prove my strength to you! So I went back last night and practiced hard all night. I promise I won’t roll over again this time!”
Everyone in the locker room was busy with their own things, but when they heard what Hu Lai said, they suddenly became nervous.
Hu Lai didn't even put down his bag before he was about to speak.
Yesterday, I was stopped in the middle of singing. It felt like going to a KTV to sing, but someone cut off my song when I got emotional... If I hadn't thought that I represented China's national image, Hu Lai would have gone berserk. .
So he must let these foreigners see his strength!
Seeing that Hu Lai's mouth was open, everyone in the locker room hurriedly raised their hands to cover their ears, some buried their heads in the cabinet, and some reached out to Hu Lai, their eyes widened like copper bells, with a look of horror on their faces. ……
Fortunately, at this critical moment, captain Lorenzo stepped forward and gave full play to his leading role as captain. He rushed to Hu Lai and covered Hu Lai's mouth with his big hands: "Don't talk, I'm one of our own." ! ”
"Uh huh..." Hu Lai struggled hard, but failed to break free from the captain's iron-like arms. He was tightly held by Lorenzo.
At this time, he fully realized the importance of strengthening his core strength.
If his core strength is enhanced, who can stop himself from singing loudly?
He heard that Western clubs seem to have a tradition of letting new players sing in front of everyone. He had been looking forward to this scene before arriving in Leeds.
Is this the result?
I was pinched halfway through singing!
Hu Lai wants to avenge his humiliation, but now his thin arms cannot hold up his thick thighs.
Captain Lorenzo was still saying: "Hu, calm down, calm down! As long as you don't sing, we can talk about anything!"
Other teammates also echoed: "That's right!"
Hu Lai's mouth was covered and he couldn't speak. He wanted to refuse, but looking at his posture, if he didn't agree, his life would be at stake here... so he had no choice but to nod in agreement.
Seeing Hu Lai nodding, Lorenzo carefully let go of Hu Lai's mouth, but did not completely remove his hand, as if he was ready to pounce and cover his mouth at any time.
Hu Lai curled his lips as he looked at the captain and teammates acting like they were facing a formidable enemy - this action almost made Lorenzo cover his face again...
"As for it? I said it doesn't matter to you?"
Joe Taylor, who proposed to let Hu Lai sing yesterday, nodded with lingering fear: "It's too extreme. I still regret my proposal yesterday..."
"When I got home yesterday, your singing was still in my ears. I felt like I was going to die. I don't even know how I fell asleep at night..."
"Yes, yes, it's such a magical sound!"
The more Hu Lai listened, the more outrageous he became. He asked with a dark face: "Is it really that unpleasant?"
The teammates looked at each other, and finally Charlie Potter came out and said: "It's not bad, Hu... I don't know how to describe the feeling of hearing you sing... It's like, like scratching on the blackboard with your nails." Plant it..."
"Okay, Charlie. Stop talking. Hu is still pretty good. What you are doing makes it seem like everyone is ostracizing him..."
It was better for the captain to stand up and stop Charlie Potter from continuing to describe it - mainly because after hearing Charlie Potter's description, he already had goosebumps on his body.
He turned to Hu Lai again: "Everyone is just joking with you, Hu. Don't take it to heart."
Hu Lai nodded quickly: "I know, captain. I..."
"As long as you stop singing," Lorenzo continued.
"..." Hu Lai's smile solidified.
The teammates burst into laughter.
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In the morning, the players of Leeds City's first team conducted simple set-piece tactics training at the training base to make final preparations for the FA Cup match in the afternoon.
After lunch, the first team disbanded.
Those players who are not selected for the afternoon FA Cup match can go home and move around freely, no one will control what they do.
The players selected for the match squad took a nap directly at the club's training base, and then went to the stadium together when they woke up.
You don’t need to take a bus, you can just walk there.
Because Leeds City's home stadium, Flanders Stadium, is right next door to the training base, the straight-line distance between the two points is 80 meters.
In order to make it easier for players to go to home games, there is a dedicated air corridor directly connected to the internal channels of the stadium at the training base.
This sky corridor is about four meters above the ground, fully enclosed, with transparent glass walls on both sides. Fans in the square can easily see Leeds City players going to the stadium to play.
So whenever there is a home game, a large number of Leeds City fans will gather under this air corridor to applaud and cheer for the Leeds City players who walk to the stadium. Television broadcasts will also set up cameras here to film Leeds City players entering the stadium.
This is unique in the entire Premier League and has become a characteristic of Leeds City Football Club.
This unique view was widely publicized as a feature of the club following their promotion to the Premier League.
After all, it is indeed too special... In everyone's impression, when professional teams participate in competitions, the players take buses from their hotels or training bases, and then drive to the stadium. Amid the cheers of the fans and the cameras of reporters, wearing suits and headphones, carrying backpacks, and handbags, they filed off the bus, then waved to the media cameras and fans, and just walked away. Enter the passage.
As a result, the Leeds City players actually walked directly from the training base to the stadium... Their buses are only used to transport players when they go to away games. There is no chance for the bus to appear in home games.
Other teams do not have this situation. After all, their training bases are in suburbs far away from their home games.
Leeds City also has a training base in the suburbs, but that training base is specifically used for the club's youth training.
The first team and the reserve team train at the training base of the same name next to the Flanders Stadium.
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"It's still affected by the departure of the former head coach..." Hu Lai was sitting in the box, waiting to watch the FA Cup game with his agent Yong Jun and the CCTV camera crew.
Matt once introduced the club Leeds City to him. Although it does not have any great achievements in history, the fans here in Leeds City are very loyal and fanatical. He once said: "No matter which league it is in, Leeds City's attendance rate is the highest in the league!"
But today's FA Cup match is about to start, and you can still see large areas of open space in the stands, which look like patches of hair loss on a person's head. Scars, like leprosy.
Leeds City fans are expressing their dissatisfaction with the club in this way.
etc.
Fans are unhappy with the club.
FA Cup match.
The head coach has also been questioned.
Hu Lai suddenly had an inexplicable sense of déjà vu, even though Tony was not Tony, and Leeds City was not Nottingham Forest...
When the club chairman Urge Hodge and football director Nevin Ball appeared on the big screen, there were still some boos directed at them in the stadium.
"It seems that the conflict between the fans and the club will not be easily eased... If the fans do not support the team, relegation will be difficult..." Yong Jun sighed.
At first, I thought Hulay would be able to adapt more easily to Leeds City if he had a head coach who was familiar with him than going to other teams. It is perfectly appropriate to use Leeds City as a springboard to become famous in Europe - everything is difficult at the beginning, and going to a team that understands him better at the beginning will be of great benefit to Hulay's adaptation to European football. After Hu Lai adapts, it will be easier to go to other teams, even wealthy ones.
At that time, I really didn’t expect that Leeds City fans and the club were so divided.
This disagreement means turmoil and great pressure.
And some of these pressures will be passed on to Hu Lai...
After Yong Jun said this, Hu Lai heard the long-lost voice in his mind:
"Mission: Help Leeds City successfully avoid relegation. Mission reward: Points × 200,000, [Powerful Charming Essence Lotion] × 1."
Hu Lai didn't care much about the 200,000 points rewarded by the mission. Although he needed the points, it was a routine operation. What he cared more about was what appeared in the mission reward for the first time: [Powerful Charm Essence Lotion].
He once had a mission that rewarded him with a similar [Charm Essence Lotion Trial Pack].
He still doesn't know what the use of that thing is... so after using it to make some vanity, he never spent money to buy it from the mall again.
As a result, the mission now actually rewards an upgraded version...
He was curious about what use this thing could have.
[Powerful Charming Essence Emulsion]: After applied on the face, it will greatly enhance the charm of the user, even your mortal enemies can be impressed by you. Lasts effective for two hours.
Small print: Can also be used off-site. But please use it with caution. All consequences are the responsibility of the user alone.
This thing...
Is it for picking up girls?
This was Hu Lai's first reaction when he saw this prop.
The second reaction was that I remembered that Uncle Yong said that Leeds City fans may not have a good impression of me. I wonder if using this thing can improve my reputation among Leeds City fans...
"Hey, don't you think this is a coincidence, Uncle Yong." Hu Lai, who exited the system, smiled and picked up what Yong Jun had just said.
"What a coincidence?"
"Speaking of the experience of relegation, I am not targeting anyone after coming out of Flash Star..." Hu Lai patted his chest, "What I am best at is relegation!" (End of Chapter)