Chapter 705 The effect is not good enough

Chapter 705 The effect is not good enough

After a day of training, although it is still in the training period, Tony Clark will not perform high-pressure management of the team. As long as everyone completes daily training, there will be no strict restrictions on what they do in the evening.

Anyway, as long as the players are in good condition during training the next day, he doesn't care.

This is true for most European teams, and Leeds City is no exception.

After the training is over, the players can do whatever they want, even if they go to bars or nightclubs, it doesn't matter.

After all, this is their private time, and it is difficult for the coach to interfere.

And if their off-field activities affect their performance on the training field, the coach will naturally take action - he may not directly blame the players for their actions, but he will ask the players to increase their weight in training, or use them during the game. Pick out the starting lineup.

Although Pete Williams never said he would treat Kamala to dinner, he ultimately decided to fulfill the promise Hulay made for him.

He didn't mean to give Hu Lai face, he just thought that Hu Lai was right after careful consideration - when he wanted to win someone's favor, he did have to pay some price, and he couldn't just do nothing and make people think You are trustworthy.

So...he invited me to this meal.

But just when he and Hu Lai were about to go find Kamala, someone put their arms on their shoulders from behind.

"I heard everything." Charlie Potter's voice sounded from behind them.

Hu Lai said nothing, and Williams asked puzzledly: "What did you hear?"

"I heard you wanted to treat that boy Kamala to dinner." Potter whispered. "I'm telling you, you have to take me with you, otherwise I will yell so loudly that everyone in the locker room will know that you are going to treat me, hey!"

Williams didn't expect Potter to be so mean. He was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to say.

Hu Lai said: "Charlie, don't you like Kamala? We are going to have dinner with Kamala, why are you joining in the fun?"

"Haha, I really don't like that guy, but I like the free dinner."

"You need some face, Charlie."

"What's a face in front of a free dinner?" Charlie Potter said confidently.

Williams was speechless: "Okay, count you in."

No one who paid the money had any objections, and Hu Lai naturally had no objections either.

The three people went to find Kamala in this way, and Hulay conveyed the meaning: "Let's go, Ismail, Peter found a good Turkish restaurant, let's go eat Turkish kebab."

Kamala saw one more person and didn't care. She stood up, put on her backpack that she had packed long ago, and followed the three of them out of the locker room.

After they walked for a while, Matt came to the door of the locker room, grabbed Quinn who had just come out and asked: "Is Hu still there?"

Quinn shook his head: "I left early."

"Ah..." Matt was a little disappointed.

"What do you want with him, Matt?" Quinn asked.

"Forget it..." Matt waved his hand, "Thank you, Farek."

"You're welcome, I can't help you much."

After returning in vain, Matt returned to Clark: "Hu Lai left as soon as the training was over. I don't know where he went. I didn't find him in the locker room."

Clark waved his hand: "There's no need to rush for just one or two days, Matt. Helping Kamala is a long-term matter. Find him another day."

Matt nodded.

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In a restaurant decorated with a strong Middle Eastern style, four people, Hulay, Pete Williams, Charlie Potter and Ismael Kamara, were sitting around the dining table.

They had just sat down and were about to order.

"I'll have some!" Charlie Potter volunteered and grabbed the menu.

Williams hesitated, but still did not stop him. It happened that he could also use this time to have a good chat with Kamala and enhance their relationship.

"Well, Ismail... which team's youth training did you receive training in before?" He planned to start by getting to know Kamara.

After listening to Hulay's translation, Kamara said to Hulay: "I have never received youth training. I played football on the streets before I was seventeen."

After listening to Hulay's translation, Williams' eyes widened in surprise. Even Charlie Potter, who was looking at the menu, raised his head and cast shocked eyes at the Frenchman.

Kamara, who played football on the streets, entered a professional team without even a day of youth training at a club, and now he has completed the triple jump and directly became a member of the Premier League team...

Everyone feels incredible about their boss Tony Clark's vision of people - how did the boss fall in love with him?

While Williams was shocked and didn't know what to say, Hulay started chatting with Kamara: "Wow, so you are almost the same as me."

Kamala also felt strange: "Did you also play field football before you were seventeen?"

Hu Lai shook his head: "No, I didn't even receive football training before I was sixteen."

"..." Kamala was stunned for a moment, and then showed a very strange expression, "Why do I think you are deliberately showing off to me, Hu?"

Hu Lai waved his hand quickly: "No, no, you are overthinking. What is there to show off? I didn't realize my football talent until I was sixteen."

Kamara thought of Hulay's performance in the first half of the season after joining Leeds City, and asked: "How old are you this year?"

"Not yet twenty-two years old."

Kamara opened his mouth, was stunned for a few seconds, and then sighed: "I thought it only took me two years to go from playing street football to a Premier League player. I didn't expect that it took you five years to go from playing street football to a Premier League player." An ordinary person who has never received any football training becomes a Premier League player... It’s even more exaggerated!”

Williams finally came to his senses and asked Hu Lai curiously: "What are you talking about with him?"

"It's nothing, business is mutual."

Williams: "What does that mean?"

"You can see it as getting closer to him."

Williams suddenly said: "Oh——"

Hulay pointed at Williams again: "This kid is also a super genius. He has been playing in the first team at the age of sixteen. Now he is considered to be the leader of Leeds City for the next ten years. At the end of last season, he renewed his contract with the team. After the appointment, the whole Leeds city was celebrating”

"What are you talking about..." Williams asked curiously when he saw Hu Lai pointing at him.

"I'm praising you."

Kamala looked at Williams and nodded. Although he has only been with the team for less than a month, he can already see the importance of this young man in the team. Although he is young, his words in the locker room are very important, and everyone listens to him.

He didn't quite understand it at the time, but now he suddenly understood after hearing Hu Lai's explanation.

No wonder Williams has such a high profile in the locker room.

Outstanding talent, the most important thing is that he was cultivated in the youth training of the team. Only with the blessing of double halo can he achieve his current status.

Charlie Potter, who was about to order, heard Hu Lai say that he was praising Williams to Kamala, and he quickly said: "What about me? Praise me in front of that kid!"

Hu Lai then pointed at him and said to Kamala: "This person is here to make a living, so you can ignore him."

Kamala looked at Potter, who was smiling, and nodded slowly.

Porter was very interested in what Hu Lai said: "How did you praise me, Hu?"

Hu Lai said casually: "I said you are also very strong."

"Hey!" Porter believed Hu Lai's statement and happily raised his hand to call the waiter, he wanted to order food.

Upon seeing this, Hu Lai asked Kamala: "Is there anything you want to eat, or anything you can't eat?"

Kamala shrugged: "I can do either."

Hu Lai nodded and said to Porter: "Just be casual, Ismail has no taboos."

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After ordering their food, the four of them got together and started chatting.

Because of Hu Lai's previous foreshadowing, even Charlie Potter's impression of Kamala has changed - after all, Hu Lai praised him in front of Kamala, and he is always embarrassed to continue to treat Kamala coldly. Already?

As the team's "team favorite", Charlie Porter is always good at adjusting the atmosphere.

I have to say that although he coaxed and scared me this time, bringing him here did play a very good role.

He kept initiating the topic, and Ismael Kamara told the three teammates present about his past.

Kamala is truly a genius. He has never received formal echelon training from a professional football club since he was a child, and his family was too poor to learn to play football. He grew up by playing football with other kids in the streets.

Before he reached the age of seventeen, his talent was discovered by a Flemish club and he was signed. In this way, he became a professional player, even though he was only a professional player in the third level of France...

But for him, it was already a change like a carp leaping over the dragon's gate.

Kamara was confident in himself because after entering Flanders, he found that his teammates who had received professional team training were not as good as him.

"...On my first day of training in Flanders, I embarrassed the big guys in the team. I passed them over and over again and they couldn't even hold my clothes..." At this point, Kamara's face There was a hint of pride on his face.

Whether it's Pete Williams or Charlie Porter, no one has ever seen Kamara play, so they don't really believe what he said. But they didn't show it. Peter Williams was here to help Kamara integrate into the team, so naturally he couldn't show any disdain.

Charlie Potter praised Hu Lai in front of Kamala. At this time, he still had the baggage of being an idol. Of course, he had to work hard to maintain his image in Kamala's eyes.

However, through this conversation, they also solved some of their previous misunderstandings about Kamara - his indifference was not because he looked down on his new teammates, but more because of the language barrier and the wariness of the new environment. of.

Now under Hu Lai's translation, both of them saw a talkative Kamala, not the taciturn Kamala in the locker room who always hides in the corner playing with his mobile phone alone, wearing headphones, and loves no one.

During the conversation, Kamara also learned about Hulay’s past, knowing that Hulay not only had no football training before the age of sixteen, but was even a middle school student before the age of eighteen and had never scored a professional football goal. Team.

He was even more surprised by what Hu Lai could achieve now.

After the food was served, they continued to chat while eating, and even ordered a bottle of wine to cheer them up.

After the meal, when Williams went to pay the bill, Charlie Potter and Kamala were already leaning against each other.

Porter spoke in English and Kamala spoke in French. The two bypassed Hulay and had a heated exchange directly.

Williams came out after paying the bill to see the situation and asked Hu Lai in surprise: "Do they understand what each other said?"

Hu Lai shook his head: "Of course I don't understand."

"Then they..."

"The atmosphere is here, it doesn't matter what you say specifically." Hu Lai waved his hand.

Williams looked at the two people talking and laughing, smiled and said with emotion: "It's great..."

But Hu Lai beside him frowned: "I feel bad."

"What's wrong?" Williams asked strangely.

"The effect did not meet my expectations..." Hu Lai said solemnly.

"What has not been achieved? I think the effect is very good. Look at how close the two of them are... If not, I would have thought they were friends who have known each other for many years!"

Hu Lai continued to shake his head: "It's just a temporary superficial phenomenon. It seems that just asking for a meal is not enough..."

Williams grabbed Hu Lai and waved his hands repeatedly: "Don't! Don't! I think one meal will be very effective. Your Chinese five thousand years of oriental wisdom is really powerful! Whatever problems you have, this meal will solve them." ! No need to ask for a second meal..."

"It's just that Charlie's opinion of Kamara has improved today, but as for other teammates, they are still prejudiced against Kamara..."

Williams held Hu Lai's arm tightly and asked him in a serious tone: "Hu, I think you just want to take advantage of me for a few more meals, right?"

Hu Lai sneered: "Who do you think I am? Are a few meals enough? How many people do we have in the first team?!"

"Goodbye!" Williams turned to leave.

This time it was Hu Lai who stopped him: "Peter, where is your sense of honor and responsibility? You are going to be the leader of the team. Does a few meals scare you? You let me down so much... …”

Williams was too lazy to talk nonsense with Hu Lai and raised his middle finger at him. (End of chapter)