Chapter 47 Facing the Sharks
"Today's training effect was better than I imagined..." Offensive coach Finley Hughes sighed to his colleagues while packing up his things after the training. "I thought that the mole thing would affect the players' performance in training. The result... was beyond my expectation."
Assistant coach Cesar Varro said: "This should be the team's performance The captains played a role, no matter what method they used, they did succeed in appeasing the team..."
"No, not just appeasement." Head coach Sam McNeil had a different opinion. . "There is also motivation. Don't you feel that the players are more focused and dedicated in training than before?"
"Hmm..." Varro thought about it carefully, then nodded in agreement. "You're right, Sam."
"Sooth...encourage..." the physical coach Giovanni Faletti repeatedly chanted these two words, and after tasting the taste, he nodded in agreement.
"Wang is not good at appeasing, so he must have used some method to motivate the players." Varro turned to look at McNeil, "You said this morning that he was incompetent as a captain."
"In terms of those trivial and specific matters, he is indeed incompetent as a captain. But if you only look at the leadership role of a captain, then I am afraid no one is more suitable than him." McNeil explained. "This is why I agree with Goetz giving the captain's armband to Wang, but I still want Goetz to be the second captain. Goetz and Charlie have to do the specific things."
"Understood. . Wang is the chairman, Goetz and the others are the managers."
"That's pretty much it."
Looking at Wang Lie and Vitini who were about to stay on the court to continue practicing, Varro said: "I am suddenly very happy that the media exposed this news last night, not yesterday morning..."
"Why?" someone asked.
"Because this way, neither Sam nor the players will have to face the bombardment of media reporters at the regular mid-week press conference in the afternoon."
Everyone suddenly understood, and then They all showed happy expressions.
In their minds, those reporters were automatically replaced by a group of sharks that were excited by the smell of blood.
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Having the same imagination as the coaches, there is also Sonny Dean.
The road from the training ground to the locker room is actually not long - after all, the locker room is right next to the first team training ground. Bypass the barbed wire fence, go out through the special exit, and then walk a short distance along the outer wall of the main building to enter the passage leading to the locker room.
Normally, the whole walk will not take more than three minutes.
In the past, when the team finished training, Dean was always the first to leave the training ground, and he was also the first to leave the locker room.
But today, it was only a small distance, and he didn't arrive even after five minutes of walking.
And when he was about to reach the door, he suddenly changed direction and turned back, almost colliding with Gunduz who was following him.
“Hey, be careful!” Gunduz dodged and asked him, “Why are you going, Sonny!”
Sonny Dean didn’t answer him, just lowered his head and walked out in a hurry Passage, turn left.
That's the direction of the training ground, where they came from.
"Did you forget to take something?" Barnabas next to Gunduz guessed.
Guendouzi shrugged and walked into the locker room.
This is not something to be concerned about.
But soon Joshua Parker walked in with a ghostly expression on his face, and then shouted: "Guess what I just saw?!"
"No way. Is it a girl running around naked on the training ground?" Gundouzi said casually.
"No, it's scarier than that!" Parker's eyes widened, as if he had seen a ghost. "I saw Dean walking into the physical training center! He's doing extra training! Guys! Sonny Dean, he's actually doing extra training!"
As soon as these words came out, the locker room suddenly exclaimed. Again and again.
"Oh God..." Barnabas raised his hand and crossed himself repeatedly.
Tommy Biggins was shocked and cursed: "FuckingJesus! This is not true! You must have seen it wrong, Joshua!"
Parker raised his hands to God swears: "I swear I didn't lie, otherwise I will be struck to death by lightning when I go out!"
"Oh, hell!" Hugo Guendouzi thought of the scene when Dean suddenly turned back and almost hit him. If he had firmly held Dean's hand and refused to let him leave, and had to ask clearly...then wouldn't he be the one who discovered this explosive news?
He held his head in his hands, feeling annoyed, feeling that he had missed out on a great fun...
After the initial shock, everyone began to speculate enthusiastically about why Dean suddenly changed his gender and took the initiative to practice more .
“I think he was probably stimulated by Wang’s words!”
“Stop talking nonsense. I admit that I was quite excited by what Wang said, but during training , Dean’s performance is nothing unusual.”
"Dean's sudden extra training may be to prove that he is not a mole, right? After all, the extra training proves that he also wants to win..."
Everyone is having a heated discussion, Hugo Gong Duzi silently took off his casual clothes, changed into his training clothes, and then walked straight out of the locker room.
Barnabas was the first to notice something strange about him, and asked: "Hugo! What are you going to do?"
Gundouzi didn't look back, and answered with a hint of "Hugo!" Trilling excitedly: "I'm going to practice more, too!"
A group of people in the locker room looked at each other.
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In the huge physical training center, Sonny Dean is now the only one.
He sat on the spinning bike, but did not start exercising.
Just sitting.
After all, he didn't really want to train himself more, he just didn't want to leave the training base so early.
Because he knew that there would definitely be many media reporters and fans blocking the outside of the base at this time.
As one of the parties involved in the two conflicts, he knew that as long as he dared to go out, he would immediately be swallowed, submerged, and torn into pieces by the group of "sharks."
For the first time, he felt that the physical training center full of training equipment in the team base was so cute. It was his safe haven - he couldn't go to the training ground because Vitini and Wang Lie were there, and he didn't want to be there. In this case, be alone with the other person.
The only question is, as someone who has never practiced extra, if he suddenly starts practicing extra, will it arouse the suspicion of his teammates...
Would they guess that he is The real reason for hiding in the physical training center?
Sigh, it’s so boring to not be able to play with your mobile phone...
Why can’t you play with your mobile phone?
Of course it’s because there are probably a lot of messages and comments scolding him on the Internet at this time, and he doesn’t want to make himself unhappy.
While Dean was thinking wildly, footsteps suddenly sounded outside the door of the physical training center.
Dean is a little panicked - isn't he? Anyone else want to practice more?
He hurriedly turned on the power of the equipment, and then began to pretend to kick.
At the same time, footsteps came in.
Hugo Guendouzi's voice sounded behind him: "Oh, what a coincidence! Sonny, you are also practicing extra time?"
Dean looked back at the team The well-known "fun person" in the school suddenly felt a big headache, knowing that he would not be fooled so easily today...
He had to pretend to focus on training and nodded: "Yeah."
However, Gunduz would not let him go easily. He walked up to him, opened a spinning bicycle, and rode on it. He chatted with him while pedaling: "It's really unexpected. I didn't expect that Sonny would train yourself more." ...Were you also moved by Wang's words? Let me tell you, my blood boiled when I heard it!"
Dean really wanted to ignore the Frenchman, but if he doesn't When he opens his mouth to speak, the rumor of "being moved by Wang Lie" will spread throughout the locker room tomorrow...
Between "being moved by Wang Lie" and breaking his inherent personality, Dean decisively chose the latter.
He slowed down his pedaling pace and corrected Gunduz: "It has nothing to do with the king, I just want to practice more for myself."
Unexpectedly, Gunduz was not affected at all. Refuting the displeasure of face, he nodded with a smile: "Yes, yes, it has nothing to do with the king, I understand!"
Although he agreed with his statement, Dean knew that was not what he was thinking at all.
But he couldn't continue to explain, because in the case of Gunduz's preset position, the more he explained, the more unclear he became. Explanation was just a cover-up...
He could only bury it. He lowered his head and pedaled hard, as if he wanted to vent his anger on the king, Gunduz, the reporters outside the base, and the damn whistleblower on the spinning bike.
Gundouzi originally came to see Dean have fun, but when Dean ignored him and started training very seriously, he became a little uncomfortable...
What if If I leave directly, will I look particularly stupid?
And if you don't leave, just watching Dean train from the side seems pretty stupid...
Forget it, forget it, it's here!
Gundouzi also began to practice seriously.
Several people who liked to watch the fun came one after another. When they saw Dean and Gunduz actually practicing seriously without saying a word, they looked at each other.
What is this?
Are they really here for extra practice?
When Gunduz saw a few people appearing at the door, he immediately regained his energy, waved and shouted to them: "You are also here for extra training, right? Oh, it's great! Come on! Even Dean You’re all working hard, are you not as good as him?”
Dean, who was pedaling, was so confused—damn it! What does it mean to be inferior to me? !
He got off the spinning bike with a dark face and walked aside to practice upper body strength.
Gundouzi signaled to the stunned people: "Look, even Dean's fighting spirit is burning!"
The few people who were still hesitating before, after hearing what he said and seeing that Dean was actually practicing extra, were embarrassed and turned around and left... Otherwise, wouldn't everyone know that they were here to watch the fun?
So they were forced to stay and practice more seriously like the first two.
Seeing this, Gunduz cheered everyone up: "Well done! The united Tyne will definitely defeat the Scossians!"
Listen to Gunduz's shouting. , several people wanted him to shut up, and at the same time they also muttered:
What are we here to do?
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When Joshua Parker drove out of the training base gate, he was frightened by the dense crowd of reporters and fans crowded on both sides of the road.
It was originally quite a spacious road, but these people were so crowded that only one car could pass...
As a Tyne player, when had Parker ever seen such a scene? ?
“What the hell…”
He suddenly understood why Sonny Dean, who never gave himself extra practice, was doing extra practice abnormally.
He himself also had some regrets - he should have followed those people to watch the fun.
Is it too late to reverse the car now?
He glanced at the rearview mirror, and the door of the training base was slowly closing behind him...
The reporters did not give Parker a chance to regret it. When they saw his car coming out, they immediately surrounded him. They went up and stretched out their microphones, mobile phones, voice recorders, and cameras to him.
"Excuse me Parker! Is the internal strife true?"
"Parker, please explain! What is the conflict between Wang and Dean?!"
"Parker! Parker! Tyne What do you think about the rumors of internal strife in the team? "Parker! Will this matter affect your game with the Scouse people?"
"Have Wang told you? What?”
"Why is Dean dissatisfied with Wang? What's their problem?"
......
Parker could only slowly move the car forward while waving his hands: "I don't know . No comment. I don’t know. Sorry, sorry, I can’t say. Please give me a break...”
How can we tell you the media about what happened in the locker room?
I don’t want to be regarded as that “ghost”!
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“I’m leaving first.”
Wang Lie’s decision surprised Vitini – he had thought that today’s extra training would be longer than usual.
Because everyone knows that there must be many reporters waiting outside the training base.
He thought Wang Lie would stay in the base for a while and get through most of the reporters before leaving.
Who would have thought that Wang Lie would do the opposite and end the extra training early.
Wang Lie continued: "You can continue to practice, don't worry about me, and there is no need to rush back."
Vitini was even stranger, so he had to remind his idol: "There are reporters outside now. ..."
"What should we do? Don't we all go home if they are stuck outside?"
After Wang Lie finished speaking, he really ended the training early and turned around to leave the training. field.
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“Today, Tyne players came out less than usual, and they were also later than usual...”
While waiting, reporters waiting outside the training base chatted. Get up and exchange opinions with each other.
In addition to Joshua Parker, they have also been waiting for several Tyne players, but I don’t know if the team has issued a gag order. Anyway, no matter who they ask, they will be clueless like Parker. , or simply close the windows, look serious, and just drive forward without saying a word.
This made the reporters present very unhappy.
"They must be afraid. This means that they have something secret in their hearts. The internal strife is 80% true!"
"Hey, you said, if we don't leave, they inside won't be here tonight. Just spend the night in the base?"
"Ha! How is that possible? But it's funny to think that you are so afraid of the media..."
" Alas, Tyne is a small team after all, and the people here have never seen much of the world... It's okay, the king is here, they will often experience such scenes in the future..."
The reporters were talking, Fans are also talking.
"Damn, these damn reporters! It's all them, we can't even sign autographs and take photos!"
"Actually, it's not their fault, it's mainly because the news was so explosive... Hey you guys "Is the news true or false?"
"I'm not surprised at all that Dean and Vitini are in conflict. They don't deal with each other in the first place, but the conflict between Wang and Dean is hard to say... ..."
"According to the news that the conflict between Wang and Dean happened before our game against Hurlingham, I think this is nonsense. Why did we win the game since there was already internal strife?"
"It's hard to say. Do you remember that after Dean came on as a substitute, except for one escape, he didn't have any decent performance. Maybe he was really affected by that conflict..."
"Hey! It doesn't matter if it's true or not! Didn't we win the last two rounds? As long as we can win, what does it matter if there is internal strife or not?"
While everyone was talking about it, The doors to Northumberland Football City are slowly opening again.
Attracting everyone's attention.
Everyone looked over and found that what came out this time was Wang Lie’s Chinese brand new energy SUV that he endorsed!
Wang Lie is here!
The protagonist appears!
Everyone was in a commotion, both reporters and fans were scrambling to push forward.
And Wang Lie also stopped in front of the crowd - a complete stop, rather than slowly pushing forward.
Then he opened the car window and said to the reporters who came up: "If you want to ask questions, stand aside and don't stop me from signing autographs for the fans!"
Some reporters were obviously hesitant after hearing this. For a moment, you seemed to be considering whether to be so obedient, but the hesitant reporter was quickly pulled aside by your colleague next to you: "Listen to him!"
Perhaps thinking of various lessons learned from the past, the hesitant reporter did not squeeze back in the end, but gave up the best seat in front of the car window to the fans.
The fans cheered and came to Wang Lie to ask for autographs and photos, and they did not forget to criticize reporters:
"Grasping! You are so shameful!"
"You only have traffic in your eyes. !”
The reporters were speechless and couldn’t argue with the fans.
They could only watch as Wang Lie fulfilled the fans' requests for autographs and photos one by one. At the same time, he kept asking questions between his autographs and photos:
"Wang, is the internal strife real?"
"False, there is no internal strife." Wang Lie answered simply and decisively, making people know that he was not telling the truth...
"But Dadomo said he had evidence..."
"Then let him release the evidence, just so we can see who broke the news."
Wang Lie is not afraid of being slapped in the face by evidence, and if he can expose the traitor, he will make a profit.
"How is your relationship with Dean?"
"Dean and I are not friends, but we have a normal relationship. We are teammates."
"Vitty What about the conflict between Ni and Dean?”
Wang Lie said a little more when answering this question. After all, he had to speak for Vitini:
"I don't know the grudge between the two of them. I've only been here for less than a month. But I think there are so many people in the team. Who can guarantee that everyone has a good relationship and there is no conflict? I am at Soft United. At that time, the locker room was not so harmonious. I think if there is any problem, timely communication is the most important. Any form of communication is better than keeping it secret."
"Then you think this incident will affect it. The team's game with the Scossians?"
"No, it actually has no impact."
Wang Lie's answer certainly did not satisfy the reporters. In their opinion, Wang Lie is simply a tough talker.
They all believe that something bad must have happened within Tyne. Otherwise, why would the players avoid them one by one today?
Fans looking for Wang Lie's autograph are also asking: "Wang, is it really okay?"
Facing the fans, Wang Lie's attitude is much better than that of reporters.
Not only did he have a smile on his face, he answered more patiently, and his tone was not as stiff as before:
"No problem. In fact, this incident just shows that our opponent Scared, our performance scared them. Don’t worry, we will win.”
The fans were inspired by Wang Lie’s confident words, and they burst into cheers.
The reporters all showed disdain and disdain. They felt sad that this group of fans could be inflamed by Wang Lie's big words so easily.
I really don’t have the ability to think independently at all, it’s sad!
They didn’t think about it carefully, what can Tyne do to win against the Scorsese who are third in the league?
I’m afraid it will be even more ridiculous if I say it.
Are the Scoss afraid of Tyne?
Tyne's goal is to avoid relegation, while the Scorsese people's goal is to compete for the league championship!
Will a league title contender be afraid of a relegation team?
It would be ridiculous to say this!
In fact, they all could see that Wang Lie was holding on. The so-called denials were all cover-ups. Internal strife within the team was already a certainty.
It’s just that they don’t need to argue with Wang Lie now.
They just need to sit back and watch, wait for the game to end, wait for Tyne to lose to the Scoss people, and then they will watch Wang Lie's jokes.
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“…Today’s Northumberland Football City is different from the past. After training, there were not as many Tyne players as before. They left one after another...The reporters waited here for a long time, and only a few players came out, and almost every player was unwilling to talk about the 'internal strife'..."
"...After waiting for a long time, the reporters finally When Wang's car drove out of the training base gate... Faced with the theory of 'internal strife', Wang firmly denied it. Not only did he not admit that there were conflicts within the team, he also said that the rumors of 'internal strife' were because opponents were afraid of Tyne. The rumors being spread..."
"To be honest, I can no longer understand Wang's mental state. How crazy is he to say such a thing? Does Wang know what he is talking about? ? Just scoring two goals and one assist against two weak teams makes Wang feel so good about himself? ”
As soon as Vitini got home, he heard the voice coming from his father's mobile phone. He couldn't help complaining: "Don't read the nonsense of those media! They are eager to see Wang make a fool of himself!"
Dad Closed Mobile phone: "I thought you were staying at the base tonight. Are those reporters crazy?"
Vitini threw his bag on the ground and walked into the living room: "It was already there when I left. A lot less. I guess Wang helped us attract the firepower. Many people may have rushed back to do the news, otherwise how could you see those on the Internet so quickly..."
He pointed Dad’s cell phone.
"Is it true that many people are hiding in the base and never returned?" Dad asked.
Vitini shrugged: "There are indeed many more people staying in the base for extra training today than usual."
Dad sighed: "It seems to have a great impact... Have you found out who is the mole? ?”
The son shook his head: “We are not looking for the mole, because Wang said that it doesn’t matter who the mole is, what matters is whether we can win the game against the Scoss people.”
Dad suddenly realized: "That's true. He is right. As long as we can win, whether it is internal evil or internal strife, it will be over quickly and no one will mention it again."
I saw that my father also agreed with this statement. , Vitini said happily: "Right? I think Wang is right! Let me tell you, Dad, what Wang said in the locker room was so cool! At that time, I felt an electric current coming from the soles of my feet. It goes all the way to the top of my head and makes my scalp tingle! He said there is no place for pessimists on a winning team! Isn’t that cool, Dad?”
The father nodded repeatedly in agreement. He did not say the second half of what he just said because he did not want to throw cold water on his son.
He could understand what Wang Lie was thinking. It wouldn't matter if he won, but if he didn't win, all the pressure would come down like an avalanche.
The key to the question is can Tyne really beat the Scorsese at home?
This is definitely not something Wang Lie can do by just saying a few big words.
(End of this chapter)