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Chapter 464
There was nothing embarrassing for Long Bisheng at the fan meeting. In fact, he only needed to do a few simple jumps. He didn’t need to directly perform a set of freestyle football like those players with particularly gorgeous skills. Naturally, players with good skills are happy to perform it, but not all players are so good.

After making a few moves, Long Bisheng kicked a row of footballs onto the stands one by one. As a gift from a newcomer to the fans, he carefully controlled the power of his kicks. With his shooting power, it would be bad if he accidentally hit some unlucky fans with nosebleeds.

Then after signing the autographs for a few enthusiastic fans, the fan meeting was over. Long Bisheng didn't feel any impatience. He now thinks this kind of meeting is really interesting, at least it can quickly close the relationship between the newly joined players and the fans. No wonder almost every newly transferred player will get such a meeting opportunity.

The next step is to wait for the pre-season training camp to start. I am really looking forward to it... I have never had such an opportunity to train with the Newcastle first team before. Coach Mourinho, what kind of coach will he be?And those teammates, I don’t know if they can get along well. After all, I used to play in small teams. I wonder if I can quickly get along with my teammates like I did in Leeds and Hoffenheim?But in the team, Messi and himself are teammates of the national team, and Huntington has also been teammates with him for two seasons. If they help, they should be able to integrate into the team soon, right?

The [-]th of July arrived soon, and Long Bisheng went to bed early the first day, and woke up at seven o'clock the next morning full of energy.

"It's your first time participating in the Newcastle training camp. Are you excited?" Ning Xi asked him with a smile when Long Bisheng finished his morning jog and returned to the apartment after Ning Xi and Lu Xiaoshan prepared breakfast at [-] o'clock.

"Not to mention I'm very excited, at least I'm a little bit excited... It's my first time joining such a rich team, I'm both excited and nervous." Long Bisheng replied with a smile, but there was no sign of nervousness on his face.

Seeing Long Bisheng chomping down on his breakfast, Ning Xi and Lu Xiaoshan looked at each other—it didn't seem like they were nervous!However, Long Bisheng's psychological quality has always been the same. Perhaps this is why he always improves and his state does not fluctuate much.

After breakfast, Long Bisheng bid farewell to the two girls, and then chose to walk slowly to the Longbenton training base. Although the last training session here was eight years ago, Long Bisheng still remembered the way to the Longbenton training base.

After he felt that he had almost digested it, Long Bisheng started to run to the training base. He lived two kilometers away from the training base. He walked slowly for about one kilometer just now, and ran for the remaining one kilometer, which can be used as a warm-up exercise before the start of training.

Soon, Long Bisheng saw the ancient gate of the Longbenton training base.

This gate has a history of more than 20 years. It was the iron gate that was replaced by Sir Hall when he took over. Originally, Pei Wei planned to tear down the gate and replace it with a more modern electronic gate. In this way, when the players’ cars drive up, the security guard at the gate can open the gate by pressing a button instead of manually opening it. Murray was even more strongly opposed. It is said that the old man waved his arms angrily and yelled at the boss Pei Wei: "I can't get used to those electric gadgets! Mr. Chairman, if you think that I am not conscientious enough to open the gate before the players' cars approach or let people in who shouldn't go in, then please fire me! Otherwise, no one will be able to touch the gate!"

Faced with this angry old man, Pei Wei retreated helplessly. There are many such old people in English clubs. Maybe they are just workers who mow and maintain the lawn, maybe they are just cleaners in charge of cleaning the locker room, maybe they are just unknown doormen, but they usually have worked in the club for many years. Even if you are the chairman, you dare not drive these people away easily.

Therefore, although Pei Wei has expanded the Longbenton training base into one of the best training bases in the Premier League in the past ten years, adding countless facilities to make the whole base more modern, the ancient gate still stands here tenaciously. Although it has become rusty, it still stands firm in the wind and rain.

Bob Murray was sitting in the small room next to the door, when he saw Long Bisheng running over, he immediately walked out of the room and opened the door for him.

"Thank you, Uncle Murray." Long Bisheng knew Murray eight years ago, but Murray might not have known Long Bisheng, because there were about [-] young Chinese players coming in and out of the Longbenton training base at that time, and so many newcomers came every year.

But he obviously underestimated Murray's familiarity with Newcastle. This white-haired, rosacea-nosed old man with a typical British appearance smiled kindly at him: "Hello, dragon from China... You are the first one here today. Why, didn't you come by car?"

Long Bisheng was surprised that Murray could call out his last name, and he replied: "No, I don't have a car, and I live very close to the training base, so I just run here every day to warm up."

"Haha, then you will be the first player in Newcastle's first team without a car." Murray laughed heartily, Long Bisheng nodded with a smile, and then walked to the training base.

Murray closed the door and continued to wait for the next first-team member to arrive. Whenever someone came, he would open the door before the other car came and let them in. Other irrelevant people would be blocked by him like a patron saint, whether it was a reporter or something else.

Murray knew all the people in the Newcastle club. Although he was getting old, his memory did not decline in any way. Even if the team had just signed players like Long Bisheng and Mattock, he knew their faces and names.

Perhaps it was because of this role that he dared to yell at his boss Pei Wei.

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"Well, Long Bisheng, you are the first player to report this season."

Long Bisheng had just walked into the training base and was about to go to the locker room when he heard a familiar voice coming from his ear.

Long Bisheng turned his head and saw Pei Wei leaning against the wall with a cigarette in his mouth.

Seeing Long Bisheng walking towards him, Pei Wei frantically stubbed out the cigarette, held the cigarette butt in his hand, and said to Long Bisheng with a wry smile: "I set the rules myself... No smoking is allowed in the training base. Just now when I was walking around here, I suddenly became addicted to smoking. I thought the players would not come so early. I didn't expect you to come so early. Gather at nine o'clock, and you arrived at 08:30."

Long Bisheng patted his head embarrassingly: "Anyway, I have nothing to do at home, so I came early... to disturb you."

"You're scolding me." Pei Wei laughed: "It's okay, anyway, I often smoke in the training base, but I never smoke in front of your players. Second-hand smoke is very harmful to the physical fitness of athletes...Forget it, you haven't been to the locker room yet, have you? I'll take you there."

Long Bisheng followed Pei Wei to the training base. While walking, he was wondering why Pei Wei would wander around the training base early in the morning. Pei Wei seemed to see the doubts in his heart, and said casually: "As long as I don't go out to do errands, I will stroll around the training base every day... Looking at the Longbenton training base, which was only a middle-ranked training base among Premier League teams ten years ago, it can now be compared with Manchester United's Carrington, Arsenal's Kearney, Chelsea's Cobham, and Liverpool's Melwood. Regardless of whether there are even surpasses, I am filled with pride every time... This kind of pride is like watching Yunjiatianyu grow from scratch to become the number one club in Asia. Long Bisheng, you don’t laugh at an old man’s nostalgia for the past, do you?”

Long Bisheng quickly shook his hand: "Of course not... Actually, I have always admired you. You have done many things that others can only imagine. In fact, if there is no Yunjia Tianyu, maybe there will be a soldier Long Bisheng in this world, and there will not be a player Long Bisheng. Without you, there would be no Yunjia Tianyu, and without Yunjia Tianyu, there would be no me."

"I am very pleased to see you." Pei Wei laughed: "This is exactly the purpose of my establishment of Yunjiatianyu. It is my original intention to have more talents continue on the road of football. Seeing you, I know that the work of the past ten years has not been in vain. If there is no Yunjiatianyu, maybe you and some other players will not be able to continue playing football due to various reasons. Now you are still playing football. This is the result of my work. This is what makes me most proud. Biyunjiatianyu won the Asian Club Cup I am even more proud that Newcastle won the Champions League."

After saying this, Pei Wei took the lead and walked forward. Long Bisheng was stunned for a moment, stared blankly at Pei Wei's back for a while, and then quickened his pace to catch up.

At this moment, Long Bisheng was overwhelmed by Pei Wei's great sentiment. This person not only thought about it, but also did it better than most people. Although he also gained a lot of wealth in the formation of the football club, he also benefited countless people.

(End of this chapter)