i want to be king

Chapter 77 What a vampire!
"Hello, please give me a public newspaper."

In the morning, when passing a newsstand on the street, Nuno Cruz habitually stopped to buy a newspaper.

On the stand in the window of the newsstand, several of the best-selling newspapers in Portugal were placed. Without exception, the front page of each newspaper published the match that Sporting Lisbon beat Maritimo [-]-[-] last night.

This is a Portuguese Cup semi-final, the national attention.

The public newspaper even published a photo of Su Dong on the front page, giving this young Sporting Lisbon teenager extremely high treatment, and at the same time gave him a brand new nickname - Mr. Key!

"In the past three games, Su Dong, a 17-year-old Chinese teenager, has scored four goals and one assist for Sporting Lisbon. What an incredible achievement."

"These five goals brought Sporting Lisbon two key victories in the league, six precious points, and a promotion to the semi-finals of the Portuguese Cup and a ticket to the Portuguese National Stadium."

"No one thought that when Sporting Lisbon encountered unprecedented difficulties, the key figures who came forward to save the team were not the number one star Jardl, not the core midfielder Joao Pinto, not the talented teenager Quaresma, not Rui Costa II Hugo Viana, but an unknown rookie player."

"In the past half a month, the name of Su Dong has spread all over the streets of Lisbon at an incredible speed, and has become the focus of discussion among all Sporting Lisbon fans."

"Almost all professionals agree that this Chinese teenager, nicknamed [Little God of War], is becoming the most important core player in the Sporting Lisbon team at an extremely fast speed."

"Technical director Aurelio Pereira was also full of praise for this Chinese teenager when he was interviewed by this reporter, thinking that he will become the Kluivert of Sporting Lisbon and will also play a more important role."

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Nuno Cruz read the report on the cover, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He is Su Dong's personal trainer, and he and Su Dong share a community of interests. The better Su Dong performs, the better he will benefit.

Of course, for the time being, he can't see the benefits yet, but he believes that as Sudong's status and influence in Sporting Lisbon and even in the Portuguese Super League improve, the name Nuno Cruz will sooner or later appear in the newspapers.

After paying for the newspaper, Nuno Cruz bought breakfast contentedly, went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables for the whole day, and then returned home calmly.

Half an hour later, he put his daughter on the school bus and drove to Alcocheti himself.

After parking the car, Nuno Cruz headed straight to the gym.

As soon as the person walked to the door, he heard bursts of noise coming from inside.

Through the window, Nuno Cruz saw Sudong doing pull-ups in the gym.

There is a football between his legs. When he is doing pull-ups, he must keep his legs close together to ensure that the football will not fall.

After sitting a set of pull-ups, his legs loosened and the football between his thighs fell down, so he stretched his legs to practice juggling.

During the whole process, his hands did not leave the horizontal bar, and he relied entirely on the strength of his hands and body to maintain the training, which had the effect of exercising the muscles all over his body.

In the end, he kicked the ball into the basket not far in front of him, completing a "shoot".

After landing and resting for 15 seconds, Su Dong clamped a football between his legs, jumped up again, and started a new round of training.

Standing by the bed, Nuno Cruz watched Su Dong's sweaty training with great admiration in his heart.

What others saw was Su Dong's sudden rise on the court, scoring four goals in the last three games, but as a personal trainer, what he saw was that Su Dong arrived at the training base an hour and a half earlier than others, left an hour and a half later than others, and got up early every morning for training...

If such a player can't succeed, then God is really not open his eyes.

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Nuno Cruz walked into the gym after watching Sudong complete another set of pull-ups and jump balls.

"Okay, Su, we played for an hour last night, today's training intensity should be reduced."

Nuno Cruz came in front of Su Dong. He knew that Su Dong must have completed the routine warm-up training by himself, such as spider crawling, lizard crawling, etc., and he didn't need to worry about these at all.

"Where's Ronnie?" He felt a little strange.

Ronnie is also a player who trains extremely hard. He always advances and retreats with Su Dong on weekdays, but today he was nowhere to be seen.

While wiping his sweat with a towel, Su Dong grinned and said pointedly: "He didn't go home last night, so I don't know where he went. He probably hasn't woken up yet."

Nuno Cruz thought about it for a while, and couldn't help laughing.

It was no secret at Sporting Lisbon that Ronnie was dating Jardl's sister, Jordana.

One is in puberty, a strong boy with severely exceeded male hormones, and the other is a hot and energetic girl. After thinking about it, it is no surprise that these two people can do anything together.

"You still have to remind him a little bit, pay attention to restraint." Nuno Cruz winked at Su Dong narrowly.

Su Dong smiled helplessly, making a girlfriend is really a waste of time and energy.

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When Ronnie dragged his tired body, stepping back to the team and participating in recovery training, agent Jorge Mendes also appeared at the desk of Sporting Lisbon technical director Aurelio Pereira.

In fact, Aurelio Pereira did not like dealing with Mendes.

how to say?

Mendes gives people a mixed impression. He is shrewd, but he is not annoying, but he is easy to get along with, but he often does things that make "opponents" very troublesome.

After getting along several times, Aurelio had to admit that Mendez, a rising star who can make Vega so embarrassed, can be said to be outstanding in ability and character, even better than Vega.

But is this a good thing for club operators?

"Jorge, I asked you to come over today, the most important thing is to talk about the players."

Aurelio was talking, but he couldn't help thinking that there were already four Mendes players in the team, and Quaresma had officially switched to Mendes not long ago.

This can be a bit troublesome.

Su Dong, Ronnie, Ugo Viana and Quaresma, the four most valued young players of Sporting Lisbon, are all Mendes players, which also means that Mendes has considerable influence on Sporting Lisbon.

Of course, if Mendes is smart, he should know that the goals of players, clubs and agents should be the same.

"I have already contacted my partners in the UK and Italy, and I plan to operate Ugo Viana first."

Of the four players, Hugo Viana is the oldest at 19, eight months older than Quaresma.

"From the current feedback information, the British and Italian teams are very interested in Ugo Viana, so you should be well prepared to lose Ugo Viana this summer."

Aurelio frowned and nodded, he was already mentally prepared for this.

They even fully supported Mendes' operation of Ugo Viana to play football abroad.

Sporting Lisbon was already relying on this to make ends meet.

"Our second team's midfielders are still in short supply. Hugo Pina and Miguel Paijon are still lacking, and Boloni is not very satisfied with them. If there are good young players in China and Brazil, you should also help us pay attention." Aurelio looked at Mendes and said.

Mendes used to be a partner of the Brazilian football godfather Figel, and he is still very well connected in Brazil.

"Both Porto and Benfica are scrambling for people very fiercely. Some of the more outstanding ones, such as Thiago and Maniche, are very popular. I will pay more attention to Brazil." Mendes also felt a little headache about this.

Sending away Hugo Viana, the midfielder of Sporting Lisbon must definitely add. If he can recommend a capable player, he will continue to maintain his influence on Sporting Lisbon.

"If it doesn't work, introduce or rent a veteran." Aurelio revealed the meaning of the management.

Either young players, or simply experienced veterans, this is Sporting Lisbon's team strategy.

In addition, Sporting Lisbon also has a Spanish midfielder Tonito on loan in Santa Clara. This player has performed well this season. If he returns to the team, he will also be a strong supplement to the midfielder.

"there's one more thing."

"You said."

"We are thinking about re-signing a professional contract with Su Dong and Ronnie."

These two players have performed well recently, and they have also won consecutive opportunities to play in the first team, especially Su Dong.

Usually, when the club says this, the implication is that the salary will be raised.

In professional football, if you want players to work hard for you, the premise is to give enough money.

If you give it yourself, this is sincerity, and it also means that you value it. If the agent comes out to ask for it, then it is a bit uninteresting.

Mendes stared at Aurelio for two seconds, then suddenly smiled slightly, "Aurelio, the two of them have just signed the contract for less than half a year, and now they are renewing the contract, isn't it a bit too hasty?"

"Indeed, but considering their recent performance, we think it is necessary to give them rewards, and hope that they can continue to work hard and show better performance." Aurelio secretly groaned in his heart.

The club took the initiative to renew the contract, but the agent politely declined, which basically had two meanings.

Either you want to leave the team, or you want more.

Judging from the current situation, it is almost impossible for the two 17-year-olds to leave the team, because they are in a critical rising period, and leaving the team at this time can easily interrupt their rising pace.

Then there is only one possibility left.

The old fox Mendez wanted more.

What a vampire!
Aurelio cursed angrily in his heart.

　Begging for rewards, collections and recommendation tickets!Thank you!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)