fat man who can't play football

Chapter 178 Money Status Power
Steve couldn't restrain the excitement in his heart all night. One was because of the arrival of Gao Hongbo, and he really wanted to see what the meritorious coach of the Chinese team could bring to the team.

Another reason why I can't sleep is to be happy for the news brought by Ms. Ward. There has always been such an unknown team working hard for the future of Leeds.

As Leeds United was about to head off to prepare for the League Cup match against Southampton the next day, Steve only had a quick meeting with Gao in the office.

The emaciated Dongfang's hard face can be seen with a sense of stubbornness. This is the first impression that Director Gao gave Fatty.

Have a certain English foundation and be able to carry out simple daily communication, which is derived from the experience of studying abroad during the period of high-level coaching players (going to Singapore for a year).

However, if the high-level coach wants to play a greater role in the coaching position, he needs to further improve his English level, at least to figure out the English pronunciation of some professional football terms.

Since Director Gao was new here and still needed to settle trivial matters such as accommodation, Fatty didn't let him go out with the team.

As for the matter of Harland, he has to wait until he returns from the expedition, and then discuss it with Director Horta.

The League Cup seems a bit tasteless for Leeds United this season. Fatty has been intentionally or unintentionally wanting to give up this event.

But the substitute players who couldn't stand him were too competitive, so they "abandoned themselves" all the way to the top [-].

This is an extremely embarrassing stage for the fat man. If you are lucky, the team will lock in a place for the Europa League qualifiers in four games.

But in the 56-year history of the English League Cup, the only defending champions are Liverpool and Nottingham, both of which were dominant teams in that era.

With the current strength of Leeds United, it is undoubtedly a dream to win two consecutive League Cups, unless there is a lot of shit luck.

Steve clearly realized that luck is not a part of Leeds' strength now, and after a brief tangled for a second, he decided to use his substitute in the game against the "Saints".

Kulusevsky, who was shoveled miserably by Cook on the training ground recently, finally won the chance to start by "selling" his young and fiery body.

In the game, Xiaoku showed a lot of small skills that he had just tried out in training. Such a young man can withstand the pressure on the field, which made Fatty feel that a superstar is about to rise in his hands.

Here Xiaoku has a fiery upward trend, which has caused uneasiness among one player in the team-Will Hughes.

This talented player who joined Leeds from Derby County last season was once selected for the England national team squad due to his wonderful performance in the league.

Unfortunately, Hughes' injury in the League Cup final interrupted his upward trajectory. After returning from injury this season, Hughes has been unable to find his form, and even the starting position was taken away by Phillips.

Hughes, who was able to enter the 18-man roster stably, can get a little playing time by coming off the bench from time to time, and it is possible to find the feeling of the game through these fragmented time.

But recently, due to the rapid rise of Xiaoku, Hughes found it difficult to squeeze into the 18-man list. He has been excluded from the list for several games and sat in the stands.

Coupled with the fact that Leeds United's record has improved significantly recently, the head coach generally does not make adjustments to the starting lineup at this time.

All of these weighed on Hughes like a boulder, so that this talented boy could not see the hope of getting ahead.

Today's game against Southampton was originally an opportunity for Hughes to impress the head coach, but he did not expect Xiaoku to play so brilliantly.

All of Hughes' energy in competing on the green field turned into anger from frustration: complaining about the unfairness of fate, letting injuries find him;

The result of the accumulation of all these negative emotions is that Hughes chose to go it alone as soon as he got the ball, and he would not pass the ball to Xiaoku after killing him.

In the beginning, Southampton's defensive players were passed once or twice by Hughes with his personal ability.

Gradually, the "Saints" players discovered the clues. Hughes on the opposite side is a big lone B. This guy didn't pass the ball at all today.

The saint's Danish iron waist Hejber, after figuring out these ways, directly presented Hughes with a big flying shovel from the front!

Fly into the sky with the ball.

Hughes' delusion of relying on his personal ability to win the game went bankrupt.

Leeds teammates can't stand Hughes being so "willful" anymore. After accidentally passing the ball to him, they don't want to move anymore.

This incident by Hughes directly halved Leeds United's combat effectiveness. Even the fat man on the sidelines couldn't stand it anymore. During the half-time break, he replaced Hughes with a younger Shackleton.

For this reason, Hughes did not leave the locker room with a dark face in the second half.

Fatty didn't indulge him, and started to vent his fury like a storm.

But this farce of "jealousy" has completely lowered the morale of the Leeds team. The young players' ability to adjust their mentality is still not that strong, and they played in a muddle on the court.

In the end, Leeds United lost the game 0-1. Although Steve wanted to give up the League Cup game a long time ago, such a loss really made people feel uneasy.

Fatty can accept a player impressing himself with his professional attitude and hard training, but he will never allow anyone to hurt the team like this.

Steve, who was in a hurry, wanted to go back to the locker room to catch Hughes and continue to turn on the hair dryer, but a phone call interrupted him.

The call was from Ms. Ward: "Steve, I'm so sorry to bother you after the team lost. But my buddy has some bad news for me.

Recently, many scouts have come to the training ground to observe Harland, and they are all unfamiliar faces.According to their accents, my people may be from Austria and Germany.

There is more than one, Harland has begun to attract the interest of many teams, and we have to hurry up on some things. "

"Yes, Ms. Ward, I know what to do."

After hanging up the phone, Fatty could only put Hughes' affairs aside and talk to team director Horta, so that he could meet him after returning to Leeds.

After Horta came to Leeds, due to a hasty takeover, the signings in the first transfer window basically came according to the meaning of the fat man.

The new players also performed well, allowing Leeds United to achieve good results in the two-line battle.

The fat man felt that he should be in a honeymoon period with Horta, and he was confident that his suggestion to buy Harland would be adopted.

Horta has been pacing up and down in the office since receiving the call from the fat man.

At the beginning of this season, when Leeds United did not perform well, the Spaniard moved his thoughts on the transfer.

Unexpectedly, Steve's team quickly reversed the trend through a wave of victories, and it seems that most of the people bought by that fat man are doing well.

Horta is worried that if this continues, he will appear dispensable in the team, which is a bit bad.

Capitalists will never fail to support idlers.

If he can't exert his own influence on Leeds as soon as possible, Horta is worried that the Italian will kick himself out.

There was a quick knock on the door.

Horta felt very irritable, but said helplessly: "Please come in!"

Steve's greasy and wretched face stepped in first.

"I'm sorry, Director. I kept you waiting for me in the office for so long."

"Okay, Steve. Need some coffee?"

Why was this bearded man suddenly so enthusiastic (Horta has a thick beard), and the fat man felt a cool breeze blowing from behind the chrysanthemum.

"Oh, the freshly ground coffee looks delicious. Give me a cup too."

After some skilled operations, Horta handed the fat man a steaming cup of coffee.

"Steve, what can I do for you?"

"Uh, I was so patronizing to watch you grind the coffee that I almost forgot.

It’s like this. Ms. Ward recently recommended a good seed to me. After I watched the video of the game she gave me (this is just talking nonsense, the fat man didn’t watch even a video, he all relied on what he saw in his previous life. Harland killed the Quartet, nb to blow up the memory)...

I think the Leeds fans will kill us in the future if we miss someone like that.

The boy's name is Harland, and his father still played for us before.

The young man is extremely talented. Although he is currently only playing in the secondary league and has not achieved any outstanding results, he will definitely grow into a phenomenal center forward in the future. "

After the fat man finished speaking, his mouth was dry, and he drank a cup of coffee, feeling a little tired.

Horta stroked the coffee cup in his hand, and patiently listened to the fat man's words. He stopped and thought for a while, as if he was considering the words he was going to say next.

"Steve, it's good to hear your positive suggestions for the team. But in my vision, this season or the next few seasons will be when Leeds will produce results.

What the team needs is not to survive, but to try to win something. 2019 is the centenary of the club.

We all had to try to give the Leeds fans a big gift at that time.

What Leeds need now is immediate combat power and mature players.

Does the team's future matter?Of course it is important.

But you can only light one of the two ends of the candle (you can't have both ends of the candle in English), and few teams can develop their young players while producing results.

Steve, do you understand?We don't have time to wait for the young people in the team to grow up slowly, let alone in my opinion, there are enough young people in the current Leeds team.

It's time to bring in some mature players to take the team to the next level. "

"Master Director, Harland's current team is only a Norwegian secondary league team. I think it won't cost us much to persuade the other party to let him go at this time."

"Steve, it's not about the money. You still don't get my point."

"I'm very clear, Horta. There's an opportunity in front of us where maybe we only need to spend a few hundred thousand pounds to win a future player worth tens of millions."

"Steve, it's a question of team building philosophy. Everyone has their own area of ​​expertise, Steve, you just have to win games."

Fatty originally wanted to say that his contract contained a transfer clause, but when he looked at Horta, whose eyes were already red, he suddenly understood something.

Here's a guy who wants so badly to make his mark on the team.

The fat man glanced at the coffee cup that had bottomed out, and felt that it was not the time to tear up his face. Leeds had a good atmosphere now, and they couldn't let the meaningless internal friction get in the way.

Power, indeed, is the aphrodisiac that any man wants to chase after.

"Horta, I have already guessed what you are going to do. But what I want to say is that missing Harland will be an incomparably huge loss. I have finished my words and leave."

Steve walked out of the director's office angrily. It was unexpected that an insignificant loss would expose so many "hidden reefs" of the team.

Good fortune fools people.

Steve didn't have too much time to be sad. Two days later, Leeds ushered in their opponents in the tenth round of the league at home-Crystal Palace.

For the stability and unity of the team and to vent the evil fire in his heart, the fat man directly rushed Hughes to the stands at Elland Road.

Nothing else, the main thing is to let this young man calm down and figure out what he should do.

The disciples sent by Fatty were also competitive enough to win the game 2-1 at home without bloodshed.

Belotti, who opened the goal account, scored two dollars alone. It seems that this summer's call-up by Italy to participate in the European Cup has made this guy a lot of goals.

Sometimes what players lack on the court is just a little self-confidence. Once they have the opportunity to break through this layer of window paper, they will grow by leaps and bounds.

The victory in the league also made Leeds United's ranking jump from the right to the top. With four wins, five draws and one loss, they ranked ninth with [-] points, which can be regarded as touching the threshold of the European theater.

The momentum in the league has also aroused the appetite of Leeds fans, and now they are eager for their team to make greater breakthroughs in the European war.

At present, Leeds United has achieved two wins and one loss in the three group matches that have been completed in the Europa League. It is very hopeful that they will qualify as second in the group.

The Pilsen Victory team, currently ranked third in the group, has two draws and one loss with only two points. On November 2016, 11, the two teams will have a direct confrontation again.

If Leeds United can beat their opponents at home, it is very likely that they will get the right to qualify directly.

Amid all the expectations, Fatty's young disciples showed their hips stretched and failed to win the victory. The score of 1 to 1 also brought a little bit of uncertainty to the qualification for the knockout round that was within reach.

In another game of Leeds' group, Roma also unexpectedly drew with Vienna, Austria at home, and the qualifying situation seemed a bit confusing.

Horta, who watched Leeds' last two games in the box, became even more convinced of his opinion. This young team lacks stable performance and urgently needs to bring a mature player in the winter window.

The winter window is still two months away, and there is an undercurrent in Leeds United. For the main position, having enough voice in the team and the greedy money and power, some people are almost unable to hold back.

(End of this chapter)