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As soon as Karl got off the plane, he was surrounded by reporters. The reporters from "The Sun", "Guardian" and "Daily Mail" did not know where they got the information. They waved microphones and cameras and rushed over. Strangely, this group of reporters had no interest in Karl's team games. Their questions all revolved around his basic necessities of life, advertising contracts and even scandals. Reporter from The Sun Gary Jeb even chased him and kept asking: "How does it feel to be back in your hometown? Did you miss the always gray sky in London when you were living in Munich?"

Such trivial and rambling questions caused Karl to have a bit of cognitive confusion about his identity-is he really the coach of a Bundesliga team, not a movie star?Or is it that all sports reporters these days are keen to report other people's life gossip?

When the crowd finally dissipated with satisfaction, revealing a figure who had been hiding in the corner, Karl knew who he should settle accounts with.

Throwing the suitcase to the culprit to help him carry it, Karl stepped forward, not caring whether the other party could keep up: "Jorge, when are you going to pack me up and tie it up?" A big bow completely sold to the media?"

Mendes was tired and out of breath, and he regretted not taking his little brother out today: "Since you went to that 'big country' Munich, you have been far away from the center of public opinion in Europe, Carl, especially since you saved hours of Flight time, after changing the shopping location from London to Paris, the journalists in London can only take the initiative to find your news, in case one day they get tired of searching by themselves, and instead only reprint news from German newspapers like the Italian media ? You didn’t buy property in London, and you only come here a few times a year. If you don’t increase your chances of exposure in this land, sooner or later they will forget that you are still a British.”

Carlton stepped down and glanced at Mendes: "They will never forget."

"I know, that's just an exaggerated metaphor. But if you stay in Munich for too long, the English will be jealous sooner or later, making the Germans think you belong to Germany forever, making the English think you won't forget your homeland, It's a delicate adjustment to achieve the perfect balance."

Mendez's tone was full of pride and self-confidence, as if he was the only person in the world who could achieve this goal.But Mendez's image of "bodyguard or assistant" dragging a suitcase in one hand and a briefcase in the other is not commensurate with his expensive attire, so that passers-by cast doubtful eyes: "You are the best thing I have on hand." One of the most valuable rough stones, I will never allow them to forget you until you evolve into a 'media black hole' - although it is difficult to do this."

This sentence successfully dispelled the last trace of pity in Carl's heart. He was going to take back his suitcase from Mendez again (the thing is not heavy, it is not light, there are two sets of Formal gowns and gifts from Karl for friends and family), but for now, let Jorge Mendes continue to carry it profusely.

……

"I feel a little uncomfortable." Carl finished straightening the collar of his white silk shirt, and began to inspect the royal blue suit jacket for any details that were not appropriate: "Obviously we are just cameos, how can we become popular with the director and producer Carpet? Look at the expressions on the faces of Baker and Fryer (the male and female protagonists of "Single Ball"), the disappointment and dissatisfaction they suppressed, today's protagonist should have been theirs."

"In any case, it is the producers who arrange the order of admission. Even if Kuno Beck is angry, they will not vent their anger on you and me." After shrugging his shoulders and saying this, Beckham began to face the toilet again. in the room mirror, fiddling with his tie.

Tonight is the premiere of the first installment of Become Fame, outside the Empire Cinema in Leicester Square, London.London is the first stop for the film's world premiere, followed by France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and other countries. Although the investor of the film is an American company, and the director and screenwriter are also Americans, the release in North America is the latest in the world— —In the first half of next year, around May, it is almost the last country in the world to screen "Fame". From this, it can be seen that the name of the "football desert" in the United States is not groundless.

There were quite a few celebrities who cameo during the filming, but not many came today. Benitez, Zidane, Raul, Gerrard and others were unable to come because of the intensive schedule. Real Madrid was originally unwilling to let Baker Ham participated in the event, but because London is the base camp of Beckham, and the script of the second part of "Become Fame" is almost equivalent to a promotional film for Real Madrid, the team had to let it go.And Karl, who has an agent like Mendes who can't wait to put him in front of the camera all the time, and he is already in London (to sign), so he made it to the premiere.

The crew arranged for Karl and Beckham to walk the red carpet with the film's director Danny Cannon and producer Barrier, with the rest of the cast following behind them.This action completely ignited the atmosphere of the scene. Even if the police worked hard to set up the interception line, they could not resist the enthusiasm of the fans and reporters. They screamed, shouted, and stretched out their hands to reach forward. Almost broke through the police line of defense.

When Beckham stopped on the red carpet to be interviewed by a media outlet, a young female fan slipped into the arena while the police were unaware. She gave Beckham a surprise attack and hugged him tightly. Intending to ask for a kiss, even though Beckham has been through battles for a long time, he was too frightened to move.The police, as well as the security guard who was interviewing Beckham at the time, immediately stepped forward to pull the female fan away, but the female fan was very stubborn, and she even refused to let go of Beckham's tie (probably because she wanted to take some souvenirs along with her. ), almost made Beckham's face turn purple.

Although the female fan was finally subdued and taken away by the police, this also made Beckham have no interest in continuing to be interviewed. He called Carl to rush into the field and looked for the bathroom to organize his clothes.

Glancing at Beckham who was wearing a tie, Carl said with a smile: "You should be glad that you are wearing a tie today, if it is a bow tie... plus her relentless grasping strength, I am afraid that the female fan will be killed because of it." Indicted and jailed for trying to strangle a popular icon."

Beckham frowned heavily: "The tie is just a smoke bomb, that girl, she is an excellent thief." The heartthrob raised his left arm towards Carl: "She took one of my A cufflink as a souvenir."

Carl walked over: "Let me see." He grabbed both of Beckham's wrists and lifted them up, and found that a cuff button on one of the wrists was indeed missing, and the cuffs of the shirt were loose. Some messy.

"You're still wearing a French shirt." Karl also frowned.

The French shirt has elegant and beautiful folded sleeves, which is a design that highlights the cuffs and is only formal with cuff buttons.

"Put mine on instead. It doesn't matter if my shirt doesn't have cufflinks anyway." Carl is wearing a pair of platinum cufflinks today, with a black and white chessboard pattern on the buttons, which are not as shiny and fancy as ordinary cufflinks. It has a very low-key and restrained temperament.

"That's fine too."

Carl nodded, and was about to let go of the opponent's hands. At this moment, a man hurried into the toilet. His eyes were looking for the position, and suddenly he saw Carl and Beckham standing next to each other, and Carl was still holding hands. Beckham's hands.

"Ah! I'm sorry to disturb you!" The man was stunned for a moment, and said subconsciously, his expression showed that he mistakenly thought he had bumped into a date.

A second later, the man glanced at the faces of the two of them again with sleepwalking eyes, turned around abruptly and opened the door to go out.

Carl blinked, let go of Beckham's arm, and began to unbutton the cuff buttons.

Beckham looked at the door of the bathroom, and suddenly said, "That man was a reporter just now!"

"Reporter?" Carl recalled: "But he didn't have a press card on him, and he didn't carry a camera."

"Of course he doesn't bring those things to the bathroom, but I just saw him around the red carpet!"

Karl looked at him and said at the same time, "Go!"

But before the two of them reached the door, they heard the sound of fierce running outside, and someone shouted excitedly: "I swear I'm not mistaken! It's the two of them, and they're holding hands!"

Beckham spun around in a panic, and said anxiously: "If we get entangled with the reporter in the toilet, we won't be able to speak clearly!"

Carl had already pushed open the door of a toilet cubicle, stepped in, waved to Beckham, and said in a low voice, "Come on!"

Beckham hesitated for less than half a second, then squeezed over.

The two were stuffed next to each other in a small compartment, and Karl locked the compartment door.

At this moment, a clear shout came from outside: "Oops! People have already run away!"

Someone stomped angrily: "I just walked away for more than a minute, they moved so fast." Carl and Beckham recognized that this person was the reporter just now.

There was a sound of messy footsteps, showing that there were more than two reporters standing outside at the moment, maybe four or five people.

"Have they already entered the screening room?" Someone asked.

"But we didn't see anyone passing by on the way we just came here." A man with a rough voice said.

Carl could hear the gruff man approaching their cubicle, because he heard him pushing open one door after another as he spoke.

Beckham's breathing was light, but his heart was beating wildly, and Carl, who was loud, could hear it very clearly.

He glanced at the other party and found that the forehead of the heartthrob was covered with sweat.

Someone knocked on the door of this compartment.

Beckham's heartbeat rose to the extreme in an instant.

At this moment, Carl coughed suddenly, and under Beckham's horrified gaze, he said loudly, "Go away, there are people in here, find another toilet!"

Beckham's eyes suddenly became strange, because Carl did not use the standard London accent when speaking just now, but another unique dialect English that Beckham had heard before.

"Sorry, what did you say?" The man outside didn't hear clearly.

"I said I was taking a shit! You idiot!" Carl gritted his teeth.This time his pronunciation became clearer, every word seemed to be spit out from his teeth, he spoke with extra force and with a strong accent.

Beckham looked at Carl with strange and incredible eyes.

Carl flashed him a harmless smile.

The man outside walked away.

"Who's in there?" someone asked him.

"A Japanese Chinese or Korean or something, an Asian anyway, with a weird accent."

"Then what about our headlines tomorrow? If we didn't get any real evidence, even if we swore that the two of them had an affair, readers wouldn't believe it."

"Hey, even if you really swear, who will believe us as reporters? What's more, what Hansen saw may not be true. Beckham can't be gay. His scandals in Madrid this year Could fill a train, but it's just fun to link him with Auston, to think two of the most popular men with British women are hidden in a cupboard! Ha, people will go crazy, This news will also top the list of best scandals of the year!"

"Don't talk about your unrealistic fantasy, just think about how to write tomorrow's news."

"How about Beckham and Alston on the Red Carpet?"

"Then what should I name it? Let me see..."

Speaks farther and farther away until it is out of hearing.

The two opened the compartment door and walked out. Carl shook his head helplessly: "What about the morals of the British journalists?"

Beckham wiped his sweat depressedly: "I'm afraid it's already gone with the wind, Karl."

……

At breakfast the next day, Carl found the news article titled "Beckham and Alston Walk the Red Carpet Hand in Hand" on the entertainment page of the "Sun" with a pair of two people standing on the red carpet. The photos of talking sideways together, at first glance, really look very "basic".

However, this kind of ambiguous news with no substance and exaggerated language has no value except for the entertainment of blog readers, and it will not have any impact on Carl's life, so he read the whole report with a smile, and then threw the newspaper in the aside.

On the second day after the premiere, Carl signed a contract with Thorntons in the morning, and the other party paid him a part of the deposit. After the commercial shooting is completed, the remaining part of the 60 pounds will also be transferred to Carl's account.

It only took half a day to earn the money for two luxury cars. Carl finally understood that his fame can be exchanged for food, and it is even worse than ordinary actors and singers.

Mendes asked Karl what he was going to do with the money after the commercial was finished shooting - the house must not be very good. Munich is the most expensive city in Germany, while London's house price is the third in the world, hundreds of thousands £60 is only enough to buy an apartment in an average part of the two cities, and £[-] is probably only enough to buy a bathroom in places like Chelsea in London or Bogenhausen in Munich.

However, in addition to this advertising income, Carl actually has a lot of savings, which comes from his salary, bonuses, and profits from short-term investment in the past two years. The sum of these money is probably enough for Carl to buy a good set. Senior apartment.

"I want to use them to make some investments." Carl said to Mendes like this: "After my annual salary rises to the middle level of the Bundesliga, I will consider buying a house."

Mendes was a little surprised when he heard this, because in his impression, the vast majority of Germans have conservative financial concepts. For example, when investing, they prefer to deposit money in the bank. With part of the British blood flowing, the British are quite good at managing money.

"Can I recommend a few accountants for you? They are all reputable in the industry." Mendes asked: "You can hire one or two to be your own private accountant. I think your financial problems will be like that in the next few years." It just keeps getting bigger and bigger like a snowball."

"I can handle it myself for the time being, but you can also send me their contact information, and I will contact them myself in the future." Although Carl Alston himself graduated from the School of Sociology at the University of Munich, Gu Li has obtained a degree in corporate economics. Master's degree, although he is not a financial genius, his professional knowledge is enough for him to ensure that his savings outperform inflation, but Mendes is right, when his assets grow to a certain level, he does need more money. A full range of professionals to help him take care of.

Mendes gave Carl the phone numbers of several accounting firms, and Carl saved them in the address book, waiting for a free consultation someday.

Before lunch, Carl received Ronaldo who came to London from Manchester. The two spent most of the day together. When parting, Carl gave each other a surprising amount of chocolates—— Thorntons launched limited new products for Christmas this year. Carl, as the spokesperson, was presented with a car almost full of them. He gave half of it to Ronaldo, and the other half was going to be brought back to Munich for food. Those young people in the team They must all like chocolate.

……

In the 05th round of the Bundesliga in the 06-11 season, Munich 1860 was a guest at the Weser Stadium in Bremen.

Werder Bremen has a nickname called "Parrot Legion", that is because from the 03-04 season, Bremen began to use green and orange uniforms. Fortunately, after the end of the season, Werder Bremen achieved surprisingly good results. They won the domestic double, so the name of "Parrot" spread more and more widely.

But for fans who are familiar with this team, they prefer to call it "nerve knife" with love and hate.

Werder Bremen is a team that often surprises people. They have a habit of convulsions. They may kill Bayern three or four goals in this game, or they may be defeated by the relegation team 0:5 in the next game.

The shortcomings of Werder Bremen are obvious, and instability is the biggest drawback of this team.

This is also the reason why the "Parrot Legion" has repeatedly achieved success in the history of the Bundesliga, but it is difficult to be honored as the "overlord" even in the most glorious era.

Overlord, Nagaya, ranked first, and no one can shake its dominance for a while. How can a team whose performance is never stable, sometimes win big, and sometimes lose miserably, no matter how beautiful the ball is, how can it be defeated? What about "Overlord"?

Whether a team is stable or not has nothing to do with the overall strength of the players, nor with the tactical quality of the head coach, it has to do with belief.

This is also what Karl has been chasing and emphasizing, about the team's ethos.

Karl has made full preparations for this game, but he dare not say that 1860 Munich will definitely win.

Because today's opponents of Munich 1860 are too accustomed to playing cards unreasonably.