Fox in the Penalty Area

"Training the next day, how do you feel, Hu?"

In the evening, as usual, Yong Jun gave Hu Lai an oil massage while chatting with him about what he had seen and heard in the team today.

"Very good, I got along with my teammates today..." Hu Lai said excitedly. He is still very happy to have a good relationship with his teammates. After all, a person like him can't go anywhere without the help of friends, otherwise he won't be able to play at all.

He has never been the kind of person who thinks highly of himself, and everyone looks down on him when he thinks he is awesome, otherwise, how could he have such a good popularity in Xingxing?

In the beginning, he seemed a bit out of place in Leeds City because he was new here and didn't know what the situation was. In addition, after listening to Uncle Yong's analysis of him before coming here, he felt a little alienated.

It's just that young people's emotions come and go quickly.

No matter what "office politics" is, what should be integrated into the team still needs to be integrated.

Football is not table tennis, it is a team sport, and it cannot be done by one person.

Hearing what Hu Lai said, Yong Jun took another look at the scars on Hu Lai's body in surprise, and he was relieved to confirm that it wasn't caused by a fight.

Then he asked: "How do you bond with your teammates?"

Hu Lai: "I sang to them... oops!"

He let out a cry of pain, because he felt that Uncle Yong's hand was obviously stronger, and it hurt him.

"Uncle Yong, what's wrong with you?" He turned over and asked strangely.

Yong Jun looked at him nervously: "Did they really hit you?"

Hu Lai was stunned for a moment, blinked his eyes, and then realized: "Uncle Yong, is my singing so ugly!"

Yong Jun also came back to his senses, then he bent over with a smile, and kept waving his hands: "Sorry, sorry..."

Amidst the laughter, Hu Lai turned his head to look at the camera: "This episode is blocked! Don't broadcast it!"

Yong Jun massaged Hu Lai who was lying on the ground again, and said at the same time: "Anyway, it's a good thing to have a close relationship. You are here alone, and you don't know the place well. You really need an excuse. It's okay to sing badly, but it can help You fit into the team..."

Seeing that Hu Lai moved, as if he wanted to refute himself, he slapped Hu Lai on the back, signaling him to be honest: "Have you heard such a saying? A newcomer wants to join a group.

You have to learn to blackmail yourself and expose your shortcomings. When a group of people know your shortcomings, it means you are accepted. And the shortcomings of singing badly are harmless, but the effect will be very good... Anyway, you have finally made a good start now. When you get better with your teammates and the coach has no problems, let's go Wider..."

Hu Lai did not speak this time, as if he had listened to Yong Jun's words.

Then Yong Jun found that Hu Lai seemed to be asleep again...

It seems that the training intensity of Leeds City is indeed very high. When Hu Lai played in the Flash Star, he had never heard of such a situation.

At that time, they returned to the big villa they rented after training, and they still had extra energy to continue playing football...

Yong Jun also experienced the gap between the advanced level of European football and Chinese football at close range. And this is still Leeds City, a team that is relegating in the Premier League, not those rich teams...

In fact, Yong Jun accidentally made one thing wrong-Leeds City is now fighting for relegation, but Tony Clark, who has attended an advanced orthodox coach training class, is now bringing advanced ideas to Leeds City , This is not the training level of an ordinary Premier League relegation team.

Seeing that Hu Lai fell asleep again, Yong Jun gently covered him with the quilt, and quietly left the room with the photographer.

Before leaving, he still didn't forget to turn off the light for Hu Lai.

About five minutes after they left, Hu Lai, who was lying on the bed and snoring, suddenly lifted the covers, jumped up from the bed, and turned on the bedside lamp.

Then he found out the Bluetooth headset and put it on, turned on the music app, and started humming along with the rhythm:

"...I am still the boy I used to be, nothing has changed..."

Listening to the singing voice coming from the earphones, as if it was sung by himself, Hu Lai shook his head and felt good.

What self-deprecating, what self-exposure...

never heard of that!

I have only heard that a man is a man, and he will get up wherever he falls!

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Early in the morning, Hu Lai walked into the locker room of the training base with his bag on his back, and then faced a group of teammates and said loudly: "Guys, I have to prove my strength to you! So I went back last night and practiced hard all night. This time, I promise I won't overturn the car again!"

Everyone in the locker room was busy with their own affairs, but when they heard what Hu Lai said, they immediately became nervous.

Hu Lai didn't even put down her bag and was about to speak.

Yesterday, I was stopped in the middle of singing. It felt like going to a KTV to sing, but someone cut the song when I got emotional... If I didn’t think that I represented China’s national image, Hu Lai would have gone berserk up.

So he must show these foreigners his strength!

Seeing that Hu Lai opened his mouth, everyone in the locker room hurriedly raised their hands to cover their ears, some buried their heads in the cabinet, and some stretched out their hands to Hu Lai, their eyes staring like copper bells, and their faces were full of horror. ...

Fortunately, at this critical moment, the captain Lorenzo stepped forward and gave full play to his leading role as the captain. He rushed to Hu Lai with a stride and covered Hu Lai's mouth with his big hand: "Don't speak up, your own man!" !"

"Hmm..." Hu Lai struggled hard, but couldn't break free from the captain's arms that were like iron pincers, and he was firmly held by Lorenzo.

At this time, he fully realized the importance of strengthening his core strength.

If his core strengthens, who can stop himself from singing out loud?

He heard that Western clubs seem to have a tradition of letting new players sing in front of everyone. Before arriving in Leeds, he began to look forward to this scene.

This is the result?

He was pinched halfway through singing!

Hu Lai wants to show her shame, but now her slender arms are no match for her thick thighs.

Captain Lorenzo was still saying: "Hu, calm down, calm down! As long as you don't sing, we can talk about anything!"

Other teammates also echoed: "That's right!"

Hu Lai's mouth was covered and he couldn't speak. He refused deliberately, but seeing his posture, if he disagreed, his life would be entrusted here... so he nodded in agreement.

Seeing that Hu Lai nodded, Lorenzo carefully let go of Hu Lai's mouth, but he didn't take his hand away completely, as if he was ready to pounce on him and cover his mouth again at any time.

Hu Lai looked at the captain and his teammates as if they were facing a big enemy, and curled his lips - this action almost made Lorenzo cover him again...

"As for it? I said you are as for it?"

Joe Taylor, who proposed to let Hu Lai sing yesterday, nodded with lingering fear: "Too much, I still regret my proposal yesterday..."

"I still heard your singing when I got home yesterday. I felt like I was going to die. I don't know how I fell asleep at night..."

"Yeah, yeah, it's a magic sound piercing through my ears!"

The more Hu Lai heard the more outrageous, he asked with a dark face, "Is it really that ugly?"

The teammates looked at each other, and finally Charlie Potter came out and said: "It's not bad, Hu... I don't know how to describe the feeling of hearing you sing... It's like, it's like scratching the blackboard with your fingernails." Plant it..."

"Okay, Charlie. Stop talking. Hu's still fine, you're making it look like everyone's ostracizing him..."

It’s better for the captain, he stood up immediately upon seeing this and stopped Charlie Potter from continuing to describe it—mainly because after hearing Charlie Potter’s description, he already had goosebumps on his body.

He turned to Hu Lai again: "Everyone is just joking with you, Hu. Don't take it to heart."

Hu Lai nodded quickly: "I know, Captain. I..."

"As long as you stop singing," Lorenzo went on.

"..." Hu Lai's smile froze.

The teammates all laughed.

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In the morning, the first-team players of Leeds City conducted simple set-piece tactical training in the training base, making final preparations for the FA Cup match in the afternoon.

After lunch at noon, the first team disbanded.

Those players who were not selected for the afternoon FA Cup game can go home and move freely, no one cares what they do.

The players selected for the competition squad directly take a nap at the club's training base, and then go to the stadium collectively after waking up.

You don't need to take a bus, you can just walk there.

Because Leeds City's home court, the Flanders Stadium, is next door to the training base, and the straight-line distance between the two points is 80 meters.

In order to facilitate the players to go to the home game, there is also a dedicated air corridor directly connected to the internal passage of the stadium at the training base.

This air corridor is about four meters high from the ground and is fully enclosed, with transparent glass walls on both sides. Fans in the square can easily see the Leeds City players going to the stadium for games.

So whenever there is a home game, a large number of Leeds City fans will gather under this air corridor to applaud and cheer for the Leeds City fans who walk to the stadium. The TV broadcast will also set up camera positions here to film the entrance of Leeds City players.

This is unique in the entire Premier League and has become a feature of Leeds City Football Club.

After their promotion to the Premier League, this unique spectacle has been widely publicized as a feature of their club.

After all, it's really special... In everyone's impression, when a professional team participates in a game, the players take a bus from the hotel where they are staying or the training base, and then drive to the stadium. Under the cheers of the fans and the cameras of the reporters, wearing a suit and earphones, carrying a backpack, and holding a handbag, he filed down from the bus, waved to the media cameras and the fans, and just walked away into the channel.

As a result, the players of Leeds City went to the stadium on foot directly from the training base... Their buses were only used to transport players when they went to the away games, and there was no chance for the buses to play in the home games.

This is not the case for other teams. After all, their training bases are in the suburbs far from home.

Leeds City also has a training base in the suburbs, but that training base is dedicated to the club's youth training.

The first team and reserves train at the eponymous training ground next to the Flanders Stadium.

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"It's still affected by the departure of the former head coach..." Hu Lai sat in the box, waiting to watch the FA Cup match with his manager Yong Jun and the CCTV crew.

Matt once introduced the Leeds City club to him. Although there are no great achievements in history, the fans here in Leeds City are very loyal and fanatical. He once said: "No matter which level of league it is in, Leeds City's attendance rate is the highest in the league!"

But today's FA Cup match is about to start, and you can still see large areas of empty space in the stands. It looks like a person's head has a patch of hair loss left by the original thick hair. Scars, like leprosy.

Leeds City fans are expressing their dissatisfaction to the club in this way.

wait.

Fans are dissatisfied with the club.

FA Cup match.

The head coach has also been questioned.

Hu Lai suddenly has an inexplicable sense of déjà vu, even though Tony is not Tony, and Leeds City is not Nottingham Forest...

When the club chairman Yogg Hodge and director of football Nevin Ball appeared on the big screen at the scene, there were still some boos against them in the stadium.

"It seems that the conflict between the fans and the club is not so easy to ease... If the fans don't support the team, it will be difficult to relegation..." Yong Jun sighed.

At the beginning, I thought that when Hu Lai moved to Leeds City, it would be easier to adapt to having a head coach who is familiar with him than going to other teams. If Leeds City is used as a springboard to become famous in Europe, it is perfect-it is difficult at the beginning, and going to a team that knows him better at the beginning will be of great benefit to Hu Lai's adaptation to European football. After Hu Lai got used to it, it would be easier to go to other teams, even if it was a giant.

At that time, I really didn't expect that the Leeds City fans and the club had such a big difference.

This kind of disagreement means turmoil, which means great pressure.

And some of these pressures will be passed on to Hu Lai...

After Yong Jun finished speaking, Hu Lai heard the long-lost voice in his mind:

"Mission: Help Leeds City succeed in relegation. Mission reward: Points × 200,000, [Powerful Charm Essence Lotion] × 1."

Hu Lai didn't care much about the 200,000 points rewarded by the mission. Although he needed points, it was a routine operation. He cared more about the thing that appeared in the mission reward for the first time: [Powerful Charm Essence Emulsion].

He had a mission before that rewarded him with a similar [Charm Essence Lotion Trial Pack].

He still doesn't know what's the use of that thing... So after using it to earn some vanity, he never spent money to buy it from the mall again.

As a result, the task now rewards an upgraded version...

He was curious what this thing could be used for.

[Powerful Charm Essence Emulsion]: After applying it on the face, it will greatly enhance the charm of the user, even the mortal enemy can be impressed by you. Lasts for two hours.

Note in fine print: Available off-site as well. But please use it with caution, all the consequences are borne by the user alone.

This thing...

Is it for picking up girls?

This was Hu Lai's first reaction when he saw this prop.

The second reaction is to remember that Uncle Yong said that the fans of Leeds City may not have a good impression of him. I wonder if using this thing can improve his reputation in the hearts of Leeds City fans...

"Hey, don't you think it's a coincidence, Uncle Yong." Hu Lai, who had quit the system, smiled and picked up Yong Jun's emotion just now.

"What a coincidence?"

"Speaking of relegation experience, I'm not aiming at anyone who came from Flash Star..." Hu Lai patted his chest, "I'm best at relegation!"