Chapter 23: Premier League's Chinese team

When Hu Lai ran to the corner flag area to make his signature celebration, it was not the "HUUUUU!!!" from the fans that greeted him, but a intensive booing.
After all, this is not the Flanders Stadium in Leeds City, but Stan Park Stadium.
The voices of the Leeds City fans accompanying the team were simply not enough to compete with the Stan Park Rangers fans.
But Hu Lai doesn't care about cheering or booing, he scored a goal anyway!
He is still very happy.
After making his signature celebration gesture, he laughed, and his mood was not affected by the boos at all.
Boo, the fans' booing won't make him lose a hair, let alone booing the ball that has already been counted. What should I care about?
He hugged his teammates, and everyone slapped him on the shoulder and head.
On the sideline, Sam Randyll was full of praise for Hulay's performance: "He scored a goal in eight minutes! This efficiency is terrible!"
"Haha!" Clark also smiled happily. "His grasp of opportunities in front of goal and his sense of smell are really the world's top. That's why I must take him to Liverpool. Even if he is allowed to play as a substitute, he can also create surprises for us...has the advantage of being in the line. That is, we can achieve our tactical goals at the lowest possible cost."
Brooks saw Clark who was smiling happily on the coach seat next door, and gritted his teeth and said: "Damn! They didn't really give in early! We must adjust our tactics and not relax too much!"
Stephen Brown heard the words and asked: "So you didn't replace Harry?"
Before the goal was lost, Brooks discussed with him, preparing to replace the team's captain Harry Bernard, allowing him to rest and prepare for the next Champions League group match with Paris Higer.
After all, Bernard has not had a good rest after undergoing meniscus removal surgery.
First, in the last minute of last season's league, the line of fire came back and competed with Leeds for the league championship. Then he participated in the summer World Cup held in the United States and Canada, and reached the knockout rounds all the way. Now returning to the club, he still takes the lead and is an indispensable core of the team.
The league has played four rounds in the new season, and there is a League Cup, two national team games, he played every game. Behaving very professionally, it can be called a "model worker".
So Brooks originally planned to let the "tough guy" rest.
"Well, don't change him, so that we can continue to maintain pressure on Leeds, otherwise we will let the midfielder and let them drive in so directly and directly face the back line, maybe we may really lose another goal at the last minute. !"
Although being dragged by Leeds in the league before the start of the Champions League group stage, it is not worth it.
But Brooks also has his own persistence.
That is, this game must be won, no matter what, it must be won.
Only if you win, you have the right to say to the team-take a long-term view and continue to move forward.
If the revengeful Stan Park Rangers are tied at their home court and the cooked ducks can fly, how can I inspire the players to believe that they can win back what they have lost this season? ?
In fact, Bernard himself did not want to be replaced. When the game restarted, he led his teammates to continue fighting with Leeds City, and the team became nervous again, suppressing Leeds City's counterattack and not letting them threaten his goal.
In the end they managed to hold the score at their home court.
2:1.
The Stan Park Rangers won the victory and defeated Leeds.
In a symbolic sense, revenge was completed.
However, judging from the expressions of the Leeds City players after the game, they were not upset about this defeat.
This made the Stan Park Rangers fans who cheered the success of the team's revenge a little bit of concern, and they always felt that it was not a "perfect revenge."
Not to mention what Hu Lai said in an interview after the game:
"The revenge of the Stan Park Rangers? Yes, they succeeded in revenge, congratulations. Congratulations. They played well in this game. The victory is due..."
The understatement is accompanied by a smiling face, as if the comment is about the grievances between the Stan Park Rangers and other teams.
Although from the content point of view, Hu Lai’s answer is beyond reproach, as the party who lost the game, he showed enough gentlemanly demeanor. Congratulations to the victor, and he was not anxious to lose.
But the more he is so "magnanimous", the more it makes many Stan Park Rangers fans feel uncomfortable.
Some fans even went under the news and ranted: "You are our opponent, can you be more serious?!"
The result drew a roar of laughter from the Leeds fans.
Fans of Stan Park Rangers who couldn’t see it sneered:
I’m so happy after losing. I thought Leeds won by just reading the message...

Immediately, the Leeds fans hit back: "I won, I won the league championship! Hahahaha!"
The fans on both sides sprayed each other under the news of Hu Lai.
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After playing the league with the Stan Park Rangers, Leeds entered the Champions League preparations.
They only had a half-day rest on the second day after the game, and all the players gathered for training on Monday afternoon.
After training on Tuesday, except for the players on the injured list, everyone in the team took a flight to Istanbul, Turkey, to participate in the first UEFA Champions League game with Gulf Lighthouse.
The whole team went, but only eighteen people were able to enter the final squad and are eligible to sit on the bench. Other players can only watch the ball in the specially designated area of ​​the stands, which is a real "view from the sidelines".
This is different from that in the Premier League, only players who have entered the big list are eligible to follow the team to the away game. In the Champions League, Clark insisted on bringing all players with him, naturally hoping to create a feeling of "we are a whole".
After all, this is the first time in the history of Leeds City to participate in the Champions League game, no one wants to be absent at this historic moment. So Clark is very empathetic to bring all the players he can bring, so that they can also participate in history and enhance cohesion.
In addition, bringing all the players is not just a symbolic meaning, it also has a practical effect.
That is, it is convenient for the team to conduct complete training on the road. For example, there are some content of group confrontation and set-piece tactical training. If there are only 18 people, it will be difficult to proceed due to lack of manpower.
The away game of the Champions League is not like the away game of the league. In league away games, teams usually set off for the away game one day before the game. Simply adjust to the venue and wait for the game to start tomorrow.
The requirements for the richness of training content are not high.
But the Champions League is different. On the one hand, the journey is far away, and on the other hand, the country is different. Whether it is weather or diet, there are too many places to adapt. So it's impossible for the team to leave for the away game the day before the game, or the jet lag may not be enough-unless it is going to a neighboring country that is close to each other. For example, the French team goes to Italy...
This is still a group stage. If it is a knockout stage match, the team will even set off three or four days in advance before the important match-just after playing the league, they will go directly to the away game to prepare for the Champions League game. Then naturally you have to bring all the players.
Of course, bringing all the players has requirements on the financial situation of the team. After all, there are a lot of people, and the cost of air tickets, transportation, and accommodation will increase a lot.
Therefore, this practice of the entire team going away is only the rich team often playing this way.
This may also be one of the reasons why giant teams performed better than ordinary teams in the European war. After all, logistical ability is also an important part of combat effectiveness.
Economic pressure is no longer a problem for Leeds today.
Since Hu Lai became a player of this team, Chinese companies have been waving their checkbooks to come to the door.
After winning the Premier League title in Leeds and Hu Lai's aspiration for the Premier League Golden Boot, this situation intensified.
This summer, the executives of the Leeds City Club have been busy negotiating cooperation and signing contracts with Chinese companies.
They can’t control the sideline billboards at home in Flanders-all the sideline billboards in the Premier League belong to William Daley, an advertising company. The club can't control how much they sell-but the training base They can sell their billboards.
So outside the training ground of the first team in Leeds, there was a circle of billboards, all with the logos of Chinese companies. In addition to billboards, signs of Chinese companies have also appeared on various buildings in the training base.
In addition, there are advertisements for various positions of the jersey, front chest advertisements for training uniforms, and back advertisements...Even the naming rights of their home Flanders boxes have been sold to Chinese companies. So when the VIPs come to the Flanders stadium to watch the game, they will enter the "× is the box", "the Chinese × × bank box", "the collar × car box", "the × Ning box" grid × box"...
These boxes are more than just the brand names of Chinese companies.
There will be corporate LOGO on the door, and corporate LOGO and promotional posters on the wall inside the box.
If you give a lot of money, even the decoration style and color scheme in the box can be customized according to the requirements of the company...
In addition, the Flanders Stadium is also the first stadium in the Premier League to include Chinese characters on all text signs. In order to facilitate those Chinese fans who came to the Flanders Stadium to watch the Hulai match at the same time to visit the stadium.
The British media ridiculed the practice of Leeds City’s all-round worshipping of Chinese capital:
When I went to the Leeds City training base for an interview and visited the Flanders Stadium, I was stupefied thinking that I had crossed thousands of miles of time and space. Being in China and visiting a Chinese football club... The only thing that made me play is that the staff there still speak English. I suggest that the Leeds City Club should strengthen staff training so that they can learn fluent Chinese as soon as possible. About this One point, they might be able to learn from Hu how he quickly mastered many foreign languages..."
In the face of such ridicule, the Leeds City Club "is not ashamed, but proud" and continues to run wild on the road to "sinicization" and never return.
They even plan to open their surrounding authorized stores to China to facilitate those Chinese fans who want to own Leeds City jerseys and surroundings, but cannot come to the UK.
The media has ignored the question of which country's blood is flowing in their bodies.
No way, who would let the Chinese give too much?
It is meaningless to entangle the question of "surname capital or society".
Leeds, whose wallets are swollen, also has the strength to make all first-team players go to the away game in the Champions League ~EbookFREE.me~ to the distant but not romantic Turkey.
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PS, come back, the plateau is really tossing people. I didn't sleep well in the first two nights. I finally got used to the altitude, and after I was able to barely sleep well, I got diarrhea again...
However, I still saw a lot of shocking scenery along the way, which is a worthwhile trip.
Going home with the sequelae of diarrhea, continue to collect code words, and resume two updates on August 1st~
Thank you for your understanding and support!
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