Football's Number One Madman

Chapter 124 I'm Not a Little White Rabbit!

10 o'clock exactly.

While Lee Polo and his interpreter were just enjoying the food, Valencia coach Nuno Santo was already in the office for the first meeting of the coaching staff of the new season.

"I hope you all had a good holiday, and a new challenge is coming soon."

The 41-year-old marshal didn't talk too much nonsense, and first pointed to another guy standing opposite:
"This is our new member, Phil Neville, and his experience... shouldn't need much introduction."

Phil Neville, referred to as Xiao Nei, one of the members of Manchester United's "Class of 92", Gary Neville's younger brother, played for Manchester United and Everton successively. After retiring, he briefly served as the assistant coach of Manchester United, assisting Ferguson's succession Seeing that Moyes would not be a big deal, he joined Sky TV and became a football commentator.

Relying on his personal friendship with Peter Lin, he parachuted into the coaching staff. From another perspective, this is a manifestation of the power struggle within the club.

The others greeted little Neville politely, and quickly got into the subject.

His first assistant, Portuguese fellow Rui Pedro Silva, holds a big list:

"Alves and Gomez are still recovering from their injuries and cannot return to the team for the time being. However, Otamendi's agent has clearly informed us that he is determined to go to Manchester. For this reason, Manchester City has initiated the buyout process, and we can do nothing about it. .”

Nuno was not surprised:

"Then follow the procedure. It's a pity that we lost the main central defender and two midfielders, but we also signed more quality players."

He cleared his throat and began to look to the future:
"Last season we achieved the best results in recent years, fourth in the league, and the club's top management are very satisfied. In the new season, our basic goal is to keep this ranking and make some progress, but before that, We have another task, which is to win the Champions League qualification play-offs and officially enter the highest competition in football!"

Rui Pedro looked at the schedule and explained to the other members:

"Our opponent is Monaco in Ligue 8, first away and then host, on August 19th and 25th respectively, and on the 22nd, we will play the first league game against Vallecano, which is equivalent to 7 days Playing three games in a row is not an easy schedule for the start of the new season."

Nuno nodded in agreement:
"Ruy is right. Although today is only July 7th, there are still more than 7 days of preparation time before the first game, but you all know that for the club's operation plan, we will conduct two commercial games in Asia. , and then go to Germany to participate in an invitational match, as well as a friendly match with a local low-level team, the time left for us to seriously prepare for the game is not as rich as imagined."

A room full of people showed expressions of understanding.

Just listen to him continue:

"Today is the report day, and there is no need for too much training. Let's test the basic physical fitness of all the players first. I don't want to see someone gain 20 pounds during the holiday!"
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At 10:20, Lee Polo, who hastily ate a snack, returned to the training base 10 minutes early.

In the players' locker room, he found a vacant position, quickly changed into his training uniform, and followed the voices to the training ground.

A lot of players have gathered in this field. While doing basic stretching exercises, they communicate with each other about their holiday life in twos and threes. Unfortunately, Lee Polo, who has only studied Spanish for three days, can’t understand their conversation at all. ——He couldn't let Lopez translate these chats that had nothing to do with him.

Seeing Li Poluo enter the training ground with an interpreter, those players were a little strange, and after whispering a few words to each other, they all shook their heads.

"Guys, heard the club bought a player from England's fourth tier?"

Their midfielder Pablo Piatti uttered a strange cry:

"Is the level of La Liga the same as that of League Two?"

Probably bullying Lee Polo for not being able to understand, those players all laughed.

Another player coughed, stopped their jeers, and walked towards Lee Polo:
"Hello, I'm Daniel Parejo, captain of the team. I'm glad you joined Valencia."

Li Poluo barely understood his welcome speech, and reached out to shake his hand:
"Thank you, I'm Lee Polo, you can call me by my name——Polo."

After deciding to join Valencia, Li Polo of course also paid attention to his new club. He deliberately found the team's first-team lineup from the Internet and had a general understanding of his teammates for the new season.

As Allen said before, apart from the local Spanish players in Valencia's team, they are basically Argentine or Portuguese players. As a Chinese-British guy, he really stands out from the crowd.

For example, midfielders Piatti, Enzo Perez, DePaul and others are all from Argentina.

The average age of this team is not high, and they are generally in their prime. Only Negredo and Fuego are over 30 years old.

In contrast, Lee Polo, who was born in 94, is no longer the youngest group of players. There are several players in the team in 95, 96, and 97-of course, they are mainly youth training players.

Captain Parejo, who was born in 1989, is only 5 years older than Li Polo.

However, among this group of players, except for Otamendi, who has clearly stated that he will transfer to Manchester City through the strikeout method, only Mustafi is a regular player of the national team. Never entered.

But this is also easy to understand. Spain has been the hegemony of football for a long time in the past. Their national team has long been full of talents and overcrowded. Although Argentina has never won the championship, it has never lacked talented players, that is, the defense. The starlight was a little dim, which made Otamendi play the main force.

Parejo gave full play to his duties as the captain, leading the new teammates to greet the old players one by one. Although Li Polo tried his best to make his greetings appear warm, those teammates always showed a hint of disdain and perseverance.

In the football world, cooking is the biggest sin.

So Lee Polo decided to show his cards.

He doesn't want to pretend to be a warm, friendly, harmless little white rabbit anymore!

"Sorry, I didn't introduce clearly just now."

He stood opposite all his teammates and began to recite the prepared lines in advance:
"I'm Lee Polo, a member of the FA Cup, League Cup, UK Championship, League Two championship team, and... the MVP of the above four competitions."

He took a short breath and saw that the expressions of some teammates had changed significantly.

The League Two and the British Championships are indeed low-level events, but the champions of the FA Cup and League Cup cannot be ignored!

You know, even if it is the domestic cup champion, Valencia has not touched it for seven or eight years!

What qualifications do they have to despise the FA Cup champion and MVP?

Just listen to Li Poluo continue to introduce his resume:

"I defeated some teams last season. You may have heard some of the names, such as Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham, Chelsea. The players I played against were relatively ordinary, only Harry Kane, Alek Cis Sanchez, Diego Costa, Eden Hazard, Gerrard are still a little famous, but they are still far from Ronaldo and Messi who played in Spain."

"Yes, I'm a defender, but I score occasionally. Last season, I scored 41 goals and hopefully this season will improve."

He looked at those dumbfounded new teammates, and felt a little pleasure in his heart.

He then concluded his self-introduction:
"I have only played professional football for one year, and I am still a novice. Please take care of me!"

[Negative emotions from Parejo, +1]

[Rodriguez, +1]

[Vizzo, +1]

[Piatti, +2]

[Mustafi, +2]

[Fuego, +1]

[Gaya, +1]

[Fuguli, +1]

[Gomez, +1]

[Cancello, +1]

[Baragan, +1]

[Paco, +2]

[Negredo, +2]

……

Li Boluo shook his head again and again.

[This meeting gift is too stingy! 】

[If a newcomer speaks like this, do you only have such a little reaction? 】

[Is my meticulously prepared manuscript not proficient enough? 】

In this wave of negative sentiment, the last message is particularly eye-catching:
[Negative emotions from Nuno Santo, +2! 】

Li Boluo turned around in astonishment, and saw the head coach of the new team leading other members towards him.

(End of this chapter)