Fox in the Penalty Area

The transfer matter is settled.

Because of the discussions these days, I will simply say a few words.

Here are my views from the author's point of view:

First of all, the transfer to the Madrid Pirates was not a temporary idea, nor a blunt turning point.

Rather, it was finalized while I was conceiving the second half of the book.

It will definitely go to the Pirates, so Li Qingqing moved to the King of Madrid, because he wanted to have two people in the same city, but not on the same team—why not on the same team? Because I don't want to write it that way, I don't think it's interesting, it's not dramatic.

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The second point, since you decided to go pirate, why didn't you lay the groundwork in advance, making it like a surprise attack?

In fact, I paved the way, but not a lot.

The first time the Madrid Pirates appeared as a team name was in the fourth volume, and the first time it was related to Hou Lai was after Hou Lai beat Tramed and helped Leeds City reach the top of the Premier League. Pirates fans online The message said that he was very happy that Hu Lai did not go to the King of Madrid, otherwise he would not be able to see this wonderful goal now.

At that time, I remember some readers guessed whether Hu Lai was going to pirate.

I think at least from that time, not many people think that Hu Lai will definitely go to the King of Madrid, which is completely different from the public opinion that "if you don't go to the King of Madrid, you are a big poison" these days.

Also during the World Cup, pirates were mentioned.

Before the Europa League final, it was also mentioned that the Pirates were the last champions.

The foreshadowing must have been foreshadowed, but judging from the reactions of many of you, it is just that the foreshadowing is not enough, and the expression of meaning is not obvious enough.

This is my problem, but I also want to explain why I am doing this.

Because I didn't want to show the intention of "Hu Lai will definitely go to Madrid Pirates" from the beginning.

I just expressed the possibility that he would definitely not go to the King of Madrid through the rivalry between him and Meli. Everything the King of Madrid did in the later period was like an old general on the stage, constantly planting flags for himself...

Why don't I want to point out which team Hou Lai will go to at the beginning?

Because I think Hu Lai himself doesn't know where he's going next, he just knows where he won't go.

Even if he transfers to the Madrid Pirates now,

It doesn't mean that the pirate is his "right man".

I will write this point in the novel later: that is, he himself is not sure whether it is right to go to the Madrid Pirates. At the beginning, he was not sure whether he could definitely succeed in this strange giant team.

Of course he will work hard to achieve success, but everyone knows that football matters cannot be determined by whether you work hard or not.

So it's normal for him to think this way. Of course, as the story progresses, he will gradually complement each other with the Madrid pirates. But I don't want to write the kind of story where everyone can see the future path from the beginning without fluctuations.

Hou Lai will definitely succeed in the Madrid Pirates, but this success is achieved through his own efforts and through ups and downs. Instead of making everyone think that he went to a team like Leeds City, where the whole team revolves around him, from the boss to the fans, they take special care of the team.

So before deciding to transfer to the Madrid Pirates, theoretically speaking, Hu Lai can go to the giants in Europe.

People in the book world don't know which team Hu Lai will choose in the end, and the Madrid Pirates themselves don't know, nor do they persevere in pursuing Hu Lai like Leeds City did at the beginning, as if Hu Lai was their "true life" Just like the Son of Heaven, he will not give up until he catches up with him.

I didn't write any of these things.

In fact, if we really want to lay the groundwork, according to my habits and routines, it should be arranged for Leeds City and Madrid Pirates to meet in the Champions League, and then Hu Lai led the team to defeat the Madrid Pirates after two rounds of hard work, leaving a deep impression on the opponent. Impression, conquered the Madrid Pirates Club executives and team coaches, as well as players.

Seeing this, everyone must know that Hu Lai is going to the Madrid Pirates.

In the end, it was logical to transfer to the Madrid Pirates.

Just like the previous book "Green Forest".

Although the routine is repeated, it is indeed a very mature routine. There is no problem, no controversy, and no problem when it is written.

But I really don't want to write like that.

What I have always insisted on in this book is to describe as little as possible about the protagonist, or the teams and people that have nothing to do with the protagonist group, as if they are all hidden in the shadows before opening the map. And as the protagonist group explored the world, they established a relationship with the protagonist group, which gradually surfaced and came to the stage one by one.

Why do you want to do this?

Because no matter how many people complain that I just changed the name, I really rebuilt a lot of things in this book. Unlike the real football world, once a new character or team comes on the scene, I have to introduce enough details to let readers know what it is.

And if it's real football, I just need to throw out a name, and everyone will know the rest.

For example, when I wrote that Hu Lai and Li Qingqing were at home watching Leeds City challenge Warship Harbor away, I specifically wrote about the history of Warship Harbor in detail.

I wrote about Leeds City's Europa League challenge to London Bridge, and also wrote about the history of London Bridge's home court in detail.

For me, this is all information that must be written, because if you don't write it, everyone will really have no sense of substitution. In other words, I personally think that this world is not finished, it is a bad project.

But in fact, after I wrote this, someone said in the comments, "Why are you writing this?" "Are we here to see the history of London Bridge's home court?"

So obviously, there are some things that I think are must-haves, but are really thankless.

Therefore, in order not to overwhelm Jinshan, I adopted the principle of "whatever the protagonist group comes into contact with, what to write again, how much to touch, how much to write again".

Some people will say: You can make this a setting set and release it separately for us to see.

I won’t talk about how many people read the list of characters in the work after each volume is written, but I will talk about a very realistic reason-I haven’t listed the names of all the teams in the five major European leagues. , history, jersey color, and home information are all done.

If the protagonist group has not been in contact with those teams, then it is actually unnecessary to finish all of them.

Because the workload is really too big, for a naming waste like me, every time I think of a name for a team, I have to scratch my head.

Not to mention that I have to figure out their past and present lives for each team. At the same time, I have to try not to completely copy the real team, but only learn from it, and then incorporate other content into it according to the needs of the plot.

Take the King of Madrid as an example. Some people say that even a fool can tell that you are Real Madrid. Why don't you write Villarreal as a giant?

But the problem is that most of the rich teams were originally born in economically developed areas and important cities.

Madrid is the capital of Spain, the political and economic center, and its GDP accounts for 17% of the country. How can there be no giants in such a city?

Will the appearance of a wealthy family be associated with Real Madrid?

But what I wrote is not Real Madrid, and I can’t choose my origin. I can only add details in other places to distinguish it from Real Madrid in reality.

For example, highlighting the attributes of the top giants and highlighting the ruthless characteristics.

And Tramed, and the Stan Park Rangers.

One of them is in Manchester and the other is in Liverpool.

Those who know the ball know the prototype more or less at a glance.

But one is an industrial city, and the other is a port city, which is a good place for the birth of a football team. With a developed economy, it is only natural for wealthy families to emerge.

But it cannot be said that one is that and the other is that.

For low-level league teams, such as the team coached by Tony Clark, Hammond Castle, I can completely make it up and make it out of nothing, because there are not many roles and it has no impact on the entire European football structure. Therefore, such a team does not need to be carefully set, and can only take one name.

But when it comes to the top leagues, the five major leagues in Europe, you can't just take the name, and don't make other settings.

The difficulty of this project can be imagined.

So I haven't finished it yet, and I follow Hu Lai and the others to complete it bit by bit and set it up bit by bit.

If there are friends who know European football well, are good at and like to make settings, you can also try to do this work in the book review area. If it is suitable, I will choose it directly, and I will save myself from bothering.

In fact, not only the Madrid Pirates, but also giant teams such as the Turin Bulls, Blue and White Munich, Insubre, and Ruhr Rhein have no role in my previous article, and they played quite a few games. The reason is basically the same - it has little to do with the protagonist, so I won't mention it in detail.

If Hou Lai did not go to the Madrid Pirates in the end, but went to the Turin Bulls and Insubre, then I will start to introduce the history, current situation and other information of this team in detail.

Therefore, people say that I have little foreshadowing and not enough foreshadowing. I admit it. On the one hand, it is because of my obsession with writing, and on the other hand, it is because of my lack of consideration.

But if you have to say that I am 0 foreshadowing, God's turning or something, I absolutely cannot accept it. To say that I never even mentioned the name "Madrid Pirates" before, in order not to go to the King of Madrid, suddenly a Madrid King's city rival Madrid Pirates popped up. admit.

Not so now.

There is foreshadowing, for the reasons I said before, there is little foreshadowing.

Of course, with Hu Lai's transfer to join the Madrid Pirates, more about this team will naturally be shown to everyone.

In fact, in my own setting collection, I still did a lot of setting work about this team.

Such as the origin of the team, team culture, home court, training base, jersey color, celebrity, team song, fan composition, specific grievances with the King of Madrid...etc. It's just that there is no need to throw out all the brains, but gradually show it to everyone as the story progresses and from Hu Lai's perspective.

So when you see the introduction of the Madrid Pirates, don't say "just hard round".

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The third point, since you don’t go to the King of Madrid, why did you write so many Kings of Madrid before?

Because I want the King of Madrid to be the boss...

Since it is a big boss, how can I describe it without spending pen and ink? Is it all over with the phrase "The King of Madrid is a top giant"?

Note, it's the BOSS, not the villain.

For example, I wrote about the King of Madrid's pursuit of Hu Lai, which shows their sincerity. From the perspective of the King of Madrid Club, it is impeccable.

Even if Hu Lai rejected him, he didn't speak harshly, and still maintained the demeanor of a wealthy family.

I wrote this just because I didn't want to write the big boss as a buffoon. I really didn't want Hu Lai to go to the King of Madrid.

Hu Lai decided not to go to the King of Madrid when he went to Leeds.

As for what made Francis get in touch, it was just a dramatic way of dealing with it—everyone thought that the King of Madrid was determined to win Hu Lai, and they were confident in writing the King of Madrid, but the result was nothing.

Written in this way, on the one hand, it can reflect the importance that the King of Madrid attaches to Hou Lai, and at the same time, it can highlight Hou Lai's current status and strength in European football.

On the other hand, it can also show the behavior style of this top giant, domineering and tough. "Any player we like, there is no one who can't take it down!"

As they say themselves: "The best players should play for the Kings."

Some people also said that if you want to compete with Meli, you can also compete with each other on the same team.

It also makes sense, maybe I will write similar plots in my future novels, such as two people who are friends and join a wealthy family at the same time, and then realize the cruelty of competition among the wealthy families, from friends to competitors, and then fight each other Male and female... or something.

It also happens in real football. The battle between Neymar and Messi for the top card in Barcelona ended with Neymar leaving Barcelona. As a result, who would have thought that Messi would be forced to leave by Barcelona and become teammates with Neymar again-this is the plot of a novel!

But I don't intend to do that in this book.

Hu Lai is not the kind of person who wants to be friends with Melly. At least in the current plot, he just regards Melly as an opponent.

There are many kinds of competition, and competition within the team is one, so why not just go directly to rivals?

It is acceptable to go to the king, but not to go to the pirates?

In fact, there is no right or wrong in these two ways. You can think that going to the king is good, but you can't think that going to Madrid pirates is poison.

For example, you said that Hu Lai's going to the Madrid Pirates was not prepared enough and it was uncomfortable to watch. I understand this, no problem.

But if you say that if Hu Lai does not go to the king to win the championship, but to go to the pirates to challenge the king is a big poison, and the writing is broken, then I think you are talking nonsense-who stipulates that what you think is right?

There is an audience for winning the championship together, and there is an audience for challenging the king.

If I wrote that Hu Lai went to the King of Madrid and Meli to win the championship together and crush Europe, believe it or not, many people would come out and express that they could not accept it?

Before, some readers expressed that they did not want Hu Lai to go to the king.

Then who do I listen to?

Otherwise, if you fight first, whoever wins I will follow whose instructions?

Is it plausible?

This is a novel I wrote, and I, the author, have to consider how I write it.

I don't want to write the King of Madrid as a buffoon, so the image of the King of Madrid is quite positive. But it doesn't mean that Hu Lai has to go to the King of Madrid. If he doesn't go, he will be poisoned.

There is no such strong buying and selling.

Then for all the teams in my book that have a crush on the protagonist, does the protagonist have to go?

Just count the rounds of the five major leagues...

Every character and every team in the book has its own temper and personality, and they are not tool people attached to the protagonist.

The club that pursues the protagonist isn't a stallion in rut either.

After they have shown their positions and attitudes, they cannot control the outcome. No matter what the result is, they can only accept it.

Just like the real world, isn't this reason easy to understand?

Some people say that Hu Lai looks down on the rich.

Sorry, really not.

I didn't write that Hou Lai looked down on the King of Madrid throughout the article, he just didn't want to be teammates with Meli.

Besides, the pirates are also rich, so why do they look down on the rich when Hu Lai is gone?

The king of Madrid is the only rich family in the world, right?

That's right, the King of Madrid is "the richest of the rich", but it doesn't mean that other teams are ants, and the King of Madrid can pinch them casually.

They are just not as brilliant as the King of Madrid in history, but they may not be as brilliant as the King of Madrid in the present.

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In the end, the above is the billion-point explanation about this transfer and my thinking when writing.

I hope it can help you understand this novel.

Of course, if you really can’t understand it, you can’t accept that Hu Lai went to the Madrid Pirates. If you don’t want to watch it, I also accept it.

Just as readers cannot force the author to write a book according to his wishes, the author cannot force the reader to read his own book.

It's easy to get together and go away.

But if you still want to scold "it's poison, it's poison", "the writing is broken", "the talent is exhausted", then I'm sorry, I can only delete the post, after all, I don't want to affect the mood of my own writing and other readers' reading.

Finally, to those readers who are still willing to stay:

Entering the new environment, in order to write clearly what I want to write, and to make these new characters stand up, I will spend a lot of time writing daily, and will not enter the game soon.

So please take it easy.

More than four million words have come, and I know the style of this book, so it's not too short of time.

I am an old-school person, and I still believe in "slow work leads to careful work"...

Thank you everyone!

Please read the book.