Fox in the Penalty Area

Hu Lai changed into his training clothes in the locker room, followed his teammates to the training ground, talking and laughing, and was ready to start a new day of training.

After the away game against the Stan Park Rangers, everyone is in a good mood. The atmosphere inside the team is unprecedentedly relaxed and comfortable.

The biggest goal of this season - relegation - has been completed. Judging from the team's current points and rankings, there is still a great possibility of qualifying for the Champions League next season.

For them, the rest of the season is no different than entering the holidays early.

Thinking about it again, if you finally qualify for the Champions League, the bonus will definitely be indispensable.

Everyone is naturally relaxed and happy.

This kind of ease and joy is reflected in daily training, and everyone is talking and laughing.

It's not like before, I feel that the training is very hard.

Although the training intensity has not decreased.

After the players came to the training ground, the training had not yet started. They continued to chat while making preparations before training.

Until assistant coach Sam Randyll signaled everyone to assemble with a whistle.

When all the players were assembled, coach Clark announced a new message to them:

"We beat the Stan Park Rangers on the road, which proved a few things - first, Stan Park is not 'undefeated at home'; second, Stan Park Rangers are not undefeated; Ability to compete with the league's number one defending champion!"

Clark held up three fingers.

Because of the tactical manual, everyone has now formed a conditioned reflex to the boss's gesture of raising his hand and fingers. As soon as I see the boss raising his hand, I will count how many fingers the boss has raised.

But this time Clark's hand gesture simply means the number three, without any other special meaning.

"Since we have the ability, why don't we try to go further? Our original goal this season was to avoid relegation, but we didn't expect that we would complete this goal ahead of schedule in half a season. Then... what should we do next? I've talked to you guys about this before, and that conversation was successful. Because we beat the Stan Park Rangers on the road next. But in my opinion, it was just an impromptu conversation. It's not possible to talk before every game. Do you want me to emphasize the importance of 'pursuing victory' to you again? I'm afraid you will find me annoying..."

Clark spread his hands.

The players were a little confused and didn't understand what the head coach was saying to them.

Some of them turned their eyes to the other coaches behind the head coach, as if trying to guess some useful information from the expressions of those coaches.

But they just saw a group of serious coaches, and couldn't guess anything from it.

Soon Clark himself revealed the answer.

"After that game away at Stan Park Rangers, I realized we can do more than anyone else thinks. So why don't we try ... to compete for the league title?"

When Clark said these words, he stared at the Leeds City players present, intending to read their true thoughts from their faces.

He did see something.

Most people's first reaction is to stare wide-eyed in surprise.

This is human nature.

Then someone became excited, and the whole person's eyes lit up.

But some people frowned slightly, seeming a little distressed.

Some people seemed to have not recovered from the news that the team was going to win the championship, and kept looking shocked.

Everyone's different expressions must represent their different thoughts. Clark tried his best to remember the reactions of these people in his heart, and found a result that made him somewhat gratified.

That is, the vast majority of players are still excited about this goal, instead of frowning when they hear it, thinking that his head coach has put too much pressure on them, and the goal of winning the championship is unrealistic...

Especially those young players, their interest in the championship is obviously greater than that of the older players.

After seeing the excited expressions on the faces of Holly, Williams, Porter, Kamara and others, Clark heaved a sigh of relief, knowing that this matter could be done.

After giving the players time to digest the news and allowing himself to fully observe the players' reactions, Clarke continued:

"I know beating Stan Park Rangers in a single game is a different thing than beating Stan Park Rangers in an entire season of title contention. But I think it's important that we qualify to try and challenge each other. We're not Blind self-confidence, but backed by actual combat results - when some of you doubt that you can't do it, then think about how we beat the Stan Park Rangers at the 'undefeated home' in the last round of the league Invincible myth?

"I'm making this goal public now in the hope that everyone will be united and there will be no differences. Only in this way can we truly achieve our goals in the league. Simply put, it is to make 'winning' a consensus for all of us, and It's not me alone, or the 'goal' set by the club management. To be honest, we didn't think about the current situation at all at the beginning of the season, so we didn't set a championship bonus...Of course, the club will definitely Will come up with a championship bonus package. But I still have to say, even if there is no extra bonus, can we not fight for the championship?

"As I said before, professional players are born to pursue victory. Professional players are also born to pursue championships. Regardless of their strength, whether this championship can be won or not does not hinder our desire to win the championship. Thoughts. If you all agree to fight for the championship in the rest of the season, then our training content will be slightly adjusted to ensure that we can still have plenty of physical fitness when we sprint in the final league..."

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Clark's speech has ended, and the players are warming up under the leadership of assistant coaches and physical coaches.

During the warm-up, the players got together in groups of three and four, discussing excitedly what the boss had just said while warming up.

"League champion! The boss really dares to think about it! But think about it carefully... we can indeed compete with the Stan Park Rangers for the championship..."

"That's right, and even if we lose the championship, we have nothing to lose. Anyway, we have achieved the biggest goal of this season. I think we can really try!"

"Now when I think about how we will celebrate if we win the league championship, I get excited! When I go to the nightclub again, those beauties will definitely be eager to throw themselves into my arms, hey!"

"Charlie, don't even think about it. Even if you win the Champions League, women will not take the initiative to throw themselves into your arms. Your matter has nothing to do with the championship, really..."

"Hu, what qualifications do you have to say about me? You are a virgin who doesn't even have a girlfriend!"

Hu Lai touched Williams and Kamara on the left and right: "Hey, guys, Charlie looks down on you! Let me just say that I am not a picky person, two. But if this matter changes It's on my head, I can't bear it..."

"FUCK, Hu!" Charlie Potter angrily scolded Hu Lai, who was so instigating.

Unmoved, Williams glanced at him: "Isn't this on your head now, Hu?"

Kamala showed a slightly proud smile: "I'm not a virgin, Hu."

"???" Not only Hu Lai, this time even Charlie Potter, Williams and other people around looked at Kamala with wide eyes.

"My first girlfriend and I were when I was fifteen..." Kamala has learned English for half a season, and has made some progress, but he is still not fluent, but everyone knows what he said. understood.

Charlie Potter's eyes widened, and he looked at Kamala with his mouth gaping like a clown.

Hu Lai was also surprised and turned to look at Kamala.

This kid is the youngest among them, but unexpectedly, he was the first to commit suicide...

"Damn it! Ismael, you are fifteen years old... so your girlfriend is even younger? You have committed a crime. I will tell you, Ismael, you have committed a crime!" Potter pointed at Kamala seriously. said.

Kamala shook her head: "My first girlfriend was five years older than me..."

"Oh - my God!"

"my God!"

"Kamala, I really didn't know you were okay with this bite!"

Amid the booing and howling of teammates around him, Williams raised his arms: "End of this topic, guys. Or we will let Ismael play it all!"

They heard the term "pretentious" from Hu Lai, and they also learned a new English word from Hu Lai: Zhuangbility.

Now they can use the imported word "pretentious" very skillfully to express themselves.

Sure enough, when he said that, the others understood what he meant and burst out laughing.

The laughter of the young people echoed over the training ground.

The coaches who were placing training props in other places on the training ground were all attracted by the laughter, they all stopped their work and turned their heads to look.

Clark also cast his gaze in the direction of the laughter, with a smile on his face.

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The players finished their warm-ups and returned to the court to prepare for training. Assistant coach Sam Randyll also returned to the side of head coach Tony Clark.

The latter looked at the players who were about to start training and said with emotion: "These young people are so kind! I thought they would be frightened when they heard that they were going to win the championship, and they would be so nervous that they couldn't know what to do... I didn't expect them to laugh out excitedly. Voice……"

Randyll frowned at him.

"What's the matter, Sam?"

"I don't want to pour cold water on you, Tony. But... well, they didn't laugh because they won the championship." Randyer, who had just led the team to warm up, said, "They were talking about Kamara losing at fifteen. The virginity thing..."

Clark was stunned when he heard the words, and he laughed again after a long time: "Ha! Isn't that better, Sam? This fully shows that the goal of winning the championship has not brought any pressure to them!"

As he spoke, he cast his gratified eyes on those players.

"Sam, I'm getting more and more confident in reaching my goals now!"

Randall complained: "Your confidence is really inexplicable..."