Chapter 205: The Madman's Helplessness and Xiaoliang's Dream
After the 29th round of the league, the results are as follows:
Napoli beat Verona 1-2 away, and Juventus, who beat Sampdoria 1-3 away, continued to rank 4th and 5th with 56 points;
AC Milan is advancing triumphantly, beating Empoli 1-0 at San Siro, accumulating 65 points, 5 points ahead of second-placed Roma.
Inter Milan also failed to get all three points away from home, tied with Torino 1-1, and now has 56 points, ranking third;
Although Lazio has moved up to sixth place with 46 points after defeating Venice 1-0, the gap between it and fifth-placed Juventus has widened by 10 points.
Since then, the first group has been completely formed and the competition for the top four has become extremely fierce.
Roma is currently in second place with a 4-point lead, but the 56 points between 3rd and 5th place means that any disturbance will instantly cause them to fall out of the Champions League zone.
This away draw only allowed Chen Xiaoliang to complete the two tasks of [entering the roster] and [appearing in the game], and he got 3 hours of training value, which was basically a waste of time...
Training value 0→3
However, there have been a lot of news in recent days, some of which are exciting, some are vaguely disturbing, and some are shocking to the world.
The players who returned to Rome and to the Trigoria training base met a "strange" old acquaintance.
Especially for new players like Chen Xiaoliang and Cesco, this was the first time they met this veteran player of the team.
Spinazzola, the left-back who shined in the European Cup, returned to the training ground and practiced with the team after a 9-month ligament tear injury.
His return will undoubtedly greatly alleviate the team's predicament in the use of full-backs.
But we will have to wait a little longer.
After lying in bed for more than half a year, he only did low-intensity muscle training in the gym for two months. Now he is back on the court and needs at least a month of comprehensive recovery training and ball training.
Although he cannot help the team immediately, the return of the general is a positive stimulus for all players.
Similarly, the team's excellent record also gave Spinazzola great encouragement. He was very eager to return to the court and play with these new teammates who had never fought side by side with him but led the team to launch a counterattack.
Mourinho calculated the time and the report from the team doctor estimated that Celik's injury would last about 20 days. By then, the team's two wings would be able to welcome back the main players, and the three-line battle would have entered the most critical final stage.
After the happy thing, something happened that made Mourinho secretly angry and Chen Xiaoliang speechless.
Gian, a young player praised by the media as a possible candidate for Roma's 30-man list of Golden Boy and Copa Awards in 2022, was found to frequently go to nightclubs with Diawara and Santon, who were sidelined by Mourinho and placed in the reserve team .
Mourinho, who is decisive in killing, has played countless tricks on people and is best at catching traitors, is really helpless against these two people.
Diawara trained peacefully with the reserve team, never being late or leaving early. Although he was not very active in training, he always completed whatever the coach asked him to do.
In Italy, a European country that is considered "lazy and gluttonous" by the hardworking Chinese people, corporal punishment is absolutely impossible.
What if a head coach is unhappy with a player and makes him run 10,000 meters more during training every day as punishment? The player asks his agent to file a lawsuit, and the lawsuit is always successful.
Besides, Diawara has already signed a transfer agreement with Belgian club Anderlecht under the constant persuasion of club director Pinto, and will leave at the end of the season for a bargain price of 1.5 million euros, so there is no need for the team to "deal with" him anymore.
And another player, Thornton, is even better.
The Italian full-back became famous at a young age and was promoted to the first team by Mourinho during his time at Inter Milan. After moving to several clubs, he fell into decline.
For anyone, becoming famous at a young age is a double-edged sword, especially for athletes. At the age of 18, when puberty has not yet completely passed and hormones are super strong, they are brought to the platform that everyone is paying attention to, given well-known fame, and also receive far more money than ordinary people. However, what lies under their feet may not be a smooth road, but may very well be an abyss.
Hanging out in nightclubs, not taking care of his health, and wanting to live off his talent, Thornton is clearly not on the right track.
The 31-year-old player doesn't even need an agent. Apart from regular phone calls with the club, he spends the rest of his time "resting at home" due to injury.
It's obvious that what he calls "home" is most likely a place filled with alcohol, stereos and beautiful women.
But just like with Diawara, the club had no way to deal with him.
He has had three surgeries on his right knee, removing the cartilage inside and the entire outer meniscus.
Now, even if he does some light exercise, his entire knee will swell up and he may not even be able to bend it.
This is certainly due to luck, but it is also closely related to alcohol and a poor training attitude.
He has decided to retire at the end of the season in a one-on-one conversation with Mourinho, and emotionally stated that the best stage of his career was the starting years when he played for Inter Milan because the team won almost all the honors at that time.
Mourinho did not go to extremes and agreed to let him complete his contract this season in the form of "retirement".
However, these two people, whose minds were no longer on football, led Gian into a ditch when he was in the most critical period of his career.
According to the current social situation and secular norms in Europe, the head coach cannot and has no right to interfere with the personal lives of players outside of match dates and training time.
Being a football player is also a job, and the purpose of work is to make money and enjoy life. Almost 99% of the players cannot be as self-disciplined as Ronaldo, who does not drink alcohol, eat high-fat, high-calorie foods, or drink carbonated drinks.
But even so, it's not like Ronaldo never went to nightclubs when he was young.
In the second round of the Champions League that year, Manchester United defeated Roma 7-1 at home, which became a classic. After the previous round of Roma's home game, Ronaldo, Ferdinand and several other teammates "inspected" the eighth district of Rome for a while.
After all, nightclubs are one of the most common nightlife styles for Europeans, and Ronaldo is able to avoid drinking in nightclubs...
Many players, like Adriano, Ronaldinho, and even Gian in front of us, feel that they are in good health and energetic. They can play until 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, drink some wine, and still get up during the day. They will not be late for training and can perform well on the field.
After hearing Gian's explanation, Mourinho did not scold him in the office.
He knew very well that many things between a 60-year-old man and an 18-year-old child could not be resolved by anger.
He is patient and persuasive, just like the video released by reporters online a while ago, in which he counselled and persuaded Ali when he was at Tottenham, hoping to wake him up.
He told Gian many examples, including Cristiano Ronaldo, Zanetti, Giggs, and Beckham, who almost charmed all the women in the world.
Mourinho even pointed out mercilessly that a super handsome guy like Beckham, for whom countless women were willing to spend a lot of money just to spend a night with him, could keep himself clean and strictly disciplined for most of his career. So why would those women fall for a little brat like you, Gian? Isn't it because of your money?
Recently, Mourinho mentioned Son Heung-min and Chen Xiaoliang.
In his words, no matter how big the emotional intelligence problems of Koreans are, the habit of devilish training they have developed under the supervision of their fathers since childhood has shocked even Mourinho.
As for the latter, he even hoped that Gian could take the initiative to join Chen Xiaoliang's small training circle. Even if he could not achieve the same level as Chen Xiaoliang, it would be good enough if he could achieve half of Cesco's level.
The most exaggerated thing is that Mourinho even brought up the example of Benzema.
Like Zidane, as a Frenchman of Algerian descent, many people think that Benzema, who has three women around him, is a Muslin, but he is actually a Berber.
The difference here is that Muslings can have four wives but cannot drink alcohol, while Berbers can only have monogamy but can drink alcohol.
Mourinho has been very explicit. He said that Benzema doesn't even need to ask his teammates and friends, as they can see him showing off his luxury cars, drinking fine wines, and dating women on social networking sites.
He has a child with his ex-girlfriend and a child with his current wife, but he also has a current girlfriend who is open to the public and whose wife has no objection.
Although this may seem immoral to some Europeans, it is not illegal at all.
In most parts of Europe, there is no such thing as illegal cohabitation. Even in Ireland, a country with the strictest divorce regulations and a country that once actually banned divorce, living with your lover is completely legal.
Indeed, Benzema, who has a particularly vigorous lower body, does have an undisciplined private life. He once had a well-known affair with the famous American actress Rihanna. But the biggest difference between him and those players who linger in nightclubs and drink is that he knows that football is the foundation that gives him all the capital to squander.
Without his achievements in football, Benzema is nothing.
Therefore, whenever there is anything that conflicts with football, he will almost always put football first. The attitude and amount of training he shows in training are definitely worthy of being called a model player. Otherwise, he would not have been able to lead Real Madrid to a strong lead in the league this season and defeat strong opponents in the Champions League at the age of 35.
After talking for more than an hour, Jian, who was not good at speaking and was a little shy, became even more silent.
Mourinho didn't know whether he understood or was rebelling in his heart.
But he tried his best to tell the child in a tactful way about all the right and wrong things he had seen in his career.
The rest depends on his own luck.
Apart from these two football events, the only thing left was the event that shocked the world.
Russia and Ukraine are at war.
What's a bit ridiculous is that the club first learned about this matter through Riise.
Chen Xiaoliang once recommended Donetsk's full-back Duoduo to the club. Being at the center of the vortex, he learned about the bad news before the war started and took the initiative to contact Riise to ask if Roma was still willing to buy him. As long as they were willing to buy him, he was willing to reduce the price and salary, but the requirement was to sign the contract immediately and go to Rome immediately.
After communicating with Pinto, Riise could only reply Duoduo that after buying Celik, it was impossible for Roma to spend nearly 2,000 euros to buy another full-back.
What's more, the league is already in March and the registration period has long passed. Even if you buy it now, you won't be able to play in any games.
But what shocked Reese was that the natural gas field in Algeria purchased by Chen Xiaoliang and Boss Wu suddenly became a hot commodity.
Natural gas prices have risen significantly around the world.
Algeria, which has no gas pipeline to Europe, is the world's tenth largest natural gas producer and relies entirely on gas tanker shipping to transport the natural gas it produces to Europe.
As a result, one after another, cargo ships belonging to BW Global Shipping, the Wu family's family, which were specially used to transport liquefied natural gas, set out from the largest port in the north, Algiers, crossed the Tyrrhenian Sea to the port of Naples, and were then loaded by the special transport fleets under the "Godfather" and transported to gas tanks in various European countries.
Only then did Reese understand why the last time Chen Xiaoliang and Cesco went for a morning run they encountered a group of Mafia gang members from Naples, and why after they had been beaten up the Godfather not only sent people to rescue them, but also did not pursue the matter at all.
After all, even in Italy, the rule of "beating the dog, look at the owner" is still followed.
It turns out that when this guy was pushing for the purchase of the natural gas field, he also took the Godfather's business into account. Compared to this money, a player's transfer agency fee is just a drop in the bucket.
Reese couldn't help it and ran to Chen Xiaoliang's house to ask him.
Why do you know that buying gas fields can make money? You said you had informants and channels to buy people before, and now you have sources to sell natural gas, so does that mean you have a confederate in the Russian Ministry of Defense?
This is not a problem for Chen Xiaoliang, as he was a doctor in his previous life.
He talked to Reese about everything from Peter the Great to the collapse of the Soviet Union, from Crimea to Luhansk, and a long series of ancient and modern history and current politics. He spoke very logically and finally came to the conclusion that he had analyzed himself.
Reese was confused.
With his limited historical knowledge and a retired player's understanding of the world environment and international politics, he could not find a single point to refute or even doubt Chen Xiaoliang.
Not to mention Reese, even Helena and Erica who were listening to their conversation on the side opened their mouths wide, as if no matter what was stuffed into their mouths, they would still be filled with surprise, admiration, and astonishment and unable to recover.
He wanted to kneel down and kowtow to the Red Country kid in front of him, become his disciple on the spot, and ask him to teach him how to make money.
But once you make money, you have to spend it.
Reese asked Chen Xiaoliang with a smile what his next plan was. Actually, he wanted to see if this guy had any better ways to make money after making a lot of money.
However, Chen Xiaoliang's answer made Reese stunned at first, but gradually made the passion in his body burn.
"I want to buy a football club in the future."
"Like Beckham and Ronaldo?"
"Yes, like them."
"Have you found a target you like?"
"Yes, but it's still a long way off."
"Tell me about it?"
"I can only tell you that this team is much, much bigger than Inter Miami and Valladolid."
