Chapter 248: The road is one meter taller

It was still a crowded bar. Sawyer rubbed glasses that could never be wiped in front of the bar and poured wine for the guests. Chris was helping Sawyer. Michael and John's two best friends were bragging about drinking, and there were a lot of people around him.

"Get a drink for our Warriors! I wish them to kill those Turks away!" Michael raised his cup and shouted loudly.

His proposal was responded to by everyone. Although Leiden East only won the first victory in a month and a half in the last league, the fans did not lose their confidence and interest, as Sawyer has always said proudly: "We are different from those new guys! We don't like Leiden East because of our current results!"

In fact, Xiao Ming always wants to remind him that the new guys are like you, all fans of Leiden Oriental - and the team should do the most to please fans through victory, rather than just playing a mess of his own performance and shouting for fans to "I love you if I win, and I love you if I lose." Please, everyone is very busy now. Why do you want someone to come to see you if you don't play well?

Besides, Leiden City has only a population of 30,000 to 40,000. If it weren't for the 200,000 people in the Walthamsto area, half of them had become fans of Leiden Oriental, and many fans in the surrounding areas without top teams began to fall in love with Leiden Oriental, the home attendance rate on Brisbane Road would not have been so high.

John looked at Soya, who was obviously not in high spirits, with some strangeness: "What's wrong, Soya, what's upset?"

"I don't understand why Xiao didn't let us go to Istanbul to support the team. We are not football hooligans with bad records. Last time we went to Berlin, didn't we go with us? Was he still afraid that we would have a conflict with the other party?" Sawyer said depressedly.

"Yes, Xiao seemed very nervous this time, and even called in the newspaper that we should not go to Türkiye... just a away game, what else can there be." John was puzzled.

"What's the matter? He only brought the staff to the ones that must be taken. The boss seemed to be nervous about our safety." Chris said with a smile. After the end of last season, Chris had officially signed a contract with Leiden Oriental. In addition to serving in the Department of Commerce and Development, he also held a deputy position in the newly established Propaganda Department.

"Chris, I remember that every time I played away, Xiao would ask all the club staff to go away, unless he didn't want to go there. Is this different this time?" Michael asked Chris.

"That's right." Chris nodded. This time Xiao Ming led the team to Istanbul. Except for the players, coaches and team doctors, none of the other staff members brought any of them, but instead brought several security guards from the security department.

"The Turkish guys are all very savage. This time we want to avoid any conflict - of course, outside the court." Xiao Ming explained to everyone this way.

"I feel unhappy when our Warriors are playing on the court and the stands are hostile fans." John looks like a resentful woman from a wealthy family.

"The boss is also kind-hearted. After all, Turkey's fans are famous for their fandom, especially their home court. I heard that in 1993, Barcelona and AC Milan both suffered great losses in Istanbul, and their reputation has never been very good." Chris explained.

"We won't be afraid of anyone! Do you think so?" Michael shouted at the others in the bar, waving his fists.

Others didn't understand what Michael was trying to express. People who had almost drunk it started shouting, and a group of demons danced around.

"Seeing you like this, I know why the boss wants you to stop going." Chris covered his mouth and smiled secretly.

"What's wrong? I think they are very civilized." Sawyer regretted his daughter's words.

In the eyes of others, Xiao Ming was a little bit terrified and nervous, but Xiao Ming, who still remembers the notoriousness of Turkey's home court in later generations, is still worried about what will happen in Istanbul, especially because he is very familiar with Sawyer and the others. These people are not bad people, but they can easily cause disputes - he is worried that they will suffer like the two Leeds fans.

The most important thing is that Xiao Ming already knows how to deal with Galatasaray and is preparing to win a brilliant victory in this game. In order to avoid Galatasaray fans from venting their anger on the fans of Leiden Oriental when the team lost badly, Xiao Ming decided not to give Galatasaray fans any chance to vent on the field.

The Turkish person has a irritable personality. Trim, known as the "Emperor", is also a head coach with an irritable personality. None of the players he brought out is a good person. It is precisely because of this that Xiao Ming has more things to use - maybe Trim will use the players' tempers to make them more motivated to play, but what Xiao Ming hopes is that they will reveal more flaws that can be used by him in anger. After the last game, Xiao Ming has already provoked it for a little, and it will be seen when this powder barrel explodes.

But it is obvious that the Turks' outbreak was much earlier than Xiao Ming thought.

Since coming to Istanbul, Leiden East has begun to feel the "enterprise" of Turkish fans. Since getting off the plane, Leiden East fans have begun to endure the ubiquitous harassment of Turkish fans. Galatasaray sent their bus to pick them up and marked the identity of the person on it. So when driving from the airport to the hotel where they are staying, every Turkish fan who sees this bus will enthusiastically extend their middle fingers to the bus. What comes out of his mouth is what the players of Leiden East players can guess even if they don't understand it.

"Pull the curtains up, don't look at those ugly guys." Xiao Ming gave the order, and the players pulled the curtains up one after another. This action made Galatasaray fans think that they had won a brilliant victory - they didn't see these timid guys retreating!

"Do you know what I think after seeing their performance?" Xiao Ming asked all the players.

The players did not answer, but looked up at Xiao Ming.

"They are scared. Only those who are scared will use these ineffective means to prove their strength - to be honest, I was a little worried before coming to this ghost place. Now after seeing the performance of their fans, my worries have completely disappeared." Xiao Ming said with a smile.

The players burst into laughter, yes, the more pretentious people are, the more guilty they are - just like when fighting in a group, the fiercest people often shrink backwards when they start to take action.

"The boss is really a half-immortal."

Through the glass of the hotel, Sun Jihai sighed as he looked at the group of unknown people singing and shouting around the other side of the street.

"What is a semi-immortal?" Daniel and Gerald, who lived in the same house as him, asked at the same time.

"How to say it? It is someone who can predict what happens in the future... In China, such people will be called half immortals." Sun Jihai tried hard to explain to his two English teammates what "half immortals" are. Although Daniel is Chinese, even though he grew up in London, he can speak Chinese and is not clear about these names with strong Chinese characteristics: "If you give him money, he will tell you what will happen in the future. Although most of them are liars, some people are said to be very effective."

Gerald and Daniel glanced at each other.

"Astrologer." Gerald said, in his eyes it was a mysterious profession.

"Character." Daniel is an atheist.

Then the two pointed at Sun Jihai together: "Okay, you dare to say bad things about the boss!"

Sun Jihai is full of black lines. In China, he should be praised for his half-immortals. Why does it become bad things in the mouths of these two people...

"Promoting cultural exchanges between the East and the West is an imminent thing." Sun Jihai thought of making fun of his suffering.

In fact, not only Sun Jihai admires Xiao Ming very much, but everyone else in the club admires Xiao Ming very much.

Before the game started, Xiao Ming refused Galatasaray's action to help them book a hotel, but arranged in advance that people booked a hotel in the city of Istanbul. The location of this hotel is not very good, it is far from the stadium, the facilities are not first-class, and it is not even the best hotel in Istanbul. However, there is one thing that other hotels do not have. This hotel has more than a dozen completely soundproof rooms. In fact, Xiao Ming only had one requirement for the pioneers to book a hotel, that is, there must be a soundproof room.

You should know that even all the coaches and Xiao Ming himself lived in ordinary rooms because there were only a dozen soundproof rooms, and all the other rooms were given to the players.

At first, everyone thought that Xiao Ming was too terrible to do this - but after ten o'clock the night before the competition, when a group of people with unknown identities started to gather and sing together across the street, everyone began to think that Xiao Ming had the foresight.

Especially when explaining that the other party is located in an area that the hotel can manage. Even if the police are called, there is no way for these people, everyone began to think it is wise to live in a soundproof room.

Although it is impossible to completely sound insulation, the sound can be ignored after it comes to the room. Whether it is sleeping with your head covering or wearing headphones, you can be free from any interference.

After eleven o'clock, the assistant coaches began to knock on the door one by one, letting the players go to bed quickly - tomorrow afternoon is the game, and rest is the king.

"Don't say, these guys in Istanbul have really used all the means."

McDonald, who was sitting in the cafe with Xiao Ming, shook his head. From making things difficult for the training ground to harassment from fans everywhere, Turkey can really do it.

"I finally know why AC Milan and Barcelona lost here in 1993." McDonald began to turn his fingers and count the difficulties that Leiden East had suffered in these few days. On the first day of coming to Istanbul, the bus broke down halfway, allowing Leiden East players to wait for two hours on the road before they could return to the hotel. The next day, he agreed to go to Ali Samiyan Stadium for adaptive training. Before leaving, Xiao Ming became more cautious and sent someone to the stadium to see how the situation was. As Xiao Ming expected, he returned to the hotel and said that Ali Sami.

Miyan Stadium is now like a pond - this stadium needs to be maintained in the morning! It has been confirmed that Leiden Oriental will start maintaining the stadium this morning, and then apologized to tell them that it was because the club's inefficiency and mistakes in communication with each other - its hypocrisy is comparable to the US Foreign Ministry after the "misunderstanding" - but the polite staff member saw Leiden Oriental put the warm-up event originally arranged in the hotel gym to hold the afternoon and moved the training to the second half of the stadium, and the face was longer than a donkey.

"I suddenly felt very happy when I saw that guy's expression!" MacDonald laughed happily when he said this. He was very kind, but after staying with Xiao Ming for a long time, he had long put the purpose of "being kind to be a person" behind his head.

"If we run to the stadium excitedly to participate in training, but can only delay five hours nearby and then participate in training in the afternoon, you probably won't be able to laugh now." Xiao Ming said lightly.

McDonald thought about it, then felt creepy: "That's right. The players' emotions and overall training delays... will cause great losses, especially if you wait for five hours if you are depressed, the players' mentality will definitely change."

Then McDonald asked Xiao Ming very much: "Boss, how did you know they would come here? I specially arranged a hotel with soundproof rooms and sent someone to explore the situation of the court in advance... If it weren't for you, these Turks would have succeeded."

Xiao Ming stretched: "It's no difficulty. Just put yourself in their perspective and think about how to make things difficult for us and make things difficult for us and make things difficult for us... This is just a very common trick, but generally no team will use it like this. After all, the world is not big, and sooner or later there will be times when we meet. Only Turkey, the brainless guys, think that they have played at our home court and are not afraid of our revenge."

"Don't they think about it. They might meet us in the Champions League game in the future and compete on Brisbane Road? Are they not afraid that we will use what we do to us today in the future?" McDonald said a little incomprehensible, and sighed in his heart - putting himself in the other party's perspective - it turns out that the boss is also a villain.

"I heard that the reason why monkeys cannot become human is because their eyes can only see a piece in front of them." Xiao Ming laughed: "Actually not the case. At that time, they may call for harmony, love, and when will the revenge be repaid? We did something wrong at the beginning, but it would be meaningless if you are petty now, right? It's already a thing of the past. Let's have a good game and decide the winner on the football field!"

"What?" asked MacDonald.

"And then when they go back to the home court, they will still use this method to deal with us. Do you know that sometimes the bad nature belongs to the whole nation, not to the individual." Xiao Ming defined Turkish football and extended it to the height of the whole nation.

Anyway, when two people are chatting, Xiao Ming is not afraid of anything. He just talks without any restraint. He just talks, and no one else will know about it.

After chatting for a while, McDonald looked at his watch: "It's almost twelve o'clock, go and rest, otherwise he will be out of energy tomorrow."

"You will host the warm-up at the gym tomorrow morning. I'm afraid I'll sleep late tonight. Just ask me to wake up at 11:00 noon. Don't shout too early." Xiao Ming waved his hand and said to MacDonald.

"It's okay for me to host the training, but why do you sleep very late today?" McDonald asked in confusion.

Xiao Ming smiled: "Because I plan to stay in the hall for a little longer... What if someone comes to disturb the players' rest?"

"The hotel's security work is done well..." MacDonald continued to be in a state of confusion.

"Some people cannot be stopped by security guards." Xiao Ming shook his head: "If someone calls the fake police and says there are some wanted criminals living in this hotel? For other residents, it is nothing more than being disturbed to sleep, but if the players' sleep is affected..."

"Isn't it so amazing?" McDonald was shocked.

"Be prepared for any trouble," Xiao Ming said: "I don't think this kind of thing will happen, but I have to prevent this from happening - be careful, ten thousand times are not too much, carelessness is not too little."

"Okay, I'll explain it to the players tomorrow." MacDonald nodded in admiration, then went upstairs to go to bed.

Xiao Ming waited until three o'clock in the morning to go to bed, and no one came to disturb him. It seemed that Xiao Ming was thinking too badly about the other party - but as Xiao Ming said, if the other party did not come, it would be just that he had delayed several hours of sleep alone, but if the other party came, it would have a big effect.
Chapter completed!