Chapter 588 Unfulfilled Wishes

"England national team head coach?"

Xiao Ming looked at Thompson with some confusion, wondering if this middle-aged man in his fifties took the wrong medicine or something - he got up early and passed by the FA without doing anything, and you suddenly said that he was the head coach of the national team - he hadn't brushed his teeth yet...

"Sorry, Mr. Thompson, I didn't hear it clearly... Are you saying that I should be the head coach of the England national team? Me?" Xiao Ming asked back with some confusion, reminding the other party that the head coach you want should not be me...

"Your ears are very good, you hear that right." Thompson smiled. The grey-haired gentleman smiled and narrowed his eyes like an old fox. "You should know that after the World Cup, Erikson's contract was over, and we don't think he could create any good results after working in this position for six years... We need an excellent head coach from England to lead the England national team to continue moving forward, but in the past ten years, no English coach has done well. Among the top five head coaches in the league, you are the only English, not the Scots, the Portuguese, the French and the Espanyol."

"But I am Chinese." Xiao Ming reminded the other party: "And I am also the head coach and chairman of Leiden Oriental. Do you think I can be the head coach of the England national team?"

"What's the Chinese? You're getting a passport from the British Empire. Swedes can coach. Why can't you coach?" Thompson laughed: "As for your position in Leiden East, I think there shouldn't be too big a problem. Even if you are the chairman of Leiden East, you don't have much involvement with the national team. At worst, you can recruit all the English players from Leiden East into the national team. As long as you have achievements, everything will be easy."

Xiao Ming thought for a while, then shook his head.

"Sorry, now I am the chairman and the club head coach. I don't have enough energy. Leading a national team is not just about leading the team to play games, but also having to watch the players' games and examine their status. Now I don't have that much energy to do this."

"Xiao, at the club level, you have done quite well. No head coach can win all the honors a club head coach can get in twelve years. Next, you are nothing more than the second Ferguson. But you are still young. Don't you want to compete in the World Cup and European Cup to make your resume more perfect? ​​I know you are not a head coach for money. In fact, no one in the world who relies on football to make money is richer than you. What you want is a challenge! Now, leading England to compete in the European Cup and World Cup is the biggest challenge! Aren't you moved?" Thompson stopped smiling, and he said to Xiao Ming very seriously.

It is undeniable that Xiao Ming was really moved. As Thompson said, he has achieved the ultimate position of Leiden Oriental head coach. No head coach can have four European Champions League trophys. What's more, even if Xiao Ming is not the league champions of English League One, English League Two, English New Year, English New Year, he has won five top league championships so far, four Champions League champions, one League Cup champion, one League Cup champion, five European Super Cup champions, one Toyota Cup champion, one World Club Cup champion, three League Cup champions, two FA Cup champions and four Community Shield Cup champions. Twenty-seven various championship trophys are enough to make him the head coach with the most championship trophys in the world. Apart from the honor of the national team, it seems that Xiao Ming really has nothing to pursue.

"Maybe you can find a head coach to replace you, you just need to be your club chairman. In that case, you have plenty of time to observe the players' status and can also sign ups for your team to find excellent players. With your eyesight, even the Portuguese will believe your judgment." Thompson continued lobbying Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming thought for a long time, and in Thompson's regretful eyes, he shook his head: "Sorry, Mr. Thompson, what you said really touched me... But in the position of Leiden Oriental head coach, I still have one wish that has not been fulfilled."

"What wish?" Thompson asked in surprise. Of course, he was not so angry that he wanted Xiao Ming to let the head coach of the national team. In fact, when England was eliminated, the FA had already started to choose the head coach of the national team. Given the prosperity of the Premier League and the reasons why Erikson was very popular in the national team, although he largely abandoned England's traditional playing style and expertise, the FA immediately shouted the slogan "Let the British lead the England team". It has to be said that this slogan is inspiring, very in line with the taste of English fans, and also alleviated the passive situation of the FA. However, when they really wanted to find an excellent local coach, they found that the good coaches in the league were basically foreign coaches or Scots - Ferguson and Moyes were both Scots.

Only half of the head coaches of the 20 Premier League teams in the new season are English, among which the more famous are Redknapp Old, "Big Sam" Adesler, Newcastle's head coach Rhode, Middlesbrough's head coach McLaren and Reading's head coach Kopel. Among them, Kopel and Rhode can only be regarded as new players in the Premier League, and Adesler is just an old-school English coach. What's more, he and Redknapp Old have long said that they are not interested in the seats of the head coach of the England national team. They are not young anymore and are unwilling to suffer in that position anymore. Look at it, the only choices of the FA are McLaren and Xiao Ming...

McLaren's advantage is that he has been Erikson's assistant since 2004. While serving as the head coach of Middlesbrough, he is also an assistant coach of the England national team. He is very familiar with the English national team and is not unfamiliar with the English national team. However, in terms of coaching history, McLaren, who only has one League Cup champion and League Cup runner-up, cannot catch up with Xiao Ming, who has 27 championship trophys. Xiao Ming is already a world-class head coach. McLaren is not famous in the world at all. For the arrogant Englishman, the head coach of their national team also needs to be the best head coach, and McLaren is obviously not the best.

Although the FA believes that Xiao Ming, a top rich man and the top head coach, is unlikely to leave Leiden Oriental behind to coach the England national team, and there is no precedent for the England national team to let the head coach serve as the club coach, Thompson sided with the opposition and believed that Xiao Ming might not be the head coach of Leiden Oriental but be the head coach of the England national team. The reason is what he said before - Xiao Ming no longer pursues the position of club head coach, and he is different from those head coaches who make money. He does not need to keep this job and continue to do it. On the contrary, the head coach of the national team is a brand new challenge for Xiao Ming.

For Xiao Ming, an alien, the new challenge may make him more interested, not just a well-paid job. Everyone in the world knows that Xiao Ming is the head coach of Leiden Oriental, one for interest, and the other because the team is his, and there is no ties. Thompson believes that to impress Xiao Ming, we cannot start from salary, but give him more freedom and space, so that he feels that he is happy in the position of the England national team, which is even happier than being Leiden Oriental's head coach.

It was precisely because he felt that he was very sure that Thompson made this request directly to Xiao Ming, but before he could tell Xiao Ming how much space he could give Xiao Ming, Xiao Ming said that he still had a wish in Leiden East that had not been fulfilled!

Just kidding, a coach with twenty-seven top honor trophys, won five top league championships and six European competition championships in eight years, and two world champions said that he still had a wish that he had not fulfilled - in that case, all the head coaches in the world would be extremely reluctant when they retire, because they would have countless wishes that they would not fulfill...

"You know, I am a loyal fan of Leiden Oriental, otherwise I would not have served as chairman of Leiden Oriental twelve years ago," Xiao Ming told Thompson.

Thompson nodded. The special topic "Oriental, Five Pound Club" caused a sensation twelve years ago. Although Thompson was not the chairman of the FA, he also heard about this. After all, Leiden East is a club in London.

"As a fan, my wish is very simple. It is enough to see Leiden Oriental appear in the top league in his lifetime - after all, Leiden Oriental only appeared in the top league for more than a hundred years before that. At that time, I even felt that this kind of wish was a luxury." Xiao Ming continued.

Thompson continued to nod. This is normal. England is the originator of modern football. Their teams often have a long history, but there are not too many strong teams. There are many teams with a long history like Leiden Oriental but no considerable results. They are a lot of them in England. Their fans may have the only wish to see the team appear in the FA Cup finals and the top league courts - just, but often this wish they will never get in their entire lives.

"But when I became the chairman of Leiden Oriental, my wish changed at that time - my team, the team I support, must be the best!" Xiao Ming's voice increased a little, and his eyes were filled with ambition and desire: "I am a person who doesn't like failure. I either don't do it, and do it the best if I want to do it! That is, let Leiden Oriental become the best team in England and the best giants!"

At that moment, Thompson couldn't help but be frightened by the ambition and desire emitting in Xiao Ming's eyes. But after thinking about it, it took twelve years to turn a lowest-level professional team into a world-class and a world-class wealthy man. In addition to his talent and luck, his naked pursuit of honor and unconcealed desire are probably one of his greatest motivations to move forward.

Desire is the greatest driving force for human progress, and it is no exception in any field - isn't it the case with Thompson himself!

After sighing in his heart, Thompson felt a little strange again - the old saying is still the same, Xiao Ming can be said to have done something that countless people cannot do in the position of head coach of Leiden Oriental Club. Leiden Oriental has also become a well-deserved giant in the world. In Asia, their influence is not inferior to Real Madrid, and in the United States, their influence is no different from Manchester United. In addition to the series of honors he has won in Europe, Leiden Oriental is definitely one of the best teams in England, Europe and even the world. Has his wish not been fulfilled yet?

"In my opinion, even most people, Leiden East is the best..." Thompson said.

"No, Mr. Thompson." Xiao Ming smiled and said: "We are not the best in hardware honors... The best team must at least have an important game that is England's number one. We are not as good as many teams in the number of league championships. We are only on par with Liverpool. The number of FA Cup championships is far inferior to Arsenal... This is my last wish that I have not achieved."

Thompson felt like she was fooled by Xiao Ming: "You wouldn't say you wanted to let Leiden win the Oriental League first in England, right? You are thirteen times behind Liverpool!"

"Of course it won't be like this." Xiao Ming smiled and waved his hand: "But at least in the number of times we won the Champions League, we have to be the first, right? Moreover, we can permanently collect the authentic Champions League trophy, and there is only one in our honor room... If we can do this, I think I can retreat from the head coach position of Leiden East. At that time, if you have a call, I will definitely play for the country. As you said, the position of head coach of the national team is also very attractive to me."

Thompson was stunned - he won more than five or three consecutive championships in the Champions League, permanently collected the authentic trophy of the Champions League and could embroider the logo of the Champions League's supreme honor on the jerseys - this is indeed the highest pursuit of a club. On the entire European continent, only four teams can do this - Real Madrid, who has won five consecutive championships, AC Milan, who has dominated an era under the leadership of Cruyff and Beckenbauer, and Ajax and Bayern Munich, who have won three consecutive championships. No team in England can do this. If Leiden Oriental can do this, even if their league championships are less than ten times, it will be enough to become England's first team.

From this perspective, Xiao Ming is really not playing tricks on him, nor is he just pretending to be a fool with him.

Thinking of this, Thompson could only sigh. He obviously could not force Xiao Ming to be the head coach of the England national team. Moreover, Xiao Ming was not an ordinary head coach who could let them go as soon as possible. However, Xiao Ming said it very tactfully and had sufficient reasons, which also left enough face for the FA. Now... he could only get together and part with it. Is it more appropriate to consider whether it is more appropriate for McLaren to be the head coach - at least McLaren, who has been an assistant coach for two years in the England national team, has more experience, and he will not serve as the head coach of Middlesbrough and the head coach of England.

Next, the two of them did not talk about this topic, but discussed the UEFA presidential election that will begin soon. Xiao Ming explained in detail how big a blow Platini's new policy would cause to the Premier League and that it would shrink the prosperity of the Premier League. The most touching sentence that could touch Thompson was - "Under Johnson's rule, the Premier League has almost become the No. 1 European league. Will a chairman who has no good impression of investment and wealthy families make us continue to become the fourth league?"

"You make sense, but we still need to consider it." Thompson said to Xiao Ming when he saw him off.

However, Xiao Ming knew that Thompson had actually recognized his words. After all, no matter how weak the FA controls the Premier League, everyone can see the prosperity of the Premier League. The more prosperous the Premier League, the louder the FA's voice in UEFA. In this regard, both sides are prospering.

After leaving the FA, Xiao Ming drove back to his home. After thinking about what happened during the day, Xiao Ming couldn't help but laugh.

He is unwilling to be the head coach of the England national team. In addition to the reasons he said before, there is another reason he did not say.

That is, the FA has been looking for him too late.

In another week, it will be the time when Leiden Oriental's pre-season training begins. If Xiao Ming is the head coach of the national team at this time, then who will take charge of Leiden Oriental? In a short period of time, how can Xiao Ming find a head coach who makes him feel at ease and level and will not mess around? Now Leiden Oriental is making achievements, and if he plays well, he may be able to completely dominate the European and English football in the next few seasons. Xiao Ming is unwilling to let go at this time.

If the FA had contacted him earlier or before the World Cup, perhaps he would have agreed to the FA's invitation after having time to arrange the next thing and find a suitable successor. After all, the World Cup and the European Cup are the only honors he has not been able to conquer.

However, if you have the chance in the future, you can still do something in this position. After all, he is only 36 years old and very young. Being a head coach of Leiden Oriental will easily make people feel bored. Moreover, if you concentrate on being the chairman of the club, you can have more time to accompany Jessica - you should know that Jessica has basically withdrawn from the entertainment industry and is crazy at home all day. Some time ago, because she was really bored, she personally went to the street to post pictorials about environmental protection, but she almost sued her. It was because she saw Xiao Ming's face that she didn't pursue it.
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