Chapter 59 Holidays
When Chu Zhongtian was playing against Nantes, his agent, Mr. James Merry, did not go to watch the game on site, but went directly to Paris and took the afternoon flight back to London.
Although Chu Zhongtian hopes to know the result earlier, they all have to wait for a while, because the Premier League has ended its last round on May 15 and entered a vacation. Mourinho is not at Chelsea, and Chelsea club does not have many people at the moment.
After Meri returns, he needs to make an appointment with Chelsea club first, and then wait for Mourinho to come back before he can see him. Of course, he can also call Mourinho directly, but it is hard to say whether Mourinho will answer... Chu Zhongtian himself returned to Metz with the team the next day of the game against Nantes. In the car back to Metz, the team's head coach Jean Fernandez thanked the players for their hard work this season and helped the team succeed in relegation. Then he announced a new news to the players - he decided to renew his contract with the club, so they don't have to worry about seeing a new head coach next season.
Fernandez's words received warm applause from the players.
Everyone knows the level of coach Jean Fernandez. He enjoys a high reputation in the team. It is good news for everyone to stay, which means that the team hopes to achieve better results next season - the premise is that the club does not habitually sell star players... There are also many teammates who are concerned about whether they can see Chu Zhongtian next season, because they all know that Chu Zhongtian was loaned to Metz. After the season ends, he will return to Chelsea club. He can't help him... So everyone asked him in the car whether he would come to Metz next season. "You can ask Chelsea to ask him to be loaned to Metz?"
"I think you should talk to Mr. Fernandez, Chu. I really want you to continue playing here next season."
"I said you don't give Chu a suggestion here!" Captain Bobby Coni stood up and interrupted his teammates' fantasy. "The Chelsea club must have their own ideas. Maybe they will find a better club for Chu? Besides, Chu must also have higher pursuits."
As soon as he said this, his teammates who were very excited just now fell silent. Yes, everyone wants to play football in big clubs, and everyone wants to play football in teams with the ability to win championships or participate in European competitions. This is human nature, and Chu might think so too.
Seeing everyone like this, Chu Zhongtian laughed. Now when he first came to Metz, he really felt like "the past is unbearable to look back on". At that time, he could only play in the second team league. What is the Ligue 1? It is still too far away from him. Now he has not only played as the main player for half a season, but has also won everyone's recognition, hoping that he can continue to stay in the team.
He shook his head and said, "Don't worry, I promise to continue playing football at Metz next season. And it's not on loan, but transfer!"
Everyone was surprised to hear Chu Zhongtian say this. They originally thought that if Chu Zhongtian could continue to be loaned to Metz, it would be great, but Chu Zhongtian actually wanted to transfer! Promón was very happy that Chu Zhongtian said this: "It's great, I think everyone is used to having you playing football by his side."
Someone else ran their captain Bobby Coni: "Stefan, look. Chu himself doesn't mind!"
Bobby Coni shrugged: "If Chu really can transfer to Mess, of course I welcome you! Don't think I don't want Chu to come!"
His words attracted the laughter of many teammates.
Chu Zhongtian followed them and felt more and more that the decision to stay in Metz was extremely correct.
Then he turned his head to look at Ribery sitting beside him.
Ribery raised his hands to him: "After you successfully transfer to Metz, I will also refuse all invitations to me, even if the club agrees, I will not leave. I will definitely stay here, Chu."
The players also heard Ribery's words, and they collectively petitioned the team's head coach Fernandez in front: "Mr. Fernandez, please tell the club that they should not sell Frank again! We don't want him to be the second Adebayo!"
Fernandez raised his hand and pressed down to signal everyone to be quiet.
"I will say to Mr. Molinari, and I believe he will also seriously consider my advice and your voice."
After successfully relegation, the atmosphere in the team is very good. But if they have fallen into Class B now, such a conversation will never happen. Everyone will only think about how to escape from this team that cannot participate in the top league, and they will not care whether others will remain in the team.
Football is so cruel. It’s easy to say anything if you win, but it’s hard to say nothing if you lose.
After that, everyone started talking about holiday arrangements.
Ribery planned to accompany his wife to her hometown Algeria to visit her relatives there, after all, they had never invited those relatives when they got married.
He originally wanted to invite Chu Zhongtian to go with him, but Chu Zhongtian wanted to return to China. He hadn't been home for a year, so he missed his parents a little. In addition, he and Lin Beiyao made an appointment to return to China together.
Ribery whistled: "Beauties are indeed more attractive than me."
※※ When they returned to Metz, Jean Fernandez announced outside the stadium that the team had officially started the holiday and all the players were disbanded.
But he kept Chu Zhongtian.
There are a few words he wants to talk to Chu Zhongtian alone.
"The club has decided to keep you at all costs. Of course, this must be within the scope we can accept," Fernandez said to Chu Zhongtian.
"You performed so well in the last few games. I'm worried that Chelsea will not let go of people or ask for a high price. I hope you can cooperate with putting pressure on the Chelsea club, Chu."
Chu Zhongtian nodded: "I think this is OK, sir."
Fernandez was very satisfied with Chu Zhongtian's answer: "That's good, you can see from your performance on the court that you are a smart person, Chu. I believe that when it is related to your future, you will also make the smartest choice."
"Don't worry, sir. My future is in Metz." Chu Zhongtian promised the head coach.
He is already determined to stay at Mets, and even if he turns against Chelsea for this, he doesn't care. Anyway, that club does not value him. They will only keep buying famous big-name stars. If they want to play at Chelsea, there is only one way - first become a star in other places, and then transfer to Chelsea at a high price.
After Metz's bench career for half a season, he no longer wants to be a bench for anyone.
As he initially said to Emily: "What's the point of being a professional player if you can't play in the top league?"
Now it is: If you can't play as the main player, what's the point of transferring to that team?
If you want to play, play the top league, and if you want to do it, be the main player!
"But the club needs to wait until the holiday is over before contacting Chelsea. You can rest during this period and don't think about anything." Fernandez said to Chu Zhongtian, "Stay good rest. If you are not injured next season, you will play the whole season and you need more games. I hope the transfer can be resolved as soon as possible. You are the core of the team. If you are not here, many of our training will not be able to be carried out, and the team will not be able to get through."
"I will put pressure on the club." Chu Zhongtian promised.
Fernandez wanted this kind of commitment, and he waved his hand with satisfaction: "Go back now, Chu. I hope that all we have to wait for in a month will be good news. I wish you a happy holiday."
Chu Zhongtian shook hands with Fernandez: "I wish you a happy holiday, sir."
※※※ Chu Zhongtian and Lin Beiyao returned to China together. Xu Xiaodi originally wanted to go back to China, but he was assigned a new task by the newspaper.
The Chinese youth team under 21 years old participated in the FIFA u21 World Youth Football Championship in the Netherlands. This team was led by Clauchen and has been training in Germany. This competition attracted much attention from the country because they are suitable players of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Many people in this team may directly participate in the Beijing Olympics in the future. Under the "Olympic Strategy" of the General Administration of Sports, this team naturally has high expectations from China. This Dutch World Youth Championship is the first time this team has entered the World Championship, which is a great opportunity to test their training results and strength during this period.
Speaking of the World Youth Championship, it has something to do with Chu Zhongtian.
When Chu Zhongtian performed well before, domestic fans discussed online why this national youth team did not recruit Chu Zhongtian, who performed well in Messe, to join the team? Is Chu Zhongtian, a Chelsea player, not qualified enough?
So some people shouted that the Chinese Football Association is a pool of shit, and there were many dark stories to prevent Chu Zhongtian from being selected for the national youth team. Some people took advantage of the issue and lamented why Chinese football was low? It’s not that we don’t have good players, but that “there are often horses and men are not often.”
Until later, someone posted a section on the provisions of the "Beijing Olympic Football Competition Charter", telling them that the players of the Beijing Olympics who participated in the Beijing Olympics must be born after January 1, 1985, while Chu Zhongtian was on December 1, 1983, a year and a month apart. If he is not considered a player of the age, the national youth team naturally does not want to. Not only that, even if he does not have to recruit players of the Olympics, Chu Zhongtian is not qualified to be selected for this National Youth League, because he had celebrated his 21st birthday on December 1, 2004. Now he is not a player under the age of 21, so the national youth team naturally has no chance.
Some people are unwilling to give up and say what if Chu Zhongtian changed his age when he was a child? Isn’t it very common for Chinese players to change his age? Since he had been trained in a professional team before, who knows whether he had changed his age when he was a child?
The netizen's words were ruthlessly ridiculed by others: "I have only heard that Chinese players have changed their age from older to smaller, so that they can bully the small with the big. Is it really true that anyone deliberately modified their age from younger to larger, so that they can bully the big with the small?"
Others also thought this idea was too stubborn. It seemed that Chu Zhongtian was not selected for the National Youth Team, and it seemed that there was really no dark story... It was just because he was over age... Xu Xiaodi also regretted this.
Before going to the Netherlands, he said to Chu Zhongtian: "It would be great if you could be one year younger. I really hope you will look like you wear the Chinese national team jersey... The national team has no hope at the moment, the national youth team headquarters, right?" He shrugged, "As a result, you are over the age of the national youth team again..."
In this way, Xu Xiaodi broke up with Chu Zhongtian in Metz and went to the Netherlands alone. Chu Zhongtian and Lin Beiyao embarked on their way home together.
Along the way, because there was a very lively little beauty around him, Chu Zhongtian didn't feel the journey was boring. They were chatting, and Lin Beiyao introduced Chu Zhongtian to her hometown Yangzhou and invited him to play in Yancheng when he was free. Chu Zhongtian asked her and Kang Jianbo to come to Chengdu to play.
Lin Beiyao also asked whether Chu Zhongtian would continue to stay in Metz next season, and it seems that she is also very concerned about this matter.
When Chu Zhongtian told her that she would strive to transfer directly to Metz next season, a smile appeared on her face.
"If you really don't stay in Metz next season, I will definitely not get used to it - when I went outside the Holy Mountain Furien training base with my camera, but I didn't see you, I wonder if you have a cold again?" Lin Beiyao teased Chu Zhongtian for the first time when the two of them talked.
Chu Zhongtian also smiled. Looking back on his first meeting with Lin Beiyao sister, it really feels very fun. "I still remember you said you were not my fan at that time, what about now?"
Lin Beiyao didn't expect that after she teased Chu Zhongtian, she was teased back by Chu Zhongtian. Her face turned red. "Now? Of course it's right now!"
Chu Zhongtian immediately said to her with a diligent look on his face: "Do you want to sign? I've practiced for a long time."
Hearing this familiar sentence, Lin Beiyao lay on the back of the chair in front and laughed.
Seeing her laughing so happily, Chu Zhongtian was also laughing beside her. Lin Beiyao's laughter was very crisp, just like the sound of flowing water in the water town of Jiangnan.
Lin Beiyao's face turned red with a smile on her face. She turned her head to look at Chu Zhongtian, her eyebrows and eyes full of undissipated smiles. "Sometimes I don't think you are the star who can be called by many fans, Brother Chu."
"Oh? Then who do you think I am?"
"It's more like an ordinary boy...it's like the boys I've met. Anyway, you don't look like a star at all." Lin Beiyao smiled.
"Unlike a celebrity, is this a compliment or not a compliment?"
"Praise! I actually can't imagine you becoming a big star and then turning people across the board. I can't imagine what you would be like at that time... Let me tell you, Brother Chu. If one day you become that way, I will not be your fan again."
Chu Zhongtian scratched his head: "I don't think so, right?"
Lin Beiyao smiled: "I will graduate at this time next year..."
Chu Zhongtian was a little surprised: "Next year? Aren't you just a sophomore today?"
Lin Beiyao explained: "The undergraduate degree in French universities is only three years, so I graduated from my junior year. I don't know whether to stay in France or return to China..." She was silent for a moment, then suddenly nodded, "I decided!"
"What?"
"If Brother Chu can't stay in Metz, I will go back to China. If you can still play football at Metz, I will stay in France!"
Chu Zhongtian looked at Lin Beiyao in surprise - Isn't it too silly to make a decision like this?
But his mouth just opened, and what he said became: "Then no matter how much resistance I have, I will stay in Metz..."
Lin Beiyao smiled brighter than the sunshine above the white clouds under the blue sky outside the window.
※※The two broke up in Beijing. Lin Beiyao returned to Yancheng. Before leaving, she said she wanted to eat poor Bobo. Chu Zhongtian smiled and said, "I ate my portion too." Chu Zhongtian returned to Chengdu.
Everything is no different from the last time I came back - there were a large group of people who welcomed him home from the airport exit, some sent flowers, some held banners, and his father, the reporter named Gao Jie, and many more journalists who could not name or know him.
This time the scale even exceeded the last time. As he performed well at Metz and became the main player, his popularity in China is also rising steadily.
After finally breaking through the encirclement composed of fans and reporters, he and his father got into the noble car again.
Gao Jie, who was sitting in the car, extended her hand to Chu Zhongtian: "Welcome home, Chu Zhongtian!"
※※I went home like the last time. When I got home, I received my mother’s “warm hospitality”. A large table of delicious food was like this and I didn’t dare to eat it again after I moved my chopsticks.
Every morning I go to school for physical training to maintain physical fitness. Of course, it attracts a lot of people to watch every time. He gets used to it and will greet the onlookers after training, and play a small game with the boys in the school who like to play football.
In addition, I heard that he was back, and high school classmates came to him. It was a long time since we saw each other. We held a class reunion and invited him, the big star. Chu Zhongtian was very happy to attend the high school reunion, which naturally became the focus of the field. Some of the high school classmates are still in college, and some have just graduated from college and entered society. No one can compare to Chu Zhongtian in terms of success or something.
Chu Zhongtian was very happy to be able to reunite with high school classmates whom he hadn't seen for many years, but later some people tactfully expressed their hope that Chu Zhongtian could help them, and some people asked Chu Zhongtian to borrow money very directly, which made him very depressed. He said that he had not made much money, and everyone still didn't believe that a nationally renowned professional player would have no money? People bought all the sports cars in China's professional players' villas, would you, a player who played football abroad have no money? Who would believe it if you say it!
Chu Zhongtian found that defending this was a boring thing, because others didn't believe what you said. They only believed that you were a professional player, so you must be very rich. It is worth borrowing money from you and taking out money. If you don't borrow money, you will be stingy.
Chu Zhongtian felt unhappy at the time of the class reunion, so he found an excuse to slip away halfway through the opening.
He doesn't care whether those former classmates would scold him for putting on airs, and he doesn't need to please them, so he can say whatever he likes. He never cares about what others think of him.
Chapter completed!