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Chapter 65 Jost's Embarrassment
Jost and Scholes got a bonus, Scholes wants to invite Jost and Bart out to dinner to celebrate, and Jost wants to buy a watch.But I don't know what to buy.

Scholes told Jost to find Lee Sharpe, who was unbeatable at Manchester United when it came to eating, drinking, and having fun.For good bargains on things like clothes, shoes, cars or watches, look no further than Lee Sharpe, he will always know someone who will please you.

Only then did Jost think of Lee Sharp. This guy is enthusiastic, cheerful, carefree, and sometimes makes people laugh in the locker room. He is a person who likes a fast-paced life, and he is also a "woman killer". Jost has never seen anyone who is more attractive to women than him, not even the newcomer David Beckham.

Jost came to Lee Sharp, this guy was changing his clothes, but he didn't want to go out to practice so early, so he changed his clothes in the locker room.

Jost is also quite familiar with Lee Sharpe, and they have been out together a few times, and they have been criticized by Ferguson.

Jost likes to talk quickly, so he said directly to Sharp: "Li, I want to buy a watch, but I don't know what style to buy? Can you give me some advice?"

Lee Sharp: "What brand do you want to buy?"

Jost: "I don't understand, you help the staff."

Lee Sharp: "Call me after training, and I'll take you to a house, and I'm sure you'll be satisfied."

For the first time, Jost wanted to end the training quickly, and finally stayed up until the end of the morning training. Jost and Scholes drove out of the Carrington training base in Lee Sharp's sports car.

Lee Sharpe took Jost and Scholes to a jewelry store in town.

Jost saw the owner, a middle-aged man with glasses and a little bald head.

Lee Sharpe led the two into the store and introduced to the owner: "This is my good buddy Paul Jost. He wants to sell a good watch. Let my buddy take a look at your box bottom and other things."

After listening to Lee Sharp's words, the shop owner was very polite, and immediately ran to the counter, and took out some watches from under the counter to show Jost—obviously, these were reserved for the so-called "distinguished guests".

Lee Sharp and Scholes helped Jost choose the watch, and the final selection focused on three watches.There are three watches, one is Rolex 1800 pounds, the other is Vacheron Constantin 4000 pounds, and the other is Patek Philippe 2100 pounds.

Although Jost didn't pay much attention to the price, he still noticed that the three watches were priced at 4000 pounds, 1800 pounds and 2100 pounds respectively—they were all expensive, but they were all within Jost's budget.Because he just got £10000.

When the owner suggested that the 1800-pound Rolex watch was very suitable for Jost, Jost was very moved: it was the cheapest of the three watches, and he could still recommend it to me. "What a good brother." Jost decided to buy this 1800 pound Rolex.Jost took out his credit card while thinking.

When the shopkeeper handed Jost the receipt for him to sign, Jost looked at the bill and his heart sank: the figure clearly stated on the bill was 18000 pounds!Jost missed a zero just now.

Even so, for the sake of self-esteem and face, Jost did not explain that he was wrong and made an expensive mistake, so he had to endure the pain, okay!Not too expensive!Jost signed his name like a man.

On the way back, Jost told Lee Sharpe and Scholes about it, and they laughed wildly.

Jost begged them not to tell anyone, and they swore that no third person would ever know.

As a result, they couldn't wait to tell everyone in the club as soon as they went back—but Jost couldn't blame them either.

In the next few days, when they saw Jost, everyone would jokingly ask: "Jost, how is your watch? Is it running well?" This made Jost very embarrassed.

After the afternoon training, the three left in Lee Sharp's car and went to the bar to drink.

Jost hates drinking, but today Lee Sharp helped Jost, Jost had to drink, three people were drinking, a young man with a beret entered the bar, saw the three of Jost, turned around and went out again.

The three of them stayed in the bar until more than 2 o'clock at night before they walked out of the bar. Lee Sharp's words made Jost and Scholes break out in a cold sweat.

Lee Sharp: "Tomorrow we're going to be lectured by the boss again!"

Jost: "Why? How do you know?"

Lee Sharp: "We were drinking at the bar just now, and a young man wearing a beret came in, remember?"

Jost and Scholes nodded to remember.

Lee Sharpe continued: "He's the boss's informant!"

Scholes: "No way? Do you think it's a gangster movie? Return an informant!"

Lee Sharp did not argue, but continued to say to himself: "The boss has an intelligence network, and those eyeliners provide him with information on the activities of the players' social gatherings! Manchester was just a small town before, and it is impossible to do something here without letting the boss find out. If you don't believe me, you can wait and see tomorrow."

Then Jost and Scholes went home with doubts.

The next morning, after training, Ferguson stopped Jost: "Good morning Paul, where were you last night?"

Jost was startled, remembering what Lee Sharp said last night, Jost didn't want Ferguson to give him a "hairdryer" early in the morning.

He decided to be half-truthful: "Go to bed early, coach, I went out with my friends for a few drinks last night."

Ferguson: "What time did you come back?"

Jost decided to get away with it: "I don't know, it shouldn't be too late!"

Ferguson: "It's not too late... Didn't you take a taxi home on Tiers Avenue at 2:[-] this morning!"

Jost was surprised, he didn't expect Ferguson to know everything.

Ferguson continued: "Oh! That's right! You didn't go home, but you checked into the Four Seasons Hotel at three o'clock sharp, didn't you?"

Jost completely convinced Lee Sharpe now. Lee Sharpe was right, Ferguson really had an intelligence network and informants.

Jost decided to be frank and lenient, and explained the ins and outs of the matter clearly. After hearing what Jost said, Ferguson said, "Tell me the truth from now on, don't lie to me, understand?"

Jost nodded to show that he knew, Ferguson: "As punishment for lying to me, go to the training ground and run 30 laps to train with the team."

Jost came to the training ground obediently. Lee Sharp and Scholes had already run up on the training ground. The two saw Jost laughing and knew that he was also fined by Ferguson for running laps.

Lee Sharp: "How? Trust me this time!"

Jost and Scholes expressed their belief. Lee Sharpe: "I have already discovered that Ferguson has an intelligence network. Every time he knows my whereabouts, and I always see people following me. I know the looks of these informants."

Scholes: "Then you didn't tell us before."

Lee Sharp: "Tell you guys, is there anyone drinking with me?"

Jost and Scholes wanted to chase Lee Sharp, and Lee Sharp ran away from the training ground immediately, shouting as he ran, "Haha, I've already finished the run. The boss only fined me 10 laps for being honest. You two should run your 30 laps slowly!"

The league continued. In the seventh round, Manchester United played away against Ispuwich. Not long after the start, Cantona received a cross from his teammate Ryan Giggs and overwhelmed the opponent's defender in front of the goal. Just when everyone thought the goal was going to be scored and Manchester United was going to take the lead, it ended up hitting the lintel again—Manchester United has hit the woodwork 4 times this season!

Then the Ispuvic team scored two goals in a row, leading the score 2-0.Manchester United launched a strong counterattack, once pressing the opponent to attack in the half court.

After many missed chances, Cantona and Scholes scored to level the score.

It was Scholes' goal that pulled Manchester United back from the cliff. At that time, Scholes had already gained Ferguson's trust and began to get valuable playing opportunities.

However, at the last moment, Manchester United still failed to prevent the opponent's counterattack. Schmeichel turned into a big colander in front of the goal.

After losing this game, Manchester United's situation began to become less optimistic.After only 7 rounds of the league, Manchester United has already lost two games!

Then the Champions League started, and Manchester United began to turn their attention to the Champions League.

The UEFA Champions League has been expanded and changed to a round of qualifiers first. The qualified teams are divided into 4 groups, and each group has 4 teams for a group round robin.

The top two in each group advance to the knockout round, which starts with the quarter-finals this time.

In addition, this season's Champions League began to adopt a series of new rules: for each win, the team gets 3 points instead of 2 points; each team can have 3 substitutions in the game; the number of players must be fixed;This last rule is mainly for passive play.

The most special example is in the UEFA Cup semi-finals between Turin and Real Madrid in the 1991-92 season, the then Turin goalkeeper Marchegiani kept catching the ball with his teammates to waste time. In that game, he received a pass back from his teammate and deliberately wasted the game time for as long as 5 minutes. The referee could not punish him for playing negatively!
This incident directly forced UEFA to decide to adopt new rules.Since then, this rule has become the prevailing competition rule all over the world.

Manchester United was divided into Group A in this cup, and their opponents were Gothenburg, Galatasaray and the last runner-up, the last champion, Barcelona with "World Footballer" - Romario and "European Footballer of the Year" in 1994 - Stoichkov.

At that time, Barcelona was already known as the "Dream Team", and there were so many strong players in the formation.

The teams in this group now seem to be strong and weak, with great disparity in strength, but in fact this is not the case. Barcelona has rich experience in European competitions and stands out. Last season, Manchester United suffered from the loss of Galatasaray in Istanbul, Turkey. The Swedish champion Gothenburg is not a fuel-efficient lamp.

But if Manchester United wants to win the Champions League, they must overcome these difficulties and obstacles.

Manchester United will host Gothenburg at Old Trafford in their first game of the Champions League.

(End of this chapter)