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Chapter 91 Paul Scholes is back

Two days later, Manchester United ushered in the third round of the Premier League at home, they will be a guest at the DW Stadium against Wigan Club.

In this game, to the disappointment of Chinese fans, Li Xiaoming sat on the bench, while Paul Scholes, who had returned from injury, started the game.

But those who chatted with teammates on the bench did not feel the anxiety of the fans and the media at all.

Paul Scholes is in very good condition after returning from injury. Perhaps there is an extra competitor like Li Xiaoming in the team. In this game, Scholes changed to the second spring. Not only did he help the team open the scoring, the second half At the beginning, Nani scored the second goal with a beautiful assist.

It wasn't until the No.705 minute of the game that Ferguson replaced Paul Scholes with Li Xiaoming.

Different from Scholes' style of focusing on control, Li Xiaoming's playing is more offensive. Under his leadership, the game No. 808 minutes, Li Xiaoming made a foul after breaking through, Giggs took a free kick and hit the crossbar In the end, Carrick shoveled the goal.

In the end, Manchester United won a three-game winning streak and secured the top spot in the Premier League.Scholes also received the man of the match award for his perfect performance and took home a bottle of champagne.

However, at the press conference after the game, some reporters took advantage of this time to attack Ferguson.

"Paul Scholes performed well in this game, so is it certain that Scholes has become a regular starter for Manchester United?"

Ferguson rubbed his iconic red nose, and said: "No, no, I don't think so. Two games within one or three days will consume a lot of energy for any player on the team. I don't think so. The performances of the two players are very satisfactory, but this does not mean that they will be able to secure the main position of the game. In fact, I still prefer to use the performance on the field to speak."

"So, Mr. Paul, what do you think of your performance in this game? Do you think you will secure your position in the game?"

Scholes and Ferguson looked at each other with a smile, and said: "I am very satisfied with my game. Manchester United is a rich club. The club cannot always play with only eleven players. Manchester United will also face four players this season. In the situation of online combat, in order to achieve good results, Manchester United needs the efforts of more people, not just relying on a few players. I don't think there is any vicious competition between Li and I. We are both professional players. Playing well, as long as I can be on the court, I will contribute my strength, and I think Li also thinks so."

After achieving three consecutive victories, the Manchester United team also got a rare opportunity to rest. After a day's rest, they will start preparing for the home game against their old rival Manchester United.

But a few days is a very important day for Li Xiaoming.

In his home, Li Xiaoming woke up sleepily and found that Mendes, who had lived in his home for the past two days, had been waiting for him on the sofa, and a contract was placed on the coffee table in front of the sofa. , Only then did he realize that today was the day he was going to sign a contract with an agent, so he also took a glass of milk, sat on the sofa, picked up the contract and read it.

In fact, he didn't quite understand it, so he just took a rough look.He mainly wanted to see what percentage of commission Mendes charged from him, and found that it was the same percentage as he knew, so he didn't need to look at the latter.He put together the contract text: "No problem."

"You finished it so soon?" Mendes was a little surprised.He spent the whole day making this contract text today.And he also specially asked someone to translate it into Chinese, he was surprised by Li Xiaoming's carelessness.

"Actually, I haven't finished watching it, but I believe in you, Jorge, I believe that Chris will not cheat me, and I also believe that you will not cheat me." Li Xiaoming said.

"Okay, since you don't want to read it, I'll explain the general idea to you."

So Li Xiaoming was still dragged by Mendes to explain those legal provisions one by one. A few hours later, Li Xiaoming said while pressing his temple with some discomfort.

"My God, why is this contract so complicated, I'd better play football, so I will leave it to you to look at the contract in the future."

"No, no, no, no, I never thought of it as a contract," Mendes said with a smile.

"Oh, so what do you take it for?"

"Oh, Li, these are naturally piles of pounds and euros, as well as luxury cars, mansions and beauties. As long as I think of these, I feel full of motivation."

Li Xiaoming spread his hands and said helplessly, "Okay, Jorge, you convinced me."

"So sign it." Li Xiaoming took out the Montblanc pen from the room, which was the pen that Ferguson gave him.

"Okay, from today on you will be the man who will help me earn a lot of money." Li Xiaoming said.He unscrewed the cap of the pen and signed his name on the contract, as casually as if he was signing an autograph to a fan.After Li Xiaoming signed, Mendes also took out a pen and signed his name on the contract.

In this way, Jorge Mendes officially became Li Xiaoming's legal agent.

Mendes, who became Li Xiaoming's agent, finally put on the appearance of an agent, and he immediately took out another document.

As early as before the contract was signed, only a verbal commitment was formed, and the responsible agent Jorge Mendes had already arranged a media event for Li Xiaoming—accepting an exclusive interview with the "Daily Mail".To be precise, it was the Daily Mail who always wanted to make an appointment, but Li Xiaoming kept saying that there was no time until Mendes took the initiative to help Li Xiaoming take the appointment that day. This also shows how much Mendes attaches importance to Li Xiaoming.

However, when Li Xiaoming saw this document, he immediately complained, "Jorge, oh, this is a rare vacation for me."

Mendes said with a smile: "Li, this is not a contract, this is money. He can bring you [-] pounds in income. Plus a lot of exposure."

"Your exposure in the media is already high, but it's not enough. Because it's all passive exposure. We need to take the initiative. We can't let some people talk nonsense." Mendes explained to Li Xiaoming why he must take over this interview. "When you become more and more famous, there will be more speculations and gossips surrounding you. If you let it go at this time, it may lead to disaster. Now people still don't know about your off-court stories. If you don’t know anything, you will have more leeway. At the same time, this is also a great opportunity to expand your influence, so that everyone, especially media reporters, can see your attitude and image when facing the media. After all, it is not Everyone wants to be interviewed by reporters. An open mind helps promote your personal brand.”

Li Xiaoming nodded in frustration and said, "Understood."

The interview with the "Daily Mail" was scheduled from 01:30 to 02:30 during training on Tuesday, because training will be held in the afternoon, so this kind of media activity can only be done at random.

Li Xiaoming has performed well in several consecutive games and helped the team win. Li Xiaoming has rapidly risen in popularity among Manchester United fans.Every day, many fans wear his uniform and come to the gate of the Carrington training base to wait for him.

Now Li Xiaoming has a headache because he will be blocked at the entrance of the training base for at least half an hour after training every day to meet the fans' requests for autographs and group photos.That's really what troubles celebrities.

Unlike those big-name players, Li Xiaoming is more down-to-earth and has no airs, so more people come to him.

At noon on Tuesday, Li Xiaoming was picked up by Mendes after training, and they were going to be interviewed.

Mendes deliberately drove a Ronaldo Bentley to pick him up. According to Mendes, it is good to drive more because he is afraid of rusting.

In the "Daily Mail" Manchester headquarters building, Li Xiaoming accepted an exclusive interview.

The reporter who interviewed Li Xiaoming was Majuan Lloris, a reporter from the Daily Mail who was in charge of Manchester United news.Li Xiaoming is no stranger to him, because Lloris is a reporter accompanying the team, and he is familiar with many Manchester United players and officials.Also interviewed many Manchester United players.

Of course, Loris is more familiar with Li Xiaoming.

So in fact, this is an exclusive interview that everyone knows well.Nobody would be embarrassed, the Daily Mail is a pro-Manchester newspaper after all.

However, considering that this was Li Xiaoming's first personal interview with the media, Loris still did some homework. He even went to find Li Xiaoming's teammates because he needed to know about Li Xiaoming's training.

Then Lloris deliberately went to Ferguson to verify the inside story of Li Xiaoming's joining the first team.

So this time, the "Daily Mail" is not just as simple as wanting to publish an exclusive interview with Li Xiaoming.

They're going to do a feature on this recent supernova!
Rarely has a youngster been able to produce such consistently brilliant performances from the start of his first-team debut.

Even a superstar like Cristiano, who has just represented Manchester United's first team in the league, has experienced a period of confusion.He didn't perform so dominantly. Such a debut performance can be described as a fairy tale. Anyway, Lloris has never seen a person who made his first debut. He can score two goals in a short period of time and help the team It is an unprecedented first time for anyone to win the championship.Even the movie One Goal Fame couldn't describe how legendary Li Xiaoming's appearance was.

And this kind of performance was not short-lived. Just when everyone was talking about it, when Scholes was injured, he led Manchester United to secure the No.1 position in the Premier League with a big score, even in the match with Wigan Club. In the game, Li Xiaoming, who came off the bench, still performed well.

He exceeded everyone's expectations time and time again.

For this reason, many influential media in England wanted to interview this young man in person, and believed that Li Xiaoming's performance was worthy of a special issue.Chinese, young, famous with two goals, and won the championship. The combination of these keywords will definitely double the sales of newspapers in the current period.

After the two sat down.Li Xiaoming still did it properly, but soon he collapsed on the sofa. Loris said that after all, he still needs to be more serious if he wants to take pictures for publicity.

Hearing what Loris said, Li Xiaoming sat up from the soft sofa, and sat in a rather decent posture.

Although this posture is still not very good in Loris' opinion, but considering that young people are genuine, he will let him go.

Then Li Xiaoming started chatting with Loris in this comfortable posture.

They chatted from Li Xiaoming's middle school days until he came to Europe and finally to Manchester.

This experience is almost completely unknown to Loris, and it is also what interests him most.At the beginning, he heard from Ferguson that Li Xiaoming was selected in a match against the Manchester United youth team, so he went to check and found out that at that time there was such a Chinese team that went to Europe and achieved undefeated results , and several young people who were the core stayed in Europe.But before that, Loris didn't know much about it.

After listening to Li Xiaoming's narration, Lloris discovered that Li Xiaoming's experience was far more legendary than he had imagined at the beginning - he definitely didn't just become famous by scoring two goals when he came off the bench for the first time, and then performed outstandingly. Words cannot describe his story.

And a year ago, he hadn't even touched professional football!He was just a college student, an ordinary college student.

It's just such a kid who became a monk halfway, but he made an unimaginable leap.

He is very happy now that he got such an exclusive interview.This is all big news!

What could be better than a college player who became Manchester United's new No. [-] in the Premier League in just one year? This is simply a summer fairy tale.

"You said you received invitations from Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, and even many other teams. What made you choose Manchester United?" Lloris seemed very interested in why Li Xiaoming rejected the invitations from these giants.

"I think Real Madrid and Bayern Munich are both good clubs, and they are willing to provide me with good opportunities, but I think I need enough playing time." Li Xiaoming said. "So I chose Manchester United. Sir Alex Ferguson found me, willing to provide me with enough playing time, and willing to apply for me as a special talent clause. I don't think there is any better contract than this is more important to me.

"Comparatively speaking, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich are not very sincere in this regard. Perhaps what they value more is that China behind me is Haicang."

After listening to what Li Xiaoming said, Loris had a new question: "I have a doubt. So you have been waiting, waiting for a better club, a club that is willing to provide you with enough playing time? Then What if there is no such club?"

"I don't think there will be such a club, it's just whether he is such a super rich." Li Xiaoming said bluntly. "I think my performance on the court has proved that I am good enough and have enough potential for them to invest in me. For me, the most important thing is not money, but enough playing time. I have already, my peers I already have a lot of game experience, even first-team game experience. Technically, I believe that I have reached a good level, so I firmly believe that I will definitely wait for the club I want, but this club is Manchester United. It’s really beyond my imagination.”

After listening to it, Loris was amazed at how clear Li Xiaoming's plans for his future were at such a young age.It's hard to imagine a young player being able to choose a more important thing between money and position.

"I've seen a lot of talented young people, but when they were your age, they tended to chase fame and fortune. Once they performed well, they would immerse themselves in the world of luxury and money, and finally waste their talents. .” He said with emotion.

Li Xiaoming said with a smile: "I like football very much. This is a player I can dedicate my whole life to. Chris told me that a real top player in the world must go through a lot of experience and lose a lot of fun to succeed. .”

"In China, there is an old saying that the road is long and long, and I will search up and down. I think I still have a long way to go on the road to become the best player in the world."

(End of this chapter)