Frenzy [football]

It's not exactly a high-profile press conference, but there's no doubt that the message that Tottenham Hotspur will convey in this press conference will have an impact on that player, but It will definitely go far beyond the conference itself.

Perhaps it was because this matter could not be delayed any longer, and they had to "clarify" Ha as soon as possible, and Tottenham set the time for the press conference at ten o'clock in the morning.

But the coach went to hold a press conference, but Tottenham's club training base will not cool down because of this.In fact, Nikola did not give the players a holiday, but asked the assistant coach to come and take the players for training.Even Lei Yi himself was left in the training base by him.

But in any case, after such a thing happened, how could he stay there and concentrate on training as usual.

When Lei Yi was still jogging on the court, his heart was already at the press conference...

"We're not inviting you here today, this morning, to tell anyone what we're going to do with our staff and what we think about our opponents for the next game, or to recap what we did well last time in the Premier League against Manchester United. What are the deficiencies. As you all know, the main topic of this press conference is still related to the last round of the Premier League and Manchester United, but what needs to be said is that what happened in the staff area thing. To be precise, it should be a thing about me and leiy, leiy ha."

This was the first time that the Frenchman Nicolas called Lei Yi in such a friendly tone in front of the media.Although, before that, he had praised the last year's European Golden Boot in front of the media many times.But if you take a closer look at his expression when he said this sentence, you will be able to feel those subtle differences.

"But before that, I want to express my apology to Leiy. Because after he moved to Tottenham, I always treated him coldly. I cheated him many times. Yes, as a manager, I can't always just speak my heart to the players. But when leiy asked me at that time why I promised something that I didn't even want to do, I was shaken. Leiy is a very good player , he has been carrying out every order I gave him as a coach very well, without any complaints. It's just that I have been hurting him. Someone mentioned the conflict that happened between me and leiy. The words 'assaulted' were added. This is made up. Our team doctor can certify that I have no injuries. Of course, if you think the Tottenham team doctor can't certify this matter, I also have a copy yesterday afternoon. The certificate after going to the hospital for an examination. I prefer to use this way to describe what Leiy did that afternoon-when someone pushed an unarmed person against a wooden warehouse, the person who was pushed shook Make your own fist."

This is of course a very important press conference for Tottenham Hotspur.Although even their own club executives had the idea of ​​suspending Lei Yi before, the suspension within the club is completely different from the suspension issued by the FA.The former can be revoked at any time, while the latter is difficult to take back once issued, and usually the punishment of the latter is much greater than that of the former.Clubs can appeal against FA penalties they disagree with, but the FA can also choose to dismiss their appeals.

Tottenham's club staff watched their manager's every move in front of the media and watched the audience.This is a battle where they don't know which step to take and what kind of result to get to be considered a victory, but they have to fight.In fact, before that, they didn't know that their coach Nikolai could do this for ha, but when everyone's attention was attracted by Nikolai's speech at this time, an absolutely important Pound news spread so easily on the Internet.

The mobile phone of the Tottenham staff member standing nearby vibrated, which was an urgent notification sent to him by his colleague.

Seeing this notice, the Tottenham staff who was on standby at the press conference couldn't help looking at the coach Nicola who was still sitting there trying to clarify everything for their most expensive player ha. He was hesitating After waiting for 2 minutes, he walked onto the stage, leaned over and whispered the sudden situation in Nicholas' ear.

"Sir, just now, the Football Association announced a heavy fine of [-] pounds and a [-]-match ban."

When he heard these words, Nicholas's deep and always sharp eyes suddenly lost focus. Time brought him the news of the club staff, and quickly said after getting affirmation from the other party: "Today's press conference is here, thank you."

Then, he got up immediately, and left the room dedicated to holding press conferences in White Hart Lane, Tottenham's home court, amidst the discussions of the invited media reporters.Nicholas, who almost pushed the door straight out, walked towards the parking lot in the stadium, and walked faster and faster, and finally he even ran, rushed into his car, and drove towards the club The training base flew away.

That's because he knew that Lei Yi, who had been punished by the FA, would know the news soon.

Perhaps many people think that Nicholas, who has always had a bad relationship with Lei Yi, doesn't know this football supernova under his command.But in fact, he understands.It is precisely because of this that he ended the press conference in the middle, and wanted to rush back to the club's training base as quickly as possible, before that stubborn boy made a decision...

So, what about Lei Yi, who has been staying at Tottenham's training base since this morning?

Just as Nicholas guessed, Lei Yi, who has been particularly sensitive to outside information recently, already knows the FA's decision on his punishment.They had just finished training this morning and were back in the locker room.

He certainly wasn't the only one who got the news at the time.In fact, some sports media always push the whole network of such important emergencies in such a timely manner and treat them equally.

Not to mention, these players who play for Premier League teams will always pay more attention to the events happening in their own league.Therefore, when Nicholas arrived at the player locker room in the training base, those teammates who were familiar with Lei Yi and those who were not familiar with him were almost comforting him.Including the Tottenham player who had previously criticized Lei Yi and replaced him as Tottenham's starter in his position.

It is true that the FA has always had stronger restraint on players and coaches than the other four major leagues in the five major leagues, and it has also been reported from time to time that the FA will impose additional penalties on a player who commits excessive fouls on the pitch. Suspensions or direct suspensions to the coach of a team, things like that.

But even so, the fine of [-] pounds and fifteen games can still be called a rare and severe punishment.The former of these two penalties shows the seriousness of the incident that the FA considers, while the latter shows in a very intuitive way what the penalty means to the player himself and the club he plays for.

For Lei Yi's teammates who are also professional players, of course they can understand Lei Yi's mood at this time, but what they understand is not the whole of Lei Yi's mood at this time.

When the players saw that the locker room door was opened and their coach was standing at the door, they all stopped talking, or looked at Nikolai, or looked at Nikolai and then looked at him. Thunder Wing.The entire locker room fell into an eerie silence.

"Can I have some alone time with ha, gentlemen?"

After Nicholas said these words, the players got up one after another, picked up the undressed clothes, put them on, and walked out of the locker room.With the absolute power of speech that Nicholas had established in the locker room on weekdays, no one had the slightest objection to his words. They didn't even say anything to the two of them before leaving the locker room. The guard Glenn, who suggested that Lei Yi tried to repair the relationship with the coach, seemed to want to say something when he passed by Nicholas, but he just looked at Lei Yi worriedly after looking at their coach.

To this, Nicholas didn't answer anything, but nodded with his eyes straight ahead, so Glenn walked to the corridor outside the locker room again.

It wasn't until Nicholas and Lei Yi were left in the locker room that the door was closed by the French, blocking everyone's sight.He walked in front of Lei Yi silently, and the long and short legs who used to be very lively still sat in his own seat, and lowered his head when he felt that person approaching him, not because he did something wrong What, but I just don't want to face the sight of that person looking at me, and reject that person.

Nicola is very tall. Although Lei Yi has grown much taller in the past two years, when Nikola, who is 1.8 meters tall, stands beside Lei Yi, the coach who is much older than Lei Yi will still Looks much taller than him.And when such a person stands in front of a sitting person and looks at the other person, he will give people a sense of oppression.

Apparently Nikolai also realized this.Therefore, when he walked in front of Lei Yi, he squatted down, and just squatted in front of Lei Yi and looked at him.The angle of looking up brought the distance between the two of them much closer, and it also made Lei Yi's repelling eyes flash a little surprised.

"I'm sorry for what's going on now, leiy. But I'm going to do everything I can to save it, and I take responsibility for it."

Perhaps this will make people feel a little unbelievable, but it is indeed the most peaceful conversation between the two of them so far.Lei Yi had already built a thick wall in his heart against the person in front of him, but when he saw this person he hated squatting in front of him and looking at him with such eyes, he used When this gentle tone that he couldn't imagine spoke to him, he found that he couldn't hate this person anymore.

Lei Yi took a deep breath, as if he wanted to tell Nicholas a lot about this punishment, but while the other party was waiting, he took off his strength and said instead: "I don't know Is it because I've been out of South America for so long, it's been like five years, and lately I always think about when I was playing in Brazil. I didn't have anything to worry about there , the only thing that can give me a headache is how many goals I can score in the next game, and whether I can score those goals in a way that satisfies the fans who come to the scene. But those days did not last long, I was One of my club teammates told me that the center of world football is in Europe, not in South America. If I only play in South America all my life, then I will never be able to be the king of football like Mr. Pele.”

Hearing these words, Nicholas was actually amused by the boy in front of him.It was the first time that Nicholas showed such a smile in front of Lei Yi's eyes, it made him look very friendly, and the brows seemed to lose the sharpness that can only be left after time has washed away.

"Your friend is right. You have to play football in Europe, little one."

The cute address from Nicholas made Lei Yi smile, and the two seemed to be a pair at this time Like master and apprentice.But after that, the smile on Lei Yi's face faded, and he said: "But playing football like this, I can't become the king of the ball, sir. Because I started to be different from anyone else." What a difference. I tried to learn to catch high balls that I'm not good at, I allowed myself to fight more with opponents, I started running down the middle instead of just staying on my preferred right side. But it all didn't seem to work What's the point. I'm not so irreplaceable anymore. I don't like to be such a person, and I don't even feel happy when I play on the court. Maybe I can score more goals than them Some, but so what? I couldn't find the motivation to keep doing it for many years."

"Then you play the way you like and I will let you start every game as long as your fitness allows. We are now going to prepare the materials to appeal to the FA. I know there is no way we can get them to ban the game. All revoked, but I am sure they will shorten the number of games suspended as much as possible..."

At this moment, the tone of Nicholas talking to Lei Yi could even be described as soft. He tried his best to describe a future that was enough to look forward to for Lei Yi when this desperate news came.But this time, before he finished speaking, Lei Yi interrupted him and asked, "Short the fifteen-game suspension to eleven? Until the winter break?"

Nicholas was not angry, but quickly said: "There is no winter break in the Premier League. But that's not the point, the point is..."

Lei Yi: "But, I don't believe it."

The gentle, even slightly warm atmosphere came to an abrupt end at this moment.

Lei Yi just looked at Nicholas in front of him very seriously, and said: "I'm sorry, but I don't believe you. When I came here, we both expressed We have no personal grievances. I mean it, but you don't. Before that game against Manchester United, I begged you to give me a chance to start, because that game was really important to me. .You agreed, but you didn't do that. Before today, you told me that you would fix everything and let me just train and play football. This time you really wanted to do it, but things are out of your control Yes, sir, I have trusted you many times."

【Sir, I have trusted you many times. 】

After saying this, Lei Yi stood up and walked out of the locker room, leaving only Nicholas standing on the ground on one knee after squatting down to talk to him...