[football] this god

In order to keep Leo honest for a long time in the future, Guardiola is determined to make a small concession to him-but when Puyol learned of this, he was obviously not satisfied with it.

"Sir, I don't want to question you, but I think you are too lenient with Leo." Puyol's expression was stiff. "Sir, Leo is self-willed enough, we have to deal with him."

Guardiola watched him quietly.

Puyol frowned. He obviously wanted to ask Guardiola what he meant by his silence, but he swallowed the words for some reason. After about a minute, Guardiola took the initiative to explain that he was short. Quiet, "Kars, you have to calm down, we are facing an unusual problem, you can't use ordinary methods to deal with this - when you asked Bo Yang as the answer last time, shouldn't you have realized that Is there a problem with this?"

Puyol is not too happy to bring up Guardiola's past, but what the other party said is also true, and he can't refute it.

Puyol couldn't refute, so he chose to change the subject, "But such a concession is too big."

In fact, Guardiola did not agree with such an approach before-it was too casual, and it was too easy for people to think he was weak and incompetent-but when he recalled one thing Figo said at the time, he was still determined to change it own habits.

—— "The kid from the Portuguese team? Quaresma? He was quite popular before, and he went to Barcelona."

Guardiola also kept in touch with Figo privately after leaving Barcelona - a practice he knew would upset old friends at Barcelona, ​​but he was not without complaints towards Barcelona at the time.So his contact with Figo was even more frequent than when he was in Barcelona.

Of course, Figo chatted with him about the Portuguese team.

"Not that..." Figo said, but he was careful not to mention the term Barcelona, ​​"I mean Cristiano - the one who just went to Manchester United."

"Oh, what's wrong with him?" Although Guardiola has heard the child's name, he knows almost nothing about him.

"When he was in Lisbon before, he seemed to be a little sensitive and overly aggressive kid. He always thought he could do anything. To be honest, when I heard people in Lisbon talking about this, I was quite worried that I would Can the national team control him... You know, the Portuguese national team is not particularly strong, so it can't tolerate the willfulness of children." Figo said, "But I really didn't expect that he is actually a mature Big kid—he's not at all the same as the other people say he is."

"Kids will grow up, just like us." Guardiola is happy for Figo. "As long as there is a little setback, the child will grow up-so, what setbacks did he experience? Being banned from the bench Are you going to play?"

Figo seemed to laugh, "It's not that serious, actually as far as I know, he hasn't experienced any setbacks - to be honest, I think he just suddenly knew what he should do, suddenly grew up .”

Guardiola doesn't believe in miracles.

"Luis, I know you love him, but you're exaggerating when you say that - no child grows up without stories, just like a baby can't learn to use the toilet without wetting the bed," Guardiola said with a laugh. , "So I suspect you are blinded by love."

Figo also laughed for a while at the bed-wetting part - Guardiola suspects he imagined Ronaldo's bed-wetting situation - Figo took a while to say: "I didn't, I actually consulted some of them. Friends of mine—including Quaresma—all said that Cristiano was throwing beans at dinner with Quaresma one night, and then suddenly ate all the baked beans on his plate the next night. It was clean and claimed that it was "balanced nutrition". "

Guardiola also thinks this is very strange, but he still thinks this is just a manifestation of a child's unsteady mind, "Maybe it's just that someone told him that beans are delicious when chatting, so he wants to try it-this is also common. You don’t need to be too concerned about the situation.”

“So I wondered,” Figo said, “that educating young people doesn’t require special techniques, but just letting the flow flow—especially with this kind of very talented young people.”

"You're old enough to start thinking about 'education'. "Guardiola laughed at Figo. To be honest, Mr. Guardiola was very funny about Figo's thinking at the time-they were far from old enough to seriously discuss topics like "how to raise children".

Figo was so shocked by the phrase "you're old" that he didn't speak for a long time, and it took him a long time to recall that he was still "in his prime", "You will too, one day—but to be honest, when you When you meet a young man like Cristiano you want to help him, make him... you know, help the team more, it's for his own good but it's more for our own."

Figo hit back at Guardiola in this way, but Guardiola dismissed it.

"Okay, stop attacking each other - seriously, but what are you going to do if Ronaldo doesn't get better himself? Wouldn't it make you look very incompetent if you let it be?" Guardiola frowned. Said, "Louis, you'd better manage him—if necessary, I think it's better to be dignified."

“It’s unnecessary,” Figo insisted. “The best education is the setback itself. No amount of persuasion can change a person’s instinct—only hurt and pain can make a young person know that he has made a mistake before.”

"But that would make us look very incompetent," Guardiola insisted.

Figo laughed out loud at this obsession, "No need, Josep, you don't have to think this way. As long as young people learn to be good kids, our personal image is not very important—well, actually It's important, but in order for a kid like Cristiano to be good, we have to sacrifice something."

Guardiola was not convinced. He racked his brains to refute and tell Figo that this "sacrifice" was unnecessary.

"I think young people like Cristiano must be particularly stubborn and conceited. If they don't really make mistakes, what language can you use to convince him? Tell him the lessons learned by others? But he will think he is He is superior to others, so the failure cases of others are not of reference significance for him." Figo seriously discussed the theory.

Guardiola thought for a long time, but in the end he had no choice but to bow down—for the time being, he said, "I can't think of any way to solve your problem, so you're right for the time being. But I will always think of it, so don't worry too much about it." proud."

——But when Guardiola really talked to Leo, he realized that Figo was indeed right.

Just right, not something temporarily right.

But he can't tell Puyol this story, because he can't trust any Barcelona player to the point where he can tell the communication between himself and Figo, so he can only be vague when facing Puyol's question Instead, "If you want long-term "results", then I'm afraid you have to accept such a concession—Kars, facing Leo, we have to have some special methods. "

Puyol is not very happy, but he has already accepted the premise that "Leo is not an ordinary Barcelona player", "Then what if he wins this bet? If we have a big success this season, will you Do you still want to "listen" to him? "

Guardiola froze, he knew very well that the answer to this question was very important to him-if he appeared unprepared and answered incorrectly, he would lose Puyol's trust.

Puyol looked at Guardiola who did not speak for a while, and as expected, some surprised and unhappy expressions gradually appeared on his face.

Guardiola immediately calmed himself down, "Barcelona will succeed, and at the same time, I will also arrange for the team doctor to "scare" Leo-you know, exaggerate muscle fatigue or something, and the daily exaggeration will accumulate over time. Leo would be terrified.He's young, and he values ​​his career more than anyone else -- both of which guarantee the success of this plan. "

——You can't say "Leo can't lead Barcelona to victory by doing this", because it will appear that Guardiola is joking about Barcelona's results; you can't say "I will make Leo feel hard", because it will appear that he is against the club. The most important property is indifference; let alone saying "Even if Leo wins the bet, I will not fulfill the promise", that will make Puyol think that he has a great possibility of breaking promises when facing other promises.

In a hurry, Guardiola could only think of this statement.

At the beginning, there was a look of suspicion in Puyol's eyes, but after thinking for a long time, he felt that it seemed reasonable, so he finally nodded, "Okay...I mean, of course, sir, then please be sure to Discuss with the team doctor how to run this plan - well, don't scare Leo so that he can't exert himself on the court."

Guardiola breathed a sigh of relief.

He gave a small smile. "Great, Kars, we've reached an agreement, then we're going to help each other—Leo is all of us."

Puyol sighed and nodded, "Of course, you are right."

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Cristiano looks very sad over a bowl of baked beans at dinner and insists on trying to throw beans with Leo.

"How old are you..." Leo sarcastically.

"Fourteen. Are you demented?"

Cristiano said so.

……

Leo looked at Cristiano speechlessly.

Isn't it...how did he forget this...

"No, you have to eat the beans. This is a matter of nutritional balance." Leo said sternly, "You have learned to be picky eaters when you are only 14 years old. When you are 24 years old, will you be picky about the cook?"

Cristiano blinked and felt that there was no necessary connection between these two sentences, so he insisted on asking for a competition to throw beans.

"Are you afraid of losing?"

Cristiano asked Leo with his big eyes blinking.

"Oh, am I afraid of you?"

Leo said so.

Cristiano did not eat a single bean as he wished.