Team Spirit

Chapter 4: Toilet Ferguson, the second half of the season begins (please read)
Alfred boasted to everyone proudly, "It's just that time is limited. Otherwise, I could share more professional content with you. After all, I once worked in football-related work at Manchester United when I was young."

"I'm not exaggerating, but if the Red Devils had chosen me instead of Ferguson, Manchester United might have been even greater."

Crash.

The players applauded the old man.

This is also a regular activity after training at the pond stadium, listening to Alfred perform a football-related "stand-up comedy".

After everyone had dispersed, Alfred finally noticed Lu Kai. He shrugged, showing no sign of panic at being exposed by the original author. "You're welcome, Kai. Helping new players integrate into the team is what I, as an old fan, should do."

Lu Kai showed no sign of anger at having his tactics stolen. Instead, he smiled and said, "The team is going through a very difficult time. I'm sure you're aware that our head coach, Mr. Edward, has resigned."

"I wonder if you are willing to shoulder this responsibility?"

Alfred panicked at the time: "Huh? This...this won't work! I don't understand warfare at all, uh...I have no interest in coaching at all."

Lu Kai said, "Isn't that even better? Mr. Alfred, as the chairman of Dartford Royal VCD Football Club, I formally invite you to become the team's head coach."

"Don't worry, I won't ask you to do too much work. You don't need to worry about the team's training plan, tactical planning, opponent research, player technical analysis, etc."

"I'll sort it out in advance, and you just need to convey it to the players, just like you did just now."

Hearing that he didn't have to worry about tactics, Alfred breathed a sigh of relief. "Since you're so optimistic about me, I can only give it a try, even with my old bones. As for the salary..."

Lu Kai: "I'll add twenty pounds a month to your salary for guarding the stadium, and there's also a five-pound winning bonus for every match you win."

yeah!
Alfred and Lu Kai high-fived excitedly.

This fat old man has a great talent for acting and likes to repeat other people's theories in his own tone. He is one of the more disgusting people in the workplace.

But I have to say that this kind of "pretending to be very professional" is also a kind of ability.

In addition, he is a local, older, has extensive connections, and claims to have work experience with wealthy clubs, making him very suitable to be the head coach of Royal VCD.

Although Lu Kai has very advanced football concepts and technical and tactical planning capabilities, he is too young and no one will listen to him, even if he is the owner of the team.

The head coach of a team is different from the team president.

The latter can be a mascot.

The former will really have in-depth contact with the players, and may even criticize them and have conflicts with them.

Without a certain age and status, you can't control others at all.

So Lu Kai needs a mouthpiece.

As for whether Alfred actually worked in a football-related job at Manchester United, the answer is, yes... if being a toilet cleaner at Manchester United's Carrington training base can be considered football-related.

This is what Alfred said once when he was drunk, and Jiang Mengyun heard it.

The reason for his departure is said to be related to Ferguson.

Maybe Ferguson was fired because he found the floor was not clean enough when he went to the toilet one day.

Lu Kai swore that he would help Alfred keep this secret forever.

……

On January 15th, the second half of the Kent Premier League season officially began.

Dartford Royal VCD welcomed the challenge of Beckenham Football Club at home.

There are fourteen ninth-level leagues like the Kent Premier League in England.

Each league consists of sixteen to twenty-four teams, totaling about three hundred clubs.

The tenth tier has about three to four hundred clubs, and starting from the eleventh tier, there are thousands of clubs.

In total, there are more than 7,000 clubs competing in England's 20-level football league system each year.

Including those that did not participate in the competition and those that went bankrupt, it is not surprising that the total number exceeds 10,000.

There are only sixteen teams in the Kent Premier League, with thirty league games per season, which is relatively easy.

Participating teams have to pay a hefty entry fee, and if they rank in the top three, they will receive corresponding bonuses.

There are two promotion spots in the league, and the first place can be directly promoted to the eighth-level league.

The second to fifth places will fight against each other, and the second promotion spot will be decided through a play-off.

The bottom two teams in the league will be directly relegated.

Dartford is currently 16th in the league, last in the table.

Beckenham is 13th in the league and is also in the relegation zone.

In this game, three fans from Beckenham followed the team on the "expedition".

Dartford had about 25 die-hard fans at the scene, accounting for one-fifth of the team's registered fans.

They are almost all friends and relatives of the players, and there are no wild spectators.

Tickets for the match are £6 per person, and £4 for students and people over the age of 60. Tickets are paid and released, and there are no paper ticket stubs.

Every game day, Jiang Mengyun’s convenience store will have a "good harvest", with sandwiches, hamburgers, drinks and team-related products all having good sales.

Especially with the emergence of "Chinese pearl milk tea" suggested by Lu Kai.

In addition, don’t think that the team peripherals of small teams are bad. They have everything from jerseys, scarves, hats, game magazines to refrigerator magnets, key chains, water cups, coasters, etc., and the quality is pretty good.

This is also an important reason why the team is insolvent - although it has all the necessary facilities, it is too small and cannot even earn back the mold opening fee.

But the competition magazine sold very well today. Not only did everyone get a copy, but some people even bought several copies.

Jiang Mengyun has already called the cooperating newspaper and asked them to send two more baskets.

Because the cover character of this issue of the magazine is our Dartford club chairman Lu Kai, who is wearing a jersey.

The jersey colors have been photoshopped, the left side is Arsenal's color, and the right side is Dartford's color, which is quite eye-catching.

The ordinary cover picture of the player transfer on the football page in the future is simply a creative dimensionality reduction attack at this stage.

The ninth-level league may sound low, but it actually still receives funding from the English Football Association, so in addition to the referee, there are also linesmen and match recorders, who will update the scores in real time for gamblers around the world to use.

Starting from the tenth level, funding is greatly reduced and there are no linesmen.

Many low-level league teams that do not receive subsidies make pure investments every year and truly generate power with love.

With a whistle, the game officially began.

Dartford's lineup today is different from the past.

In the first half of the season, their head coach played 433, hoping to defeat the opponent with offense.

The result was that it ranked last.

Lu Kai took office. Oh no... After Alfred took office, he adopted Lu Kai's suggestion and changed the team formation to a more pragmatic 442.

[PS: Everyone remember to read the latest chapter every day]

(End of this chapter)