Team Spirit

Chapter 44 We want to play in the Premier League! (Seeking monthly tickets)
This statement came out.

The whole audience was shocked!

Becoming famous with just one goal, that’s all!

"willing!"

"willing!"

"willing!"

The word echoed over Highbury.

If you don’t know, you might think there’s a wedding going on here today.

In the box, Arsenal executives were smiling happily in front of the TV.

This is everyone's favorite story.

Arsenal's youth training director seemed to complain: "I am worried that this will lower the quality of our youth training camp."

The senior executive laughed and said, "But he can raise the price of our shares! Money is the real gold, isn't it?"

However, unlike the Arsenal executives in the box, the Dartford players on the field did not cheer.

Even some people's faces became particularly ugly.

Patton, Duff and Eastwood were very disappointed. They had fantasized about such a scene, but they were the ones invited.

Ashley Yang was so anxious that he jumped up and down, blurting out: "How could it be him!"

To Madeira looked at Ashley Young in surprise: "Ah? I thought you two had a good relationship?"

Ashley Young explained with an embarrassed look on his face, "You don't understand. This is the Chinese cultural bond between Lu Kai and me. I'm afraid of him having a hard life, but I'm also afraid of him driving a Land Rover."

"I'm worried that he won't be able to adapt to the Arsenal academy, and I can help him adapt."

"Besides, he is the chairman of our club. If he goes to play for Arsenal, what will happen to Dartford?"

Mbappé: This doesn’t affect it, right?
Caen: It doesn’t affect me!

As the stadium gradually quieted down, Lu Kai uttered those words under the watchful eyes of the crowd: "I don't want to."

Rumble!
cheer!

applause!

The fans were very satisfied.

Everything is so perfect.

Ashley Yang's teeth were almost broken, and he said with a forced smile: "Well, he didn't want to, and he finally chose Arsen...wait."

"He chose Arsenal Green?"

The next moment, everyone gradually reacted.

"WTF? What is Lu Kai talking about?"

"He must have been too nervous, so he said something wrong."

"How can anyone refuse Arsenal's invitation? Even if it's just for youth training!"

"Fuck! Lu Kai must be crazy!"

"This child is blinded by hatred. I heard that Chinese people can hold grudges."

"Why bother? Even though the team abandoned him, doesn't this give us a chance to make amends? As long as Lu Kai pretends nothing happened, he can continue to live a wonderful life!"

People cannot understand why Lu Kai made this decision.

Including Wenger: "You don't want to? Why?"

Lu Kai laughed and said, "After I was fired by Arsenal, I went to almost every team in London for trials. In the Premier League, League One, the third and fourth divisions."

"I even went to teams in the fifth and sixth tiers, but without exception, no one wanted to take me."

"It's not because my level is not good enough, but a yellow player who was abandoned by Arsenal due to injury has no future."

"I don't want to elaborate on the unfairness behind this, but it made me realize that I will never be treated fairly in English football, or even in European football."

"Even if I stayed at Arsenal, I would never get ahead."

"Even if you invite me now, what can you promise me? A bright future, or a level playing field? Can you guarantee that I will play 30 times every season, with at least 20 of those times as a starter?"

"Mr. Wenger, I respect you very much, but we all know that the biggest difference between you and Ferguson is that you don't have much influence on the club's top management."

"I know what will happen if I join Arsenal's youth academy. Even if I am talented, considering all the discrimination factors, the earliest I can enter Arsenal's first team is when I am 20 years old."

"Then I would watch everyone play from the bench, occasionally trying out in garbage time in the League Cup or FA Cup, playing less than ten games a season." "If everything goes well, when I'm 24 to 26 years old, I might get an important rotation position in the team."

"But the reason is not because I am capable, but because I am cheap and obedient enough."

Wenger nodded, this is indeed what is likely to happen under ideal circumstances.

Every team has such role players. Real Madrid's future Vasquez is one of the top representatives of this type of player, but Lu Kai is obviously unwilling to become such a player.

Lu Kai shrugged. "And the most important thing is that the Arsenal management and the youth team haven't even said sorry to me until now!"

"If you do something wrong, you should be punished. Someone must stand up and be held accountable!"

"If mistakes go unpunished, they will happen again. And a wise man never stumbles over the same stone twice!"

Wenger understood and sighed. The team did make many wrong decisions this year, and he did not support some of the team's decisions.

But expecting an apology from those senior executives who control tens of millions of assets and can decide the fate of dozens or hundreds of people with just a single order is nothing but wishful thinking.

Wenger advised for the last time: "But don't you want to play in the Premier League? This is at least an opportunity! Don't mess with your future."

Lu Kai nodded. "Of course I want to, but if I have to sacrifice my dignity and my future ten years for such an opportunity, I will never accept it."

"I have more meaningful things to do in the past ten years than sit on the bench."

"I've met a great group of people at Dartford. If my dream before was to play in the Premier League, now my dream is to play in the Premier League with Dartford!"

Lu Kai pointed at his Dartford teammates in the audience and spoke word by word:
"I!"

"Guys!"

"want!"

"Kick!"

"Britain!"

"overtake!"

!!!

silence.

Endless silence.

Wenger was speechless.

The fans found it outrageous.

Even the Dartford players thought it was too absurd.

A ninth-tier team playing in the Premier League?

With one promotion per year, it would take nine years before a team could officially play in the Premier League.

But there is no team in the world that can be promoted nine levels in a row.

It didn't happen before, and it never will happen again.

And how many players can have a career lasting nine years?
The absurdity of this slogan is comparable to when Ferguson shouted that he would kick Liverpool off the throne.

Wenger laughed. He was a very cultured man and generally didn't laugh at others unless he really couldn't help it.

Look at the players in the stands at Dartford.

Aside from To Madera, who possesses the gift of speed...

Barton, a criminal-level problem player.

Duff is as fat as a pig.

Eastwood has a very low shooting quotient.

Ashley Young, the dwarf.

Grilled grad student Kailo.

Oliver, who is almost 30 years old, and those shoemakers, shopping guides, repairmen... including their head coach, I heard that they are just goalkeepers on the field... Can such a team play in the Premier League?
This is simply... Wait, why does this gatekeeper look familiar?

Wenger kept searching his memory.

Finally he remembered something.

"It's you!" Wenger's smile froze.

The man standing behind Ferguson!

(End of this chapter)