Born to be a coach [soccer]

Chapter 132

In the opinion of nutritionist Qiao’s mother, dumplings are simply a genius food: calorie control, carbohydrate control, protein and fat control, salt control... The key is that the players love it so much.

Therefore, although Anton explained that dumplings are not a specific delicacy for the Mid-Autumn Festival, Qiao’s mother still approved dumplings as the main food for the Mid-Autumn Festival dinner. The portion of less than 40 grams is really worrying everyone.

Anton stuck out his tongue: He originally wanted to arrange a hot pot meal.

It seems that we can only wait until winter to find another way.

There is no game day in the middle of the week, which is very rare between September and November.So everyone had a very happy time on Mid-Autumn Festival.

Anton received a long-distance call from Jiang Yueming in the morning, telling him that "Season Preview" had been broadcast, and the response was very good.In particular, the short video wishing the Chinese fans "囧吃happy" made the audience very happy. In the end, several players with the best "talent" were voted out, and they were strongly urged to learn Chinese with Anton.

The daily reports on Sunderland's youth training have become an "important sample" for the study of football basic education, and have been sent to relevant departments for research. For this reason, the reporting team has been invited to the forum one after another. Jiang Yueming and his party are therefore in their The "big leader" showed his face in front of him.

Jiang Yueming was very grateful to Anton for this, and worked hard to continue to build a closer relationship with Anton, knowing that he would have to cooperate with this famous coach in the future.

"Anton, congratulations to your team, the results are really good!" Jiang Yueming expressed his sincere praise on the phone.

Sunderland did perform very well. At the beginning of the league season, they won five consecutive victories, second only to Chelsea, who also won five consecutive victories in the standings.At the same time, the Black Cat made its first appearance on the European stage and also won a complete victory.

In a recent league match, Sunderland's lore against Arsenal further proved their strength: the Black Cats are not just the "killers" of weak teams, they are also good against strong teams.

"Where, where, keep working hard!" Anton responded to Jiang Yueming old-fashionedly.This is all learned from Papa Lin. Anton would not dare to be so "modest" when facing local reporters, and he would really be looked down upon.

This morning and afternoon, as usual, the team took tactical lessons, conducted daily training, and made a lot of preparations for Saturday's trip to Anfield to face Liverpool.

In the evening, no one in Guangming Academy got off work on time, and they all gathered in the cafeteria to make "Mid-Autumn" dumplings, and waited to watch the moon by the way.The terrain near the training base is flat, except for the main building of the base, there are few lights, but it is indeed a good place to watch the stars and the moon.

Compared with eating dumplings, making dumplings is a more popular recreational activity.Some people are born with a talent for making dumplings, and some people just can tear apart the dumplings that others have already made.

When the moon rises, all the dumplings are put into the pot, but luckily they don't all turn into "pian'er soup".Mother Qiao fished out all the dumplings herself, divided them into portions, and it was almost on the balance—but fortunately, the dipping sauce made of dumpling vinegar, chili oil, and sesame oil was enough to make everyone loose tone.

Assistant coach Russell finally learned from Anton that "dumplings are wine, the more you drink, the more you drink", but he dared not tell the young players, because the players were not allowed to have a drink at the beginning.Fortunately, Mother Qiao graciously took out her "treasure", a "fake beer" with an alcohol content of only 0.2%, and distributed it to everyone for tasting, which finally made this Mid-Autumn Festival night without any regrets.

Finally, with Earl Gray tea, everyone "eliminated" the small piece of moon cake that everyone got.

While the whole club was admiring the moon, Anton went aside alone to answer a phone call.

Russell was raising his glass to look at the moon, wondering why England didn't celebrate the "Mid-Autumn Festival" when he suddenly felt that someone was pecking him on the back.

When he turned his head, Anton made a gesture, telling him to come out.

"What's so sneaky?" Russell muttered.

"There may be some problems in Saturday's game. We need to prepare as soon as possible." Anton leaned over to Russell and said softly.

Russell had only drank a glass of "fake" beer, and he became sober after hearing this sentence.

What is "a little problem"?

"The game that day may not be played on time." Anton whispered to Russell.At this time, Russell turned his back to the people in the Guangming Academy, while Anton was facing them, so Russell could look stunned, but Anton's face showed no abnormality, as if he was only chatting with Russell—the moonlight tonight is beautiful oh!

"It's Liverpool's problem, but it may affect the schedule, so it will affect us."

It turned out that, just as Anton predicted, the current major shareholders of Liverpool, Americans Gillette and Hicks, were dissatisfied with Starway Group's purchase price for Liverpool Football Club, believing that the market value they expected had not been reached.Therefore, after Liverpool had reached an agreement with the Starway Group on the purchase price, the "Bloody Bears" held a meeting and demanded that the two directors who agreed to the transaction be fired.

On the same day, the creditor Royal Bank of Scotland stated that Gillette and Hicks' "fired directors" violated the original loan agreement signed with the Royal Bank of Scotland and should be deemed invalid.

"Bloody hell and two bears" got off to a bad start.As the FA may have approved the acquisition of Starway Group, it seems that this deal is about to take effect.

But who would have thought that Gillette and Hicks had applied for an injunction from the Texas State Court at this time to prevent Starway Group's acquisition agreement from taking effect.These two Yankees had hoped that the case would go to trial in Dallas-who made them American companies?

The lawyer team of Starway Group should be prepared to appeal to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom as soon as possible, asking the Supreme Court to rule on the legality of the "Texas Prohibition Order".If the Supreme Court rules that the "injunction order" is valid, the transaction will not be completed in time, which means that Liverpool's debts are about to default, and the club will either immediately enter bankruptcy liquidation procedures, or will be taken over by the United Bank of Scotland.

"If you take over - Liverpool will be deducted 9 league points?" Russell asked Anton in a low voice.

Anton's face remained unchanged, and he nodded calmly at Russell.

It all depends on how the Supreme Court will rule. If the "injunction order" obtained by "Two Bears" is recognized, then not only Starway Group will not be able to successfully take over Liverpool, but Liverpool will also fall into the abyss and cannot turn over.

"I'll go, those two Yankees are really ruthless!"

Although Russell is not a Liverpool fan, he doesn't want to see England's veteran giants fall into such a field.

"Because of the schedule, we happened to encounter this." Anton nodded, agreeing with Russell. "Now the Football Association asks us to wait for the notice. It is not sure whether the game will start normally on Saturday."

Liverpool's fate will be decided by the Supreme Court's decision, which is not known when.This is a life-and-death decision for this team, so the Football Association also hesitated, and simply asked both participating parties to wait, and it would not be too late to hold the game after the dust settled.

"But..." Russell didn't understand, "That day was originally scheduled for an early game, and we were originally scheduled to go to Liverpool for one night on Friday, so do we still need to go now?"

"Need." Anton thought for a while and said, "The FA didn't give us an accurate statement, and just let us wait for the notice. If the game is held on time and we fail to catch up, it will be our responsibility."

"Then what should we do?" Russell spread his hands, "I have to go, and I don't know how to compare. Isn't the mentality of the players affected? We are not a particularly stable team." Russell said Tell the truth.

"Well," Anton heard Russell's series of crackling complaints, but he had an idea. "We will wait until Friday afternoon. If the FA has not approved by then, we will go to Liverpool as planned. If notified on Saturday morning We had to postpone the early game, so we applied to Liverpool Football Club to borrow the opponent's field for training."

"What if the other party refuses?" Russell asked.

"The other party will not refuse. At that time, all Liverpool people's minds should be on that lawsuit, and borrowing the venue is just a matter of picking up the keys. Besides, Sunderland should not be involved in this matter at all. The other party’s reasons, so I can’t think of any reason for Liverpool to refuse.” Anton is very sure.

"That's it!" Russell scratched his scalp, thinking for a long time out of nowhere, "That's fine. Anyway, our players' mentality must be better than that of our opponents."

Anton immediately wanted to say "not necessarily". What if Starway Group successfully completes the acquisition and Liverpool is reborn from the ashes?Facing a team that has risen from the ashes and is at Anfield, the Devil's home court, he doesn't feel that Sunderland has any special advantages.

"That's the decision! Russell, in the last few days we have revealed a little bit to the players to make them somewhat psychologically prepared."

For the next two days, media throughout England were reporting on the lawsuit against Liverpool Football Club. The shameless level of "dog blood and two bears" has refreshed the lower limit of people's cognition.Public opinion is all accusing this pair of unscrupulous bosses of "endless blood-sucking" of the team and their unscrupulous behavior of "death to drag everyone into the water".

Not only Liverpool celebrities, even Sir Alex Ferguson's "mortal enemy" has stood up and expressed his attitude: If the Supreme Court ruling prevents Starway Group's acquisition of Liverpool, it will cause the worst disaster in English football in a century.

However, the judgment of the Supreme Court can only be based on the law, not based on people's will and expectations.

On Friday morning, the lawyers for "Blood and Two Bears" issued a statement saying that the Texas State Court had "fully communicated" with the Supreme Court of England and suggested that the Supreme Court would "likely" maintain Texas Sri Lanka's injunction, preventing the transaction from taking place.And that decision will be made early Saturday, if not on Friday.

For a while, all Liverpool people hated it.The Liverpool City Government issued a warning to the British Home Office and the Foreign Office: They are trying their best to protect the legal property of the "Two Bears" in Liverpool, but they cannot control the crazy Liverpool fans trying to attack the two people's offices and private residences in Liverpool... …

In such turmoil, Sunderland embarked on a journey to Liverpool.

Players who noticed the news of their opponents asked Anton: "Coach, Liverpool...will it be all right?"

Anton was a little relieved: in the face of justice and axiom, his players temporarily put the victory and defeat behind them.