The Legendary Chairman Novel - Chapter 1250
1250 Too Young and Too Naive
Zhong led the team to the fifth round of the Champions League at home to Standard Liege.
This match was meaningless to Leeds United. They had already made sure that the group was qualified, and they were already firmly in the top spot in the group. Therefore, Zhong Cheng was able to rotate widely in this match. It was a pity that the main players of Leeds United were resting again.
Zhong Cheng played in this match with Simon Mignolet, Leonardo Bonucci, Matz Hummels, Paul Pogba and Lukaku.
Yes, Zhong Cheng is giving these young players so many chances to play.
Moreover, it was such a heavy game, which was very helpful to the growth of these young players. No wonder Leeds United were called the Young Guards Legion Corps, no wonder they were called the Young Guards Legion Corps, no wonder Leeds United were called the Young Guards Legion Corps.
The youngsters at Leeds United have already had a lot of experience in the Champions League, and in a year or two they will not be very strong, at least much stronger than people of the same age.
No wonder so many youngsters are willing to join Leeds United!
The Leeds United Club conducts two large youth trials a year, one in the winter and one in the summer, with teenagers from all over England coming to the Leeds United training base in the hope of joining the Leeds United team.
This was what Stones and the others had done before.
Now Eric Dill, Dylan Ali, Osman Dembele and Mbape have all come to the Leeds United youth camp and are now growing up in the Leeds United youth camp.
Soon, Leeds United’s winter youth training program was about to arrive again. It was around January, and now it was almost the end of November. Soon, it would arrive.
At this moment, Gary Kelly, one of Leeds United’s youth management staff, was preparing for this matter. This matter was very, very important to Leeds United. This was the basis for guaranteeing the future of Leeds United players.
Gary Kelly took the matter seriously. Now that Leeds United was thriving and in full swing, Gary Kelly was full of energy and didn’t want to rest for a moment.
Zhong Cheng left this matter to Gary Kelly. He ignored it now and just led the team to play the next match.
In this match against Standard Liege, Leeds United played a little passively. After all, this was a team made up of young players. However, their overall performance was not bad. They did not fear the end. Instead, they gave Zhong Cheng a pleasant surprise at the end of the first half.
Lukaku was at the front of the box when he received a pass from midfielder Paul Pogba and sent a world-class kick into the goal of Standard Liege.
It’s true; The ground was filled with thunder, and the sky was shocked!
Standard Liege’s goalkeeper had no idea what to do. The ball was really too fast.
Leeds United led Standard Liege 1-0. Standard Liege Japan thought that Leeds United’s dispatch of these young players was their chance. They didn’t expect that they wouldn’t even be able to kick these young players.
Standard Liege stepped up their offense in the second half. It was very ferocious. At one point, it was very dangerous for Leeds United’s goal. If Simon Mignolet wasn’t in good shape, Leeds United’s goal would have been broken.
Of course, Leonardo Bonucci and Matz Hummels’s defensive line were doing very well, putting a lot of pressure on the Standard Liege players.
The Standard Liege manager watched the two young centre-backs from Leeds United go viral and wanted to take them on loan from Zhong Cheng for a few years.
Unfortunately, Zhong Cheng would not agree!
In the thirty-first minute of the second half, Leeds United made a beautiful counterattack.
Alexander Pato went straight to the game and easily scored against Standard Liege’s goalkeeper. Fortunately, Alexander Pato did not lose three goals in a game like a Chelsea striker in his later life.
Alexander Pato is trustworthy!
In this final match, Leeds United defeated Standard Liege 2-0 at home. After all, Leeds United were more defensively exhausted in the second half, and if Standard Liege’s strikers were more capable of seizing the opportunity, it would be difficult for Leeds United to win this game.
After the game, young players like Paul Pogba and Lukaku were frantically surrounded by media reporters, wanting to interview these youngsters.
These young people are now famous in European football, and some of them are almost at their peak. Paul Pogba of Leeds United, for example, has been dubbed the future Vieira of French football by many. Many even claim that Paul Pogba is stronger than Vieira because he is obviously more talented in offense than Vieira.
Furthermore, Paul Pogba was highly valued by Zhong Cheng, so he attracted countless covetous people.
Many clubs are openly and secretly trying to woo Paul Pogba. It is said that many clubs are now approaching Paul Pogba’s family privately to persuade him to join their team. Many have even offered a sky-high price to Paul Pogba’s family.
Of course, there were a lot of people who contacted Paul Pogba privately.
It is said that Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Inter and Juventus have all contacted Paul Pogba privately, and even Real Madrid and Barcelona have contacted Paul Pogba in the hope of signing him.
Now these reporters want to know what Paul Pogba is thinking?
“Yes, there are a lot of clubs approaching me privately,” Paul Pogba told reporters at the time. “I am very grateful for the importance you all attach to me, but I would like to say that I am not going anywhere and I will stay at Leeds United. It is a very, very good home for me.”
Paul Pogba wasn’t bragging at all!
He knew very well that Leeds United was his best choice now, because there was a manager who valued him. There was also a very good atmosphere here. This was the Young Guards. It was easier for young players like them to stand out. Other clubs seduced him was a promised future. Now that he had gone to these teams, he could not even sit on the bench.
If he stayed with Leeds United, he would be able to enter the first-team bench of Leeds United and play in the Champions League. This was the most important and precious thing for him. He did not want to waste his talent and talent in the youth team.
Paul Pogba said firmly: “I repeat, I will not leave Leeds United and I will continue to play for Leeds United!”
Paul Pogba’s words ruined the dreams of many club coaches!
These people didn’t understand what kind of bewitching soup Madman Loria had given these young players to make them follow him so intently.
These clubs not only seduced Paul Pogba, but also contacted Lukaku, Griezmann, Mbabe and the others. They all wanted to take these people away, but unfortunately, these people were unanimous and directly refused.
This was a blow to the people of these wealthy clubs.
They are the world’s top rich clubs. When did they get so angry?
These damned brats were truly too ungrateful. It was simply unreasonable. A group of brainwashed fellows deserved to stay in a garbage team like Leeds United. They were truly asking for trouble.
However, these young players were happy with it.
Look, how young are the main players of Leeds United’s first team now? Most of them are twenty-one or twelve years old, and the average Leeds United first team is twenty-one years old. How old are the other clubs’ players?
They will probably have to wait for many years to get the chance to play in these clubs.
The main force of these wealthy clubs was old now. It wasn’t that this batch of players had retired. The wealthy clubs would buy a batch of 27-28 year old players from outside to replace this batch of players. If these young players wanted to make a name for themselves, they would have to wait until they were at least 24-15 years old, or even older.
Only by staying at a young team like Leeds United would they be able to get more opportunities.
Even though they may not be able to get a place in the first team at the age of twenty-one or twelve, they will definitely have more chances than they have on other teams.
Therefore, these players are naturally willing to stay at Leeds United.
Especially now that Paul Pogba and Lukaku are in their mid-16s, they are already in the first team of Leeds United. Although there weren’t many chances for them to play now, they definitely had more chances than the other wealthy clubs. Moreover, the chances for them to play were not that kind of warm-up game, but a Champions League-level game. Naturally, it would be more cost-effective to stay here.
“To be honest, Leeds United is my best option,” Lukaku told reporters after the game. “They have nurtured me and given me so many opportunities. I am grateful and I hope to continue to play for Leeds United.”
Lukaku added: “I can feel the importance my boss attaches to me. He has put a lot of effort and effort into me. I will not disappoint him. I am not an ungrateful person. I will definitely stay at Leeds United.”
Alright, the media reporters didn’t want to stay any longer. These players were simply brainwashed by Zhong Cheng. This loyalty towards Zhong Cheng was like being poisoned.
The people from the other clubs shook their heads one after another. What else could they say if they were like this?
They really had no way to poach these young players. These young players were also young. They had never seen the prosperity and complexity of the outside world before. Their minds were relatively unitary now. When they grew older and more mature, they would understand that loyalty was nothing compared to many other things!
Living well is the most important thing, don’t live for others.
When you grow up, you will find that all loyalty and kindness are bullshit in front of money and profit. So you brats just wait. In the future, you will definitely be from our club. This is your life. You can’t escape, hahaha!
The clubs immediately shifted their sights and began to dig up the main players of Leeds United’s first-team squad.