"One ball, one hundred thousand pounds!"

Whenever he thinks about his goal bonus, Zhen Shaolong feels full of motivation, and in the next few days of training, he became the hardest working player, and he has overtaken Owen's enthusiasm.

Owen, it's still worth affirming.

In Zhen Shaolong's opinion, Owen's strength is worthy of recognition, and his technical level is indeed not bad, but his body is a little fragile, and his body that looks strong is a little sluggish when he is targeted, and he often suffers a little injury.

Maybe it's the relationship between competitive pressure, Owen is also very active in training, mainly in the 'seriousness', the attitude of other players is somewhat relaxed, such as when the coach explains the tactics, or some free time, they will become less serious, and they will take a break when they have time, Owen is listening carefully, and he will insist on working hard in free training.

The only thing is ......

Zhen Shaolong always felt that Owen's character was not very good, and he was the kind of guy who liked 'scheming people behind him', and he couldn't say this for sure, after all, he didn't have any contact in private.

Anyway, the two don't get along.

Of course, private life interactions do not affect being teammates or forward partners, Owen's strength is no problem, and the efficiency of partnering with him can be guaranteed.

Zhen Shaolong is like a benchmark character.

As the absolute main force of the front line, the best player in the team is still the boss of Barton in the locker room, several stinging players are very convinced of him, he can't be said to be the boss of the locker room, but every teammate will pay special attention to him.

When Zhen Shaolong's training became hard, the whole team was driven to work hard.

It makes the coaching staff feel good.

Cafro said to Sam Allardyce, "In recent days, the atmosphere in the team has been good, everyone has worked hard, especially Zhen, Joey and Allan. ”

"Probably they're feeling the pressure." Allardyce pondered.

"Pressure?"

Cavro was a little confused.

"Yes, pressure!" 'We had a good result and it was down to the performance of the whole team, but Zhen's goal was important, and we have to admit it. But how long can that efficiency be maintained? ”

Cavro nodded thoughtfully.

"It's the same with other people, Zhen is doing so well, they will also have pressure, such as Michael, Joey, and our midfield is also very competitive, and every player has to train hard and try to be at their best if they want to play more......

Allardyce kept explaining, almost believing what he said.

Cavro was full of suspicions.

In the morning, Cavro heard the club manager nagging about something, "The club can't even afford to pay bonuses", he asked the reason strangely, and only then did he know the details of Zhen Shaolong's contract--

From now on, every goal scored by Zhen Shaolong will be worth 100,000 pounds!

Cavro is envious to death, his annual salary is less than 300,000 pounds, that is, Zhen Shaolong's three goals.

Of course.

The club manager was joking.

Zhen Shaolong's continuous goals, the value created for the club is by no means the money from the goal bonus, the club will hope that the more goals he scores, the better, and the greater his fame, the better.

In terms of the club's business development, it will be able to earn back the money from the goal bonus.

Zhen Shaolong is so popular!

Since Zhen Shaolong joined Newcastle United, his number 11 shirt has been in short supply, and most fans want to buy his shirt, and fans in other regions have also bought shirts to show their support for him.

In addition, Zhen Shaolong's crazy performance also drove the ratings of Newcastle United's game.

Although the Premier League's broadcasts are sold collectively, the balls received by each club are still linked to the ratings, and the clubs with high ratings receive more share of the broadcast.

In previous seasons, Newcastle United could only get broadcast income in the middle of the table, but this season's statistics show that their game ratings are not as good as the Premier League semi-finals, but they far exceed other clubs, and the expected broadcast share can get millions more pounds.

Of course.

Newcastle United's ratings have increased, and results have also been a decisive factor.

So far, Newcastle United has a record of eight wins, three draws and one loss, ranking second in the Premier League table, only two points less than first-placed Arsenal.

As a club that is 'fighting for fifth', Newcastle United will definitely be satisfied with 'second', and the whole club feels relaxed and expectant, and hopes that the team can continue to do well.

"Just keep the top four!"

This is what many people look at the league for.

This is true of the club's president Michael Ashley, manager Sam Allardyce, assistant coach Cavro, and even Newcastle United fans, most of whom think so.

Zhen Shaolong scoffed at this.

When it comes to individual performances, his goal is to get more prize money, and when it comes to the results of the whole team, the goal is definitely to win the league title.

He didn't say it.

As a player on the team, it feels a little weird to say 'such an amazing' goal, but the goal of winning the championship does not conflict with 'getting more prize money'.

So, just keep trying.

Zhen Shaolong's direction of efforts is mainly to treat tactics and cooperation, but he didn't expect that hard work will produce unexpected gains, the long-term immobile 'ball sense evaluation', with a rise of '1' points, and the increase of '1' points just makes the ball sense value reach 60.

"Ball sensation 60...... Finally passed! ”

Zhen Shaolong has a little impulse to cry, his skills have always been 'criticized', when he played for St. Pauli Club, the media's evaluation of his skills was--

Very poor!

With the improvement of the technique a little bit, the evaluation was finally considered 'average', and looking at the value of '60' for the ball sense, it can be said that the technique is up to standard, to say the least.

Reaching '60' was just a small surprise, and the bigger surprise was that the system prompted you to get a new skill--

"Reach 60 points in your ball sense rating and gain the team mode skill "Football Spirit"."

"The Spirit of Football: Team Mode Skills.

Team: 0/5.

Promote a positive sense of sportsmanship and you will be blessed with good fortune.

Under the gaze of more than 100 people, the five team members shouted positive slogans, which were able to turn on the effect of the "Spirit of Football" skill. ”

New Skills!

When he found out that he got a new skill, Zhen Shaolong was very excited, ordinary skills were obtained through 'skill acquisition tasks', only the title skills were obtained directly, but the effect of the title skills was mostly 'auxiliary', some were 'life skills', and some could be used in the game, but the effect was not too obvious.

Now there's an 'Team Skill'.

"The Spirit of Football", it is very 'righteous' when you hear the name, but what the specific effect is, you can still know through activation, and the conditions of activation sound sad.

More than 100 people watch!

Four team members, each shouting positive propaganda slogans?

"What and what......"

Because the skills are not explained in detail, I don't know what to do if I want to start directly.

Zhen Shaolong could only put his skills on hold first.

The next day was matchday, but not the Premier League, but the English League Cup.

There are two cup competitions in England, one is the oldest and most widely recognized by fans, the FA Cup, which has always been the English League Cup owned by the FA and participated by professional clubs.

In terms of impact, the League Cup is far weaker than the FA Cup.

It's a cup of the devil's head.

There is a point in any cup competition, and the winner of the League Cup can also qualify for the UEFA Cup, which is also the hope of many mid-table clubs to break into the Europa League, and Newcastle United in the past is also one of the teams that qualified for the UEFA Cup by cup competition, as the club cannot guarantee a league place at the top of the league.

Now it's different.

This season, Newcastle United's results are quite good, and the club's vision has naturally become much higher, and the team's goal is to 'keep the top four', and the League Cup is relatively a bit of a chicken rib.

So when the draw luck was 'against the sky', the first wave of participation met Arsenal, and coach Allardyce immediately decided to give up the game, because continuing to play the League Cup is likely to affect the league results, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Newcastle United sent a substitute lineup, Zhen Shaolong, Owen, Smith, Barton, Milner, and even Enzobia did not play, among which Zhen Shaolong and Milner were not in the squad, so they simply took advantage of the game day to rest.

The rest of the players went to the Emirates Stadium for a 'harmonious' match against Arsenal.

Arsenal were also not serious about the Carabao Cup, but they still fielded a flashy line-up, pressing Newcastle United all over the game, scoring three goals in the space of 90 minutes.

Newcastle United scored just one.

In the end, Arsenal defeated Newcastle United 3-1 to advance to the next round of the League Cup, and Newcastle United's road to the League Cup was halted at the beginning.

The whole club didn't take it seriously.

The fans don't care.

Some media outlets criticized, saying, "Newcastle United have no respect for the Carabao Cup at all, and they have sent a squad that clearly wants to lose, but they could have been promising. ”

'The last time Newcastle beat Arsenal, even at the Emirates Stadium, they have the quality to win......

Of course.

The outside media said that the sky was falling and could not affect Newcastle United's decision-making.

The intensity of English clubs is much higher than that of other leagues, with 38 league games throughout the season, as well as the League Cup and FA Cup.

It was a wise decision for Newcastle United to abandon the cup competition and choose to focus on the league.

Many media outlets are also supportive.

Three days later.

Newcastle United hosted Portsmouth and the final result of the match was 4-1.

Newcastle United get a big win!

A big win is always hearty, and it will also add a lot of topics, Zhen Shaolong, who completed a goal, seems to have been ignored by the media, and the brightest player has become Milner.

Two goals, one assist!

Milner's performance stats were spectacular, with many media outlets furiously praising him as 'England's best right midfielder' or even, 'the true David Beckham successor'.

As a matter of fact.

Milner is just in the same position as David Beckham, and their playing styles are very different, he doesn't have that kind of footwork with long-range precision or great set-piece skills.

Newcastle United.

Most of his teammates were still amazed at Milner's luck, and Smith exclaimed, "James, you're so lucky!" You can score that kind of ball! ”

He was talking about the first goal.

Milner dribbled the ball to the bottom line and then dodged a defender to score in an 'almost pass' fashion.

That's sure to be luck!

Even Milner admitted, "I did want to pass the ball, but I didn't want to kick it!" ”

Milner's second goal came on the right side of the box, where Viduka fired a volley off the opposition player and bounced right at the feet of Milner, who had just run into the box.

Then, he calmly scored the ball!

Of course, there are factors such as Milner's strength and performance, but there is also a lot of luck, such as the second goal, which is scored by a similar player.

Until the next morning, Smith, Taylor and others were still discussing Milner's 'shit luck', of course, they were envious and jealous, scoring two goals in one game and winning the MVP of the game, which is quite remarkable for a full-back.

James Milner was named Man of the Round and was named to the BBC's Team of the Round.

That's pretty remarkable!

Milner is a competitor in the same position, but Cristiano Ronaldo plays for Manchester United.

Hearing the discussion of his teammates, Zhen Shaolong suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said to Smith, "Don't envy James." ”

Smith, Taylor and Milner all looked over.

"Actually, I have a way to increase my luck." Zhen Shaolong's topic was 'fantasy wind', "Yes, I believe that singing the praises of sportsmanship can lead to better luck." ”

"What?"

The eyes cast by several people all had the same look as 'looking at a fool', Zhen Shaolong was suddenly a little annoyed, "You should know that I never lie, and I can't ...... Anyway, I just have a way, if you listen to me, your luck in the game will definitely get better! ”