The next day, when Chang Sheng went to work, he saw Lemon downstairs.

Lemmon looked at him, did not speak, did not stop him to ask about the club.

But Chang Sheng saw deep concern in his eyes.

It's a feeling that a Getafe loyal fan should have when they find out that their club might be finished.

Seeing his eyes, Chang Sheng felt even more that he should do something to alleviate the pain of these people.

He smiled at Lemmon for the first time in days.

"What are you worried about, Lemmon?"

"You know what I'm worried about, Chang." Lemmon was a little surprised by Chang Sheng's smile.

"Don't worry, Lemmon. There will always be hope. ”

"It's a terrible situation...... The news says we could go bankrupt and be disbanded and have to go to the regional league and start again...... I can't imagine such a scene......"

Chang Sheng patted him on the shoulder: "Don't listen to the news, reporters are a group of people who are not responsible for telling lies." Don't give up until the last minute. I'm not going to give up, so don't give up either. ”

"Don't give up?"

Chang Sheng winked at him: "Do you remember your bottle of sherry?" I'm going to get it! ”

With that, he took his hand off Lemon's shoulder and turned to walk towards the door. At the gate, he turned around and waved at Leman: "No matter what happens, remember to cheer up Getafe in front of the TV every weekend, Lemmon." ”

With that, he pushed the door open and walked out, his figure melting into the brilliant sunshine outside.

Pacifying Lemon at the door of the apartment, Chang Sheng discovers that the matter is far from over.

Because he needs to constantly comfort people who seem to be depressed. There are both players and colleagues......

On the way to the training ground, he met the press officer, Alberto. Garcia.

Alberto. Garcia looked worried, and secretly said to Chang Sheng that the club was going to hold a press conference today, and if nothing else, it would definitely be related to the debt crisis.

I just don't know whether to admit it or deny it.

Chang Shengxin said that it was not good, this is to be admitted.

Because there's really no need to deny it. I can't cover it. This matter is not a secret, and if someone investigates it, it will be clear. There are a lot of ins and outs.

So the club will definitely admit it.

"It really feels like the end of the world...... Alberto. After Garcia said this, he sighed.

"Take it easy, Alberto. Things can't be that bad. "Everwin had to appease Alberto. Garcia. "You represent the image of Getafe. You deal with journalists the most, and if you're like that, doesn't that give journalists more something to say? ”

Alberto. Garcia didn't expect Chang Sheng to say this to himself, he thought that Chang Sheng would frown with him and sigh.

Chang Sheng looked at Alberto in amazement. Garcia smiled: "No matter what happens, don't mess up yourself." Don't let those reporters take advantage of them, they're a bunch of insatiable vultures, just waiting to tear at our corpses. Don't give them that chance. ”

"But what if the end result is really bad news?" Alberto. Garcia asked with a frown, he always felt that Chang Sheng thought everything too simple and too beautiful.

Chang Sheng asked him rhetorically: "You are a press officer." Alberto, you've seen my pre-match and post-match and regular press conferences a lot, right? ”

Alberto. Garcia didn't understand why Tsunetsu was saying this, and he nodded.

"Have you ever seen me throw up my hand and surrender to those damn reporters after I lost?"

Alberto. Garcia heard this. I was stunned.

Chang Sheng smiled brighter.

"To put it mildly, call a dead duck with a hard mouth - do you know what it means for a dead duck to have a hard mouth? It's that the ducks are dead, but the mouth is still hard, which means that they don't accept softness. To put it nicely, this is called never admitting defeat. ”

Ever-winning pats Alberto. Garcia's shoulder, saying goodbye to him who was still stunned. Continue towards Las Margarita Sports City.

When Chang Sheng was ready to start a day of training, he found that the players' spirits were worse than yesterday.

Apparently these people had learned about the club's troubles through the media reports last night, and that the Castilian report was not a lie or an April Fool's joke.

He sighed helplessly, it seemed that he still had to continue to pacify more people......

But who calls us the head coach of this team?

When the team is in trouble, if the manager doesn't step up, does he have to shrink into the corner and draw circles?

This kind of difficulty has never been encountered by him, and when he plays FM games, he will also encounter a plot where the team is frozen in transfer or something because of the change of chairman. But it's just a game, and it's just a weak game compared to the real reality.

He just wanted to be a head coach, but he didn't expect that to be a good head coach would have to go through much more than just training and directing the team's games......

Still, when he's a manager, he has to take responsibility for it, even if he has no experience in dealing with it.

So before training began, he got all the players up in a circle, and told them that no matter what happened, they had to focus on football.

"You're the players, guys. You're not a superman, you're not a billionaire, and there's nothing you can do about the club, whether you admit it or not. So this kind of problem that is destined to be impossible for you to change, what is the need for you to worry? Play your football well, do your job well, that's enough. Now, train me well! We've got a game over the weekend! ”

As expected, the afternoon press conference was attended by the president of the Getafe club, Flores, and the manager, Mosto.

In front of many journalists, Flores admitted that the rumours of Getafe FC in debt crisis were indeed true.

After saying this. He leaned back in his chair and said nothing, handing the microphone to Moskdo.

Speaking to reporters, Mokosdo also said that the bank will send an investigation team to the Getafe club, and the Getafe club will definitely cooperate with the bank to do a good job.

Look at the president of the club who was silent, and then listen to Moskoro's talk.

Many of Getafe's local journalists frowned and looked worried, worried about the future of the team and the club.

They found that Flores was much older than before, looking like someone in her seventies and eighties. This would never have been seen in Flores before.

The man who once ruled the Getafe club for nine years. Always a strong man. Therefore, no matter how much a manager like Moscow spends his intestines, he is honestly like a dog in front of Flores.

Seeing Flores look so old, the local journalists in Getafe lost faith in Getafe's future.

Twenty-one rounds of league matches. Getafe have 17 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss, scoring 44 goals and conceding only 12. With 54 points, he ranked first in the league and won the half-way league championship.

Such an outstanding performance has never been seen in the team since the inception of the Getafe team.

Such a result deserves to be touted and praised by the media, and it also brings joy and confidence to the Getafe players.

But this is not the case.

The media is now overwhelmingly talking about Getafe's debt crisis.

The fans met each other and frowned, and when it came to Getafe FC, all that was left was a sigh.

Even the Getafe team, although they have a regular win, but in fact, there is an undercurrent surging in private...... Some people are already starting to think about what they want to do if the team goes bankrupt.

This kind of thing can't be decided by constant victory. He can't control the minds of every player, and they are all ordinary people with flesh and blood and normal needs, and they fly separately when disaster comes, it is human nature, and husband and wife are like this. Not to mention a professional player who plays for money. Even if the team is relegated, many players will leave, let alone go bankrupt or something.

After all, there is a limit to what Chang Sheng can do, he can't control everyone, and he doesn't even know if it's useful for him to do so.

But he has to do it, and if he doesn't, this team will collapse faster.

The so-called house leak coincides with rain. When it is so unlucky, it is natural to be even more unlucky.

In the 22nd round of the league, before Getafe's away game against Córdoba, the team's main defender Xavi. Gimenez was injured again in training.

His injury has also been linked to Getafe's recent problems.

Because he was distracted in training, he sprained his ankle, and when he was sent to the team doctor, his ankle was already obviously swollen, which showed that the injury was not light.

Seeing this scene, Chang Sheng scolded his mother. He put Harvey. Gimenez scolded him and treated him as a negative example, telling the players that if you don't train well in normal times, then you will end up thinking of Xavi. Gimenez is the same - farewell to the season due to injury! Chang Sheng has decided that even if Gimenez returns from injury, he will not give him the opportunity to play in the first team, and he will always kill the chickens to show the monkeys, lest they always think that they are talking and playing.

Despite the fact that Harvey. Gimenez performed well in the relegation process last season, and he had to be sacrificed to win at this time.

Nothing is more important than the discipline of the team.

As for Harvey. Who will take Gimenez's place is something that Chang Sheng has also figured out.

He will be training in the first team all the time, but playing in the B team. Toure was urgently called up in the first team and given him a starting call.

In fact, he also has Pulido and Jose. Carlos is available at the back of the two.

But Chang Sheng trusts Yaya more. Toure, despite his young age, at least he knows that he is not bad.

However, Getafe, who did his best, lost 1:3 away to Córdoba, and almost had no way to fight back.

Only Senna saved a point for his team with a penalty, which was scored when the team was already three goals down and had no practical meaning at all.

Yaya. Toure's first game in the second division did not play well. The narrator, Claispo, mocked him as if he were blind. Running around the pitch, frequent regulations, giving too many free kicks to the opponent.

"He doesn't seem to be ready, he's too young...... He should not have been allowed to play in this game, and it is impossible to expect a young man under the age of 18 to save the team at a time when the whole Getafe team is in a slump. It's going to put him under more pressure......"

Chang Sheng kept waving his arms and roaring on the sidelines throughout the game. Remind the players to focus, to pay attention to defense, to be attentive to counter-attacks. Pay attention to everything you need to pay attention to.

But it didn't work, his team also lost the game.

The TV broadcast specially gave Chang Sheng a close-up, and his iron-blue face was unobstructed.

Lemmon, who was watching the game live on TV in the porterhouse, frowned.

He resounded what Chang Sheng had said to himself.

Don't give up?

Often. Actually, it's not your responsibility, why are you still so stubborn?

Even I, a Getafe fan, want to accept my fate, why don't you, an outsider, give up?

At the post-match press conference, reporters surrounded Chang Sheng with the eyes of a victor and forced him to admit his defeat.

But Chang Sheng always held his head high, not at all like the decadent and depressed appearance of just losing a 1:3.

The mouth is even more stubborn and refuses to admit defeat.

'I'm proud of the team's performance, we were just unlucky...... Yaya. Toure? He's been doing well and considering it's his first competitive league game, I think he's doing well. Too stressed? I don't think there's any pressure on him, none of us put pressure on him. He's relaxed in the team...... A crisis for the club? This is not a question I should answer, I suggest you go and ask the manager Moscodo, he must know more than I do...... No, I don't think the crisis at the club has affected the team's performance, we have won seventeen games so far this season. Counting this game, only two defeats, we are still top of the league, why should I be unhappy? ”

He used his practical actions to the press officer Alberto in front of the television. Garcia demonstrated what it means to be a "dead duck with a hard mouth", or "not admit defeat if you die".

played a tough image in front of the media. When Chang Sheng returned to his team, he was even tougher to the end - he didn't want to show his weakness in front of reporters, and he didn't want his men to think that he had run out of tricks and could only resign himself to fate. As the head coach of the team, he must not lose the courage to continue to struggle.

After returning to Getafe, Chang Sheng scolded every player, and while his prestige was still working, he had to do everything he could to get the team back on track.

The so-called dedication to personnel is subject to the mandate of heaven, and doing one's best is also before obeying the mandate of heaven. You always have to do your best.

The team's problems today are not technical, tactical, but mental.

Chang Sheng can only stimulate them with heavy words.

Maybe it was his heavy words that played a role, or maybe the players of Getafe were not willing to sink like this.

In short, three days later, in the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey, Getafe hosted Granada in Group B of the second division.

Against a team that is one level below them, Getafe has finally shown what they can do as a team in the second division.

Won 4:0 at home, cleanly.

It also brought some joy and comfort to the worried Getafe fans - the club is already in crisis, at least the team is normal, maybe they have come out of it?

The big deal for the club is to change an owner, who will be the boss or not? As long as the team's results are good.

That's what the fans value the most.

The big win in the Copa del Rey has restored the confidence of many people that the team will not be a problem to be promoted this season, and it will not be a problem to go one step closer in the Copa del Rey.

Even the smiles on the faces of the Getafe coaches are gradually increasing, the atmosphere in the Getafe team is getting better little by little, and the players are gradually training harder.

Sure enough, victory is the best panacea for all wounds.

As long as it can be won, the debt crisis is not worth mentioning.

Everyone's previous frowning brows are unfolding, only Chang Sheng, in private, the brows will be tighter and tighter.

Because he knows that it is almost the payday of the month......

Each club has a different payday, which is the same as a different payday for each company.

There are also clubs in Spain that do not have a monthly salary, but an annual salary, where half of the salary is paid each year, and the remaining half is paid at the end of the season along with the bonus - if there is one.

But Getafe is not, Getafe is a monthly salary system, that is, the salary is paid once a month, not once a year.

The payday for Getafe is five days of each month, and if a holiday falls on, it is postponed by one or two days.

For young players who spend money without moderation and financial planning, this day is the happiest day, which means that they have money again, they have escaped poverty and become the middle class, although the life of the middle class is too short......

In order to enhance this happiness, the club's salary is paid in cash, and the day's busy day is from morning to night, the salaries of the players, coaches, and club staff of the club's various tiers are all paid, and the staff of the club's financial department are also half exhausted.

But there are so many salaried people, and they seem to enjoy the feeling of queuing into a small room, then taking an envelope with their name on it and pinching it with their fingers.

However, on Monday, February 5, 2001, when the players and staff of Getafe went to the Treasury to collect their salaries, they were surprised to find that the door of the Finance Room was closed and a notice was posted on it.

Everyone who went to collect their wages ended up in front of the notice, watching and talking.

More and more people gathered, and the voices of discussion became louder and louder, including players and staff.

Chang Sheng didn't go to join in the fun, because he already knew the result.

He only felt that the end of this club, this team, had come......

On 5 February, the bank officially announced the freezing of the Getafe Club's financial accounts and the suspension of all salaries.