"Why are you so interested in coming out for coffee all of a sudden?"

Luis Lourenço sat down across from Mourinho, accustomed to his old friend, who was always cold, and after asking for a cup of coffee from the waitress who greeted him, he began to read some manuscripts intently.

He is one of Portugal's best-known sports journalists, with columns and connections in several newspapers, and he and Jose Mourinho are still old friends, and the two have known each other for a long time and have always had a good relationship.

I thought that Mourinho would explain, but who knew but didn't wait for what he wanted, Lorenço raised his head from the manuscript, stared at Mourinho a little strangely, and asked with concern: "What's wrong with you, Jose?" ”

Mourinho woke up, shook his head, picked up the coffee to drink, but found that it was cold, so he quickly beckoned the service lady to change the cup of hot one, but from beginning to end, his brow never stretched.

"Luis, do you think Ferguson is great?" Mourinho asked suddenly.

Lorenzo laughed, "Of course it's great, you know? Now the football world is saying that he has created an era, created a dynasty, and he is even considered to be the greatest manager in the history of Manchester United, whether as a friend or an opponent, you have to admire his achievements and ability. ”

"What about Brian Clough?"

"It's great, but if you want to talk about it from my personal point of view, I think Clough is more valuable, but Ferguson is more difficult, after all, football is very different from the football of the past, and in the future, the road of football will be more and more difficult and more utilitarian!"

After Mourinho heard this, he seemed to feel something, which made Lorenzo, who was familiar with him, immediately notice some differences.

"What's wrong? What's going on? ”

Mourinho looked out of the café and could see the celebrating Belgian fans cheering past from time to time, their faces carrying the joy of the national team winning, this joy was very innocent!

"I just met a club owner who was interested in me, and he confidently told me that I would regret losing an opportunity to break new ground, and he called me short-sighted!" Mourinho said with a smirk.

Lorenzo looked at his good friend, he knew that Mourinho said this, which proved that he had indeed been stabbed in some way, otherwise, with his surname, he would never show such emotions.

"Louis, if it were you, would you be one of the brilliant galactic stars, or would you carve out a magnificent galaxy for future generations to live?"

Lorenço felt that this seemed a bit profound, but after thinking for a while, he replied: "The former is undoubtedly easier, but the latter is obviously more difficult, but it is easier to give people a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction. ”

Speaking of this, Lorenzo suddenly smiled.

"Frankly, José, I suddenly feel that the owner of the club that is interested in you is familiar with you, he obviously knows your last name, and it sounds like he is very ambitious."

"You don't even know which club it is!"

"It doesn't matter, Jose," Lourenço shook his head, "as long as it's not a Portuguese club, I've worked in Portuguese football for so long, and I know very well that being a manager in the Portuguese league is a very unsafe thing, especially a rookie manager, you can't expect anything out of it, because you may be fired in less than half a year!" ”

It is for the same reason that Lourenço dissuaded Mourinho a year ago when he was about to accept an offer from a top-flight team in Portugal to coach, and Mourinho listened to him and stayed at Barcelona.

However, it should be said that Mourinho was not happy in his last year at Barcelona, his heart swelled and he could not allow himself to continue as an assistant coach, and his tactical disagreement with Van Gaal made it even more difficult for him.

But no matter what, the year has finally passed, Van Gaal left, Gaspar came to power, brought Ferrer, so Mourinho went naturally, everything was very unexpected, but it also made sense.

"That's a club from the English third division!" Mourinho eventually revealed the identity of the other party.

Lorenço couldn't laugh for a moment, he clearly knew Mourinho's arrogant surname, and he would definitely not allow himself to be so wronged.

But in fact, God knows how much talent and ability Mourinho has!

"Do you want to hear the truth, José?" Lorenzo thought for a moment and asked.

"Of course, you wouldn't be sitting here!"

Lorenço smiled bitterly, he felt that Mourinho's words were still so harsh.

"I think you should try it, the league level is not a problem, even if it's the English third division, it's a professional league, as long as you do a good job, there will also be higher teams looking at you, and coaching in a lower league, there is less pressure, which will give you enough room to make mistakes."

"In the top league, a ball is the difference between life and death, if you win you are God, if you lose you are the devil, that is a killing battlefield, you will not be allowed to make even the slightest mistake, you have been at Barcelona for so long, you should know this truth better than me."

"I believe in you Jose, you have a lot of theories right now, but you need the opportunity to practice, and practice can make mistakes, and I listened to what you just said, the owner of that club is very ambitious, why don't you think about it? The coaching environment in England is still quite good! But most importantly, José, you're out of work now! ”

Mourinho was told by Lourenzo that his current situation seemed to be really like this.

Xiao Yu knows his future, knows that he has withstood the pressure, and finally became a famous coach in Europe, but Mourinho himself doesn't know now, the only thing he knows is that he is now unemployed and idle at home, waiting for an opportunity!

"They're promoted from League C, the new Manchester United!" Jose Mourinho said the name of the club that had just invited him.

When Lorenço heard this, he was immediately a little surprised, "New Manchester United? ”

"You know this team?"

"Of course, this is a very interesting team, it was a sensation when it was established, and it won two doubles in a row in two years of its establishment, and was directly promoted to the English League C, which has a certain reputation in England, but the most interesting thing is their owner!"

"Xiao Yu?" Mourinho frowned, the guy who was even more arrogant than him.

"Don't blame me for saying you, Jose, although I am your friend, I have to admit that you are not as good as him in any way, he definitely has the capital to be arrogant in front of you, if you know this person!" After speaking, Lorenzo immediately told some of the deeds he had learned about Xiao Yu.

This surprised Mourinho, because he didn't know that Xiao Yu had once founded New Manchester United with all his money, and he didn't know that Xiao Yu started from scratch and now called Apple's Steve Jobs brothers, let alone that he was unanimously respected by Wall Street investors in the United States.

Of course, Mourinho would not know that the sports car designed by Xiao Yu for Lamborghini had just won a design award at a very authoritative auto show in the world, let alone that Xiao Yu personally wrote the team anthem......

When Lorenzo told everything he had learned, he was surprised to find that what Xiao Yu had done was far beyond his imagination.

"To put it simply, he's a huge fan, he's very, very rich, and he's willing to spend money, and one of the things he says most often is that the new Manchester United are like his son, and from what I know of him, he's definitely not the kind of guy who talks about it."

"What do you mean by that?"

Lorenzo smiled, "It's a gamble, Jose, Xiao Yu is betting on whether you will become Ferguson, and you are betting on whether the new Manchester United will become Manchester United." ”

"So what?" Mourinho is a little unhappy, his least favorite thing is gambling, even if he later became a European coach, he also doesn't like gambling, he thinks it's luck, he likes to control everything.

"Judging by the current cards between you and him, if I were a gambler, I would have pressed on him, because no matter how you look at it, he has more potential to appreciate than you, it's as simple as that, Jose!" Lorenzo chuckled.

Xiao Yu is a rich man himself, and he is willing to spend money, and money has become the most important factor in the development of the club, Lourenço believes that even if Mourinho refuses, Xiao Yu will soon find someone who is not inferior to Mourinho in fame and ability to take over the new Manchester United, because of his ambition and money.

Thinking about it carefully, Lorenço felt strange, why did Xiao Yu find Mourinho?

To say that he is Van Gaal's assistant coach, but he is not a direct of Van Gaal, he often even questions Van Gaal's actions in private, which makes the Dutch coach very unhappy, and his biggest problem is that he has never had the experience of being alone.

Players have geniuses, but managers rarely hear of geniuses, almost every manager is constantly groping, constantly studying and learning, in the setbacks of failure and victory encouragement to move forward, and finally tempered a coaching level.

But Jose Mourinho doesn't even have experience coaching the youth team.

Why did Xiao Yu choose him? Does he think that Mourinho will be a potential stock like the software companies in Silicon Valley in the United States?

Of course, the haughty Mourinho would have taken Xiao Yu's choice of him for granted, but Lorenzo was curious, and he felt that he had to help his good friend figure it out.

In fact, he soon found a chance.

On June 12, after England's 3-2 defeat to Portugal, Beckham made an obscene gesture of raising his middle finger to the England fans in the stands, and because the game was broadcast live, the scene was watched by all the spectators and fans in front of the TV and caused an uproar.

In this case, Luis Lourenço offered to interview Beckham's good friend!

And Xiao Yu simply agreed!

ps: I was drunk last night, hehe, and I was late again in the morning!

One more in the evening!

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