Chapter Fifty-Nine: The Warm-up Match Begins

In the next two days, Lao Lei continued to seize the time to complete the run-in with his new teammates. However, everything is not so calm, and Postiga's interview still caused a lot of heated discussions in Portuguese football. As the protagonists of "some people" in Postiga's mouth, Lao Lei and Mourinho have also been harassed by a lot of media in the past two days.

However, Lao Lei, who has been living a lonely life for a while, is not so easy to be caught for an interview. Lao Lei, who didn't want to pay attention to these noisy reporters, after the training, directly increased the horsepower of the Humvee when facing the reporters, and walked away in the panic and curses of the reporters. Journalists, who can't get along the road of Lao Lei, focus more on Mourinho. If Mourinho usually gives one or two interviews, but he is mentally tired because he is busy with the team's tactical training recently, how can he be in the mood to reporters. As a result, the journalists were all turned away by the irritated Mourinho.

In the face of the tacit refusal of the master and apprentice duo to accept the interview, some reporters found the public relations department of the Porto club, hoping to let the two come out for an interview through the club's official channels. However, all this was blocked by Mourinho, citing the club's results in the new season. After Mourinho came up with this excuse, Da Costa also came out to the public relations department to order the team not to accept interviews of any nature in recent times.

Since it was impossible to get through on the Porto side, the reporters had to find the Tottenham team that had already arrived in Porto. I don't know if it was Lao Lei and Mourinho's silence, which gave Postiga the illusion that the other party had softened. In another interview, Postiga said even more brazenly: "Those who are new. It will undoubtedly make Porto even worse. God knows what else they will do besides having a big mouth, not knowing how to be polite, and only secretly engaging in shady tricks. As soon as these words came out. Once again, a small upsurge of public opinion was set off. As a popular new star in Porto, Postiga's words still have some influence in Porto and Portugal at this time.

This has made it in recent times. The Portuguese reporters, who had no news material, were excited, so they almost took a handful of melon seeds and a glass of water to sit down and enjoy this bloody plot of Porto's family chaos. However, it is a pity that the Porto side has remained silent due to Da Costa's instructions and has not made any statement on Postiga's remarks. This made the good scene that the reporters expected for the duo to become a solo dance for Postiga.

But soon the development of things gave reporters another surprise, at this time in this bloody plot. Another character has stepped up, and that is Tottenham manager Nedl Hoddle. Hoddle is another successful player-turned-head coach. Compared with Mourinho's shabby playing career, Hoddle is much more beautiful, and is a legendary midfield superstar known as the "beautiful midfielder" in the history of Tottenham Hotspur club.

Hoddle's transition from player to manager has also been a smooth sail for him, as Chelsea manager, he led the Blues to the FA Cup final with the introduction of Dutch superstar Ruud Gullit. With this capital, it was only natural for him to join the England national team. He also became the youngest manager in the history of the England national team. He led the LinkedIn Glenn national team and led England to the World Cup and European Championship in '98 and '00. Although the last result did not achieve any dazzling results, the best result was only the round of 16 of the World Cup. It is worth mentioning that that it was under his men. Golden boy Owen became famous in a fight and started a legend of a boy chasing the wind. However, compared to Mourinho, who was not well-known in European football at this time, the 45-year-old Hoddle is also a young coach with some reputation in European football. And the career is going well. It also made Hoddle develop the problem of arrogance and arbitrariness.

I don't know if it was out of concern and closer to the new postiga, but Hoddle also opened fire when he faced the reporter. "Postiga is a phenomenal young player. I like to use young players because they tend to do wonders. For example. I took Owen with me at the World Cup in '98. In my opinion, Postiga also has such potential.

What do you say he will be sold? I think that's why Porto's new coach is so blind. I've heard that Mr. Jose Mourinho also had a professional football career before becoming a manager. With all due respect, if he had lifted my shoes when I was a player, I wouldn't have wanted to. Ha lu haha. As for Remayr, I have to admit that he was a good young player. However, as a successful senior, I would like to remind him that if he can't tolerate his teammates being better than him, he won't be able to do much in his future career. “

Hoddle's remarks immediately made headlines on the front pages of major Portuguese newspapers. Even the English journalists who came with Tottenham reported on it. In contrast to the quarrel in Portugal over the remarks, England was one-sided in line with Hoddle's ridicule. Between Hoddle and Mourinho, the proud and somewhat arrogant English journalist did not hesitate to choose Hoddle, even if they did not know any details. In their opinion, there is no comparison between a former English manager and an unknown Portuguese manager. And the enmity between Mourinho and the English media is also starting to settle from now on.

And Hodel's remarks, which were hyped up by the media, finally made Mourinho unable to sit still. "I don't know what qualifications the man who relies on witchcraft to win the game has to judge me. I asked him to lift his shoes, and I didn't know how bad the delusion he was, and that he should stay in the hospital instead of giving up treatment and medication. As for Postiga being better than Rema? It's the most ridiculous comment I've ever heard in my life. From all of this, it seems that Mr. Hoddle may have Alzheimer's disease ahead of time. Mourinho's words are not poisonous. It is said that when Hoddle saw Mourinho's words in the newspaper, he directly tore the newspaper to shreds.

And the remarks of both sides also directly changed the flavor of this ordinary warm-up game. Since both sides have torn their faces to this extent, there is no doubt that both sides will do their best, and no one can afford to lose face. This match also became the first test for the old Lei master and apprentice duo to come to Porto. Although it was not put on the surface, everyone knew that Mourinho was for Lao Lei. And the one who sold Postiga. Considering Lao Lei's performance in the World Cup, the Porto club and the fans also accepted it. But in case this game in Porto is lost. Although it will not be fully condemned and questioned immediately, it will still be somewhat disturbed by some remarks. It wasn't a good start for Jose Mourinho and Lao Lei, who are ambitious for the season.

A hint of gunpowder lingered between the two teams, and the warm-up match to be held tomorrow suddenly received a lot of attention because of this war of words. However, in this war of words, Lao Lei did not make any remarks to fight back. It's not that Lao Lei has changed, for Lao Lei, there are a lot of things to do at present, and he has to run in with his new teammates. Reciting the tactics of the new season and training....... he doesn't have time to spend time on the verbal work with Postiga and Hoddle, and he will naturally fight back against these two on the court. Leaving everything to the court to solve, Lao Lei firmly believes that this will always be the most effective way to fight back.

Late that night, Lao Lei had just come out of the system's training, and he was abused by Redondo's breakthrough all night. However, Lao Lei can feel his progress in this defensive style, although he is not yet able to play an effective role on the court, but the progress is gratifying. Lao Lei, who was lying on the bed, suddenly thought of tomorrow's game in his mind. He snorted coldly, then closed his eyes and prepared to rest for tomorrow's game. Before closing his eyes, his eyes were full of disdain.

It's the afternoon of the next day, and the warm-up match between Porto and Tottenham is about to begin. The Stadio del Longo was already full of Porto fans. A warm-up match should not have had such attendance, but the war of words between the two sides and the media hype gave the Porto club an extra income. The price of tickets for this warm-up match. It was also hyped up and raised in the ball market. Porto fans came to watch the game today for two purposes, one was to witness the debut of Lao Lei in the blue and white shirt at the Dragon Stadium. The second is to see for yourself how much Porto has improved after the introduction of Mourinho and Lao Lei. The performance of Porto last season. You can't satisfy them.

At this time, in the home team's dressing room at the Dragon Stadium, Mourinho had already completed the final tactical arrangement. Britto also came to inform that the players were ready to line up in the tunnel and get ready to enter. When Lao Lei walked out of the locker room, he was stopped by Mourinho, as if he had another order. Mourinho grabbed the old ray and whispered in his ear: "Reima, I'll only give you 45 minutes." I got rid of them in the first half and in the second half I had to warm up the other players and find out the results. Do you understand? You only have 15 minutes, give them a good lesson, let them know what they are? ”

Mourinho said with a gloomy face, and it seemed that he was really angry with Hoddle. "Don't worry, I'll let them know this is Porto, it's the Dragons. And we are the masters of this place now, this is not a place where they can be presumptuous. Lao Lei looked into Mourinho's eyes and said firmly, with a hint of danger in his eyes.

"Good, go ahead."

"Head, can I beat them to tears?" Before walking out of the dressing room, Lao Lei suddenly turned around and said a little jokingly to Mourinho. Without waiting for Mourinho to answer, Lao Lei walked out, because there was no need for an answer at all, and Lao Lei's tone was full of affirmation. However, Lao Lei's words made Mourinho's face show a smile, but like Lao Lei, there was a hint of danger in his smile.

In the tunnel of the players, Lao Lei saw Postiga again, who was also a starter. For Postiga's eye attack, old Leo raised his head and whistled, looking indifferent. This suddenly made Postiga feel a surge of anger in his heart, and after glancing at Lao Lei fiercely, he snorted coldly before turning his head. This suddenly made the atmosphere in the players' tunnel a little stiff and embarrassing.

After a while, listening to the singing of more than 50,000 fans at the Dragon Stadium, Lao Lei followed behind his teammates in front of him and slowly walked towards the field.

His debut in Porto's No.13 shirt kicked off the curtain. (To be continued......)