Chapter 462: Chapter 461: Xiao Kai Misses Out on the Portugal Team?
It’s not their fault, when there are too many lice, you don’t fear the bite.
But in life and in handling matters, it’s important to have a clear conscience.
If it’s within your capacity, then you should do it.
Deng Kai, "From Keira’s perspective, this matter was indeed mishandled by us, and I’m willing to apologize to Keira on Hathaway’s behalf. How about this, help me set something up this summer, and call Keira over, and I’ll apologize in person... Forget it."
"Why am I even telling you this, I’ll contact your sister-in-law directly. Lately, you’ve probably not been in the mindset to care about anything beyond football, speaking to you is futile."
Manchester United’s current situation isn’t great, the pressure from matches is immense.
Knocked out of the FA Cup, third in the Premier League table, and in the second stage of the Champions League group matches.
Especially in the Premier League, catching up is really tough. Beckham naturally isn’t in the mood to care about anything else.
Beckham had already spent quite some of his personal time on "Bend It Like Beckham."
Beckham was pleased with Deng Kai’s attitude, "No wonder Ferguson always praises you, you handle things so well. Alright, then that’s settled. See you."
"Hold on, as you know, I’m a fan of yours, so could you send me a few boxes of signed footballs..." Deng Kai hadn’t finished his sentence when Beckham hung up the phone.
From a heartthrob to a miser, eh?
Knowing too many signatures diminish their commercial value.
It seems everyone knows about Guardiola’s sad story.
The exchange between Deng Kai and Beckham was overall sincere.
But there was one thing he couldn’t bring himself to say to Beckham.
That is, rather than saying Arsenal has the best chance to end Manchester United’s four consecutive Premier League championships, it would be more fitting to say this open book test was actually published for Liverpool.
Because this year’s Liverpool is more competitive in the league than Manchester United.
Simon, whom Liverpool snatched from Barcelona last summer, has proven to be quite useful.
The only downside might be that he’s a bit injury-prone, limiting his appearances so far.
Liverpool fans believe that if Simon fully adapts to the pace of the Premier League, he could very well become the next Michael Owen! The next genius to carry Liverpool forward.
Simon’s transfer value has jumped from five million euros to fifteen million euros again.
Even following this trend, it would not be difficult for his value to breach twenty million next season, perhaps even shooting directly to thirty million euros.
Additionally, Liverpool borrowed central defender Kilop from Ajax.
The Portuguese has been performing quite well at Liverpool, and the club is interested in making the move permanent at the end of the season.
Upon learning this, Liverpool fans discovered that Kilop had quite a connection with Deng Kai and Ronaldo who had beaten them in last year’s Europa League.
The three had worked together for half a season at Moreirense in the Portuguese league, leading Moreirense to double national championships in the league and the Portuguese Cup.
Suddenly, Liverpool developed a very strong interest and appreciation for players coming out of Portugal.
Products from the Portuguese League have also become a synonym for reliability in the Premier League.
Tottenham is quite fond of Porto’s striker Postiga.
Manchester United is drooling over Sporting Lisbon’s leading forward Ronaldo.
After being held to a draw by Sporting Lisbon, Arsenal also heaped praise on Drogba and Ronaldinho.
A youth storm from Portugal is sweeping across the British Isles.
However, Deng Kai is not sure whether Liverpool will notice this exam paper with its answers already revealed.
Or if they had noticed, could they defeat the nearly perfect unbeaten team of the Vin Era.
England, Manchester.
"You saw it too, his attitude is terrifyingly good, except for the fact that he wanted footballs signed by the box, not by the piece, I had no chance to scold him." Beckham poured water for the young lady beside him.
But if he knew that the ’box’ Deng Kai referred to was a container, would he still have a good word to say about Deng Kai?
Beckham: "Also, as an actor, it’s normal for scripts to be taken by others, and besides, Keira, you’re not short on scripts, don’t sweat the small stuff. You’re bound to become a big star."
Victoria also chimed in, "Exactly, Keira, don’t be mad, little Kai is actually a really good person. If anything, we can just bleed him dry this summer, and make him charter a yacht for us to go out to sea and have fun."
Goodness.
So, Beckham had made that call in front of Keira.
Beckham indeed values his friendship with female friends, he really has a knack for selling out his male friends.
If Deng Kai knew about this, he might as well give Beckham a flying boot.
Is this something that men discuss, to be disclosed to women?
Keira nodded, seemingly appeased.
In fact, her primary reason for wanting to take part in "Pirates of the Caribbean" was to expand her box office influence and become an actress of both artistic and commercial value.
Just like Hathaway, she wanted to earn both money and fame.
And Keira believed that she was capable of achieving this.
Now that "Pirates of the Caribbean" was off the table, she had to look for other commercial films again, which was a bit of a headache for her.
While chatting with the Beckhams, she complained about this and did not blame Deng Kai; it was just a little venting to friends. Unexpectedly, Victoria took it very seriously and had Beckham call immediately, earning Keira’s favor.
Seeing Keira in a better mood, Victoria took the opportunity to ask, "But David, will little Kai have time to go to sea with us in the summer?"
Keira said, "How could he not have time? Don’t football players need to rest in the summer? Wait... are you talking about the World Cup?"
Victoria nodded, "World Footballer and Golden Ball double tenth place, even Rui Costa didn’t achieve that. The Portugal Football Federation can’t not call up little Kai."
But Beckham shook his head, "It’s not likely, football is not just football, Deng Kai’s timing isn’t right."
This year is a World Cup year, and the World Cup will be held in five months. As a player, it’s impossible not to talk about these things.
Ferguson had already analyzed this situation with some of the players during training.
There are three difficulties for Deng Kai to be called up this year.
The first is historical reasons.
The second involves the issue of Portugal naturalizing foreign players.
Football is just a breakthrough point, once it starts, all areas will follow suit, and then it won’t stop.
Deng Kai is not a foreign player, but his joining would impact the current ’purity’ of the Portuguese national team and give those in favor of naturalization an excuse.
The third is opposition from other players of the Portugal national team.
It’s subtle but palpable to those who play the game.
The Portuguese Golden Generation does not welcome any new players, including pure Portuguese kids.
[Oh no! My younger brother is renovating his house and has been staying at my place. Yesterday, he came down with H1N1, with a high fever. This afternoon, Taozi and Dachan also started feeling unwell, with headaches and dizziness... I can’t afford to fall ill; once I catch a fever, I simply can’t type.
Please bless us!]
