Chapter 559: Chapter 558: The King of Manchester, the hard-working Ribery
Manchester Evening: "Manchester never fails! Although United only managed a draw this round, City have clinched a big victory! Manchester’s fans are fortunate, there’s always some of them enjoying the euphoria of victory!"
The Times: "The Champions League’s best player lives up to his name, achieving a hat-trick at home for the first time, a born clutch performer!"
BBC: "King of the home ground? Deng Kai’s hat-trick propels him to the top of the Premier League scorers’ chart! I prefer to call him the King of Maine Road!"
Record Report: "Maine Road is too small! Deng Kai edges out Van Nistelrooy and Ronaldo to become the Premier League’s top scorer, clearly making him the King of Manchester!"
Bild: "Lahm racks up assists and scores twice in the Premier League! Schweinsteiger, on the other hand, struggles to find playing time. In this twin stars’ showdown, has Lahm really lost?"
Kicker: "After a win and a loss, City climbs from second last to eighth in the league! Deng Kai’s hat-trick is on fire!"
The Sun Newspaper: "A sharp break down the left! Watching Jermaine be outpaced by Deng Kai, you wonder how many goals Ronaldo has stolen from him! The so-called European Golden Shoe has only scored one Premier League goal, while the real Golden Shoe has already netted three!"
Ronaldo: ???
"Fake! This is definitely fake! Deng Kai doesn’t know how to break through at all!" Ronaldo exclaimed, incensed by the news on the paper.
Didn’t he know Deng Kai well?
Average technical moves aside, outpacing with speed?
Just hearing that sounded so not-Kai!
But...
Ronaldo firmly believed, it must be that Jermaine was too slow.
How could he let himself be outpaced by Deng Kai, was this player defending against Deng Kai while sitting in a wheelchair?
What Ronaldo didn’t know was that over at City, they were conducting a thorough analysis of Deng Kai’s technical move.
And Ribery was the main beneficiary of the analysis.
"This move is called ’Straight Flash.’ Its core lies in ’stealing’!" Deng Kai explained, "Steal a step! Run one more step than your opponent, and naturally you can establish a speed advantage."
When properly mastered, it creates a sensation of being ’the fastest off the mark,’ comparable to McGrady.
But in reality, it’s different from McGrady’s true first step.
Ribery listened, completely enraptured.
Already exceptionally insightful in dribbling, he grasped the principle of Straight Flash without difficulty.
"Ding! Ribery has comprehended the legendary golden skill Straight Flash, would you like to allocate the skill to..."
"Ding! You have allocated Straight Flash to the player Torres."
"Ding! Torres has failed to learn Straight Flash... Torres’s dribbling +2."
Ribery: ???
Ahem!
Deng Kai felt a bit embarrassed.
Little Ribery, since you’re talented, you’ll have to put in extra hard work.
That way, City will now have two golden hens laying eggs.
In fact, other City players also had gains over the past month.
For instance, Thiago acquired ’Basic Long Passing.’
But he didn’t fall prey to Deng Kai’s hands.
Because this ability is too basic, there’s no need to have the rest of the team try to acquire it.
But the Batistuta goal and Straight Flash are different.
As skills in shooting and breaking through respectively, they are elite-level.
Not maximizing their benefits as much as possible would be too wasteful.
Not to mention Deng Kai targeting Adriano and Ribery to pluck away.
Then there’s Feng Te, a player like you might not have the opportunity to comprehend a legendary golden skill in your lifetime.
Feng Te: Don’t speak too soon! Braised pork intestines, Mapo tofu, farmhouse chicken... I might very well become the youngest Top Grade Chef in history!
Other players might be able to grasp a golden legendary skill too, but not as quickly as Adriano and Ribery.
Both of them are super-talents who could comprehend skills multiple times in just over a month.
This sort of talent is definitely top-notch.
"Preeminent genius," no doubt about it.
This is the embodiment of genius-level talent.
It further demonstrated the progression speed of a super genius in terms of data and time.
At this moment, Deng Kai truly regretted.
It was such a pity that the coaching panel hadn’t awakened during his time at Sporting Lisbon.
If he had had this authority back then, how many golden skills could he have acquired from Ronaldo?
Ronaldo: And then for all eternity I wouldn’t know how to shoot or dribble, right?
Deng Kai: After all, which of Ronaldinho’s tricks like the elastico, no-touch dribbling, or absolute ball control isn’t mouthwatering?
Ronaldo: ???
Ronaldo: No way, Ronaldinho counts as a Ronaldo too?
Ronaldinho: I even became Ronaldo before you did!
The next day.
During training, Robbery felt frustrated with his talent.
It’s too hard!
Even though Coach Kai had gone through the technical points hand in hand, why couldn’t he master the ’Sudden Flash’?
He just couldn’t achieve that unity of player and ball.
The stolen step would either result in too strong a touch, sending the football flying too far, an ill-timed kick, or a miscalculated angle in relation to the opponent.
In any case, he wasn’t successful.
Then looking at Deng Kai, who was searching for the feeling near the sideline, his ’Sudden Flash’ was truly fluid.
Even though Coach Kai’s speed after adding the ’Sudden Flash’ was actually slower than the absolute speed of Ribery and Torres.
But that must be Coach Kai playing it down.
Coach Kai, as a person, simply thinks too highly of his teammates, is too protective of them. He never goes all out in training out of fear of hurting his teammates’ confidence.
But on the pitch... take a look at Jermaine, and you’ll know how ruthless Coach Kai can be.
According to The Sun Newspaper, after facing off with Deng Kai, Jermaine never went to nightclubs again!
And nightclubs are something else!
A symbol of the status of an English football star.
Without nightclubs, how much longer can Jermaine hold onto his position as an English football star?
The kid’s done for!
Sticking to just playing football in England offers no future.
Bang!
A burst of applause suddenly came from the neighboring training ground.
Ribery looked over.
He saw a group of people surrounding Adriano, clapping and cheering.
"Incredible! Adri, your shots are just like Batistuta’s!"
"What do you mean ’like’? It’s exactly the same!"
"Well done, Adri! Now we can’t defend against you anymore!"
"Forget about maintaining your training level, I think even if you have just half of your training performance, you’ll still become one of the most dominant strikers in the Premier League!"
"I’m so looking forward to the next match! Let forwards like Henry, van Nistelrooy, and Ronaldo know that you are in the same league as them!"
Chiellini, Essien, Tu Lei, Maicon, and Grosso were all genuinely praising Adriano.
Truly strong!
On the other hand, Coach Kai calmly told Adriano: "Adri, relax and don’t feel pressured. No matter how you perform on the field, you are an important member of Manchester City!"
"Manchester City can’t be without you! We have many more days of progress ahead, stick to your current level of hard training, and we will all reap the rewards!"
Adriano nodded and remembered Coach Kai’s comments.
Yes, Coach Kai.
The captain’s "Kai!"
