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Chapter 108: Sharing the same robe with my son
Hearing the door open, Fang Yixuan immediately ran to the entrance to greet her husband.

Then he said enthusiastically to Feng Qiyuan who came in: "You're back!"

Feng Qiyuan nodded: "Yes, I'm back."

Then he walked straight inside, looking absent-minded.

"I watched the game. At the end, Brother Wang exchanged jerseys with you, which means he recognized your performance. In fact, your performance was really good, husband. The loss is not your responsibility..."

During the competition, his wife Fang Yixuan could feel her husband Feng Qiyuan's low mood. Now seeing that her husband was still in a bad mood when he returned home, she tried to comfort him. So she acted as if she didn't notice her husband's indifference and continued to talk enthusiastically.

Feng Qiyuan, who was still immersed in the last conversation with Brother Wang, realized that his wife was worried about him after hearing what she said. He quickly shook his head: "I'm not unhappy about losing the game..."

"Oh, that's good..." Fang Yixuan breathed a sigh of relief, then became puzzled: "Why do you look so worried?"

Feng Qiyuan explained: "Brother Wang exchanging jerseys with me does not mean that he recognizes my performance in this game, but it is another thing..."

Then Feng Qiyuan told his wife in detail about his conversation with Brother Wang after the game.

"...Brother Wang said that next year's World Cup will be his last chance. In order to win the World Cup, he will do his best to make himself better. I finally understand why he performed so well after transferring to Tyne... Because he wanted to seize this last chance, he was really trying his best! A 38-year-old veteran can still perform like this. If he is not persistent and determined enough to pursue his dream, how could he suddenly become like a young man again?"

Feng Qiyuan became a little excited when he said this.

"When I was competing with him in speed during the game today, I was actually shocked by his speed! I felt like I was chasing a young Wang... Now that I think about it, Wang may not be competing with me in speed at all, he is racing against time! There are only one year and two months from now to the World Cup next year, if he doesn't compete now, he will have no time to compete...

"After transferring to Tyne, he scored 14 goals and made five assists, leading the team from 13th in the league to the current 6th place! I now really believe that Tyne will qualify for the Champions League. Compared with the Chinese team winning the World Cup, how difficult is it to qualify for the Champions League? So when Wang Ge said that he would do his best for his dream, I really believed he was not talking nonsense."

After saying that, he took something out of his bag.

It was a white Tyne away jersey with blue edges. It was soaked with sweat and was a little damp when I held it in my hands.

"Wang said to me, if I don't want to win the World Cup, and don't want to force myself to work harder and fight harder to win the World Cup, then he can't do anything about it, just pretend today's conversation never happened. But if I want to win the World Cup like him, and am willing to put in more effort and sweat for this goal, and force myself to become stronger, then I will exchange jerseys with him. He gave me his jersey, and I gave him mine, which was also a commitment to each other. After exchanging jerseys, I have to fight as hard as he does."

Feng Qiyuan unfolded the jersey, revealing the number and name on it.

WANG
99
Fang Yixuan's eyes widened as she looked at the Tyne jersey her husband had unfolded. "So you agree?"

Feng Qiyuan nodded: "Well, I agree. From now on, I will train and play harder for next year's World Cup, improve my performance, correct my shortcomings, and be more focused in the game, just like when I first started playing football."

At this point, he looked up at his wife and hugged her: "So I'm sorry, honey. In the coming year, I may have to spend more time training. Brother Wang suggested that I gain muscle appropriately to improve my ability to fight."

Fang Yixuan, who was being hugged, smiled helplessly: "Why are you saying sorry... Your dream is what I hope for too. But you have already changed your jersey, so don't give up halfway!"

"No, I definitely won't give up halfway. Brother Wang is already 38 years old and still works so hard. When I'm 38 years old, I may not be able to work as hard as Brother Wang does now, but I'm only 26 years old now! Why not work hard? As long as I don't die, I'll fight to the death!"

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"How do you make Xiao Feng believe that you are telling the truth?"

Lying on the soft bed in her bedroom at home, Tang Xingmei asked with her face pressed against Wang Lie's strong shoulder.

"Lead by example." Wang Lie said, "As long as he sees my performance this year, he will believe what I say. In fact, it's the same as what I did in Tyne. I will try my best to lead the team to win first, and then tell them my goal. The resistance will be much smaller, and more people will be willing to cooperate."

"So from now on, every time you meet your national team teammates in a club game, will you exchange jerseys with them?" Tang Xingmei had a lot of ideas.

Wang Lie smiled and shook his head: "How can there be so many opportunities to meet? There are only two people in the Premier League, Xiaochi and Xiaofeng. Xiaochi, I don't need to say anything, he is fighting hard to compete with me for the core position."

"Aren't you going to play in the Champions League next season? Maybe you can meet a few of them?"

"It may be too late to talk about it next season..." Wang Lie sighed, "I will tell all the players of the national team what I said to Xiao Feng during the World Cup qualifiers in June. By then, the Premier League season will be over. When I qualify for the Champions League, my words will be more convincing. I hope they all know clearly that I am serious."

"That doesn't guarantee that everyone will listen to you, does it?"

"I'll influence as many people as I can. Of course, I can't make everyone do things according to my wishes. Even Feng Qiyuan, I wasn't sure about it. If I hadn't defeated him, and won him at the speed he was most proud of, I don't think he would be so convinced..." Wang Lie also sighed. "Let's take it one step at a time. Anyway, I have tried my best. I can't control the rest. There is nothing I can do."

Tang Xingmei propped up her upper body and looked at her husband.

Wang Lie felt strange: "What's wrong?"

"It's fine if you really think so." Tang Xingmei said, "I'm just afraid that you will get stuck in a dead end."

However, Wang Lie knew clearly that most of the nitpicking was due to the influence of the "extraordinary mind".

He was indeed too paranoid before.

But he didn't think that was bad.

After all, that's who he is...

He is not so obsessed with trivial matters now, perhaps because of the confidence brought by the cheats. He knows that as long as he scores goals, this body will continue to stay young, so what is there to worry about?

Just do it, and it's done.

In next year's World Cup, he will show a stronger self than he did four years ago.

He doesn't know how many national team teammates he can influence, but even if he can only influence one or two, that would be good.

It's better than having no influence at all, right?

Of course, he also knows that if he wants to influence more people, he must continue to put in a convincing performance.

So when it comes down to it, it becomes pretty simple.

Keep winning and keep scoring goals for Tyne.

Let football speak for itself.

He smiled and patted his wife's bare shoulders: "Don't worry, I'm almost 40 years old, I won't get stuck in a rut that easily."

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The day after the game, McNeill gave the team a whole day off. All the players who participated in the game did not have to go to training. They could arrange their time freely and do whatever they wanted.

This is the luxury that Tyne can afford as they only have one league match left to play throughout the season.

Their next game will be in another six days, and it will be at home, so they don't have to travel or endure the stress of traveling.

Considering that it is the end of the season and the players have consumed a lot of physical energy and their recovery is slow, it is normal to take an extra half day off.

Vitini had more time to eat breakfast.

His father planned to take this opportunity to tell his son about the message he received during yesterday's game.

"Pinin sent me a message."

Vitini, who was leisurely eating breakfast and browsing his phone, hovered his finger over the phone screen, then he looked up at his father in surprise and asked:
"When?"

"Just after you scored in yesterday's game."

Vitini was stunned for a moment, then frowned: "What did he say?"

"He asked me if I had time recently and wanted to arrange an interview with me in Madrid."

"Did you get back to him, Dad?"

"Yes. I promised him that I would go to Madrid the day after tomorrow."

Vitini was a little dissatisfied: "Why didn't their people come to Newcastle, but asked you to go to Madrid?"

Dad didn't think about it. He smiled and said, "I'm your agent. Isn't the agent supposed to fly around and handle these things?"

"They were indifferent before, why are they so enthusiastic now?" Dad laughed and said, "That's because you've been performing well recently. You've scored the first goal for the team in two consecutive games and scored in three consecutive games..."

"So now they are raising their rating of my potential?"

The father could hear the anger in his son's voice, so he asked curiously, "What's wrong with you, son? Weren't you very happy to go to Madrid before?"

Vitini shook his head. "I just think that if Madrid FC really thinks I deserve to wear their jersey, shouldn't they take the initiative to show their sincerity? If I remember correctly, this is the first time they contacted you, right?"

"Yes. Doesn't this show their sincerity?" Dad asked back.

Vitini shook his head: "Of course not, far from it! Do they really think that taking the initiative to contact us is enough for us to be grateful? Their attitude towards us has always been lukewarm. They even hope that I will put pressure on the club by going on strike so that I don't have to renew my contract with Tyne, and then join as a free agent after the contract expires... Their idea is really good. We need to put in so much effort and bear so much pressure and risk, but they are even unwilling to come out of the office. They only need a message to make us take the initiative to go to Madrid!"

Vitini became angrier and angrier as he spoke, and by the end he was so emotional that he clenched his fists and breathed heavily with his nostrils flared.

This scared his father: "Uh, what's wrong with you, son?"

Vitini looked at his father's somewhat panicked face, but what emerged in his mind was Wang Lie's figure and the words "If you can't control your temper, look at me, use me as a switch."

So he closed his eyes, recalled the image of his idol in his mind, and then took a few deep breaths, finally calming down his emotions.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw his father still looking at him worriedly. He felt a little guilty because he shouldn't have lost his temper at his father.

So he shook his head: "Sorry, Dad... I'm not angry with you, I just feel wronged for you..."

Dad shrugged and spread his hands. "Before, we couldn't show a very convincing performance, so they were lukewarm towards us, which was normal. And now that you are doing well, they are more enthusiastic towards us, which is reasonable. I don't feel wronged, this is just a normal operation in the negotiation. But you, didn't you want to go to Madrid FC? Now they are more interested in you, why are you not happy after hearing the news, but... unhappy?"

Vitini was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect his father's observation angle to be so tricky. He himself didn't even think about it...

Yes, Madrid FC is the team I have always dreamed of joining. Now that I have performed well and Madrid FC pays more attention to me, I should be happy. But why was my first reaction not happiness but unhappiness when I first heard the news?
What am I upset about?
Are you really unhappy with Alvaro Pinin's attitude?
Every time my dad went to Madrid before, I never felt sorry for him, so why did I feel sorry this time?
He was a little upset, so he simply pushed away the tableware, picked up his phone and stood up: "I'm going back to my room."

Dad turned his head and watched him go upstairs without saying anything to keep him.

Then he looked across at his son's obviously unfinished breakfast and sighed.

He originally wanted to share this "good news" with his son - he did think that Madrid FC's sudden enthusiasm was good news.

But it seems to have caused some trouble to my son...

The person who sent him the message was Alvaro Pinin, the sporting director of Madrid FC, who is responsible for transfers.

He had been in contact with Pinin regarding his son's transfer to FC Madrid.

It was also Pinin who told him that FC Madrid hoped to get Vitini for free.

The implication is that they should resist the pressure from the Tyne Club to renew their contract and not renew it. Then, when the contract expires, they can join Madrid FC as free agents.

Pinin even hinted that if they did so, he, as the father, would get some extra pay.

Being able to earn more money is certainly a good thing, but it is not the most important thing. The most important thing is to let my son join a top club like Madrid FC.

If he can become a member of Madrid FC, it means that his son's career will be on the next level. In this top Spanish club, there will be more resources.

Of course, the prerequisite is that my son can play in this team.

If he can't, then everything is useless. He doesn't think that sitting on the bench in a top club is better than being a starter in a mid- to lower-level club.

He actually doesn't have too much obsession with wealthy clubs. He just thinks that if his son can play for a wealthy club, it would certainly be better than playing for a non-wealthy club.

However, judging from the attitude of Madrid FC before, they did not seem to attach much importance to their son.

After all, if they really valued it, they wouldn't have to wait until their son's contract with Tyne expired before considering signing him.

I went to talk to Madrid FC several times, and the only thing I gained was that their interest in him proved my son's talent level - he has talent, but not at the top level.

Otherwise FC Madrid should sign his son at all costs.

After all, they had missed out on Ronil Nascimento, a super genius in Brazilian football history, because of their indecision. Originally, after a long period of tracking and investigation, Madrid FC had decided to sign the 17-year-old Ronil, and Ronil himself was very happy to join this world-renowned top club.

As a result, Ronaldinho was seriously injured in a South American Libertadores Cup match and will miss a whole year. This made Madrid FC begin to doubt whether Ronaldinho can still meet the requirements of their club after recovering from the injury and whether he can fully realize his talent.

So at this critical moment, Madrid FC recalled the signing team, believing that they needed to re-evaluate the risks and benefits of signing Ronaldinho.

But this angered the young genius. At that time, many non-Brazilian media used a tone of ridicule and humiliation when hyping this matter, which was regarded by Ronil as a great shame.

A year later, after returning from injury, Ronil returned to the court and performed very well, as if he had never been injured.

His outstanding performance certainly attracted the pursuit of European giants, including Madrid FC, which had given up on him a year ago.

Then when Ronil was ready to leave Brazil and go to Europe, he naturally rejected FC Madrid. Not only did he reject it, he even chose to transfer to join FC Madrid's arch-rival in Spain - Atletico Barcelona.

It can be said that it is very targeted...

After acquiring Ronaldo, Atletico Barcelona became even more powerful and won the La Liga and Champions League double in the second season, that is, the 2026-2027 season.

By the way, Wang Lie was also in the team at the time, and that was his first time winning the Champions League.

Since then, Ronil has led Atletico Barcelona to achieve the great achievement of winning three consecutive Champions League titles.

If Wang Lie hadn't stopped him in the 2029-2030 season, Ronil might have been crowned the "King of Football"...

But even so, Ronil is now a "quasi-king" - the only thing missing is the World Cup honor. As long as he can win the World Cup championship, he will be crowned king immediately and surpass his competitor Arthur Elorne.

Due to his previous experience, this "quasi-king of football" is always particularly excited when facing Madrid FC. Madrid FC has turned from the mentor who discovered him into his mortal enemy.

It is precisely because of the precedent of Ronil that Madrid FC will always try its best to recruit those gifted geniuses.

Of course, there are times when mistakes are made in this process, so in order to reduce losses, Madrid FC has come up with a bold move for those signing targets whose talents are not at the top level and who have greater risks, by letting the players themselves put pressure on their current clubs so that they can be signed at the lowest price.

Madrid FC was interested in Vitini before, but not particularly interested, which means that in their evaluation system, Vitini is a genius, but not the top genius.

We welcome you to come, but the club will not give you more resources. You have to prove with better performance that you deserve to win our favor and get more resources from us.

Vitini's father actually understands this. After all, his son has not been able to prove himself well in Tyne. His performance is up and down. Otherwise, why would they leave Tyne?

Since your performance is not good, there is nothing to say if the other party is more demanding.

The situation is completely different now. In the process of Tyne's rise from 13th to 7th in the league, Wang Lie is of course the biggest contributor, and his son is the second contributor.

Such performance obviously made Madrid FC improve the evaluation level of his son.

Although it is not yet at Ronil's level, it is higher than before.

Papa Vitini was very happy that Pinin took the initiative to contact him.

This means that his son has received more attention and the chances of a successful transfer are greater.

He had worried before that if Vitini really didn't renew his contract with Tayne, and if Madrid FC didn't want his son anymore, wouldn't he be left with nothing?

At that time, Madrid FC did not guarantee that they would sign Vitini after his contract expired, but only said that they would continue to observe Vitini...

Now that his son is performing well, he has more confidence and courage. He plans to go to Madrid to have a good talk with Pinin. Relying on his son's recent outstanding performance, he will try to get better conditions and resources for him.

So he quickly replied to Pinin last night, saying that he had time recently.

They both agreed to meet in Madrid on Wednesday.

But now it seems that his son seems to have other thoughts?
(End of this chapter)