Team Spirit

Chapter 18: The Bad Boy of England Was Fooled

Joey Barton?

Lu Kai laughed at that time, asked Ashley Young who followed him to restrain the other person, and then called an ambulance using the other person's mobile phone.

The dazed Joey Patton didn't realize the seriousness of the situation.

There was a saying in Europe and the United States a long time ago that if you have a grudge against someone, you should not beat him up, but send him to the hospital.

The expensive ambulance bill will teach him a lesson.

This was confirmed after the reconciliation of the accounts between China and the United States regarding the Little Red Potato.

Joey Barton is a player who would rank in the top three of any badass player inventory.

To be precise, this kind of list is a place where he and Lee Bowyer compete with each other for beauty, the two most outstanding talents in the world.

Barton was born in Selhurst, England, and chose to become a die-hard fan of Everton over Liverpool.

His father was a semi-professional football player and gave him his football education.

He eventually joined Everton's youth academy but was abandoned by the team in 1998 due to his short and thin physical condition.

Exactly the same as Ashley Young now.

But the difference is that Barton successfully joined the youth training of Manchester City, a second-tier team in England, with his outstanding abilities.

Unfortunately, he has a weird temper and is moody, which causes conflicts with everyone in the team, from players to coaches.

It is said that the reason why he came here to drink alone today was because he was caught by the coach and fired for beating his teammates.

In the original history, Barton would return to Manchester City by admitting his mistake, successfully enter the first team, help the team to be promoted to the Premier League, and then be noticed by Liverpool.

Barton rejected Liverpool and stayed at Manchester City, but then things took a turn for the worse and he had frequent frictions with his teammates and head coach.

During this period, he once pressed an unextinguished cigar into the eyes of a youth team player, destroying the other party's career and being fined a huge amount of 90,000 pounds.

He then fought with Everton fans, beat his teammate into the hospital, and was eventually sold by Manchester City.

As a result, when he transferred to Newcastle United, he continued to get into various fights and had conflicts with the then coach Alan Shearer, which led to the team's relegation and so on.

He then moved to Queens Park Rangers and fell out with manager Mark Hughes.

He was loaned to Marseille, but was banned for insulting an opponent on social media.

He went to Glasgow Rangers and assaulted his teammates and head coach, and was expelled from the team.

Back at Burnley, he was banned for gambling and uttered the famous saying, "Fifty percent of players have a gambling habit."

Eventually he was forced to retire from his playing career and tried coaching in England's third-tier team, but he encountered some difficult players, which led to his dismissal.

A living retribution in this life.

But his bastard career did not stop there. As late as 2025, he was sentenced to twelve weeks in prison for domestic violence against his wife in 2021.

After playing football for half his life, he still wants to fight when he returns.

If you fight all your life, you will always be a bastard!

If you want to cooperate with this kind of person, you have to use some tricks.

……

The next day, Lu Kai went to the ward to visit Patton with some eggs.

"Who are you?" Patton's face was bruised and swollen, and he covered his head, unable to remember much about last night.

Lu Kai reminded him, "I'm the kindhearted person who called the ambulance for you."

boom!
Patton picked up the water cup and threw it at Lu Kai.

But Lu Kai was prepared and left the ward early and closed the door.

Absolute defense!

"Fuck! You're the one who made me spend eight hundred pounds? It's just a minor skin wound!" Patton was going crazy.

That was enough for several nights at the bar. It was the only money he had saved, and that was all he had wasted on that one emergency call.

"I'm doing this for your own good." Lu Kai walked in with a smile after Barton finished venting. "You can earn money again if you lose it, but if you lose a person, you lose everything."

"Joey Barton, right?"

"I went to inquire and found out that Manchester City U17 has expelled you because of your bad behavior."

"Do you have any plans?"

Barton wasn't stupid either. He got the hint and asked, "What do you do?"

Lu Kai straightened his collar and said, "Let me introduce myself formally. I'm Lu Kai, Chairman of Dartford Football Club."

"I want to invite you to join our team."

Barton frowned. "Dartford? What level?"

Lu Kai: "Level nine."

Barton burst out laughing. "Man, that's the best joke I've heard this year. Ninth level? Are you guys worthy of that?"

Lu Kai smiled slightly: "But this is only the second best joke I've heard this year. The best one was when I called an ambulance for a fool."

Patton's smile froze.

Fake!

This yellow guy really did it on purpose!
Lu Kai enjoyed the quiet atmosphere of communication and continued, "Although we are only a ninth-tier team, we have reached the quarterfinals of the FA Bottle and the semi-finals of the Kent Senior Cup this season, and we have not been eliminated yet."

Barton said disdainfully: "So what? I'm a youth player for a League One team. I'm going to play in the Premier League in the future. Playing in the ninth-tier league? Don't dirty my shoes!"

Lu Kai said patiently, "Yes, but how are you going to resolve the issue of being fired? Are you, with all your pride, going to kneel down before the youth training coach, beg him, and then publicly apologize to the entire team, weeping and snotting?"

"If you're going to do that, please let me know so I can change the best joke I've heard this year."

Patton was so angry that he wanted to rush off the bed and beat Lu Kai.

But the needle was still stuck in his wrist, and the pulling was causing him excruciating pain.

Lu Kai sat on the hospital bed next to him: "Man, although I don't know how you play football, I admire your character."

"I know there are reasons for your beatings against your teammates. They shouldn't talk about you behind your back, especially your parents."

“But we must get to the heart of things.”

"If you really want others to respect you, you shouldn't hit your teammates and coaches and then go back and beg for mercy."

"Be tougher and use other means to let them know that you are not someone to be trifled with."

“If you’re as good as you say you are, you could definitely bring people back to awareness through the Kent Senior Cup and the FA Bottle.”

"Although these two cup competitions are amateur in nature, the finals are very well-known and widely publicized."

"Given your background, it might not just be Manchester City's youth team that'll be looking for you."

Barton's eyes lit up, and he was obviously moved.

Lu Kai continued to add: "You are not the only one in our team who is a young player from a wealthy club."

"Watford is about to be promoted to the Premier League. Our left winger Ashley Young is one of their academy players and has excellent dribbling skills."

"And our team's right winger, who can run 100 meters in under ten seconds, there are hardly any football players in England faster than him! Even Liverpool's Michael Owen is no faster than him!"

"In addition, I am also an outstanding player in Arsenal's youth team and served as the captain of the youth team. If it were not for some non-football reasons, I would still be at Arsenal now."

"It may sound cliché, but we are the real Avengers!"

"You can choose to join us, or you can go back and beg your coach to take you in. I swear, if you choose the latter, I will never laugh at you."

"After all, what we're doing is so incredible, it's normal not to have the courage to participate."

(End of this chapter)