"Emma, ​​come back with me!"

In Levi's apartment in Mainz, a familiar scene happened again - an angry Chris broke in and took Emma away.

This time, Chris also ignored Levi because he was already angry.

"Emma, ​​what do you want to do?" Chris almost yelled when he took Emma back to the hotel.

"I didn't do anything, Dad, as you can see, I just came to see my friend." The little girl seemed very calm. In fact, when she chose to expose it to the media, she knew that such a day would come, and she did her best

Be mentally prepared.

"Did nothing?" Chris slapped a pile of magazines on the table, "Look at what these magazines say, do you think I will believe you?"

Emma didn't even glance at it. She had been in the entertainment industry since she was 11 years old, and of course she knew how these gossip magazines would fabricate things.

"Why not? Do they know what I did better than I do?"

"You!..." Chris almost lost his breath when Emma said it. He thought about it and decided to change his angle.

"Emma, ​​you are already a well-known star all over the world, and you are destined to go to Hollywood. Don't you think it is meaningless to make friends with a youth team player who has no future? What will your future identities be?

It makes a world of difference."

"Dad, Levi is no longer a youth team player, he has already played in the Bundesliga," Emma corrected dissatisfied, "Besides, who I make friends with, do I still have to see if it makes sense first?"

"That's the same. As a Chinese, how can he play well? Can he become Beckham?" Chris disagreed.

"I believe he, Lee will be better than Beckham."

"Hmph!" Chris snorted coldly, "So what if I become Beckham, Americans don't care about football!"

"But the Chinese will care, right?" Emma smiled slyly, "Dad, don't you think China is also a very broad market?"

Chris was speechless.

He suddenly found that he seemed to understand his daughter less and less.

Since when did I no longer be able to convince her?

He shook his head and couldn't remember anymore.

It's better to be a child, especially when you are less than one year old. Although you can't speak yet, let alone act coquettishly, and cry often, you will never contradict him.

At that time, just thinking about putting her on my shoulder when I go home at night will make me feel that the hard work of the day has been worth it.

The beautiful memories made Chris feel a little embarrassed and made him determined:

No matter what, Emma, ​​even if I am misunderstood and resented by you, I will admit it. For your own good, I must separate you from that Chinese boy!

"In short, you are not allowed to see that Chinese again!"

After saying that, Chris closed the door with a bang.

……

Emma could have continued to retaliate against him before he left, but for some reason, Emma remained silent this time.

From the perspective of people who are not familiar with her, maybe she was really persuaded by her father, or maybe she was intimidated by his father's severity. In short, it is not a strange reaction.

But if Levi were here, he would definitely be able to detect sensitively:

The reason why the little girl didn't refute was not because she had given in. On the contrary, it was because she was absolutely sure that Chris's ban would fail, so she didn't bother to talk more.

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After Emma left, Levi suddenly felt strange in the empty room.

He was used to walking out of the room every morning, and there was already a steaming breakfast on the table; he was used to coming home after training every day, and being asked like a swallow returning to its nest, "Levi, what are you having for dinner?"

He has become accustomed to having Emma in his life.

Many people say that it takes 21 days to form a habit. In his previous life, Levi only regarded it as a bowl of chicken soup for successful learning. But Emma made him begin to believe that some habits do not take 21 days at all.

This is really a wonderful feeling. The time Emma spent with him, three times in total, was only a few months, but it seemed as if Emma had become his family.

Could it be that my family ties in this life are too lacking?

With a wry smile, Levi touched his nose.

He doesn't know, but he knows one thing very well. I'm afraid that Mr. Chris will never let Emma see him again.

Inexplicably, he remembered that when he passed by the newsstand in the morning, he saw those dumbfounding headlines in gossip magazines.

It's really ridiculous. How could anyone fabricate that he and Emma are a couple? Emma is obviously just a little girl.

No one would believe such nonsense, well, no one...

Thinking of this, Chris's angry face suddenly appeared in front of him, and Levi's train of thought couldn't help but pause.

Chris, who is far away in the UK, has seen these reports, but what about someone in England? It has been quite a few days since he has been in contact with Gu Xiaohan. Will she be affected by these reports?

Levi couldn't help but pick up the phone on the table.

No, even if most people in the world misunderstand his relationship with Emma, ​​Xiaohan must be clear, it must be.

After a pause, Levi's finger on the phone button did not press it after all.

Emma's departure means to a certain extent that this "fight" incident that caused a lot of noise has truly come to an end.

Levi can finally put all his thoughts and energy on the upcoming next round of the Bundesliga.

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On February 26, in the 23rd round of the Bundesliga, Mainz played against Dortmund away from home. It will be Levi's first game back after two games of injury.

Also returning with him are captain Friedrich and main midfielder Christopher Barbats.

Before the start of this season, if you told someone that this game would be a relegation battle, the other party would definitely think you were crazy——

It is certainly not surprising that Mainz, a newly promoted team, has fallen into the relegation zone; but no one would believe that it was the Bundesliga champion two seasons ago and became the third Bundesliga Champions League champion seven seasons ago.

The giant Dortmund will actually fall to twelfth place in the standings!

Take a look at their lineup. Czech giant Jan Kohler, Polish striker Smolarek, "Mozart on the pitch" Rosicky, "forever rookie" Lars Ricken, Brazilian fast horse Everton, and many more later.

The legendary captain Sebastian Kehl, as well as the top defense line of Metzelder, Vaughns, Weidenfeller, and Dede.

This is a team that is definitely capable of competing for the Bundesliga championship!

But now Dortmund is perhaps in the most difficult period in their history, and the reason is no stranger. It is exactly the same as Leeds United more than a year ago - they have reached the edge of bankruptcy.

Dortmund's decline curve is exactly the same as that of Leeds United. After experiencing the unprecedented glory in the 1990s, the club's top management drifted away. After the batch of meritorious players who won the Champions League aged one after another, in order to maintain the competition of the team

In October 2000, Dortmund was listed in Frankfurt, becoming the first football club on the German stock market.

After the listing, large-scale signings followed. Rosicky, Jan Kohler, Amoruso, and Everton joined the team one after another, bringing them the Bundesliga championship in the 2001/02 season. At the same time, Dortmund also

The finances have slipped into the abyss of being unable to make ends meet.

By October last year, club president Nyebaum revealed at a press conference that the team's debt had reached 118.2 million euros. This number had set a Bundesliga record and was even more terrifying than Leeds United back then. What's even worse is that

, they also sold the Westfalenstadion, so that they had to spend 15 million euros a year on stadium rental. For this reason, the club also planned to borrow another 120 million euros to buy back the stadium.

I have to say that Dortmund in those years was really desperate.

This is why the team is currently only ranked twelfth, but the position of head coach Van Marwijk is still as stable as a mountain——

Because all fools know that if Van Marwijk is fired, Dortmund will never be able to find a better replacement, and no famous coach will be willing to take over such a mess.

……

Of course, Levi, as a time traveler, knew very well that Dortmund later used a series of textbook magical operations to save the team.

When the team faced bankruptcy in 2005 because it could not pay the stadium rent, financial consultant Tresch, who joined from PwC FireWire, and club CEO Watzke miraculously negotiated to persuade the creditor Molsiris Fund to agree to postpone the collection of Weiss.

Two years of rent and interest at the Terfalen Stadium, and the other party actually mortgaged funds to Dortmund again to help it repurchase 41% of the stadium's equity.

It was with the 9 million balance obtained from this mortgage loan that Dortmund solved the club's operating capital problem in the 2005/06 season, helped the club obtain a league license at the buzzer, and avoided bankruptcy like Leeds United.

Destiny.

This incredible act made Levi almost wonder if the Molsiris Fund had some kind of PY deal with Dortmund.

Next, Tresch and Watzke came up with a new financing plan, and launched a shareholders' meeting in 2005, which received the support of 94% of shareholders. The two made drastic changes within the team, increased revenue and reduced expenditure, and finally succeeded in taking over

In the next two years, the debt was paid off through investments from financial giants such as Morgan Stanley - which even included a loan of 2 million euros from Bayern Munich.

Tresch himself quickly rose to the position and became the chief financial officer of Borussia Dortmund, and later became the best CFO in the Bundesliga.

This is at the management level, and at the team level, although the famous Dutch coach Van Marwijk did not lead the team to win the championship, he helped the team stay in the Bundesliga during the team's most difficult two years.

Being relegated to the second tier like Leeds United can be regarded as meritorious.

The person who really led Dortmund to turn around and completely saved this fallen giant is the current Mainz coach-Jurgen Klopp.

During his tenure at Dortmund, Uncle Zha achieved the ultimate in spending small money to do big things. Sven Bender, Subotic, Hummels, Grosskreutz, Piszczek, Lewandofs

Kyrie, Shinji Kagawa... Among the series of signings that helped Dortmund complete two consecutive Bundesliga titles, the most expensive Lewandowski was only 4.75 million euros!

Among them, Shinji Kagawa, who only spent 300,000 euros but was selected into the Bundesliga season's best team, is a huge profit!

Not to mention, there are also Blaszczykovski, Gotze, Schmelzer who are exploring potential internally...

In terms of team building, Klopp is ranked second, and probably no one dares to be ranked first.
To be continued...