Taylor was wearing a hazy black gauze pajamas on the upper body and pink diamond triangle briefs on the lower body. She walked slowly towards Gu Ran with her 240 million long legs.
Gu Ran didn't know whether to look up or down...
Who the hell can stand this?
That's me! Gu Ran took a deep breath and tried to stay calm, but his heart was already in a state of turmoil.
Taylor bit his lip. "I don't know what happened. It's my first time being so bold...does it look good?"
Gu Ran said: "...just so-so."
A little worse than last night's picture.
Taylor said coquettishly, "Gu, you are so annoying! You are obviously bad and dirty, but you are so talented. By the way, do you want to hear me sing? I still owe you three songs. You choose and I sing."
Want to earn 700,000 pounds from me? No way! Even if you dress like this, it won't work! Gu Ran immediately said, "Then let's sing "We are never getting back together"."
Taylor was stunned again, "What...is this song again?"
This is your 2013 Billboard singles champion! Gu Ran sang it a cappella.
The backhand earned Taylor another £500,000.
Taylor's chest rose and fell with excitement. "Oh, Gu, you are so great!"
Gu Ran smiled faintly, "Actually, I can be even better..."
Taylor said eagerly, "Can you show it to me?"
Gu Ran said: "It's too shocking to be displayed casually."
Taylor came up and shook Gu Ran's arm, saying coquettishly, "Hey, show it to me!"
“Stop, stop shaking…”
The atmosphere in the living room became more and more ambiguous, and it could explode with the slightest spark.
The two young hearts were beating restlessly, and their laughter rose one after another without any taboos.
However, both of them remained restrained in the end, and neither of them broke through first.
The layer of window paper between the two of them was still just a little bit away from being broken.
And Gu Ran was not in a hurry.
After all, we will play the League Cup knockout round the day after tomorrow.
If we rush to expose it tonight... I'm afraid we'll have to fight until dawn.
So, after laughing and playing for a while, the two went back to their respective rooms. Gu Ran did calculus in his mind, while Taylor recorded Gu Ran's new song and hummed it over and over again with the guitar.
That night, Gu Ran had a dream all night listening to Taylor's beautiful singing.
In the dream, Taylor walked in with a face full of resentment, holding up a pair of shiny pink diamond shorts and saying that he couldn't sleep at night if he wore this...
Early the next morning.
Gu Ran woke up earlier than usual.
The negative effects of 83 points of physical fitness are really unbearable.
After finishing his extra training in the morning, Gu Ran returned to the Staplewood training base in high spirits and started comprehensive training against Sheffield United with his teammates.
While Lallana is still recovering from injury, Gu Ran has taken on more responsibility for breakthroughs through the middle during training.
Head coach Adkins is very satisfied with Gu Ran's performance in multiple positions.
Near the lunch break, personal affairs assistant Rick appeared in front of Gu Ran with two panda eyes and a face full of grievance.
Gu Ran didn't wait for Rick to speak before he said, "Rick, you really screwed me last night!"
Rick was surprised and said: "Ah? I..."
Gu Ran patted Rick's shoulder and said, "But I forgive you."
"Thank you Gu..." Rick's face was full of gratitude, and he suddenly came to his senses, "Wait, that's not right, Gu, I'm the one who got tricked! Look at me, don't you see that I'm different from before?"
Gu Ran ignored Rick's question and changed the subject, "By the way, did you buy the VIP box ticket I asked you to buy?"
"Oh, I got it. I'll do the job, just don't worry." Rick quickly took out a VIP box ticket.
"Well, I'll pay you back half a month later."
"Gu, please be a human being. My wife will really beat me to death."
"It's okay. You're so fat, she can't kill you."
Rick said in a crying voice: "Gu, you may not know, my wife weighs 260 kilograms, and she used to practice women's boxing. Here, I must explain that the reason why she weighs 260 kilograms is because the upper limit of our scale is 260 kilograms!"
"Oh..." Gu Ran sighed, "Why didn't you say so earlier?"
"So, can you reimburse me for this receipt now?"
"Not yet, but I can give you a set of signed jerseys with it clearly written on it that it's for your wife."
Rick was anxious. "How can one set of autographed jerseys be enough? My wife weighs 260 pounds! At least... two sets!"
What the hell? Sew it up and wear it?
Never mind, this is not something I should worry about...
Gu Ran immediately said: "Deal!"
Rick seemed to have suffered a great loss, "Should I get three sets?"
After dealing with Rick's issue, Gu Ran continued to devote himself to training.
By the end of today's training, Gu Ran had accumulated 7 talent points, and increased "Enhanced Reasonable Collision" from +5 to +6, "Interception and Steal" from +4 to +5, and "Close Defense" from +4 to +5.
Moreover, after taking a rest for one game, Gu Ran's physical fitness and competitive state are at full capacity.
After returning to the Dune Villa that night, Gu Ran easily picked up two talent point bubbles of Taylor Swift, bringing the number of talent points in his hand to 9.
It's so cool to have a queen-level artifact for masturbation.
Gu Ran thought about it for a while, and then raised the "corner kick" in the technical category from 66 points to 70 points, and the "short pass" and "field of vision" from 69 points to 70 points respectively.
Every sub-attribute of the major technology category has shortcomings.
Before facing your Premier League rivals in the EFL Cup, you need to improve your overall technical attributes as much as possible.
Gu Ran weighed the remaining three talent points and allocated them all to the "strength" attribute, raising the strength attribute from 85 points to 88 points.
This is mainly aimed at the "Blades" Sheffield United.
Before "The Godfather" Wilder took over Sheffield United, Sheffield United played in the traditional English style, with very high intensity of confrontation.
Logically speaking, one should strengthen his physical fitness and try to avoid injuries in confrontations. However, physical fitness is a double-edged sword. The little queen Taylor Swift is wearing black gauze pajamas and pink diamond shorts at home. If she really improves her physical fitness by 3 points in one breath, something might happen tonight.
Therefore, Gu Ran chose to increase his strength first so that he could confront the Blade Legion head-on.
After adding some, Gu Ran felt that the muscles all over his body had become much stronger.
Before going to bed at night, Gu Ran gave Taylor the VIP box ticket for tomorrow's game and invited Taylor to watch his game.
——If he wants to break the window paper, he has to let Taylor see his true strength, hardness and speed.
Taylor naturally agreed happily.
Taylor also took the initiative to give Gu Ran a big hug to show his gratitude.
Gu Ran...really can't take it anymore.
That night, Gu Ran was doing calculus in his mind and listening to Taylor singing downstairs. He finally fell asleep.
On Tuesday, September 21st, Gu Ran got up early, did some simple extra training, and then drove to Staplewood training base to gather.
Although the League Cup knockout match today starts at 7:45 pm, as the away team, coach Adkins requires all players on the roster to have breakfast before 9:30 pm and then take the team bus to the game venue in South Yorkshire in northern England.
Southampton is far away from South Yorkshire, and it takes at least three and a half hours by bus. The players also took advantage of this time to rest and catch up on sleep.
There are two professional football clubs in South Yorkshire, Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday.
Sheffield United's nickname is Blade, but in fact, this nickname belonged to Sheffield Wednesday at the beginning, and Sheffield United's earliest was nickname - Knifemaker. However, later, with the rise of the famous football hooligan organization Blade Gang, such a nice nickname "Blade" naturally belonged to Sheffield United, and Sheffield Wednesday had no way of reasoning with the Blade Gang.
The word "Lian" also has its own rules, not every team can be called Lian.
Sheffield United was not originally a football club, but a cricket club, and two different cricket clubs at that.
Cricket was born in the 16th century. At that time, it was a sport for the British aristocracy and gentlemen. After the 18th and 19th centuries, it gradually became popular among the public.
Moreover, cricket also has an 11-man squad and is a spring and summer game, while football at that time was an autumn and winter game.
So after the spring and summer seasons, the cricket team basically has nothing to do.
Later, the two Yorkshire cricket clubs came together and decided, why not stop using sticks? Since we are so bad at cricket, we might as well play football, as the lineup is ready.
Thus, Sheffield United Football Club was formed.
Lian means to unite and integrate.
Although Newcastle United Club is not an integrated cricket team, there are few football clubs in the north of England and their performance is very poor. So Newcastle took the lead and integrated several small clubs in the north, so it was called Newcastle United.
Of course, Manchester United is different from Sheffield United and Newcastle United.
Manchester United was originally called Newton Heath Club. Its team logo was a locomotive with a yellow and green background. Later, because of a dog, Manchester United was renamed Manchester United.
At that time, the dog of Newton Heath's captain Harry Stafford ran away and was found by the owner of a local brewery in Manchester. During a conversation between the two, the brewery owner learned that Newton Heath Club was planning to sell or disband. The brewery owner immediately paid for the club and changed the name to Manchester Team - but wait, Manchester City already had Manchester Team at that time, so they imitated Sheffield United and Newcastle United and named themselves Manchester United, or Manchester United for short.
By the way, the community where Sheffield United is located is a typical steel industrial area, famous for making knives. The Sheffield United team logo is also a white rose plus two crossed pirate knives. Here, the white rose does not represent romance, but represents the white rose aristocratic family emblem of the York family in the War of the Roses from 1455 to 1485.
There are many teams in England with roses on their team logos, such as Sheffield United, Southampton, Leeds United, Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United.
Manchester United's current team logo is the trident red devil "Fred", which was decided by Manchester United's legendary coach Sir Matt Busby. It means that we are the red devil who can eat our enemies alive. But in the beginning, Manchester United used the red rose of Lancashire as its team logo. The same city's Manchester City team also has the red rose of Lancashire in its logo, while Leeds United uses the white rose of York.
Just like the two factions of nobles in the War of the Roses, the red rose symbolizes the House of Lancaster and the vassal nobles who supported the House of Lancaster, and the white rose symbolizes the House of York and the vassal nobles who supported the House of York.
Just from the color of the rose on the team logo, it is not difficult to see why Manchester United and Leeds United are traditional rivals. Although Manchester United and Manchester City are rivals in the same city, they cannot be called true rivals.
Although the War of the Roses in England lasted only 30 years, its impact lasted for more than 300 years.
There is also a rose on Southampton’s team logo, and this rose is white - Southampton belongs to the York aristocratic faction in terms of its roots.
Therefore, Southampton and Sheffield United cannot be said to be mortal enemies.
However, today is a knockout match, and even if they are not mortal enemies in the traditional sense, both sides will try their best to prove themselves.
Another point is that after Sheffield United fell from the Premier League to the Championship, it currently employs Mickey Adams, the former head coach of Leicester City.
When he was a player, Mickey Adams was a meritorious left-back for Southampton and a member of the Saints Hall of Fame.
So, from a broad perspective, this game is a civil war within the York faction, and from a narrow perspective, it is also a dialogue between new and old players/coaches of Southampton.
What's more, Gu Ran had just shined at the environmental charity dinner, and the media newspapers were all frantically chasing after Gu Ran's news. Any competition with Gu Ran in it would definitely attract a lot of attention.
Speaking of Sheffield United, this is also a very magical club.
First of all, we have to mention the relationship between Sheffield United and Chinese football.
As early as 1996, the Wuniu Club in Sichuan Province was established and became a China League Two team. In the following year, 1997, it was successfully promoted to China League One - there was no Chinese Super League at that time.
In 2001, the Wuniu Club played against the Mianyang Club in the same province with a score of 11:2, which became the "Five Rats Match-Fixing Case" in the A-B League that shocked China and the world that year. The Wuniu team was severely punished by the Football Association and has been seriously damaged since then.
In 2005, the dying Five Bulls team had a turning point - Kevin McCabe, the owner of the Premier League Sheffield United club, invested 190 million to buy the shares of the Five Bulls club, and the Five Bulls club was then renamed "Sheffield United" club.
Sheffield United owner Kevin McCabe is a very smart businessman.
Kevin McCabe is a native Yorkshireman. He has been crazy about Sheffield United since he was a child. After he made a lot of money in real estate and hotel business, the first thing he did was to buy Sheffield United, which was still in the Premier League at the time, and renovated the stadium, improved the youth training facilities, etc. Sheffield United also ushered in a small climax of development and played very well in the Premier League.
McCabe was not content to develop Sheffield United only in England; he had his eyes on the vast Chinese football market.
The UK has a population of only 65 million, while China has 1.3 billion! McCabe thought that Chinese football was not good because there was no advanced British management model. He thought that as long as he built a Chinese club according to the template of Sheffield United, he would be able to make money.
Buying the Wuniu Club and setting up a satellite club of Hotfield United in China was his first step - what's more, the Wuniu Club was really cheap at the time, just over 10 million pounds, not even as high as the transfer fee of a second-rate star.
Everything was going well. The newly renamed Sheffield United played well and made it to the Chinese Super League. However, with the 2008 financial crisis, McCabe's real estate and hotel businesses also went bad, and McCabe's investment in Chengdu Sheffield United was greatly reduced.
So, in 2009, in order to earn 500,000 yuan (actually only 300,000 yuan was earned, the other 200,000 yuan was false invoices and was eaten by the middleman), Sheffield United played a fixed match again, and then they were caught by the Football Association again.
The reason Sheffield United was caught by the Football Association was not because the Football Association could not tolerate any sand in its eyes, but because a brother club gave enough money...
In short, by 2010, Sheffield United had run out of funds, so owner McCabe simply sold 50% of Sheffield United's shares for free, requiring only that local buyers share the burden of Sheffield United's debts and daily expenses.
The result... no one wanted it.
So, in 2013, Sheffield United, which was living a life of idleness and waiting for death, transferred all its shares at a base price of 60 million yuan and changed its name to Tiancheng Club.
In 2015, Tiancheng was relegated to the China League Two. A once-popular club was disbanded on the spot.
In any case, this is the closest time that Chinese football clubs have ever been to English Premier League clubs. Kevin McCabe, who was full of ambition to dominate the Chinese football market, suffered heavy losses.
But this wasn't McCabe's worst investment.
For now, Sheffield United owner McCabe's nightmare has just begun.
Due to the financial tsunami in 2008 and the huge losses at Sheffield United, Sheffield United's investment has been sharply reduced in the past two years, and its performance has been unstable. It has fallen from the Premier League to the Championship for two years and is still struggling in the lower reaches of the Championship.
McCabe truly loves his club, but he is reluctant to cut off his arm to survive, and is reluctant to sell his land and hotel at a low price to feed Sheffield United.
McCabe came up with a "smart" idea, which was to introduce funds, but not completely.
McCabe saw the strength of the Middle Eastern prince from Manchester City, but he did not want the Middle Eastern prince to gain control of the club.
McCabe found a Middle Eastern prince who was interested in the British football market and played a "roulette clause" bet with him.
To put it simply, this bet agreement means: if there is any disagreement, I can buy back your shares for 5 million pounds, or you have to buy all of my shares at once. If you cannot buy all of my shares, you have to return the shares to me.
There seemed to be no trap in this agreement, and the Middle Eastern prince happily signed the bet agreement.
McCabe thought he was really smart.
But who knows… not every Middle Eastern prince is like Mansur.
The title of Middle Eastern prince is more numerous than their oil wells.
The king's son is of course called a prince. The son of a prince is also called a prince. The son of a prince's son is also called a prince. When the princess born by the prince marries, the prince consort automatically gets the title of prince. If the prince consort is called a prince, then his son is also called a prince. The prince consort can also marry 4 wives. Because the prince consort already has the title of prince, every son born can be called a prince...
In short, this prince named "Abdullah" is not stupid at all. Before purchasing Sheffield United, Prince Abdullah was already one of the owners of Riyadh Crescent in Saudi Arabia. He was well versed in the rules of club equity. After signing an agreement with McCabe, he got 50% of the shares of Sheffield United at a very low price, but did not invest a penny in the club.
McCabe endured year after year, cursing Prince Abdullah's ancestors in his heart. Finally, McCabe couldn't bear it anymore and asked Abdullah to return the shares or buy all of his shares.
McCabe is certainly not afraid of Prince Abdullah buying his shares, because when McCabe signed the agreement, he had already tied the remaining 50% of the club's shares to his real estate and hotel companies. In other words, if Prince Abdullah wants to buy the remaining 50%, he must first buy his Scarborough Group.
Scarborough Group valued at billions of pounds!
McCabe was certain that poor Prince Abdullah would not be able to come up with billions of pounds.
As a result...Prince Abdullah secretly purchased Sheffield United's shares at a low price in the secondary market through a middleman. He actually controlled 75% of the shares and directly became the absolute controlling party of Sheffield United. He circumvented the gambling agreement in a nearly cheating manner.
By the time McCabe reacted, it was too late.
Although McCabe cried and said how much he loved Sheffield United in court, the judge still ruled that Sheffield United belonged to Prince Abdullah.
The lawsuit was a long one and was finally settled in 2019.
In the end, McCabe had to divest the remaining club shares and sell them to Prince Abdullah for 5 million pounds. By 2019, Sheffield United had come out of the trough and returned to the Premier League with a valuation of 200 million pounds.
This is also a very famous football club equity case.
McCabe played with eagles all his life, and ended up getting pecked in the eye by an eagle...
At this stage, although McCabe is still the owner of Sheffield United and Prince Abdullah has just purchased 50% of the shares, the club is already restless and the team's management is poor.
However, this does not mean that Sheffield United is a weak team that can be bullied at will.
Sheffield United is the earliest English team, and its current playing style is also typical British style, rough and direct.
For this, Southampton is also fully prepared mentally.
Near noon, Southampton's bus arrived at Bramall Lane, the home of Sheffield United.
Outside the stadium, many Blades business gang members wearing red and white jerseys were already waiting there. When they saw the Southampton team's bus, they started booing and mocking.
…
(End of this chapter)
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