After July, Wimbledon Athletics resumed training. It was different from last season. Now they have three days a week to get together to practice together. Chu Zhongtian doesn't have to worry about insufficient training, but he is still insisting on going to the school court to train with Russell and the others.

During this period, several major events that were very important for Wimbledon Athletics.

First, the Kingstons, who shared Kings Ranch with them, were in an economic crisis and were about to go bankrupt.

In the UK, a team represents the culture of a community, Wimbledon represents the football in the town of Wimbledon, and the Kingstons represent the football culture of their small town, Kingston. Although this team has always been unknown, far less famous than their neighbor Wimbledon.

In order to save football in their community, the Kingstonians made a suggestion to Wimbledon Athletic Club, asking Wimbledon to acquire their stadium Kings Ranch. If not, they will be taken over by the government. If there is no sufficient capital injection after the takeover, the team will face the fate of being disbanded.

Although Wimbledon's home court is Kings Ranch, they actually only rent it for £20,000 a year. The ownership of this stadium belongs to the Kingstons. As long as they can sell the stadium, they can alleviate their financial crisis and help the team overcome the difficulties.

Although Wimbledon and the Kingstons use the same stadium, they are not as hostile to each other as AC Milan and Inter Milan. On the contrary, their relationship is very good. In order to help the Kingstons get through the difficulties, the Wimbledons decided to acquire Kings Ranch, but before that their proposal must be voted by all club members.

Because Wimbledon Athletic Club is a club composed entirely of fans, every fan who donated money when the club was established enjoys no more than one share, and the price of obtaining this share is very low - if you pay 25 pounds in one go, you can become a member of Wimbledon Fan Trust, and then pay another pound of membership fees every year, you can continue to maintain membership and voting power. At the beginning of the club's establishment, the articles of association were stipulated, and the club must hold four relatively important gatherings every year, which is similar to the shareholders' meetings of those companies. In addition to these four gatherings, any major event involving club operations must hold a general meeting of shareholders, and the shareholders vote to decide whether they need to do so.

The acquisition of Kings Ranch will bring heavy debts to the team, so the club's board of directors must invite members to attend the party to decide whether to borrow money to acquire Kings Ranch to help the Kings Ranch get through the difficulties. This is a very important gathering, so many people attended, Emily and many people from the Duns Bar went there. Later, according to Emily, more than a thousand people attended the meeting that day. You should know that Wimbledon Fan Trust has only 1,800 members in total, and only 80 to 100 members are present at the four gatherings a year.

The meeting passed the club's resolution to acquire Kings Ranch, and everyone supported the club to help the Kingstonians get through the difficulties, and they finally owned a stadium that belongs entirely to their own.

In this way, Wimbledon Athletic Club borrowed a bank and bought the stadium for 2.4 million pounds. However, their help to Kingstons Club is more than that. After buying Kings Ranch and helping Kingstons Club pay off their debts, they helped Kingstons Club establish a fan foundation as a "experienced person" and turned Kingstons Club into a club that belongs entirely to fans. Now Wimbledon Athletics is no longer the only one in English football.

Emily was very busy during that time and didn't come to accompany Chu Zhongtian. As an enthusiastic supporter and popular supporter of Wimbledon Athletic Club, she fully played her good social role in this kind of thing.

The acquisition of Kings Ranch and helping the Kingstons survive the economic crisis is still due to the incident of the club's senior management. It is still a bit far from Chu Zhongtian, an ordinary player who does not care about "political affairs". But the other two things are not far from him.

※※This day was the day for the team's training. After Chu Zhongtian took the ball to Kings Ranch, he found that everyone did not stay in the locker room to change clothes, but surrounded the court. Judging from their clothes, it was obvious that they all went directly to the court as soon as they arrived here.

Is there another media interview?

The last time I saw a similar scene, it was because they shouted the slogan to upgrade, which attracted a number of media interviews.

Chu Zhongtian came over to watch the fun.

He found Xilin in the crowd and patted him on the shoulder: "Hi, jeep. What are you looking at today..."

When Xilin turned around, a gap appeared in the human wall. Chu Zhongtian saw it through the gap. Halfway through his words, the following text was gone. Guess what he saw inside?

Emily, wearing a Wimbledon competitive jersey, holding a football and showing a sweet smile, stood in his sight, and in front of her, she was holding a professional camera, and there were people next to her holding a reflector and a parasol. This was a professional photography posture... But Emily appeared here, what was going on?

Amid the sound of the shutter, Emily kept changing her posture. She held the football in her arms for a while, held the football with one hand, and even made the ball tumbling.

Seeing Emily skillfully slamming the football, the group of players around her couldn't help but burst out applause and whistle.

"Very great! Very great!" The photographer kept praising while pressing the shutter.

"Ah, Chu, come and see. Emily!" Xilin turned around and saw Chu Zhongtian, quickly waved his hand to him, signaling him to squeeze in and watch the fun.

"It's really good!" Xilin exclaimed.

"What's going on?" Chu Zhongtian asked.

"Our club is going to set up a women's football team, so we first ask Emily to take some photos and make promotional posters."

"Women's football team?" Chu Zhongtian was stunned for a moment before realizing what it was. However, he knew that many English football clubs had women's football teams, such as the famous Arsenal, whose women's football teams had good results.

He was just a little surprised that the club did not first build teams of all ages, but instead started the women's football team.

"Well, Emily is the image spokesperson for our women's football team, ha!"

"Emily today is so beautiful!"

"Actually, our jerseys are beautiful!"

"Everything is beautiful, haha! They are all beautiful!"

Everyone discussed with great enthusiasm, and some even shouted: "Emily, I love you! Marry me!" Such explicit words caused a burst of laughter.

"Hey, don't try to be a public enemy!"

※※※"Ok, very good." The photographer signaled that today's shooting work would end. "It's really professional, and the feeling in front of the camera is very, very good." The photographer gave Emily a thumbs up.

Emily smiled happily and returned the football to head coach Eames.

"Okay, nothing is good to look at." Assistant coach Ingrich rushed the group of reluctant players to the locker room. "Go and change clothes quickly, we're going to start training!"

The players turned around three times and walked reluctantly down the court.

Chu Zhongtian also followed the crowd to the locker room, but he was stopped by Emily after he took two steps.

"Chu!"

Chu Zhongtian stopped, and the other teammates watched Emily run towards Chu Zhongtian, envious. They all knew that Emily and Chu had a good relationship, so they didn't make a fuss. But they could tease Chu on their mouths.

"What a lucky boy, let me change with you, Chu!"

"Don't talk for too long, Chu. Be careful of the boss losing his temper, ha!"

A group of bad people left with a laugh. Chu Zhongtian stood on the field uncomfortable, watching Emily get closer and closer.

"How is my outfit?" Emily turned around in front of Chu Zhongtian.

When she turned her back to Chu Zhongtian, he saw that the number of the jersey turned out to be "8"... "Huh, this number..."

"Is the number yours?" Emily asked.

Chu Zhongtian nodded, he was a little surprised.

Emily smiled proudly: "Is there anything else familiar to you except this number?" She turned around in front of Chu Zhongtian again.

Chu Zhongtian frowned and looked at it carefully before he could see it: "Isn't this my jersey..."

"That's right!" Emily made a "v" gesture, "This is your jersey, all of them are! Except for sneakers..."

Seeing Emily's happy look, Chu Zhongtian suddenly realized that this jersey was worn by Emily, and then he was wearing it during the game... Is this considered an indirect skin blind date?

This topic is very erotic, but Chu Zhongtian dared not continue thinking. Now he is only wearing a pair of shorts, which is not enough to cover up... "Why are you wearing my jersey and taking a photo?" So he had to ask a question and divert his attention.

"Don't you like it?"

"Uh, no, no." Chu Zhongtian waved his hand quickly, afraid that the girl in front of him would misunderstand. "I just thought it was strange..."

"Want to know the reason?" Emily looked at him with a teasing look.

Chu Zhongtian nodded obediently.

"I won't tell you, hehe!" Emily turned and ran away.

Chu Zhongtian looked at the girl's back and shrugged. He couldn't figure out what Emily was thinking...※※※ During training that day, everyone was discussing the upcoming women's football team. In the eyes of many players, this is a sign of the club's regularization, because many regular football clubs have women's teams, and not only adult teams, but also women's echelons are also well-equipped.

Of course, the most discussed thing about Emily is wearing Wimbledon jerseys and taking photos. Some people even came up with ideas to let Emily take some sexy photos and print them on the team poster and sell them to fans to make money.

"If it really comes out, I will definitely buy ten copies to collect!"

"What do you want to do so much, blog?"

"Hang all the rooms, and don't even let the bathroom go!"

"You are so perverted..."

"Don't think about it, Emily won't do that."

"What a pity..."

Chu Zhongtian did not participate, and he remained silent during this discussion. He didn't like to see his friends naked and were printed on the calendar. If he really wanted to print it, then just print one copy... and let him take a look at it alone.

※※※ Chu Zhongtian, who went to work in Dons in the evening, got another news.

Boss John showed him a letter that was sent by Wimbledon Athletic Club to every Wimbledon Fan Trust member. The members were called on all the members to generously support the team and select a player from the team for sponsorship.

"Sponsored the player?" This was the first time Chu Zhongtian heard of this word, and he thought it was very fresh.

In fact, sponsoring teams and sponsoring players has long been common in English football.

"Yes, sponsorship." The fat boss pointed to a team schedule manual attached to the letter, "There is also this thing. Finally I saw this thing again."

The so-called team schedule manual is a printing that the club itself produces and sells before each round of the game. The content is very rich, and it is used to introduce the team's schedule, opponents, players themselves, club officials, coaching staff members and other information. However, that only accounts for a small part of the content in today's schedule manuals. It is more about the team's commemorative products advertisements, team sponsor advertisements, and other messy articles, and even some social news. In addition, with a large number of exquisite and beautiful photos, you may also find photos like the third edition girl of the Sun. These colorful manuals look more like a discounted product list given to customers by supermarkets for free.

At first, these manuals were only more than 20 pages, and at least four or five pages. Now the most schedule manuals have reached 100 pages. This schedule manual was produced by West Bromwich, who had just been promoted to the Premier League last season, in the first home game of the new season against Leeds United on August 24, 2002.

Now in front of Chu Zhongtian is a schedule manual produced by Wimbledon Athletic Club itself. It seems to be only a dozen pages. Its name is "wombles" (Wimbles). It is not used as "crazy gang" because the Wimbledon Football Club that is about to move still exists. This nickname belongs to them. Wimbledon Athletics now has no right to use it. However, the club is now actively complaining to the Football Association, hoping to get a certificate that after the rich team moved and changed its name, it will inherit Wimbledon's tradition. The "dons" is not used because Pitt Winkelman's so-called "retaining 'dons' in the new club name means we are in touch with Wimbledon". Such a charity-like move made Wimbledon fans angry, so in order to distinguish it from that team, they called themselves "Wimbles".

The cover of this newspaper is printed with a photo of the captain Kevin Cooper's goal, and the cover printed on the coated paper is still shining with white lights under the light. The printing is exquisite, and the price is... Chu Zhongtian turned to the back and saw that the price was 1.5 pounds, which is not expensive... Boss John opened the schedule manual, and the first page after the catalog is the team's roster. It is ranked by number, and Chu Zhongtian easily found his name from it: "8,chu".

"What's going on with sponsoring players, boss?" Chu Zhongtian knew what the schedule manual was, but he still couldn't figure it out.

"Some clubs have relatively tight finances, so they use this method to call on fans to donate, but the donors have visible returns, and everyone likes them." Boss John pointed to Chu Zhongtian's name on the schedule manual and said, "For example, if I choose to sponsor you, then in the schedule manual for each game, as long as you can play, my name will appear on this manual with your name. It is a kind of thanks and reward for the sponsor."

“What are you sponsoring specifically?”

"Exit fee, clothing fee, sneakers, training equipment." Boss John counted his fingers to Chu Zhongtian, "The letter said that each sponsorship is fifteen pounds. If all four items are sponsored, there is a discount, fifty pounds will be enough."

Chu Zhongtian understood that it was the same as the big company that sponsored the team, but the amount was much smaller... "In fact, your equipment is provided by the club, and we only used the money in other places. For example, the club just bought Kings Ranch and owed a lot of money. Now it has formed a women's football team, and money is needed everywhere. So use this method to make some money." Boss John said. "Anyone who paid money when the club was established and had shares received this thing. But in fact, there are only dozens of people in the team, and our members have more than a thousand. It is impossible for everyone to sponsor players. I think even if we are one person in our bar, sponsoring one player is enough."

Speaking of this, he raised his head and looked at Chu Zhongtian. Chu Zhongtian guessed something, and pointed at himself: "You want to sponsor me?"

"That's right! Sponsor you!" Boss John nodded and said loudly.

"I object!" A crisp female voice rang behind Boss John, shocking him.

He and Chu Zhongtian turned their eyes to the direction where the sound came, and saw Emily standing at the door with a smile.

"Emily? You scared me to death..." Boss John said, slapped his chest.

"I'm so sorry, Uncle John. Chu has been sponsored by me."
To be continued...