Chapter 181

Since Chen Hero and Gotze had moved in together, the Eat, Drink, and Be Merry Gang hadn't been active for a while. The last activity was welcoming the new member, David Thornton.

Although Chen Hero had told them that they could organize activities themselves and didn't need to grab him every time.

But everyone felt that without Chen Hero, it was like losing their backbone, and it wasn't fun to play.

Suarez even felt a sense of resentment at being abandoned by Chen Hero because of this.

So when they heard that Chen Hero was going to gather everyone for a party, they were surprised…

Wasn't Hero living with Gotze? That kid Gotze didn't touch a drop of alcohol, how could he come out and call everyone for a party?

Suarez was the most quick-witted. He gave an explanation that everyone found reasonable.

"Even after getting married, you can still sneak out to play without your wife knowing. Hero must have left Gotze alone at home and come out to accompany us!"

However, after they finished training and showered and changed in the locker room, they realized that Mario Gotze was always standing next to Chen Hero.

They thought Chen Hero would send Gotze home first, and then go out with them to have fun.

Who would have thought that Chen Hero would say to them, "Let's go straight to 'Golden Paris'."

"Golden Paris" was a relatively well-known nightclub in Liverpool, and one of the designated gathering places for the Eat, Drink, and Be Merry Gang. There were many performances, the girls were hot, the wine was good, and the atmosphere was great. Most importantly, there were private rooms to avoid the embarrassment of several Liverpool stars being recognized by fans in a large venue. This made the members of the Eat, Drink, and Be Merry Gang very satisfied.

Now hearing Chen Hero say this, everyone was very surprised.

Skrtel pointed at Gotze behind Chen Hero and asked in English, "Are you sure you want to bring him along?"

Before Chen Hero could answer, Gotze spoke first. His English was not very fluent, but his attitude was resolute and he seemed very determined.

"I just don't drink alcohol."

The other members of the Eat, Drink, and Be Merry Gang exchanged glances.

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In the dimly lit private room of the nightclub, with blasting music, there was a steel pipe in the center. A sexy girl in a three-point bikini was dancing around the steel pipe, and various items of clothing were scattered at her feet and around her.

A group of people sat together, drinking and chatting while watching the performance.

Brotherly feelings were built like this!

But there was one exception.

Skrtel looked at Gotze, who was sitting on the outermost edge of the sofa, staring at the juice in his hand with his head down, and asked Chen Hero next to him, "I think he's cramping our style… I didn't dare to order many of those… programs, I'm afraid of scaring the little kid…"

Chen Hero turned his head and glanced at Gotze. Gotze seemed very resistant to the environment here, but he didn't leave, even if he just sat there without saying a word, he didn't get up. He just clenched the glass tighter and tighter with both hands.

He curled his lips at Skrtel, "Don't talk about others, I still remember how you looked the first time you went to a nightclub with us in Zenit…"

Skrtel was immediately embarrassed, and his face turned red.

That was his eternal stain!!!

Suarez didn't know what Skrtel's performance was like the first time he went to a nightclub, and he wasn't interested. He leaned over and asked Chen Hero, "So what does this make Mario? Is he a member of our group?"

Chen Hero shook his head: "Consider him an outside member…"

Chen Hero wasn't interested in turning Gotze into someone like Skrtel. Gotze probably wouldn't want to either.

Gotze was the kind of person who only had football in his mind, and was single-mindedly trying to surpass himself, break through bottlenecks, and become a world superstar. Once he started adapting to the environment and the team in Liverpool, with his talent, he should easily stand out.

By then, he shouldn't have to suffer here anymore.

So Chen Hero just wanted him to see the world at first, not to make him get along with his brothers and become like Skrtel. It was just to use this method to enlighten the homebody Gotze and let him know to actively contact his teammates.

It couldn't be like this now.

When he first arrived at the team, he only talked and communicated with Klasnic, who spoke the same language. Now, after living with Chen Hero, he had simply become Chen Hero's follower. Chen Hero went wherever he went, and he didn't communicate much with other people.

Chen Hero glanced at Gotze, thinking that you've come to the nightclub, kid, and you've seen the striptease, aren't these more difficult than you going to greet and chat with your teammates? You're gritting your teeth and doing things that are so difficult, can't you do anything else?

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That night, Chen Hero didn't greet Gotze once, just playing with his friends on his own. It wasn't until after ten o'clock that everyone dispersed with a slight buzz.

On the way home, Gotze drove instead.

He wasn't very familiar with Chen Hero's huge Hummer H9.

The two of them didn't speak in the car. When Gotze drove home, Chen Hero straightened up from the passenger seat.

He turned his head to look at Gotze and suddenly smiled.

"You're still alive?"

Gotze understood this sentence, and he also understood what Chen Hero meant.

"Speaking of which, didn't you look even once? Aren't you curious? Don't you want to see? Or did you secretly peek a few times? Are that girl's breasts big? Is her figure good?"

Chen Hero asked a series of questions like a machine gun, but he didn't speak too fast. He had to let Gotze understand, so he couldn't speak too fast.

But Gotze didn't answer these questions, he just shook his head, saying, "I don't understand." He kept repeating this sentence, parked the car well, turned off the windows, turned off the lights, and then pulled out the car key and handed it to Chen Hero.

Chen Hero took the car key from him.

Then Gotze opened the car door and jumped out of the car, without saying hello to Chen Hero, and went into the house from the garage on his own.

Chen Hero also jumped down, looking at Gotze's back, he smiled.

Didn't he really understand?

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The criticism of Gotze still hadn't stopped, but the momentum was waning. After all, it wasn't interesting to hype the same thing too much. Now the attention of readers and audiences shifted very quickly. The day before yesterday, they were interested in the gossip of a certain female star, and in a few days, they might find a full page of female star gossip annoying.

But the impact on Gotze, after being hyped up by the media, was deeply imprinted in the hearts of many people.

Gotze's Liverpool trip seemed to have gone wrong from the beginning, which was not a good sign. The media now had the power to stir up trouble, especially in Western countries with freedom of speech.

It was too easy for them to slander someone. They had destroyed a very promising player with their saliva before.

Martin O'Neill, who couldn't stand the behavior of the English media, naturally knew this very well, and he had decided to protect Gotze. First, he wouldn't let the media directly contact Gotze, and second, he asked everyone to try to speak with one voice as much as possible, not to agree with the media's claims, and to firmly support Gotze on all occasions. The unity within the team must not be broken.

After arranging these things, he suddenly noticed that Gotze's attitude had changed.

In the past, he only talked to Klasnic in the team. Later, after hanging out with Chen Hero, he only chatted with Chen Hero. As for the other teammates, he didn't know if he lacked the interest or courage to communicate. Most of the teammates were not familiar with him at all, and he was naturally not familiar with the other teammates.

But now he found that Gotze was slowly taking the initiative to communicate with his teammates.

Was it because his English level was better than before, or because he had lived with Chen Hero for a while?

No matter what the reason, this was a good thing for him, and he was happy to see it happen.

As long as Gotze could integrate into this group, Martin O'Neill firmly believed that with Gotze's ability and talent, performing well would not be a problem.

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Gotze's changes were not only in Martin O'Neill's eyes, but also in Gerrard's.

What he saw from it was not only that Gotze was gradually trying to integrate into the team, but he also valued Chen Hero's performance in this process of change.

He didn't know what method Chen Hero used to make Gotze undergo this transformation, but he didn't care about that. As the saying goes: a good result is a good thing.

Through this incident, Gerrard saw Chen Hero's sense of responsibility, and… the methods of a captain.

If you only had a sense of responsibility but no means, that wouldn't work either. What's the use of just shouting that you're serving the team, that you care about your teammates, and that you want to be the captain? You have to do it, and you have to let everyone see the results. Whether you're really suitable to be the captain, it's not just a matter of the head coach giving an order and handing you the captain's armband.

If you don't have the ability to be the captain, even if you wear the captain's armband, it will cause dissatisfaction among other players in the locker room.

Even people who play games know that you can't change the captain casually, which can lead to discord and disintegration of the team… If changing the captain is to support your cronies, then you have to see what kind of stuff the other person is. If they're hopeless, it's best to give up as soon as possible… In the game, whether a person is suitable to be the captain is just a data point called "influence", but in reality, it's much more complicated.

And from this incident, Chen Hero didn't lack means either. Maybe his methods weren't what he liked, but as long as it could solve the problem, everyone had their own way of doing things…

As a result, Gerrard felt that Chen Hero had passed this test.

Facts had proved that Chen Hero was capable of great use, and would be able to take over from him and become the leader of this team in the future.

And he could boldly hand over the captain's armband to him at that time.

It seemed that the fans' evaluation of him was correct.

He really wasn't good at disappointing people…