Your Good Days Are Over!

"Cheers!"

At a restaurant in central Manchester, not far from the Etihad Stadium, Su Dong had booked out the entire place and organized a team dinner for all the First Team players.

This was the evening after the match against Birmingham.

Since the team had lost the League Cup, there was no midweek match, so they had been given another day off.

Having learned from past experience, Su Dong was afraid Gareth Barry, Joe Hart, and the others would go out drinking and cause trouble again. So he decided to organize a team-building dinner, paying for it himself and inviting everyone on the team.

He had chosen this restaurant, which was quite famous in Manchester.

The so-called cheers were actually made with glasses of plain water.

Most of the dishes Su Dong had ordered were foods the players could safely eat, so once they were served, everyone immediately started digging in.

Several of the English players looked somewhat disappointed, and Su Dong knew exactly why.

"Joe, Gareth, you can go pick out some drinks, but let's make one thing clear: no more than one bottle of beer per person. Don't worry about the price—go ahead and choose whatever you like," Su Dong said with a smile.

Joe Hart and Gareth Barry immediately cheered up. They called over Adam Johnson, Given, and the others and ran to the drinks cabinet to choose their beers, even claiming they would drink Su Dong into bankruptcy. But how could that possibly happen?

This was something Su Dong had already requested from Guardiola. After all, they would not have another match until the weekend.

There was truth to the saying: prevention was better through release than through blockage.

Rather than forcing them to quit drinking outright, it was better to control them and keep it