[Pittsburgh. Thursday 26 July 2018. 17:04.]
Hakimi.
The phone did nothing for about 90 seconds and I stood in that lobby and let it not do anything.
Then it went.
Bzz.
Mr Walsh. September works. Lisbon. Bring the boy from Morocco if he will come.
JM.
I read it 3 times, put the phone in my pocket, and went and found Bray in the bar with a coffee and a laptop, watching Bayern Munich beat Juventus in Philadelphia on a 6 inch screen with the sound off.
"Mendes said yes."
"To what?"
"To 20 minutes in September."
"Aye, well." Bray did not look up. "That is 6 weeks away and Manchester City are in 10 days, and I have got Lewandowski taking his shirt off on this screen, so sit down and look at that instead."
Clk. He turned it round.
Robert Lewandowski had scored in the 34th minute and he was walking back to the halfway line like a man who had put a bin bag out.
"How many is that?"
