champion godfather

Chapter 1021

A fierce derby has just ended, and the head coach's restrictions on the players are not as strict as before. Everyone needs to relax, whether it is a player or a coach.That's why Chen Jian was able to sit neatly in front of Tang En, enjoy supper with him, and experience the rich and colorful nightlife in Spain.

"Should I congratulate you for drawing against the mighty Barcelona, ​​or feel sorry that you didn't win the game?" Tang En said to Chen Jian with a smile.

"Sorry." Chen Jian replied.

Looking at the man with a lot of gray hair in front of him, Chen Jian couldn't stop feeling that time flies by.

When I met him for the first time, he was full of vigor and vigor, and he was not tired at all.Looking at it now, he looked vaguely like an old man.

Xia Yang became the foil, and tonight was a conversation between Tang En and Chen Jian.

"Hehe, actually, when I asked you to jump out of Nottingham Forest, I never thought that I would find you back one day."

"I didn't expect to leave Nottingham Forest, I would be able to have today."

Both lamented the impermanence of the world.

Today's Chen Jian is not only the core of the Spaniard, but also the main player of the Chinese national team.That's why Tang En came to him, because there was no problem at all in applying for a labor certificate.As for the national team rankings...the English Football Association has canceled that thing.

The Chinese team is still second-rate in Asian football, and Chen Jian is one of the few bright spots in the team.

The person who was the least optimistic in the draft event put on the jersey of the national team and fought for the country, and those with better grades than him have long since lost their jobs.

"I think I have today, and I would like to thank you, Mr. Tang En. So after receiving your call, I decided to transfer to Nottingham Forest."

Tang En smiled.To be honest, when he took the phone and asked Chen Jian loudly if he dared to give up everything before, and came to Nottingham to start from scratch, he was encouraging Chen Jian, but he didn't really think that Chen Jian's future would be so great. good.Chen Jian's current achievements have exceeded his original expectations, and he also feels very gratified.At the very least, I changed a person's destiny, and it changed in a good direction...

"Mountains don't turn around, and we came together again after a circle. Chinese people pay attention to fate. Chen Jian, you and Nottingham Forest are destined to share."

Xia Yang was listening to the conversation between these two people, and rolled his eyes in his heart.What fate?Ajian's choice this time does not know whether it is a bad or a good choice.He was able to play so well in the Spaniard because the Spaniard's head coach Manzanoken let a Chinese player be the core.Can you Nottingham Forest do this?Your core is George Wood, whose technical characteristics and styles are similar to Ajian!Chen Jian is just a supporting role, a foil. Can he still perform as well as he did when he was in the Espanyol?The reputation I have accumulated so hard, don't lose it all when I get to Nottingham Forest, I will thank Yalong...

The manager Mr. Xia was so distracted that the two people on the table had already talked about what happened after going to the forest team.

"I watched this derby. You are the core in the Spaniard. I will show you here first. You will definitely not be able to be the core in Nottingham Forest. Because of George Wood..." Tang En spread his hands.

Chen Jian did not show the gesture of "As long as I go to the forest, I am willing to be a substitute", he just said: "I think Mr. Tang En is willing to come to me in person, it must not be for me to be a substitute?"

Fighting in La Liga for more than three seasons has made Chen Jian mature a lot and made him more confident.

Tang En looked at the Chinese player in front of him, and he liked it from the bottom of his heart.Although some Spanish media would refer to Chen Jian as "a smaller George Wood", in Tang En's view, this person may be more like a "smart general". Still strong.After all, how many people have been there to help and teach George along the way? Without the help of himself, Tang, and Albertini and others, George would be an elm lump, while Chen Jian would basically rely on himself to play singles. Made it alone.

"It's too extravagant for you to be a substitute, ha!" Tang En smiled happily. "In my plan, you will partner with Wood, and the two of you are the 'dual core' of the Forest team."

"Dual-core?" Chen Jian lowered his head and thought about it. He was thinking about how he should cooperate with Wood.He's not the kid who gets excited just to play.

He inadvertently played the game of guessing the coach's intentions again.But this time, he couldn't figure out how to complement each other with George Wood, whose style was similar to his own.

So he raised his head and looked at Tang En.

"Both of you are good at long passes, but you are better at short passes than Wood, and Wood's long shots are higher than yours." Dunn didn't tell the whole story, but only pointed out the differences between the two. "It's too difficult for the opponent to stare at the two of you at the same time."

Chen Jian already had a vague picture in his mind, which was how he and Wood fought side by side.It wasn't until this time that he began to get a little excited—he only aspired to become a professional player, and his goal was George Wood. When the youth team kept using Wood's training table to hone themselves, No. 13 of Nottingham Forest also Then he became his own idol.Now, it is finally possible for me to fight side by side with my idol!

What a wonderful future that is!

The meeting with Chen Jian was mainly to promise him his position in the team - definitely not a substitute, and from the current point of view, he will still be the main force.Spanish people are good at nightlife. Chen Jian, who has been here for more than three years, is more or less used to it, but 50-year-old Tang En is not from Spain, and he has only been in Spain for four days. He is not used to it.As the highlight of this round of the league, the Barcelona Derby was naturally scheduled at the last time. It was almost twelve o'clock when the game was over, and now it was almost one o'clock in the morning.Tang En couldn't bear it any longer, he had already met and talked, so why should he stay any longer?Anyway, in the future, there will be opportunities for contact sometimes.

Tang En and Chen Jian said goodbye.When parting, Tang En once again reminded Xia Yang to step up his pressure on the Espanyol club, and Chen Jian also promised to have a showdown with the club, expressing his desire to go to Nottingham Forest.

Early the next morning, Tang En flew back to England and ended his trip to Spain.

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Not long after, news came from Barcelona that local media reported that several clubs had taken a fancy to Chen Jian and hoped to take him away from the Spaniard during this winter break.

Seeing such news, Tang En knew that Xia Yang had already started to act.

He doesn't care about it, anyway, freelance professionals operate it.

David Chris Lack has entered the team's coaching staff ahead of schedule as an assistant coach to carry out preliminary work.He was responsible for summarizing the situation of the team and submitting it to Twain, who then analyzed and made decisions.

Now a week has passed since Chris Lack entered the team, and the team's internal report has basically taken shape.

In the two weeks he was away, Nottingham Forest had one win and one loss, and the results barely remained at No.16.

This starting point is really low enough, Nottingham Forest since returning to the English Premier League, this is their lowest ranking.It's no wonder that a group of people outside are not optimistic about the prospects of the Forest team this season, thinking that if they are not careful, they will not be surprised even if they are finally relegated.

Coupled with Chris Lack's report to him pointing out that the current forest team's combat effectiveness is worrying, people's hearts are fluctuating, and the bench is not thick enough, etc., Tang En deeply felt the pressure on his shoulders.

This comeback is not going to be an easy vacation...

Before that, there was one more thing that Twain needed to go to, and once he became the head coach of the forest team, it might not be very convenient...

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It has entered winter at the end of November, and the weather in Nottingham is the same as the weather in the whole of the UK, with more cloudy days, more rainy days, less blue sky and less sunshine.

But today is a rare good weather. After four consecutive days of rain, the skies over Nottingham finally cleared up.Everyone who goes to work early in the morning can see the golden sun rising from the eastern horizon, sprinkle the bright sunlight on the sky and the earth, and the rainwater from last night still hangs on the leaves, shining under the sunlight, far away. From a distance, this forest seems to be hung with strings of golden beads.

Surrounded by such woods is the training ground of Notts County Club, which is half the size of Wilford in Nottingham Forest, and the training facilities are a bit outdated.As the oldest modern professional football club in the world, it has a sense of history from inside to outside.To put it mildly, it smells like decay. To put it mildly, it is the glory brought by history.

Although the training facilities are old, the players who are active in this old training ground are all young.The pressure and burden brought by the long history can not be seen on their faces at all.

It's just a warm-up exercise, everyone is very serious.A man in his 30s, wearing a hooded training shirt like an assistant coach, ran ahead with a whistle in his mouth.The man with black hair and an oriental face was none other than Tang, a Chinese who had left Nottingham Forest for more than seven years.

Now he is the head coach of the Championship team Notts County.

Outside the barbed wire fence of the training ground, there were some fans surrounded, but there were not many of them, and there were not many media outlets. Two were from Nottingham local media, and one was from the port city of Portsmouth, which is in Lower Nottsshire. Opponents in the Championship round.

On this cold morning, the whistle in the training ground was particularly clear and distant, and even some birds in the forest were startled.Along with the birds flying in the woods in the distance, there is also a rising white mist. It is the water vapor that starts to evaporate under the sunlight and spreads, almost enveloping the entire training ground.

Tang En, who wrapped his whole body under a thick coat, took a deep breath. The air in the forest is much better than that in the city center.

The so-called other thing that I can't do after coaching the Forest team is to come here to see Tang.Although the relationship between him and Tang Zhijian can have many opportunities to contact in private.But once he becomes the head coach of the forest team, he will definitely become the target of the paparazzi. He doesn't want the news of his meeting with Tang to make a big splash. This is a secret.

Seeing Tang leading the team to run laps to warm up, Tang En had a smile on his face.Completely different from his own style, Tang did a pretty good job here.Although he didn't know much about Notts County, just looking at those players, Tang En also believed that it was a team that completely belonged to Tang, and his goal when he left him had been achieved.

But... It is difficult for such a team to go further.For a small team like Notts County that lacks financial support, it has surprised many people that Tang can be brought to the British Championship, and it basically stops here.If you want to go to the Premier League, it is absolutely impossible without strong financial support. Even if they are lucky enough to be promoted to the Premier League, under the huge pound advantage of their opponents, the only way to go is to quickly return to the British Championship. .

In 2004, Notts County was on the verge of bankruptcy. At that time, Notts County fans spontaneously donated money, hoping to save their beloved team.But in the end it was the irrelevant team-Chelsea who became the savior.It was precisely because Notts County drew Chelsea in the FA Cup that they gained a lot of ticket revenue-at that time, Chelsea club agreed to give all the ticket revenue obtained at Stamford Bridge to Notts County Club for them to tide over the difficulties- —Television fee sharing and ticket revenue saved the team from the demise of the world's oldest modern professional football club.

The situation in Notts County can be seen from this incident.In the eyes of the Premier League teams, the TV broadcast fee and ticket income of a game are not worth mentioning, but they can save the life of Notts County, which shows how pitiful the team's budget is...

Tang's success in the past few years is inseparable from his insistence on building the youth team since he took office.If there is no youth academy to provide him with enough excellent players, with the pitiful budget of Notts County every season, relying on buying people in the transfer market alone, I am afraid that even the starting 11 players will not be enough.

Although he has a good youth training camp, he also faces the same troubles as many small club coaches-he can't keep those very outstanding young players from Notts County to pursue a higher stage.If a club like Notts County wants to survive, selling the promising young players it has cultivated has become the only way.Tang is just a head coach, and he has no way to interfere with the team's business strategy, and he has no position to interfere-the team will not survive, so why keep talented players?No matter how talented these players are, they are not the kind of world superstars who can lead the team to the Super League by themselves.Hurry up and buy some at a good price while there are still people who want them.It's a big deal, let's promote from the youth training camp to the first team to train...

so cycle.

Tang En shook his head, this is the tragedy of the small club.Wasn't it the same with the Forest team before I took over?Michael Dawson, Andy Reed, and Jenas were all resold when the Forest team was in financial difficulties.It's just that Nottingham Forest has a solid foundation compared with Notts County, and its ancestors were once rich, so it is not too difficult to re-emerge.

It is difficult for Notts County, poor and white.

In this way, Tang En watched all the training of the Notts County team in the morning on the sidelines of the training ground, and then met with Tang at noon.

On the phone last night, Tang En told Tang that he was coming to see him today, so Tang En was not surprised to see Tang En appearing in front of him.

"You definitely didn't come to treat me to dinner, Tony?" In a Chinese restaurant, Tang said to Tang En who was sitting opposite.

"Of course. And this Chinese restaurant is too unauthentic." Tang En commented on the head office of the most famous Chinese restaurant in Nottingham area, regardless of the fact that there was a Chinese waiter standing next to him.It provoked the Chinese student who knew at a glance that he was here to work hard to stare at the old man wearing sunglasses.

After the waiter left, Tang laughed: "It's too worthless for you to talk about this restaurant."

Tang En shrugged and did not continue this topic. "I came to you to ask you a question, Don." He leaned forward and lowered his voice so that he could be heard.

"Do you want to change to a bigger stage?"

(End of this chapter)