champion godfather

Chapter 759 Volume Six Crimson Ranger
Woke up late, happy new year everyone.

※ ※ ※Rothhaus is the general manager of the Hoffenheim Club. The person who injects capital into the club and determines the general direction is the owner Dietmar Hope, but the person who is in charge of all the specific affairs is this middle-aged man.

He used to be the general manager of Stuttgart, a Bundesliga powerhouse.Resigned from Stuttgart in 2005, accepted Hope's invitation, and switched to this small team that was still in the Bundesliga.It takes some courage to make such a choice.After all, Rothaus has done a good job in Stuttgart and his income is satisfactory. There is no need to change places and start from scratch.If you go to a small team in the Bundesliga, if you are not careful, you will get yourself into a quagmire.But after several months of deliberation, he decided to come to Hoffenheim to do something.

If you compare it with when you came to Hoffenheim, then he has actually succeeded.

In the first season of promotion to the Bundesliga, he won the second place in the league. He also trained two German internationals and a top scorer in the Bundesliga and Europe.Although the second season's performance was not as good as the previous season, it was also stable in the middle of the Bundesliga.At least there is no worry of relegation. Their original plan was to use two years to stabilize their position in the Bundesliga.

Hope and he are not in a hurry to build Hoffenheim into a team that can win the championship immediately. The large sum of money invested by Hope is first used to build new training bases and stadiums, looking for young players everywhere, they do not buy big names star.

From this point of view, they are also miracle makers, and they are very different from Nottingham Forest.

Last season, there were rumors that Rangnick was going to be dismissed by the club. As a result, Hope immediately instructed Rothouse to provide Rangnick with a new five-year contract.The news of the head coach's contract renewal soon appeared in the major media, and those rumors were self-defeating.

The situation encountered by the team last season was expected by Roterhaus, and he was not disappointed by it.Those who are disappointed are just those strangers who have never met but have high hopes for Hoffenheim.

Rothaus had a big ambition, perhaps even bigger than that of his boss Hope - he wanted to build Hoffenheim into a club that could survive without Hope's investment and maintain its normal operation.It is exactly the same as the famous clubs that already exist in the world. Investors can change many batches, but this team will always exist.One day he and Hope would grow old and die.Hoffenheim can't fall back to the seventh division just because Hope left. They should be able to stay in the Bundesliga.He must let this team gradually put aside Hope's investment and influence and become independent step by step.

Now may be an opportunity to start the first step.

Just this morning, he received a fax from England.

Nottingham Forest approached him to ask whether the team's striker Wedard Ibisevic could be sold.The miracle of England and the miracle of Germany have at last made their first official contact.

He had received countless such faxes last summer, when he rejected them all without asking Hope.It is impossible for any ambitious club to sell their top scorer.What's more, Hoffenheim is not short of money and will participate in the Champions League next season. He doesn't think Ibisevic will choose to leave.

There have been far fewer such faxes this summer.Teams that were once interested in "Super Ibi" have expressed that they will not introduce this once famous super shooter.Those teams that are still interested in Ibisevic are only second-tier teams in the top league, or teams in the second-tier league.

After the end of last season, some German media once ridiculed: "Ibisevic was originally a ranger in the low-level European leagues. He has no problem adapting to that level of football. Will be successful. To be honest, he is not a striker who can play in the top league..."

These words sound harsh, but they are the true thoughts of many people.Many people think that Ibisevic's crazy performance in Hoffenheim's Bundesliga debut is just an accidental outburst. In fact, he is more suitable for playing in the lower leagues.Look, didn't he get beaten back to his original shape in the second season?
In fact, there are also debates within Hoffenheim about the true level of Ibisevic.Some people think he is indeed a top striker material, while others think he is just lucky.Both sides seem to make sense.Manager Rangnick is neither of these two sides, but he also has a headache for Ibisevic's sudden good and sudden bad performances.

When he first joined Hoffenheim, Hoffenheim was still playing in the Bundesliga. He played 31 times, most of them came off the bench, and only scored five goals. As a striker, this statistic is simply horrible. .At that time, some local media believed that Hoffenheim bought the wrong person. Ibisevic’s long-term experience proved that he could not meet the requirements of Hoffenheim. Aachen also did not show the strength of Ibisevic.

If it weren't for the BJ Olympics, maybe Ibisevic would have continued to sit on Hoffenheim's bench until the contract expired, or he would have been sold off by Hoffenheim to any club in the middle of it, leaving him alone.But fate is often so wonderful, unpredictable and full of various changes and surprises.

His superiority was not due to Lannick's discerning talent, but purely a coincidence.You must know that just before the 08-09 season, he was just a substitute forward in the mind of head coach Rangnick.However, the team's main forward Obasi will miss most of the team's preparations and the first few rounds of the season because he will participate in the BJ Olympics.

So Ibisevic was able to play in the first round of the league.

It was this Hoffenheim's Bundesliga debut against Cottbus that became the beginning of a legend.Never been favored, never recognized, never been paid attention to the little unknown Vedard. Ibisevic scored twice in the game!Help the team beat Cottbus 3:0.Then he scored every game and even scored twice in the game many times.Even if Obasi returned to the team after the Olympic Games, Rangnick also found that he could not let Ibisevic, who was in full swing, play as a substitute at this time, but Obasi is also a very capable striker, and he also did not have the heart to let this A striker sits on the bench.So he simply modified his tactics, let Obasi, Wellington and Ibisevic appear at the same time, and changed to a more aggressive 433!The result was a miraculous effect, and for a while no one in the Bundesliga could stop it.

Ibisevic became the top scorer, and Rangnick is still saying: "For me, he is like a player we just introduced this season."

Ibisevic was inexplicably sluggish in the second season, and Rangnick said again: "To me, he is like a player we just introduced this season..."

The Bundesliga coach is also at a loss for Ibisevic.

Maybe he should be sold?
This thought flashed through Rothaus' mind.

But he still turned down Nottingham Forest, he said that we will not sell Ibisevic, he is an important member of our team.

He didn't wait for the second fax from Nottingham Forest, he thought the team must have given up, maybe they just asked casually...

Unexpectedly, he waited for Nottingham Forest's head coach Tony Twain and a German translator.

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"Hoffenheim is really a peaceful small village. I like it here... I would choose this kind of place for my daily life." Tony Twain, dressed like a tourist in sunglasses, stood with his German translator On the sidelines of the training field, watch the solo practice of one person on the field through the barbed wire fence.

The time for normal training is over.The fans who had gathered here before had already dispersed.Not many people remained.

They were all fans of the guy in the arena.

Wedard Ibisevic is practicing extra shooting for himself in the training ground. This is an unshakable procedure-an extra half an hour of shooting after training every day.He is a striker and there is nothing more important than shooting.

Tang En watched from the side. His shooting skills were very good, perhaps because of his long-term training.

Half an hour passed quickly.Instead of going straight to the locker room, Ibisevic turned around and signed autographs for the fans who were still waiting outside the field.

With a height of 1.8 meters nine and a weight of [-] kilograms, he is very strong, but not bulky.Standing behind the barbed wire fence, he signed autographs for those fans one by one, and then walked in front of Tony Twain.

Through the mesh, Tang En handed in the blue Hoffenheim jersey with Ibisevic's number and name printed on it, a marker pen, and a business card that he had just bought in the souvenir shop outside.

No fans would hand over their business cards when they asked for his autograph. Ibisevic looked up at the middle-aged man wearing sunglasses in a strange way.

"Tony Twain. Nice to meet you, Ibisevic." The man outside took the initiative to introduce himself.

This name sounds familiar... Wait!
Ibisevic's eyes widened and he asked directly in English, "Are you the head coach of Nottingham Forest? Why are you here?"

"Because Nottingham Forest is very interested in you." Tang En grinned.

It has been three days since he received the call from the brokerage company, and he still hasn't replied to the brokerage company.Because he doesn't know whether he should leave here, and whether he should go to Nottingham Forest, there are more than one Nottingham Forest teams interested in him.

"I watched the video of you playing football, but I think this kind of thing needs to be seen with my own eyes, so I came here. Do you practice like this every time after training?"

Ibisevic nodded.

"No wonder, your success is not accidental. How about, go to England with me? I'll help you get back your form, in the Champions Cup." Dunn smiled like a demon tempting mortals.

Ibisevic was silent for a while, then shrugged: "I don't know how to answer you, Mr. Twain. Maybe I can have a new experience in another place, but I still have a contract with the club. If the club doesn't let me go, then say Nothing works."

"Ah, you just need to express to the club that you want to change the environment, and leave the rest to us." Tang En patted his chest.

"I know Nottingham Forest is a team that is going to participate in the Champions League in the new season, but I don't understand why you will come to me?" There is another problem that Ibisevic can't figure out.In his view, teams capable of competing for the championship should pursue those well-known stars. Anyway, now that the financial crisis is still alive, those big-name stars are not expensive.

"I only buy players that meet my requirements. I never care whether they are famous or not. You are the person I need, Ibi. Come to my team and I will give you a bigger stage."

Ibisevic was silent for a while, then nodded: "Okay, Mr. Tang En. If you can convince my club, I will give priority to signing with the Forest team."

After speaking, he planned to leave, but Twain stopped him unexpectedly: "Sign." He pointed to the jersey still in Ibisevic's hand, "I'm your fan, sign for me."

Ibisevic reluctantly signed his name on his jersey and handed it back, but he accepted the business card.

He felt that it was indeed time to change places.He's always changing teams anyway, from America to France, from France to Germany, now it's just from Germany to England, no big deal.He changes teams almost every year, and Hoffenheim is the longest team he has stayed in.Do you know what the European media called him?
Ranger.

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In the afternoon of this day, Tang En took a German translator to meet the general manager of the Hoffenheim Club, Rothaus.

The two sides had a secret meeting that was not known to the public.

No one knew what they talked about, and the outside world didn't even know that Tony Twain suddenly ran to this small village south of Frankfurt, Germany to meet Rothaus.

A day later, Nottingham Forest and Hoffenheim officially announced at the same time that former European Golden Boot winner Vedard Ibisevic would transfer to Nottingham Forest for a transfer fee of 1000 million euros plus player exchange. Years, annual salary and other specific benefits have not been announced.

The German media just ran into Tony Twain who was returning to Nottingham with Ibisevic at the Frankfurt airport.

"He is the player I need." After Dunn was surrounded by reporters at the airport, he ignored those voices of doubt. "I don't care what you think of him. I bought it for myself, not for you. Parallel imports? You are so sure about the future development of a player, why don't you resign and become an agent? I guarantee that it will be better than you to spend your time in the newspapers. There are more ways to make money by making up random things!"

"What are you dissatisfied with? From now on, Super Ibi belongs to me, a player from Nottingham Forest, and someone who will become a registered player in the Premier League. You German media can't control it."

"I believe in his ability, and I am willing to give him a chance to prove again... Is there a problem with my vision? Yes, but I can win the championship because of those 'parallel imports' that I have taken a fancy to."

"Am I wasting club money? I do, do you care?"

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Amidst the uproar and doubts, Ibisevic was dragged by Tang En to board the flight from Germany to the UK.

Eleven years ago, Ibisevic, who was only 11 years old, left the country where the war broke out and stayed in Switzerland briefly. Due to visa issues, he did not obtain the legal right of residence, so he traveled across the ocean and came to St. Louis, the United States, to join relatives.He insisted on his professional football dream in the United States, a football desert-like country, and relied on his outstanding performance in the local team to be favored by the coach of the French giants Paris Saint-Germain, and returned to Europe when he was only 15 years old.He was then loaned to Dijon, a small team in the French second league, where he grew up quickly and got a chance to play, scored some goals, and saw many new things.And then he was released by Paris Saint-Germain, like any youngster with no future.Fortunately, he was noticed by a German agent in the last two games in Dijon and recommended him to two German teams. He chose to join Aachen, which was still in the Bundesliga at the time.He only played for Aachen for one year, and Aachen was unfortunately relegated. Wearing the No. 19 jersey, he did not make any great contributions to the team. This time he chose to leave Aachen and switch to another Bundesliga team Hoffenheim.

In the first season, he played 31 times and only scored five goals.The top scorer of the Bundesliga in the second season and the winner of the European Golden Boot.In the third season, he was called "the goal that scored a lifetime goal in one season".Like a bright meteor, it rises rapidly in the sky, and then disappears in the vast space.

He has been unknown, he has also been popular, he has succeeded, and he has failed.He has seen big scenes, and he has insisted on his ideals in the predicament that others can't imagine. He believes that he will succeed one day. 11 years have passed, and he is no longer the kid who fled with his parents. He has become a professional player, lives in a spacious house, has his own car, and enjoys the fans cheering for him. He has changed many.

But one thing has never changed - he is always wandering, from here to there.

This time, Ranger Ibi started a brand new journey.

Maybe he will continue to wander, and fully confirm the title of "Ranger".Perhaps, he will stop his wandering footsteps and choose a place as his last stop.

Could it be the forest where Robin Hood, the great thief, once loved and hated happily?

(End of this chapter)