Godfather Of Champions

Just after a fierce derby game, the coach's restrictions on the players are not as strict as before. Everyone needs to relax, whether it is players or coaches. So Chen Jian can sit in front of Dunn neatly, enjoy a supper with him, and experience the colorful nightlife of Spain.

"Should I congratulate you for drawing the powerful Barcelona, ​​or should I regret that you did not win the game?" Tang En said to Chen Jian with a smile.

"Regret," Chen Jian replied.

Seeing the person with gray hair in front of him, Chen Jian couldn't help but feel a feeling of time passing by.

When I first saw him, he was full of spirits. It was when the spring breeze was proud of him, he was not tired at all. Looking at it now, it looks like an old man.

Xia Yang became a foil, and this evening was a conversation between Tang En and Chen Jian.

"Hehe, when I asked you to jump out of Nottingham Forest, I didn't expect to find you back one day."

"I didn't expect to leave Nottingham Forest, I can have today."

Both people lamented the impermanence of the world.

Today Chen Jian is not only the core of the Spaniard, but also the main player of the Chinese national team. That's why Dunn came to him, because there were no problems with applying for a labor license. As for the national team rankings... the Football Association of England has cancelled 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 people who were least optimistic about the draft at the beginning have instead put on the national team's jersey to fight for the country, and those who have better results than him now have no idea where they are doing what work.

"I think I have today, and I also want to thank you, Mr. Dunn. So after receiving your call, I decided to transfer to Nottingham Forest."

Dunn smiled. To be honest, he took the phone and asked Chen Jian out loud if he dared to give up everything he had originally. When he came to Nottingham to start from scratch, he was inspiring Chen Jian, but he didn't really think that Chen Jian's future would be much. Beautiful. Chen Jian's achievements now exceed his original expectations, and he feels very pleased. At the very least, I changed the destiny of a person, and changed it in a good direction...

"The mountains don't turn, the river turns around, and we're together again after a circle. Chinese people are very fate. Chen Jian, you have a relationship with Nottingham Forest.

Xia Yang was listening to the conversation between these two men, rolling her eyes in her heart. What fate? A Jian's choice this time is not sure whether it is bad or good. He was able to play so well in the Spaniard because the Spaniard's head coach Manzanokan made a Chinese player the core. Can you do this at Nottingham Forest? Your core is George Wood, who has similar technical features and styles to Ajian! Chen Jian is only a supporting role, a foil, can he still perform as well as he did in the Espanyol team? The reputation that has been accumulated with great difficulty, don't lose me when you arrive in Nottingham Forest, I will thank God for thanking Yalong...

The manager, Mr. Xia, has been so distracted, and the two at the table have 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. In Nottingham Forest, you definitely can't be the core. Because of George Wood..." Dunn opened his hand.

Chen Jian did not show a gesture of "as long as I go to the forest, even if I am willing to be a substitute", he just said: "I think Mr. Dunn is willing to come to me personally. It must not be me to be a substitute?"

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

Dunn looked at the Chinese player in front of him, with a heartfelt love. Although some Spanish media will refer to Chen Jian as "the smaller George Wood", in Dunn's view, this man is probably more like a "wise general". In terms of his brain, he is probably better than George. Still strong. After all, how many people were there to help George along the way to teach him? Without the help of himself, without Tang, without the help of Albertini and others, George would be an elm bump, while Chen Jian would basically rely on his own singles. Spelled out alone.

"It's too extravagant to let you be a substitute, ha!" Dunn smiled happily. "In my plan, you will partner with Wood. You two are the Forest's ‘dual-core’."

"Dual cores?" Chen Jian lowered his head and thought, he was considering how he should cooperate with Wood. He is no longer the kid who would be excited just to play.

He accidentally played the game of guessing the coach's intentions. But this time he couldn't figure out how he could complement George Wood, whose style and characteristics were similar to him.

So he raised his head and looked at Dunn.

"You two have good long passes, but you are stronger than Wood in short passes, and Wood's long-range shots are higher than you." Dunn didn't tell the difference, just pointed out the differences between the two. "It's too difficult for the opponent to stare at both of you at the same time."

Chen Jian already had a vague picture in his mind, showing him and Wood fighting together. Knowing this, he started to get a little excited-he only aspires to become a professional player, and his goal is George Wood. When the youth team keeps using Wood's training table to hone himself, the No. 13 of Nottingham Forest is also Then he became his idol. Now, it is finally possible for me to fight side by side with idols!

That is really a wonderful future!

The meeting with Chen Jian was mainly to promise him his position in the team-certainly not a substitute, and at present, it will be the main force. Spanish people are good at nightlife. Chen Jian, who has stayed here for more than three years, is somewhat used to it, but the fifty-year-old Dunn is not a Spanish, and he has only stayed in Spain for four days. He is not used to it. As the highlight of this round of the league, the Barcelona city derby is naturally scheduled at the last time. It will be almost twelve o'clock when the game is over, and now it is almost one o'clock in the morning. Tang En couldn't stand it anymore, and he said something after seeing him. Why should he stay? Anyway, in the future, there will be opportunities for contact.

Tang En and Chen Jian said goodbye. When parting, Dunn reminded Xia Yang to step up his imposing 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, Dunn returned to England by plane, ending his trip to Spain.

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It didn't take long for news from Barcelona that local media reported that many clubs had taken a fancy to Chen Jian's news and hoped to take him away from the Spaniards during this winter break.

Seeing such news, Dunn knew that Xia Yang had already begun to act.

He doesn't care, anyway, free professionals to operate.

David Chris Lak has entered the team's coaching staff ahead of schedule as an assistant coach to carry out preliminary work. He is responsible for summarizing the team's situation and submitting it to Dunn, who then analyzes the decision.

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

In the two weeks he was absent, Nottingham Forest had one win and one loss, and the results barely remained at sixteenth.

This starting point is really low enough, since Nottingham Forest has returned to the English Premier League, this is their lowest ranking. It is 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 the shortcomings of Chris Lak’s report to him that the current forest team’s combat effectiveness is worrisome, popular, and the bench is not thick enough, Dunn felt the pressure on his shoulders deeply.

This comeback is not an easy vacation trip...

Before that, there is one more thing that needs Dunn to take a trip, and once he becomes the head coach of the Forest team, I am afraid it will be inconvenient...

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Winter has entered at the end of November. The weather in Nottingham is the same as the weather in the whole of England. There are 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 sky over Nottingham finally cleared. Everyone who goes to work early in the morning can see the golden sun rising from the eastern horizon, sprinkling the brilliant sun on the sky and the earth, and the rain from last night hangs on the leaves, shining in the sun. From a distance, the forest seemed to be hung with strings of golden beads.

Surrounded by such woods is the training ground of the Notts County Club, which is half smaller than Vilford in Nottingham Forest, and the training facilities are a bit old. As the modern professional football club with the longest history in the world, it has a taste of history from inside to outside. To put it happily, it is the smell of corruption, and to put it nicely, it is the glory of history.

Although the training facilities are old, the players who play in this old training ground are very young. They can't see the pressure and burden of the long history at all on their faces.

It's just a warm-up exercise, everyone is serious. A man in his thirties who looked like an assistant coach in a training shirt with a hood, ran ahead with a whistle in his mouth. The man with black hair and an oriental face is the Chinese Tang who has been away from Nottingham Forest for more than seven years.

He is now the head coach of the British championship team Notts County.

Outside the barbed wire fence of the training ground, some fans were surrounded, but there were not many people, and there were not many media outlets. There were two local media outlets from Nottingham, and one from the port city of Portsmouth—that was Lower Nottingham. Opponents in a round of the Premier League.

On this cold morning, the whistle in the training ground was extremely clear and distant, and even some birds in the forest flew by surprise. In the woods in the distance, accompanied by the birds flying, there is a white mist that is rising. It is the water vapor that began to evaporate under the sunlight and spread, almost enveloping the entire training ground.

Dunn, who wrapped his whole person under a thick coat, took a deep breath. The air in the forest was much better than the city center.

The so-called other thing that can't be done after coaching the Forest team is to come here to meet Tang. Although his relationship with Tang Zhijian can have many opportunities for 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 be full of ups and downs. This is a secret.

Watching Tang leading the team to warm up in a lap, Dunn smiled. It's completely different from his own style. Tang did a good job here. Although I don't know much about Knotts County, just looking at the players, Dunn also believes that it is a team that belongs entirely to Tang, and his goal when he left himself has been achieved.

But... it's hard for such a team to go further. A small team like Notts County, which lacks financial support, has been able to bring Tang to the English Champions League, which has surprised many people, and it basically ends there. If you want to go to the Premier League without strong financial support, it is absolutely impossible. Even if they get promoted to the Premier League by luck, they can only quickly return to the British Championship due to the huge pound advantage of their opponents. .

In 2004, Knott County was on the verge of bankruptcy. At that time Knott County fans volunteered to donate money to save their beloved team. But in the end it was Chelsea, a team that had always been irrelevant. It was precisely because Notts County drew Chelsea in the FA Cup that it received a lot of ticket revenue. At that time, the Chelsea Club agreed to give all the ticket revenue from Stamford Bridge to the Notts County Club for them to tide over the difficulties— -TV broadcast fee sharing and ticket income saved this team and avoided the demise of the world's oldest modern professional football club.

The situation in Notts County can be seen from this incident. The TV broadcast fee and ticket income of a game are not worth mentioning in the eyes of Premier League teams, but they can save Nots County a life, which shows how pitiful this 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 good players, with the pitiful budget of Notts County every season, and only relying on buying people in the transfer market, I am afraid that even the starting eleven will not be enough.

Although he has a good youth academy, he also faces the same troubles as the coaches of many small clubs-he can't keep those outstanding young players from Notts County to pursue a higher stage. If a club like Notts County wants to survive, it is the only way to sell some promising young players that it has cultivated. Tang is just a head coach, unable to interfere with the team's business strategy, and he has no position to interfere-the team is going to be unable to survive, so what to keep talented players for? No matter how talented these players are, they are not the kind of world superstars who can lead the team to the Super League alone. While there is still someone wanting it, hurry up and buy a good price. Big deal, let's get promoted from the youth training camp to the first team to exercise...

So cycle.

Dunn shook his head, this is the sadness of the small club. Wasn't it the same for the forest team before I took over? Michael Dawson, Andy Reid, and Jenus were all sold out when the Forest team was in financial difficulties. It's just that the Nottingham Forest and Nottsshire have a solid foundation after all, and their ancestors were once larger. It is not too difficult to re-emerge.

Nottsshire is difficult, poor and white.

Dunn watched all the morning training of the Knotts County team on the side of the training court, and then met with Tang at noon.

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

"You definitely didn't come to invite me to dinner, Tony?" At a Chinese restaurant, Tang said to Dunn, who was sitting opposite.

"Of course. And this Chinese restaurant is too unauthentic." No one next to Dunn commented on the head office of the most famous Chinese restaurant in Nottingham, regardless of a Chinese waiter standing beside him. The Chinese student who knew at first glance that he was coming to work glared at this old man wearing sunglasses.

After the waiter had left, Tang laughed: "It's not worth what you said about the restaurant."

Dunn shrugged and did not continue the topic. "I came to you to ask you a question. Don." He leaned forward and lowered his voice so that the other party could hear him.

"Do you want to change to a bigger stage?" (To be continued, if you want to know what's going on, please visit www.qidian.com, there are more chapters, authors are supported, and genuine reading is supported!)

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