Godfather Of Champions

Apology statement: Due to my negligence, I even forgot the most important event at the end of the year, the "World Club Cup". I apologize to you all here. Since the VIP chapters have been updated, there is no way to modify the existing chapters. So I can only make a supplementary explanation here:

Nottingham Forest defeated the Boca Youth Team 4:3 in the Club World Cup held in Japan and won the Club World Cup. Became the No.1 among the world clubs this year.

I apologize to you again and sincerely thank my friends who reminded me.

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When the schedule is intensive, you will feel that time passes quickly. It's as if people forget that the passage of time is a truth once they get busy.

Unconsciously, in the constant battle, time has passed the end of the year and the New Year. The memorial calendar of the Nottingham Forest Club in Dunn’s home was also replaced from 2007 to 2008.

Leagues and FA Cups are coming one after another. Thanks to the reasonable arrangement of the training plan, the forest team's physical fitness has not had any problems during this period, and the state has remained stable.

From the beginning of the league game on December 1st until January 3rd, Nottingham Forest won seven consecutive victories. Their league ranking has also changed from third to first. A brilliant six-game winning streak in December made Dunn the best coach of the month in the Premier League and Nottingham Forest was named the best team of the month, but the best player of the month fell behind Manchester United and Cristiano Ronaldo was elected.

And the year-end drama-world-wide and European-wide selection results also came out.

2007 is not a World Series year. Although there are the Asian Cup and the America's Cup, these two events are not great events for the European-centric world football.

As an important reference for these awards, the performance of the UEFA Champions League teams and players is the most important.

As the European champion, Nottingham Forest is optimistic.

Nottingham Forest won the honor of the best club in the world this year. The core player of the team, Frank Ribery, was selected as the winner of this year’s European Ballon d’Or by the French “Team Daily”. Although Kaka’s performance was equally good, AC Milan’s ability to make it to the final was almost the credit of Kaka alone. . But Kaka lost to the collective honor.

Frank Ribery also won the "World Football Player" award selected by the British "World Football Magazine".

In the "Mr. Footballer of the World" selection held by FIFA, the competition is fierce.

Because the selection mechanism is different from the more professional European Golden Globes, the best of FIFA is voted by the head coaches of FIFA's subordinate countries and regions. It's not that the head coach of a country is the most professional candidate. Think about China? Therefore, many head coaches actually voted without regard to the person's performance in the past year, but just voted for the name they are most familiar with.

Kaka takes advantage in this regard, his reputation is higher than Ribery in the world, and also higher than him are Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi.

Kaka's performance in the Champions League and the league is obvious to all. AC Milan with him and AC Milan without him are simply two different teams.

Cristiano Ronaldo also helped Manchester United win the two-year Premier League trophy last season. At the same time, in the new season of the second half of the year, he is in better form and is currently the top scorer of the Premier League.

Messi benefited from Barcelona's wealthy background and his status as the "successor to Maradona". In fact, in terms of performance, he was not as good as the above three this year.

The final result was that Kaka overwhelmed Frank Ribery by a narrow margin and was elected as the World Footballer. Ribery came second and won the Silver Ball. Portugal's Ronaldo won the Bronze Ball.

For Frank Ribery, even this result is enough for him to be happy for a long time. A few years ago, when he was looking at the sea from the pier, he didn't know where he was in the future, but he didn't even think about the scenery today. But now, following Dunn and Nottingham Forest, this kind of thing that can only qualify in a dream has become a reality. He has become one of the hottest young people in world football. He is a European footballer. He is a well-deserved new core of the French national team. His career has reached the peak.

George Wood entered the shortlist of twenty people, but he did not get any honors, which is related to his being a full-time defensive player. In today's football, defense is not pleased. Being a defensive player basically means losing sight of all major individual awards. Cannavaro’s World Footballer is not so much a personal praise to him, as it is a reward to the entire defense of Italy, and as the captain of Italy, he is only a representative of this outstanding collective.

Only the football player is the most important play. After the awards are over, there will be some messy small awards-maybe others do not agree with this view, but in the eyes of Dunn, they are some irrelevant awards. Even if he was named the world's best coach of the year because he led Nottingham Forest to the European Championship, he did not show how ecstatic.

He felt that this was a matter of course. He couldn't think of anyone besides himself who was qualified to stand on stage to accept this award. The second reason is that he is still complaining about Ribery. He doesn't hate Kaka for winning, but he thinks that Ribery is more qualified to win the gold medal this time.

So his speech on the stage to accept the award seemed a bit arrogant and resentful.

He said: "I am very happy to receive this award. This shows that I chose the right path: victory, continuous victory; championship, continuous championship. As long as the team can win more championships, personal honor is not a suspense... …But there will be some surprises...Anyway, thank you FIFA for this award for me. Thank you!"

Nottingham Forest’s offensive core, Ribery, failed to complete the Grand Slam. He has the European Ballon d'Or, the best player in world football and the world’s footballer all in one, which is the only flaw. In addition, the Forest team has been perfect this year.

A year full of honors has passed, and a new year with endless challenges is coming. All the glory will pass soon, these things will not help the Forest team get any benefits in the new year.

In the first round of the league in the new year, the Forest team won, increasing their winning streak to seven games.

In the FA Cup, Dunn still sent the second team to play and ran into Roy Keane's Sunderland.

Due to the different situations of the two teams, their attitudes towards this match are different. Dunn made it clear that he would train. Keane hopes to rely on the team's current dilemma through a breakthrough in the FA Cup-21 rounds have passed, and his Sunderland scored only 17 points, ranking third in the league and belonging to the relegation zone.

Relegation is certainly important, but Keane hopes to use a victory to motivate the team's morale, even if it is just an FA Cup, as long as he wins the powerful Nottingham Forest, he has a way to lead the team out of the predicament again.

Dunn certainly wouldn't release water just because his opponent is Roy Keane. Although he played second-tier players, in the eyes of Keane, these second-tier players are even more terrifying. For the main players of Nottingham Forest, the FA Cup cannot stimulate their fighting spirit, but it is true that the second-tier players have a great opportunity to show themselves in front of Dunn. No one hopes that there is only such a chance, and no one hopes that because Own performance made the team lose. Therefore, this game is very dangerous for Sunderland. The only thing Keane can rely on is to put in the strongest lineup and fight his opponents at home.

He won.

After ninety minutes of very, very fierce fighting, Sunderland beat Nottingham Forest 3-2. Successfully advanced to the next round of the FA Cup.

After losing the last chance to train young people, Dunn was on the long journey from Sunderland back to Nottingham and began to seriously consider renting out some promising players who are destined to have no chance to play in this forest team now.

The youth team’s Adriano Mok has been loaned to Sunderland at the beginning of this season. Now he is a standing player for Sunderland’s first team. Although he is not guaranteed to be the main player, he is not on the edge of sitting on the bench. character. In this FA Cup game against the Forest, he played the entire game in the starting game. The performance is not bad, Dunn is always paying attention to Mork's performance during the game, a little bit unique...but young people, they still have time to correct these stinking problems. Think about Cristiano Ronaldo who just arrived at Manchester United. Look at him now, he doesn't seem to be alone.

He wants to rent out some people from the youth team, even if it is a team in the English Champions League. He feels that for those people, just attending training at the Vilford training base and playing in the FA Youth Cup will no longer get any improvement. Up. If you want to get to the next level, you have to go out and play games, playing real games.

This matter will be done back to Nottingham. In addition, the winter transfer window opens. Does Nottingham Forest have players that need to be bought or sold?

At present, Nottingham Forest’s rotation system is relatively mature. There are good people in every position. Ribery has returned to the team from injury. Pepe’s injury is also thinking about a better direction... He thought for a while, it seems There are no players that are particularly urgently needed.

So he decided to focus on the types of players who are still young and can be bought and then loaned out to train.

This type of player has many restrictions, so it is not very easy to find. First of all, they must be young enough and have time to wait for the opportunity; secondly, they must have enough talent to make Dunn tempted. The general generation is not worth spending a few years to train and wait; again, they have to have no reputation. , Don’t be too far-sighted, Don’t want the kind of person who wants to be the boss when he comes; in the end, it’s better if the price is cheaper. The forest team’s new stadium has broken ground and construction has begun, and the available liquidity on the club’s books is pitiful. Dunn couldn't do things like bidding tens of millions of euros for a young genius.

After being screened by these conditions, most of the young geniuses who are already known to the world will lose their horses. For example, dos Santos and Boyan from the Barcelona La Masia training camp; for example, Carlos Bella, who was loaned out by Arsenal, and Wilshere, who recently became popular in the Arsenal youth team; such as the current hot French young man The geniuses Benzema and Nasri; such as Rossi of the Italian national youth team; such as Pato, who has been snatched by AC Milan... etc. These people, Don En, can't be robbed, he doesn't have the financial resources, and they may not come.

He doesn't need to worry too much about finding a job with outstanding talents. Nottingham Forest can already support scouts all over the world, and they also cooperate with SI. This company also has many amateur and professional scouts. In addition to their production of FM, they also created another version of the player database for the Forest Team in accordance with the original agreement, which is slightly different from the more game-oriented FM database. The numbers in this database are more rigorous and have more reference value. .

As the winter transfer period begins, Dunn needs to speed up these tasks.

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When Dunn told his scout team that he needed a list of potential players from all over the world between the ages of fourteen and sixteen, two days later, a compiled report The book appeared on his desk.

He did not study the report during training time, but took it back and read it with Tang.

Dunn first set his sights on the UK domestically. On the one hand, it is the first to get the moon near the water. On the other hand, it can also weaken the opponent. Next, the EU region, the Americas, Africa, and finally Asia.

After reading all this report with Tang, it was already late at night. Although tired and dizzy, they finally decided on some candidates, and their names were circled with red pencils. The next day, they will be handed over to the youth team coach. Then, after confirmation, the Forest Club will apply to the club where these players are located, or find the other party to sign a contract directly, so that they can become a member of the Forest team-there is no need to observe anything, some of them are the Forest team The scouting system continues to observe people for a long time.

Two days later, the foreign-oriented acquisition of the Forest Team began worldwide. Among these names, how many people will eventually come to Nottingham as Dunn wishes? He didn't know, it was like a big net that was cast out, and no one knew how the harvest was before it was caught.

In London, England, the Crystal Palace genius John Bostock (John_Bostock), who has just turned sixteen, is facing his first choice in life-to sign with Crystal Palace, who cultivated himself, to become the official youth team of this club What about one member? Still signed with Nottingham Forest, which was halfway through, to join the European championship team.

In Glasgow, Scotland, the 16-year-old John Fleck (John_Fleck) of the Rangers came to the home of a man who claimed to be a Nottingham Forest scout. He brought the main member of the Scottish Under-16s national team. A contract from Nottingham Forest.

In Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, the father of the Blue Cross midfielder Galván_Martín, who was only fifteen years old, received a call from the United Kingdom in which he claimed to be a scout from Nottingham Forest. His son is very interested.

In Porto Alegre, a port city in southern Brazil, the famous Gremio Club received a fax from Nottingham, England, hoping to talk to them about the Gremio youth team who is under 16 years old The future of Gérson Vieira (Gérson_Vieira).

The same fax was also placed on the desk of the manager of the Colocolo Club in Santiago, Chile, except that the player name on it was changed to Nicolás Milan (Nicolás_Millán), Colocolo U16 No. 10.

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And more young people like this all over the world.

How many of these people will eventually become Fabregas, George Wood, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka?

Dunn didn't know that even if these young people now have the talents no matter how proud they are, the road to becoming a superstar is still a long way for them. It is not just that talent and strength will be successful, and sometimes it takes some luck. But what needs more is their hard work from now to the superstar.

This is why Dunn wants to cast a net all over the world. He cannot guarantee that every person described as "the second Maradona", "the second Zidane", "the second Ronaldinho", "the second Ronaldo" in the scout report... Children can really get what they want. The search scope is large and the number is large. Even if the final elimination rate is high, one or two can be guaranteed to stand out.

Arsenal Wenger’s wise eyes are not news in international football for a long time, but he can’t guarantee that all players in Arsenal’s youth academy will become world-renowned superstars. You must know that there are definitely not many young people who have become talented in the end compared with the young people who were abandoned by Wenger in the middle...

Dunn once thought that if he traveled a few years earlier, he would use his information advantage, which he had been leading for so many years, to treat Messi, who was still in Argentina without money to treat dwarfism, and injured his spine in Brazil because of diving. Kaka, who gave up football, and Wayne Rooney, who was still in the Everton club, and Cristiano Ronaldo, Cesc Fabregas, Jack Wilshere, Carlos Bella, Boyan Korzic... and other magical geniuses and prodigies all in one fell swoop.

That's almost what most FMER dream of. Watching the stars who will be the best in the future will concentrate on their own hands and play for him. Perhaps it is something that makes people think about it.

But this is just thinking about it.

In fact, the situation is not bad now, because there are more possibilities in the future. A future that he is gradually unfamiliar with will give birth to geniuses he has never heard of? Just like treasure hunting, know where the treasure is, and then dig it out; and don't know where the treasure is, search the entire world and finally reach a treasure.

Dunn thinks that as far as he is concerned, the latter has a greater sense of accomplishment.

George Wood was the first gem he dug out without knowing it. The first time and the Nth time have completely different meanings, so George Wood does not intend to let go.

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These corner-cutting actions will not have results so quickly, in addition to waiting for further feedback, the team's other work will continue as usual.

The youth team's central defender Aaron Mitchell, who is more than two meters tall, has been loaned to the British championship team West Bromwich Albion. The 18-year-old right-back Gavin Kavanagh (Gavin_Kavanagh) was loaned to the Wolves, also in the English Championship team. Another 18-year-old midfielder Lewis McGugan (Lewis_McGugan) was loaned to Stoke City. Mark_Byrne went to Watford.

The most promising talents in the youth team of Nottingham Forest are basically rented out. As for what they can learn from those teams, it is their own business. Dunn didn't look at the process, he only looked at the results, and stayed when he was successful, but not sold.

These young people who left Vilford also knew it well. From now on, they are no longer rookies waiting for opportunities in the youth team, they are birds who need to fly out to make opportunities by themselves. What the future holds is under their legs. As for how many people will be able to return here and stay in the end, that... is still mystery.

The league is still going on.

The Forest team, which lost the FA Cup, seemed to be caught in doom. They first faced Derby County on the away scene and had the advantage of the whole game, pressing the opponent's goal and bombing, but in the end they could only accept the result of shaking hands with the opponent 2:2. Facing a weak team Derby County did not score three points, which made Dunn very annoyed. What made him even more annoyed was the performance of the opponent's home fans after the game.

Due to the historical grievances between the Nottingham Forest and Derbyshire teams, seeing that Nottingham Forest, which won the European Champions Cup, was finally tied by the newly promoted Derbyshire, Derbyshire fans seemed as happy as the holidays. As a result, Dun En's black face became a sharp contrast.

Originally before this game, the Forest team achieved seven consecutive victories and reached 50 points, surpassing Arsenal with 49 points and Manchester United with 48 points in one fell swoop, returning to the top of the league.

But this tie was immediately lowered by Manchester United, who won the ball, with a goal difference advantage-51 points with the same score, but Manchester United first.

In the next round, the Forest team lost to Everton at home. Manchester United and Arsenal were left behind by a double win and returned to the third position in the league.

The team's state is a bit ups and downs, Dunn discovered the problem-the rotation system.

The rotation system is of course to allow the team to have plenty of physical fitness when fighting on multiple lines, and at the same time to ensure that most players can play and maintain their state. But if the rotation is too frequent, the players of the team will be a little confused-the lineup played well in the previous game, but the head coach will change another lineup, or even tactics, in the next game. Is it possible to ensure the continuity and stability of the overall state of the team?

After Christmas, the team’s schedule is actually not intensive. Anyway, the FA Cup was eliminated early, and the Champions League knockout stage has not yet begun. Only the league. In the case of one game a week, the rotation system is really not needed.

So after losing the game with Everton, Dunn temporarily gave up the rotation system, at least gave up that kind of large-scale rotation...

Things got better soon. In the last game in January, Nottingham Forest defeated Middlesbrough 2-0.

During this period, good news continued to come in the plan to invest in the future.

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John Bostock accepted the contract of the Forest team and chose to go to Nottingham Forest where he could give a better contract after he turned sixteen. Of course, the recent series of honors the Forest team has won is also the reason for his determination.

Although Galvin Martin is in Mexico's famous strong team Blue Cross, Nottingham Forest and the top level of European football are obviously more attractive. He promised to join Nottingham Forest. But there are some problems in the middle: Mexico stipulates that players under the age of 18 will not play abroad. Martin is now fifteen years old, and he will have to wait at least three years for him to reach eighteen. Will Nottingham Forest wait? Dunn nodded and waited.

The Forest team and the Blue Cross reached an agreement. Martin’s permanent ownership belonged to Nottingham Forest, but he played for the Blue Cross until he reached the age of eighteen. He trained at the Blue Cross and played for the Blue Cross. Not only was the salary paid by the Forest team, Every year the forest team also pays another sum of money to the Blue Cross as a "training fee."

Chile did not have such a rule, so Nottingham Forest spent £500,000 to bring Niklas Milan to the United Kingdom, first put him in the Nottingham Forest U16 youth team, and then observe in detail.

A big net was thrown out, and in the end only these three people were signed, but Dunn was very satisfied. Youth team building and the discovery and acquisition of young talents are normal and require long-term perseverance, so the results of three at a time are already very good. Rome was not built in a day, and a youth academy well-known in Europe and even the world cannot be built in a day.

Nicklas Milan and John Bostock came to Nottingham Forest, Dunn went to pick him up, met with him, and introduced himself. Then he was handed over to the youth training supervisor, but everyone knew that he would pay close attention to the performance of these newly joined young people.

There is no other way. For many years to come, as long as the forest team’s new stadium has not been completed, Dunn may have to tighten his belt to live... and search for young talents who have not yet become famous from all over the world. It is more cost-effective to train yourself than to directly spend a lot of money to buy a famous star. (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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