Godfather Of Champions

According to Tony Dunn’s habit of doing things, before making up his mind on a matter, he must determine his future.

The matter of whether to sell Zikic has really bothered him for two days. The reason for wanting to keep him is just as he thought when he talked with Alan before, and the reason for selling him is from the next At the beginning of the season, the forward of the Forest team may not need so many people... If you can sell a player and make some transfer funds for the team, it is not impossible.

Dunn is not stubborn on this matter.

Actually starting from the second half of the season, the Forest team will use more new tactics and new formations in order to break through. Dunn has been leading the team for so many years, this is the first time that this almost subversive change has been made. After all, the previous Forest team always gave an impression-defend and then counterattack. No matter how they change, they can't get out of this circle.

New formations and new tactics will be more proactive. Dunn no longer insists on his own 442, but instead fights 451. A more strict division is 4231, the Christmas tree formation.

As a result, the demand for forwards is greatly reduced. Only one forward is played in each game. If too many people are allowed to sit on the bench, the rotation cannot be arranged, and some people will definitely feel uncomfortable-why he can be rotated. , I can only continue to do the bench?

There are such considerations for selling Zikic.

But Zikic is gone. After all, the team lacks a center. In some special moments, a center like Zikic can play a role that several other forwards do not have. Dunn didn't want to lose a very useful card in vain.

Ibisevic is a shooter, but he is not a center in a pure sense, let alone a standing center.

Van Nistelrooy will retire after the end of this season. Eastwood’s knee after three major operations is always like a landmine. I don’t know when he will be stepped on. Ibisevic is the only striker with no hidden dangers. Up. In the new tactics, Abang Raho will become a more comprehensive player, he can be a forward, but Dunn intends to let him play offensive right midfielder, because his speed advantage plays a greater role in the wing.

Milan, on loan, can also play forwards and offensive full-backs, and there is no need to worry about the chance to play.

If you sell Zikic again, where can you find a suitable substitute?

In Dun En's mind, the standard for this substitute is to have a certain strength, but it is not too strong, because too strong will definitely require the main position, and this requirement is definitely not met here. If Eastwood is healthy, not injured or ill, then he and Ibisevic will be the team's main forwards and will rotate.

In this way, the role of the newly added forward is not so great. If possible, Dunn is unwilling to spend money on a third forward...too waste.

After thinking about this for two days, Dunn thought of someone.

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"Are you free, now." During the training interval, Dunn held Chris Lak and Tang.

"Isn't it training?" Chris Lak wondered.

"Let the coaches take it first. I want you to accompany me to the reserve training ground."

"Why do you suddenly want to go to the reserve team?" Tang asked.

"I suddenly thought of someone, I almost forgot about him..." Dunn scratched his head and said a little embarrassingly.

He did forget that person...

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"You really forgot him." Standing on the side of Vilford's training court, Tang glanced at Tang En.

The reserve team does not belong to the youth team, so they train in South Villeford just like the first team. The two places are not far apart, and it will not take long to arrive.

The reserve team is playing a seven-on-seven match on the training ground in front of them. There is one person in the yellow team who is very eye-catching because he is currently the highest on the field.

Don and Dunn, as well as the person Chris Lak came to see, was him-Aaron Mitchell. Two and a half years ago, Dunn went to the reserve team to inspect Shaheen's recovery, but he did not expect that the protagonist of that day would become another person.

At that time, Mitchell's performance in the central defender was lackluster. If he continues to play like this, the best chance is to spend his time in the second league. Anyway, with his level, he can never get a foothold in the Premier League. Not to mention playing in the Nottingham Forest first team.

After watching his training and game, Dunn called him and suggested that he change to center from now on. Although they are all mid-range players, their position has moved from the back to the front, which is a tremendous change.

Mitchell's change of position was just out of Dunn's professional habits. After half a year, he was defeated by a heart attack, and for another half a year he was busy fighting the heart attack, completely forgetting about Mitchel. Later in the process of rebuilding the team, because the Forest team was not short of people on the front line, he never remembered the poor man who was left in the youth team after he changed his position...

It wasn't until Zikic's possible transfer and departure was put on the agenda that he remembered this young man who felt a bit similar to Zikic.

Now Aaron Mitchell is twenty years old. He has played in the reserve team for two years, but he has not yet got the chance to enter the first team.

Although playing in the reserve team can be said to be a way to enter the first team, it does not mean that playing here will definitely make it into the first team. Many players play in the reserve team most of the time, and they can only be transferred to the first team occasionally to meet their urgent needs. This part of the players is lucky, more players remain unknown in the reserve team, maybe go to the lower league to look for opportunities, or just decline. If a player has always played in the reserve team after graduating from the youth team, it means at least that he has no outstanding talents and talents. The future of such a player is bleak.

From this point of view, Aaron Mitchell's talent is obviously not outstanding.

Mitchell is on the court as a center, and his header is still outstanding, of course thanks to his frightening height. Dunn always felt that the current Mitchell was taller than the one he had seen before, so he pointed to Mitchell and turned his face to the reserve coach Colin Cladwood next to him: "He How tall is it now?"

"Two meters and two," Cladwood replied.

Dunn blew his whistle: "As high as Zikic."

"But he is thinner than Zikic," said Tang next to him.

Indeed, the degree of thinness of the 2.02 meters Mitchell is clear at a glance. He is a bit like Pete Crouch who once played for the Forest team.

"How about the physical resistance?" Dunn asked.

"Very average," Cladwood replied.

This answer made Dunn frown. The center he needs must have a strong body and be able to compete with the tall and strong defenders in the penalty zone, so as not to easily lose position and the ball.

Of course Cladwood knew what Dunn was worried about, so he laughed and continued: "But Tony, he is not the same as the traditional center..."

"Huh? Why is it different?"

"Have you ever seen a center who is more than two meters tall and can ride a bicycle under his feet?"

Dunn and the two assistant coaches around him looked at Cladwood in surprise.

"His technique is very good." Cladwood laughed, "and it's average, there is no obvious shortcomings technically. He can pass the ball to create opportunities for his teammates, and he can also pull to the wing to pass. If you bring it, judging from his height, it’s not bad. Maybe it’s because he also knows the reason why his physical resistance is not strong, so he works very hard in technical training, so...this is what you see now child."

While they were talking, Mitchell got the ball. He stopped the ball while running with the heel of his outside foot. While stopping the football, he also completed a sudden stop and turn around...

"Wow--" Chris Lak couldn't help but exclaimed.

After stopping the ball on the wing while passing the opponent's defender, Mitchell made a pass from the spot, but unfortunately the teammate who responded to Mitchell did not expect Mitchell to pass so decisively.

A few people stopped talking and began to observe every performance of Mitchell on the court.

Perhaps because of having been a central defender, Mitchell still retains the habit of going up to **** the ball when the opponent player takes the ball, unlike those pure offensive players who walk in the front court and watch the opponent take the football from him. Bring it around. This helped Mitchell get a lot of opportunities to counterattack in the frontcourt.

Because of his height of two meters and two meters, he takes the ball with a very large pace, so he feels that the speed is not slow, and he does not give people a clunky feeling like Zikic. Coupled with his excellent foot skills, watching him play will always give people an illusion-is this really a big man over two meters tall?

He is also not the kind of center forward who likes to stand in front of the goal and wait for his teammates to pass the ball. He prefers to pull out, retreat in response, and over-connect the offense.

His header is indeed a very sharp weapon. As long as the football reaches his volley, it will not escape in all likelihood. With his astonishing height coupled with his inferior bounce, coupled with the level of header competition and awareness that he has developed when he hits a central defender, he can be called an air dominance in front of goal.

It's a pity that compared to his excellent header, his shot is a bit poor...

Dunn watched his game for fifteen minutes and made a rough calculation. The success rate of header contention is as high as 80%, but five shots under the foot, only one shot within the range of the goal frame-also because Taizheng was directly won by the goalkeeper.

"Uh...his shooting technique is improving slowly..." At this point, Cladwood was also a little embarrassed.

In the reserve team, when the tactic for Mitchell was to attack, he withdrew to receive the pass from the midfield, and then used his own skills to dribble the ball and then divide the side to the teammates who have already been inserted, and continue by himself Big step into the restricted area. After the teammates got rid of the side defense, they started to pass, and then Mitchell, who was already in place, competed for the header. At this time, he had two options: A, he had a header and scored; B, ferryed to other teammates, for They create opportunities for shooting.

Very simple tactics, Mitchell did quite well. He is really impeccable on the header.

It's a pity that the body is really too thin, and there is almost no head-on ability. This is also an important reason why he didn't play well as a central defender...

He was not recommended by the coaches for promotion to the first team, and this reason is also essential.

The Premier League is the most confrontational league in the world, and the “reasonable collision” in the Premier League may be a malicious foul when placed in other leagues. The physically weak forward lost a lot when he started competing with others. With the exception of Wenger's anomalies, few coaches would like a forward who seems to fall when the wind blows.

But Dunn doesn't care so much. He sees hope from Mitchell, a completely different center, he may bring something different to the Forest team's offense.

"Call him to report on the first team tomorrow." Dunn snapped his fingers, "I want to register him for the next Champions League qualification."

The meaning of this sentence is that Zikic can leave without worry...

For Dunn’s decision, neither of the two assistant coaches made any sense. They also saw the shining things on Mitchell. The shortcomings were made up for through training and high-level games.

After explaining these things, Dunn left with the two assistant coaches, and they had to return to the training ground of the first team. They couldn't delay too much time here.

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Aaron Mitchell heard about his transfer to the first team from reserve coach Colin Cladwood only after training. After a short daze, it was joy. Since changing to play forward, he has also thought about his future in the Forest. He feels that since the boss wants to change to the forward himself, then maybe he needs a forward.

But then when he saw the forest team's huge and bloated forward lineup, he felt a little desperate. He considers himself not a talented player, the only thing he is proud of is his height and header.

He keeps practicing his skills, hoping to make himself have some characteristics that stand out from other such big players.

After Colin Cladwood decided to let him practice how to be a forward, he also noticed Mitchell's efforts and characteristics in this regard, so he recommended Mitchell an example to learn from.

This role model is not Zikic in the Forest, nor is it Van Nistelrooy. It was Ibrahimovic who was far away at Inter Milan, Italy.

In addition to training, he will study the characteristics and style of the Swedish high center forward, try to imitate and learn, hoping that he can also become a forward with a height of more than 1.9 meters but excellent skills at his feet.

Now this is the opportunity!

The next day, he went straight to the training ground of the first team and saw star teammates who were rarely seen on the sidelines, which made him a little excited. And those teammates also looked curiously at the silly Mitchell standing on the sidelines.

Mitchell is not a quasi-star player like Mok. Although he is on the reserve team, his name has spread throughout the club. Before he came here, he remained unknown. Although everyone is in the same club, it is normal to be unfamiliar with each other.

When the players of the first team warmed up together, Aaron Mitchell was still standing outside, a little at a loss.

At this time his savior came.

Tony Dunn and the two assistant coaches walked like a training ground. At a glance, he saw Mitchell floating outside the crowd and waved to him: "Boy, come here!"

"This is your new teammate." After pulling Mitchell, Dunn introduced to the other players. "Aaron Mitchell, a striker, used to be a central defender."

Hearing his peculiar change in position, the players exclaimed.

After a brief introduction, Dunn asked the players to warm up, but he left Mitchell alone.

"I have to explain some things to you clearly in advance to avoid trouble in the future." Dunn said to Mitchell, who stood in front of him respectfully. "First of all, you can be transferred to the first team to prove your ability, so there is no doubt. Your own strength is not enough; secondly, you should not think about what main position you can get in the first team, starting opportunities... Now I will not promise you these. If you want to have all of this, you can only use your own training Attitude and state to fight for. You have to know that now you can only rank last among all the forwards in the first team."

Mitchell kept nodding.

"You'd better welcome the days of the first team with a learning attitude. I think that will help you."

When he said this, Dunn's face wearing sunglasses was always stern. He doesn't mind being strict with these young people, because he knows how cruel professional football is, and it is best to have no illusions and be down-to-earth. In the growth of these young people, he is willing to be the number one villain in their hearts.

Seeing that Mitchell had a good attitude and accepting humbly made Dunn very satisfied. He ended his preaching and began to assign specific training tasks: "Starting today to strengthen your shooting training and strength training. The coaching staff will develop a special training plan for you and practice according to it. I heard that you are in the reserve team. When Coach Cladwood asked you to study Ibrahimovic?"

Mitchell nodded: "Yes, boss. I hope to be a forward like him."

"Make no mistake, kid. Ibrahimovic is not weak, and his shooting ability is ten light years better than you."

Mitchell's expression was sad when he said this, although Dunn was telling the truth, but the truth is not very pleasant...

Dunn remembered that although Mitchell was twenty years old, he was still a young player after all. Sometimes encouragement is needed.

So he grinned: "But don't worry. At least you are better than Ibrahimovic—your header." He pointed to Mitchell's head. "Ibrahimović, who can header, is much better than Ibrahimović himself!" , Support the author, support genuine reading!)

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