Chapter 23 A bigger stage

A fierce derby just ended, and the head coach's constraints on the players were not as strict as before. Everyone needs to relax, whether it is the player or the coach. So Chen Jian was able to sit in front of Tang En in neat clothes, enjoy the midnight snack with him, and experience Spain's colorful nightlife.

"Do I congratulate you on the draw of the powerful Barcelona, ​​or do I regret that you did not win the game in the end?" Tang En said to Chen Jian with a smile.

"Repent." Chen Jian replied.

Looking at the person with a lot of gray hair in front of him, Chen Jian couldn't help but feel a sigh of time.

When he first met him, he was full of energy and was in high spirits. He was not tired at all. Now, he looked at him vaguely like an old man.

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

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

"I didn't expect that I would be able to be today after leaving Nottingham Forest."

Both of them lamented the impermanence of the world.

Today, Chen Jian is not only the core of Espanyol, but also the main player of the Chinese national team. That's why Tang En looked for him because there is no problem with applying for a labor certificate. As for the national team ranking... The English Football Association has cancelled that thing.

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

The person who was the least optimistic in the draft was instead put on the national team's robe and fought for the country. Those who performed better than him now don't know what work they were doing.

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

Tang En smiled. To be honest. He asked Chen Jian loudly whether he would give up everything he had before and came to Nottingham to start from scratch, but he did not really think Chen Jian's future would be so beautiful. Chen Jian's current achievements have exceeded his original expectations, and he felt very relieved. At least he has changed a person's destiny and changed in a good direction...

"The mountains do not turn around, and we got together again after a circle. The Chinese people pay attention to fate. Chen Jian, you are destined to be together with Nottingham Forest."

Xia Yang listened to the conversation between the two people. She rolled her eyes in her heart. What fate? I don’t know whether Ajian’s choice this time is bad or good. He was able to perform so well in Espanyol because Espanyol’s head coach Manzanok had a Chinese player as the core. Can you Nottingham Forest do this? Your core is George Wood, whose technical characteristics and styles are similar to Ajian! Chen Jian went there and was just a supporting role and a foil. Can his performance be as good as Espanyol? The reputation he had finally accumulated, don’t lose all of it at Nottingham Forest, I’ll thank God for Yalong…

After the agent Mr. Xia was so distracted, the two of them had already talked about the matter after going to the Forest Team.

"I watched this derby. You are the core of Espanyol. I'll show you up here first. You definitely can't be the core of it in Nottingham Forest. Because there is George Wood..." Don spread his hands.

Chen Jian did not show the attitude of "as long as I am allowed to 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 personally, so he must not have asked me to be a substitute, right?"

After more than three seasons in the La Liga, Chen Jian has matured a lot. It also makes him more confident.

Tang En looked at the Chinese player in front of him and felt a kind of love from the bottom of his heart. Although some Spanish media would call Chen Jian the "George Wood, the smaller one", in Tang En's opinion, this person may be more like a "wise general". In terms of clever mind and excellent consciousness, he may be better than George. After all, how many people have George helped him teach him along the way? If it weren't for himself, without Don, without the help of Albertini and others, George would be a lump of wood, while Chen Jian basically made it by himself alone.

"It's too luxurious to let you be a substitute, ha!" Tang En smiled happily. "In my plan, you will partner with Wood. You two 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 is no longer the child who will be excited just to play.

He accidentally played the game of guessing the head coach's intentions again. But this time he couldn't figure out how to cooperate with George Wood, who has similar styles to his.

So he raised his head and looked at Tang En.

"You two have good long passes, but you are stronger than Wood in short passes, and Wood's long shot level is higher than you." Tang En did not tell the table, but only pointed out the difference between the two. "It's too difficult for the opponent to stare at you both at the same time."

Chen Jiandi already had a vague picture in his mind, which was like he and Wood fighting side by side. He knew that at this time, he began to get a little excited - he only wanted to become a professional player. The goal was George Wood. When the youth team kept using Wood's training table to hone himself, No. 13 of Nottingham Forest also became his idol. Now, he finally has the possibility of fighting side by side with his idol!

That is an incredibly wonderful future!

Meeting Chen Jiandi mainly means promising him in person to his position in the team - definitely not a substitute, and at present, he will be the main force. Spanish people are good at nightlife. Chen Jian has been accustomed to it after staying here for more than three years. However, Tang En, who is fifty-year-old, is not a Spaniard, and has only been in Spain for four days. He is not used to it. The Barcelona City Derby, as the highlight of this round of league, is naturally arranged at the last time. It is almost twelve o'clock after the game is over, and now it is almost 1:00 a.m. Tang En can't stand it anymore, and he has also said something when he meets him. What's the need to stay? Anyway, there will be opportunities to get in touch forever.

Tang En and Chen Jian said goodbye. Before leaving, Tang En reminded Xia Yang to step up the imposition of the Espanyol Club. Chen Jian also agreed to show up with the club, expressing his idea of ​​going to Nottingham Forest.

The next morning, Don Eun returned to England by plane and ended his trip to Spain.

Not long after, news came from Barcelona that local media reported that many clubs had fallen in love with 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, anyway, free professionals will do it.

David Chris Lack has joined the team's coaching staff in advance, serving as an assistant coach, and carrying out preliminary work. He is responsible for summarizing the team's situation and submitting it to Donn, and then analyzing and making decisions.

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

During the two weeks when he was away, Nottingham Forest won and lost. The results barely remained at 16th place.

This starting point is really low. Nottingham Forest has been their lowest ranking since returning to the English Premier League. No wonder a group of people outside are not optimistic about the Forests' prospects this season, thinking that if they are not careful, they will not be surprised even if they are relegated in the end.

In addition, in the report Chris Lack pointed out that the combat effectiveness of the Forest team is worrying today. The shortcomings such as the fluctuation of people's hearts and the insufficient thickness of the bench make Tang En deeply feel the pressure on his shoulders.

This comeback is not an easy vacation trip…

Before this, there is another thing that Tang En needs to go to. And once he becomes the head coach of the Forest team, it may be inconvenient...

Winter is already in the end of November, and the weather in Nottingham is the same as in the whole of Britain. It has more cloudy days, more rainy days, less blue skies and less sunshine.

But today is a rare good weather. After four consecutive days of rain, the sky above Nottingham finally cleared. Every morning, people can see the golden sun rising from the eastern horizon, sprinkling the bright sunshine on the sky and the earth. The rain from last night was still hanging on the leaves, shining under the sunshine. From a distance, the forest seemed to be hung with strings of golden beads.

Surrounded by such woods is the training ground of the Nordsshire Club, which is half smaller than Wilford in Nottingham Forest, and the training facilities are a bit outdated. As the oldest modern professional football club in the world, there is a sense of history from the inside out. To put it bluntly, it is the smell of decay. To put it bluntly, it is the glory brought by history.

Although the training facilities are outdated, the players who are active in this outdated training ground are very young. They cannot see the pressure and burden brought to them by long history on their faces.

It was just a warm-up exercise, and everyone was very serious. A man in his thirties, wearing a training shirt with a hooded hat, like an assistant coach, running in front with a whistle in his mouth. The man had a black hair, east-facing hole, and surrounded some fans just outside the wall of Piao Astronomy, but the number was not large and there were not many media outlets, two were from the local media in Nottingham, and one from the port city of Portsmouth - the opponent of Nordsshire's next round of the Championship.

On this cold morning, the whistle in the training ground was particularly clear and distant, and even some birds in the forest flew away. The birds were flying in the distance, accompanied by the birds, which was the water vapor began to evaporate under the sunlight, spreading, almost wrapping the entire training ground into it.

Tang En, who wrapped himself in a thick coat, took a deep breath. The air in the forest was much better than the city center.

Another thing that he could not do after coaching the Forest Team is to come here to meet Tang. Although his relationship with Tang Zhijian can have many opportunities to contact in private. But once he becomes the head coach of the Forest Team, he will inevitably become the target of the paparazzi's close attention. He doesn't want the news of his meeting with Tang to make a mess. This is a secret.

Seeing Tang leading the team to warm up in the circle, Tang En smiled.  It was completely different from his own style. Tang did a good job here.   Although he didn't know much about Nords County, just looking at those players.                                                                                               �

However... it is difficult for such a team to go further. A small team like Nordsshire, which lacks financial support, has already surprised many people, and it has basically ended here. If you want to go to the Premier League, it is absolutely impossible to do without strong financial support. Even if they are lucky enough to advance to the Premier League. With the huge pound advantage of their opponents, they can only quickly return to the English Championship.

In 2004, Nords County was on the verge of bankruptcy. At that time, Nords County fans donated spontaneously in the hope of saving their beloved team. But in the end, the savior was the irrelevant team - Chelsea. It was because Nords County won Chelsea in the FA Cup that it received a large amount of ticket revenue. At that time, the Chelsea club agreed to give all the ticket revenue from Stamford Bridge to the Nords County Club for them to overcome the difficulties - the share of the TV broadcast fee and ticket revenue saved the team and avoided the fate of the world's oldest modern professional football club.

This can be seen from this incident. The TV broadcast fee and ticket revenue of a game are not worth mentioning in the eyes of Premier League teams. But it can save Nords' life, which shows how pitiful the team's budget is...

Tang's success in recent years is inseparable from his insistence on youth team building since he took office. If the youth training camp did not provide him with enough excellent players, just relying on the pitiful budget of Nordsshire every season, buying people in the transfer market alone would probably not be enough to make up for the eleven starting players.

Although he has a good youth training camp, he also faces the same troubles as many head coaches of small clubs - he cannot keep young players with very prominent advantages and pursue a higher stage. If a club like Nordsshire wants to survive, selling young players who are still promising, it becomes the only way. Tang is just a head coach. He has no way to interfere in the team's business strategy, and he has no position to interfere - the team cannot survive anymore, so what should we do with 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 alone. While there are still people to ask, buy some good prices. At worst, we can promote the first team from the youth training camp to exercise...

This cycle.

Done shook his head, this is the sadness of the small club. Isn’t that the Forest team he took over before? Michael Dawson, Andy Reed, and Jenas were all resold when the Forest team was in financial difficulties. But Nottingham Forest has a strong foundation and his ancestors have been rich, so it is not too difficult to rise again.

Nots County is in a difficult situation, poor and careless.

Done watched all the training sessions of the Nordsshire team in the morning on the training ground. Then he met Tang at noon.

On the phone last night, Tang En told Tang that he was coming to find him today, so Tang was not surprised at all when he saw Tang En appear in front of him.

"You definitely didn't come to treat me to dinner, are you, Tony?" said Tang to Don, who sat opposite him, in a Chinese restaurant.

"Of course. And this Chinese restaurant is too unauthentic." Tang En commented on the main store of the most famous Chinese restaurant in Nottingham without anyone else, regardless of a Chinese waiter standing next to him. The man knew at a glance that the Chinese student who came to work at the construction site stared at the old man wearing sunglasses with his eyes.

After the waiter left, Tang Cai laughed: "You are so worth it for the other person to say this restaurant."

Tang En shrugged and did not continue the topic. “I’m here to ask you a question. Tang.” He leaned forward and lowered his voice so that the other party could hear it.
Chapter completed!