Chapter 224: The Man Keane (Class)

Tang En could only vent his disappointment to Tang when he returned home. Anyway, Tang did this for his audience. He listened to Tang En complaining while eating.

"...Damn the Celtics! Damn it! If it weren't for them, Roy; Keane is mine now! We will have a player in the midfield who scares all opponents, the strongman, the commander! He can help me win all the championships, and he can play high-level football for another three years, instead of running to the cold Glasgow for retirement now! And that's not a good place for retirement, it's much worse than Qatar..." Finally, Don muttered.

After dinner, Tang packed up the plates and looked at Tang En, who was still a little excited: "In that case, the media will say that Nottingham Forest is a new nursing home."

"I don't care what the media said." Tang En took a hard bite of the beef.

"And we have Wood in the midfield."

"You said George? He is still young and he still has a lot to learn. Roy; Keane is a good teacher, but the time is too short, and I don't know what he learned or nothing."

"If you don't know, you will know it during the game."

Don sighed: "Don, I had a good plan - Albertini taught George how to be a qualified midfielder and professional player, and now it seems that the results are good. George is much better than when he just entered the first team.

Then Keane, well, the two of them have similar tempers and personalities. I want George to be such a player and have the ability to dominate a team. Why did Manchester United succeed? Because they have Roy; Keane.

I think you know this more clearly than me."

Don nodded. In the 1997-98 season, Wenger's Arsenal became the double champion.

That season, Roy; Keane only played nine games for Manchester United due to a knee injury. After the season, Ferguson admitted that he had lost Keane and Manchester United was unable to compete with Arsenal.

Roy; Keane's role and status in Manchester United is no longer as simple as a captain. To a large extent, he represents the spirit of Manchester United and is the pillar of Manchester United.

Others can hardly associate the name "Roy; Keane" with other teams, and when they mention Keane.

I will think of Manchester United. When it comes to Manchester United captain, it is definitely not Beckham or Gary; Neville, but only Roy; Keane.

He is even considered by many Manchester United fans to be the greatest and most successful captain in Manchester United's history, and his status has surpassed the "King" Cantona and a group of legendary captains in history.

There is a word in the football world that vividly illustrates this kind of person - flag.

Paul; Maldini is the flag of AC Milan, Raul; Gonzalez is the flag of Real Madrid, Del; Piero is the flag of Juventus.

Oliver; Kahn is the flag of Bayern Munich... and Roy; Keane is the flag of Manchester United.

Done hopes that one day, George; Wood can also become the flag of Nottingham Forest, so he hopes that Keane can give Wood more help and teaching on the Forest team, so that he can become a flag closer and have fewer detours.

But now...

"My plan is ruined..." Tang En leaned on the back of the chair and spread his hands.

"I remember you told me that football cannot be planned."

"ah……"

No matter how unwilling Tang En was to let Keen go, there was no way to change now. The only thing worthy of gratitude was that through this incident, he and Keen, who had no friendship, became friends.

Perhaps this will be a good thing in the future. After all, as an "outsider", it is always much better to have one more friend in the football world than to have one more enemy.

During the next day of training, Roy; Keen appeared on time on the other half of the court. Don Ever said hello to him and would continue to lead the team training.

Everyone has become accustomed to this scene and will never be able to keep staring at others on the first day.

But now I'm afraid they don't know that this is Keane's last time appeared in Wilford's training field.

After returning home yesterday, Donn followed major media and found no news about Keane's transfer to the Celtics.

Keane could not lie to him, so there is only one possibility: the news has not been made public yet, he Tony; Don is perhaps the first to know about it except for both parties.

From this point of view, Keane really regarded Don Eun as a friend.

Because the whole team will be on the roster tomorrow and will be preparing for a game against Aston Villa, we will only conduct half a day of training today. After the training, George; Wood arranged for himself to practice as usual.

The coaching staff and the players of the team knew that this had become Wood's habit. Half-day training may be too easy for him. As long as he only trained for half a day, he would practice for 40 minutes for himself after training.

But when the players on the training ground returned to the locker room one after another, and then left the training base after showering and changing clothes in the locker room. In addition to George; Wood, there were also Roy; Keane.

This is the first time he has practiced himself more than ten days.

Wood is practicing his passes, while Keane is practicing shooting.

Twenty-five minutes later, Keane left the training ground first, returned to the locker room with sweat all over, dragged his clothes to the next room to take a shower. Instead of standing under the nozzle, he lay in the pool to take a bath.

Fifteen minutes later, Keane heard a sound of door opening from the locker room. He raised his wrist and looked at his watch. It was exactly forty minutes before the end of the training, not more than a minute, not more than a minute.

This kid...

After hearing the sound of undressing, George; Wood walked into the foggy bathroom naked, turned on the faucet. He reached out to test the water temperature, then placed his whole body under the spray head, and let the hot water pour from head to toe.

Just as he closed his eyes and enjoyed the moment of relaxation after he was closed, a voice made him tighten his body like a conditioned reflex.

"Hey, boy."

It's Roy; Keane's voice.

"What are you nervous?"

Wood relaxed and continued to stand under the spray head, doing nothing, allowing the splash to dip down from the beginning.

"You won't know who I am. We have also exchanged jerseys."

"…Kean, Roy; Kean." Wood finally spoke.

Keane grinned and laughed twice: "It seems you haven't forgotten me yet. Do you still remember what I said to you when we exchanged jerseys? 'We will fight often, don't let me down, boy.

’What a pity, there will be no more fights... I will go to Glasgow tomorrow. Do you know where it is? The capital of Scotland, I will go there to sign a contract with a team.

At that time, I didn't expect to leave Manchester United early one day..." Keane changed his seat in the pool, rested his head beside the pool. He put his arms around the shore, looked up at the ceiling.

"Although I won't fight often, I will continue to follow you. Want to know why I follow you so much, boy?"

Wood moved for a while and turned to look at the figure in the pool: "Yes."

"Because you are a little similar to me in my youth. Well, just some... your talent is far worse than mine.

Hello, I heard that Real Madrid was very interested in you some time ago, why did you refuse in the end? That is a club in many places than Nottingham Forest.

When your current team is still fighting for the Champions League qualification, they are only considering failure if they don’t win the championship.

If you go there, you will soon become a star who is being watched by the whole world. Countless halos, glory, and money will take the initiative to come to you. Why don’t you go?"

"I don't want to go."

"Hey, are those glory and money not attractive to you at all? Why did I transfer from Forest to Manchester United, why did I have to be stubborn when renewing the contract with Nottingham Forest, have to add the condition of 'If Forest is relegated, I can leave the team'? Because I know Nottingham Forest is just a small team.

She can't keep me, I have higher goals and greater ideals, I want to win a lot of things... Hey, have you ever thought about these? What exactly are you playing football for, boy?"

What exactly do you play football? In just half a month, two people have asked George this question; Wood. The previous person is his head coach Tony; Tangen.

In the past, Wood wanted to play football because professional players were paid high. He could support himself and his mother and treat his mother. Later, the Forest Club paid to help them move out of the slums and perform surgery on his mother.

His goal of playing football has been achieved, so why is he doing it?

After thinking for a long time, Wood lowered his head and said, "I don't know..."

Keane did not mean to make things difficult for Wood on this issue, but changed the topic: "By the way, I heard that you are the second captain of the team now. How does it feel to wear the captain's armband?"

“It’s very… very complicated.”

"Have you ever been proud of this?" Keane asked.

Wood nodded.

“And then I felt stressed and worried too?”

Wood continued to nod.

Then Keane smiled and said, "That's right. I thought you were a monster with a stone heart. Boy, what do you think the captain does?"

Wood recalled the words that Donn and Albertini said to him before: "Help teammates solve the trouble and lead the team to victory..."

"Not?"

"It's gone."

"It's not that simple, boy. When I was playing football at Nottingham Forest, I met a very, very good captain, and I still want to thank him until now. Stuart; Pierce, have you heard of this name?"

Wood nodded, he still knew the best captain of the Forest.

"He opened my eyes to this young boy, he let me know what a professional player is, what a good professional player is, and... he let me know what a captain is.

So later when I wore Manchester United captain's armband at the age of 26, I seemed at ease."

"Let me tell you... Captain, first of all, it's a man. Do you know what a man is, boy?"
Chapter completed!