Chapter 48 Investing in the Future (Part 1)

The next afternoon, Donn and Chris Lack met the short fat man and his son Gareth Bale in the Forest youth training camp.

"I'm really worried that you won't come." Tang En was very happy to see the father and son.

"Why won't we come? Of course we will come. I'm very confident in my son's ability. He is a genius!" The short fat man shouted and shook hands with Donn and Chris Lak.

"Yes. But we have to do a little test.

"Chris Lack is doing business. Before seeing the father and son, Tang En told him about this. He was worried that it would be another mana bull that Tang En picked up from the street on a whim who could not play football.

The father seemed a little unhappy with Chris Lack's cold attitude: "What? Do you look down on my son's ability?"

Tang En hurriedly came out and mixed up, "Coach Chris Lak is serious and responsible. Your son can only train under him to make you feel more at ease. Okay, OK, let's go..."

The test content is very ordinary. You can complete some technical movements according to the coach's requirements, and then receive a simple experience. If everything is qualified, you can sign the contract on the spot.

The test lasted for half an hour, and Don Eun tried to make no expression on his face, or keep a faint smile... To be honest, he was a little disappointed when he saw Bell's performance, and Chris Lack didn't say anything. Maybe he didn't have much hope at all.

This is completely different from the Bellco that Don En remembers.

Unlike ordinary FM players, although he did learn about this Welsh kid from the game, in order to gain a more intuitive influence, he once searched for videos about this kid playing football on famous foreign video websites. What impressed Tang En the most was Bell's accurate left-footed free kick.

The angle is tricky, the strength is heavy, the speed is fast. The distance is long, these are the characteristics of Bell's free kick. His first goal in the Southampton and Wales national teams was a direct free kick.

During the test, Don En specifically asked Bell to shoot a free kick. His reaction was a little confused at the time, and he was completely eager to try without showing his unique skills.

Tang En was a little surprised to see this, and the subsequent test performance made Tang En puzzled - why did the left-back who was skilled in his memory seem to have never played a free kick before...

If this kid had no good left foot skills, Tang En might have thought he had found the wrong person. Having said that, to find two people with the same name, surname, the same city, the same year, the same month and the same day... the difficulty is really not very great.

Fifteen minutes later, the physical examination report was also delivered to Don En. Holding the report and previous test report, Don En asked the Bells and his son to wait outside for a while, and then walked into the office with Chris Lack and team doctor Flemish.

The door was closed, and the three of them gathered together to discuss the results.

Chris Lack asked Donn: "Tony, what do you think?"

Tang En shook his head: "I want to hear your opinions first."

"I think I can sign, but I have no idea whether I can become an excellent player." Chris Lack expressed his inner concerns.

"This child has an average ability in all aspects and his physical fitness is not too bad, and he barely meets the players' requirements."

Fleman nodded beside him, agreeing with Chris Lack. “Not good or bad.”

"So that's it. The decision is with me..." Tang En walked to the door and observed the situation outside through the faint crack of the door.

Gareth Bell, it's true that person, looks, age, hometown, and foot use... But why is the situation so different? Is it because of my own arrival?

The world really rippled, pushing the things he was familiar with a little from where they were originally located?

The short and fat man seemed to be comforting Bell, who was not very emotional. The child was sensitive. Maybe he already knew that he had performed poorly in this test. But his carefree father was patting the child on the ground and encouraging him.

Tang En couldn't hear what he said, but he could imagine what it was - "My son must be a genius! Believe in your dad! When did Dad deceive you?"

Another father and son...

Looking at them, somehow, Tang En thought of another father and son. Michael should have started a new life with his wife in the United States. Maybe he will never have the chance to meet again...

Donn turned around and said to Chris Lack and Flemish: "Sign him, I believe we won't disappoint."

Chris Lack nodded: "Okay, I'll get the apprenticeship contract."

Tang En pushed open the door and the three of them walked out of the office.

The short and fat man looked up at Tang En: "What are you muttering inside? Do you still need to hold a roundtable meeting to sign my son? I'll tell you, my son is a genius! If you don't want him, you will regret it sooner or later!"

That's right, Fatty. Southampton will regret it in a few years... If they still remember that their youth team once had such a number.

"Mr. Bell, before that. I want to tell you and your son a story. Are you interested in listening?"

The father and son looked at Tang En in confusion. They didn't know why Tang En did this. Is it the same sentence? Why tell a story? Is it a pleasurable?

Dad shook his head and disagreed, but the son nodded.

"Ah! I'll listen to you, son." The fat man immediately changed his mind.

Tang En smiled at the interesting father and son. The short and fat man glared at him: "What are you laughing at? What are you talking about?"

"Well, that's it... Shaun`wright-phillips, have you heard of this name?"

Both nodded, and Bale's father added: "The little dwarf of Manchester City."

"That's right. He works well in Manchester City. But do you know that he is actually a place to train us in the Forest team?"

Bells and sons shook their heads.

“Although his family is in London, he travels to Nottingham every week for training.

But Paul Hart, the youth director of the Forest Team at that time, told him one day that considering that he came here from home to train too far, it was not good for his growth, so he hoped that he would change to another club... Do you know what this sentence means?"

Bell's father nodded: "Simply put, that little dwarf was driven away."

"Yes, Coach Hart thought Sean Wright Phillips was in poor health and could not adapt to professional football at all, so he found such an excuse to drive him away.

Unexpectedly, the kid went to Manchester, which is farther from London than Nottingham. So far, he has played for Manchester City for one and a half seasons in the Premier League, one season in the League One, and eighty-five games.

Hart once told me..." In fact, Don Eun didn't know if Hart had said to himself before, but this did not prevent him from making it up in the story.

"Even if he brings out a star like Jenas and lets Sean Wright Phillips go, it is still his biggest regret. I have said so much, but I actually want to tell you... Coach Hart's mistake will not be done again on me, Donne.

”

He glanced at Walker who had already returned with the contract, so he reached out to pat Gareth Bell on the shoulder: "Do it well here, boy. You will succeed."

Bell nodded vigorously. Even if he didn't say much to a normal person, he might have finished speaking with the father who always likes to chatter.

After signing the contract at Don't En's office, Don't reach out and shook Bell. "Very good, you're my part now, say goodbye to your dad.

"Then he waved to Bell's father, and said in a suffocation: "Goodbye, Daddy! I won't miss you!"

Everyone in the room laughed, and Bell, who had been tense because of his nervousness, finally smiled.

Tang En took out his cell phone and took out his cell phone to take a picture of this moment. Then, before everyone could figure it out, he handed the cell phone to Bell and let him see his smile on it. "What do you think?"

Bell didn't say anything, his father came over and curled his lips: "It's so blurry, shaking."

"But you can tell he is laughing, right?" Donn took a sip of water. Chris Lak and Flemman suddenly realized, yes, they had never seen the child laugh since they met the father and son today.

"Garreth, do you want to hear some advice from me?"

Bell nodded.

"First of all, I hope you will change to the left-back from today. As for the reasons, I will explain in detail to you in the future." After the test, Don En discovered that Gareth Bale was not playing the left-back, but the left-back.

But in Don En's eyes, letting this kid play the left front guard is equivalent to wasting half of the left corridor. He hopes to train Bale to become a Robert Carlos-like figure in Real Madrid - at his peak, the entire left side of the court was his.

Bell hesitated for a moment, but nodded and accepted.

"Secondly, I hope you try to practice free kicks, and I think you have talent in this regard."

Chris Lack looked at Tang En who said this. He was right next to him when the kid was doing a free kick test, but he didn't see what talent he had at all. He didn't understand why Tang En was always obsessed with letting Bale play a free kick.

Bell also agreed.

"Finally." Tang En pulled the corners of his mouth with both hands, forming an arc that rose at both ends, "I hope you are like this, laughing, and confident."

As for this, Bell did not agree immediately. He looked down at his toes and whispered: "They laughed at me as if I looked like a monkey..."
Chapter completed!