Chapter 16 Welcome to Amsterdam

Tang En's work went very smoothly with the cooperation of the coaching staff and Tang. Several new players were selected by Tang En and persuaded them to join, so he had his own plans and arrangements for these people in his heart.

It was like a puzzle, all the parts were placed, and there were only a few vacant pieces. Now he put the missing patterns on the seats, and a complete picture appeared in front of everyone.

Those new players have long known the head coach whom they are about to work with for four years. If they are familiar with each other, things will be easier.

The coaching staff's job is to build new tactics for the team and train the team to adapt to them.

The addition of Van der Fate and Van Nystruey provides new changes to the Forest’s tactics.

In the past, Nottingham Forest mainly used rapid counterattacks in sports wars, but the arrival of these two Dutch players can strengthen the Forest's always short-term positional combat capabilities.

Van Nistroy is a center forward who meets Donne's requirements. Not only does he have excellent scoring skills, he is also good at running, can hold the ball and pass the ball to his teammates, but he can also use his own running to pull out the opponent's defense line and create offensive opportunities for those who are inserted behind him. His sense of responsibility even makes him willing to retreat to defense - this is what Donne likes most. This professional player puts the interests of the team above his personal interests.

Van der Fate has a lot of freedom in the midfield and frontcourt. Done is right. In most cases, he doesn't need to consider defense at all. It feels particularly obvious when he and his new teammate George Wood are in the midfield.

Wood's fierce tackle and excellent physical fitness can completely replace all the heavy responsibility of midfield defense, so that Van der Fate can attack unscrupulously in the midfield and frontcourt.

Having just joined the team, in order to integrate into this new group more quickly, Van der Fate is more responsible for the midfield organizer in training and warm-up matches, and Don is very happy to see that he can take the initiative to do such things.

The team does need a organizer closer to the opponent's goal, Arteta is still a central advanceer after all, not a midfielder.

Wood's mission remains unchanged. No matter who he partnered with, his first job will always be to protect his partner and ensure that they have no worries.

Of course, Albertini asked Wood to participate more actively in the offense in both training and games, and could not just be a bystander, and just cut the football off in the backcourt and pass it to his teammates in front of him and ignore it. Even if there is no ball.

He also wants to run up to pick him up.

Albertini asked Wood to learn his midfield partner at any time, and they are the closest "teachers". Wood has partnered with different types of midfielders, Albertini, Arteta... Now it's Van der Fate's turn.

Albertini hopes that Wood can learn useful things from these teammates of different styles. He has no doubt about Wood's learning ability at all, otherwise he would not have made such great progress.

As for Petrov, his position was fixed on the left side, and his speed and impact were very suitable for the Premier League. Don has always felt that neither in the Bundesliga nor La Liga. He has fully demonstrated the true strength of this Bulgarian attack on the wing.

The Premier League is a fast-paced league. The offense is fast, the defense is fast, and the defense is fast. No matter what "fast" is the first factor. Petrov also feels that this is exactly what he likes.

It turns out that Frank Ribery is the only one who struggles to support him on the left, and God blesses the past two seasons.

He has no injuries or ups and downs, but Don't dare to guarantee the future. After Petrov came, he greatly reduced the pressure on Ribery, and at the same time made the Forest's left side even more terrifying.

After adding positional warfare experts like Van Nistrue and Van der Fate, the biggest feature of the Forest team - the speed has not been weakened, but has been enhanced. I believe that this is not good news for the head coaches of the Premier League teams.

Perhaps some people will be worried that after Anelka is refrigerated, the Forest team will lose the speed of counterattack, but Tang En had a long plan.

Without Anelka, although the speed of the forward line has dropped across the board, Nottingham Forest's counterattack was known for its speed before Anelka. The forward is not the arrow of counterattack, and the real counterattack weapon is two wings.

So whether there is Anelka or not has no effect on the team's counterattack speed.

Nottingham Forest's wing players are all of the types with outstanding personal abilities, fast speed, good at breaking through, and can also score goals by themselves. Except for Ashley Yang, who has some "accomplicated assists", everyone can be the "arrow character" in the counterattack.

Therefore, in daily training, Tang En paid great attention to letting the wingers practice shooting and keep shooting. He kept the shooting feeling. When they needed to score in the game, they would not disappoint the team and fans.

Nottingham Forest played two warm-up matches when training in China. The opponents were both Championship teams, and the Forest team won and tied in two games. As always, Tang En did not pay attention to the results of this warm-up match, what he cared about was the process.

The teams made large substitutions in the first and second half of these two warm-up matches, so the results of the game have no reference value at all.

In the first warm-up match, Tang En focused on the inspection after a holiday, the players' physical fitness and condition recovered, and the results were mixed.

Some people are in a stable and outstanding state as always, such as George Wood, and others are much worse, such as Ashley Young. The result of this game was a draw, and the team tied 2:2 with the Wolves.

After another week of running-in in the second game, the players found their state again, and the cooperation between the new players and the team gradually took shape.

This time, Forest won away and returned to the Championship, Sunderland, 3:1. Donne was very happy to see Van Nistruy scored the goal in the game.

As the core of the team's local organization, Van der Fate needs to work with the whole team, so his performance in these two warm-up matches is average.

Petrov demonstrated a great adaptability. Just as Don En thinks, his style and Premier League style are perfectly matched. Only here can he perform well.

Even Ribery has to be at a disadvantage when he breaks through the wing because he is different from Ribery. Ribery has better dribbling skills and speed is just one way.

Petrov relies on speed, so fast that people can't even defend themselves. Although it is the easiest to advance unreasonably, it is the most effective for dealing with the full-backs in the Premier League.

In the Bundesliga, the media have commented on Petrov this way - "For the defenders, keeping a half-position distance from Martin Petrov means they have been passed."

It vividly illustrates the characteristics of this Bulgarian - fast speed.

Don En didn't ask Petrov to learn anything about shaking left and right with others, Marseille swing, and oxtail... These skills, he asked Petrov very simply: take the ball and go down to the bottom, and there is a blockage in front? Rely on speed to rush!

Time flies. As the days of the Amsterdam Invitational are getting closer, the team is preparing to set off for the training ground in the small town of Warrendan, in northeastern Netherlands.

Anelka's transfer prospects are unknown. His two brothers are working hard to help him find a club that meets his requirements, but the situation is not simple.

There are many teams who want Anelka, but either Anelka himself looks down on it, such as Bolton and others... or those clubs cannot afford 25 million pounds.

I can afford the 25 million club, but I don’t mean to pay so much money for a quirky striker.

In this way, Anelka was hung in the air. He could not get up or down.

His two agents and brothers once thought that Don't have a pound threshold of 25 million pounds to scare people, and convinced some teams to spend 15 million to buy Anelka from the Forests, but Don't directly refused without saying a word.

Later, his two brothers began to let Anelka use late or early withdrawal to negatively confront each other during training, and promoted the conflict between the two through the media. What was the result? Tang En ignored these small moves at all.

If you are late, you will be late. If you want to leave early, you will be late. I will deduct this fine from your salary. The media is not afraid of the media. He has already had a trick to deal with the media, and he is eager for the media to continue speculating, the bigger the speculation, the better.

In that way, more teams will come to ask for the price. Maybe there will be suckers who can afford to pay... He even really wants to encourage Anelkadi's two agent brothers to continue working hard.

The two former golden partners have now become enemies that are strangers.

This makes people feel a little sad, but Tang En is the one who is the one who is the only boss here.

Now Anelka wants to openly challenge Don En's authority. With Don En's personality, he will not give in. It is not unexpected that the two of them will meet like this...

Even if there is a conflict, Tang En firmly believes that as long as a person has a little value to use, he must make full use of it. So on the list of going to the Netherlands, the media saw the name of Nicholas Anelka.

After a month of trouble, Anelka seemed to know that he had hit a solid piece of the board this time. The club has always had a firm supportive attitude towards Don En from top to small. It was too difficult to make the world happen by himself.

If the head coach doesn't let himself go, then he can't go.

Now Anelka is no longer the young and frivolous Anelka in Real Madrid, he knows how to restrain himself.

Tang En did not exclude him from the roster. In his opinion, he was giving him a step forward. The smartest way to do it was to take this opportunity to ease the tension with the head coach.

Tony Tangen is now in a prosperous position. The chances of winning against him are too small.

The Amsterdam Invitational is a traditional pre-season warm-up match for European teams. It is held in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands in early August every year, and Ajax convenes three teams from all over the world to participate.

Of course. Although this competition is a warm-up match, not all cats and dogs can participate.

Ajax will inevitably invite teams with strong team strength and certain influence in the world football world, such as Manchester United, Arsenal, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Barcelona, ​​etc., with big teams having records of being invited.

From another perspective, being invited to participate in the Amsterdam Invitational Earth Team is itself a recognition of strength and status.

At the beginning of this season, Nottingham Forest, the most popular European football team last season, was invited by Ajax, who will compete for the final championship with Portuguese League champion Porto, Italian League champion Inter Milan and host Ajax.

Don En doesn't value the championship trophy. He is interested in the quality of the warm-up match, the champions of two leagues. The runner-up of the two leagues is a Champions League level event.

Moreover, the participating teams will attach great importance to this competition and will not be able to work hard. If you play against such opponents, the team and the players can be fully trained.

"Amsterdam..." Ashley Yang murmured at the city outside the window on the bus. "A paradise..."

Eastwood and Ribery, who were sitting next to him, laughed loudly at the same time.

Hearing laughter, his teammates looked back at the back seats of the carriage, and some people asked curiously: "What's wrong, what's wrong?"

Bentner, who was sitting in the row of seats in front of Ashley Yang, turned around and said to Ashley Yang seriously: "Hey, Yang, I think if you used tremolo in the last sentence just now, the effect would be better."

Then Eastwood stood up, imitated Ashley Young's expression and tone, and combined with rich body movements, and said in a trembling voice: "Amsterdam, heaven..."

The whole car burst into laughter.

Ashley Young was a little annoyed by the laughter. He stood up and explained seriously: "Don't you think so? What a great city!"

Van der Fat, who had been in Amsterdam for more than a decade, asked him with a smile: "Do you mean the section from Amsterdam to the canal area?" This section is the location of the famous Amsterdam red light district.

Familiar with the Netherlands. Dutch people who are familiar with Amsterdam all laughed.

"Ah, it turns out there..."

Yang's sudden realization made everyone laugh even happier.

Such a big noise, the coaching staff sitting in the front row could not have heard it.

Hearing the conversation between these team members, Tang glanced at Tang En. Tang En shrugged at him: "If you don't let them have fun, you can't even let them talk. It's better to have fun than to do it directly..."

Ashley Yang started this matter, and the carriage, which was a bit boring due to the journey, suddenly started a lively discussion. Of course, the topic revolved around the city and the red light district where they were.

As Van der Fate, who had just left this city, became everyone's guide. He pointed to the neighborhood where his car passed by and introduced them. I'm afraid no one in the team is more familiar with Amsterdam than him.

As the car passed by the canal, he pointed to a row of two-story buildings across the river and said, "That's Yang's paradise."

Everyone laughed again.

"But there is nothing to watch during the day, and it will only become lively at night." He explained to everyone in English, which he is not good at, mixed with Dutch. "It is best to go to that kind of place to get together, not alone."

"Do you still have to be in groups for prostitutes?" Weiss Mogan whistled.

Van der Fate smiled: "It will be a little troublesome to go there alone."

Van Nistrui suddenly wanted to make a joke about this national teammate: "Hey, Raphael, you're so familiar with it. Do you go there often?"

"Luther, that place is familiar to every Amsterdam, and I know if I don't go." Van der Fate shrugged.

Seeing that everyone became more and more direct in their discussions, Tang En stood up from his seat.

Seeing the head coach suddenly stand up, the players shut their mouths.

"Yeah, I'm very happy to see you still have so much energy after traveling." He said, "Amsterdam is a good city, paradise..."

A burst of laughter broke out in the car.

Tang En smiled and pointed Ashley Yang: "But I still want to remind you: We are not here for travel, but for training and competition.

So I don't want to see you appear in groups at night in that kind of place - you know which place I'm talking about, right?"

Although Tang En's face was smiling when he spoke, no one dared to take his words as a joke.

The carriage calmed down again, and Tang En sat back to his seat.

The bus turned over a bridge and left the area north to the bustling area at night, leaving Amsterdam, the "European capital" and heading to the small town of Warrendan, where their training camp was located.
Chapter completed!