Chapter 2 Young people in Vilford

Tang hadn't replied to him yet, and Tang En knew that waiting was not a solution. Now the first team coaching team has not finished their vacation, so he can't do anything alone.

He remembered that he hadn't been to the Forest Youth Team for a long time. Although reports about the youth team would be sent to his desk every once in a while, reading the report data and going to the training ground to see the real person in person is not the same concept.

If Allen and Evan’s new stadium plans are implemented, then they really won’t get much transfer amount in the new season. If you want to compete with other strong teams and wealthy people in the transfer market for stars without strong funds, you will feel a little confident. Don’t think of the “Professor” Wenger who tightened his belt to live in order to build the Emirates Stadium. Arsenal can use the players trained by their strong youth training system to supplement the team’s lineup. Why can’t Nottingham Forest? Nottingham Forest’s youth training level can also be counted in the whole of England.

Maybe I can't get the second one, Bale and Wood, but it's always OK to get a few qualified rotation players?

With this idea, Tang En went straight to the youth training base north of Wilford.

Unlike the first team, the youth team has begun to resume training. In addition, the football summer camp for the school is in full swing. Before he could enter, Tang En heard laughter and whistles coming from inside.

He wore sunglasses and hid quietly under the shade of the tree alone, observing quietly. He didn't want to go directly to meet the youth training director Ian Greenwood, so he decided to observe it himself first and have a clear idea in his heart.

There were many people around the five regular stadiums in the youth training base. Most of them were parents of children playing football on the court, and some were scouts from other clubs.

Just as Southampton couldn't stop Donn from poaching Bale, Nottingham Forest couldn't stop scouts from other teams from coming here to poach.

The youth training base is very lively, and you won't see such a scene during the season. Because more children are scattered in training camps in various schools or other places. Those training camps are not big, with only more than fifty children in each training camp, and eight coaches are in charge of them. These training camps are not part of the Forest's youth regular army. Children who are usually interested in football can receive basic training here. Then, at the end of each month, Nottingham Forest will concentrate these children in Wilford for concentrated training and competitions, and select talented children. Sign an apprenticeship contract with them, so that they can officially enter the Forest's door.

It is summer now, and the children from each training camp are led by their respective coaches and return to Wilford to participate in football summer camps. Play games together and test the results of the year's training. If you perform well, you will be attracted by professional scouts, or be promoted to the regular Forest Youth Team, or... being seduced by other teams' scouts.

The youngest of these children is six years old and the oldest is eighteen. They are divided into groups according to age. Although it is very noisy, everything is in order. This is due to the role of Nottingham Forest's decades of operating system.

Once upon a time, Jenas, Michael Dawson and Andy Reed were idols of these children, and now their goal is to lead the team to win the Champions League George Wood and Gareth Bale, as well as Wes Mogan.

Tang En looked over an age group.

No child can make his eyes shine for the time being.

He was a little disappointed, and he didn't know whether it was because Forest's youth training level was really not as good as Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool, and Chelsea, or because he was used to seeing world-class stars and was a little disliked by these children who had not yet developed.

After all, not everyone has the dazzling talents of George Wood and Gareth Bell. They can be easily found in a large group of people.

After walking around, Donn decided to go to Ian Greenwood to see if he has any good recommendations.

Ian Greenwood is leading the U18 team in the forest for daily training, and these people are the closest to professional football. Some of them can be promoted to the Forest team first team if they are lucky. If they are not lucky, they can only go to other places to find another way out, or hang out in the reserve team.

Professional football is not as beautiful as people imagine. They think that there are opportunities everywhere, and they will be big stars when they play just by kicking.

Beyond having an essential talent, it requires even more essential luck to succeed.

George Wood and Gareth Bale are the best products in the Forest youth training system so far. Their success has attracted the attention of those big clubs. This is not the first time George Wood has been linked to transfer rumors. Gareth Bale has also been rumored that the Duoga club wants to get him.

Their success added pressure to Ian Greenwood.

Both of them are all Tony Don't have been trained in the position of youth supervisor. Bell may have some relationship with Greenwood, and George Wood is more dazzling.

With these two people in front, people have high expectations for the Forest Youth Team, and they are looking forward to the youth team blowout. They produce outstanding players in a row. But in fact, this is not easy...

Everyone wants to have "Busbyte children" in their hands. and "Ferguson's Class 92", but there are too many comprehensive factors that require such large-scale geniuses to concentrate on one age group.

Now Greenwood is leading a few good seedlings in the U18. If it were the Forest team four years ago, they would have been directly promoted to the first team and could play as the main team, but now...

To be honest, the training level of the Forest Youth Team is somewhat unable to keep up with the development speed of the Forest First Team. It is not that the youth team has declined, but that the first team has risen too quickly...

Don En asked the club to increase its investment in youth training bases, which was definitely not a temporary matter. He also knew the contradiction. It was impossible to slow down the first team and wait for the youth team to catch up. The only way was to raise the youth team's level to a very high level. Just like Chelsea where Abramovich moved into, he spent money to build the most modern youth training camp, buy the best equipment, and use the high salary to dig out the best youth team coaches. Then he used the money to hire the best youth team football field and use the money to dig out outstanding young geniuses from all over the world. These things were put together to make Chelsea's level of inquiry leaps into the top four, and went along with veteran youth training teams such as Manchester United, Arsenal, and Liverpool.

Ian Greenwood doesn't know that the club is not planning to increase investment in the youth team immediately. If he knows, how would he feel?

A player from afar saw Tony Donn walk into the training ground, and they were very happy to greet the legendary coach who walked out of the youth team.

The sound alarmed Greenwood. He turned his head and saw Donn, throwing the whistle to his assistant, and then walked up quickly.

"Tony, you're a rare guest." He joked.

When Tang En was the director of this training base, he was Tang En's coach. Later, Tang En's assistant coach Chris Lack was promoted to the head of the youth team, and he became Chris Lack's assistant coach. Later, Tang became the director of the land with his outstanding professional knowledge and coaching level, and he became Tang's assistant. Finally, Tang stayed here for only one season and was dropped into the first team by Tang En and became his assistant coach directly. And his wife, who had been married for many years, became a mother-in-law, and Ian Greenwood could finally become the youth training supervisor.

"I'll take a look at your work results." As an old superior, Tang En didn't speak so much politely.

"I thought the first team only bought people from outside." Since it was an old relationship, Greenwood was not so polite when he spoke.

Tang En smiled with a crooked mouth: "How can you do that? You are rich and may not come, but you may not come."

Greenwood looked at Tang En's face and suddenly thought of a possibility. He asked tentatively: "Hey. Tony. You shouldn't have no money, just want to come to me to buy bargains, right?"

"Hey!" Tang En glared at him, "Look at what you said? What is a bargain! They are the hope of our team's future!" Tang En pointed to the young people who were more diligent in training and said righteously. "But... they have indeed been a little tight recently."

Greenwood laughed.

"It's so lively outside, don't you find anything good?" He pointed to the distance. The training of u18 is at the northernmost end of the base and the innermost end, and it is much quieter here than outside.

Tang En shook his head: "There are too many people, I didn't notice it for a while. But aren't your people there too? Didn't they tell anything interesting?"

"It will take a few days to find out."

"Well... OK. Let's just click. Is there anything you can recommend to the first team here?" Tang En asked.

"That's right..." Greenwood glanced at Tang En, and a trace of arc hung on the corner of his mouth, "You have to find it yourself, Tony."

This one comes again!

Paul Hart's traditional mini-game has become a repertoire among the coaches of the Forests.

Donn glared at Greenwood, then stood on the sidelines and observed carefully.

His sight was first attracted by a tall man. It was not how outstanding this tall man kicked. People are always used to looking at those outstanding figures at first, regardless of men or women... For example, this young man, he is too tall. You don’t believe it if you don’t want to see him.

He whistled. He said to Greenwood next to him: "This kid must be six feet three, right?"

Greenwood knew who he was referring to, and shook his head: "No. Six feet and seven inches."

Tang En was startled by this number.

Six feet and three inches are about one meter and ninety-four, and six feet and seven inches are more than two meters.

He looked at the big man again. He was taller than everyone on the field, and it should not be an exaggeration to have two meters.

"How old is he?"

"Seventeen years old."

"Well..." Tang En stopped talking and continued to observe.

The giant is playing as a central defender on the court. He is doing heading practice, and his height allows him to take advantage of the air. Generally speaking, players with such height usually do not bounce very well, because their body structure determines that they do not jump too high. But the person in front of him is very good at bounce.

After finishing the header practice, he followed his teammates to do a back-and-forth run.

The speed is not slow either.

Tang En was a little interested in this air giant who was not slow and jumped well. He asked, "What's his name?"

"Aaron Mitchell. Now he is the core of the team's mainland defense, and his physical fitness is excellent. But the disadvantages are also obvious - the tackle skills are very bad, and the header is not good at his height."

Tang En nodded. “Train for two years, see the results. If you can, rent it out for exercise. His body is his talent and skills… let’s take your time.”

The two of them let go of this big giant and searched for the next target.

The assistant coach of the youth team saw the first team head coach coming, and he knew what Tang En was here to do.

Without asking for youth training director Ian Greenwood, he made his own decision to change the training plan. He asked the players on the court to play in the team.

Since becoming the youth training supervisor, Tang En set a principle for the youth training base of the Forest team, "everything is based on practical competitions." Each team has their characteristics and traditions. Now the tradition of the Forest team is "result first, competition first". So in the youth team, training is also required to those young people according to the competition standards. If a young man is very good at playing the ball in a fancy way and can win a lot of applause, Tang En will also disdain it. Because you will not give you the opportunity to play this on the court in the game. He requires that training must be combined with the ball. Training without the ball is worthless in his opinion, that is, everyone must run with the ball. From the youth team over 17 to the adult team, they adhere to this training principle, mainly with ball, game, and confrontation.

Tang En is very happy with this temporary change. He can understand the comprehensive abilities of these players more intuitively - technology, psychological quality, physical quality, and competitive state. Whether it is strengths or weaknesses, they will be exposed in the competition and have nowhere to escape.

After the game started, a person quickly attracted Tang En's attention. His eyes were always following this person.

At a young age, he was wearing the No. 10 jersey of the Forest Youth Team.

He dribbled the ball on the right side of the court, and no one could stop him. Sometimes he would switch to the middle and shoot long shots. However, obviously he prefers to move on the side because there are too many defensive troops in the middle, which makes it difficult for him to break through, so it is different on the side.

His skills are excellent. He likes extraordinary people and is also fast.

The defensive side often needs to use two to three people to attack him. If it is one-on-one, he will pass it mercilessly.

"Hey, Ade! You're too cunning!" The defender who was defending the No. 10 complained when he was approaching, "Although the first team coach is on the sidelines, you don't have to be so ruthless, right?"

The No. 10 smiled: "James, if you can stop me, can't you leave a deeper impression on the head coach?"

The other party was stunned when he heard this. “You said it well…ah!”

Just as he was stunned, No. 10 crawled past him like a loach. A beautiful man ball was scored!

"You sly liar, Adriano!"

"What's that number 10 called?" Tang En slapped at the No. 10 player on the court.

"Mok, Adriano Mok. He is the best skilled in this team. Although he still looks a little immature now, he has made rapid progress."

Tang En nodded.   This kid is really skilled and courageous. He knows that he is watching from the side, so he acts very active.

However, unfortunately... he is used to the right midfielder. At present, the first team already has Ashley Young and Allen Lennon in this position. When July comes, there will be another Beckham. It is crowded and there may not be a position for this kid in the next few years.

Tang En thought about it and asked again: "Can he play other positions?"

"The midfield is OK, but... he himself prefers to move on the right side, and compared to his right foot technique, his left foot can be described as a terrible sight. He has gone out of the right midfielder and the central forward, and he cannot adapt to other positions."

Tang En shook his head gently.  It really doesn't work. If you train it, sell it. On the one hand, you can earn some money for the club, and on the other hand... it will not delay this kid.

Then Donn watched Greenwood on the sidelines for a long time, and he observed some players. Then he asked Greenwood to ask about the specific situation of those players and then make a judgment.

The final result is... he did not find a player who could be directly dropped into the first team, but he saw some pretty good seedlings in it. If he had good training and some luck, these people would have the ability to become rotation players in the forest's first team in the future. In other mid-range Premier League teams, they might still be the main players.
To be continued...