Chapter 53: Football must be grabbed from the doll

Nottingham Forest defeated the Boca Youth Team 4:3 in the Club World Cup held in Japan and won the Club World Cup. It became the no.1 of the World Club this year.

I apologize to you again and sincerely thank you for reminding me.

When the schedule is dense, you will feel that time passes quickly. It is like once a person becomes busy, he will forget the passage of time.

Before we knew it, in the constant battles, time had passed the end of the year and the beginning of the year. The memorial calendar of the Nottingham Forest Club in Tang En's home was also changed from 2007 to 2008.

The league and the FA Cup are coming one after another. Thanks to the reasonable arrangement of training plans, the Forest team's physical fitness has not been problematic during this period and its condition is still stable.

From the league game on December 1st to January 3rd, Nottingham Forest won seven consecutive victories. Their league rankings also changed from third to first. The brilliant six-game winning streak in December made Donne the Premier League of the month and Nottingham Forest won the team of the month, but the best player of the month was defeated by Manchester United, and Cristiano Ronaldo was elected.

The year-end drama - the selection results of the world and Europe - have also come out.

2007 is not the year of the World Championship. Although there are the Asian Cup and the Copa America, these two events are not a great event for the European-centered world football.

As an important reference for these awards, the performance of the European Champions League teams and players is the most important.

As the European champion, Nottingham Forest is favored.

Nottingham Forest won the world's best club land honor this year. Frank Ribery, the core player of the team, was selected as the winner of the "European Golden Globe" by the French "League". Although Kaka's performance is also excellent, AC Milan was able to reach the final. It was almost Kaka's credit for himself. But Kaka lost in the collective honor.

Frank Ribery also won the "World Football Best Player" award selected by the British "World Football Magazine".

In the selection of "Mr. World Football" held by FIFA, the competition is very fierce.

Because the selection mechanism is different from the more professional European Golden Ball Awards, the best FIFA is voted by the head coaches of teams under FIFA. It is not that the head coach of a country is the most professional candidate. Think about China? Therefore, many head coaches do not actually look at the performance of the person in the past year, but only vote for their most familiar names.

Kaka has taken advantage of this. His reputation worldwide is higher than Ribery, and Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi are also higher than him.

Kaka's performance in the Champions League and the league is obvious to all. With him AC Milan and without him AC Milan are simply two different teams.

Cristiano Ronaldo also helped Manchester United win the Premier League championship trophy that he lost for two years last season. At the same time, in the second half of the new season, he is in better shape and is currently the top scorer in the Premier League.

Messi is thanks to Barcelona's background in a wealthy family and his identity as "Maradona's successor". In fact, in terms of achievements, he is not as good as the above three people this year.

The final result was that Kaka narrowly overwhelmed Frank Ribery. He was elected as the World Footballer, Ribery ranked second and won the Silver Ball Award, while Ronaldo of Portugal won the Bronze Ball Award.

For Frank Ribery, even such results are enough for him to be happy for a long time. A few years ago, when he looked at the sea from the dock and didn’t know where he was in the future, he didn’t dare to think about the scenery today. But now, following Donne and Nottingham Forest, this kind of thing that can only qualify in his dream has become a reality. He has become one of the hottest young people in the world football world. He is the European footballer, and he is the undeserved new core of the French national team. His career has reached its peak.

George Wood was included in the 20-man shortlist. However, he did not receive any honors, which was related to his being a full-time defensive player. In today's football world, defense is not pleasing. As a defensive player, it basically means missing out on all major individual awards. Cannavaro's world footballer is not so much a personal praise for him, but rather a reward for the entire Italian defense line, and as the captain of Italy, he is just this outstanding collective representative.

Only the Footballer is the most important drama. After this award ceremony, there are some messy small awards - perhaps others disagree with this view. But in Don En's eyes, there are some irrelevant awards. Even if he was named the World's Best Coach of the Year because he led Nottingham Forest to win the European Champions League and was named the World's Best Coach of the Year, he was not so ecstatic.

He took it for granted. He couldn't think of anyone other than himself who was qualified to stand on stage to accept the award. The second reason was that he was still speaking up for Ribery. He didn't hate Kaka's winning the award, but he felt that Ribery was more qualified to win the gold medal than Kaka this time.

So his speech on stage to receive the award seemed a bit arrogant and resentful.

He said: "I am very happy to win this award. This shows that the path I chose is the right one: victory, continuous victory; championship, continuous championship. As long as the team can win more championships, personal honor is not a suspense at all... but there will be some surprises... In short, thank you FIFA for giving me this award. Thank you!"

Nottingham Forest's offensive core Ribery failed to complete the Grand Slam, and took all the European Golden Ball Awards, the best player in the world and the World Football World Football Master, which is the only flaw. In addition, the Forest team's perfection this year is so perfect that people can't find any fault.

A year full of honor has passed, and a new year with endless challenges has arrived. All glory will pass soon, and these things cannot help the Forests get any benefits in the new year.

In the first round of the New Year's League, the Forest team won. They increased their winning streak to seven games.

In the FA Cup, Don still sent the second team to play and met Roy Keane's Sunderland.

Due to the different situations of the two teams and their attention to this game is different, Don En clearly wants to train. Keane hopes to ask the team for the current dilemma through a breakthrough in the FA Cup - the twenty-one round has passed, and his Sunderland has only 17 points, ranking third from the bottom of the league, and is in the relegation zone.

Relegation is important. But Keane hopes to use a victory to inspire the team's morale. Even if it's just a FA Cup, as long as he wins the strong Nottingham Forest, he will have a way to lead the team out of the predicament again.

Of course, Don Eun would not let the water off just because his opponent was Roy Keane. Although all the second-tier players were sent to the court, in Keane's eyes, these second-tier players were even more terrifying. For the main players of Nottingham Forest, the FA Cup cannot arouse their fighting spirit, but it is indeed a great opportunity for second-tier players to show themselves in front of Don Eun. No one wants only one chance, and no one wants the team to lose because of their performance. Therefore, this game is very dangerous for Sunderland. Keane can rely on it to send the strongest lineup and fight the opponent to the death at home.

He won.

After ninety minutes of very, very fierce battle, Sunderland narrowly defeated Nottingham Forest 3:2. Successfully advanced to the next round of the FA Cup.

And lost the last chance to train young people. Donne, who was long after returning to Nottingham from Sunderland, began to seriously consider taking some promising players who are destined to have no chance to play now.

Adriano Mok of the youth team has been loaned to Sunderland at the beginning of this season. Now he is a regular first-team player in Sunderland. Although he cannot guarantee to play as the main player, he is not a marginal figure who sits on the bench. In this FA Cup match against Forests, he started and played the whole game. The performance is pretty good. Done is always paying attention to Mok's performance in the game, a little bit unique... But for young people, they still have time to correct these bad habits. Think about Cristiano Ronaldo who just arrived at Manchester United. Look at him now, he doesn't look like a person.

He wanted to loan some of the youth team, even the English Championship team. He felt that for those people, they just participated in training at the Wilford training base and played the Youth FA Cup, there was no improvement. If they wanted to go to the next level, they had to go out to play games and play real games.

This matter will be done when you return to Nottingham. In addition, the winter transfer window is open. Are there any players in Nottingham Forest who need to buy or sell now?

At present, Nottingham Forest rotation system is relatively mature. There are people with good strength in every position, Ribery returns to the team after recovering from injury. Pepe's injury is also thinking about a better direction... He thought about it and it seems that there is no player who is particularly urgent to introduce.

So he decided to focus on the types of players who are still young and can buy them and rent them out to train.

There are many restrictions on this type of player, so it is not very easy to find. First of all, they must be young enough and have time to wait for opportunities; secondly, they must have enough talent to make Tang En move. It is not worth spending a few years to cultivate and wait for land; again, they must have no reputation and will not be too ambitious. Tang En doesn't want to be a big lander when they come; finally, it's better if it can be cheap. The new stadium of the Forest team has broken ground and started construction, and the club's book can be used for working land is pitifully low. Tang En can't do anything like that if it bids tens of millions of euros for a young genius.

After being screened by these conditions, most of the young geniuses who are already well-known to the world will be dismissed. For example, Dos Santos and Boyan produced by Barcelona's La Macia training camp; for example, Carlos Bella who was loaned to Arsenal and Willshere, who was recently famous in the Arsenal youth team; for example, Benzema and Nasri, the currently popular young French genius, Rossi of the Italian national youth team; for example, Pato, who has been snatched by AC Milan... etc., these people cannot be snatched by Don En. He doesn't have the financial resources, so people may not come.

He doesn't need to worry too much about finding a job with excellent geniuses. Nottingham Forest can already afford scouts all over the world. In addition, they have a cooperative place. This company also uses many amateur and professional scouts. In addition to making FM, they also made another version of the player database for the Forest team in accordance with the original agreement. It is slightly different from the more game-oriented FM database. The numbers in this database are more rigorous and more valuable for reference.

As the winter transfer period begins, Don En needs to speed up these tasks.

When Donn told his scouting team that he needed a list of potential players around the world, between the ages of fourteen and sixteen, two days later, a sorted report appeared on his desk.

He did not study the report during training time. Instead, he took it back to read it with Tang.

Don En first focused on the search for the UK. On the one hand, he got the moon first, and on the other hand, he could also weaken his opponents. Next, it was the EU region, America, Africa, and finally Asia.

After reading all the report with Tang, it was already midnight. Although they were so tired that they were dizzy, they finally determined some candidates. The names of these people were circled with red pencils. The next day, they will hand them over to the head coach of the youth team. Then, after confirmation, the Forest Club will apply for purchases to the club where these players are, or directly find the other party to sign a contract. Let them become a member of the Forest Team - there is no need to observe anything. Some of the people here are those who have been observing the scout system of the Forest Team for a long time.

Two days later, the Forest team's acquisition of foreign places was launched around the world. Among these names, how many people will eventually come to Piaotianwen as Tang En wished. Before they can catch it, no one knows how the harvest will be.

In London, England, John Bostock, a Crystal Palace genius who just turned 16, is facing his first choice in his life - whether to sign with Crystal Palace to become an official member of the club's youth team? Or sign with Nottingham Forest, which has emerged halfway and join the European champion team.

In Glasgow, Scotland, a man who claimed to be a Nottingham Forest scout came to his home in Glasgow, Scotland's 16-year-old Rovers, who brought a contract from Nottingham Forest to the main member of the Scotland Under 16 national team.

In Mexico City, the Blue Cross midfielder Galvan Martín (Galván_martín) was only fifteen years old. The father of the Blue Cross received a call from the UK. The other party claimed to be a scout from Nottingham Forest and was very interested in his son.

In the port city of Port Alegre in southern Brazil, the famous Gremio Club received a fax from Nottingham, England, hoping to talk to them seriously about the future of Gremio's central defender Gérson Vieira in the Gremio youth team.

The same fax is also placed on the desk of the manager of the Kolokoro Club in Santiago, Chile, but the name of the player on it is changed to Nicolás Milan (nicolás_millán), No. 10 of Kolokoro u16.

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And more of these young people around the world.

How many of these people will eventually become Fabregas, George Wood, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Kaka now?

Tang En didn't know. Even if these young people have the most proud talents now, the road to becoming a superstar is still long for them. They don't necessarily succeed with just talent and strength. Sometimes it takes some luck, but more of the effort they put in the journey from now to superstars.

This is why Donn had to cast a net all over the world. He could not guarantee that every child who was described as "second Maradona", "second Zidane", "second Ronaldinho", "second Ronaldo"... in the scout report can really get what he wants. The search range is large and the number is large. Even if the final elimination rate is high, one or two can be guaranteed to stand out.

Arsenal Wenger has long been no news in international football, but he cannot guarantee that all players in Arsenal's youth training camp will become world-renowned superstars. You should know that there are definitely not many young people who finally succeed and those who were abandoned by Wenger in the middle...

Don Eun once thought about if he had traveled through time a few years earlier. Will he use his information advantage to lead so many years to defeat Messi, who is still in Argentina, who has no money to treat dwarfism, Kaka, who has almost given up football due to diving in Brazil, Wayne Rooney, who has only revealed his sharp corners in Everton, and Cristia Piao Astronomy.

That was something that almost most fmers dreamed of. Watching the stars who dominated the world in the future are concentrated under their own hands and serving him. Maybe it was something that was exciting to think about.

But this is just thinking about it.

In fact, this is also good now, because there are more possibilities in the future. A future that he is gradually unfamiliar with. Will those geniuses he has never heard of? Just like hunting treasures, know where the treasure is, and then dig it out; and not knowing where the treasure is, searching the whole world and finally reach a treasure.

Tang En believes that as far as he is concerned, the latter has a greater sense of accomplishment.

George Wood was the first treasure he dug out without knowing it. The first and nth time meant completely differently, so George Wood didn't plan to let go.

These poaching actions will not have results so quickly. In addition to waiting for further feedback, the team's other work must be carried out as usual.

The youth team's central defender Aaron Mitcher was loaned to the Championship team West Bromwich. Eighteen-year-old right-back Gavin_kavanagh was loaned to the Wolves. Also in the Championship team. Another 18-year-old midfielder Lewis McGugan was loaned to Stoke City. Mark Barney went to Watford.

The most promising people in the youth team of Nottingham Forest have basically been rented out. As for what they can learn from those teams, they are their own affairs. Tang En doesn't look at the process, he only looks at the results, and stays after becoming successful. He doesn't look at the talent and sells it.

These young people who left Wilford also knew very well. From now on, they are no longer rookies waiting for opportunities in the youth team, they are birds that need to fly out to make opportunities by themselves. What will happen in the future is all under their legs. As for how many people can return here in the end, and stay, that... is still fascinated.

The league continues.

The Forest team, who lost the FA Cup, seemed to be entangled by bad luck. They first faced Derby County away, and had the advantage in the whole game, bombarding the opponent's goal, but in the end they could only accept the result of shaking hands with the opponent 2:2. The weak team Derby County did not score three points, which made Tang En very angry. What made him even more annoyed was the performance of the opponent's home fans after the game.

Due to the historical grudge between Nottingham Forest and Derby County, seeing Nottingham Forest, which won the European Champions League championship, was finally tied by the newly promoted Derby County fans, Derby County fans seemed to be as happy as the festival. So, in contrast to this, it is naturally Don't have a black face.

Before this game, Forests won seven consecutive victories and scored 50 points, surpassing Arsenal with 49 points and Manchester United with 48 points and returning to the top of the league.

However, this draw was immediately won by Manchester United and was under the advantage of goal difference - they scored 51 points in the same period, but Manchester United ranked first.

In the next round, Forests lost to Everton at home again. They were left behind by Manchester United and Arsenal, who both won the game. They returned to the third place in the league.

The team's condition is a bit ups and downs. Tang En discovered the problem - the rotation system.

The rotation system is certainly to allow the team to have sufficient physical fitness when fighting on multiple lines, and at the same time, it can ensure that most players have games to play. Keep in shape. However, if the rotation is too frequent, the team's players will be at a loss - this lineup was played very well in the last game, but the head coach changed to another lineup, or even tactics in the next game. How can we ensure the sustainability and stability of the team's overall state?

After Christmas, the team's schedule is actually not intensive. Anyway, the FA Cup was eliminated early, the Champions League knockout stage has not started yet, there is only the league, and there is no rotation system in the case of one game a week.

So after losing the game with Everton, Donn temporarily gave up the rotation system, at least giving up the large rotation...

Things quickly got better, Nottingham Forest beat Middlesbrough 2-0 away in the last game in January.

During this period, good news continues to come in the future plans for investing in.

John Bostock accepted the Forests' contract and chose Nottingham Forest, which can give better treatment after he is over 16 years old. Of course, the series of honors that the Forests have recently won are also the reason why he made up his mind.

Although Galwan Martin is in the famous Mexican strong team Blue Cross, Nottingham Forest and Europe's top football level are obviously more attractive. He promised to join Nottingham Forest. However, there is some trouble in the middle: Mexico stipulates that players under the age of 18 are not allowed to play abroad. Martin is only fifteen years old now, and when he is at least eighteen, he will have to wait at least three years. Is Nottingham Forest willing to wait? Don nodded and waited.

The Forest and Blue Cross reached an agreement that Martin's permanent ownership belongs to Nottingham Forest, but before he turned 18, he played for Blue Cross, training for Blue Cross, and playing for Blue Cross, not only was the Forest paid, but the Forest also had to pay another sum of money to Blue Cross every year as a "training fee".

Chile did not have such regulations, so Piao Tianwen, and the only three people signed in the end, but Tang En was very satisfied. The construction of youth teams and the discovery and purchase of young geniuses are the norm, and they require long-term persistence, so the three at a time are already very good. Rome was not built in one day, and a youth training camp that is well-known in Europe and even the world cannot rise up in one day.

Nicklas Milan and John Bostock came to Nottingham Forest, and Don went to pick him up, met him, and introduced himself. Then he handed him over to the youth training supervisor, but everyone knew that he would pay close attention to the performance of these newly joined young people.

This is also impossible - in the next few years, as long as the Forest's new stadium has not been completed, Tang En may have to tighten his belt and live... and searching for young geniuses from all over the world who have not yet become famous for their own training is much more cost-effective than directly spending a lot of money to buy famous stars.
Chapter completed!