According to Tony. Don has a habit of doing things, and before he can make up his mind about something, he must determine the way back.

The question of whether to sell or not to sell Kic has indeed been bothering him for two days, and the reason for wanting to keep him is as he thought when he talked to Allen before, and the reason for selling him is that from next season, the Forest team may not need so many people in the front line...... If you can sell a player and make some transfer money for the team, it's not impossible.

Don is not stubborn in this matter.

In fact, from the second half of the season, the Forest team will use more new tactics and new formations in order to break through. Tang En has led the team for so many years, and this is the first time that this kind of almost subversive surname change. After all, the previous Forest team always gave the impression of defending and then counter-attacking. No matter how they change, they can't get out of this circle.

The new formation and new tactics will be more proactive in attacking. Don no longer insisted on his 442, but instead played 451, and the division was 4231 strictly, the Christmas tree formation.

As a result, the demand for strikers is greatly reduced, and there is only one striker per game, and if too many people are put on the cold bench, the rotation cannot be arranged, and some people will inevitably feel unhappy - why can he be rotated on the court, and I can only continue to be on the bench?

If you really want to sell Kic, there is such a consideration.

But Kic is gone, after all, the team lacks a center, and at some special moments, a center like Kic can play a role that several other forwards do not have. Don didn't want to just lose a useful card for nothing.

Ibisevic is a goalscorer, but he is not a center forward in the pure sense of the word, let alone a center forward.

Ruud van Nistelrooy is set to retire at the end of the season, Eastwood has undergone three major surgeries on his knee and is always like a landmine, and he doesn't know when it will be stepped on, and Ibisevic is the only striker who has no hidden dangers. In the new tactics, Abonlaho will be a more well-rounded player who can play as a striker, but Donn intends to play him as an attacking right midfielder as his speed advantage is more useful on the wings.

Milan, who have gone out on loan, can also play in a variety of positions such as strikers and attacking wing-backs, so there is always no need to worry about playing opportunities.

If Kic is sold again, where will he find a suitable replacement?

Donne's standard for this substitute is to have a certain strength, but he doesn't need to be too strong, because too strong strength will definitely require the main position, and this requirement is absolutely not met here in Donn. If Eastwood is healthy and uninjured, then he and Ibisevic will be the team's main strikers, rotating into the pitch.

In this way, the role of the newly added striker is not so great. Donn is reluctant to spend money on a third striker if possible...... What a waste.

After thinking about it like this for two days, Don thought of someone.

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"Are you free, now?" In between trainings, Don pulls Chris Rac and Don.

"Isn't it training?" Chris Rac thought it was strange.

"Let the coaches take it first, I want you to accompany me to the training ground of the reserve team."

"Why do you suddenly want to go to the reserves?" Don asked.

"I suddenly thought of someone, and I almost forgot about him......" Donn scratched his head, a little embarrassed.

He did forget about the man......

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"You really forgot about him." Standing on the edge of Wilford's training ground, Don glanced at Don.

The reserves are not part of the youth team, so they train at South Wilford just like the first team. The two places are not far apart, and it won't take long to get there.

The reserves are playing a seven-on-seven match on the training ground in front of them. There's one guy in the yellow team who is really eye-catching because he's the tallest player on the field right now.

Don and Don, as well as Chris Lack, came to see him - Aaron. Mitchel. Two and a half years ago, Don went to the reserve team to inspect Shahin's recovery, but he didn't expect that the protagonist of that day would become a different person.

Mitchel's performance at centre-back was lackluster, and if he continued to play like this, the best possible thing would be to play in the second division, and he would never be able to establish himself in the Premier League anyway, let alone play in the first team of Nottingham Forest.

After watching his training and games, Donn called him in and suggested that he switch to playing as a center from now on. Although they are all mid laners, their positions have been moved from the back to the front, which can be described as a sea change.

Letting Mitchel change positions is just out of Donn's professional habits. Half a year later, he was crushed by a heart attack, and another half of the year was so busy battling a heart attack that he completely forgot about Mitchel. Later, in the process of rebuilding the team, because the Forest team was not short of people in the forward line, he never thought of the poor man who was thrown in the youth team by him after changing positions......

It wasn't until the matter of a possible transfer for Kicic was put on the agenda that he remembered this young man who felt a little similar to Kic.

Aron today. Mitchel is 20 years old and has played in the development squad for two years but has yet to get a chance to break into the first team.

Playing in the reserve team can be said to be a way into the first team, but it doesn't mean that playing here will necessarily make it to the first team. There are a number of players who have spent most of their time in the development squad and have only been drawn to the first team occasionally to meet their immediate needs. This group of players is lucky, and many more are in the background of the reserve team, perhaps looking for opportunities in the lower leagues, or just disappearing. If a player has been playing in the development team since graduating from the youth team, it is at least a sign that he does not have any outstanding talent and talent, and the future of such a player is bleak.

In that sense, Aron. Mitchel's talent is clearly not outstanding.

Mitchel plays as a centre-forward and his header is still outstanding, thanks of course to his frightening height. Donn always felt that Mitchel was taller than he had seen before, so he pointed at Mitchel and turned his face to Colin, the reserve coach next to him. Cladwood: "How tall is he now?" ”

"Two meters and two." Cladwood replied.

Don whistled, "As tall as Kic." ”

"But he's thinner than Kic." Don next to him said.

Indeed, the 2.02-meter-old Mitchel's thinness is clear at a glance, and he is a bit like Pete, who used to play for the Forest team. Crouch.

"How's the physical confrontation ability?" Donn asked.

"Very average." Cladwood replied.

This answer made Don frown. He needs a centre-forward who has to be physically strong and able to compete with the opposing team's tall and strong defenders in the penalty area, so as not to lose position and ball easily.

Cladwood certainly knew what Donn was worried about, so he laughed and continued: "Tony, though, he's not quite the same as that traditional center......"

"Huh? How is it different? ”

"Have you ever seen a center forward who is more than two meters tall and can still pedal a bicycle under his feet?"

Donn and the two assistant coaches around him looked at Kladwood in surprise.

"His technique is outstanding." "And it's average, technically there are no obvious shortcomings." He can pass the ball to his team-mates and create chances, he can also pull wide to cross, and with his height, it's not bad. Maybe it's because he also knows that his physical confrontation ability is not strong, so he works technical training, so he ...... It's what you see now. ”

As they spoke, Mitchel got the ball, and he stopped the ball with the outside heel of his foot while running, stopping the ball while completing a sudden stop and turning to change direction......

"Wow-" Chrislac exclaimed.

After stopping the ball on the side and shaking off one of the opposing defenders, Mitchel crossed on the spot, but unfortunately his teammates in the middle did not expect Mitchel to pass so decisively.

A few people stopped talking and began to carefully observe Mitchel's every performance on the field.

Perhaps because of his former work as a centre-back, Mitchel still retains the habit of seeing an opposing player with the ball and pressing it, rather than a pure attacking player who walks up front and watches the opponent carry the ball past him. This helped Mitchel get a lot of opportunities to counter-attack on the spot.

Since he is as tall as 2.02 meters, he takes the ball at a very big pace, so he doesn't feel slow, and it doesn't feel bulky like Kic. Coupled with his excellent footwork, watching him play always gives the illusion that he is really a big man over two meters tall?

He's not the kind of center forward who likes to sit in front of goal and wait for his teammates to pass the ball to him, he prefers to pull out, drop back and respond, and overdo the connection for the attack.

His header is indeed a very sharp weapon, as long as the football flies into his volley, there is no chance that he will not be able to run away. Impressively tall and with no less impressive bounce, combined with the level of heading and awareness he developed as a centre-back, he is a master in front of goal.

It's a pity that compared to his excellent header, his shooting is a bit poor......

Don watched his game for fifteen minutes, a rough calculation. The success rate of the header duel was 80 per cent, and he had five shots from his feet, only one of which hit the woodwork – and was directly won by the goalkeeper because Taizheng was too positive.

"Uh...... His shooting skills have been slow to improve...... "Speaking of which, Cladwood is also a little embarrassed.

In the reserves, the tactics developed for Mitchel were to attack, he retreated to receive the pass from the midfield, and then used his foot skills to break through with the ball, and then split the side to his teammates who had already plugged in, and continued to stride into the penalty area. After his teammates got rid of the wide defense, he crossed with his feet, and then Mitchel, who was already in place, fought for the header, at this time he had two options: a, his own header; b, ferrying to other teammates and creating opportunities for them to shoot.

Very simple tactics, Mitchel did quite well. He was really impeccable on the header.

It's a pity that the body is really too thin and weak, and there is almost no ability to fight head-on. This is also an important reason why he couldn't play as a central defender in the first place......

He was not recommended by his coaches for promotion to the first team, and that was a necessary reason.

The Premier League is the most competitive league in the world, and a "reasonable collision" in the Premier League can be a malicious foul if it is placed in other leagues. A striker who is not physically fit loses out at the start in competition with others. With the exception of Arsene Wenger, few coaches like him like a striker who looks like he will fall when the wind blows.

Donn doesn't care that much, though, and sees hope in Mitchel, a completely different centre-forward who might bring something different to Forest's attack.

"Call him tomorrow to report to the first team." Donn snapped his fingers, "I'm going to register him for the next stage of the Champions Cup." ”

The meaning of this sentence is that Kicic can leave with peace of mind......

Neither assistant coach made sense of Donn's decision, but they also saw something shining in Mitchel, and the shortcomings were made up for by training and high-level play.

After explaining these things, Don and the two assistant coaches left, and they had to go back to the training ground of the first team, so they couldn't afford to waste too much time here.

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Aron. Mitchel was removed from reserve coach Collin after the end of training. Cladwood heard the news that he had been transferred to the first team. After a short period of stunnedness, there was joy. Since switching to striker, he has also thought about his future at Forest. He felt that since the boss wanted to change to a striker himself, then maybe he needed a striker.

But then he saw the Forest's huge, somewhat bloated forward line-up, and he felt a little hopeless. He doesn't think he's a talented player, and the only thing he's proud of is his height and head.

He's constantly practising his technique in the hope that he has something that sets him apart from other big players.

Colin. After making sure that he wanted him to practice how to be a striker, Cladwood also noticed Mitchel's efforts and characteristics in this area, so he recommended Mitchel a role model to follow.

That role model is not Kicic or Ruud van Nistelrooy in the Forest team. It's Ibrahimovic, who is far away in Italy's Inter Milan.

Outside of training, he will study the characteristics and style of the Swedish high school striker, try to imitate and learn, and hope that he can also become a striker who is more than 1.9 meters tall but has excellent skills at his feet.

Now's your chance!

The next day, he went straight to the training ground of the first team and was a little excited to see his star teammates on the sidelines, who he rarely sees. And those teammates also looked at Mitchel with some curiosity who was standing on the sidelines and silly.

Mitchel is not a quasi-star player like Mock, and although he is in the development team, his name has long spread throughout the club. Before he came here, he had been unknown. Even though everyone is in the same club, it's normal to not know each other.

When the first-team players warmed up together, Aaron. Mitchel was still standing outside, a little overwhelmed.

That's when his savior came.

Tony. Don and the two assistant coaches walked like a training ground, and at a glance he saw Mitchel wandering outside the crowd, so he beckoned to him: "Boy, come here!" ”

"This is your new teammate." Pulling Mitchel along, Donn introduced to the rest of the players. "Aaron. Mitchel, a striker, used to play centre-back. ”

Hearing his peculiar change of position, the players let out a wave of exclamation.

After a brief introduction, Donn asked the players to warm up, but he left Mitchel alone.

"There are some things I have to make clear to you in advance, so as not to cause trouble later." Donn said to Mitchel, who was standing in front of him respectfully, "First of all, you can be transferred to the first team to prove that you are capable, so you don't have to doubt that you are not strong enough or anything; Secondly, you don't have to think about what main position you can get if you get into the first team, and you will have the opportunity to start...... I'm not going to promise you that. If you want to have all this, you can only strive for it with the attitude and form of your own training. You know, now you can only be last in the first team of all the strikers. ”

Mitchel kept nodding.

'You'd better be prepared for the first team with a learning mindset and I think that will help you.'

When he said this, Donn's face in sunglasses was always flat. He doesn't mind being tough with these young people, because he knows how cruel professional football can be, and it's better to have no illusions and keep your feet on the ground to achieve something. On the path of growth of these young people, he is willing to always be the number one villain in the hearts of these people.

Seeing that Mitchel had a good attitude and humbly accepted it, Don was very satisfied. He ended his lecture and began to assign specific training tasks: "Start today to strengthen your shooting and strength training. The coaching staff will give you a specific training plan and follow it. I heard that when you were in the reserves, Coach Cladwood asked you to learn from Ibrahimovic? ”

Mitchel nodded, "Yes, sir." I want to be like him. ”

"Make no mistake, boy. Ibrahimovic is not weak physically, and his shooting ability is ten light-years better than yours. ”

Mitchel's expression darkened when he said this, although Don was telling the truth, but the truth was not very good......

Don remembered that although Mitchel was twenty years old, he was still a young player after all. Sometimes encouragement is needed.

So he grinned, "But don't worry. At least you're better than Ibrahimovic – your header. He pointed to Mitchel's head. Ibrahimovic, who can head the ball, is much more powerful than Ibrahimovic himself! ”

(To be continued)