After the Forest team decided to participate in this draft plan, they sent a coach from the junior department to China, and he did not follow the older group, the older group that was fully videotaped, and Nottingham Forest did not send a coach. The coach is mainly with the junior group, which does not have TV broadcasts and commercial shows, but purely to select good enough seedlings to train in the UK, and in the end there will be four lucky ones who will go to three clubs for two years of training. Two at Everton, one each from Bolton Wanderers and Nottingham Forest.

In China, the advertising campaign is already in full swing, and auditions for the six major cities of Guangzhou, Shanghai, Yanjing, Wuhan, Changsha and Chengdu have already begun, and in late September, 14 winners from the six divisions will be selected to go to Changsha to participate in the final training camp to prepare for the finals. Then next January, during the Chinese New Year, the Grand Final will be broadcast live on TV, with two professional football coaches from the UK and one from China selecting the final two winners and lucky winners.

This draft is different from any previous draft held by Hunan TV in that there is no audience voting. This is also a requirement of the British side, because it is necessary to ensure the professional and authoritative surnames of this talent show, if they all do SMS voting like before, who knows if someone will buy SMS at a high price just to support a person who likes it but is really not strong enough. This contingency must be strangled in the cradle. The audience has no right to participate at all, except for watching the fun. The final selection of champions and runners-up is definitely based on the vision and evaluation of the football coach.

There is no behind-the-scenes deal, because the players are ordinary teenagers who love football, without any special background and identity, you must know that football is a "popular sport", but also a "civilian sport", these 14 to 19 years old teenagers came to sign up to fulfill their professional football dreams.

This is different from the dream of an acting star, being a professional football player pays more attention to professional surnames. If you are an acting star, you can't sing well and dance badly, but if you look beautiful, you can be a star. Singing out of tune, we can rely on a variety of advanced equipment in the recording studio and select special types of songs to solve, dance badly and don't dance, don't act, perform in their true colors, as long as people look good, even if they are "vase", they can succeed. Why are there two factions in the entertainment industry: "idol faction" and "powerful faction"?

Professional players can't do it, even if it's Beckham's level, if you don't know how to play, it's useless. Football is indeed a vanity fair, but there is a premise, you have to have the ability to enter professional football, you must first become a qualified professional player, and you are qualified to pursue or dream of those fancy worlds.

We can assume that Beckham's career, if he didn't have that precise free-kick and long pass, cross ability, dedication and tireless fitness, and that 70-yard long-range lob goal, no matter how handsome he looked, would Victoria be able to look at him? Will those advertisers be able to take a fancy to him? Will there be a place for him in the England national team? Will he be the captain of the Three Lions? Will he play in the world's top giants Manchester United and Real Madrid? Will an unruly manager like Capello change his mind and reintroduce him from the bench? No, none of that will happen, he may have been spotted on the street by an entertainment agent after a few years of playing football in obscurity, and then switched careers to show business. From now on, there may be one more person in the entertainment industry called "David." David Beckham's second-rate stars, and world football is not going to change – there are countless people who choose to enter and exit every day, and there are not a few cases of talented stars falling prematurely.

Professional football, as Donn said. This is a place that only looks at strength, and it is very practical and utilitarian. You can't rely on anything else but your own strength. Is there a big corporate sponsorship behind it? If you don't have the strength, you just play a few kicks in garbage time, and put it on the official website to show your face and fool the sponsors. Hidetoshi Nakata landed in Serie A at the beginning, and there was a temporary residence of the company, but he was really capable, so he gained a foothold in Italy and won the Serie A championship. Or are you the son of the leader of some country, Tide? If you don't have the strength, you just show your face in the newspaper at the beginning of joining the team, and then sit alone in the stands and cheer for your teammates during the game. Consider the experience of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi Jr.'s son Muammar Gaddafi playing football in Perugia......

So this world is cruel and cruel, and I don't believe in anything here except your strength. Tears? Sensational? Calling a group of parents, relatives and friends to tell some stories about family poverty, dreams, and changing the status quo? Kneel down and kowtow thank God thank you? Engage in audience SMS voting to determine the champion? Don't. When you play, you go cry and show the enemy and see if they agree to let you break through and score goals for the sake of you crying. Or go and tell FIFA that the winner of any future competition will be decided by the fans by text message. You see if FIFA agrees to do that.

Tang En is very aware of all this, so regardless of whether this draft can select a truly eye-catching talent, at least there will not be Mr. Nan Guo who is indiscriminately shoddy and can still achieve a small success. Because even if they can pass the TV draft, when they come to the UK, they will immediately be told to reveal their true form, and if their strength is not enough, after a year, where should they go back. The face of the sponsor? I'm sorry, but we're a professional football club, not a "good dreams" company.

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"Alright, let's throw the "Soccer Kid" draft to the country of Java! It's not my turn to worry about that kind of thing. Business is business, football is football. I don't care if it's a genius or a waste of firewood, I won't give him any special care just because this is a Chinese kid, and he will be directly assigned to the youth team after he comes......"

Don chattered in front of Don.

Don looked at him and didn't say anything.

Don saw in his gaze what he was about to say. "Don't worry, I won't treat it specially, I have a normal heart. I never thought that this kind of draft would make a real professional player, and "Do I Care If You Play Football" or "We Are Not the Runners" are just boring Italian silver on the Chinese Internet, and it is impossible to do so. The former best player in the Philips National Collegiate League, who went to the Netherlands for a tryout...... Who's that, and where is it now? Singapore League! Don said dismissively.

"You care so much about this matter, you always talk about it, how can you say that you still have a normal heart?" Don expressed a different opinion. "The real normal mind is not to talk about it at all."

Tang En was stunned for a moment, he felt that what Tang said was very reasonable, so he made a throwing motion: "Okay, let's completely forget about this matter." Let's discuss the opponent in the next round of the league - that Reading ......"

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Nottingham Forest have started the league season on a five-game winning streak, their best start to the season, and all will be hoping that Donn will continue to break that winning streak. Nottingham Forest, who have won the Champions League and UEFA Super Cup, have been in great form lately and are also setting new records.

But once again, the Forest team was a disappointment. Away from home, Forest and Reading drew 2-2.

With Paul. Steven Gerrard's move, and Sidwell's transfer...... The main reason is that as time goes by, the hatred between the two teams is clearly not as serious as last season.

Although Koper and Donn still have personal grudges, the game itself is close to normal.

Reading played a tight battle with Forest at home, and Koper was a bit of a level, and although he allowed Forest to score two goals, Reading also scored two goals for Forest.

In the end, the six-game winning streak that everyone had been waiting for came to an abrupt end. Nottingham Forest are still at the top of the table with six games, five wins and one draw and 16 points. The second-place teams in the league have quietly changed. Arsenal are second with four wins, one draw and 13 points, followed by Manchester City with 12 points from 4 wins, 2 losses and 12 points, followed by Liverpool, Manchester United and Chelsea, who are tied on 11 points.

The unluckiest of all was Chelsea, who went from second at the start of the league to sixth now, and the results slipped too quickly. Now that rumours of a rift between Jose Mourinho and Roman Abramovich are rifting, it looks like the team's results have also been affected by the managerial discord.

Don doesn't think it's hearsay, he believes it's true. Because with a surname like Mourinho, it is strange that he has been able to work peacefully with Abramovich for several years without any contradictions. The basis of their previous cooperation is results, and when the grades are good, they are naturally good brothers. After the decline in grades, any hidden contradictions may burst out. Isn't that what it is now? Abramovich forcibly bought Shepchenko one season ago despite Mourinho's objections, and this summer he was accused of Mourinho's empty-handed hands after last season, the league title was not won, the FA Cup was not won, and the Champions Cup promised to him was even more in the semi-finals, with only one League Cup title.

Will such a result please Abramovich?

No.

So this summer, Mourinho didn't even have a penny of transfer fees. Abramovich is rumoured to have a showdown with Jose Mourinho – because you have not led the team to good results, so this season we have to tighten our money and break even.

Of course, to the outside world, Mourinho had this to say: "Some people think that Chelsea's league titles in previous seasons were bought with money, which is not convincing. So before the start of the season, I was delighted to see Arsenal and Manchester United scramble in the transfer market. ”

Done doesn't know when Jose Mourinho will leave Chelsea, although it looks like the coach has a solid position and has undisputed authority in the Chelsea squad. But that's because everyone invisibly ignores the real emperor of this team - Abramovich. Based on Donn's understanding of this Russian tycoon, this is a person with a very stubborn surname and a more advocacy of the "strongman" style. Once he decides something, even ten horses can't pull it back, he will do it immediately, and never give others a chance to turn the tables. Think of Shepchenko. Before Ukrainian nuclear warheads arrive in London, a few people will believe that Chelsea are really going to buy Shepchenko, and even if Mourinho opposes it, it will not change Abramovich's determination. So Shepchenko announced his move to Chelsea ahead of the World Cup, and Roman Abramovich got the striker he coveted.

It was also from this time that the rift between Mourinho and Roman Abramovich grew and grew......

Someday it will be irreconcilable.

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The draw against Reading didn't make Don feel bad, and he didn't have the heart to always compete with Reading. Reading is just an ant under the feet of Nottingham Forest, have you ever seen a long-term rivalry between people and ants? The reason for the draw in that game also had something to do with the fact that Don had hidden some of his main players, and his goal was already on the Champions League group stage away to Porto.

Porto is where Mourinho started and is a former European champion. Although it is not as mixed as it used to be, there is still some residual power. Nottingham Forest have played against Portugal's Sporting Lisbon and Benfica, and this time it's Porto's turn.

Don can't take this opponent lightly, and his careful preparation has proven to be useful.

Nottingham Forest, who sent their strongest squad to Portugal, met with very stubborn resistance at the Stade de la Dragons in Porto. After 90 minutes of fierce battle, neither side scored, and the game was tied 0-0. It stands to reason that getting a point away from home is a good result. But Donn once again carried forward his annoying "fine tradition." Speaking at his post-match press conference, he said with a straight face: "We should have gone with the three points and I'm very unhappy with the result. ”

It is not the first time for Don to be so arrogant on someone else's turf. The Portuguese media have long seen the shamelessness of the England manager, and they didn't make much of a fuss. Now the media know that the best way to deal with Don is not to quarrel with him, but to ignore him.

Nottingham Forest returned to Nottingham with a point, and Done had to start preparing for the league again without stopping.

It was also carefully prepared, but this time it was to welcome his old friend.

On September 22, in the seventh round of the English Premier League, Nottingham Forest hosted promoted Sunderland.

(To be continued)