Having just finished a fierce derby, the manager is not as strict with the players as before, and everyone needs to relax, whether it is the players or the coach. So Chen Jian was able to sit neatly in front of Don and enjoy a supper with him to experience the colorful nightlife of Spain.

"Should I congratulate you on your draw against a strong Barcelona or do I regret that you didn't win the game?" Tang En said to Chen Jian with a smile.

"Regret." Chen Jian replied.

Looking at the man in front of him with a lot of gray hair, Chen Jian couldn't help but feel a wave of emotion in his heart.

When I first saw him, he was in high spirits, and it was when the spring breeze was proud, and there was no fatigue on his body. Looking at it now, it vaguely looks like an old man.

Xia Yang became a foil, and tonight was a conversation between Tang En and Chen Jian.

"Hehe, in fact, when I asked you to jump out of Nottingham Forest, I never thought that I would be able to find you back one day."

"I didn't expect to be where I am today without Nottingham Forest."

Both lamented the impermanence of the world.

Today, Chen Jian is not only the core of the Spaniards, but also the main player of the Chinese national team. That's why Don came to him, because there was no problem with applying for a labor certification. As for the national team rankings...... The FA has done away with it.

The Chinese team is still second-rate in Asian football, and Chen Jian is one of the few bright spots in the team.

The person who was the least optimistic about the draft at the beginning put on the national team jersey and fought for his country, and those who were better than him now don't know what work they are doing.

"I feel like I'm where I am today, and I thank you, Mr. Donn. So after receiving your call, I decided to move to Nottingham Forest. ”

Don smiled. To be honest, when he took the phone and asked Chen Jian loudly if he dared to give up everything he had before, when he came to Nottingham to start from scratch, he was inspiring Chen Jian, but he didn't really think that Chen Jian's future would be so bright. Chen Jian's achievements have exceeded his original expectations, and he is also very pleased. At least I changed a person's fate, and it changed for the better...... "The mountains don't turn around, and we come together again after going around." Chinese pay attention to fate. Chen Jian, you have a relationship with Nottingham Forest. ”

Xia Yang listened to the conversation between these two people on the side, and rolled his eyes in his heart. What fate? Ah Jian's choice this time doesn't know whether it is evil or lucky. He was able to play so well at Espanyol because Espanyol's head coach Manzanoken put a Chinese player as the core. Can you Nottingham Forest do that? At your core is George, who has similar technical characteristics and style to Ajian. Wood! Chen Jian is just a supporting role, a foil, can he still play as well as when he was in the Espanyol team? The reputation that I have accumulated so hard, don't let me lose it when I get to Nottingham Forest, I will thank God for Yalong...... The agent, Mr. Xia, was so distracted, and the two of them at the table had already talked about what happened after going to the forest team.

'I watched the derby and you are at the heart of the Espanyol. I'm going to give you a showdown here, and you definitely can't be the core at Nottingham Forest. Because there is George. Wood ...... Donn spread his hands.

Chen Jian did not show the posture of "as long as I am allowed to go to the forest, even if I am willing to be a substitute", he just said: "I think Mr. Don En is willing to come to me in person, he will definitely not let me be a substitute, right?" ”

Fighting for more than three seasons in La Liga has made Chen Jian mature a lot and made him more confident.

Tang En looked at the Chinese player in front of him and liked it from the bottom of his heart. Although some Spanish media will refer to Chen Jian as "the little George. Wood", but in Donn's opinion, this man is probably more like a "wise general", in terms of intelligence and excellent consciousness, he is probably better than George. After all, how many people have been there to help him teach him along the way, if there is no himself, no Tang, no Albertini and others, George is an elm pimple, and Chen Jian basically fought it out on his own.

"It's too extravagant for you to be a substitute, ha!" Don smiled happily. "In my plan you're going to be partnered with Wood, and the two of you are the 'duo' of the Forest team."

"Dual-core?" Chen Jian lowered his head and thought about it, he was thinking about how he should cooperate with Wood. He's not the kid who gets excited just to play.

He inadvertently played the game of guessing the manager's intentions again. But this time, he couldn't figure out how he could be with George, who had a style similar to his own. Wood complements each other perfectly.

So he looked up at Donn.

'Both of you have good long balls, but you're better than Wood on short balls, and Wood is better at shooting from distance than you. Don didn't talk about it, he just pointed out the differences between the two people. "It's too difficult for an opponent to stare at both of you at the same time."

Chen Jian already had a vague picture in his mind, which was what he and Wood looked like fighting side by side together. Knowing this, he began to get a little excited - he only wanted to become a professional footballer, and his goal was George. Wood, as the youth team continued to use Wood's training schedule to hone themselves, Nottingham Forest's No. 13 became his idol. Now, it's finally possible for me to fight side by side with my idol!

That's a wonderful future!

The main meeting with Chen Jian is to promise him his place in the team - certainly not a substitute, and for now, he will still be the main team. Spanish people are good at nightlife, and Chen Jian, who has been here for more than three years, is more or less used to it, but 50-year-old Don is not a Spaniard, and he has only been in Spain for four days, so he is not used to it. As the highlight of this round of the league, the Barcelona city derby is naturally scheduled at the last time, and it is almost twelve o'clock when the game is over, and it is almost one o'clock in the morning. Don couldn't stand it anymore, and he also talked in person, so why did he need to stay any longer? Anyway, after a long time, there will be opportunities for contact.

Tang En and Chen Jian took their leave. At the time of parting, Don once again reminded Xia Yang to step up the imposition on Espanyol Club, and Chen Jian also promised to have a showdown with the club, indicating that he wanted to go to Nottingham Forest.

Early the next morning, Donn flew back to England to end his trip to Spain.

It didn't take long for news to come from Barcelona that there were local media reports that a number of clubs had taken a fancy to Chen Jian's news and hoped to take him away from Espanyol during this winter break.

Seeing such news, Tang En knew that Xia Yang had already begun to act.

He doesn't care, anyway, freelance professionals do it.

David. Chris Rac has already entered the team's coaching staff early as an assistant coach to carry out preliminary work. He is responsible for summarizing the situation of the team and submitting it to Donn, who then analyzes and makes decisions.

Now, a week after Chris Lak joined the team, the team's internal report is basically taking shape.

In the two weeks he was away, Nottingham Forest won one and lost one, barely hovering around 16th place.

That's a low starting point, with Nottingham Forest at their lowest position since returning to the English Premier League. It's no wonder that a group of people on the outside are not optimistic about Forest's prospects this season, thinking that if they are not careful, they will not be surprised even if they are eventually relegated.

Coupled with the report that Chris Lak pointed out in his report that the current Forest team is worrisome, the people's hearts are fluctuating, and the bench thickness is not enough, so that Donn deeply feels the pressure on his shoulders.

This comeback is not an easy vacation...... Before that, there is one more thing that Donn needs to run, and once he becomes the head coach of the Forest team, I am afraid that it will not be very convenient...... ※※※ The end of November has entered winter, and the weather in Nottingham is the same as the weather in the whole of England, with more cloudy days, more rainy days, less blue skies, and less sunshine.

But today was a rare day of good weather, and after four days of rain in a row, the skies over Nottingham finally cleared. Everyone who goes to work early in the morning can see the golden sun rising from the eastern horizon, shining brightly on the sky and the earth, and the leaves still hanging from the previous night's rain, glittering in the sunlight, and from a distance, the forest looks as if it has been hung with strings of gold beads.

Surrounded by such woods is the Notts County Club's training ground, which is half the size of Nottingham Forest's Wilford and has a bit of an old training facility. As the world's oldest modern professional football club, it smells of history inside and out. If you don't hear it, it's a rotten smell, but if you say it's good, it's the glory of history.

Although the training facilities are old, the players who operate on the old training ground are young. There is no pressure or burden on their faces that a long history has brought to them.

It's just a warm-up exercise, and everyone is serious. A man in his thirties, wearing a training shirt with a hood and looking like an assistant coach, ran at the front with a whistle in his mouth. The man with black hair and an eastern face was none other than Tang, a Chinese who had left Nottingham Forest for more than seven years.

Now he is the post-80s Shaolin abbot of the Championship team, surrounded by some fans, but there are not many of them, and there are few media, two from Nottingham and one from the port city of Portsmouth, which is the opponent of the next round of the Championship in Notts.

On this cold morning, the whistle in the training ground was so clear and distant that it even startled some birds in the forest. In the distance, the trees were accompanied by birds and a rising white mist, which was the water vapor that began to evaporate in the sunlight and spread out, enveloping almost the entire training ground.

Donn, who had wrapped himself in a thick coat, took a deep breath, the air in the woods was much better than in the city center.

The so-called other thing that you can't do after coaching the Forest team is to come here and meet Don. Although his relationship with Tang Zhijian can have many opportunities for contact in private. But once he becomes the head coach of the Forest team, he will inevitably become the target of the paparazzi, and he doesn't want the news of his meeting with Don to be full of turmoil, which is a secret.

Watching Don lead the team to run laps to warm up, Don En had a smile on his face. It's completely different from his own style, and Don is doing a good job here. Although he doesn't know much about Notts County, just looking at those players, Don also believes that it is a team that belongs to Don completely, and the goal he had achieved when he left him.

But...... It's hard for such a team to go further. It was a surprise to many people that a small team like Nods County could bring Don to the Championship, and that was basically the end of it. If they want to go to the Premier League, they will never be able to do it without strong financial support, and even if they are lucky enough to be promoted to the Premier League, with the huge pound advantage of their opponents, there is only one way to go back to the Championship quickly.

In 2004, when Notts County was on the verge of bankruptcy, Notts County fans spontaneously donated money in the hope of saving their beloved team. But in the end, it was the team that had always been unrelated to Chelsea that became the savior. It was because of the draw from Chelsea in the FA Cup that the club received a significant amount of ticket revenue – when the club agreed to give all of the ticket proceeds to the club at Stamford Bridge to help them survive the storm – and the share of the TV fee and ticket revenue saved the team from the demise of the world's oldest modern professional football club.

The situation in Nods County can be seen from this incident. The TV broadcast fee and ticket revenue of a game are not worth mentioning in the eyes of Premier League teams, but they can save the lives of Nods County, which shows how pitiful the team's budget is...... Tang's success in recent years is inseparable from his insistence on paying close attention to the construction of the youth team since he took office. If the academy does not provide him with enough good players, with the pitiful budget of Notz County every season, I am afraid that he will not even be able to make up the starting eleven by buying people in the transfer market alone.

Despite having a good academy, he faces the same frustrations as many smaller club managers – he can't keep some of the most prominent young players out of Nods County to pursue a higher level. If a club like Notts County wants to survive, the only way to sell the promising young players it has cultivated has become the only way. Don is just a head coach who can't interfere with the team's business strategy, and he doesn't have a position to interfere - the team can't survive, so what to do with talented players? No matter how talented these players are, they are not the kind of world superstars who can lead the team to the Super League alone. While there are still people who want it, hurry up and buy some good prices. It's a big deal, let's get some first-team players out of the academy...... And so on and so forth.

Don shook his head, this is the sadness of the small club. Wasn't it the same with the Forest team before I took over? Michael. Dawson, Andy. Both Reid and Jenas were sold at a time when the Forest team was struggling financially. It's just that Nottingham Forest has a strong foundation compared to Notts County, and its ancestors were once wide, so it is not too difficult to rise again.

Nods County is difficult, poor and white.

Don watched all of the Notts County team's morning training on the sidelines of the training ground, and then met Don at noon.

On the phone last night, Don told Don that he was coming to him today, so Don wasn't surprised to see Don appear in front of him.

"You're definitely not here to invite me to dinner, are you, Tony?" At a Chinese restaurant, Tang said to Don, who was sitting across from him.

"Of course. And the Chinese restaurant here is too inauthentic. Tang En commented on the head office of the most famous Chinese restaurant in the Nottingham area, ignoring the fact that there was a Chinese waiter standing next to him. provoked the Chinese student who knew at a glance that he was here to work, and glared at the old man wearing sunglasses.

After the waiter left, Tang laughed: "It's too worthless for you to talk about this restaurant." ”

Don shrugged and didn't continue the topic. "I've come to you to ask you a question. Tang Dynasty. He leaned forward, muffling his voice so that he could be heard.

"Would you like to change to a bigger stage?"

(To be continued)