Chapter 207: Volume 3: The Red Forest: The Future of Young Players (Part 2)

The last sentence is decisive. Piqué nodded lightly: "Mr. Canalis, you are right. But now at Manchester United...Mr. Ferguson has great hopes for me."

Canalis shook his head and said: "You don't have to worry about this, the bad guy asked me to do it. We just need to ask him if Manchester United will give you a first-team position next season. We all know the answer. Ken gave you a first team place, why are we going to his team as youth players? Did Manchester United give us any promises and guarantees? Did they give us an advance payment? Nothing. Remember, Gerard, you The future is the most important thing. You don't want to leave Barcelona and go down in obscurity?"

Piqué shook his head.

"Then listen to me. Wait...don't agree to him now, you tell that coach that you will go back to ask your parents for advice, and reply him in a day. Don't show eagerness, I want to give you the best contract."

After the two discussed it, Piqué said to Tang En: "Mr. Tang En, your terms are very good. But I need to go back and discuss with my parents. I will give you an answer the day after tomorrow."

"Okay, I will wait for your call in Barcelona." Tang En stood up and shook hands with Piqué, agreeing. Then he blinked when he shook hands with Canalis, and both of them knew it.

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The next day, Tang En and Tang ran to La Masia, Barcelona's youth training base, to watch the training of the Barcelona youth team. He found a few familiar figures in it - no matter in terms of hairstyle, skin color or technical characteristics, they looked like Ronald. Dinho, Giovanni_dos_Santos, known as "Mexican Ronaldinho", Francisco Merida, Bo Yang's midfield passer in the Spanish national youth team and Barcelona youth team, is expected by Barcelona The "prodigy" Bojan Krkic (Bojan_Krkic)... There is also a slightly more famous Messi, who has now been handpicked by Rijkaard and transferred to the first team. Dinho, Puyol, Giuly, Xavi and other top stars train together, and you will basically never see him in La Masia.

Looking at these talented players, Tang En really had the urge to poach them all. But he knows it's not possible, maybe with Merida... but he doesn't seem to fit the style of the Premier League. In Tang En's memory, Merida later refused to sign a contract with Barcelona Club at the age of fifteen because of conflicts with the top management of Barcelona Club, and left the team to go to Liverpool for trial training, but he didn't know the specifics, he just heard Said that Merida did not stay in Liverpool, and a year later he went to the Arsenal youth team.

On the one hand, the first team is desperately spending money to buy those famous stars, and on the other hand, there is a large backlog of talents trained by the youth team. This contradiction seems to be really irreconcilable. The head coaches of the first team always don't trust the young people because their pressure is far greater than that of the youth team coaches. Dunn also experienced this kind of contradiction when he played Football Manager.

As a player, he likes those young talents with potential, but when he finds famous stars in the transfer market, he can't restrain his desire to buy them.

Another giant in Spain, Real Madrid, has the same problem as Barcelona.

As the team that has won the most championships in La Liga, they also have a fine tradition of emphasizing youth training. The "Five Eagles Era" of Real Madrid in the 1980s is the most typical example of emphasizing youth training. But in the 21st century, with the implementation of Florentino Perez's "one superstar a year" policy, fewer and fewer people have entered the first team from Real Madrid's youth training base-the one that encourages seedlings. The "Zidane + Pavon" policy is a joke—although the Real Madrid youth team performs very well in the Spanish second division every year, although the media and fans can find this talent and that rookie in the Real Madrid youth team every year, but in the end they can There are almost no people who have played in the first team of Real Madrid. Remember Portillo back then? The striker, known as Raul's successor, later exhausted his talent in being repeatedly loaned out. Mecia used to be the captain of Real Madrid's B team and the main central defender. When he arrived at Real Madrid's first team, he became synonymous with "worried". Like him, there is Raul Bravo, who was once regarded as Roberto Carlos's son. The successor has also been selected for the Spanish national team, but he can only be a marginal player in the Real Madrid first team. In addition, Soldado, who rose again after Portillo, broke Raul's scoring record in the Real Madrid youth team. There is no place for him in the Real Madrid first-team striker.

There are also countless future stars of Real Madrid whose names have been forgotten...are they still there?

Real Madrid has the most luxurious training base in Spain, but the talents cultivated by the youth academy have nourished other Spanish clubs except them. This is really a great irony.

At present, Dunn doesn't have to worry about the Forest team's young players not being able to play, he only worries that he won't be able to find anyone during the game.

The problem for small teams is always the lack of thickness of the bench, and the problem for big teams is always who to play.

A day later, Piqué met with Twain again, and this time the answer they gave was not what Twain expected - Piqué agreed to join Nottingham Forest, but rejected Manchester United. He hoped that coach Tony Twain could fulfill his promise - to give him enough playing time.

Tang En said with a smile: "Of course, Herald, I didn't come all the way from England to Barcelona to find talents for the youth team. Soon you will find out how wise it is to choose Nottingham Forest."

Then in this restaurant, Twain signed a four-year professional contract with the main central defender of the Barcelona youth team Gerard Piqué Bernabeu on behalf of Nottingham Forest. Since then, Piqué, who was born in Catalonia and of pure Barcelona descent, has become a member of Nottingham Forest.

Nottingham Forest only needs to pay Barcelona a symbolic £220,000. This amount of money is almost negligible for Barcelona to train a player like Piqué. But they have no choice but to watch the Englishman stab in and snatch the team's future defensive general...

Of course, the Barcelona people have reason to be angry. After all, Piqué was trained by them, and Piqué's grandfather was the former vice chairman of the Barcelona club. This relationship makes the Barcelona people feel that Piqué's departure is a kind of betrayal. However, the most angry person is actually not a Barcelona person, but a Scotsman.

Piqué signed his name on the contract, and the fate of the future that had been entangled for half a year finally came to light. He showed a relaxed smile to Dunn: "Should I follow those English players and call you boss? Sir?"

"Well, not necessarily... Welcome to the big family of Nottingham Forest, here you have a lot of freedom, including addressing me, you can choose from the following: A, boss; B, mister; C, Boss; D, coach. Which one do you like?" Dunn imitated the voice of a robot and said to Piqué.

Piqué laughed: "C."

"Very good, young man! You will like this team, I promise!" Tang En laughed loudly and patted Piqué on the shoulder. This is the future pillar of his team!

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When Piqué and Twain signed the contract in the restaurant, Manchester United coach Sir Alex Ferguson, who was preparing for next season in Manchester, England, received a call from Barcelona, ​​Spain.

"Boss, bad news. Piqué doesn't belong to us anymore."

"What?" Ferguson thought he heard it wrong. Half a month ago, his assistant told him that Piqué would be happy to sign with Manchester United. The Scottish coach is still very proud of being able to beat Arsenal in the talent competition. Unexpectedly, it has only been half a month... "Did that Frenchman do it?" The first thing he thought of was Wenger.

"No, boss. It's not Arsenal. They've already given up. It's another Englishman...Tony Twain."

Ferguson froze for a moment. The name sounded familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a moment. "Who is that?"

"Nottingham Forest manager, boss. They just got promoted to the Premier League this season."

Now Ferguson fully remembered that it was the young man who made Mark Laurenson shave his beard in public and lose face in the show!

"What did that kid say? I want to know how a newly promoted horse has the ability to snatch our people away!" Ferguson's face turned rosy, which was a sign of his anger.

"He didn't go into specifics, he just said Manchester United can only commit to his future, but Nottingham Forest can commit to his present..."

These words hit Manchester United's weakness. Ferguson's fire was blocked in his throat, but he couldn't get out. The person who robbed him with this reason really has nothing to say. He suddenly had a strong interest in the "youngest head coach in the Premier League" who he didn't know much about before—who is he? What is he capable of?

Most importantly... can he pose a threat to Manchester United?

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