Chapter 90 Volume 2 The Sky of Nottingham Investing in the Future (Part 1)

The next afternoon, Dunn and Chris Lark met Dumpty and his son Gareth Bell at the Forest team's youth training camp.

"I'm really worried that you guys won't come." Tang En was very happy to see the father and son.

"Why don't we come? Of course we will come. I have great confidence in my son's ability. He is a genius!" Humpty Dumpty shouted and shook hands with Dunn and Chris Rack.

"Yes. But we still have to do a little test." Chris Rack was business-like. Before meeting the father and son, Tang En told him about it. He was worried that Tang En might pick it up from the street on a whim A bull who can't play football comes.

The father seemed a little displeased with Chris Lak's indifferent attitude: "What? Do you look down on my son's ability?"

Tang En hurriedly came out to talk to each other, "Coach Chris Lack is serious and responsible, your son can be trained under him to make you feel more at ease. All right, all right, let's go..."

The content of the test is very ordinary, complete some technical movements according to the coach's requirements, and then accept a simple experience, if everything is qualified, you can sign the contract on the spot.

The test lasted for half an hour, and Dunn tried his best to keep no expression on his face, or maintain a faint smile... To be honest, he was a little disappointed seeing Bell's performance, but Chris Lark didn't say anything. Don't hold out much hope.

This was completely different from the Bell in Tang En's impression.

Unlike ordinary FM players, although he did learn about this Welsh kid from the game, but in order to obtain a more intuitive impact, he once searched for videos about this kid playing football on famous foreign video sites. What impressed Tang En the most was Bell's precise free kick with his left foot.

Tricky angles, powerful momentum, fast speed, and long distances are all characteristics of Bell's free kicks. The first goal he scored in Southampton and the Welsh national team was a direct free kick.

During the test, Dunn specifically asked Bell to shoot a free kick. His reaction was a bit confused, completely eager to try without showing his unique skills. Seeing this, Tang En was a little strange, and the performance of the subsequent test made Tang En even more puzzled - why did the left back who was so good at free kicks in his memory seem to have never kicked free kicks...

If it wasn't for the fact that this kid's left foot technique was really outstanding, Tang En might have thought that he had found the wrong person. Having said that, to find two people with the same name, the same surname, the same city, the same year, the same month, the same day, the same day, and the same face... This is really not so difficult.

Fifteen minutes later, the physical examination report was also delivered to Twain. Holding this report and the previous test report, Twain asked Bell and his son to wait outside for a while, and then walked into the office with Chris Lack and team doctor Fleming .

The door was ajar, and the three of them got together to discuss the result.

Chris Lark asked Dunn: "Tony, what do you think?"

Tang En shook his head: "I want to hear your opinions first."

"I think it can be signed, but I don't know whether I can become an excellent player." Chris Lack expressed his inner worries, "This kid has average abilities in all aspects, and his physical fitness is not too bad. Barely met the requirements of the players."

Fleming nodded beside him, agreeing with Chris Lark. "Not good, not bad."

"In that case, it's up to me to make the decision..." Tang En walked to the door and observed the situation outside through the gap in the door.

Gareth Bell, it is indeed that person, that's right, appearance, age, place of origin, preferred foot... But why is the situation so different? Could it be that because of his arrival, the world really had ripples, pushing the things he was familiar with a little bit away from their original positions?

Humpty Dumpty seemed to be comforting Bell, who was not very emotional. The child is sensitive, and maybe he already knew that he did not perform well in this test. It was his carefree father who was patting the child on the head and encouraging him. Tang En couldn't hear what he said, but he could imagine what it was - "My son must be a genius! Trust your dad! When did dad ever lie to you?"

It's another father and son...

Looking at them, for some reason, Tang En thought of another father and son. Michael and his wife should have started a new life in the United States now, and maybe they will never have the chance to meet again...

Tang En turned back to Chris Lack and Fleming and said, "Sign him, I believe he won't disappoint us."

Chris Rack nodded: "Okay, I'll get the apprenticeship contract."

Tang En pushed open the door, and the three of them walked out of the office. The Humpty Dumpty looked up at Tang En: "What are you muttering inside? Do you need a round table meeting to sign my son? Let me tell you, my son is a genius! If you don't want him, you will regret it sooner or later!"

That's right, Fatty. Southampton will regret it in a few years... if they remember having such a number one in their youth team.

"Mr. Bell, before that, I want to tell you and your son a story, are you interested?"

The father and son looked at Tang En suspiciously. They didn't know why Tang En did this. Is it okay or not? Telling stories? Appetite?

Dad shook his head in disagreement, but the son nodded.

"Ah! I listen to you, son." The fat man immediately changed his mind.

Tang En looked at this interesting pair of father and son and laughed. Humpty Dumpty glared at him: "What are you laughing at, do you have any stories to tell?"

"Well, it's like this... Shaun`Wright-Phillips (Shaun`Wright-Phillips), have you heard of this name?"

Both nodded, and Bale's father added: "The little man of Manchester City."

"Yes. He did a good job in Manchester City. But do you know that he was actually cultivated by our Forest team?"

Bell and his son shook their heads.

"Although his family is in London, he travels to Nottingham every week for training. However, Paul Hart, the Forest team's youth director at the time, told him one day that considering that he was too far away from home to train, it was not good for his development. , so I hope he changes to another club... Do you know what this sentence means?"

Bell's father nodded: "To put it simply, that little dwarf was driven away."

"That's right. Coach Hart thought that Sean Wright Phillips was in poor health and couldn't adapt to professional football at all, so he made such an excuse to drive him away. I didn't expect this kid to go to Nottingham later. Manchester, which is further away from London. So far, he has represented Manchester City for one and a half seasons in the Premier League, one season in the League One, and eighty-five games. Hart once told me..." In fact, Tang En didn't know Hart Whether he has ever told his former self, but this does not prevent him from weaving it into the story. "Even if he brings out a star like Jenas, letting go of Sean Wright Phillips is still his greatest regret. I have said so much, but I just want to tell you... the mistakes Coach Hart made, It won't happen to me, Twain."

He saw that Walker had returned with the contract, so he reached out and patted Gareth Bell on the shoulder: "Work hard here, kid. You will succeed."

Bell nodded vigorously, even if he didn't talk much compared to normal people, maybe the father who always liked to chatter had finished talking.

After signing the contract in Tang En's office, Tang En reached out and shook Bell's hand. "Very good, you belong to me now, say goodbye to your father." Then he waved to Bell's father, and said in a childish voice, "Goodbye, Daddy! I won't miss you!"

Everyone in the room laughed, and Bell, who had been sullen because of nervousness, finally smiled. With sharp eyes and quick hands, Tang En took out his mobile phone to take a picture of this moment, and then handed the mobile phone to Bell before everyone could figure it out, so that he could see his own smile on it. "what do you think?"

Bell didn't speak, his father leaned over and curled his lips: "It's too blurry, shaking."

"But you can tell he's smiling, can't you?" Tang En took a sip of water. Chris Lak and Fleming suddenly realized that yes, since they saw the father and son today, they have never seen the child smile.

"Gareth, would you like some advice from me?"

Bell nodded.

"First of all, I hope you will switch to playing left back from today. As for the reason, I will give you a detailed explanation later." After the test, Dunn discovered that Gareth Bell was not playing left back, but left forward. But in Tang En's eyes, letting this kid play as a left midfielder is tantamount to wasting half of the left corridor. He hopes to train Bell to become a character like Robert Carlos in Real Madrid. The road is his.

Bell hesitated for a moment, but nodded in acceptance.

"Secondly, I want you to try to practice free kicks, I think you have the talent for that."

Chris Rack looked at Tang En who said this. When this kid was doing the free kick test just now, he was right next to him, but he didn't see any talent at all. He didn't understand why Tang En was always obsessed with letting Bell take a free kick.

Bell also agreed.

"Finally." Tang En raised the corners of his mouth with both hands, forming an upward arc at both ends, "I hope you are more like this, smiling and confident."

As for this, Bell did not immediately nod in agreement. He looked down at his toes, and then said in a low voice, "They laughed at me for looking like a monkey..."