champion godfather

Chapter 758 Volume [-] The Troubles of Crimson Super Ibby

The only light source in the dim video projection room came from the big screen directly in front of it, and the heavy curtains were closed tightly, making the room feel like night.The German that kept ringing in the room was completely incomprehensible to Tang En, but it didn't matter. He could know what the commentator was talking about just by completing it in his head. I hear a word over and over again in German:

"Ibisevic!"

Every time the passionate commentator calls out the person's name, a goal is born on the screen.

Sometimes the narrators don't call it that way, they'll yell, "Super Ibby!"

But no matter what you call the tall player on the screen, he's always scoring goals.

He shoots vigorously, he jumps to head the ball, he leans on the opponent's defender and turns around to volley...

"Although just watching the highlights, any player will become a powerful character like Pele and Maradona. But at least we can know what the opponent's strengths are. He is very good at scoring goals." After watching the video, the screen went dark, and the room plunged into darkness.Tang En spoke in the dark. "Also let me ask, is there no one sitting next to the switch?"

"Just the three of us, Tony, Don and I are still by your side." Chris Lark's voice sounded in the darkness. "In addition, the data shows that his assists are also very good."

"Okay, I'll go..." Tang En knocked down the chair next to him just as he stood up, he ouched, and then cursed, "Damn chair!"

Tang thoughtfully took out his mobile phone to illuminate Tang En, but the light was too weak.

Tang En didn't fumble any more, he stretched out his feet and kicked over everything in front of him. In a daze, he walked to the switch and turned on the light in the room.The snow-white light leaked down, causing the three people present to squint their eyes.

The room was in a mess, with several chairs lying in disorder.

Only then did Dunn help them up and put them away again.

"Back to the topic just now. What do you think of this person?"

Don didn't say a word, but Chris Lack shook his head and said, "We watched the video of him a season ago, and his performance in that season was a miracle. But Tony, the Bundesliga often produces these 'civilian shooters' who can only be popular for one season." ', look at what he did last season, he was nothing like the video. I don't like him."

Tang En didn't express his opinion, but just cast his eyes on Tang.

"This is an adventure, Tony." Tang's words were simple, but he didn't explicitly object.To be honest, he couldn't make up his mind.

Tang En nodded: "I can understand your concerns. In the 08-09 season, he scored 37 goals by himself, and almost broke Gerd Muller's record of 3000 goals in a single season. It is absolutely miraculous. Performance. Looking at the performance of that season alone, we may not be able to buy it even with 09 million. However, his performance in the 10-[-] season is completely incomprehensible. He only scored ten goals in one season... and the previous one The performances of the seasons have been very different."

"Why are we watching tapes of him when you know all about it?" Chris Lark asked.

"Because I don't think this person's success was accidental. On the contrary, his strange performance last season was accidental." Tang En laughed. "I like the story behind him, I like his character, I think it's definitely not luck that he was able to succeed, and there are many reasons for his poor performance last season - one is the set that Lenny designed for Hoffenheim. The tactics have been thoroughly studied by the Bundesliga team. Hoffenheim is not a newly promoted team, but a team participating in the Champions League. Naturally, no one will underestimate them. Ibisevic was heavily marked by the opponent, which somewhat limited his performance; third, the multi-line battle made the Hoffenheim team exhausted and in poor condition, which affected the number of Ibisevic's goals ; The fourth is injuries. He was injured once last season, and after two months of rest, he could no longer find his status. Mastered. So I don't think his sharp drop in goals last season has anything to do with his personal ability... Do you want to hear why I am optimistic about him?"

Chris Lark nodded.

"Psychology." Tang En withdrew the three fingers he raised just now, leaving only one. "Why do I say that his success is not accidental? Look at his experience in low-level leagues and as a substitute, those are valuable assets for a striker, his mentality is very good, and he has never given up on being an excellent player Killer effort. This is very important. Bayern Munich's leading striker Luca Toni also had a bad time before Fiorentina became famous, but he finally broke out. I believe Ibisevic can become the second Luca Toni. Just He needs a wider stage, and Hoffenheim is no longer suitable for him. No matter how rich the boss is, he will never be richer than the UAE royal family. Manchester City has not won any championship after spending so much money. Hoffenheim No. I think Nottingham Forest is a new big stage suitable for him to play to the fullest."

"Also, thanks to his poor performance last season, it shouldn't cost us much money to sell now. And as a Bosnian who lived in the United States, he can also speak fluent English. Come to England to play football, there is no Any language issues, it will help him integrate better and faster. The striker is the one who needs to adapt to the style of the team as soon as possible, which is good for him and us."

Chris Rack looked at Tang En: "Actually, you've already made up your mind, haven't you?"

Tang En smiled and said, "Don't say that, David. I always want to hear your opinions."

"You've said everything you need to say, what else can we say. Right, Don?" Chris Lark turned to ask Don who was sitting next to him.

"Tony believes that a player's mental quality determines his achievements." Tang replied. "I have reservations. But as an assistant coach, I support the job of the manager."

Tang En clapped his hands, "Then it's a deal! Let our people check out Hoffenheim tomorrow!"

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Hoffenheim, a small village with a floating population of only 300 people, belongs to the city of Sinsheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, but in fact Sinsheim is not a big city, although It is a city, not much different from a "town".After the train passes Sinsheim Station, it is a monorail, a veritable small station.

But it was such an inconspicuous little place that set off a whirlwind in the Bundesliga and European football in the 08-09 season.They participated in the Bundesliga as newly promoted horses and for the first time in history, and achieved good results in the league runner-up. The team's top scorer Wedard Ibisevic became the top scorer in the Bundesliga that season and won the European Gold Award. Boot Awards.

It was a crazy season.After the end of the season, all the players of the Hoffenheim team attracted looting from German and European teams.

But the club owner, Dietmar_Hopp, owner of the European software giant "SAP", has ambitions and money.So one person didn't sell it, and he also introduced a number of players to supplement his strength, preparing to show his skills in the European arena in the new season.

Unfortunately, footballs are round...

The results of the team's two-line battle in the new season have all been crushed.

The golden boot Ibisevic, who performed well last season, also seemed to lose his shooting boot overnight. He only scored ten goals in the league, and only scored three goals in the European Champions Cup, which is far from what everyone expected of him. Far.

Regarding his sudden outbreak and silence again, even the team coach Rangnick couldn't figure it out: "Why can he score 37 goals in one season and only ten goals in another season. It's like scoring five goals in a single season in B, I don't understand."

Don't talk about him, Ibisevic himself doesn't understand.He believes that he has made great progress compared to before, at least after a successful debut season in the Bundesliga, his confidence has been greatly strengthened and consolidated.In terms of technology, there is absolutely no such thing as regressing, so what made me suddenly lose my state?

Perhaps this will become one of the famous unsolved mysteries of German football...

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It only takes ten minutes to drive from Sinsheim to Hoffenheim, and the distance between the two is really short enough.

After Wedard Ibisevic drove his car into Hoffenheim, he would often meet oncoming Hoffenheim villagers to greet him.This is a peaceful small village...even if the people here experienced the first European Champions League trip in history last season.

But Ibisevic is not in the mood to say hello to the fans who like him one by one.He has his own troubles.

Just before driving to Dietmar Hope Stadium for practice, he got a call from his agency, Stars & Friends'.

Someone from the brokerage company asked him on the phone if he was interested in switching to another club to play.

He had received many such calls last summer.Manchester United, Inter Milan, Bayern Munich, Barcelona... European giants have come almost all over the place, all with one purpose - to take him away from the small village of Hoffenheim.

At that time, he still had a one-year contract with the club, but he rejected them all and chose to renew the contract with the club until 2013.He was successful at Hoffenheim, he was happy, and he couldn't think of a reason to leave.Is it just because Hoffenheim is a little smaller?But I like life in the quiet country.Sinsheim can sell all the daily necessities I need, and I don't think big cities have any advantages over Sinsheim.

But a year later, I don't know if he will regret the choice at that time.

In the new season, he did not see what he hoped to see at all.His form and the form of the team were in decline, Hoffenheim's grand plans were not going smoothly and Hope's ambitions had suffered a setback.He has also been dubbed "the most dazzling shooting star in Bundesliga history".

Those giant teams who were interested in him all withdrew without exception.The number of scouts appearing in the stands of the Rhein-Neckar Stadium is dwindling, and everyone shakes their heads and sighs that he is another Mintal-"Scoring goals for a lifetime in one season."

The biggest problem is not that there are fewer goals, but that he doesn't know why.

Before the injury, there was nothing wrong with his body. The routine physical examination in the team before the start of the season made the team doctors click their tongues and praised him as strong as a cow.

In the middle of the season, German media reported that Ibisevic's mentality was out of balance-he hoped to get the team's first salary and related treatment, and at the same time some scandals outside the field also interfered with his normal training.He scoffed at that.Only he himself knows what his state of mind is in this world.He has never relaxed his demands on himself because of his success last season.Because of the years of wandering in the low-level European leagues, he has long understood one thing: there will be no good things in the world, and the success of one euro requires the payment of [-] million euros.

Perhaps injuries can explain some of that?But that wasn't an injury serious enough to threaten his career.No professional football player has ever been injured while playing football.If he will sink completely after one injury, then he is not suitable to be a professional player.Ibisevic doesn't see himself as that.

After returning from injury, he still practiced extra half an hour of shooting for himself after training every day, and he had no complaints about the arrangement of head coach Rangnick.But he and Rangnick fell into an inexplicable crisis-after that season, he was no longer the "Super Ibi" who made the Bundesliga powers frightened, more often he was just between wasting opportunities and looking for opportunities Wandering, the team lost its qualification for the UEFA Cup, and there were rumors that Rangnick would be fired early by Hope in the middle of the season.

It's another summer and the transfer market is in full swing.Ibisevic, who made the whole of Europe crazy last summer, was suddenly "snubbed in front of the goal". There are still teams interested in him, but they are all second-rate teams.Going to such a team might as well stay in Hoffenheim looking for opportunities to prove themselves again.

But a completely different name was mentioned in the call from the brokerage company today - Nottingham Forest.

He knew that team, and the history of the late 70s and early 80s was too far away for him, but in the summer of 2007 and 2008, the red team won the European Champions Cup for two consecutive years and became the champion. The first team to successfully defend the title after the Cup restructuring.At that time, it was famous all over the world, and it was in the limelight for a while.During that time, Hoffenheim was still working hard in the Bundesliga [-] and Bundesliga [-]. Mr. Rothaus, the general manager of the club, always used Tony Twain's team to motivate this young blue and white team. Team - "One day, we will become a team like Nottingham Forest! This is by no means an impossible dream!"

They almost made it...

Later, when the head coach Tony Twain suffered a heart attack, this team, known for being good at creating miracles, suddenly lost its aura of miracles, and even lost the chance to participate in European competitions.It was not until the final stage of last season that they narrowly squeezed out Chelsea and qualified for the European Champions Cup next season.

At that time, he just felt that this team was very similar to his own experience, but he never thought that he would receive an invitation from Nottingham Forest.

He told the brokerage firm that he had to seriously think about it.Now he would not say confidently: "I just want to fulfill the contract with the current club."

Maybe a new place can make new changes?There is such a voice in the deepest part of his heart.

(End of this chapter)