Chapter 27: Letter from the UK

"Alonmitchel! Beautiful extraordinary people got rid of him. He drifted past the goalkeeper and easily sent the football into the empty goal! The ball went in! Nottingham Forest led Lyon 2:0 at home, and they have basically entered the finals!"

The appliance area in the supermarket is broadcasting tonight's Champions League semi-finals live on the TV. There are not many people watching the game there because the semi-finals have nothing to do with their country's teams. The people who came in to visit the supermarket just glanced at it and left. Only one person always stood in front of the TV and watched the game.

When Chen Jian went out, he forgot that today was the final of the Championship Cup in Nottingham Forest. He originally wanted to buy some daily necessities in the supermarket, but by chance he went to the home appliance area and couldn't move.

He hasn't watched Nottingham Forest's game for a long time. He is in the Netherlands and only cares about the team he plays for. Nottingham Forest is too far away from him.

Today I didn't expect to meet my parent team by chance in the supermarket.

So he stopped and wanted to see the Forest team's game.

He started to watch from the 11th minute of the first half and kept standing and seeing now. The Forests led Lyon 2:0 and he didn't plan to watch anymore. Nottingham Forest would definitely advance to the finals, and there was no sign that Lyon could turn the tables in the whole game. There was no suspense in the game, and there was no need to continue watching.

Chen Jian turned around and left the place with the thing he had just bought. The noise from the city court was still ringing in the TV. The sound was getting farther and farther away from Chen Jian, and soon he could not hear anything.

Name: Chen Jian.

Nationality: China.

Age: twenty-three years old.

On-court position: midfielder, defensive midfielder, right back.

Current team: Warrendham, Netherlands.

Chen Jian was loaned to Warren Dam from Nottingham Forest two seasons ago, when Warren Dam was still in the second division.

In fact, Chen Jian was not a player that Warren Dam urgently needed. At that time, what Warren Dam needed was the striker and defender, not the midfielder. Chen Jian basically forced Warren Dam to Warren Dam because Warren Dam was the Forest's satellite club. Because Chen Jian once played a guest role as a right back, so it was barely in line with Warren Dam's needs.

Because of this relationship, he was not very happy at Warrendam at the beginning, or he did not receive any attention. On the one hand, he was forced to Warrendam by his parent team, and on the other hand, because he is a Chinese, as a player who is not from a developed country in football, his nationality is very unconvincing.

So in the teams in the DPRK, he could only play for a few minutes occasionally, and played in garbage time to deal with Warrendam's requirements for the playing time of the loan player. And he was still playing at the right-back position where he was not very good at. His performance was not very good. This strengthened the determination of those who were not optimistic about him. Even the Chinese media gradually lost interest in him and rarely saw news about him in the Chinese media. Chen Jian, who was originally a "member of the European Championship team", quickly lost this halo and had no news value.

In this case, Chen Jian spent the first half of the season. His fate turned out to be due to large injuries in the midfield. He was finally remembered by the head coach that he could still play in the midfield...

That was his first starter. More than two years later, Chen Jian could no longer remember the details of the game, but he still remembered that he was named the best on the spot after the game.

He showed a kind of eye-catching wisdom in the midfield. He was clean and timely in defense and had clear offense. It is rare for players who can keep their minds clear on the court. Especially in leagues of the Dutch League.

Since then, Chen Jian's status has changed. He has taken Warren Dam's main midfielder step by step. After the first season, he returned to Nottingham Forest. He handed over Warren Dam's transfer application. But after Don Ng watched his game in the Netherlands, he refused Warren Dam's transfer request, but said that he could continue to loan Chen Jian to them.

In this way, Chen Jian had not even had time to return the apartment he rented in the Netherlands. He returned to the Netherlands.

The second season was a season worth celebrating for Warren Dam. They successfully rushed to the Dutch League One through a season of hard work.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

Next is Chen Jian’s third season with this team…

After officially becoming a member of Nottingham Forest, he has not even played a game for Nottingham Forest. He has never worn Nottingham Forest's jersey. It is also correct to say that he has little sense of belonging to the Forest team.

He no longer has much to do with the Forest team.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Warren Dam attaches great importance to him and hopes he can transfer. Just a day ago, Warren Dam's manager found him and asked about the Forest team. He told Chen Jian tactfully. If he always rents this way, the team cannot revolve around him. His position in the team will never be determined.

"...No team can be the core player on loan. You are very talented, for three seasons. You have a high tactical fit with us and we have a very tacit understanding. We all love you very much, but..."

Needless to say, Chen Jian can know what it means. The manager is right. If this is the case, Warren Dam will have to abandon him. This season, Warren Dam is deeply trapped in the quagmire of relegation, which has a lot to do with Chen Jian's ambiguous status.

After two seasons of hard work, Chen Jian has proved his strength and has gradually become the center of the midfield of Warren Dam, a small team. But this is not a good thing for Warren Dam, because they cannot make long-term plans and can only play for one season and then watch the next season. In this way, can the team's performance be good?

He was also a little confused. What should he do?

I used to feel satisfied that I could play in the professional league, but I really had higher pursuits and was unwilling to be a flash in the pan. He hoped to stay in this circle. He hoped to obtain a stable environment, neither Nottingham Forest nor Warren Dam today could give him this.

He thought he should show up to coach Tony Donne and leave Nottingham Forest. Go to a team that can give him this kind of environment? He performed well in Warrendam. Several Eredivisie and A-League teams have asked his agent if he intends to change the environment.

He was also hesitating about this matter. It is said that Nottingham Forest has given him a favor. If it weren't for Nottingham Forest, he would have been a security guard somewhere in the country, rather than playing professional football, and enjoy the cheers of the fans at least once a week.

But it is obviously not OK to keep going like this...

These problems have troubled Chen Jian. He has made him a little absent-minded recently. The head coach has already hinted that he will not start the next game.

At this moment, he accidentally saw the Forest Team playing in the supermarket. The long-lost red jersey made him a little dazed.

These people are his teammates, but they have already won a lot of honors. They are still wandering outside and don’t know where home is.

Chen Jian, who went to the training base to participate in training the next day, was called by the head coach to have a separate conversation.   It was no different from the manager's words, but I still hoped that he could consider putting pressure on the club and transfer to Warren Dam.   Although Warren Dam's relegation situation seems to be precarious this season.                                                                               

That's what the head coach said, I don't know how credible it is.

At the end of the conversation, he also gave Chen Jian a small warning: Warren Dam may not continue to loan Chen Jian next season. They will propose to Nottingham Forest to loan a forward and a defender instead of a midfielder. In other words, Chen Jian has to find another way out.

Chen Jian didn't say anything. After hearing this, he did not show his loyalty to the head coach, saying that he loved Warren Dam very much and wanted to stay and help the team overcome difficulties together.

The head coach didn't know what the Chinese was thinking. He had to let him leave. Before leaving, he confirmed something to him that Chen Jian was not on the roster in the weekend league.

Well, he can calm down and think about his future.

After the training, Chen Jian received a call from his agent Mr. Xia. Mr. Xia wanted to talk to Chen Jian about next season and future development. His contract with the Forest team will expire in one year. Whether to renew the contract with the Forest team or change the place. These all require two people to discuss.

Chen Jian agreed.

The team reached the finals, and Donn began to get busy again - he was busy voting tickets. His friends. For example, Gronia, his wife's friends such as Tom Cruise. And even though Michael Bernard, who has decided not to watch the ball again, he will still send it. He doesn't plan to let Michael come, but he has to let Michael know that his favorite team has reached the Champions League final again.

There is also the cute Gavin Bernard, who will go to Gavin's grave to burn the tickets for him.

The remaining tickets that need to be sent are from those players who are loaned out. This is a tradition promoted by Don En. In order to cultivate the players' sense of honor and belong to Nottingham Forest. In fact, this is enough for the special departments within the club to do this, but in order to express sincerity, Don En insists on sending it himself. Each ticket will be accompanied by a brief letter, written by Don En.

These small details reflect his concern for the players to facilitate the win-win hearts.

He did this after he got home. He turned on the desk lamp and spread the paper, and began to write to every wanderer who was wandering around, telling them that the team always pays attention to their performance. As long as they perform well, they will have the opportunity to play for the Forest Team. Finally, I wish them good health. Happy every day. The content is basically all about this, just fill in the names of different people.

This season, there are ten players on loan from the Forest team, the youngest is seventeen years old and the oldest is twenty-three years old.

After he finished writing one, he folded the ticket and put it in the envelope of the corresponding name.

When he picked up the last ticket and looked for the name on it, he saw Chen Jian's Chinese pinyin.

The name of this person stopped his hand.

He still remembers the scene when Chen Jian first came to the Forest Team. At that time, as the third place in a talent show, he was awarded to the Forest Team for training for a year. He also clearly remembers asking Chen Jian on the phone whether he wanted to abandon his current life and come to England to pursue his ideals. How did Chen Jian answer? He also remembers how Chen Jian refused when he gave Chen Jian the first professional contract and asked him to change his nationality.

These things seem to be vivid in my mind yesterday.

Now three years have passed, and Chen Jian’s contract with Nottingham Forest has one more season left. He has to consider what Chen Jian’s future should be...

Should we renew a contract, or will we not renew it when the contract expires? Should we continue to loan him out for training, or will we recruit him back to the team and start from the reserve team game?

Although he did a good job at Warrendam, Warrendam's strength is incomparable to Nottingham Forest's strength, so his performance in Warrendam does not mean that he can meet Nottingham Forest's requirements. Tang En believes that Chen Jian is still not at the level of entering the first team today.

He put down the ticket. He started to write a letter with his pen. He did not use English, but wrote Chinese. He did not use Chinese for many years and was a little unfamiliar. The problem of forgetting words with his pen made him stunned for a long time after picking up his pen. In fact, the more important reason was that he didn't know what he should say to Chen Jian.

What gave Chen Jian hope was himself. But he couldn't care about Chen Jian for the rest of his life.

After thinking for a long time, only one sentence was written on a piece of A4 paper: "Yugong, Taihang, Wangwu Ershan, how did you dig it?"

Then he folded the paper and stuffed it into the envelope with the ball ticket. He patted it gently again. Then he turned off the table lamp and stood up to rest.

Shania was lying on the bed, ready to "create a man". Seeing Tang En take off her clothes, she asked casually: "Write a letter to those players to vote?"

"Yeah." Tang En nodded, "It's the first time in five years, I'm a little unfamiliar, and I'm writing a little slower."

"I'm not in a hurry." Shania lay lazily on the bed and smiled at Tang En. "You don't look too high?"

Tang En took off his clothes and said, "I just wrote a letter to a stupid boy. I thought about it for a long time but didn't know what to say. I wanted to help him, but I was afraid that he would not be able to do anything."

"I'm worried about this..."

Shania suddenly knelt down from the bed and hugged Tang En from behind: "You can give him a chance. Don't you always say that? It's someone else's business to be angry or not, but it's mine to give him a chance."

Tang En felt the warm and soft touch behind him, and his lower body responded.

He turned around and threw Shania on the bed, laughing: "What you said makes sense, so just to thank you..."

A room of spring love.

The next day, Tang En handed all the letters written to the relevant staff of the club and delivered them. Each letter will be delivered by express delivery to each corresponding person in person. It will never be lost.

For most players who are loaned out, the letters in the same envelope as the tickets are just accessories. The head coach said those words that seem enthusiastic and actually treat them equally. Everyone will not be the special one.

"Dear XXX, I have always been paying attention to your performance in XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Except for the different names, the content is the same.

But for one of them, he is the special one.

There was no beginning with "Dear" and no signature at the end. The tone was plain, as if I was asking about something very ordinary.
Chapter completed!