God Of Football

Bab 6

Stereotypes are indeed terrifying.

If Ye Chen were a new trial player, everyone would think he was amazing with such a performance, a true genius striker!

But Ye Chen had been here for over a year; it was his second year now.

In everyone's impression, he was just someone with decent speed, average skills, and terrible shooting.

Suddenly performing so well, everyone would only think it was luck!

Just as Solskjaer said.

How to describe Ye Chen before? More like a sparring partner.

The club signed him for a simple reason; the manager even privately discussed it with Solskjaer, informing him that the reason for signing Ye Chen was merely to open up the China market.

So, no matter how he performed, it didn't matter.

Originally, Dong Fangzhuo's failure made Manchester United uninterested in Chinese players, but Real Madrid, Juve, and other teams' several Asia tours made them feel a sense of crisis.

How to continuously maintain their team's competitiveness in the Asia region?

Especially in a populous country like China!

The simplest way was to buy players from their country, but work permits were a very troublesome issue, which led them to think of the youth training system.

After all, players need work permits to play for England teams, but youth training is unrestricted.

At least before he turns 21, he can play for Manchester United even without registration.

Of course, Manchester United did keep Ye Chen because he showed a certain talent; in terms of speed and explosiveness, even young European players might not be better than him.

This also involved another consideration: even if Ye Chen was not wanted in the future, selling him back to a Chinese domestic team could still make a profit!

No matter what, they wouldn't lose money.

After all, the boss is from the United States, and he's very shrewd with his calculations.

In fact, the influence of Chinese Super League teams has been expanding in recent years, especially Guangzhou Evergrande, with Boss Xu increasing his investment!

And in these few years, not only Evergrande, but other teams will also wave their checkbooks to attract excellent players globally.

Especially in 2017, Oscar transferred to Shanghai SIPG for 60 million euro, and was offered an annual salary of 24 million euro!

This deal shocked the world and showed other countries China's economic strength!

Of course, it's only 2011 now...

Back to Carrington Training Base.

After scoring, Ye Chen held up three fingers and ran towards the corner flag, directly having a close encounter with Januzaj!

These three goals were a perfect collaboration between Ye Chen and Januzaj.

Januzaj completed an assist hat-trick, and Ye Chen scored three consecutive goals, completing the first hat-trick of his life!

"You were truly amazing today! If you're always this good in the future, you'll definitely get a formal Manchester United contract!" Januzaj exclaimed, hugging Ye Chen.

Ye Chen smiled, "It's okay, even if I don't play for Manchester United, other places will want me!"

In fact, Ye Chen already had a plan in mind.

As a world-class club, Manchester United is very difficult to play for; take the current first team, for example, there are as many as five forwards.

Besides Rooney, there are also Owen, Dimitar Berbatov, Hernandez, and Welbeck, not to mention players like Bebe from the reserve team; there are too many players, but only two positions on the field.

This is with Ferguson habitually playing two strikers; sometimes when he changes to a single striker, many people don't get to play.

Ye Chen can't possibly compete for a spot with Owen, the 'Wind-Chasing Youth,' can he?

So, as a 17-year-old youngster, Ye Chen is highly likely to be loaned out...

Just like De Bruyne in his early days.

And this year, Manchester United will finish second in the League due to an inferior goal difference, and Ferguson's most direct approach will be to buy Van Persie from Arsenal.

In such a situation, for Ye Chen to compete for playing time with these world-class forwards?

Not very realistic!

Unless the system now rewards Ye Chen with a Ronaldo template or something...

So, Ye Chen was already prepared to leave!

And there was the most important point: Ye Chen felt that his body was not yet strong enough to establish himself in the Premier League.

Don't forget, his previous life's career was cut short by injuries, so it's inevitable for him to have these worries.

As a transmigrator, Ye Chen felt he should first level up, and then consider whether to enter a super League like the Premier League... a path like Pogba's or De Bruyne's would be most suitable.

After all, the Premier League encourages physical confrontation, while other Leagues, especially La Liga, are much better.

Back to the training match.

When the game restarted, Team B's players defended even more resolutely.

After all, they had never led Team A by two goals before.

On the contrary, Team A's players started to get anxious one by one.

The next game was against Liverpool, and if they didn't perform well, whether they could play in the next match was questionable!

But time passed bit by bit, and Team A still couldn't find an opportunity.

Solskjaer, however, had been observing Ye Chen, and he noticed that Ye Chen's every run was very "smart."

Especially his judgment of the ball's landing point, which was very accurate.

Could it be that it wasn't all luck? But rather... he had a breakthrough?

Solskjaer frowned deeply, and finally, Chris, acting as the temporary referee, blew the whistle for the end of the match.

"Yay!!! We won!!!!"

"We won!! We really won!"

"Incredible, we beat Team A!!"

"Ye, you're amazing!!!"

Team B's players celebrated excitedly.

Ye Chen also immediately found Januzaj, who assisted him, "Adnan, how was it? I didn't lie to you this time, did I?"

Januzaj smiled, glanced at Solskjaer on the coaching bench, "I wonder if the boss will let us into the squad for the match against Liverpool?"

"Huh?"

Only then did Ye Chen realize that in three days, Manchester United U18 would face Liverpool U18 at Old Trafford!

This was a big event!

You know, Manchester United is the most influential team in the Premier League; even U18 matches are broadcast live.

Many matches even have thousands of fans buying tickets to watch.

This is the influence of the Red Devils Manchester United!

But none of this was urgent; Ye Chen put the matter out of his mind and slowly walked up to Byerly, "Convinced?"

"You were just lucky!" Byerly gritted his teeth and said fiercely.

He was furious.

But he could only rage powerlessly!

"Exactly, long-range shots inherently have an element of luck!" Pearson, standing nearby, also chimed in.

Ye Chen smiled, "Don't tell me all that nonsense; did you lose? Is it time to fulfill your promise?"

Byerly suddenly sprang up from the ground, glaring at Ye Chen, "Don't go too far!"

"Exactly, you're going too far!"

"Forgive and forget!"

"Ye, just let it go, we're all teammates!"

Looking at these peacemaking teammates, Ye Chen's eyes were extremely cold.

Ye Chen had also had conflicts with Byerly before, but what about then?

Every one of them either kicked him when he was down or mocked him from the side.

Now they want him to spare Byerly?

"All of you shut up! You weren't like this when Ye lost before!" Before Ye Chen could speak, Januzaj roared.

This Januzaj is truly someone to rely on; when there's trouble, he really steps up!

Byerly clenched his fists; he was already struggling to control himself.

But Manchester United has clear rules!

No one cares about bets or squabbles, but fighting is a different matter entirely.

But Ye Chen spoke, sneering, "Is this what an Irishman is like?"

To those who draw swords against me, I will return with swords!

Byerly used to bully him, and after doing it so much, it became a habit.

But who knew, today there was a complete reversal!

"All Chinese people are my dads..."

"What did you say?" Ye Chen looked at Byerly with disdain.

"All Chinese people are my dads!"

"Say it again, I can't hear you!"

"All Chinese people are my dads!"

He didn't want to tarnish Ireland's reputation because of himself!

So... he admitted defeat!

Ye Chen's smile grew even brighter, "Good boy."

This feeling, it's so satisfying!