Chapter 20 Dave Jones's Troubles

This year, Wolverhampton team participated in the Premier League. This is great news for both the team and the fans. Being able to gain a foothold in the Premier League is Wolverhampton’s primary goal this season.

Coach Dave Jones is the most important contributor to the team's promotion to the Premier League, so everyone in the club has great trust in him.

As a newly promoted team, Wolverhampton, under his strong advocacy, gathered a group of experienced veterans at the beginning of the season, such as: Irwin (Irish defender during Manchester United's 1999 Treble period), Paul Ince (former England international), Paul Jones (Welsh goalkeeper), Iversen (Norwegian striker who once played for Tottenham) and others.

But now Wolverhampton's performance is not ideal. As of today (November 17), it has only achieved a miserable record of 2 wins, 3 draws, 8 losses and only 9 points, ranking last in the Premier League.

Moreover, what worries Dave even more is the team's injury problem. After just the first few rounds, various injuries began to appear one after another. Paul Ince, Cradola, Butler and six other players are still recovering.

Due to the large number of veteran players, some young players have no chance to play at all, so Gujongsson, Ingmarsson, Prudolic and others are clamoring for transfers. It can be said that the affairs of the first-team players have made Dave Jones, who is only 48 years old, very worried.

Sometimes he even wondered if he was only suitable to be a head coach in the English Championship League, at least there was not so much pressure at that time, and of course he could not get such a high salary...

On the contrary, the Wolverhampton youth team has been advancing triumphantly, winning seven games in a row in the English Youth League. Although the Youth League is only equivalent to the level of the English First Division, Dave Jones, who led the Wolves to compete in the Champions League, knew that this was definitely not a coincidence.

He has also watched some games of this year's youth team. The two young forwards, Pete Cass and Harrison Clarke, are indeed quite good and can be transferred to the first team as supplementary players.

But the player he values ​​most is the main right winger of the youth team - Alan Wang. Wolverhampton's midfielders are not strong, and they really need a striker who is fast and good at long passes to increase the success rate of counterattacks.

And this black-haired boy named Alan Wang meets the requirements very well. According to statistics, in all seven games, this sixteen-year-old oriental boy made 53 long passes and only made seven mistakes. His accuracy rate is quite high. This is also an important reason why Pete Cass and Harrison Clarke, two not-so-outstanding forwards, can sit firmly in the top two of the scorer list in the English Youth League!

So Dave Jones wanted to come and see in person the usual training situation of this young man who shined in the first game and was praised by the fans as the 'Dancing Master of the Islam Stadium', and also transferred three of them directly to the first team.

This will not only win the favor of young players in the youth team and increase their confidence, but also provide a good supplement to the first team, which is really killing two birds with one stone.

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On the training ground, Old Wood was instructing Paul to lead the players in some daily training.

He was really old and could no longer run, and his brain seemed to be unable to keep up recently, so Paul, the 'apprentice' coach who was somewhat likable to him, became the one he ordered around.

Paul was also willing to do so. He was only 31 years old. If he could take over Old Wood's position after his retirement, his future would be bright. He envied Dave Jones very much. As the head coach of the Premier League team Wolverhampton, he was respected wherever he went. Would he be able to take that position one day?

Paul is now working hard every day to learn some coaching experience and prepare for the future. He knows very well that success will never come to those who only dream.

"Beep..." Old Wood next to the court blew the assembly whistle.

The players on the field were all very puzzled. The physical training had just been halfway through. Could it be that old Wood was merciful today and wanted to let them relax?

Turning his head and looking towards the side of the court, next to Old Wood was a middle-aged man. He was a little thin, wearing an open-necked suit that revealed the light blue lining underneath. His graying hair was a little loose, and he had a pair of dark purple sunglasses hanging around his neck.

This is Dave Jones, the first team coach! What is he doing here with the youth team? Everyone is looking forward to this...

After the players gathered, Old Wood divided them into groups for an intra-squad training match. This made the youth team players excited. They knew that if they performed well, they could be directly transferred to the first team!

However, Pete Cass and Harrison Clark knew that they were here to watch the team training match, but it was just a cover to appease other youth team players. CEO Jose Moxey had already informed them that they and Alan would definitely be transferred to the first team this year. You know, Dave Jones was only the third person in the Wolverhampton team, so the two of them did not have any pressure.

Old Wood and the other two were standing beside the court and chatting happily. As for the game on the field, Dave didn't have the leisure to watch such a low-level confrontation. The level of Pete and the other two on the field was not very strong at the moment, and they could only play as substitutes in the first team.

"Mr. Wood, why is Alan Wang missing? Didn't he come to training today?" Dave asked in confusion after discovering that his target was not on the field.

In fact, Old Wood was also very puzzled by this. Allen had never asked for leave since he came to Wolverhampton, and he usually performed very well, and he had never been late! He also insisted on completing all the training every time, which was definitely a model in the youth team.

But today Thomas told him that Alan had something to do and needed to take a day off. It was really strange. What could happen to this black-haired boy who stayed in the club all day?

But in order to make a good impression on the young head coach before Alan was transferred to the first team, he smiled and said, "Mr. Dave, Alan had some urgent matters at home today, so he went back to London. When he comes back, I will let him report to the first team immediately."

After hearing this, Dave didn’t think about it in other ways. It was mainly because Old Wood was old and cunning. His expression was too deceptive. He didn’t blush or feel nervous when he lied. Even though his wrinkled face didn’t show it even when he blushed…

"Okay, then please tell Pete and Harrison to come to my office right after training."

"Well, I will tell them the good news."

"Then I'll be leaving first. The team's performance hasn't been very good recently, and I don't have much free time."

"Goodbye, then."

After getting the information he wanted to know, Dave hurried back to the office. Originally, the matter would have passed, but...;