Chapter 7: A Son of Heaven and a Courtier (Part II)

Born on 19 April 1987 in Schlusbury, Shropshire, Joe Hart played for his hometown side Shetsebury as a child, but it wasn't until the 2005-06 season that he made a lot of playing opportunities for the team. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

On 7 February 2006, Hart was named PFA Fans' Choice Player of the Month for January and was named to the 2005-06 League Two PFA Team of the Year at the PFA Awards on 23 March.

In Arthur's previous life, Manchester City brought in the future Three Lions goalkeeper in the summer of 2006 for a measly £600,000, but in this life, under Arthur's intervention, they are only in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League, they simply cannot compete with the English hegemony of the past few seasons, and can only be a conversion target.

Lippi, who has coached excellent goalkeepers such as Gianluigi Buffon, is also very optimistic about Joe Hart, telling the media: "Hart is a young goalkeeper, he did well in the league last season and showed great potential for development. ”

Arthur knows Joe Hart's potential, but he didn't bring in Joe Hart for his own use, because even Hart in his prime can't compare to the unhelmeted Cech, and the England goalkeeper is nervous from time to time, Arthur is really not at ease.

With Petr Cech, a goalkeeper he can rely on for the next decade, Joe Hart's presence is just Arthur's exchange for a high-priced transfer fee, so his future is in other teams, and Blackburn Rovers can only be on loan.

After robbing Joe Hart, a future Three Lions international, Blackburn Rovers have announced that last season's third goalkeeper Lewis has moved to Birmingham, who have struggled in the Championship this season, for a transfer fee of £800,000.

The 19-year-old came through the Blackburn Rovers academy and is England's Under-21 goalkeeper at 196cm, but last season as the team's third goalkeeper behind Petr Cech and Barthez struggled to get a chance to play.

Arthur doesn't like to trap young players who don't get the opportunity to play in the team, as that would be a waste of the club's wages and a drain on the talent of the young players.

A young man like Lewis who was once able to be England's main goalkeeper for the Under-21 is naturally talented, but if he has to keep Blackburn Rovers as the third goalkeeper who cannot play, then it will definitely be useless.

For example, Helen Pierce, who once contributed to Blackburn's return to the Premier League in the first year of his return to the Premier League, although the current Everton leading scorer is also a striker in the Premier League, but if it weren't for Arthur's nod and release, the other party would have been unknown.

On the day of the announcement of Lewis's departure, Blackburn Rovers had already begun their official pre-season preparations, and it was also announced that Blackburn's transfer door was completely closed this summer. In addition to Lewis' eventual move to Birmingham, Blackburn have also announced a number of player changes, with two players on loan.

One of them, naturally, is Joe Hart, who has been with the team for less than a week.

Lewis, a former England Under-21 goalkeeper, will not be able to play at Blackburn Rovers and Joe Hart will not be able to avoid such a dilemma, so loan is his best situation.

Under Blackburn's management, Joe Hart will be on loan at League One side Tranmere for the upcoming season, but Blackburn have the right to terminate his loan contract by giving Tranmere a week's notice if both Petr Cech and Barthez are unable to play due to injury.

In addition to Joe Hart, who was loaned out without even figuring out the Blackburn dressing room, there is another player who will be loaned out for Blackburn Rovers this season, and that is Chen Tao, a midfielder from China.

Chen Tao, a player that many die-hard Chinese fans will only think is familiar to him, but in 2005, he was the hottest young player in China.

Even after being in contact with young stars such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Arjen Robben and Bentley, Arthur still believes that Chen Tao in 2005 has the potential to become a world-class star in the future - super organizational ability, and his unique free kick can be said to be a weakened version of Ozil.

Arthur always believes that the Chinese youth team at the 2005 World Youth Championships is not afraid of Brazil and Argentina's super existence!

If you haven't watched that competition, you may think Arthur is. But that year's Crowford's Chinese youth team was the happiest in Arthur's previous life.

I remember that China defeated Turkey 2:1; won 3:2 against Ukraine; defeated the weak team Panama 4:1, and won all three games to qualify for the group stage. In the quarterfinals against Germany, the Chinese team was beaten by Germany twice in the quarterfinals, and the Chinese team, which tried its best at the last moment, was physically exhausted and was killed by Germany, and finally ranked tenth, the best team in Asia.

Most of those players are still active in the eyes of Chinese fans even after many years, but they are far from being able to compete with the opponents they have defeated.

Why is that?

Chen Tao, Feng Xiaoting, Zhao Xuri, Zhou Haibin, Dong Fangzhuo, Zhu Ting, Mao Biao, Yuan Weiwei, Tan Wangsong, Gao Lin, Cui Peng, Hao Junmin...... They all came out of the 2005 World Junior Championships!

Once upon a time, Chen Tao was one of the most high-profile young players in China, and he was once regarded as one of the most skilled domestic players. At the 2005 World Youth Championships, Chen Tao was the attacking core of the team, and his two goals almost helped the national youth team eliminate the strong German team.

In Arthur's previous life, after the World Youth Championships, Chen Tao's development also came to a standstill. Because of his desire to stay abroad, he had an unpleasant quarrel with his old club Jinde, which made him banned for a time, and he was depressed when he was not favored by Blazevic in Shenhua. Transferred to Tianjin TEDA, Chen Tao once regained his glory on the field under Alihan, and he was able to return to the national team lineup. However, the good times did not last long, and in the last year in Tianjin, Chen Tao was also estranged from the team.

After moving to Dalian Albin, Chen Tao rarely appeared in the position he was best at, and although he became the captain of the team, his form also dropped significantly from his peak. With Dalian Albin relegated to the Chinese Super League, Chen Tao had no choice but to bid farewell to the Chinese Super League stage. In Dalian Yifang's upcoming new season training lineup, Chen Tao regrettably failed to be selected, and his future is full of more uncertainty.

Looking back on these years, no one has ever doubted Chen Tao's strength, and what really slowed him down was not only some objective factors in Chinese football, but also his own personality and injuries.

However, as a regret of Arthur's previous life about Chinese football, within the scope of his ability, Arthur still helped Chen Tao, at least to solve the latter's dream of staying abroad.

For other European clubs, it is more difficult to deal with Shenyang Jinde, a Chinese football club, and it is even more difficult to bring in Chen Tao, who was included in the 2005 World Youth Championship team with Messi, at a low price, but for Arthur's Blackburn, it is not a problem.

With the help of Dalian Shide Club, which has established a good relationship with Sun Jihai and co-building youth training, Blackburn successfully introduced Chen Tao in March this year at a "sky-high price" of 1 million pounds, equivalent to 14 million yuan.

It's just that Chen Tao couldn't play for Blackburn last season and the new season, on the one hand, because his strength is not enough to gain a foothold in the world's top Blackburn lineup, look at his competitors, Lampard, Ballack, Alonso, Cambiasso, etc., which one is not completely crushing his existence?

On the other hand, it is because Chen Tao does not have a labor certificate.

Unlike Sun Jihai, Li Weifeng and Li Tie before him, these three were all Chinese internationals for many years when they joined Blackburn, and at that time, Chinese football was still in the middle of the world rankings, and it was not difficult to obtain a labor certificate, and now Chen Tao is still far from applying for a British labor certificate.

As for the Premier League's special talent clause, the current Chen Tao has not been able to conquer the rest of Blackburn's top management except for Arthur.

So since he can't play for Blackburn Rovers in the new season, Chen Tao's only way out is to be loaned to other non-English clubs, and this is when Arthur's previous satellite club comes into play.

The Belchhot club in the Belgian First Division acquired by Arthur is the club that Chen Tao will play for in the new season.

In January 2004, Dong Fangzhuo, also from China, joined Manchester United and was loaned to Antwerp, Belgium, to gain more experience.

It's just that compared with Antwerp, which was playing in the Belgian Second Division at that time, Belshort in the first division was obviously able to give Chen Tao a greater challenge.

Chen Tao, who was born in March '85, is only 21 years old, and Arthur hopes that he will train in the league for one or two seasons and become a qualified midfield rotation player for Blackburn, so as to replace Sun Jihai, so that Blackburn can still become the "home team" of Chinese fans on the other side of the ocean.

Blackburn is to Chinese football fans what the Houston Rockets are to Chinese basketball fans, and Arthur is eager to continue that connection, knowing how vast the Chinese fan market will be in the future.

With the loan of Chen Tao and Joe Hart, Blackburn's squad for the new season is also completely determined, and Arthur has no idea whether Lippi can lead such a team to continue the Blue Devils dynasty under Mourinho.

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With Blackburn Rovers squad for 2006-07 (28, 2 of whom are on loan):

Goalkeepers: Cech, Barthez, Joe Hart (loan)

Defenders: Ashley Cole, Finnan, Carvalho, Sun Jihai, Martin Taylor, Heinze, Nemanjac, McConn, Cannavaro

Midfielders: Frank Lampard, Duff, Alonso, Makelele, Cambiasso, Robben, Bentley, Figo, Diarra, Ballack, Chen Tao (loan)

Forwards: Larsson, Drogba, Van Persie, Cristiano Ronaldo, Montella (on loan) (to be continued.) )