Stereotypes can indeed be terrifying.
If Ye Chen were a new player on trial, with such a performance, everyone would think he's incredible, practically a genius striker!
But Ye Chen has been here for over a year, now in his second year.
In everyone's mind, he's just someone with decent speed, average skills, and terrible shooting.
Suddenly performing so well, everyone would just think it's luck!
Just like Solskjaer said.
Previously, how could one describe Ye Chen? More like a sparring partner.
The reason the club signed him was simple, the manager even privately discussed it with Solskjaer, revealing that signing Ye Chen was just to open up the Chinese 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, Juventus, and other teams' tours in Asia made them feel a sense of crisis.
How to continuously maintain their team's competitiveness in the Asian region?
Especially in a populous country like China!
The simplest way is to buy players from their country, but work permits are a troublesome issue, so they thought of the youth training system.
After all, players need a work permit to play for an English team, but youth training is unrestricted.
At least before the age of 21, even if he's not registered, he can still represent Manchester United on the field.
Of course, Manchester United kept Ye Chen also because he showed certain talent, in terms of speed and explosiveness, even European young players might not be better than him.
This also involves another consideration, that even if they don't want Ye Chen in the future, selling him back to a domestic Chinese team could still earn them a profit!
No matter what, they wouldn't lose money.
After all, the owner is from the United States, and this little calculation is quite shrewd.
In fact, the influence of Chinese Super League teams has been expanding in recent years, especially Guangzhou Evergrande Team, with Boss Xu increasing investment!
And in these years, not just Evergrande, other teams will also wave their checkbooks to attract excellent players from around the world.
Especially in 2017, when Oscar transferred to Shanghai SIPG for 60 million euros, with an annual salary of 24 million euros!
This transaction shocked the world and showed other countries China's economic strength!
Of course, it's only 2011 now...
Returning to Carrington Training Centre.
After scoring, Ye Chen raised three fingers and rushed to the corner kick area, directly having a close interaction with Januzaj!
These three goals were a perfect collaboration between Ye Chen and Januzaj.
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Januzaj assisted a hat-trick, and Ye Chen scored three goals, completing his first hat-trick in life!
"You were amazing today! If you keep playing like this, you'll definitely get a formal contract with Manchester United!" Januzaj praised, hugging Ye Chen.
Ye Chen smiled, "It's okay, even if I don't play for Manchester United, other places will want me!"
Actually, Ye Chen already had plans in mind.
As a world-class club, it's hard to represent Manchester United on the field. Just look at the current first team, there are already five forwards.
Besides Rooney, there are Owen, Berbatov, Hernandez, and Welbeck, not to mention reserve team players like Bebe, too many players, but only two positions on the field.
This is with Ferguson's habit of playing two forwards, occasionally switching to a single forward, many people can't get on the field.
Surely Ye Chen can't compete with the speedster Owen for a position?
So as a 17-year-old youngster, Ye Chen is most likely to be loaned out...
Just like De Bruyne in the early days.
And this year, Manchester United will finish as league runners-up due to goal difference, Ferguson's most direct approach is to buy Van Persie from Arsenal.
In such a situation, to let Ye Chen compete with these world-class forwards for playing time?
Not very realistic!
Unless the system rewards Ye Chen with a Ronaldo Nazario template right now...
So Ye Chen has already prepared to leave!
Moreover, there's one more important point, Ye Chen feels his body is not yet ready to establish himself in the Premier League.
Don't forget, in his previous life, his career was cut short due to injuries, inevitably causing him to have these concerns.
As a transmigrator, Ye Chen feels he should level up first, then consider whether to enter a super league like the Premier League... a path like Pogba or De Bruyne's is more suitable.
After all, the Premier League encourages physical confrontation, while other leagues, especially La Liga, are much better.
Returning to the training match.
When the game resumed, 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.
The next match is against Liverpool, if they don't perform well, whether they can play in the next match is a problem!
But as time passed, Team A still couldn't find an opportunity.
Solskjaer, however, kept observing Ye Chen, noticing that Ye Chen's every move was very "smart."
Especially his judgment on the ball's landing point, very accurate.
Could it be that it's not luck? But... an awakening?
Solskjaer frowned deeply, finally, Chris, acting as the temporary referee, blew the whistle to end the match.
"Yeah!!! We won!!!!"
"We won!! We really won!"
"Incredible, we beat Team A!!"
"Ye, you were amazing!!!"
Team B's players celebrated excitedly.
Ye Chen immediately found Januzaj, who assisted him, "Adnan, see, I wasn't lying to you this time, was I?"
Januzaj smiled, glancing at Solskjaer on the coaching bench, "I wonder if the boss will let us into the squad against Liverpool?"
"Huh?"
Ye Chen then realized, in three days, Manchester United U18 will face Liverpool U18 at Old Trafford!
This is a big deal!
You know, Manchester United is the most influential team in the Premier League, even U18 matches have live broadcasts.
Many matches even have thousands of fans buying tickets to watch.
That's the influence of the Red Devils, Manchester United!
But none of this is urgent, Ye Chen put it aside, and slowly walked up to Byrne, "Convinced?"
"That was just luck!" Byrne gritted his teeth and said.
He was furious.
But he could only be furiously helpless!
"Yeah, long shots do have an element of luck!" Pearson chimed in from the side.
Ye Chen laughed, "Don't give me those excuses, did you lose or not? Aren't you supposed to fulfill your promise?"
Byrne suddenly jumped up from the ground, glaring at Ye Chen, "Don't push me too far!"
"Yeah, you're going too far!"
"Let it go, Ye, we're all teammates!"
Looking at these teammates trying to mediate, Ye Chen's gaze was extremely cold.
Previously, Ye Chen had conflicts with Byrne, but back then?
Everyone either kicked him when he was down or laughed at him from the sidelines.
Now they want him to let Byrne go?
"All of you shut up, you weren't like this when Ye lost!" Before Ye Chen could speak, Januzaj shouted.
This Januzaj is truly reliable, always stepping up when needed!
Byrne clenched his fists, barely able to restrain himself.
But Manchester United has clear rules!
Betting and rivalry, no one cares, but fighting is a different matter.
But Ye Chen spoke, mocking, "Is this what an Irishman is?"
Treat me with hostility, and I'll respond in kind!
Byrne used to like bullying him, and after doing it enough, it became a habit.
But who knew, today there would be a complete reversal!
"Chinese people are my fathers..."
"What did you say?" Ye Chen looked at Byrne with disdain.
"Chinese people are my fathers!"
"Say it again, I can't hear you!"
"Chinese people are my fathers!"
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, truly satisfying!
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