champion godfather

Chapter 905 The Old Partner of the Heart of the Seven Lion King

Stuart Pierce, who was on vacation at home, received a call from Tony Twain.

He knew what Tang En was looking for him for, even though he already had the answer, he still listened politely to Tang En's words.

"Glad you could call me, Tony. But I think the youth team needs me more."

Tang En felt very depressed. He didn't come to anyone. Is it really so scary to be an assistant coach for himself?

"But I need you too, Stuart."

Stuart Pierce's concern is that if he goes to the England senior team, he will have to give up his job in the youth team.And he has worked in the youth team for almost ten years, and he knows the youth team well, and everything here is inseparable from him.What would he do if Tang En's contract expired?Coaching the England national team?He wasn't interested, and the media pressure for that kind of work was too much.The work of the youth team is the most suitable for him.

"If you can convince the FA to allow me to serve as the head coach of the England youth team at the same time, I will agree to be your assistant coach."

Pierce threw out his terms.

Tang En considered for a while, then nodded: "Okay, I'll try."

He really went to Barclay, but no matter what he said, Barclay just didn't agree to let Pierce do both jobs.Either to be Tang En's assistant coach, or to be the director of the youth team. This is a single-choice question, not a multiple-choice question.

"Tony, we have recommended so many coaches to you, is there no one who can be your assistant coach? You must know that there are many excellent coaches among them, they are the best among their peers..."

Tang En, who was furious, didn't give Barclay any face. He said bluntly: "In my eyes, they are not good enough!"

Barclay's self-restraint is better than that of Dun En, he just shrugged his shoulders, indicating that if Tang En doesn't like it, he can find it himself.

Tang En left the England Football Association's office with a dark face.Looks like he's still on his own.

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Des Walker is demonstrating for his players on the training ground what to do when facing one-on-one defense.The mobile phone he put in his trouser pocket suddenly vibrated, causing him to tilt his feet and lose his center of gravity when he was dribbling the ball. If the players defending him hadn't been quick-eyed and quick-handed, he would have made a fool of himself.

Walker patted the shoulder of the player who supported him, "You should steal the ball directly instead of thinking about pulling me."

Then he winked at the assistant coach.The assistant coach stepped forward: "Twenty turns back and forth, all of you!"

There was a commotion in the team, but it was quickly suppressed by the coach.If one person makes a mistake, the whole team will be punished. This is Walker's training requirement.Although the player just helped the head coach out of good intentions, his actions did not win the favor of the boss.

Seeing that the players accepted the punishment honestly in the end, Walker walked under the awning on the side of the training ground and took out the mobile phone that was still vibrating.

It was Tony Twain calling.

"You rarely call me, Tony."

"Ha, usually we are all very busy, and we are not in the same city anymore..." Tang En smiled reluctantly.

But Walker didn't want to blame him for this matter, he didn't care about the reason at all. "But as long as you call me, there must be something. Do you want to ask me for something? No!" Just when Tang En didn't know how to tell him, he solved the suspense on his own. "Let me guess... you're looking for an assistant coach, right?"

"We really have a tacit understanding, Des." Tang En smiled from the bottom of his heart this time.

"But what's the use of you looking for me? I'm just the head coach of a second-tier team." Walker said, looking at the training team.He was no longer with Ian Bowyer.After Bowyer was dismissed by Herford, he stayed at home for a while, while Des Walker was actively looking for a job. He changed three teams successively, from the youth training director to the assistant coach, and then to the current head coach.It can also be regarded as a step by step step by step.

It's just that the Oxford United team he is currently working for is in the fourth tier of England's league, and its strength is only in the middle and lower reaches of the league. The highest goal every year is to avoid relegation, and it is not very famous.So he wondered why Tang En called him.

"I don't choose people based on fame. It's not like you don't know, Des."

"You really want me to be England's assistant coach? Are you crazy, Tony?" Dunn's words were equivalent to admitting the purpose of his call, which surprised Walker. "England has thousands of better coaches than me, why don't you go to them?"

"For me, the best coach is not as good as the one that suits me best. Des, you are my first assistant coach after I became the head coach of the Forest team. We have a tacit understanding and you are the best for me. Yes. You are the one I need." Dunn said very affectionately, if someone who didn't know the inside story heard it, he would think there was some ambiguity between him and Des Walker.

"Those coaches may be very good, but they don't understand what I need, they don't know what I think. Before I let the players figure out what I think, I have to find a way to make the whole coaching staff understand what I mean, which is too much. It's painful and inefficient. So I need someone who can know what I'm going to do without me having to say too much to be my assistant. Dess, I can't think of anyone better than you. It fits."

Walker was shocked by Tang En's "affectionate confession". He didn't refuse directly like the previous few people, but stuttered for a while before stammering: "I, we haven't cooperated for ten years, so... ...What kind of tacit understanding is there?"

"But we're still in touch, aren't we? Are you watching me, Des?"

Although this question would make people think Dunn was narcissistic, Walker still hummed.

"As long as we run in and lubricate a little bit, the tacit understanding will naturally come back. You know what kind of person I am, and I also know what kind of person you are. You know what I need, and I also know what you can do. And in the past ten years, you must be more mature than before. You see, you are the head coach now... In short, there is nothing to worry about. It must be easier for you to be my assistant coach than other coaches. And I have you This assistant is here, it must be very easy. We both win. Besides, think about your future. In the future, your resume will have the item "served as the assistant coach of the England national team". No matter what you want to do, it will be easier than now. Isn't it?"

Tang Enxiaozhi reasoned with emotion, if he couldn't deal with Walker, then he might really have to accept the candidates recommended by the Football Association, and some of them even had a bad impression of him... What can such a combination bring to the England team?Only God knows.

Walker was silent for a while, and then hesitantly asked: "But I'm not famous..." He was euphemistically expressing his concerns about whether he could command the big-name players of the national team.

"You are an assistant coach, Des. The assistant coach looks at his own strength, and has nothing to do with fame. When Venables was an assistant coach to McLaren, the England team still had to listen to McLaren, at least on the surface. That's it." Dunn also expressed his opinion in a tactful way: I am the one who manages the locker room, so don't worry about it.

Walker looked up at the training ground. The team had completed [-] back and forth runs and was resting on the side, preparing for the next training session.

He knew that time was running out here today, and he couldn't make it clear.And after all, this is an important choice in life, he doesn't want to make a hasty decision.

"My players are still waiting for me, Tony. You let me think about it and give you an answer."

Tang En readily agreed: "Okay, no problem. Des, for your call, I will not turn off the phone 24 hours a day. You can call me anytime."

But at the same time, Tang En was shouting in his heart: "Why are you still hesitating, Des? Isn't this more promising than your job as the head coach of the Second Division team? Oxford United can bring you to the Second Division. The full potential has been stimulated, and now they have no room for growth, and you are just wasting time staying there!"

Although this was the truth, if Dunn dared to say this, Des Walker might reject him face to face instead of thinking about it for a few days.After all, no one can allow the rest of them to dictate their careers.

When Walker put his phone back into the wide pocket of his sports trousers and walked back to the training ground.His assistant coaches began urging the players who were resting to continue training.

He also has a tacit understanding with his assistant coach.

Do you want to abandon the tacit understanding now for a tacit understanding ten years ago?

Which tacit understanding is more important?
Des Walker was a little undecided.

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Tang En called Walker, but he didn't have a clue in his mind.Because Walker has a saying that hit his weakness-"We haven't cooperated for ten years, what's the tacit understanding?"

What is the concept of ten years?
It may be difficult for those who have not experienced it to appreciate the passage of time.

Ten years ago, young and lively boys and girls who just entered high school, full of longing for the future but unwilling to grow up, have entered the palace of marriage as soon as they turned around, and even became parents.

Ten years ago, a young man who stepped into the threshold of society full of enthusiasm and ambition, hoping to pursue his ideals, turned into a middle-aged strange uncle who ate and waited to die every day in the blink of an eye, and his edges and corners were smoothed by the torrent of society.

No matter how powerful a person is, he can't defeat time. Even an arrogant person like Tony Twain has to bow his head in front of time.

He is no longer the rookie who knew nothing ten years ago and needed Walker to help him take care of everything.And Walker is no longer the assistant coach who has just turned from a player to a coach ten years ago and is not yet experienced. He is motivated by enthusiasm.

Both of them have experienced the biggest change of ten years in their lives. Is there really a tacit understanding when they are together?

Don't need too many words, just a movement and a look can make the other party understand what you think?

There is a saying in China that "things are right and people are wrong", can this idiom apply to the two of them?

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Des Walker was lying on the sofa in a daze. His wife called him three times in the dining room but got no response, and finally ran out and stood in front of him with her hips akimbo and stared at him.

"Ah? What's the matter?" It took a while for Walker to realize that there was an extra person in front of him.

The wife temporarily put aside the reason why she came here to stare at him, but asked strangely: "What's wrong with you?"

"Nothing..." Walker prevaricated.

"What's the trouble at work?" His wife simply sat down beside him and held his hand.

Walker felt his wife's warmth in his hands, and he gently stroked his wife's little hands that were no longer soft and delicate. "Tony called me today."

"Tony? Tony Twain?" As Walker's wife, it was not easy to remember that man.

"Besides that Tony, which Tony can there be?" Walker laughed.

"Surely he didn't come to you to reminisce about the old days, did he?"

"He wants to introduce me to a new job, and I'm hesitating about it." Walker looked at the ceiling, his eyes wandering. "I don't know if I should agree to him. I always feel that this is a gamble, and it's a big gamble..."

"The coach of England?" As the wife of a former player and current coach, the woman is not ignorant of football.

"It's an assistant coach, dear." Walker gave his wife a smile.

The wife seemed to be looking at her husband in disbelief.As a wife, she is clearly aware of her husband's abilities.

"I told him that I don't think I can be an assistant coach in England, but he said it's okay, I can do it." The husband also knew what his wife was thinking.

"Are you tempted?"

Walker was silent for a while and nodded, "Honestly speaking...a little bit."

"If you go to England, you're giving up your job here at Oxford."

Walker continued to nod.

"Des, I don't have any objections. You can go if you want, or refuse him if you don't want to go." The wife has always cared very little about the man's work. Over the years, her husband has changed several jobs and moved from one place to another. place, she just needs to follow.Anyway, there is still a team that wants her husband to be a coach, so she has nothing to worry about.As a husband, just talk to his wife, and he doesn't really want his wife to come up with any ideas.Especially now that the child is older, there is no need to consult his wife.

"Go to dinner, I came to ask you to have dinner, Des."

The wife stood up and pulled Walker up.

After Walker stood up and confided his thoughts to his wife, he already had an idea in his heart.

At most it was just another adventure, just like when I decided to leave Nottingham Forest and go to Hereford.He is used to this kind of life, changing from one place to another, changing one job and another job.Perhaps when he is 50 years old, he will be able to accumulate enough experience to stabilize in a Championship, or even a Premier League club, and start to draw his own blueprint.

Before that, he still needs to learn and accumulate from different people.

Tony is a good learning object... how to manage players.

He was also really looking forward to how Twain would manage those big-name English players who had been spoiled by the media.

(End of this chapter)