Chapter 56: A handshake (Part 2)

"It sounds so exciting. So I don't have to worry about one day when the club won't pay the player's salary, nor do I have to worry about the Chairman's words to me when the transfer market opened, 'Tony, I'm so sorry we're so poor now, so you can only go to the free transfer market to see what's the bargain'?" Done said in imitation of Old Doggetty's tone.

"Of course...no need." Evan laughed loudly.

"It's great. Keep the eight million and don't move. Wait for me to use it." Tang En rubbed his hands, and was so excited that he was like a child who got all the gifts on Christmas. He has been poor for a year! He has been watching people eat meat all day long, and he can't even drink soup. Now it's fine!

"Oh, by the way, Evan. How long will we sign a contract?" Tang En thought of the most critical question. Collimore only signed a contract with the club for one year, and if he was the same... Then almost nothing he thought before could achieve. The head coach is not like a player. He stays in this club for a year and that club for a year. The core of the head coach's team, a head coach who wants to succeed, must have a team building plan in his mind. He has to know how to play the team, who needs to buy, who sell according to tactics, youth team building, reserve team performance, weak link transformation... etc., all of which take time to complete. A guardian head coach may be able to succeed in the short term with his own ability, but if the club does not give him a long-term commitment, then don't think about what the team will perform in the future. Tang En's experience in the first half of the year is a living example.

Generally speaking, coaches of English teams are much happier than colleagues in other countries, because the probability of coaches of English teams being fired is the lowest, and there are many meritorious coaches who have coached a team of more than ten or twenty years.

Of course, this is also related to the different football cultures of the UK and mainland Europe. Most of the head coaches in the UK are team managers, and they have greater power. In the continental European football club, the head coach is the coach. Even if you lead the team to train and play, you don’t have much power or authority. You can even become the scapegoat for the club’s chairman at any time, or take the blame for the power struggle of the club’s senior management. In the competition with players, you often become the loser who leaves.

Of course, Don Neng knew this fine tradition of English football. But Nottingham Forest has changed eight head coaches in the past eight years... This data is also very unfavorable to him.

"How many years do you want to sign? Tony." Evan asked with a smile.

"Uh..." Tang En originally wanted to say "the longer the better", but then he thought, who knows what the future will look like? Never talk about it without knowing it. Leave some room for yourself. So he turned his eyes around and said, "It will be good to you and me for three years."

Evan nodded.

"By the way, I have a condition." Tang En added. "And this condition must be written into the contract."

“What conditions?”

"Evan, you are the club chairman. I am the team head coach. You are responsible for running the club and I am responsible for leading the team training and competitions. I will never point fingers at the team's business conditions, but you cannot interfere in all the team's affairs. I have the final say in buying and selling people. I have the final say in whether to renew the contract with the player coach or not. Just give me money. This must be guaranteed that as a club operator, you cannot interfere in the team. If you cannot guarantee, then I will not sign that contract. "Tang En decisively.

This is his principle issue. You must never compromise. If a head coach can't even control his own team, just an obedient puppet and a rostrum, why should he continue to sit in this position?

Whether it is a football fan or a coach who leads the team, Tang En hates being instructive about team affairs. This has nothing to do with whether the club chairman knows what he knows. If the chairman always likes to show off his understanding of football, why don’t he walk out of the VIP box and direct the game himself?

Since you have chosen to let me be the head coach of the team, you must trust and respect my job, otherwise you might as well not come to me - this is what Tang En thought.

Therefore, Donne believes that the presidents of many clubs in the European continent cannot be considered good presidents, such as Berlusconi of AC Milan, Morati of Inter Milan, Florentino, the current chairman of Real Madrid, and his future successor Calderon... In comparison, the presidents of most clubs in England meet the selection criteria for "the best club chairman" in Donne's mind. Of course, he believes that the closest chairman to that title is Manchester United club chairman - Edwards.

The British, who sounds a little strange, never interferes with Ferguson's behavior, even if he kicks the team captain and the number one idol Beckham in the locker room. This person almost never appears in front of the public. He has been in charge of Manchester United for more than 20 years. The team has won numerous honors and has become the most profitable football club in the world. However, fans generally believe that these have nothing to do with Chairman Edwards, and many fans even hate this businessman who wants to sell the club at any time.

But Tang En likes it because he does not interfere in team affairs. But why does Tang En's evaluation of him is "close to the title of the best club chairman"? Because this businessman chairman is too stingy. If he is generous, it will definitely be perfect.

Ferguson has said: "It is usually very pleasant to talk to Edwards until you reach out to him for money."

Donn believes that Evan Dogerty promised his father. Taking over a football club he doesn't like must have regarded Manchester United as a target and Edwards as a role model. You should know that Edwards has earned more than 100 million pounds from Manchester United over the years.

Don hopes that Evan can treat the team like Edwards, and at the same time, he can be more generous than Edwards... I hope this will not be his dream.

Evan thought about it for a while, then nodded: "Okay, I agree."

When Donn smiled when he heard Evan say this, "Great! You know, Evan? I don't actually care whether you like football or how you view the Forests, or you want to make money with this club. As long as you give me enough freedom, I promise to get everything you want."

Evan stretched out his hand: "Look. Tony. I said, we can cooperate well!"

"You're right, Evan." Don't grinned and nodded vigorously.

The two of them held their hands together.

After they talked, Evan Dogette mysteriously hoped that Don't leak the news in advance. Don't ask why, he nodded and agreed. Then Evan left with confidence.

After one day of training, Tang En returned home, the first thing he did was not to change his clothes and go to the bar to drink and chat with the guys, but to sit in front of the computer and open the Google website. Then he typed the keyword "Nottingham Forest" and started the search work.

He wants to confirm a question that always exists in his heart.

When he knew that Collimore's contract was only one year short, he felt a little weird. If Collimore was "the hope of Nottingham Forest" as Evan said at the new head coach's signing press conference, why did he only sign a short-term contract for one year - a year is indeed short enough for the team's head coach.

At that time, Donn convinced himself that "Colimore is a novice, so he only signed for one year to see his coaching results before deciding whether to renew his contract." This reason seemed flawless. But the confidence leaked in his conversation with Evan today reminded him of something else.

All British people know who Collimore is and how his personality is. Everyone knows how his temper is. In this era of advanced information, celebrities have almost no privacy. Then why did Evan make such an incomprehensible "change coach" move? Although Tang En's own team failed in the play-offs is also a reasonable excuse, it should never be an inevitable reason. At least many people like Burns know. Let Tang En continue to lead him, it is definitely not a problem for the team to return to the Super League next season.

And now? On the one hand, the team ranks sixth from the bottom, only three points away from the relegation zone.    In the face of reporters’ criticism, Collimore will only respond with silence or roar, and he can’t come up with any good solutions at all.                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Such an incompetent head coach. Can the board of directors tolerate him still sitting in that position?

These abnormal situations made Tang En think of moving his attention and thinking angle from the court to the outside.

Looking at the dense search results, he skipped the page about Piaotianyi, and after turning thirteen pages, his eyes stopped at a text message.

"... Due to poor results, the stocks of Nottingham Forest Club on the London Stock Exchange fell all the way, and had fallen to 21 pence per share before the market closed yesterday. Experts analyzed that if the results still do not improve, even if the new chairman Evan Dogerty looks like a rich American, the stock price, which rose slightly due to his arrival, will continue to decline. Although their newly released annual report claims that the club has now escaped the economic crisis and has zero debt, it still cannot prevent this from happening.

"It is worth noting that there is a message for reference: In the financial crisis, Leeds United Club has slipped into the relegation zone due to its poor record. Their single stock price has now fallen to 2.6p! This is the lowest point of Leeds United Club since entering the market..."

This is a brief report on the recent performance of various football clubs in the stock market, four days ago.

Not only the Nottingham Forests family, but also the poor "White Rose" Leeds United have fallen due to the team's poor results.

Tang En read the full text of the news several times. Finally, he stopped at the sentence "If the results still cannot be improved. Then even if the new chairman Evan Dogerty looks like a rich American, the stock price that rose slightly due to his arrival will continue to decline."

It's true!
Chapter completed!