Chapter 19 Crazy Help at Wimbledon (Part 1)
Tang En was awakened by the bright sunshine in the morning. The open glass window reflected the sunshine into the bedroom, which just shone on Tang En's face. In his sleep, he suddenly felt a bright light in front of him. Then he opened his eyes and saw the clock on the wall showing that it was already nine forty at this moment.
After wiping off the saliva stuck to the pillow and his mouth, Tang En sat up. His head still hurt. He pinched his temple and recalled hard and couldn't remember how he came back yesterday. He was still lying naked in the quilt. He only remembered that he was drinking wildly with the group of fans. He couldn't remember how much he drank. He took out his wallet from his shirt pocket and found that all the cash inside was gone. He smiled bitterly. It seemed that he had drunk a lot yesterday.
Bounced off the bed, stood in front of the window wearing underwear, looking up at the blue sky, white clouds, and bright sunshine. Tang En smiled. It took several days of rain and finally cleared up. His tactical theory was accepted by everyone, and the next thing he needed to be busy with was to take root in training and play in the game. Players, fans, coaches, and chairman all accepted his idea.
This is not an easy task.
Tang En raised his hand and reached towards the white clouds in the sky, as if it was a silver trophy.
"For victory...good morning!"
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With the winter transfer window closed a few days before, Forest sent away one of their teammates. This was also the first deal that Donne completed as the head coach general manager. Jack Lester had made up his mind to leave Nottingham very early. His contract was still one year away. He did not negotiate a contract renewal with the club and had already shown up with the club to leave. So Nottingham Forest's marketing department was looking for a buyer for Leicester during this period. The progress was not smooth, but that FA Cup game changed everything. Jack Leicester scored a very beautiful turn and volley in the game, attracting the attention of many teams. Four clubs quoted Forest. In the end, Sheff`Utd, who was also in the League One, won two years of ownership of Leicester for 300,000.
Donn had no surprises about Leicester's departure. He knew that this man would leave sooner or later. Leicester was quite kind. At least he notified the club in advance that he would not renew his contract, giving the club time to buffer. If he went to find a next home quietly and then left after his contract expired, the Forest team would not make a penny. 300,000 pounds is not much, but for the Forest team, which had just experienced the economic crisis, every penny needs to be paid special attention.
However, when Lester left, he went to the training ground to thank Tang En, which unexpectedly happened.
At that time, Tang En stood on the sidelines wearing sunglasses as usual to watch the team training, and kept silent most of the time. The players were used to Tang En's style and no longer regarded him as a monkey in the zoo.
Leicester, who had just announced that he had left, did not participate in the team training. He went to the locker room and took away some of his own little things. He should have left directly. But he turned back.
He walked straight to Tang En, blocking Tang En's view.
Don took off his sunglasses and looked at Lester and asked, "Jack, is there anything wrong?"
"I'm here to thank you."
"ah?"
Leicester wanted to call Tang En a habitually boss, but he quickly realized that he was no longer a member of the Forest team, so the boss didn't have to shout anymore. "Yes, I thank you for your words to us during the break with West Ham. Look, I listened to you and played for myself. Now I got a pretty good contract." He spread his hands. "If you hadn't reminded me, maybe I'd be still living a life now."
Tang En smiled: "That's good, would you still listen to me give you something?"
Lesti nodded.
"No matter where you play football in the future, remember: you are a professional player, you must be worthy of every penny you earn."
"Thank you, coach, I understand."
"Yeah, let's go. Good luck, Jack." Tangen lowered his head and put on his sunglasses again.
"Good luck, coach." Lester turned and left.
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Leicester's departure did not have any impact in the Forest's locker room. Everyone is a professional player and has seen a lot of breakups and reunions. Moreover, in the past two years, the Forest's locker room has been used to it.
Lester left like this, which was equivalent to helping Donne. It turned out that Lester, Haierwood, and Johnson had the chance to play, and whoever played less often would have an objection. Paul Hart often made the three of them anxious. Now Donne has confirmed that the team's main strikers are David Johnson and Malone Haierwood, one with speed and explosiveness, and the other with body and dribbling, which is very close to Donne's perfect forward match. Although Johnson is not as good as Lester in terms of technology, Donne admires this person's professional attitude, dedicated and team spirit. Such a forward can faithfully complete his tactical ideas on the court, without "willing be unbearable for the orders of the outside king."
In terms of personnel configuration, Donn abandoned French right-back Matthew Louis-Jean. He could not tolerate this man's poor performance on the right-side defense. If it weren't for him, Donn would have had his first victory at Coventry. He straightened the 20-year-old Irishman John Thompson. As a full-back, he was impeccable in other aspects except for his low throw-in and weak physical fitness. The ball can be arranged to be thrown out by others. This kid's advantage in heading can also allow him to return to the middle to make up for the central defender, and if necessary, he can also reach the midfield. It's so easy to use.
Except for the right back, Don En has not changed in other places. This is the lineup. The formation is the traditional parallel position of the British 442. Don En originally wanted to change to the diamond midfielder 442. No matter which generation of football manager game he played in the past, the teams he coached were all this formation, focusing on the attack on the wing and the front midfielder was inserted. However, the effect of this formation in training was not ideal, and the players seemed a little at a loss. They had played the parallel position of 442 for a long time, and suddenly changed to the diamond midfielder, and they didn't know how to run. Moreover, the team currently does not have the front midfielder that meets the requirements of Don En's diamond midfielder. Don En originally thought that Ian Jace could, but once he was too close to the opponent's penalty area during training, he didn't know what to do. Andy Reed's problem is that he prefers the wing.
Tang En sighed and gave up his idea. This made the team feel relieved. The British have played parallel position 442 for decades, and some things have long been deep into the bone marrow and blood, and they cannot be changed overnight.
If he couldn't change the formation, Tangen changed their understanding of tactics, just like changing Walker and Burns.
During training, Tang En specially divided the midfielders into two teams, led by Walker and Bowyer, and practiced quick passes on both sides of the court, requiring the push from the middle circle to move forward, and the number of passes to the penalty area should not exceed five times. This is the key content of the training period. Tang En observed off the court and kept all the problems reflected in the training in his heart. After going back, he thought about the solution. He did not expect the whole team to fully understand his tactical intentions in one week and be at ease on the court. But he had to see changes.
On February 1, Nottingham Forest will usher in the 30th round of the league's opponent, Wimbledon, at home. Donn wants to see some changes in this game, and more importantly, he needs a victory to consolidate his tactical ideas and prove that he is right.
Failure destroys everything, and victory saves everything.
Victory or failure? This is really a problem...
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When Don En had not yet traveled over, he often played a game, which was called "CM" at the time. Although Wimbledon was in the League One in CM4, he was a team with several great shemale men. If the results of the game were determined based on the strength of their players, they should return to the Premier League in a season.
But the actual situation is... The 29th round of the English Football League in 2003 have passed since the 29th round of the 2003 season. They have accumulated 35 points in two games and are ranked 17th.
In fact, Donne doesn't know. Wimbledon, who has excellent data in the game, is somewhat different from Wimbledon in reality. In reality, this Wimbledon team is actually no longer a "crazy gang" in the strict sense. At least Wimbledon fans in their hometown in London will not recognize their status. This team has just moved out of Wimbledon, a community they have been in for 97 years this season and moved to the satellite city of Milton`Keynes in north London. Two seasons later, they simply changed their name and called Milton`Keynes`Dons.
The heir of the "crazy gang" that was recognized by the public is AFC Wimbledon, which has just been established for more than half a year. This is an amateur club spontaneously established by Wimbledon fans. They followed the ball emblem and uniform color of the brilliant Wimbledon team that year and competed in the amateur league. SI, which made the CM series games, sponsored the club with their company logo printed on its chest. I believe many old CM players remember that the cover of the CM4 game was a goalkeeper who jumped up in the air. His jersey had the logo of SI company on his chest. This person was AFC Wenbu at the time.
Erden's goalkeeper... It is precisely because SI company sponsored AFC Wimbledon that Wimbledon in the game has those great shemale men. To give two examples, Wimbledon, a 15-year-old boy named Serge`Makofo, in CM4, is just an ordinary player who can't be more ordinary in reality, that is, he has no speed of 20, no dribbling of 20, and the explosive power of 20. Another left-wing monster, Lionel`Morgan, even retired as a coach at the age of 21 in reality.
Don Eun didn't understand these things, of course these things were of no use to him now. He only needed to know that Wimbledon's performance was very bad now. Maybe it was related to forcibly moving away from Wimbledon and leaving his hometown.
Chapter completed!