Super Prophecy Master

Chapter 41 Getting to work

England is the birthplace of football, and many clubs have a history of more than [-] years.

Millwall is one of them.

Before 1903, Millwall was known as Millwall Athletic (Millwall -Athletic), which was founded in 1885 by a group of Scottish dockworkers before changing its name to Millwall FC.

However, a hundred years has not brought a glorious history to Millwall. Perhaps it is also because the competition in the London region is too fierce. Most of the time they only participated in the regional league. It was not until the past 30 years that they began to participate in the professional league. It is only hovering in the lower leagues, and has never entered the top league.

In May 2001, Millwall won the then England Second Division Championship and successfully upgraded to the English First Division (now the Champions League).

The following year, Millwall ushered in a period of explosion. They almost entered the English Premier League. Unfortunately, in the two rounds of the promotion play-off semi-finals, they lost to Birmingham City 1-2 and lost the best team in the history of the century. The chance to get into the top league.

That failure brought down two seasons.

Last season, Millwall won the runner-up in the FA Cup, which was a little crazy, and also got the first chance to participate in a European competition in history, but it was a pity that they were eliminated in the first round of the UEFA Cup .

Now Millwall is not in the mood to consider European competitions. What they have to face is that they need to ensure the team's performance to stabilize their ranking in the Champions League, otherwise there will be a risk of relegation at the end of the season.

This is also the most important job of the club.

Club chairman Grigory was also dissatisfied with the results, so he considered inviting Zhang Yang to be a 'match instructor', hoping to help the team's results.

Zhang Yang began to check the players carefully.

At present, there are 38 players on the list of Millwall's first team, which is quite a number, but a few are recovering from injuries, and a few have been sent to the youth reserve team. The first team has only 23 players in normal training and competition.

Some of the first-team players were traded from other clubs, and some chose to join the team through free transfers, but the largest number were promoted from the Millwall youth team.

From this perspective, Millwall's youth training ability is not bad.

However, this is the case for small clubs. They do not have enough funds to continue to buy players. Using the transfer market to trade is just an auxiliary means. The most important thing is to dig out from their own youth teams, or trade young stars to train them.

What Zhang Yang focused on was Wise's information.

This player and team leader is quite well-known. In other words, to be trusted by a second-tier league team as a part-time team leader must have had a brilliant career as a player.

Wise's career as a player was brilliant at Chelsea.

He played for the Blues for ten seasons, captained the Blues and was voted England Footballer of the Year in 1998.

In the last few years of his career, Wise began to 'wander' everywhere. He first went to Leicester City, but after only 17 appearances on behalf of the team, because during the pre-season, he slammed his teammate Galen - Davidson's jaw.

This incident made Leicester City fans hate Wise.

Wise was fired.

Wise then switched to Millwall and signed a player-manager contract.This is why Wise chose to come to Millwall. He hopes to exercise his coaching ability in Millwall.

Wise's weekly salary was only £[-].

This level of weekly salary is unbelievable for a former big-name star. Even if he is 38 years old, as long as he is in Millwall and can play for the team, no matter how he performs, fame alone can get him. After getting enough salary, Wise still signed it. He needs a part-time coaching job to exercise his ability. After all, he is 38 years old, and he is still playing professional league at the age of 38. It is not a small miracle. .

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It took Zhang Yang two hours to carefully review Millwall's information, and he also had a certain degree of understanding of the entire team.

It might just be modesty.

Some important information, such as player names, ages, positions, characteristics, and historical performances, he fully memorized with the ability of 'memory enhancement'.

Two hours of work also brought a sense of exhaustion.

A tall man pushed open the door and asked, "Are you Zhang?" He walked aside.

Zhang Yang stood up and nodded.

"Hello, you are unimaginably young. I am Aldous Furnival, the coach of the youth team. You can call me Aldous." Furnival's tone was very kind, but his movements and expressions were very Casual, obviously not paying much attention to Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang touched hands with him, but didn't pay much attention to it.

When he signed for Millwall, he knew what he had to face. In the coaching industry, he is too young.

Furnival talked about the key point, "Mr. Gregory will be at the club today, and he invited you to have dinner with him."

"Are you going now?"

Furnival looked down at the time, "Just now, it's almost time."

"Let's go then."

The two went to the club restaurant together.

When the two arrived, Gregory hadn't come yet, but Frederick Lawton and Denise Wise were already waiting there.

Several people exchanged a few pleasantries in face.

After waiting for a while, Gregory and Ebenezer arrived together, and they all stood up to greet them. Gregory was busy telling everyone to sit down, and then began to help introduce Zhang Yang.

This might be lunch for Zhang Yang.

Everyone else is very familiar with them. Zhang Yang is a new employee. He just signed the contract today. Gregory seems to let him blend in quickly. In fact, Gregory also has another idea, that is, he hopes to see how Zhang Yang handles interpersonal relationships. Ability.

In a new working environment, if you want to make a difference, you must do the superficial work well.

Just like a team, if the relationship with each player is not good, the work of the coach will be difficult to carry out, and the relationship with colleagues is the same. No matter what thoughts you have in your heart, the relationship with your colleagues should not be too rigid. Let's go.

If another coach came to Millwall, he would not have to face such a situation at all. Zhang Yang would have to face much more pressure, just because he was too young.

But Gregory was a little disappointed in the end.

Zhang Yang has no intention of pleasing other people. He has seen through this aspect for a long time. He can chat a few words when he can get along. , others are redundant, but he always has a smile on his face, so that the atmosphere will not be too awkward.

The one who talked the most was Gregory.

As the chairman of the club, Grigory is very competent. When a new employee comes in, he also hopes that the other party will integrate quickly and create value for the club as soon as possible, so Grigory took the initiative to talk about Zhang Yang's Weibo, "I am I know Zhang on Weibo, and his judgment on the game is very accurate, and he is also very exciting when explaining the game on radio programs. His Weibo has 10,000+ followers.”

This made others give Zhang Yang a high look.

In any case, it is very difficult for Weibo to attract 10,000+ fans. Ordinary professional players can’t do it, and only famous football stars can do it. Zhang Yang is not a star, but an ‘amateur’ game commentator , can have so many fans, it also proves the recognition of the fans.

But this has nothing to do with the coaching industry.

'Can Weibo influencers be coaches? Frederick and Furnival looked at each other, and the corners of their mouths curled up in disdain. He thought that Grigory's old eyesight was dizzy, and he chose to hire an overly young Weibo celebrity as a coach.

Ebenezer was interested.

He didn't know why Gregory chose Zhang Yang before, but now he found some "business opportunities" and talked with Zhang Yang, "Will you use Weibo to publish some news about your personal life and work?"

"Occasionally." Zhang Yang thought for a while and added, "But it's very rare. It's only once so far. I usually just come to comment on the game."

"That's such a pity. I think you can post some information about your personal life and work, and you should also post more personal photos, so that fans can get to know you better, so that you can gather support."

Ebenezer's suggestion is good, but he focused on 'life and work'. In fact, he also hopes that Zhang Yang will help Millwall to promote, and with Zhang Yang's popularity, more fans will watch Millwall's games. There is no harm in that.

Zhang Yang just smiled and said, "I will think about it."

Then everyone talked about the analysis of the game. Zhang Yang was the one who received the most attention. He continued to talk about some personal experiences. In fact, most of them were obtained from Denise's information. It was just a general analysis of the game.

No matter what other people thought in their hearts, they listened patiently and did not refute.

Frederick suddenly pouted his lips, stood up and suggested, "Zhang is the club's 'match instructor', but no matter how we say it here, it's hard for us to see his level of ability, why don't we let him accompany the team in the afternoon Let's go to the game!"

"Start today?" Gregory frowned slightly.

"Isn't it suitable? It should take a while." Ebenezer has a good impression of Zhang Yang. He feels that Zhang Yang has just started working and doesn't know Millwall at all, let alone follow him to the game. He doesn't even know the players. name, how to give a match suggestion?

Others stood by and watched.

Everyone looked at Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang was sullen, seemed a little dazed, and didn't understand the situation at all. Facing the eyes of everyone looking over, he raised his brows and said, "Is there any problem from today? Anyway, I have no problem."

"Is that okay?" Wise asked.

Frederick originally wanted to make it difficult for Zhang Yang, but he didn't expect the other party to agree. He stared at Zhang Yang, "Since Zhang has said yes, then there is no problem. I just have something to deal with in the afternoon, and I hope it can be relaxed." Some."

"Then it's decided." Zhang Yang spread his hands.

(End of this chapter)