Chapter 106: Start over (Part 1)

Tang's life took two turns in just one and a half years, and this huge change was not comparable to the divorce of his parents in childhood.   After a year and a half, he had long stopped thinking about nonsense questions like "Who am I", "Where am I from", and "Where am I going to go". He felt that he had no loss after going to China for no reason.

Yes, he loves football, and that was all he had before. But compared to having a warm home, football is not something that cannot be abandoned.

He even thought this was good. He should have been this ordinary person born in the countryside of China. And before that, God must have had something wrong with him and put him in the UK. He didn't like there... everything. What did his days in the UK leave him with? Nightmare.

So he decided to let go of everything in the UK and live a new life in China. I am Tang, Chinese Don, I am not British Tony. Tang, his past, present, and future have nothing to do with me!

This situation was not until he and Tang En accidentally met on the streets of Chengdu.

Can this be called "destiny"?

Now he sat in the office of the president of Nottingham Forest Club, silently watching Donn and Evan argue over him. He did not care about the content and results of their argument, but instead looked at the decorations in the room.

He remembered it very clearly here. Paul Hart, his teacher, recommended himself to the club chairman, Mr. Niger Doggety, when he was about to leave the Forest. This proposal was not opposed by the board of directors, so he, a young coach trained by the Forest, naturally became the guardian head coach of Nottingham Forest.

It’s just that his head coaching career lasted only for a short half and it ended.

During Tang En's daily chat with him, he also knew how Tang En did after him, Nottingham Forest.

Now there are many new facilities he has not seen before added to this room. It seems that the historical weight of the century-old team has been much less, but it has a lot more modern.

The former chairman, Niger Doggetti, also wanted to leave because of his health. The Forest team now makes him feel a little unfamiliar. For example, this new chairman looks casual in front of Donn and does not want Mr. Niger Doggetti to be as serious as Mr. Niger Doggetti.

Now he was sitting in a corner of the table, facing Tang En's endless statements, he just kept shaking his head.

"Tony. I know you are a little bit unconventional, but you played too much this time... You made someone who has never coached, has never been in contact with professional football, and is still learning to take the English coaching license to be the assistant coach of the Forest Team!? Nottingham Forest is now a Premier League team. It's not OK to play like this."

"Do you think I'm playing? Evan. Do you think I'm the kind of person who can play on this? Yes, I admit that Don has nothing yet, but we can give him a chance to prove himself, it won't take too much time..."

"Tony!" Evan raised his voice slightly, "Use the first team's results to prove a newcomer. We are the updated team, and we are so luxurious!"

Seeing that Evan was so stern, Tang En was stunned for a moment. Then he curled his lips: "You said that the team is under my control."

Evan sighed: "Tony.  I don't know how you met that Chinese..." He glanced at Tang and found that this person's attention was not on his conversation with Tang En, and there was no tension and anxiety that ordinary people had at this time.  "...Okay, maybe he has something to do with your beautiful Chinese teacher.  If you plan to arrange a position for him in the club, there is no problem.   You can ask him to work as a turf construction worker, equipment manager, restaurant waiter... or something. But it's not an assistant coach on the first team. That's a very important position..."

"Since you know that position is very important, why did you promise to let Walker go?" Tang En snorted.

"Uh..." Evan, who knew he was in the wrong, didn't know what to say. He scratched his head and jumped off the table. He turned to the huge floor-to-ceiling window behind the seat, and looked at the busy training ground below. The workers were rushing to prepare for the training camp that was about to begin. "Tony, it was my problem to let Walker go. At that time, I didn't know much about the team's things. I thought that as long as the team had an excellent head coach, all the problems would be solved... After my father knew about this, he also told me how important an excellent assistant coach was in a team. It was because I know now that he couldn't be an assistant coach..."

Tang En looked at Evan without saying a word, just looking at him like that. Evan looked at Tang En's eyes and added: "Maybe he can do it in the future...but not now. Regardless of whether he has the ability or not, find another one, Tony."

The two looked at each other for a while, then Tang En shook his head and complained: "I spent a summer in China to find the team whom I think is the most suitable assistant coach. You now tell me that the club does not agree to this personnel appointment. Then let me change someone... Evan, do you know when it is now? The team will start the training camp before the season the day after tomorrow. All plans must be formulated at that time, temporary substitutions... How to solve the problem with the team being familiar with?"

Evan shrugged and spread his hands: "You can adjust from the team. I remember you were also promoted from the position of youth team director to the first team head coach..."

The fish took the bait.

"Did you mean let me find David Chris Lack? We have worked with the youth team for a long time, and he also knows the team itself..." Tang En pondered.

Hearing him say this, Evan nodded beside him: "You are smart, Tony. I mean that's it... Isn't Walker also from our Forest team? Why do you have to go outside to find an assistant coach?"

Tang En turned his head and looked at Tang, who was still looking around at the office, and looked thoughtful. “Chris Lack came to the first team to be my assistant, so who should take care of the youth team? Evan, you have to know that youth training is the tradition that the Forest team attaches most importance to.”

"This is not a problem. We can promote one coach from the youth team coach..."

Tang En shook his head and rejected Evan's proposal: "I have worked in the youth team for a long time. I know my colleagues very well. They all have good skills. But letting them manage the youth team is not conducive to their strengths." This is a euphemism. To put it bluntly, Tang En told Evan that when the youth team coaches asked them to be responsible for a certain training, they would do a good job, but therefore they wanted them to be the youth team managers - no way.

"This..." Tang En worked with those people. If he said those people were not good, it would be more convincing than Evan took it for granted. Evan had no idea for a moment.

Tang En felt it was time to throw out his true purpose: "Okay, we seem to be ignoring one person." He said to Tang sitting on the sofa.

"That twenty-five-year-old Chinese?" Evan frowned.

"Are you going to exercise your veto again, Evan?"

"Uh, Tony. You must know better than me. Without a coaching certificate, he can't coach our youth team. The FA won't agree..."

"He will have it soon, even if it is the lowest level." Tang En shrugged, "You know, Evan, there is a saying that... Mosquitoes are meat no matter how small they are..."

"Where is this a proverb?" Evan Doggetti thought this proverb sounded very fresh.

"God knows, maybe...uh, a proverb from a country I have traveled to...Okay, that's not the key. The key is that we must now decide on a youth team manager, after David Chris Lack was transferred to the first team. I definitely won't let them go to the youth team as the youth team's coaching team, and the youth team's coaching team doesn't want to move."

Evan nodded: "I understand what you mean, Tony. But have you ever thought about it, Don - your Chinese friend, is it appropriate to be a head coach in the youth team?"

Tang En didn't expect this problem before, because he was also a head coach in the youth team and the first team at a young age, and he got along well with the coaches of the coaches of the coaching team, and he did not encounter any situation where he did not believe him. But his situation is indeed different from Tang. He was able to get accepted by other colleagues as soon as he got on the position because of his previous person, Tang, who worked in the Forest Team for seven years, and gradually rose up. And Tang has now become a newcomer with nothing, and together with a white board, why should he be the head coach when he goes to the youth team?

Tang En found that he thought the problem too simply. He knew Tang's ability, so would others believe it?

Evan trusts himself very much. If he can't believe his evaluation of Tangde, then don't expect others to believe it.

He suddenly felt that it was a very stupid thing to invite Don back to Nottingham on impulse. Not only did he lose his job, but he could also face the fate of being sent back from all the way.

Just when Tang En was a little depressed for a moment, Tang, who had been sitting on the sofa silently, stood up like an outsider. “I can start from the grassroots coach, Mr. Chairman.”

Hearing him say this, Evan looked at Tang En, and Tang En looked at Tang, trying to see what this person was thinking. Originally, he brought him to the UK to be an assistant coach for himself. Tang En believed that they could cooperate well because they all had the taste of each other. They knew what each other was thinking. This tacit understanding was innate. Now if Tang went to be an ordinary coach of the youth team, what's the point?

But he didn't see the answer to this question from Tang's face.
Chapter completed!