Chapter 63 The Troubles of Forest Rangers

Tang En's "out of composure" at the AC Milan press conference - in the eyes of the majority of media, Tang En's attitude, who opens his mouth and does not sarcasticly, is "out of composure" and loses the norm - in fact, it is just an external manifestation of his recent series of good moods.

AAC Milan was eliminated in the Champions League and advanced to the quarterfinals. There were also frequent good news in the domestic league. In the 27th round of the league, Nottingham Forest had already scored the same points as Arsenal, which ranked first, but because the goal difference was less than Arsenal, he temporarily ranked second.

After the 28th round of the league, Don't have a team jumped to the top. After Arsenal tied two games in a row, he now only has 64 points, which was driven up by Manchester United, while Forests ranked first with 66 points.

Compared with the previous two seasons, Nottingham Forest has repeatedly reached the league first place this season. Although it has not been maintained from beginning to end, it is enough to make Forest fans full of expectations. Because of the previous two seasons, Nottingham Forest has never even reached the first place. This has really increased its strength and confidence. A European Champions League champion has suddenly found the confidence of a successful person.

So their performance this season seems reasonable. You know, it took Tang En four years to prepare for this day.

There are ten rounds left in the league. As long as the Forest team can maintain this result, there are ten more rounds, the goals he set at the beginning of the season can be achieved.

How could he be unhappy in the face of such a good situation?

Of course, it won’t take long to be happy. Tang En is still very clear about this. You should know that as a head coach, you face much more troubles and troubles than happy things...

With the resumption of the Champions League and the national team's game in the daytime, the Forest team will face many local games at the last moment. At this time, you need to deal with it carefully. If you are not careful, you may lose all the game. The rotation system is the best way to use different lineup combinations to allow players to rest, maintain their condition, and avoid injury.

Fortunately, the Forest team gave up the FA Cup in early January, otherwise there would be another FA Cup for them to play from now on.  The stronger the opponent, the stronger the will to fight, and the more intense the game will be.     Regardless of whether their players will be injured, it is unnecessary to spend physical energy in such a game.

In any case, Don Eun, who travels through time in China, is not a real Englishman. He is far from interested in the FA Cup and the Champions League. Perhaps in today's English football, the FA Cup still has an important position, but in Don Eun's heart, this cup and the League Cup belong to the same level: they are all used to train soldiers and train newcomers.

The rotation system of the Forest team is different from the rotation system in the first half of the season. In order to allow more players to play in the game, maintain their form, and at the same time comfort the hearts of the people in the first half of the season, Tang En often uses large rotations. But this situation changed after February.

The current rotation is not to satisfy the substitute players’ desire to play, but to make the main players have a better rest and avoid injury. Therefore, the rotation is very small, and Tang En is determined not to rotate in some key positions, such as the midfielder.

Poor Sidwell, when he came to the Forest team, he realized that the future was not as wonderful as he had imagined - George Wood was a substitute. It was not done by humans at all. I am afraid that only the chairs on the bench in the world can be done by the whole world...

Unless Done doesn't want Wood to play, Sidwell has no chance to play. He was eliminated early in the FA Cup and League Cup, and his chances of playing are sharply reduced. Now as the game schedule enters a intensive period, he thought that his chances of playing will increase as this way. Unexpectedly, Done rotates forwards, rotation forwards, rotation defenders, and even rotation midfielders, just not rotation midfielders.

As the captain of the team, George Wood is young and strong, in a stable state, and is the core main force that cannot be beaten. What did he use to compete with this monster? When he was in Reading, he could have been selected for the England team occasionally. Since he came to Nottingham Forest, the national team's door has basically been closed to him - no coach would recruit a substitute player with only a handful of opportunities to play in the club to join the national team, let alone the bloated midfield in England. Even George Wood was abandoned by McLaren...

Among the young people, Lennon and Bentner are treated the best. Because Van Nistruy and Beckham are both veterans, Donn is for the purpose of protecting them. He considers them more during rotations. As their alternates, Bentner and Lennon often get enough playing time.

Similarly, the rotation system is also good news for Chinese player Sun Jihai. Since he can play multiple positions, although he is older, he can still occupy a place in the team. In addition, Tang En likes Sun Jihai's professional attitude very much, so he doesn't have to worry about the future. At least he can stay in the Forest Team until the contract expires before considering the place to go.

The agent of Sidwell is already considering changing his players to another club next season. Nottingham Forest is not low, but it is always impossible to play for a professional player in his year of playing, sitting on the bench to count money is not a good pursuit.

After nearly a season on the bench with the Forest, Sidwell himself has repositioned himself. He is not the kind of person who is suitable for playing football in giant teams, maybe in the future, but definitely not now. The most suitable for him to play is actually mid- and lower-level teams like Reading. Among those teams, he may not get a higher salary than he gets as a substitute in the Forest, but he can get a stable chance of playing and even become the core of the team, just like he did in Reading in the previous two seasons.

Before he was still playing, he didn't want to spend his career on the bench of giant teams and was slowly forgotten.

Perhaps if he continues to stay in the Forest team, he will win many championship trophys, but what does those silver-shining trophys have to do with him as a substitute? It’s better not to have such honors.

He decided to show up with Coach Tony Donn after the season. Before that, his agent would help him contact the teams that were interested in him privately. They were not as famous as Nottingham Forest, but they would give themselves a stable position.

People who have the same worries as Sidwell include Zimbonda.

He discovered a fact that he felt hopeless - Forests' head coach Mr. Tony Donn and Arsenal's head coach Mr. Wenger are somewhat similar: if two players are put together and compared. B is stronger than A, but A is younger than B, then they will choose a without hesitation, rather than b.

This reality made him feel a little unhappy. Because Zimbonda is no longer young, he just celebrated his 29th birthday on the 21st of last month. His contract will expire next summer, and he is thirty at that time.

For those head coaches with pedophiles, thirty is enough to make them find a better replacement. For example, Brazilian Rafinia, who is now firmly in the team.

In the eyes of Frenchman Zimbonda, Rafinia, a full-back from Brazil, has a bad defense. If the team needs defense, he also needs the right forward and midfielder to come to fill in the position many times.

But in Tony Donn's eyes, Rafinia is young enough, has good physical strength, can run, and can run back after assists. These are the abilities of the older Zimbonda in decline.

During his two most glorious years at Forest, he was once selected for the French national team. But he soon became a passerby. Sarnia in Arsenal became the main position of the French national team. He is also younger than Zimbonda.

Young...young, I hate youth!

That fight with Bentner during training made his position in the team plummet, even behind Chinese Sun Jihai. He knew that Coach Tang En didn't like him anymore, on the one hand, because he was getting older, and on the other hand, because he was the initiator of the first in-team fight since Tang En took over the Forest team.

Tang En cares about the unity and stability within the team. This is his most proud part. He mentioned this countless times in the face of the media, and told those people with a slight pride that this is the fundamental reason why the Forest team can continue to improve and win. So he joked with the players and carefully maintained the atmosphere in the locker room. No one is allowed to destroy it.

Zimbonda is very clear about this because he is the second group of players to follow this man - the first group is the Forests who are still following Done in the second-level league, such as George Wood and Leiden Barnes - he has followed Tony Done for quite some time. He knows the character and hobbies of the head coach, and knows what he hates...

For example, he hates everything that destroys the disunity within the team.    He was so unlucky. He was impulsive and forgot this.                                                                                                         �

Should we find another way out after the end of this season, or should we continue to stay until the contract expires and see if the team's attitude towards us determines the future?

Zimbonda has been worried recently.

In fact, in general, looking back at the past few years with the Forest, it is still very beautiful. The atmosphere in the team is harmonious. There is no factional dispute among some wealthy clubs, and the team's performance is also good. Everyone's salary and bonuses are still satisfactory. No matter where they go, they enjoy the benefits of glory...

If he might not want to leave this club, he became a European champion. That was something he had never thought about when playing football in France. Nottingham Forest gave him all this. He hoped to continue playing here for a few years. It would be better to retire... Anyway, I don't have any extravagant hopes to join the French team to win the world championship? Don't joke. Being able to keep playing in a club where you can still win honors and retire is the highest ideal of a professional player.

Zimbonda is a very realistic person, and he has no fantasy inconsistent with reality at all.

This is also the difference between the troubles he and Sidwell face.

He is twenty-nine years old and is getting older. Fullbacks have higher physical fitness than central defenders, and their physical strength and speed are inversely proportional to their age. Ambitions will still not give in at this time and hope to challenge higher achievements, while more realistic people will start to consider their life after retirement. The last period of their career will make money as their first task. A stable and good income is what they want most. As for sitting on the bench or the main force, it is the same...

Sidwell is still twenty-five years old now, and he will not be at the end of this year at the age of twenty-six. His physical fitness and competitive level can still be maintained at a relatively high level in the next few years, and this period is called "golden age" or "year of playing". Sitting on the bench is not the career that such people want.

A team brings together players from all over the world with different personalities and different ideals. There will inevitably be undercurrents under the seemingly calm surface. In fact, everyone will have different things and only own troubles.

Of course, we do not deny Tony Donn's control over this team. He is still the well-deserved king of this team, the highest commander of this team, and everyone listens to him.

However, the powerful head coach could not control the hearts of everyone under his command...

Zimbonda and Sidwell have their own worries, and others who did not say on the team might also have their own worries, big or small.

For example, a new trouble has come recently.

The target was Ribery, and Tony Donn was also affected.

"...According to Spanish colleagues, La Liga giants Real Madrid are planning a persuasion plan for Nottingham Forest core player Frank Ribery. Real Madrid's chairman Calderon is said to be very interested in Frank Ribery, who recently won the European footballer. Of course, Real Madrid has officially clarified the rumor, and they denied the club manager Mijatovic's private contact with Ribery's agent..."

The latest transfer rumors in the TV station's sports news were reprinted by major print media within two days. Because of the award of "The Best Football Player in the World" award from the European Footballer and the British "World Football Magazine", Frank Ribery has now become a direct football celebrity. Any news about him is enough to make sports media hype. What's more, such news is tied to the best club of the 20th century Real Madrid, the club that will never be at ease, the club that likes to dig out various "men", the club that has just received huge amounts of TV broadcast funds and commercial sponsorship funds...

At the same time, they are also the opponents of Nottingham Forest in the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

This is really confusing...
Chapter completed!