England is the birthplace of football, with many of its clubs spanning more than 100 years.

Millwall is also one of them.

Prior to 1903, Millwall was known as Millwall -Athletic, founded in 1885 by a group of Scottish dockyard workers, before being renamed Millwall F.C.

However, 100 years have not given Millwall a glorious history, perhaps because the competition in the London Region is so fierce, they have only played in the regional league for most of the time, and it is only in the last three decades that they have started to play in the professional league, but they have only lingered in the lower leagues and have never entered the top league.

In May 2001, Millwall won the then English Second Division and were promoted to the English First Division (now the Champions League).

The following year, Millwall ushered in an explosive period, and they almost made it to the English Premier League, but unfortunately lost 2-1 to Birmingham City in the two legs of the promotion play-off semi-finals, and lost the best chance in the history of the top flight in 100 years.

That defeat led to two seasons of sink.

Last season, Millwall won the runner-up of the English FA Cup, which was a little crazy, and also got the opportunity to participate in European competitions for the first time in history, but unfortunately they were eliminated in the first round of the League Cup.

Millwall are not in the mood to think about European competitions now, and they will need to keep their team in place to secure their Champions League standings, otherwise they will risk relegation at the end of the season.

This is also the most important job of the club.

It was precisely because the club president Gregory was dissatisfied with the results that he considered inviting Zhang Yang to be the 'competition instructor', hoping to help the team's results.

Zhang Yang began to carefully check the situation of the players.

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

Some of the first-team players have been traded from other clubs, and some have opted to join the team on a free transfer, but the most advanced players have been promoted by Millwall's youth team.

From this point of view, Millwall's youth training ability is not bad.

However, this is the case with small clubs, they do not have enough money to buy players on a continuous basis, and trading in the transfer market is only a supplementary means, and the most important thing is to dig from their own youth team or trade young stars to develop them.

Zhang Yang's focus is still on Wise's information.

This player and team leader is still not a small reputation, or in other words, he can be trusted by a second-tier league team as a part-time team leader, and his career as a player must be brilliant.

Wise's playing career was a stellar one for Chelsea.

He played for the Blues for ten seasons and captained them before being voted England Footballer of the Year in 1998.

In the final years of his career, Wise began to wander around, first at Leicester City, but after just 17 appearances for the club, he slammed team-mate Galen Davidson in the chin during pre-season.

This incident made Leicester fans quite disgusted with Wise.

So Wise was fired.

Wise then moved to Millwall, signing a player-manager contract. That's why Wise chose to come to Millwall, where he hopes to develop his coaching skills.

Wise's weekly salary was only five thousand pounds.

This level of weekly salary is incredible for a former big-name star, even if he is 38 years old, but as long as he is in Millwall and can play for the team, no matter how he performs, he can get enough salary just by fame, but Wise still signed, he needs a part-time coach job to exercise his ability, after all, he is 38 years old, and he continues to play in the professional league at the age of 38, which is a big miracle.

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Zhang Yang spent two hours carefully reviewing Millwall's information, and he also had a certain degree of understanding of the entire team.

This may just be modest.

Important information such as the player's name, age, position, characteristics and past performances were all memorized using his 'memory enhancement' ability.

Two hours of work also brought a sense of exhaustion.

A tall man pushed open the door and asked, "You're Zhang, aren't you?" He stepped aside.

Zhang Yang stood up and nodded.

"Hello, you're unimaginably young, I'm Aldous Vernival, the coach of the youth team, you can call me Aldous." Verneval's tone was very kind, but his movements and expressions were very casual, obviously not taking the flamboyance very seriously.

Zhang Yang touched his hand and didn't pay too much attention to it.

The moment he signed for Millwall, he knew what to face, he was just too young to coach in the industry.

"Today Mr. Gregory will be at the club, and he will invite you to dine with him. ”

"Do you want to go now?"

Vernival looked down at the time, "Right now, it's almost time." ”

"Let's go, then."

The two went to the club restaurant together.

By the time the two arrived, Gregory hadn't arrived, but Frederick Lawton and Denice Wise were already there.

A few people exchanged a few words on their faces.

After waiting for a while, Gregory and Ebenidze arrived together, and several people stood up to greet them, and Gregory was busy beckoning everyone to sit down, and began to help introduce Zhang Yang.

This may be a lunch for Zhang Yang.

Everyone else is very familiar with it, Zhang Yang is a new employee, he just signed a contract today, Gregory seems to hurry up and let him fit in, in fact, Gregory also has an idea, that is, I hope to see Zhang Yang's ability to deal with interpersonal relationships.

In a new work environment, if you want to make a difference, you must do a good job of surface work.

For example, if a team has a bad relationship with each player, it is difficult for the coach to carry out the work of the coach, and the same is true for the relationship with colleagues.

If another coach came to Millwall, he didn't have to face such a situation at all, and Zhang Yang had to face a lot more pressure because he was so young.

But Gligory was eventually disappointed.

Zhang Yang didn't have the intention of pleasing others, he had already seen through this aspect, he could talk a few words when he could, and he didn't want to talk and even maintain face, so he only said a few words to Wise at the dinner table, and everyone else was redundant, but he always had a smile on his face, so that the atmosphere would not be too embarrassing.

It was Gregory who talked the most.

As the president of the club, Gregory is very competent, 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 Gregory took the initiative to talk about Zhang Yang's Weibo, "I know Zhang on Weibo, his judgment of the game is very accurate, and he is also very exciting in explaining the game on the radio program." He has more than 100,000 followers on Weibo. ”

This made the others look up to Zhang Yang.

In any case, it is very difficult for Weibo to attract more than 100,000 fans, ordinary professional players can't do it, and only those famous stars can, and Zhang Yang is not a star, just an 'amateur' game commentary, and having so many fans also proves the recognition of fans.

But it's not about coaching.

'Can a Weibo celebrity be a coach?' Frederick and Fernival looked at each other, pursed the corners of their mouths and thought disdainfully, he thought that it was Grigori's old eyes that would choose to hire a young and excessively young Weibo celebrity as a coach.

Ebenezer was interested.

He didn't know why Grigory chose Zhang Yang before, but now that he found some 'business opportunities', he talked to Zhang Yang, "Will you use Weibo to post some personal life and work news?" ”

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

"That's 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 know you better, so that you can gather support."

Ebenezer's suggestion is good, but he focuses on 'life and work', in fact, he also hopes that Zhang Yang will help Millwall to do publicity, and it will definitely not hurt to drive more fans to watch Millwall's games with Zhang Yang's popularity.

Zhang Yang just smiled and said, "I'll think about it." ”

Next, everyone talked about the analysis of the game, Zhang Yang was the person who was focused on, and he said some personal experiences in a row, in fact, most of them were obtained from Denis's information, and the specific game was just a general analysis.

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

Frederick suddenly pursed the corners of his lips and stood up and suggested, "Zhang is the club's 'match instructor', but no matter what we say here, it is difficult for us to see his level of ability, so it is better to let him go to the game with the team in the afternoon!" ”

"Start today?" Grigory's brow furrowed slightly.

"It's a bit of a no-brainer, isn't it? It should be a while longer. "Ebenezer has a good impression of Zhang Yang, he thinks that Zhang Yang has just worked, he doesn't know Millwall at all, let alone go to the game with him, he doesn't know the name of the player, how to give game advice?

Others sat on the sidelines.

Everyone looked at Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang was sullen, seemed to be a little stunned, didn't understand the situation at all, and in the face of everyone's eyes, he raised his eyebrows and said, "It's okay to start today?" I don't have a problem anyway. ”

"Is this okay?" Wise asked.

Frederick originally wanted to embarrass Zhang Yang, but he didn't expect the other party to agree, he stared at Zhang Yang, "Since Zhang Du said that it's okay, then it's no problem, I just have something to deal with in the afternoon, and I hope it can be easier." ”

"Then it's decided." Zhang Yang stretched out his hands.