The relaxed living atmosphere made Zhang Yang a little relaxed.

The next day, Zhang Yang had to devote himself to heavy and intense work, and Millwall's schedule was very challenging, with the entire crew not having a day off, and every player had to continue to devote themselves to training.

Zhang Yang is much more diligent than before.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Zhang Yang came to the club, stayed in the head coach's office, thought about matters related to tactical training, and studied the opponent for the next game when he had free time.

When training begins, he'll be on the first-team training pitch with the rest of the team, watching every player train.

Zhang Yang is strict with training requirements!

In the past, all the players were seriously engaged in training and didn't have to worry about anything, but in the last two days, he found that some players started to be lazy in the middle of training.

So he personally supervised the training.

It's very effective.

As the team won one victory after another, many players recognized Zhang Yang's ability, and Zhang Yang's majesty improved day by day, but in terms of team majesty, Zhang Yang's disadvantage is that he is too young.

On the surface, many players look like they don't care.

They feel that it will be very embarrassing to 'care', because Zhang Yang is so young, and listening to a person younger than themselves, they can't get over it.

But actually, most of the players care.

Braniff's example is there, on the club's bulletin board, and a few photos are still posted there, so everyone who passes by can see it, and that's a bit of a shame.

Braniff has been in the youth team for the last few days.

Not to mention participating in the competition, he can't even participate in the training of the first team.

At this time, many players also knew the effect of this move.

That's kind of scary!

If you are targeted by publicity, the photos posted on the bulletin board are embarrassing, and it becomes impossible to train normally, and you don't even have to think about it when you want to play.

When Zhang Yang stood on the sidelines in person, most of the players trained with peace of mind, and did not dare to be lazy anymore, which may also be related to the atmosphere in the team, several of Millwall's main core players are still very conscious, such as Jody Morris, Darren Ward, Neil Harris, they will not sneak and slip to train, and others can only train seriously under the attention of several coaches.

But the players' unconscious training is still a problem.

Aldous worried, "I don't know why lately, everyone doesn't seem to be in the mood to train." ”

"Maybe we should take two days off!"

Frederick suggested a reluctantly past.

Zhang Yang pondered.

In the past, everyone was training seriously, maybe it was Wise's leading role, or maybe because the team had relegation pressure and the results had been bad, all the players were serious about training, which was the enthusiasm brought by the pressure.

Now that the team's results have improved, maybe it's a lack of motivation?

He decided to take another look.

Zhang Yang said, "Let's have two more games!" After playing Queens Park Rangers, we gave the team two days off and let everyone relax. ”

The trio agreed.

The team needs to worry not only about 'not training actively', but more importantly, 'injury', in the middle of the training that day, Tony Clegg was injured, the 21-year-old young defender, is already half of the team's main players, his injury is still very troublesome, in addition, there are several players who have a cold, although not strict 1 serious, but it may also affect the performance.

These are all troubles.

However, Zhang Yang is still very strict with the training requirements, and he stipulates that every player must complete the training that should be done, especially in tactical training, and he must be more serious about it.

In the afternoon, when the players gathered, Zhang Yang said in public, "I see that some people are starting to be lazy!" I understand the mood of those who are lazy, like when it comes to school, some students will sleep when the teacher is not looking. But you're adults, I'm not targeting anybody, I want to see everybody focus on getting the job done. ”

Zhang Yang paced in front of the team with his hands behind his back, "Of course, I also know that training is very tiring, especially the weather has not been very good recently, and it is not easy to persevere." But at this stage, we have a very busy schedule. We've talked about it, and when we finish playing Queens Park Rangers, the team will have two days off, and we hope that the holiday will get you back motivated! ”

The news made many players cheer.

In a busy schedule where every training day seems to be repeated, there's nothing more appealing than a holiday.

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The thirtieth round of the Championship is approaching, and Millwall welcomes opponents Wolfhampton.

For the majority of Chinese fans, the name of "Wolfhampton Wanderers Football Club" is too long, so for the sake of convenience and habit, "Wolfhampton Wanderers" is generally called "Wolves".

Wolves is a nickname as well as a codename.

Wolves are a 'Premier League relegation team'.

In the 2002-2003 season, Wolves performed quite well, they emerged from the promotion play-offs and successfully promoted to the Premier League, but last season Wolves did not adapt to the environment of the Premier League and finally returned to the Championship as the last place in the Premier League.

Teams that have performed well in the Championship over the past seasons are no worse than teams relegated from the Premier League.

With the match at Neil Stadium, Millwall had plenty of time to prepare for the game, with the team having a light training session in the morning and heading to the pitch at 3 p.m.

When they got to the pitch, they were much earlier than their opponents.

Zhang Yang still has time to go around the stadium with Ebenezer, who has been the manager of Millwall for almost a month, and has only led the team to the first game without taking a closer look at his home stadium.

Neil Stadium is still very young, having been established in 1990.

The reason was that the old Neil Stadium could not be rebuilt into a full-seat stadium, so Millwall decided to build a new stadium.

Initially, the new stadium was planned to have a capacity of 28,000 people, but for that reason – funding constraints – the team did not raise additional funds, so only 20,000 seats were built at Neil Stadium, and in 1993 Millwall officially used Neil Stadium, which was only half a block away from the old stadium.

In English football as a whole, Neil Stadium is not well-known.

This may be due to Millwall's poor performance and the fact that other fans rarely hear its name, but due to its location and surroundings, the stadium is often used as a filming location for TV series, movies and commercials, such as The-Dragons-Lair, home of the virtual team "Summer Chester" in the British Sky TV series "MyTEAM", and the stadium is often used as a venue for boxing and women's football matches.

These made Zhang Yang sigh, "You really worked hard to make the club make more money." ”

Ebenezer laughed, "I think it's a compliment." ”

"There's no way around that, right?"

"Yes, the club has been strapped for money, we have very little support, and we have no other income ......," said Ebenezer when it came to the club's financial problems.

Zhang Yang feels that Ebenezer is the biggest contributor to the club's development.

Compared to most other Championship teams, Millwall has one of the worst fan support, which represents the market and directly affects the revenue of the club's various business transactions.

Without fan support, there isn't much to do commercially.

However, as a mid-stream team, Millwall's financial situation is actually not bad, although there is not too much transfer money, but the club at least does not have to worry about bankruptcy.

That's pretty good already.

Most of the small clubs in the UK are perennially loss-making.

The FA has been touting the 'commercialisation' of professional football, but they are targeting the Premier League, not the Championship, League One or other leagues further down.

Zhang Yang walked around Neil Stadium, looked at the time and went to the press conference.

The press conference was deserted.

Even as a Championship team, the number of twenty or thirty reporters at the press conference is definitely pitiful.

Zhang Yang was prepared.

From the last game to the present, there are still many media covering the Championship that are attacking him personally, and the "British Football Newspaper" also declared, "As long as Zhang Yang is the head coach for one day, he will never send a reporter to Millwall to cover him!" ”

The London Sports News didn't say it directly, but it said something about it.

Driven by the two medium-sized media outlets, some small media outlets that rely on the support of upper-level news materials no longer send reporters to interview, and the small and medium-sized media in the London Region seem to have begun to join forces to 'boycott' Zhang Yang and Millwall.

As a result, the number of reporters who come to cover the news has become very small, but the quality has increased, because most of them come to the big media.

BBC TV, The Times, Sky Sports...... A few reporters are all from big media, which makes Zhang Yang find some psychological comfort.

When there are fewer reporters to deal with, the level of seriousness increases.

Zhang Yang answered every reporter's question seriously, and every question about the game, team, and individual was very detailed, which also made the reporters who came to cover the game very good impression of him.

When the reporter has a good impression, the questions are less sharp.

The atmosphere of the interview was unusually friendly.

Wolves manager McGuinness's Dave Jones was much busier, with only a few dozen reporters on the scene, but more than half of them were Wolfhampton reporters who came with Wolves.

It takes a long time for one person to deal with so many reporters, and each reporter asks a question once.

Zhang Yang left first.

Dave Jones noticed Zhang Yang's departure, focusing on Millwall, of course, knows what has happened recently - Millwall 'blocked' two influential media outlets in the London region, and tragically suffered from the 'anti-blocking' of two media outlets.

Those two media outlets happen to be the ones with the most coverage of the Championship in the London Region.

That's the case.

Dave Jones doesn't understand the flamboyant approach.

In Dave Jones's view, a young coach who has just entered the football circle should honestly lead the team to play, even if he is a little 'wronged' in the media, he should try to be patient, rather than going to the reporters to confront him.

How about now?

Millwall has a home league game, and there are few reporters who come to get interviews.

Although there are several big media reporters, but the big media and the Championship are two unrelated words, the big media will not report on a Championship team, and after each round of the league, they will only talk about the score of the Championship on a small page.

Those reporters from big media just don't want to miss the big news, Millwall vs. Wolves, a game that is so ordinary that it can't be more ordinary, and what big news will appear!

"I'm still too young!" Dave Jones shook, but his heart was dark.

It's a hard-to-find sense of superiority!

Dave Jones is only forty-one years old, and most of the opponents he faces are older in the professional league, in an environment where managers are in their forties or fifties.

Now he's finally the 'big' one!