On the way back to the club from Neil Stadium, Frederick didn't say a word, he was ashamed of his performance at the press conference, and he felt even more ashamed to think that every time he attended a press conference, he was so comfortable dealing with dozens or hundreds of reporters, without the assistance of a press officer.

Frederick has always been haunted by the failure of the 'head coach' campaign for Christmas.

Although he knew he couldn't have led Millwall to such a good result, it was heart-wrenching to miss out on a chance to be a manager, and maybe it would be a turning point in his career.

Even if the coaching results will not be so good, as long as you can play well, there are some possibilities to continue as the head coach.

This has nothing to do with whether Zhang Yang's coaching ability is excellent, it is completely a matter of his own work future.

With Millwall's amazing results, Frederick's mind has also changed, he doesn't care too much, after all, the past has passed, but he is still a little unconvinced by Zhang Yang: why can this young man lead the team to achieve such good results?

"Where the hell am I missing?"

Frederick has been looking for problems, and he feels that he is also quite good, such as the first-team training work, most of which he has led the team to complete, and Aldous and Wise must also refer to his advice in this regard.

In addition, he also did a lot of the auxiliary work of the teaching assistant.

In Millwall's coaching staff, Zhang Yang is the head coach of the team, responsible for formulating tactics and leading the team's games; Wise is the player's ability coach and the nominal 'first assistant coach', while Aldous is the 'all-professional support', he doesn't have anything to excel at, but he can do something in every aspect.

Frederick is 'hard-working', responsible for the work that takes physical strength and rushes to the front line, he can be said to be the 'blue collar' of the coaching staff, leading the team, supervising the training of each player and other details, he is responsible for it.

Millwall have changed manager after manager over the past few seasons, and Frederick has been the first assistant coach because of his ability to do his job.

Frederick is also very important in the current Millwall coaching staff.

In addition to work, there are some special things that require Frederick, for example, Millwall's registered FA manager's name is Frederick, because Frederick has obtained a professional coaching certificate issued by UEFA, and according to FA regulations, club managers must have coaching qualifications.

Zhang Yang does not even have a regional second-level coaching certificate, so he naturally does not have the qualifications to coach a Premier League team.

The same goes for Wise.

Aldous does have a certificate, but he is only good enough to coach teams in the Championship and below, not enough to coach a Premier League team.

Frederick is the titular Millwall manager.

Millwall is not an exception to this, in fact, many clubs are in a similar situation, some big stars have the ability to coach Premier League clubs after retiring, but they do not have the corresponding coaching qualifications, and the club's registered manager can only be someone else.

One of the most representative is Manchester United.

Everyone knows that Manchester United's head coach is Alex Ferguson, but in fact, Manchester United's registered FA manager name has never been Ferguson, because Ferguson does not have a professional coaching certificate under the UEFA method at all.

But so what?

The de facto control of Manchester United is still Ferguson.

With Manchester United leading the way, other clubs don't care about the so-called 'rules and regulations', and Frederick's managerial name doesn't make sense, with the benefit being a symbolic £300 a week in wages.

With an important job and a nominal head coach title, Frederick revered himself even more for being able to officially worry about the head coach.

Today's events hit him very hard.

Others didn't care very much, and they didn't talk about Frederick's embarrassment at the press conference, but Frederick himself cared very much, thinking about Zhang Yang's team results, thinking about Zhang Yang's calmness in dealing with the media, and then thinking about the absolute support of all the players, including the club and fans, for Zhang Yang, Frederick suddenly found that he was really not suitable to be the head coach.

In terms of the work of assistant coach, he can do very well, the job of the head coach cannot be done at all.

Just dealing with journalists is a headache.

Looking at the front row chatting with Wise about the flamboyance of the game, Frederick suddenly felt that it was not bad to keep going like this. As an assistant coach, with a good salary, he leads the team to do training, shares the joy of victory with the team, and enjoys the cheers of the fans.

Frederick found himself unmindful of being an assistant coach all the time.

The thought made him chagrin: how could he think so? People always have to improve! But in my heart, I feel that if I don't serve as a head coach and don't have that kind of urgent pressure, I actually feel quite suitable for myself.

Publicity? He may just be a natural manager.

That's the talent gap.

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Zhang Yang didn't know that Frederick had so many sighs, and he was actually amused by Frederick's experience.

That's schadenfreude.

The whole club knew that Frederick wanted to be the head coach, and the latter made no secret of his desire to become the head coach, and he was too lazy to attend the press conference to deal with the journalists who did not genuinely support Millwall, so he 'ceded' the opportunity to Frederick, who did not expect the other party's performance to be so bad.

"Perhaps...... It's going to be embarrassing, right? Zhang Yang rarely had a little sympathy.

After returning to the club, the team was disbanded, and Zhang Yang went back to do his first 'group interview work', and he was interviewed after a victory, so that the media could promote the team, which was also good for his own image and fame.

There were only four people in the group.

Excluding Zhang Yang himself and Charlison, the press officer, there is only one reporter from Tele Sports and one reporter from The Times.

What a pitiful number!

Zhang Yang didn't care, it was an exclusive interview with a person, not to mention, a "Times" top of several London area media, he opened the private chat message, and found that the two reporters had private chat questions, and there were a few simple questions in the group.

Some of the news was just sent, and the reporter of "Telecommunications Sports" asked, "Do you use private chat for interviews?" Excuse me. I wonder what you think of the upcoming game against Manchester United? ”

The question sent by The Times to the group also attracted Zhang Yang's attention, "Millwall are about to play Tottenham Hotspur twice, what do you think of these two games?" ”

Also, "Is Jody Morris back from injury and at what game will he return?" ”

The "Telecommunications Sports" reporter mentioned that the game with Manchester United will be two weeks later, the next round of Millwall's opponent is Tottenham Hotspur, and the next round opponent is Manchester United, many media have begun to pay attention to this game, Millwall, Manchester United, a league second, a league third, are very concerned teams, the two direct confrontation is enough to attract the attention of many fans.

But it's still too early.

Before Millwall could prepare for the game against Manchester United, Zhang Yang replied in the form of words, "I have a vision for the game. It's not always the same against Manchester United, as they have been the most successful English club of the last decade. ”

"But the whole team will do their best to beat their opponents and facing Manchester United is a good opportunity to open up the points gap!"

"The Times" asked about the nearest game, Millwall will face Tottenham Hotspur in the next round, and then the League Cup opponent is also Tottenham Hotspur, two consecutive games against a team, it is still very interesting, but Tottenham Hotspur is not easy to deal with, Zhang Yang also thought of a strategy: focus on the league, the League Cup is used for training.

He couldn't say much to reporters, even if he was a friendly reporter, he couldn't reveal the idea of 'training', so Zhang Yang praised Tottenham Hotspur and said that he would definitely try to win.

As for Morris?

He won't announce when Morris will play!

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The next day, Telesports and The Times both published news of Zhang Yang's interview.

The content in it is fascinating.

Zhang Yang has always been very low-key this season, in front of various media reporters, every sentence he says likes to add the prefix 'Millwall's goal is relegation' or 'Millwall is just a relegation team', when facing a strong team, Zhang Yang will give a series of praises to the opponent, and said that it is not easy to win the game.

This has made the media accustomed to it.

Although I know that Zhang Yang definitely doesn't think so, but news reports are like this, no one will say what is in their hearts, and the media's job is only to reprint and publish what celebrities say in the news.

The Telecom Sports and The Times reports are different.

Zhang Yang made it clear that in the game with Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United, Millwall would try to win, which immediately attracted the attention of many fans.

The rest of the media were surprised.

Zhang Yang did not appear at the press conference the day before, and he did not give interviews in public afterwards, how did Tele Sports and The Times get the news?

There is no shortage of reporters in front of Millwall, and they have not seen any reporters enter the club for interviews.

So far this season, Millwall have been so good that there have always been reporters who want to do interviews, and it would be good to be able to interview two players once in a while, preferably with Zhang Yang himself, but unfortunately Zhang Yang rarely gives individual interviews.

On non-match days, Zhang Yang will be bored in the club, and in response to the interview request of media reporters, he will reply in one sentence, "There is no time." ”

He really didn't have time.

Recently, the schedule has been very tight, and most of the time has been busy, how can you find time to deal with media reporters?

Now Millwall have to deal with Tottenham Hotspur.

There are three games to play in the next two weeks, two against Tottenham Hotspur and one against Manchester United, and it will not be easy to win the other two games except for the Carabao Cup, which is already being used for training.

Zhang Yang is faced with a choice: should he rotate against Tottenham Hotspur or choose to rotate against Manchester United?

Zhang Yang thought about it for a long time.

If you can, you don't want to give up two games, but two consecutive league games, plus a League Cup in the middle, it is impossible to play every game, which not only means that the players will become tired, but also means that by the second game, the players' performance will be greatly affected.

The second game was against Manchester United!

Therefore, even if you don't make a choice, it is tantamount to giving up the game against Manchester United, and it also brings great danger to the team's main lineup, and if there is an injury to a player during the game, the problem becomes even bigger.

Zhang Yang thought about it and finally decided to face Manchester United.

There is a reason for this choice, if it is in the second half of the schedule, it will definitely choose to face Tottenham Hotspur and give up the game against Manchester United appropriately, which is the best way to get points.

But now it's different, the difference is that the game against Tottenham is away and the game against Manchester United is at home.

If the whole main team comes on the field and faces Manchester United at home, the team still has a chance to win, and the whole main team faces Tottenham Hotspur away, and it may not be able to win, so the game with Tottenham, sending some substitute players, focusing on the game with Manchester United, is the best choice.