champion godfather

Chapter 667

"Hurry up and forget about the league championship three days ago. Don't think that winning the league championship is enough." On the new day's training ground, Tang En was lecturing the team.

After winning the league title, he sensed some slack within the team.This must be related to the league championship. This championship makes some people feel that the task of a season has been completed. No matter how they play in the future, they will at least have a championship in their hands and can have a pleasant holiday.

Tang En didn't think so. It's gratifying to win the league championship, but it's not a reason to slacken preparations for the Champions Cup.

"League champions are delicious, but there is an even more delicious big cake waiting for us. Champions Cup champions - don't you want to taste the taste of defending it?" Tang En waved his arms and painted a wonderful picture for everyone foreground image. "Don't relax! It's hard to tighten up after loosening up. Now some people outside say that Nottingham Forest winning the league championship and Chelsea winning the Champions League are the best results. They are all farting! Why is it best to give up the championship to others? A good result? Did we work hard all the way to the final to fulfill the good deeds of others? Since we entered the final, we must win the championship, and the runner-up is considered a failure!"

After the lecture, Tang En handed over the command of the training to Tang and Chris Lak, and then returned to his office.Allen Adams was already waiting there.They want to discuss the plan to go to the Far East to pan for gold in the summer.

Twain knew the impact on the team of using the precious training time to fly halfway around the world to play commercial games in the summer. He has seen a lot of precedents in this regard.But this time he must obey the club's arrangements.

In the past few seasons, when he needed to buy people, the club's finances were always as far as possible.Now that the team has achieved results, it is natural to repay the club's finances.Moreover, the club's finances are tight after the new stadium, and it needs to get some money from other places to suspend this tense situation.Going to Asia to play business games is the fastest way to get results.

Therefore, this time he couldn't say no to it.

"We have already contacted there, and now we have launched promotions in China, Japan, Thailand, and Malaysia." After seeing Tang En, Allen didn't exchange pleasantries, and went straight to the point.

"Four countries?"

Allen nodded: "Four countries, five regions, and one Hong Kong. Five games, let's just be the pre-season warm-up match." He smiled at Tang En, he knew the differences between himself and Tang En on this of.

Twain thought about it. In this way, basically there will be these five games before the entire season. After a long-distance flight, no matter how many games they play, the team's physical fitness may not be able to bear it.

"Are there any other activities besides the competition?" Twain knew that the team traveled thousands of miles to Asia, and it was impossible for them to come back after only playing five games. Alan would not be so honest.

"Well, there are three business activities, a charity dinner. This requires group attendance, and Beckham has some specific arrangements for business activities... You know, he is always the most popular person."

"Sounds like a busy summer." Tang En shrugged.

After talking about Alan's work, Alan asked Dunn like a small talk: "Tony, the Champions Cup on the 21st..."

"You want to ask how sure the team is of winning?" Tang En guessed his thoughts.

Allen nodded.

"Wouldn't it be more effective to publicize the name of the double champion?"

Allen smiled: "You're smart, Tony."

"Ha, even if it's not for some commercial promotion, I must win this championship!" Tang En clenched his fists. "So don't worry about this, I said the double crown, that is the double crown."

Allen glanced at the team that was training outside, stood up, and extended his hand to Tang En: "Then Evan and I are waiting for your good news, Tony."

After shaking hands, Alan bid farewell, while Dunn went out and returned to the training ground, continuing to supervise the training.

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After the league ended, the media in England could focus on hyping the Champions League final.Unlike last year, this year is England's "civil war", which has given the English media a lot of topics to hype.

And for these two head coaches, the media are determined to provoke a pre-match battle.

The Sun newspaper published a large photo of the two on the sports page, with a sentence between the two photos:

Grant?Who is that?
This was what Tony Twain said in order to express his contempt when Grant had just taken over as Chelsea coach.At that time, his words were quite marketable, because everyone believed that Grant was not capable of leading Chelsea, especially since his predecessor had such a character, which imprinted a very deep brand on this team.

Even Twain himself did not expect that Grant led Chelsea all the way to the final of the Champions League.This is the first time in the history of the Chelsea club to enter the championship finals. You must know that even a coach as powerful as Mourinho has not completed this pioneering feat.In a sense, the final has not yet been played, but Grant has made club history.

With such a contrast between the results before and after, it became obvious what the Sun newspaper meant by quoting this sentence—to provoke a new round of war of words between the coaches of both sides, and to taunt Twain, irritate him, and ask him to come out again. Post some shocking stories along the way.

Just relying on one headline is definitely not enough. The Sun also counted the grievances and confrontation records of the two teams in recent years. Tony Twain's team naturally had the upper hand, but this also aroused Chelsea fans' further enthusiasm for Nottingham Forest. hate.In particular, Tony Twain's self-satisfied, arrogance that no one looked down upon was even more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people after being exaggerated by the media.The media wished that Chelsea fans would now think that Twain felt that there was no need to play in the final, because his team would definitely win.

Supporters of the two teams have not been idle these days, showing up to express their views on the game.

John Mortensen wrote in his own column on the BBC website, claiming that he was more optimistic about Nottingham Forest defending the title. Although defending the title was very difficult, Tony Twain and his team were used to creating miracles.Moreover, the match between Nottingham Forest and Manchester United had shown the world the resilience of this team, so he believed that the final victory must belong to Tony Twain and Nottingham Forest.

Although Mourinho is far away in Portugal, he still pays close attention to the teams he once coached.Although he still dismisses Grant, emotionally speaking, he supports Chelsea in winning the championship.His reasoning is quite his style-this is the team I left behind, I have played the foundation for this team for three years, and now that kid Grant doesn't have to do anything, he just needs to follow my set , it's time to reap the fruits.But I'm still very proud of what the Chelsea lads did.What?Since Tony Twain came to power, Chelsea haven't won against Nottingham Forest?That's not a problem. On the night of Moscow on May 21, this embarrassing record can be officially passed away...

Grant finally couldn't hold back the atmosphere of such a strong battle.When he was interviewed by Sky TV, he talked about his personal grievances with Twain.In fact, it is a lot of bitterness and a counterattack.First of all, he complained that he had never been recognized. Even if he led the team to the Champions League final, the media were still talking about whether he would leave after the end of the season.

"Mr Abramovich has just signed a new three-year contract with me, we are now very likely to win the Champions League, Mourinho's Chelsea have not even reached the Champions League final. I don't admit it The failure of the league has something to do with me. I owed too much debt in the first half of the season. I have been paying off the debt after taking over this team. I think it is very good to get to this point. I don’t understand why you are still talking about my succession people……"

Then he talked about the famous "who's that" incident. "Tony Twain is a head coach with a great personality. He always judges others casually like this. I think we are all used to it. But I am very happy that now I have the opportunity to prove 'who I am' in front of him." These words contained great resentment. Obviously, the anger that Tang En had teased had been accumulating in Grant's heart, and it was getting more and more, waiting for an appropriate time to erupt.

The right time is the Champions League final.What could make Grant feel more exhilarated revenge than defeating the mighty Tony Twain and his team in the final of the Champions Cup, and then winning the championship?

After Grant spoke, Tony Twain also jumped out to fight.In his column he wrote:
"... I'm glad Mr. Grant finally understood his situation. He said he was glad he now had the opportunity to prove 'who was that' in front of me, indicating that he himself understood that he needed to prove to me that he would only know who he is."

This made the supporters of Nottingham Forest laugh out loud, but it made Grant almost fly into a rage.Obviously, he was only thinking about how to defeat Tang En, but accidentally fell into Tang En's language trap.

So he fought back in the media again, but Twain did not fight this time: "I hate the behavior of using my mouth to attract people's attention before the game, so I don't plan to quarrel with Mr. Grant in the media. The championship trophy Belonging is not about who spit more, I will not participate in this stupid hype again, I am sorry."

These words left Grant speechless.I've never seen such a shameless person... I used to have a good spat with myself, and immediately turned my back on him after he got a bargain. This excuse is high-sounding, but it really doesn't match his image at all!

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Although Tang En fully expressed his contempt and disdain for Grant during the spat, he was not so stupid as to believe that Grant was such a terrible opponent.Mourinho's words are not very credible. Being able to bring a team that has undergone major personnel changes in the middle of the season to the Champions League final is by no means just relying on the team left by the previous term.

Tang En fully inherited the glorious tradition of the older generation of revolutionaries. To deal with the enemy, he first despised him strategically, and then valued him tactically.He said disdainfully: "Who is Grant?" In fact, he has paid attention to this opponent since he found that the team led by Grant is getting better and better in the Champions League.At that time, he didn't know whether Grant's team would definitely reach the Champions League final, but he treated it as a possible opponent in the future.Now comes in handy.

The coaching staff of Nottingham Forest is collecting the latest information about Chelsea, such as Ashley Cole was injured in training, Lampard's mother passed away... and so on, as long as there is information that may affect the game , will be arranged and placed on Tang En's desk.

Although they have dealt with Chelsea many times and are no strangers to each other, Twain believes that the game on the night of the 21st must be different from any previous games.Chelsea, which entered the Champions League final for the first time, will definitely be like a pack of hungry wolves. No matter how encouraged by their head coach Grant, the fighting spirit will be full of the whole body.

This time is a very powerful opponent, and it will not be an easy game.The psychological warfare is over, and the championship still depends on the performance of both sides on the court.

Spitting at each other really can't decide who wins the championship.

During the training, Nottingham Forest focused on strengthening the tactical drill of penetration in the middle. Nottingham Forest started with two flanks. Although the strength of the flanks is still strong, they have been thoroughly studied by the opponent. Chelsea will definitely take precautions by then.So when they focused on defending the two sides, the Forest team unexpectedly played in the middle, and I believe it will have a miraculous effect.

In addition, set kicks are always a coup to break the deadlock, so you have to practice them.At the same time, Tang En decided to let the team practice penalty kicks in consideration of various possible situations.Although he didn't want the game to develop to that point, he must be fully prepared, right?In case it is really dragged to a penalty shootout, it is better to be prepared than to be caught off guard.

The day of the game is approaching day by day, and the war of words outside is getting more and more intense. The training bases of the two teams are full of reporters from all over the world.The two head coaches died down...there was no direct confrontation between the two, and they avoided talking about such personal grievances when they were interviewed by reporters. They only talked about the current training situation of the team, the status of the players, yes The prospect of the finals...these topics are not nutritious to follow the rules.

Compared with the previous heated head-coach duel, when the players talked about this game, it was much more peaceful, it was just a final.

In an interview with reporters, Beckham admitted that he did not expect that the first season he just joined the Forest team would be so wonderful, not to mention winning the league championship, and now he still hopes to win the Champions League.He thought it was amazing. When he decided to move to Nottingham Forest, he never thought that he would have the opportunity to stand on top of Europe again.This also shows how correct and wise his original decision was.

The media naturally gave another burst of praise.

While preparing for the Champions Cup, Tang En found that he had suddenly developed a habit in a short period of time—like Chris Lark, he began to pay attention to the newspapers of gossip stars.From those newspapers, he can always find news about Shania. Compared with her reclusive life when she just went to Los Angeles, Shania has been much more active recently, frequently attending some banquets, dances and business activities.

Of course, most of the time, she would be accompanied by that Hollywood playboy Colin Farrell.They seem to be very close.

Whenever he saw the news about Shania, Tang En would feel that something worried him was growing deep in his heart. He was afraid that one day he would suddenly break out of his control and rush out. He couldn't tell what the consequences would be.

As the Champions Cup final draws closer, this kind of emotion has more and more influence on Twain, so that it is inevitable for a person to think about it when he calms down.Tang En felt that something was wrong with him, very wrong.Going on like this is extremely detrimental to the team's preparations and even the finals. We must find a way to solve it...

He looked at the phone in his hand.

(End of this chapter)