Godfather Of Champions

Stuart Pierce, who was on vacation at home, received a call from Tony Dunn.

He knew why Dunn was looking for him, even though he already had an answer, he still listened to Dunn's words politely.

"I'm glad you can call me, Tony. But I think the youth team needs me more."

Dunn felt so depressed. He didn't come to anyone. Is it really that scary to be an assistant coach for himself?

"But I really need you too, Stuart."

Stuart Pierce’s concern is that if he goes to the England senior team, then he will give up his job in the youth team. And he has been working in the youth team for almost ten years, and knows everything about the youth team. He is inseparable from everything here. If Dunn’s contract expires, what will he do? Coaching the England national team? His interest is not great, and the media pressure of that kind of work is too great. The job of the youth team is most suitable for him.

"If you can persuade the FA to allow them to agree that I am also the head coach of the England youth team, I will agree to be your assistant coach."

Pierce threw out his terms.

Dunn considered it for a while, then nodded: "Well, I'll try it."

He really went to Barclays, but no matter what he said, Barclays just didn't agree to let Pierce do two jobs. Either to be Dunn's assistant coach, or to be the director of the youth team, this is a single choice, not multiple choice.

"Tony. We have recommended so many coaches to you. Isn't there any one who can be your assistant coach? You know, there are many excellent coaches, they are the best among their peers..."

Dunn, who was angry at his head, didn't give Barclays any face. He said straightforwardly: "In my eyes, none of them are good enough!"

Barclays' self-cultivation was better than Dun En's, he just shrugged, indicating that if Dunn doesn't like it, then look for it himself.

Dunn left the office of the Football Association of England with a black face. It seems that he has to rely on himself.

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Des Walker is on the training ground for his players to personally demonstrate what to do when facing one-on-one defense. The phone he put in his trouser pocket suddenly vibrated, causing him to tilt his feet and lose his center of gravity when dribbling the ball. If the player defending him was not eye-stricken, he would be embarrassed in person.

Walker patted the shoulder of the player who was holding him. "You should steal the ball directly instead of trying to pull me."

Then he winked at the assistant coach. The assistant coach stepped forward: "Twenty times back and forth, all!"

There was a commotion in the team, but it was quickly suppressed by the coach. One person makes a mistake and the whole team gets punished. This is Walker's training requirement. Although the player just pulled the coach out of good intentions, his actions did not win the boss's favor.

Watching the players finally accept the punishment honestly, Walker walked under the awning on the side of the training ground and took out the cell phone that was still shaking.

It was Tony Dunn calling.

"You rarely call me, Tony."

"Ha, we are usually very busy, and we are not in the same city anymore..." Dunn smiled reluctantly.

But Walker didn't want to ask questions for this matter, he didn't care about the reason. "But as long as you call me, there must be something. Are you looking for something to do with me? No!" Just when Tang Enzheng didn't know how to tell him, he uncovered the suspense on his own. "Let me guess... Are you looking for an assistant coach, right?"

"We really have a tacit understanding, Des." Dunn smiled from the heart this time.

"But what's the use of you looking for me? I'm just the head coach of a second-tier team." Walker said while looking at the training team. He was no longer with Ian Bowyer. Bowyer was laid off at home for a while after being dismissed from Herford, while Des Walker was actively looking for work. He changed three teams, from the youth training supervisor to the assistant coach, and then to the current head coach. It can be regarded as a very practical step by step.

It's just that the Oxford United team he currently works for is in the fourth tier of England, and its strength is only in the middle and lower reaches of the league. The highest goal every year is to relegation, and it is not famous. So he wondered why Dunn wanted to call him.

"I never look at fame when I choose people. You don't know, Dess."

"You really want me to be England's assistant coach? Are you crazy, Tony?" Dunn's words were equivalent to admitting the purpose of his call, which surprised Walker. "England has thousands of better coaches than me. Why don't you go to them?"

"For me, the best coach is not as good as the one that suits me best. Dess, you are my first assistant coach after I became the head coach of the Forest. There is a tacit understanding between us. You are the most suitable for me. Yes. You are the person I need." Dunn said very affectionately. If someone who doesn't understand the inside story listens to it, he thinks there is something ambiguous between him and Des Walker.

"Those coaches may be very good, but they don’t understand what I need and don’t know what I think. Before I let the players figure out what I think, I have to find a way to make the whole coaching staff understand what I mean. It’s painful and the efficiency is too low. So I need someone who can know what I’m going to do without me saying too much to be my assistant. Des, besides you, I can’t think of anyone else. That's right."

Walker was shocked by Dunn's "affectionate confession". He did not directly refuse like the previous few people. Instead, he froze for a while before he stuttered: "I, we have, and haven't cooperated for ten years, so... ...What's the tacit understanding like that?"

"But we are still in touch, right? Are you following me, Des?"

Although this question may make people think Dunn is narcissistic, Walker grumbled.

"As long as we run in and lubricate a little, the tacit understanding will naturally be found. You know what kind of person I am, I also know what kind of person you are, you know what I need, and I know what you can do. And in the past ten years, you must be more mature than before. You see you are now the head coach... Anyway, there is nothing to worry about. It is definitely easier for you to be my assistant coach than to be an assistant to other coaches. And I have you This assistant must be very easy to be here. We both win. Besides, consider your future. In the future, your resume will include the “being an assistant coach of the England national team”. Whatever you want to do is easier than it is now. Isn't it?"

Tang Enxiao is moved by emotion and reason. If he can't handle Walker anymore, then I am afraid that he will really be forced to accept the candidates recommended by the FA. There are even people who have a bad impression of him... What can such a combination bring to the England team? Only God knows.

Walker was silent for a while, and then hesitantly asked: "But I'm not famous..." This is a tactful expression of his concern about whether he can order the big players in the national team.

"You are an assistant coach, Dess. Assistant coaches look at their own strength, and it has nothing to do with fame. When Venables was an assistant coach for McLaren, the England team still had to listen to McLaren, at least on the surface That's it." Dunn also expressed his opinion in a tactful way: I am the one who manages the locker room, so don't worry about it.

Walker raised his head and glanced at the training ground. The team has finished twenty turn-back runs and is resting while preparing for the next training session.

He knew that time was tight here today, and he couldn't make it clear. And this is an important choice in life after all, he doesn't want to make a hasty decision.

"My players are still waiting for me, Tony. You ask me to think about it, and then give you an answer."

Dunn readily agreed: "Okay, no problem. Dess, for your phone, I won't turn off the phone 24 hours a day, you can call me anytime."

But at the same time, Dunn’s heart was shouting: "What are you hesitating, Des? Isn’t this more promising than your second-tier coach? Oxford United can let you bring you into the second-tier league. They have stimulated their full potential, and now they have no room for growth. You are just a waste of time by staying there!"

Although this is the truth, if Dunn dared to say this, I am afraid Des Walker would not have to think about it for a few days, but would reject him face to face. After all, no one can allow the rest of them to point fingers at their own business.

When Walker put the phone back into the wide pocket of his sports pants and walked back to the training ground. His assistant coach began to urge those players who were resting to continue training.

He also had a tacit understanding with his assistant coach.

Is it necessary to abandon the present tacit understanding for the sake of a tacit understanding ten years ago?

Which kind of understanding is more important?

Des Walker was a little undecided.

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Dunn called Walker, but there was nothing in his heart. Because Walker has a saying that hits his weakness-"We haven't worked together for ten years, what's the understanding?"

What is the concept of ten years?

People who have not experienced it may hardly appreciate the passage of time.

Ten years ago, the boys and girls who had just entered the high school gate, young and lively, full of longing for the future but unwilling to grow up, had already stepped into the palace of marriage as soon as they turned around, and even became parents.

Ten years ago, a young man who was full of enthusiasm and ambition to enter the threshold of society, hoping to pursue his ideals, was already a middle-aged strange uncle who was eating and waiting to die every day, and his edges and corners were smoothed by the torrent of society.

No matter how powerful people are, they can't beat time. Even an arrogant person like Tony Dunn has to bow his head in front of time.

He is no longer the rookie who didn't know anything ten years ago and needed Walker to help take care of everything. And Walker is no longer the assistant coach who has just transferred from a player to a coach ten years ago, and he is not yet rich in experience. He is motivated by his passion.

Both of them have gone through the most changed ten years in their lives. Is there really a tacit understanding together?

Doesn't need too much words, just one action and one eye can make the other person understand what you think?

There is a saying in China that "things are not humans". Can this idiom be used for both of them?

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Des Walker lay on the sofa in a daze. His wife called him three times in the dining room without receiving a response. Finally, she ran out and stood in front of him akimbo and stared at him.

"Ah? What's the matter?" Walker realized that there was an extra person in front of him after a while.

The wife temporarily put aside the reason why she came here to stare at him, but asked strangely: "What's wrong with you?"

"Nothing..." Walker stalled.

"What's the trouble with work?" His wife simply sat down beside him and took his hand.

Walker felt the temperature of his wife in the palm of his hand, and he gently rubbed his wife's little hands that were no longer soft and delicate. "Tony called me today."

"Tony? Tony Dunn?" As Walker's wife, it was not easy to remember that man.

"Other than that Tony, who else can there be Tony?" Walker laughed.

"Surely he wasn't looking for you from the past, right?"

"He wants to introduce me to a new job, and I am hesitating about it." Walker looked at the ceiling, his eyes wandering. "I don't know if I should agree to him. I always feel that this is a gamble. The bet is quite big..."

"The coach of England?" As a former player and wife of the current coach, a woman doesn't know nothing about football.

"It's the assistant coach, dear." Walker gave his wife a smile.

The wife seemed to look at her husband in disbelief. As a wife, she clearly knows the abilities of her husband.

"I told him that I don't think I can be an assistant coach in England, but he said it doesn't matter, I can do it." The husband also knows what his wife is thinking.

"Are you tempted?"

Walker was silent for a while and nodded, "Honestly...somewhat."

"If you go to England, you will give up your job in Oxford."

Walker continued nodding.

"Des, I have no objection. Go if you want to go, and refuse him if you don't want to go." A man's work has always been seldom managed by his wife. In recent years, her husband has changed several jobs and moved from one place to another. Place, she just followed. Anyway, there is still a team that wants her husband to be a coach, so she has nothing to worry about. As a husband, you just need to talk to your own wife, and you don't really want your wife to give any ideas. Especially now that the child is older, there is no need to consult his wife.

"Go to dinner, I came here to tell you to have dinner, Dess."

The wife stood up and walked Walka up.

Walker stood up and confided his thoughts to his wife, he already had an idea in his heart.

At best, it was just another adventure, just like when I decided to leave Nottingham Forest and go to Helford. He is used to this kind of life, changing from one place to another, changing a job and then changing a job. Maybe when he is fifty years old, he will be able to accumulate enough experience to stabilize in a Premier League or even a Premier League club and begin to draw his own blueprint.

Before that, he still needs to learn and accumulate from different people.

Tony is a good learning object...how to manage players.

He also really looked forward to how Dunn would manage those big-name England stars who were spoiled by the media. (To be continued, if you want to know what's going on, please visit www.qidian.com, there are more chapters, authors are supported, and genuine reading is supported!)

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