Chapter 67 Old Partner

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

He knew what Tang En was looking for him for, and even though he had already got the answer, he still listened to Tang En's words politely.

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

Tang En felt so depressed that he didn't come to anyone, was it really that scary to be an assistant coach for himself?

"But I need you very much, Stuart."

Stuart Pierce's concern is that if he goes to the English adult team, he will give up his job in the youth team. He has been working in the youth team for almost ten years and knows everything about the youth team. Everything here cannot be separated from him. What if Don't have a contract expires? Coaching the English national team? He is not very interested, and the media pressure for that kind of work is too great. The job of the youth team is the most suitable for him.

"If you can convince the FA to agree that I will also be the head coach of the England Youth Team, I will promise to be your assistant coach."

Pierce threw out his conditions.

Tang En thought about it for a while, then nodded: "Okay, I'll try it."

He really went to Barclays, but no matter what he said, Barclays just disagreed with letting Pierce take on two positions. Either he became Tang En's assistant coach or the youth team supervisor. This is a single choice question, not a multiple choice.

"Tony. We have recommended so many coaches to you, but none of them can be your assistant coach? You should know that there are many excellent coaches in it, they are the best among their peers..."

Tang Enke, who was angry, did not give Barclays any face. He said bluntly: "In my eyes, they are not outstanding enough!"

Barclays was better at raising his clothes than Tang En. He just shrugged and signaled that if Tang En didn't like it, then go and find it yourself.

Donn left the FA's office with a dark face. It seemed that he had to rely on himself.

Des Walker was demonstrating for his players on the training ground what to do when facing one-on-one defense. The phone he put in his pants pocket suddenly vibrated. It caused him to tilt his feet while dribbling the ball and lose his center of gravity. If the player who defended him was not quick-eyed, he would have made a fool of himself in front of him.

Walker patted the player who held his shoulder, "You should just cut the ball instead of thinking about pulling me."

Then he winked at the assistant coach. The assistant coach walked forward: "Twenty runs back, all!"

There was a commotion in the team, but it was quickly suppressed by the coach. One person made a mistake. The whole team was punished, which was Walker's training requirement. Although the player just now gave the head coach a good intention, his actions did not win the favor of the boss.

Seeing the players honestly accepting the punishment in the end, Walker walked under the awning on the side of the training ground and took out the phone that was still vibrating.

It was called by Tony Don.

"You rarely call me, Tony."

"Ha, we are all very busy and are no longer in the same city..." Tang En smiled a little reluctantly.

But Walker didn't want to make a crime for this matter. He didn't care about the reason at all. "But as long as you call me, there must be something wrong. Is there anything you want to ask me for? No!" Just when Tang Enzheng didn't know how to tell him, he opened the suspense on his own. "Let me guess... you're looking for an assistant coach, right?"

"We really have a tacit understanding, Des." Tang En smiled from the bottom of his heart this time.

"But what's the use of you looking for me? I'm just a head coach of a second-tier team." Walker said to the team that was training. He has not been with Ian Bower for a long time. After being fired by Helford, Bower was idle at home for a while, while Des Walker was actively looking for a job. He changed three teams, from youth training supervisors to assistant coaches, and now head coaches. It can be considered as a very down-to-earth step by step.

However, the Oxford United team he works at the moment is in the fourth-level England league, and its strength is only in the middle and lower reaches of the league. The highest goal every year is to relegate and not be famous. So he wondered why Done called him.

"I never look at fame when choosing a person. You don't know, Des."

"You really want me to be an assistant coach in England? Are you crazy, Tony?" Donn's words were equivalent to admitting his call, which surprised Walker. "There are thousands of coaches in England better than me, why don't you go to them?"

"For me, the best coach is not as good as the coach who is most suitable for me. Des, you are the first assistant coach after becoming the head coach of the Forest team. We have a tacit understanding, and you are the one who suits me the most. You are the one I need." Tang En said affectionately. If someone who doesn't understand the inside story comes to listen, he thinks there is any ambiguity between him and Des Walker.

"The coaches may be excellent, but they don't know what I need and what I think.   Before letting the players figure out what I think, I have to find a way to make the entire coaching staff understand what I mean. It's too painful and inefficient.   So I need someone who can know what I want to do without me saying too much.        I can't think of anyone better than you."

Walker was shocked by Tang En's "feeling confession". He did not refuse directly like the previous few people, but was stunned for a while before stuttering: "I, we have, we haven't cooperated for ten years, so what kind of tacit understanding will there be?"

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

Although this question makes people feel that Done is narcissistic, Walker still said no.

"As long as we get a little bit of running-in and lubrication, the tacit understanding will naturally be found. You know what kind of person I am, I 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, look at you now are the head coach... In short, there is nothing to worry about. You will definitely be my assistant coach than to be the assistant of other coaches. And I have you as an assistant, it will be very easy. We both win-win. Besides, consider your future. In the future, you will have a "formerly assistant coach of the England national team" in your resume. No matter what you want to do, it will be easier than now, right?"

Tang Enxiao was moved by emotion and reason. If he couldn't handle Walker, then he might be forced to accept the candidates recommended by the FA. Some of those people even had a bad impression of him... What could such a combination bring to the England team? Only God knows.

Walker was silent for a while. Then he asked hesitantly: "But I have no reputation..." He expressed his concerns about whether he could command those big-name players in the national team.

"You are the assistant coach, Des. The assistant coach thinks that his own strength is his own strength, and it has nothing to do with fame. When Venables was an assistant coach for McLaren, England still had to listen to McLaren, at least on the surface. "Tang also expressed his opinion in a tactful way: I am the one who manages the locker room, so don't worry about it.

Walker looked up at the training ground. The team had finished twenty retracements and was resting. He was preparing for the next training class.

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

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

Tang En agreed readily: "Okay. No problem. Des, for your phone, I won't turn off the phone for 24 hours, and you can call me anytime."

But at the same time, Tang En was shouting in his heart: "What are you still hesitating about? Des? Isn't this more promising than your head coach of the B-class team? Oxford United has been able to let you lead the B-class team to be considered to have all its potential. Now they have no room for growth, and staying there is just a waste of time!"

Although this is a big truth, if Don En dares to say this, I'm afraid Des Walker won't have to think about it for a few days, but will reject him in person. After all, no one can allow the rest of them to point fingers at their careers.

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

He also had a tacit understanding with his assistant coach.

Should we abandon the current tacit understanding for a tacit understanding ten years ago?

Which tacit understanding is more important?

Des Walker was a little confused.

Donn called Walker. But he had no idea. Because Walker had a saying that hit him - "We haven't worked together for ten years, what kind of tacit understanding?"

What is the concept of ten years?

People who have never experienced it may find it difficult to understand the passage of time.

Ten years ago, young boys and girls who just entered the high school gate, were young and lively, full of longing for the future but were unwilling to grow up, turned around and entered the marriage hall, and even became fathers and mothers.

Ten years ago, the young man who was full of enthusiasm and confidence and stepped into the threshold of society and hoped to pursue his ideals was already a middle-aged monster uncle who was busy waiting to die every day. His edges and corners were smoothed by the torrent of society.

No matter how powerful a person is, he cannot defeat time. Even a arrogant person like Tony Tangen has to bow down 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 just changed from a player to a coach ten years ago. He is not rich in experience and relies entirely on enthusiasm to be a motivation.

Both of them have experienced the most changes in their lives for ten years. Do they really have a tacit understanding together?

It doesn’t take too much words. Can just move and look make the other person understand his or her thoughts?

There is a saying in China that "things are wrong and people change". Can this idiom be used even if it is used on both of them?

Des Walker lay on the sofa in a daze. His wife called him in the restaurant three times without any response. Finally, she simply ran out and stood in front of him and stared at him with her waist on her waist.

"Ah? What's the matter?" Walker found out after a while that there was one more person in front of him.

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

"Nothing..." Walker vaguely.

"What's the trouble at work?" His wife simply sat down next to him and took his hand.

Walker felt the warmth of his wife coming from his palms, and he gently stroked his wife's little hands that were no longer soft and delicate. "Tony called me today."

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

"Who other Tony can there be apart from that Tony?" Walker smiled.

"It must be a revelation for him when he comes to you, right?"

"He wants to introduce me to a new job, and I'm hesitating about it." Walker looked at the ceiling, his eyes wandering. "I don't know if he should agree to him. I always think this is a gambling, and it's quite a bit..."

"The coach of England?" As a former player and current coach's wife, women are not ignorant of football.

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

The wife seemed to look at her husband in disbelief. As a wife, she obviously knew her husband's abilities.

"I told him that I don't think I can be an assistant coach to England, but he said it's okay, I can do it." The husband also knew what his wife was thinking.

"Are you moved?"

Walker was silent for a while and nodded, "To be honest... a little bit."

"If you go to England, you have to give up on the job here in Oxford."

Walker continued to nod.

"Des, I have no objection. You can go if you want to go, and refuse him if you don't want to go." His wife has always been in charge of work. Over the years, her husband has changed several jobs and moved from one place to another. She just follows him. Anyway, there is a team that wants his husband to be a coach, so she has nothing to worry about. As a husband, just talk to her wife, and she doesn't really want his wife to come up with any ideas. Especially now that the child is older, there is no need to ask for his wife's opinions.

"Go to have dinner, I came here to ask you to have dinner, Des."

The wife stood up and pulled Waukk.

Walker had already thoughts in his heart after he stood up and confided his wife about what he was in his heart.

At most it was just another adventure, just like he decided to leave Nottingham Forest and go to Herford. He was used to this kind of life, changing from one place to another, changing jobs and then changing jobs. Perhaps it wasn't until he was fifty that he could accumulate enough experience, stabilize in a Championship or even Premier League club, and begin to draw his own blueprint.

Before this, he still needs to learn and accumulate with different people.

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

He was also looking forward to how Don En would manage the big-name English stars who were spoiled by the media.
Chapter completed!