England is the birthplace of football, and many of these clubs have a history of more than a hundred years.

Millwall is one of them.

Before 1903, Millwall's name was Millwall-Athletic, which was founded in 1885 by a group of Scottish dock workers, and was renamed Millwall F.C.

However, a century of time has not brought Millwall a brilliant history. Perhaps because the competition in the London region is too fierce, they only participated in regional leagues most of their time. It was not until nearly thirty years that they began to participate in professional leagues, but they only hovered in the low-level leagues and had never entered the top leagues.

In May 2001, Millwall won the then English League Two Championship and successfully upgraded to the English League One (now the Champions League).

The following year, Millwall ushered in an explosion period, and they almost entered the Premier League. Unfortunately, in the two rounds of the semi-finals of the playoffs, they lost 1-2 to Birmingham City, losing the best chance to enter the top league in a century history.

That failure brought two seasons of decline.

Last season, Millwall won the runner-up in the FA Cup, which was a little crazy and got the first opportunity to participate in European competitions in history. Unfortunately, he was eliminated in the first round of the League Cup.

Now Millwall is not in the mood to consider European competitions. What they have to face is that they need to ensure their performance to stabilize their ranking in the Champions League, otherwise there will be a risk of relegation at the end of the season.

This is also the most important job of the club.

Club Chairman Gligory was also dissatisfied with his results and considered inviting Zhang Yang to be a "match instructor" in hopes that it would be helpful to the team's performance.

Zhang Yang began to carefully check the players' situation.

Currently, Mirwall has 38 first-team players, and the number is very large, but a few are being recovered from injuries, and a few are sent to the Youth Reserve Team. The first team trains normally, and there are only 23 players in the game.

Some of the first-team players traded from other clubs, and some chose to transfer freely to join the team, but the most were promoted by Millwall youth team.

From this perspective, Mirwall's youth training ability is pretty good.

But this is true for small clubs. They do not have enough funds to continue to buy players. Using the transfer market transaction is just an auxiliary means. The most important thing is to dig from their own youth teams or trade young stars for training.

Zhang Yang’s key focus is on Wise’s information.

This player and team leader is quite famous, or in other words, if you can trust a part-time team in a second-tier league team, your player career will definitely be brilliant.

Wise's player career is brilliant at Chelsea.

He played for the Blues for ten seasons and was also the captain of the Blues. In 1998, he was also elected as the English Footballer.

In the last few years of his career, Wise began to 'wander' everywhere. He first went to Leicester City, but after only 17 appearances on behalf of the team, he hit his teammate Gallen Davidson's chin during the pre-season.

This incident made Leicester City fans hate Wise very much.

So Wise was fired.

Later, Wise switched to Millwall and signed a player and team leader contract. This is also why Wise chose to come to Millwall. He hopes to train his coaching skills in Millwall.

Wise's weekly salary is only 5,000 pounds.

This level of weekly salary is incredible for a former big-name star. Even if he is 38 years old, as long as he is in Millwall and can play games for the team, no matter how good he performs, he can get enough salary by fame alone. But Wise still signed up and he needs a part-time coach job to train his abilities. After all, he is already 38 years old and is still playing in the professional league at the age of 38, which is a big miracle.

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Zhang Yang spent two hours carefully checking Millwall's information and gained a certain degree of understanding of the entire team.

This may be just modesty.

He used his ability to "memory enhance" to remember some important information, such as player names, ages, locations, characteristics and historical performances.

Two hours of work also brought a sense of fatigue.

A tall man pushed open the door and asked, "You are Zhang, are you?" He walked to the side.

Zhang Yang stood up and nodded.

"Hello, you are so unimaginable young. I am Oldes Fennival, the coach of the youth team. You can call me Oldes." Fennival's tone was very kind, but his movements were very casual, and he obviously didn't take Zhang Yang seriously.

Zhang Yang encountered him and didn't care too much.

The moment he signed with Millwall, he knew what to face. He was too young in the coaching industry.

Fernival talked about the key point, "Today, Mr. Gligory will be at the club and he invites you to have a meal together."

"Go now?"

Fernival looked down at the time, "Just now, the time is almost done."

"Then let's go."

The two went to the club restaurant together.

By the time the two arrived, Gligery had not arrived yet, but Frederick Lawton and Denise Wise were already waiting there.

Several people exchanged greetings for a few words.

After waiting for a while, Gligoli and Ebenezer arrived together. The few of them stood up to greet them. Gligoli was busy calling everyone to sit down and began to help introduce Zhang Yang.

This may be a lunch for Zhang Yang.

Everyone else is very familiar with Zhang Yang. Zhang Yang is a new employee. He just signed the contract today. Gligoli seemed to be quickly getting him into it. In fact, Gligoli had another idea, which was to see Zhang Yang's ability to handle interpersonal relationships.

In a new working environment, if you want to make some progress, you must do a good job in the surface.

For example, if a team has a bad relationship with each player, the coach's work will be difficult to develop, and the same is true for relationships with colleagues. No matter what their thoughts are in their hearts, the relationship with colleagues cannot be too stiff, and they must be passed on the surface.

If another coach came to Mirwall, there was no need to face such a situation. Zhang Yang would face much more pressure just because he was too young.

But Gligoli was still a little disappointed in the end.

Zhang Yang didn't have the intention to please others. He had long seen through this aspect. He could chat a few times when he could. He didn't want to talk and was lazy to maintain his face. So he only said a few words to Wise on the dining table, and the others were redundant, but his face kept a smile so that the atmosphere would not be too awkward.

Gligory is the one who talks the most.

As the club chairman, Gligoli is very competent. A new employee came in. He also hoped that the other party would integrate quickly and create value for the club as soon as possible. So Gligoli took the initiative to talk about Zhang Yang's Weibo, "I know Zhang on Weibo, and my judgment on the game is very accurate. He commented on the radio program and the game is also very exciting. His Weibo has more than 100,000 fans."

This made others look up to Changyang.

No matter what, it is very difficult for Weibo to attract more than 100,000 fans. Ordinary professional players cannot do it, and only famous stars can do it. Zhang Yang is not a star, but just an "amateur" game commentator. Having so many fans proves the recognition of fans.

But this has nothing to do with the coaching industry.

‘Can a Weibo celebrity be a coach?’ Frederick and Fennival looked at each other, curled their lips and thought disdainfully. He felt that Gligory was dizzy and chose to invite an overly young Weibo celebrity to be a coach.

Ebenezer became interested.

He didn't know why Gligory chose Zhang Yang before, but now he discovered some 'business opportunities' and started talking to Zhang Yang, "Will you post some personal life and work messages on Weibo?"

"Occasionally." Zhang Yang thought about it and added, "But it's very rare, and it's only once. I usually just come to comment on the competition."

"That's a pity. I think you can send some personal life and work messages, and also send more personal photos to let fans know you better in order to gather support."

Ebenizer's suggestions are very good, but he focused on "life and work". In fact, he also hopes that Zhang Yang will help Millwall to promote it. With Zhang Yang's popularity, it will definitely be no harm to drive more fans to watch Millwall's games.

Zhang Yang just smiled and said, "I will consider it."

Next, everyone talked about the analysis of the game. Zhang Yang was a person who was focused on. He talked about some personal experience in succession, but most of them were obtained from Denise's information. The specific game was just a general analysis.

No matter what others thought, they listened patiently without refuting.

Frederick suddenly curled his lips and stood up and suggested, "Zhang is the club's 'match instructor', but no matter how you say it here, it's hard to see his ability level. Why don't you let him play with the team in the afternoon!"

"Let's start today?" Gligory frowned slightly.

"Is this a bit unsuitable? It should be a while." Ebenizer had a good impression of Zhang Yang. He felt that Zhang Yang had just started working and had no idea about Millwall, let alone follow him to the game. He didn't know the player's name, so how could he give game suggestions?

Others stood by and watched.

Everyone looked at Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang was dull, as if he was a little dazed, and he didn't understand the situation at all. Facing the look of everyone looking at him, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Is there no problem starting today? I have no problem anyway."

"Is this OK?" Wise asked.
Chapter completed!