Chapter 642 Volume 5 Red Forest Rangers' Troubles

Twain's "gaffe" at the press conference against AC Milan - in the eyes of the media, the attitude of Twain who opened his mouth without irony is "gaffe" and lost his normalcy - in fact, it was just a series of his recent good mood. It's just an outward expression.

AC Milan was eliminated in the Champions League and advanced to the quarter-finals. There are also frequent successes in the domestic league. In the twenty-seventh round of the league, Nottingham Forest had already tied the points with the top-ranked Arsenal. It was only because the goal difference was less than Arsenal that they temporarily ranked second.

As soon as the twenty-eighth round of the league was over, Tang En's team jumped to the top. After two consecutive draws, Arsenal now only has 64 points, being overtaken by Manchester United, while the Forest team tops the list with 66 points.

Compared with the previous two seasons, Nottingham Forest has rushed to the first position in the league many times this season. Although it has not been maintained from beginning to end, it is enough to make Forest fans full of expectations. Because in the first two seasons, Nottingham Forest didn't even reach the first place. It's really a strength boost and a confidence boost. A European Champions Cup champion made the Forest team suddenly find the confidence of a successful player.

So their performance this season seems reasonable. You know, it took Tang En four years to prepare for this day.

There are still ten rounds left in the league. As long as the forest team can maintain this result, there will be another ten rounds to achieve the goal he set at the beginning of the season.

Faced with such a great situation, how could he be unhappy?

Of course, being happy won't last long. Tang En was very clear about this. You must know that as a head coach, you face far more troubles and troubles than happy things...

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With the resumption of the Champions League and the intervening of the national team's match day, the Forest team will have to face a lot of games at the last moment. At this time, they need to deal with it carefully. If they are not careful, they may lose everything. The rotation system is the best way to use different lineup combinations to allow players to rest, maintain their state, and avoid injuries.

Fortunately, the Forest team gave up the FA Cup at the beginning of January, otherwise there would be one more FA Cup for them to play from now on. In the end, the stronger the opponent, the stronger the will to fight, the more intense the competition. No matter whether one's own players will be injured or not, it is unnecessary to waste energy in this kind of competition.

In any case, Twain who traveled from China is not a real Englishman. He is far less interested in the FA Cup than in the League and the Champions League. Perhaps in today's English football, the FA Cup still has its important position. But in Tang En's heart, this cup match and the League Cup belong to the same level: they are both used to train troops and train newcomers.

The current rotation system of the Forest team is different from the rotation system in the first half of the season. In the first half of the season, in order to allow more players to play the game, maintain their state, and at the same time appease the hearts of the insiders. Twain will often use a large rotation. But this situation changed after February.

The current rotation is not to satisfy the desire of substitute players to play, but to allow the main players to get a better rest and avoid injuries. Therefore, the rotation range is very small, and Twain will definitely not rotate in some key positions, such as the midfielder.

Poor Sidwell, came to the forest team and found that the future is not as good as he had imagined at the beginning-George Wood's substitute is not made by people at all. I am afraid that only the chairs on the bench can be made in the world...

Unless Tang En didn't want Wood to play, Sidwell basically had no chance to play. He was eliminated early in both the FA Cup and the League Cup, and his chances of playing have dropped sharply. Now that the game schedule has entered a dense period, he thought that his chances of playing would increase accordingly. Unexpectedly, Twain would rotate forwards, wingers, defenders, and even midfielders, but not midfielders.

As the captain of the team, George Wood is young, strong, and in a stable state. He is the unshakable core force. What did he use to fight this monster? When he was in Reading, he could occasionally be selected for the England team to show his face. Since he came to Nottingham Forest, the door of the national team was basically closed to him-no coach would recruit a substitute player who had few opportunities to play in the club to join the national team, not to mention the bloated England midfielder, even George •Wood has been dumped by McLaren...

Among young people, Lennon and Bendtner are treated the best, because Ruud van Nistelrooy and Beckham are both veterans. For the purpose of protecting them, Twain gives more consideration to them during the rotation, as their Substitutes, Bendtner and Lennon often get plenty of playing time.

Similarly, the rotation system is also good news for Chinese player Sun Jihai. Since he can play multiple positions, he can still occupy a place in the team even though his status has declined as he gets older. In addition, Tang En liked Sun Jihai's professional attitude very much, so he didn't need to worry about the future. At least he can stay in the Forest team until the contract expires before considering where to go.

Sidwell's agent is already considering switching clubs for his player next season. The salary given by Nottingham Forest is not low, but they are always unable to play. For a professional player who is still in his prime, sitting on the bench and counting money is not a good pursuit.

After being on the bench for the Forest team for nearly a season, Sidwell himself has repositioned himself. He's not the type to play for a big club, maybe in the future, but certainly not now. The most suitable for him to play is actually a mid-lower team like Reading. In those teams, his salary may not be as high as that of the Forest team as a substitute, but he can get a stable chance to play, and even To be the core of the team, as he was at Reading in the previous two seasons.

Before he was playing, he didn't want to spend his career on the bench of a big team and be slowly forgotten.

Perhaps if he continues to stay in the Forest team, he will win many championship trophies, but what do those silver trophies have to do with him as a substitute? Such an honor is not worth mentioning.

He decided to have a showdown with Coach Tony Twain after the season ended. Before that, his agent would help him contact those interested teams in private. They are not as famous as Nottingham Forest, but they will give themselves a stable position.

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Sidwell was also troubled by Zimbonda.

He discovered a fact that made him feel very hopeless-the Forest team's head coach, Mr. Tony Twain, and Arsenal's head coach, Mr. Arsene Wenger, were somewhat similar: if the two players were compared together, B's ability Stronger than A, but A is younger than B, then they will choose A instead of B without hesitation.

This reality made him feel a little uncomfortable. Because Zimbunda is no longer young. On the 21st of last month, he just passed his 29th birthday. His contract will expire next summer, and he will be thirty years old by then.

For those pedophile managers, thirty is enough time for them to find a better replacement. For example, the Brazilian Rafinha, who is now firmly established as the main force in the team.

In the eyes of the Frenchman Chimbonda, Rafinha, a full-back from Brazil, is really poor in defense. If the team needs to defend, he needs the right midfielder and midfielder to come over many times to help.

But in Tony Twain's eyes, Rafinha is young enough, has good physical strength, can run, and can run back after being assisted. These are fading abilities of the aging Chimbonda.

He was selected for the French national team during his most glorious two years in the Forest team. But soon became a passerby. Sagna at Arsenal has become the main position of the French national team, and he is also younger than Chimbonda.

Young...young, I hate being young!

That fight with Bendtner in training caused his status in the team to plummet, even ranking behind the Chinese Sun Jihai. He knew that Coach Twain didn't like him anymore. On the one hand, it was because he was getting old, and on the other hand, it was because he was the instigator of the first team fight after Twain took over the Forest team.

Twain is very concerned about the unity and stability within the team. This is what he is most proud of. In the face of the media, he mentioned this countless times, telling them with a little pride that this is the reason for the Forest team to continue to improve and win root cause. So he joked with the players and carefully maintained the atmosphere in the locker room, not allowing anyone to spoil it.

This point, Chimbonda is very clear, because he is the second group of players to follow this man - the first group is the people who followed Twain when the Forest team was still in the second tier league, such as George Wood And Leighton Barnes - he has been following Tony Twain for a long time, he knows the character and hobbies of this head coach, and he also knows what he hates...

For example, he hates everything that destroys disunity within the team. He was so unlucky that he forgot this on the spur of the moment. Did his future in the Forest team disappear with the punch he threw?

Should he find another way out after the end of this season, or continue to stay until the contract expires, and see how the team's attitude towards him determines the future?

Zimbunda has been preoccupied recently.

In fact, generally speaking, looking back on the past few years in the Forest team, it is still very good. The atmosphere in the team is harmonious, there are no factional disputes in some wealthy clubs, the team's performance is also good, and everyone's salary and bonuses are good. It is also satisfying, no matter where they go, they enjoy all the benefits of glory...

He doesn't want to leave the club if possible. Becoming a European champion was something he never thought about when he was playing in France. It was Nottingham Forest who gave him everything, and he hopes to continue playing here for a few more years, preferably until he retires... Anyway, I have no extravagant hopes, join the French team and win the world championship? Do not make jokes. To be able to play in a club that can still win honors until retirement is the highest ideal of a professional player.

Chimbonda is a very realistic person, he has no unrealistic fantasies at all.

This is also the difference between the troubles he and Sidwell face.

He was twenty-nine and growing old. Full-backs have higher requirements for physical fitness than central defenders, and physical strength and speed are inversely proportional to age. Ambitious people will still not admit defeat and hope to challenge for higher achievements at this time, while more realistic people will start to think about life after retirement, and make money as the first task in the last period of their careers. A stable and good income is what they want most. As for sitting on the bench or playing the main team, it's the same...

And Sidwell is still twenty-five now, and he won't be twenty-six until the end of this year. His physical fitness and competitive level can still be maintained at a relatively high level in the next few years. This period is called the "golden age" or "the year of playing". Sitting on the bench is not the career that this kind of person wants.

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A team brings together players from all over the world with different personalities and different ideals. Under the seemingly calm surface, there must be an undercurrent. In fact, everyone will have different, and only their own troubles.

Of course, we are not denying Tony Twain's control over this team. He is still the well-deserved king of this team, the highest officer of this team, and everyone listens to him.

It's just that even a powerful head coach can't control the hearts of everyone under him...

Chimbonda and Sidwell have their own troubles, and other people on the team who haven't mentioned it may have their own troubles, big or small.

For example, a new trouble hit me recently.

The target was Franck Ribery, and Tony Twain also suffered.

"...According to the Spanish counterparts, La Liga giants Real Madrid are brewing a plan to persuade Nottingham Forest's core player Franck Ribery. Interested. Of course, the Real Madrid Club has officially clarified this rumor, and they denied that the club manager Mijatovic had contacted Ribery's agent in private..."

The latest transfer rumors that broke out in the sports news of the TV station were reproduced by major print media within two days. Frank Ribery has now become a direct football celebrity, as he won the European Footballer of the Year and the "World's Best Football Player" award from the British "World Football Magazine". Any news about him is enough to make sports The media has hyped it up, not to mention that such news has been linked to Real Madrid, the best club in the twentieth century. A club with huge TV broadcast money and commercial sponsorship money...

At the same time, they are also Nottingham Forest's opponents in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

This is really mind-boggling...