He looked left and right and saw that his team-mates who had been with Forest last season didn't seem surprised at all, instead grinning and looking into the dressing room with the manager. The only ones who are just as puzzled as him are a few "newcomers" who only transferred this summer.

Looks like they're all familiar with the new coach...... He smiled and greeted everyone, seemingly amiable. Maybe it's going to be nice to get along with...... Maybe.

Just when Rebrov was unsure about Donn, the last man on the team, Gareth. Taylor ran out of it.

Seeing him, Walker stops the stopwatch and hands it to Donne.

Don took it and looked at the time shown on it: five minutes and forty-nine seconds. While throwing the stopwatch back, he muttered to Walker, "Women change clothes faster than him." ”

Walker shrugged, he was used to Taylor's procrastinating style, and it didn't matter how many times he said it. If he is not allowed to train to punish him, Collymore will say, "Oh God! That's a lot when I played, as long as he could score, do you care if he changes his clothes for 10 minutes or 10 hours? Later, the disheartened Walker simply didn't care.

Taylor was still wearing his trousers when he walked out with his head down, and he obviously didn't see Donn and Walker standing next to him. Seeing that he was about to walk over with his head down, a low laughter rang out on the training ground.

Don glanced back at them, and the laughter immediately stopped. Walker stopped the last man.

"Taylor."

Hearing someone call him, Taylor finally looked up, and when he saw the two people standing in front of him, he immediately realized that he might be out of luck.

Assistant Coach Des. Walker, and a strange man, they had the same expression on their faces—straight faces, no smiles.

"Uh, what's the matter, Coach?"

Walker didn't speak, and the strange man next to him spoke. "Gareth. Taylor, who moved from Burnley at the start of the season, paid £550,000. Played 17 league games and three cup games for Forest, scoring 10 goals and providing one assist. That's not too ugly. ”

Taylor didn't understand what the man was up to, he could only stand there and remain silent.

"But you're in the wrong place." Donn pointed to the northeast, behind a row of woods and barbed wire, there was another training ground. "You should be training on the fourth side."

"What?" Taylor thought he had misheard.

Don nodded affirmatively, "Congratulations, Mr. Taylor. From now on, you are part of the reserves. ”

Not to mention Taylor's shocked look, even Walker didn't expect Donn's approach to be this - after hearing about the general situation in the locker room, the new head coach decided to make changing the atmosphere in the locker room a top priority.

"Why?" Taylor was in a hurry, he knew that the man in front of him was the new head coach. "Why did you let me go to the second team?"

"Because you're a lot better than the level of the three teams." Donn shrugged, and with that he turned and walked towards the training ground, ignoring the poor creature who was late.

Taylor was stunned for a moment by this answer, and he looked at Donn's back, and then at his teammates on the field, who had been chatting together in twos and threes, talking and laughing, and looking like they were watching a good show. Now they're coming together fast, they're queuing!

He suddenly understood that the good old days of sleeping an hour late every night and an extra hour in the morning were gone...... Walker followed behind Don and whispered his concern, "Tony. I know you want to reinvent team discipline, but is that too simplistic? Taylor is the team's top scorer and it's a big credit to us in the Carabao Cup to get to the quarter-finals......

Donn looked at the players on the training ground in front of him, smiled, then turned to Walker and said, "Des." Now it is necessary to make them understand that there is only one person in this team who is indispensable...... It's just me. ”

Then he strode up to the group of players who had already been honest.

"The first of you to come out was forty-seven seconds late." Don raised his hands and pointed to the watch on his left wrist with his right finger, "The last person to come out is one minute and thirty-two seconds." I don't care why you're late, even if you say it's because you're shaving your legs in the locker room, it doesn't matter to me. All I know is that you guys are collectively one minute and thirty-two seconds late for training! He shouted. I don't care how the previous coach trained you, now I'm the head coach and you're the leader! I'm going to let you know the importance of team discipline. Anyone who violates discipline will be punished! ”

He looked at the silent players, then pointed to the sidelines.

"Every ten seconds, thirteen, I gave you two seconds. Alright, now it's all for me! Double as lazy! ”

The players, who had expected the result for a long time, did not object, and all ran to the sidelines with their heads bowed and started the first lap of thirteen laps.

Rebrov turned his head to look at the man who had turned to talk to the assistant coach, and honestly ran circles behind his teammates.

This head coach is completely different from Collymore...... ※※※ After about a week of observation, the team's training situation made Donn very satisfied. In fact, with Walker in place, the team's training schedule has been without any problems, and the key is that no one has to restrain these players and tell them that they must be disciplined. Collymore let his players go as well as he did himself, and he tasted the consequences. Don wasn't as stupid as he was.

He had already told the group of loose free players with practical actions when they first met: I am the boss here, who doesn't want to do it, Taylor is a role model. He must have been lonely in the reserves, wishing that someone would accompany him.

Of course, Don also has his own measure, after killing Taylor's "chicken", the team's performance was satisfactory to him, and he did not raise the stick again.

He rarely spoke up in training and everything was like last season, he watched from the sidelines. Walker and the rest of the coaching staff are in charge of training, and Donn is very satisfied with their work, since he has decided to give the training to the coaching staff, and he has already reviewed the training plan, it seems that he does not respect the work of the coaching staff enough, and this is the behavior that Donn hates the most.

He just needs to let those players know that he exists. So he stood on the sidelines in black, wearing sunglasses and looking cool like Keanu in "The Matrix". Levi.

※※※ There are two diametrically opposed views of the media about Donn's predecessor.

The out-of-town media are not optimistic about Donn's coaching prospects. Nottingham Forest's goal this season should not be promotion, but relegation. But for a youth coach who hastily took over the team, in the face of the morale that has fallen to the bottom like the stock price of Nottingham Forest, and in the face of the panic and lack of unity in the dressing room, he led a team that was about to say goodbye to the two main players during the winter break - Michael. Dawson and Andy. The news that Reid will be moving to Tottenham Hotspur during the winter break has been announced, which has caused dissatisfaction among fans with the club's hierarchy and then-manager Collymore, but as previously said, no one can change Evan now. Any decision made by Dogotti - the task of completing relegation - may be too difficult.

In response to this claim, the local media in Nottingham refuted it. Writing in the Nottingham Evening Post, Bruce applauded the club's decision to change the manager.

“…… If the atmosphere in the locker room is bad and the team's morale is low, is it possible that the Forest team that Mr. Donn took over on January 3 this year has a good locker room atmosphere, unity of mind, high morale, and unity and struggle? What was the result of last season? We moved from 14th place to the play-offs, the most improved team that season...... I share the same opinion as many Forest fans: if there's anyone who can lead this Forest team right now, it's Tony. Dawn! ”

Donn is grateful to Bruce for helping him speak, but he knows very well in his heart whether he can lead this team well, no matter which side of the media says. The only convincing proof is the results, the results of the team, even if you win, you don't bring it well, and if you lose, you don't bring it well.

Next, Nottingham Forest host their direct relegation rivals, third-from-bottom Crystal Palace.

It's an uphill battle.

(To be continued)