In Donn's office, three players stood side by side, like students who had done something wrong, ready to accept the wrath of the person opposite.

On the training ground not far away, the rest of the team who were training seemed very absent-minded. Being in Cao Ying's heart in Han, their minds are probably in this small head coach's office.

Don ignored the three people standing in front of him, who were fiddling with the DV in his hand with his head down. On the machine's small screen, a video of him being doused with water by Ribery is playing. The sound of a group of people laughing can also be heard from the accompanying recording, and he even recognizes several people from the familiar voices.

So he turned his head to look out the window at the training ground.

"It's so lively, all the staff are out." He said.

At Wilford, no one can challenge Tony. Donne's authority, even the club's president, Evan. Neither can Dogerty. Now the leader could have understood this as a provocation to his authority.

Ribery looked at Donn, who was fiddling with the DV with his head down, and didn't care what punishment he would receive next. Of course, he didn't want to spoof the manager on a whim. He has his own deep meaning, but can the leader understand it?

George. Wood's face was as wooden as ever, and he couldn't tell if he was scared or didn't care. In comparison, Eastwood seemed to be the most worried of the three.

Meow Wood, the gypsy, glanced at Ribery again, and saw that everyone was very calm, so he stopped looking around. Anyway, since you decided to play tricks on the leader, you know what the consequences might be. And with two other people with him, he didn't have to be afraid of anything, even if he was sent to the reserves, it would be three people together, plus Zim Bonda and Bendtner, who were already there, it was also lively.

Don has been fiddling with the DV for so long that it makes people wonder if he's working on how to delete the video on it.

"Ah, I studied for a long time and found a problem...... Don En raised the DV machine in his hand and said to the three people standing in front of him, "From the perspective of a bystander, it was really funny just now." ”

Eastwood was taken aback by saying this, and his expression quickly showed a tone of "surprise". Ribery's hippie smile is as good as ever. George. What about Wood...... Still expressionless.

Donn looked at the three men, his gaze slicing over the three faces in turn, and finally stopped at the hippie-smiling Ribery.

"Frank, you came up with the idea, right?"

Ribery did not answer immediately, but asked, "How do you think it's me, sir?" ”

"George, the wooden man, wouldn't have come up with such a crazy idea, Freddy......" Donn looked sideways at Eastwood, "his expression was just that of an unwitting accomplice." It's you, Frank, who are acting too confident. ”

Ribery laughed: "It's really the head, it's my idea." He graciously admitted.

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Ribery didn't plan to hide at all, otherwise he could have splashed water from above without showing his face, and then took advantage of the chaos to evacuate. But not only did he respond, but he also probed out for Don to see and splash water again, and after splashing the water, he continued to probe out with Wood to look around, so that Don could catch it.

Eastwood was the man in charge of the DV shoot, and he was arrested because the crowd behind him let out a loud laugh, revealing his target.

Therefore, in the first team of the forest, except for the two people who were assigned to the reserve team, and Pepe, who was seriously injured, all the other 23 people were arrested. It's just that Don only called the three leading people to come to the office, and the others were put back to the training ground to continue training. But everyone was nervous, and when they were asked to come to the play, they didn't say that they would be caught by the boss...... Now that the training is over, you must face the wrath of the leader, and what kind of terrible ticket will the leader issue at that time?

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After confirming that it was Ribery's mastermind, Don did not continue to lecture, and he looked down at the video on the DV again.

The laughter came from the built-in speaker, the sound quality was not very good, but it was enough to hear clearly.

I couldn't see the expressions of the group behind Eastwood at this moment, but I could imagine it from the laughter.

Such unbridled laughter has been gone for some time in Wilford.

Donn figured he understood Ribery's intentions.

He raised the DV in his hand: "I keep this thing for the time being." ”

The decision was unexpected, and none of the three were surprised.

"Alright, you can go back." He waved his hand. This is strange.

Eastwood couldn't wait to ask, "...... you Uh, you don't punish us, boss? ”

Don smiled, "You like to be punished so much...... Of course, but after the next game. In the Champions League group stage, we played Besiktas away and if we lost, the whole team was punished. ”

"And now......

"Now?" Donn pointed to the training ground behind him, "Go back and continue training for me." As for Frank, your punishment ...... I'll wait until you're back from injury. ”

Ribery smiled at Donn, but didn't say anything.

The three of them said goodbye to Don and turned to leave.

Donn stayed behind to continue studying the footage. He had to admit that the moment the cold water poured on him, his fire suddenly rose, and the anger was still burning when he had captured the whole team, and he planned to scold the mastermind and two important accomplices on the way to the office. But along the way, his agitation calmed down, and his mind led him to wonder why the players had suddenly done so.

You know, at Wilford, he Tony. Don is the king of the word. His authority no one dared to provoke. He doesn't think there are any newcomers in this team who are idiots enough to believe they can provoke him casually. What's more, the people involved in this matter are all veterans, so he felt very strange and began to think about why.

While watching the video repeatedly, he almost laughed at his funny appearance in front of the three people. The word "soup chicken" can describe him very vividly. So in this mood of wanting to laugh, he suddenly understood the true meaning of this matter to him.

Think about it again when he came this morning, and Chris Rac looked him in the mirror to let him relax first. He understood.

Frank. Ribery just wanted to normalize the atmosphere in the team, so he resorted to a slightly more extreme approach. The atmosphere in the team was very relaxed, and there was always laughter. It's been too dull these days, it's not normal, a lot of things have gone wrong, but the actual core is Tony. Don himself has a problem, and if he always has a grim face, then the atmosphere in the team will not be good in any way.

He felt that he was a little too strict during this time, although he used heavy codes in troubled times. But now it's not a chaotic time at all, it's just a little ups and downs, and there's no need to be so nervous. How should I be? If you're worried about something bad coming out of the media, let them hear it, and since Nottingham Forest's re-emergence, haven't they heard so much?

So he didn't give the team any punishment, although he was teased by this group, he didn't care and thought it was a good thing. Because from the laughter of these players, he can tell that everyone's mood is getting better.

The atmosphere of the team is normal, and only by uniting as one can we defeat the enemies of the outside world. In his opinion, no matter how strong the enemy is, it is not as terrible as internal contradictions. This is the most profound idea that Tang En, who grew up in socialist China, has realized - [***] said that the fortress is easiest to attack from the inside. The stability of an empire, a dynasty, must be built on the basis of internal unity.

So, if that can normalize the atmosphere of the team, then he doesn't mind being a joker at all.

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The players waited in fear until the end of the morning session, and Don didn't announce any penalties, as if nothing had happened.

The three people who went back told everyone that there would be no punishment at the moment, except that if the Champions League group stage and Besiktas's match could not be won, the boss said that the whole team would be punished.

So that everyone was relieved.

The players can be carefree, a little bit heartless, as the head coach Tony. Don't. The internal contradictions have been resolved, and there are external provocations waiting for him.

At the regular press conference in the afternoon, Donn brought Eastwood to attend. From the beginning, he had a keen sense of smell and sensed that the atmosphere was not quite right, and these reporters all wore a smile on their faces, as if they had discovered something.

After Don briefly looked forward to the upcoming Champions Cup group stage, it was the turn of reporters to ask questions, and everyone couldn't wait to raise their heads at the first time.

Donn's brow furrowed, and the doubt in his heart was even worse. When did this group of journalists become so active?

He casually clicked on a reporter who was pleasing to the eye and got up to ask a question.

As soon as the reporter opened his mouth, Don suddenly realized.

"May I ask Mr. Donn, we didn't see Zim Bonda and Bendtner in the morning training, what happened to them?"

Don didn't rush to answer, he looked at the others carefully, and found that the group should have the same question they wanted to ask. Apparently these reporters also found that the number of first-team players is not right, so ......

Don didn't make up any excuses to prevaricate this time, because he knew that the reporters had decided to ask the question, and they obviously already knew something.

"Ah, they're in the reserves, what's the problem?" Don still pretended to be stupid.

The journalist continued: "Isn't there a problem? Two first-team players suddenly went to the reserves......"

"Because they played better than the third team, I let them go to the second team, is there anything wrong with that?" Don En pretended to be crazy and stupid, but he didn't answer the question head-on.

This answer made many people present laugh and cry. But apparently the reporters came prepared this time and would not be easily scared away by Donn's pretending to be crazy and stupid. Someone raised his hand again: "Don't you think this thing is strange, Mr. Donn?" The two of them are regular players in the first team, so why should they go to play in the reserves without any reason? Not to mention that Bendtner had just scored a hat-trick......"

Don knows he can't escape today, these damn reporters!

He interrupted the other person's question, pretending to realize it and said, "Oh, you mean the reason? The reason was that they had some conflicts in training, so I told them to go to the reserve team to calm down. Is there anything wrong with this? ”

The people below finally heard the answer they wanted to hear the most, and there was an excited discussion in the press gallery.

"Since you're all right, that's the end of today's press conference...... Donn got up to leave, and the Eastwood he brought with him was completely in the background......

Seeing that he was really leaving, and he didn't care about the procedure, several reporters raised their hands and stood up.

"Mr. Donn, can this conflict be considered recent...... What is the impact of performance? Also, do you think this clash will have any bad effects on the team? The reporter threw out his two questions in one go, without giving Don a chance to interrupt him halfway.

Don shrugged his shoulders after hearing this question: "How come?" I don't think it's going to have any bad impact on the team. This well-informed journalist friend, do you dare to say that other teams don't even have a little friction when they train regularly? Such a normal thing, you all make a fuss...... Hey, aren't all of you interns just graduating from college? ”

Eastwood wanted to laugh when he listened to the sneering of the media next to him, but he couldn't laugh in front of many media, and it was very hard to hold back.

"The crux of the matter is that Nottingham Forest is not a ...... that flaunts internal unity"

Again, Donn interrupted the reporter's question very rudely. "There are no key issues. I'm very happy to see the men in the players training and it shows how quality and competitiveness we have in training. Don't you media members like to speculate about the story behind the miraculous rise of Nottingham Forest? That's the story behind it, because our players treat training as if it were a final, so we always do better than the rest of the team in the real game. ”

Eastwood thought of what Don had said when he lectured them before, and then listened to what Donn said to reporters now, and he didn't blush at all, and he was justified in saying two completely opposite things. can only let him continue to hold back his laughter......

"Of course, the team rules don't allow that to happen, so even though they're all men, they still have to go to the reserve team for violating the team rules and get punished. The clear rewards and penalties are also one of the reasons why a team can keep going...... You see, it's all normal. So I have no idea what you're all fuss about. ”

There are also reporters who don't give up, and raise their hands to stand up again: "So the forest team is currently in a good internal atmosphere? ”

Don glanced at him, and instead of answering him at length, he used only one word: "Nonsense." ”

The reporter didn't expect to get such an answer, and he was stunned and a little overwhelmed. And Don obviously didn't intend to continue to explain to these dissatisfied reporters, and the atmosphere suddenly cooled down.

Fortunately, Eastwood took the issue on the pitch: "The atmosphere is normal, we had a joke with the boss this morning, I don't think anything is abnormal. Oh......" he thought for a moment, "it's probably you who are not normal, always trying to find some news reports about the contradictions within the Forest team......"

Unexpectedly, Eastwood also said such bitter words, which made the reporters present unexpected.

There was some chaos at the scene, and Don En hurriedly came out to make a closing statement: "I don't mind what you write in the newspaper the next day, that's your freedom." But if you want to report the facts...... Nottingham Forest are a united team and will always win, that's the truth. That's all, thank you, goodbye. ”

He and Eastwood walked out of the hall one after the other.

"Boss, Turkey's team is not easy to deal with, let alone playing on their home turf......" Eastwood voiced his concerns on the way back. You've just said so much, you're not afraid of losing......"

Don glanced at him: "If you lose, you're out of luck." ”

"Then the media ...... there"

Donn grinned, "I'll deal with the media, you just have to think about the game, Freddy." While I appreciate that you helped me out at the press conference just now, I hope you don't do it next time. I'll do this kind of thing, and you're only responsible for training and competing. Got it? ”

Eastwood knew that Don was doing it for his good, and that was a kind of protection. While Nottingham Forest are always on the cusp, they are rarely bothered by the media, and of course they are all Toney. Don's credit.

He nodded. "Yes, sir. We won, and you scold and scold with confidence. ”

Don laughed as he patted Eastwood on the shoulder and said, "That's right, that's it!" ”

(To be continued)