110 The Discipline Of The Team Part 2 (1/2)
Chapter 110: The Discipline Of The Team Part 2
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
He looked left and right and found that his Forest teammates who had been on the team since last season did not seem surprised by the situation, but instead they smiled and faced the direction of the locker room together with the manager. Only the few ”newcomers” who arrived this summer were just as puzzled as he was.
It looked like they were all quite familiar with the new manager. His face was full of smiles as he greeted everyone, which seemed kind of nice. Maybe they would get along nicely... maybe.
Just as Rebrov was feeling uncertain about Twain, the last man in the team, Gareth Taylor, came out from inside.
Seeing him, Walker stopped the stopwatch and handed it to Twain.
Tang En took it and looked at the time shown: five minutes forty-nine seconds. As he tossed the stopwatch back, he muttered to Walker, ”Women change clothes faster than he does.”
Walker shrugged. He had become accustomed to Taylor's way of dragging his feet and no matter how many times he had said something to him, it did not work. If he tried to punish him during training, Collymore would say, ”Oh my god! I used to do that frequently when I was playing. As long as he can score goals, why should you care if it takes him 10 minutes or 10 hours to change his clothes?” After that, the discouraged Walker simply did not care anymore.
With his head lowered, Taylor was still fastening the belt on his shorts as he was walking out. He obviously did not see Twain and Walker standing at the side. Seeing how he was about to walk past them without looking up, soft laughter could be heard in from the training field.
Tang En turned his head and glanced at them, and the laughter stopped at once. Walker called out to stop the last man.
”Taylor.”
When he heard someone call him, Taylor finally raised his head. When he clearly saw the two men standing in front of him, he immediately realized he might be in trouble.
The assistant manager Des Walker, and an unfamiliar man, both had the same expression on their faces—straight-faced and unsmiling.
”Uh, what's the matter, coach?”
Walker did not speak, but the unfamiliar man next to him said, ”Gareth Taylor, you were transferred from Burnley at the start of this season with a transfer fee of £550,000. You represented the Forest team for seventeen rounds of League Championship games and three cup matches and scored 10 goals and had one assist. These statistics are not too bad.”
Taylor could not understand what this man was trying to do. He could only stand there and remain silent.
”But you're in the wrong place.” Tang En pointed to the northeast side. There was another training ground behind a row of trees and wire fence. ”You should be training on the fourth field.”
”What?” Taylor thought he heard wrong.
Tang En nodded in affirmation, ”Congratulations, Mr. Taylor. From now on, you're a member of the reserve team.”
Not to mention the shock on Taylor's face, Walker had no idea that Twain's approach to dealing with it was this. The new manager had decided to put changing the locker room atmosphere at the top of his list when he heard about the general situation of the locker room.
”Why?” Taylor became anxious. He knew the straight-faced man in front of him was the new manager. ”Why do you want me to go to the second team?”
”Because you're much better than the third team.” Tang En gave a shrug of his shoulders. After he had said that, he turned to walk toward the training field and ignored the poor thing who was tardy.
This answer stumped Taylor for a moment. He looked at the back of Twain and looked at his teammates on the field. Before that, they had gathered to chat and joke together in twos or threes, and their expressions looked as if they were waiting to watch a good show. And now they were quickly assembling and lining up!