There have been a lot of plot twists recently. Seeing how heated everyone's discussion is, I'd like to talk a little more and share my thoughts on some of the comments in everyone's discussion.
I saw a few friends repeatedly talking about the word "arrogance." They said that Tang En was a manager with a personality and should have arrogance. Otherwise, how could he control the players and that they should leave the forest immediately?
Actually, I don't agree with this way of saying it. Let's put aside the storyline and just talk about the reasonable characterization of the character.
It's true that Tang En is a manager with a personality, but he's destined to be a manager with great achievements. This achievement is not as simple as a Premier League title or a Champions League title. Since he's a godfather, his achievements naturally cannot be small.
What kind of people are able to achieve great things? I think that no matter what a person's personality is, he must first be a smart person. This kind of intelligence is reflected in many aspects. Dealing with people and judging the situation is also one of them. So, I think that if Tang En flees for a moment and leaves quickly, there's no arrogance at all. At most, he's just a man with courage but no brains.
Why do I say that? At the beginning of Chapter 5, I used Tang En's own reflection to raise this message: whether your success in Nottingham was a fluke. In a manager's long career, it's normal to lead a team to a good result in one place. But if you leave your familiar working environment, do you think you'll be successful when you hastily change environments when you're not experienced enough? Can you guarantee that a new team, from the players to the coaching staff to the club chairman, will support and trust you? Will they allow you to not do things personally on the training ground? Will they allow you to cause trouble for the club in front of the media? When the time comes, a small mistake could give the club a reason to fire you again. Such examples are everywhere in the real football world.
So, if Tang En really wanted to succeed, leaving Nottingham was absolutely a stupid move.
Back to that "arrogance." What kind of manager has the right to be arrogant? Mourinho can be arrogant because he won the domestic league title, the UEFA Europa League title and the Champions League title. So, when he first went to Chelsea, he could say to the players: You're good players, and I'm standing in front of you, an even better manager.
Capello could also be arrogant because he was a gold-medal manager. No matter which team he coached, he could guarantee at least one championship every year. Such a person would become a highly paid talent for clubs wherever he went.
Ferguson and Wenger could also be proud because they had worked hard for their respective clubs for 20 to 10 years and brought many honors to their teams. They had a high reputation in this circle. If they were to lose their temper, the club's top management would have to think twice.
Then, let us turn back and look at Tang En. What right and ability does he have to be arrogant with the club chairman? Results? So what if they led the team to the play-offs? Perhaps it was indeed not bad, but was it good enough for him to threaten the club with "If you don't use me, I'll leave"? Qualifications? He was just a rookie who had been in charge of the first team for half a season. Almost no one knew him at the cocktail party of the Managers Association. What qualifications did he have to be the chairman of the club's board of directors?
If, in order to satisfy his readers for a moment of pleasure, he vented and then left, very well. That was the extent of his teaching achievements. I am not being an alarmist. A manager is a person who needs to use his brain to decide everything. His achievements rely on his own intelligence, not adrenaline. A person who could not even clearly judge the current situation, make the best arrangements for the future, and be unable to calm down and analyze the pros and cons would never be able to lead the team to rule Europe. At most, he would be an ordinary professional manager, spending his days in a lower-tier team in the league. That was all.
Only by staying could Tang En gradually demonstrate the qualities that could lead to success. It felt good to be impulsive, but what about after that? My friends who called for Tang En to leave the Forest team, could you guarantee that Tang En would still succeed if he changed places? Please think about this question from a calm and objective point of view, and then tell me the answer.
If my novel still had the players as the main characters, then I could indeed write that the main character left the team that was bullied by them for a moment of pleasure and transferred to another team. It was normal for the players to be impulsive at a young age.
But the main character of this novel was a 34-year-old manager. He was already in his 30s. No matter what, he should know what could be impulsive and what could not, right? If a person who achieved great things did not even have this bit of magnanimity and brain capacity, then it would be impossible for him to achieve any success.
Lastly, let me talk about the relationship between the main character and the Yankee. The Yankee was his immediate superior, and there was no problem with that. And I can also spoil it. Before the end of the book, the Yankee would probably not leave the Forest team.
To achieve great success, it was absolutely impossible to rely on the manager alone. Modern football was all about division of labor and cooperation. The manager, the club chairman, the marketing manager, the coaching staff, the players … could only be achieved if they worked together. Relying on one person's strength alone might be able to achieve success for a while, but for long-term stability, a stable environment was indispensable.
That was why I repeatedly reminded everyone — the reason why the Yankee had a good impression of Tang En. For a period of time, Tang En would be in a sweet honeymoon period with the club. Of course, it was not now.
This honeymoon relationship laid the economic foundation for his success.
Of course, the novel could not develop steadily, so there would definitely be a story in the future … But I will not continue to spoil it here.
In short, I wrote every sentence in this novel with serious consideration of the role they would play in the novel. So, please do not make a rash decision after reading it. A good story must let everyone continue to think after reading it, and the joy of discovery is everywhere. So, I hope everyone can find my true intentions through the clues I hid in the novel. Don't be fooled by superficial articles ~
Imagine the fifth champion novel subverting the previous four novels. I am very good at surprising …
I have said so much, and I feel that I have explained most of it. If there are still friends who say, "Anyway, the protagonist is depressed, we won't read it!" then I can't do anything about it.
I have my own overall considerations when I write, and it is impossible for me to revise the entire outline for one plot. I have never thought that YY from beginning to end would be a very enjoyable thing. It was like shooting a pistol for a night. The first time was very enjoyable, the second was very enjoyable … What about the hundredth time? Was it still enjoyable?
Without emotional repression, how could there be an emotional explosion? Without falling to accumulate momentum, how could one soar into the sky? Before everyone roars with excitement, should I clench my fist and take a deep breath to accumulate strength?
I should start to feel good from now on. There are only 300,000 words, and this is a long masterpiece. What if I can't continue in the end? A eunuch? A bad ending?
I firmly believe that a story with twists and turns, vivid characters, and full of suspense is a good story and a good novel.
At the same time, I also know that serialization determines the uniqueness of the novel. I must compress the degree and time of twists and turns. I am doing my best to satisfy everyone's requirements. If I wrote it for myself, I wouldn't have written a lot of foreshadowing right now. But I know that everyone is tired from waiting, so I have revealed a lot of mysteries that will only be revealed in the future for everyone to see in advance. But if I were to say everything naked, I think that would completely lose the pleasure of reading the novel. What is the point of saying everything clearly? The good show has to be left for the end, right?
Seeing that everyone is having fun guessing the subsequent plot, I feel that it is quite good whether it is correct or not. This is also a kind of interaction between the author and the reader.
Okay, I will put down the new chapter I am writing and specifically solve everyone's problems … Look at how good I am. Seeing that I have to write so much explanation, and that it is sufficient, please vote for the Godfather …
Also, I am not afraid of spoilers after saying so much today. Anyway, the ending will be updated tomorrow … At that time, everyone can see for themselves ~ ~ ~ ~
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