Coaching legend

"Evan, you shouldn't do this." George shook his head, not quite agreeing with Evan's approach.

Evan not only provoked Kilby and Burnley fans after the game. He also ridiculed Kilby and Burnley executives in the subsequent press conference.

Evan actually pointed out Kilby directly at the press conference. He said that Burnley should be one of the strong teams in the Premier League now. According to Burnley's strength, as long as some fresh blood is added in the summer, it is not impossible to win the Premier League championship in two or three years.

But it is precisely because Kilby and Burnley executives are short-sighted and content with small gains that they forced George Levy, the meritorious coach, to leave. So now Burnley can only rank at the bottom of the Premier League, and whether it can stay in the league is another matter.

Evan almost denounced Kilby at the press conference, calling Kilby the eternal sinner of Burnley.

This can be said to be a complete break with Kilby, as well as with Burnley executives and fans.

George's departure from Burnley and his move to Blackburn did make Burnley fans hate him. But Kilby was not as angry as the fans. On the contrary, George's move to Blackburn made Kilby's pressure disappear completely. Therefore, when George wanted to buy Klose, Kilby did not have much obstacles.

George has been in Blackburn for nearly five months. But he has never said bad things about Kilby in public, or commented on Burnley.

The two can at least maintain superficial friendship. But Evan's bombardment this time has completely torn the two sides apart. This is not what George wants. Although from the bottom of his heart, George has no good feelings for Kilby, but he really doesn't want to do so.

And at Turf Moor, he stretched out five fingers to humiliate Burnley fans, which is also unacceptable to George. George left Burnley, but he always felt sorry for Burnley fans.

No matter how many excuses George has, it is an indisputable fact that he took over the mortal enemy Blackburn after leaving Burnley. As a Burnley man, he eventually became the head coach of Blackburn. George can understand that the fans booed him and hated him.

In this case, the fans were the biggest victims. In the game, George could go all out to make the team win. But George definitely couldn't do anything to stimulate them.

But Evan used five fingers to humiliate them severely. They would never think that was Evan's idea, and they would definitely put all the accounts on George. Including those media reporters, they only thought that George was dissatisfied with the way he left Burnley. So he used this method to retaliate against Burnley.

Carl also shook his head beside him, and did not agree with Evan.

"Why? Why are you all like this? Have you forgotten why we left Burnley in the first place?" Evan didn't care. "Think about it, if we continue to be in Burnley, with Burnley's strength at the time, we should be in the top few in the Premier League now. At least we can imagine the European League next season."

Evan has always been brooding about his departure.

George also knew that Evan was upset. After all, Burnley was a team that the three of them had spent a lot of effort on and completed in three years.

"Evan, forget it this time. Don't do this again in the future. Burnley is in the past." George sighed, and George was also angry. But Burnley is in the past anyway.

"I know. I was too excited yesterday."

Evan saw the faces of George and Carl, and knew that these two people were completely different from himself. George is a Burnley native, and has been a Burnley fan since his grandfather's grandfather. Although Carl is not a Burnley native, he has also been in Burnley for more than ten years.

Although he came to Blackburn, he is not completely without feelings for Burnley.

So he nodded.

"Forget it, forget about it. Think about the next game. That's the hell stadium." George did not continue to blame Evan.

"Well, George. Not only the next round of games, but the next few games are difficult games. We have encountered a devil's schedule, and you have to consider the physical strength of the players." Evan quickly got into the state.

After Blackburn experienced a wave of easy schedules, they are about to face a devilish schedule. In the 17th round of the league, they will face the Red Army Liverpool away. In the 18th round of the league, they will face the young guards Leeds United at home. In the 19th round of the league, they will face Aston Villa, which has excellent results, away again.

Of course, if there are only these three games, it is not a devilish schedule.

Because after these three games, it will be the Christmas schedule. On December 26 and 28, Blackburn needs to face Derby County and Middlesbrough in succession.

In December, Blackburn will play five games. And every game is a tough battle. Derby County and Middlesbrough are currently the ninth and tenth in the Premier League, and the remaining Liverpool is an English giant. Leeds United and Aston Villa are both strong teams in the top six of the Premier League this season.

This is a huge test for the physical strength of Blackburn players. In order to make the main players adapt to the Premier League this season, George has not rotated the main players so far. But with such a tough schedule, George absolutely cannot use the same team to play the game.

But how to choose between the main players and substitutes without affecting the results is a big issue.

Now George is actually thankful. Fortunately, he gave up the League Cup, otherwise the game would be even more tense now.

"That's what I'm thinking about too. Physical strength is a big problem. We should make some proper rotations."

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After defeating Burnley 5-0, Blackburn won all four games in November.

In 16 rounds, Blackburn had six wins, six draws and four losses, with a total of 24 points. It was only ranked eighth in the Premier League with a goal difference disadvantage.

Blackburn's outstanding performance in November made George the Premier League's Coach of the Month in November. And Pires, in this month, became the Player of the Month with his outstanding performance of three goals and four assists.

George has won the English League's Coach of the Month countless times in the English League Two and the English League One.

Especially in Burnley last season, George's Burnley was invincible in the English League One. The English League's Coach of the Month, as long as George wants it, he can get it. Because at that time, George only needed to pay a little attention to the league, and it would be easy to get a perfect or unbeaten record within a month.

George didn't care about the best coach of the month in these low-level leagues.

But George was very happy to get the best coach of the month in the Premier League. From the slump at the beginning of the season to the best coach of the month now, this is Blackburn's progress. It is also the beginning of George's integration into the Premier League and the beginning of George's conquest of the Premier League.

Pires was even more excited to get the best player of the month.

Pires is the player with the highest transfer fee in Blackburn this season except Van Bronckhorst. The transfer fee reached 5.5 million pounds, but the performance at the beginning of the season was almost terrible. Even worse than Miku's performance.

So much so that when the media laughed at Miku, they just said "Miku is not Zidane". But when evaluating Pires, there is only one word "parallel import". They think Pires is the biggest parallel import that George has misjudged over the years.

5.5 million pounds, in the current era of inflated player prices, is actually not a very high price. But for Blackburn, it would be a very expensive transfer fee. If it were for George, the coach, it would be an even higher transfer fee.

But his performance was completely inconsistent with his price, so he was ridiculed the most.

It was a very unbearable two months, but fortunately he survived. Pires was in a good mood after winning the Player of the Month. When facing the media, he was arrogant and the smile on his face never disappeared.

George, holding the trophy of the Coach of the Month, smiled proudly at the media.

"I joined Blackburn not to avoid relegation. Relegation is not what I want to do."

"Coach of the Month, this is just the beginning."

Looking at George's smug expression, the reporters knew that George was starting to get arrogant again. But George really has the capital to be arrogant, this is Blackburn's sixth consecutive victory. Blackburn is the best performing team in the Premier League in the past forty days.

Those who questioned George were silenced in front of George's achievements.

However, there are still many reporters who can't stand George's arrogance and ask George with bad intentions.

"Coach Levy, how do you view the curse of the best coach and the best player? This time Blackburn won both the best coach and the best player at the same time."

Looking at the reporter's naughty smile, George curled his lips. The so-called Premier League monthly best curse is not the future monthly best coach curse. The Premier League monthly best curse in the late 1990s refers to the fact that the team that won the monthly double best will often encounter setbacks in the first game after the award ceremony, either losing or drawing. This ominous rule was even selected by the media as one of the top ten curses in world football.

Starting from the 2001-02 season, the curse mutated. The monthly best coach also began to be cursed.

"Curse, what curse? I have never known any curse, and I was born to break the curse."

George said so, but his heart was also beating. Damn, curses are things that cannot be seen or touched. But they always work, just like Bailey's crow's mouth. Although he doesn't care about it, he still cares about it in his heart.

The next game is at Anfield, where they will challenge Liverpool, England's top club.

Anfield is a stadium that any team in the world would be afraid of. This home game is not easy to play.