Chapter 1013 Volume 8: The Situation of the Forest Team

Wood did not talk about his plan to retire in front of interim head coach Greenwood and club chairman Evan Dougherty, and he also kept silent when asked by many reporters on this issue, as if nothing had happened Same thing.

This made Evan heave a sigh of relief.

In any case, the current crisis is over. But Evan Dalgety didn't feel relieved. Successive defeats, coaching changes, rumors of Wood's retirement, these things are so loud that the Arab consortium suddenly changed their minds. They did not indicate that they would completely terminate the negotiations to acquire Nottingham Forest Club, but they obviously slowed down the pace of acquisitions, and made it clear that they hoped to acquire the club at a lower price.

This is obviously what Evan Dalgety doesn't want to see. During this period of time, Alan Adams has often been scolded by the increasingly bad-tempered club president. Although they used to have a friendship of starting a business together, decades have passed, and that friendship has faded long ago. What's more, as the most trusted person around Evan, he can't handle such a big event. angry?

After Tony Twain left, the only person Evan Dalgety could rely on in the club was Alan Adamsler. But now Allen's performance has made Evan suspicious-maybe he can't even rely on this person.

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Tony Twain did not return to Los Angeles just because Wood honestly went back to participate in training and competitions, because the matter was far from being resolved. And Wood went to work, and he should stay and take care of Sophia, and he should do so in all sense and reason. Although Miss Vivienne was there, the only person who could talk to Sophia was Tang En.

So Tang En called Shania and told her that he might not be able to come back during this time, and if she was not too busy after work, she could come to Nottingham. Shania heard that Sophia's condition was very bad, so she made a special phone call to greet Sophia. As for Tang En's request, she naturally agreed without saying a word.

Originally, Tang En sneaked back alone, and no media knew about it. But after staying here for a long time, the ubiquitous media could smell him even if they sniffed him. So within a few days, photos of Dunn entering and exiting the hospital appeared on the sports pages of several newspapers.

Just one day after the news of Tang En's return to China appeared in the newspapers, he welcomed a special guest in Sophia's ward.

In name, Evan Dougherty came to visit Sophia on behalf of the club, hoping for her speedy recovery, but in fact he came to see Dunn.

"When did you come back? You didn't notify me when you came back?" In the reception room outside, Evan Daugherty looked very familiar with Tang En.

Tang En smiled slightly: "Two days ago, I was too busy to take care of it. Didn't you come here by yourself?"

It was the first time that the two met face to face after four years, and the sordidness of the year seemed to have calmed down. At least on the surface, outsiders will never see that they have ever been enemies of each other.

Then the two chattered about, but they didn't talk about football or the recent dilemma faced by the club. Later, when there was nothing more to talk about, Evan Dalgety said goodbye.

Tang En sent him to the door of the ward, but he didn't continue sending him. As soon as Evan left, he returned to the ward, sat on the sofa and meditated.

From what he understood of Evan Dalgety, wherever the man went, he always took Alan Adams with him. But this time, he came to the hospital alone to "visit" Sophia. Although Evan said that the reason why Alan didn't come was that he was in charge of negotiating with the Arabs, but now even the tabloids know that the Arab consortium has temporarily stopped the negotiation plan and returned to the UAE, saying that they want to reconsider Bid for Nottingham Forest. Obviously in their minds, such a bad club is not worthy of Evan Dalgety's asking price. No matter how glorious its past is, businessmen always care about the present and the future, they don't care about the past. If you can't bring them benefits now, then you have no value in their minds, and if your future appreciation space is small, your status in their minds will further decline.

Now everyone knows that the acquisition of Nottingham Forest has reached an impasse, but the fans of the Forest team don't know how they should feel. They are tired of the fact that the president of the club who has brought them countless honors is now incarnated as a clown. But they don't want to hand over their club to a group of bearded Arabs who don't understand football or English football. Look at Manchester City, a mercenary army piled up with money is just a toy for the Arabs.

As one of the oldest clubs in the world, how can it be reduced to that point?

If Nottingham Forest were a team like Notts County, the fans could raise donations and buy the club themselves. However, Nottingham Forest has a long history and brilliant record, and it cannot be successfully acquired only by donations from fans. Tony Twain earns quite a lot every year. Even so, all his savings are not enough to buy the club, unless he can find a more powerful consortium to invest in. However, he has never had any contact with the brokerage industry, and he is not interested in this aspect. Evan Daugherty put a price tag of 1.2 billion pounds on the club. Some outside media ridiculed Evan as a lion's mouth. Nottingham Forest Club has a debt of 400 million pounds. Excluding this part, the club's market value is at most 500 million pounds, that is, Say £900 million is a fair price for a takeover. However, the Arabs were ruthless enough, directly suppressing the price to 600 million pounds, 400 million was used to repay the debt, and the remaining 200 million was the actual value of Nottingham Forest Club in the eyes of those Middle Easterners.

With such an offer, it’s no wonder that many Nottingham Forest fans don’t have a good opinion of the Arab consortium-for a team that has won the European Champions Cup five times, the actual value of 200 million is simply an insult. So Forest fans are tired of Evan Dalgety's "sale farce" every season, and on the other hand, they don't want the Arabs to really take over the club.

Tang En's thinking continued.

Originally, Allen Adams was Evan Dalgety's most trusted right-hand man, and he was given full authority over the negotiations with the Arab consortium. In Nottingham Forest Club, which has not been listed as a listed company for a long time, it can be said that besides Evan Dalgety, the most powerful person is Alan Adams. But now Alan didn't come with Evan, Tang En was very concerned about this matter.

Could this explain some kind of attitude of Evan?

Thinking of Evan Dalgety's desire for power, Tang En felt that he came alone this time, definitely not as he said, Allen was "involved in business".

It seems that there must be something brewing inside the Nottingham Forest Club...

But what does that have to do with me?

Tang En shook his head and stood up. He decided to go for a walk. Now that his identity had been exposed, it didn't matter. Just in time to see the group of old friends at the Forest Bar.

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If Wood has read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", then he must know the allusion of "I am in Cao Ying and my heart is in Han". Because his current situation is a typical "body in Cao Ying and heart in Han". Although she returned to the team and put in training, her mother's condition did not improve and her body was still weak. Even checked into a sterile ward this week, which is a sign of exacerbation.

Under such circumstances, how can he stabilize his state and devote himself to training and competition? After all, Wood is also a human being with flesh and blood, not a real piece of wood, or a robot killer from the future world. Although he promised his mother to return to the team, the mother couldn't control his emotions. He wanted to miss his mother, but Sophia couldn't say that he wouldn't let him miss her.

Greenwood was also helpless about this, he was not a master of psychological adjustment, and Wood didn't listen to him. There may be only one head coach in the world who can make Wood bow down, but that person has retired.

Teammates are also helpless. No one can ask Wood to put his mind on football at this time and set an example for the captain, because they have no position to do so. As Wood's only relative, his mother is lying in the sterile ward of the hospital at this moment, and her life may be in danger at any time. What they should do is to persuade Wood to put down football temporarily and take care of his mother instead of asking him Lead by example on the training ground and on the court, playing football regardless of family affection. For these professional players, football is a job, and no job is bigger than their own family.

It's just that once Wood makes a decision, there is basically no room for others to intervene. Therefore, even Wood's best friend "Little Monkey" Bell couldn't persuade him to go back and take care of his mother.

The subsequent UEFA Cup game was George Wood's first game after returning to the team. As a result, he did not perform well in the game. He was still active in running, but he was a bit like a headless chicken, running around, let alone organizing offense. and defended. Nottingham Forest's tactics are based on George Wood. Wood's performance is not good, the team is like a loose sand, and there is no way to organize it.

In the end, Nottingham Forest lost 0:2 to Sporting Lisbon at their home court.

Nottingham Forest play Fulham at home two days later in the league game. George Wood's performance still hasn't improved, but Greenwood has changed his tactics. He didn't continue to let Wood be the core, but let Balotelli become the core of the field, and the offense revolved around him. With Balotelli's outstanding performance at home, the team defeated Fulham 2:1, and finally stopped the downward trend.

But the good times didn't last long. In the next week's league, Nottingham Forest lost to Newcastle. This time Balotelli's role as the core doesn't work, because it's much easier to freeze a striker than a midfielder...

Nottingham Forest's ranking temporarily stopped falling in the last round of the league, and continued after losing to Newcastle. Lost to Blackburn 1:3, lost to Tottenham Hotspur 0:1... By the end of October, the Forest team's ranking had dropped from the original tenth place to the fourteenth place. Throughout October, apart from defeating Fulham 2:1, they never won a game, not even a draw. They played a total of five games in October, but they only scored three points.

What made Evan Dougherty even more anxious was still to come. He only led the team to play four games, but Greenwood, who lost three games, felt that he was not suitable for coaching the first team, so he lost to Totna Hotspur then took the initiative to resign from Evan Dougherty, hoping that the club chairman would agree to his resignation as first-team head coach and continue to return to coach the youth team.

How could Evan Dougherty agree, since he couldn't find a suitable head coach. But his retention was no match for Greenwood's strong will, and in the end he had to agree with Greenwood's resignation as the acting head coach of the first team.

Next, Evan Dalgety had to appoint Freddie Eastwood as the interim head coach to manage the team. On the other hand, he stepped up his search for a suitable head coach.

But in fact, if Eastwood had a choice, he would definitely not want to take over the hot potato. On the one hand, it is because he feels that his level has not reached the point where he can be a head coach. On the other hand, it is naturally because the current Nottingham Forest is simply a coaching black hole. No matter how famous and capable a head coach comes, his reputation will be discredited and he will suffer a crushing defeat.

Eventually Eastwood took office with a frown on his face. He showed no sign of joy at being promoted to head coach in the press conference, and although the fact of being able to coach his former team-mates is interesting in itself, he was not in the mood for such a joke. In the face of reporters' questions about the team's performance and prospects, he only expressed the hope that his performance could live up to the trust of the fans and the club. He didn't say a single extra word, and the atmosphere at the press conference was a bit cold.

After the press conference, many media expressed that the prospect of Nottingham Forest is still not optimistic. This time they didn't deliberately oppose Nottingham Forest, they deliberately blacked Nottingham Forest. What they said was all the truth. Even if they were replaced by the most die-hard Nottingham Forest fans, they would probably only come to a similar decision.

"It seems that Evan Dalgetty should revise their goals this season-not to enter the European Champions Cup finals, but to keep their qualifications for the Premier League..."