Chapter 924 Volume 7 The Heart of the Lion King Has Nothing to Do with the Forest
After the "death threats" case, the Nottingham police strengthened the security of Evan Dalgety and Alan Adams at his request. He himself has become the laughing stock of the entire European football-the club president who was sent a "death threat" notice by his fans is one of the few in the history of European football.
Afterwards, he did not receive any strange letters with bullets, blades, or white powder in the envelopes. But his and Allen's offices have been flooded with letters from angry fans.
Evan Dougherty's open letter completely angered the fans.
What is "It's time to forget about Tony Twain"? What is "It's time to start a new period of glory"?
This guy doesn't understand anything. Tony has brought us so many honors, and most importantly, so many good memories, can we just forget it? Especially in the past two months or so, you have said that you are going to start a new journey, do you think everyone is heartless? Until more than ten years later, there are still people who keep recalling Brian Clough, so we have reason to believe that even in the past twenty years, Tony Twain will only be mentioned by us constantly!
And you, Mr. Evan Dougherty. After you leave the chairmanship, how many people can still think of you? No...maybe many people will think of you, but it must not be a "good memory".
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In order to divert the attention of the fans and vent their anger through another channel, Nottingham Forest Club is stepping up their actions in the transfer market. Due to the turmoil of the previous period, they have lost too much time. In the preparation competition with the main competitors, they fell to the last place.
If their goal this season is really to compete for the championship, then the next ten days will have to hurry up-the Premier League will fully kick off on August 19th, and before that, Nottingham Forest will have a Community Shield The Cup is going to be played, and since the Forest team won the Triple Crown last season, their opponent in the Community Shield will be Arsenal, which ranks second in the league.
Just as the Forest team was still looking for a suitable new player, they lost another important player.
Nuri Shaheen's agent reached an agreement with Bayern Munich, and Nottingham Forest Club agreed to release him. This transfer deal will bring Forest Club £18 million in revenue.
Pepe and Shaheen left one after another, as if a vivid "Dynasty Gone" was being staged in front of the Forest fans. And they have reason to believe that such partings will be repeated frequently in the future.
On August 5th, Victor Moses moved to Middlesbrough for a transfer fee of 8 million pounds. In Nottingham Forest for five seasons, there were not many opportunities to play, and more often he was loaned out to exercise. Originally, he planned to stay in the team and wait for opportunities, but the turmoil in the club in the past two months made him lose confidence in the team and decided to transfer and leave.
A day later, Nottingham Forest announced an "exciting" transfer news.
After arduous negotiations, Nottingham Forest finally reached an agreement with Inter Milan. Inter Milan's head striker Balotelli last season successfully transferred to England's Triple Crown team. The transfer fee is 35 million pounds!
Mario Balotelli (Mario_Balotelli), known as "Super Mario" in Italy. He is the most outstanding young player that Inter Milan has emerged in recent years, and is regarded as Inter Milan's hope for the next ten years. However, due to the departure of Mourinho, his relationship with the new coach Zola is very bad. Has been clamoring for a transfer.
He originally wanted to go to Manchester United where Mourinho was, and Manchester United did throw an olive branch to Balotelli.
However, Evan Dougherty, who urgently needed to restore his reputation in front of the fans, suddenly intervened, complicating this transfer that was originally "if you like me". In the end, Nottingham Forest overwhelmed Manchester United with money. The high price of 35 million pounds was a price that Manchester United was unwilling to pay. Inter Milan rejected Manchester United's 24 million offer and accepted Nottingham Forest, so Balotelli could only accept the result of being "beaten by a stick" and "committed" to Nottingham Forest, which has a bad reputation recently.
He showed no such emotion at the news conference. He still praised the team that had just won the treble and claimed that joining such a great team has always been his wish.
The joining of the Italian golden boy genius has somewhat eased the grievances of some fans towards the club. There has been a noticeable decrease in the number of fan protest letters sent to Evan Dalgety and Alan Adams with affectionate regards to their mothers and wives.
In fact, as time goes by, such letters will only become less and less. Because after the start of the new season, the fans will focus on the team's games, and few people are interested in haggling with a shrinking tortoise all day long. It's just that Evan Dalgety had better hope that the team's performance under Flores can continue to Tony Twain's level, otherwise, what awaits him is bound to be more violent storms.
Good grades, all problems are not called problems. Bad grades, no problem is also a problem.
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Twain is still paying attention to Nottingham Forest, and it's okay for him not to. In England's plan list, Nottingham Forest's players occupy an important seat.
In the Community Shield, he will go to the New Wembley Stadium to watch the game and observe the performance of the English players on both sides of the game.
While keeping an eye on the team, he tried not to let himself be lashed out in the papers by Evan Dalgety's prodigal behavior. Because if he did, he would obviously have overstepped his authority, and it would not be fair to the team's new head coach. He didn't want to interfere with the club's actions, and he reminded himself that he had nothing to do with this team since he rejected Evan Dalgety's second invitation.
Fortunately, the new season is about to start, and he will return to the intense and busy work, he has no time to think.
The fate of Nottingham Forest is for the people of Nottingham to pay attention to.
One of his headaches now is how to face George Wood on the next national team match day.
He heard Billy Wooks, an old and careless old man, call and say that Wood is very dissatisfied with him now. If it is not handled well, it may become the fuse that splits the national team. In Twain's plan, George Wood is definitely the most important component, just like in the forest team, all his arrangements revolve around Wood.
If Wood doesn't cooperate because he has a problem with himself, then he's in big trouble...
Before the Community Shield Cup match, Dunn hoped to meet Wood and have a chat. But was rejected by Wood on the grounds that "he must concentrate on preparing for the Community Shield now".
This made Dunn frowned - could this be a bad omen?
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The Community Shield is a test for the new coach Flores. He must submit a satisfactory answer, otherwise his future coaching career will not be safe. One must know that what he was facing was a group of picky Nottingham Forest fans. These people had been spoiled by that guy named Tony Twain for the past ten years.
Championships and victories are their tradition.
But the protagonist of this game is not Flores.
When Twain appeared in the stands, the camera lenses frequently visited him, and the commentators and guest commentators had nothing to say and let the game rely on him.
"It's probably the first time for Tony Twain to watch a Nottingham Forest game from the stands, right?"
"No no. This feeling is not unfamiliar to him. You have to know how many times he was sent to the stands when he was in charge of the Forest team... Ha!"
"George Wood's performance is very steady, let's see Tang En's expression... Well, there is no expression at all..."
"Arsenal scored a goal! Beautiful coordination, a pass with four consecutive feet, completely tore through the Forest team's defense! The rebroadcast shot was shown to Dunn, who was talking to the England assistant coach Des Walker next to him. Ah, sorry, I thought about how he would react if he was down here at this time..."
"Nottingham Forest equalized the score! Mitchell's header! A very typical Tony Twain-style attack... Ha, it happened that the camera was on Twain again, and there was no joy on his face... Ah, now He is England's head coach and has nothing to do with Nottingham Forest. Flores seems to have followed Twain's tactics for the sake of team stability..."
"This is normal. After all, he has only taken over the team for a few days, and he is not familiar with many things. The safest way is to use the side that the team is most accustomed to before. Chris Lack must have helped Flores a lot. Big favor...He is an excellent assistant coach, it is said that Tony Twain approached him when he was building England's coaching staff, but he turned him down...Ah, the camera gave Twain a close-up again!"
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After the game, someone with a lot of trouble made a very boring statistic. In this game that lasted a total of 94 minutes, the live TV broadcast showed a total of eleven close-up shots of Tony Twain sitting in the stands. Swipe his camera four times.
The game finally ended with Arsenal's victory. Nottingham Forest, which had just undergone a huge personnel change, was able to compete with Arsenal in the first half, showing their strength in last season's treble. The score in the first half was 1:1. The strength of the Forest team was reflected in the fact that they were equalized less than five minutes after they were scored by Arsenal. At that moment, it seemed that Tony Twain's forest team had reappeared—the momentum of not admitting defeat was still there.
But in the second half, the team was sleepwalking, and the team seemed to have no fighting spirit. Maybe it's the recent abnormal training that can't keep the players in shape, maybe everyone loses their fighting spirit when they think of the club's actions. In short, in the face of Arsenal's offensive, the performance of the Forest team was drowsy.
In the end, Arsenal scored two consecutive cities in the second half, won the game with a score of 3:1, and won the first championship of the new season.
The Forest players who lost the game didn't seem to care about the result. Their eyes wandered, they shook hands with their opponents absent-mindedly, exchanged jerseys, and then walked off the court with their heads down.
In the stands, there were Nottingham Forest fans who were dissatisfied with the result. They were gathering together to greet Evan Dalgety and his "minion" Alan Adams with swear words.
Evan Dougherty on the rostrum shook hands with the old man Peter Hillwood, the chairman of the Arsenal Club, with an embarrassed expression. Old Hillwood patted his shoulder lightly, talking about something, perhaps comforting him...
In fact, Hillwood was indeed comforting Dougherty: "It's nothing, just lost a Community Shield."
Then when he left the rostrum and walked out, he said to the people around him: "Nottingham Forest is over. It's really worth celebrating. We have lost one of our most powerful competitors."
Then he grinned and left the podium with a smile.
Evan Dalgety stood where he was, looking at the field below with a cloudy face, and no one knew what he was thinking.
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Tony Twain and Des Walker walked down from the stadium stands, and when they came to the hall below, they were blocked by many media members waiting there. The reporters asked Tang En to comment on the match.
So Tang En's speech was very official——
"The game was good. There is no doubt that Arsenal won the championship. Walcott performed very well, and it is no problem to be elected as the best man of the game. Of course, Wood's performance is also very good, but unfortunately the team itself is not in shape, dragged him down..."
The reporters were not satisfied with such an answer, they did not come to listen to this kind of nonsense.
"The Forest Club was exposed to a scandal a while ago, what's your comment on it?"
"I'm not the coach of Nottingham Forest, and I won't express any opinions on it." Dunn replied with a straight face.
But the reporters ignored Tang En's statement. They kept bombarding him with questions about Nottingham Forest, and they didn't believe that he didn't speak up.
To be honest, deep down in Dunn's heart, he was still very concerned about what happened to the Forest team during this period. He also had a lot of comments, but they were just muttering by himself, and it would be bad for outsiders to hear them.
It was Pierce Bruce who helped him out: "Can you comment on Flores?"
Tang En just took advantage of this step to step down: "Flores is a very good coach. He has already proved his ability when he coached in Valencia. I wish him good luck, and I also wish him good luck in the forest. Make the team longer..."
He made a double entendre.
After answering this question, Dunn and Des Walker squeezed out of the crowd and left in a hurry.
After a while, the media should stop asking him that question. Everyone had to accept the fact that no matter what the future of Nottingham Forest would become, it had nothing to do with Tony Twain. After dedicating the most precious eleven years of his life to this team, Twain embarked on a brand new journey.
Good luck to him.