Godfather Of Champions

The transfer budget announced by Nottingham Forest last summer was 3.5 million pounds. Collymore bought so many people, but Gunnarson, Rebroff and Gareth Taylor were the main players. . In the winter, the Forest team did not announce their transfer budget. The media told readers that Tony Dunn’s actual investment in the transfer market has exceeded the summer budget, and most of the purchases are young players. So is the 3.6 million spent this time worth it? The media put a big question mark on Dunn's actions in the transfer market in January. Almost all of them are young people who have not proven their abilities in the adult team. What will they bring to this team? Vigor and healthy competition, or impulsive recklessness and lack of experience?

At the press conference, Dunn told the media and the fans who were also puzzled that these people are the future of the Forest team. 3.6 million seems to be a lot, but we are investing in the future. A few years later, compared with their value at that time, the current 3.6 million is not worth mentioning.

The winter transfer period is basically to supplement the existing lineup, and a drastic adjustment of the lineup like Dunn is also a last resort. Considering the stability of the team, Dunn told Evan that he no longer needs to introduce anyone from the transfer market.

Next, he must seriously deal with the Premier League team. On January 22, in the first round of the League Cup semi-final, Nottingham Forest played against Bolton at home.

Bolton is a very special team in English football because they are very international. Although internationalization is nothing new after the start of the Premier League, Chelsea in the past also set a record for no English player among the eleven starting players in the Premier League, but Bolton's internationalization is not the same as Chelsea.

Look at what international players are in this Bolton team today: Brazilian forward Jardel (Jardel), Danish forward Henrik Peterson (Henrik_Pedersen), Nigeria midfielder Yaya Okocha (Jay_Jay_Okocha), French midfielder Yi Brahimba (Ibrahim_Ba), French midfielder Youri_Djorkaeff (Youri_Djorkaeff), Greek midfielder Setarios Yannakopoulos (Stelios_Giannakopoulos), Danish midfielder Pell Flanders (Per_Frandsen), French defender Bruno N Gotti (Bruno_NGotty), Spanish defender Ivan Campo (Ivan_Campo).

These people are not small, but the youngest of them is the substitute forward, 28-year-old Henrik Peterson. The biggest is Djokov, the main midfielder of the former world champion France team. He is thirty-five years old...Most of these people are star players who have passed away. They could not play in the original team. Switched to Bolton. In addition, although the current main striker Kevin Davies (Kevin_Davies) is only 26 years old, he is also burdened because of his premature fame. Now he has freely transferred from Southampton to Bolton after being displaced. .

This is a very interesting phenomenon. In the Premier League, few clubs are keen to buy those veteran players who are the main team. These people's worth is not high, but the salary requirements are not low, the reputation is still there, but the strength is not as good as before. It stands to reason that with the qualifications of a Premier League team, although Bolton has little money and cannot buy those superstars from abroad, it is always not a problem to buy outstanding domestic players.

There is historical origin behind this, and it has a great relationship with Manchester United. After the Munich air crash in 1958, the golden age of Manchester United was almost disintegrated. Sir Busby, who escaped from the dead, reorganized the team and continued to participate in the game with the Manchester United youth team and second-tier players. Manchester United’s misfortune and the arduous struggle after the disaster aroused the sympathy and appreciation of the entire football world. For most English people, football is a sport for the brave, even if they break their leg. After the game, I went to the hospital, so the fighting spirit of Manchester United won everyone's respect-and then three months after the crash, Manchester United and Bolton both reached the FA Cup final. In this game, Manchester United, who lost their troops and lost their generals, not only lost to Bolton, but also was extremely humiliated by Bolton fans.

They made an unbelievable move at the scene: nearly a thousand Bolton fans danced with their hands and made a whining buzzing sound in their mouths, humiliating Manchester United by mimicking the crash of the plane. This lack of basic sympathy has made Bolton isolated since then, and people have more sympathy for Manchester United.

Since then, Manchester United and Bolton have become deadly enemies. Bolton has been floating between the Premier League and the League of Nations for the past ten years. It is said that one of the reasons is that the teams in the Northwest of England tried their best to play Bolton. Moreover, Bolton can hardly buy good players in England, so they have to turn their sights on the international market to find these old people who have passed or are about to pass to help the team relegation.

It's a pitiful thing to say. The fans have to let the team pay for their sins... This is part of the English football tradition. The club and the fans are inseparable. Fans follow the team fanatically, and the team must Do not abandon their supporters.

Of course, Dunn did not intend to use this past as the motivation for the team's victory over Bolton. Manchester United has nothing to do with the Forest team. Moreover, Manchester United once slaughtered the Forest team 8:1 away in the Premier League. The relationship between the two teams is also Not close, on the contrary, Manchester United’s arch-rival Arsenal and the Forest team are closer-because Arsenal was established by the Forest team.

Dunn did not want to care about the grievances between Manchester United and Bolton, but thanks to this grievance, he gave him a chance to take advantage. Bolton has never been able to buy high-level players, so although he is in the Super League, his strength is not strong. Most of the team is older players. Although they are experienced, they can be physically compatible with the young Forest team. It's a big difference.

In the case of continuous campaigns, the Bolton team has already suffered injuries. For example, their main striker Kevin Davis was injured in the last league match against Portsmouth. If he wants to play in the League Cup semi-finals, he can only play with injuries, and his power will be greatly reduced.

Another striker, Jadel, the Brazilian seems to have been born in the wrong place. He should not be in Brazil at 1.89 meters, but in which country in Europe... Rough technique is the main reason why he is often ignored by the rich, although In Bolton’s first seven games, he failed to score and was put on the bench by the club, but his height and header are still a big threat to Dunn. No one likes this player knows him. Then it will burst out suddenly and bite the enemy. Dunn didn't want to be the one who was bitten. Just one day after the last round of the Premier League ended, news of his delight came from the transfer market that the 29-year-old Brazilian striker was loaned to the last Serie A team Ancona to help the team relegation. His departure gave Dunn a sigh of relief. If this black tower played in the League Cup semi-finals, his impact would be a severe test for the forest team's new defense.

As for Djokaf, who will be 36 years old in more than a month, he can only play as a substitute in the team, and the chances of playing are getting less and less. Except for the experience, other things are being lost from his body that has lost vitality.

The biggest threat in the team is Nigerian Okocha, who has excellent dribbling and can pass assists. Bolton is now the core of the midfield and the initiator of the team's offense.

If it was before the last League One, Dunn might have a headache how to defend the African, but now he has a bottom.

There is still a problem with George Wood's defensive position. There is no way to do it. He can only make up for it by constantly playing and accumulating experience, but his talents in one-on-one marking have been brought to the extreme. Then that difficult Okocha will find his opponent even more difficult.

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In the early morning of January 22, the atmosphere of the war had not yet enveloped the sky over Nottingham. It is rare to have a sunny day today. Tang En got up very early and came to the forest team's training base.

According to the team's regulations, before each home game, players who enter the squad must come to Vilford in the morning, and then take the team bus to a hotel close to the stadium to stay, eat there, take a lunch break, and then go by car Stadium games.

Dunn now likes to come earlier than everyone else before the home game, and then chat with Eastwood who is warming up on horseback in the empty training base. This is a rare relaxation time before the game. When the team is assembled, Dunn and Walker should lock themselves in the hotel room and study their opponents.

"Good morning, sir." Eastwood rode his horse and appeared in front of Dunn on time. He greeted Dunn loudly.

Every time he saw this young man, a smile appeared on Dunn's face unconsciously. Eastwood is such a cheerful and optimistic person who can also make the people next to him cheerful and optimistic.

"Good morning, Freddy. How do you feel today?" He looked up at the gypsy on the horse.

Eastwood jumped off the horse. "Very good, sir. I think I can score in the afternoon game."

Dunn laughed. This kid has scored consecutive goals since joining the team in early January. Three goals in two games perfectly proved his ability. Now whether it is in newspapers, or on television or radio, there is no more criticism or doubt about this gypsy amateur player.

If you succeed, everyone will naturally shut up.

Looking at Eastwood, who was petting his horse, Dunn nodded and said, "Very well, Freddie. You start for today's game, and you may have a new partner by then."

"That'telephone pole'?" Eastwood was referring to Crouch. This is the nickname he gave to his new teammates. Crouch quickly accepted the nickname because everyone on the team is like that. Call him. The tall and thin he really deserves the title "telephone pole".

Dunn found a problem. It seems that everyone who is taller will be more dull or honest, such as Robert Hut, or Crouch, who just joined the team. Although Crouch is not dull, he is honest and has a good temperament. Eastwood called him his nickname, and he was not angry, but he was still very happy when everyone called him. Because Walker told this new player-the players call you your new nickname, it means they accepted you.

"Well, but I don't know when he will be there." Dunn shook his head. Who can tell the truth about the game? If a football game only relied on talking about it, thinking about it in your head, and according to the tactics, you can know the result from one round of my deduction, and so many people would not like it.

The kind of suspense that doesn't know the future fate is the most exciting.

"Also, Freddie. I don't think the relationship between you and George is very good..." The two of them will cooperate on the field many times in the future. If the relationship is not good, it may be a drag on the team. This is not what Dunn wants to see, no matter how powerful the team is, it will fall apart because of the locker room issue. He had to choke this sign directly in "possibility."

Speaking of this question, Eastwood was silent for a while. People who are optimistic and cheerful also have past events that they don't want to mention. Originally, he was considered promising in West Ham United. He continued to play like this. Maybe he is now playing in the West Ham United first team. But that serious injury ended everything. He was laid off by the West Ham United Youth Team. After his injury, he could not find a team willing to accept him. In the end, he could only play in the amateur league. The training time for amateur competitions is basically not guaranteed, which is far from the training he received at West Ham United. When there is no training, he helps to buy a car in his father's second-hand car shop as a salesman.

Sometimes when I am free, I will stare in a daze. Will this kind of life last a lifetime? After his father was old, he took over the car dealership, sold used cars, raised a few children with his wife, and then sent them to play football when they grew up. Every day I go to the club to pick them up, watching my dream come back to life in my son...

Is this your future?

And who caused all this? It is George Wood who is taciturn and always likes to look at others with unkind eyes!

Although they are now in a team, it does not mean that they should be like brothers.

Seeing Eastwood did not speak, Dunn must have thought of the past that made him unbearable. So he asked suddenly: "Gypsies should be descended from Indians, right?"

This question and the previous question jumped a long distance away, making Eastwood stunned for a moment before nodding and turning back: "Yes, everyone said that."

"Then do you believe in Buddhism?"

Eastwood shook his head: "No, I am not religious."

This made Dunn a little surprised. He felt that this kind of wandering nation should always believe in some religion, such as Christianity. But the topic has to go on, he said: "There is a saying in Buddhism called ‘causal’. Do you know what it means?"

The word is well understood literally, "cause and effect". Eastwood nodded, but soon he shook his head again.

"Well, to put it simply, it is... things in this world are all connected, seemingly irrelevant. If... if you were not injured in the first place, do you know where and what kind of life you are living now? ?"

This question made Eastwood think for a while, then shook his head and said: "I don't know, that didn't happen."

"We can use common sense to speculate that if there is no accident, you should have been transferred from the youth team of West Ham United to the first team, and then represent the team in the League this season, we will become opponents." Dunn pointed to him. , And pointed to myself, "But you are right, that didn't happen. We are in a team now, I signed, and you use goals to prove my decision. Because of what we can be here Talk easily instead of spitting at each other before the game?"

"Because of... the injury?" Eastwood thought for a while, then asked back.

Dunn nodded: "George was really responsible for the foul, but he didn't mean it. In fact, he had only been in football for less than three months. I wanted him to play forward, but he was completely at a loss on the court. He was a little nervous, his brain was blank, and then he saw you running past him with the ball... "Needless to say what happened next, Eastwood now occasionally feels pain in his right leg in retrospect.

"I don't want to explain anything to him, because it is indeed his responsibility. It was a very immoral foul. It almost ruined your future. But what I want to say next may make you unhappy after listening. , But I have to tell you very frankly... Freddy, sometimes I also think,'I should thank George, if it weren't for his foul, how could I have such an outstanding Freddy Eastwood The striker'. Maybe I will be furious on the sidelines because you broke the gate of my team, maybe you will knock my team out of an important game, let me taste the bitterness of failure, and then maybe I will dismiss , Continue to be the head coach of my youth team, or don’t know where I’m doing what work...just like the future you once envisioned. But now it’s good, then nothing happened, they only exist in another future Among them. You," Dunn said, pointing to Eastwood.

"Freddy Eastwood is now wearing the forest team's red jersey and has scored three goals in two consecutive games. He lives in the Vilford training base, joking with my players, and comes to train with a happy mood every day. , In the game, using goals to bring me victory, even your horse has become the darling of this city... This is your present. As for your future... You will become the greatest shooter in the history of the team , You will score many, many goals, you will bring me and the fans of the Forest team one after another trophies, the stands of the City Stadium will be crazy for you countless times, and then when you decide to retire..."

Dunn looked up at the glow in the eastern sky, took a deep breath of the fresh morning air, and then shook his head and said, "I can't imagine what it would be like."

Hearing Dun En said so much in one breath, Eastwood didn't say a word, and he stroked the horse's neck with his hands unconsciously.

"If you are not injured, maybe you will be at West Ham United, maybe you will go to another low-level league team, and then you will eliminate Manchester United in a certain cup. You will score the winning goal. Become England in a week. Celebrities, on TV, newspapers. Then forgotten, you still played in that team until you retired in obscurity. The goal that eliminated Manchester United that year will be the most glorious moment in your career." Dunn continued, This is a different future from the outer circle that Eastwood envisioned. He had never thought about the future... the future. But Dunn knew that that was the future he should have continued.

"Now is different. You don't have to worry about that kind of future. Because you joined Nottingham Forest and my team, you will join me as the creator of the second glory of the Forest team." Dunn opened his arms. , Packed the Vilford training base.

"I became a legendary coach, and you became a legendary shooter. Until we are very old, we will be mentioned often. People will say:'Eastwood is the greatest shooter in the history of the Forest, that clumsy feather How could the kid compare to him! The most successful deal in Tony Dunn’s coaching career was to buy Freddie from an amateur team! Just look at the trophies in the honor room!'"

Dunn imitated the tone of the fans discussing issues, and Eastwood was amused by the manner in which he spoke. He was talking about that illusory "future" so seriously that Eastwood didn't know whether it was true or not. Maybe it was just a casual story, maybe... is it really an achievable future?

"So I want to say... Freddy, I thank you for accepting Nottingham Forest's invitation to join this team. I also thank God-even though I never believed in him-it is destiny that brings us together now. Discuss each other's future. Do you doubt our future?"

Freddie shook his head, "I don't know, sir... You are too crazy to say, I don't know if it is true or not..."

"Yes, it's crazy." Dunn thought of the lunch that day. When Evan and Allen told him this plan, his heart was shocked. "To prove that I am not lying, to prove that I can foresee the future. Freddie, we will definitely win the game this afternoon, because this game is the starting point for that future!"

After speaking, Dunn changed his hand and waved goodbye to him.

"Goodbye, go back to breakfast, Freddie."

Eastwood looked at the man's confident back, opened his mouth, and said nothing in the end.

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