Godfather Of Champions

Dunn’s "gaffe" at the AC Milan press conference-in the eyes of the majority of the media, Dunn, who opened his mouth and did not satirize people, was "gaffe" and lost his normalcy-in fact, it was just a series of his good moods recently. It's just an external manifestation.

In the Champions League, AC Milan was eliminated to advance to the quarter-finals, and good news in the domestic league were also frequent. In the twenty-seventh round of the league, Nottingham Forest had already scored with Arsenal, who ranked first, but it was temporarily second because of a lower goal difference than Arsenal.

After the twenty-eighth round of the league, Dunn's team jumped to first place. After two straight ties, Arsenal now has only 64 points. Manchester United have been overtaken by the team, while the Forest team topped the list with 66 points.

Compared with the previous two seasons, this season's Nottingham Forest has repeatedly rushed to the top position in the league. Although it has not been maintained throughout, it is enough to make Forest fans full of expectations. Because of the first two seasons, Nottingham Forest has not even rushed to the top. This is really an increase in strength and confidence. A European Champions Cup champion made the Forest team suddenly find the confidence of a winner.

So their performance this season seems reasonable. You know, it took Dunn four years to prepare for this day.

There are ten rounds left in the league. As long as the Forest team can maintain this result, there are ten more rounds to achieve the goal he set at the beginning of the season.

Faced with such a good situation, how could he be unhappy?

Of course, happiness will not last long. Dunn is still very clear about this. You know that as a head coach, there are far more troubles and troubles than happy things...

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With the reopening of the Champions League and the intervening of the national team during the day, the Forest team will have to face a lot of games at the last moment. At this time, it needs to be handled carefully. If you are not careful, you may lose all. Rotation is the best way to use different lineup combinations to allow players to rest, maintain their form, and avoid injuries.

Fortunately, the Forest team gave up the FA Cup at the beginning of January, otherwise they will have to play another FA Cup from now on. In the end, the stronger the opponent, the stronger the will to fight, and the fiercer the competition. Regardless of whether your players will be injured or not, it is unnecessary to consume physical energy in this kind of competition.

In any case, Dunn, who has travelled from China, is not a real Englishman. He is far from the FA Cup interested in the league and the Champions League. Perhaps in today's English football, the FA Cup still has its important position. But in Dun En's mind, this cup and the League Cup belong to the same level: they are used to train soldiers and train new players.

The current rotation system of the Forest team is different from the rotation system of the first half of the season. In the first half of the season, in order to allow more players to play in the game, maintain their form, and at the same time calm the hearts of insiders. Dunn will often use large rotations. But this situation changed after February.

The current rotation is not for satisfying the desire of the substitute players to play, but for the main players to get better rest and avoid injury. Therefore, the range of rotation is very small, and Dunn is determined not to rotate in some key positions, such as the midfielder.

Poor Sidwell, when he came to the Forest team, he realized that his future was not as good as he had imagined. George Wood's substitute was not made by humans. The whole world is probably only made by the bench on the bench...

Unless Dunn didn't want Wood to play, Sidwell would have no chance to play. He was eliminated early in both the FA Cup and the League Cup, and his chances of playing have dropped sharply. Now as the game schedule enters the intensive period, he thought that his chances of playing would increase accordingly. Unexpectedly, Dunn would rotate forwards, wing midfielders, defenders, and even forward midfielders, but not midfielders.

As the captain of the team, George Wood is young, strong and stable. He is the main force of the core. What does he use to fight this monster? Originally when he was in Reading, he could occasionally make an appearance in the England team. Since Nottingham Forest, the door of the national team has been basically closed to him-no coach will recruit a substitute player with a handful of chances to play in the club to join the national team, not to mention the bloated midfield of England, even George •Wood was abandoned by McLaren...

Among the young people, Lennon and Bendtner are treated the best, because Van Nistelrooy and Beckham are both veterans. Dunn considers them more in rotation for the purpose of protecting them. Alternately, Bendtner and Lennon often get enough playing time.

Similarly, the rotation system is also good news for Chinese player Sun Jihai. Because he can play multiple positions, although he declines in his old age, he can still occupy a place in the team. In addition, Dunn likes Sun Jihai's professional attitude, so he doesn't need to worry about the future. At least he can stay with the Forest team until the contract expires before considering where to go.

Sidwell's agent is already considering switching to a club for his players next season. Nottingham Forest's salary is not low, but it is always out of the game. For a professional player who is still in his prime, counting money on the bench is not a good pursuit.

After nearly a season on the bench for the Forest, Sidwell has repositioned himself. He is not the kind of person who is suitable to play in a big team, maybe in the future, but certainly not now. The most suitable for him to play is actually a mid-lower team like Reading. In those teams, he may not be paid as high as the bench in the Forest, but he can get a stable chance to play, and even Become the core of the team, just like in Reading the previous two seasons.

Before he was still playing, he didn't want to spend his career on the bench of the giants, and was slowly forgotten.

Perhaps he will continue to stay in the Forest, and he will win many championship trophies, but what does those silver trophies have to do with him as a substitute? Don't worry about such honor.

He decided that after the season, he would have a showdown with Coach Tony Dunn. Before that, his agent would help him privately contact those teams that are interested in him. They are not as famous as Nottingham Forest, but they will give themselves a stable position.

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People who have the same troubles as Sidwell also include Zimbanda.

He discovered a fact that made him feel hopeless-Forest coach Mr. Tony Dunn and Arsenal coach Mr. Wenger have some similarities: If two players are compared together, B's ability Better than A, but A is younger than B, then they will choose A instead of B without hesitation.

This reality makes him feel a little uncomfortable. Because he is no longer young, Zimbanda has just passed his 29th birthday on the 21st of last month. His contract will expire next summer, and he will be thirty years old by then.

For those head coaches with pedophiles, thirty years old is enough for them to find a better replacement. For example, the Brazilian Rafinha who is now firmly seated in the team.

In the eyes of the Frenchman Zimbanda, Rafinha, a Brazilian full-back defender, is really poor. If the team needs to defend, he also needs the right midfielder and midfielder to come over and help out many times.

But in the eyes of Tony Dunn, Rafinha is young enough, has good physical strength, can run, and can run back if he assists. These are the declining capabilities of the ageing Zimbanda.

He was once selected to the French national team in the two most brilliant years of the Forest team. But soon became a passer-by. At Arsenal, Sarnia has become the main position of the French national team, and he is also younger than Zimbanda.

Young...young, I hate being young!

The fight with Bendtner in training made his position in the team plummet, and even ranked behind the Chinese Sun Jihai. He knew that Coach Dunn didn't like him anymore, on the one hand because he was getting old, and on the other hand, because he was the initiator of the first team fight after Dunn took over the Forest team.

Dunn is very concerned about the unity and stability of the team. This is what he is most proud of. In the face of the media, he has mentioned it countless times and proudly tells those people that this is what the Forest team can continue to improve and win. root cause. So he was joking with the team members, and the atmosphere in the dressing room of the defender was careful not to allow anyone to destroy it.

This point, Zimbanda is very clear, because he is considered the second group of players to follow this man-the first group is the Forest team followed Dunn in the second division, such as George Wood With Layton Barnes-he has been following Tony Dunn for a long time. He knows the personality and hobbies of this coach, and also knows what he hates...

For example, he hates everything that destroys disunity in the team. He was really unlucky. He was impulsive and forgot this. Has his future in the Forest team disappeared with the punch he threw?

Should we find another way out after the end of the season, or will we stay until the contract expires and see how the team's attitude towards ourselves determines the future?

Zimbanda has been worried recently.

In fact, in general, looking back on the years in the Forest team, it is still very good. The atmosphere in the team is harmonious. There is no faction dispute in some big clubs. The team's performance is also good. Everyone's salary and bonus are good. It is also satisfying, no matter where they go, they all enjoy the benefits of glory...

If possible, he doesn't want to leave the club. Becoming a European champion was something he never thought of when he played in France. It was Nottingham Forest who gave him all this. He hopes to continue playing here for a few more years. It's best to play until retirement... Anyway, I don't have any luxury. Joining the French team to win the world championship? Do not make jokes. It is the highest ideal of a professional player to be able to play in a club that can still be honored, and play until retirement.

Zimbanda is a very realistic person, and he has no unrealistic fantasy at all.

This is also the difference between the troubles he and Sidwell face.

He is twenty-nine years old and is getting old. Full-backs have higher requirements for physical fitness than mid-backs, and their physical strength and speed are inversely proportional to the increase in age. Ambitious people will still refuse to admit defeat and hope to challenge higher achievements, while more realistic people will start to think about life after retirement. The last period of their career will make making money the first task. A stable and good income is what they want most. As for the bench or the main force, it's the same...

Sidwell is still twenty-five years old, and he won't be twenty-six years old until the end of this year. His physical fitness and competitive level can still be maintained at a relatively high level in the next few years. This period is known as the "golden age" or "the year of playing." Sitting on the bench is not the career that such people want.

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A team brings together players from all over the world with different personalities and different ideals. Under the seemingly calm surface, there is bound to be an undercurrent. In fact, everyone will have different, and only their own troubles.

Of course, we are not denying Tony Dunn’s control over this team. He is still the well-deserved king of this team, the supreme officer of this team, and everyone listens to him.

It's just that a strong head coach can't control everyone's heart...

Zimbonda and Sidwell have their own worries, and the others in the team that have not been mentioned may also have their own worries, big or small.

For example, a new trouble has hit recently.

The subject was Ribery, and Tony Dunn also suffered.

"...According to Spanish counterparts, La Liga giants Real Madrid is preparing a plan to persuade Nottingham Forest's core player Frank Ribery. It is said that the president of Real Madrid Club Calderon is very enthusiastic about Frank Ribery, who has recently won the European Footballer. Interested. Of course, Real Madrid has officially clarified this rumor. They denied that the club manager Mijatović had private contact with Ribery’s agent..."

The latest transfer rumors that broke out in the sports news of TV stations were reprinted by major print media within two days. Thanks to the European Footballer and the British "World Football Magazine" awarded the "World's Best Football Player" award, Frank Ribery has now become a direct football star. Any news about him is enough to make sports The media have hyped up, not to mention that such news is linked to Real Madrid, the best club of the twentieth century, the club that never rests on life, the club that likes to dig all kinds of "sirs," that just won Clubs with huge amounts of television broadcast funds and commercial sponsorship funds...

At the same time, they are the opponents of Nottingham Forest in the Champions League quarterfinals.

This is really imaginative... (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen, please visit www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!)

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