Godfather Of Champions

The bankruptcy of the Lehman Brothers Investment Bank has the most direct impact on Nottingham Forest Club that their new stadium construction project has fallen into a shortage of funds.

Although the new stadium in Nottingham Forest does not yet have an official name, it has become a building project that has attracted much attention in the UK. Because it is not just as simple as building a stadium.

This is a huge real estate development plan. With the Nottingham Forest New Stadium as the center, it radiates outward to form a commercial circle and a residential circle, as well as football theme parks, national fitness parks, green spaces and other facilities. With the increasing popularity of Nottingham Forest. Alan Adams also plans to open it to the world as a tourist attraction in the future. Just like Real Madrid’s Bernabéu, Barcelona’s Camp Nou, Milan’s San Siro and Meazza...and other stadiums of famous European clubs, they are not just a stadium. Because of the glorious tradition of the team, let They have also become a mecca for countless tourists and fans.

The plan is huge and the prospects are wonderful, but the cost is correspondingly much larger than just repairing a stadium.

Manchester City Club’s new stadium "Manchester City Stadium" only cost 100 million pounds. If only such a stadium is built, the finances of Nottingham Forest Club will not be a big problem, it will be enough to save money for a year.

But Allen’s plan will cost at least 600 million pounds, which does not include the investment from the Nottingham City Government.

If you don't want to spend so much money, then the Forest Club can only get the ownership of the stadium and cannot use other facilities to make money. In order to be able to maximize the development of the club, Allen and Evan ventured to occupy the bulk of the project investment, in return for the stadium, football theme park, and the ownership and development of a commercial area.

At that time, the financial problems in the United States were already prominent, but who would have thought that the self-regulation ability of the market economy was so weak?

In just one year, it caused the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the fourth largest investment bank in the United States...

Allen has been haggard a lot during this time, and has been flying around the world all day long. Evan Daugherty's business in the United States has completely ended, and Allen is now busy looking for follow-up funding for the new stadium project. Due to the global financial recession, many banks refused to lend to Nottingham Forest Club.

In desperation, Evan had to announce the temporary suspension of the new stadium and other construction packages. Otherwise, if you continue to invest money in this project, sooner or later the entire Nottingham Forest Club will be dragged into this bottomless abyss.

This news made the headlines of the British media for the first time. Everyone knows that Nottingham Forest Club has finally encountered trouble after its rapid expansion in the past few years, which is still big.

"...I admit that the owner of Nottingham Forest is very ambitious and ambitious. But too fast development will inevitably lead to a stall. Nottingham Forest team has become a red half of the sky in Europe, but their economic foundation has not kept up. The pace of the team's progress, the construction of the club and their results are not in line with their results. Look at other giants clubs, whether it is the results or the various conditions of the club, they are very in line with their status. Only Nottingham Forest...like a deformed child, He has a pair of fast running feet, but he does not have a body that can withstand the impact of such speed..." On the TV station, various professionals are analyzing the current dilemma of Nottingham Forest. They think this is simply a typical negative case of how football clubs should survive and develop in the global economic downturn.

"I think the Nottingham Forest Club should reflect on their strategy of expanding everywhere. China, Japan, Southeast Asia; the United Kingdom, the United States, the world... Tony Dunn’s magic called his boss to think that his team and club have nothing. I can’t. To be honest, when I knew that the chairman and marketing manager of Nottingham Forest Club were Americans who had never cared about football before, I was not surprised at the current situation. They ignored the importance. One point-football clubs are different from ordinary listed companies. In addition to complying with economic laws, they must also abide by the laws of football. Tony Dunn’s magic has brought the team a good foundation for development, but they still need to take time The coming, step by step development. Evan Daugherty once revealed when attending a reception in Nottingham that his goal is to turn Nottingham Forest into a rich club. But I have never heard of a rich club that only relies on It can be built in just five or six years. Chelsea are rich and have good results, but are they rich now? I think most people would not agree that they are a rich club."

"Nottingham Forest is one of the longest-running clubs in the history of modern world football, and the only team that is still playing in the top league. But now this club gives everyone the impression of - Young. From club owners to their team coaches to players, they are very, very young. Young people always make some mistakes in judgment and estimate the situation too well..."

"Now they know how bad the situation is."

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"There is a groan everywhere." Evan sat in the large boss chair in the office, resting his chin on his raised hands. "It seems that winter has come early."

He seemed to be talking to himself, and he seemed to be talking to Dunn who was sitting next to him.

Alan is not in the room. He is on his way to China. Those investment projects in China also encountered funding problems, and he needed to solve them himself.

Dunn looked down at the sweater in his suit.

"Winter is indeed not far away..."

After being tied at 0:0 by Middlesbrough, the team disbanded again and the national team's game restarted. Players flew all over the world to compete in World Cup qualifiers on all continents. Some performed well and some performed badly. Most of the players who returned to the Forest after the two national team games were unsatisfactory in their state and physical strength. Under such circumstances, Nottingham Forest lost to Liverpool away, and the league ranking quickly fell to seventh. This is the first time in two years that Nottingham Forest ranked seventh in the league. The last time they were seventh in the league was on October 14, 2006. After losing to Manchester City in the eighth round of the league, the team won three rounds. seventh.

2:3. They work hard, but if they lose, they lose. Dunn expressed concern about the fatigue of Premier League players in the press conference after the game. He suggested that the FA seriously consider setting up a winter break to give the players a breath of breath. But his voice fell to the ground, and he didn't get any response from the FA. The setting of the winter break has been noisy for so many years, but it is just wishful thinking of the coaches and players. Neither the FA nor the League Committee can agree, because it is directly related to their income...

Now, he is about to lead the team to Italy to deal with a strong opponent-Juventus.

Before he went to Italy, Evan found him.

Dunn knew what Evan was looking for. Apart from the recent poor performance of the team, is there anything else?

But in the current situation, he can't do anything. The players' physical strength has been consumed a lot in the club and national team games. The double games for a week in a row leave them no time to rest and adjust their status. The game against Liverpool was able to play in the last five minutes before Benitez took the lead. The boys of the Forest team have done a very good job. But this kind of game also consumed a lot of physical energy, and the whole team was exhausted after the game. He doesn't even know how to face Juventus.

During the winter transfer period, he is unlikely to have money to buy people, he must rely on these people to survive a season. But he has not given up, he is still instilling the goal of winning at least one championship this season. No matter how the situation is not good for them, the team must not lose confidence on their own.

"I know what you have to say, Evan. The team will win the Juventus game." He stood up and wanted to leave here as soon as possible.

Evan smiled at him, and didn't hold back.

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Turin Alpi Stadium two days later.

Nottingham Forest lost 0:2 away to Juventus who returned to the Champions League.

Dunn sat on Alpi’s visiting team coaching bench without any angry expression on his face. He neither threw his suit nor kicked the water bottle. He just sat there with a helpless look. In fact, just before the final whistle sounded, he was angry when he saw the red bull, and was furious with the team's performance on the sidelines.

He put in the strongest lineup he can put on now. But his tactics have no effect on Juventus. After all, his set has many similarities with Juventus's best set, and Ranieri knows how to deal with him.

On defense, Juventus is not inferior to Nottingham Forest. The Italians' blood has long been saturated with defensive instincts. No matter how the Forest team is scheduled back and forth, and no matter how fast or sudden the Forest team counterattacks, Juventus's defense is not chaotic. And they also used a sneak attack and in turn scored a goal at the beginning of the first half and defeated Nottingham Forest.

Dunn's tactics were derived from Juventus in the era of Capello. Juventus football is not good-looking, but stable, able to win and win championships. Now facing Juventus, who is more stable than himself and full of hunger for victory, he can't take advantage of it. On the other hand, the players of the Forest team may have emptied their bodies through continuous battles, and they were unable to enter the game state late on the court, as if they were too full and did not wake up. After Juventus scored the second goal, although there were nearly forty minutes left, there was basically no desire to win-they were too tired. Players are also humans, not machines. You will be tired, and of course you will slack off after being tired, and you will have some negative thoughts...

Dunn could do nothing about it. No matter how hard he is in the locker room, if the players have no energy, it means that they have no energy. It is impossible to give birth to infinite strength out of thin air just because of hearing him shout "must win!" Then POWER_MAX will kill the opponent. Nor should he assume that before coming to Turin, he promised Evan Daggerty that this game must be won, and that this game will really be won.

After the victory, the Juventus players embraced with excitement. Chris Lak, who couldn't stand this kind of scene, hummed disdainfully: "It's not that we won the Champions League. It's just a victory in the group stage. As for this Excited?"

"After all, after they returned to the Champions League, they defeated the defending champion..." Tang explained. He thinks that Juventus players are so excited, and that should be the reason. Many of these people have experienced the tragedy of falling from Serie A to Serie B, they have also experienced the years of fighting for Serie A, and they have also experienced the joy of returning to the Champions League after a successful upgrade. .

Many of them have tasted the ups and downs of life, right?

He looked at Juventus captain Del Piero and thought.

During the conversation between the two of them, Dunn stood up from his seat without saying a word and walked slowly towards the corridor. He doesn't want to see Juventus players excited to be a little crazy, because he thinks this is a show off by the winner to the loser, and the humiliation of the loser. He didn't want to sit here and be treated like this.

At the press conference after the game, Ranieri seemed very excited, while Dunn was taciturn, and could not answer if he could not answer. Even if he had to answer questions, he tried to be brief and concise.

"What do you think about losing this crucial game?"

"No idea."

"Zikic, who replaced the injured Van Nistelrooy in the start of this game, performed very badly. Do you think it was a mistake to buy him?"

"Do not."

"Will losing to Juventus affect the team's final group qualification?"

"No effect."

"Do you have any comments on Juventus's performance?"

"not my business."

When reporters saw him so uncooperative, their questions were directed at him, not the team or the game.

"Does losing the game make you feel bad?"

"you guess."

"Then why do you seem to be reluctant to answer questions?"

"do not want to talk."

"Why don't you want to talk?"

"Toothache." Dunn replied sternly.

"...Well. Is the team's recent results related to the club's financial difficulties?"

"I can guarantee that the worldwide financial crisis has nothing to do with our team's performance." This is the longest sentence Dunn said at this conference.

The press conference broke up unhappy in such a cold atmosphere.

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Dunn, who broke his promise, was in a bad mood. He didn't even criticize the players for their poor performance in Turin. After returning to Nottingham, the Forest team defeated Aston Villa who was ranked above them by a difficult 1-0 at home. With this hard-won victory, the ranking rose from seventh to fifth.

But in the Champions League, the Forest team ran into big trouble.

After returning to the home court, Nottingham Forest, who was vowing to take revenge, was stubbornly attacked by Juventus, who were unable to defend themselves in the City Stadium, used their most accustomed method to draw 1:1. A draw and one loss with Juventus has made it impossible for the Forest team to qualify for the group. After the Champions League group situation came out, the experts unanimously optimistic about Nottingham Forest, thinking that even the first line of the group is normal for them.

Now it's alright, Tony Dunn, who likes to fight against the media, has done it right with them again. But this time it was not what he wanted. If possible, he would like to cater to the predictions of the media this time.

Juventus topped the list with three wins and one draw; Nottingham Forest ranked second with two wins, one draw and one loss with seven points; third Kyiv Dynamo with two wins, two losses and six points followed; Bolsov with four games. All losses were not scored, and the group was basically out in advance.

If there are no surprises, the Juventus team will not be a problem. The problem now is Nottingham Forest and Dynamo Kyiv. The points gap between the two teams is very small, and no one knows which team will qualify until the last minute.

The schedule for the final two rounds of the Champions League group stage is as follows: Real Madrid will challenge Belarusian team Bolisov on November 26 and Dynamo Kyiv will be played at home on December 11.

Among them, the away game to challenge Bolisov will be crucial. If you miss in this game, then Nottingham Forest might bid farewell to the Champions League this season. As for why this game is very important, it is not because Bolisov has a strong strength, but because he went to Belarus at that time. The impact of the harsh natural climate on the forest team will be so great that it cannot be ignored.

Belarus at the end of November has entered a cold winter. The worst plan is that Nottingham Forest will have to play the role of home advantage in the ice and snow, and the opponents who adapt to this ice and snow will fight decisively in order to take the lead in the qualifying competition with Dynamo Kyiv.

In that game, they not only had to compete with Bolisov, but also against the cold weather in Belarus. And that time period is often when the players are the most fatigued and most likely to get injured.

To win, no one can be injured and the player's physical fitness must be guaranteed.

When Dun En thought of this condition, he felt that a huge rock was pressing on his chest, making him breathless.

Early November, morning in Nottingham. The mist from Sherwood Forest still shrouded the city, and the road was wet and raining. The sun had risen long ago, but was blocked by the thick dark clouds, and the sun couldn't let in the slightest. The men going to work shrank their bodies in black-handed overcoats and hurriedly walked. The headlights of the car were still on, and when driving across the highway, a piece of cold water splashed.

Dunn stood outside Vilford Lane, looking up at the training base in front of him in the woods and white fog. He pulled out the collar of the turtleneck sweater, and the cold air took advantage of the opportunity to get in, making him shiver unsuspectingly. But fortunately, the feeling of shortness of breath just now has finally eased.

Just opened his mouth and took a deep breath, a white gas expelled from his mouth. It was torn apart by the cold in front of his eyes, scattered into plumes of white smoke, gradually fading, until it finally disappeared, and the whiteness of this early winter morning The fog melts into one.

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