Godfather Of Champions

Since Ibisevic was a target who joined later, and because of his poor performance in the last season, his transfer fee has shrunk significantly. Therefore, in the position originally considered to be the most expensive forward, the Forest team only spent Fifteen million euros, about 14 million pounds. Counting the expenses of Bentley and Fernandez, the transfer budget of £55 million was added to £5 million and there was still 16 million.

What is 16 million enough for?

Dunn still decided to add on the right back. The position of right back has become a common pain all over the world, and now a good right back is too difficult to find. Real Madrid’s Sergio Ramos, Barcelona’s Daniel Alves, Inter Milan’s Maicon, Arsenal’s Sarnia, etc. are among the best in the world, but such players are also definitely bought by Nottingham Forest. Not coming.

Dunn can only start with younger players who are not as famous as them.

After screening, he decided on the Monaco defender Nicolas N’Koulou (Nicolas N’Koulou).

The 20-year-old Cameroonian has been the main force in Monaco for a season. In the 07-08 season, he went to the French Ligue 1 team to try out Monaco, which was recognized by Monaco and signed a contract with him. He played in the first team of Monaco in the second season. He became the main force in the subsequent 09-10 season.

Nkulu is capable of two positions, right back and center back. As a center back, his height of 1.80 meters is a little bit inadequate, but he does a good job at the right back position. When he played for the Cameroon Olympic team, he also played a guest goalkeeper once, which is really a "all-rounder".

In fact, Nkulu was noticed by Nottingham Forest scouts two years ago, and the Forest team once asked him to come to England for a trial. But at that time he chose to try his luck in Ligue 1 instead of accepting the invitation of the Forest team.

Nottingham Forest is not the only one who is optimistic about his future. Wenger's Arsenal have always been in the forefront of searching for young talents from all over the world, and they have long been interested in Nkulu.

The two clubs started at the same time this summer, and Nottingham Forest took the lead because of previous contacts with Nkulu.

Monaco knows that this small temple can't keep players like Nkulu, so instead of forcing them to stay, it is better to sell them for a good price as soon as possible. Nkulu also expressed his wish to play in the top European leagues, and Ligue 1 can no longer satisfy him.

They compared the asking prices of Nottingham Forest and Arsenal and decided to increase the price of Nkulu to 12 million pounds.

Arsenal rejected their offer. In Wenger's eyes, it is crazy that a player who is only 20 years old and has not proven himself in the European competition to sell for 12 million pounds. After all, Nkulu is not the kind of talent with special righteousness, like Messi, Boyan and Wilshere. It is absolutely impossible to pay 12 million for such a player.

Tony Dunn also rejected the offer. But he made another offer in the past-eight million pounds.

Monaco thought it was too cheap, and they returned the price of 11 million pounds.

So the forest team reported nine million. This time Alan Adams personally flew to Monaco with the offer.

After some bargaining, Monaco agreed to sell Nkuru for 9.5 million pounds.

Arsenal didn't know where they heard the news, and they also offered 9.5 million pounds in order to steal Nkuru.

Dunn was furious about this-he thought that Monaco deliberately leaked the news in order to continue to raise the price. But I didn't expect Arsenal to be very smart too, and they would give out 9.5 million, not doing anything more.

Dunn is worried that Nkulu will choose Arsenal, not himself. Since Nottingham Forest was promoted to the Premier League, he has played against Arsenal many times in the transfer market. He has broken Wenger's good things, but Wenger has also robbed a lot of people he valued.

But this time, he won Wenger.

Nkulu is more familiar with Nottingham Forest, not to mention that this is not the first time Nottingham Forest has found himself. He almost became a member of the forest team. Emotionally speaking, he prefers Nottingham Forest to Arsenal, which is famous for reusing young people.

Nkulu is a person with a lot of emotions. Tony Dunn played the emotional card and finally succeeded in getting Nkulu to sign the contract.

Then the two clubs announced that the 20-year-old right-back Nicholas Nkulu was transferred to Nottingham Forest for 9.5 million pounds and signed for five years.

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While introducing players, Nottingham Forest is also selling people out. After all, one of the means to control costs is to control the salary budget. If there are too many first-team members, the salary alone is a big burden for the club.

Sun Jihai was the first person to leave the team. Before the end of the season, Dunn had greeted him in advance. Even if the contract expires, the Forest team will not renew him. I hope that he will find his next home as soon as his one-year contract expires.

Sun Jihai is a sensible person, and he also knows that he has no strength to stay in such a championship-oriented team. He really wants to stay in the Premier League, but the reality is cruel. Until July, all Premier League clubs that were rumored to be interested in him were still in the rumored stage.

The agent told him that there are two ways before him now, one is to return to China to play football and spend the last two years in retirement. The second is to lower the standard, go to the Champions League for another two seasons, and then retire.

Sun Jihai did not intend to return to China, even if it was his former club's invitation to train him from the Dalian team, he refused. He chose to go to the Champions League and signed with Sheffield United for two years. When his contract with Sheffield United expires, he will soon be 35 years old. If he is in good condition and can guarantee a stable number of appearances, Sheffield United will renew his contract for another year.

In order to get Sun Jihai, Sheffield United paid a million pounds transfer fee for the Forest team. Although Sun Jihai is thirty-two years old, he has won two European championships with the team, and a "champion-level player" who has won a league championship. In Asia, he is the Asian player who has won the most top honors in Europe. Park Ji-sung was second in Manchester United.

Zimbanda once thought that Nkulu's arrival would cause him to leave the team. Although he just renewed his contract with the Forest team. But this is just a means to prevent players from freely transferring and leaving after the contract expires. Dunn took the initiative to find him after training one day, had a private conversation with him, and dispelled the doubt in his heart.

Dunn told Zimbanda that he was still a member of Nottingham Forest during the contract period, and the team needed his experience and defensive capabilities. Nkulu is still young after all, just rotating players.

The change in Dunn Zimbanda's attitude came from last season. The team is not doing well recently, but Zimbanda's performance is amazing. His stable performance at the right back is the guarantee that the team will eventually be fourth in the league. Rafinha suffered some injuries last season and his attendance rate was not high. Most of the time, he relied on Zimbunda alone. The level of the old Zimbanda did not decline as fast as Dunn thought. He maintained a high level last season.

Perhaps because of the right mentality, Dunn took another look at Zimbanda.

Everyone says that we can see the truth in adversity. In the team's most difficult 07-08 and 08-09 seasons, Zimbanda helped the team with his stable performance. Now is the time for the team to return Zimbanda. Last winter, the team gave him a new contract. This summer, Dunn told him that he could play here until retirement. When that contract expires, Zimbanda wants to continue to play but can't play.

Dunn is doing a long-term goal-he wants to cultivate the players' sense of belonging and loyalty to this team as much as possible. Unless it is someone he wants to drive away, he hopes that these players will have feelings for this team after they get old. Just like other big teams, they have a special culture to keep their people.

Dunn hopes to come out of Nottingham Forest in a few years, a Paul Maldini, a Ryan Giggs, a Gerrard...

In addition to Sun Jihai, Martin Petrov is the second Forest player to leave in the summer.

Dunn spent 10 million euros plus exchange players to introduce Ibisevic, and the player who was exchanged was Martin Petrov.

Hoffenheim is interested in Petrov, and Nottingham Forest is interested in Ibisevic. The two sides have found common ground in this regard. In fact, this is the main content of the talks after Dunn and Rothhouse met.

Martin Petrov is mentally prepared for leaving the Forest, and going to Hoffenheim is not bad for him. Now Hoffenheim has got rid of the "promoted" hat and has become a mid-range team in the Bundesliga. It's not a shame to play for that kind of team. What's more, the owner of Hoffenheim is rich and can meet his requirements in terms of treatment.

After reaching an agreement between the club and the club, the players also made an agreement with the team. The sale was successfully concluded.

Niklas Milan and Victor Moses, as said before, they were loaned to two Premier League newly-promoted teams by the club-Southampton and Norwich.

Dunn hopes that they can work **** their own strength in an unfamiliar team, gain valuable experience, get training, and grow into the players he needs.

Just like them is Adriano Mok. He was loaned to another Premier League club, Blackburn. Since selling Bentley, Blackburn has always wanted to find another player on the right. They were very interested in Mork, who had excellent skills. Dunn agreed to Blackburn's request to rent Mork on the principle of allowing this young man to receive more exercise and experience more games.

And Mok himself was not the young man who was disgusted with going out on loan and playing in the reserve team. He also believes that currently, renting out to play games is the best way to improve himself, and he agreed to go to Blackburn to play for a season.

That's basically it this summer. Dunn didn't cleanse the lineup because he didn't need it at all. His players performed very well last season, otherwise he would not have a chance to return to Europe in a year. The players introduced are only to supplement the slightly lacking strengths in several positions, such as two wingers and forwards. The overall structure of the team is retained, which is the main reason Dunn is full of confidence in the new season. These people in the team are the players he is most familiar with. He knows the characteristics of each of them and knows how to use them well.

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Another good news that is no less than the introduction of new players is that after a long recovery period after Van Nistelrooy surgery, he is finally able to return to the court!

The Dutchman was injured in the 15th round of the league on November 29, 2008. Nottingham Forest beat West Bromwich Albion 3:1 at home. It took a full year for the surgery to recover, instead of the eight previously reported by the media. month. He didn’t return to the team until January 2010, but most of the time he struggled with knee injuries. He has been ill-advised, and Dunn did not dare to put him back on the court. He didn’t even play in the reserve team. Let him go. I was worried that his body could no longer stand the toss.

Born on July 1, 1976, he is now just thirty-four years old.

One year and seven months after leaving the team due to injury, he finally went back to the battlefield and came off the bench in the warm-up match between the Forest team and the Celtics.

Dunn gave him 30 minutes. Although he didn't score a goal, Dunn and all the coaching staff were not concerned about Ruud van Nistelrooy's performance, but his knees. After the game, Fleming did a physical examination for Van Nistelrooy and found that there was no problem with the knee after the operation. Everyone was relieved a little.

Dunn, who was in a good mood, even joked with the reporters who interviewed him the day after the match: "Our fourth signing this summer has been confirmed!"

When the reporters were surprised to ask who was the fourth player to come to the Forest, Dunn laughed and revealed the answer: "Luther Van Nistelrooy!"

Van Nistelrooy made the start and scored a penalty in the next game against the League One team Walshall. Let the forest rejoice for the fans.

It seems that the situation is developing for the better.

Dunn often joked with Van Nistelrooy in training, as if it was not like a relationship between a coach and a player.

The players who recently joined the Forest team are still a little surprised, but the old players will smile and tell them: "This is a normal thing, the boss is such a person."

But in fact they are only half right.

Dunn's performance with Van Nistelrooy is so close, and the other half is because his relationship with Van Nistelrooy is indeed better than that of ordinary players. There are many players in the Forest now, but for Tony Dunn, there are not many players who have memories of his two lives.

Hierro, Albertini and Beckham, Van der Sar, and Ayala who are gone are counted. Van Nistelrooy is still in the team.

It’s as if the old friend around him had originally made an appointment to travel together, but after walking on the road, he patronized and admired the scenery along the way. When he remembered the friends around him, he turned around and found that the people next to him were only This one is left.

That is an emotion that is difficult to explain to others. It's not that I pay the money, you come to play for me.

Van Nistelrooy and Nottingham Forest still have a two-year contract. Dunn hopes that Van Nistelrooy can renew the contract for another year after the contract expires. By then he will be thirty-seven years old.

Then retired in Nottingham Forest, Dunn must give Van Nistelrooy the best farewell match, just as he promised Albertini.

He didn't want that day to come, but he was looking forward to it. (To be continued, if you want to know what's going on, please visit www.qidian.com, there are more chapters, authors are supported, and genuine reading is supported!)

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