Chapter 82: People come and go

Since Ibissevic was the target that he joined later, and because of his poor performance in recent season and his transfer fee has shrunk significantly, the Forest team spent only 15 million euros, about 14 million pounds. Including the expenses of Bentley and Fernandez, the transfer budget of 55 million pounds was added to 16 million pounds.

What is 16 million enough?

Don N still decided to make a supplement to the right back. The right back position has become a common pain for the whole world. It is really hard to find a good right back now. Real Madrid's Sergio Ramos, Barcelona's Daniel Alves, Inter Milan's Macon, Arsenal's Sarnia... are all top in the world, but such players are definitely not available to buy Nottingham Forest.

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

After screening, he set his goal on Monaco's defender Nicolas n’koulou.

The 20-year-old Cameroonian young player has been playing the main player in Monaco for a season. In the 2007-08 season, he went to the French Ligue 1 team Monaco for a trial, received recognition from Monaco, and signed a contract with him. In the second season, he played in the first team of Monaco. He became the main player in the subsequent 2009-10 season.

Nkuru is competent for both right-back and central defender. As a central defender, he is slightly short of the size of the mid-range, but he does a good job in the right-back position. He also played a guest appearance as goalkeeper once when he was playing for the Cameroon National Olympic Team, which is really a "versatile".

In fact, Nkuru was noticed by Nottingham Forest scouts two years ago. Forest once asked him to come to the UK for a trial. However, at that time he chose to go to Ligue 1 to try his luck, and did not accept the invitation from Forest.

It is more than the Nottingham Forest family that is optimistic about his future. Wenger's Arsenal has always been ahead in plundering young talents from all over the world, and they have long been interested in Nkuru.

The two clubs started at the same time this summer. Nottingham Forest took the lead because he had contact with Nkuru before.

Monaco knew that his small temple could not keep players like Nkuru, so instead of forcibly trying to keep them, it would be better to sell them at a good price as soon as possible. Nkuru also expressed his desire to play in the top European leagues, and Ligue 1 could no longer satisfy him.

They compared the offer from Nottingham Forest and Arsenal and decided to increase the selling price of Nkuru to 12 million pounds.

Arsenal refused their return price. In Wenger's eyes, it was crazy that a player who was only 20 years old and had not proved in the European competition that he dared to sell 12 million pounds. After all, Nkuru is not that kind of talent and righteousness, like a player like Messi, Boyang, and Willsheer. It is absolutely unpaid to pay for a player of 12 million for such a player.

Tony Donn also rejected the offer. But he issued another offer - eight million pounds.

Monaco thinks it is too cheap. They make a return of 11 million pounds.

So the Forest team reported nine million. This time it was Allen Adams who flew to Monaco with a offer.

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

Arsenal heard the news from somewhere and offered 9.5 million pounds, hoping to steal Nkuru.

Don Eun was furious about this - he thought Monaco deliberately leaked the news in order to continue raising the price. But he didn't expect that Arsenal was also very smart, so he paid 9.5 million yuan, not even one more son.

Don N'en was worried that Nkuru would choose Arsenal instead of himself. Since Nottingham Forest was promoted to the Premier League, he has fought with Arsenal many times in the transfer market. He has ruined Wenger's good things, but Wenger has also snatched a lot of people he values.

But this time, he beat Wenger.

Nkuru 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. In terms of emotion, he prefer Nottingham Forest rather than Arsenal, which is famous for reusing young people.

Nkuru is a person who values ​​feelings. Tony Donn played the emotional card and finally successfully signed the contract.

Then the clubs of both sides announced that right-back Nicholas Nkuru, who was only 20 years old, transferred to Nottingham Forest for £9.5 million. The contract was signed for five years.

While introducing players, Nottingham Forest is also giving delivery people. After all, one way to control costs is to control salary budget. If there are too many first-team members, paying salaries alone will be a huge burden for the club.

Sun Jihai is the first to leave the team. Before the end of the season, Tang En had already greeted him in advance. Even if the contract expires, the Forest team will not renew his contract. I hope he will find his next home when the contract expires one year.

Sun Jihai is a sensible person, and he also knows that he does not have the strength to continue to stay in such a team that aims at championships. He really wants to continue to stay in the Premier League. But the reality is cruel. Until July, all the Premier League clubs that were rumored to be interested in him were still at the rumor stage.

The agent told him that there are two ways in front of him now, one is to go back to China to play football, and in the last two years he will be retired. The other is to lower the standards, play in the English Championship for two more seasons, and then retire.

Sun Jihai does not plan to return to China, even if he is his former boss. The Dalian team that he trained him to invite him. He also refused. He chose to go to the Championship and signed with Sheffield United for two years. When his contract with Sheffield United expires, he is about to turn 35 years old. If he is in good shape and can ensure a stable number of appearances, Sheffield United will renew his contract with him for another year.

In order to get Sun Jihai, Sheffield United paid a transfer fee of 1 million pounds for Forest. Although Sun Jihai is already 32 years old, he has won two European championships with the team. A "champion level player" who wins the most top European honors in Asia. Park Ji-sung is the second in Manchester United.

Zimbonda once thought that the arrival of Nkurudi would cause him to leave the team. Although he had just renewed his contract with Forests, this was just a way to prevent players from leaving freely after the contract expired. Tang En took the initiative to find him after training one day, and had a separate conversation with him, which dispelled his doubts.

Donn told Zimbonda that no matter what, he was still a member of Nottingham Forest during the contract. The team needed his experience and defensive abilities. Nkuru was still young after all, just a rotation player.

The change in Donn's attitude towards Zimbonda originated from last season. The team is in poor condition recently, but Zimbonda's performance is amazing. His stable performance in the right back is the guarantee that the team will eventually win fourth place in the league. Rafinia was injured last season and had a low attendance rate. Most of the time, she relied on Zimbonda alone. The old Zimbonda's level has not declined as quickly as Donn thought. He maintained a high level last season.

Perhaps because of his right attitude, Tang En looked at Zimbonda with admiration.

People say that true feelings are revealed in times of adversity. In the team's most difficult seasons of 2007-08 and 2009, Zimbonda helped the team with his stable performance. Now it is time for the team to repay Zimbonda. Last winter, the team gave him a new contract. This summer, Don N told him that he could play here with peace of mind until he retired. When that contract expires, Zimbonda could not play anymore if he wanted to continue playing.

Don Eun is doing something with a long-term goal - he wants to cultivate the players' sense of belonging and allegiance to this team as much as possible. Unless he wants to drive away the landlords, he hopes that these players will still have feelings for this team when they get old. Just like other big teams. They have a special culture to retain their own people.

Don hopes that in a few years, he can also come out of the Nottingham Forest, a Paul Martini, a Ryan Giggs, and a Gerard...

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

Don En spent 10 million euros plus exchange players to introduce Ibisekic. The player who was exchanged was Martin Petrov.

Hoffenheim is interested in Petrov, and Nottingham Forest is very interested in Ibisek. The two sides have found common ground in this regard. In fact, this is the main content of the talks after the meeting between Donn and Rothouse.

Martin Petrov is mentally prepared to leave the Forest team, and going to Hoffenheim is not bad for him. Now Hoffenheim has gotten rid of the hat of "updated team" and has become a mid-range team in the Bundesliga. Playing football in that kind of team is not a shame. What's more, the Hoffenheim boss is rich and can meet his requirements in terms of treatment.

After the club reached an agreement, the players also made an agreement with the team. The deal was successfully concluded.

Nicklas Milan and Victor Moses, as mentioned before, were loaned to two Premier League teams by the club - Southampton and Norwich.

Tang En hopes that they can work hard on their own in a strange team. Gain valuable experience, get training, and grow into the players he needs.

Like them, 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 side. They are very interested in Mok, who is skilled. Donn agreed to Blackburn's request to loan Mok based on the principle of allowing this young man to receive more exercise and experience more games.

Mock himself is no longer the young man who was disgusted with loan and playing in the reserve team and was arrogant. He also believes that loan-to-play games are the best way to improve his level at present. He agreed to play in Blackburn for a season.

This summer is basically like this. Tang En did not clean up the roster because there was no need at all. His players performed very well last season. Otherwise, he would not have the chance to return to Europe in a year. The players introduced were just to supplement the strength that was slightly lacking in several positions, such as the two wingers and the forward. The overall structure of the team was retained, which is the main reason why Tang En was full of confidence in the new season. These people in the team are one of the most familiar players. He knows the characteristics of each of them and knows how to use them well.

Another good news that is no less than introducing new players is that after the long recovery period of Van Nistrui's surgery, he was finally able to return to the court!

The Dutch was injured in the 15th round of the league on November 29, 2008 when Nottingham Forest defeated West Bromwich 3-1 at home. The surgery took a whole year to recover, rather than the eight months reported by the media. He returned to the team only after January 2010, but he was still fighting knee injuries most of the time and had not been able to recover. Don Eun did not dare to send him back on the court, and he didn't even let him play in the reserve team. He was worried that his body would no longer stand the tossing.

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

One year and seven months after leaving the team due to injury, he finally got on the bench again and made a substitute in the Forest team's warm-up match with the Celtics, the Soviet Super League powerhouse.

Tang En gave him thirty minutes. Although he didn't score, Tang En and all the coaching staff members were not concerned about Fanny's performance, but his knees. After the game, Fleming had a physical examination for Fanny Struid and found that there was no problem with his knees after surgery. Then everyone felt relieved.

In a good mood, Don Eun even joked with the reporters who interviewed him the next day after the game: "Our fourth signing this summer has been confirmed!"

When the reporters were surprised to ask who the fourth player to come to the Forest team, Donne laughed and revealed the answer: "Luther Van Nistruy!"

In the subsequent match against League One team Walshal, Van Nystrue started and scored a penalty kick. The Forest was delighted by the fans.

It seems that the situation is moving in a better direction.

Donne often jokes with Van Nystruei during training, as if he doesn't feel like a head coach and a player's relationship.

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

But in fact they were only half right.

Donne is so close to Van Nistrui, and the other half is because his relationship with Van Nistrui is indeed better than that of ordinary players. There are many players in the Forest team now, but for Tony Donne, there are not many players who have his two-life memory.

Yero, Albertini, Beckham, Van der Sar, and Ayala all counted. The one who is still in the team is Van Nistroy.

It was like an old friend around him had made an appointment to travel together, but as he walked on the road, he visited and admired the scenery along the way. When he remembered his friends, he turned around and found that there was only one person left behind him.

That is an emotion that is difficult to explain to others. It is not because I paid the money and you came to play football for me.

Van Nistroy and Nottingham Forest have two years of contract, and Don hopes Van Nistroy can renew his contract for another year after the contract expires. He will be thirty-seven years old by then.

Then retired at Nottingham Forest, Donn must give Van Nystruey the best farewell game, just as he promised Albertini.

He didn't want that day to come, but he looked forward to that day.
Chapter completed!