Chapter 87 A sigh

At the press conference, Tony Donn promised Pierce Bruce that George Wood would stay. But that was just a means by Donn to appease the team and the fans. He himself was not sure that Wood would stay. He was not so stupid that he thought that Wood would stay. He ran back to continue training that meant that he changed his mind.

So the matter between him and Wood is not over yet.

Tony Donn must talk to Wood, and this time he must talk completely in a calm environment. Both sides can be open and honest and solve the matter between them in the best state.

Of course, Don Eun didn't want to tell Wood that his mother was dead, so you give up treatment! He just wanted to tell Wood that sometimes it was realistic. In order to treat Sophia, Nottingham Forest did his best. He also sent it to the most advanced United States in this area. What was the result? He looked back and that's all.

Of course, this calm conversation must be much more skillful than the hasty conversations in the car before.

He just wanted to tell Wood that AC Milan's promises should not be taken seriously. They would not grow up just by living in fantasy. Both of them knew Sophia's current situation in their hearts, but they had not made it publicly before. If Sophia went to Italy, AC Milan would spend more money and find a better doctor and hospital, but still not cured Sophia, George Wood, and how could George Wood have a love? The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. Tang En was worried that Wood in Italy could not overcome this hurdle at all - he knew very well what Wood's virtue was. Don't look at his youthful and mature appearance, in fact, he was still a child in some aspects. Without his mother and he was not by his side, he would face the biggest setbacks in his life alone. Tang En felt that he might sink.

George Wood is the full motivation for Sophia to survive. Who can say that Sophia is not the full motivation for Wood to survive?

But the situation cannot continue like this. It may be a bit cruel to say this, but people always have to grow up. Since no one is willing to be that evil person, then Tony Tang Enlai, who has long been "full of evil", is that. That's why he said those hurtful words to Wood in the car.

However, now is the time for both sides to have a calm and talk. Although the topic is still a bit cruel, life always has to face this cruelty and learn to face it, rather than wrapping yourself in self-created fantasies to live your life. Whose life is not cruel? I was inexplicably traveling to England, losing my own father and mother, is it cruel? I always want to escape from this cruelty, and why can I live? I might as well tie a stone to myself and jump into the English Channel.

George Wood has never lacked maternal love on the road of twenty-four years of his life, but he has never enjoyed a second of fatherly love. "Father" is both far and strange to him, and in his life, he has never played the role of the father.

Tang En didn't mind being this "father" for him. A character who was so harsh that he was a bit demanding and cruel.

"I have to apologize to you, George." As soon as we met, Tang En said straight to the point.

Wood looked at him without responding. Although he apologized to this person by following his mother's words, he still felt a little confused.

"Are you still angry about what I said that day?"

"I thought you knew my relationship with my mother."

"Of course I understand, but I actually know better than you thought..." Tang En spread his hands, "I know that saying that will make you feel uncomfortable. But don't think wrongly, I also hope your mother can continue to live healthily. I don't doubt this possibility now. Most of your annual salary of millions of pounds per year is spent here. This is the material basis of this matter."

Speaking of this, Donn observed Wood's reaction and found that he did not show any disgust, so he continued: "Do you believe in miracles? George."

"Miracle?" Wood thought for a while. Every day before going to bed, he would hope to wake up the next morning and see his mother sitting by the bed with a smile. He said to him: "George, my body has been completely recovered!" Is this a miracle?

If this is a miracle, he has believed it for nearly twenty years since he became sensible. But it has never come true once.

Should he believe it? Should he not believe it?

"I still remember when we sent your mother to the United States for treatment, the doctor who diagnosed her was surprised and said that with your mother's physical condition, she could not have lived to that time..." Tang En slowly said this story that Wood had never heard of.

Tang En remembered the surprised expression of the doctor at that time, because he was also very surprised after listening. The doctor told everyone present that Sophia should have passed away after giving birth to Wood. She gave birth to Wood a lot of blood, and the postpartum nutrition was completely zero, so her face and lips were pale and looked bloodless. There is no need to mention her life next. Almost every encounter is a "poison" that can cause her to die suddenly.

Evan was also surprised. He asked Don Evan, who is most familiar with Sophia, is this true?

Donn thought of George Wood at the first time. He nodded: "For her, there is something that works better than any doctor or medicine... that supports her life."

"It's you, George." Tang said to Wood, who was sitting in front of him, "your mother believes in miracles. But her miracles are not any medical equipment, doctors, medicines. But you, her son, the whole essence of her life. The continuation of her life. You are his miracle. Do you know why your mother has never believed in religion under such difficult circumstances? Because her God is you. George.

Wood lowered his head at some point and said nothing. Tang En couldn't see his expression. He could only rely on his intuition to guess Wood's mental state at this moment.

"This joke is not funny..." Wood's voice was a little deeper.

"What a pity, George. This is what your mother told me in person." Tang En looked at Wood with his head down, with no joking expression on his face.

Before being pushed into the operating room, Sophia suddenly grabbed Tang En's hand, looking at him with black eyes, flashing with a dim light. Her voice was a little weak, so that Tang En had to lie down and put his ears to her mouth. She heard her murmuring: "Actually, I don't care much, Mr. Tang En. Except George... He is my baby, and I always feel at ease. If I..."

Tang En pinched her cold hands hard: "You will be fine, Sophia. Just a night of sleep. Don't give me such expensive things. I'm not a careful person. I always lose everything. I will mess up a lot of things... You can take care of what you cherish the most. For George. You have to live no matter what."

Two lines of tears slid down Sophia's wet eyes.

Tang En smiled at her and said, "When I lead the team, I always tell my players, including your son. I ask them not to give up the option of winning no matter how difficult the situation they face. "Don't admit defeat" and "can't afford to lose" may be something others often use to scold me, but I think that is the highest reward for me. I am proud of it, proud of it, and proud of it. Now I want to tell you, Sophia. No matter what. Don't give up, don't give up. No matter how difficult it is, you have to live. Didn't you keep walking like this in the past 18 years? Now your son has become a professional player, earns a lot of money, and lives much better than before. What reason do you have to give up what you cherish most? So. Not for anyone, but for George, for yourself, live."

Sophia nodded gently in tears.

She let go of Tang En's hand, and was pushed into the operating room.

Donn found that Wood's head was buried lower and lower.

"The surgery was very dangerous and took twelve hours."

After a moment of silence, Don En continued: "I am not against you treating your mother. A large part of your annual salary is used to do this. Almost all over the world, maybe Italy can do it? I don't know. I dissuaded you to leave just because I don't believe AC Milan can fulfill this promise. Of course..." He looked at Wood, "I admit that I am more realistic than you in this regard, and it is a bit cold... But if we talk today, you still insist on trying to go to Italy and you can transfer and leave. I just made suggestions to you, whether to adopt it or not is your business. Look, who did I successfully stay when your former teammates want to leave here?"

He spread his hands and laughed self-deprecatingly.

Yes, from Michael Dawson at the earliest, to Bentner. When he wanted to leave someone behind, where did he succeed?

I'm just a wedding dress for others...

What do you say about the "king" who dominates the power of life and death? Stop teasing. It's just a gimmick of media hype, do you all believe it?

Strange. Shouldn’t I try to persuade Wood to stay? Why did it end up persuading him to leave?

Not right...

"Uh, no...I still don't want you to leave, George. We should have other solutions. Isn't it just to find the best doctor, the best hospital, and use the best medicine and equipment to treat your mother's illness? Why can't you afford to pay for the AC Milan? Their Milan laboratory is just a professional place to treat sports injuries, and it has nothing to do with your mother's illness... It's not the same? Why do you have to go to Italy?"

After a long circle, Tang En found his "theme". He was almost fooled by AC Milan - AC Milan promised to treat Wood's mother at any cost, but did not say that she would go to Italy to treat her. She just hoped to use this extremely human means to attract George Wood's attention and favor, and then privately compete for the players' consent to focus on the club...

Isn’t it his common method?

So this is not a decisive thing at all. As long as the Forest Club comes up with the same conditions as AC Milan, isn’t George Wood’s final say?

Can Nottingham Forest be taken out?

There is no doubt.

In fact, after that surgery, the surgeon said that Sophia was extremely weak. If she really wanted to make her live longer, it would be better not to undergo any surgical treatment. She could only maintain it with expensive medicine. Nottingham Forest didn't take this amount of medicine seriously.

It was such a peaceful conversation... In fact, I calmed myself down and calmed myself. Tang En found that once he calmed down, he felt that AC Milan was simply no threat to him, but he almost messed up the matter in a hurry...

It's really a hell!

Thinking that the whole world is against me? I almost got into a devil!

He stopped talking and looked at Wood quietly, waiting for his reply.

After a while, Wood's dull voice sounded again: "I haven't said I'm going to Italy."

"Ha?" Tang En thought he had heard it wrong.

"I never said I was going to Italy." Wood finally raised his head, his eyes were a little red. But there were no tears on his face.

Tang En opened his mouth wide and stared at Wood blankly, thinking that he had seen an alien.

After confronting each other for a while, he suddenly laughed and scolded, "You bastard!" Because he found that Wood had never told him or any media that he was going to Italy... In fact, he was the bastard, but he was very proud of his face, how could he say such words?

"Okay, I'm self-indulgent and self-righteous..." The person who was very proud still lowered his head. "I apologize to you. Do you accept it?"

Wood shook his head: "What you said is not useless..."

There is another person with great face here.

After the main thing is over, it's time to talk about something private-

"George, I'll tell you very seriously. You should really consider your relationship. Your mom really wants to see you get rid of being single. How long do you plan to let her wait?"

Wood was silent for a while, and then said, "I haven't found it yet..."

"What kind of thing do you want to find? I'll ask Xianya to introduce you to you. It's okay to have supermodels or movie stars." Tang En joked.

"My mother is like that."

George Wood's honest answer made Don almost vomit blood.

He took a deep breath, calmed down, and then sighed.

This kid's love... let it go!

For Don Eun, his triangle story with George Wood and AC Milan has ended. But for those reporters who are afraid of the world's chaos, the story has just begun.

Done locked them out the door—actually they ran out themselves, but that didn't prevent them from making up news stories.

Why did George Wood innocently miss training? Although he came back later, it was certain that he was late for training. Tony Donn suddenly lost his temper and must have a hidden feeling. AC Milan was pursuing George Wood. Of course he would be unhappy. But he was so disobedient that he would contact George Wood for training and would be late for George Wood.

Is that warrior, who is known as the most loyal in Nottingham Forest, unable to stand the temptation to defect for one day?

This is really sensational news!

The next day, news about George Wood leaving the team and turning to AC Milan appeared in major media. The reporters were confident and told the inside story vividly, as if these reporters were following George Wood or Galliani twenty-four hours a day, and readers were not allowed to believe it.

"...Why did George Wood be late for the first time in training? You should know that he is a role model in the team's discipline. In fact, it is because he is dissatisfied with Tony Donn't let him go to AC Milan for resistance. At the beginning, the Mario Diara wanted to transfer from Leo to Real Madrid, but Aulas refused to let him go to Real Madrid. Diara stopped training and threatened to not let him go to Real Madrid. He retired directly. It seems that George Wood has learned..."

"The reason why Tony Don is so angry is easy to understand. His most trusted general betrayed him, and everyone will be angry. It is said that AC Milan has issued a sky-high contract for George Wood. In addition, Wood's agent Billy Wood is tempted by temptation, so George Wood is inevitably moved..."

"Yesterday Tony Donn lost his composure on the sidelines of the training ground, which was obviously related to the troubles he had recently encountered. George Wood was tempted by AC Milan's high salary, and he couldn't come up with a better way to deal with it. In addition, Wood has already expressed his attitude by deliberately training late, so..."

As if to give footnotes to the news of these media, in the first round of the new season the next day, Nottingham Forest played against Fulham at home. The media "surprised" to discover that George Wood was sitting on the bench!

"George Wood has no record of injury recently. The league has just begun, and he does not have physical fitness problems... No. Even if the league is on Christmas, he will not have physical fitness problems.  State? Have we heard of this monster when it is not in shape? So why is George Wood put on the bench? The answer is about to come out!"

The TV commentator was excitedly guessing. If George Wood, who shined in the World Cup, left Nottingham Forest. He switched to AC Milan dialect, he would definitely become one of the most sensational transfers this summer.

There was a banner hanging on the stands of the city stadium to keep George Wood, and it seemed like he was really leaving soon.

On the fan forum of this team, radical fans were also scolding Wood for betraying everything for money. At this time, Wood's loyal fans would come out to defend their idols, and then both sides spit out each other on the Internet and fight.

In fact, it is easy to understand the truth - just listen to what Done or Wood said.

But because Don Eun had a stalemate with the media a few days ago, he refused to accept interviews from all media outlets except the Nottingham Evening Post. At the same time, he did not let the media get close to his players. Even when answering Blues' questions, he never mentioned George Wood's affairs. It was confusing.

And what about George Wood? Even if the media can find him in other ways, he will not answer any questions about his transfer to AC Milan. He uses his best silence and cold face to deal with all questions.
To be continued...