Chapter 88: Football in Nottingham Forest

Galliani wanted to convince George Wood to join AC Milan with sincerity, but she never thought that Done would end up messing up a farce.

George Wood did not come, and even spent half a month in AC Milan. Now that the summer transfer window is about to close, Gattuso's successor has not been found.

Ancelotti's already gloomy face is now even more gloomy. If Galliani and Braida cannot find him a new midfielder, then the league championship plan for AC Milan in the new season will definitely be ruined.

Galliani also knows what kind of players the team needs. This is the better thing he is than former Real Madrid general manager Mijatovic.

Ancelotti mentioned earlier is a subject that can be considered, but Galliani did not put the eggs in a basket this time. While asking the team to contact Braci's agent, he also found two other people.

The first defensive midfielder to shine in Sporting Lisbon and is also stared at by many giant clubs - Miguel Veroso (miguel_veloso).

The second is Liverpool's main player, an important contributor to Argentina's world championship this summer, and the midfielder Mascherano.

In terms of actual value, Mascherano is one end higher than Veroso, even higher than George Wood because he won the world championship. The mainstream saying in the world football world is that Veroso is still a little young. Mascherano and George Wood are already excellent midfielders who have experienced many battles. They can be regarded as the best defensive midfielders in the world.

Galliani's plan is that although it is very difficult to buy Mascherano, the Argentinian is not the captain of Anfield after all, so it is naturally impossible to be a boring non-sale product. Then as long as you have money, it is easy to deal with. He doesn't want George Wood. Wood's status in the Forest team determines that no matter how rich AC Milan is, the transaction is also very difficult.

Galliani is inclined toward Mascherano.

But Liverpool swears to never let the Argentinian go to AC Milan, even though they already have Lucas, a Brazilian midfielder.

Time is tight. Mascherano has reached a deadlock with Liverpool's discooperation. In Portugal, it is progressing smoothly. Veroso has long wanted to leave Sporting Lisbon, but he didn't leave last summer because his agent and club believed that after playing in the European Cup, Veroso's net worth should still increase, so he advised him to stay in Portugal. This year's World Cup just ended, and it's a good time to switch to a big club.

Sporting Lisbon also believes that selling Veroso may get more transfer fees at this time, so he did not get more entangled in the issue of whether to let go or not, and directly started talking about transfer fees. Veroso himself is also very happy to join a world-class team like AC Milan. There are more fans there, more attention and more honors. Joining AC Milan is an important step for him to move towards a world-class star.

In the end, Galliani and Braida had to give up their pursuit of Mascherano and signed a contract with Veroso.

On August 25, AC Milan announced that they had introduced Miguel Veroso, the main midfielder of the Portuguese national team, for 23 million euros.

This series of transfer dramas that started with George Wood came to an end.

AC Milan bought George Wood's substitute, and since Wood posted an open letter in the newspaper, Donn has no concern. For him, it is the same whether Galliani bought Veroso or Mascherano. He wants to lead the team to prepare for the second leg of the UEFA Champions League qualifiers and the second round of the league.

In the first leg of the Champions League qualifying match, Nottingham Forest defeated Belgrade Red Stars 4-0 at home, and such a result almost guaranteed that they would enter the Champions League main match. So Donne adopted a rotation system away.

Akinfeyev's starting position was given to Dell Roberts, the left back changed from Gareth Bale to Joe Matok, and the center backs were Woodgate and Morgan. The right back was Nkuru, who joined the team this season. In the midfield, George Wood continued to rest, Thiago still started, Shahin replaced Bostock, and Fernandez on the left forward. The right forward was Bentley. On the forward line, Ibissevic did not sit on the bench because of his average performance in the first round of the league. Donne gave him full trust and continued to start, and the person he partnered with was the "fast horse" Abonraho.

If the Serbs think this is Nottingham Forest's substitute and they can do whatever they want at home, then they will suffer a big loss.

The rotation lineup does not mean that it is a substitute lineup. Just looking at this lineup, its strength is comparable to the "main lineup" they think.

This lineup was at the Red Star Stadium, the home court of the Red Stars of Belgrade. It played 3:2 with the home team.

The Red Stars were quite crazy at the beginning. If they wanted to enter the main game, they had to score at least four goals at their home court, and not allow the opponent to score. This was too difficult, but they had no other way except to attack.

The first record was the Red Star team. They scored a goal first at the beginning of the game, and the Red Star Stadium was full of joy. Unfortunately, the good mood of the home team fans did not last long. After seven minutes, Nottingham Forest relied on a corner kick and scored a goal from Morgan.

Then Nottingham Forest continued to work hard, and Abang Raho received the pass from Ibissevic and then directly pushed the goalkeeper and scored. He overturned the score.

In the second half, the Red Stars continued to counterattack wildly, but unfortunately there were too many loopholes in the backcourt.   The space was too big, and he was caught by Nottingham Forest and scored twice, Abang Lahomaki scored.

This ball completely destroyed the fighting spirit of the Red Star team. They played weakly in the subsequent game, but they only seized the forest team's negligence in defense at the last moment to score a goal that saved their face. It was no longer helpful to the result.

Nottingham Forest advanced to the main competition with a total score of 7:2.

It is a little regretful that Ibisevic still did not score when facing such an opponent...

Carl Spike and some media must have something to say after the game.

Could it be that Ibisevic is really a dazzling meteor?

After the game, Ibisevic was also a little depressed, but overall, his mood has not been greatly affected.

Tang En still comforted him with that sentence: "You did a good job, Ibi. He is integrating into the team bit by bit."

He is not the kind of person who makes a decision and then immediately denies himself. Even if he really takes a look at it, he will give the other party a while to let him prove himself.

So the second round of the league. Nottingham Forest challenged Newcastle away, and Ibisevic still started.

But unfortunately, he still didn't score.

In the 75th minute, he was replaced by Van Nistruy.

The commentator's evaluation was "Tony Donn seems not very satisfied with this Bosnian".

Don't really intend to put too much pressure on Ibisevich.

In this game, Nottingham Forest finally shook hands with Newcastle on the road, and neither side scored a goal.

After the game, some media believed that if Nottingham Forest had better ability to seize opportunities, he could actually beat Newcastle away and scored three points. But Ibisevic was a big disappointment and he wasted at least three opportunities.

Carl Spike laughed at Donn for rethinking his gambling in the post-match show. “Of course, if Mr. Donn wanted to shave his head, then I’m happy to do it.”

Disharmonious voices were also heard in Nottingham's local media. It was believed that Tony Donn had taken a look again, and Ibisevic was not as outstanding as everyone thought. His performance in the 2008-09 season was indeed a flash in the pan. He was actually just a striker at the bench level in the European third-rate league.

Ibissevic has been integrated into the team in life and language, but he has not found the feeling of scoring on the court. Matthias Fernandez has to thank Ibi, because if it weren't for Donn and Karl Spike betting on the Bosnians' goals, he would be the one who should be criticized by the media now. Because he himself has not integrated into the team.

Tang En felt that the first problem he had to solve was not to study the opponent and how to win. Instead, let these two people adapt to the team quickly, because they were not bought as substitutes.

There are many reasons why Ibisek missed the goal. First, he has not fully adapted to the Premier League game style; second, he cares too much about the gambling between Donn and Spike and puts all his burden on himself; third, it is a tactical issue.

Hoffenheim's craziest season. Ibissevic's crazy goals were related to their crazy offensive tactics. The offensive style of 433 allowed them to always play big scores. Two wingers kept attacking on the wing and feeding the ball to Ibissevic in the middle. The three midfielders moved as accurately as clocks. The four defenders advanced forward, making offside accurate and madly stunning.

They implement simple, fast and direct tactics, which are somewhat similar to Nottingham Forest in previous years. But Nottingham Forest is very rare and almost never creates offside. Don Eun does not believe in offside tactics, especially when he likes straightforward Premier League. And he likes his opponents to create offside, and then lets his fast horses fight offside again and again, and seizes an opportunity to kill the opponent!

This tactic is simply a typical special tactic for new players. But Nottingham Forest is no longer a new player. Donne emphasized that the tactics of fast advancement in midfield are not used at all times. He must make his team's tactics richer and more varied, otherwise it will be easy to be studied thoroughly by his opponents. Just like Hoffenheim in the second season of the Bundesliga...

Ibisevic is used to playing football with two wingers, and he has to adapt to another way - to control the football at his feet, step by step, and slowly advance. Although Nottingham Forest also has fast-track players, the wing forward and the winger are still not comparable.

Donn believes that Ibisevic has no problem with his ability in this regard, but there is a process for adapting. The process takes time.

So he decided to talk to Ibisevic.   You can't put too much pressure on him.

A player who had just encountered failure came to a completely unfamiliar environment, and may not be able to see it on the surface. The psychological pressure is very great.

He prepared a number of sets of rhetoric in advance, intending to help Ibisevic relieve stress from multiple angles.

But Ibisevic was surprised that the head coach suddenly found him and wanted to talk alone.

"I have no problem with my life, boss. I can barely get used to what I eat..." He thought Tang En was concerned about his life.

"Of course I know that your life is fine." Tang En felt that his enthusiasm was extinguished by Ibissevic, and he said angrily. "I'm not here to talk to you about this place, I am..." He was thinking in his heart how to use words to avoid irritating the striker.

The striker's position is different from other positions. Sometimes technology or consciousness is not the most important thing, but the important thing is self-confidence. The source of self-confidence is also very simple - goals, consecutive goals.

He hopes to restore his confidence as much as possible without damaging Ibisevic's self-esteem.

"I understand, is it because I didn't score a few games?"

Don En nodded vigorously, talking to smart people was so relaxed... But why did this come out of Ibisevic's mouth? Isn't this my line?

Ibisevic was silent for a while, just as Don En was about to comfort him. He spoke again: "Boss, are you worried... can't win that reporter?"

Tang En laughed: "Where do you say it? I almost forgot that I have this matter if you don't say it. Didn't I say it? I never worry about what hasn't happened yet. Unless you still haven't scored a goal with the last round of the league, I will start to seriously consider shaving my head. But that kind of thing will never happen, right?"

Ibisevic did not answer his question, and asked back, "Do you regret buying me to the forest, boss?"

Don En looked at Ibisekic: "To be honest... I don't regret it." He smiled. "Why do I regret it? You played a few games? I'm not an impatient person, we all have time. I know your performance last season. I still buy you, but I don't plan to regret it. You know, I'm not a person who likes to slap himself in the face. I usually slap others. Haha!"

"I came to talk to you, just to confirm a question - are you starting to doubt your abilities and this choice?"

This time, under the gaze of Tony Donn, Ibisevic fell into a long silence.

Don En didn't urge him, he got up and poured a glass of water for Ibisevic, then sat back and quietly looked at the high center forward sitting opposite him.

After a long time, Ibicevic began to say, "My career has always been like this, boss. Always choose one choice after another. I don't know if I did this right before each choice, so after a long time, I won't think about this problem. If I really make the wrong choice, the solution is very simple - I make another choice."

Tang En smiled: "I know why European media call you 'Ranker'. But I don't want the person I bought for more than 10 million euros to make another choice after playing for a season."

"I don't want to, if possible." Ibissevic answered him. "I don't like that nickname."

Tang En clapped his hands: "It seems we have a consensus, Ibi. This is easy to deal with. You have experienced more miserable years than you are now. I think the current situation is nothing to you, right?"

Ibisevic nodded: "I'm really a little depressed if I haven't scored a goal. But it's not time to lose confidence, boss."

"That's good. Actually, it's nothing. I just want to make sure of this. You know, I'm happy to give new players opportunities, but I must first know whether they are willing to use these opportunities to prove themselves again. I don't do useless work, and I'm not a philanthropist. If the other party doesn't have this idea, I will naturally not waste time and energy on them. But as long as you have this idea of ​​not giving up, I will make you successful at any cost. Do you know what I mean? Ibi. Football in Nottingham Forest is different from any football you've seen before. " Speaking of this, Don't give up, and a smile appears on his face. "

"If you can accept this set of football philosophy, then I have to welcome you again."

Tang En reached out to him.

Ibi didn't say anything, just handed his hand.
Chapter completed!