After Eun gave Anelka the reply that he agreed to leave, Anelka's got busy again. While the £25 million threshold may sound high, they believe that with their brother's impressive performances last season, they will be able to find a club willing to pay for it.

Don is no longer concerned with them, focusing on the team's summer training and other transfers.

First, he gave Manchester City manager Stuart Murphy to Manchester City manager. Pierce made a phone call and asked about Casper. Schmeichel's transfer is possible. Manchester City do want to give the widely fancied young goalkeeper a chance to develop his career, but it is unrealistic to give him a regular or even a first-choice place in the Manchester City first team. Pierce prefers to send Schmeichel Jr. out on loan for a season, after all, the famous Pitt. Schmeichel's son is not yet twenty years old, and the future is limitless.

No matter how good the relationship is, Pierce doesn't want to just cheapen Don for nothing.

Rent a goalkeeper to come over as a substitute, Don didn't do it, and the Forest team is not a processing plant to help others develop stars.

He still wants Pierce to consider selling Schmeichel Jr. to Forest. Pierce was resolute this time, and after selling Sun Jihai to Nottingham Forest, he did not want to lose the team's future main goalkeeper. He agreed to loan Schmeichel Jr. to Forest for one or two seasons, but Donn disagreed.

That's it. The choice of the substitute goalkeeper is at an impasse.

Don originally valued Casper very much. Schmeichel, but he's not alone in eyeing the young goalkeeper. He knew that this time he had hit a soft nail, and Pierce would not let go.

Just when he was frustrated that the deal didn't go through, Don recommended another player for him, a name he used to know well, but now he had forgotten it, and if Don hadn't mentioned it again, he probably wouldn't have remembered it at all.

Igor. Akinfeev. The main goalkeeper of the Russian league team Moscow Central 6 Army was an important contributor to the Central 6 Army winning the League Cup last season.

Donn's mind suddenly brightened, this is indeed an excellent goalkeeper who can carry the future of the Forest team.

The manager ran out of comments, and Nottingham Forest immediately made a purchase request to the Russian Central 6 Army for Akinfeev.

As a Russian local team, the Central 6th Army is well aware of one fact - the excellent players it has cultivated will definitely leave here and go to a broader stage.

In fact. Nottingham Forest are not the first European club to be interested in the young goalkeeper. A number of giants, including Manchester United, Arsenal and AC Milan, have more or less reported that they want to buy other places. But the first club to make a clear move request to the young goalkeeper was Nottingham Forest.

Other teams are more on the sidelines, with Alex Ferguson directly rejecting hopes that United will bring in Akinfeev – saying the Russian goalkeeper is not in his future plans.

Although the goalkeeper known as "ak" is a famous demon in Fmo7 where Donn played, goalkeepers are a position that values age and experience more, and young goalkeepers often need to be examined for a longer period of time. No big club would dare to bet all on a goalkeeper who is just 20 years old, and they want to "watch and see".

It's that time lag for Donn, who has always been seen as a "daring gambler" when he makes transfer deals, and this time is no exception, when other clubs are still on the sidelines or hesitating. The Forest have made a transfer request to the Central 6 Force, and they have made an offer of £5 million.

The feedback was immediate. The Central 6th Army was not surprised by Akinfeev's departure, but they could not accept the price. They raised their offer to £7.5 million, or about 10 million euros.

10 million euros for a 20-year-old goalkeeper!

This is really crazy in the eyes of many people, although Buffon set a world record for the value of a goalkeeper of 20 million euros when he transferred from Parma to Juventus, but Buffon has already proven his ability in the domestic league and national team competitions, and unlike Akinfeev, Buffon is from a world powerhouse like Italy, and the strength of the national team and the level of the national league are not at the same level as Russia.

"If the Russians are trying to scare us off with this offer, then they are wrong. We're not the Nottingham Forest team we were two years ago. Don responded by raising the first offer to £6 million. There is also an additional clause that allows Akinfeev to be loaned back to the Central 6 Army for a season on a zero loan fee.

In other words, Nottingham Forest paid Akinfeev a year's salary. At the same time, it was given to the Central 6 Army for free for a season, and then the Central 6 Army also netted six million pounds.

This condition was very good, and the Central 6 Army did not refuse again, but agreed to negotiate a personal contract between the forest team and Akinfeev.

A year ago, the Forest team may not have had the strength, but now Nottingham Forest have no match for Russian goalkeeper Igor. Akinfeev is very attractive. After all, he is the runner-up of the English League and the runner-up of the Champions Cup, and his strength is recognized by the world, there is no doubt about it.

Coupled with the addition of world-class goalscorer Ruud van Nistelrooy, it has greatly enhanced the team's appeal.

Akinfeev knows that the Russian league is not the stage he wants, and that the top European league is his future, and although there have been many rumours about the interest of big teams in him this year, none of them have come true. Now that the opportunity has come, he doesn't want to miss it.

Negotiations between the two sides went well.

Akinfeev signed a five-year permanent transfer contract with Nottingham Forest, earning £1.5 million a year after tax, and the first season was loaned back to Moscow's Central 6 Army, which trained him.

When both sides announced the news, Don smiled in front of them. He can already see that the future of the team is becoming clear day by day.

Naturally, the media has a variety of theories about this transfer deal, some praise the Forest team for buying the full security of the future goal, others claim that such a rash purchase of a young goalkeeper who does not know whether he will be able to adapt to the English league is really not a wise move, and they even wonder if there is some shady "insider trading" behind this transfer......

Don En only ignores the nonsense of these media...... To say that there is no insider trading, he himself disagreed, in order to make the transfer go more smoothly, Nottingham Forest gave Akinfeev's agent a little "red envelope...... However, Donn himself did not get much benefit from it. In terms of financial income, Don is a contented person, he does not lack this money, and he is not willing to accumulate wealth in this way. Brian. Clough's experience is still fresh in my mind.

Well, the team's goalkeeper for the next ten years is for us to solve

It's good news to celebrate. After securing the transfer, I said to his men, "But...... I've come full circle and still haven't solved the original question – where is our backup goalkeeper? ”

Chris Lak and Donn both looked at the goalkeeper coach Andy Brown. Beasley, hopefully he'll be able to answer that question.

"Well, actually...... I think Paul is good enough as a backup goalkeeper. It was Beasley's answer, and it was obviously not satisfying Donn, and he frowned.

At this moment, someone spoke for him.

"I think Paul. Steven Gerrard is a very good back-up goalkeeper. Tang, the Chinese assistant coach said in fluent English.

Don looked at him, "Reason." ”

"Good mentality, don't ask for the main position. Also, I've seen the Champions League final many times and I don't think it's his responsibility to concede two goals. Suddenly coming on in that situation, he was already very good. Don finished his reasoning and fell silent again.

Don pinched his chin in thought.

He's reminiscing about that final, carefully recalling every detail of it. It was a very impressive game for him, and it's only been two months and he won't forget it.

'If it wasn't for Paul's performance, we would have equalised for Barcelona in the first half. I know he's not good enough to be a goalkeeper and Paul knows that himself. So I think it's the perfect fit for him to be our number one backup goalkeeper. "Goalkeeper coach Beasley was also on hand to help.

Donn withdrew from the memory. He shrugged: "Andy, you're the goalkeeper coach, you're more authoritative than me in this regard, and if you think he's capable of being a qualified substitute, then we don't have to bother finding a backup goalkeeper...... Truth be told, the position is as hard to find as Wood's bench. ”

The crowd laughed. What Donn said is not bad at all, the goalkeeper is special in his own position, and he needs to be stable. Therefore, it is never easy to change candidates, and it is never rotated. The back-up goalkeeper will have to be patient and calm enough to face the endless floor stool and be ready to play at any time.

Wood's substitution is another peculiarity - the midfield position is not unrotateable, but Wood is too consistent, never injured, and his form has not fluctuated. Physical fitness is no problem. With such a player, what reason does the manager have to rotate him? As a result, his substitute has little chance to play. Think of poor Gunelson last season...... Don kept him just in case, but he didn't expect that there would be no such "just in case" opportunities for a whole season.

Now Gunnarson has left the team to move on to Championship side Wolves.

After laughing, Don suddenly said, "I don't think we need to deliberately look for a replacement for Wood." Wood's bench is a bit wasteful if it's a full-time midfielder. And Sun is an all-around ...... in the backfield"

Don nodded to understand what he meant.

Rather than finding a midfielder for Wood to be a substitute, it is better to find a backfield panacea, not only to be Wood's replacement, but also to be someone else's replacement. Centre-back, full-back. Back ...... Both. For example, Pepe and Piqui both have experience as a back midfielder, and Sun Jihai is even more so. In this way, George. Wood's bench problem is solved.

Just from a different perspective, this problem that has plagued the team's coaching staff for more than a year has been solved, and colleagues in the coaching staff have a deeper understanding of the Chinese who has been promoted directly from assistant coach of the youth team to assistant coach of the first team - he is indeed capable, not just relying on a good personal relationship with the head coach to rise to the top.

After Bayern Munich's bid for Ruud van Nistelrooy failed, they set their sights on Frank, who shone in the World Cup. Ribery, but Nottingham Forest label Ribery as "not for sale". Not only did they reject offers from Bayern Munich, but they rejected all those buyers who were interested in Ribery.

The Forest team wants to do even better. Done wants the team to be a force to be reckoned with in European football, so now is not the time to sell people.

It's not just Ribery, it's Ashley. Yang and Allen. Lennon, Arteta, George. Wood, Pique, Pepe, Barnes, Bale, Zim Bonda...... Wait, last season's main lineup of the Forest team was almost hollowed out by those buyers, and Donn rejected them all.

The most important thing for a team with big ambitions is to have a stable squad. These players have been working together for a season or two, and the chemistry between them is fully established, and if this combination is taken apart for a little money, then Don Enke is really the biggest fool in the world.

"Nottingham Forest don't make money by selling their biggest players, we're not that kind of team, we're not the base of any big club. Even if someone does come up with two trillion dollars, none of my players will be sold. ”

This is the promise that Donn wrote in his personal column.

Lineker then commented on Donn's words in his personal column: "...... He's a manager with big ambitions, and notice when I say 'big ideals', which isn't about relegation or getting the team into Europe next year...... This ideal is the 'champion'. With such a manager, it's not hard to see why Nottingham Forest have changed dramatically under his leadership, triple jumping in three years, and still expanding their game. Because this team, like their manager, has the same 'big dreams'. ”

Donn's rejection of offers that were about to fill his desk was tantamount to stabilizing the morale of the military. Now the players of the Forest team are well aware that they have a future to follow their leader, and no one wants to leave this team and choose a new adventure. The intention of Donn's public statement is also here, to stabilize the morale of the army before the season, and the generals of the three armies will work together, and the new season will have a good omen.

After that, he began to continue to make moves in the transfer market.

In Don's words to Don, "It's Allen's job to make the club money, and my job is how to get Allen's money to be spent."

Despite the fact that Mikel. Mikel Arteta did well last season, but Donn was still annoyed that the team didn't have a real midfielder, and the midfield combination must have been thoroughly studied by the opposition, and it would be a fool's dream to play the world the same in the new season.

He must bring in more fresh blood in the midfield, not only to bring more tactical changes, but also to keep the current group of boys in a sense of crisis at all times, so that they know that there is no main position in the world that cannot sit still for a long time.

This time, after comparing multiple candidates, he set his sights on the Netherlands.

He was glad to see that things were not the same as he remembered, because there was the ideal person in his mind