Wood did not talk about his plans to retire in front of interim manager Mason Greenwood and club president Evan Dogerty, and he remained silent as if nothing had happened in the face of numerous questions from reporters on the subject.

This gave Evan a sigh of relief.

In any case, the current crisis is over. But Evan Dogetty didn't let that make it easy. Successive failures, a change of coach, and rumors that Wood was going to retire were all the rage, and the Arab consortium suddenly changed its mind. They have not said they want to end the talks to buy Nottingham Forest completely, but they have significantly slowed the pace of the acquisition and have revealed that they want to buy the club at a lower price.

This is obviously something that Evan Dogerty does not want to see, and during this period Alan Adams has been scolded by the club president who has been getting worse and worse. Although they used to have a friendship of starting a business together, but decades have passed, and that friendship has long faded, not to mention such a big thing, as the most trusted person around Evan, can he not be angry?

Since Tony Downe is gone, the only person Evan Dogerty can rely on at the club is Alan Adamsler. But now Allen's performance has made Evan suspicious - maybe he can't even rely on this person.

Tony Downe didn't return to Los Angeles just because Wood was honestly going back to training and playing, because things were far from settled. And Wood went to work, and he should have stayed to take care of Sophia, which he should have done with all reason. Although Miss Vivien is here, the only person who can talk to Sophia is Donne.

So Don called Shania and told her that he might not be able to come back during this time, if she wasn't too busy after her work was over. It is possible to come to Nottingham. Shania heard that Sophia's condition was very bad, and she also made a special phone call to greet Sophia, as for Don's request, she naturally agreed to it without saying a word.

Originally, Don En sneaked back quietly, and no media knew about it. But after staying here for a long time, the ubiquitous media just sniffed and smelled him. So within a few days, photos of Don in and out of the hospital appeared on the sports pages of several newspapers.

It was just a day after the news of Don's return to China was reported. He welcomed a special guest to Sophia's hospital room.

Nominally, Evan Dogetty was visiting Sofia on behalf of the club to hope for her speedy recovery, but in fact he came to Donn.

"When did you come back? Don't let me know when you come back? Outside, in the reception room, Evan Dogerty looked like he knew Donn very well.

Tang En smiled slightly: "Two days ago, I was too busy to take care of it." Didn't you come to the door yourself? ”

After four years, the two people met face to face, and the dirtiness of the year seemed to have faded away. At least on the surface, outsiders would never see that they had ever been enemies of each other.

Then the two of them were talking about each other. It's just not about football, not about the dilemma that the club has been facing recently. Later, when there was nothing more to talk about, Evan Dogerty took his leave.

Don sent him to the door of the hospital room and didn't go any further. Wait for Evan to leave. He returned to his hospital room and sat down on the couch in deep thought.

According to his understanding of Evan Dogerty, wherever this person goes, he will always take Alan Adams with him. But this time. He came to the hospital alone to "visit" Sophia. Although Evan said that the reason why Alan didn't come was only to negotiate with the Arabs, now even the tabloids know that the Arab consortium has temporarily halted its plans to negotiate and returned to the UAE, saying that they are going to reconsider their bid for Nottingham Forest. Obviously, in their minds, such a bad club is not worthy of Evan Dogerty's offer. No matter how glorious its past is, it is useless, and the merchants always care about the present and the future, and they don't care about the past. If you can't bring them benefits now. Then you have no value in their minds, and if you have little room for future appreciation, your status in their minds will decline further.

Everyone now knows that Nottingham Forest's takeover is at an impasse, but Forest fans don't know how they should be feeling. They are tired of the fact that the president of the club, who once brought them so many accolades, has now become a clown. But they also don't want to leave their club in the hands of a group of bearded Arab men who don't know anything about football or English football. Look at Manchester City, a mercenary army piled up on money, but nothing more than the toys of the Arabs.

As one of the oldest clubs in the world. How can it be reduced to that point?

If Nottingham Forest were a team like Notts. Fans can raise money and buy the club themselves. But Nottingham Forest has a long history. The record is brilliant, but it is not something that can be successfully acquired by fan donations alone. Tony Downe earns a lot of money every year, and even then his entire savings are not enough to buy the club unless he can find a more powerful consortium to invest in, but he has never had much contact with the brokerage world, and he is not interested in this area. Evan Dogerty put a price tag of 1.2 billion pounds on the club, and some media ridiculed Evan for being a lion's mouth, and Nottingham Forest Club has a debt of 400 million, and after removing this part, the club's market value is at most 500 million pounds, which means that 900 million pounds is a reasonable price for the acquisition. However, the Arabs were ruthless enough to directly push the price to 600 million pounds, 400 million to pay off debts, and the remaining 200 million was the actual value of Nottingham Forest Club in the eyes of that group of Middle Easterners.

With such an offer, it's no wonder that many Nottingham Forest fans don't have a good impression of the Arab consortium at all - for a team that has won five European Cups, the actual value of 200 million is simply an insult. So Forest fans are tired of Evan Dogerty's "sell-off farce" every season, and on the other hand, they don't want the Arab to actually take over the club.

Donn's mind continued.

Originally, Alan Adams was Evan Dogerty's most trusted left-hand man, and he was also given full authority to negotiate with the Arab consortium. In Nottingham Forest, which has long been not a listed company, it can be said that in addition to Evan Dogerty. The most powerful man is Alan Adams. But now Alan didn't come with Evan, and Don was very concerned about it.

Does this say something about Evan's attitude?

Thinking that Evan Dogetty is actually a very powerful person, Don felt that this time he came alone was definitely not like he said, Alan was "busy with business".

It seems that something must be brewing inside Nottingham Forest......

But what does that have to do with me?

Don shook his head and stood up, he decided to go out for a walk, now that his identity had been revealed. It doesn't matter. Just in time to check out the old friends at the Forest Bar.

If Wood had watched "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", then he must have known the allusion of "being in Cao Ying's heart in Han". Because his current situation is a typical "being in Cao Ying, and being in Han". Although she returned to the team and devoted herself to training, her mother's condition did not improve, and her body was still very weak. This week he was even admitted to a sterile ward, which is a sign of his worsening condition.

In such a situation, how can he be consistent and fully engaged in training and competing? Wood is also a man of flesh and blood and emotions after all. And not a real piece of wood, or a robot killer from a futuristic world. Although he promised his mother to return to the team, his emotions and motherhood could not be controlled, and he wanted to miss his mother. Sophia can't say she doesn't miss him.

Greenwood was also helpless about it, he wasn't a master of mental conditioning, and Wood didn't listen to him. There may be only one head coach in the world who can make Wood bow down, but that person has retired.

The teammates were helpless about it. No one can ask Wood to focus on football at a time like this. Serve as a captain and lead by example, because they don't have a position to do that. As Wood's only relative, his mother is lying in the sterile ward of the hospital at this moment, and her life may be in danger at any time, what they should do is to persuade Wood to put aside football for a while and take care of his mother, instead of asking him to lead by example and play football in disregard of family affection on the training ground and field. For these professional players. Football is a job, and no job can be bigger than your own family.

It's just that once Wood makes a decision, there is basically no room for others to intervene. So, even Wood's best friend, "Little Monkey" Bell, can't convince him to go back to take care of his mother.

The subsequent UEFA Cup match, George Wood's first game since his return, resulted in a poor performance in the game, but he continued to run aggressively. But it's a bit like a headless fly. Running around, not to mention organizing offense and defense. Nottingham Forest's tactics are centred on George Wood. Woodland didn't play well, and the team was like a plate of loose sand, and there was no way to organize.

In the end, Nottingham Forest lost 0-2 to Sporting Lisbon at their home stadium.

Two days later, Nottingham Forest take on Fulham in the home league. George Wood's performance is still not improving, but Greenwood has changed his tactics and has not continued to use Wood as the core, but has made Balotelli the center of the field, and the attack revolves around him. The team beat Fulham 2-1 at home thanks to Balotelli's excellent performance, and finally stopped the downward trend.

However, the good times were short-lived, and Nottingham Forest lost to Newcastle in the league next week. Balotelli didn't work as the core this time, because it was much easier to freeze a striker than a midfielder......

Nottingham Forest's standings have halted their slide in the last round of the league and continued again after the defeat to Newcastle. 1:3 to Blackburn Rovers and 0:1 to Tottenham Hotspur...... By the end of October, the Forest had dropped from 10th to 14th. They have not won a game or even a draw in the whole of October, except for a 2-1 win over Fulham, and they have only picked up three points in five games in October.

Even more anxious things are still to come, only led the team to play four games, but Greenwood, who lost three games, felt that he was not suitable for the first team, so after losing to Tottenham Hotspur, he took the initiative to ask Evan Dogerty to resign, hoping that the club chairman could agree to his resignation as first-team manager and continue to coach the youth team.

How could Evan Dogerty agree, knowing that he could no longer find a suitable manager. However, his desire to keep him was not strong enough for Greenwood, and he eventually had to agree to Greenwood's resignation as acting first-team manager.

Evan Dogerty then had to appoint Freddie Eastwood as interim head coach to manage the team on his behalf, while he stepped up his search for a suitable manager.

But actually, if Eastwood had a choice, he wouldn't want to take over the hot potato. On the one hand, because he feels that his level has not reached the point where he can be a manager, and on the other hand, it is naturally because the current Nottingham Forest is simply a coaching black hole. No matter how famous and capable the head coach is, he can only lose his reputation and lose everything.

Eventually, Eastwood took office with a frown. He didn't show any joy at the press conference about being promoted to head coach, and although the fact that it was funny to be able to coach his former team-mates was funny, he wasn't in the mood to make such jokes. In the face of reporters' questions about the team's results and prospects, he just said that he hoped that his performance could live up to the trust of the fans and the club, but he did not say a word beyond that, and the atmosphere at the press conference was a little cold.

After the press conference, a number of media outlets said that the outlook for Nottingham Forest was still not optimistic. This time they didn't deliberately go against Nottingham Forest, they deliberately blackened Nottingham Forest. They are telling the truth, and even if they were to be replaced by the most die-hard Nottingham Forest fan, they would probably only come up with a similar decision.

'It looks like it's time for Evan Dogetty to revise their goals for the season – not to qualify for the Champions League finals, but to keep their place in the Premier League......