After rejecting Liverpool, he is not worried that Benitez will stop there. Because he knows that Liverpool are in great need of a striker of Crouch's type right now.

Sure enough, soon, Liverpool's second offer was placed in front of Donn and Evan. This time, Liverpool offered a price that the current Forest team could hardly refuse: £11.5 million!

Looking at this offer, Don looked up and smiled and said to Evan: "The new European champion, really heroic." ”

Evan nodded: "How's Crouch doing there?" ”

'I haven't asked yet, but I don't think Crouch and his agent will turn down Liverpool's offer. The contract they offered was much better than what we were giving him now. ”

Speaking of wages, the duo's attention shifted from Crouch's transfer to the team's salary structure.

"Now the restriction on the team's performance is not whether the transfer fee is enough, but the salary of the players. Evan, if we can't pay the players higher, no matter how much I promise them, we won't be able to attract them to join. The world is very realistic, and you should know better than me that professional footballers play football to earn money to support their families. ”

"Hmm...... I'm also thinking about that. The club allows you to give you a higher salary cap, and as for players who have already been signed, slowly adjust the ...... by renewing their contracts."

After discussing how appropriate the maximum standard of wages should be, the two agreed to sell Crouch for cash.

The next day, Nottingham Forest replied to Liverpool and agreed to Liverpool's offer, and now Benitez can negotiate the details of the contract with Crouch's agent, and there is nothing left between Forest and Donne.

Crouch's departure from the Forest team is all but a foregone conclusion. Benitez spent £11.5 million to solve Liverpool's forward problems. And Don continues to have a headache for the striker, he is now really carrying money and has nowhere to spend.

Strikers are related to a team's goals, and indirectly to the team's results. The position is important, so Don is also very demanding. You can't just find a second-rate striker from the domestic league. Because the Forest team is going to play the European Champions League this season, it is best to be able to find a striker with European experience, it is not good to be too young, the Forest team has no shortage of young strikers, and now the requirements of the Forest team are to play in the year, and there is no need to let the team train and fight.

In European football, there are many strikers in world football, and there are many excellent strikers, but there are only a few who meet Donne's requirements when these conditions are set.

If Forest don't play in the Champions League, Donn can also buy Helewood back from West Ham United, after all, Helewood is also a degree striker. And I believe that if Forest were called, he would be happy to return to the City Stadium and play under Donn.

In Donn's eyes, though, Halewood fell short of what he wanted.

Just when Donn was at a loss for the team's forward recruitment, Nottingham Forest received a phone call, and the man on the other end of the phone claimed to be the agent of French striker Nicolas Anelka, and wanted to talk to Tony Towne about Anelka's intention to transfer to Forest.

When he heard the news, Don was stunned for a long time, when he was looking for a suitable striker, he turned his search eyes around the world football, and he didn't think of the name of Anelka. The French, who are far from the mainstream of European football, seem to have been forgotten by the whole world.

He vaguely remembers that Anelka only moved from Manchester City to Turkish side Fenerbahce in the final moments of last season's winter transfer window.

It's only been half a season, what? Anelka's two agent brothers can't stand the loneliness again?