Donn's "gaffe" at AC Milan's press conference — in the eyes of the majority of the media, Donne's attitude of opening his mouth and not being sarcastic is a "gaffe" and has lost his normalcy — is actually just an outward manifestation of his recent series of good moods.

AC Milan was eliminated in the Champions Cup and advanced to the quarterfinals, and there were also many successes in the domestic league. In the 27th round of the league, Nottingham Forest was already level on points with first-placed Arsenal, only because of the less goal difference than Arsenal, it was temporarily second.

As soon as the 28th round of the league was played, Done's team jumped to the top spot. Arsenal are now on 64 points after drawing two games in a row, being overtaken by Manchester United, while Forest are top of the table with 66.

Compared with the previous two seasons, Nottingham Forest has rushed to the top of the league many times this season, although it has not been maintained throughout, but it is enough to make Forest fans full of expectations. Because in the first two seasons, Nottingham Forest didn't even rush to the top spot. It's really a big boost in strength and a boost in confidence. A European Cup triumph gave Forest the confidence of a successful man all at once.

So their performance this season makes sense. You know, this day took Don four years to prepare.

There are 10 rounds left in the league and as long as Forest can maintain that result, 10 more games will be there to achieve the goal he set at the start of the season.

How could he not be happy in the face of such a good situation?

Of course, it doesn't take long to be happy. Don is still well aware of this. You must know that as a manager, there are far more troubles and troubles than happy things......

With the resumption of the Champions League and the intermittent day of the international break, Forest will have a lot of last-minute games to face, and this is the time when they need to be careful and careless. You can lose it all. Rotation is the best way to do this, using different combinations of lineups to give players a break, stay in shape and avoid injury.

Thankfully, Forest dropped the FA Cup at the start of January, otherwise they would have had to play one more FA Cup from now on. In the end, the stronger the opponent and the stronger the will to fight, the more intense the game. Regardless of whether your players get injured or not, it is not necessary to spend energy on this kind of game.

In any case, Done from China is not a real Englishman, he is far from being interested in the FA Cup and the Champions Cup, perhaps in today's English football, the FA Cup still has its important position, but in Donne's heart, this cup and the league cup belong to the same level: they are used for training. Nurturing new people.

The current rotation system of the Forest team is different from the rotation system in the first half of the season, which allows more players to play, maintain their form, and reassure the insiders. Don will often use large rotations. But that changed in February.

The current rotation is not about satisfying the desire of the substitutes, but about giving the main players a better rest. Avoid injury. Therefore, the rotation is very small, and Donn will definitely not rotate in some key positions, such as the midfielder.

Poor Sidwell, who came to the Forest, found that the future was not as good as he had imagined - George Wood was on the bench. It's not made by people at all, I'm afraid the whole world is only made by chairs on the bench......

Unless Donn didn't want Wood to play, Sidwell didn't have a chance to play. With early knocks in both the FA Cup and the League Cup, his chances of playing have diminished, and now as the schedule of fixtures enters a dense period, he expected to have more appearances. Unexpectedly, Donn rotated forwards, wingbacks, and guards. Even rotating the front midfield, just not rotating the back midfield.

As the captain of the team, George Wood is young and strong, and he is in stable form, and he is the core of the team. What is he going to do with this monster? Originally, when he was in Reading, he was still selected for the England team once in a while. Since arriving at Nottingham Forest, the door has been largely closed to him – no manager is going to recruit a substitute with a handful of club appearances, let alone an England midfielder. Even George Wood was abandoned by McLaren......

Among the young people, Lennon and Bendtner were the best. Because Ruud van Nistelrooy and David Beckham are both veterans, Don is there to protect them. With them in the rotation to be considered more, as their alternates, Bendtner and Lennon are often given plenty of playing time.

Similarly, the rotation system is also good news for Chinese player Sun Jihai. Because he can play multiple positions, he can still occupy a place in the team despite his age and declining form. In addition, Tang En likes Sun Jihai's professional attitude very much, so he doesn't have to worry about the future. At the very least, he can stay with the Forest until his contract expires before considering where to go.

Sidwell's agents are already considering a new club for their players next season. Nottingham Forest's salary is not low, but it is not easy for a professional player who is still in his playing years to sit on the bench and count the money.

After nearly a season on the bench with Forest, Sidwell himself has repositioned himself. He's not the kind of guy who is fit to play in a big team, maybe in the future, but certainly not now. The best fit for him is to play in mid-table teams like Reading, where he may not be paid as much as he was paid as a substitute at Forest, but he can get consistent appearances and even become the heart of the team, as he did in the previous two seasons at Reading.

Before he was still playing, he didn't want to spend his career on the bench for a big team and slowly be forgotten.

Maybe if he continues to stay at Forest, he will win a lot of trophies, but what does those glittering trophies have to do with him as a substitute? Such an honor is not needed.

He decided to have a showdown with Coach Tony Downe at the end of the season. Until then, his agent will help him contact teams who are interested in him privately, they are not as well-known as Nottingham Forest, but they will give themselves a stable position.

Likewise to Sidwell are Zim Bonda.

He found a fact that felt very hopeless to him – there was something in common between Forest's manager, Mr. Tony Towne, and Arsenal's manager, Mr. Arsene Wenger: if two players were compared together. B's ability is stronger than A, but A is younger than B, then they will not hesitate to choose A over B.

This reality made him feel a little uncomfortable. Because he is no longer young, he has just passed his twenty-ninth birthday on the 21st of last month. His contract expires next summer, and he will be 30 years old by then.

For managers with pedophiles, thirty is enough time for them to find a better replacement. For example, the Brazilian Raphinha, who is now firmly in the team.

In the opinion of the Frenchman Zim Bonda. Raphinha, a full-back from Brazil, was really poor defensively, and if the team needed to defend, he also needed a right midfielder and a midfielder to come and fill in on a number of occasions.

But in Tony Donne's eyes, Raphinha is young enough, has good physical strength, can run, and can run back with assists. These are the declining abilities of the aging Zim Bonda.

During his most glorious years with Forest, he was selected for the French national team. But he soon became a passerby. At Arsenal, Sagna became the main player of the French national team. He is also younger than Zim Bonda.

Young...... Young, I hate being young!

That fight with Bendtner in training plummeted his status in the team, even behind Chinese Sun Jihai. He knew that Coach Donn didn't like him anymore, partly because he was getting older, and partly because he was the author of the first intra-team fight since Donn took over the Forest team.

Donn cares a lot about unity and stability within the team. This is what he is most proud of, and he has mentioned it countless times in front of the media, telling those people with a slight pride that this is the fundamental reason why the Forest team has been able to improve and win. So he joked with the players, carefully maintaining the atmosphere in the locker room. No one is allowed to break it.

Zim Bonda is very clear about this, because he is the second group of players to follow this man - the first group is the Forest who followed Donn in the second division, such as George Wood and Layton Barnes - he has been with Tony Don for a long time, he knows the personality and hobbies of this manager, and he also knows what he hates......

For example, he hated everything that ruined the disunity in the team. He was so unlucky that he forgot about it on the spur of the moment. Did his future at the Forest team disappear with that punch?

Do you want to find another way out at the end of the season, or stay until the end of your contract and see how the team feels about their future?

Zim Bonda has been preoccupied lately.

In fact, in general, looking back on the past few years in the Forest team, it is still very good, the atmosphere in the team is harmonious, there is no factional dispute in some big clubs, and the team's results are also good. Everyone's salaries and bonuses are satisfactory. Wherever they went, they enjoyed the benefits of glory......

He doesn't want to leave the club if he can. Become a European champion. That's something he didn't even think about when he played in France. It was Nottingham Forest who gave him all of this and he wants to play here for a few more years, preferably until he retires...... Anyway, I don't have any extravagant hopes, join the French team and win the world championship? No kidding. To be able to play in a club team that can still win honors until retirement is the highest ideal of a professional footballer.

Zim Bonda is a very realistic person, and he is not at all unrealistic and fantastic.

This is also the difference between the troubles he and Sidwell faced.

He was twenty-nine years old and getting older. Full-backs are more physically demanding than centre-backs, and their physical strength and speed are inversely proportional to age. Ambitious people will still not admit defeat at this time, hoping to challenge for higher achievements, while more realistic people will start to think about life after retirement, and the last period of their career will be the first task to make money. A stable and decent income is what they want most, and as for sitting on the bench or playing as the main team, it is the same......

Sidwell, on the other hand, is still 25 years old, and he won't turn 26 until the end of this year. His physical fitness and competitive level can still be maintained at a relatively high level in the next few years, which is known as the "golden age" or "the year of fighting". Sitting on the cold bench is not the kind of career that this kind of person wants.

A team that brings together players from all over the world, with very different personalities and different ideals, is bound to have an undercurrent beneath the seemingly calm surface. In fact, everyone has different and unique troubles.

Of course, we're not denying Tony Downe's grip on this team. He is still the well-deserved king of this team, the supreme commander of this team, and everyone listens to him.

It's just that the head coach can't control the hearts of everyone under him......

Zim Bonda and Sidwell have their own problems, and others in the team who haven't said it may have their own problems, big or small.

For example, a new trouble has recently struck.

The subject was Ribery, and Tony Towne suffered as well.

“…… La Liga giants Real Madrid are brewing a convincing plan for Nottingham Forest's key player Franck Ribery, according to their Spanish counterparts, and Real Madrid club president Calderón is said to be very interested in the newly won European Footballer of the Year. Of course, Real Madrid have officially clarified this rumour, and they have denied that club manager Mijatovic was in contact with Ribery's agent in private......"

The latest transfer rumours that broke out in the sports news of the TV station were picked up by major print media within two days. Frank Ribery has become a direct football celebrity thanks to the European Footballer of the Year and the "World's Best Footballer" award from the British World Football Magazine, and any news about him is enough to make the sports media hype, not to mention that such news is also linked to the best club of the twentieth century, Real Madrid, the club that never rests, the club that likes to poach all kinds of "gentlemen" the most. The club that had just received a huge injection of television funding and commercial sponsorship funds......

At the same time, they are also Nottingham Forest's opponents in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

It's really exciting......