The team has returned to normal training. However, in the four days before going to Russia, the team only did physical training to lose the small belly that many players grew during the holiday, restore their physical skills, and allow their bodies to keep up with the intense training and competition rhythm.

The team is not evenly staffed right now, and there is no need for joint training.

Before leaving for Russia, there is one thing that must be done. That's the transfer problem for Anelka.

Juventus have made an offer of £12 million to Nottingham Forest, and after discussing it with Allen, Donn has decided to agree to the price. Although it is three million pounds lower than AC Milan's offer at this time last season, it is ...... It's hard to buy money and you're happy. Done paid £3 million for a season's win over Anelka. Of course, after this transfer offer is made public, it will definitely make AC Milan quite complaining, but Don En doesn't care so much - he has robbed other people's Champions Leagues, are you still afraid that the other party will chew his tongue a few times?

Anelka's agents and brothers were informed by a phone call from Donn that they could negotiate with Juventus, and the two men flew to Italy immediately, and they and their brother couldn't wait to escape Nottingham.

As long as there is no obstacle from the club, the negotiation of individual contracts is going well.

Two days later, the details were finalised, and on the third day, the day before the Forest team left for Russia, Anelka was no longer visible at the Wilford training base and the stickers with his name on the locker in the dressing room had been torn off.

Anelka had already flown to Turin, Italy, for a medical check-up accompanied by his brother.

There was one less person, and the Forest players didn't react much to it, and some of the heartless people were still discussing where to go to Moscow.

Anelka, due to his withdrawn and unsociable surname, is not very popular in the Forest team, and he will not be missed by anyone when he is gone.

The next morning, as the whole Forest team was preparing to board the plane at London's Heathrow Airport, a press conference was being held thousands of miles away in the northern Italian city of Turin. It was Juventus' first successful transfer deal of the season as they returned to the first division, and at a press conference, Juventus' new head coach Ranieri smiled and introduced Anelka to the Italian press.

“…… He's a world-class striker, but he's always underrated. I think here, he's going to show his true strength. ”

Anelka also made speeches such as "I'm here to prove to you the right last name for this deal" that delighted local journalists and fans alike.

Then in front of a large number of reporters, the two men jointly held a black and white Juventus sword-striped shirt with Anelka's name and his back number - 39 on it.

So far, his two-year relationship with Nottingham Forest has come to an end, he and Tony. The feud between Don and En is also over.

If they have a chance to meet in the Champions Cup in the future, I wonder how each other feels?

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When the Forest arrived in Moscow, they met up with their two new team-mates and introduced each other to each other.

The next day, the team trained in a quiet country sports club outside Moscow while making their way around the transfer market.

At left-back, Donn has his eye on Grosso, the main defender of the Italian national team who has not had a good time at Inter Milan, and injuries have cost him his main position. If there is a bid from a buyer at this time, Inter Milan will be happy to sell it.

At present, Lyon has expressed its intention to buy it to Inter Milan, but Don does not know how much it will be bid.

Nottingham Forest's offer for Inter Milan is £5.5 million, or about €7 million. Inter agreed to the offer, and Don knew that Inter had also agreed to Lyon's offer.

The next thing is simple, it depends on who has the more attractive conditions between Nottingham Forest and Lyon. Lyon's strength lies in the salary package, while Nottingham Forest's strength lies in the honours they have just won and the prospect of more trophies in the future, and of course the salary package will certainly not be much lower.

Lyon finally offered Grosso a salary of two million euros a year. The Forest team offered 1.9 million euros, just 100,000 short. But to join the European Championship and to join a Ligue 1 champion, to play in the Premier League and to play in Ligue 1...... These are two completely different concepts.

Grosso had also hesitated about the success of Italian players in the English league, and Donn used Albertini as an example to dispel his hesitation.

In the end, Grosso signed his contract at Nottingham Forest because he felt it was possible to win more honours in this team, while Lyon, despite dominating Ligue 1, was weak in Europe. He rejected Lyon and chose Nottingham Forest. Donn hopes the arrival of world champion Grosso will add depth to Forest's defense on the left flank, which is good news for a multi-front Forest team next season.

Grosso, who signed a contract, came straight to Moscow, underwent a comprehensive medical check-up, and then threw himself into training with his new team.

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The introduction of the forest team is not over yet, in the position of right-back, Tang En has always wanted to add another person, although Sun Jihai can also play right-back, but because he has played a jack-of-all-trades under Tang En for a long time, his performance in the right-back position is not as good as before, not very safe.

With that in mind, Donn is currently in the transfer market to compete with Arsenal professor Arsene Wenger.

He and Arsene Wenger both have their eyes on Ligue 1 defender Marcelo Baccaré for Auxerre. Sarnia (bacary_sagna). Due to his impressive performances in Ligue 1 and his selection in the Team of the Season, there are now a number of teams pursuing the black right-back, although he looks to be closer to Arsenal.

Donn stepped into the deal with the limelight of the "new European champion". He is keen to acquire the right-back, who has been dubbed 'Thuram's second', to bolster his strength on the right flank. It is certainly not enough to rely on Zim Bonda alone, not to mention the slow progress of Zim Bonda in the past two years, which makes Don very worried.

Arsenal are offering £6 million and Nottingham Forest are offering £7.5 million, with both sides aiming for a match.

In the end, the player's personal will played a key role.

Sagna thanked the Forest for loving him and Donn for complimenting him, but ...... This "but" made Donn's heart cool all of a sudden.

However, Sagna himself would prefer to play under Arsene Wenger because they are both French, and he has always liked the French manager, Arsene Wenger, and it is his dream to play under him......

At this point, the matter is over. Forest lost to Arsenal in the 'race for Sagna' only because their manager didn't look as attractive as Arsene Wenger.

Don is a very competitive person, and this reality makes him very depressed. It seems that I am not popular everywhere......

Arsenal then announced that Sagna had joined the Gunners, leaving Forest with a search for a right-back.

Fortunately, Don and Don have several candidates for each position, and if this one doesn't work, they will be replaced by the next one.

He originally had several candidates in his hands, among which Sania was the most suitable, the price was not high, the ability was outstanding, and the reputation was not great. Now that Sania's plan has come to naught, he has to look at a few others.

After repeated screening, there are only two people on the list who can be used as surnames.

Schalke 04's right-back Brazilian Rafinha and Croatia international Shakhtar Donetsk right-back Dario. Serna (darijo_srna). Both of these are well-known bulls and demons in the FM series, and Don En has also used them when playing games, and they are really good to use.

In the game, you can try your best to buy it to work for yourself, but in reality it's not so easy.

Rafinha was an absolute workhorse at Schalke 04, and due to Schalke's status in the Bundesliga, his price was on the high side, which was the only reason why Donn gave up Rafinha in the first place.

And what about Serna, price is not an issue. According to reports from scouts who are dedicated to tracking him, as well as Donn's own observations, Serna's performance is not particularly consistent, and the mood sometimes becomes irritable and the standard is greatly reduced due to some of his mistakes in the game. This made Don not very reassured.

Now that Sania has been vetoed, only these two are the most likely.

Donne believes that as long as he makes a call, Shakhtar Donetsk will never be able to compete with the European champions, and Serna will definitely come. But he still wanted to work Rafinha first.

Forest began to try to reach Schalke 04 and the answer was "not for sale".

Schalke 04 thought that this would make the Forest team interesting, but he didn't expect the cheeky Donn to know how to write "Zhifun" at all. A day later, Schalke 04 received an official offer from Nottingham Forest for five million pounds, which was equivalent to seven and a half million euros at the exchange rate at the time.

In order to strengthen the strength of the right wing, Don plans to be ruthless and spend more money this time.

Fortunately, the sale of Yang brought 25 million pounds of transfer funds to the team, otherwise the Forest, which is planning to build a new stadium, is financially stretched and would not have brought any financial support to Donne.

Young's sale made £25 million, Anelka's £12 million, and Arteta's $10 million. Look at the money that Donn spent when he brought in these players, and he didn't lose money. With £47 million on hand, net of the $11 million spent on Arshavin and the $5.5 million spent on Grosso, there is still $30.5 million left, and even if the club's finances don't provide any support, Donn is confident that he will build a strong team.

Faced with a £5 million offer, Schalke 04 was unmoved, and their answer was still "not for sale".

Forest made a second offer that afternoon – £7 million.

This figure may be prosaic in pounds, but it is not low in euros - about 10.5 million.

Schalke 04's answer was still a cold "not for sale", and Don didn't plan to increase the price again. You know, in the summer of 2005, when Schalke 04 brought Rafenha from Corinthians in Brazil to the Veltinsarena, it cost only 4.5 million euros. Now that in just two years they can transfer six million euros with a single hand, Donn doesn't know what the Germans are not happy about. Anyway, there is Serna as a substitute, and it's a big deal that he will go to talk to the Donetsk Shakhtar team in Ukraine, and I believe that it will not cost much.

Just when he decided to give up, a call hit his phone. Speaking of which, the person who called was an "old friend" - Mendes, the famous Portuguese agent who made a big deal in the introduction of Pepe.

Don wondered why Mendes was looking for him at this time, they hadn't been in touch for a while. As a result, Mendes surprised Don by what he said - he turned out to be Lafinha's agent!

"He just changed agents, and the new agent is me. Haha, didn't expect that, right? Tony? ”

Don really didn't expect it, but then he figured it out. Rafinha is a regular for Brazil's Under-20 squad and has made a name for himself after two seasons in the Bundesliga. How could a man like Mendez, who had the sense of smell as a hound, not know his future? So it's normal to try to make promising players a "commodity" under your hands. Mendes's reputation as a European football agent predator is not blown out.

'I know you're having a headache for the right-back, so I'm here to help you out. Rafinha would love to play for a team that has won the European Cup, and to be honest, he has told me more than once that the Bundesliga is just a springboard for him, and he wants to play in a higher league and a team one day, Schalke have been aiming for the league title and the Champions Cup every year in '04, but they haven't achieved it in one year. They can't compare to your team at all, Tony. I'm very optimistic about you and your Forest team, so I promised to sell Pepe to you for a bargain and I'm very happy to see him in your team. Of course he was pleased. Pepe is still a player under him, the better Pepe performs, the more honors he gets, and his value will naturally rise with the tide, and his small investment will be very, very rich in return. But now he speaks in a high-sounding manner, and a single blow can make the listener feel very comfortable. "Now I'm going to help you again."

These words rekindled Donn's pursuit of Rafinha**.

"But...... This time things are different from Pepe, a little tricky. I think you may need to raise the offer a little more to impress Schalke 04, and then I'll put some pressure on them to get a price that is satisfactory to both parties. What do you think, Tony? ”

Don knew Mendes' thoughts. A transfer agent can take a 10% cut, and if this transfer fails, then Mendes' money will be in vain. Why did he help Donn? To put it bluntly, it's just to make money for himself. Raising prices? It's just to make that 10 percent more.

Donn wanted to refuse, but when he thought of Raphha's ability, he felt like something was scratching in his heart, and he couldn't let go. Putting good players to work for them is the idea of all coaches. Rafinha is indeed capable, and he is still young, because he has a lot of room for development and infinite potential.

To put it bluntly, Zim Bonda is not a right-back of the same grade as Rafinha, and if Rafenha can come, it will be the best......

Donn reworked the transfer list in his mind, calculated how much transfer fee was left, and then asked: "How much more?" ”

Mendez on the other end of the phone smiled with a wine glass: "Ten million, pounds, mentioning ten million is enough." Believe me, friend, my face is still somewhat influential. ”

The total price is 10 million pounds, which is not outrageous, but 15 million euros. The Forest team can afford the money.

Don thought about it for a moment and agreed to Mendes' suggestion. If it works, it's not really a win-win, it's a win-win-win, it's a win-win-win, or even a win-of-four – Forest, Schalke 04, Mendes and Rafinha.

Players want to go to teams that can bring more glory and money to themselves, clubs put the overall interests before the players' personal interests, and agents will always pursue interests.

The key word – interests.

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After Donn and Allen discussed, Forest again offered £10 million, which is about 15 million euros.

Real Madrid bought Sergio from Sevilla. Ramos spent 27 million euros, which is the world's most valuable right-back position. Now this offer cannot be considered low in any way for a young man who is only twenty-one years old.

For this quote, the English newspaper The Sun has a very graphic analogy:

“…… We all know in the fight against Bakkale. In the battle for Sagna, Done lost to Arsene Wenger. He is said to have been very disappointed with the result, because the reason for Sagna's rejection was not that the salary was not high enough, nor that the team lacked honour and fame, but that he preferred Arsene Wenger as a coach to him. So Coach Don is angry, so how do you vent when you're angry? As we all know, the best way for a woman to vent her anger is to go shopping on the street and swipe her card frantically. Our dear Mr. Donn has carried on this tradition very well. He went on a killing spree in the transfer market, brandishing the pound in his hand as if it were a sharp sword trying to defeat the dragon Schalke who had kidnapped the princess Rafinha. ”

Honestly, the analogy was quite graphic, but Don didn't like it, because he felt like a shrew with a tantrum in it.

He had an even more ill-going ill feeling for The Sun.

In fact, when Don was playing games before, he once became someone else's Kaizi because of Rafenha. At that time, he used the prestigious Real Madrid, in order to buy Rafinha, he once spent 40,000 euros!

Of course, there is an element of Donn's anger in this: he has made five offers, but Schalke 04 directly refused, and he was unwilling to talk about it. So he was furious for a moment and directly reported 40 million, and this time Schalke finally nodded and successfully won it.

Forest's finances won't allow $40 million for a player, and Donn isn't playing a game, he can throw money at will like a piece of paper.

Donn felt that 15 million euros was a very fair price, which would not keep Schalke 04 shut up and was still within the range that Forest could afford.

Schalke 04 had fallen into a financial crisis a season ago, and if it was a shot at that time, it would definitely not cost so much money, and there are also reasons why Rafinha has only played in the league for a year and is too young. It's different now, Gazprom has injected huge sums of money into Schalke 04, at least they don't have to sell players to pay off their debts.

Fifteen million euros for a young right-back is what Donn thinks is an offer to get the two sides to sit down and talk. In addition, with Mendes' promise, I believe that Schalke 04 will not be cold "not for sale" when it replies.

Sure enough, Forest FC received a reply from Schalke 04 and wanted to talk more about the offer.

There is absolutely no real "non-sale" in this world, and what is said to be "not for sale" is just because the price offered by the other party is not high enough. Just like George. Wood, if there is really a club to pay 200 million pounds to buy him, even if Donn doesn't do it, Evan would rather fire the stubborn manager, he will agree to the deal - let alone the joke of 200 million, even if it is 90 million euros, maybe he will sell it.

For young right-back Rafinha, Schalke thinks the price is not bad and they can sell him and then buy other good youngsters. Even if you don't buy young people, you can buy a few more players who are strong enough to play in the current year, which can greatly improve the strength of the team. Schalke 04's goal for the new season is to win the league title, and that's when every penny counts.

Schalke 04 no longer held the boring idea of "not for sale", sat down at the negotiating table with the Forest Club, and launched "fierce but friendly" negotiations on the value of Rafinha.

Alan was in charge of the negotiations, and when he left, Donn told him to find a way to bring the Brazilians within the total price of 20 million euros.

He knew that things would go better with Mendez's help, but he couldn't put his hopes and chips in someone else's hands, that would be too dangerous. Now that he has made up his mind to buy Rafinha, he doesn't mind paying a little more. So after thinking about it, Donn told Allen that he could accept a bid of up to 20 million euros, and no matter how high it was, it would not be discussed. He doesn't want to be anyone's Kaizi.

Alan took the order, and Don, under Mendes's arrangement, secretly went to Germany to meet with Rafenha secretly. During the talks, the two sides increased their understanding and concluded a mutually beneficial covenant of common progress and retreat. Don wants Rafenha to continue to put pressure on Schalke 04 to accept Forest's offer. Donn feared that other clubs would come and compete with him.

On this point, Mendes patted his chest and assured that Lafenha belonged only to Nottingham Forest, and that they could initialize an agreement if they could not believe it. At the same time, Rafenha also expressed his admiration for Donne as a manager and his yearning for Nottingham Forest. This gave Donn, who had just lost in the "Battle for Sagna", a great satisfaction, and promised that Rafinha would come to the team and be able to secure the position of the main right-back - he was not buying a replacement for Zim Bonda, which was also a good gift.

Later that day, Don flew back to Moscow to continue leading the team for training. It was only at the usual press conference that he expressed his appreciation for Rafinha, which was a response to the media about the transfer news.

On the other hand, Rafinha said in a public interview that he would like to play in England, and his sincere attitude almost did not say that joining Nottingham Forest was his biggest dream since he was a child......

Allen, for his part, secured the greatest benefit he could for the Forest at the negotiating table – €18 million, to be paid in instalments, with a down payment of $10 million, and the remaining $8 million to be paid off month by month over a period of 12 months.

Schalke 04 nodded in agreement, and Mendes flew to Moscow with Allen, and the two started a new round of negotiations on the issue of Rafinha's treatment on the plane. Both men are businessmen, both are crisp enough, and with the relationship between Donn and Mende, and Mendes' contribution to the deal, negotiations are going well.

By the time the plane landed at the Moscow airport, the details of the contract had been negotiated, and all that had to be done was to take care of trivial matters such as German real estate, and then fly directly to Moscow for a medical examination, and then sign the contract. Since Rafinha is a key member of the Brazilian U20 national team, labor certification is not an issue.

Three days later, on July 11, Nottingham Forest and Schalke 04 clubs officially announced at the same time, saying that Brazilian defender Rafinha officially transferred from Schalke 04 to Nottingham Forest, with a transfer fee of up to 18 million euros, about 12 million pounds.

This is the most expensive transfer deal for Forest in the new season, and Forest continue to strengthen their feared wings.

Rafinha soon reported to Moscow, where Donn was caught shaking hands with Rafinha on the sidelines of the training ground. What he lost at Sagna, he earned back here at Rafinha, and he was in a good mood.

(To be continued)