Albertini's injury suddenly made the atmosphere in the team a little more solemn. Downing key figures at critical moments is a huge demoralization blow to the team.

Whether Don wants it or not, he must now accept the fact that the team will start the new season in the captain's absence.

He made a number of changes and put Mikel Arteta at the heart of midfield in training, clearly to bring the Spaniard to replace Albertini.

At the same time, due to Arteta's play, Forest's attacking tactics also need to be further adjusted. After all, Albertini and Arteta have different ways of organising attacks, and these need to be familiarized with the team. Fortunately, Mikel Arteta played a lot of games in the final stages of last season, and the team is no stranger to this more nuanced attacking style.

The only problem is that George Wood and Arteta have not worked together well enough, and the run-in in less than half a season is far from enough. A lot of the time, Wood is still following the same idea and routine as he was with Albertini. The most obvious example is that Arteta is closer to the opposition penalty area than Albertini, so the distance between Wood and the Spaniard is invisibly widened, and it is easy for the opponent to cut off the link between the two. Once the defensive midfield cannot provide enough protection for the attacking midfield, then the Forest team's attack will not be organized, and it will be easy to be forced by the opponent to disrupt their rhythm, and then completely lose control of the midfield, and losing control of the midfield is equivalent to losing the game.

Done also had to shake his head in his heart when he saw such a situation off the training ground, the impact Albertini had on George Wood...... It's so deep.

This was a good thing in the past, but in the present situation...... Don's head hurt again.

If there is only good news during this period, it is that the new joining Anelka has behaved honestly and has not added fuel to the fire and chaos on Donn.

New to a team. Face new teammates and head coaches. I don't know the temper of the manager, so I will naturally be a little more restrained. Don did not let his guard down on Anelkadi, and he firmly believed in one sentence:

The country is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change.

He didn't think Anelka would suddenly become an optimistic, cheerful, and endearing boy just because he came to Nottingham Forest. Even if he seems to be like this on the surface, it is only because he is trying to suppress his inner nature.

Anelka is not a player he is keen to bring in, unlike Bendtner and Eastwood, he is not enthusiastic about this man. Although he told Chris Lak to "treat any normal first-team player", actually. He still had some tinted glasses with him - he couldn't do without, he couldn't.

You do well and I can give you a chance, just like any player who performs well gives a chance. But if something goes wrong with you, I'll give someone else a chance.

But if something goes wrong with Eastwood, Donn will help Eastwood get back into shape even if he pushes it with his shoulder.

That's the difference.

August 10. The third round of UEFA Champions League qualifying, the first leg, will be played two days later at the City Stadium, home of Forest.

It was Nottingham Forest's first step back in the European Champions Cup after twenty-four years, and it would have been an ordinary one. Even the low-level qualifiers, which have a whole new meaning, immediately become favourites. Tickets for the tournament were sold out a week in advance. All Nottinghamians were very interested in the game, and until two days before the game, there were many people holding "I need to ask for tickets" signs outside the city stadium, hoping to meet someone to come and get their tickets refunded. But all of them were disappointed. Not to mention ticket refunds, even scalpers are extinct - they have been sold long ago, and now even if the scalpers want to make another profit, they will have no tickets.

Now the players who live in Nottingham are going to start worrying because their relatives and friends who haven't bought tickets are coming to their door to get the tickets allocated to the players and club staff, but not many. It's just three or four for each person.

So, the home is not in Nottingham. Even the tickets in the hands of foreign players were all looted by local players.

Of course, there are exceptions. George Wood is a local player, but he also gave all the land tickets to Wes Morgan. Except for his mother, he didn't have any relatives and friends asking him for tickets, and he didn't even know whether having relatives and friends was a good thing or a bad thing for him......

Donn has six tickets in his hand, which is the prerogative of the head coach. However, no player dares to loot his tickets, which is also the prerogative of being a manager.

Don really couldn't think of anyone else who else could give these tickets, Shania was still in Brazil and hadn't returned, and Sophia didn't need him to be courteous, Wood would have left it for his mother.

With six tickets in hand, there is no place to go.

The crowd at the Forest Bar is a loyal fan of the Forest team, so how could they not have tickets for this game? Kenny Barnes was guarding his bar, he hadn't been to the stadium for a long time, and no matter how meaningful this game was, he wouldn't be there.

But when it comes to the Forest Bar, Donn thinks of someone.

He ran to find Fat John and asked for Michael's contact address in the United States.

"What are you going to do? Send him a ticket? But he's not coming, and he's in the United States, and when you send it, the game is already over......," John wondered.

"Of course I didn't let him come and play." Writing the address on the airline envelope, Donn said to John, "I'm just telling him that guy who swore he didn't love football anymore that I didn't just get Forest back to the top flight in England, I got Forest back in the top league in Europe!" I don't care if he cares about it, I don't care if he remembers it, but I promised him, and now I do. Don looked up at John as he placed the ticket in the envelope.

John was silent.

Donn sent one ticket, and there were five left, all of which he took to Gavin Bernard's grave, lit them with a lighter, and "sent" them to Gavin Jr., a permanent fan of the Forest team, in a Chinese way.

"Five may be a bit much, but ...... I don't have anyone to give, so if there are many, you can keep them as a souvenir. ”