"Would you like to go down and have a drink?" Don pointed to the elevator and said to the two men standing in front of him.

Evan looked at Allen, then shook his head, "No." At this time, it is estimated that the following are all players. We don't show up quite right. Just go to your room, Tony. ”

Don shook the key key in his hand, "Okay, but I don't have much to entertain you except for a few bottles of mineral water." Standing in front of the door of his room, he turned back to the two guests.

Evan smiled at him, while Eren was expressionless, standing next to Evan as if he were his bodyguard.

Opening the door, Don invited the two of them in first, and he was the last, and closed the door casually when he entered the house.

"It was a good game, Tony." Evan congratulated Don first, and at the Bernabeu, he was either surrounded by reporters or paraded by the players, and then went to collect the award. Evan. Dogetty never looked for a chance to get close to him.

"We were sent off and it was thrilling to win." In Donn's opinion, although the competition was fierce, it was not exciting. He took out three bottles of mineral water from the Xiaoice box in the room, threw them to the two, unscrewed the bottle in his hand, and filled half a bottle in one go.

"If you win, you can do so much!" Evan is delighted that Nottingham Forest, 149 years old, is destined to become the most successful club president of all time, perhaps the "greatest". "Also, what are you going to do with Pepe's red card?" Evan is in no hurry to get straight to the point. "Do you want to appeal?"

Don looked at Evan, who was deliberately hiding his purpose, and smiled: "Appeal? The red card was not wronged at all, and it was normal for UEFA to issue any fines. The club accepts it. As for the rest...... That's none of your business, Evan. You don't like to fight with journalists in the media. When he said this, he was taking the matter for himself.

"Well, I can guess what you're going to do......" Evan shook his head. But I advise you, don't go overboard. ”

"I've got my own measure." Don poured another sip of cold Evian water.

"Your sense of proportion......" Evan smiled bitterly, only bitterly. It's rare for Donn to ask the club to wipe his ass.

In fact, if you think about it over the years, whenever Don and the media quarrel hotly, the club has always stayed out of the way and ignored it. Donn succeeded in drawing public attention to his temperament and personality without thinking about anything to do with the club. When he was successful, he represented Nottingham Forest, and when he had a bad reputation, it didn't matter with Forest.

Donn walked over to the window, then opened the glass window and turned off the air conditioner. The night wind poured in and puffed up the curtains. The wind on the eleventh floor was quite strong.

With the wind comes the hustle and bustle of the bustling world outside, and the sound of car horns and drunken songs of fans on the streets below becomes faint and unreal in the whirring wind.

"It's cool." Don opened his arms as if to embrace the night.

"Hey, Tony. Do you have any arrangements for the holidays? I'm not talking about going to Brazil to explain the World Cup. "Evan still doesn't get down to business, and he talks nonsense.

Tang En was not in a hurry, and accompanied him to talk nonsense: "With my wife." Where she goes, I go. ”

"You're such a good husband." Evan praised.

Tang En shook his head unappreciatively: "This opportunity is not good for me once a year, and I don't even count as passing." "If it weren't for the fact that he wanted to maintain the majesty of a manager in front of the players, he would even have taken Shania to his room on this night to enjoy the fish.

The two of them just talked for a while, during which Allen. Adams remained silent, sitting next to Evan like a transparent man, taking a sip of the mineral water in his hand.

Perhaps it was the realization that after a fierce match, Don must have been very tired. Evan finally got to the point: "Actually, Alan and I came to you this time for a new contract, Tony. ”

Hearing him say "new contract", Alan put aside his stealth armor, took out a stack of papers from the briefcase he was carrying, and handed it to Evan. Dogety.

The corners of Donne's mouth curled - what should come must always come, no matter how idle it is, it can't be stopped.

"You said you didn't think about renewing your contract before the Champions Cup. Now I'm glad that the Champions Cup is over and that it's still with our victory. Now the club has offered you a new contract – completely up-to-date, drawn up after the match...... Alan made a lot of efforts. "Evan. Dogetty is aware of the conflict between Don and Allen, and he wants to regain the affection between the two right-hand men.

Don didn't look at Allen and didn't say anything.

"The treatment has improved a lot. If you sign on to that, you'll be the highest-paid club manager in England! "Evan. Dogetty said excitedly. In fact, with his surname, he would not be so generous. But he knew Tony deeply. What does Donn mean to Nottingham Forest, as long as you can keep him, you can earn it back for more money - have you heard that champions are worried about money?

Don stretched out his hand to Evan, who hurriedly handed over the contract in his hand. He continued to describe to Don En the bright future after the contract renewal: "...... When we move to a new stadium next season, ticket revenue will definitely increase. However, Nottingham is too small, we plan to continue to explore overseas markets, and you have won the Triple Crown at the right time! The market is open, the funds are abundant, and when the time comes, whoever you want to buy will have money! ”

Donn ignored Evan's impassioned speech, and he scanned the terms of the contract with his head down. Evan didn't lie to him, the contract was more lucrative than anything he'd ever seen. If he signs it, then his annual salary will be as high as £7.5 million, which is not the highest salary for a coach in world football, but he is already firmly in the top deal in the Premier League. Arsene Wenger's annual salary of five million is simply not a threat to him.

And that's just the annual salary, not counting those who win the championship. For the godfather of the champion, it is naturally easy to get the championship as if it were a bag, and it is naturally easy to get the bonus.

But Donn doesn't value that. It's not that he doesn't love money, it's that he has many ways to make money, and the salary paid by the club is only part of it......

In addition to his salary, he has a number of endorsement contracts. Like Armani, like the FM series of games, like Gillette razors, like Ray-Ban sunglasses. In addition, he has a contract with BBC TV, and he is a guest commentator for the England team games broadcast by the BBC during the national team matches, and he also has a sum of money in his account. In addition, his autobiography "Ten Years" sold very well, ranking in the top three of the bestseller list in the UK for five consecutive weeks, and the number one spot for two weeks. Everyone is full of curiosity about the most famous and mysterious manager in England. Compared to these, the occasional fee earned for writing op-eds for a few media outlets is nothing short of drizzle, not worth mentioning.

It can be said that he signed an eight-year long-term contract with the club before, and he did not ask for a salary increase once, and he played the best role model in the team. His supporters believe he is the only coach who doesn't value money in the tide of commercial football, while others think his love for Nottingham Forest is beyond monetary measure, but in reality that's only because the £2.7 million annual salary represents only a tenth of his total annual income in recent years......

Donn quickly skimmed over the terms of his income, he wanted to see more of his rights guaranteed to be written on it, in black and white, and when the time came, he would have the evidence to assert his rights.

It was also his last chance for the club.

But he was disappointed. His authority as a manager is not enshrined in any of the terms of his contract. Perhaps Evan feels the need to write because the Premier League manager is already the most powerful manager in the world, even though their power is not comparable to that of 20 years ago. Maybe Evan didn't want to write it, because he was afraid that something would happen in the future and Don would be coerced by the neck. It's also possible that this is Allen. Adams' idea, didn't Evan say that this contract was drawn up by Allen? How could he possibly put something that restricted him on a contract?

Don shook his head slightly, closing the contract and handing it back to Evan.

Evan didn't expect Don to return the contract to himself as it was, he had thought that Don would not hesitate to take out his pen and sign it after seeing the income figures.

"Uh, Tony?" Evan didn't take the contract at the first time, but asked with some confusion.

Don lowered his head, as if he had made a lot of determination, and used all his strength to raise his head and smile at Evan, "I'm not going to sign this, Evan." ”

Evan. Thinking he had misheard, Dogetty stared at Don with wide eyes, showing how much of the joke was on his face.

Don guessed what he was thinking: "Don't look at it, I'm not kidding. He craned his legs and spent his time looking at the club president, who was still in shock. Look at the calm Alan behind him. Adams, what a poor man......

Alan didn't mean to say anything, Don didn't say anything after saying this, and Evan was still in a daze. There was a moment of silence in the room. But the silence wasn't embarrassing, because they had different minds and were thinking about their own things. The noise on the corridor downstairs outside the window was a little quieter, and it must have been the police officers in charge of policing finally planning to do something.

Time passed like this, and Evan had long since recovered from the initial shock, and had been pondering with uncertainty as to why Don refused to renew his contract. Of course, he may have guessed the answer a long time ago, for example, it must have been Allen who forcibly sold Lennon a year ago, causing them to be hostile to each other...... But how can you still remember what happened a year ago? Isn't that too cautious? People always have to look forward, and the past will let it pass. As long as we're together, what can't win a championship, and what star can't be bought? What is a Lennon?

But how did he know that Donn didn't care about Lennon or Messi at all, but that his authority was most directly threatened and challenged. He is a person who has some mental cleanliness in this regard, and as long as this kind of thing happens for the first time, then there will only be more and more similar situations in the future, and more and more, so much that he is annoyed.

If the Arab lunatics in Manchester City throw out 100 million to buy George, Don is not sure if he will be able to keep it. Because Allen will intervene 100%, in the eyes of this pure businessman, 100 million can buy three midfielders with a slightly worse level but still world-class for the team, one to three, which is more cost-effective?

Businessmen will never understand that football is not a numbers game. There are some things that you can't buy with any amount of money. Did Manchester City spend so much money and smash out a league title? A loser who didn't even win the League Cup!

Evan thought about it for a long time, and observed it for a long time. He discovers that Alan and Tony really have no intention of reconciling. Then he said, "I think there may be some misunderstanding between them, Tony......"

Donn shook his head, "I'm tired, Evan." I want to rest and rest, accompany my wife at home, and take care of her daily life, just like a man who eats soft rice. He wanted to have a direct showdown and say, "Allen and I don't look at each other, there is no need to force each other if we don't agree on ideas, don't conspire with each other", but it became this excuse on his lips.

"You have a holiday to rest."

"A vacation of less than a month can't make up for the debt I've owed to Shania for eleven years." Don said this very seriously, and did not mean anything perfunctory to Evan. Because he was telling the truth.

But Evan didn't believe Donn's excuse, he frowned and kept shaking his head, "Oh please, don't do that, Tony...... No coach has ever left the job at the age of forty-five for this reason. You're still young, okay? You can achieve even greater! As long as we're together, you admit it, right? ...... in the Premier League No, in the whole world, only Nottingham Forest is best suited for you to showcase your talents. We need you, and you need us. ”

"I admit it." Donn smiled and nodded. This is also true.

There's his descendants, there's the fans who support him the most, there's the media who sing his praises and play psychological warfare, and there's the president of the club who doesn't have much influence and doesn't pay much attention to what he's playing most of the time...... Going elsewhere may only meet one or two of these conditions, but all of them are met, and there is only one semicolon in the world, Nottingham Forest.

Allan. Adams is perhaps the only flaw here, but also the deadliest. He won't point at Alan and ask Evan loudly like the jealous woman in the eight o'clock soap opera: "If you want me or him, you can choose one!" ”

He knew Alan. As Evan's entrepreneurial partner and friend for decades, Adams has a lot of weight in Evan's heart. No matter how jealous he is, his relatives will never be able to win the ban.

'I just want to rest, so it doesn't make sense that there's only Forest in the world for me, Evan.'

Evan still thinks Donn is going to make a job change: "Is it better to go to those big clubs than to be at Nottingham Forest? After all these years, he has long since abandoned his dream of getting the team into the G14 ranks. This, of course, is directly related to the dissolution of the G14 by UEFA.

'I'm not going to Manchester United, Evan. I'm not going anywhere...... Well, maybe I'll go to the United States, Shania's career is basically over there. But I don't know how to coach, is there football in the United States? I don't know anything about rugby. Don spread out his hands, pretending to be relaxed.

Evan stared at the smiling Don as if he wanted to see through him as a person.

Don didn't continue.

The two men looked at each other for a moment, and Evan got up from the couch, "I hope you'll think about it, Tony." There is still more than a month left before the expiration of the contract, and this contract ...... "he patted the contract in his hand," "to keep it for you." ”

It's going to go.

Don got up to see off the guest. "Don't bother, Evan. Go find my successor now. I'm quitting, I'm serious. At the door, he said to Evan very seriously.

Evan didn't answer, just went out the door with Alan.

He remained silent until the two of them walked into the empty elevator and saw the elevator door completely closed in front of him, and then he suddenly yelled loudly: "Fuck! How could he do that!! ”

Alan remained silent, listening quietly to his old friend and boss venting his frustrations like a volcanic eruption.

"Who does he think he is?! Isn't it great to win three championships? He doesn't want an annual salary of 7.5 million, what else does he want!! You say, Alan! ”

Evan. Dogetty jerked away and stared at Allen. Adams.

"Do you think there's anything I'm sorry for him? He's making a lot of nonsense outside, and I'm going to wipe his ass for him! I tried to meet all his requests, and in the eyes of the media, he became the king of Nottingham Forest, who remembers me as the president of the club? But I don't care...... I really don't care about any of that! I just want him to keep coaching this team and keep winning championships for us! He is not satisfied, he is still ...... Damn it! ”

Evan slammed his fist into the metal wall of the elevator, making a muffled sound that made the elevator seem to tremble.

"Well, I know what he thinks in his heart, what bullshit to accompany his wife? He's just complaining that he doesn't have enough power. How big does he want to be? Will you directly replace me as the president of this club? Then there would be no one to take care of him. Evan suddenly sneered, "The media touted him as the 'King of Nottingham Forest', and he really thinks he is the king...... Amusing! ”

The elevator stopped, and with a clang, the door slowly opened before their eyes. It's already on the first floor.

Evan didn't look back at his partner, the anger on his face had dissipated, and he couldn't tell that he had just scolded so fiercely in the elevator. He said in the same tone, "Alan, prepare a list of successors for me." I'm going to see that list by tomorrow afternoon at the latest. Then we started looking for a coach. ”

Alan nodded at first, and then realized that he already knew everything about himself that he should not show in front of Evan, so he asked, "Why not wait until June 30?" ”

"A new coach, a new plan, a new squad, everything takes time, and by that time we will be late, compared to other competitors."

Evan said and stepped out of the elevator, Alan following him. The two men walked through the lobby, walked out the door, got into a black car that had been waiting for a long time, and disappeared into the night.

(To be continued)