Godfather Of Champions

Martin O’Neill’s nightmare did not become a reality. When he opened his eyes in bed the next day, he was not awakened by the continuous ringing of the phone, which made him feel a little relieved. Because that shows that the club did not sell the main players on a large scale, otherwise his phone calls would be blown by the news media and the players' agents.

The exhausted Northern Irishman, who was tossed by the recent transfer rumors and the team's top management who always likes to intervene in the team affairs, lay in bed for a long time before getting up to wash and enjoy the breakfast his wife made.

He was stunned when he picked up the milk and the sports page of the Sun newspaper that his wife had folded for him.

The most striking thing in the newspaper is the square matrix of four photos. Obviously the photo was taken secretly, the pixels were not high, and the image was not clear, but O'Neill still recognized the baby face of Alan Adams. This is in a restaurant and Alan is talking about something with someone. The sneak shot tried several angles, but was unable to take a complete picture of the face of the person who was talking with Alan Adams. At the last one, when the man walked out of the hotel door, the camera finally caught him in front of him-Michael Dawson!

O'Neill quickly dropped the photo to read the text.

"... The reporter took this group of photos yesterday at the De Lima restaurant in North London. The photos showed that the business director of Nottingham Forest Alan Adams was meeting with Tottenham Hotspur's center back Michael Dawson. They were two. The meeting confirmed this newspaper’s previous speculation that Nottingham Forest intends to return Dawson. And Dawson himself also hopes to leave Tottenham and join the hometown team. In recent seasons, he has suffered frequent injuries and not only lost his country in England. The status of the team in Tottenham is also at stake. He is about to turn 31 years old and hopes to change the environment and start again. It is reported that the amount involved in this transfer should not be too high..."

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With a sound of "pop!" a newspaper was thrown onto the table in front of Evan Daggerty.

Evan looked at the secret photo of Allen in the newspaper, and then looked up at Martin O'Neal with an angry face.

"When Pepe was sold by you, you promised to sign a high-level central defender. I only have one request-young enough! Michael Dawson will be 31 years old soon, and he has no injuries this season. Broken, I don't know why you decided to buy him!" In the chairman's office, O'Neal asked loudly and without scruples.

"Michael is indeed a high-level central defender..." Evan glanced at Allen sitting on the sofa silently, and then explained to O'Neill.

To be honest, he had no mental preparation for O'Neal's sudden questioning of him. Until now, my mind is still dizzy-how did O'Neill, who has always been very good at talking, suddenly turn into a violent fighter?

"What I want is a young and high-level central defender, not a central defender who is about to be thirty-one and who has just recovered from injuries and has been injured three times in four seasons!" O'Neal vowed not this time. Back down, you must let the other party give yourself an explanation.

"More importantly, did anyone ask my opinion when you decided to contact Dawson?" This is what makes O'Neill most angry. To be honest, Michael Dawson is not unusable, at least the strength is still there, and it is no problem to recover from the injury and play the game.

O'Neal thought of Pepe’s transfer again. The old and new hatreds were intertwined. He felt that he was a puppet as the head coach. It was the other two people in this room who decided everything about the team, one sitting behind the boss’ table and the other. He looked at himself in surprise, and the other was lying silent on the sofa, as if watching the excitement.

"I am the head coach of this team. Gentlemen, in the United Kingdom, the head coach is called'manager'. He is called differently from those in La Liga and Serie A and has different responsibilities. "O'Neill vaguely criticized the two Yankees for not understanding British national conditions. "It is my power and responsibility to decide who the team buys and sells. It is my duty. If you pay me to work here, I will exercise all the powers I should exercise." O'Neal looked at his boss, his superiors, and his eyes. It is full of determination not to back down.

Sure enough, he was a person with completely two temperaments and Tony Dunn. Even if he gets angry, he still won't be like Dunn's swearing and hysterical madness. He is still very calm, well-organized and well-organized. But also because of this, every word he said made Evan Daggerty particularly uncomfortable. I thought that after sending away Tony Dunn, the plague god, O'Neill was a soft persimmon who came to talk. I didn't expect honest people to get angry. Harder to deal with.

He was silent for a few seconds, thinking about how to respond.

"Don't worry, Martin... Of course we know that you are the head coach of this team, but what Allen has done can pave the way for you in advance. If the head coach does everything by himself, then you can't Tired?" Evan laughed. He wanted to ease the atmosphere, but he found that the other two people in the room were not smiling except himself. So after a two-time dry laugh, he stopped his mouth in embarrassment.

O'Neal didn't save face for Mr. Chairman this time. He responded with a stern face: "Yes, wait until you have reached an agreement with the other club and the players in private before you come to notify me. Just like Pepe, right? ?"

Allen raised his head and looked at the two people who were fighting across the desk.

Evan's face changed, he glanced at Alan, then turned back to look at O'Neill. He found that O'Neill was also looking at him... No, it might be more appropriate to stare at him.

O'Neal is right. He is the head coach of this team. He should be responsible for all transfers and exercise power. But Evan Daugherty has been suppressed by Dunn for so many years, and he has long been unable to restrain his desire to control this team. In his opinion, he is the owner of the club, and he should be able to express his opinions on the affairs of the team, and even get started directly...or say he is too much. The chairmen of so many clubs in the world like to intervene in team affairs, even the Premier League is no exception, why can't you move?

No matter how great the head coach is, he also works for me. I am the real leader here. Have you figured this out?

He suddenly didn't want to smile at a wage earner, and sometimes he had to show the majesty of the club chairman.

"Well, you know about this now, Mr. O'Neill."

Evan Daugherty assumed a posture to see off the guests.

O'Neal stood in front of him and stared at him for a while before he turned and walked away. He didn't say a word to Evan Daggerty because he felt unnecessary.

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There has been less and less speculation and hype about why Tony Dunn would leave Nottingham Forest at the peak. Some people even optimistically think that just like Shankly's sudden resignation from Liverpool when he deserves to make a big splash, Nottingham Forest will have more glory like Paisley's Liverpool after a brief period of turbulence. Prospects. After all, Dunn had already consolidated the foundation.

It is meaningless to continue to speculate about the people who have left. It is better to focus on the new coach Martin O'Neal.

But one person has a negative attitude towards this idea.

When I first learned that Dunn had not renewed his contract with the club, Pierce Bruce was surrounded by shock, anger, disappointment, and doubts like everyone else. As a reporter, his curiosity gradually surpassed a few other emotions, and deposited in the days that followed. Since the Forest team had a warm-up match with England last week, the doubts accumulated in his heart have gradually surfaced, and his interest in "Why on earth Tony Dunn is not renewing" has grown stronger, even now. No media is investigating this matter anymore, and he still decided to investigate the matter.

It's just that he wanted to check, but he couldn't start. Although he has interviewed the Forest team many times, he still doesn't know much about the senior management of the Forest team. On the one hand, he always mingled with Tony Dunn, on the other hand, Evan Daggerty at that time was really low-key. When Dunn and Evan are together, they always look happily together, making others look at them without envy. He collected information everywhere, but he couldn't detect any information in the two most critical aspects.

Tony Dunn remained silent, and Nottingham Forest seemed to have forgotten that they once had such a head coach, and there was no news about Dunn.

Nottingham Forest is now Evan Daugherty's one-man club, and it is much more convenient for him to control the club than those boards.

These days, Bruce is busy collecting relevant information everywhere. Fortunately, his boss supports him, because they all know that Dunn’s resignation is not a simple matter. There must be some inside information that they don’t want others to know, otherwise the parties will not Will be silent.

Once these truths are revealed, they will surely become big news that shakes the English football scene. So this thing must be done.

Bruce was so busy that he almost forgot to interview O'Neal. This is the first interview with Martin O'Neal after becoming the head coach of Nottingham Forest. His team building policy and his goal of leading the team will be in this time. Being talked about in the interview can be regarded as an important interview task.

It was a colleague in the office that he was so obsessed with Tony Dunn’s hide and seek game reminding him that he remembered to call O’Neill to confirm the interview.

No matter how Tony Dunn left, no matter what the story behind the club that Evan Daugherty was in charge of, Pierce Bruce picked up those curiosities at this moment, sorted out his clothes, and knocked on the forest team owner. The coach's door.

Martin O'Neill is waiting in his seat for the visit of this influential reporter in Nottingham.

"Hello, Mr. O'Neal. I hope I didn't interrupt your work." Bruce put down the interview bag, got up and shook hands with O'Neal.

"No, Mr. Bruce, my job is over." O'Neill smiled gently.

Bruce sat down and began interviewing the new head coach who has always been considered or in the shadow of Dunn. However, the interview did not follow the steps that Bruce had planned to achieve. He first asked a question: "How does it feel to be a head coach in Nottingham Forest for two months, Mr. O'Neal?"

Under normal circumstances, O'Neill should nod and say: "It feels good, everyone supports my work very much, I get a lot of support..."

But O'Neill hesitated but shook his head. "Tougher than I thought."

With his professional acumen, Bu Lusi immediately caught the point. He followed this sentence and temporarily changed the question he had prepared before: "Is it because Tony Dunn has too much influence?"

O'Neill continued to shook his head: "No." He seemed to be very talkative today, and Bruce didn't interrupt, but just guided him to continue.

"Sometimes when you are outside, you can't see clearly, you think it's beautiful. But when you walk in, you will find that your thinking is wrong." O'Neill said very mysteriously, "I used to think I had I am psychologically prepared and rich in experience, but now I still feel that I made a mistake in judgment."

Listening to this inexplicable remark, Bruce's mind was spinning at high speed, guessing what O'Neill meant. Then he asked tentatively: "Do you mean Pepe's transfer?"

He was right.

O'Neill shrugged: "When you knew that Pepe might be leaving, it turned out that he had already decided to be traded to AC Milan. What do you think?"

Bruce's heart jumped, he seemed to have grasped something, and the fog that had been haunting him before was slowly dissipating.

"I'm sorry, Mr. O'Neal. I remember that you are the head coach of the team. How can such a thing be the last to inform you?" Bruce continued to pursue the victory.

"I don't know why, it's the case. I was kept in the dark. Everyone knew that Pepe had already made an agreement with AC Milan. Only I didn't know. I went to talk to Pepe again. I was rejected for granted. I can't save this situation. Now when the season is about to start, we have lost the most important central defender. I don't even know who we will continue to lose." O'Neal was full of grievances and finally found a vent.的口子. "Look at the transfer rumors about Forest players in the media. They are still here. I really want to thank God."

"Have you read the report of the meeting between Mr. Allen Adams and Michael Dawson, Mr. Bruce?"

Bruce nodded. As a sports reporter, he certainly has to pay attention to the sports news that happens every day.

"Did you find out through that report?"

Bruce was taken aback for a moment and then shook his head: "I have my own reporter friend, Mr. O'Neill. You know, we will exchange information..."

Martin O'Neal grinned at this answer: "It's great. Even a reporter understands our team's signing goals before me, the coach. Maybe I should hire some reporters to be scouts?"

The problem is big.

Bruce thought so in his heart. If a head coach doesn't even know what kind of people the team wants to introduce until the end, the problem is big. He was completely bypassed, so who bypassed him...

It suddenly occurred to him that at about this time last summer, the right forward Alan Lennon of the Forest team was sold to Inter Milan. At that time Tony Dunn was furious, and his rants and swear words could even be heard throughout England. He was scolding Alan Adams for making an agreement with Inter Milan without asking for his consent at all, giving Lennon his hand. For this reason, he also suspended the contract extension negotiations with the team. There was a lot of noise at the time, but then there was no sound. There was nothing unusual about the appearance of the three people together.

"Football is a sport that requires detailed planning. I signed a contract with the club for four years. I have a long-term plan. Everyone must be approved by me to buy and sell. But the current situation is that I signed the contract before None of the requirements have been fulfilled..."

While Bruce was stunned, O'Neill continued to say that Bruce's tape recorder had faithfully recorded it.

"I wanted the defense to be stable, but they sold Pepe. I wanted a young and potential central defender who would contact Dawson. They didn't even look at the person I recommended..."

Bruce had to interrupt O'Neill: "I'm sorry, Mr. O'Neill. Who do you mean by'they'?"

"The club chairman and commercial director, who else? I may now know why Tony left at the most glorious time..."

The last piece of mist in my heart finally dispersed. Bruce is sure he has grasped the key to all problems.

"I chose Nottingham Forest because I came out of here, and I hope to continue the glory of the Forest team. But now, I think everything is too good."

There was deep exhaustion in these words, although it was only two months, Martin O'Neill was exhausted by torture.

There is no need to ask the following questions. Those questions that are prepared in advance are worthless in front of such a hot topic. Pierce Bruce was so shocked by the thoughts in his mind that he didn't want to continue the interview. He got up to say goodbye to O'Neill, and prepared to rush back to write this sensational interview.

"The head coach of Nottingham Forest bombards the top of the club!"

"Martin O'Neill: I am rejected!"

"The shady of Pepe's deal!"

There is still a lot of information that he needs to gather around, but this time is different. He has a direction and knows where to look.

"Goodbye, I'm glad you accepted my interview, Mr. O'Neill. Good luck."

O'Neill got up to say goodbye to the reporter. He also said: "Goodbye, Mr. Bruce. Good luck." (To be continued, if you want to know what is going on, please visit www.qidian.com for more chapters, support the author, support the original read!)

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