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Chapter 582 The Arrival of the Red Tsar, Volume [-]
The striker is a problem that needs to be solved urgently. Anelka will definitely leave. Although no club has made an open offer to the French striker yet, Twain knows that Anelka's two older brothers must be in private with many clubs.Tang En ignored it and let them toss about it. Anyway, there was one result in the end - Anelka left.He doesn't care about making less money, which he realized when he confronted AC Milan.He wants to teach this rebellious forward a lesson, let him know who is the boss in this team, and at the same time teach those two greedy agents a lesson.

Anyway, it was Alan who advocated the introduction of Anelka back then, so Twain would not consider letting go of Anelka's transfer because he wanted to save Alan's face.

Putting the matter of Anelka aside for the time being, Twain went to meet with Evan and Allen, and showed them his transfer list for this season.

The two were a little surprised to see the few lives on the short list.

"Didn't you say that funds are tight? I'll bring in fewer people. In addition, there are candidates I can accept who have been sold." Tang En motioned them to turn the list over, and there were a few more names on the back. is someone who can be sold.

Allen looked at this part more carefully.Over the past few years, due to Tang En's behavior of protecting the calf, the team has been receiving more and leaving less in the transfer market, seriously affecting the balance of payments.

After reading the list, both Evan and Allen nodded to Tang En, expressing their full support.

Then Evan also told Twain the news that the construction land for the new stadium has been obtained, in Clifton (Clifton).

Tang En knew this place, it was just to the southwest of Wilford, and also to the southwest of Nottingham City.He was a little worried because it was too far from the city center.

The current city stadium is located in the city center, and it is very convenient for fans from all directions to watch every home game, and the traffic is very developed.But if the new stadium is placed in the southwestern town of Clifton...he is worried about affecting popularity.

Allen laughed off his concern.

"Tony, it seems quite far there now, but after the stadium is built, you won't feel that far away. At that time, there will be a large residential area centered on the new stadium, and the developed urban transportation will not make it difficult for people living in other places to stay. Local fans find the road difficult."

Evan smiled and explained to Tang En why he chose Clifton instead of other places. "Actually, we also want to choose the city center with the most concentrated people. But Tony, that requires more money, and the construction cost is too high. Besides...there is no open space in the city center for us to build a large stadium. Clifton was sold to us cheaply by the city government, but there was one condition. The city government wanted us to cooperate with the construction and development plan of that area—they decided to use the construction of the new stadium as an opportunity to build a commercial and residential area there. Plan. Allen is negotiating with several bidding construction companies, hoping to find the most suitable one. I think the city government’s plan is very good. We are worried that we will not find a suitable company just to build a stadium. With a new stadium and a large commercial and residential area, many construction companies have expressed interest.”

Allen nodded to indicate that this was indeed the case.

"As for the traffic, I think it will be much better than the current situation. Now every time there is a home game, the city stadium is full of people, and the parking lot is not enough. Many people need to park their cars a mile away, and then Come here on foot. Since it is right by the river, there is no way to allow more fans to enter the stadium at the same time - that will crowd people into the river. At the same time, because it is in the city center, it is not convenient to build more modern transportation facilities ...The city stadium was built more than 100 years ago, it is too old...the old one is difficult to expand. The supporting transportation facilities of the new stadium include a tram line directly to the square in front of the stadium, and fans can take it from all over The trams that start go straight to the stadium gates, and the same goes for the exits."

Tang En was convinced. Anyway, he is not as professional as these two in terms of business operation. In short, he can do whatever they say.If it really is a new stadium plus a residential area, maybe he will go there to buy a house in the future.

"Sounds like an exciting plan." Dunn praised Allen's work. "I can't wait to go to the new stadium and direct the game."

The other two laughed.

After the transfer plan was approved, Twain left the chairman's office, and he still had to busy himself with bringing in the players on this list and finding ways to sell those people at the back of the list.

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The striker who took the place of Anelka's departure is Andrey_Arshavin, the striker of the Zenit_Peterburg team in Russia.

This player known as the "New Czar" in Russia is not a young rookie, but he is a bit of a late bloomer.Already 26 years old, but it was not recognized by European football until the last season.

And Tang En knew him, knew him because of Akinfeev.

After deciding to rent Akinfeev back to CSKA Moscow, Dunn hired a Russian scout in Russia who was familiar with Eastern European football, and he was responsible for tracking and observing Akinfeev's performance in the Russian league. Fax him a report every week so that Dunn can keep abreast of Akinfeev's status and situation.

At the same time, Dunn didn't know that he hired such a scout for Akinfeev. He also wanted to find some high-quality and cheap football talents from the Eastern European football world represented by Russia.

The young ones spend money to buy them to train themselves, regardless of whether they can play in the forest team or not, even if they are sold, they can make a fortune.In fact, this old club was doing this before Tang En joined the Forest team.Remember that German teenager Eugen Pope?He is the new star that the Forest team specially poached from Germany, but the cultivation of him failed in the end.But such a failure does not affect Forest Club's confidence in continuing to do so.This is the way of survival of many small English clubs. At that time, the Forest team did not know that they would welcome a group of nobles.

Allen is very supportive of his plan - as long as it is a plan that can make money for the team, Allen, an American, supports it...

That bearded scout named Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev, who has the same name as the famous Russian chemist, besides reporting Akinfeev's He recommends players he has discovered, or players who are already well-known in Russian football but unknown in Western Europe.

Andrei Arshavin is one of them.

After watching the video of Arshavin playing football sent by Mendeleev, Tang En immediately fell in love with this little player.Fast, good technique, can play almost all positions in the frontcourt, and at the same time is very smart, can pass the ball, is willing to assist, and can create opportunities for teammates. He is not a self-centered person who does not know how to cooperate or what "team spirit "The idiot.

Such a person is perfect for the Forest team.

So, later on Mendeleev had an extra job: in addition to following Akinfeev, he also had to follow Arshavin.

This is a pain for the "Russian chemist", who often travels between two places.Fortunately, his air ticket was reimbursed by the Forest Club, otherwise he might have quit.

As reports about Arshavin kept coming to Tang En's desk, he became more and more familiar with this small player who was far away in Russia. Although he hadn't met him face to face, he already knew what he liked and hated... …

It was at that time that Dunn made up his mind to put Anelka on the bench, because he had already found the best substitute for the Frenchman.Anelka is leaving?let him go!
So as early as the end of last season, the Forest Club got on the line with Arshavin's agent Rachetti.

It's just that at that time, Rachetti looked down on such a "small club"-they didn't look as rich as Chelsea led by Abramovich; nor were they as rich as Manchester United and Arsenal in today's world. Football is brilliant.More importantly, they had just defeated Arshavin's favorite Barcelona in the knockout round of the Champions Cup, and as the head coach, Tang En had a lot of disrespectful words about Barcelona before and after the game that were exposed by the media.

Tang En didn't care about the cold encounter between Arshavin and his agent, and it's okay for him to feel wronged by the players he likes.He knew that Arshavin would definitely belong to him in the end, because he had a way to make the other party look at him and his team differently.

This method is to win the most important championship of the season.

After the Champions League final there was great joy throughout the club, but some couldn't rest.Tang En asked the club to contact Arshavin and his agent at the first time, and proposed a transfer intention again.He intends to listen to the personal wishes of the players first, and then contact the club.

Before playing games, the rules stipulated that you could only go to the club for an offer first, and then talk to the players.If the player himself is not willing, the hard work of haggling back and forth with the club will be in vain.How can there be so many rules and regulations in reality?Every time Tang En led the transfer, he first went to the opponent's player, and then went to the club.

This time, Arshavin's manager loosened his tone - there was nothing he could do if he didn't want to.Although Arshavin has become the No. 10 captain of the Nizet team and the captain of the Russian national team, he is also well-known in European football.But those European clubs that are really important are at most just talking about their interest in Andrei Arshavin, and none of them have actually taken any action.Agent Racetti had no way to bargain with the Forest team with offers from other clubs.

And he also knows that the Nizet team will definitely not be able to keep Arshavin. Arshavin told him and Nizet coach Ed Vokat: He wants to leave Nizet, leave Russia, and go to Europe Play football at the highest level.

This is the confidence and dream of any high-level player, and Arshavin is the same.

A timely Champions League victory by Nottingham Forest also made Arshavin look differently at this team that once defeated his favorite Barcelona.

He watched the live broadcast of the final. The Forest team almost completely suppressed the Italian powerhouse AC Milan in the final. Kaka's goal was a manifestation of Kaka's personal ability and had nothing to do with the performance of the AC Milan team.As a team that has just been promoted to the Premier League for only three seasons, the Forest team can completely block AC Milan in the final, winning 3:1, which Arshavin never expected before the match.

It was also this game that made him interested in the team that had been pursuing him.

The first time he heard this name, he was a teammate of the national team. The main goalkeeper Akinfeev announced that he would join a team in the English Premier League, but he would rent it back to CSKA Moscow for one season.He knew the team's name was "Nottingham Forest".

Afterwards, he kept hearing the names of "Nottingham Forest" and their personality head coach "Tony Twain", and he didn't take it to heart. After all, England and Russia were too far apart.Until he received a call from his agent Rachetti, telling him that Nottingham Forest was interested in him.

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After the final, people from Forest Club contacted Arshavin's agent Rachetti, but the other party did not give them a clear answer, only saying that his players need to seriously consider going abroad to play football.

Hearing this answer, Tang En knew there was something to be done. Although he didn't give an answer right away, it was just human nature. With such an important choice, who would nod or shake his head right away?If there are any, they must be fools, and Twain would not want to come to the forest team.

So he went to Brazil for vacation with Shania in a happy mood, and asked about the transfer progress again after returning. I heard that Racetti had not contacted the club yet.He knew that this was Lachetti delaying time, to see if no other team in the transfer market would make an offer, and if there was one, he would have the confidence to bargain with Forest.

To this end, Twain went to find out about the current European transfer market. There are indeed teams interested in Arshavin, but they are worthy enough to compete with the club, and they have clearly expressed their desire to introduce Arshavin's attitude... a club nothing.

Tang En's heart was completely at ease now, he knew that the "new tsar" of Russia would not be able to escape from the palm of his hand.

After knowing everything about the situation, Tang En decided not to give Lachetti any chance to make waves.He personally called Arshavin's agent Rachetti to show him his sincerity, understanding and love for Arshavin.Then he asked Arshavin again about his intention to transfer to the Forest team.

The head coach of the Forest team called, and it was difficult for Racetti to refuse.He knew what kind of person Twain was, and he told Twain that Arshavin did plan to play abroad, but if the conditions of the Forest Team could not satisfy Arshavin, then they would rather stay in Nizet.

"...After all, Andre has a lot of affection for the team he grew up playing for."

The words are high-sounding, and agents like to come to this set.Tang En was not a rookie who was dealing with an agent for the first time.The next day, he sent a fax to the Nizet team in the name of Nottingham Forest Club, begging to buy their No. 10 core Andrei Arshavin.

This time, the Forest team offered 1000 million pounds.

Nottingham Forest was the first club to make an offer for Arshavin, Nizet was not surprised, they had long been psychologically prepared to sell their core.After all, this is something that many small and medium-sized clubs and teams in the second- and third-tier European leagues have to face.

Those talented and outstanding star players cannot be willing to spend their careers in leagues that are not at the highest level.If there are clubs from the top European leagues sending invitations to them, these people will have no intention of training, no intention of playing, and their minds will be full of top leagues.

Arshavin is one of them.

1000 million pounds is not low.Nizet pretended to refuse once, and the Forest team made an offer here, which was 100 million pounds more than the first offer, and Allen told Nizet's boss that if he did not accept it, this would be the final offer.As the new European champions, they have too many better choices in the striker position.

Of course, Nizet's boss knows that there is a lack of everything in world football today, except for strikers.If this opportunity is missed, who knows if there will be a next time?Those big European clubs have always said that we are interested in Arshavin, but they never make an offer. It seems that they are just talking casually.Maybe they still look down on Russian players?
Nizet's boss hesitated for a moment, and accepted the offer half-heartedly.

The clubs have agreed, and the problems of the players themselves can be easily resolved.Twain knew that Arshavin liked Barcelona, ​​and wanted to play in Barcelona the most, but Barcelona didn't like this Russian player. For the La Liga giants, they had too many world-class options in Arshavin's position, so there was no need for one Players in the Russian league spend so much money and energy - in the eyes of Catalans, Arshavin is not a world-class player.

Finally, after four days of negotiations, Arshavin signed his name on a personal contract.

The next day, June 23, Nottingham Forest's official website, Nizet's official website, and Arshavin's own personal official website simultaneously announced the news——

Nottingham Forest have brought in their central midfielder, No. 100 captain Andrei Arshavin, from the Russian Premier League's Nizet team for £10 million.The transfer will take effect on July [-].

This is the first transfer announced by the Forest team in the new season, and it has attracted the attention of a lot of media. For the first time, Arshavin's name and his baby face have appeared on a large scale in many European sports media.England's "Mirror" is very concerned about the transfer of the new European champions. After the deal was confirmed, they used this headline in the sports page to introduce Forest's first signing of the season to readers:
The Tsar Comes! "

And other reports about him have long been numerous.

The 26-year-old Russian captain finally tasted the sweetness of joining a top team in the top league.

With the announcement of this news, Anelka also knew that his time at Nottingham Forest was over.

Although as a player, he won the European Champions Cup for the second time.But it's ironic, this second trophy still doesn't have much to do with him...

(End of this chapter)