champion godfather

Chapter 714 Volume [-] Crimson Chill
After the game against Manchester City, the media lost interest in continuing to hype Bendtner's grievances with the Forest team.Bendtner lost the bet and paid all his teammates to drink out of his pocket.He seemed to have forgotten the game he experienced at the City Stadium, and the smile reappeared on his face.Although he lost the game and the bet, the relationship between him and his new teammates became more harmonious.It can be regarded as gaining and losing.
No one in Nottingham Forest fans is talking about the player who no longer belongs to the Forest team, but if Bendtner returns to the city stadium with Manchester City again, he will still hear huge boos.His performance in this game has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of Forest fans.
The players of Nottingham Forest will not talk about the game that has passed, although there are many topics that people talk about in that game.
George Wood's goal was voted the best of the round and was played repeatedly in TV highlights.Zikic is also favored by the media, because he has just transferred to the Premier League for a month, and he has already scored a goal for the Forest team in his second appearance, and this goal is the final winning goal.
As soon as the league ended, Tang En took the team to Kyiv, Ukraine, to participate in the second match of the Champions Cup group stage.
The time has just entered October, and the temperature in Kyiv is cool and suitable, which is very suitable for outdoor sports.
Although it was the Champions Cup, considering the strength of Dynamo Kyiv and the team's own situation, Twain still decided to rotate.Replaced the entire main lineup for the match against Manchester City.Relying on the second lineup, the Forest team defeated Dynamo Kyiv 1:2 in the away game, winning two games in a row, making a good start for qualifying for the group.
Continuous campaigns have caused the team's physical fitness to qualify again-in fact, it has not been easy. From the national team game to the present, the forest team's physical reserves have always been below the safety line.
Back in the UK, the Forest team was tied 0:0 by Middlesbrough at home.
After seven rounds, the Forest team ranked fourth in the league with 14 points, even behind the newly promoted Hull City.Since Hull City lost to Nottingham Forest in the second round of the league with five goals, they have won three consecutive victories. In the last five rounds of the league, they have achieved four wins and one draw. They beat Nottingham Forest in the league standings and ranked first. third.It has become the biggest dark horse since the start of the new season.
Even Tang En sometimes laments the impermanence of the world.The inhuman Hull City, who was beaten by them in the second round of the league, can now be ranked above them.Ranked top three.
But he's not worried that Hull City could really threaten his team.It's normal for these newly promoted horses to rank high at the beginning of the season relying on momentum and everyone's ignorance of them.But staying power is the key to testing these teams.Wasn't Wigan Athletic also known as the "dark horse" at the beginning?now what?The team led by a coach who admired him is still working hard in the Championship to return to the Premier League.
To put it bluntly, the top football league is a game for the rich. Without a certain economic foundation, it can only be brilliant for a short time.In the end, they will be ruthlessly eliminated.No matter how strong the team is, if they have no money, they will inevitably be divided up by strong teams and become a "player supermarket".
Think of Parma in Italy, Leeds in England...
Although I know that Hull City does not pose any threat to myself, I also know that the league is a long battle. The fight is not the start, but the halfway run and the final sprint.However, Twain was still very dissatisfied with the current situation of the team.
Due to such and such things in the summer, the signing plan was too chaotic, and there were not many goals achieved in the end.As a result, the team is currently stretched in terms of personnel arrangements. The league has only started two months, and it has become like this. There is still a crueler winter yet to come.Tang En didn't even know what disadvantageous situation the team would face at that time.He has to plan ahead.
He decided to go to Evan to discuss the funds needed to introduce players during the winter transfer period.
Speaking of Evan, he just remembered that he has rarely seen Evan in the past month.Previously he was based in Nottingham.In the past month, I seldom saw him in Wilford.People who are rarely seen like him include Allen Adams.
What are you busy with?Fortunately, they are all in Nottingham these days.Tang En decided that choosing the day would be better than hitting the day, and immediately went to find Evan.
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In Evan's office, Dunn saw Alan again.Tang En was no stranger to this business partner who was always hanging out with Evan.He greeted Alan, and put forward his ideas straight to the point.
"Evan, you have also seen the current situation of the team. Injuries and insufficient physical reserves have caused me to have no way to arrange a complete lineup for many games. I think we should introduce at least three players during the winter break, especially It's the midfield..."
Just after he finished speaking, Evan and Allen looked at each other, then spread their hands with a wry smile: "Tony, I'm afraid I won't be able to meet your request this time..."
Tang En was very surprised: "Why?"
Evan continued to smile wryly: "We have no money."
"No money? I don't understand. Isn't the club's financial situation still good?"
Allen stood up from the sofa: "Simply put, the expenses necessary to run the club can still be used, but it is difficult to use the extra money to buy new players. Do you read the news, Tony?"
"I only watch sports..."
Allen sighed: "The financial crisis has come."
Tang En was a little confused.He couldn't tell the difference between a "financial crisis" and an "economic crisis", both seemed to him the same.He only had two chances to learn about these crises. One was when he was in middle school, and he learned about the worldwide economic crisis in the 30s and the financial turmoil that broke out in Southeast Asia in 1998 from history textbooks.But as an ordinary person living in mainland China, even the most recent year, 1997, had little impact on his life, and it was even more impossible for him to have an intuitive impression of this crisis.What exactly is the financial crisis and what kind of impact can it have on my life?
Now he had the opportunity to meet and see in person.
"The sub-credit crisis broke out in the United States, and it was only a matter of time before this crisis spread to the world. Evan's business in the United States was hit hard. The sub-credit crisis was caused by the bubble in the US real estate market, and Evan's company was in the The United States is for real estate investment..."
Evan took the lead from Allen: "Simply put, Tony. My company in the United States is bankrupt."
"But hasn't your business in the United States always been separated from the club's business?" Tang En asked.He still doesn't understand what the bankruptcy of Evan's American company has to do with the club.
"It's separate. But in fact, my business in the United States can still support the club. We invested heavily in China this summer, and the stalls are too big, and the funds can't keep up. Now the business in the United States has collapsed, and our funds The chain is broken..." Evan sat on the chair and said with some frustration.
Tang En felt that he had somewhat figured out the situation.Although the businesses in various places are separate, they have always been connected. The business in the United States can supplement the operation of the club, and the profits of the club can also be allocated to investment projects in mainland China.
From the United States to the United Kingdom, and then to China, this stall is indeed too big for a team that is not considered a wealthy team and lacks a financial foundation... Now as long as there is a business problem in one place, it will affect the other places.Of course, if something goes wrong with Chinese investment, it will have minimal impact on the other two places...
"If the business is to grow, you can't let the money stay in one place. So all the funds are in constant circulation... Now that there is a problem in the United States, this chain is broken..." Allen's words confirmed Tang En's guess. "We have been in the United States for a month to deal with affairs there."
Tang En asked cautiously: "How bad is the situation?"
Evan smiled, but the smile was bitter: "It doesn't look too bad now. But as this crisis spreads to the whole world, I think it may be very bad...Global integration makes it easy for a country's problems It will become a common problem in many countries. In fact, the last credit crisis appeared in the United States last year, but at that time I was relatively optimistic that the economy would not collapse, and the self-regulating function of the market could resolve this crisis. And at that time There are many people who are as optimistic as I am. But in fact, we all underestimated the energy of that crisis. Last year was just a crisis, and this year it has snowballed in the European and Japanese financial markets and turned into a storm..."
"Will the club go bankrupt?" Dunn couldn't understand the proper nouns Allen wanted to say, he only cared about one thing.
"I'm not sure." Allen said shaking his head.
"That's really bad..." Tang En murmured.
Seeing the silence in the atmosphere, Evan clapped his hands and smiled and said, "Okay, the situation isn't that bad after all, is it? I've ended all my business in the United States, and now this club is my only business." . I'm not going to let this club go bankrupt anyway."

Tang En looked at Evan Dougherty, who had a strong smile, and Alan Adams, who was always full of confidence in peacetime but was helpless at this time. "How can I help?"
Evan smiled: "It's okay to lead a good team, Tony. You don't have to worry about business matters, in fact you don't have to worry about it. Didn't I say it? No matter how bad the situation is, I will keep this club Yes. Because this is my last position."
What else could Tang En say?Originally, I wanted to ask for money, but now I can't continue to ask for that kind of request.He said goodbye to two people and returned to the team alone.
He lamented the impermanence of the world.Alan Adams and Evan Dougherty were still full of ambition when they returned from Asia in the summer, and they described to him the exciting and wonderful prospect of Nottingham Forest in the future on the plane.Unexpectedly, in just two months, things have changed drastically.The company in the United States went bankrupt, the cash flow was in trouble, and the plan became a plan. At present, there is no possibility of it becoming a reality.
And what can he do?How to make money as a club?Naturally, it is TV broadcast revenue and sponsors, as well as revenue from ticket sales and peripheral product sales... and all these profit points must be implemented in one point - results.
If the team's performance is not good, the TV broadcast share will drop sharply, sponsors will no longer be favored, the revenue from tickets and peripheral products will decrease, and the game winning bonus will also fly.
Tang En felt that the burden on his shoulders was getting heavier, and his heart was heavy, and he couldn't relax anymore.
In fact, even if Nottingham Forest goes bankrupt, he can still leave by jumping ship. With the achievements he has achieved in leading the team, he can find a high-paying head coach position in any club in the world.Even now, several teams are waving checkbooks and hoping for him to join.He absolutely doesn't have to worry about starving to death one day.In the early days of time travel, he thought that if he didn't work hard and fail, he would lose his job and die on the street from hunger and cold. Such a tragedy would never happen to him again.
He doesn't have to bear any psychological pressure and guilt for Nottingham Forest's bankruptcy and sinking again.But he just couldn't let go of the team he brought out with his own hands, and the fans who trusted him and admired him.As a traditional Chinese, he values ​​love and righteousness.
Evan and Allen were nice to him, and he couldn't do anything to betray them.He wants to help them as much as possible.
Evan said that Nottingham Forest is his last position now, and Twain is also willing to regard the team as his last position.
I don't know how to run a club, and I'm not a business genius. I can go to the supermarket to buy things and calculate the accounts. I can make mistakes and feel headaches when I see a lot of complicated numbers.
I will only lead the team to play games, win the game with bonuses, top rankings with bonuses, and championships with bonuses... I can only use my own good way to make money for the club and tide over difficulties.
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Tony Twain, who doesn't care about anything but football, didn't know about the financial crisis until now.In fact, the financial panic around the world has been going on for almost a year.
The real estate market was hit hard, stock market futures plummeted in various countries, credit companies went bankrupt, and currency devaluation... Like a storm, it began to appear and develop in 2007, and finally swept the world, and then reached its climax in the second half of 2008.
In the first half of 2008, the global market was still filled with optimism that "the worst period of the subprime mortgage crisis has passed".But in the second half of the year, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse.
In August, Germany announced a profit warning.Later, it was estimated that there was a loss of 82 billion euros, because a "Rhineland Fund" with a scale of 120 billion euros participated in the US subprime credit investment business.
The [-]th largest mortgage lender in the United States - American Home Mortgage Investment Corporation formally filed for bankruptcy protection on August [-], becoming another large mortgage lender in the United States after New Century Financial Corporation.
On August [-], Bear Stearns, the fifth largest investment bank in the United States, announced that two of its funds had closed down due to the subprime crisis.
On August [-]th, France's largest bank, BNP Paribas, announced that it would freeze three of its funds, which also suffered huge losses from investing in US subprime mortgage bonds.The move sent European stock markets tumbling.
On August [-], Mizuho Group, the parent company of Mizuho Bank, Japan's second largest bank, announced a loss of [-] million yen related to the US subprime mortgage.
In the past, people still thought that if the United States and other economic powers joined forces, the economic situation would not be so miserable.But now the cruel reality has been placed in front of everyone, the financial crisis is not an alarmist prediction, but has become a reality.
In fact, these things are still far away from Tony Twain's life.However, after entering October, something happened that changed his original life and work to a certain extent.
Lehman Brothers investment bank, which provided loans for investment in the new stadium of Nottingham Forest Club, announced that it had filed for bankruptcy protection.
In England in October, Dunn also felt a chill.
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PS.Today's chapter is difficult to write and I don't know whether it is written correctly.After all, finance is not an area I am good at, and I try not to touch areas that I am not good at, but I have to write this chapter today, because it involves the future development of Forest Club.It can be regarded as a foreshadowing and background explanation.The result of looking for information everywhere is that the more I search, the more dizzy I become, and the lines are like mountains.I can only bite the bullet and write and edit.
The time of some events is different from the reality, but it doesn’t matter, anyway, it’s all fictional YY novels, it’s not the same and it’s normal. Adjusting these times to serve the plot is also a routine method... As for the low-level crimes committed in other professional fields Mistakes and flaws, everyone, don’t pay attention to them, just read the jokes that laymen don’t understand and pretend to understand. The key is to understand the spirit-Nottingham Forest Club has been a bit annoying recently.
In addition, please correct me if there are mistakes. Although the VIP chapter cannot be modified due to the number of words and the price involved, it can be regarded as a lesson for me, an economic idiot.

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