By the time July turned into August, Nottingham Forest had quietly withdrawn from the transfer market. While the media was still conjecturing Tony Twain's next target, the Forest team had completed the formation of the team and set the lineup. The remaining time was spent on preparing for their opponents in the new season.
In order to do this, in addition to the usual training, Tang En refrained from going to the pub every night to drink. Instead, he and Dunn stayed at home to watch the video profiles of all their opponents in the English Premier League. Apart from that of the Forest team itself, they studied the summer transfer data of all nineteen Premier League teams to understand whether their opponents had been strengthened or weakened.
