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Chapter 390 Free Kick Hat Trick

Since getting together two lineups, Manchester United has more cards than before. Like the team they met in the third round of the League Cup, they can easily deal with it with a rotation lineup.

Even the combination of rotation and substitutes is extravagant for other Premier League teams. Manchester United has gradually shown the gap with other English clubs.They have opened a cliff-like gap with other clubs in terms of performance, lineup, business operation ability and influence.

If you go out of the UK to interview passers-by and ask him to name only one Premier League club, more than 80% of them will say Manchester United.

If you go to Asia to do similar interviews, more than 90% of people will subconsciously say Manchester United.

In terms of world influence, Manchester United's influence in England is almost comparable to that of Bayern Munich in Germany. In everyone's opinion, these two clubs can basically represent their own leagues.

Because of the influence of the league, the strength of the club and broadcasting issues, the influence of Manchester United has not yet been compared with that of Bayern, but with the outstanding performance in the Champions League in the past two seasons, Manchester United has become a reserve of the giants.

Many people believe that as long as they can stabilize the dominance of the Premier League and maintain their outstanding performance in the Champions League, Manchester United will enter the ranks of the giants in two or three years.

The influence of Manchester United in the world has increased in the past two years, and the biggest reliance is David Beckham
The English media is conducting a street research activity. They randomly grab a passer-by in major countries on all continents and ask them to name a well-known active player.

The African market is dominated by George Weah and Zidane.

The survey results show that European and South American countries have a wide range of answers. In North America, Beckham's name has been able to rival Ronaldo for male respondents, and has surpassed aliens for female respondents.

But in Asia, Beckham's name can be mentioned more times than all other stars combined.

Especially for non-fans, Beckham has almost become the only answer, as if he is synonymous with football.

Facing the high influence of heartthrobs, Manchester United is naturally regarded as a treasure. Beckham is the club's golden sign. The board of directors has also specifically instructed Ferguson to minimize the chance of injury to the cash cow within his ability, and try to be lenient in his business activities.

With Ferguson's temper, it is naturally impossible to allow the club to reach into his field. He stuck his neck and said "I am the master of my territory", affirming that he is not a marionette.

He never confessed his counsel, but he would still make adjustments in private, and actually responded to the board's request in a different direction.

After all, he is only a part-time worker at Manchester United. Even if he holds a lot of power, he has to deal with all aspects of the relationship.

Beckham can always hear the old man scolding the board members in the locker room, but he doesn't pay attention to it. Everyone knows that the old man is a ghost.Standing up in front of the public, there will always be appropriate compromises in private.

Of course, the old man also expressed his acquiescence to the fact that he might devote part of his energy to commercial activities.

"David, as long as you can maintain the standard, I don't mind if you participate in commercial activities. These ghost things can make people earn money and make some adjustments to their lives, but the premise is that the main business can't be left behind, otherwise you will lose football and business at the same time."

Regarding the old man's words, Beckham still agrees very much. The reason why the other party can support his activities outside of work is that the personal relationship between the two also occupies a large factor.

Otherwise, with Ferguson's temper, even if it is a cash cow, he would dare to cut it down, and there would be no one in the team he would not dare to move.

Reading the recent "The Times", Beckham always felt that there was some tacit understanding between Ferguson and the old Murdoch.

A quick glance might not reveal it, but the influential newspaper in the UK has indeed changed its tune when it comes to Manchester United.

The language used to be very neutral in the sports stories of The Times, they just talked about things.

However, when reporting on the Premier League recently, Manchester United will always be mentioned, and these words always contain implicit praise.

The facts are indeed true, Ferguson is using the filming to send a message to Murdoch, if you want to get things done at Manchester United, you have to rely on me.

Since Murdoch's media group failed to acquire Manchester United, Manchester United's top management has been very wary of him, making it difficult for him to follow the high-level route.

It may be difficult for the Manchester United club to reach any important intentions with them, but when it comes to trivial matters such as filming, the club basically turns a blind eye.

These elders sitting in high positions don't have so much energy to take care of these "trivial" things. They are either attending parties or traveling and vacationing, so it is impossible to waste time on these things.

As long as things don't affect the reputation of the Manchester United club, they don't bother to understand.

So Ferguson used the matter of filming to force Murdoch Jr. to submit, and got some benefits from the public media.

The successor of the Murdoch family is not a waste either. He quickly grasped what Ferguson meant, and quietly showed his sincerity in the media.

The sports section of "The Sun" still belongs to Beckham, and the column never slackens. As long as Beckham wants to write something, no matter how tight the layout is, he will arrange it.

In addition, the "Sun" has reserved some small sections for Manchester United's competitors, which are specially used to publish their news.

The first news came from Arsenal, the Premier League's biggest rival. The Sun reported that the night before the match against Dynamo Kiev, Vieri played in a nightclub until 2 o'clock in the middle of the night before leaving.

The newspaper also mentioned the old story of Italy's No. [-] center forward. This World Cup striker who shined in the World Cup is actually the little prince of nightclubs.

According to the internal staff of Juventus, Vieri went to nightclubs at intervals during his time at Juventus, completely ignoring the next day's training, and even hid in the gym twice to catch up on sleep.

His behavior angered Lippi, so Juventus sold this powerful center to Arsenal.

In order to verify this report, some reporters went to Italy to check with Lippi. The Italian smoked a cigar and said, "Don't worry about my business!"

This information has deepened the credibility of the information. If there is no problem with the person, any head coach will sell a striker of this level, and even those with brains are reluctant to sell.

In the end, Wenger had to respond: "Christian is an easy-going person and a good player. Nightclubs? That's something outside of work, and we can't interfere. He meets the club's requirements in training and games. I think an adult should have his own life."

Four days after the end of the League Cup, Manchester United swept Everton 4-1 away, Shearer and Yorke both gained, while Beckham scored his fourth league goal of the season.

Compared with the previous seasons, he played more of the role of assister, mainly because the black and white duo are too hot this season. Shearer has scored 15 goals in 13 games before fully adapting to Manchester United. York played 15 times, scored 8 goals, and had 5 assists.

Not only did the two form a tacit understanding, but also formed a healthy competition. It was too late to pass the ball to them, so there was no time to work alone.

However, in the subsequent Champions League group stage, Beckham had a blast.

Manchester United beat the Danish team 5-0 at home, and Beckham scored a hat-trick at home.

It is worth mentioning that these 3 goals all came from free kicks. Beckham became the No.1 player in the history of the Champions Cup to perform a hat-trick from free kicks, which immediately attracted the attention of Europe.

You must know that in a high-level professional league, it is difficult to perform a hat-trick with a free kick in a single game. To be able to do this requires both strength and luck.

In European professional leagues, free kick hat-tricks have only appeared 3 times so far. The first time was former Italian striker Signori, who scored three consecutive free kicks against Atlanta in Serie A in 1994.

The second time came from the Greek player Franzeskes. This player who was completely unknown in Greece scored a hat-trick with a free kick in the Greek League in 1996.

The third came from a Scottish player named Ray McKinnon, who set the record while playing for Dundee United in 1997.

The fourth time came from Beckham, who set a single-game free kick record in the Champions Cup. Because he completed this honor in the Champions Cup, the gold content of this free kick hat-trick is obviously higher.

Renowned free-kick master Mihajlovic will have to wait another month for this indicator.

Champions League victory, free kick hat-trick, the news of Manchester United's victory appeared in the "Times" again, and this time it made room to report the news of Manchester United.

(End of this chapter)