host must win

Chapter 55 Popular?

The first half of the press conference was quite harmonious, but when a reporter from a certain newspaper mentioned a piece of news a few days ago, Ferguson exploded on the spot. Judging from the situation of winning the double crown and Manchester United empty-handed, Arsenal has replaced the Red Devils as the dominant force in this country's football, and the dominant force in English football is migrating.

Ferguson scoffed at this: "Strength migration? The results can only be obtained in this season. Can you see a change in strength from just one season? I'm not sure, but I think we will easily reach this season. Purpose. The situation of losing 6 games at home last season will not happen again, we only scored 6 goal in those [-] games, this kind of thing will not happen this season. It means that we have undergone earth-shaking changes.”

After more than two weeks, the new Premier League season will start, but the psychological warfare between Ferguson and Wenger has undoubtedly sounded ahead of schedule.

In fact, after the failure of last season, Ferguson has already felt the pressure inside and outside the club. Last year, it cost 6000 million pounds, and this year it cost 4000 million pounds again. The two-year total reached 1 million pounds. If there is no result, even if Ferguson's prestige is high, there is a danger of early retirement.

In addition, Ferguson also believes that the failure of last season will in turn stimulate the morale of the Red Devils. He has always believed in the famous saying "pressure is motivation", and believes that his players will feel even more hungry for the championship.

"After the end of last season, there have been many positive reactions in the team, which is why I have always had confidence in my players. They will definitely find their way this season," Ferguson said. "Our new assistant coach Queiroz will Helping us achieve our goals to a great extent, Rio Ferdinand will be the guarantee of the defense, and the young Yin will be the team's new 'booster'."

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Positioning Yin Jun as the team's new booster shows the hope that Sir Alex placed on Yin Jun.

Speaking of Ferdinand and Yin Jun, the topic shifted to the transfer of Manchester United.

According to media reports, in addition to wanting to introduce Ajax midfielder Van der Meyde, Manchester United is also looking for a new striker to join the Red Devils camp, and this person is likely to be West Ham United, which had rumors with Manchester United. Italian striker Di Canio.

After selling Yorke to Blackburn, Manchester United has only three strikers in the formation. They are Van Nistelrooy, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Forlan.In a long season, Manchester United will face a large number of games. Manchester United, which mainly plays in a 442 formation, still lacks a striker to make reserves.

When the reporter asked about this matter, Ferguson made it clear that Di Canio would not join Manchester United. Di Canio had hoped to join Manchester United in the middle of last season, but the transfer failed in the end. Now Ferguson is not interested in him.

Even, Ferguson also said that Manchester United's transfer door this summer has been closed, Manchester United's current lineup is already very strong, and he no longer plans to introduce any players.

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Ferguson's words were not aimless, because before the team played in the warm-up match, they had already released the team's makeup photos for the new season.Moreover, Manchester United also publicly sold the team's jerseys for the new season on August 8.

Manchester United's theme store was repainted. At 8:1 am on August 9, as soon as the store opened, hundreds of Manchester United fans rushed in. Everyone hoped to be the first lucky one to wear the new Manchester United jersey.

It is estimated that Manchester United may sell 10 jerseys across the UK on this day.

Although in April, the Manchester United jersey designed by Manchester United's new jersey provider Nike has been released, but it took until this day for the players to find their new numbers on the back of the jersey.

The only regret is that Manchester United have yet to find their No. 800 since Cole moved to Blackburn for £9 million.

Among the new jersey numbers, the most notable change is the latest joining of Ferdinand and talented player Yin Jun. Ferdinand put on the No. 6 jersey, which originally belonged to Blanco.Ferdinand's jersey has also become a hot seller for Manchester United. Before the jersey was launched, 14500 of his jerseys had been booked, 3000 more than Beckham's jersey.

Yin Jun, on the other hand, did not have a small number jersey that symbolizes the main force, but chose the relatively low number 28.

Originally, many Chinese fans thought Ruud van Nistelrooy would take over No. 9, which symbolizes the main center forward, and gave Yin Jun the No. 10 jersey.However, it turns out that they were overthinking. Van Nistelrooy continued to wear his No. 10 jersey, Yin Jun chose No. 28, and No. 9 continued to play the role of its unnamed name.

Yin Jun's jersey sales are also very hot, with more than 10000 pre-orders. He is the only player in the Manchester United team whose jersey sales exceed 10000 pre-orders, apart from Ferdinand and Beckham.This made many Chinese fans very happy, thinking that Yin Jun quickly won the favor of Manchester United fans.

However, according to British media reports, Yin Jun's jerseys are very sloppy, because most of the people who ordered Yin Jun's jerseys were Chinese studying and working in the UK, and these people raised the pre-sale figures of Yin Jun's jerseys very high.

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Another change in the jerseys of Manchester United players is that Phil Neville was upgraded from No. 12 last season to No. 3. In this way, the numbers of the Neville brothers are closely arranged together, while the original No. 3 El Wen has now gone to Wolves.

In addition to Irwin, the players who disappeared in Manchester United's first team include the original No. 5 Johnson. He did not get a new contract from Manchester United, nor did he find another club, so Blanco got his long-coveted No. 5 .

Also leaving is substitute goalkeeper No. 17 Raymond van der Gouel, who joined Solskjaer on a free transfer to West Ham.

No. 19 Yorke, another member of Black Wind Shuangsha, also moved to Blackburn for £200 million.

In addition, No. 22 Walworker transferred to West Brom in a free transfer, No. 23 Craig transferred to Oldham in a free transfer, No. 31 Culkin transferred to Queens Park Rangers in a free transfer, and No. Will Charlton.

In Manchester United, the jersey number fluctuates up and down, which can also reflect his rise and fall in the team. The young players Stewart, Jorkic and Hilton returned from Antwerp on loan and all obtained more "prominent" numbers than before. 17, 19 and 23 respectively.O'Shea, who has been under Ferguson's key care for the past six months, has also risen from No. 30 to No. 22.

The strange thing is that Sylvester, Brown and Fortune 3 people can be called the main or semi-main players of Manchester United, but their numbers have been ranked outside the 23rd.

With the launch of the new jersey, the Nike advertisement starring Cantona was also broadcast on British TV. Nike and Manchester United have signed a 15-year sponsorship contract of up to 3 million pounds. They must make good use of this resource for their own products. promote.

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