Grass roots glory

Chapter 1058 The Attraction of Barcelona
The European summer transfer window will not close until August 8. Therefore, although Manchester United's new offensive combination has taken a preliminary shape, it is not static. Authoritative media such as Sky Sports and the BBC believe that Manchester United will continue to play in the coming time. There will be big moves.A clear signal is the transfer problem of Dutch international Memphis Depay.

This is the most difficult negotiation for Manchester United. Before Giggs dismissed get out of class, this name was on the club's signing list for the new season. Mourinho made a large-scale adjustment after accepting it, but this unique personality Shuai Weiwei did not stop the transfer, but asked the club to make every effort to facilitate his joining.

But the most difficult thing is that Lyon, the old overlord of Ligue 3000, refused to let go. At the beginning, they asked for 500 million euros. After a long period of see-saw, Manchester United finally proposed to use right back Rafael as a head, plus 2000 million euros. Naturally, Lyon would not refuse to be able to get a Manchester United defender with a strong assist ability on the right. However, they cannot accept the condition that Manchester United send a player, but they have to directly cut the transfer fee in half, and they counter-offered [-] million euros.

Another difficult tug-of-war.But now, according to the latest news from The Guardian, the transaction is close to being completed, and the transfer fee will not exceed the price range bargained by the two parties in the end.

This made Manchester United fans Qiqi heave a sigh of relief, and they still got a winger who looks good, at least not because Di Maria's departure will cause a shortage of manpower on the left.

However, it is not that simple for Depay, at least he cannot keep up with the pre-season training with the team.

According to Manchester United's plan, after the training at the base in the first stage to let everyone get rid of the "holiday syndrome", the team will go to participate in a very popular pre-season commercial event in the past two years: the International Champions Cup. The gold content lies in being able to play against many European giants, which can not only guarantee the quality of the pre-season warm-up match, but also probe the opponent's bottom-teams like Paris Saint-Germain, Barcelona, ​​and Real Madrid will all participate, although they must It will not be as fully committed as the Champions League, and even many newcomers from the youth team will be sent, but the strength of some key superstars can still be seen-this event was initiated by the American real estate tycoon Stephen Ross, after several years of operation After achieving a good influence, almost all the giants will buy it, and top stars like Ronaldo will all play.

This is also the reason why it can continue to attract giants and has even become one of the most important pre-season commercial events in international football.

But now, it is estimated that all Manchester United players are eager to let them go to the game as soon as possible. They are trained like dead dogs by Mourinho every day, and they have to listen to this madman who has no bottom line to attack their self-confidence.

Of course, not everyone will take the overall situation into account like Zhou Tiancheng and make Mourinho take a look at him based on his strength. Naturally, there are some who are not convinced, such as central defender Evans.

He was more unlucky, he didn't contradict Mourinho face to face, but just muttered, "Can we win with this tossing?"

But he was unlucky. Mourinho happened to pass in front of him and heard clearly. He was still whispering to Smalling. When he saw Smalling winking at him, he turned his head and looked, his face turned pale.

The next thing, of course, is a matter of course.Evans was sidelined during Giggs' tenure. Of course, Mourinho would not like this kind of player who chews his tongue. This is a more thorough one, and he will be directly assigned to the reserve team!

Speaking of it, Evans is also pitiful, just happened to be on the cusp of the storm, and was just used by Mourinho to establish his prestige-kill one to make an example, so as to make others follow.

"Jonathan is not the first one. If you don't focus on preparing for the new season, you can try it out. If you want to go to the reserve team, I will definitely satisfy you!"

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Finally, when the team set off to participate in the International Champions Cup, all the players breathed a sigh of relief while holding back their energy. They no longer have to endure this high-intensity training. Even Rooney bared his teeth and yelled every day: "I can't stand it!" La! It's unbearable."

Only Zhou Tiancheng was slightly better. After all, he was drilled by Magath and Klopp, crawling over coal piles, and running in circles like a mad dog, so it's not a big deal at all.

And he knew very well that this was very necessary. During this period of time, he focused on physical reserves, and the proportion of tactical training was relatively small, but Mourinho still instilled his basic requirements.

"Don't be obsessed with having the ball under your feet, Barcelona have made that stuff obsolete, they've always been in La Liga... maybe the best team in Europe in terms of possession, but only won the Champions League last season - again because of the week. Give them a chance."

Of course it’s just a joke, but Mourinho’s request is almost the same as he was in Real Madrid, focusing on counterattacks, especially the speed of counterattacks. In Real Madrid that year, Alonso was an important starting point for long passes in the backcourt. Cards, including Marcelo, are able to push the counterattack with the fastest speed.In Manchester United, Mourinho also wants to rely on the strong strength of the team's midfield to continue this set.

This is the first appearance of the new lineup, and perhaps an important piece of the puzzle on the wing is still missing, but at least some prototypes can be seen.

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The whole team needs to take a [-]-hour flight to the United States to participate in the North American Division of the International Champions Cup.In order to expand the global influence of this year's International Champions Cup, China and Australia have been added. Originally, according to the idea of ​​Manchester United CEO Woodward, the team should go to China to compete. After all, they have Zhou Tiancheng, which is not available in any other giants. The biggest advantage is that if you go to Zhou Tiancheng's hometown, the team will definitely be in the limelight, and it will be hugely attractive to the world's largest fan market.As a professional club manager, he doesn't care about the results of this kind of competition. He only knows that such a competition is a good opportunity for the club to expand its brand value.

But this perfect proposal did not pass Mourinho's level. His reason is simple: "The opponent is not high enough. If you want the team to continue to defend the Premier League and the FA Cup, and if you want to hit the Champions League this season, we should go. U.S."

Woodward can't help it. Mourinho has the final say on the team's affairs. This is their general rule in the Premier League and the condition for them to attract Mourinho to coach. In this team, the power of a madman Bigger than the average Premier League manager.

But at this moment, Woodward can only smile wryly. Using this reason to block him, he can only watch the cake that can be easily eaten in the Chinese market being stuffed into his mouth by Real Madrid and Ronaldo.

The opponent is not high enough?Dare to give this comment to the Real Madrid and Milan duo, he really admires Mourinho's character and courage from the bottom of his heart.For the first time, he felt how crazy a madman is at close range - there is a band of brain circuits that is absolutely different from ordinary people.

And which teams are participating in the North American Division?
Premier League runner-up Chelsea, Ligue [-] giants Paris Saint-Germain and... Barcelona, ​​the defending champion of the Champions League in the new season!

Woodward believes that Mourinho must have taken a fancy to Barcelona and insisted on taking a trip. It is precisely because of this that he is helpless-he hates Barcelona for so many years, isn't he tired?

(End of this chapter)