green showman

Chapter 1049 The Brand's Secret

Nordic, Norway.

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Solskjaer, with faintly gray hair, stood on the sidelines of the training ground, yelling loudly from time to time. He coached Cardiff City last season and was relegated in the last round. Then he returned to Norway to coach Molde Club again.

For more than half a year, Solskjaer has not been in a good mood. On the one hand, it was affected by last season, and on the other hand, Molde's performance this season is quite bad.

Norway is located in Northern Europe and the weather is cold. Each season starts in March and ends before December. Molde has 3 matches, 12 wins, 9 draws and 3 losses this season.

However, Solskjaer is in a good mood today, because Manchester United won the Triple Crown, and it is likely to win the Triple Crown for the second time in history, which evoked the best memory of his career.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer delivered a precise cross, and the short striker slammed the goalkeeper with a wonderful volley from the back point.

"Nice job!" Solskjaer gave a thumbs up, "Wu, keep it up, you can go back to Manchester United!"

Wu Lei happily ran over and hugged the head coach. Molde is not in good form this season, but the Chinese striker is considered the team's only bright spot. He scored 9 goals and 5 assists in 2 games. This is quite a bright spot. eye data.

After the training, Solskjaer patted Wu Lei who was looking down at his phone, "Wu, have you received the invitation?"

"what?"

"The Champions League final."

"Best called me." Wu Lei hesitated before saying, "It was during the intermission of the 10-1 victory over Liverpool."

The corner of Solskjaer's mouth twitched, "I checked the schedule, that round of the league is May 5th, and we will set off together."

"No problem, I hope to leave with a good mood."

"Haha, that's up to you." Solskjaer glanced at Wu Lei's cell phone and suddenly widened his eyes, "What is this?"

"Manchester United assistant coach Mike Phelan."

"I mean what's that in his hand..."

"cardboard."

"I mean it's written on the cardboard..." Solskjaer grabbed the phone speechlessly and looked at it carefully, "Oh, this is..."

Wu Lei waited for a while but didn't get an answer, so he could only explain: "The cardboard that Mike Phelan brought out during the match against Norwich City had 22 written on it."

Solskjaer fell silent, remembering how, long, long ago, he had walked around Old Trafford holding a similar cardboard.

Wu Lei coughed twice and continued: "Actually, during the halftime break of the 10-1 sweep of Liverpool, Mike Phelan brought out this cardboard."

"It must be Best's idea." Solskjaer suddenly chuckled, "Sir Ferguson will definitely be very satisfied."

After 10 minutes, after listening to a story, Wu Lei thought and thought, took the phone and opened Weibo.

……

Carrington Base.

"Of course, Gary, you disappointed me so much, you didn't guess any of them." Sun Wu sat on the sofa in the office, staring at the screen on the opposite wall, holding the phone in his hand and said casually: "Yes, yes. Yes, that was the case back then, I just paid tribute to Sir Alex Ferguson."

Throwing down the phone, Sun Wu continued to look at the video of Benzema on the screen, and Mike Phelan next to him smiled and asked, "Who remembered it first?"

"Solskjaer." Sun Wu pouted, "He remembered it when he was chatting with China Wu."

"Oh, yes, yes, he was the one who brought the brand to the stadium."

17 years ago, in the 1998-1999 season, after the penultimate round of the season, Andy Cole, who played in the Black Wind Shuangsha, walked onto the field holding a sign, and then Solskjaer and Sheringham took over the sign Home fans waving.

The number written on that sign is 23.

Later, Sheringham and Andy Cole mentioned in an interview more than ten years later that the number on that sign was the date until the last game of the season, which was the Champions League final.

At that time, Manchester United unified their thinking internally, and under the leadership of Ferguson, they launched a charge towards the club's first triple crown.

23 days later, both Sheringham and Solskjaer miraculously reversed Bayern with goals. Since then, Manchester United led by Ferguson has truly risen to become the top giants in modern football.

17 years later, Manchester United entered the best era, Sun Wu officially took office in the first season, he arrogantly raised this sign.

Sun Wu believes that he can do it!
……

For Sun Wu to lead Manchester United to the Champions League final, and it is very likely that Manchester United will become the only club in history to win the triple crown twice. The attitudes of all parties are a bit strange.

Most of the rich clubs are faintly supporting Real Madrid. The reason is very simple. After the restructuring of the Champions League, no team has successfully defended the Champions League.

After the restructuring of the UEFA Champions League in 1992, AC Milan, which has the "Three Musketeers of the Netherlands", entered the finals for three consecutive years. The year before, they lost 0 to 1 to Marseille. Although Marseille was disqualified from participating in the Toyota Cup due to a bribery case, UEFA did not. Deprive that Champions League title.

In the second year, AC Milan swept Barcelona 4-0, but in the third year, Kluivert of Ajax shattered Milan's dream of defending the title.

Next, Juventus reached the final for three consecutive years, but only won the championship with a penalty kick in the first year, and lost to Dortmund and Real Madrid in the next two consecutive years.

Then there is the unlucky Valencia, who first lost 1 to 3 to Real Madrid, and was defeated by Bayern Munich on penalties the following year.

Manchester United also reached the final for two consecutive years, beating Chelsea on penalties the previous year to win the championship, and being defeated by Barcelona without any suspense in the second year, and the latter became a new member of the Treble.

From the perspective of probability, in 24 years, four teams had six chances to defend their title, but all failed. This probability is too low.

Therefore, European giants clubs are faintly expressing goodwill towards Real Madrid. None of you can defend the title. The emperor will take turns to come to my house next year. Why should Manchester United not give up their position?

We don't care about Manchester United's three consecutive Premier League titles, but this is the Champions League champion!

Among the many giants, there is a team whose players are the most uncomfortable and embarrassing, and this is Real Madrid's eternal enemy Barcelona.

Emotionally speaking, Barcelona is of course willing to support Manchester United...even if Manchester United can complete the first defense in history.

From another perspective, Barcelona's perception of Manchester United is very complicated. In 2009, Barcelona defeated Manchester United 2-0 to win their first treble in history.

But last season, Barcelona, ​​which won the La Liga and Copa del Rey titles, was avenged by Manchester United in the Champions League final.

Barcelona people will inevitably think this way, we were the first team in history to win two trebles, but now... are we going to support the enemy who ruined it all?
(End of this chapter)