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Chapter 967 Crazy Schedule
Carrington Base.

In the office, Sun Wu flicked the webpage with one hand and the phone with the other, "Mr. Ed, I just want to know when Salah will come to report."

"Best, it takes time to transfer. Barcelona hasn't let go. I suspect they don't want to let Pedro leave the team."

"Enrique is indeed unwilling, but Pedro will never be willing to be a substitute for MSN for another season."

"But the problem is that Enrique needs to find a replacement..."

Sun Wu hung up the phone speechlessly. In fact, Manchester United had already contacted Chelsea. Although Conte was unwilling, Chelsea's top management was willing to buy this Egyptian winger who could not play for two seasons.

Now there are two problems. One is the transfer fee. Salah joined Chelsea for 1600 million pounds. They hope to recover the transfer fee. This is not a big problem. Manchester United has sufficient budget.

But the second one is a bit troublesome. Conte strongly demanded to let Salah leave after buying Pedro to ensure that Chelsea's lineup will not be weakened.

Pedro has already negotiated personal conditions with Chelsea, but Barcelona just won't let him go.

why?

Because Enrique asked the club to buy a sufficiently good rotation attacker before letting Pedro go.

But Barcelona's target Turan... Atletico Madrid will not let anyone go!

Well, the Salah transfer deal is stuck here.

The entire winter transfer period is from January 1st to February 1st at midnight, but you must know that there is no winter break in the Premier League, and the two make-up games that Manchester United missed due to participating in the Club World Cup will also be played during this period. The monthly season is even more intensive than the Christmas schedule.

If Salah can't join, Sun Wu will have to let Lingard, Milner and even Rashford come off the bench. Bernardo Silva came to the Premier League for the first time. Need to adapt, Griezmann must rest.

However, Sun Wu observed through the coaching system that the players are in good condition, and there are no major physical problems. The only injured are Rojo and Mane, and their recovery speed is also expected.

1 month 2 number.

Manchester United played against Swan Sea at home. Sun Wu made a big rotation. Coleman, Herrera and Milner all started, and Milner replaced Bernardo Silva as a guest right winger.

In the first two heavyweight games, Falcao came off the bench to expand the score against Chelsea, and scored a key equalizer goal in the Manchester Derby. He deserved to temporarily seize the main position.

But the starting spell worked again.

It cannot be said that Falcao is not working hard, but he missed two semi-single-handed goals and two shots in the center of the post. It was not until the 75th minute that Sun Wu replaced Falcao. At that time, the score was 1-0, and Milner played in rotation. On a counterattack, he scored with a follow-up shot to take the lead.

But in the next 15 minutes, Harry Kane, who came off the bench, scored a hat-trick. He scored three goals in a row with a head kick, and also assisted Griezmann to score through a counterattack.

In the end, Manchester United swept Swansea 5-0 at home and won their 16th consecutive championship.

Unfortunately, Manchester City lost points again, and Aguero was abandoned, but Ishinacho was obviously not yet integrated into the team. Sterling, who had high hopes from Guardiola, failed to hit the target in eight shots.

Moreover, Manchester City's defense has repeatedly made mistakes. Laporta and Stones have been tortured by Hornets Watford center Deeney. If Deeney's footwork is not too bad, Manchester City may not even be able to take away a point. .

However, both Liverpool and Chelsea successfully took all three points.

At the end of this round of the league, although Manchester City has lost two rounds, it still leads the standings with 55 points. Chelsea is ranked second with 51 points. Manchester United, which has two rounds less, ranks third with 49 points. Liverpool's performance this season is slightly inferior. Repeatedly lost points on the middle and lower teams, only ranked fourth with 48 points.

Entering 2016, although it is still too early to win the championship, the championship group has been initially revealed. The Manchester City duo, Liverpool, and Chelsea occupy the first group. The fifth-ranked Tottenham only accumulated 38 points and was ranked second. Four of Liverpool have dropped 10 points.

What followed was the most painful period for Manchester United throughout the season and the most intensive period of schedule. The only thing that can comfort Sun Wu is that the opponents are not strong.

After playing Swansea, the Manchester United team flew to the southwest of the British Isles that day. They played against Bournemouth on January 1. This was a make-up match.

Six days from December 12 to the present, it is already the third game. Although the rotation has been carried out in the last game, Sun Wu can only continue to rotate. Fortunately, the depth of Manchester United's bench this season is not bad.

Michael Keane formed a back three with Phil Jones and Pavard, Fabinho started in place of Kante, Sun Wu himself needed a rest to start Herrera, Bernardo Silva started Gerry Ziman takes a break.

It was a very tough game. Eddie Howe, the coach of Bournemouth, is a very good young coach. Like Sun Wu, he has also served as a player and coach. He spent 7 years converting Bourne Mouth was brought from the Second Division to the Premier League and created a team that is tenacious, tough and tactically unique.

Defensively, Bournemouth tried to maintain a sufficient numerical advantage, and intercepted Manchester United's offense with non-stop running and fierce shovel steals.

The two forwards of Bournemouth in the attack have enough motivation. Wilson and Joshua King are both old Manchester United players, but they have not played even a minute for Manchester United. They are both capable of fighting alone. Can pass and shoot, and cooperate with each other tacitly.

Moreover, although Bournemouth has a large number of local players in the team, Eddie Howe insisted on an offensive strategy of ground coordination, which made Fabinho suffer. The Brazilian midfielder was repeatedly pierced by the opponent's concise cooperation.

For this reason, Sun Wu had to use an adaptation card for Fabinho during the intermission, and the situation improved in the second half.

The stalemate was not broken until the 81st minute. Sun Wu's substitution had an effect, but he didn't play in person, because Griezmann was not included in the squad. He risked restoring the four-back formation and let Lingard, who played as a guest winger, Returning to the midfield, let Falcao, who came off the bench, play as a left winger.

United's substitute spell worked again, with Falcao forced down the penalty area and was brought down, although Eddie Howe insisted it was a dive, but the referee awarded a penalty.

Milner's penalty finally broke the deadlock, and then the situation suddenly became clear. Bournemouth could only press up. The goalkeeper set the score at 2-0.

Winning this game, Manchester United tied Manchester City's 17-game winning streak last season, and there is one game left from Manchester City's 18-game winning streak this season.

After a bitter battle, Manchester United did not have much rest time.

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It was either a heavyweight game or a tough game, and the only weak team, Swansea, did not go well.

It's not over yet, January 1th is the third round of the FA Cup against Sheffield United, and then rest for a few days, January 9th is the league away game against Newcastle United, and January 1th is the second double red meeting this season .

In the next half month, Manchester United will have another league game, a make-up match, the second round of the League Cup semi-finals, and the fourth round of the FA Cup.

Looking at the schedule, the corner of Sun Wu's mouth twitched crazily. There were 1 games in 30 days in January, with an average of one game every three days.

Sun Wu really couldn't hold it anymore, so after the League Cup starting lineup came out, Liverpool's local media criticized Sun Wu for not paying attention to the League Cup.

The head coaches of other teams really can't do things like Sun Wu...the kind with no lower limit!
Rashford, Romero, and Michael Keane, who hardly had playing time, started the game, and all other positions were reserved for the reserve team and even U18 players.

Sun Wu himself had no choice but to stay, but let all other players return to the Carrington base to recuperate.

(End of this chapter)