Chapter 91 The Future of English Football!

After the European Super Cup, the national leagues in European football were suspended, and national teams once again began to compete for qualifications in the final stage of the European Championship.

This time, the "Red Devils" Manchester United suffered an unprecedented impact because as many as fifteen of their first team's twenty-one players were recruited.

England, Belgium, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Spain, Wales, Serbia and other countries have international players at Manchester United, and even Brazil's Ganso goes back to play a friendly match between Brazil and Switzerland.

The training of the first team was completely stopped, and the remaining six players were thrown directly by Simon Grayson to assistant Tony McAndrew and led them to train with the players preparing for the youth team. He finally had time to think about what other adjustments should be made in his team's tactics.

With the joining of Bale, Mata, Krissettigue and Rivero, Manchester United's offense and defense have some different changes, just like if Di Maria does not play, Bale and Mata will increase the speed of the left side, and if they are not fully utilized, it will be a waste.

Krissettigue is obviously much better than Franny in passing and controlling the ball. After playing two games, his pass success rate reached 85%, while Franny was only 66%. The other two people averaged 4.5 steals per game. Now Simon Grayson has to consider who can help the team improve their combat effectiveness more effectively.

Another thing is that Rivero's pass success rate is not as high as Subotic, but his stealing ability is stronger than Subotic. This is also what Simon Grayson needs to continue to pay attention to next.

Success is not accidental. Only inevitable!

Simon Grayson is still summarizing the team when the team has no games and cannot train normally, which is also a detail of why he has succeeded.

As time goes by September, the English media summarized the transfer market this summer. In the transfer market this summer, the team with the highest net expenditure is still the "Red Devils". The tall £77 million net transfer expenditure is more than twice the second-ranked Leeds United £35 million.

The most profitable club in the transfer market this summer is beyond everyone's expectations. It turned out to be... "Blue Moon" Manchester City!

After Van Gaal coached the team, his old habits still remained unchanged. He still wanted to keep the locker room in his own hands. He didn't know what he and the Manchester City board said. In the end, they sold the 29-year-old Belgian international, the team's captain Kompany to Barcelona for 29 million pounds. Manchester City made a net profit of 28 million pounds in the transfer market this season.

Manchester City's income in the transfer market is not as much as the other four profitable clubs Newcastle, Everton, Tottenham and Derbyshire.

However, the 20 English Premier League teams have invested very heavily in the transfer market. The total net investment has reached 203 million pounds, and the financial resources of the world's No. 1 league are still impressive.

In addition to counting the funds invested in the transfer, the media also summarized the current salary expenditure rankings of each team. After signing four major stars Bale, Mata, Krissettigue and Rivero in the summer, Manchester United's salary expenditure also rose to the top, jumping to the top with 119 million pounds. One million pounds more than Manchester City, which ranked second.

However, even Bolton, which has the least salary expenditure, has a salary expenditure of 20 million pounds. The overall level and strength of the Premier League can be seen from this salary statistics table.

Among the three most expensive transfer deals, Manchester United's Bale was 40 million pounds, and Mata ranked first and second. In the third place, Tottenham Hotspur bought Uruguay left winger Gaston Ramirez from Spain's Malaga for 27 million pounds.

There are 17 transactions with a transfer amount of more than 10 million pounds, of which 13 players of tens of millions have transferred from outside the Premier League. There are only two players who unexpectedly transferred to the Premier League... Kompany and Hernandez.

It can be said without controversy that the English Premier League is still the most attractive league in the world. In addition to internal turnover in one summer, 13 stars were introduced from outside but only 2 left. The level of the league naturally rose again.

As if to confirm this statement, the "Three Lions" easily defeated their opponent with a score of 3:0 in their home match against Poland on September 5. Shaq scored twice in the game, and the old captain Terry scored a goal.

In this training camp, Stewart recruited veterans Terry, Jagilka, Glen Johnson, three veterans over 30 years old, and without exception, they are all defenders. It seems that the English coach is sending a signal that he does not agree with the young defenders in England today, otherwise he would not have recruited so many veterans in this area.

The media also commented that the strength of English football's midfield and frontcourt is indeed world-class. Even with Shaq's presence, the English team's attack power surpasses other teams. However, football matches are a collective competitive sports event, otherwise the English team in Brazil would not be the runner-up but the champion at other times.

The problem to be solved at the moment is that the defenders are not in the face of the young and excellent defenders. At present, England’s football lacks young and excellent defenders. This is a fact that has to be admitted. The media also issued a call, hoping that major teams can tap the potential of local players and strive to cultivate excellent futures.

Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and other teams are all criticized. The overall strength of these teams is indeed very strong. But look at how many English players are on the back line of these teams, let alone defenders who can enter the main lineup. If this continues, I am afraid that English football will have to wait for many years if it wants to become a world champion.

Mourinho didn't take these criticisms seriously at all. He and Van Gaal and others are both foreigners and they have no interest in the development of English football. The fundamental reason is to lead his team to achieve good results.

But Simon Grayson is different. He is a complete British man. When he played football, he dreamed of one day winning the world championship for England, but unfortunately he didn't have the ability.

But after becoming a football coach, Simon Grayson has not forgotten his dream. Since he cannot help England win the world championship as a player, he should have a chance as a head coach, especially since he has achieved good results now. He has also trained powerful players such as Shaq, Ben Parker, Ashley Hood, and Jonny Hausen. Now he coaches Manchester United, and he also has stars from England such as Smalling and Rooney. He is also a famous coach with his own direct disciples. If he coaches the "Three Lions", he will definitely be able to master this team.

Because of this, when discussing Bale's transfer with Real Madrid president Florentino, he accepted the invitation and left a backdoor. If the FA in England sent him an invitation, he would definitely coach England without hesitation. He longed to have the opportunity to lead England to prove himself.

But now... it is not the right time. When Hodgson came on stage, Simon Grayson had just started at Leeds United. Later, Hodgson left office and had his wife who had been married for many years. Simon Grayson still aimed at the European Cup next summer. If Stewart failed to lead England to achieve an ideal record in the European Cup, his chance would come.

But at present, Simon Grayson still needs to work hard to show his coaching ability. Only when he continues to succeed at Manchester United and accumulates enough reputation and rich resumes can he follow the trend and strive for the position of coach of the "Three Lions".

Before this... it may be necessary to train young defenders.

On September 12, in the third round of the English Premier League, Manchester United welcomed Wolves at home. Simon Grayson began to implement a rotation system in this game. Evans, Smalling, Clevelli and others all played, and Rooney and Ganso in the midfield all got a chance to rest.

Although even the captain of the team did not play, Manchester United really didn't need to be too serious when playing against opponents like Wolves at home, not to mention Shaq, who had his arm captain's armband on his arm, was also exploding due to the sense of responsibility.

In this game, the home team did not send all the main players, but this was disastrous for the visiting team, especially when Shaq broke out, Wolves were completely defeated, because in this game... Shaq set a record!

Shaq opened fire in the game, with heavy artillery on both sides and left and right, and headed up to score eight consecutive goals in 11 minutes, 33 minutes, 40 minutes, 45 minutes, 48 ​​minutes, 55 minutes, 72 minutes, and 89 minutes!

One game...eight goals!

Even Shaq, who has excellent goals, has never scored so many goals in one game. Of course, there are players who have scored more goals than these in football history, but there are really no match for a game like Australia 31:0 American Samoa, 22:0 defeating Tonga.

At least in the high-level matches of the five major European leagues and the Champions League, Shaq scored 8 goals in a single game is definitely an amazing record!

With these 8 goals, Shaq's goal count this season has reached 20 in 5 games, averaging 4 goals per game, and an average of one goal in 22.5 minutes. This efficiency is really terrifying.

However, the score of this game was not 8:0, but 10:0. Nani and Clevily also scored a goal.

After the three rounds of the league, Manchester United continued to top the list with a record of winning, but "crazy" Bielsa led Leeds United to achieve a record of winning. And because of the goal difference, it rose to second place, which has a direct relationship with Bielsa's beginning to reuse his fellow villager "Beast" Tevez.

In third place, Chelsea and Manchester City were fourth. Both teams also won all the wins. Mourinho's team still maintained a record of not conceding goals, but Van Gaal's team still had a narrow victory.
Chapter completed!