Chapter 485: Respond to changes with the same change!

What was unexpected was... Herrera was about to transfer!

As the previous captain of Manchester United and the current vice captain, Herrera, the good-looking man, took the initiative to make a transfer request this time, and this time... he wants to go home!

Herrera became famous in Zaragoza and then transferred to Athletic Bilbao. She became famous and was bought by Manchester United six years ago. The cost at that time was 29 million pounds!

Herrera is now thirty years old. He wants to return to Athletic Bilbao and retire after playing for a few years. Moreover, Athletic Bilbao has won the fifth place in La Liga twice in the past two years. Seeing that the qualification for the Champions League is close to them, they naturally want to go further.

At this time, Athletic Bilbao thought of their former core Herrera, and Herrera's current age also determines that although he still has good combat effectiveness, his value is not very high. It can be said that it is their most cost-effective choice.

After asking Herrera about her personal wishes, Manchester United gave her the green light to her former captain, but she only charged a transfer fee of 10 million pounds, so she let Herrera leave.

You know, in Herrera's current value, £10 million...that is just half price!

Manchester United even planned to hold a commemorative match for Herrera, but the Spanish midfielder hoped to save this opportunity until he retired. After all, Herrera is only 30 years old now. As long as he does not have any major injuries, he can still play for four or five years. Besides, he is returning to Athletic Bilbao this time, and the competitive pressure he faces is very small, almost nothing.

Finally, Manchester United official sent a message announcing that Herrera would leave Manchester United and return to Athletic Bilbao, where he played for before. The old captain who had always been low-key left no trouble.

However, with the team's continuous transfers and leaving, the most direct impact was still... the number of first-team players!

Originally, there were not many players in Manchester United's first team, but this summer they left Rashford and Herrera. Now the number of players in the first team has dropped to 22!

But...it's just an impact on the number of people!

With the growth of young players such as Mark Tominayi, Adam Myers, Rayford, Herrera's current position in Manchester United is really not that important. Even if he is not in the team, the team's combat effectiveness will not be affected.

Otherwise... Solskjaer and Manchester United coaching staff would not agree to let Herrera transfer leave.

As for the few first-team players, Solskjaer is not in a hurry at all. Even if the team's midfield and frontcourt left Rashford and Herrera, in fact, Manchester United's first-team midfield and frontcourt are still not short of people. What's more, Manchester United's youth training echelon has a lot of talent reserves now. Not to mention that Bart is overcrowded, it's almost the same. If there is really a shortage of people, it will be too late to get people.

As a firm "old-school" coach, Solskjaer really believes that the players he has trained will serve the team. This time he returned to Manchester United to coach for two seasons, and he became more confident.

Look at the current 22 first-team players in Manchester United, 15 of them are Manchester United's own youth training products. If we include Rashford, we will have 16 players!

The "Red Devils" rely on their youth training players to achieve unprecedented harvests in the past three seasons, including three consecutive Premier League dominances, three consecutive Champions League dominances, and three consecutive Champions League dominances, as well as three consecutive Champions League dominances, and other Super Cups, Club World Cup, FA Cup, etc.... In short, Manchester United has won too many honors in these three seasons!

In Solskjaer's view, although all this is due to the leadership of Manchester United as a super player "God Yang", the team is mainly youth training players, ensuring the team's unity, ensuring the team's sense of collective honor and fighting spirit. These are also key elements for Manchester United's success.

Now Solskjaer has already thought about it. Unless the youth training camp really cannot cultivate talents, and when the first team wants people, the best candidate selected by the youth training camp cannot even reach the passing line, otherwise... they will never buy people!

What's more, even if you don't buy people, Manchester United actually has a lot of expenses. Currently, there are four players in the team who have a weekly salary of more than 300,000 pounds, but the expenses for salary are already quite large.

But...it's worth the money!

Just the four players, Yang Xiaozhuang, B Fee, De Gea, and Aliyu, are simply the entire central axis of the "Red Devils" from front to back. This is the skeleton of Manchester United. With four of them, no matter how the other positions of the team change, the overall combat effectiveness will be almost no longer affected.

In the new season, when Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool are all crazy signings, if Manchester United only wants to rely on signings to make strong teams, it will probably be difficult to reach the level of these three teams. It may even be because the players who bought are unwilling to be the Green Leaf. The situation of Demarle Gray and Rashford will be like the previous situation, and then it will be really not worth the loss.

At this time, Solskjaer suddenly understood why Barcelona's recruitment efforts have been small in the past few years. First, because the salary level of the stars in the team is too high, it consumes a large amount of funds from the club, but more importantly, it is because the recruitment will break the team's existing structure and lead to internal confusion.

But even if the "Red Devils" know that there may be such hidden dangers, they cannot change the club's strategy at this time. They can't keep the lineup that has won the championship for many years and have to push it back, right?

What's more, how big is Manchester United's "king" now?

Twenty years old!

Let’s put a 20-year-old world number one star who doesn’t make good use of it, so I’ll start over?

Is it water in my head?

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that as long as Manchester United always builds the team with Yang Xiaozhuang as the core, the "Red Devils" will always be in a prosperous period in the next ten years, and championships will definitely be indispensable. So what reason is there to make changes now?

Could it be that after buying some stars, the team is really better than it is now?

Even if your strength is stronger, will the result be better than now?

Impossible!

To be too far, that is, to win the league championship and the Champions League trophy, Manchester United has done the same thing now, right?

Besides, Manchester United has now completely opened up the Chinese market through Yang Xiaozhuang. The sales of club products in the Chinese market are rising steadily. Every year, countless Chinese fans come to Old Trafford to watch the game, and even drive the development of the English tourism market. This benefit... is immeasurable!

In this case, making changes and restructuring the team structure is something that only madmen will do!
Chapter completed!