Red Rebels

After attending Beckham's wedding, Xiao Yu and others rushed back to Manchester that night, while Scarlett, who pretended to be Xiao Yu's girlfriend, wanted to stay in Dublin for one more night.

On the plane back, Xiao Yu clarified this oolong farce, which naturally attracted a lot of jokes from Bruce and others, but they were more envious, saying that if there is such a beautiful girl If the reporter pretends to be their girlfriend, then they are really worth dying for.

After returning to Manchester, everyone parted ways at the airport, and Xiao Yu, Bruce and Walsh returned directly to the Newton Heath training base.

In the next few days, while Xiao Yu and Walsh once again urged the city government to decide on the sale of the district sports stadium and the surrounding land, new players who joined the club began to arrive one after another.

Crouch and Kitson are the first players that Xiao Yu contacted. The former came directly to the new Manchester United training camp after his vacation, while the latter came to Manchester to observe the new Manchester United a few days after contacting Xiao Yu. The situation, the result is to live down.

Both players are very tall, but the former looks very thin, but his foot skills are very good. The first training session he participated in made people a little surprised, but his physical confrontation ability is very poor .

Kitson is 1.91 meters tall and weighs 83 kilograms. He is strong but not bulky. He is a pure center forward player, but his current position is a central defender.

As a central defender, Kitson's sense of position is a big problem. He is always used to using his body to fight against the opponent, and his habit of stepping forward to participate in the attack is not a big problem in the Sunday league. Once they reach the National League, they will definitely be blown away.

The first time I watched Kitson's training, Xiao Yu suggested to Bruce on the spot that Kitson should be trained as a center forward and serve as a bridgehead for the team's positional battles, so that Kitson's height and header advantages could be fully utilized. His skills are also good, and his style is tenacious and hardworking. He should be able to provide more options and help for the new Manchester United striker.

Although Crouch is 2 meters tall, in fact, his heading skills and his thin body have already determined that he is not suitable for this role at all.

Originally, the whole club was surprised by Crouch's height, but when the 2.02m Zikic came to the team, this record was broken again, except for a few tall players such as Crouch , Almost all the remaining club staff had to look up and talk to him.

Among them, a staff member in a laboratory is only 1.65 meters. When he wanted to help Zikic test the shoulder width, he couldn't reach it at all. He had to find a stool to step on. This interesting incident immediately caused an uproar in the club. .

Players who reported at the same time as Zikic include Almunia, Abidal, and Distin.

The goalkeeper Roberto Kane, who represented the new Manchester United in the Northwest Division Two last season, has been taken back by the Droysden team, so during the team training period, there has been only David Green as the goalkeeper. Until the arrival of Almunia.

Both Abidal and Distin are black players, and both are French, so after consideration, the club decided to help them buy a house near the Newton Heath training base for them to live in. As veteran players, Evra took the initiative to take on the task of helping his French compatriots integrate into the team.

Although they came to a strange country and entered a strange team, Abidal and Distin were very active and in good physical condition when they participated in the team's daily training on the second day after arriving at the team. Especially Abidal, whose super physical fitness makes people shine.

During the period when the team was just training, the laboratory became the busiest department of the club.

According to Professor Fryer's request, the entire team, including the youth team, must provide a complete body data,

In addition to ordinary data including precise height, weight, blood pressure, and heart rate, there are also a series of even unheard of body data, such as bone density, muscle elasticity index, and so on.

According to Fryer's introduction, it will take at least half a season for this set of data to be collected and completed.

Of course, this is only because the laboratory is still in the running-in stage. Once you are familiar with these processes, future tests will be faster and more accurate.

In addition to the fact that the players have to go to the laboratory to conduct various tests every day, Fryer has also installed more than a dozen high-precision cameras on the training ground, and these cameras will be directly connected to the computer in the laboratory. , It is convenient for laboratory personnel to observe the situation of players on the training ground at any time.

In addition, players on the training field will be stopped at any time and undergo laboratory testing, which has brought a lot of trouble to the team's early training. First of all, many players are not aware of this cumbersome and complicated Tests that have no effect are annoying.

However, since the club has strict regulations on this, the players ultimately choose to cooperate.

On July 9th, Junior Juninho, who had obtained a tourist visa, arrived in Manchester smoothly. He followed Xiao Yu's arrangement, and when he entered the country, he only said that he was going to travel, and at the same time he prepared a set of travel rhetoric, and passed the customs smoothly. up.

Since the club has prepared residences for all foreign players, when Junior Juninho arrived in Manchester, he was immediately taken to the Newton Heath training base. He first went to the club office to meet with Xiao Yu and the head coach Bruce Walsh took him to the Royal Hospital for a series of comprehensive physical examinations, and this set of examinations was naturally supervised by Professor Fryer and others.

After the inspection, Walsh personally took Juninho to several rental apartments prepared by the club for him. Finally, Juninho chose one of the houses and moved in on the same day. .

In addition to the house, the club also hired several teachers for these foreign players, some of them taught spoken English, and some taught them some English daily customs and living habits.

In order to deal with these matters, the club set up an independent human resources department, and Walsh served as the director of this department. At the same time, this department recruited three female fans. They all had experience in working in the human resources department of large companies, so As soon as you enter the club, you start immediately, so although the new Manchester United has introduced many foreign players this year, everything seems to be carried out in an orderly manner.

Because Xiao Yu circled the world with Xiao Yu and returned to Italy to pick up his family after returning to Manchester, the old De Rossi family was the latest to arrive in Manchester. They chose an apartment near the Newton Heath training base , and the old De Rossi's wife also successfully found a job in a nearby factory.

In a busy period, the new Manchester United didn't get all the signings until July 20th.

Among them, the club played three warm-up matches on the 12th, 14th and 17th. The opponents were all low-level teams near Manchester. Although the main force was incomplete, the new Manchester United still showed a higher level than their opponents. They defeated their opponents with scores of 6:0, 3:0 and 4:0 respectively.

Jonathan Maiten played the main center in these three warm-up games, and he played all the games, but his performance was average. He only scored one goal and one assist in the three games. On the contrary, the performance of center Zikic who came off the bench It was very good. I scored a hat-trick in the first warm-up match, and scored twice in the second game, as if there was no need for running-in at all.

For the sake of familiarity, the new Manchester United still used last season's main lineup for most of the three warm-up matches, but Jonathan Maten's partner was replaced by Crouch, and the left and right wingers remained the same. Ricky Wellens and Darren Lyons, and the central midfielder was replaced by Juninho Jr. and Karl Makinson.

The four defenders from left to right are Patrice Evra, Eric Abidal, Gareth Turner and Kevin Evan, and the goalkeeper is Almunia.

After the test of three warm-up matches, Jonathan Maiten's performance was not ideal, but Zikic played well. Although the substitute Olic failed to score, his performance was also impressive.

The left combination of Ricky Wellens and Evra is still the birthplace of the new Manchester United offense. The entire left corridor is almost invincible, especially the two players are the kind of fast players. The field is piled up with good headers, which makes the new Manchester United's left attack play impressively.

Unlike the left wing, Darren Lyons and Kevin Evan on the right have a more balanced offensive and defensive combination. Both players are both offensive and defensive types, which makes the right wing not prominent in the offense, but Lyons Ans's cross and oblique long pass skills are still there, as can be seen from his contribution of 4 assists to the team in the three warm-up matches.

As a defensive midfielder, Karl Makinson is still diligent and diligent, and his performance is quite satisfactory. On the contrary, Juninho, who joined under the halo of the Brazilian international, has not shown his ability as a Brazilian international, nor is he as good as Xiao Yu in his previous life. The frightening direct free kick in my memory.

As for the central defender combination, Abidal and Gareth Turner have complementary characteristics. The former has strong physical fitness, fast speed, and strong explosive power. He is good at stealing and marking, but he lacks a sense of position. , a strong sense of position, top-notch header skills, all that such a central defender combination needs is to establish a tacit understanding of cooperation.

However, although the three warm-up matches were all big victories, since the opponents were all amateur league teams in the Northwest District, the gold content was naturally not high, and it was not the same as the National League that the new Manchester United will compete in this season. During the warm-up match, Bruce especially noticed this.

On the afternoon of July 21st, the new Manchester United challenged Rochdale in England C in an away game. Neither upgraded nor downgraded.

Such a team is obviously the best touchstone for the new Manchester United to test the lineup!

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