Chapter 152: Suddenly Intensified Competition

As the days passed day by day, Tiger's days began to become very boring - after the Carrington training, practiced more after the training, and after returning home, he entered the main god space for training - this was almost how he came through in the past year. However, Tiger knew that in addition to Lin Danda providing a perfect environment, this kind of ascetic efforts were the most important factor.

Tiger regretted that he had wasted so much time before. It can even be said that before he met Lin Danda, all his training went astray, and it was just increasing his basic skills. His training direction was wrong. However, it was precisely because of his huge regret for the past that he wanted to become stronger and gain more honors.

Even if you come to a strong team like Manchester United, even if you are surrounded by top players, Tiger is still persistent in becoming the best one - not a qualified one, but the best one - even if it is not now, it will be the best in the future!

But it is obvious that Tiger is not the best one at Manchester United, definitely not.

After a few days of physical fitness reserve, Manchester United began tactical exercises. For the three newly added players, it is easier for Stam to be familiar with Manchester United's running system because his position is a defender. Tiger has been trying to be familiar with Manchester United's running system. However, this is a huge process, especially for a midfielder like him, it is not only necessary to run a few times, but he needs to be familiar with this system far more than the forwards and defenders in order to integrate into the team!

Obviously, this is not something that can be achieved overnight. Although Tiger carefully remembers the direction and way of running of his teammates during training every time, and gradually adds and improves it in the main god space after returning home, the progress has also been quite slow.

In Manchester United's running system, the most difficult player to replace is the midfield core. Whether it is Keane or Scholes, Scholes's career continued until the years when Ferguson was about to retire. During this period, no one could shake his position. After Keane retired, Ferguson never found a suitable successor. In the end, he could only use two players to replace his role. For example, such as Perron, his personal skills and tactical execution ability were excellent to a point, but he still could not integrate into Manchester United's running system for a long time and could only leave sadly. Even if Tiger had unique conditions and a strong desire to learn, it was extremely difficult to make progress in this area.

Perhaps it was precisely because of this that after August, Ferguson took action again in the transfer market.

The transfer that had been stopped before was started again. He regretted that the asking price was too high and scared away the big money-owner of Manchester United, Ellis, immediately started negotiations again. Finally, after two days of bargaining, Manchester United paid the largest investment in the transfer market this season, and it was also the highest transfer fee in the club's history so far - 12.6 million pounds, Ferguson recruited Trinidad and Tobago scorer Dwight York.

After this news came out, everyone was shocked by Manchester United's big money. You should know that the current investment in the Premier League in transfers is far from comparable to Serie A. The highest transfer fee in the Premier League was created by Alan Hiller three seasons ago, with 13 million pounds. Although Manchester United's introduction of York this time costs 400,000 pounds less, considering that they had two big money that exceeded 10 million, they spent nearly 40 million pounds in the transfer market all summer, which was enough to shock the entire Premier League!

"Manchester United is crazy!" A reporter sighed: "It is obvious that last season was overturned by Arsenal in an extremely favorable situation, which made Ferguson realize that in the absence of fighting heavyweight players like Cantona and Keane, the talented young people of Manchester United still have unstable performance. Someone once commented that 'If you only rely on children, then you won't get anything.' Ferguson's children have shown outstanding talents before, but you can't rely on children to conquer the world... It is obvious that Ferguson has realized this, so the tough guy Stam, who performed well in the World Cup, came last season.

Tiger Lee, who showed great fighting spirit and desire to win, has come. Now, he is playing for Villa at the age of 18. He has played for nine seasons in the Premier League so far. He has been in the Premier League for nine seasons. The arrival of these three people and the return of Keane have given Ferguson a team with experience, vitality, courage and desire to win. However, it is surprising enough to spend 40 million pounds for this result. Premier League new player Preston has introduced eight new players this season, spending only 20 million pounds... He bought four people for 40 million pounds, which is enough to create a brand new Premier League team! It is not like this to spend money!"

Arsenal's head coach Wenger, who defeated Manchester United last season to win the league and FA Cup double championships, was a little sour in an interview: "Many United sign ups? I know that they also bought Sheringham and others last season, spending nearly five times more money than us, but what about the end? The championship is still ours. Manchester United left an important player this year, just like last season, and our main lineup has been preserved. This is quite beneficial to us. We will prove this in the next Charity Shield game."

No wonder Wenger's tone was a bit sour. In fact, when it comes to signings, Arsenal bought more people this year than Manchester United. However, buying Ryomberg from Sweden cost Wenger three million pounds, using Inter Milan to buy Nigerian scorer Canu talked about Wenger for 4.5 million, introducing local player Pennant from Notts County cost Wenger two million, and buying former French international Diavala from Bordeaux 2.5 million, plus two free transfer players, the introduction of six players cost Wenger less than 10 million pounds, which is not as valuable as Tiger alone...

In fact, Wenger is a bit popular. He was originally optimistic about Tiger. After all, Arsenal's midfield is a parallel position. In addition to Vieira's frequent forward, the organization in the middle has to rely on Borgkamp's retreat to get the ball. Ovemas and Palor on both sides are typical wingers. If a organizer like Tiger is added, Arsenal's offense can be more beautiful and more diverse. However, when he tentatively quoted Preston for 3 million pounds, he was immediately rejected by Preston...

But just as Sheringham's main position in the national team was replaced by the younger Michael Irving after the World Cup group stage, at Manchester United, his position was also faced with the impact of York, who was five years younger than him and even stronger than R&F. York is also a standard center forward with excellent heading ability and strong impact. However, his foot skills are not bad, and he can also withdraw and help organize the offense. In all aspects, he has an advantage over Sheringham.

York has been struggling in the Premier League for as many as nine years, and his position also determines that he can integrate into Manchester United much faster. Although he is not very familiar with Manchester United's running system, he has also played against Manchester United in the Premier League for a lot of times and is more familiar with Manchester United's running. In addition, he is a striker, and his position is much simpler. In addition, his own strength is indeed outstanding, so he has gradually replaced Sheringham's main position in the training camp.

Once York occupies the main position of the shadow forward, the competition between Tiger and Scholes becomes fierce.

Originally, Tiger believed that he could coexist with Scholes. After all, Scholes could play shadow striker, and the organization was not his specialty. However, York forced him to compete with Scholes for attacking midfield positions. This position is more familiar with Manchester United's running system. Although Tiger is working hard to adapt to Manchester United's running system, he is used to playing the core of the organization, but he is obviously incompatible with Manchester United's frontcourt offense.

Manchester United's offensive core was Cantona before, and after Cantona retired, he became Keane. Keane was responsible for passing the ball to two wings in the backcourt to organize the offense. When the offense started from two wings, two forwards often attracted the attention of the opponent's defenders, and Scholes completed the finishing work. His grasp of the timing of forward insertion was never dragging and outstanding long-range shooting ability, both defeated Tiger. Before the season officially started, Manchester United played three warm-up games, and Tiger played a lot of games, but as soon as he got on the court, he unconsciously asked for a lot of balls and wanted to put the offense into his own control - and this approach was contrary to Manchester United's offensive method.

So naturally, when the Charity Shield began on August 15, Tiger sat on the bench.

The two sides in this Charity Shield Cup final battle were last season's domestic double champion Arsenal and the league runner-up Manchester United - the European League's Super Cup match that started before the season. The league championship vs. the cup championship is the first choice, but when the league championship and cup championship are the same team, Italy is the double champion and the cup runner-up, while England is the double champion and the league runner-up.

For Manchester United, this game is of course a battle of revenge. Last season, they were double-killed by Arsenal in the league. The loss to Arsenal from home was a game that reversed the final championship situation that season. What made Manchester United even more dissatisfied was that when Arsenal won the championship two rounds ahead of schedule, they lost the last two league games neatly and won one point in the end, which made Manchester United think that Arsenal was deliberately annoying them...

After continually fighting against Norwich, Blackburn, Newcastle and other teams that can challenge their dominance, Arsenal, the biggest rival who is about to be entangled with Manchester United for nearly ten years, began to appear in front of Manchester United as a strong man.

This game at Wembley Stadium is a bit unfavorable for Arsenal, because they had a serious injury crisis before. Two Dutch star Ovemas and Borgkamp were both slightly injured and unable to play. Winterburn and Boulder, the five elders in the back, were unable to play. Arsenal replaced Winterburn with Brazilian defender Sylvinho, while Palor formed two wings with newly joined Lungberg, and the forward team was newly joined Nigerian striker Canu and French young player Anelka.

Ferguson sent all the main players to the field, goalkeeper Schmeichel, defenders Gary Neville, Stam, Johnson, and Elvin. Except for Keane who had just recovered from injury, who was replaced by Bart, the other three were still Giggs, Scholes and Beckham, and the forward partner was York and Cole, the "Black Wind Double Devils" who were about to be famous.

Tiger sat on the bench, and with him were the newly joined Blomquist, Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, defenders Borg, Phil Neville and goalkeeper Van der Gauge. The Charity Shield can lead seven substitutes, and there are five players who can play.

Manchester United once had the upper hand in the first half and took the lead in the 37th minute - Kerr's breakthrough created a free kick, and Beckham's direct free kick from 30 meters away hit the lower edge of the crossbar and landed on the goal line and then popped up. York headed the ball into the net - but later, slow motion showed that the ball had crossed the goal line before, and the goal was recorded on Beckham's head.

However, in the second half, the situation suddenly changed. In the 67th minute, Vieira, who had been in the front, made a penalty kick. Canu took the penalty and Ferguson started to substitution. Solskjaer replaced Cole. However, ten minutes later, Canu made a wonderful pass and Palor inserted from the ribs successfully scored again to overtake the score. The score remained until the end of the game. Manchester United defeated the game and lost the battle of revenge.

Tiger was not replaced until the 85th minute. He replaced full-back Elvin. After he came on the court, he created several opportunities with his personal breakthrough, but was intercepted by the experienced Arsenal defense line one by one. Arsenal's old defenders have rich experience and tacit understanding. The Premier League is rare. Although Arsenal has begun to play smooth ground attacks, this defense line is still used by Graham during the period. It has a strong defense and will never drag on the mud.
Chapter completed!