As the night darkens, the last rays of the sunset outside the window hang at the junction of the western sky and the horizon, and the sunset is beautiful when viewed from the treetops. [I love to read] In an office at Carrington's training base, Moyes stood in front of the window, looking out at the sunset, his expression gloomy. He wasn't in the mood to enjoy the sunset right now.

On the table behind him was a copy of the Manchester Evening News, which had only been published this afternoon.

Some of the Manchester Evening News' most important stories and opinion pieces are about Manchester United.

"Without Yang Fan, Manchester United wouldn't have scored?"

"Manchester United management, what are you doing?!"

These two reports are the most representative, Moyes has read them all, originally because Manchester United lost to Burnley, Moyes's mood was worse, after reading these media reports, the mood is even worse, in the end, the Manchester United manager smiled wryly, just sat there without saying a word.

Manchester United is definitely the biggest team in this summer, Cristiano Ronaldo transferred to Real Madrid for 80 million pounds, Yang Fan transferred to Manchester City for 150 million pounds, and Tevez also transferred to Manchester City!

Manchester City's most luxurious attacking line in the entire football world, now only Rooney is left!

With the loss of Ronaldo and Yang Fan and others, Manchester United will of course have to make reinforcements in the front line, but it is clear that Manchester United's recruitment results are very unsatisfactory. Owen and Adriano are their new signings, of which Owen joined as a free agent after terminating his contract with Newcastle, and Adriano also joined for nothing! Therefore, Manchester United did not spend a penny to bring in these two people! If five years ago, a team could have strikers like Owen and Adriano, it was definitely top-notch, but now, ...... Owen has been completely out of form since he left Liverpool for a trip to Real Madrid, and his strength is not as good as before, as for Adriano, the Brazilian who was once considered the best center forward on the planet, is now in average form, and his strength is very different from when he was worshiped in Meazza...... This is also conceivable, otherwise, neither Newcastle nor Inter Milan will terminate the contract with these two people and let them transfer for nothing.

Moyes was also in a hurry to go to the hospital at the time, and after Yang Fan's transfer, he wanted to bring in two goalscorers first to supplement the team's forward line. Or rather, at that time, he still had some hope for Owen and Adriano.

However, after the summer warm-up games, as well as a Charity Shield match and two Premier League games, Moyes also had to admit with frustration that Manchester United's current attacking ability is very unsatisfactory, Owen and Adriano can provide limited help for Manchester United's goal scoring ability, and now, Manchester United's offensive end is almost entirely supported by Rooney alone!

One Charity Shield game, two Premier League games, and only one goal in these three official matches! That is, the goal in the first round of the league in the 1-0 match between Manchester United at home and Birmingham was scored by Wayne Rooney.

The quadruple champion, two months ago it was the most glamorous team in the whole of football, the most attacking team in world football, and now, it has become so difficult to score a goal!

In fact, Rooney has never been a prolific goalscorer.

Now that Rooney is supported by Rooney alone, Manchester United's attacking line is really not flattering.

Such a huge contrast made Manchester United fans unacceptable for a while, and as the manager of Manchester United, David Moyes was even more troubled.

Now the media is pointing the finger at David Moyes on the one hand, thinking that Manchester United's positioning is a mess, and it is wrong to target 'balloon stars' like Owen and 'fallen stars' like Adriano.

In addition, the media also pointed the finger at Manchester United management, Manchester United sold Cristiano Ronaldo and Yang Fan, almost a net income of 230 million pounds, not to mention all the money invested in the transfer market, that is, only a quarter, that is close to 60 million pounds, but, so far, Manchester United has only invested 12 million pounds in the transfer market to introduce a Valencia, and then there has been no movement!

This is also the most dissatisfied part of Manchester United fans!

Manchester United's sudden sale of two of the team's top stars has already made fans angry, but they have not moved on the transfer market, which has intensified the dissatisfaction of fans.

Manchester United management is being held accountable by the fans, Moyes is not having a good time, he has been hiding from the media these days, and he has nothing to say to the media until the United win their next game, to be exact, until the Reds can bring in one or two heavyweights to stabilize the fans.

Moyes felt that he had been wronged, and that he did not feel that he should be pulled out and held accountable. Cristiano Ronaldo's transfer to Real Madrid was basically determined during the Ferguson period, and Yang Fan's transfer to Manchester City was not his Moyes's intention, it was a decision made by the club's hierarchy. As for Tevez going to Manchester City, this was not a big deal in the eyes of Manchester United, but in the context of the departure of Yang Fan and Cristiano Ronaldo, the problem was infinitely magnified.

What makes Moyes and Manchester United feel most depressed is that almost all of Europe now knows that Manchester United wants to buy strikers, and everyone on earth knows that Manchester United has money now, so the current situation is that the value of those strikers who are some famous in European football has risen!

This is the most embarrassing situation that Manchester United have encountered in selling Yang Fan without finding a replacement.

Let's take an example. David Moyes has his eye on Tottenham Hotspur's Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov, who has even spoken to Berbatov on the phone, and the player himself has been impressed by United's offer. Manchester United made a £25 million offer to Tottenham Hotspur for Berbatov, including Moyes, who thought the offer would satisfy Tottenham Hotspur, who was not so impressive in his goals in the 2007/2008 Premier League and 14 in the 2008/2009 season, You must know that Yang Fan's value when he joined Manchester United was only 35 million pounds, so in contrast, Manchester United also felt that the 25 million pound offer was already very sincere.

However, now the problem is that Tottenham Hotspur have no intention of selling Berbatov at all. Subsequently, the player himself publicly stated that he wanted to transfer to Manchester United, which made Tottenham Hotspur very unhappy, and they immediately offered Berbatov a price of 45 million pounds!

Obviously, Tottenham Hotspur is retaliating, on the one hand, to retaliate against Manchester United's poaching, and on the other hand, it is also obvious that Manchester United now has money in its hands but is in a hurry to buy people, and this is taking the opportunity to plan to slaughter Manchester United.

One side quoted 25 million, and the other side bit the price of 45 million and did not let go, the gap between the two sides is too big, so Manchester United has been deadlocked in the matter of buying Berbatov.

After hitting a wall at Tottenham Hotspur, United are not hanging from Berbatov's crooked neck tree, and they are also looking elsewhere.

Manchester United asked Lyon to buy Benzema, they offered 18 million pounds, Lyon offered 25 million pounds, Manchester United was a little hesitant, after all, Benzema is only 21 years old, you can't expect every young man in his early 20s to be like Yang Fan, and Benzema has been playing in Ligue 1, whether he can adapt to the Premier League is still in doubt. Manchester United hesitated, and then they saw Real Madrid brandishing a cheque to take Benzema, the 21-year-old Benzema's transfer fee will consist of two parts, 35 million euros in the first stage, and then it will be gradually added according to Benzema's performance and Real Madrid's results, up to 41 million euros. The problem is that Moyes does not have the courage of Ferguson, nor does he have the authority of Ferguson when he was at Manchester United, if it was Ferguson, he might have won it directly, but Moyes is not Ferguson. Manchester United's CEO is not Florentino, he doesn't have that kind of arrogance, so Benzema, as everyone expected, went to Real Madrid, and Manchester United could only watch.

There are a lot of excellent strikers in football now, but most of them are the leading scorers of various giants, and the difficulty of poaching from these giants can be imagined. In addition to the leading strikers of these giants, there are not many other strikers who have not played in the giants and are quite good, and the only ones are also the sweets in the transfer market, Benzema is one, has been won by Real Madrid, Adebayo is one, has long been won by Manchester City, so, after Manchester United turned around, it was found that only Berbatov was a more suitable target.

In this case, Tottenham Hotspur will also come to the end, gritting his teeth and wanting to slaughter Manchester United fiercely.

Now, after the Charity Shield and the two rounds of the league, Manchester United's lack of attacking strength has been exposed, and Moyes is also anxious, and he directly warned the senior management that they must do their best to win Berbatov and do their best to run-in, otherwise the prospects for Manchester United's new season are not optimistic.

And staying in the office at the Carrington training base so late, on the one hand, Moyes was avoiding reporters, so he did not leave work on time, and on the other hand, he was waiting for news. Waiting for Tottenham's response, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur are in the final stages of negotiations for Berbatov's transfer.

After Moyes angrily warned the hierarchy, Manchester United's American boss finally 'fulfilled his promise' and relented to Moyes on the issue of transfer fees, so Manchester United finally raised the offer again, 35 million pounds! This is the same price as when Manchester United introduced Yang Fan, and this is also the final offer: Manchester United's top management gave Moyes a transfer fee budget of 50 million pounds, and the introduction of Valencia has used up 12 million pounds, and now Moyes only has a budget of 3,800 pounds in his hands...... According to the valuation of "All Market", Berbatov's worth is also within 28 million pounds, so Manchester United's offer of 35 million pounds is indeed 'full of sincerity' -

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