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On the BBC's Match of the Day on the evening of 7 October, host John Mortenson laughed at their guest Alan Shearer, with wrinkles clearly visible.

The big screen behind them was showing the highlights of this round of Premier League matches, and then the screen changed, and the Chinese kid who Alan Shearer described as "only able to score 20 goals in a single season" appeared in the center of the picture.

"United's new no.7 played just under 70 minutes against Newcastle in the seventh round and scored two goals and provided an assist, and by the end of this round he had scored 11 goals in the league and was in the top two scorers with team-mate Robin van Persie, and it was surprising when you consider that he only made four appearances, including a substitute appearance," said Gary Lineker, who seemed to be surprised. But as if to express his admiration, "Three weeks ago, his goal efficiency was 19 minutes a goal, and now, his efficiency is 24.5 minutes a goal, which is still at an unimaginable level, I think...... Even if he can't break the record of 35 goals, 20 goals is really not a problem for him at all. ”

Shearer shrugged his shoulders helplessly: "I have to admit that I really made a stupid bet with you at the time, I actually forgot that the Chinese kid easily broke the single-season goal record in the first time he participated in the Champions League, and even the fiery Messi was left behind by him." ”

Perhaps trying to save a little face for himself, he explained: "After all, I thought at the time that with top players like Van Persie and Wayne Rooney in the Manchester United team, Manchester United's firing power would be more evenly distributed among the three of them, but judging from the current statistics, Manchester United's No.7's goal efficiency is really terrible - his 11 goals even need less than 30 kick-off shots, a goal rate of nearly 40%!" ”

"Allan is right," Mortensen stopped teasing Shearer, he flicked the remote control in his hand, and a few lines of data appeared on the big screen, "Compare Manchester United's two top strikers and the Chinese little guy, his efficiency is even higher than Robin van Persie, who has scored in six consecutive league games, as for Wayne Rooney, perhaps affected by injury, his assist efficiency is better than the goal statistics......"

That's right, he only played 65 minutes in this game, and that was because United had a three-goal lead before he was off.

Considering that he has played many games in a row, especially this week, which is three games in seven days, even if the young man feels energetic, he will inevitably be a little tired physically, so he and Van Persie, who scored a goal, were called back by Ferguson.

Substitute Cleverley and defensive leaky Evans helped the side to two more in the final 20 minutes as United left Newcastle with a 5-0 victory.

De Gea, who started the game, kept a second clean sheet in the league and Ferguson finally did not criticise the backline, and the young Spanish goalkeeper seemed to be gradually regaining the manager's trust.

Rather than returning to Manchester en masse, the Reds flew to different destinations after the big win – as they had to represent their respective countries in different competitions over the next two weeks.

As a big club, United's first-team squad is all represented by their respective national teams - even Macheda and Anderson, two marginal players who rarely get a chance to play, are the main players of the Italian and Brazilian youth teams; Even Wooton in '91 and Johnstone in '93, who had just been promoted from the Academy, went to England Under-21 and Under-18 competitions.

In the past two weeks, the only players who remained in Manchester were Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Qin Good.

The 39-year-old Jiang Tou has long since announced his retirement from the England national team, and Ryan Giggs, who is a year older than him, withdrew from the Welsh national team at an earlier stage, which has no hope of participating in the tournament, and Qin Goode is completely uninterested in circumventing the world to participate in an inconsequential warm-up match in beautiful New Zealand......

He only sent a text message to Fu Bo, the current acting coach, and then turned off his phone and went to sleep.

In fact, Fu Bo is also happy like this: the Chinese team has almost confirmed the qualification, there is no pressure on his shoulders as the acting coach, there is no need for European players like Qin Gude and Hao Jun to come back, they can enjoy a rare rest time in their respective clubs, avoid the pain of long journeys, and they can very easily recruit some marginal players with gilded needs to enter the national team, not only can travel at public expense, but also arrange the relatives and friends of the gods of all parties by the way......

That's definitely a lot to do.

However, on the first day, after seeing Qin Goode still appear at the Carrington training base, Scholes couldn't help but ask: "Now should be the World Cup qualifying stage, have you been expelled from the Chinese national team?" ”

Qin Goode laughed: "We're already out, Paul." ”

"Are you kidding me?" Ginger Boss was dumbfounded - he was so surprised because the European zone was scheduled much later than the Asian zone, and England had only played their first two games.

"We've played the first four rounds, we're almost qualified with 12 points, and both of them are just warm-up games." He explained it briefly to his teammates.

Scholes nodded: "Then you can go and enjoy a few days of vacation, such as going to your little model girlfriend who is walking the catwalk all over the world, and going to the beach in France or Spain to bask in the sun together." ”

Qin Gude raised his eyebrows, and the expression on his face seemed to be smiling bitterly: "...... I've completely forgotten about it, Paul. But as you said, she's flying all over the world to participate in all kinds of business catwalks, and I can't find her at all...... So, let's train. ”

"I can't believe it," Scholes muttered, scratching at his curly brown hair, "Manchester United's new king is a good baby......

"What did you say?" Qin Gude didn't hear clearly.

Ginger shrugged: "I thought you were the type who prefers to go to nightclubs with Wayne and Ryan." ”

"Oh, no, I'm a conservative Chinese man," Qin Gude shook his head with a smile, then picked up the ball at his feet and gently and skillfully flipped the ball with his shoulders and forehead, "Compared to this, I want to ask you how to send such accurate mid-length passes like you." ”

Scholes raised an eyebrow: "Europe's best player and the favourite for the Ballon d'Or...... Do you still need to ask me, an old man who is about to retire, for advice? ”

"What," Chingode rubbed the ball at him, "Paul Scholes, who is about to retire...... Do you still want to bring your experience back to your hometown and bury it in a potato field? ”

Scholes didn't stop the ball, but made a perfect arc with his right foot and hit the triangular cone more than 30 meters away.

An old and a young teammate in red jerseys looked at each other and smiled. (To be continued.) )