July 19th.

Manchester United have announced the list of 25 players who will take part in the trip to China.

De Gea, Romero, Johnstone, Blind, Mensah, Jones, McNair, Marco, Rojo, Luke Shaw, Smalling, Tuenzebe, Valencia, Carrick, Kante, Herrera, Januzaj, Lingard, Mata, Depay, Pereira, Ashley Young, Keane, Rashford, Wayne Rooney and Chu Go.

Ibrahimovic is still on vacation.

He will draw with the team in the Rooney Memorial match following Manchester United's trip to China.

Meanwhile, CEO Woodward will not be on the team.

There have been reports that Woodward is in full swing in talks with Italy's Juventus to bring Pogba back to Manchester United.

Pogba used to play for Manchester United's youth team, but later left Manchester United to join Juventus due to a feeling of lack of attention and the operation of his agent Raiola.

Asked if he would return to Manchester United, Pogba told the Italian journalist that "Manchester United is my first home and I'm not sure where the future will be. ”

It was widely seen in the media as a sign that Pogba was about to return to Manchester United.

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Manchester United's opponents in this trip to China are Dortmund (SH) and Manchester City (BJ).

In this kind of preseason of a commercial nature, the game itself is not important.

The important thing is that the Red Devils are on the march, and the alleys are empty!

This time, Manchester United Club from top to bottom, including the Western reporters who followed the team, truly experienced Chu Ge's super popularity in China.

From the moment the plane landed, everywhere the Manchester United bus went, and everywhere the Manchester United players looked, there were crowds of enthusiastic fans. In order to get the Manchester United bus to move forward at a slightly faster speed, the relevant departments even had to send police cars to open the way.

"I thought it was us who won the Champions League this year."

Seeing this scene, Rooney joked with Chu Ge.

He was reminded of United's triumph celebrations after winning the title.

It's no wonder that Lu Xiaopang thinks so.

Most of the fans who came were wearing Manchester United's red shirts, regardless of whether they were genuine or Thai, at least visually, the overwhelming red made the United players feel as if they were back in Manchester, back to their home turf.

In fact, the match against Borussia Dortmund confirmed that.

The Shanghai Stadium, which has 80,000 people, was full, and the entire stadium was rendered into a sea of red by Chu Ge's fans.

Every time a Manchester United player gets the ball, it's a tidal wave of applause.

And every time the Hornets players picked up the ball, the applause immediately ebbed and was replaced by a cacophony of boos.

The difference in treatment between the home team and the away team is so stark.

However, unfortunately, Manchester United lost to Dortmund with a score of 3:4.

Chu Ge only appeared in the second half.

He played a total of 40 minutes, scoring a goal himself and setting up a goal for Marcus Rashford.

And Dortmund's Mkhitaryan shined, scoring two goals and assisting his teammates to complete a goal.

At the end of last season, there were plenty of rumours that Mkhitaryan would join Old Trafford alongside Manchester United's new manager Jose Mourinho. However, with the return of Alex Ferguson and the spending of money on Chu Ge, Manchester United turned their attention to N'Golo Kante and Paul Pogba instead of moving forward with Mkhitaryan's transfer.

At present, in the transfer market, the most closely linked with the Armenian international is another giant in the Premier League, Arsenal.

Previously, Arsenal, who gave up Kante, spent a lot of money to bring in Swiss international Xhaka from Borussia Mönchengladbach, the third place in the Bundesliga. Compared with N'Golo Kante, who specializes in defense, Xhaka has both offensive and defensive skills and organized attacking skills, which may be the reason why the professor prefers Xhaka.

After bringing in Xhaka, Arsene Wenger set his sights on Valencia centre-back Mustafi and Borussia Dortmund's Mkhitaryan.

Arsenal are clearly ambitious this season and are no longer content to fight for the top four, but want to make a difference.

The loss of this game was not taken to heart by Chu Ge and Manchester United.

It's just a preseason game of a commercial nature.

After all, the team is still in the physical reserve period, and the new and old players are still running in, the outcome of the game is not important, the important thing is that Chu Ge knows his teammates better.

In this game, Kante played at the same time as Chu Ge.

After he came on, Manchester United's defence improved. The France international's screen role in midfield is beginning to take shape.

However, his role is not obvious enough due to his lack of skillful coordination with his team-mates, which is also the focus of Ferguson's next training needs.

In the frontcourt, Chu Ge and Mata's cooperation is quite tacit.

However, since Ibrahimovic and Anthony Martial are not there.

Manchester United's front-court cooperation has also often been bogged down in solitary action.

Against Wigan, that wasn't clear enough. And even if he plays alone, with the individual ability of Manchester United players, especially Chu Ge's individual combat ability, he can fight his way out of the encirclement and create a good scoring opportunity.

However, once they met Dortmund, who were skillful and equally capable of individual players, United's fragmented weakness was fully exposed.

This requires Chu Ge to further strengthen his cooperation with his teammates.

At the same time, it is also up to Ferguson to find a way to get used to the team's attacking routines.

Those opponents in the Premier League are not comparable to Championship teams like Wigan Athletic. Only by making the most of the quality of the players up front will Manchester United be able to reach their goals in the new season and strive for a good result.

There is another point that deserves United's attention.

Borussia Dortmund had one player who played exceptionally well today, in addition to Mkhitaryan.

That is the French teenager Ousmane Dembele, who has just joined Dortmund.

Dembele is only one year older than Chu Ge, and he played Messi's feeling in this game, dribbling and passing everything.

On the one hand, this is because the youngster's talent is indeed very good, and it is no wonder that he will be known as Chu Ge of Rennes in Ligue 1.

On the other hand, it was due to Luke Shaw's poor performance in this game.

Dembele's goal was a low shot past the clumsy Rojo after completely playing with Luke Shaw.

Luke Shaw was very amazing at the beginning of his debut.

He was a regular in the rotation at the age of 17 at Southampton, making 25 appearances in 38 Premier League games, 22 of which were starters. The following year, Luke Shaw became the absolute main force of Southampton, starting 35 times, averaging a high score of 7.14 per game, and was selected in the Premier League team of the year and was hailed as the second Gareth Bale, and many fans called Luke Shaw the Lizarazu of England.

"With Luke Shaw, England's left-back has no worries for ten years!"

England fans cheered.

And the current assistant coach of Manchester United, the left-sided king Ryan Giggs, also has a very high opinion of Luke Shaw, believing that he has all the qualities to be called a top star.

In 2014, Manchester United spent £30 million to sign Luke Shaw from Southampton.

Before Chu Ge appeared, this value was the highest transfer fee for a player under the age of twenty.

Manchester United's signing of the 19-year-old for a record-breaking price is in itself a testament to Luke Shaw's quality and talent.

However, in a Champions League group game against PSV Eindhoven, Luke Shaw suffered the worst injury of his career after being brought down with a scissor leg by his opponent.

After that, Luke Shaw, who had suffered a "broken leg", no longer had the aura of the past, but was timid on the court, performing sometimes good and sometimes bad, sometimes good, and more unsatisfactory.

The geniuses of the past gradually began to become mediocre, and there was even the possibility of falling.

Since Alex Ferguson returned to Manchester United, he has always looked up to Luke Shaw.

He hopes the youngster can regain his confidence, get out of the psychological shadow of the serious injury, and get back on the right track.

Therefore, in this game against Dort, Luke Shaw started the game, and even if there was a mistake, Ferguson did not replace him, allowing him to play the whole game.

However, after being teased by Dembele, Luke Shaw seemed to have a bit of a heart breakdown.

This player is good at everything, but he is a little sensitive in his heart.

At the end of the game, he kept his head down, and even Chu Ge took the initiative to greet him, but he ignored it, as if he had shut himself up.

Ferguson couldn't help but feel a little anxious when he saw it.

Now there is a shortage of excellent fullbacks all over the world, and a fullback who meets the level of a giant club and has good assist ability is usually more than 30 or 40 million.

Manchester United have money, but this season's transfer funds have been almost spent.

It may be a bit unrealistic to continue to squander.

Ferguson also doesn't like to complain about signings.

And, even if Luke Shaw's performance in this game was a disaster, Ferguson didn't want to just give up on Luke Shaw.

He still believes that young people are the future of Manchester United.

And the talented Luke Shaw is the young man in Ferguson's eyes that Manchester United can have high hopes for. Once Luke Shaw unties the knot, is physically and mentally ready for the game, and realizes his talent, it will be no less than a 50 million level recruitment.

But how to get this young man back on his feet, Ferguson didn't have a good idea for a while.

Thereupon.

He switched the arrangement of the hotel room.

Ferguson placed Chu Ge in the same room as Luke Shaw.

"It's all young people, maybe there will be more common topics."

Ferguson thought.

Luke Shaw was born in '95, only three years older than Chu Ge. In the Manchester United first team, apart from Rashford, the two of them are the closest in age.

Both became famous at a young age.

Compared with Luke Shaw, Chu Ge's mental quality is obviously better.

Every time he competes, he always has a good performance.

Therefore, Ferguson hopes that Chu Ge can provide more help to Luke Shaw in this regard.