Ferguson was a man of his word, and Portsmouth moved into Manchester's local five-star hotel on the night of the press conference. The hotel is a partner of Manchester United, with a swimming pool, treatment rooms, a 24-hour buffet, a sauna, players sleeping in the presidential suite, and even coaches like Edward have a dedicated tactical analysis room. Most of the players in Portsmouth have not enjoyed this kind of treatment, and they have to go into the Grand View Garden with Grandma Liu, take a look, and want to try it, which caused the hotel staff to laugh, a group of dirt buns.

On the morning of the matchday, United provided the venue and the high-tech training house was open to the entire Portsmouth squad. The 7-a-side natural football field is equipped with six high-definition eagle-eye cameras and two fan-angle 4K high-definition cameras on the surrounding lampposts, providing full coverage without dead ends. the movement of the players; Sprint; Tactical data can be entered, and an information processing company in the United States provides Manchester United with the most professional database analysis, classifying and summarizing the information in the tactical laboratory, and coaches can simply call up and analyze. Manchester United also has its own medical team and professional medical equipment, which can be called professional in the whole of Europe. The whole club embodies the information age from start to finish, the professionalism of the football club, and the gap between Portsmouth and them is all-encompassing. Compare it to Hydward's team, which is like living in antiquity.

"This is what Manchester United planned to build in '06, a separate piece of the entire Carrington training base, the heart of Manchester!"

The Manchester United staff who led the Portsmouth team on the tour said proudly!

Ferguson's greatness will always be because he is the captain who always knows where the Manchester United ship needs to go. No one can match the far-sighted strategic vision, and when intelligence and science are becoming more and more integrated into football clubs, Manchester United has been on this path for many years.

Hydward looked around the woods, the curved buildings, and the unsprawling Manchester United crest everywhere. Looking into the distance from here, you can see two teams of U17 and U19 training.

Each team basically has about three professional coaches, goalkeeper coaches, technical and tactical coaches and physical coaches, which is simply embarrassing for Portsmouth.

Next door to them is Manchester United's reserve squad for the FA Youth Cup, with talents such as Paul Pogba already making first-team appearances. Of course, at this time, Pogba did not dye all kinds of strange hair colors as he did later, and lowered his head and silently sweated his sweat, like a good baby.

Alex Ferguson is notoriously demanding and David Beckham may still have vivid memories of shaving his head and being kicked off the training pitch by his lord. As a young man, even if he wants to be different, Pogba will be unlucky to run into Alex.

"What is Mr. Coach looking at?" The staff noticed that Hydward was not urging his players to train, but kept staring at the training ground next door, and asked with some curiosity.

Paul Pogba

"You know Pogba? He's the best talent we've ever had, he's fast, he's strong, and he's perfectly balanced on his left and right feet. ”

Hydward thought for a moment and said, "He'll be there for tonight's game, right?" ”

"How do I know this, Manchester United Lord has the final say."

He rubbed his fingers, which were the action of activating his abilities, and there was a golden light in front of him, and the person turned into light, and in his eyes it all turned into data. Paul Pogba has a super potential of 188, a current ability of 135, the basic template of an all-round midfielder has been initially shown, as long as there are no major injuries in the future, this is a superstar of tomorrow, LeBron James on the football field.

The Manchester United staff found the manager next to him strange, and he looked at his clothes with sympathy in his eyes.

Heideward's sympathy is not unreasonable, Pogba, who has been unable to play regularly next year, switched to Juventus on a free transfer, won the European Golden Boy Award as a midfielder a year later, and was also selected for the French national team in the same year. Ferguson's vision is not always accurate compared to his strong control of the club, does he remember Jemba-Jemba?

If given the chance, he would love to bring in a talented midfielder who will be popular all over the world in the future, and every coach wants to coach the best players, and Ward is no exception. However, the hope of winning Pogba is quite slim, first of all, he can play in the first team of Manchester United at a young age, the ambition of the young man is indeed not something that a team like Portsmouth can satisfy, and secondly, his agent Raiola is really a more difficult master to deal with, if he can, it is best not to talk to such a greedy guy for the rest of his life.

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Heidward didn't spend much time at Carrington's training base, with the afternoon soon set up and the players stepping on the pitch at Old Trafford. It's not a good thing that his players have been here for a long time. In the Chinese Art of War, it is said that this training base can have the same effect as a soldier who surrenders without a fight, and the players see that the training gap is so big; The training facilities are so big; The gap between coaches is so big, where is there still the mind to rebel against Manchester United.

"Lawrence, did you just see what's in that dark room?"

"There are many squares and a lot of sensors and displays, and it seems that they are still being built, I don't know."

“……”

At least Jonathan, Lawrence and others in the locker room have been talking about what they have just seen and heard at the Carrington training base. The black room Heideward once saw in Dortmund, Germany, the scientific name is Footbonaut, and two ball machines are installed in the 14×14-meter room, giving players a signal to shoot a football, and the player needs to shoot the ball or shoot into the designated lit grid according to the regulations. It's an all-round workout for the visual-nerve center-action, and if manager Jurgen Klopp is the face of sexy rock football, Footbonaut is his drum kit.

Heideward picked up the magazine he picked up yesterday at his press conference, and perhaps even Ferguson himself didn't notice that he signed the page for Aberdeen's win over Ipswich Town in the Europa League final. Thirty years ago, what happened, I'm afraid not many people still remember.

"Guys!" He clapped his hands and caught the attention of the whole team.

"When the ancient swordsmen met their opponents in a narrow way, no matter how powerful the opponent was, even if the opponent was the best swordsman in the world, they knew that they were invincible, and they had to show their swords."

"At Old Trafford, even if we are outnumbered, even if we are in deep siege, we dare to fight to the last man."

Heideward's uplifting opening remarks lit up the dressing room as he picked up the tactics board hanging on the wall and smashed it on the ground to give the must-kill order against Manchester United.