Icardi scored again, Mobray Middlesbrough looked at the smiling Portsmouth goalscorer with some headache, somewhere in the stands, somewhere in the box several scouts put down their binoculars and wrote down their notebooks to record something, as they memorated, they were scouts from clubs all over the world, of course, mostly in England.

The most famous of them is from Manchester United, the CEO of the Red Devils - David? Jill. He took off his sunglasses and looked at the direction of the stands thoughtfully, unlike the last time he wanted to bring Margery to Old Trafford, this time he just wanted to come and see, Manchester United has never lacked excellent goalscorers, Cantona, Cole, Ronaldo, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Rooney, etc., if you want to buy them, the first target will only be Arsenal's Van Persie, the general is Ferguson's entire coaching staff has been tracking for several years.

So this time David's behavior is self-evident, they are here to raise the price...

On the other side of the stands sat Liverpool's chief scout Fallows, who has the same surname as Jill, and his name is David, David? Fallows, a slightly chubby old man who was poached from Manchester City by the Fenway Group using headhunting, has a big say in the Liverpool Committee of Five because he is trusted by the top.

The old man is flanked by his assistant, Barry Hunt from Northern Ireland, and by nationality you can tell that the guy who works as a data analyst at the club and Rodgers are old acquaintances, and they have known each other since the Reading team in the 90s.

Brendan Rodgers has not yet taken over the team, and the Reds under Fenway have already started the "scratch" mode, and Fallow has about dozens of scouting reports in his hands, and he has selected five or six of them to focus on and send them to the future manager to analyze potential acquisition targets.

That's how the typical giants work, and the authority in the hands of any manager who gets into it, especially the transfer authority, is greatly weakened. Here's a simple example: a manager usually works in a way where he proposes a transfer target or type of transfer, but at the same time expects the scouting team to give a possible B and a possible C. But the general situation of the giants is that A report is presented, B data is analyzed, C negotiates transfer fees and contract terms, better in which the head coach has a certain right to speak, the size of the right depends on whether your cards are big enough, almost, you have two black buddies waiting for you to shake hands on your first day of work and say "Come on, Madrid" or "Milan Milan" welcome speech.

Whether you can succeed or not depends entirely on how well you understand the transfer team, or do what Ferguson says, but how many Fergusons are there in the world? It's not like Mourinho who came and went, went and came, and became a passerby in the world of football.

"He's the most selfish goalscorer I've ever seen, and his goals come from his selfishness, and that kind of distraction gives him a chance to be a great box killer." He has no intention of making a wedding dress for someone else, and he doesn't care how many kilometers he has covered in a race, how many sprints he has had, and the only thing he is interested in is: how many balls are Mauro? Icardi in! ”

"His ability to anticipate and seize opportunities is extraordinary, he will pierce into the enemy's heart like a spike to deliver a fatal blow, and even better, he can continue to improve."

David? Jill is also writing, but it's not a scouting report, it's just a memoir of his own, and it's one of his hobbies to be lazy at work and write something casually.

It was a recollection of Manchester United's legendary striker: "Manchester United were going to take Luther in 1998? Ruud van Nistelrooy, Ferguson told me, this kid is fantastic, it really looks like that, Kenyon went, but the agent told us that he had renewed his contract with PSV Eindhoven a month ago, which was bothering, but we couldn't do anything about it, but anyway, Ferguson was still keeping an eye on Luther and was ready to try it out until 2000. ”

"Later, during the national team break, I went to Spain for a short vacation, but I received bad news, the team doctor sent me a message telling me that Luther had not passed the medical examination, and they had found a serious cruciate ligament injury, but PSV Eindhoven firmly denied this, believing that it was only a minor ligament tear and would not prevent him from passing the medical examination at all. Since he couldn't get past the team doctor Maxton, Ferguson sent him back to PSV Eindhoven, and in order to get to know him better for the club, Luther filmed the training session for us to see. ”

"During a practice match, Luther completely injured his knee and fell to the ground screaming in pain and even exposed it on TV, what should we do?"

"The Glazer family called off the deal, me and Martin? Mr. Edwards explained that if a suitable person can be found to see the passport material during this period, it is possible to recover from the injury within five months. ”

"Luther took my advice, and he spent almost a year in Colorado with Richard? Dr. Edu's treatment, he came back on the pitch that season and I actually signed him after watching the game. Vanney's movement is still flexible and his explosiveness is not impaired, but he is not good at speed in the first place, and the penalty area is his stage. ”

'Ferguson also visited him at his home in the Netherlands and told Lud-Lud that United would sign him anyway and bring him to Old Trafford, which gave Ruud van Nistelrooy confidence. The old man had worked with a lot of great players and knew how to comfort people, and it turned out that he was right again, putting those great United goalscorers together, Luther was the most prolific. ”

"But the old man's favorite thing is Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who is a natural assassin. Luther did score a lot of fantastic goals, but there were more missed or close-range goals, and so did Andy Cole, most of them in the chaos of the penalty area. Despite not having a strong body to clear the way for him, Ferguson still likes Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, with his technique backed by a strong mind. I've seen it countless times, whether it's on the bench or in training, Ole always takes notes and when he's on the pitch everything is calculated. Luther would have smashed open Ferguson's door and roared for a starting position, but Ole Gunnar Solskjaer never will, he is happy to accept the role of the team and is such a gentle boy. ”

Writing and writing, David remembered the ever-smiling baby face and did not continue to write, and Ferguson often said: "Ole Gunnar Solsk is great, so I only have to deal with those three thorns - Sheringham, Cole, Beckham." "Virtually everybody at Manchester United loves Babyface and his responsibility, hard work and diligence make you want to give up, and so does he.

Looking at Icardi rushing into the field, more or less, he feels that this man has the shadow of Ruud van Nistelro, inherited from the style of play of Juventus striker Pietro in the 60s of the 20th century, stealth all over the field, as long as he shows up he will win the game, so don't expect him to pull the side or tackle, and you have to create a steady stream of chances for him, he can finish all possible shots.

Andy Cole had a conflict with Cantona, with the only one with whom he had a tacit understanding was York, and Cole's partnership with Ruud van Nistelrooy was also unsuccessful, with Ferguson selling him to Blackburn Rovers. Diego Forlan was also a casualty of Ruud van Nistelrooy's lone arrow, and the two had no chemistry at all, and he was successful when he left Manchester United.

David Gill looks at Icardi today with his decades of professional eyes, full of the shadow of Ruud van Nistelrooy, and there are always a number of victims who pave the way for success under the brilliance of super goalscorers.