Thomas Muller was invited by Leeds United manager Michelle to watch the team's first pre-season warm-up game at Elland Road today.

It was Leeds United's pre-season game at home to Swindon Town, and Thomas had been waiting for this game all summer, knowing that the hardest thing for fans in the off-season was that there was no league to watch.

This is especially difficult for a die-hard loyalist like Thomas, who is now a Leeds United Academy player and is currently working as a medical adviser to the team, so Thomas still thinks he knows a lot of information that outsiders don't know, and this is a great pastime to pass the long off-season.

Although he doesn't actually know more about the details than outsiders, a few confirmed pieces of information are enough for Thomas to show off in front of a few old fans.

As a die-hard Leeds United fan, Thomas couldn't be happier when he learned about the team's recruitment plans, and this was also "blackmailed" from Michu by using medical advisers, "I can only say that the team is currently working intensively! As for the specific situation, we are still waiting for the outcome of the negotiations, so I can't reveal too much" These are Michu's exact words, and Thomas can still get some clues from them.

Although he didn't know exactly who the team was going to bring in at the time, when he thought about the team's performance in the final stages of the second half last season, Thomas felt that the team's reinforcements must be players with hard power.

After all, just look at the performance of Royce and Muller, Thomas feels very pleased with the performance of these players, you must know that Royce's early comeback is due to himself, what can be more happy than contributing to the team?!

As Leeds United became more and more dependent on their own medical standards, watching the game at home at Elland Road gradually became the privilege of the elder Thomas, although this game was insignificant, Thomas was still unwilling to give up such an opportunity, after all, his grandson Gade was also arranged as one of the caddies in this game, and Gade was obviously more excited about this arrangement than himself.

Looking at the familiar stadium in front of him, Thomas finally sighed that the new season was finally coming, and to be able to watch a warm-up game for the first time, Thomas seemed as excited as everyone else.

There were not as many fans at Elland Road as there were on match days, after all, it was just a warm-up game, and only half of the seats in the stadium were filled with players, but for a warm-up game, the support of the fans was huge.

Thomas deliberately paid attention to the starting list of the players when he heard the commentary on the scene, and there were several names that he was not very familiar with before, this should be the team's new signing, and the starting striker looks very tall! But not Candour.

Every time a player is introduced, the fans will immediately give a burst of cheers and encouragement!

Due to the decline in Leeds United's attractiveness and strength over the years, Leeds United's pre-season warm-up is increasingly focused on preparation itself, unlike Manchester United, Chelsea and other giants who have gradually turned pre-season into commercial competitions.

Thomas Sr. scoffs at this kind of behavior, what good is it for the team's preparation?! Players need to fly long distances for so long and talk about the physical reserves and pre-season preparations!

But Sun Zi Gade told himself that this is one of the main means for the team to expand its own attractiveness, you must know that the network is becoming more and more developed, and the expansion of TV signal coverage has made more and more fans outside the UK, which makes the club begin to consider the establishment and expansion of overseas markets, after all, football clubs also have to make profits, so this kind of commercial competition is naturally understandable!

In Thomas's view, this is a bit of a fallacy, and if the player doesn't play football and has to fly around to attend commercial events, it won't be a show! You know, this is a man's game, not for all cats and dogs, Thomas warns Gad.

Just when Thomas was thinking about it, the game began, and Thomas Sr. naturally focused his attention on the game.

"Who's this skinny guy with Huntington? The body is far from Marquis, the body is not strong enough", Thomas has always been familiar with his own players, and he can recognize everyone at a glance.

Obviously, for Koscielny, the lack of physical strength has obviously become a shortcoming that he cannot hide in the eyes of fans!

"This striker is still good, how strong this body is, he can resist the opponent's central defender at once, beautiful!" Thomas couldn't help but applaud, and it turned out that it was Giroud's beautiful gesture that drew a lot of praise.

In the face of the long pass from the back, Giroud unloaded the ball with his chest and flicked the ball with the instep of his foot to oversend the ball to Reuss on the wing, the whole action flowed, and in the process of the game, Reuss and Delph and others obviously enjoyed the cooperation with the good cooperation of the center, Giroud as an obvious tactical fulcrum made the opponent very uncomfortable, and let his teammates play more and more smoothly, Leeds United formed a siege in the half of the Swindon team.

Leeds United is playing well on the pitch here, and the fans on the sidelines are also having a lot of fun!

Watching the game on the spot is still very different from watching the game on TV, which is often very different from watching the game on the spot due to the perspective of the game, while watching the game can see the whole picture at a glance, and the fans can easily observe the changes in the formation of the team in the game, and the position of the players has become three-dimensional.

For example, the current Thomas has seen that the team has put on a 442 formation that is different from last season's 4231.

Now the goalkeeper of the team is a big man, although he doesn't know it very well, but even from a long distance, Thomas knows that this person's height is definitely not short!

Except for Marquis, who was replaced by the Frenchman, the rest of the defenders were the main lineup before, and the biggest change was in the frontcourt.

Taking advantage of the opposing goalkeeper's goalkeeper to open the door, Thomas noticed that Reus and Muller became the team's two wing-backs, one left and one right, and the central midfielders became Delph and Kilkenny!

"What's going on," Thomas grunted, "how did Delph get to that position?" ”

As an Englishman, he is naturally very familiar with the formation of the 442 parallel position, which has to make Thomas a little confused.

After all, the requirements for midfielders in such a formation are to balance offense and defense, but Delph's performance in defense again and again made Thomas shake his head again and again, and this kind of performance on the defensive end is obviously not up to par.

Although this is his home field and has a clear advantage, Delph still looks a little embarrassed under the few attacks of the opponent. And the opponent obviously found out about this, so the side of Delph's defense frequently became the focus of the opponent's breakthrough, and the young man's performance became more and more struggling.

Thomas didn't understand this arrangement, you must know that such a performance made Delph, one of Leeds' three young last season, very faceless in front of the home fans.

And because it was a warm-up game, both sides made a lot of substitutions in the second half of the game, so Delph did not continue this performance.

The fans at the scene also expressed their understanding of this situation and cheered for the players!

In the eyes of the fans, it doesn't matter if you are a starter or a substitute, as long as you bleed hard for Leeds United, the fans will see you as a hero!

However, although the result of the first game was not ideal, Thomas and a few friends still felt that the team had a promising season after the game, after all, from the perspective of the team's run-in, the effect was still very ideal, but the premise was of course that the head coach Michu no longer arranged the formation blindly like this game!