Chapter Forty-Seven: The Years

Before the start of the 2026~2027 season, Shaq, as the "king of the ball" who is about to win the FIFA Golden Ball Award and the UEFA Golden Ball Award again, was interviewed by The Times. Oxley is now the chairman of the wealthy Leeds, and Shaq is so rich now that money doesn't mean much to him anymore, so the person who takes care of Shaq's affairs has also changed to someone else, and if Shaq doesn't want to be interviewed, he can not accept it, and there is no need to say anything about exposure or anything like that.

When interviewed by reporters, the 33-year-old Shaq looked very relaxed, always with a smile on his face: "Why is it in such a good state?" Hehe, as you should know, I've been working hard when I'm training...... I haven't considered retirement yet, at least...... Well, I think I can still play, and I want to score 2,000 goals before I think about retiring! ”

When Shaq said this, he did not arouse the reporter's disgust at all, but felt that this should be Shaq's current goal, and now Shaq has scored 1,745 official goals in his career, although there is still a gap of 255 goals from 2,000 goals, which may be the goal number of the entire career for the vast majority of strikers, but Shaq ...... He was clearly not among them.

Although Shaq is 33 years old, he has just led LinkedIn Gran to win the World Cup this summer, and he also scored 121 goals in one season last season, leading Leeds United to become the "six champions".

2000 official match goals...... What a great record, just thinking about it, the reporters are excited.

In terms of Shaq's goalscoring efficiency. Three seasons should be enough to accomplish this great goal, maybe another four years...... Shaq can also lead the "Three Lions" to continue to compete in the World Cup!

But Shaq knows his own state best, and at the moment he has fallen below 15 except for shooting, dribbling, receiving, free-kicks, passing, technique, as well as anticipation, composure, imagination, influence, running, teamwork, and other attributes, and he can only be regarded as a good striker now. It's no longer the Shaq who can crush everything.

The reason why he was able to perform so well last season was because of Leeds United's collective unreserved tilt and trust in tactics, which allowed him to perform at his peak.

However, Shaq is still full of confidence in himself, he still has a lot of simulation points not used, he only tried three times in this World Cup, all of them used 10 simulation points to imitate Ronaldo, Pele, Maradona at the peak, the effect is quite amazing, and finally the "Three Lions" became the World Cup champion, and Shaq personally became the top scorer in the World Cup with 15 goals. And won the World Cup Player of the Year.

With so many backup means, Shaq is very confident when he says that he wants to score 2,000 goals!

But the truth is that Shaq clearly underestimated the impact of age on him, and he started to suffer injuries this season, although it was only a few minor injuries such as muscle strain, but he only played 46 games for Leeds United, scoring 41 goals and providing 17 assists, Shaq's performance was objectively very good. But compared with the past, the 34-year-old Shaq's form has dropped very significantly.

Affected by Shaq's declining form. The results of the "Young Guards" this season are not excellent, the Champions League was eliminated by the "Blue Moon" Manchester City in the semi-finals by 3:3 with an away goal advantage, and lost to Sheffield United 1:2 in the quarterfinals of the League Cup, but they still won the Premier League title, the FA Cup, and a Club World Cup with only "gold", as for the Community Shield and the UEFA Super Cup at the beginning of the season. Speaking of the "Young Guards", who are already filled with numerous trophies in the room of honor...... It's really nothing.

Shaq personally only won a league top scorer honor with 31 league goals!

Now Leeds United really have money, and the financial situation of the "Young Guards", driven by the team's solid results, is surprising and jealous, under the steady flow of huge commercial sponsorships. This season, their revenue capacity has reached an unprecedented 700 million pounds!

In the latest Forbes club wealth list, Leeds United surpassed Barcelona's 1.45 billion euros and Real Madrid's 1.35 billion euros with an estimated value of 1.7 billion euros, becoming the richest club in world football.

In the face of great success, Chairman Glenn? Oxley smiled and talked to Simon over and over again? Grayson said that the team should buy a few stars in the transfer market to increase their popularity, no matter who we like, we will definitely spend money to smash him into the team.

But even so, Simon? Grayson is still stubborn not to bring in stars in the transfer market, when Leeds United announced their financial situation, there were more than N stars linked with them throughout the summer, but "Brutal Simon" just didn't buy anyone, but sold his team's hard-earned guard Kenuwells to the "Red Devils" Manchester United for 38.5 million pounds.

And then...... The "Young Guard", which has not bought players for four consecutive seasons, is playing the new season with the old team!

Because Simon? Grayson's slamming of the door, and his nickname "Cruel Simon" have all been changed to "Miserly Simon".

Simon? Grayson doesn't care at all, he has seen too much of those clubs for so many years but gradually declined, and the "Young Guard" is owned by his most proud disciple Shaq, with the relationship between the two is not father and son but better than father and son, he naturally can't let Shaq lose money, plus the team's original plan to search for young players is going very smoothly, he doesn't have to worry about having no backup at all, and he doesn't plan to spend money to buy people when the team's performance does not fluctuate greatly.

Knovels is gone, it doesn't matter, there are still England teenager Drapper and Belgian teenager Alain in the team? Marquis came up, walked one, promoted two, and with the talent of these young people, as long as they were given the opportunity, the success rate was still quite amazing.

Moreover, in addition to being able to play right-back, Richardson can also be qualified as a central defender, and Du Xiaoguang has now become a real world-class central defender after several years of training. Grayson is not at all worried that his team will be without a centre-back.

In this way, in the case of the outside world is not very optimistic, Leeds United played an unbeaten record of 19 games, 17 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses in the first half of the season, and ranked high at the top of the standings with 53 points, 11 points more than the second-ranked "Blues" Chelsea.

At the end of the season, Leeds United won 38 games, 33 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss, accumulating 103 points, and became the champion of the Premier League again!

At the same time, the "Young Guards" also won the FA Cup, League Cup and Community Shield again, completing the "Grand Slam" of English football this season.

In Europe, this season's "Young Guards" are also invincible, they qualified as the group leader in the Champions League group stage with 6 games, 5 wins and 1 draw, and then eliminated Real Madrid 2:1 in a row, defeated Serie A powerhouse Fiorentina 5:2, and then defeated Atletico Madrid 1:0 in the two legs of the semi-finals to reach the Champions League final.

This time, Leeds United faced the opponent in the Champions League final against Manchester City, who eliminated them last year, and the hateful "Young Guards" under the leadership of Shaq went on a killing spree, beating Manchester City 4-1 to lift the Champions League trophy again after a year.

Although in the Champions League final, Shaq once again staged a "brace" and made the first contribution for the team to regain the Champions League trophy, everyone has seen that the era of Shaq is coming to an end......

Throughout the season, Shaq has scored 28 goals and provided 7 assists in 36 games for Leeds United, and he is still the most key player in the "Young Guard", but Shaq, who is 35 years old, is really no longer young and invincible!

In the 2027~2028 season, Shaq lost the top scorer in the Premier League and the Champions League, and he is no longer even the top scorer in the "Young Guards".

Leeds United's top scorer this season is Lens, with the 21-year-old England left winger netting 30 goals and 21 assists, followed by Dutch right winger Hojdenk with 28 goals and 22 assists, before it was Shaker's turn to score 28 goals and seven assists.

When the end of the season and the conclusion of English football, everyone is lamenting that the era of Schach is coming to an end, and more people are worried about how the "Three Lions" will perform in this summer's European Championships.

Although Shaq has scored 1,508 goals for several clubs he has played for, and scored 316 goals in 201 games for England, with a total of 1,824 goals in his career, he has set all the great records that a professional player can create in this world, but I have to admit that if Shaq is in the past two years, 2,000 goals may become an insurmountable barrier for Shak!

Before Shaq was selected for the England team again and was about to play for England in the European Championship, the entire English football world was telling about Shaq's "years", when there have been vicissitudes on his face and wrinkles in the corners of his eyes, compared with Shaq who had a childish face and looked extremely blue around Terry, Lampard, Gerrard and others, everyone realized what the word "years" represented......

Shaq, he's really old!

PS: The Northeast is cooling, I have a cold, the book is coming to an end, I am short of energy, let the fat man take his time. (To be continued......)