Chapter 2 These Losers! (6th Watch)
Chapter 2: These Losers!
In the past two seasons of English football, there have been earthquakes all the time, the rise of the "Young Guard", the retirement of "Old Lord" Ferguson, the retirement of "Professor" Arsene Wenger, the dismissal of Mancini, the return of Mourinho, Pellegrini with the hat of "second bird player", Van Gaal again, Simon? Grayson switched to Manchester United, and Shaq transferred to the "Red Devils" at a sky-high price......
One by one, the pattern of the English Premier League is even more confusing, and behind the appearance of these great changes, there are more turbulent torrents in the dark.
On 4 July, the 'Three Lions' faced the tournament's favourites Brazil in the quarter-finals of the World Cup, and in this game, Brazil was absolutely dominant, with a total of 15 shots on goal in the game, but ...... Brazil didn't get the back of the net!
After Shaq completely sacrificed his offensive ability to devote himself to defense, he completed 10 tackles, 8 headers, 6 interceptions, and 3 blocked opponents' shots in this game, in addition to Shaq also paid the price of a yellow card, and finally kept the goal of "Little Fat" Rooney in the first half of the game until the end of the game, and finally the "Three Lions" withstood the "Samba Army" with a score of 1:0 with a tenacious defense.
After all the hardships, England finally reached the semi-finals of the 20th World Cup!
This World Cup has also become a hotbed of upsets, in the round of 16, South Africa swept Mexico 6:0, the Netherlands lost to Paraguay 1:2, Switzerland defeated Colombia 3:1 and other upsets, while the German team suffered Argentina was eliminated 5:0.
There was another upset in the quarter-final conversation, Paraguay defeated Argentina with a score of 3:2, and "Little Flea" Messi scored 7 goals in this World Cup, but still failed to help Argentina reach the semi-finals.
Switzerland beat Cristiano 1-0 in extra time? Ronaldo's Portugal eventually became England's opponent in the semi-finals. As for Paraguay, it is the French team that is not visible in this tournament.
Four days later, England beat Switzerland 3-1 in the semi-finals thanks to Schak's hat-trick to reach the final, while France beat Paraguay, another dark horse of the tournament, a day later, with Benzema scoring all four goals in the game. He single-handedly destroyed his opponents, and his personal goal tally reached 7, which was the same as Messi's.
Before waiting for the World Cup final, Simon? Grayson smashed Ajax's Dutch right-back Donny van der Wiel for £22 million to fill the last gap in the back line.
Next, Simon? Grayson couldn't help but lash out at Bierhoff and Leeds United's new manager Louis van Gaal.
Because Van Gaal's transfer strategy is simply incomprehensible, he actually sold the middle of the back of the team to the "Blue Moon" Manchester City for 18.75 million pounds, and then ...... Then the Dutch owner actually started throwing money at the transfer market.
It is good to say that Slovak midfielder Hamshik spent 42.5 million pounds from Liverpool at a high price, and Leeds United still need to strengthen the midfield after leaving Shaq, but then it is very puzzling to buy French left-back Tremullina from Marseille for 16 million pounds. Do you know that Leeds United have a book? What about Parker and "Little Ben", the two left-backs, why do they spend such a large amount of money to buy people?
Immediately afterwards, Van Gaal bought the former request for Giogiño from PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands for 17.75 million pounds. Wijnaldum, who bought Esquire from Napoli for another £15 million? Ravitch.
In addition, Van Gaal also bought Boyata, Smit? Hans, Mohammed, Victor and several other unknown players, just a little more than a week in less than two weeks, Van Gaal actually bought as many as 8 players, after such a toss, Leeds United in the transfer market actually dropped 100 million pounds of transfer fees!
If Louis van Gaal just wants to take control of Leeds United's dressing room through a transfer. There's no need to buy so many people at once, and it's not like strengthening the team. Look...... It's more like money laundering and kickbacks!
Hamshik spent only 24.5 million pounds when he transferred from Napoli to the "Reds" Liverpool last season, and it grew by 18 million pounds the following year, that Boyata was a former Manchester City abandoner, Fenerbahce bought it from Bolton Wanderers for 2 million pounds last season, played only 17 games in the Turkish Super League, and now sold it to the new European king "Young Guard" for 7 million pounds.
And that's not all. The other transfers are also somewhat odd, and it looks as if Leeds United are deliberately losing, if it weren't for Leeds United's transfer from Shaq, Red, Simon? The Grayson trio earned about 80 million pounds, plus the team won the "Quadruple" last season and received a large amount of bonuses, it is estimated that they will not even be able to uncover the pot now.
But with Bierhoff's shrewdness. Why did such a bizarre transfer deal happen!?
Simon? After thinking about it for a long time, Grayson has some speculation, it seems that the German does not plan to stay in Leeds United for a long time, he must have put a lot of money into his pocket through these transfer transactions, and at the same time, it can be regarded as a change of direction to increase the value of the club, which will look very good on the financial statements, and maybe Bierhoff will deal with Leeds United again.
With that figured out, Simon? Grayson couldn't help but rejoice, fortunately he jumped out of the quagmire of Leeds United with Shaq early, otherwise he would not have been buried by Bierhoff digging a pit!?
Just a pity Ben? Parker, prunes, Jonny? Howson, Red, Clegg? Dawson, Pivkowski, Ashley? Hood and a group of other confidants, maybe a year or two later, Leeds United's finances were in crisis, and they were either sold out or owed wages.
The World Cup final between England and France went ahead as scheduled, but this time Hodgson's "Three Lions" could not continue their good fortune, and France defeated England 2-0 with two goals in the second half by Benzema, and finally won the 20th World Cup in Brazil.
In the final, Shaq was almost the only player in the England team who played normally, but he was confined in the defensive end, which led to the England team's inability to support the attack of the "Three Lions" in an unfavorable offensive situation, laying the groundwork for the final defeat.
In the wake of England's defeat, captain John Terry, who has decided to retire from the national team after the tournament at the end of this World Cup, blasted Hodgson's use of Shaq in an interview with The Mirror.
"I don't know if our England defence is so weak that we have to have to be protected by Shaq, but I know very well where Shaq's real threat is, he played 61 games for Leeds last season and scored 73 goals and provided 23 assists, so I think this kid should be the most dangerous at the front of the team, right?"
Gerrard said on his Twitter: "Shaq only played 50 per cent of the role in this tournament, he only showed his talent in defence, but he failed to shine in attack, which is a huge loss for our England team." ”
"Magic Lamp" Lampard criticized Hodgson without hesitation: "When Hodgson gave up on me and Steven, didn't he think about changing the team's 442 formation that has not changed for 10,000 years? Shaq is a talented player who needs space to move, and the more space he is given, the more he can play a greater role, but looking at this World Cup, Shaq is positioned as a defensive midfielder, and Hodgson should really turn to Simon on the issue of using Shaq? Mr. Grayson learned. ”
English football is really lively this time, Hodgson, the only coach who has brought the "Three Lions" to the World Cup final in recent decades, has become the target of public criticism, and has been attacked by countless people in various languages, some people are vague mentions, some people are directly named and criticized, and some people simply jump out and abuse.
However, all the attacks against Hodgson are based on the use of Shaq, and people seem to have heard the sound of Hodgson's dismissal, and this time the English football team will not let the conservative Hodgson continue to be the head coach of the "Three Lions".
It's just that as one of the core figures of the incident, Shaq is depressed at this time holding the award of the best young player in this World Cup, he is not depressed because England was defeated by France 2:0 and lost the World Cup, but because his teammates' bonus skill points that have reached 84 points have become depressed.
On July 1st, the teammate bonus function of the "Black Feet" system was upgraded, and at that time, his teammates column had all become the names of Manchester United teammates, but each name was gray, and there was an indicator of intimacy behind each name, the highest of which was "Chubby" Rooney, but even so, the intimacy between Rooney and Shaq was only 70%, after the continuous side by side in the World Cup, Shaq also consciously did a lot of communication with "Chubby", But this intimacy is only 3% longer, which is 108,000 miles away from the minimum bottom line of 95% required by the blackfoot system!
Thinking of messing around with "Chubby" Rooney all day long, and the intimacy is growing so slowly, Shaq has a feeling of despair, and it seems that he really can't rely on his teammates' bonus skills to greatly improve the team's combat effectiveness in the future.
If that's the case...... Then Manchester United's record is not guaranteed, owner Simon? Grayson's team performance must also be affected by something, right!?
The sixth shift, the speed of the code word has been getting slower and slower, but the fat man will still write the seventh shift! HOHOHOHO~~~~~~~~~~~ (To be continued......)