(Cat Flutter Chinese) Manchester United's sudden completion of two signings is indeed quite surprising.

In fact, with Manchester United's habits, they generally don't make a big move in the middle of the season, that is, in the winter. Ferguson is a very cautious and demanding man, and he generally likes to have his squad ready at the start of the season, which is a very necessary ability as a championship manager. Manchester United's ability to dominate the Premier League for so many years has nothing to do with their well-prepared approach to each season.

However, this season's Manchester United's losses are too great and they have to be recruited. Heinze's cruciate ligament injury, coupled with Alan Smith's broken leg problem, scrapped two players at once, and Keane's departure, Manchester United's backfield problems are quite big.

Now in Manchester United's backfield, Van der Sar has made up for the shortcomings of the goalkeeper, and Ferdinand is a pillar figure, but except for the two of them, the other positions are not very reliable. Although Gary Neville's performance is still excellent, he is not young after all, and Brown, O'Shea, and Richardson, players who were once expected by fans, are far less brilliant than the class of 92, and with a dozen central defenders who have problems with Silvestre, such a backline is simply used to trick people.

And Ferguson is obviously making a big move this time, ready to buy someone to fill the void in the backline. A while ago, Zhao Yaning heard Evra mention that Manchester United's plan to introduce him, and now, in addition to Evra, they are also going to buy Lucio and Kompany in one go, which is really remarkable.

Kompany is something that Zhao Yaning has heard of a long time ago, and he even ran for the European Golden Boy Award with Zhao Yaning and became famous early. His strength has always been recognized by many people, just because the environment of the Belgian league is a little worse after all, although his performance there is good, but it is difficult to become a standard for judging strength and weakness, so although Manchester United and Milan are very interesting to him, but they have never bought him.

It's just that at this time, Manchester United's midfield problem is too big. Alan Smith has a broken leg, Keane has been terminated, and now Manchester United, there is really no one available in the midfield position. Their own O'Shea is a bit worse in this position after all, and Park Ji-sung and Ryan Giggs have played a few games in this position, but neither of them is very good. No one's predicament forced United to buy players.

It's a pity that Manchester United's few players who want to bring in are all unlikely to come over now: Essien has already gone to Chelsea, so there is no need to say more. And Ballack is playing the second season of 'renewing his contract in three months' with Bayern, and it is impossible to come to Manchester United. Even Manchester United's homegrown player, Michael Carrick, who plays for Tottenham, has been told by Tottenham that a move is not possible – this season, Tottenham are in full contention for a top-four spot, and the idea of overpowering their north London rivals is a huge pursuit, so how can they sell players so easily at this time?

For all these reasons, Ferguson had to buy Kompany: although he was not necessarily suitable, not necessarily useful, but at least, he was willing to come, which was better than anything else.

In addition to the reinforcement in the back position, they also have reinforcements, that is, reinforcements in the defender position: this decision is a decision that makes fans cheer, after all, that pit man backline has caused too much trouble, and it has been passed for several years to find a good partner for Ferdinand.

Rio Ferdinand has long been regarded as England's top centre-back, and even the world's best. But what is his strength? Zhao Yaning has always felt that he is not as good as the English boast.

Yes, as a defender, he is much better than other England defenders. Compared with Terry, Campbell, Carragher and others, he is indeed a delicate figure with his feet. However, this delicacy is only limited to the level of English players. Compared to other top technical defenders in the world, it is a lot worse. There are very few dribbles on the ball, very few long balls to find the front, and in terms of technique, compared with the defenders of Serie A, he has a gap after all.

Of course, dribbling and long balls are not necessarily defensive skills in the first place. Being able to break the ball, being able to pass the ball, is enough for a defender. What's more, Ferdinand also has extremely excellent physical fitness, and the top turning and chasing speed among defenders, such speed and physical fitness are extremely important things in defenders, and they are also things that make him a notch higher than Carragher.

When not distracted, Ferdinand is also at the top of the Premier League.

He has never met a good partner at Manchester United. Not only is the central defender partnering pitting people, but the goalkeeper behind him is also pitting people together. Manchester United's backline has always been a problem, probably because of the desire to carry out tactical reforms, hoping to replace a scavenger goalkeeper but really can't find a good enough goalkeeper, Ferguson has not made a lot of adjustments, until the summer, Ferguson bought Van der Sar, not with a long-term attitude, and did not strengthen the defender. But unexpectedly, Van der Sar, who is in his thirties, has played extremely well at Manchester United - in fact, thanks to his predecessor's extreme is really bad, so that Manchester United has given him more trust and tolerance, so that he has enough time and opportunity to adapt, and now half a season later, he has gradually adapted to Manchester United's style of play, so that the goalkeeper link is no longer a problem, and Manchester United naturally wants defenders.

United also paid attention to Nemanja Vidic in the summer, but Ferguson was undecided at the time. It wasn't until Nemanja Vidic arrived at Liverpool, and after playing well at Liverpool, that Ferguson began to regret not being able to buy him sooner. It's too late to say anything now, and they have to think about others.

For half a season, there have been many rumors that Manchester United are going to buy a defender, but the person who bought it turned out to be Lucio, which is still a bit surprising.

Lucio, the defender...... Zhao Yaning thought about it carefully, and really couldn't judge the strength of this defender.

Generally speaking, when it comes to central defenders, people are more likely to praise European defenders. The attacking players in South America are really good, but the defensive players always give people the feeling that they are not strong enough.

And the position of defender, generally speaking, everyone has a understanding: the defenders of Serie A are the best, because Serie A attaches the most importance to defense, pays attention to defensive tactics, and defenders can also be more brilliant.

Therefore, when everyone talks about good defenders, they all look at those defenders who play for the top giants in Serie A. And because of Inter's perennial poor record, generally speaking, the defenders of Milan and Juventus are considered to be good defenders.

And Lucio ...... A Brazilian who plays in the Bundesliga, and there are often various media critics for his lack of solid play, and there are often problems with leakage, and the strength of such a defender is still very questionable.

But if you think about it, it goes without saying that Lucio's physicality is needless to say, almost the top speed and confrontation ability among defenders, even compared to Drogba. In terms of technical ability, the defense is clean and old, and there is a strong forward ability, and the ability to dribble the ball, among the central defenders, is definitely the top level, compared to any defender, the technical is not inferior. When it comes to the most serious problem of too much forward and reckless leakage of people that he was accused of, Zhao Yaning thought about it carefully, and it seems that in addition to the 2002 World Cup direct assist for Owen to break the door of Brazil, it seems that he has not made any big mistakes in the performance of the tournament.

A top-level central defender, there is no ambiguity in big things, and he is occasionally reckless in small things, which is Zhao Yaning's impression of him.

I just don't know, in his eyes, the Northwest Derby is a big thing or a small thing.

Zhao Yaning can't tell whether this deal is good or bad - in the second half of the season, Liverpool will meet Bayern in the Champions League, and he and Lucio will have to meet sooner or later, but I don't know if it's in the Champions League or the league.

In fact, this has to be said to be a huge advantage for Manchester United when they brought in this year: Patrice Evra, Lucio, and even Anderlecht's Kompany are all players who have played in the Champions League. If Manchester United were still in the Champions League, they probably wouldn't have bothered to buy them. However, Manchester United was unexpectedly eliminated in the Champions League this year, and there will be no Champions League events in the second half of the year anyway, so these things don't need to be considered, and it is naturally much more convenient to bring in reinforcements.

And after the completion of this transaction, people found that after making up for the shortcomings in the backfield, Manchester United's strength is no worse than Liverpool. When two teams meet, it's not necessarily who loses and who wins.

In the past two and a half seasons, he has continued to learn, gradually learned to run without the ball, to be able to insert into the middle to find opportunities to grab points, and more importantly, to be able to cross-change positions with his teammates, which can make the attack in the front court smooth. And their two strikers, Saha and Wayne Rooney, have some of the same characteristics, large range of movement, speed, good ball-handling, and the ability to drop back to create space for Ronaldo, and the three players in Manchester United's front field now have the ability to take the ball and form a breakthrough in one-on-one situations, so their chances are greatly increased.

And Ryan Giggs also took the lead in completing his role transformation this season: because Manchester United had no one to use in the first half of the season, Giggs was forced to play in the back for half a season, and gradually found his position. He disdained the previous style of relying on speed and explosiveness on the wing, and began to try to run more freely and flexibly, giving full play to his advantages in handling, passing, vision and experience. After Manchester United got the ball at the back, they quickly handed it over from him to the front, relying on the cross-running and free movement of the frontcourt players to quickly complete the attack, this idea is really good.

And when the situation could not be opened, Giggs and Ronaldo Jr. all recovered into the midfield, gave up the two wings to Neville and Evra, who had strong ability to cross the bottom, opened the width through the wings, opened up the depth, and then the center Saha, the second center Rooney, and the in-cut Ronaldo formed three outflanking points in the opponent's penalty area to try to create opportunities.

Such a tactic is quite good. Although they abandoned Ruud van Nistelrooy, it seems that the knife is very deep, but after this knife, Manchester United's strength has indeed risen.

And in this game, it is difficult to say who will lose and who will win. Cat flutter Chinese