In the stands at Old Trafford, George Lee and two of his aides, Chris Kasper and Eddie Howe, watch Manchester United take on Portsmouth.

Instead of returning to Leeds City with the squad after the second round of league games against Manchester City, they opted to stay for a Manchester United game.

Since the resignation of Chelsea's Jose Mourinho, Manchester United have been considered by George Lee to be Leeds' biggest rivals in defending their title this season.

The defending champions have been consistent in the first two rounds of the league.

The reason why we use "stable" instead of "excellent" is used. It was Leeds United who won 2-0 at home to Portsmouth, but struggled in yesterday's game.

The move to Manchester City has caused considerable problems for Leeds United, who are too familiar with Leeds United. In defence, he defused Leeds United's threatening attacks many times.

The backline combination of Richards, Colluka, Dunn and Mills is paired with De Jong at the back. Leeds United's attacking line has been in vain on several occasions. Other reinforcements in the midfield are also frequently used counter-attacks to impact Leeds United's backline.

Finally, on 72 minutes, Leeds won City after a controversial penalty was converted by Smith.

"I wouldn't have sold both of them to Manchester City if I had known." At half-time, George Lee spoke to Eddie Howe on the side.

Since Eddie Howe commanded the game against Middlesbrough last season for George Lee, there has been a faint upward trend, and his status on the team's coaching staff has skyrocketed. Now there are some tactical details, and Lee will take the initiative to discuss with Eddie Howe.

Casper, on the other hand, went to the toilet.

"As a championship team, it will definitely have an impact if you go to two main players in the same league at once, not to mention going to the same league team."

"Now it seems that if you want to get a foothold in the Premier League, you need a lot of investment. In the first round, Manchester City took the initiative against West Ham United. George Lee spoke about Manchester City's first-round fixtures.

"It seems that a new strong team is gradually being born, I wonder if the sky in Manchester will be red or blue in the future?"

"At least in the last few years, it's been red." He is sure of that, because he knows that City's real rise will not be until after 2010.

At least in the past few years, the Premier League "big 6" has not had Manchester City.

"Through the first half of the game, it seems that Manchester United's recruitment this year has no real effect." Eddie Howe pointed out the problems with Manchester United's game today.

Although the score on the field was 1-0, the home team Manchester United was ahead. However, Manchester United, who are all the main players, took the initiative on the field, but they were just a little bit behind in the final finish.

Although the newly recruited Tevez works hard, he keeps running in the attack, and he also spares no effort to go to the front court to force in the defense. But it didn't work out very well, giving people the feeling of being out of the team.

As for the other two signings, Nani started today, but it feels like he was the same as Cristiano Ronaldo back then, just going all the way to the end on the side.

Hagen-Reaves didn't start today.

"Maybe we still need to run in, Rooney didn't play today, so it's still a little bit worse in the tandem between the midfield and Tevez."

George Lee knows the horrors of Rooney, Tevez, and Little Ro.

It can be said that this Manchester United team is now a little stronger than Leeds United on paper.

At least in terms of squad depth, Manchester United's substitutes are all strong, unlike Leeds United, who are all young.

Ferguson feels that he can't stay in the manager's position for a few years, and now he is taking advantage of his ability to try to win more trophies for himself and retire successfully.

George Lee is different, he is still thinking about how to slowly build Leeds United into a strong team, and then build it into a giant team.

There are too many short-lived championships in history, and many of them have fallen after winning the championship and then being divided by other teams.

Only by constantly improving, improving, and investing can the team become a giant team.

The recent sale of players by the team has faintly given George Li a kind of worry. Van Persie went to Real Madrid in pursuit of a higher challenge; De Jong and Mills went to Manchester City because they had higher salaries.

It cannot be ruled out that the rest of the team will be targeted by other teams in the future, such as Kuyt, Parker, Mathieson, Baines, etc. If these main players are gone, then Leeds United will definitely have to find players to fill in immediately. One is through transfers, and the other is to rely on their own training, both of which are indispensable.

He didn't want Leeds United, which he had built so hard, like Leicester City in later generations, to be sold by other teams after winning the Premier League, and then slumped, and finally could only finish at the bottom of the league.

"I have a question, I've been curious, and I want to ask you." Eddie Howe asked.

"You say."

"You just said that Manchester United needs to run in here, why don't you need to run in after you buy players, or the run-in period is relatively short?" Eddie Howe finally asked what he had always wanted to ask.

After coming to Leeds United, he was also familiar with George Lee, and he admired George Lee more and more.

Three seasons, in just three seasons, brought a relegation team into a Premier League powerhouse. 1 league title, 2 Europa League titles, 1 League Cup title, 1 Community Shield winner, 1 UEFA Super Cup winner.

Not only did the results be excellent, but they also led the tactical innovation of the Premier League. The winger cuts inside with the backfoot, presses high up front, and the goalkeeper plays the ball at the back......

But the most talked about is George Lee's reinforcements.

When I came to Leeds United, I learned that most of the players in the team were selected by him, and he never looked away.

Finally, Eddie Howe took the opportunity to ask him.

"Uh~, it's not as godly as they say, I just chose some players who fit my tactical thinking, mainly relying on Chris's data analysis...... yes, Chris. ”

Just then, Casper came back from the toilet with three bottles of drink in his hand.

George Lee quickly turned the conversation to Casper, he couldn't tell Eddie Howe that he was a man who could predict football news for the next ten years.

Eddie Howe glanced at Casper and thought to himself, how powerful data analysis really is. If you go out to work alone in the future, then data analysis must be an important link, do you want to take the time to ask Casper or something.

"What are you talking about?"

"Eddie said, if you want to know about your data model, you can tell him about it when you have time."

"Yes, that's right." Eddie Howe saw that George Lee was so proactive, so he thought about going back to learn data analysis.

Seeing that Eddie Howe really wanted to learn, George Lee remembered last season when he took the initiative to direct the first-team game, and suddenly he had an inspiration.

"Eddie, otherwise you will be left to the games of the reserve team this season, anyway, you seem to like directing the game very much."

"This ......" Eddie Howe was stunned, he really wanted to direct the game, but he didn't want to give up the opportunity to learn from Lee on the first-team coaching staff.

George Lee saw his tangle and drove back again.

'It's okay, anyway, when you play in the reserve team, there are a couple of young first-team players who will be there, and you can attend our usual coaching staff meetings. There are some tactics that I have laid out in the first team, and you bring them back to the reserve team to practice for them to practice as well, so that they are not afraid that they will lack game training and not be familiar with tactical ideas after returning to the first team. ”

Hearing Lee say this, Eddie Howe suddenly realized that this was really a good opportunity.

"I'll send you another analyst, and if you don't understand data analysis, you can go directly to him." Casper took a sip of the drink, also like Eddie Howe suggested.

'It's decided, and I hope that at the end of the season we can come back with a trophy for the reserves.' George Lee stood up and stretched, sat for half the game, his body a little stiff.

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In the second half, United continued to take the initiative on the pitch, but did not extend the advantage of the score.

Instead, it was here at Portsmouth, where Maluvari scored a goal from distance to equalise.

1 to 1.

Manchester United have started the season with two draws in a row against underdogs.

But after the game, George Lee looked at the exiting Manchester United players and Ferguson on the sidelines. It feels like Manchester United could be their biggest rival in defending their title this year.