When Real Madrid defeated Barcelona 3-0 at Camp Nou, causing a stir across the world, in the seventh round of the Premier League, in the city of Leeds in the north of England, Leeds United faced Queen's Park Rangers at home, which attracted attention in the UK.
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If you want to say that the biggest dark horse in the Premier League this season, then Leeds United deserves it.
After the first three rounds, this declining team ranked third in the Premier League, which itself has attracted a lot of attention, but everyone feels that it is difficult for the White Rose to last for a long time and will definitely fall.
Unexpectedly, Leeds United still performed very tenaciously after entering September.
First, in the fourth round, they drew with the London team Fulham 1-1 away from home, then at home, with Incardi's goal, they defeated Reading 1-0, but soon, in the sixth round,
The away draw was another 1-1 draw with Aston Villa.
After six rounds of games, everyone was surprised to find that only two teams in the Premier League remained undefeated.
One team is Chelsea, which spent heavily on signings in the summer and is now under the leadership of Mourinho, and the other team is Leeds United, which made more than 100 million in this summer's transfer market.
However, due to two draws in September, Leeds United's ranking has been overtaken by the Manchester duo and dropped to fifth place in the league, but it still beats Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal and Liverpool and other strong teams.
In the seventh round, Leeds United sat at home and faced the bottom-ranked Queens Park Rangers.
After this London team invested heavily this summer, instead of improving, their results have deteriorated, and they have even become a favorite for relegation.
At the same time, Everton, originally ranked second, drew with Wigan Athletic 2-2 away from home.
Manchester City defeated Sunderland 3-0, Manchester United defeated Newcastle 3-0 away from home, the Manchester duo successfully counterattacked and climbed to second and third place in the league, while Chelsea defeated Norwich 4-1.
Continue to lead.
At the Elland Road Stadium, if Leeds United can defeat Queens Park Rangers, they will once again enter the top four in the league and rank fourth in the standings, tied with Manchester United and Manchester City in points. However, if they lose this game or draw,
They will drop to seventh place.
There is no doubt that this is a crucial game.
But what surprised everyone was that in just five minutes, Coutinho assisted Pogba to score a goal, taking the lead in breaking open the goal guarded by former Inter Milan goalkeeper Cesar and opening the scoring for Leeds United.
In the 22nd minute, Salah scored another victory, this time the assist was Pogba, giving Leeds a two-goal lead.
Subsequently, the two teams played very hard, but until the 85th minute, Jorginho received a pass from Cancelo, who came on the bench, and gave Leeds United another victory, 3-0!
In the end, Leeds United defeated Queens Park Rangers with a score of 3 to 0, further pushing Mark Hughes into the relegation zone, and successfully reversed Everton and Tottenham Hotspur. Arsenal was one step ahead.
The team in the competition is ranked fourth in the league.
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Gao Shen received the news after he returned to Madrid after playing for Barcelona and Valdebebas disbanded the team.
His first reaction was...
"Why isn't Mark Hughes out of class yet?"
Carlo and others were well aware of the petty grudge between Gao Shen and Mark Hughes, and they all laughed.
It has to be said that the probability of Mark Hughes being dismissed from get out of class is constantly rising, and he has even become the favorite to be dismissed from get out of class in the Premier League this season according to bookmakers.
For no other reason than Queens Park Rangers invested tens of millions of pounds this summer and are now ranked 20th in the league.
Investors are not fools, can they accept such results?
Interestingly, another team that invested a lot of money, Liverpool's current situation is not very ideal.
After Rogers spent heavily on signings, Liverpool failed to maintain its strength and are now ranked near the mid-table. This is also very detrimental to Rogers, but the Liverpool management is still relatively patient with him.
The main reason is because Rogers is adjusting and adjusting.
It's all a reorganization, so naturally we need to give it more of a running-in period.
"I never expected that Sarri would play so well this season." Zidane was also very surprised.
He is also familiar with Sarri and knows that the Italian is capable, but it is not an easy task to bring the newly promoted team to this level. Even if Gao Shen personally builds the lineup for him, not everyone can do it.
It can be done.
"Yes, we were also surprised, but this is also a happy trouble." Gao Shen said with a wry smile.
Happiness is definitely happiness, but there are still a lot of worries.
Sarri's coaching performance is outstanding and has attracted the attention of many teams. His players' outstanding performance has also attracted the attention of the teams.
This is the fate of Leeds United.
"Leeds United's attack channel on the left is quite well organized, and the right is gradually taking shape. This Cancelo has very strong offensive power." After Carlo finished speaking, his eyes towards Gao Shen added a bit of admiration.
Cancelo is a player hand-picked by senior players, and Leeds United's current main right back is Trippier, who also performs quite well.
The combination of Coutinho, Kurzawa and Pogba on the left was established by Sarri last season, but Adam Lallana became Coutinho.
At the beginning of the season, many people thought that Leeds United's performance would decline sharply. After all, Coutinho may not be suitable for Leeds United, and his strength is also open to question. But who would have thought that Coutinho would immediately perform at a high level as soon as he arrived.
, continuing his outstanding performance at Espanyol last season.
But Gao Shen expects more from him than that. He told Lucas, Borrell and Sarri that Coutinho will perform even better after his confidence is cultivated.
The setback at Inter Milan dealt a huge blow to Coutinho's self-confidence, and he needs to slowly regain his confidence.
Originally there was only one left wing, but now with the emergence of Salah on the right wing, especially the performance of Trippier or Cancelo, the two right backs, Leeds United's right wing also performed very well.
Salah has even won the reputation of Egypt's Messi, which shows his outstanding performance in the Premier League.
"A few days ago, people from the technical team also learned about Salah with me and said that Valdano asked them to focus on this talented winger who has performed well in the Premier League." Carlo looked at Gao Shen with a wry smile.
Everyone also found it funny.
Real Madrid wants to poach Leeds United, how will Gao Shen deal with it?
It has to be said that Courtois was hired from Leeds United.
At the beginning of the season, many people expected him to be a substitute for Casillas, but unexpectedly, this kid became the main force as soon as he arrived.
He really shines when given some sunshine. Gao Shen gave him a chance to perform, and he made almost zero mistakes. Even if Casillas wanted to regain the main position, he had no choice but to play in the cup.
With a talent like Courtois in front of him, it's not surprising that Real Madrid is eyeing Leeds United players again.
"I am a very realistic person, as long as I have enough money." Gao Shen was quite happy.
Zidane and others also laughed.
Who says it’s not?
If you give me enough money, what can't be sold?
Leeds United have no bargaining capital or bargaining chips now!
The team was disbanded and the coaching staff was about to take a three-day vacation. Gao Shen invited Carlo and Zidane to go to England with them.
Not only to see Leeds United, but more importantly, to go to London to meet Norman Foster.
The concept design, which the old man personally participated in, was developed and he invited Gao Shen and others to come over and take a look and study and discuss it together.
Similar to this kind of large-scale construction site design, there is actually a relatively complicated process, and the purpose is to ensure the interests and cooperation of both parties A and B.
Generally, before the formal investment in design, a conceptual design will be given, which is the layout and design based on Party A's requirements, site, space, functions, etc., and is basically expressed through hand-drawing.
Based on the current process, it will probably take until next summer for the training base to start construction, and the construction period is expected to take one year. Leeds United is currently communicating intensively with the government and is also actively contacting the construction company.
According to Gao Shen's idea, if Chinese construction companies are invited to undertake the construction, the budget can be reduced a lot, but many government processes are more troublesome. After all, the British government also has to consider its own interests, such as the labor situation, etc.
This cannot be accomplished overnight.
In other words, with all calculations in mind, it is more conservatively estimated that it will be at least 2014 before Leeds United’s training base is put into operation.
But it just so happens that this summer's transfer income and the final payment will be due in 2014.
Gao Shen now truly understands why it took so many years to build a football stadium at Tottenham Hotspur.
It's such a hassle in Leeds, let alone London?
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The next morning, Gao Shen took Su Qing, Zidane and Carlo and boarded a flight to London.
At the same time, Lucas and Borrell, who were far away in Leeds, also took their assistants from Leeds south to London.
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At noon, the two parties met in a London hotel and had lunch together.
Lucas also brought an update.
Leeds City Council has put forward a completely new requirement.
"Isn't there a very old railway bridge in the northern area of our new training base?"
Gao Shen frowned, "Is there any?"
"Yes." Su Qing nodded, "It's right next to the small overpass in the north. It's too old and has been abandoned. Now there is a row of bridge arches spanning the east and west, and the railway bridge is also overgrown with weeds."
"That's right." Lucas nodded, "The Leeds City Government intends to build a long municipal park to the south of this abandoned railway bridge to revitalize this abandoned ancient cultural relic."
"Both sides?"
"No, the north side is full of big roads, and the south side is about two kilometers long. They want us to design it together, and then they will allocate funds to transform it."
Gao Shen knew it well, and in fact it was not too much to ask for it.
In order to build that training base, Manchester City did more for the Manchester City Government.
At the very least, this park is funded by the city government.
"Does Norman Foster know?"
"I told him two days ago and he said he would discuss it with the team."
Gao Shen nodded, he was still looking forward to Norman Foster's design.
He wanted to see what kind of work the design master would come up with based on his requirements.
