The warm-up match swept the former European champion Inter Milan 3-0, which undoubtedly gave a boost to the Manchester City team that is about to compete in the Champions League in the new season. Although Mr. Aguero, worth 38 million, still sat on the sidelines in this game, under Silva's organization and connection
Despite this, the Blue Moon Legion still showed strong attack power.
However, Silva, who was born as a winger, is not a handsome man in the middle of the midfield after all. Manchester City's multi-billion-strong team is still missing the last piece of the puzzle, and this person may be the French midfield king who has been followed by coach Mancini for a long time.
Nasri. News from today's "The Sun"
Information disclosed that Manchester City has made a "ultimate offer" to Arsenal for the transfer of Nasri. The transfer fee has reached a huge amount of 22 million pounds. The Sun boldly predicted that Nasri's transfer
It will most likely be announced within the next 48 hours.
According to an internal official of the Manchester City club, the offer of 22 million pounds is the final bid of the Blue Moon Army. If Arsenal chooses to reject it, then the Manchester City people will not raise the offer again. They will choose to wait for one year and wait for next year.
The French midfielder was acquired for free in the summer. However, according to insider sources in "The Sun"
Lu, Wenger and his think tank are likely to accept this generous offer from Manchester City in order to complete Nasri's transfer as soon as possible. "The Sun" also revealed that although Nasri's transfer
It is hoped that it will be completed within this week, but the French midfielder will basically not play in Manchester City's Community Shield match against Manchester United this weekend.
With Nasri's help, Blue Moon's lineup can basically be said to be "almost perfect." The team's general Yaya Toure issued a warning to Ferguson and his Manchester United. "If possible, at Wembley (
It is very wonderful to score three goals against Manchester United. Of course, the most important thing is not whether I score or who scores, but to announce to the world that Manchester City has returned as the king.
Toure continued: "The league this season will be more difficult, but we are no longer what we used to be. I think this season belongs to Manchester City. We will prove to the world that we have the strength to win the championship.
, I think Manchester City will become as strong as Barcelona. As for Aguero, he is a fantastic player, deft, smart and extremely fast."
Of course, in addition to stepping up acquisitions, the cleaning work within the Manchester City team is also in full swing. Head coach Mancini said that Adebayor, Santa Cruz and Bellamy may all leave the team. "Ade
Bayo wants to go to Real Madrid, but he can leave at any time if they want. We already have
We have recruited 4 top forwards with different characteristics. Adebayor hopes to be able to play in the game. Of course, I personally support him to go to Real Madrid." However, the Togolese forward's desire to join Real Madrid may be just wishful thinking. The Galacticos are leading the way.
Mourinho said the club has no intention of acquiring Adebayor.
As for Wright, who has been in great form in recent warm-up matches, he has been coveted by Bolton Wanderers. The Daily Mail said that Bolton coach Owen Kohler hopes that Wright will replace Li Qinglong, who is seriously injured and has a broken leg.
Nemesis Manchester City has another strong support, but Manchester United has entered the stage of remembering its stars.
The farewell match for Manchester United legendary goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar will be held at the Amsterdam Arena. Van der Sar revealed some details of the farewell match to Manchester United's official website.
The testimonial match is divided into three parts. First, Ajax U13 vs. Manchester United U13. Van der Sar’s son Joe is preparing to represent the Red Devils U13; then, the 1995 Ajax team that won the Champions League played against the 1998 France World Cup team.
Netherlands
The team, including Davis, Overmars, Stam and Hasselbaink, will all participate; the finale is Ajax playing against Van der Sar’s dream team, and the coach of the dream team is Sir Alex Ferguson.
, of course, his Dutch assistant coach Meulensteen will also assist.[
This time, Ferguson led five active Red Devils in Ferdinand, Vidic, Carrick, Giggs and Li Yu, as well as the recently retired Manchester United captain Gary Neville and former Manchester United striker Saha. After the game, Edwin van der Sar
Farewell to 52,000 fans.
In an interview with Manchester United's official website, Van der Sar said, "Hopefully it will be a good night. For the fans, it will be a good opportunity to see many top players, and there are many who are currently playing."
Promising Ajax player. It’s been 12 years since I left Ajax, so I’m really looking forward to going back and seeing my old
Friends. Thank you for their support and organizing such a farewell game for me. This is the most perfect way to say goodbye. I am very happy that Coach Ferguson, Meulensteen and the Manchester United players came to participate in this game. I
I would like to thank the Manchester United fans and the Manchester United coaching staff for supporting me over the past six years, and I hope it won’t be long before I can see you again.”
Three days later, on August 6th, Manchester United star Scholes' farewell match was held at Old Trafford. Manchester United defeated the New York Cosmos 6-0. Scholes took the lead with a powerful shot, and then declined the penalty kick opportunity. Li Yu
Hit. Nani and Welbeck each scored a goal, Diouf scored twice. Scholes' 18-year career officially ended.
Scholes joined the Manchester United youth team in July 1991 and officially signed as a professional player in January 1993. In September 1994, he represented Manchester United in the league for the first time and scored twice against Ipswich Town, but Manchester United still scored 2-3.
Lost. Scholes played 676 games for Manchester United, history
Ranked fourth in the league; scored 150 goals, ranking ninth in the club. On May 28, 2011, in the Champions League final, Scholes came on as a substitute in the 77th minute. This was his last official game at Manchester United. Scholes
Si also played 66 games for the England national team and scored 14 goals.
In Scholes' 19-year career, he won 10 Premier League championships, 3 FA Cup championships, 2 League Cup championships, 6 Community Shield championships and 4 European championships with Manchester United. In 1999, he won the Toyota
Cup, and won the Club World Cup in 2008.
Players from the two teams lined up before the game to welcome Scholes and his children, and the fans applauded enthusiastically. Cantona, wearing a suit and ties, entered as the coach of the New York Cosmos. Former Manchester United coach Ferguson and eo David Gill paid tribute to him
Honorary trophies and certificates were presented to him, and football king Pele and former Old Trafford king Cantona also presented him with signed jerseys. Scholes wore the captain's armband and played. And Scholes passed the ball every time.
and steals both attracted applause from the fans on the sidelines.
6-0, Manchester United continued their unbeaten victory in this summer's warm-up matches, boosting the team's confidence before Sunday night's Community Shield.
With the war imminent, Ancelotti said that Carrick and Little Pea will miss the Community Shield against Manchester City. "Carrick's heels are a little tight after playing Edwin van der Sar's farewell game, and we don't plan to take risks. Hernan
Des will still be out for two to three weeks and should be back by the end of August. We have to be careful considering he had a concussion years ago. The good news is that both Fletcher and Valencia are back and participating.
train."
In this campaign, Ancelotti sent 22 players to play. Except for Scholes who played 74 minutes and Li Yu, Nani and Ashley Young who played 62 minutes, the other 18 players played at most.
After half the ball, his physical strength will not affect the Community Shield against Manchester City on Sunday night. This is the second Manchester derby in the history of the Community Shield. The last time was in October 1956, which ended with Manchester United winning.
Ancelotti deliberately downplayed the Community Shield before the game, "Playing this type of game, it is easy to be passionate. I don't think we will change the principles. I have always regarded the Community Shield as a stepping stone for the first game of the league in the new season.
Then two or three players need a game to further improve their physical condition."
Manchester United's starting lineup for the Community Shield should not change much from this game. There is no suspense about the goalkeeper, two central defenders and left back; at the right back position, Rafael has been starting consecutively recently, and he may be closer to starting than Fabio in the Community Shield; two
For the wide midfielder position, Nani and Ashley Young have been in very good shape recently and are firmly in the main lineup to answer questions.
Question: There are too many variables in the central midfielder position. Since Carrick cannot play, Fletcher has just resumed training and may not be in the best condition. Under such circumstances, Ancelotti may send Giggs and Clay.
Willy's combination; there is no suspense about the forward selection, Li Yu will definitely start, and Hernandez still needs to rest.
Therefore, who will partner with Li Yu? This really needs to be noted. Now Manchester United only has Welbeck, a young player, on the front line. Will there be any surprises?
In fact, Manchester United has been secretly negotiating a transfer. Of course, the protagonist this time should be to lock in the striker. After all, after losing Rooney, Manchester United's striker has become a bit thin, so they should introduce a striker anyway.
According to reliable sources, Manchester United has started chasing Lukaku. The Belgian new monster is a good prospect in Ancelotti's eyes to upgrade Manchester United's striker.
The competitors are Chelsea and Arsenal again! The top three in the Premier League can always appear together at any time.[
The price offered by Manchester United is not as crazy as when they competed for Mata. Like Chelsea's bid, it depends more on the player's own wishes!
Although Dzeko's consecutive goals bring hope to Manchester City's offensive power in the new season, the Bosnian's slightly lucky long-range shot cannot conceal the fact that Mancini is sitting on Tevez, Aguero, Dzeko
Coe, Balotelli, Adebayor, Bellamy, and Santa Cruz's seven forwards with a total value of nearly 200 million pounds are unable to create an effective striker for the team.
The question of Tevez's future remains unresolved. Adebayor, Bellamy and Santa Cruz, who have returned from loan, are not favored by Mancini. They spent the entire summer training with the youth team and do not play as center forwards.
Balotelli has been used as an avant-garde by Mancini in the past two games. The only one who can play seriously as a forward is Dzeko, who has made a name for himself.
According to the "Daily Mail", for Bellamy (weekly salary of 80,000 pounds), Adebayor (weekly salary of 170,000 pounds), and Santa Cruz (weekly salary of 80,000 pounds), Manchi
Nigeria has made it clear that even if they cannot be rented or traded, they will never be sold.
Will be included in next season's team roster. Counting the recently depressed Balotelli who has switched to playing as an avant-garde (weekly salary of 650,000 pounds), the total weekly salary of these four people reaches about 400,000 pounds. Manchester City is equal to
Using two Rooney's salaries is a waste of the team's salary.
In this game, Mancini once again used Dzeko's single forward formation, but after all, the level of the game and the opponent were different from a week ago. The Manchester City midfielder who was active in the last game did not enter the rhythm of the game at all.
Most of the first half of the game was wasted on running back and getting the ball behind the back.
In the first minute of stoppage time in the first half, Milner passed the ball from the left. Dzeko took the ball in the middle and took a step forward. Before Vidic blocked it, he volleyed with his right foot 30 meters away from the goal. The angle of the ball was not awkward.
However, a reaction was formed near the goal line. De Gea was unable to react in time and let the ball go from his hand into the net. This time
The shot was Dzeko's first shot in the first half, which reflected his gradually recovering self-confidence and current good competitive state. However, with an absolute disadvantage of 34% to 66% ball possession rate, Dzeko's goal
The ball reflects more of the star's personal abilities rather than the effective organization of Manchester City's midfield.
In the second half, due to Manchester United's strong counterattack, Manchester City's overall offense was compressed. The midfielder headed by Silva could no longer organize an effective attack. When Dzeko urgently needed a forward partner to spread the pressure for him, Mancini's suggestion
Instead, he replaced Balotelli with midfielder Barry, and finally replaced him belatedly with Adam Johnson. He didn't feel at all that he spent more than 300,000 pounds a week to support Bellamy, Santa Cruz and Ah.
Debayor is a waste.
In the second half of the game, Manchester United sent out a defense line composed of Rafael, Evans, Phil Jones and Smalling. However, such a "childish defense line" actually trapped the Manchester City people with a "diamond set"
"A successful" luxurious attacking combination shows the problems faced by Manchester City's forwards today.
According to the "Daily Mail", Mancini's luxury has even affected his relationship with team CEO Cook.
These three players cannot be rented or sold. The high weekly salary is a major obstacle. Bellamy, who earns 80,000 pounds per week, made it clear, "I still have one year left on my contract. If Manchester City considers paying me one year's salary in advance,
, then it will be much more convenient for me to choose to join other teams." Now I am becoming smarter.
Of course, the top management of Manchester City will not be so generous. It is more realistic to provide salary subsidies to the loaned teams. However, judging from Tevez's transfer, the top management of Manchester City also seems to be disgusted with the fact that all the teams want to take advantage of themselves.
The practice of taking advantage here started to get entangled in the issue of money.
Manchester City's success in finishing third in the Premier League last season was not due to a luxurious striker built with a lot of money. Instead, it was a defense that spent a small amount of money to run in. This result of "spending more and contributing less" has been widely praised by peers.
The laughingstock. Mancini’s current practice of “paying high salary to provide leisure time” is unavoidable
It is a bit extreme, but it is a necessary move for Manchester City to follow the example of Chelsea in previous years and get on the right track. On the self-made poster produced by Manchester United fans in this game, the Manchester United team logo is surrounded by trophies on both sides, but the Manchester City team logo is surrounded by "$".
It's obviously a satire on Manchester City for wasting their money.
For the current plan, the top management of Manchester City can only suffer some losses and send away these three forwards and high-paid players such as Bridge (weekly salary of 100,000 pounds) as soon as possible, so as to create a normal competitive environment for the team and let the stars
They exert the power of 1 plus 1 equals 2.
Today's Premier League is full of top players, the Manchester duo are already gearing up for the Charity Shield, and Liverpool are also gearing up after defeating Valencia 2-0.
But in London, there are some who are happy and some who are sad. "With all due respect, it will be difficult for us to win even fifth place next season." The wily Redknapp has already waved his white handkerchief;
Wenger is still insisting, taking his six-year-old boy scout, holding his little Frenchman, Nasri, who has already been in Cao Ying and his heart is in Han; leaving the young Boas, with his same age
A group of mercenaries are carrying huge pressure from Abu Guan to get out...
Ancelotti has witnessed the ups and downs of many countries, but nothing has been more turbulent than in recent years. First, it was Chelsea's two-year maintenance, and then he took over Manchester United, which was changing dynasties!
In July, they brought the team to North America. This is a land they are familiar with, a relaxed training environment, an exotic warm-up match, plus another confrontation with Champions League enemy Barcelona, everything is in order. Manchester United is in the warm-up match
Achieved a complete victory. In fact, except for the 2-1 victory over Barcelona, Manchester United returned with big wins in other games.
The only fly in the ointment is that Hernandez, the top scorer in the America's Cup, has just returned and suffered a concussion during training. It is not yet possible to predict a recovery date. Manchester United plans to let Xiao Pea rest in August.
Mancini's Manchester City, after three seasons of patient waiting from the Abu Dhabi Group, must also achieve better results than the FA Cup this season.
This time they also had three warm-up matches in North America and achieved complete victories, but their form was not outstanding at the time, and Balotelli even caused a sideshow. After returning to Europe, they put their warm-up games into action.
The second venue of the game was the Irish Super Cup, with two games
The 3-0 victory, especially the second game against the powerful Inter Milan, showed that Manchester City is getting better and better. In short, the two teams from Manchester, although they have not traveled around this summer, are ready to
But it is the most targeted and relatively stable.
It feels so good to go home! After traveling to China, Malaysia, Singapore, Turkey, and Norway, Liverpool finally returned to their doorstep and won a long-lost victory. This summer, they are the busiest club to travel, but with the arrival of many new players
The absence of key players did not allow them to achieve any impressive results in the warm-up matches.
In the first six warm-up games, they conceded three goals in each game. In the first three games, they even had one draw and two losses. Therefore, the defensive issue was put on the agenda.
But the Red Army was not really that vulnerable. Just three days later, they returned to Anfield and defeated Valencia, their strongest opponent in the warm-up match, 2-0.
The lost Liverpool finally got their spirits up before the start of the season and waited for the new season.
For another strong team, running-in does not seem to be a problem, because so far, this team called Chelsea has only introduced three young players. The arrival of the three young players will hardly make up for Essien's absence for half of the season.
season, Zhirkov’s departure was a major loss. But although Abramovich was prosperous
It is rumored that they are interested in Modric. So far, this is still a tug-of-war that never sees the sun. Based on this alone, Chelsea's summer preparations lag far behind the top three in the northwest. What's more, last season has already shown that
How can the aging team cope with more fierce opponents this season?
Fortunately, the current team atmosphere is still very stable, and Chelsea also achieved a complete victory record in the summer warm-up. They even conceded the first goal only at the beginning of the last friendly match against Glasgow.
