Chapter 834 The Transfer Window Opens

After being defeated by Schalke 04 in the Champions League and losing points in two consecutive draws in the league, Manchester United was criticized by the media.

But after entering the Christmas schedule, Manchester United once again started a winning streak. A wave of three consecutive victories made the media praise them to the sky.

However, Sun Wu has no time to read the newspaper now. The next day is January 1, 2015, and the winter transfer window of major European leagues officially opens.

The first deal in the Premier League was a deal that Manchester United almost completed half a year ago. Shaqiri, known as the "Swiss Messi", transferred from Bayern for 7.5 million pounds.

The second transaction was quite surprising, as no information was disclosed beforehand.

Liverpool announced on its official website after midnight that it had acquired Stoke City's French midfielder Nzonzi for 15 million pounds. Mark Hughes is so bad!

Early the next morning, Sun Wu looked at the report and thought that Klopp was right. Nzonzi is indeed suitable for this Liverpool team. He has strong defense, flexible feet, wide coverage, and good long and short passes.

In fact, Klopp's decision to acquire N'Zongzi has a certain relationship with Sun Wu. In the summer of 2013, Manchester United, which lacked a midfielder, tried to acquire the little-known N'Zongzi on Sun Wu's suggestion because the Stoke City Lions Don’t stop until you open your mouth.

From then on, Klopp asked scouts to start observing Nzonzi's performance. After a season and a half, Uncle Zha made his decision.

After that, there was no movement from the major Premier League clubs... You can't say that, everyone was selling, there was no way. Two years ago, everyone just took up their new job and were busy acquiring players. Now some players are not suitable, and some players are in poor condition. , these all need to be resolved, and salary space must be cleared for summer transfers.

Chelsea first lost David Luiz to Paris Saint-Germain for 32 million euros, and then sold Schürrle, who had a hard time getting a chance, to Wolfsburg for 18 million euros. The latter was prepared to lose Deb Laune prepares.

Manchester City also sold off a large number of players who were unable to play. In fact, most of these players were rented out or playing in the reserve team.

Liverpool is similar, only Manchester United and Chelsea can compete.

As early as a month ago, the news that Smalling was looking for a new home had already spread. However, after the transfer window opened, the deal has not been announced for a long time. Instead, another surprising deal appeared.

Arsenal announced the acquisition of Manchester United forward Welbeck for 9.5 million pounds. The red kid who came out of the Carrington base finally left Manchester United.

No way, after Januzaj was injured, Pochettino used Griezmann, Mane, Rashford, Lingard, and even put Ashley Young who was in excellent form as a priority, but he seemed to have forgotten There is also Welbeck in the team.

In this case, Heibei could only choose to leave.

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"Stop being busy, the game will start in two hours." McFerran pulled Sun Wu out of the office.

"I'm not starting the game today." Sun Wu muttered dissatisfied before turning and leaving.

In this round of the league, Manchester United will face Stoke City at home. They just played against each other less than a month ago, and now they meet again.

Stoke City lost three familiar faces this time.

Nzonzi went to Liverpool, Huth moved to Leicester City, and Bojan... has announced that he will be out for the season.

Poor Bo Yang, actually Sun Wu really pities him... Because Manchester United was drawn to Real Madrid in the Champions League, Sun Wu has been in contact with several friends from Barcelona a lot recently, but Pique, Busquets, and Balde Sri Lanka, Messi and Iniesta are all indifferent to this.

Two hours later, Sun Wu sat on the bench and watched the entire game. Pochettino made a substantial rotation, with Klose, Rashford, Griezmann, Carrick, Fletcher, Coleman started both games.

Charlie Adam received two consecutive yellow cards and was sent off early in the half hour of the first half. This is also the famous red card king in the Premier League. His tackling skills are poor, but he likes tackles very much...

Mane's breakthrough became the key to the game. After coming on as a substitute in the second half, he won two penalty kicks in the penalty area. Klose made two penalty kicks.

Manchester United scored 3 points 2-0. This was a very cost-effective victory. Pochettino and Sun Wu were on tenterhooks, especially when Fletcher and Griezmann were tackled twice by Charlie Adam... Fortunately, no one was injured.

After the game, when Mark Hughes shook hands with Sun Wu, the former shook his head and said: "Best, eight years ago, I never thought you could do this."

"Mark, you didn't expect it, but I did." Sun Wu said with a smile: "Wearing the No. 7 jersey at Manchester United and becoming the captain..."

"No, no, no!" Mark Hughes shook his head again, "You misunderstood, I mean... you have become a unique presence at Manchester United."

Sun Wu twitched the corner of his mouth and left. Of course he knew what it meant... Miguel wanted to replace Lukaku to attack, but Sun Wu insisted on using Mane. The sound may have been a bit loud at the time, so loud that Mark Hughes heard it.

I have restrained myself a lot recently, okay...you must make my reputation bad!

However, Sun Wu's bad mood soon improved, because Liverpool lost points again, and they lost them to Leicester City again.

In the same game, Liverpool took the lead early. Nzonzi, who had transferred from Stoke City, deflected a long-range shot from the outside and hit the post, and Firmino scored with a supplementary shot.

But at the last moment, centre-back Huth, who had also just transferred from Stoke City, scored with a header from a corner kick, allowing Leicester City to equalize the score.

Tottenham, which was swept by Manchester United in the last round, drew with Chelsea in the away game. The two teams played a 3-3 draw.

At this point, the Christmas schedule has come to an end. Manchester United has won four games and topped the list with 54 points, while Liverpool and Chelsea both have only 43 points. They have been left 11 points behind. If there is no major accident, it will be difficult for them to enter the final round. In the championship ranks.

Manchester City won a wave of consecutive victories after the Manchester City Derby. So far, it has been 10 consecutive victories in the league. Guardiola quietly caught up to second place, only 4 points away from Manchester United.

Pochettino, McFerran, Jesus, Miguel and others were all muttering in their hearts. At the beginning of the season, Sun Wu once said that Manchester United's opponent this season was Manchester City, and he was right again!

On January 4th, Manchester United traveled to Somerset County in the southwest of the British Isles. The FA Cup, which was a headache in the second half of the season, began. Manchester United's opponent was Yeovil.

Players such as Sun Wu, Griezmann, and Schneiderlin, who are difficult to get a rotation, did not even travel with the team. Of course, the main reason why Sun Wu stayed was to help Miguel, who also stayed, select signing targets.

Sevilla defender Fazio, AC Milan's Rami, Juventus's Cáceres, Stuttgart's Rudiger, and Wolfsburg's Nardo who Sun Wu mentioned.

Now, Manchester United no longer cares about whether the signing target can play in the Champions League, because Smalling has made a fuss, and the club wants to sign him first and then let him go...

Manchester United easily advanced in this round of the FA Cup with new aid Shaqiri's pass and shot, and Sun Wu, who stayed behind, also unexpectedly discovered a possible signing target.

Although he can't play in the Champions League, he has nothing to say in terms of experience and ability, and his price is not high and his condition is good. However, there are constant injuries in the first half of the season, which Sun Wu can ignore.

This person is Atletico Madrid's Brazilian center back Miranda.

Speaking of which, the emergence of this goal has a lot to do with Sun Wu, the time-traveling butterfly.

Savic came to Atletico Madrid half a season early. As a result, the Montenegrin central defender attracted Simeone's attention as soon as he arrived and immediately became the main player.

Just today, Atletico Madrid swept Levante 4-0 away from home. Savic played the entire game, while Miranda was on the bench. When the other starting defender Godin was adjusted off the field, the one who came on was Young Uruguayan defender Gimenez.

Miranda quits...

Well, actually this is really not an accident, because in the original time and space, Savic moved to Atletico Madrid half a year later, and Miranda joined Inter Milan on loan.