Chapter 978 Vacation
After defeating Southampton, Manchester United's intensive schedule finally came to an end.
There are no league tasks next week, and the League Cup semi-finals and FA Cup will be played consecutively next weekend. However, Sun Wu has decided to give up the League Cup. The FA Cup will face Derby County of the English Championship.
The Carrington base was empty, and Sun Wu gave all the players three days off. As a result, reporters who were excited about Manchester United's 21st consecutive victory saw Manchester United players on the streets, hotels and even the airport.
"Actually, it's more than three days off." Sun Wu sat lazily on the sofa and said to Patrick carelessly: "Anyway, the League Cup has been given up. The gold content of this trophy is too low. I really don't know what is worth grabbing..."
Patrick's face turned dark. Manchester City has only won the League Cup for two consecutive seasons. What do you mean by this!
"This is the advice given by the club's psychological counselor." Sun Wuhan continued to challenge without fear of death, "Even if there is no problem in physical fitness, the psychological pressure accumulated due to the winning streak must be released. Manchester City seems to have done nothing in this regard?"
Sun Fei, who had just returned from France, saw the two husband-in-laws butting cattle again as soon as she entered the house. She was too lazy to care about such nonsense, "Christine, come and help."
"This is..." Christine jumped over and flipped through it, "The information on young players in France?"
"Well, a few of them came here because of their reputation." Sun Fei glanced at her younger brother, not to mention Lucas, who had an 18 million termination fee, and Griezmann, who refused to be accepted by the French club's youth training camp. Not to mention Fabinho, the two examples of Pavard and Kante are enough for advertising.
An ordinary full-back, he is now Manchester United's main rotating full-back.
A defensive midfielder who is still in the French second league is now the main defensive midfielder of the French national team.
Not to mention those young players, even some clubs hope to have a relationship with Sun Wu. Even if Manchester United doesn't want him, if he says a few words about being scouted by Manchester United scouts, he might be able to sell him for more money.
Christine suddenly turned to look at Patrick, "Dad, will you be in charge of transfers next season?"
Patrick was stunned for a moment, and then walked away with a dark face... His daughter's meaning was obvious. Manchester City is probably out of business this season. You will come to the Manchester United coaching staff to assist your son-in-law next season!
Of course, whether you come or not, right now... it would be better for you to avoid it.
Sun Wu couldn't bear to laugh and came over and looked over it. In recent years, the French League has indeed seen a surge of young talents, but he has not interfered with Manchester United's scouting work. It is better to keep those names in mind, but Sun Fei can focus on this. observe.
After casually flipping through a few pictures, Sun Wu asked in surprise: "Are these all owned by you?"
"Of course not all of them. The scouts sent by the company collected them. There are well-known talented players and there are already famous stars."
"No wonder." Sun Wu picked out two and put them aside. "These two midfielders are great, but they may not be suitable for Manchester United, and Manchester United is not short of players."
Christian came over and took a look, "Corentin Tolisso and Nabil Fekir are both Lyon midfielders."
The former later moved to Bayern Munich for 40 million euros, and the latter is the captain of Lyon and a top attacking midfielder in Europe. The two of them are now the absolute main force in Lyon.
After going through the remaining information, Sun Wu found a few familiar names.
One later went to Atletico Madrid and then to Carrasco in the Chinese Super League, and the other was "former" Manchester United star Martial.
Scroll down further, Sun Wu's eyes lit up. He didn't expect that the scouts from Sun Fei's company had good vision, but these two talented players should already be famous.
One is Lemar who plays for Caen Club, and the other is the famous Mbappe.
After Sun Wu focused on Mbappe, he went to the study. It is true that Manchester United has no shortage of wingers now. Even if Griezmann is closer to the penalty area and Bernardo Silva does not have strong breakthrough ability, there are also Mane and Salah, but Sun Wu still wants to bring this super-fast guy to Old Trafford.
Manchester United is the team with the lowest average age in the Premier League. This seems to be a good thing, but it also brings a problem. Young players always want more playing time. Otherwise, why would Lucas come to Manchester United? Sun Wu was Why go to Wolfsburg…
On January 27, Manchester United faced Everton at home.
Everyone knew that Manchester United had given up on the League Cup, but most people could not imagine that Sun Wu had done so brilliantly. A large number of main players did not enter the squad, and did not even report back to the Carrington base.
Griezmann is in Paris, Salah is in Liverpool, Harry Kane has gone to London, Van Dijk has returned to his hometown in the Netherlands, and De Gea has returned to Spain...
Starting with rotation players and reserve players, Manchester United lost without any suspense. Two long shots from Barkley and Barry allowed the Toffees to take the lead in reaching the League Cup final.
And this also makes the record of scoring a goal in every game maintained by Manchester United since August 22 last year expired.
However, in this game, Sun Wu unexpectedly discovered that an old acquaintance performed well today. McTominay, who came on as a substitute in the second half, worked very hard. He passed the ball very steadily after several interceptions and rarely lost the ball. It was very harmful to the body. The utilization is also reasonable.
The next day, Sun Wu held a coaching meeting at the Carrington base. During the past few days of vacation, the players had a vacation, but the coaching staff did not. They took turns to observe the player status of the next Champions League opponent Valencia.
After the meeting, Sun Wu mentioned McTominay casually.
"188cm." McFerran smiled: "The youth training coach said he can still grow. Although he is tall, he is very flexible, a bit like Matic."
"How tall was he?"
"Last year at this time he was about 170cm, and he was playing as a forward."
Sun Wu grinned and wondered whether to give McTominay a training bonus card. If everything goes well in a few years, this little guy could succeed Fletcher.
"Look!" Giggs walked to the left side of the office and turned on the TV. He turned around and shouted: "Manchester City is leading 3-1!"
Carrick checked it on his phone and smiled: "Kompany opened the scoring with a header and Jesus scored twice."
"It was a draw in the first round." Sun Wu chuckled and said, "It's amazing. Guardiola is going to win three consecutive League Cups."
Everyone around them was twitching, "Three consecutive league championships is an honor, three consecutive League Cup championships is what kind of bullshit!"
Sun Wu thought about how to tease Mr. Taishan later, "League Cup, something we don't want, you are quite active in grabbing it!"
"In the next round of the league, Manchester City will play Liverpool away." Rolf reminded: "If we lose another point, our lead will be quite obvious."
"It has no practical significance. We currently have 64 points, Manchester City has 62 points, and Chelsea has 60 points. The gap is not big." Mike Phelan shook his head. "The most important thing is that the Premier League is much more intense than the Bundesliga."
Sun Wu agreed with this view. He explained to Rolf: "As long as they can avoid relegation, they can get nearly 100 million pounds in broadcast revenue next season. Which team will not risk their lives?"
Rolf smacked his lips and fell silent. Thinking about it, if the Bundesliga broadcast share had so much money, they would probably have to risk their lives.
Sun Wu glanced at the standings posted on the tactical board, "Aston Villa has definitely been relegated. The score has not exceeded double digits so far. Norwich is almost the same, with only 14 points so far. So, this The relegation battle of the season should be brought forward.”
Mike Phelan nodded, "In this regard, we have noticed that the relegation battle should be concentrated in March and April. By the last few rounds of the season, who will be relegated has basically been determined."
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