Chapter 639: The Summer Transfer Storm Caused by Ronaldo

Arriving in Manchester, Miss Heisler was very happy to see Bruno. The girl was very smart. If he quarreled with Bruno because of this, it would be difficult for the two to have any other result except breaking up. On the contrary, if she pretended that nothing happened, with her understanding of Bruno and the emotional foundation of the two in the past few years, Bruno would not choose to break up with her.

The most important thing is that she is always with Bruno, which is the biggest advantage.

Bruno, who returned to Manchester, lives the same as usual, but there are more reporters. That's because he not only helped Manchester United win the Champions League last season, but also won the World Cup with Portugal in the summer. It is natural that there is more media attention.

Bruno has just returned to Manchester. Manchester United, which has completed summer training and warm-up matches in the United States, has also returned to Manchester to prepare for the upcoming Community Shield.

According to the schedule, the opening game of the new season will be held on the evening of August 10, with defending champion Manchester United facing Leicester City.

The Community Shield, a warm-up match for the new season, will be held on the evening of August 5. Since Manchester United won the Premier League and FA Cup last season, this Community Shield will be between Manchester United and the league runner-up Manchester City.

Bruno found that more and more media gathered outside the training ground, and there were many unfamiliar faces, many of which were Asian faces.

He thought it was the follow-up effect after winning the club's quadruple championship and the World Cup. As a result, when the training was over, he was surrounded by those media and found that the situation was not what he imagined.

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"Excuse me...Bruno, recently there were media reports that you were shopping intimately with Chinese movie star Liu Yimei on the streets of Beijing, and there were further intimate actions. Is this true?"

"Do you know Liu Yimei?"

"There are reports that you are Liu Yimei's boyfriend. Is it true?"

"Excuse me, how did you and Liu Yimei know each other, Bruno?"

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These entertainment reporters who are crazier than sports reporters shocked everyone present, including Bruno of course.

He had never expected these people to appear in front of him, but he understood all the questions. He wondered how these media could know? Were Liu Yimei and I secretly photographed on a date?

If that was the case... then how should he answer?

At this time, he couldn't take out his phone to call Liu Yimei and ask her what was going on.

Because these unruly entertainment media were getting louder and louder, more and more people were attracted. Many teammates also came to watch the fun.

Bruno didn't want to be treated like a monkey, so he thought of a perfect excuse: "Sorry, I only answer questions about football, and no other questions!"

After he finished speaking, he lowered his head and squeezed out.

How could those reporters let him leave so easily? They surrounded him and moved forward with him, and at the same time kept handing him microphones, recorders and mobile phones, asking Bruno and Liu Yimei whether they were in a relationship.

Bruno was not willing to say it. This was a deadly topic. After all, he was engaged to Vanessa. If other emotional topics were exposed, his life would be very difficult.

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But it is not easy to get rid of this group of annoying reporters, but it doesn't matter, Bruno has his own way, that is one word: run!

He didn't run very fast, he just ran forward in the crowd, running around the entire Carrington training base, competing with the group of reporters for endurance, to see if those reporters carrying cameras can keep up with him.

So outside the Carrington training base, everyone saw such a surprising scene: a large group of people were noisy, surrounding Bruno to run laps.

Bruno only ran around the Carrington training base once, and the reporters couldn't keep up. After all, they can't compete with professional football players in endurance. You know, Bruno's average running distance per game is 13,000 meters, which is a cliff-like lead among all the players in the Premier League and even the top five leagues.

After the crowd gradually couldn't keep up and the encirclement loosened, Bruno suddenly accelerated and rushed out, running all the way back to the locker room, and those reporters could only look at his back and breathe heavily, unable to say a word.

Although none of the questions they asked were answered, they had discovered one thing: the male and female protagonists in this scandal were not easy to deal with!

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Bruno sent a text message to Liu Yimei to ask what was going on. Liu Yimei called him and he realized what happened.

It turned out that he and Liu Yimei were too carried away on the streets of Beijing. It stands to reason that there are too many lovers like them in the whole city. Kissing on the street is a very normal thing. Who let them bump into a photographer who knows Liu Yimei?

Bruno did not blame Liu Yimei for announcing their relationship without his permission, because the other party had no idea about his relationship status, let alone that he was engaged to another woman.

It was entirely his own responsibility that the matter had come to this point. After all, if he could control his lower body, or tell Liu Yimei about his relationship status at the first time, everything that followed would not have happened.

Bruno was very troubled. He never expected that two accidental encounters in the East would make Liu Yimei fall in love with him.

If this happened in his previous life, he would have woken up laughing in his dreams, but the reality is that he is already a "married man".

He turned out to be the scumbag he once hated very much...

Bruno didn't know how to deal with these things, so he chose to be an ostrich in desperation.

One day at a time!

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Just when Bruno was suffering, Manchester United ushered in the first game of the new season, facing the city's rival Manchester City in the Community Shield.

Both teams are very familiar, after all, neither team has changed much this summer. Manchester United did not recruit a large number of players this summer, and so did Manchester City. After the past two summer windows of recruiting a lot of players, Guardiola's creation of Manchester City has also become finalized.

In fact, Manchester City's performance last season was still very good, and the Premier League scored 97 points, which would be a score enough to win the championship in any other season. In the Champions League, Manchester City also reached the semi-finals, which is also a very outstanding performance.

If Manchester United had not been so abnormal last season, Manchester City might even have the possibility of becoming a double champion.

Therefore, Manchester City's top management still has more confidence in Guardiola's coaching ability. Despite the fact that they have failed to win any of the four major titles for two consecutive seasons, they still choose to trust Guardiola and continue to give him the opportunity to prove himself.

However, Manchester City did not continue to spend money like crazy in the transfer window as in the previous two summer transfer windows. Their only big signing was the introduction of French midfielder Paul Pogba from Juventus.

In fact, this transfer can also be regarded as a chain reaction.

This summer, the most sensational effect in the world football was that the new king of football Cristiano Ronaldo left Real Madrid, where he had played for 9 years, and joined the Italian Serie A giants Juventus.

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After playing for 9 years at the Bernabeu, the conflict between Ronaldo and Florentino has become difficult to reconcile. In addition, he is already 33 years old, so Real Madrid has not agreed to Ronaldo's request for a salary increase and contract renewal. Even though he led Portugal to win the World Cup this summer and became the third widely recognized king of world football, Florentino still decided to clean up Ronaldo.

Ronaldo originally wanted to return to Manchester United, but the two sides did not reach an agreement in the end. The main reason is that Ronaldo cannot accept that he is not Manchester United's top star, and Manchester United is also unlikely to deprive Bruno of his captain and top star status.

In fact, the reason why Bruno quietly rushed to the East and was almost isolated from the world for that week was to avoid Ronaldo.

He didn't want to be infamous for preventing Ronaldo from returning to Manchester United.

But he didn't expect that this trip to the East, although avoiding the topic of Ronaldo's return to Manchester United, rekindled his old relationship with Liu Yimei and embarked on the road of being a scumbag.

Given Juventus' financial situation, it is naturally difficult to afford the expenses of having two superstars in the team. In addition, after playing for Juventus for five years, Pogba also decided to leave to seek greater challenges, so he joined Manchester City.

Obviously, Pogba made such a choice for the purpose of competing with Bruno again.

The transfers of Ronaldo and Pogba are also the only two super transfers exceeding 100 million euros this summer. Juventus first spent 120 million euros to sign the new king of football, and then turned around and sold Pogba to Manchester City for 110 million euros.

Ronaldo has thus become the most expensive player over 30 years old in the history of world football transfers.

However, considering his status as the new king of football, this transfer is not too surprising.

In addition to spending a lot of money to sign Pogba, Manchester City has also done little in the transfer market, only introducing a few young players. In terms of cleaning up the team's redundant personnel, the Blue Moon has made a lot of moves, including the meritorious goalkeeper Joe Hart.

However, Pogba did not get a chance to play in this Community Shield, but spent 90 minutes in the stands of the new Wembley Stadium. After all, he officially announced his joining Manchester City on the first day of the game.

Bruno started as the captain and played the whole game, contributing 1 shot and 1 pass, and performed very well.

In the end, after a fierce offensive battle, Manchester United narrowly defeated Manchester City 3:2 and won the opening game of the new season.

This is also the fifth championship trophy won by Manchester United in 2018, and they are striding towards the annual seven-time champion.