Chapter 741 Quiet Manchester United
Manchester United fans who are used to the team going in and out in every summer transfer window are really a little uncomfortable with this situation.
Of course, in the eyes of the media, this shows that Manchester United is becoming more mature and the dynasty is more stable.
This summer, Harry Kane, Rashford, Mbappe, Kante, Gundogan, Cancelo, Luke Shaw, Maguire, Van Dijk, Greenwood, Mahrez, and even Mata have been reported by many media to be favored by many giants.
According to the media's approach, almost the entire Manchester United team has been sold.
The Times joked that except for Bruno, almost all of Manchester United's players have been sold.
Bruno is not coveted by giants?
This is impossible. As the top player in the world football, Bruno is definitely a player that all European giants want to get. But everyone knows that Bruno is the absolute core of Manchester United, and Bruno is also loyal to Manchester United and cannot be poached.
This has been proven true from the fact that Real Madrid has been tirelessly pursuing Bruno in the previous summer transfer windows.
In this case, apart from Herrera's transfer, no other players have left Manchester United this summer, which is the best news in the eyes of many media.
Manchester United is already a real top club. Now they can only poach other players. Their own players rarely consider leaving and can withstand the temptation of other clubs.
In the current football world, Manchester United is a well-deserved dream team!
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Of course, this is also inseparable from Manchester United's move to increase salaries and renew contracts with players on a large scale throughout the team. After all, loyalty also needs real money to consolidate.
Gundogan signed a five-year contract with Manchester United when he joined the team in the summer of 2016. There are only two years left. This summer, the team has renewed his contract with him, and his weekly salary has increased from 80,000 pounds to 160,000 pounds, doubling directly.
The German midfielder is also the eleventh player in Manchester United with a weekly salary of more than 100,000 pounds. Before him, there are Bruno, Harry Kane, De Gea, Kante, Mata, Luke Shaw, Ashley Young, Mahrez, Maguire and Van Dijk.
Following Gundogan, Mbappe, Cancelo and Rashford have also renewed their contracts with Manchester United, and their weekly salary is also more than 100,000 pounds.
In this way, there are as many as 14 players in Manchester United's first team with a weekly salary of more than 100,000 pounds. The average weekly salary of the first team has exceeded 120,000 pounds, ranking first among all football clubs in the world!
Manchester United's average weekly salary is so high, in addition to the large number of players with high weekly salaries, it is also closely related to the high weekly salary of top players.
In Manchester United, the highest weekly salary is of course Bruno.
Since Prince Jassim promised Bruno the world's highest weekly salary, after Barcelona raised Yosi's annual salary to 71 million euros last year, Manchester United automatically adjusted Bruno's weekly salary to 1.3 million pounds before tax.
In addition to Bruno, there are two players in Manchester United with a weekly salary of up to 300,000 pounds, namely goalkeeper De Gea and striker Harry Kane.
However, after the two of them, Gundogan's 160,000 pounds is the highest. The weekly salary of the rest does not exceed 150,000 pounds.
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Manchester United is relatively quiet in the transfer market, so the biggest fun for Manchester United fans now is to watch other teams call the shots in the transfer market.
Tottenham spent 54 million pounds to sign midfielder Ndombele from Lyon in Ligue 1, and also spent 14.4 million pounds to loan Argentine midfielder Lo Celso from Real Betis, which includes a 55 million pound buyout clause next summer.
Arsenal has completed several big signings in a row, including spending 72 million pounds to sign striker Nicolas Pepe from Ligue 1 Lille, spending 27 million pounds to sign defender Saliba from Ligue 1 Saint-Etienne, and spending 24 million pounds to sign Tierney from Celtic. As for spending 8 million pounds to sign veteran David Luiz and 6 million pounds to sign young player Martinelli, they are not worth mentioning.
Even Chelsea, which was banned from transfers, spent 40.5 million pounds to introduce Kovacic from Real Madrid.
Last season's dark horse Wolves were also unwilling to be lonely, spending nearly 90 million pounds to sign stars such as Jimenez, Neto, Cutrone, Dendoncker, and Jodao, and it seems that they are planning to make a big move in the new season.
Seeing other competitors constantly recruiting players, it is impossible for Manchester United fans to say that they are not anxious, but it is also unlikely to say that they are too anxious. Manchester United has won the Premier League three times in a row, and fans have begun to get used to Manchester United's dominance in the Premier League. This is a kind of confidence brought by long-term dominance.
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On August 4, the 2019 Community Shield, Manchester United, the league champion and FA Cup champion last season, faced Liverpool, the league runner-up.
In the game, Manchester United defeated their opponents 2:1. Bruno and Harry Kane scored goals for Manchester United. Matip once helped Liverpool equalize the score, but Salah missed the opportunity to equalize the score in injury time. Winning the 2019 Community Shield is also the fifth championship trophy won by Manchester United this year, and it is crowned the quadruple champion.
And Liverpool, after winning the Premier League runner-up and the Champions League runner-up, has another runner-up, becoming the three runner-ups in 2019.
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A week later, in the opening match of the 2019-2020 Premier League, Manchester United beat old friend Chelsea 4-0 at home.
Losing to the powerful Manchester United away in the first round was basically a foreseeable situation for Chelsea fans, but what was unexpected was that Lampard's debut ended with such a disastrous defeat. The transfer ban and injuries in the team made the Blues legend encounter hellish difficulty right from the start. The 0:4 defeat forced Lampard to break many Chelsea records helplessly.
On August 9, 1969, Chelsea lost 1:4 to Liverpool away in the first round of the English League One. 50 years later, Chelsea once again lost 4 goals in the first round of the league.
According to Sky Sports statistics, this 0:4 defeat was the most painful defeat in the first round of the league in Chelsea's history, which means that this is the first time in Chelsea's 114-year history. Lampard also suffered a 0:4 defeat when he coached Derby County last season. At that time, he was defeated 4:0 by Villa, where his old teammate Terry served as an assistant coach.
In December 1978, Blanchflower, then Chelsea coach, led the team to a 2:7 defeat to Middlesbrough in his coaching debut, and Lampard was the most painful Chelsea coach's first loss since him.
Due to the goal difference becoming -4, Lampard's Chelsea also left an embarrassing record. On September 30, 2000, Chelsea was in the relegation zone. That was also the last time Chelsea was in the relegation zone at the end of the day. 24 hours later, they beat Liverpool 3:0 and rose to 12th place. 19 years later, Chelsea fell into the relegation zone again and is currently ranked 19th, but this time Chelsea needs to wait until the next round of the Premier League to leave the relegation zone.
However, Manchester United, who won 4 goals, was not able to seize the top spot in the Premier League standings, because their city rivals Manchester City beat the Hammers West Ham United 5:0 away this round, surpassing Manchester United in goal difference.
Liverpool also won a big victory in this round. The Reds beat the newly promoted Norwich 4:1 at home in the opening game of the new Premier League season.
The three Northwest powers who fought hard for the Premier League title last season started the runaway mode in the first round of the new season.
In the 2019-2020 season that has already begun, the three teams are likely to start a bloody battle for the Premier League championship again.
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However, Chelsea and his Lampard don’t have to wait too long for revenge, because just three days after the first round of the Premier League, the two teams met in the European Super Cup.
As the champions of the Champions League and the Europa League last season, the two teams will compete for the title of "King of Europe" in 2019 at the Vodafone Arena in Istanbul, Turkey.
However, Chelsea has not yet avenged the old grudge but has added new hatred. Because Manchester United defeated Chelsea again at the Vodafone Arena 2:1 with Bruno and Mbappe's goals, telling everyone how strong they are with practical actions.
After winning the European Super Cup, this is also the fifth championship trophy won by Manchester United in 2019.
For Mourinho, the madman ushered in the 40th championship trophy in his coaching career.
"Now, for this Manchester United, they are just short of the Club World Cup. If they can win the Club World Cup in December, Manchester United will be crowned six champions again. They will also be crowned six champions for three consecutive years, and in 2018 they also became the unprecedented annual seven champions!" - "Team News".
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On August 19, the second round of the Premier League started. Manchester United visited Molineux Stadium to challenge last season's dark horse Wolves.
Wolves also made a lot of signings this summer. In addition to the £34 million signing of Mexican striker Raul Jimenez, they also spent £25 million to bring in Portuguese young stars Pedro Neto and Jodao from Serie A Lazio.
In addition, Wolves also spent £16.2 million to bring in Cutrone from AC Milan and £12.15 million to bring in Dendoncker from Belgian Anderlecht. The team's strength has been greatly improved and supplemented this summer.
The British media said before the game that the game with Manchester United was a touchstone to test this new Wolves team.
In the end, Manchester United defeated Wolves 4:1 at Molineux Stadium with Harry Kane's double, Bruno's pass and one shot, and Greenwood's goal as a substitute.
After the big win over Wolves, Manchester United finally topped the standings, followed by Liverpool and Arsenal, which also won two consecutive games.
Manchester City encountered a strong dialogue in this round of the game, and finally the Blue Moon drew 2:2 with Tottenham at home.