Chapter 77: Creating a Legend

Simon Grayson is not a coach who does everything himself. He has formulated a preparation plan for the team and has no choice but to intervene. He has a group of coaches from Manchester United coaching staff responsible.

Of course, Simon Grayson is also idle. As the head of the "Red Devils", as the season is approaching the end of the year, he is obviously the busiest person, that is... transfer!

"Brutal Simon" is definitely a determined and decisive head coach. He had already carried out a major cleanup of Manchester United last season. However, considering that the team's stability has not been thoroughly carried out, it is very different now. With the improvement of Manchester United's record this season, Simon Grayson has already gained a reputation that is almost comparable to "The Old Lord". Now no one will point fingers at anything he wants to do. On the contrary, countless people will analyze the intention behind each move.

So this summer, Simon Grayson plans to thoroughly clean up the team, and all players he is not satisfied with will enter the transfer market, and he will also buy a few more people in the transfer market that he can use.

If Simon Grayson removes people from the team plan next season, if other teams know about it, they will be shocked. "Little Peas" Hernandez, Van Persie, Valencia, Ashley Young, Vidic, Cussack and other stars will be listed for cleaning.

After selling so many people at once, the "Red Devils"'s combat effectiveness has not been lost too much. After all, these players are not from Simon Grayson's starting lineup, but the team's supplementary efforts will also be necessary.

As for the transfer funds, Simon Grayson is not worried at all. Ed Woodward has communicated with Simon Grayson. As long as the team can win the Champions League trophy this season, Manchester United will soon sign a ten-year sponsorship contract with a company with a total of 350 million pounds, which will make Manchester United's sponsorship fee reach an astonishing 60 million pounds per season!

Coupled with the generous prize money of the Champions League trophy, Manchester United's transfer funding will be more hot next season. It is conservatively estimated that it can reach 200 million pounds!

Ed Woodward is very excited now. He used to be a manager of Manchester United. He knew very well that in the era of David Jill and Ferguson, Manchester United had never received so many transfer fees. The Glazer family was crazy and drew blood from the club. If it weren't for David Moyes' failure, the Americans realized that their interests needed the club's record as a guarantee, maybe they would still be like before?

Ed Woodward didn't know that his bosses have now set their sights on greater interests. The offer given by "Blue Moon" to Shaq has made American bosses very moved.

First of all, the midfielder. Franny has been in excellent form this season, without any injuries and almost never missed the game. But Simon Grayson does not think that Franny is an "iron man" who can compete with Shaq, so it is particularly important to prepare a substitute for Franny, and it must also be the kind of person who comes when called, can fight when he comes, and can win when he fights, and does not have much difference with the main players.

In addition, the position of the central defender also needs to be added. Vidic is in a reasonable state now. If he barely plays, he can still play for Manchester United for another two years, but Simon Grayson has not planned to let him go. He has already been on the cleanup list. It is definitely not enough to rely on Papadopoulos. Subotic two people will definitely be enough. At least he has to buy one or two capable central defenders.

In addition, it also needs to be added to the left and right winger positions. After Ashley Yang and Valencia left, this area requires a lot of money to buy people.

Because European media hyped Bale's unhappy life in Real Madrid. She was determined to return to England, Simon Grayson also asked someone to contact Real Madrid. This is true. After spending an unhappy season in Real Madrid, Bale already had the intention to leave. Real Madrid also hoped to lose less and make money, and was preparing to sell Bale at the right price. Anyway, Real Madrid has always had the policy of spending money to buy superstars. If it is not suitable for its own team, it will lose money and then sell it.

Manchester United is not short of money now, so Simon Grayson naturally plans to buy some big stars to come back to strengthen the team lineup. Next season, Manchester United will launch an attack on the higher honors of "five champions", "six champions", and even "seven champions". The team urgently needs further strengthening its strength, so Simon Grayson immediately gave Gareth Bale the first offer: 30 million pounds.

This offer is obviously far from Real Madrid's expectations. Simon Grayson also knew it. After all, Real Madrid paid 75 million pounds to nearly 100 million euros when they bought Bale. Some people even said that this number should be 110 million euros, but because many factors have not been fully disclosed.

In terms of choosing the midfielder, Simon Grayson chose the talented young player Ashley Hood who he brought with him at Leeds United, as well as the young French midfielder MVilla.

After selecting these three players, Simon Grayson asked others to follow up on the progress. He also had to take the team to Berlin to play the Champions League final. This would be the most important step for him to become a legendary coach... defending the "Four Crowns"!

But Simon Grayson is really not worried about this Champions League final with a superstar in Berlin, just because his opponent is the "Blue Moon" Manchester City, which he is very familiar with.

The two teams are not only in the same city, but even the distance between the training base is not far. They meet several times every season in England, and in the final of the Champions League... it was just a change of event and a change of competition venue. There was really no big difference!

Of course, Simon Grayson's confidence is justified. At the Berlin Olympic Stadium on May 30, the "Red Devils" truly showed how powerful they are in front of the 65,000 spectators on the scene!

At the beginning of the game, both sides wanted to lose and test it. After all, it was such an important game in the Champions League final. They still wanted to see how the other side was different from usual. After fifteen minutes of the game, they saw that their opponents had no strange tricks, so the two teams fought hard.

Aguero's volley from the right side outside the penalty area in the 17th minute completed the first shot of the two teams in the game, and then Kompani used a corner kick opportunity to complete a header in the 21st minute.

After that, Manchester United, who was beaten by their opponents in the same city, finally began to explode!

When the Manchester United volcano began to erupt, no one could stop it. Even if it performed the second best in Europe this season, Manchester City, who is very familiar with himself, can't do it!

In the 26th minute, Shaq received a pass from Gansu outside the top of the penalty area on the left side of Manchester City. He turned around and shot with an angry shot!

"Bang!"

The ball drew a graceful arc from left to right, bypassed Shaq's former teammate Red, who was defending Shaq, and then turned to the goal, but in the end he rubbed against Manchester City's left post and missed!

"Oh———It's so dangerous! Shaq almost scored his 31st goal in this Champions League!"

Manchester City coach Pellegrini smiled and clapped his hands off the court. He was very satisfied with Red's performance. Red joined from Leeds United for 18.75 million pounds this season, and then formed Manchester City's central defender combination with Kompany. The two of them had a very stable joint defense. In this game, Pellegrini simply handed over the task of defending Shaq to Red. He believed that Red's understanding of Shaq will definitely cause more trouble for Shaq.

Shaq's shot just now, if Red hadn't blocked his shooting angle in advance, it might have been more than just a bit threatening. Shaq took the approach of a curve ball to get around Red. Otherwise, with his huge threat from "Shaq goal", Manchester City's goalkeeper Joe Hart would be scared into a cold sweat.

But Pellegrini obviously trusts his players too much. Shaq has scored 123 goals for Manchester United in 63 games this season, not just because of his "Saker goal".

Red's understanding of Shaq was obviously still in the past when the "Young Guards" were training, thinking that Shaq's long shot was his sharpest scoring weapon.

When the game ended 29 minutes, Shaq received Rooney's pass from the right side of the middle. While running from the middle to the right, Shaq made Rooney's pass with his right heel at the moment of receiving the ball. Then he bypassed Kompany from the right, but the ball flew over Kompany's head on the left!

When Kompany turned around, Shaq had already regained the ball and rushed towards the Manchester City penalty area!

Red, who threw from the side to make up for defense, was blocked by Shaq's shot and a fake move on the penalty area and then tricked him into falling to the ground and slipping the ball to the right. Shaq drifted away.

After breaking through Manchester City's central defender combination, Shaq directly faced England's teammate Joe Hart. At this time, Joe Hart had already abandoned the goal and attacked. He opened his arms and arched his waist and moved to the corner of the small penalty area on the right.

Shaq's right foot made a ball trolling move again. After Johart's center of gravity moved, Shaq's right foot made a oxtail move, and the ball was bounced back to the left side of his body by Shaq's right foot arch!

"Bang!"

Shaq quickly raised his left leg and rubbed a very fast arc ball with his left foot, kicking the ball towards Manchester City's left goal!

This time... Shaq's shot did not miss again!

This time... Joe Hart is no longer guarded in front of Manchester City's goal!

"Swish!"

The ball enters!

"goal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Thunder sounded at the Berlin Olympic Stadium, and Manchester United fans roared wildly. No matter men, women, young and old, everyone shouted with their greatest strength and voice!

They have been looking forward to the Champions League trophy for a long time!
Chapter completed!