Chapter 84: The Return of the King

After buying five stars, Manchester United's training camp began. Simon Grayson's team lineup is basically complete, and he will wait for the pre-season running-in to start the season.

The "Red Devils" in the new season are indeed worth looking forward to. Everyone wants to see what the team that has won the "Four Crowns" last season will become like this season.

Simon Grayson is now enjoying a headache of happiness. The team's main lineup needs to change this season. Everyone needs to think about it carefully.

It's okay to say that Manchester United's goalkeeper position is, De Gea is the main player. The 35-year-old veteran Robert Green is willing to serve as a substitute with an annual salary of 1.2 million pounds. He just needs to work hard to maintain his form. The third goalkeeper Ben Amos feels very happy to be able to transfer from the reserve team to the youth team. He is still in the stage of learning with Robert Green. In the future, he will be satisfied to become Manchester United's No. 2 goalkeeper and De Geadam's substitute.

The arrangement of the back line is not chaotic, and the back line composed of Papadopoulos, Subotic, Van der Wesleyan, Jose Angel last season is the main force. Rivero, Evans, Smalling are all substitutes, and Wesdom is actually just an insurance. He is young and is not strong enough to compete with others. His goal this season is to strive to improve in training.

When we arrived at the midfield, Simon Grayson was about to scratch his head. Franny was the type of a strong player in the midfield position, while Krissetig was the organizational midfielder. The two people had different types, and who would use the better effect depends on actual combat to test.

The midfield position is still between Rooney and Gansu. One of them is brave and good at fighting, and the other is flexible and flexible. It really makes each other feel like they are combined together. In addition, Cleville plays as a substitute. There is no problem with the inverted triangle midfield.

On the forward line... Shaq, who scored goals, is of course the only choice. Since his debut, he has never had any injuries or condition since playing for Leeds United in the Championship. But Simon Grayson's heart is full of flesh, and with Shaq's ability, no one can steal the position from him.

What really made Simon Grayson unable to choose is actually the candidates to influence the two wingers. Di Maria and Nani performed well last season. But Gareth Bale and Mata are also outstanding stars. Simon Grayson spent 71 million pounds to buy these two people, and they were definitely not just substitutes. They had to rotate, and whoever was in better form would be the best. Of course, whoever could provide Shaq with more support would be a hard standard for assessment.

After assembling twenty players, Manchester United began to practice various tactics in training. Both Bale and Mata are faster than Di Maria. The passing skills are not as good as those of them. Bale has a stronger impact and Mata is more flexible.

Nani became completely enlightened after playing with Shaq last season. Now the 28-year-old Portuguese winger is becoming more and more mature in his football skills, the most important thing is that Nani has begun to learn to play with his brain. Later in the last season, Nani discovered that Shaq's free kick rate was very high. When the team couldn't start the situation, he would rather risk being kicked and created free kicks in dangerous areas. These credits have now become the place where Nani adds points.

Simon Grayson is more inclined to use Nani, Mata, and Di Maria on the right, two players who can left and right are difficult to compete with the Portuguese on the right, but it is really a bit of thought to arrange these stars with strong personalities.

At this time, Simon Grayson finally understood why his colleagues said that Real Madrid's head coach is not easy to be, and there are too many worries about happiness!

This season, Manchester United's first team number is 21, and there are only 20 players who have registered. What they are missing is either someone else or Shaq!

Shaq, who was still having fun in China, enjoyed ten days of vacation more than others. This was proposed by Shaq, Simon Grayson, and others had no objection. Not to mention how great Shaq contributed to the team, Shaq was the person with the highest attendance rate and the most fatigued last season, so it was worth his ten days of rest than others.

Last season, Shaq and De Gea had the highest attendance rates in Manchester United. Both of them played 64 games for Manchester United, but the fatigue level was completely incomparable. Shaq played from the midfield to the center position. In every game, the monster could run more than ten kilometers. Compared with De Gea who only stood in front of the goal, the level of physical energy consumption was incomparable.

Rest ten more days... count the ball!?

As for Shaq's condition... it seems that there is no need to worry about it. Even if the kid doesn't do any exercise during the holiday, he only eats and drinks all day. Even if his physical condition is only 60%, he is better than others!

On July 13, Manchester United played a friendly match with the French Ligue 1 powerhouse Marseille at home. Manchester United, who lacked Shaq, tied with Marseille 2:2 at home.

Although Simon Grayson used many players in the first and second half of the game in order to inspect his players, and even reserve players, as the "four champion" last season, he was tied at home by an opponent like Marseille, which still disappointed Manchester United fans.

On the 15th, Shaq appeared at the Carrington Training Base with a smile on his face and holding a lot of gifts brought from China. He was so happy about his trip to China. He met his father-in-law and mother-in-law smoothly, and had fun with Zong Wan'er, which allowed Shaq to regain a lot of memories. However, he did not go to many famous tourist attractions in China back then, but he was just enjoying himself in pictures taken by others.

On the morning of the day when he registered for the team, Shaq did not train with the team. He met the new arrivals of Bale, Mata, Rivero, Krissetig, and Westorm as the deputy captain, and greeted other teammates. He went for a physical examination with the team doctor.

The results of the physical examination... Manchester United's chief team doctor Steve Manali made a report to Simon Grayson with a helpless look on his face: "Simon, I have to say that Shaq is a big monster. He has been resting for a month, but his physical condition has become better than before! How to say it? I think it seems that because he got a rest, his body adjusted to his best condition. It's incredible! Incredible!"

Simon Grayson nodded with satisfaction. He already knew the result he wanted to know. As for why this happened... Is there anything wrong with this?

This is Shaq!

God's favorite!

When Shaq had an ankle injury at the Thorpe Arch training base, no one would believe that this kid would become an iron man on the football field. He thought he was a glass man. As a result, the kid's serious injury not only recovered quickly, but his body also became extremely strong. God knows what the medicines given to Shaq in the hospital have to improve human functions.

In the afternoon, Shaq began to join the team's training. Under the instructions of Lerotale and Zanetti, she began to adapt to the passes sent by Bale and Mata to him. She even had to get familiar with Krissetig's long pass. Shaq quickly adapted to the passes of her new teammates, and her adaptability was amazing.

But what surprised the five new players, Bale, Mata, Krissetig, Rivero and Weisdom, the most was the subtle changes in the spiritual level of the entire team.

Before Shaq came back, although the team was led by the captain Rooney, everyone completed the training plan arranged by the coaches with quality and quantity during training, Manchester United always gave people a feeling of being unable to cheer up. But with Shaq's return to the team, the "Red Devils" suddenly became angry. When the physical training that occupied most of the training time, the team's atmosphere became relaxed and energetic.

After just feeling it, Bale and others who have joined the new team have initially realized how much influence Shaq has on this team, at least... above the captain Rooney!

Shaq's return to the team not only made the team's training quality higher, but the most direct performance was the team's record.

On July 17, Manchester United ushered in the second friendly match of the new season at home. As a result, Manchester United defeated their opponents 5-0. Shaq completed a hat-trick in the first half and did not play in the second half.

Mata also scored, and Nani also scored, but both of their goals came from Shaq's assists!

Shaq scored three goals and assisted twice in forty-five minutes, and participated in all five goals of the team!

It's just a friendly match. Bale, Mata and others can already be convinced that the final record of Manchester United's team will directly depend on Shaq's performance.

On July 22, Manchester United flew to Mexico and played a away game with St. Louis, and finally won the game 4:0. Shaq scored another three goals and completed a hat-trick.

Leading the team back to Manchester, Simon Grayson led the team to practice for another two weeks. On August 5, he led the team to Palermo, Sicily, Italy and played the fourth friendly match with the Serie A team. In the 41 minutes of the first half of the game, Shaq successfully countered offside and sent Gansuo to the blind corner of the lower right corner of the Palermo goal. This goal was also the only goal in the game.

In the second half, Simon Grayson replaced all his main players because he already knew his team's current situation and it was time to prepare for the Community Shield at Wembley Stadium four days later.

Last year, Manchester United did not have the qualification to play the Community Shield Cup, but this year they have to play against their arch rivals in the same city, Blue Moon. Think about the current situation of Manchester United and Manchester City, the old enemy, and the mortal enemy. Simon Grayson couldn't help but find it funny. They have to compete in the league, and they have to continue fighting in the Community Shield Cup. This grudge... is entangled!

But it doesn't matter. Simon Grayson doesn't care much about Manchester City now. After all, Shaq's form in the new season is still very gratifying. With zero-keeping, he can score seven goals in three friendly matches. This continues the god possession last season. What opponent can block such Shaq?
Chapter completed!