Before the 2026-2027 season started, Shaq, as the "King of Balls" who will win the FIFA Golden Ball Awards again and the UEFA Golden Ball Awards, was interviewed by The Times. His agent Glenn Oxley is now the chairman of the wealthy Leeds. Besides, Shaq is too rich now, and money is meaningless to him, so the person who manages Shaq's affairs has also changed to others. If Shaq doesn't want to accept the interview, he can refuse to accept it. There is no need to say anything about exposure.

When interviewed by reporters, Shaq, who was 33 years old, looked very relaxed and always had a smile on his face: "Why is the state so good? Haha, you should know that I have been working hard during training... I haven't considered retirement yet, at least... Well, I think I can still play, and I want to score 2,000 goals first before considering retirement!"

When Shaq said this, it did not arouse the disgust of the reporter at all. Instead, it felt that this should be Shaq's current target. Shaq has scored 1,745 official goals in his career. Although there is still 255 goals away from 2,000 goals, this may be the goal number of the entire career for most forward players, Shaq... he is obviously not listed here.

Although Shaq is 33 years old, he has just led England to win the World Cup this summer. Last season, he scored 121 goals in one season and led Leeds United to become the "six-champion". It is a blessing for England football to have such a sword that never gets old!

2,000 official match goals...What a great record. Just thinking about it, the reporter was excited.

According to Shaq's goal efficiency, this great goal should be achieved in three seasons. Maybe four years later... Shaq can lead the "Three Lions" to continue to compete in the World Cup!

But Shaq is the one who knows his condition best. Now, except for shooting, dribbling, receiving, free kick, passing, technology, as well as prediction, calmness, imagination, influence, running, and teamwork, all other attributes have fallen below 15. Speaking of which, he can only be considered an excellent striker now. It is no longer the Shaq who can crush everything at the time.

The reason why he performed so well last season was because of Leeds United's collective unreserved tilt and trust in tactical terms, which gave him the performance at his peak.

However, Shaq was still full of confidence in himself. He still had many simulation points without using them. He only tried three times in this World Cup, using 10 simulated points to imitate Ronaldo, Pele, and Maradona at his peak. The result was quite amazing. In the end, the "Three Lions" became the World Cup champion, and Shaq also became the World Cup best scorer with 15 goals and won the World Cup best player.

With so many reserve means, Shaq is really confident that he would score 2,000 goals!

But the fact is that Shaq obviously underestimated the impact of age on himself. He began to have injuries this season. Although it was just a few minor injuries such as muscle strains, he only played for Leeds United for 46 games, scoring 41 goals and assisting 17 times. Shaq's performance is objectively excellent, but compared with the past, Shaq's 34-year-old has dropped significantly.

Affected by Shaq's decline in form, the "Youth Guards" performance this season is not excellent. The Champions League was eliminated by "Blue Moon" Manchester City in the semi-finals with a 3-3 away goal advantage and lost to Sheffield United 1-2 in the quarterfinals of the League Cup, but they still won the Premier League championship, the FA Cup, and a Club World Cup with only "gold". As for the Community Shield Cup at the beginning of the season and the European Super Cup, it is really nothing to say about the "Youth Guards" who are already filled with countless trophies in the honor room...

Shaq personally won the honor of the top scorer in the league with only 31 league goals!

Leeds United is really rich now. Driven by the team's stable performance, the financial situation of the "Youth Guards" is surprising and jealous. With stable and huge business sponsorship, their revenue capacity this season has reached an unprecedented 700 million pounds!

With the club's years of revenue and reduction, Leeds United has accumulated more and more wealth. On the latest Forbes Club Wealth List, Leeds United surpassed Barcelona's 1.45 billion euros with an estimated price of 1.7 billion euros and Real Madrid's 1.35 billion euros, becoming the richest club in the world's football world.

In the face of great success, Chairman Glenn Oxley smiled happily and repeatedly talked to Simon Grayson, saying that the team should buy a few big stars in the transfer market to increase their popularity. No matter who they like, we will definitely spend money to throw him into the team.

But even so, Simon Grayson still stubbornly did not introduce stars in the transfer market. When Leeds United announced their financial situation, more than N stars were connected with them throughout the summer. But the "brutal Simon" didn't buy it, but instead sold the defender Knuwells, whom his team worked hard to train, to Manchester United for 38.5 million pounds.

Then... the "Young Guards" who have not bought players for four consecutive seasons are playing in the new season with the old team!

Because of Simon Grayson's stinginess, his nickname "Brutal Simon" has been changed to "stingy Simon".

Simon Grayson doesn't care at all. He has seen too many clubs for so many years and then gradually declined. The "Young Guards" is his most proud disciple Shaq. In view of the relationship between the two of them being not a father-son, it is natural that he cannot let Shaq lose money. In addition, the team's plan to plunder young players was very smooth, so he has no worries about not having backups. When the team's performance has not fluctuated greatly, he did not intend to spend money to buy people.

Knuwells left, it doesn't matter. There are also English young player Drapper and Belgian young player Alan Marquis in the team, one left, and two promoted them. With the talent of these young people, as long as they are given a chance, the success rate is still quite amazing.

Furthermore, in addition to being able to play right back, Richardson is also competent for central defender. After several years of training, Du Xiaoguang has now become a real world-class central defender. He can play the role of a stabilizing needle by himself, so Simon Grayson is really not worried at all that his team will not have a central defender.

In this way, in the situation where the outside world is not optimistic, Leeds United scored an unbeaten record of 17 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses in 19 games in the first half of the season, ranking first with 53 points, which was as much as 11 points more than the second-ranked "Blue Army" Chelsea.

By the end of the season, Leeds United once again became the Premier League champion with 33 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss!

At the same time, the "Youth Guards" once again won the FA Cup, League Cup and Community Shield Cup, completing the "Grand Slam" in English football this season.

In the European arena, the "Youth Guards" this season are also invincible. They qualified as the first in the group stage in 6 games, 5 wins and 1 draw in the Champions League group stage, and then eliminated Real Madrid 2:1 in a row, defeated Serie A powerhouse Fiorentina 5:2, and then defeated Atletico Madrid 1:0 in two rounds in the semi-finals and entered the Champions League final.

This time, Leeds United faced an opponent in the Champions League final was Manchester City who eliminated their "Blue Moon" last year. The resentful "Youth Guards" started a big fight under the leadership of Shaq and defeated Manchester City 4-1, and won the Champions League trophy again after a year.

Although Shaq once again staged a "two-scoring" in the Champions League final, making the team's first contribution to regaining the Champions League trophy, anyone has seen that Shaq's era is heading towards the end...

Over the whole season, Shaq played 28 goals and assisted 7 times for Leeds United in 36 games. He is still the most critical player of the "Youth Guards", but Shaq, who is already 35 years old, is no longer young and invincible!

In the 2027-2028 season, Shaq lost the Premier League's top scorer and the Champions League's top scorer. He is no longer even the number one scorer in the "Youth Guards".

The person who scored the most goals in Leeds United this season is Lons. The 21-year-old England left winger scored 30 goals and another 21 assists. The second place is Dutch right winger Hoydenk, who scored 28 goals and assists 22 times, and then it was Shaq's turn to score 28 goals and 7 assists.

When a season ends and English football is summarizing, everyone is lamenting that the era of Shaq is about to end, and more people are worried about what the performance of the "Three Lions" will be like in this summer's European Cup?

Although Shaq has scored 1,508 goals for several clubs he has played for, and has scored 316 goals in 201 games for England, and has scored a total of 1,824 goals in his career. He has set all the great records in the world as a professional player, but it has to be admitted that if Shaq looks at his condition in the past two years, 2,000 goals may become an insurmountable natural barrier for Shaq!

Before Shaq was selected for the England team again and was about to compete for the European Cup for England, the entire English football world was telling Shaq's "years". When Shaq, whose face had vicissitudes and wrinkles appeared on the corners of his eyes, compared with the Shaq who had a tender face that looked extremely blue by Terry, Lampard, Gerald and others, everyone realized what the word "years" actually represents...

Shaq, it's really old!
Chapter completed!