Chapter 393 A Rare Good Day

The development of things often makes people feel wonderful. A few days ago, the situation was tense. In a few days, the situation suddenly changed and suddenly turned into a happy ending.

When Rooney stated a few days ago that he did not want to renew his contract with Manchester United, he said the reason was that the Red Devils did not show enough ambition and did not do much in the transfer market. However, after the lightning contract renewal on Friday, Rooney changed his statement. He said that he had seen hope from the talks with the boss and the head coach, and Manchester United made some Promise, "I now fully believe that the coaching staff, senior management and bosses are committed to keeping Manchester United's proud championship tradition."

According to The Sun, in order to retain Rooney, Manchester United did promise something else in addition to giving a high salary. The members of the Glazer family intervened in person. They convinced Rooney that Manchester United would have a large transfer investment, and the details disclosed by the newspaper were that the boss told Rooney that in the next eight months (including Manchester United will spend 80 million pounds on new players in the two transfer windows this winter and next summer.

In fact, Manchester United does have some ideas in the transfer market. At present, the most urgent "first goal" is to sign a goalkeeper and Van der Sar will retire. Last week's low-level mistake convinced Ferguson that finding a successor is the top priority.

After a comparison and screening, Manchester United's goal is basically clear. Glasgow Rangers' main goalkeeper, McGragg, in the first three group matches of the Champions League, the Scottish national goal only conceded one goal. In the face of Manchester United, he was deeply impressed by Ferguson. After that, the Lord specially sent his brother to Hampton Park. The field continued to investigate McGregor's performance.

According to The Sun, the latter is worth about 5 million pounds, which is more cost-effective than other goalkeepers such as Stecklenburg, Neuer, De Gea and others, and the Lord does not intend to spend too much money on the goalkeeper. He believes that McGregor is expected to become Schmeichel and Van der Sar. Such a cheap introduction but very useful Dinghai magic needle.

Of course, McGregor does not belong to the category of "heavyweight promise" that can keep Rooney in the team. Ferguson doesn't like to spend a lot of money in winter. The real big deal may appear next summer. The Sun said that regarding the introduction of heavyweight players, the Glazer family promised Rooney that when they are "available to be introduced", the club will sign them.

The latest name mentioned is Bolton's England central defender Gary Cahill. Although the 24-year-old England defender is not a heavyweight in terms of strength and fame, because he is a local player and is on the rise, his value reaches 15 million pounds, which can be regarded as the introduction of "showing ambition". In addition, Everton's midfielder Rodville is also under Ferguson's attention.

However, it will take time to test whether Americans will really fulfill their promise to spend a lot of money to buy people. There is a voice in the British media that Rooney has been "tricked". The so-called promise is just a delaying plan to keep people, with more than 700 million debts on his back. How can Manchester United be willing to throw 80 million in the transfer market?

Corresponding to this concern, the rumor is that Manchester United is actively operating the introduction of Eindhoven winger Afele. The Dutch international is on the rise, and the contract is about to expire. It can be introduced freely next summer without spending money.

Of course, Rooney is not easy to cheat. The Mirror predicts that in the next two transfer windows, he will pay attention to Manchester United's actions. If he finds that the American promise is a "cheating trick", then the English may re-uppoor the transfer.

Today's player power is almost above the contract. Cristiano Ronaldo renewed his contract in 2007 and began to transfer in the summer of 2008. He successfully left the team in 2009. It is not ruled out the possibility that Rooney will follow in his footsteps. Of course, what the English people want to see most is obviously Manchester United's big progress in the transfer. On the one hand, the team is real. With the enhancement of his strength, he is more likely to win the championship, and on the other hand, he can enjoy the high salary of the new contract without delaying both.

At the same time, the news of Ferguson's soon retirement may also be an opportunity for Rooney to ask for a transfer. Everyone knows that Ferguson made Rooney change his mind at a critical moment.

Manchester United is not bad enough to start with a good news and prepare for the away Premier League.

Manchester United won four games in the history of the Premier League and scored 12 goals. The last time Stoke City won Manchester United was in the 1993 League Cup, and the league victory dates back to 1984. In 91 historical encounters between the two sides, Manchester United has the upper hand with 34 wins, 31 draws and 26 losses. Rooney, who had just renewed his contract, missed the opportunity to celebrate his 25th birthday at Britannia Stadium due to injury. Ferguson rotated 7 people, Van der Sar, Gary Neville, Ferdinand, O'Shea, Scholes, Li Yu and Hernandez started.

O'Xie is the left-back, and Evra is placed in the left-back position.

After the start of the game, Manchester United played well away from home, especially the performance of Little Pea Hernandez. Li Yu took it for granted that it became the focus of the opponent's defense, and the Mexican young player ushered in the opportunity to break out.

Manchester United took the lead in the 27th minute, Nani's tactical corner kick from the right, Vidic headed the ball far away, and Hernandez scored the goal with a header on the edge of the penalty area.

Although Li Yu did not appear in the camera in this attack, his success in taking away Stoke City's defenders was the key to scoring.

Everyone thought that Li Yu would grab points, but in fact, he was running to cover his teammate's attack.

If the cover goal is included in the actual data, Li Yu's report card this season will not be too bad.

There are many goals, and it can also sacrifice personal offensive strength for the benefit of the team, which is the evidence of Li Yu's maturity this season.

Li Yu's previous public support for Rooney's behavior still attracted a lot of pressure on himself in the club team, but now it seems that Manchester United No. 9 has no problem at all. If he doesn't score, he can also create opportunities for his teammates to score goals.

It seems that the game should be good. Manchester United controlled the situation on the field after scoring the goal. Ferguson also deliberately let the players control the rhythm, but Stoke City equalized the score in the 81st minute. Scholes made a mistake, Wilson's oblique pass, and the substitute Tongchayi cut into the right side of the penalty area and shook Evra 18 yards after a strong shot. The far corner is good.

1:1!

It's rare to continue again. The rule of away draw?

No! Li Yu will never let such a thing happen again.

Manchester United took the lead again in the 86th minute. Li Yu broke through with the ball all the way. He passed the ball in front of the right penalty area. Scholes headed the ball back. Evra stopped the ball at 8 yards on the left side of the penalty area and turned around and swept the ball and deflected. Hernandez blocked the gate at 5 yards.

Li Yu launched an attack, and Hernandez overtacked the game.

In the stoppage time, Li Yu lost her temper again, seized the opportunity of her opponent's physical decline, and made a strong breakthrough. People can clearly see in the camera that the surprised expression of Stoke City's central defender Hut can now stop Li Yu's shot. The outbreak in the final stage in the second half has become a standard for Li Yu. When the physical fitness of the whole game declined, Manchester United's chance to score No. 9 came!

The goal was scored overnight, but it was very good. The football went straight to the corner of the goal. It was the goalkeeper's penalty area, 3:1!

Now Ferguson can finally rest assured to sit back in the coach's seat, and the game was finally locked by Manchester United in the final stage!

At the last moment, Manchester United struggled to beat Stoke City 3-1 to win the first away victory of the season. When he saw "Little Pea" Hernandez playing the song of youth with two yuan, Gary Neville could only sigh: heroes always have dusk. If you hear that your teammates who have been fighting side by side for many years express such feelings, you will be most deeply touched. That's Scholes.

In the 9th round of the Premier League, Manchester United's visit to Stoke City is of great significance to Neville, who was born in 1975, because this is his 600th game for the Red Devils.

Ferguson was very interesting. He decided that Neville started the game, but the veteran almost ruined his "600 feasts".

It's always impossible if people don't accept it. In the 23rd minute, when he was competing with his opponent, Neville fell into the wind and was forcibly overtaked. It can be seen that the meritorious warrior who has been in the battlefield for many years has indeed passed the peak.

Of course, although Neville's speed is discounted, he still has experience and awareness. In the 25th minute, he headed the ball back to the goalkeeper in defense, effectively resolving the opponent's offensive, and then made a long pass to Nani, who got a corner for the Red Devils.

However, it is rare for Neville to perform like this in this game, and it is more to use fouls to stop the home team's attack.

In the 33rd minute, he stepped on Etherington's calf and was warned with a yellow card, and in the 41st minute, he fouled Etherington again. At this time, the Stoke City player besieged the referee and signaled that he should take out a red card. Fortunately, the referee did not kill the Red Devils veteran. But Neville's two fouls in the first half also laid a hidden danger for himself. You know, Ferguson doesn't want his team to play less.

Sure enough, Neville was replaced by Brown before the beginning of the second half. Interestingly, Ferguson did not change people in the midfield locker room, but made a substitution decision in the second half of Neville, which made the former Manchester United leader a little embarrassed. When he saw the coach's substitution decision, he pinched his waist with his hands, showing bitterness. Laughing expression.

"I'm very lucky not to be sent off. Although I don't think the foul should be a yellow card, to be honest, the referee didn't show me the second yellow card. I'm a little disappointed that I was replaced. I'm going to play for 90 minutes, but the most important thing is that we can win the game. Although he felt suddenly that he was replaced in this way, Neville still felt lucky. The same is true, as Manchester United's official website said: "Ferguson replaced Neville with Brown and let him leave safely."

In Sky Sports's rating of players after the game, Neville only got 5 points, and his comment on him was "luckily escaped the red card". So is Neville the worst player at Manchester United?

At least in the eyes of Sky Sports, another veteran Scholes only got 4 points, and his comment was "sloat performance".

In this game, Scholes' worst moment was a mistake in the 81st minute, resulting in the loss of the ball and almost ruining the game. However, the rest of the time, the experienced midfielder was still remarkable, with a total of three threatening balls. Therefore, he got 6 points in the Manchester Evening News, and the team's "worst Mr" came to Neville's turn this time. The Manchester Evening News only gave Neville 5 points, and the comments were full of jokes: "He competes with Etherington alone."

In fact, whether it's Neville or Scholes, no one can deny the glory of the two team veterans.

But objectively speaking, their performance in this field is not flattering, which is actually reasonable. After all, they are 71 years old together, and the years are unforgiving.

Especially Scholes, although he is 36 years old, he has made all the appearances in the nine rounds of the Premier League that have ended this season. The continuous games are naturally overdrawn by the midfielder's already limited physical fitness.

In contrast, Neville has drifted away from the main position this season. Before this round of confrontation with Stoke City, he only played against Everton on behalf of the Red Devils.

There is no doubt that the sunset song has sounded in the ears of the two veterans of the same "92 generation". Although Sky Sports and Manchester Evening News can give a low score for their performance in this game, everyone should take off their hat to the two legends.

This is Neville's 600th game as the Red Devils, ranking fifth in Manchester United's history. The top four are Giggs, Bobbi Charlton, Bill Fox and Scholes, and this round against Stoke City is Scholes' 653rd time for Manchester United, that is to say, Gary and Paul Ga. So far, he has played 1253 games for Manchester United.

Among them, Neville played 35 substitutes, and Scholes had 115 substitutes. In addition, Neville played 399 games in England, while Scholes played 453 games. As for the European game, Neville played 117 games, and Scholes played 123 games, ranking second in the European game list in Manchester United's history. Three people, just look up at Giggs alone.

When you see these numbers that the vast majority of players can't find, their mistakes will be forgotten in an instant in the game against Stoke City.

However, their sunset song is also destined to make countless people sigh, sighing that time is like a knife, years are like a gun, and no one can be invulnerable. And I believe that the second general who is as excellent as God will permanently write his name into the Hall of Fame in the near future.

Manchester United struggled to get three points away from home, but Rooney was enviably on holiday.

In February this year, Terry, the former English captain who was discredited by the "Friendly Wife" incident, successfully saved his wife Tony's heart at the seven-star United Arab Emirates Porcelain Hotel, which is claimed to be the most luxurious hotel in the world. Eight months later, Terry's English teammate Rooney also came here with his wife Colleen. Rooney, who encountered "calling prostitutes". With Terry's experience, the process of saving his wife looked smoother.

Of course, when he came to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, in addition to pleasing Colleen, Rooney also came to relax himself. The headlines of the British media last week were almost all Rooney's contract renewal soap operas with Manchester United. Although it ended with a dramatic reunion, Rooney was still physically and mentally exhausted. In order to temporarily escape from the pressure and noise, Rooney even canceled the birthday party worth 90,000 pounds scheduled for last Saturday night.

According to the Daily Mail, October 25 is Rooney's 25th birthday. The couple planned a grand party and bought food and drinks worth thousands of pounds. Even in addition to their £4.5 million mansion, a large tent for the party has been built. Come on, but it was empty last weekend.

It was revealed that the renewal of Rooney's contract with Manchester United last week changed the way Rooney celebrated his birthday. Last week, Rooney first declared without warning that he would refuse to renew his contract and leave Manchester United, which triggered an almost hysterical rage of Manchester United fans. After that, Rooney risked the world to say that he would rather go to Manchester City than stay at Manchester United, thus calling the "death threat" of Manchester United fans.

In the end, Rooney made a shocking turn. He signed a new contract with Manchester United, thus doubling his weekly salary to 200,000 pounds and becoming the highest-paid English player in history.

The Daily Mail revealed the truth behind the scenes. Since Rooney's former teammate Cristiano Ronaldo's weekly salary at Real Madrid reached 250,000 pounds and only had to bear a lower tax rate, Rooney also wanted to follow Cristiano Ronaldo's footsteps to go to Bernabeu for gold, but this plan was rejected by Colleen and her family, who refused to leave the important town in the northwest of England. Manchester, which also leaves Rooney's choice of Manchester United and Manchester City.

Just as Rooney thought about it again and again, Manchester United fans gathered in front of Rooney's house to protest and sent a death threat to Rooney that "you will die if you go to Manchester City". Finally, after Manchester United made a compromise and agreed to pay 200,000 pounds of weekly salary, Rooney also turned around and renewed his contract with Manchester United.

The Daily Mail further revealed some details of Rooney's negotiations with Manchester United. First of all, Ferguson's contribution to Rooney's choice to stay is indispensable. Ferguson, who is about to turn 69 at the end of the year, promises Rooney that he will continue to be loyal to Manchester United. If his health allows, he will consider extending his coaching time. .

Rooney hopes that Manchester United can get better and better. He hopes that the team can become the best team in Europe. He knows that these things will only happen if Ferguson stays in the team. Secondly, Rooney is very concerned about his health. Because of his brave style on the court, he is worried that his life expectancy will be shortened.

The insider revealed: "As the most challenging role on the court, Rooney may not stay in the best economic state for as long as the players in other positions."

Perhaps Rooney himself would not have thought that he could go through such a earth-shaking journey in a week. In this context, it became inappropriate to hold a public birthday party. So the couple acted separately. Rooney asked Ferguson for leave and got the Lord's acquiescence. 24-year-old Colleen called more than a hundred guests one by one to cancel the invitation, and left the one-year-old son Kai to his parents to take care of. It is reported that the birthday party may be postponed for a week.

In fact, this £10,000 trip to Dubai is not the first trip of the Rooney couple after the "calling prostitutes". Before that, the two had gone to Prague for a "second honeymoon".

The Sunday Mirror revealed that on the Emirates flight to Dubai, the relieved Rooney couple snuggled up to each other in a private box worth 4,000 pounds and got drunk. While drinking white wine, the two watched the children's movie "Star of Tomorrow" while eating cakes and tasting potato chips, and then drank tomato soup and duck soup. The room where the two live in the United Arab Emirates Hotel in Dubai is worth 1,200 pounds a day. In this earthly paradise, the Rooney couple will stay for five days before returning to Manchester.

Perhaps the only thing that made Rooney feel a little uneasy during the holiday was his new teammate Hernandez, who replaced Rooney in the Premier League last Sunday and scored twice to help Manchester United beat Stoke City 2-1.

But Rooney is currently suffering from an ankle injury and will have to wait at least three weeks to regain the main position. For this reason, he is likely to miss the first Manchester derby of the season on November 10.

Rooney told Manchester United TV: "I can't wait to wear the red jersey again. I'm sad about the injury. I just hope to play football, regain my form, and do what I am best. I will return to my best. I am full of confidence in this. I know the fans are sad about what has happened in the past few days, but I care about this club. I hope to stay here and I hope to continue to succeed at Manchester United. It may take time for the fans to regain their support for me, but I will do my best, as I have always done, to win back the hearts of the fans.

Seeing Rooney like this, fans who care about Manchester United feel that the dark clouds have dissipated and finally ushered in a good time, but things are far from being as optimistic as people think.