I Am Really the Savior of the Red Devils

Chapter 170: Ibrahimovic and Guagua

After defeating the Bundesliga Hornets, the Manchester United team took a chartered flight to the north.

Manchester United's match in the International Champions Cup has a very intensive schedule. Less than 3 days after the end of the match against Dortmund, at 7:30 p.m. Manchester City game.

This is also a Manchester derby, the first game of Ye Su and Guardiola's Manchester City!

This Manchester Derby has received a lot of attention, and even national leaders came to the National Stadium to watch the game.

In Ye Su's memory, the match was canceled because of the hot weather and the bad turf conditions at the match site. However, the situation has changed a lot now. Because of Ye Su, the pride of the Chinese football field, and because of the attention from the top of the country, the turf of the Bird's Nest has been maintained to the highest standard, and there is no problem in the game.

The ticket sales for this game are very hot. The stadium accommodates the audience at its maximum capacity, that is, 80,000 fixed seats, plus 11,000 temporary seats, all of which are sold externally.

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This is a duel between two super teams, and it is also the first city derby duel between two young coaches who are in the limelight in today's world football.

Of course, this is not the first duel between Ye Su and Guardiola. In the quarter-finals of the Champions League last season, Ye Su had already played against Guardiola. However, Guardiola was still the head coach of Bayern Munich at the time, and now he has transformed into the head coach of Manchester United's rivals Manchester City.

At that time, both of them defeated their opponents at their own home courts. In the end, the two teams played with a total score of 5:5. Ye Su won with the advantage of more away goals, became the winner, and finally won the Champions League.

This is also the game between the two teams with the most contrasting views this summer.

As a team that won the UEFA Champions League, Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup last season, Manchester United has maintained the stability of the team this summer, basically without any major changes. Even, Ye Su didn't spend a penny in the transfer market, but just signed the Swedish superstar Zlatan Ibrahimovic for free, and then promoted two players from the club's youth team. The team's transfer income was positive, and the original third goalkeeper John Stone left Manchester United, bringing Manchester United a transfer income of 2 million pounds.

Compared with Manchester United's silence in the transfer market, Manchester City can be called the most active team in the international football transfer market this summer.

After missing the Premier League title for two consecutive years, the proprietor once again threw money this time around. The Abu Dhabi consortium, which aims to make Manchester City win more championships, fully supports the new coach in the transfer market.

Responding to every request, Gua Shuai was able to introduce the people he needed without any scruples, and created the Blue Moon Legion branded with his own unique style.

This is expected by the whole world. Guardiola has never been merciless when he purges the elders of the previous dynasty. In 2008, when he first coached Barcelona, ​​​​he issued an order to expel Ronaldinho and Deco. Eto'o, who scored 36 goals, was also sent away. After entering Bayern, Guashuai drove away Gomez, Gustavo and Tymoshchuk in the first summer, and sold Mandzukic and Van Buyten who were not compatible with him the following year. Players who are suitable for their own team will be dismissed regardless of their qualifications.

Now Gua Shuai comes with the ideal and mission of transforming Manchester City. New thinking, new tactics and new formation will inevitably require new aids that meet the requirements, and the old courtiers who cannot meet the requirements will give way.

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City's action in the summer transfer window started early. Not long after the season ended, that is, on June 2, Manchester City Football Club announced the official signing of Gundogan. The two parties signed a four-year contract. Gundogan's transfer fee was 23 million pounds.

After the international football summer transfer market opened, Manchester City has officially announced several transfers in succession.

On the afternoon of July 1, Beijing time, the Premier League club Manchester City announced through its official website that the club has reached an agreement with Celta Vigo on the transfer of Nolito. The Spanish international officially joined the Blue Moon. The two parties signed a four-year contract . It is worth mentioning that this is also the second new aid Guardiola introduced to Manchester City after Gundogan.

Manchester City wrote in its official statement: "Nolito signed a four-year contract with Manchester City, becoming Manchester City's second signing this summer."

However, Manchester City officials did not disclose too much about the details of the transfer. According to British media Sky Sports reports, in order to successfully sign the Spanish international, Manchester City paid Celta Vigo a transfer fee of 13.8 million pounds. Earlier, some media disclosed that Barcelona was close to signing Nolito back, but the Spanish international finally chose to join Manchester City. After ending his European Cup journey, Nolito immediately started the vacation mode, and now he finally has enough time to deal with transfer matters. After flying to Manchester to pass a routine medical examination arranged by the club, the Spanish striker officially signed with Manchester City and is about to start his Premier League journey.

Subsequently, Manchester City announced the signing of Australian international Aaron Mooy.

On July 4, 2016, Manchester City officially announced the signing of the 19-year-old teenager Zinchenko. The contract between the two parties is 5 years. And loaned it to Eindhoven Football Club, he played 17 times for Eindhoven in the 2016-2017 season and sent 3 assists.

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After consecutive official announcements of the above four transfer transactions, Manchester City temporarily stopped signing. But Ye Su knows that this does not mean that Manchester City has stopped introducing players this summer, but that they are planning a bigger deal.

According to the news that has been exposed so far, Manchester City is negotiating with Sane, Jesus, Stones, Bravo, Pogba and many other players.

And Ye Su knew that except for Pogba's transfer, which was temporarily uncertain whether it would be successful, the rest of the transfers happened in another time and space. It must be inevitable for them to transfer to Manchester City. In my memory, Manchester City spent more than 200 million euros on signings in this summer transfer window. Now if Pogba also transfers to Manchester City, Blue Moon's transfer signings this summer may exceed 300 million euros!

However, because Guardiola has just arrived and the players have changed a lot, Manchester City did not perform well in this match against Manchester United at the Bird's Nest.

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"The ball went in!!!!!!"

"Less than a minute to start!"

"My God, this goal is really too fast!"

"Less than a minute into the game, Ibrahimovic relied on his personal ability to dribble the ball from the right to the front of the penalty area, and hit the goal with a left-footed arc, opening the scoring for Manchester United!"

"This is definitely a very terrible goal!"

"Ibrahimovic seems to be demonstrating to Guardiola with a goal!"

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Throughout Guardiola's coaching career, although there are many controversies about him, he has always had a very good relationship with the players. His practice of maintaining the players until the last moment at the press conference was praised by many people. Compared to Mourinho who always slams on "locker room management issues", Guardiola has done a lot better in this regard. Regardless of whether the players have won the main position under Guardiola or not, almost all players who have experienced his coaching have a good relationship with him, but there is still one player who is an exception-he is Ibrahimovic.

Why does Guardiola maintain a good relationship with the players he has worked with, but Ibrahimovic is an exception?

Some people say that the Swedes are selfish and arrogant, because they are the "only child" of the national team and are spoiled by heaven. However, Guardiola has "tuned" many big-name players who have a bad temper, but none of them hate Guardiola as much as Ibrahimovic.

We first tried to find the answer from Ibrahimovic's own description. In his autobiography, he described that he had taken the initiative to find Guashuai to communicate about his position with Messi. There is a reason behind this question that fans are familiar with—during the winter break of the 2009-2010 season, Messi discussed the future of his career with Guardiola. For more room to move, occupy a central position.

In order for Messi to get as many personal honors as possible, Guardiola agreed.

And who should have occupied the position in the middle that season? It's Ibrahimovic.

Although Guardiola did not remove Ibrahimovic's main position in name, his tactical adjustment made Messi frequently come behind Ibrahimovic to take the ball, and Ibrahimovic's room for movement was backlogged.

As a center, Ibrahimovic is no longer the first "firepower point" in the team's central attack. Barcelona's primary "firepower" has been handed over to Messi. Ibrahimovic, who has no right to the ball in the frontcourt, retreats to take the ball, and is ridiculed as "pretentious organization of offense".

In Guardiola's system, Ibrahimovic has gradually become a luxury blue-collar player. He himself is the team's first striker, but after playing good football for half a season, he "plays hands" for other players. How could he not be angry?

Another reason why Ibrahimovic can become this "exception" is that Messi has become the number one player in world football because of his tactical adjustment. If Guardiola hadn't made this move, would Messi's honor have come to Ibrahimovic?

After only half a season, Ibrahimovic went from a super shooter "flying in the sky" to the trough of his career. This is an indelible blow to a player's confidence.

Even if the other players did not get a chance under Guardiola, they "give up early" and restarted through transfers. However, the "high to low" of Ibrahimovic's career trajectory is due to Guardiola's tactical changes , at least he thought so.

As for Guardiola's dissatisfaction, it is more of the player's own negative emotions, which are understandable.

Now facing Guardiola's team, Ibrahimovic only thinks about scoring goals and winning.

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