Chapter 30 The goal of the new season

While Simon Grayson dealt with the team's second-minded players, he also had another conversation with Glen Oxley, mainly focusing on the team's goals next season.

Leeds United, which has just become the "double champion", has not yet reached the level of unifying the English football world, but it is not far apart. It won the championship five rounds ahead of schedule and finally won 102 points. This is a reflection of the team's strength. The goal next season will definitely not be to compete for domestic dominance, but must be put into Europe.

Simon Grayson originally planned to further strengthen the team's strength through signings in the new season on the basis of the team's original team and directly compete for the Champions League trophy. However, it seems that the possibility is not high. While letting Kslov and Bellackta go, Tobias Lang did not return to Germany in the end, but chose the more sincere "Blue Army" Chelsea.

To talk about the three players who have left, only Kslov's departure has really affected the team's foundation. After all, it is not a matter of a team to have a solid defense line overnight. Du Xiaoguang, Kslov and Marcio were originally the three central defenders chosen by Simon Grayson. Now there is one less one, so the defense line will naturally be greatly affected. There will be fifty or sixty games to compete in a season. No player can guarantee that he can persist. He still needs to maintain a good condition unless he is a freak like Shaq.

But... there is only one Shaq in this world!

Knowing that the club's strength has been affected to a certain extent, Simon Grayson held his breath again, and finally set his goal in the league and the Champions League.

In the new season, Leeds United's Premier League championship prize reached 10.5 million pounds, while the Champions League prize was as high as 12 million pounds. Once the team finally achieved good results, these prizes will be paid to the players in full.

Relatively speaking, the 2.5 million pound prize in the FA Cup and League Cup is really very low. Simon Grayson even had already given these two events early in the morning to give young players the opportunity to exercise.

Leeds United has arranged a warm-up match in the new season. After competing with Anderlecht, Belgium and Zenit, Russia, Leeds United will have a week's trip to China and play two warm-up matches with Shanghai Shenhua and Dalian Albin respectively. This is also opening up an overseas market for Leeds United. The person responsible for this operation is Shaq's father-in-law Zong Xingyun and Glenn Oxley.

After returning to England from China, Leeds United will play a game with Portsmouth, and then they will play one game between Italy, Inter Milan and Genoa.

As the team's head coach, Simon Grayson now puts all other work aside, and only focuses on spiritual construction. What he needs is a team that is loyal to the club and is loyal to himself. Those who are half-hearted feel that it is not suitable for the current Leeds United. After making a call, he can already determine in his heart who is loyal to the team, who is willing to leave, and who must leave.

This summer's European Championship was a disaster for England. They defeated Ukraine 2:0 in the group stage, won Greece 2:0, and defeated Bosnia and Herzegovina 3:0. After entering the knockout stage, they swept Ireland 5:1, but were eliminated by the Italian team, which was defensively counterattacked 1:2 in the quarterfinals.

As the "Three Lions" that has won the European Cup twice in a row, this time I was originally planning to defend the title again and complete the unprecedented three consecutive European Cup championships, but the English's arrogance finally stopped them in the quarterfinals.

After losing the European Cup, even Shaq couldn't help but open fire on England coach Blanco in disappointment: "I don't understand why we have to risk using young defensive players in such an important competition, in such a life-and-death game? You know, such opportunities are not good, and this kind of game puts too much pressure on young people! I think this is a mistake!"

Although Shaq did not mention Blanco's name from beginning to end, everyone understood what he meant, as the greatest player in English football history. Shaq was dissatisfied with head coach Blanco.

This signal...is not good!

At least it's very bad for Blanco!

This time, the FA's reaction was very fast. The "Three Lions" journey to the European Cup was only three days after the FA announced the news that Blanco was fired and the successor of French coach Deschamps.

Once the news was announced, the dissatisfaction of England fans was relieved, but this had nothing to do with Shaq, Ben Parker, Jonny Hausen, Ashley Hood, Alex Lens, Clegg Richardson and others who had just entered the holiday. They just needed to enjoy the holiday that was extended to one month by the head coach.

The European Cup journey of the "Three Lions" ended on July 5, and Leeds United continued on July 11. Two days after training, when Simon Grayson headed to Belgium with an incomplete lineup, Leeds United's lineup for the new season had been confirmed.

Apart from the transfer of Kslov, Berakta and Tobias Lang, the unsuccessful Miguel Angelo was bought by Manchester United for 2.6 million pounds with only one year left.

Simon Grayson started the preparations for the new season with half of the "Youth Guards" and a streamlined reserve team. However, the combat effectiveness of this team is really eye-catching. Leeds United, a group of young men of seventeen or eighteen, actually won a complete victory in the pre-season friendly match!

Looking at the long series of winning streaks, Simon Grayson felt that the team's future was really bright...

Defeated Anderlecht 4:1 away, defeated Zenit 3:0 away, Shanghai Shenhua 4:0 away, Dalian Arbin 3:1 away, Portsmouth 3:0 away, Inter Milan 1:0 away, Genoa 3:1 away!

When Leeds United won all the friendly matches, Simon Grayson was not even in a hurry to let Shaq and others who returned to the team early to play the Community Shield. He felt that he should give these young people a formal competition experience to commend these young people's enthusiasm for hard training. It was really appropriate.

What's more, Shaq, Ashley Hood, Jonny Hausen, Ben Parker and others who had just returned to the team for a day or two were not very good. Even Du Xiaoguang now has to carry a neck brace indoors because of his injury and fractured mandibles in the European Championships due to his injury and a fractured mandible.

For Leeds United at the moment, it’s better to have more rest time!

In this way, the "Youth Guards" who did not buy people in the entire summer transfer market, mainly participated in the Community Shield Cup competition with a group of young people.

As a result, in this game, a group of 17 or 18 boys tasted the bitterness of failure for the first time in their lives... Leeds United lost to last season's FA Cup champion Manchester United with a score of 0:1 at Wembley Stadium.

After the game, Simon Grayson did not have much regret in the face of this defeat, but always answered the reporters' questions with a smile on his face: "This defeat was beyond my expectations, but also expected. Although our young players are not as strong as they imagined, I can see that they are maturing quickly. These young people we Leeds have cultivated by themselves will become pillars of the club in the future. Using a defeat to prove the potential of many young people, I think it is very cost-effective!"

Anyone who truly understands this game will not think that Simon Grayson is stubborn. Because in this game, the young people of Leeds United really performed very well. They faced the "Red Devils" who have the strength to compete with themselves for the championship in the new season, and also played an advantage in the field. They were not weaker than their opponents in terms of shooting, corner kicks, opportunities creation, etc., and they surpassed their opponents at 54%: 46% in terms of ball possession.

You know, Leeds United sends a team composed of a group of young players that are not even a substitute, but Manchester United has all the main players. Compared with the two, it is self-evident who is stronger and who is weaker.

It can even be said that if today's "Young Guards" have a forward who is not much less capable of seizing opportunities than Shaq on the front line, the results of the game will be rewritten.

After the game, the English media evaluated the Community Shield, and claimed that it was a game without losers...

Manchester United won the Community Shield!

But the "Youth Guards" have won the future. A group of 17 or 18-year-old boys are showing their amazing talents to the world. Such Leeds United will never decline in the next ten years. The most important thing is this group of young people. But they all come from Leeds United's own youth training camp. Their loyalty will not be doubted. The "brutal Simon" will no longer have to face Kslov and Belacta's betrayal.

As the fuse of each season of the Premier League, the Community Shield Cup represents the official ignition of the Premier League. After more than two months of quit, the exciting, fierce and crazy English Premier League will once again become the focus of attention for fans around the world.

According to the statistics of twenty Premier League teams in the new season, the "Red Devils" Manchester United has become a big player in the transfer market. They ranked first with transfer expenses of 74 million pounds. They bought German left winger Besterler from Porto 18.75 million pounds, Dutch right-back Bram Davis from Chelsea 36.5 million pounds, Russian midfielder Olov Ig from Marseille 15.75 million pounds, and Uruguayan midfielder Marcelo Silva from Atletico Madrid 9 million pounds, the "Red Devils"'s goal in the new season has obviously been put on the championship.

The following Manchester United is the "Magpie" Newcastle, who only finished sixth in the league last season, obviously cannot satisfy Newcastle's ambitions. In the previous seven seasons, they had a total net investment of 460 million pounds in the transfer market. After firing Laudrup this season, they invited meritorious coach Alan Shearer, and his net investment once again reached 40 million pounds, once again attacking the championship.

As the defending champion of the new season, the "Youth Guards" have become the biggest profiters in the transfer market. They made a lot of money in the transfer market with a revenue of £29 million, but no one dared to ignore their existence anymore. Not to mention Shaq, Ben Parker, Jonny Hausen, the "Three Leeds Musketeers" are still growing stronger. It is already shocking that the potential of a group of 17 or 18 kids from Leeds United showed in the Community Shield Cup.
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