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Chapter 192 Ronaldo is Coming

When Chelsea set off a gold dollar storm, Manchester United seemed relatively quiet in the transfer market, and there were no big signings.On the one hand, the team won three trophies in the League Cup, Premier League and Champions League last season. Their outstanding results prove that the team is very strong.On the other hand, the age structure of Manchester United's players is relatively reasonable, and there is no need for a large-scale lineup change.

Of course, there can be no change.

In terms of leaving the team, Beckham unexpectedly left Manchester United, who had played for more than ten years, and went to Real Madrid at a high price of 3500 million pounds.

In addition, the French veteran Blanc has gone through two sluggish seasons and won three championships last season, even including the Champions League. At the age of 37, he chose to retire.

In terms of signings, Manchester United introduced some young people.The Red Devils first announced the introduction of 200-year-old young French striker Berlyon from Sunderland for £20 million as soon as the summer transfer window opened, and then Manchester United stopped their signings.

However, this does not mean that Manchester United has closed the transfer window. The team's transfer staff is still investigating several targets, namely Brazil international Kleberson, Cameroon international Djemba, and American international Tim Howard. , and Portuguese teenager Cristiano Ronaldo!

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On the eve of Manchester United's departure to the United States to participate in the Champions League World Football League, news of Manchester United's signings came from the United States: the team spent 150 million pounds to introduce the American international from the New York team of the Major League Soccer. Tom Howard.

The new US international goalkeeper joins Manchester United in the United States before joining the team in the Champions League World Soccer League.

This championship World Football League is a warm-up match that Manchester United will participate in this summer. Manchester United has a total of four games.

Then after finishing this warm-up match, Manchester United will fly back to Europe to participate in a warm-up match in Portugal on August 8 against the Portuguese Super League giants Sporting Lisbon.The match was a celebration of the inauguration of Sporting Lisbon's home stadium, the Jose Alvalade Stadium, but Ferguson's main purpose was to inspect the team's signings, Sporting Lisbon's rising star Cristiano Ronaldo.

United's transfer staff have also snapped up Ligue 250 Nantes striker Djemba at a cost of £[-]m as Manchester United's warm-up campaign in the United States has won.

When Manchester United was on the American continent, with a destructive attitude, they won the Celtics, Mexico America, Juventus and Barcelona four opponents in a row, and won the championship of the World Football League. Non-stop flight to Lisbon, the capital of Portugal.

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On August 8, local time, the friendly match between Manchester United and Sporting Lisbon started at the newly built Jose Alvalade Stadium.

In the game, Cristiano Ronaldo, who wanted to attract Ferguson's attention and landed in the Theater of Dreams, was very active in the left midfielder position, disrupting Manchester United's right wing.

Especially Manchester United's right back against Cristiano Ronaldo, the teenager O'Shea looked a bit embarrassed on the field. When Cristiano Ronaldo passed him, it was as easy as crossing the road.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Manchester United did not send too strong a lineup in this game. It is more about sending new players, newcomers and marginal figures of the team to give them a chance to perform.Stars like Yin Jun, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Giggs, and Roy Keane didn't make an appearance.In the starting lineup, Manchester United's regular main force last season are Scholes, Ferdinand, Sylvester and goalkeeper Butters.

The old man really has a preference for Cristiano Ronaldo, and specially set up a stage suitable for his performance to observe him.And Cristiano Ronaldo was not disappointed with Ferguson, and his performance was very eye-catching on the field, helping Sporting Lisbon beat Manchester United with most of the substitute lineup with a score of 3:1.

Although he lost the game, Ferguson was always smiling, like a child seeing his favorite toy.

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After the game, Ferguson told Manchester United CEO Kenyon, who had come to Lisbon ahead of schedule, to speed up the transfer process with Sporting Lisbon, and he wanted to see the Portuguese kid at the Carrington training base before the start of the season.

As a rising star in the Portuguese Super League in the past two seasons, Ronaldo has attracted the attention of most European giants.As far as Ferguson knows, his old opponent, Arsenal coach Arsene Arsene Wenger, is very important to Ronaldo, but Arsenal's offer cannot satisfy Sporting Lisbon, and that Portuguese boy was not taken by Arsenal.

In addition, the top three in La Liga, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia, as well as the Serie A giants Inter Milan, have all expressed concern about Ronaldo.

Especially Inter Milan, the Nerazzurri played against Sporting Lisbon in the UEFA Champions League qualifying match last season.Although the Nerazzurri successfully eliminated Sporting Lisbon in the end, Ronaldo also left a deep impression on the opponent in the game.

In order to avoid long nights and dreams, Ferguson hopes that Manchester United will settle Ronaldo's transfer as soon as possible.

Kenyon naturally did not dare to neglect Ferguson's order.The transfer staff of Manchester United, who had been talking slowly with Sporting Lisbon before, quickly increased their work efficiency, and the transfer sincerity was also shown: Manchester United raised their offer to 1000 million pounds, which was already the price when Yin Jun transferred to Manchester United last year. price.

In the end, after a period of bargaining between the two sides, finally on August 8, a week later, the two sides reached a consensus: Manchester United signed the Portuguese teenager at a price of 12 million pounds.

Although Kenyon made Cristiano Ronaldo miss the appetizer of this season-the first Community Shield, he finally let the Portuguese teenager land in the Premier League before the official start of the new season in accordance with Ferguson's request.

On the same day that Cristiano Ronaldo joined Manchester United, the transfer of Brazilian international Kleberson, who Manchester United has been paying attention to, was also negotiated. Manchester United also officially announced the transfer, and the transfer fee was 593 million pounds.

So far, Manchester United's transfer work this summer has come to an end, and the Red Devils have begun to seriously prepare for the start of the new season.

(End of this chapter)