Soccer Card System

Chapter 153 Community Shield (3155)
1Chapter 17 Community Shield

For Sir Alex Ferguson, mentioning Drinkwater in the media was really just in passing.For him, what really matters is United's plans for the new season.

For Ferguson, who has led the team for 23 years, they once again completed the three consecutive Premier League titles last season. This is Manchester United’s second dynasty.

However, this season is quite a challenge for Manchester United. The loss of Carlos Tevez this summer and the departure of World Footballer C. Luo hurt the Red Devils most.Abandoning Tevez, Manchester United pinned their hopes on veteran Michael Owen, but now Owen is no longer as brave as he used to be, and the haze of injuries often hangs over him.Whether Irving can maintain a high level of stable performance has always been a question.Even if he can play stable, can Antonio Valencia fill the vacancy of Ronaldo? Coupled with the aging of Giggs and Scholes, Manchester United's strength is bound to decline.

Therefore, the media generally believe that this season is quite a challenge for Manchester United.

But Ferguson doesn't think so. He feels that his team's lineup is still quite strong in the Premier League.

Rooney and Berbatov's strike partner is enough to pose a threat to the defense of all teams in the Premier League. They have such strength.Even if Ronaldo is lost, Ferguson believes that Valencia introduced from Wigan is enough to replace Ronaldo. In order to restore the confidence of players and fans, he even put the No. [-] jersey on Valencia.

Gao Bo is naturally the later development of Valencia. Valencia is an excellent winger, but to be honest, it is a bit too much to want to reach the height of Ronaldo, and the pressure of the No. [-] jersey made Valencia a little difficult to support, so Valencia took the initiative to not want this jersey. It turns out that after changing the jersey number, Valencia's performance has indeed returned to normal.

But the current Ferguson doesn't know this, he still has high hopes for Valencia.And Ferguson doesn't want to lose this Community Shield game.

Now the English media are generally watching the excitement of Manchester United. Luton has defeated Chelsea, Arsenal, and Liverpool one after another.

"...If Luton can complete the feat of defeating Manchester United in the Community Shield, coach Gao Bo may become the only head coach who has led a team in a low-level league to defeat the Premier League semi-finals in a single season."

Even "Sky Sports" started teasing it in the newspapers.

This is actually related to the nature of the Community Shield. The Community Shield, formerly known as the Charity Shield, is an annual tournament hosted by the Football Association of England between the champions of the English Premier League and the champions of the FA Cup.If the team wins the double championship (both the Premier League and the FA Cup), the opposing team will be changed to the Premier League runner-up.The game is traditionally held at Wembley Stadium as the opening game before the start of each season.This kind of warm-up cup game, the media didn't pay much attention to the outcome. As the opening game of the season, it was more like a festival, because after this game, the Premier League games started one after another.

However, this year's Community Shield is a bit special, because it is difficult for the Football Association to imagine that the English First Division teams will actually participate in this Community Shield game-usually the Community Shield is a confrontation between Premier League teams.So in terms of the schedule, Luton can only postpone his first round of the league, because the first round of the League One and the Community Shield crashed.

Luton has nothing to say about this. If you want to say how much Gao Bo thinks about the Community Shield, he actually doesn't.

For Gao Bo, he regards this game as a high-quality warm-up match. When facing a team like Manchester United, what kind of performance the team can perform after an offseason, how well the new players integrate, especially this game will definitely encounter some difficulties. Gao Bo wants to see how resilient this team is.

But before that, Gao Bo wants to solve Alex Sandro's labor certification issue first, and Gao Bo has decided to use the special genius clause!
At this time, the special talent clause is actually very loose. Before England's disastrous World Cup performance in Brazil in 2014, labor certification was not very strict.

So generally speaking, as long as the team uses this clause, the Football Association will generally pass it.Gao Bo, who doesn't know much about labor certificates, didn't know about it at first, but John reminded him.

"We need to find someone with enough weight to attend the hearing?" Gao Bo was actually not too relieved.

"No! You can do it!" John said very firmly.

"I?!!"

"That's right, think about it, who excavated Vardy? And Charlie, Kanter, Adam!" John said, "This has fully demonstrated that you are a very discerning head coach! As long as you have your recommendation letter, the Football Association will pass it!"

Gao Bo thought about it, and it seemed to be the same reason.

Proving who is a genius is actually a very subjective thing, which requires someone with weight to speak.

Gao Bo did not expect that he could be regarded as having some weight in the football world
Gao Bo got a recommendation letter, and then handed it over to Morris, the team's legal counsel, to handle this matter.

However, before the start of the Community Shield game, Alex Sandro's labor certification has not yet been processed.The team has thought about everything, but the only thing they didn't expect is the work efficiency of the Football Association!

The team sent a letter to the Football Association in mid-July to apply for a labor certification for Alex Sandro.

The Football Association did not reply until the end of July. Of course, this application was rejected, and then Luton appealed, using the "special talent clause" in the defense of the appeal.

However, the Football Association has not responded to this appeal until now.

This made Gao Bo extremely dissatisfied with the work efficiency of the FA.

This process is taking too long.
Until August [-]th, Alex Sandro's labor certification application did not come down, so he is destined not to play in this FA Cup.

So Sandro had to be a spectator in the stands.

Speaking of which, Luton's players are still very familiar with Wembley. They played at Wembley twice last season, and at the beginning of this season, they came to Wembley again.

Most players are not new to this, but new players such as Griezmann are very interested in England's National Stadium.

The weather on the day of the game was not bad. As the opening game of the new season, Wembley attracted many fans to attend and pay attention.

Even Luton fans didn't feel much new about Wembley.They've been here twice last season, but that doesn't mean they've lost their enthusiasm.

At Wembley, there are still a lot of Luton fans.

In the Wembley dressing room, Gao Bo is making the final mobilization for the team.

"This game is the first game of the new season. This game will be a general test of what effect we can achieve after more than a month of training!" Gao Bo said.

"I repeat again, the game against Manchester United is a brand new game. Manchester United is an opponent we have never encountered before. Even if we met Chelsea, Arsenal, and Liverpool last season, we can't give us any experience in this area! The only thing we can do is to solidify our defense first, and then look for opportunities to counterattack!!"

After Gao Bo finished speaking, the players walked out of the locker room.

The Community Shield is about to start, and this brand new season is about to start.

(End of this chapter)