Chapter 33: Moyers' Abacus

"In the 26th round of the Chinese Super League last night, Changchun Yatai lost 0-3 at home to Guangzhou Evergrande, and in this game, the teenager Li Qingshan scored twice, increasing his season goals to 27, and his colleagues broke the Super League goal record of 26 goals in a single season created by Li Jinyu in the 2006 season!! There are still ten rounds left in the Chinese Super League, how many goals Li Qingshan will score in the remaining ten games and what kind of record he will create, we will wait and see. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

It was already the next day's TV news. There is no doubt that the news of Li Qingshan breaking the single-season goal record will be the hottest topic in Chinese football these days.

And with Li Qingshan's crazy performance in the Chinese Super League, what makes Chinese fans most concerned is, can Li Qingshan be recycled by Manchester United in this summer transfer window?

You know, with the Premier League approaching step by step, David Moyes has not brought in any players since taking over the helm of Manchester United.

This is generally difficult to understand to the outside world, considering that although Manchester United have just won the Premier League, their main squad is quite old.

Most of their core players are over 30 years old. Rio Ferdinand, the centre-back who played the most last season, is over 35 years old, while Nemanja Vidic, Patrice Evra and Carica are all 323 years old. Not to mention the veteran Ryan Giggs, who is already thirty-nine and almost forty years old.

These players were undoubtedly the core of United's Premier League triumph last season, and if they don't bring in reinforcements this season, they won't be able to cope with a multi-fronted campaign alone.

However, Moyes seems to have been unconcerned about the recruitment of new players since taking over, and as early as May this year, Moyes knew that he would be the new head of Manchester United. As a head coach, he should have planned the list and squad for the new season from then on, and put his team together as soon as possible. But almost three months into the transfer window, Moyes is still unrecognizable in the transfer market. In contrast to Carlo Ancelotti and Jose Mourinho, who are also new managers, Real Madrid and Chelsea have been making signings in an orderly manner, while Manchester United have achieved nothing in the transfer market this summer.

However, Moyes himself is still very calm, Moyes, who has been in charge of Everton for 11 years, is used to being a late starter in the transfer market, and even Fellaini, who set a record for Everton's transfer fee, was only able to join in September 09. And this year, Everton did not lock in strong reinforcements such as Barry and Lukaku until the last moment in the transfer market.

It's a small team with a transfer rhythm, but for the big clubs, the hottest star needs to start negotiations early to gain enough buffer time to find a new target even if a deal doesn't work out.

And now as the date of the first round of the Premier League is getting closer, Manchester United is becoming more and more passive in the transfer market - the hot star can be transferred has already been carved up by the major giants, and Fabregas, who Moyes has been chasing, has also informed Manchester United that he intends to stay in Barcelona.

Now Moyes is starting to feel a sense of urgency, and it is much harder than you think to manage a big team.

Darren Joyce, the coach of United's development team, opened the door and looked at Moyes sitting at his desk with a tired face, thinking: Maybe this is the first lesson Moyes learned in charge of the big club.

"Darren, what's the matter?" Moyes asked, looking up at Joyce standing in the doorway, rubbing his bloodshot eyes.

'I'm here to give you a report on our loan players.' Darren. Joyce placed a stack of information on Moyes' desk, "This includes tracking the performance of our young players on loan to his team, and I would recommend focusing on Li Qingshan, a centre-forward we have on loan at Guangzhou Evergrande, and I have put his profile at the top. ”

"Oh?" Moyes picked up the performance tracking report of Li Qingshan placed on top.

"He's Chinese? Do you have an EU passport? Moyes asked, seeing a photo of Li Qingshan on the cover.

"Yes, he doesn't have an EU passport." Darren Joyce replied.

Moyes put down the materials he had picked up and thought for a moment before saying: "I want to bring up two players in the development squad, but I need players who can play for the first team right away. ”

Darren Joyce certainly knows what Moyes means, Li Qingshan will not be able to get a British labor certificate for the time being, and Moyes obviously does not want to go to great lengths to use the special genius clause for Li Qingshan.

"I'd suggest you'd better take a look at his profile before making a decision." Darren Joyce said, "A young striker who has scored thirty-four goals in twenty-five games deserves our attention no matter what. ”

"Oh?" Moyes picked up the bag of information about Li Qingshan that he had just placed on the table.

To be honest, as the new manager of Manchester United, his main job during this period has been on the arrangement of personnel movements. Manchester United, as a typical English team, has much higher authority as a manager than a manager on the continent.

Ferguson's rights, in addition to the United hierarchy to take back the right to negotiate transfers, Moyes also has all of them. In the interim, Moyes has changed all the key staff in the first team, most of the old courtiers of the Ferguson era have also left the team with a book retirement, and the new coaching staff is all Moyes's cronies, assistant coaches, fitness coaches, scouting directors, video analysts and even team doctors have been replaced by his own people.

He is even very unhappy with the Manchester United hierarchy, which, in his opinion, has not been supplying quality players to the Manchester United first team for a long time.

He plans to put Manchester United's squad in order to meet his requirements after a while.

However, there is no rush in this matter, Manchester United have given him a five-year contract, and he still has time.

He was surprised to hear that there was such a goal-scoring player in United's development squad.

"It had a video of all his goals." When Moyes unpacked the bag with a photo of Li Qingshan on the cover, Darren Joyce said.

The video was not long, less than 30 minutes, and after watching it, Moyes pondered for a moment and said: "He is a very good player indeed. ”

"Are you going to recall him, then?" Darren Joyce heard this and asked, his job is to provide players for the first team, and in his opinion, Li Qingshan's ability is enough to play for Manchester United.

"Darren, I'm going to buy Fellaini from Everton." Moyes did not answer Joyce's question directly, but made another seemingly unrelated transfer news.

But Joyce quickly understood, "You mean ......."

"That's right, Li Qingshan is indeed a good player, but his function is too simple, and he only looks like he can head the ball." Moyes said.

"If Fellaini is introduced, Li Qingshan's role will be dispensable. After all, he can do it, and so can Fellaini. But Fellaini can do it, he can't. ”

Darren Joyce understood what Moyes meant. Marouane Fellaini is a midfielder with a height of 194 cm, and as a midfielder of this height, he has good physical flexibility, foot ability and defensive ability, and the most commendable thing is his height advantage and header ability.

In Moyes' opinion, Fellaini can do a lot more on the pitch than Li Qingshan.

"So, let Li Qingshan continue to be out on loan, and if Fellaini's transfer doesn't go well, use him as an alternative." Moyes finally clapped.

There's nothing Darren Joyce can do either, after all, the other side is the head coach. But he didn't agree with Moyes's calculations in his heart, such a good player, if Manchester United can't give him a place, then he can transfer to another team at any time.

Just like Pogba back then.

I don't know if Moyes's abacus can be launched..........