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In the next few days, Xiao Yu has been very busy.
On the second day of the crossing, Xiao Yu made a decision on the spot to name the club Manchester United Football Club [FC United of Manchester Chester], referred to as FC Manchester United, but people in the club like to call the new Manchester United, nicknamed the Red Rebels.
With four vacancies left in the North West Division B, the FA allowed the new Manchester United to join the North West Division B, but this would not be until the FA informed the other clubs in the North West Division and only had the consent of the majority of the clubs before the new United could join.
Of course, generally speaking, as long as the FA agrees, then other clubs will not object.
Since David Pace had already said that he would lend the Butcher's Knife Stadium to New Manchester United for free, there was no need for New Manchester United to find a new stadium for at least a year, but a training ground, and finally Walsh found a temporary training ground in the Newton Heath area through a relationship.
Newton Heath is sacred to Manchester United fans, it is the birthplace of Manchester United.
It is precisely because of this background that when Newton Heath agreed to let the new Manchester United train here, the British newspapers immediately hyped the new Manchester United.
For fans of the new Manchester United, entering Newton Heath is just as much to celebrate as coming home.
After finalizing the home stadium and training venue, Xiao Yu rented a small office near the Newton Heath training ground as a temporary office location for the new Manchester United club.
On the day of the opening of the new Manchester United club, Xiao Yu did not make a big celebration, this is only one of the lowest amateur clubs in England of more than 7,000 clubs, and there is nothing to celebrate.
'If one day we make it to the Premier League or we have our own stadium and training ground, then I'm going to celebrate and make us heard all over Manchester!' Xiao Yu said after politely declining the celebration suggestion of the Red Plate Army Fan Club.
As the World Cup in France approached, the world's attention was focused on France, so the amateur club founded in Newton Heath in Manchester, England, did not attract much attention, but the local Manchester newspaper reported it briefly, but the length was very short.
After the establishment of the club, the selection of players for trial has also come to an end.
According to statistics, a total of more than 1,300 people participated in the seven-day trial, and more than 500 people passed the preliminary examination, excluding some of them who obviously came to make soy sauce, such as Jim, a taxi driver.
According to feedback from the FA, this figure is definitely a new record for the number of tryouts for any start-up club, and one that is far ahead of second place.
Seventeen of the more than 500 people have to be selected, which undoubtedly shows the cruelty of the trial, but at the same time, it also ensures the strength of the new Manchester United club, and even many newspapers have concluded that the new season of the Northwest Division B championship is no longer needed, and will be directly given to the new Manchester United.
Although the final 17-man roster has not yet been released, it is not difficult to see from the qualifications of the few people who have already been selected what the level of quality of this new team really is.
Not to mention Rodri Giggs, he is the younger brother of Ryan Giggs, 21 years old, fast, good skills, although it may not be possible to play in the professional league, but the mixed amateur league is more than enough.
Because Xiao Yu knew the quality of Rodri Giggs, he signed a contract with him in advance, and he could receive a salary of £60 a week from the new Manchester United, plus an additional bonus for goals.
Carl Maternson, 28 years old, midfielder, professional footballer, who played for three years for Roseham in League Two before moving to the national league, is a Manchester native who is very supportive of Xiao Yu's initiative to set up a new Manchester United, so as soon as he heard about the trial of the new Manchester United, he rushed to rush over.
By the way, it was he who knocked out Xiao Yu who was playing football on the second day of the trial, which directly created Xiao Yu's crossing.
In the original history, when the new Manchester United was founded in 2005, Karl Maternson was the head coach of the club, and at the same time, with the new Manchester United promoted for three consecutive years, it must have been more than enough to mix the amateur league.
Darren Lyons, right-midfielder, is not fast, but his height of 185cm and excellent bounce give him an edge in the air, but what really makes the new United value is his accurate crosses, his groundbreaking long-range shots, and his set-pieces.
When Xiao Yu first saw the player who had just terminated his contract with a professional club in the National League and joined the new Manchester United, a message came to his mind, and the 31-year-old veteran would become the new Manchester United Beckham.
In addition to the above three, there is also Jonathan Maiten, the 22-year-old striker who also played in the English National League, and his grandfather was Charlie Maiten in the Busby Kids, so he would rather be relegated five relegations and return to the North West Division B to play for the new Manchester United.
It is precisely because of these four high-level players, and most of the other players who participated in the trial selection are from the high-level leagues, so although the new Manchester United has only just been formed, it is immediately regarded as the favorite to win the Northwest Division B.
Although the team's prospects are promising, Xiao Yu still does not dare to be careless.
In all this time, he had been visiting Steve Bruce at every chance he had the opportunity to talk to him about the invitation, but this time he changed his strategy and asked him specifically about the team's operations and the player's contract.
Steve Bruce also knows everything, giving detailed answers to Xiao Yu's questions, and also putting forward some suggestions for the current situation of the new Manchester United, such as supporting Xiao Yu to set up a youth team with easy funds, because that is the foundation of any club.
In addition, Steve Bruce also helped Xiao Yu buy some training equipment, because Xiao Yu currently has limited funds, so there is no way to squander it like those big clubs, so Bruce helped Xiao Yu choose a commonly used training machine, which is undoubtedly not Xiao Yu's specialty.
"Thanks to you, I wouldn't have known what to do!"
This sentence has become Xiao Yu's most common words to Bruce in the past few days, and the latter usually just laughs and doesn't pay much attention to it.
In fact, Xiao Yu guessed correctly, Bruce did want to develop on the road of football coaching, which was the main reason why he left Birmingham, but after leaving, no club has been in contact with him, but Xiao Yu is obsessed with him and pesters him to help.
In the process of helping the new Manchester United, Bruce also learned a lot of things while helping Xiao Yu, for example, Xiao Yu is now only running an amateur club, and there are so many troubles, so what about running a super league giant?
There are also training grounds, club infrastructure, etc., all the details, many subtleties that Bruce has overlooked before, but they are constantly emerging in the process of the new Manchester United from scratch, which will definitely be of great help to Bruce in his future coaching career.
Of course, while Xiao Yu was busy preparing for the club, he did not forget to solve the problem of money.
As a traverser, Xiao Yu's biggest capital is his familiarity with the next few years, so he knows very well that the champion of the French World Cup is the French team, and the top scorer is Croatia's Suker, who scored 6 goals, and the biggest dark horse is Croatia who broke into the semifinals.
If you put it in 2010, it is not too much of a problem for football fans, but back in 1998, before the start of the World Cup, this is undoubtedly valuable insider information.
But Xiao Yu is not blindly betting, he first wandered around Walsh's bar for a few days, learned about the gambling process with those veteran gambling masters in the bar, and then carefully and cautiously carried out decentralized betting according to his own experience.
Xiao Yu's betting money is not much, only 700,000 pounds, but it is equivalent to Xiao Yu's full belongings, and the rest of the money is remitted to the account of the new Manchester United to serve as the club's operating funds.
After dealing with these things, Xiao Yu breathed a sigh of relief, if history has not changed much, then according to his betting method, according to the current odds, and then deduct the money he deliberately bet on the wrong amount, he can make a profit of at least about 30 million pounds.
This is still Xiao Yu's order not to attract attention, if he lets go of his hands and feet to do it, otherwise, I am afraid he can earn more.
After finalizing the betting on the World Cup, Xiao Yu began to focus on the team again.
The number of players coming for trials in each position has resulted in a surplus of players in many positions, while others are in short supply, such as left-backs and goalkeepers.
The special surname of the goalkeeper position makes Xiao Yu dare not be careless, Bruce said that if it really doesn't work, he will find a way to go to a high-level team to loan one, but the left back will be in trouble, because there will not be many left feet to participate in the trial, and most of them are still playing forward or winger, if it is transformed into a left back, it is really unpredictable.
"It seems that we still have to find a qualified left-back for the team!" Xiao Yu doesn't like to rely on luck.
But as a new club that has just been established, there are no scouts, no reputation, and even the head coach has not yet been decided, where to find players?
I had no choice but to ask David Pace for help, but he was also as worried as Xiao Yu, because his team also lacked a left-footer, and he had always relied on right-back to play soy sauce.
At this time, Xiao Yu really realized why the left foot in European football will be so popular in the next few years, and why Barcelona, Real Madrid, and even the talented Brazilian national team will have a headache for the left back.
But as soon as he thought of this, Xiao Yu's mind suddenly remembered a person, wasn't he just a left-footed general?
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