After attending Beckham's wedding, Xiao Yu and the others rushed back to Manchester that night, while Scarlett, who pretended to be Xiao Yu's girlfriend, wanted to stay in Dublin for one more night.

On the return plane, Xiao Yu clarified this oolong farce, and the result naturally attracted a joke from Bruce and others, but they were more envious, and said that if there was such a beautiful female reporter pretending to be their girlfriend, it would be worth it for them to die.

After returning to Manchester, the group parted ways at the airport, with Xiao Yu, Bruce and Walsh returning directly to the Newton Heath training base.

In the next few days, while Xiao Yu and Walsh once again urged the municipal axe to decide on the sale of the district athletic stadium and the surrounding land, the new players of the club began to arrive one after another.

Crouch and Kitson are the earliest players contacted by Xiao Yu, the former came directly to the training camp of the new Manchester United after the holiday, while the latter came to Manchester to observe the situation of the new Manchester United a few days after contacting Xiao Yu, and the result was to stay.

Both players are very tall, but the former looks very thin, but the technique on his feet is very good, and the first training session he participated in was a small surprise, but his physical confrontation ability is very poor.

At 1.91m tall and weighing 83kg, Kitson is a strong, but not bulky player, and is a pure centre-forward type, but his current position is centre-back.

Kitson's positional sense as a central defender is a big problem, he is always used to using his body to fight with the opponent, and his penchant for stepping forward to participate in the attack does not feel that there is any big problem in the Zhou League, but once it reaches the national league, it will definitely be blown up.

The first time he watched Kitson train, Xiao Yu proposed to Bruce on the spot, saying that Kitson should change to a center forward and act as a bridgehead for the team's positional battle, so that he could give full play to Kitson's height and header advantage, and at the same time, his skills are also good, and his style of work is tenacious and hardworking, which should be able to provide more options and help to the new Manchester United striker.

Although Crouch is 2 meters tall, his heading skills and his thin body have long predestined him to be unsuitable for this role.

Originally, the club was already surprised by Crouch's height, but when the 2.02 meter Kicic arrived in the team, this record was broken again, except for a few tall players such as Crouch, almost all the rest of the club personnel had to tilt their heads to talk to him.

Among them, there is a laboratory staff of only 1.65 meters, and when he wants to help Kic test the width of his shoulders, he can't reach it at all, so he can only find a stool to pad his feet, which immediately caused an uproar in the club.

Other players who reported at the same time as Kic were Almunya, Abidal and Distin.

Goalkeeper Roberto Kane, who represented the new United in the Northwest Division B last season, has been reclaimed by Droisden, so David Green has been the only goalkeeper in the squad for this period of training until Almunia's arrival.

Abidal and Distin are both black players and both French, so after some consideration, the club decided to help them settle down in a house near the Newton Heath training base, and Evra, as a veteran player, took the initiative to help the Frenchman integrate into the team.

Although they came to a strange country and entered an unfamiliar team, Abidal and Disin were very active and in good physical condition when they participated in the team's regular training on the second day after arriving at the team.

In the early days of the team's training camp, the laboratory became the busiest department of the club.

According to Professor Fryer's request, the entire team, including the youth team, must provide a complete body data, including accurate general data such as height, weight, blood pressure, heart rate, etc., as well as a series of even unheard of body data, such as what bone density, muscle elasticity index, etc.

According to Fryer, it will take at least half a season from the collection to the completion of this set of data.

Of course, this is only due to the fact that the laboratory is still in the run-in phase, and once you are familiar with these processes, future tests will be faster and more accurate.

In addition to the players going to the laboratory every day for a variety of tests, Flair has also set up more than a dozen high-precision cameras in the training ground, which will be directly connected to the laboratory computer, so that the laboratory personnel can observe the players on the training field at any time.

In addition, the players on the training ground will also be stopped at any time and undergo laboratory testing, which has brought a lot of trouble to the team's early training camp, first of all, many players are tired of this cumbersome and complicated, and at the same time do not know whether it is effective.

However, because the club has strict rules on this, the players eventually choose to cooperate.

On July 9th, Juninho, who got a tourist visa, arrived in Manchester smoothly, and he followed Xiao Yu's arrangement, and when he entered the country, he just said that he was traveling, and at the same time prepared a set of travel rhetoric, and he passed the customs smoothly.

Since the club has prepared a residence for all foreign players, when Juninho Jr. arrived in Manchester, he was immediately taken to the Newton Heath training base, first to the club's office to meet Xiao Yu and head coach Bruce and others, and then Walsh was taken to the Royal Hospital for a series of complete physical examinations, and this set of examinations was naturally supervised by Professor Flair and others.

After the inspection, Walsh personally took Juninho Jr. to the club's several rental apartments, and finally Juninho Jr. chose one of the houses and moved in the same day.

In addition to the house, the club has also hired several teachers for these foreign players, some of whom teach spoken English, and some of whom teach them some of the common customs and habits of England.

In order to cope with these things, the club has set up a special human resources department of Reading Force, Walsh is the head of this department, and at the same time, this department has recruited three female fans, all of whom have experience working in the human resources department of large companies, so as soon as they enter the club, they immediately start, so although the new Manchester United has brought in a number of foreign players this year, everything seems to be carried out in such an orderly manner.

Because he circled the world with Xiao Yu and returned to Manchester to pick up his family in Italy, the old De Rossi family was the latest to arrive in Manchester, and they chose an apartment near the Newton Heath training base, and the old De Rossi's wife also successfully found a job in a nearby factory.

In the midst of a rush of hustle and bustle, it wasn't until July 20 that all the signings arrived.

The club played three warm-up games on the 12th, 14th and 17th, all against lower-tier teams near Manchester, and despite the lack of a main force, the new United still showed more than a level above their opponents, winning 6-0, 3-0 and 4-0 respectively.

Jonathan Maiten played as the main center in these three warm-up games, and also played the whole game, but the performance was average, only scored one goal and one assist in three games, but the substitute center Kicic performed very well, scored a hat trick in the first warm-up game, and scored twice in the second game, as if there was no need to run in at all.

For the sake of familiarity, most of the new Manchester United have used last season's main line-up in these three warm-up games, except that Jonathan Maiten has been replaced by Crouch, the left and right wing-backs are still Rich Willens and Darren Lyons, and the central midfield partners have been replaced by Juninho Jr. and Karl Maternson.

The back four are, from left to right, Patrice Evra, Eric Abidal, Garay Turner and Kevin Evan, with Almunia in goal.

After three warm-up games, Jonathan Maiten did not play well, but Kicic played well, and substitute Olic did not score but also performed well.

The left-sided combination of Rich Willens and Patrice Evra is still the birthplace of the new Manchester United attack, and the entire left corridor is almost invincible, especially since both players are extremely fast, and the front court is full of good headers, which makes the new Manchester United's attack on the left side impressive.

Unlike the left side, the combination of Darren Lyons and Kevin Evan on the right side is more balanced in attack and defense, and both players are offensive and defensive types, which makes the right side not outstanding in the attack, but Lyons's cross and diagonal long passing skills are still there, as can be seen from his contribution of 4 assists for the team in three warm-up games.

As a midfielder, Karl Maternson is still diligent and decent, but Juninho Jr., who joined with the aura of a Brazilian international, has not been able to show his ability as a Brazilian international, nor does he have the terrifying direct free kick that Xiao Yu remembers in his previous life.

As for the center-back combination, Abidal and Garay Turner complement each other's characteristics, the former is physically strong, fast, explosive, tackles and marking are his forte, but the sense of position is lacking, but the latter is more calm, strong sense of position, first-class heading skills, such a combination of central defenders needs only to establish a tacit understanding of cooperation.

However, although the three warm-up games were all big wins, because the opponents were all teams in the amateur league in the northwest region, the gold content was naturally not high, and it was not the same as the national league that the new Manchester United will play in this season, so when arranging the warm-up games, Bruce paid special attention to this.

On the afternoon of July 21, the new Manchester United away to Rochdale in League Three, this is an old League C powerhouse, since 1974 from League Two, these 25 years, has been playing with League Three, neither promoted nor relegated.

Such a team is obviously the best litmus test for the new Manchester United lineup!

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