Europe's major leagues were back in action.
Dejan Lu was still somewhat unaccustomed to it.
Mainly because of the UEFA Super Cup.
Later, the match would be scheduled before or at the start of the season, decided in a single game around late August or early September.
But at this time, it was still played over two legs.
Even more absurdly, the first leg was on January 7 and the second on March 11.
Why didn't UEFA fucking schedule one every month? Best of nine, five wins took it. Play Barca every month and give them trauma by the end of the year, hahaha. Even scoring one goal per game could net you nine European goals.
Only a real genius could come up with a two-legged final format like that.
The two legs were two months apart. If it were Takehiko Inoue, he could draw more than seventy episodes of anime out of it.
And maybe after those seventy episodes, the final still fucking wouldn't have been played.
Dejan Lu had raised the issue with Johansson several times, but nothing changed. It seemed UEFA still believed two matches made more money.
He and his teammates attending the Italy World Cup final had made the headlines.
But his old club Manchester United stole even more of the spotlight.
Cantona had retired, yet right up until the transfer window closed, there had been constant speculation over whether he would return. The Frenchman gave his answer: retirement meant retirement. Even if he later admitted he regretted it.
Giggs's relationship with Davina Taylor was also very high-profile. She was a soap opera star, while the younger Giggs had been something of a public heartthrob. The pairing kept giving newspapers stories to write about, endlessly hyping what they did and what they ate. The British