Thanks in front of the chapter: Thank you to the two book friends for Ziyang and os for their rewards.

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"Manchester City's current bench depth is good." Lin Sen had no choice but to answer.

This sounds the truth, but it is actually what Mendes wanted Lin Sen to say before.

After Manchester City may become its next stop, Lin Sen has analyzed Manchester City's lineup. Not counting the reserve team and youth team, Manchester City now has 29 first-team players, including four goalkeepers, nine defenders, ten midfielders, and six forwards. It seems that the number of people is a little bit higher. The third-tier lineup seems to be quite average, and the average age is under 25 years old.

However, if we talk about the team's potential, the current potential of this Manchester City is far inferior to that of Linson's Malaga. Of course, this is not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that this Manchester City is suspected of being too big to lose.

Even teams like Real Madrid still have locker room problems, not to mention Manchester City. Everyone likes superstars, but how to get along with these superstars has always been an important issue for the head coach. Mark Hughes handled it well, but unfortunately he lost himself. Cassel didn't seem to have any problems, but he was probably exhausted from his willingness to return to work in the youth team. Of course, if these people are real superstars, it would be fine, just afraid that there are no tigers in the mountains and monkeys dominate the king. Real Madrid's cage is big enough to keep tigers, so even if two tigers cannot be tolerated in one mountain, it is still tigers. Manchester City's cage is not big enough to keep tigers, so it can only keep monkeys for the time being. This is not a problem, but if the monkey also thinks he is a tiger, then this will inevitably raise a problem for the feeder: Are you feeding meat or vegetarian?

When he was in Malaga, Linson avoided this question. Why did he like young players not because he likes to cultivate talented teenagers, but because young players are often more obedient.

"This is not your true thought." Unexpectedly, Mubarak shook his head when he heard it, because Lin Sen's answer was different from his expectations. In his opinion, Lin Sen, who was very frank just now, should not say such an ambiguous answer. "I hope to hear a more realistic idea. If you are worried that this will affect our judgment of you, then I want to say that this is unnecessary. This meeting needs to be open and honest."

Mubarak's words made Linsen silent for a moment. At this time, Mendes was also puzzled in his heart what the Arab in front of him was thinking.

"Simply put, it's better to be better than the top than the bottom." Since Mubarak doesn't want to listen to good things, Lin Sen doesn't keep it.

really.

Mubarak smiled bitterly in his heart. Although Lin Sen's words were not nice, they were facts. This is also the dilemma they are facing in the transfer market, and they also want to win the best players. However, transfers have always required two wishes. In January this year, Manchester City even reached an agreement with AC Milan for Kaka's transfer, but in the end, Kaka himself rejected Manchester City.

Why? It’s not because Manchester City doesn’t give enough money, but because Manchester City is not qualified.

"Manchester City has many good players, but unfortunately they are just good players." Lin Sen continued.

At this moment, Gary Cook frowned, "I am sorry, Mr. Lin, but I think your words are too absolute? If you don't say anything else, our young people are very outstanding. At least, I don't think they are worse than Malaga."

Young people with Malagaga?

Linsen smiled in his heart, who are the young people in Malaga? It is Reus, Lewandow, Gundogan, Isco, who are the young people in Manchester City? It is Richard, Etuhu, Casedo and Onoha. Linsen admitted that these treasures in the eyes of Manchester City fans are good at the moment, but if they are compared with the young people in Malaga now, they may not be qualified.

However, Linson understood Gary Cook's idea. The Premier League is the highest-profile league in European football. It has always been said that "household registration bonus" is the saying that some English local players can always get favor. Because of this, the Premier League always has some incredible transfers from time to time. Some young English local players who are emerging can always get special preference from the media, which inadvertently also increases the self-esteem of many English fans. Unfortunately, the Premier League is not equal to England.

Being superior to others is not determined by household registration, but by the stadium.

Linson did not pick up Gary Cook's words, he just smiled and then fell silent.

"The question just now is the last one, Mr. Lin." At this time, Mubara suddenly stood up with an irrational smile on her face and stretched out her hand, "Thank you very much for coming to this meeting from afar, and thank you very much for your attention to Manchester City. We will keep in touch with Mr. Mendes and give you a reply as soon as possible."

Is this the end?

Mubarak's conclusion came a little suddenly, which made Mendes frown in his heart, but there was no displeasure on his face. He glanced at Lin Sen's expression, and Lin Sen looked calm.

The two shook hands with Mubarak and Gary Cook one after another, just like when they met before, and then said goodbye and left.

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After Linson and Mendes left, Mubarak and Gary Cook did not leave immediately.

"What do you think, Gary." Mubarak, who still maintained the sitting position he had just met, asked Gary Cook.

"I personally like Roberto more," Gary Cook thought for a while and said, "at least he is much more polite and respects Manchester City."

"Ha." Mubarak laughed and said nothing.

As Gary Cook said, before meeting Linson, Manchester City had actually had contact with another head coach, Roberto Mancini. Gary Cook obviously had a good impression of Mancini.

Mancini and Linson, Mubarak agreed with Gary's opinion. Mancini is indeed more likable because Italians are more reserved, or experienced, while Linson seems particularly direct or fearless in comparison. Mendes's several hints to Linson actually Mubarak saw them, and he also saw that Linson did not answer completely according to Mendes' hints, because on several occasions, Linson did not see Mendes' hints at all.

However, for Mubarak, agreeing does not mean recognition.

Gary thinks Mancini is more polite, but Mubarak also noticed that he has a preposition, that is, personal. Because politeness may explain many things, but it cannot explain that he is a head coach more suitable for Manchester City.

Mubarak has always been very clear in the division between public and private.

To recognize a person’s character is personal.

Recognize a person's work, this is the public.

When we first met, Mubarak did not tell Lin Sen that he actually knew him, and before the candidate for the head coach was confirmed, Mubarak did not intend to say this because it was done business.

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When walking out of the cafe, both Mendes and Linson remained silent.

Then, it was not until the two got into the car that Lin Sen said sorry to Mendes, because he did not abide by some of the agreements with Mendes during the meeting, and because he felt that this meeting might be a failure, because no matter how they looked at it, it seemed that they were cut in half. Lin Sen knew that he had put a lot of effort into this meeting.

"It doesn't matter, you're doing well." Mendes replied with a smile.

Mendes was not comforting Lin Sen. Although Lin Sen did not follow his hints completely, his answer was not inappropriate. Although the meeting was a bit unsuccessful after the meeting, because there were some topics that should have been discussed. Of course, this can also be understood as the other party did not think that would be a problem.

However, overall, Mendes does not think that the meeting ends "early" as Linson's problem.

"Don't worry, the result may not be as bad as you think." Mendes said, "Although I'm not sure what the outcome of the meeting will be, it's not difficult to judge whether it's good or bad. Mubarak's final expression doesn't seem to be polite. By the way, this is my first meeting with Mubarak, but I'm an acquaintance with that Gary Cook. He was a Nike executive before. I've had a lot of dealings with him because of the player's sponsorship contract. If you really get this job, you're careful of this person, and this person is not a good person."

Gary Cook?

Lin Sen thought about it for a moment, and indeed, Mubarak's attitude was unclear today, but Manchester City's attitude was relatively clear.

"Robinho's transfer to Manchester City is his work. In fact, he has a bigger work, but he has not succeeded later, that is Kaka's transfer." Mendes added.

Lin Sen nodded thoughtfully.

Manchester City is currently responsible for the transfer work. Brian Mawood, who just became the football director in March this year. Before that, Manchester City's transfer model was recommended by the head coach, Gary Cook was responsible for making decisions and operations, while Mubarak was more of a supervision. Now, Mawood is sharing Gary Cook's work. If Linson really takes over Manchester City, then according to his requirements, the rights in Gary Cook's hands will obviously be further diluted.

"Go and have a look? I know that there is a Chinatown in Manchester that is very famous and is the largest Chinatown in the UK. Maybe you should go and have a look." Mendes said at this time.

"It's better to go next time." Lin Sen said with a smile, "It's still something. I've booked an afternoon flight."

"So urgent?" Mendes was a little surprised when he heard this.

"There's no way." Lin Sen shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly.

This is really not because Lin Sen was deliberately disappointed, but it was just that the time was too accidental. There was a person he had been waiting for for a long time and it was time to come to Europe.
Chapter completed!