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Chapter 4 Carrington

Sign, seal, exchange contracts, shake hands.

After these steps, less than ten minutes, Manchester City's official website issued an announcement to the world. In less than half an hour, Manchester City fans saw the news about Sky Sports on TV.

In fact, Sky Sports is not the media that responds the fastest to this matter, bbc, the BBC, because just as Lin Sen and Mendes walked out of the city court, a female reporter holding a bbc logo followed by a camera follower quickly came to him, looking at Mendes next to him, looking like she was waiting for the rabbit. Lin Sen couldn't help but look helplessly at Mendes next to her from the corner of her eyes. Needless to say, this is Mendes' masterpiece.

The female reporter is about forty years old. In one word, she still has charm. She looks very capable in a professional suit. The pungent perfume smell made Lin Sen frown. God knows what her relationship with Mendes is, but Mendes did not help him block it. Although Lin Sen always treats the media as he is in Spain, he doesn't want to have a quarrel with the media at the beginning, so he had to smile and "happy" to accept the interview.

The female reporter named Caroline Payton was indeed "arranged". When interviewing Lin Sen, she did not have the urgency of finally blocking the interviewee's question when she finally blocked her questions. She didn't have many questions, but she just asked if Lin Sen had signed with Manchester City, what could be revealed about the contract, and what plans would be for the upcoming transfer. After Lin Sen finished answering, she did not continue to tangle and even wished Lin Sen a good start in England.

"Your acquaintance?" Linson asked Mendes as soon as he got into the car.

"I've had a few deals," Mendes said, "She is a reporter from BBC5. You will often meet her in the future. She is a very decent reporter."

"You can see." Lin Sen nodded.

Mendes doesn't mention anything else but just mentions the word "subtitle". Lin Sen, who has been in Europe for so many years, can't he know that the biggest "notorious" of the British tabloids is that he is ignorant of the degree. Previously, Mendes' two most important clients were in the Premier League. It is not surprising that Mendes has his own interpersonal context in England. Agents are a profession that relies on interpersonal relationships to make a living. There are cooperative relationships like Mendes and Caroline. I'm afraid each agent will have more or less. The agent provides news, reporters help promote, and a relationship that benefits both sides.

"I'll take you to the apartment, and you'll arrange it yourself." Mendes said while starting the car, "If you need my help, don't be polite. I'll stay in Manchester these days, and I may need to go to Madrid in a few days."

Lin Sen nodded, Mendes said nothing, but he knew that while he came to this city, the departure of the largest superstar in the city was a foregone conclusion.

Having said that, after Lin Sen successfully signed with Manchester City, Mendes never asked Lin Sen about the issues he had to talk to Mubarak from beginning to end. Lin Sen knew that Mendes might be avoiding suspicion, but in fact there was no need. Lin Sen didn't know whether Mendes would promote his players to him in the future, but obviously, Lin Sen did not intend to avoid this relationship, because in Lin Sen's opinion, as long as he is not a parallel person, who likes to gossip, he will naturally have the day when he really bites his tongue. He doesn't break the law, so why should he avoid it?

Thinking of this, Lin Sen subconsciously touched the two keys that were placed in his pocket at this time.

One is the key to the apartment and the other is the key to the car. This is what Mubarak personally handed over to Lin Sen after signing the contract. To put it bluntly, it is the welfare of the head coach.

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When everything was still a scandal, except for the media and Manchester City fans, not everyone would care about who the new head coach of Manchester City was, which was related to Manchester City's poor results in the past two seasons. After Thaksin came to Manchester City, the whole Premier League was exclaiming that "the wolf is coming again". The reason was that one had already come, and the wolf was named Abramovich. But soon everyone knew that not all those with sharp teeth and saliva were wolves.

Therefore, when Lin Sen signed with Manchester City, compared with the media that wished to change coaches every day, the entire Premier League was not just ordinary, but it was far less sensational than imagined.

In Manchester City, the reporter did not find Robinho, the number one star who was on vacation in Brazil, but the statement of captain Richard Dunn should be considered a representative voice in Manchester City's team: I have not met Lin yet, but I believe in the club's choice. A head of a Manchester City fan organization told a reporter from the Manchester Evening News: "Manchester City fans will give Lin Sen time to prove themselves, just like Sun Jihai, who treated another Chinese, back then. They hope that Lin Sen can engrave his name into Manchester City's history like Sun Jihai."

Also for the Manchester Evening News, Manchester United coach Ferguson was not so polite when asked about his opinion on Linson: "Lin? Who is that? Sorry, I only care about Manchester United."

It is naturally impossible for the old sir to really not know who Lin Sen is, but since he is already an opponent, he naturally doesn't need to be polite. Anyway, he doesn't care what the head coach, his mortal enemy, will have any thoughts about his words, because from the moment Lin Sen becomes Manchester City's head coach, the two were destined to compete.

After Ferguson, the head coaches of several other giant Premier League clubs received questions from reporters about Lin Sen.

Wenger: He did a good job in Malaga, but the Premier League is not La Liga, I wish him good luck.

Benitez: I am not familiar with him, so it is not convenient to make any comments.

Ancelotti: Can we talk about more important things?

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In Spain.

Former Malaga chairman Sans Jr., who was interviewed by the Liberty, learned that Linson had signed with Manchester City for a long time, and then said: Lin is an excellent coach, Manchester City fans will like him, and I wish him all the best in England.

At that time, while Manchester City announced that Linson became the new head coach, something big happened to Málaga: the club officially announced the change of ownership. Old Sans, who lost to Florentino again, was discouraged and did not sell only part of the shares to Veralonga as planned before, retaining the dominance of the Sáz family in Málaga, but directly transferred all the shares to Veralonga, completely withdrew from Málaga, and completely withdrew from football. Veralonga also became the new chairman of Málaga.

Linson, who is still in Manchester at this time, did not know that the history he was familiar with had changed. He was accompanied by his "transfer partner" Brian Haywood, visiting Manchester City's Carrington training base.

Yes, it's Carrington, the same name as the famous Manchester United training base. Of course, this is not because the two clubs even compete for this, but because the training bases of Manchester City and Manchester United are both in the Carrington area and are very close to each other. A funny story about Sun Jihai, who once played for Manchester City, talked about a fun thing: once in training, he kicked off the ball with his big foot and accidentally kicked the ball away, but disappeared. As a result, the head coach Keegan yelled in anger and asked him to pick up the ball at Manchester United.

When it comes to Carrington training base, people immediately think of dense woods, arc-top buildings, wide grasslands, and quiet paths in their minds. In short, it is a pastoral scene. However, I am afraid no one would have thought that decades ago, this area was still a famous chemical area in Manchester. It was only in recent decades that the local government closed some old factories in order to protect the local natural ecological environment, which made it what it is today.

Although it is only adjacent to Manchester United's training base, Manchester City is actually unable to compare with their neighbors in terms of hardware or software. This situation has only improved with the arrival of the new boss in the past two seasons. However, it is obvious that this situation will not last too long, because in a few years, Manchester City will bid farewell to Carrington. Their new training base will be adjacent to the current city stadium, which also provides convenience for their future home games, because it only takes about twenty minutes to drive from the training base to Old Trafford, Manchester City's home game is in the east of Manchester, from Carrington training base to the city stadium, almost traveling through the entire Manchester City.

Although he couldn't catch up with Manchester United next door, Lin Sen was still very satisfied. The treatment was just a comparison. Compared with Malaga, which doesn't even have an independent training base, Manchester City is obviously much better. Of course, while visiting the Carrington training base, Lin Sen was also observing his "companion", and he also knew that the other party must be observing him.

Brian Mawood, who once played for Arsenal, is 49 years old. It is appropriate to describe him as being serious. Anyway, Lin Sen was taken by him to walk around the training base, and Lin Sen didn't see much smile on his face. I wonder if it was because he already knew that he had just obtained the right to Lin Sen in a blink of an eye. No matter what, during the visit, both of them had a tacit understanding and did not mention the transfer matters for the time being.

The reason for this is temporary is that it is well known that the summer transfer market will open on July 1st. Unlike other major European leagues, the new Premier League season will generally open in mid-August. Therefore, although the transfer market will not close until the last day of August, if you don’t want new players to miss the important running-in period, then the sooner the transfer work, the better, especially for a team like Manchester City, whose main lineup is destined to be replaced by a larger team.

Due to the change of head coaches, Manchester City's transfer plan has been delayed again and again. Therefore, according to Manchester City's plan, Linson must come up with his transfer plan within one week, decide on the transfer goal before the summer transfer window officially opens, and then complete at least most of the transfer work before mid-July as much as possible to ensure that the team's pre-season training plan can be successfully launched.

So, for Linson and Ma Wood, no matter whether they have different opinions afterwards, the next week will be the most harmonious time between them.

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