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Chapter 8 The first knife

Returning to Manchester means returning to work.

With Tang Hua's help, Lin Sen has become much easier now than when he first entered Malaga. However, there are some things that Tang Hua can't help him no matter how talented he is. This is the transfer work.

Buying some people and selling some people is the transfer Lin Sen described to Mubarak. Although it sounds a little simpler, it is actually not rough. Lin Sen is not satisfied with the current Manchester City lineup, so he needs to buy people. Only eleven people can play games, and the fittest survive, so he needs to sell people. For football, transfers have always been a dark side, it is so cold. If someone comes, someone will naturally have to leave.

Like doing anything, before doing it, you have to know your purpose in addition to thinking clearly about how to do it. Transfers are no exception. Before specifying a transfer plan, Linsen must first determine what kind of Manchester City team he wants, that is, the style of Manchester City. For many people, there are many styles of football, but for Linsen, the style is only appropriate and inappropriate. For example, if Barcelona plays defensive football, this is inappropriate, and Linsen chooses not to change Malaga's football style because he thinks that is appropriate.

Therefore, good-looking things may not be easy to use, just like handsome things may not be a good person, and good-looking football style may not be suitable for all teams.

When in Malaga, there were not many people who liked Malaga's football style except for Malaga fans, but everyone could not help but admit the fact that it was precisely because of this unpopular football style that Malaga became one of the best teams in Spain last season. And now, as Linson said when he met with Mubarak, Linson would bring some of the styles he had in Malaga to Manchester City. But Manchester City is Manchester City, Malaga is Malaga. The styles of the two are completely impossible to be exactly the same.

So, what kind of style would Manchester City be?

To put it simply, if Lin Sen sets a ratio of offense and defense for Malaga to play is 37 points, which means attack, 37 points, then Lin Sen plans to set a ratio of 46 points for Manchester City this time, and 60% of the game is not defense, but attack.

Yes. Lin Sen has always given everyone the impression of being a defensive coach, but this time, Lin Sen does not intend to let defense continue to be his only label.

The reason why Lin Sen plans to change from defense to offense is of course not because Lin Sen finally wants to please the audience, and finally plans to change from "destroy football" to "save football". The reason why Lin Sen does this is actually very simple, because of the environment. The environment here does not refer to those stadiums, but within the stadium.

The reason why Malaga played well last season was not only because Malaga was suitable for this tactic, but more importantly, it was also due to the environment, because as a newly promoted team at that time, it looked like a soft persimmon in other La Liga teams. Everyone wanted to pinch it, so almost no team would choose to shrink and defend when facing Malaga. This did not change until the second half of the season, because all teams realized that Malaga was not soft persimmon at that time, but hard persimmon.

And now, Manchester City may still be soft persimmons in the eyes of Manchester United and other teams, but in the eyes of most Premier League teams, it is absolutely impossible to be a team that can be pinched whenever they want. So, for Lin Sen, to put it simply, the era of Xiaomi plus rifles has passed, and now it is an aircraft plus cannon. If it was a forced person to fight guerrillas before, then learning to fight tough battles is the top priority now.

Of course, Lin Sen dared to set this style because Lin Sen was very sure that he might not be able to buy the best plane and the most powerful cannon in the world, but it is still more than enough to buy the second and third half-finished products.

So, yes, Lin Sen's first strike was on the front line.

Here, Lin Sen's definition of the forward line refers not only to the forward, but also to the offensive wing forward who is often confused with the winger and the front midfielder who is also often confused with the shadow forward. Therefore, for Lin Sen, a forward line occupies four positions in the main lineup: the center, left and right wing forward and potential shadow forward.

From this perspective, Manchester City's current forward line is no longer only the six Linsen budgeted, but ten. Etuhu, Wright, and others who were previously counted in the midfield should be counted in it. This is because Lin Sen has counted Elano, Ireland, and others who often play front midfield, otherwise there would be more than ten.

Speaking of risks, Lin Sen's departure made Lin Sen a little regretful. This person did not receive attention from Manchester City and chose to transfer to Chelsea's "post-England international" Sturridge after the end of last season. However, Lin Sen has the opportunity to make up for this regret because he knew that Sturridge really shining, not in Chelsea. Manchester City still had the opportunity to let this youth training bead go home.

As for now, how many of them are Lin Sen planning to leave?

Four! Robinho, Bellamy, Petrov and Wright Jr.

Butcher's knife is always bloody. If you can just pass by, Lin Sen would not raise the butcher's knife. Of course, for players who are not in his plan, Lin Sen has prepared sufficient reasons for the board of directors, and he also believes that the board of directors will not set too many obstacles for him in this regard, because Manchester City's strikers are too crowded, and losing weight is imperative. And more importantly, these people are almost all "left old men of the previous dynasty". Now Lin Sen has taken the initiative to give the board of directors an opportunity to "borrow a knife", and there is no reason they will refuse.

Bozinov, Benjani, Kassedo... These seemingly cheap players are almost all players acquired by Thaksin when he entered Manchester City in 2007. At that time, many Manchester City fans applauded the club's transfer transactions, believing that the club's money was a big deal, but after a season, they found that Bozinov, who had paid for the money, only played three games in the nearly six million pounds, had not scored a goal. Benjani, who had nearly four million pounds, scored three in thirteen games, and Kassedo, who had five million pounds, played ten times, and scored goals: zero.

Facts have proved that a bunch of second-rate strikers are still not as good as a first-rate striker.

So, last season Thaksin acquired another striker. The price of Brazilian striker is 19 million pounds. Unfortunately, this acquisition was still a failure, and then Mansour took over and brought the more expensive Robinho, which was not too bad this time.

Therefore, Lin Sen's list of departures on the forward line, not only did Lin Sen not worry about the board of directors' objections, but even in terms of fans, he was not worried about the fans' rebellion. As for the four people who remained, many people might think that at least Robinho would be the absolute main force, but Lin Sen doesn't think so, because he prepared four famous names for the forward line.

Left winger Di Maria, front midfielder David Silva, right winger Robben, forward Suarez.

Two have become famous, and two have been famous for a long time.

Lin Sen put these four people on the first-choice list not because of his personal hobbies. One of the biggest reasons is that, regardless of what has happened or has not happened yet, in Lin Sen's memory, these four players have all succeeded in the Premier League, which may not prove that they must be suitable for Manchester City. But at least it proves that they are adapted to the Premier League. This is crucial for Lin Sen, who is preparing to play attack cards in the new season, because compared to other stars, these people can at least ensure the attack power of Manchester City in the new season to the greatest extent.

In addition, these four people became the first choice, and another more practical reason is that these four people are actually likely to transfer. Because in Lin Sen's memory, these four people have changed their new owners in the next two years. Moreover, David Silva, the next home is Manchester City.

Of course, it’s one thing to buy, but it’s one thing to buy or not.

Among them, Di Maria and Suarez should be relatively difficult at the moment. Di Maria Linson "incited" Livermore to ask Benfica for the price when he was still in Malaga in January. The price given by Benfica was 25 million at the time. Although it was suspected of "provocation", it also proved that Di Maria is not a non-selling product, and 25 million is the number of Di Maria's transfer to Real Madrid next year. Real Madrid has not yet become interested in Argentina winger this season. Manchester City, which can fully meet Benfica's asking price, has a chance to be first come first served. Suarez, who is still in Ajax, is actually ready to go to the mainstream league. Manchester City, which has not lost Torres, is more than a year earlier than Liverpool, who has not lost Torres. If he is interested in robbing people, there is no reason to lose to the Reds.

The real difficulty is the other two goals. David Silva's difficulties come from the Valencia Club. Although Valencia is in a financial crisis, there is still another star David Villa that makes Real Madrid and Barcelona envious. In my memory, Villa finally went to Barcelona, ​​but this year, but Lin Sen doesn't know whether history will change. If Villa transfers smoothly, Valencia, whose fiscal crisis has been alleviated, is likely not letting David Silva go. Moreover, the unknown experience between Valencia's managers Colomel and Lin Sen is undoubtedly a potential obstacle.

As for Robben, Lin Sen knew that with Robben joining, Real Madrid would let go and Robben would leave, but the question is whether the arrogant Pan would look at Manchester City, which is a huge question.

The four players, conservatively estimated that Manchester City would have to pay at least 100 million in transfer fees, but it doesn't matter. For other players, if Robben can make a move, he would obviously use exclusive funds for superstars. Lin Sen conservatively estimated that he could also bring in transfer income of 20 to 30 million, so, after all, Lin Sen will still have a lot of money on his hands.

Of course, the reason why the first choice is called the first choice is because there are alternatives. In addition to these four players, Linsen has also prepared a row of shortlists with less difficulty in transfers: Reus, Lewandowski, Hazard, Sanchez, Cavani, Falcao... Robinho thinks he is a superstar? Very good, so he'd better show the performance of a superstar. Otherwise, Linsen doesn't think that anyone on his list is a vegetarian.

After formulating his forward reform plan, Lin Sen took out his mobile phone and dialed a number that was saved on his mobile phone for several months but had never been contacted once, because on the forward line, he also had an outside-plan player.

This player is the former Inter Milan striker Adriano who is currently a free agent. The person Lin Sen is preparing to look for is Adriano's agent Rinaldi. (To be continued, please search for Piaotiansi, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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