Chapter 28 Choose one out of two
As time goes by August, less than half a month left before the opening of the new season of the Premier League, the famous William Hill bookmaker has released the latest championship odds.
The one at the forefront is still Manchester United, which has achieved three consecutive championships. Although he lost the footballer Ronaldo, he introduced Valencia and Irving and other famous players, and was still favored by bookmakers. In fact, as long as the old Scotsman is still there, you can't ignore Manchester United, their odds are 2.75.
Following closely behind is Chelsea, who replaced the head coach and Liverpool who replaced the metronome, their odds are 3.5 and 3.75 respectively. Chelsea abnormally changed their previous strategies this summer and only made some repairs to the lineup. Except for the entry and exit of some reserve teams and youth teams, the first team was basically not affected. Only Peruvian striker Pizarro returned to his famous place Werder Bremen. The only transfer of 10 million to Jerkov is more like a Russian player dream for his boss Abraham. After Liverpool let Xavi Alonso go to Real Madrid for 30 million, he immediately introduced Aquilani from Roma for 20 million, and then earned Glenn Johnson for nearly 20 million. His strength on paper should be said to have risen instead of falling, but in fact, only Lin Sen knows what it is.
The fourth place is Arsenal, which Chinese fans like to call the four-man genius. When Wenger talks about Manchester City signings, he can talk about his ideals, but sometimes ideals cannot be eaten. The so-called ideals are full and reality is skinny. Wenger will sooner or later take the path of spending money. Anyway, Lin Sen knows that Arsenal ranked fourth, just put together the four major clubs in the traditional Premier League, but in terms of odds, Arsenal is a lot worse. Their odds are 10, and it also shows that the bookmakers are not optimistic about Arsenal's championship.
As for Manchester City, it is even more impossible to make people optimistic. Unlike Arsenal, Arsenal is not optimistic because it spends too little money, while Manchester City is not optimistic because it spends too much money. The reason is very simple. Spending a lot of money means that the lineup changes greatly. They were an example last season, so don’t blame the bookmaker for not giving face. Ranking Manchester City to fifth is considered to be worthy of so much money. Manchester City spent so much money. Manchester City’s odds are 34, followed by Tottenham Hotspur and Aston Villa…
Regarding the odds of winning the championship, Lin Sen never takes it seriously. Excluding the "insider" that sounds serious for some people, football lottery is just a derivative industry in the final analysis. Once the cart is put before the horse, it means the death of football. Therefore, Lin Sen would rather be optimistic about this. Gambling companies are not optimistic about Manchester City. It is just adding some topics of conversation before and after meals to Manchester City fans. For Lin Sen, it cannot change anything.
Manchester City in the transfer market is very high-profile, but Lin Sen himself is very low-key.
Internally, he focused his energy on the training ground. Since Tang Hua was busy with coaching training in recent days, he needed to do many things himself, and externally. In the face of reporters who were intentional or unintentionally provoked disputes between him and other coaches, especially Ferguson, he always calmly said that he could not slap a single slap. Unless the slap really hits the face, Lin Sen didn't want to pay attention to the storm of the wind and shadow, as that would be too tiring.
As fans and media began to look forward to the new season and faced a new future, Lin Sen underestimatedly solved a "number crisis" in the team. The incident originated from Adriano's desire to wear the No. 9 jersey, but this number currently belongs to his compatriots. If, as we all know, if someone who may leave the team at any time, if he is willing to change the number, then the consensual matter naturally does not need Lin Sen to say anything, but the problem is that if he doesn't want to change it at all, he ignored Adriano's request for a summer, then the problem will come...
Just as the other players were guessing what to do at this time, Adriano suddenly chose another number, No. 18. Of course, this is not because Adriano took the initiative to aggrieved the players to follow the example of former Inter Milan star Zamorano to give 1+8, but because Lin Sen talked to him and persuaded Adriano to change the number. In Lin Sen's opinion, the meaning of the number is given by a person, and it is meaningless to have a dispute because of grabbing the number. If Lin Sen deprives Ruo of the number today, no matter how high the reason is, it will inevitably set a bad precedent, because that means that if a star who is bigger than Adriano will come in the future, Lin Sen will peel the number from Adriano again?
The reason is very simple. Adriano accepted Lin Sen's persuasion. No. 9 was still worn on Ruo, although no one knew how long he could wear it.
Then, after instructing the stadium manager Cohen to increase the width of the stadium in the new season, he led the team to Scotland, where Manchester City will play a warm-up match with a pair of century-old enemies of the Scottish Celtics and Glasco Wanderers, each of which is the last two warm-up matches before the start of the Premier League this season.
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Roben is here.
Mawood was unhappy again.
Because Robben's arrival was conditioned on his abandonment of his goal.
Real Madrid and Manchester City are fond of the same target Tevez, and Manchester City also wants Real Madrid's Robben, so Real Madrid's football director Bardano came up with a plan. Real Madrid can agree to let Robben go, but the premise is that Manchester City needs to give up the pursuit of Tevez.
Another option to choose from two.
At this time, head coach Lin Sen's opinion became the key.
In fact, among all the goals this summer, Lin Sen is the one who is least optimistic about success is the Dutch winger, because there are too many factors that restrict Robben from transferring to Manchester City. First, whether Robben himself is interested in Manchester City, because Manchester City is far from a giant club now; second, Manchester City has no Champions League to play this season, which invisibly reduces Manchester City's attractiveness; third, Bayern Munich's competition, and Bayern Munich's head coach is also a Dutchman, Van Gaal.
So, when Linson got the news in Scotland, Linson was still not optimistic about the transfer, but when he heard that Gary Cook had signed a contract with Robben's agent, Linson was even a little unbelievable. His first thought was that Bayern Munich must have not intervened in the transfer. Next, he was ecstatic. No matter how much he could come, as long as he could.
For any coach, Robben on the left and the right are all dreamy wings that are not necessarily money-free. What's more, Robben's arrival indirectly makes Lin Sen closer to his other goal: Suarez!
After Linson nodded to Real Madrid's suggestion, since Gary Cook had already made all the preparations before, the rest was basically just natural. Negotiators are negotiators, and Gary Cook, a former Nike executive, is impeccable in this regard.
When Manchester City got their second draw at the Ebrox Stadium, home of Glasco Rangers, Gary Cook had completed the negotiations, and Robben was only one step away from Manchester. When Robben himself appeared at Manchester International Airport, hundreds of Manchester City fans welcomed the Dutch.
The Manchester Evening News used incredible to describe this transfer. They used similar words last season. That time, Robinho arrived in Manchester at the last moment of the transfer period. Now, another superstar from Real Madrid is about to wear Manchester City's jersey. Robben, who had a grim expression when he first appeared, finally showed a smile amid the warm welcome from Manchester City fans.
Like his national teammate Sneider, Robben was not willing to leave the Bernabeu, but when he found that Real Madrid had always hesitated on his issues and even used him as a bargaining chip, he made up his mind to leave. However, he did not consider Manchester City at that time. Gary Cook showed his ability at this time, with the highest weekly salary in the Premier League tied with Robinho, the core position in the team, and the huge cake that Manchester City had already drawn. After talking with national teammate De Jong, Robben finally made the decision to return to the Premier League.
At this time, Bayern Munich, who was most worried about at first, had just taken action, but the progress had been lagging behind them for more than a month, so it was too late.
When Mawood and Gary Cook accompanied Robben to appear in the press conference hall to introduce the Dutchman's franchise, Mawood, who looked smiling, was not so happy in his heart when facing the reporter's camera.
Completion is a noble thing, but if anyone needs to sacrifice himself to help others, it is not easy for anyone to convince himself to be more open-minded. Robben and Tevez, two transfers that were originally unrelated, were even close to reaching an agreement with Horabchin, but unexpectedly, they suddenly had a connection at this time, and it was a life-and-death connection.
Everything is for the team.
It sounds nice, but everyone has their jobs and everyone has their responsibilities. Looking at Manchester City's transfer work throughout the summer, Ma Wood, as football director, has participated in many transfers, but only Azpilicueta, Cahill and Xavi Martinez, the three transfers he handled. The first two are transfers below the level of tens of millions, lacking weight, and the latter is the least difficult activation minimum termination fee and lacking difficulty.
On the other hand, although Gary Cook was only responsible for two transfers, all of them were heavyweight. It was David Silva before, and Robben now, but Gary Cook was higher in level after all, and Lin Sen was the one who made Ma Wood feel more urgency. As the head coach, Lin Sen had to look at the abilities he showed in the transfer. Although Lin Sen took over from him in the middle, they were all transfers that Ma Wood himself thought were difficult. Vidal's transfer, a transfer that was almost dead. After Lin Sen took over, it not only agreed, but also seemed to ease the relationship with Leverkusen. For Bale's transfer, everyone in the club's senior management knew that Lin Sen's meeting with the player himself was decisive...
Now, who else doubts that Lin Sen was the decision-maker in the transfer work of Malaga last season?
Ma Wood takes the initiative in transferring the Big Three, but now he has fallen below.
Chapter completed!