Chapter 2 Holidays
This season, Manchester City has four people on the front line: Bellamy, Robinho, Adriano, and Suarez.
Among them, Robinho has been long-term loan to Brazil's Santos in the middle of the season. He is most likely to leave the team this summer. He is not included. The remaining three forwards have performed well this season. Suarez is the main forward. After Adriano slowly recovers, he has become the first choice. Bellamy's number of games has decreased compared to last season, but he can play in multiple positions and is also an important piece of Lin Sen's forward line.
In this case, unless Lin Sen changes the team to play the double striker tactic next season, the Manchester City forward line with a single striker has actually become saturated. If Falcao, who has a single position, someone will inevitably make sacrifices.
Benfica obviously believes that Lin Sen must have no intention of changing the current situation of Manchester City's forward line, so they feel that there is a chance, but they didn't expect Falcao's position in Lin Sen's eyes at all.
"Renew the lease?" Mendes seemed not surprised by Lin Sen's answer, and he said with a smile.
In fact, from the beginning, Mendes didn't think Linson would let Falcao go. Falcao had shown his ability, and no one was afraid of many good strikers. Benfica had made a wrong idea from the beginning, but as Falcao's agent, Mendes could not refuse Benfica in public or private ways. So after Linson gave his answer, he changed his way.
But Lin Sen still shook his head, and then seemed not to want to continue to get entangled on this topic, and smiled and said, "When did you become Benfica's manager?"
"I just agree with Benfica's sincerity," Mendes smiled. "And, Manchester City doesn't seem to need Romedal now."
"You're wrong," Linson said. "He and Di Maria will become important players at Manchester City next season."
When Lin Sen talked about this, Mendes nodded and finally skipped the topic.
"I don't need to say more about the third thing. What do you think?"
Never thought. Lin Sen spread his hands and said, "I don't have any ideas."
"Don't have any ideas?" Mendes was a little amused, "What does this mean?"
"It means that you will leave it all to deal with." Lin Sen smiled.
Lin Sen does not have any special requirements. This contract renewal was originally proposed by Manchester City, not Lin Sen is dissatisfied with his contract. Of course, no one would mind that his salary was higher or higher, but this is not a special requirement. Renewal and salary increase is certain. Lin Sen fully believes that Mendes can help him get the best conditions for this.
"Okay." Mendes had no choice but to nod, and then asked intentionally or unintentionally, "What about transfers?"
Last summer, Lin Sen signed with Manchester City, and his only requirement was to ask for the transfer rights. In the end, Manchester City did not give it all, so it could only be considered half. Mendes felt that if Lin Sen mentioned the renewal of the contract this time, although the possibility of Manchester City letting go is still not high, it is much higher than last summer.
"I won't force it, it's good now."
This is also the truth. The reason why Lin Sen wants to transfer is simply that he does not want to be influenced by the club in the transfer. But judging from the transfer situation last summer, Manchester City's transfer work will basically be carried out according to his ideas. Since that is the case, there is no need for him to hold the power. Moreover, Robben and David Silva's two transfers also made Lin Sen feel that there are some things. It is indeed a professional career. At least, if he is allowed to operate these two transfers, he will not be sure to succeed. This level of transfer, without considerable connections and having "eye" is far from enough.
So, as he said, that's good.
Mendes understood Linson's thoughts, and he nodded slightly, thinking.
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After Mendes left, Lin Sen ate something casually, then opened his notebook and began to calculate his next personal plan.
The so-called personal plan is actually not entirely his own, because before he arranges his own vacation, in addition to determining the team's pre-season training schedule for the new season, he also needs to have a bottom line for the transfer plan for the new season.
On the agenda, if nothing unexpected happens, the Premier League will also start in mid-August. The team's training time will be about a month ahead of schedule according to usual practice, that is, in early July. However, due to the World Cup this year, the pre-match training of major European clubs will definitely be affected. Of course, although the World Cup will be played until mid-July, not all players have the opportunity to wait until that time.
What made Lin Sen scratch his head was that the South African World Cup final in memory was between the Netherlands and Spain, which means that core players such as Robben and David Silva will definitely return to the team later. In short, there will be no changes in the training time of the new season, but the personnel are destined to be intact.
As for the transfer plan, Linson has not communicated with Mawood yet, but some people have already made it clear that they have entered and exited. In addition to the 24 players from the first team last season, plus Robinho, Bend brothers, Falcao and Di Maria who returned on loan, as well as Michael Johnson, Etuhu, Weiss and others, the first team's lineup will exceed 30 people by then, and cleaning is inevitable.
Lin Sen has already been very clear about Manchester City's lineup next season, but the plan will never keep up with the changes. Lin Sen is not sure about a few points, such as David Silva, who agreed to talk after the season, and for example, there are several players who need to adjust their positioning, but he is not sure whether they will accept such adjustments. Therefore, what he can do now is to draw up a cleaning list first.
Yes, unlike last summer when he almost ignored the cleaning work, Lin Sen plans to clean up first and then sign up this summer.
The order of cleaning and signing is almost a vane of the financial situation for many clubs, but for Manchester City, it does not have this meaning. The reason for signing first last year was naturally because of the finances. But this year, the confidence comes from the lineup. The champion's team did not need to make big moves, not to mention that this is still a young champion.
It was not difficult to clean up the roster, or not to plan for next season's plan, Lin Sen quickly made a few names, then picked up his phone and called Ma Wood.
A few minutes later, Lin Sen put down the phone.
Ma Wood did not express any objection to Lin Sen's list of cleanings on the phone, but like last year, Ma Wood did not say anything to death, but only expressed that Lin Sen's meaning was understood. Lin Sen didn't care about this.
The season just ended and the list of cleaning was revealed. This seemed a bit suspicious of killing donkeys, but in fact, for every head coach, it was just a tacit fact, especially when a team's lineup was stable. Moreover, the sooner this matter was determined, both for the team and for the players, the more beneficial it would outweigh the disadvantages. Of course, these things cannot be made public for the time being. Linson told Ma Wood's intention, and there was no intention to urge Ma Wood, but only let Ma Wood have a bottom in the center for the next transfer.
After all, although the World Cup will affect the pre-season training of club teams, the transfer market will not be suspended because of the World Cup. On the contrary, the transfer market will become more lively because of the World Cup. Because the World Cup is a larger stage for display.
After doing all this, Lin Sen began to arrange his own vacation.
When it comes to holidays, it is always pleasant. In people's impression, when they think of the players' holidays, a few things will immediately flash in their minds: beaches, sunshine, bikini... This is indeed the choice of most players, at least most stars, but it may not be the choice of everyone.
Of course, Lin Sen would not be too troublesome to care about his teammates' choice of holidays. He is still very at ease with most people, but for some team members, he still has to focus on "care".
For example, Reus, Linsen asked Dina to prepare a holiday recipe for him. For example, Adriano, Linsen even deliberately pulled the other party to weigh his weight and then "threatened" the other party. If his weight exceeds the standard next time he returns to the team, he will be ready to report on the reserve team when he will recover and when he will return to the first team. In response, Adriano just shook his head and smiled bitterly. Who made him suffer a lot of bad deeds?
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As for his holiday, as the head coach, especially the head coach with transfer responsibilities, although he did not plan to join the World Cup, Lin Sen's holiday is definitely shorter than anyone in the coaching staff. From now until early June, this is his most free time. In June, the transfer work will gradually begin. Although he doesn't have to return to Manchester, it is definitely impossible to be as leisurely as before.
Lin Sen’s plan is to return to China and stay as long as he can.
Speaking of returning to China, Tang Hua had already booked a flight ticket to return to China, just today. Lin Sen originally planned to return to China with Tang Hua, but because Mendes' visit had to be postponed. The young man asked Lin Sen to contact him after returning to China. Lin Sen smiled and said that he must be sure. It is worth mentioning that although he did not return to China with Tang Hua, this time Tang Hua was not alone when he returned to China, because he also brought a person and a woman.
As for Dina, who had been to China with Lin Sen once, this time she didn't plan to go to China again. She was so eager that she didn't even attend yesterday's celebrations and went back to Spain directly. However, Alil was still in Manchester, and her itinerary was the same as Lin Sen: China. This is actually Dina's relationship. Because she always mentioned Lin Sen's "hometown" with Alil, the curious Alil has asked Lin Sen to take her with her more than once when she returns to China. Lin Sen can only nod to this, he can't refuse, right?
But what Lin Sen didn't expect was that a few days later, Ariel, who met at the airport, was not alone, and there was another person who walked with her.
Chapter completed!