On July 11, the third place in South Africa's World Cup.

Suarez, who was sent off by a red card in the quarterfinals because he blocked Ghana's must-have goal with his hand at the last moment and missed the semi-finals. This time, he failed to help Uruguay change his destiny again. With the winning goal of Thomas Muller, Jansen and Khdira who had just transferred to Real Madrid, Germany finally defeated the biggest surprise of this World Cup with a score of 3-2.

And on this day, Manchester City boarded a plane to Portland, USA.

Although most of the players participating in the World Cup have been granted permission to extend their vacation, the number of Manchester City teams going to the United States has increased instead of decreasing, because Linson has brought almost all the players he can bring, including players who return on loan, such as Bend brothers, Falcao, and the lucky young teams, such as Guideti and Boyata, as well as players who are not in the next season's plan but have not yet left the team, such as Weiss, Bellamy and others.

Of course, for players in the negotiation stage, Lin Sen does not force him to go to the United States with the team.

Before the plane took off, Linson and Mawood had a phone call.

The final offer for Barcelona has been issued. Barcelona has not yet responded, and Lin Sen cannot disrupt the team's warm-up arrangements. As he leaves England and goes to the United States, most of the transfer affairs will be handed over to Ma Wood, and of course, most of the cleaning work will be carried out.

Among the "three major difficulties", Robinho, who is no longer a Manchester City player in the eyes of many Manchester City fans, has become clearer. Although the last time Galliani appeared in Manchester, which was exposed by British newspapers, was purely a sensational sensation, the whereabouts of the Brazilian striker will indeed be AC ​​Milan.

In fact, AC Milan is not the only team interested in Robinho. Linson also has a purchase from England, from a club that no one would have thought of: Liverpool.

Liverpool's bid for Robinho is something that Linson remembers. So Linson thought it was Liverpool's "revenge" against Manchester City's bid for Mascherano. However, as the rumors of Chelsea's acquisition of Torres became increasingly fierce in recent days, he suddenly realized that perhaps this was another aftermath caused by himself.

After Manchester City snatched the league championship that originally belonged to Chelsea last season, the chance of Chelsea continuing to remain in motion as they remember is really not high. In this case, Chelsea attacked Torres, whom Abraham had long been in love with for a long time, which is not difficult to understand. The star Liverpool used to replace Torres in memory is now also in Manchester City's team. That is Suarez.

Obviously, Suarez City will not sell it, especially after the stunning World Cup, so Robinho became a substitute for enough weight.

At the beginning, Lin Sen had not tried to exchange Robinho for Mascherano. It was amazing that Manchester City had some money. It was a very likely transfer to reach just at the club level. But soon, Mawood rejected this possibility because, like Mascherano, Robinho was unwilling to return to the Premier League. Moreover, his agent Ribero was unwilling to talk to Liverpool, which was not "ready" at all in terms of finance, and had no choice but to give up.

As soon as Lin Sen gave up, Manchester City naturally had no reason to sell Robinho to Liverpool and continue to go against him, especially when Liverpool's offer has no advantage compared to AC Milan's offer.

AC Milan's offer to Robinho is 18 million plus an additional fee linked to the score. This result refers to AC Milan winning the league championship. In other words, Robinho's transfer fee may reach up to 20 million. Mawood recognized this plan, and Lin Sen nodded, but reached an agreement, but Milan asked to delay the deal because they needed to clean their forward line first.

Mawood is a little hesitant about this, but Linsen doesn't care about it. At present, AC Milan's forward line is said to have five major strikers, Pato, Borelo, Ronaldo, Hunteral and Inzaghi. If you want to introduce Robinho, AC Milan's cleaning of the forward line is naturally imperative. What's more, Linsen also knows that Galliani is still staring at Barcelona's Ibrahimovic.

The plane arrived at Portland International Airport. Manchester City team, which came from afar, was welcomed by some local fans at the airport. The number was small and dozens of people were small. This was a small surprise, because everyone knew that football was far from the most popular sport in the United States. Manchester City's first warm-up game will be to challenge the local Portland Timber team at the Mellow Stadium, and in the next week, Manchester City will train at Nike HQ base.

The purpose of warm-up before the season is nothing more than reserve physical fitness, running in lineup, adjusting status, inspecting players, and testing formation...

In addition to players who have been confirmed to be not planned for next season, Lin Sen will also decide whether some people will stay next season in the warm-up match. The main one is the Bend brothers. Lin Sen dares to issue an "ultimatum" to Barcelona on the issue of Yaya Toure, and in fact part of his confidence comes from this.

The Bend brothers who were loaned to Birmingham last season, Lars Bend, who is more versatile, developed a little better than Sven Bend. Sven Bend was considered a rotation player in Birmingham last season, while Lars Bend became Birmingham's main player in the second half of the league and performed well. In terms of data, as a midfielder, he scored three goals and had three assists in 21 games. Considering Birmingham's ranking, this should be a very good result.

Just after last season, Birmingham couldn't wait to ask Manchester City for a buyout. This request was naturally rejected by Lin Sen. They then proposed to renew the loan. This time, Lin Sen did not directly refuse, but said that they would make a decision after evaluating the players.

In Manchester City in the new season, Lin Sen did not plan to change the formation. Although the unchanging tactics in the new season will definitely be familiar to the opponents, it is more important to maintain the stability of the lineup than this. Of course, some changes are necessary. In the game against Portland Wood a week later, Lin Sen experimented with the four-four and four-three formations in the first and second half, and replaced them with two completely different lineups at the same time.

The 442 in the first half was good. Manchester City led the opponent with two goals in the first half. However, after Lin Sen changed to the 433rd in the second half, Manchester City seemed to have no idea how to play football, and the defense was still okay. The offense was extremely chaotic because the wing could not form an effective breakthrough.

The final score of a two-to-one victory was just a warm-up match, and the winner did not mean much. For Lin Sen, he had several gains in this game. The first is that when the wings could not be suppressed, it would be better to be at ease. The second is that Sven Bend, who is more defensive than Lars Bend, is simply against Manchester City.

Of course, this is just the first warm-up match to come to the conclusion.

After a warm-up match with Portland Timber, Manchester City quickly moved to New Jersey, where a more substantial opponent was waiting for Linson to come to a more substantial conclusion, that is Sporting Lisbon.

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Manchester City is not the only European team to come to North America to practice this summer, nor is it even the only English team, because their city rival Manchester United is in Toronto at this time.

Unlike Manchester City, which has made extremely "difficult" transfers this summer, Manchester United has completed three introductions this summer, or to be precise, two, because Smalling's transfer was actually confirmed in January. The other two transfers, one is the "Little Pea" Hernandez announced in April, and the other makes fans around the world instantly remember a name: Beibei.

Yes, it was that Beibei. The Beibei that Ferguson once mentioned to Lin Sen in person. After all, Ferguson never "forgot" to give the world a big and small accident.

But Manchester United is not the most active team in the transfer market at present. The most active team is Liverpool. After confirming that Hodgson becomes the new head coach, Liverpool seems to have not lost Benitez's transfer habits and still beat the lineup. So far, although some transfers do not belong to the first team, they have announced eight introductions, including the "return" Aurelio, which surprised the English media.

Brazilian left-back Aurelio had been abandoned by Liverpool, but Hodgson's arrival made the left-back come back into Liverpool's vision, and then the two sides hit it off again. Such a transfer was not as warm as "reunite" in the eyes of the English media. The Daily Mail ridiculed Liverpool's move as having no money to gain publicity.

Compared with Liverpool, Chelsea, supported by Abraham, is much richer. After signing Lescott for 15 million, they signed Brazilian midfielder Ramirez from Benfica. The transfer fee was revealed to be 22 million, but what excited the English media the most was that Chelsea's pace did not stop because of this.

Five-and-five million yuan poached Bernardon from Liverpool is just an appetizer, and the opponent's forward Torres is the main meal. Now, the English tabloid published every day is updating Chelsea's latest quotation against Torres almost every day. Now this number has reached 40 million pounds.

This is already a super transfer number.

Among the four giants, the most stable one is Arsenal, where Wenger is in charge. Their transfers are basically targeted, letting Eduardo go from the front line and Chamak make up. Now the defense has become a well-known signing position for them, because before that, they have let go of three central defenders in one go, and they all transfer freely, namely Galas, Campbell and Sylvester. Wenger has signed Squeakic from Lorient for 8 million. It seems that Arsenal will have a fiscal balance this summer and make a small profit.

In short, in the transfer market, the Eight Immortals crossing the sea show their magical powers.
Chapter completed!