In mid-July, Manchester City's players gradually returned to the squad and several new players arrived in Manchester for the first time. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Bridge was thrown straight into the youth team and the remaining four players went into the first team, so that City have 22 players in the first team.

22 players are definitely not many in the first team of the Premier League, which is not enough to meet the 25 upper limit of Champions League registered players, but this is also the success of Manchester City FC in business, these 22 players are basically very strong players, most of them are players who are playing in their years, there are many young players, the age structure is very reasonable, there is no kind of mixed rice or old age players.

Of course, there are still some problems in this first-team list, that is, it does not meet the Champions League player registration conditions in the "need to have four youth players of the team, eight domestic youth players" These two items, Manchester City's first-team players only have Lake, Lennon, this does not meet, in addition to the above two, there are Quinn, Bigley, Husky, Frikloft, Tracy, Mills, these six, a total of eight, this is in line.

One of the surprises is Lennon, he is actually a Manchester City academy, he played in Manchester City in these three seasons, and meets the conditions for playing in this team for three seasons under the age of 21, but at that time the Manchester City team was not optimistic about him, so he did not renew his contract, and now Lennon is playing again, Manchester City has called him again, and he is back, even if he is here to play rotation, he is willing.

Of course, it is quite easy to meet the conditions of four youth players of the team, that is, to select three players from the youth team of the team to register for the Champions League, although these three players often do not play, but it is their biggest role to help the team avoid these two registration conditions.

Later, Arsenal, Chelsea, most of the players are bought foreign aid team, if you don't do this, they can't meet such conditions, the team's youth training, England youth players can reach the level of playing in the Champions League too few players, strong teams are grabbing, it is very difficult to buy, and the price is basically sky-high, they prefer to buy foreign superstar players, then if you want to meet the registration conditions, you can only use youth team players to make up.

Ding Hongxing is now vigorously developing the academy, just to fundamentally solve this problem, think about the future Manchester City academy is full of talented players, so how to meet the Champions League registration conditions will be worried?

The Manchester City team held a welcome ceremony for several players who joined the new team, and the two captains of the team, Quinn and Ding Hongxing, were very enthusiastic about the new players.

Needless to say, Seedorf had a very good relationship with Ding Hongxing, and his personality was very lively, and he quickly integrated into the team.

Blank has played for four or five teams in his career, he is also in his old age, he is still the captain of the French team, he is an experienced veteran, he knows a lot about how to fit into a new team, how to build a good relationship with his new team-mates, so soon, he is also talking and laughing with his new Manchester City team-mates.

Only two young players, Mills and Zambrotta, are still somewhat recognizable, especially Zambrotta, who came to England from Italy to play and is still a little uncomfortable, and he is not fluent in English, so he seems to be a bit reticent.

In training, Ding Hongxing took the initiative to talk to Zambrotta, he first smiled and said "hello" to Zambrotta in Italian, this is an Italian sentence he learned from Xiaobao, this Italian greeting made Zambrotta feel that Ding Hongxing was cordial, he always thought that Ding Hongxing, the number one star of the Manchester City team, was not easy to approach, but he didn't expect Ding Hongxing to take the initiative to greet him, and he also learned a sentence of Italian.

Zambrotta also smiled and replied "hello" in English, he knew that when he came to England to play, he had to learn English, so he had been working hard to learn English during this time, and he didn't find a translator when he came to England, and he spoke to everyone in English, he wanted to use this way to integrate into England as soon as possible.

The two exchanged a few words, Zambrotta talked to Ding Hongxing about his confusion, he played the right midfield position in the Italian Como team, but the Manchester City team is not short of people in this position, this position has Smitchell, Seedorf, Lake can also play this position, so does he have a chance to play? Zambrotta is not a player who wants to sit on the bench despite coming from the Serie C side, and he wants to improve his level by playing enough time.

Ding Hongxing didn't answer his question directly, he smiled and asked, "Then what position do you see in the team that is lacking?" ”

Zambrotta had done a little to know the players before coming to Manchester City, he looked at the players on the training ground, counted with his fingers, and after a while, he said to Ding Hongxing: "It seems that there is only Lizarazu in the left-back position at the moment, right?" ”

Ding Hongxing nodded: "Yes, there is at least one person missing in the left-back position." ”

Zambrotta said: "Is the club still going to buy players?" ”

Ding Hongxing said: "There should be no plan to buy players for the time being." ”

Zambrotta said: "So you mean to say that I should play at left-back? ”

Ding Hongxing asked again, "How is your left foot?" ”

Zambrotta said: "My left foot is no worse than my right. ”

Ding Hongxing said: "Then have you ever played fullback?" ”

Zambrotta said: "Sometimes I make a cameo. ”

Ding Hongxing said: "That's not enough, you are still very young, and you still have strong plasticity, don't limit yourself to one position too early, playing a few more positions will be good for your ball skills growth." Do you know how many positions I can play? ”

Zambrotta counted on his fingers: "You can't seem to hit the goalkeeper position, right?" ”

Ding Hongxing said with a smile: "You are wrong, when necessary, it is okay for me to make a cameo appearance as the goalkeeper." ”

Zambrotta's eyes widened, this is too godly!

Ding Hongxing said: "You see Luther, he used to play as a midfielder, and now he is an excellent center forward, and the experience of playing midfield is very helpful for him to play center forward." You're fast, you're fit, you're a good runner, you're good at counter-attacking, and I'm very optimistic that you'll be a great wide player who can play both wings. ”

Zambrotta nodded and said, "I see, I'll try." ”