After Dick took over, Manchester City, who had not seemed to make any moves, soon began their big move.

Fifteen players have been thrown into the transfer market by them, and all the agents of the players that Dick did not name have been informed by the Manchester City club that you are no longer in the city's plans for next season and that you can find your own way out or stay until the end of the contract.

For this, in fact, most of Manchester City's players are mentally prepared, there are no big stars among them, and their performance last season was not very good, Manchester City hired Dick, ready to invest a lot of money to definitely impact the championship, not what to aim for in the European arena, why keep them? Manchester City has always been accustomed to buying people, and they don't have any iron cores in the team that they have cultivated, to put it bluntly, these players in Manchester City are basically mercenaries, and they are also used to wandering, and their income in Manchester City is not very high, and they have not moved any thoughts of eating their old books, after getting such a notice, they have begun to prepare to find the next home, you must know that these players are not without nowhere to go, such as Italian striker Corradi, Belgian striker Mponsa, French midfielder Dabo, local midfielder Sinclair, They don't have to worry about having nowhere to go.

After deciding on the purge list, Dick was ready to bring in reinforcements, and in fact City had not nine, but ten players left - you must know that Gareth Bale is actually already a Man for Manchester City, and will only officially join until the transfer window opens.

£200 million has been credited to the club's transfer account, and Chandick can withdraw it at will, naturally, and it has to be used in the transfer market.

There is no shortage of Manchester City's goalkeeper and right-back positions, and there is no shortage of other positions, and Dick did not spend a lot of money to bring back a superstar as soon as he took office, which will only make Manchester City's future transfer more troublesome, and his first eye is for Leighton Barnes, a homegrown left-back who plays for Wigan Athletic.

Barnes, a full-back, is a pretty good left-back in the Premier League, or the only English player who can be better than him in this position is Ashley Cole, and there is a reason why he has not been to the giants, he has now played in the Premier League for two seasons, and his performance is quite good, the reason why the big four teams did not buy him is because these four giants are not short of left-backs - Manchester United has Evra, Chelsea has Cole, Liverpool has Reese, and Arsenal is now using Christ to play this position. And Arsenal will not spend a lot of money to buy a homegrown defender, so Everton picked a leak, and then he is one of the most consistent left-backs in the Premier League, Dick will naturally not let go of such a player.

Everton's offer to Barnes reached six million pounds, and Dick didn't open more, also paying six million pounds, in the face of this price, Wigan Athletic knew that they couldn't keep the full-back, and Dick seemed to be very shrewd, and he didn't plan to use money to smash people, even if he didn't let people go, it wouldn't bring too much benefit.

After Wigan Athletic agreed to the offers of Everton and Manchester City at the same time, Moyes was very depressed to find that he could not compete with Dick, although Everton has the League Cup next season, Manchester City can only play in the league, but Dick called Leighton Barnes and said, "Let's go to win the Premier League together!" After that, Barnes thought about it for two minutes and decisively agreed to join Manchester City......

"Brother's name is still a bit useful." Dick laughed.

You must know that the position of fullback is often difficult to fill, so Dick first considered this position, Barnes is not the world's top fullback, but he is also a rare and reliable fullback, and Bale, Dick knows that this little monkey is not suitable for fullback, and it is good to hone more in the substitute position.

After the takedown of Barnes, Dick quickly took a second player, and for the same £7 million, he took homegrown midfielder Scott Parker from Newcastle, the homegrown midfielder performed well last season, although he is now injured, but Dick still believes he can strengthen Manchester City's midfield, and after some bargaining, Dick took the homegrown midfielder.

The third signing continued to come from home, and later played for Manchester United, Ashley Young, who should have joined Aston Villa at the beginning of this year according to the historical situation, but for some reason he stayed at Watford, after discovering this, Dick quickly shot, at a price of 10 million pounds, Dick took the winger, he can play left and right, even if in Dick's mind he may not be able to play the main team, but also a good supplement to the front.

The first three signings cost Dick 24 million pounds, which can be regarded as a lot of money for Dick, but there is also a reason, the three signings are all local players in England, and the Premier League has a characteristic, that is, local players are particularly expensive, and the household registration is valuable.

This kind of recruitment has also caused a lot of discussion, it is Dick's usual style to bring in local players in a big way, don't you see that after he went to Inter Milan, he brought in several local players? Perrotta and Toney can be said to have started to become the main players of the Italian national team under him, which is also very popular with fans, after all, it doesn't hurt to have more local players.

The fourth signing came as a surprise to everyone, as Dick sent a team to South America and finally won the 20-year-old Chilean midfielder Vidal for five million pounds, the young player who had just led the team to a third-place finish at the South American Youth Championship and scored six goals to score second in the scorer list, and Manchester City was about to sign a contract to officially become a member of Manchester City after receiving his labor certificate - although he was not selected for the national team, he played all the games in the South American Youth Championship. With such results, there is no big problem in obtaining a labor certification.

Just a week later, Dick won four players in a row, but except for Barnes, who will be the main force of these four, others may not become the main force, and Dick's main frame needs to be filled slowly.

But now it's just to buy players of this level who are not enough, Dick naturally has his intentions, such players will not be too valuable, at least not inflated, and in the face of such players, their own attraction is enough, naturally it is smoother, with such reinforcements, and then buy top players, it will not be easily blackmailed.

At this time, it was time for him to start showing his strength.

"Well, I don't think I've ever fucking spent that much money...... When I was at Atletico Madrid, I invested tens of millions of dollars a season, and Dortmund used it for two dollars, which was better at Inter Milan, but I had to be careful about it, now...... In addition to the 29 million, there are 171 million...... That's enough for me to do a big job! ”

Dick, who was smiling, picked up his phone and made a call.

"Hey, Fernando, how are you doing?" After the phone was answered, Dick said happily aloud.

Torres smiled wryly on the other end of the line: "Not good, boss. ”

"I know you're in a bad mood right now...... How, are you in Madrid? Dick asked with a smile.

"Yes, I didn't go on vacation." Torres seemed to know something, and then he laughed too: "What, boss, do you want me to play for your current team?" ”

"There's this idea." Dick admits this: "If you're in Madrid, I think we can have a good talk, I'll be in Madrid tomorrow." ”

"I'm looking forward to seeing you there, Chief." Torres laughed on the other end of the phone.

After Dick hung up, Torres fell into deep thought.

For Madrid's new golden boy, he never thought that he would leave Atletico Madrid, even if he admired Dick so much at the time, knowing that Little Hill drove Dick away out of some boring mentality, he was very angry with Little Hill and the management, but he never moved the mind of leaving Atletico Madrid, because he grew up in the youth team of this club, he has been a fan of Atletico Madrid since he was a child, he can't imagine the days when he wears the clothes of other teams, even if Dick leaves, Atletico Madrid can be regarded as getting worse, From the Champions Cup winners to the top four and then to the European competition...... But he didn't think about leaving, because he was the flag of Atletico Madrid, and he was like Raul who became Real Madrid in Atletico Madrid, and Maldini of AC Milan, when did he hear that the flag would leave on his own initiative? Isn't that a joke?

However, towards the end of last season, his belief began to waver.

Atletico Madrid's results last season were very bad, there was no hope of winning the championship, and it was impossible to even enter the Champions Cup, but it did not fall out of the top six, and won the League Cup, which means they must pick up at least one more point than Real Madrid in the remaining three league games to win the league title, and that's when they met Atletico Madrid.

Torres wanted to win the game because one thing he learned from Dick was that even when there was no glory left in the game, you had to give your best when you were out on the pitch, and he did that on the pitch – but unfortunately his teammates didn't seem to think so.

At home, Atletico conceded three goals in 30 minutes and a fourth before half-time, and Fernando Torres worked the pitch, but he received little support and conceded one goal after another at the back.

At the end of the first half, Torres and his striker partner Sergio Aguero smiled wryly, and Torres knew why this was the case - the reason is simple, the outcome of this game does not matter to Atletico Madrid, and as Real Madrid's sworn enemies, Atletico Madrid are happy to lose to Barcelona, giving Barcelona a greater hope of beating Real Madrid to win the league title.

But just because he knew it didn't mean he would approve of it, as his team-mates and the acquiescence of the hierarchy made him feel sick like a fly, and at half-time he offered to substitute him for the first time, and then in the second half, he watched in silence from the bench as his team lost 6-0 at home to Barcelona.

Torres began to feel that there was no need to stay any longer at Atletico, and Dick's words rang in his head - "A team can hate an opponent, but if that hatred overrides the desire to win, then this team will not be of much use." ”