Chapter 1239: Recruitment
In just a few days, Kaka was able to conquer his teammates and coaches in training.
It can be seen from the training that his body has indeed recovered, at least much better than when he was at Real Madrid.
The Manchester City players, who were still a little unconvinced by Kaka's arrival, gradually accepted Kaka at this time.
As a team that has just won the Champions League, they feel that they are the best in Europe, and not everyone can come to this team, it depends on whether they are worthy or not.
Originally, everyone thought that Kaka's cousin in Real Madrid was unworthy of coming to Manchester City.
But now, if Kaka maintains such a body, he can be a main force!
Sneijder is under competitive pressure.
Benitez soon saw Sneijder more active in training than before......
This was something he didn't expect, and he was still struggling with how to make the players more motivated, especially Sneijder.
Unexpectedly, a Kaka transfer came, which turned out to be a catalyst for Sneijder's hard work.
Benitez realises that Kaka and Sneijder can be a healthy rivalry, just like last season's Glory and Ibrahimovic...... However, he is not quite sure that the rivalry between Glory and Ibrahimovic should be called "benign......
After Kaka joined Manchester City, various discussions about Kaka's transfer to Manchester City are still not over, is Manchester City's buying Kaka a bad move or a good move, and what is Kaka's voluntary salary cut to join Manchester City?
These are all of everyone's concern.
However, Kaka was tight-lipped about this, and he did not give any explanation other than the rhetoric he made at the joining ceremony.
As for whether Kaka's move to Manchester City is good or bad for Manchester City, we can only wait until the team starts playing to know the result.
Until then, everyone can only wait.
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Originally, Benitez thought that he would only be able to purge some players to stimulate the rest of the players to work hard, but after a series of events, the atmosphere in the Manchester City team is surprisingly good.
Everyone worked hard, and the free and loose air at the beginning of the training camp was swept away.
Ibrahimovic and Rongguang have been training very hard, and now there is another Kaka, Kaka is also working very hard in training, and his training attitude is completely unspeakable. Just by looking at his training attitude, you know that he definitely did not come to Manchester City to get a high salary.
He really wants to do something at Manchester City.
In such a situation, Manchester City suddenly became less necessary to make a big splash in the transfer market.
Their transfer work is mainly a few tinkering with the squad.
At left-back, Sun Hai's contract with Manchester City expired, and this time he did not renew his contract, but decided to leave Manchester City and return to China.
He wants to continue his career in China, where his body is no longer able to meet the high demands of Manchester City, but it is more than enough to cope with domestic competitions.
After Sun Hai's departure, Manchester City have been particularly thin at left-back, with only Leyton Barnes alone, which is obviously not enough.
Manchester City have their eye on Valencia's main left-back Jordi Alba this time.
As the main force of Valencia, Alba must be the one they are not willing to let go lightly.
But Manchester City, who are not short of money, used money to blast the gates of Valencia open.
After half a month of negotiations, Manchester City finally brought Alba from Valencia to England for 16 million euros.
The youngster, who came through La Masia's academy but was kicked out for "poor talent", was reborn in Valencia and managed to attract the attention of fellow Spaniard Benitez, who was named by Benitez.
Alba's arrival could threaten Layton Barnes' main position, but it could also be in competition with Layton Barnes.
Jordi Alba himself is delighted to be joining Manchester City.
"Manchester City are a great team and the Champions League title just won proved to be a thing. I'm so happy to be here and play alongside such an amazing player as Young! ”
Alba said this at the press conference of his arrival.
The Manchester Evening News quipped: "I don't think it's going to be long before Manchester City will have to change their name: 'Wing Fan Team' or 'Rong Admirers' Team!" ”
Jordi Alba's move to Manchester City has upset Barcelona as it has been a target they have been watching, and they have been hoping to bring Alba back to Camp Nou...... As a result, Manchester City acted more than them, striking first and snatching Alba from him with money.
This seems to confirm Cruyff's assessment of Manchester City ahead of last season's Champions League final. He believes that relying on money to snatch stars is a step backwards for European football.
So after Alba's transfer to Manchester City, Cruyff jumped out again unwilling to be lonely, and wrote an article in the media commenting on Alba's transfer, saying that he was very disappointed with Alba's choice.
“…… As a child of La Masia, I think a return to Barcelona is where I should be. Going to Manchester City is not a good option, England is completely different from the warm Barcelona in terms of weather and food, and Alba will suffer from severe discomfort in England. I think this transfer was actually controlled by Alba's agent......"
As a result, Cruyff's words caused another uproar, causing Alba's agent to start a war of words with him.
"No one can refuse a call from Manchester City because Manchester City is proud!" Alba's agent responded to Cruyff with this.
Cruyff's face was not good-looking, as Glory had lost face by hitting him several times in front of the whole of Europe before last season's Champions League final. Alba's agent was still honored in front of him, which is really a pot that can't be opened.
Or that Alba's agent was simply deliberately angry with Cruyff.
'I think Alba has made the right choice, joining Manchester City will be a new high in his career, and at Manchester City he will win an honour that he could not have imagined before!'
Alba's agent also said.
In European football, there is already an unwritten "law", that is, glory represents the championship.
Whether it's a league winner or a European champion. As long as there is glory, this team will never be empty-handed that season.
So whether Alba is considered in terms of money or career, going to Manchester City is a good choice.
In addition to Alba's potentially mainstay transfers, more of City's transfers this season have been used to strengthen the bench and focus on the future.
For example, in the backline, as Lucio gets older, his appearance on the back line has also become unstable, and injuries have begun to increase. Benitez has to plan ahead.
Godin can now successfully replace Lucio and partner Kompany as the team's main centre-back, but Manchester City are still relatively weak in the central defender position.
In particular, Richards, a young man at Manchester City, has never been able to grow into what people would like him to be, and there are too many injuries that have greatly hindered his development.
So this time, Benitez has his eye on Marquinhos, the core of Brazil's defense, who excelled in the South American Under-20 Champions Cup in the first half of this year and the Under-17 World Cup in Mexico this summer.
The youngster, born in 1994, is only seventeen years old and, according to the rules, he must be eighteen years old before he can leave Brazil and move to a European club.
So it's too unlikely that Manchester City will get Marquinhos this summer if they want to. However, Benitez still hopes to reach an agreement with Marquinhos and Coritian to initialize the contract, and then wait until next summer's transfer window, when Marquinhos can make a successful transfer.
Corinthians certainly can't let go of their youth hopefuls so easily, and the main way Brazilian football clubs make money is by selling these talented youngsters, so it may take a little more money to take Marquini Osman.
But for Manchester City FC, a problem that can be solved with money is not a problem.
At the same time, Marquinhos is also very happy to be able to join Manchester City, which has the glory and Kaka. Although Rongguang is not a Brazilian player, his football career started in Brazil, so in the minds of many Brazilian young players, Rongguang has been regarded as a Brazilian player by them, and Rongguang is their idol.
Marquinhos is a centre-back, but that doesn't stop him from making glory an idol.
Benitez also fancied Marquinhos for his all-round ability at the back, and in addition to centre-back, Marquinhos can also play at right-back and left-back.
Soon the three parties reached an agreement, with Manchester City bringing Marquinhos from Corinthians to Manchester City for six million euros. The transfer agreement will come into effect on July 1 next year.
Although the transfer of Marquinhos was confirmed, it was a transfer a year later.
Benitez also needs to buy a centre-back for the team who will be in the right away.
This time, his goal is not to reserve for the future, but to ask for what to come. He has his eye on Mangala, who plays for Standard Liege in the Belgian league, the 20-year-old centre-back is already a well-known young centre-back in European football, and many teams are chasing him, such as Porto, who is famous in European football.
Porto players tend to buy at very low prices and then sell at very high prices, so they are called "black shops". But this nickname proves the vision of the Porto club from another side, and any player they fancy will rise in value in a few years, which is called the target of European giants.
So since Porto is optimistic about Mangala, Benitez will naturally not let go of this opportunity.
With Porto, Manchester City can only rely on money, and Benitez has full confidence in the club in this regard - we don't have many Manchester City titles, but we have a lot of money! The history is not glorious, but the numbers on the bank account are brilliant!
In the end, Manchester City secured Mangala for a transfer fee of 8 million euros, while Porto's bid was only 7 million, which was a million short. In the face of the rich and willful tycoon Manchester City, Porto can only give up, after all, they buy people to make money, if the price is too high, the cost will be raised, it will reduce the profit earned by selling players at that time, and Manchester City is too good to compete. I1292