Goalkeepers: Given, Hart, Pantilimon.

Defenders: Zabaleta, Richards, Kompany, Nastasic, David Luiz, Cahill, Baines, Azpilicueta.

Midfielders: Xavi Martinez, Vidal, Yaya Toure, Reus, Robben, Bale, Lars Bender, Sven Bender, Jovetic, Navas.

Forwards: Negredo, Aguero, Suarez, Falcao.

That's what Manchester City's first-team squad was for the 13/14 season. There are fewer familiar faces from Lin Sen, but more faces are not unfamiliar to Lin Sen, Lin Sen stared at the list, his right hand unconsciously retracted from the mouse, and then touched his chin, which has become a habitual action for him to think.

For the strangeness of this list, Linsen understands Pellegrini's actions, just like when he joined Manchester City, coming to a new team, it is important to integrate, but you always have to have some "own people", otherwise, no matter how good the squad is, even if it achieves results, I am afraid it will be difficult to escape the suspicion of "picking peaches", for an ideal and ambitious manager, there is no worse bad "accusation" than this.

Of course, understanding is understanding, for this series of transfer targets of Pellegrini last season, Manchester City fans, who are accustomed to Linson's almost no failures in the past few seasons and have been accustomed to it, are not so easy to serve.

In all fairness, Jovetic, Navas and Negredo, the three players, can't find anything wrong with the player's personal strength, and almost all of them have various names before the transfer, Jovetic is recognized as the number one star in Serie A Fiorentina, and Navas Manchester City is snatching food from the two giants of La Liga, as for Negredo, he is the scorer second only to Messi and Ronaldo in La Liga.

However, it is precisely these three powerful players who were not as good as they could have been at Manchester City last season. It can't be said to be bad, but at least it didn't play the table that people expected, you know, for these three players, Manchester City paid more than 70 million transfer fees, which is the biggest summer in four years.

Compared to the transfer market, the most correct thing Pellegrini did last summer was not to move the back line left by Linsen, because it is arguably with this back line that Manchester City has been able to achieve three consecutive league titles. This is evident from the fact that last season Manchester City scored only the third highest number of goals scored in the Premier League, while conceding the fewest goals in the Premier League.

That said, that doesn't mean Pellegrini has full trust in this defence. In the first communication with Pellegrini, the "engineer" did not clearly propose to Linsen who he wanted, because it was only the first meeting, the two sides only briefly exchanged the direction of this summer's transfer.

Unlike last summer's forward-focused signings, this summer, Pellegrini has leaned more towards central midfield.

It is worth mentioning that one transfer was finalised before Linson's return, and that was French right-back Sagna, who had a free transfer from Arsenal. Therefore, in this position, what Lin Sen needs to consider is not the introduction. Instead, the transfer of Sagna means that Manchester City has three candidates in this position, Zabaleta, Richards and Sania. Zabaleta, who is Manchester City's vice-captain, has been Manchester City's main right wing-back in recent seasons and has been very good, hence the arrival of Sagna. The real impact was on Richards' position.

The England defender, who grew up in Manchester City, became famous in Manchester City, and even captained Manchester City for a period of time, has always been an important rotation player in the hands of Linsen, and the player himself has no complaints about this, of course, this is somewhat due to the team's results and the player's own sense of belonging to the team, but this situation was broken with the arrival of Pellegrini after Linson's departure, Pellegrini is not a coach who is keen on rotation, so the most direct result is that the number of players playing has plummeted, The decrease in the number of appearances leads to the poor form of the players, and in this way, it becomes a bad cycle when the players do get the opportunity to play.

It was in this context that Pellegrini nodded to Sania and ......

In addition to Richards, Manuel Pellegrini also wants a centre-back.

The position of central defender, when Linsen was still in office, actually improved, but that should be more of a replacement, because of Dunn's retirement, Linsen introduced young Serbian defender Nastasic from Fiorentina according to the trajectory in his memory, in that season, it should be said that the Serbian youngster performed well in the few appearances.

However, with the departure of Linson, Nastasic has not escaped the trouble he has encountered at Manchester City in his history, that is, injuries, he was affected by injuries last season, and gradually lost his place under Pellegrini, and now, although Nastasic has recovered from injury, Pellegrini obviously does not want to pin his hopes on the opponent's fragile ankle.

Of course, when communicating with Linson, Pellegrini, like Richards, did not make it clear that he wanted to purge Nastasic.

Only talk about the introduction, not about the transfer.

A wry smile appeared at the corner of Lin Sen's mouth.

Manuel Pellegrini, in fact, is not so honest either.

Aside from Pellegrini's requirements, for Linsen, the real test is probably in another aspect, and it is also the most troublesome for him when Linsen was still in office in the past......

Someone else's covetousness -

"This one, congratulations on your return."

In the evening, at Mubarak's home, a smiling Mubarak held his glass high and said.

Lin Sen also raised his wine glass, and the two glasses collided in the air with a crisp sound.

After dinner, Boya and Sara whispered to the side, while Linsen and Mubarak came to the living room and turned on the TV to watch the ongoing World Cup.

At this time, what is being shown on the TV is the game that the whole of England is currently paying attention to, the second round of Group D of the World Cup group stage, England vs. Uruguay.

Right now, Uruguay are leading England 1-0.

Such a score is undoubtedly a bad score for England, because in the first round, they have lost 1-2 to Italy, if this game loses again, then, they are very likely to be out of the group early, for the Three Lions, whose heart is higher than the sky and the fate is thinner than paper, although England fans should have been used to the national team such a table, but how can this really get used to it?

Of course, this is England fans.

"Luis watch xiàn good." Glancing at the scorers displayed at the bottom of the screen, Mubarak smiled.

Although both of them are currently in England, neither of them is English anyway, so they naturally can't afford to be sad for England, of course, this is not Mubarak's preference for Uruguay, but he cares more about his player table than the wins and losses of the two teams.

"He'll score." Lin Sen said casually.

Ten years of memory, this is his biggest plug-in, but this biggest plug-in is not permanently free. And now, there are less than three years left, it's just that there is nowhere to renew.

In this regard, it is inevitable to sigh a pity, but Lin Sen does not feel regrets, for no other reason, although he does not intend to change the world, he has changed himself, he has gained a career, a harvest of love, and a harvest of family and friendship, in addition, what else does he have to regret?

"Really?" Mubarak said with a smile on his face.

"Yes." Lin Sen smiled and said seriously.

Although the plug-in should not be used lightly, at this time, he does not mind comparing himself with Mubarak.

"Bet?" Mubarak rolled his eyes and said.

Lin Sen suddenly laughed dumbly.

Bet? This is his housekeeping skills, back then, when he was still an amateur coach, didn't he rely on this to gain a firm foothold in Atletico Madrid? Although in the end, it still failed to stay.

"Bet on what?" Lin Sen chuckled.

"Well...... "Mubarak," Mubarak thought for a moment, "just bet on the clause in your contract." ”

The clause, of course, refers to the overlord clause that Lin Sen can terminate at any time.

"If I win, I don't ask you to cancel your clause, but you can't use that clause until three years have passed. What do you think? ”

"Is that what you care about?" Lin Sen smiled bitterly, "Then what if I win?" ”

"If you win." Mubarak groaned again, "You have the final say on this year's transfer budget. ”

"You're so unfair." Lin Sen couldn't cry or laugh when he heard this, "Don't say that I'm not the head coach now, even if it is, do you think this is a problem?" ”

Mubarak laughed and said, "What do you say? ”

"I didn't expect that yet." Lin Sen smiled, "Or, owed?" ”

"You're even more unfair!" Mubarak laughed, then shook his head, "Okay, that's it?" ”

“OK！” Lin Sen nodded.

The bet was made, and what was originally a little indifferent began to be a lot of fun.

Group D, which is recognized as the group of death, gathered Italy, Ingra, Uruguay three strong teams, and Costa Rica from Central America and the United States, Costa Rica was originally recognized as a weak team, before the World Cup, and was even "out early" many times, however, the first round of the group stage was played, and the first place in the group was not the other three strong teams, it was in the first round that defeated Uruguay, who won the fourth place in the last World Cup, 3-1.

Therefore, this life-and-death battle is not only for England, but also for Uruguay.

In the 75th minute, England equalised and it was Wayne Rooney who scored.

Just after Rooney's goal, Mubarak turned his head and gave Lin Sen a triumphant look, to which Lin Sen just smiled.

Ten minutes later.

Uruguayan goalkeeper Muslera drove the ball straight to the front, Gerrard rose to the top to form a back, and the ball fell directly to the feet of Suarez, who adjusted slightly and slammed a powerful shot......

When Joe Hart, also from Manchester City, couldn't do anything, Mubarak was a little dumbfounded. (To be continued......)

PS: It's still there.