The World Cup is over.

The final outcome was no different from what Linsen remembers, Robben missed a single goal that was very likely to make the Netherlands take off the slightly embarrassing hat of the "uncrowned king", which indirectly made Iniesta and also fulfilled Spain.

For those who don't care about the World Cup, it naturally doesn't matter who wins the championship. Lin Sen is concerned about the two Manchester City players who participated in the World Cup final, as for what Spain's victory after the game is a beautiful football victory, and what this Dutch team is the ugliest Dutch team in history...... Discussions like this are all good.

The frustrated Arjen Robben and the proud David Silva, Linson gave them the same treatment: half a month's vacation, which means that they will not only not participate in the warm-up match against Sporting Lisbon, but also the game against the New York Red Bulls, and the two of them, along with Suarez, have also become the latest players to return to Manchester City this summer. In addition to these three, the rest of City's squad will be back before the warm-up game against the New York Red Bulls, including Adriano, Angel Di Maria and others.

It is worth mentioning that after the World Cup final, Linsen made a phone call to Robben and David Silva respectively, giving Robben more comfort, and congratulating David Silva.

Ahead of the match against Sporting Lisbon, Linson got good news: Barcelona finally nodded to Yaya Toure's transfer.

Marwood once again "lost" to Linson.

But once again, he couldn't help but be unconvinced.

Because this time, Manchester City really only made one offer, and it was the final offer, but this time, Barcelona finally chose to accept.

Twenty-five million.

This price is only 2 million higher than Manchester City's previous offer, and it stands to reason that Barcelona, who previously asked for a transfer fee of up to 35 million, could not accept it so lightly, so the key is that Manchester City added a proviso: Manchester City withdrew from the fight for Mascherano.

Whether it's Linsen or Marwood. Everyone knows that Manchester City is actually impossible to get Mascherano, but Barcelona doesn't know, so this condition, which does not actually exist, has also become a condition.

For Linson, the mentality of Barcelona, it is not difficult to understand, Yaya Toure is not difficult to sell, the question is how many clubs can afford the price, just like their boss Messi, who does not want such a player. But even if Barcelona are willing to sell, not all clubs are eligible to get Messi.

Arsenal, who are interested in Yaya Toure, bid up to 18 million from beginning to end, and then live or die and never raise the offer, Begiristain knows what Wenger is thinking, it is nothing more than relying on such an excellent persuader as Kolo Toure, which Begiristain has nothing to do. Chelsea, another side of the rumoured interest, is due to the fact that they already have a number of African players in their squad, and most of the important players, Didier Drogba, Essien, Mikel, Kalou......

That's because of this. Chelsea were already suffering from the Africa Cup of Nations in January, and the worst thing is that, unlike other continents, which are only held once every four years, the Africa Cup of Nations is held every two years. If Yaya Toure is brought in, Chelsea will almost be pulled out of half of the squad again in the next Africa Cup of Nations, which Chelsea does not want to see anyway. Therefore. The rumoured Chelsea have not really made an offer for Yaya Toure at all.

In this case, Manchester City have actually become Barcelona's not the best, but most favourable, option, because of their only practical scruples. In fact, it is just that Manchester City could be their potential opponents in Europe. But, in fact, which club is not a potential opponent for Barcelona with the conditions to bring in Yaya Toure?

Therefore, Manchester City's final offer, Barcelona can choose to decline, but in that case, it means that they may face two situations.

One is that Manchester City is bound to be fully involved in the transfer of Mascherano, which will undoubtedly make Barcelona's transfer of Mascherano face huge competition. The other is that Yaya Toure has only one actual buyer left for Arsenal.

Transfer, after all, is still the supremacy of interests.

Barcelona's nod to the transfer does not mean that Yaya Toure's transfer is complete, because in the first meeting between Mawood and Celluk, he was shocked by the other party's lion opening: 12 million annual salary, three times the contract he signed with Barcelona last year, in addition, the signing fee is 5 million.

There is no doubt that this is far beyond Marwood's imagination, although Linson has already given him a precautionary shot before this: Yaya Toure's contract is not easy to negotiate.

At present, Manchester City's highest salary is Robinho, who has just ended his loan contract, with a weekly salary of 160,000 yuan, and an annual salary of nearly 9 million, of course, this is before tax. But you must know that when Robinho signed this contract, he arrived as Real Madrid's main striker, and Manchester City at that time did not have even a second attraction except money.

And now, in the words of Marwood's previous evaluation of Yaya Toure, a substitute midfielder, the annual salary actually wants to be on par with Cristiano Ronaldo? Is this really appropriate?

In Marwood's view, this is either a disguised rejection, or a sheer desire for money.

But the truth is that Celuk really thinks Yaya Toure deserves the world's No. 1 annual salary.

The huge gap made the first contract negotiation between the two sides fruitless, and the two sides agreed to negotiate the next day, Celuk went back to ask Yaya Toure for advice, and Marwood needed to find Linsen to negotiate again.

When he received a call from Marwood, Lin Sen was not surprised, he had long known that Yaya Toure's contract negotiations could not be completed in a day, and he remembered that Yaya Toure joined Manchester City and got the first weekly salary of the Premier League at that time, 220,000 weekly salary, and the annual salary was almost close to 12 million.

A team's salary space and transfer fees are generally proportional. But compared with the transfer fee, the control of salary space is generally stricter, which is no different whether it is a big club or an ordinary team, the difference is only in the size. Some teams even set a salary cap. And this is why many big-name stars who have passed their peak often have a situation where no one wants them for free, because the problem is not the transfer fee, but the salary.

Manchester City, with a sufficient transfer budget, is naturally far superior in terms of salary space. But this does not mean that Manchester City can give high salaries without restrictions, one is that UEFA's Financial Fair Play Act, unlike transfer fees, once the salary is given, it is not only entangled for one year. The second is the salary balance of the team.

Manchester City can certainly meet Yaya Toure's salary demand, which is not a big deal for Manchester City. But the problem is that once Manchester City gave Yaya Toure such a salary, now it is not the situation when Robinho came to Manchester City, when Robinho took the first year salary of the Premier League Manchester City has no opinion, after all, Robinho's fame and ability are there, but what is Yaya Toure now? Not to mention that you haven't made an inch, in what capacity do you come, you get the world's first annual salary? What about the heroes who won the title last season? What about Robben? What about David Silva? And how much should they take?

In the final analysis, the current Manchester City no longer has the conditions to continue to give Yaya Toure the first annual salary in the Premier League as Linson remembers.

Therefore, Lin Sen also disapproves of giving Yaya Toure too high an annual salary, let alone 12 million, Yaya Toure's salary cannot even exceed the current top salary of Manchester City, that is, 9 million. Otherwise, a chain reaction is almost predictable, and at the moment most of the players in the Manchester City squad have not yet "made inches" in their contracts because they just arrived last season, but they are only in a delicate situation.

In the negotiations on the second day, the two sides still did not reach an agreement, but compared with the first time, the gap between the two sides was finally not so huge.

Celuk also seems to have finally realised City's concerns, and he has made concessions on the annual salary demand, which is 10 million a year, with a signing fee of 4 million and a three-year contract. Marwood, on the other hand, gave Manchester City's conditions: an annual salary of seven million, a signing fee of two million, and a five-year contract.

Not only the annual salary, but also the contract years, there were disagreements between the two sides.

In this regard, Selluk's thoughts Marwood is very clear, Yaya Toure is 27 years old and signs a three-year contract, which means that if Manchester City does not want the player to leave freely after two years, he must negotiate a new contract with the other party, Yaya Toure is 29 years old at that time, he can completely seek a lifetime contract, and the salary requirements will definitely not be low. But if it's five years, the option is on City's side, as Yaya Toure will be thirty-two years old after fulfilling this contract.

The negotiations could only be delayed until the third day, when the patience of both sides had reached a critical point.

Just when Yaya Toure's contract negotiations could collapse at any time, another transfer for Manchester City was completed, and the object was one of the "three difficulties": Ireland.

In the end, Manchester City, Aston Villa and Ireland each made a concession, Manchester City reduced the transfer fee from 10 million to 9 million, Aston Villa also used this to upgrade the contract to Ireland, and Ireland itself no longer asked Manchester City for a 2 million breakup fee, and the transfer was completed.

On July 20, Ireland, who went to the United States with the team for training, left the team and returned to England.

The next day, Manchester City's official website announced their fourth purge of the season: midfielder Ireland's move to Aston Villa.

In the announcement, Manchester City blessed Ireland with a smooth lì in the new team, and Ireland, who had almost turned against the club before, also expressed their gratitude to the club for its cultivation and the long-term support of the fans in an interview, of course, for the head coach Linsen, there was no mention of it.

After Robinho's transfer has been decided and Ireland has disappeared from the official website squad, the three major difficulties have been removed. (To be continued......)

PS: People are in the field for a while, the double change is far away, and the great cause of saving manuscripts is even more in the air, well, it's all an excuse. However, some of the numbers in the last few chapters are completely dependent on the brain, and if there are flaws, I hope you will forgive me.