Wright-Phillips' move to Chelsea was expected by many.

There have been media outlets that have used the tone of 'yes' to describe Phillips' joining Chelsea, and because of this, when the two clubs announced the transfer of Phillips, the media was not surprised by the news, but they were surprised by the high transfer fee.

That's £26 million!

According to the current exchange rate between the pound and the euro, 26 million pounds is basically equivalent to 40 million euros, which is enough to buy a Schepchenko, Henry, and Van Nistelrooy, but Chelsea only bought one Wright-Phillips, compared to the first three famous players, Phillips is really a bit unknown.

At first, some people saw the news and thought it was a mistake, and it took several consecutive looks to confirm it, and recently they were surprised by Chelsea's big spending, buying a Wright-Phillips, and actually spending 26 million pounds, which can really be said to be too rich.

Chelsea really show people the money side of football!

The neutral media saw that the news was all about the transfer fee, for them, this is the biggest gossip, as for Wright Phillips or something, it doesn't matter, it's not Henry transfer, it's not Rooney transfer, Wright Phillips is what? Manchester City's 'homegrown' stars?

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However, the media who follow Manchester City still feel disappointed when they hear the news, after all, Wright Phillips is a Manchester City player, has been performing very well, has made a lot of contributions to the team, and his state can also be seen in the previous warm-up game, such a player must have improved a lot in the team, but he left, which is also a loss for Manchester City.

Manchester City fans thought similarly, they had long known that Phillips was likely to leave, but they were still very disappointed to hear the news, and some extreme fans even organized protests in front of the club. This caused a lot of trouble for Chairman Wald.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Wansheng.

On weekdays, he basically doesn't go to the club, and his place of work is the training base, so no matter how bad the club is, he doesn't care about it, but on the training open day, the fans who come to the training base to watch the game will greet him very friendly.

This side of the training base and the club are completely equivalent to two worlds.

In fact, Wan Sheng has been expecting the transfer of Phillips for a long time, and of course he wants to keep the excellent players in the team. But when he first arrived, he knew that it was impossible to keep Phillips, so he knew that there was no need to make unnecessary efforts to think about how to keep Phillips, it was better to think about what to do after Phillips left, and when he thought about it, he thought about the team's lineup.

Before the summer preparations, the team has added a lot of players, goalkeeper Wang Xiaolei. Ziegler and Lescot in the back line, Morris and David Silva in midfield, Darren Bent and Andy Cole in the forwards, Anelka and Joey Barton in Manchester City's original lineup. The squad is complete.

But this kind of completeness is only in the eyes of outsiders, and in the eyes of Wansheng, the lineup is obviously flawed, that is, in the central defender position.

The midfield combination of Dunn and Distin can be ranked among the best in the entire Premier League schedule. It can be regarded as the most stable position for Manchester City when Keegan was in charge, but in the eyes of Wan Sheng. The combination of these two has a rather big problem, which is the lack of creativity and activity.

After all, both are 28 years old.

The 28-year-olds, especially the centre-backs, have a rigid style of play, lack creativity and activity, and they only go according to their ability and experience, and it is not easy to adapt to a new tactical system, and even if they do, it is difficult to play with characteristics.

Wansheng doesn't need such a centre-back combination.

In the 'kill down' tactic, attacking and defending is no longer just a concept, the insertion of central defenders is also a very important offensive means, which is why central defenders become extremely important, because they also have to take care of defense at the same time, so the combination of Dunn and Distin is not enough.

In addition, in the current lineup, the central defender position can be found again, and Sun Jihai is the only one.

Dunn has not yet returned to the team for training, Distin just came to report two days ago, if the new season depends on these two, it is too risky, so it is urgent to supplement the central defender, in fact, Wansheng has long had a promising player, but the transfer funds are not in place, the team has been in a state of 'negative transfer funds', there is no money in hand, and there is no way to shoot.

Now, Phillips has sold it for £26 million, which will allow him to leave £8 million to be used as transfer funds after filling the club's funding hole, so that it will not be a problem to supplement the centre-backs.

Soon Wan Sheng made a move.

In response, Manchester City have made an offer to Portuguese giants Porto for €6 million in a package for Copelle Ferreira and Ricardo Costa.

Copele Ferreira, this name will sound unfamiliar to most fans, but when it comes to his nickname, it is estimated that many people know it, and some people may know the answer, yes, he is the future Portugal's main central defender, the world-renowned 'master' Pepe.

Pepe is 24 years old, born in Brazil, raised in the Portuguese league and played for Marítimo.

Porto won the Champions League in 2004, but in the summer from the manager Jose Mourinho to the core players Deco, Ferreira and Carvalho all went to Europe to pan for gold, which made the new European champions have to dig new mines in the transfer market, the strong and flexible Pepe is the number one candidate for President Da Costa, and finally the "Dragon" won the Brazilian central defender for 1 million euros.

Pepe joined three other team-mates at Porto for €1 million.

Of course, the Maltimer team is not unaware of Pepe's potential, and Pepe's contract stipulates that the Maltimer team will receive 20% of Pepe's entire transfer fee for his next transfer.

However, Pepe's first season in Porto was hardly a success, as the newcomer did not earn the full trust of Dutch coach Adrianse, who had to substitute the likes of Pedro Emmanuel, Giorgio Costa and Ricardo Costa at the Stade de Dragon, with the Brazilian making just 14 appearances last season.

It's hard to get noticed.

But Porto is a Portuguese team and has always been the cradle of talented players, even if Pepe's performance is average, Porto will not give up on him easily. Because they brought in Pepe because they saw his potential.

Another player that Wansheng is eyeing is Ricardo Costa.

He was also Porto's back-up centre-back, coming through the Boavista youth system, having joined Porto as an apprentice, and in 2002 Riccardo Costa had already started playing for Porto in the league, but thanks to the talent at centre-back, the young Ricciardo was still mostly a substitute.

It is worth mentioning that he is similar to Sun Jihai, he is a panacea in the backcourt.

Wansheng also takes a fancy to this. He needs to buy a jack-of-all-trades player to supplement the squad, Ricardo Costa's ability is probably the same as Sun Jihai's, with these two jack-of-all-trades players, it will be much easier for Manchester City to line up at the back in the new season

Porto were still very surprised by Manchester City's buying information.

They originally thought that Manchester United would buy the main force of the team, but they didn't expect it to be two substitute defenders, and they didn't really like Kopelle and Ricardo, otherwise they wouldn't have played as substitutes.

At the same time, 6 million euros is also very impressive. The two substitute defenders were sold for a pretty good price, but FC Porto did not directly agree, buying and selling players is one of their biggest sources of income, and in this respect they are of a 'professional nature'. They know very well that these two players are average, but they both have potential, and because of this potential and possibility, they will definitely not buy it at a cheap price.

6 million euros. Buying two potential stocks is a bit less.

Maybe it has a lot to do with how their business did last season.

Chelsea bought Carvalho and Pacos Ferreira from them last season, and the two were worth more than €45 million combined, plus €20 million from Deco's move to Barcelona. They are really a little full in the summer, so they want to take a high-end strategy, such as superstar players, as long as one is sold, it is enough for a season's income, and it doesn't matter if it brings some losses, such as the current transfer, Kopele and Ricciardo are not the players they fancie, but if one of the two can become famous, that person's transfer value may exceed 20 million euros, compared to the current 6 million euros is nothing.

Even if no one can become a superstar, but the two together are worth more than 4 million euros in themselves, and Manchester City only offered 6 million euros, which is really a bit less.

So after some internal deliberations in Porto, the offer was finally rejected. The departure, the transfer of them is to develop the players

However, what they didn't expect was that Manchester City's determination was very strong, and they quickly raised the offer to 8 million euros, and Porto rejected the offer again after some discussion, so Manchester City soon raised the offer to 10 million euros.

This is a watershed moment.

10 million is an order of magnitude more, and Porto knows that if they refuse again, they will say that they do not want to sell Kopelle and Ricardo to Manchester City at all, and Manchester City is likely to give up because of this, which is the result that they are not willing to accept, after all, the transfer offer has reached the level of 10 million, which is enough for two players who are just 'potential'.

In the end, after some deliberation, the Porto club agreed to the offer.

The next thing is the discussion between Manchester City FC and Kopelle and Ricardo himself, these are no longer a problem, whether it is for Portugal's own players, or for South American players who have landed in Europe through Portugal, Porto is just a springboard, and those who can skip it may become a big star, and those who can't skip it can only be an ordinary player.

So when a big European club wants to buy them, they will only be happy and not have any heart for Porto, because they know that they are just a commodity with potential in the eyes of Porto.

That's the reality.

Both sides know this, so there is nothing to say, as long as Manchester City raise their contracts well enough, Kopelle and Ricciardo will not turn down the opportunity to play in the Premier League.

As expected, the transfer was made very quickly.

With a week to go before the league level, City added two new defenders, Copelle Ferreira and Ricardo Costa, for the last additions.

Wansheng received the news that the transfer had been reached and was satisfied.

With the addition of such two players, the team's lineup can be said to be complete, and then the transfer window can be closed and devoted to the preparation of the league, and at this time, the whole team has actually begun to prepare for the first round of the league.

It wasn't necessary to prepare for a single game so early, but this one was different because they were playing against Manchester United.

Manchester City and Manchester United, rivals in the same city, the game between the two teams is called the 'Manchester derby', its significance can be imagined, for many Manchester fans, the victory or defeat of the two teams is even more important than the league title, so this game for Manchester City must go all out, for Wan Sheng, it is also an opportunity to show the new team in front of the fans. (To be continued......)