On July 11, South Africa won the third place in the World Cup.

Suarez, who missed the semi-finals after being sent off for a last-minute red card in the quarter-finals for blocking Ghana's must-have goal, was unable to help Uruguay change their fortunes once again, and thanks to the winning goals from Thomas Muller, Janssen and Khedira, who had just moved to Real Madrid, Germany finally beat Uruguay 3-2 in the biggest surprise of this World Cup.

And on this very day, Manchester City boarded a plane to Portland, USA.

Although most of the players participating in the World Cup have been granted extended leave, the number of Manchester City players who have gone to the United States has not decreased but increased, because Linson has brought almost all the players he can with him this time, including players who have returned from loan, such as the Bend brothers and Falcao, as well as the lucky ones of the youth team, such as Guidetti and Boyata, as well as players who are not in the plans for next season but have not yet left, such as Weiss and Bellamy.

Of course, for players in the negotiation stage, Lin Sen does not insist that he must go to the United States with the team.

Before the plane took off, Lin Sen and Marwood spoke on the phone.

The final offer to Barcelona has been issued, and there is no response from Barcelona for the time being, and it is unlikely that Linson will disrupt the team's warm-up arrangements, and with him leaving England for the United States, most of the transfer affairs will be handled by Marwood, of course, most of the cleaning work.

Among the "three difficulties", in the eyes of many Manchester City fans, Robinho, who is no longer a Manchester City player, has become clear, although the last time the British newspaper exposed Galliani's appearance in Manchester was purely chasing the wind, but the Brazilian striker's whereabouts will indeed be AC Milan.

In fact, AC Milan are not the only team interested in Robinho, Linson also has a purchase from England soil, from a club that no one could have imagined: Liverpool.

Liverpool's bid for Robinho is something that Linson doesn't remember. So much so that Linson thought it was Liverpool's "revenge" against Manchester City for buying Mascherano. However, as rumours of Chelsea's takeover of Torres have intensified in recent days, it dawned on him that perhaps this was another repercussion of his own making.

After Manchester City snatched the league title that belonged to Chelsea last season, it is unlikely that Chelsea will continue to stand as they remember, and it is understandable that Chelsea will take on Abou's long-cherished Fernando Torres half a season early. And the star that Liverpool used to replace Torres in memory is now in the Manchester City team. That's Suarez.

Obviously, Suarez Manchester City will not sell, especially after the stunning World Cup, so Robinho has become a substantial replacement.

At the beginning, Linson did not move the idea of exchanging Robinho for Mascherano, and it was great that Manchester City had some more money, and at the club level alone, this was a very likely transfer. But Marwood soon ruled out that possibility because, like Mascherano, Robinho was reluctant to return to the Premier League. Moreover, his agent Ribeiro is also reluctant to talk to Liverpool, who is not "happy" at all financially, and is helpless. Lin Sen could only give up.

As soon as Lin Sen gave up, Manchester City naturally had no reason to sell Robinho to Liverpool to continue to fight against him, especially when Liverpool's offer was not advantageous compared to AC Milan's offer.

AC Milan offered Robinho 18 million plus a result-linked surcharge of $2 million. This result refers to AC Milan's league title. In other words, Robinho's transfer fee could reach up to 20 million. Marwood agreed to the plan and Linson nodded, but the deal was a deal, and Milan asked for a delay in the deal because they needed to clean their forward line first.

Marwood is a little hesitant about this, but Linson doesn't care about it, at the moment AC Milan striker is known as having five strikers, Pato, Borriello, Ronaldo, Huntelaar and Inzaghi, if you want to bring in Robinho, AC Milan is naturally imperative to clean the forward, not to mention, Linson also knows that Galliani is still staring at Barcelona's Ibrahimovic.

When the plane arrived at Portland International Airport, the Manchester City team was greeted by some local fans at the airport, which was a small number of people, a few dozen people, which was a small surprise, because everyone knows that football is far from the most popular sport in the United States. City's first warm-up game will be against the local Portland Timbers at Mello Stadium, before training at the Nike HQ base for the next week.

The purpose of the pre-season warm-up is nothing more than to reserve physical fitness, run in the lineup, adjust the state, inspect the players, and test the formation......

In addition to the players who have been confirmed not to be planned for next season, Linsen will also decide whether some people will stay next season in the warm-up game, the main of which is the Bend brothers, Linsen dared to give an ultimatum to Barcelona on the issue of Yaya Toure, in fact, part of the confidence also comes from this.

The Bend brothers, who were loaned to Birmingham City last season, the more versatile Lars Bend developed a little better than Sven Bender, who was a rotation player at Birmingham last season, while Lars Bender became a regular for Birmingham City in the second half of the league and was an excellent performer, scoring three goals and providing three assists in 21 games as a midfielder, which should be a good result considering Birmingham's ranking.

Just after the end of last season, Birmingham couldn't wait to ask Manchester City to buy out, this request was naturally rejected by Linsen, and then they did not give up and proposed to renew the loan, this time Linsen did not directly refuse, but said that it would be decided after evaluating the player.

Manchester City in the new season, Lin Sen did not plan to change the formation, although the unchanged tactics in the new season are bound to be familiar to the opponent, but than this, it is more important to maintain the stability of the lineup, of course, some changes are necessary. In the game against the Portland Timbers a week later, Linson made two formations in the first half, 442 and 433, and changed to two completely different lineups.

The first half's four-four-two effect was good, in the first half Manchester City led the opponent by two goals, but in the second half, after Linsen's change of four-three-three, Manchester City seemed to suddenly become unable to play, the defense was okay, and the offense was extremely chaotic due to the inability to form an effective breakthrough on the side.

A 2-1 victory at the end of the game doesn't mean much as it's just a warm-up game. For Lin Sen, he had several gains in this game, the first of which was that when the side could not form a suppression, it was better to be leisurely. And the second is that simply for the current Manchester City, Sven Bender, who has stronger defensive ability, is actually more suitable than Lars Bender.

Of course, this was only the first warm-up game to draw conclusions.

After the warm-up game against the Portland Timbers, City soon moved on to New Jersey, where a more weighty opponent awaited Linson's more weighty conclusion, which was Sporting Lisbon.

Manchester City are not the only European team to train in North America this summer, or even the only English team, as their city rivals, Manchester United, are in Toronto at this time.

Unlike Manchester City, which has been unusually "grinding" in transfers this year, Manchester United has completed three introductions this summer, or to be exact, it should be two, because Smalling's transfer was actually confirmed in January, and the other two transfers, one is the "little pea" Hernandez announced in April, and the other is a name that fans around the world instantly remember: Bebe.

Yes, it's that babe. The babe that Ferguson once mentioned to Lin Sen in person, Ferguson still didn't "forget" a big surprise to the world after all.

But Manchester United is not the most active team in the transfer market at the moment, the most active team is Liverpool, after confirming Hodgson as the new manager, Liverpool does not seem to have lost Benitez's transfer habits, still knocking on the squad, so far, although there are individual transfers that do not belong to the first team, they have announced eight acquisitions, including even the "return grass" Aurelio who surprised the English media.

Brazilian left-back Aurelio had already been abandoned by Liverpool, but the arrival of Hodgson brought the left-back back back into Liverpool's field of vision, and then the two sides hit it off again. Such a transfer does not have the warmth of "reunion" in the eyes of the English media, and the "Daily Mail" ridiculed Liverpool's move as a shout for no money to make.

Compared to Liverpool, Chelsea, who have Abou's backing, have much more money, and after signing Lescott for 15 million, they signed Brazilian midfielder Ramires from Benfica, and the transfer fee is revealed to be 22 million, but the most exciting thing for the English media is that Chelsea's footsteps have not stopped.

The $5.5 million poaching of Benayoun from Liverpool was just an appetizer, and the opposing side's leading striker, Fernando Torres, was the main meal, and now, the English tabloids published every day are updating Chelsea's latest offer for Torres almost every day, and that number is now close to 40 million pounds.

That's already a super transfer figure.

Among the four giants, the most stable is Arsene Wenger's Arsenal, their transfers are basically targeted, Eduardo is released on the front line, and Chamack is added. Now the backline has become a well-known position for them, because before that, they have let go of three central defenders in one go, and all of them are free transfers, namely Gallas, Campbell and Silvestre, after Wenger has signed Squeiraghi from Lorient for eight million, it seems that Arsenal this summer, another financial balance, a small profit.

In short, in the transfer market, the eight immortals have their own magical powers.

Several Premier League giants have made some moves, and now, the whole of English football is waiting for the defending champion Manchester City to make a move. (To be continued......)