Back in Manchester, Linson was still alone.

When he was in Spain, Lin Sen once had a little impulse to meet Boya, but finally chose to give up, first, although it felt that the two seemed to have not seen each other for a long time, but in fact, the two were separated for more than a week, and second, although he was willing to let the two add many adjectives to the relationship that they did not have before, but not deliberately.

Lin Sen's residence is a hotel-style apartment, and someone is responsible for cleaning it every day, so although he has been away for nearly half a month, the dust still can't find any chance to fall here, and Lin Sen, who returned to his residence, first slept and woke up naturally, and the next day, he came to the Carrington training base. The Carrington training base in the offseason, like the campus for winter and summer vacations, should have been deserted, but due to the storage of football summer camps, it is actually more lively than before.

Opening a football summer camp is one of the things that most professional clubs do in the off-season, big names such as Real Madrid and Barcelona, and unknown small teams that have to worry about where their sponsors are every season, because this is the foundation of a team. It is said that drinking water thinks of the source, and this is the source. Manchester United's 92 class, which has become legendary, is how it came about.

Of course, compared to Manchester United's notorious academy next door, at least in terms of attractiveness, there really wasn't much to brag about in the past. But now it is different, with the implementation of Mubarak's big plan, youth training has become a very important part of the club's plan, in terms of hardware, a new training base including the youth training base has been included in the plan, and is currently in the learning stage, the same in England Arsenal, the famous Barcelona and Ajax and other famous youth training bases, are Manchester City's learning objects, when the plan is completed, it will be implemented immediately. Of course, in terms of software, Manchester City are just getting started. Manchester City have money, they can buy many big stars, but there is one thing that money can't buy, and that is "their own people". There is no such thing as belonging that can be given except time. Words such as what a player has been a fan of such and such a team since he was a child, and he is willing to break the ball for such and such a team, is just a kind of polite remark, in addition to pleasing the fans, you are really a fool, and husband and wife can become the same forest bird that flies separately. Not to mention a paper contract.

In this situation, it is particularly important to develop your own players. Brian Kidd's arrival is also based on this background.

And, as England's most successful team last season, Manchester City's football summer camp this year also attracted more school-age children than ever before. There are two types of football summer camps, one is professional and the other is entertaining. Professional football summer camps can actually be simply called tryouts, which are for children with football dreams, of course. For clubs, football dreams alone are not enough, what they value more is talent. As for football summer camps of an entertaining nature. It's really summer camp.

Lin Sen said hello to the doorman Depp, and then Shi Shiran walked into the training base under the other party's somewhat surprised gaze, went to the office, inspected the base, and chatted with Chapman, Cohen and others for a while. He went straight to the training ground.

Lin Sen did not deliberately hide his whereabouts, and his appearance also attracted a lot of attention. His Oriental face is so easy to recognize. Before he could find a place to sit down, Brian Kidd, who was in charge of the academy at the same time, had already walked over.

"Aren't you supposed to be on vacation?" For Lin Sen's appearance, like Depp, Kidd was also a little surprised.

"What about you?" Lin Sen didn't answer, but asked with a smile.

"That's my vacation." Kidd shrugged his shoulders, then looked at the noisy training ground, "When you're my age, you'll know that it's not just the sun and the sand that counts as a vacation. ”

Lin Sen smiled, Kidd's feelings about this "holiday" may be that he really needs to wait until Kidd's current age to understand, but Kidd's meaning is not difficult to understand, everyone will have everyone's pursuit, for Kidd, maybe from the countless children with football dreams in their arms, it is one of his great pleasures to pick out the children who are truly talented in football.

It's not hard to see how much fun it is, and if you're lucky, you'll be able to witness the rise of a superstar. Next door, Kidd has already seen the process, and more than one, and here, it's only its second season. Lin Sen also has this hobby, but it is difficult for him to enjoy it, because whether he wants it or not, the plug-in is there.

"Are there any good seedlings this year?" Lin Sen asked casually.

The reason why it is casual is because he didn't have any hope at all, good seedlings are not cabbage, where can you casually say that there is, like the probability of Manchester United's 92 class, than the strange rate of picking up an uncashed lottery ticket on the side of the road and coincidentally finding that the lottery won 5 million, I'm afraid it is lower. So like the big clubs, they basically cast a net all over the world to catch more fish, and then try their luck, although it takes time to wait for the small fish to grow up, but compared with the first team's transfer of money at every turn, it is basically not a loss-making business. Of course, there are nets everywhere in this world, and occasionally they put nets into other people's ponds, so disputes are inevitable. Not to mention the whole of Europe, only in England, whether it is Manchester United, Arsenal, or even Chelsea, there have been similar disputes.

Sure enough, Kidd shook his head, "I haven't found anything yet." ”

Lin Sen nodded, and there was no disappointment on his face.

On his first day in charge, Mubarak showed him City's huge plan, which was almost exhaustive and did its best. To dig people is to dig the best people in the field, and to build facilities is to build the best facilities in the world. But discovering talents is such a thing, after all, it is still a matter of vision. Manchester City's "predecessor" Chelsea also attached great importance to youth training after Abou took over, for which they even spared a lot of money to poach their youth director from Tottenham Hotspur, Arneson who had single-handedly discovered stars such as Robben and Gudjohnsen, but over the years, although Arneson also brought talents like Kalou and Mikel to Chelsea, among which Mikel even snatched food from Manchester United, so that there was a lot of controversy at the time, but even so, to this day, Arneson is still regarded as a cancer by many Chelsea fans, as Chelsea have never had the same talent as John Terry.

Therefore, expecting one or two superstars to appear in the academy really only responds to that sentence: you can't find it.

Lin Sen and Kidd chatted for a while, and then Lin Sen didn't continue to watch, and quickly turned to leave.

This day is June 3rd. Half a month has passed since the end of last season, two and a half months have passed before the start of the new season, most of the players' holidays have just begun, and a small number of players' World Cup journeys have not even begun, but for Linsen, he has embarked on the journey of the new season.

Weiss, Etuhu, Onuoha, Johnson......

In the eyes of Manchester City fans, these are youth training treasures, but unfortunately in the eyes of Lin Sen, these are chicken ribs, stay in the team and can't play rotation, give up and feel a pity because it is youth training, Lin Sen knows that many fans and even Manchester City executives will have some local complexes, club youth training complex, this is nothing wrong, local and youth training, can indeed have more sense of belonging, but also make Manchester City, which has become a "mercenary", more English color, but for the head coach, these are not the focus of consideration.

For the manager, the more realistic use of a few more talented youth players in the first team is that they don't need to go to the youth team to catch strong men when they sign up for European competitions. And these places, Lin Sen already has, Richards, Ireland, Wright Jr...... Therefore, the youth training treasures mentioned earlier are naturally on Lin Sen's "purge" list.

Compared with last summer, Marwood could not find any reason to refute Linsen's "purge".

Because of these players, last season's table xiàn really did not shine, even Onuoha and Johnson, who occasionally played the main team in Manchester City before, did not give a more satisfactory result, but Linsen last season "out of pocket" to buy several players, after being loaned, shined, especially last season's Portuguese Super League top scorer Falcao, the two sides of a comparison, Marwood himself felt that his position was in crisis, not that he did not do a good job, but Linsen's eyes were too fierce, risk is such a thing, for Lin Sen seems to be non-existent.

However, for now, Marwood still has to arrange a back for these players first, which is an easy errand to do, and the easiest way is nothing more than to notify the player's agent and tell the opposing player that he can find another job. But a simple approach can mean uncontrollable consequences, which was proven last summer, so it's not a good job.

Compared with the purge, Lin Sen has not yet given a recruitment plan, although this is after the purge, but Marwood also knows that this summer's recruitment will definitely not be as crazy as last summer, but this madness is relative to the quantity, not the investment.

Manchester City will invest no less than 100 million in transfers per season in three years, which is written in the plan. It's only the second season, and the plan won't change, not only won't it change, but it may even increase. Because the Premier League title is not the ultimate goal of Manchester City.

Manchester City's three-stage goal, now the first phase of the three-year plan: to be the best team in the Premier League and challenge for the title, has been overfulfilled and almost in one step. The second phase of the five-year plan is to win the Premier League and become one of the best teams in Europe. Manchester City is halfway through this, so the next step is to break out of England and go to Europe.

How to accomplish this goal? Quite simply, keep investing. And the first step is to renew the coach. (To be continued......)