On 24 July, Manchester City played their second warm-up game of the pre-season against local Kansas Athletic.

Because many of the main players are temporarily on vacation or have just returned to the team because of the World Cup, so in this game, Pellegrini still sent a mixed lineup of old and young like the first warm-up game, and many young people have been given the opportunity to play, but even in the face of such Manchester City, Kansas Athletic still has no power to fight back, the final score of the game is four to one, and Manchester City has won two consecutive warm-up games.

In his post-match press conference, Manuel Pellegrini said City's transfer window for the summer had closed barring no surprises.

As of this time, Manchester City is in the transfer market, Sagna replaced Richardz's right-back position, Musacchio replaced Nastasic's position, as for Sanchez, it can be understood as a swap with Suarez, from the perspective of the lineup basically remained intact, as for whether the strength is strengthened or weakened, it will take time to test.

It stands to reason that the manager's words can basically be regarded as official language, which means that Manchester City's transfer operation this summer has come to an end. Considering Manchester City's transfer manoeuvres in recent seasons and the return of Linson, this is actually entirely possible. However, despite Pellegrini's understatement, there are still reporters with "tips on the ears" who still hear the overtones.

If there are no accidents.

Of course, this could not have been a slip of the tongue by Pellegrini, or an unintentional move.

Bale, Suarez and David Luiz.

Three of Manchester City's absolute mainstays have been caught in a transfer vortex at the same time this summer, with Suarez now a Barcelona player and David Luiz in contract extension negotiations, with only Bale in a strange situation.

In terms of the sequence of scandals, Bale should be the first to identify the player who is most likely to leave the team, but the fact is that Bale's transfer. So far, it has only been a media scandal, and for Manchester City, Real Madrid's only move in this transfer was just the phone call between Florentino and Mubarak a month ago.

That's right, summer is still a long time, and there is still more than a month before the transfer window closes, and for Real Madrid, time is enough. However, perhaps Real Madrid seems to have forgotten one thing, and that is that this transfer is not as simple as releasing people for Manchester City.

No manager wants his players to leave at the last minute, and no manager wants to see new signings until the last day, and the reasons for this need no longer need to be repeated.

Just when Lin Sen almost thought that Real Madrid's plan to introduce Bale was delayed, the recognized mouthpiece of Real Madrid, the Spanish newspaper "Marca", broke a news. And the title of the message is concise and to the point.

Real Madrid's next target: Bale

The season is the season of the manager, and the summer is the summer of the manager.

Less than two months after returning to Manchester City, Linsen didn't feel too tired, the only feeling was busy. When you're done with one thing. There's always that kind of hustle that something else comes out of nowhere.

First Suarez, then David Luiz, and now, Bale.

However, there is one thing that Lin Sen has been abiding by.

That's what he said at the press conference on the first day of his return: he didn't come back to replace Pellegrini.

Because of this. The summer signings of the new season, although nominally led by Linsen, are in fact. According to Pellegrini's thinking, what Linsen did was nothing more than "adjustment", for example, replacing Mangala with Musacchio. As for Suarez's transfer, it is basically a "passive response".

However, Lin Sen's "adjustments", as the head coach Pellegrini "appreciated", this is not something that Lin Sen can grasp.

Lin Sen has some regrets, I am afraid that the other party has little chance of "appreciating", because judging from the current remarks of Pellegrini, the "engineer" at least does not intend to communicate his problems with Lin Sen openly and honestly, but more through the media to "hint".

Lin Sen doesn't know whether Pellegrini's "communication style" is appropriate, but it obviously shows one thing, that is, the other party and himself are not as harmonious as he imagined and hoped. Of course, at this point, Linson can't blame Pellegrini for being difficult to get along with, because if Linsen is replaced as the manager, he doesn't think his reaction will be much better than Pellegrini's.

Linsen thought about talking to Pellegrini again, but ultimately decided to give up.

Because, the problem between him and Pellegrini is not that there is any problem in the relationship between the two, but that the different roles of the two people are determined.

Therefore, unless Lin Sen resigns from this position, there is only one thing to solve this problem.

That's time.

Of course, the final result of time is not necessarily a happy thing for all.

As for now, before Lin Sen completes his task this summer, he only has one last exam question left, a exam question that Real Madrid has just released, Bale-

Bale, who was already on vacation in the United States, did not return to Europe, but joined up with Manchester City directly in the United States.

In the last warm-up game, he made his debut as a starter, and was replaced by Pellegrini at half-time, and the table can only be described as tepid, not good or bad, of course, in the eyes of the media, especially the Spanish media, Bale's appearance has become absent-minded and in Cao Ying's heart.

After the game, a reporter chased Bale and asked similar questions, and Bale's reaction? Silent.

Not saying a word means that you are in a bad mood.

Bale is indeed in a bad mood, and if it weren't for the fact that his agent Barnett has been in contact with Real Madrid, Bale has every reason to think that Real Madrid lacks sincerity.

First Kroos, then Ronaldo.

Real Madrid can give a whole bunch of reasons, the most common is the World Cup, but that doesn't change one thing, and that is that he is not at the top of Real Madrid's recruitment sequence. Thinking about himself because of this incident, it can be said that he had an early showdown with his respected coach Lin Sen, and Bale's mood was even worse.

Therefore, when Real Madrid finally shifted its attention to him, the excitement when they knew that Real Madrid intended to introduce themselves had long since disappeared. Now Bell even regrets a little that he didn't answer Lin Sen's call a month ago. It's just that things have come to this point, and in Barnett's words, he has no way back.

In fact, it was not Bale, but Barnett.

In the past month, he doesn't know how many times he has "urged" Real Madrid to speed up its actions, however, Real Madrid is not in a hurry at all, which makes Barnett angry, but also a little helpless, blame him for his greed, and Real Madrid signed a secret agreement.

Yes, it's a secret protocol.

According to the secret agreement, if Barnett reneged on, Barnett would not only not be able to receive a significant commission on the deal, but would also have to pay a large amount of liquidated damages. But to make matters worse for Barnett, Bell didn't know about it.

Bale wants to go to Real Madrid, Real Madrid wants Bale, that's what Barnett decided to do, and that's why he signed that secret agreement. Because he thinks it's just "redundant", but if there is money to be made, why not? And now, he has to eat the bitter fruit of what he took for granted.

Tricked by Real Madrid? Perhaps, but this qiē is just your willingness.

Of course, Lin Sen could not have known that there would be such a "little" secret in Bale's transfer.

In his mind, with the improvement of football-related rules, although there is still no lack of unspoken rules and unwritten agreements in transfer transactions, it should be said that it is still fair and reasonable on the whole. This kind of thing is not unheard of in the past transfers, and the most famous Mo, Figo, who shocked world football in the past, defected to Barcelona and joined Real Madrid.

Figo, who was in Barcelona at the time, made a surprising decision to move to Real Madrid. At the time, no matter how you look at it, this transfer was "unreasonable" for the players and Barcelona from top to bottom, except for Real Madrid, but it finally became a fact. Although Figo later recalled the transfer and said that he did not regret it, in fact, the most reasonable explanation for the reason why this transfer happened so far is the secret agreement.

Because at that time, there were two backgrounds that had to be mentioned before this transfer took place: one was that Figo and Barcelona were preparing to negotiate a new contract, and the then Barcelona president Nunez did not intend to meet Figo's annual salary requirements, and the other was the Real Madrid election, and the protagonist was the old Sans, who was no stranger to Florentino and Linson.

With these two backgrounds, plus Figo's situation at the time, what happened later, what the actual inside story is, what is important is that no matter what happens, it is not without basis.

The so-called secret agreement, to put it bluntly, is an agreement that does not see the light of day. Why can't you see the light, because you die when you see the light?

Just like the current Bell agreement.

If the deal is made public, Bale will almost face the same options as Figo, with only three options: one is to stay at Manchester City and pay liquidated damages. The second is to stay at Manchester City and let Barnett die. The third is to go to Real Madrid.

On the surface there are three options, in reality, there is only one.

I have to say that Real Madrid is a big flag, a very, very big flag, and this big flag is enough to make everyone think that the transfer of any player to the Bernabeu, although it is not necessarily reasonable, must be reasonable.

Even if he is as black as Lin Sen, he thinks so.

Therefore, in his opinion, the reason why this transfer has dragged on until now can only be attributed to the arrogance of Real Madrid, and then, he intends to give Real Madrid's arrogance the same arrogance.

On July 26, Real Madrid's sporting director Butragueno landed in Manchester, and the whole world knew who he was coming for, but at the same time, Linsen, who is Manchester City's director of football, unwittingly stepped on a plane to Tiannan, China. (To be continued......)