"Arsenal at home in the fifth round, Manchester United away in the sixth round, Liverpool in the thirteenth round, Chelsea in the fifteenth round...... The good news is that the team's first few opponents are not strong, which helps Lin to run in the team, but he will have to face Arsenal and ......Manchester United in a row.

On June 23, the FA announced the schedule for the new season of the Premier League, and as soon as the schedule was announced, it immediately became a topic of conversation among fans who "have nothing to do". If the team is competitive, then it can add some buzz to their summer.

Last season, Manchester City's result was seventh in the league, which is the last train of European competition for two consecutive seasons, and Manchester City fans are slightly dissatisfied with the fact that the European qualification for these two seasons is suspected of "eating food", last year because Manchester City won the UEFA Fair Play Award last season, according to UEFA regulations, the bottom three leagues in the Europa League with red and yellow cards every year can get an additional ticket to the Europa League. This year, it was because Everton had already qualified for the Europa League, so Manchester City was able to postpone it.

Of course, in the summer, there is no one topic that can be argued for, and that is transfers.

Two days later, on June 25.

When Linson and Marwood had their second meeting, Linsen had already come up with a plan for the transformation of the midfield, which means that the new manager of Manchester City has basically completed the overall transformation plan of the team for the new season. But it's only compared to the striker.

In midfield and at the back, one player from each Manchester City has left the club this season when his contract expires. They are left-back Bauer and German midfielder Hamann. Among them, the departure of Ball and Garrido's request to leave the team made Manchester City, which was originally well-stocked, suddenly in a state of bleeding at left-back. Only one England international remains, Bridge. The departure of Hamann and the voluntary departure of Fernandes have made Manchester City slightly weak in the back position, and there is only one full-fledged midfielder left, that is, Dutch international De Jong.

Overall, Linson's cleaning in central and midfield was much the same as Marwood had expected.

There is no problem with "Datong", because the players that Marwood expected may not be in Linsen's plan are basically not in Linsen's plan.

At the back, for example, apart from the two left-backs just mentioned who are not in the plans, Israeli centre-back Ben Haim has not been as good as he could have since moved to Manchester City last season. Abandoned in the second half of last season, Linson has no intention of giving the Israelis a second chance. In terms of midfield, in addition to Hamann's departure, Linson also has no intention of retaining Fernandes and Weiss.

The problem is "small differences". This small difference, in Marwood's view, is actually not small at all.

Because, in addition to the people already mentioned, Linson not only does not plan to keep Onuoha, but even Johnson, who has just renewed his contract with Manchester City, does not plan to stay. He even put a question mark on the name of Bridge, who had just been here for half a season, and Marwood didn't know what that question mark meant, but it was clearly not the answer Marwood wanted.

Regarding Lin Sen's "unexpected" decisions, Marwood did not immediately raise objections. Manchester City is fighting on four fronts in the new season. Obviously, Lin Sen needs to ensure that there are at least two or more candidates in each position, so the already uncrowded backline has to bring in as many people as possible. However, the midfielders did not have many numbers after Linsen put the two wings in the forward transformation plan. Therefore, Marwood is ready to take a look at the players that Linson intends to bring in in first.

Cleaned so many people. Linson gave five names, namely David Luiz, Cahill, Azpilicueta, Xavi Martinez, and Vidal.

If the goal of the previous forward transformation plan was clear to Marwood, this time, Mawood feels a little confused.

It's not that Marwood doesn't know these names at all, at least Bolton's centre-back Cahilmawood knows better, and Bidalmawood, who plays for Bayer Leverkusen, is no stranger. It's just the other three names, and Marwood is really only to "have heard of" Cheng dù. David Luiz, who seems to be the same as Di Maria, is also a Benfica player? Javi Martinez? It seems to be a player from Bilbao in La Liga, but who is this Azpilicueta?

After thinking about it for a long time, I didn't remember what the last name that was a little awkward to read was the holy Marwood suddenly felt a little embarrassed inexplicably, and now he finally experienced how Livermore felt last season, in any case, as a football manager, it is understandable that he is not familiar with the players that the manager wants, but if he has not even heard of the name, it is undoubtedly a little unreasonable.

Moreover, the current Marwood is not last season's Livermore, last season's Livermore can also comfort himself with the transfer fee Shaolinsen can only go off the rails, and what reason can Marwood use to comfort himself? Manchester City's transfer fee is nearly 200 million, does Lin Sen need to go sideways? But if the sword doesn't go sideways, then who the fuck is this person?

Seeing that Marwood was silent for a long time, Lin Sen didn't know that he was feeling constipated now, and thought that he was thinking about his transformation plan because if it was Livermore, such a thing would definitely not happen, if he was not familiar, he would not be familiar with it, so many players in the world may be familiar with all of them, don't you know if you ask, since you don't ask, you will naturally have to live and suffer if you want to die.

So, like last time, Lin Sen waited patiently for Marwood to say his opinion.

One minute, five minutes, ten minutes......

Marwood held back for nearly fifteen minutes, and it was estimated that he finally couldn't hold it anymore, and then he opened his mouth in a somewhat strange voice, but the first sentence of his mouth was not a mention of the problem that had held him back for so long.

"Do Onuoha and Johnson necessarily need to leave? You know, both of these players came through our Academy and the fans love both of them, especially Johnson. ”

"It's not that they can't stay, it's just that it's better for them to leave, but it's not good for them to stay because they won't have a lot of opportunities to play in the new season. On the side of the fans, I don't think there's anything to worry about because these two guys are not transferring, they're just on loan. The long-awaited Linson was quick to answer Marwood's question, because when the decision was made to let the two players go, Linsen knew that Marwood would definitely ask such a question.

Local and youth training, these are almost two plots that fans of every team will have, no club can completely ignore this kind of plot of fans, because not only fans, the Football Association has also made "protection" in this regard, the Premier League does not know how many foreign talents have been rejected The labor certification system is one of them, and in the European arena, UEFA also stipulates in the registration qualifications that there must be four club youth and four domestic teams in the registration list.

Dare to let Onuoha and Johnson leave, Linson has naturally considered this aspect of things, and the four academy training he prepared for Manchester City are Joe Hart, Richards, Ireland and Wright Jr., exactly four.

Marwood nodded, then pointed to a name on Linson's plan and asked, "Can I ask what Bridge's question mark means?" ”

"It was just a mistake, Bridge will stay, you don't have to care." For this, Lin Sen smiled and said.

"Yes." Ma Wood was a little surprised and skeptical of Lin Sen's statement, but thinking that Lin Sen didn't need to lie to himself, he didn't stay on this issue for long, and then he said, "Well, I noticed that you don't seem to be very ...... Trust England players? ”

Although Marwood used "trust" in the question, in fact, he wanted to say "like" at first, but when the words came to his lips, he felt that something was inappropriate, so he changed it to trust. Marwood has this idea without grounds, from the previous two days of the forward remodel, to the current midfield remodeling, Linson plans to bring in a total of nine players, but only one of them is English, and not a big player, Bolton defender Cahill. Although, like the Academy, Manchester City's board of directors does not impose hard and fast restrictions on the transfer of teams, there is also no rule that homegrown players cannot be brought in. As an England manager, Marwood naturally prioritizes homegrown players, and everyone knows that there is an advantage to poaching people in the same league, which promotes internal circulation if it sounds good, and hurts others and benefits itself if it sounds bad.

Of course, as long as it is a fair deal, even if it is not consensual, no one is to blame.

"How is that possible?" Lin Sen didn't delve into the pause of Marwood's tone and smiled, "I admit that I do have fewer English players in my list, but I am not biased against English players. ”

Of course, Lin Sen does not distrust the English players, but because the best players in England are basically in the hands of a few big clubs, and the potential to become the best is also in the hands of each club as a treasure. Want to buy? Regardless of the price of the pit father, people may not be willing to sell it to you, then, they are all taking the initiative to come to the door to be slaughtered, it is better to pick a better service attitude, at least you can get a discount.

All right.

Marwood smiled bitterly in his heart, thinking to himself that this Cahill is the one you used to answer my question.

Thinking of this, Marwood glanced at the plan in his hand again, and his eyes finally returned to the name that had made his egg ache for a long time.

"So, this Azpi...... Liqueta? Who is he? (To be continued......)