Acknowledgments before the chapter: Thank you for the rewards of the two book friends Ziyang and OS.

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'City have good bench depth at the moment. Lin Sen had no choice but to reply.

This sounds like the truth, but it is actually the vague thing Mendes wanted Linsen to say before.

After Manchester City could be his next stop, Lin Sen did an analysis of Manchester City's squad. Not counting the reserves and youth teams, Manchester City's current first-team team, including players returning from loan, has a total of 29 players, including four goalkeepers, nine defenders, ten midfielders and six forwards.

However, when it comes to the potential of the team, the current potential of this Manchester City is far inferior to that of Linsen's Malaga team, of course, this is not the biggest problem, the biggest problem is that this Manchester City team is suspected of being too big to lose.

Even a team like Real Madrid still has a dressing room problem, let alone Manchester City. Superstars are loved by everyone, but how to get along with these superstars has always been an important topic for the manager, Mark Hughes handled it well, but unfortunately he lost himself, Cassel didn't seem to have any problems, but from his willingness to return to work in the youth team, I am afraid that he has already exhausted himself. Of course, if these people are real superstars, then that's fine, I'm afraid that there is no such thing as a tiger and monkey in the mountains being the overlord. Real Madrid's cage is big enough to keep a tiger, so even if there is no room for two tigers in one mountain, it is still a tiger. Manchester City's cage is not big enough to keep the tiger, so for the time being, it can only lock up the monkeys, which is not a problem, but if the monkeys also think that they are tigers, then this is bound to pose a problem for the feeding people: do you feed meat or vegetarian?

When he was in Malaga, Linson dodged the question, why he likes young players, not because he likes to develop talented teenagers, but because young players tend to be more obedient.

"That's not what you really think." Unexpectedly, Mubarak shook his head when he heard it, because Lin Sen's answer was different from what he expected, in his opinion, Lin Sen, who was very frank just now, should not say this kind of ambiguous answer, "I hope to hear more real thoughts, if you are worried that this will affect our judgment of you, then I want to say that this is unnecessary, this meeting needs to be open and honest." ”

Mubarak's words made Lin Sen silent for a moment, and at this time, Mendes also wondered what the Arab in front of him thought.

"To put it simply, there is more than the top and more than the bottom." Since Mubarak didn't want to listen to good words, then Lin Sen didn't sell it.

Really.

Mubarak smiled bitterly in his heart, although Linsen's words were not good, but they were true, which is not bad for money They are currently facing in the transfer market, they don't want to bag the best players, but transfers have always needed consensual thinking, in January this year, Manchester City even had reached an agreement with AC Milan on the transfer of Kaka, but in the end, Kaka himself rejected Manchester City.

Why? Not because City didn't give enough money, but because City didn't qualify.

'Man City has a lot of good players, but alas, it's just good players. Lin Sen continued.

At this point, Gary Cook frowned, "With all due respect, Mr. Lin, but I don't think your words are too absolute?" Among other things, our young people are outstanding, at least, I don't think they are worse than Malaga's. ”

Compared with young people in Malaga?

Lin Sen smiled in his heart, who is the young man in Malaga? It's Reus, it's Lewandowski, it's Gundogan, it's Isco, who are the young people at Manchester City? It's Richard, it's Etuhu, it's Caicedo, it's Onuoha. Linson admits that these baby bumps are good in the eyes of Manchester City fans at the moment, but if you compare them with the young people in Malaga today, I am afraid they are not qualified.

Still, Linson understands Gary Cook's thoughts. The Premier League is one of the leagues with the highest local plot in European football, and there has always been a saying of "account bonus", some English local players can always be preferred, and because of this, the Premier League always has some incredible transfers from time to time, and some budding young players in England can always get special preference from the media, which has inadvertently raised the self-esteem of many English fans, but unfortunately the Premier League is not equal to England.

The superiority is not determined by the household registration, but by the competition.

Lin Sen didn't pick up Gary Cook's words, he just smiled, and then fell silent.

"The question just now is the last one, Mr. Lin." At this point, Mubara suddenly stood up, with an elusive smile on his face, and stretched out his hand, "Thank you very much for coming all the way to this meeting, and thank you very much for your interest in Manchester City." We will keep in touch with Mr. Mendez and get back to you as much as possible. ”

And that's the end of it?

Mubarak's closing words came a little suddenly, which made Mendes frown a little, but there was no unhappiness on his face, he glanced at Lin Sen's expression, and Lin Sen looked calm.

The two shook hands with Mubarak and then Gary Cook, as they had done when they first met, and then said goodbye and left.

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After Linson and Mendes left, Mubarak and Gary Cook did not follow suit.

"What do you think, Gary?" Mubarak, still in the same position he had been seated at the meeting, asked Gary Cook.

"Personally, I prefer Roberto." Gary Cook thought for a moment and said, "At least he's much more polite and respectful of City. ”

"Huh." Mubarak laughed and did not speak.

As Gary Cook has said, City had actually been in contact with another manager, Roberto Mancini, before meeting Linson, and Gary Cook clearly had a good impression of Mancini.

Mancini and Linsen, Mubarak agrees with Gary, Mancini is indeed more likable, because the Italians are more reserved, or rather sophisticated, while Linsen is more direct or fearless in comparison. Mendes's hints to Linsen were actually in Mubarak's eyes, and he could see that Linsen was not answering exactly according to Mendes's hints, because on several occasions, Linsen did not look at Mendes's hints at all.

For Mubarak, however, consent is not the same as recognition.

Gary thought Mancini was more polite, but Mubarak also noticed that he had a preposition, which was personal. Because, politeness may say a lot of things, but it doesn't mean that he is a better manager for Manchester City.

Mubarak has always been very clear about public and private.

Recognizing a person's personality is selfishness.

Recognizing one's work is public.

At the time of the meeting, Mubarak did not tell him that he actually knew him, and Mubarak did not plan to say anything about it until the head coach was confirmed, because it was business.

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As they walked out of the café, both Mendes and Linsen remained silent.

Then, it wasn't until the two got in the car that Lin Sen said sorry to Mendes, because he didn't abide by some of the agreements with Mendes when he met, and because he felt that this meeting was probably going to be smashed, because no matter how the meeting looked, it looked like he had been cut in half, and Lin Sen knew that Mendes had put a lot of thought into it for this meeting.

"It's okay, your table is fine." Mendez replied with a smile.

Mendes was not comforting Lin Sen, although Lin Sen did not exactly follow his own hints, there was nothing wrong with his answer, although there was a bit of a lack of trouble after the meeting, because there were some topics that should have been talked about were not discussed, of course, this can also be understood that the other party did not think that would be a problem at all.

Overall, though, Mendes doesn't think it's Linson's problem to end the meeting "early."

"Don't worry, it may not turn out as bad as you think." "I'm not sure what the outcome of the meeting will be, but it's not hard to tell." Mubarak's final expression did not seem like a polite expression. By the way, I met Mubarak for the first time, but I knew that Gary Cook, who was a Nike executive before, and I had a lot of dealings with him because of the player's sponsorship contract, and if you do get the job, you have to watch out for this person, this person is not a good person. ”

Gary Cook?

Lin Sen thought for a while, indeed, the attitude of Mubarak in today's meeting was not clear, but the attitude of the CEO of Manchester City was more clear.

"Robinho's transfer to Manchester City is his handiwork, in fact, he has a bigger plan, but it didn't work out later, that is, Kaka's transfer." Mendez added.

Lin Sen nodded thoughtfully.

Manchester City's current transfer work is Brian Marwood, who just became football director in March this year, and before that, Manchester City's transfer model was recommended by the manager, Gary Cook was in charge of the decision-making and operation, while Mubarak was more of a supervisor, and now, Marwood is sharing Gary Cook's work. If Linson does take over Manchester City, then, according to his demands, Gary Cook's power will obviously be further diluted.

"Going for a walk? I know there is a famous Chinatown in Manchester, the largest in the UK, maybe you should check it out. At this point, Mendes said.

"Next time." Lin Sen said with a smile, "There's something else." I've booked my ticket for the afternoon. ”

"In such a hurry?" Mendes was a little surprised when he heard this.

"There's no way." Lin Sen shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly.

This is really not Lin Sen's intention to spoil the fun, it's just that the time is too unfortunate, there is a person he has been waiting for for a long time, and it is time to come to Europe.

June is not only the closing season of the league, but also the graduation season of the school.