The renewal of Linson's contract was put on the agenda by Manchester City FC as soon as the season ended.

Lin Sen also handed over the whole matter to Mendez, who only spoke to him twice on the phone during his return to China.

On the first call, Mendez asked Linson for his thoughts on the length of the contract extension. On the second phone call, Mendes faxed a sample contract directly, and then the matter was announced as settled, and it was announced only when Linsen returned to the UK to sign the pledge.

Linson is not the only Premier League coach who has recently renewed his contract, just a week ago, another Premier League giant, Arsenal, has officially announced the renewal of the contract with the professor Arsene Wenger, who has only one year left on the contract, which also shattered all kinds of speculation about Wenger's whereabouts, in fact, the renewal of the professor's contract is just a decision that any owner will not hesitate to make, although Arsenal fans complain about the five years without a title, but you must know that Wenger has led Arsenal to the Champions League for 12 consecutive years, and during the period, Arsenal have even experienced the difficult situation of building a new stadium that requires a tightening of monetary resources.

So, no matter how much fans of other teams ridicule Arsenal as a race for four, one thing cannot be denied, and that is that Arsenal have never lost their competitiveness. What's more, there is a simple reason for the board to renew Wenger's contract: Wenger is a manager who will make money.

Being able to make money for the club and keep the team competitive, which board of directors is willing to give up such a manager?

Details of Arsene Wenger's new contract have not been released, but that hasn't stopped the well-versed English media from investigating the rules: a three-year contract, a $6 million a year, and a Champions League promotion bonus...... It also allowed Arsene Wenger to surpass his old rival Alex Ferguson in terms of annual salary and become the highest-paid manager in the Premier League after Carlo Ancelotti.

And Linson's annual salary in the new covenant happens to be the same as the rumored annual salary of Ferguson: four million.

That's exactly double his previous annual salary.

Speaking of which, in two years, Lin Sen's annual salary has skyrocketed 20 times from 200,000 yuan in Malaga to 2 million last year, and then to 4 million now. Of course. The same annual salary as Ferguson does not mean that Linson has the same status as Ferguson at Manchester United. It can only be said that Manchester City recognized Linsen's achievements.

The duration of the contract is three years, as before, until 2013. Originally, Manchester City intended to give a five-year contract, but Lin Sen politely refused, which is not because Lin Sen intended to sell at the price, because no matter how you look at it, the longer the year. The more favorable it is, the more it is him, unless he is a coach like Mourinho and other clubs are willing to pay liquidated damages for him, otherwise, the probability of the club firing people is much higher. Moreover, Manchester City's five-year contract has a gradual increase of 10% of the annual salary, which means that if Lin Sen fulfills the contract, his annual salary in the final year will not be lower than that of Wenger.

The reason why Lin Sen politely refused this contract. Or is he not used to being bound for too long. A contract is a paper contract, but in reality, it is a contract of sale. Although Lin Sen didn't think that he had broken the contract, he still wanted to leave enough leeway for himself. Three or five years. For many people, there is not much difference, it is about the same as half a catty and eight taels. But in his opinion, five years is still too long. Three years is a good amount of time, not too long or too short.

On 6 June, Mendes returned to Manchester. In the afternoon, the topic that has been frequently reported in the English media since the end of last season finally came to a conclusion, and Manchester City's official website announced their first "signing" of the summer: manager Linsen signed a new contract.

Below the news headline, Lin Sen and Mubarak in the picture are smiling and shaking hands......

With more money, you naturally have to do more things, face stronger opponents, and then come up with better results.

Linsen is very clear about his goal for the new season, or rather, the next goal, it is not easy to be the best team in the top league, and it is even more difficult to become the best team in Europe, which is why Manchester City will be away from the league title for 42 years, and why Mourinho's Inter Milan will be away from the Champions League for 45 years.

Therefore, there is no exact definition of the so-called best team. But there is no definition, but there is one standard, and that is the champion. The best team may not win the championship, but the best team will win the championship. It may be a bit controversial to say this, but not to mention Inter Milan, who topped the Champions League this year, or even Greece, who won the Euros in 04 and were called mythical, whether they were one or the other, they proved that they were the best team at the time.

Linson is satisfied with his own Manchester City, even if there is another person with a plug-in like him, I am afraid there is no way to pick out many flaws in the current Manchester City lineup, when Linsen came to Manchester City, there was actually only one problem left, that is, how to prove that he is the best team, last season, Manchester City just completed the first proof question.

From the best in England to the best in Europe, Manchester City will not have to make the leap by moving the board up a notch. Because Manchester City's opponents will be opponents at the same level as them, and more importantly, these opponents have more experience in European competition.

And this is why Lin Sen did not object to the club's preparation to arrange the warm-up match in the United States this summer, after the "disturbance" of the World Cup, the team was not suitable to continue to travel long distances, which is why Lin Sen finally gave up leading the team to "return home", but the United States is different, because there will be many giants who will go to the United States to train, including Milan and Real Madrid......

It's just a warm-up game, maybe it doesn't have much value on a tactical level, but for City, being on the same pitch and that's the value.

And an important criterion for Linsen's recruitment this summer is Champions League experience, just as one of Linsen's recruitment criteria last summer is to have successful experience in the Premier League.

At the moment, there are not many players with Champions League experience in the Manchester City team, Robben, David Silva, Adriano...... These people are no strangers to the Champions League, among which Robben, who has played for Chelsea, Real Madrid and other giants, is the richest one, while Suarez and David Luiz are relatively fewer, in addition, more than half of the remaining players, their impression of the Champions League is not much different from that of him, a manager who has never played a game.

At this time, Lin Sen was facing the pile of names on the notebook and began to meditate.

What do you think, think about which of these names have appeared in the transfer market this summer in your memory.

The summer transfer of 2010, because of the World Cup, is definitely not a small year of transfer, of course, and last year is certainly not comparable, last summer other teams not to mention, only Real Madrid Manchester City two teams, smashed more than 400 million funds into the transfer market, more than 30 million large transfers are countless, even more than 50 million super transfers have several.

At present, Linson has put some names on the mark, including those who transferred to Manchester City this summer, such as Milner, Balotelli, Yaya Toure, etc., as well as some more heavyweight transfers, such as Villa, Mascherano, Ibrahimovic......

Marking it doesn't mean that Linsen is planning to make an offer, but it definitely helps Linsen analyze the situation in the transfer market this summer.

For fans, transfers seem to be nowhere to be found, some will become a summer soap opera, some will be completed overnight, but for every team, every transfer can in fact find traces, take the memory of Barcelona this summer as an example, if Manchester City does not poach Yaya Toure, Mascherano is categorically impossible to go to Barcelona, and if it is not for Ibramovic's return to Serie A, then Villa is categorically impossible to go to Camp Nou. Among them, Yaya Toure's departure is due to Busquets's survival, while Ibrahimovic's departure is a personality conflict between the Swedes and Pep Guardiola.

Of course, these are actually afterthoughts, after all, before a qiē becomes a reality, who knows that Yaya Toure will be willing to leave Barcelona? Who knew that the relationship between Ibrahimovic and Pep Guardiola would be so bad.

However, these afterthoughts are not an afterthought for Lin Sen.

Linson's eyes are more on Mascherano and Yaya Toure than on Ibrahimovic and Villa, and for the obvious reason that he has no shortage of strikers, but he needs a heavyweight midfielder. Vidal, Xavi Martinez and Frenkie de Jong, these are the cards in Linson's current hand in this position, and last season, these guys should be said to be unsatisfactory.

If you have to put it in order, Vidal should be the best man on the table, the Chilean midfielder has shown his ability at both ends of the pitch, covering a large area defensively and being full of energy, and always in key positions in attack, as evidenced by the few key goals scored last season. However, Javi Martinez, who was pinned on by Linsen, did not reach the height that Linsen wanted, but the Spanish midfielder was still young, and Linsen was not in a hurry.

As for De Jong, who was originally in the team, he is the most stable one and the one with the best defensive ability, but what makes Lin Sen more painful is that he seems to have a habit of dropping the chain at critical moments. That's why Linson wanted to win him in the Europa League final last season.

Therefore, if the Bender brothers can't count on it for the time being, if there is a suitable opportunity, Lin Sen does not mind taking a top midfielder to improve his main lineup.

Now, it's the right moment. Both Mascherano and Yaya Toure are heavyweight midfielders.

The "deserved" Yaya Toure is naturally the first choice, and the question is whether Barcelona will really be as easy to send the Ivorians to Manchester as Linson remembers. (To be continued......)