Everything has its own rules, the game is, the team is, and so does the development of the club.

There is no team that can blow up people at every turn for no reason, and no club can rise without warning, so there must be a demon when things go wrong, and the demon here certainly does not refer specifically to monsters, in the final analysis, it is just a reason. For example, Manchester City can become one of the top European giants in just a few years, which is a very abnormal thing in itself, and the "demons" in it actually mainly appear in two people.

One is Mansour and the other is Linsen.

Mansour has money, Linson has plug-ins, without the former, Linson may be able to make Manchester City rise, but it is absolutely impossible to be so fast, and without the latter, Mansour's Manchester City may + www.zhuzhudao.com will still rise, but I'm afraid no one knows when this time will be, both are indispensable, so the media will call the rise of Manchester City in the past few years a miracle, but in fact, everything is just a matter of course, just like one plus one equals two.

And now Cambridge United, it is obviously impossible to copy the path of Manchester City, so everything can only be done slowly.

Tang Hua asked how many years it would take to go to the Premier League, and Lin Sen could actually tell him the answer, but this answer definitely couldn't be an exact data, so Lin Sen didn't answer him immediately. Three, five, ten years, this is perhaps the only thing in common between Cambridge United's plan and Manchester City's plan, of course, the goal cannot be the same, and the time is different.

Manchester City's so-called three, five, ten years, in fact, only add up to ten years, but Cambridge United's plan, three years, five years and ten years, is a long process of 18 years. According to Linsen's idea, within three years, Cambridge United will try to be promoted to the Championship, and then within five years of promotion to the Championship. Promotion to the Premier League, as for the next decade, the goal is to reach the Premier League title.

Such a plan can be said to be conservative or radical.

The conservative thing is because compared with Manchester City's plan, Cambridge United's plan is not much different from Snail Speed, not to mention, eighteen years is so long, and no one even knows whether Lin Sen will still be the owner of Cambridge United at that time. And the reason why it is radical is because. No first-division club can claim to be promoted to the Championship in three years, the Premier League in five years, or the Premier League in 10 years.

So, in other words, any move to make a plan for football can be said to be radical. Football never says never, however, the saying is the other way around, that is, football never says yes.

Of course, Lin Sen dared to make such a plan, and it was not completely unfounded. As he pointed in the direction when he said to Tang Hua, whether Cambridge United can complete this plan, or even complete this plan ahead of schedule, in fact, depends on the growth of this group of players.

Tang Hua may not know the capabilities of the group of people under him. But Lin Sen knows, not to mention the others, Xiao Zhixing and Francis, in his eyes. Xiao Zhixing may need some time to get used to, but Francis is definitely a bug in the first division, if all goes well. It's hard to say what Cambridge United have done, but relegation is definitely not too difficult.

In the next month, Cambridge United, which has basically completed the recruitment, played four warm-up games, and the results obviously made Cambridge United fans unhappy, two draws and two losses, no wins, and it is said that the results of the warm-up games are not counted, but Cambridge United's opponents really can't let the fans comfort themselves, four opponents, except for Manchester City, the other three opponents, two amateur teams, and one second division team.

However, fears aside, fans have not lost their expectations for the new season, and this expectation is directly reflected in the sales of season tickets for the team, Cambridge United sold 1,500 season tickets last season with the momentum of returning to the professional league, and this year, that number has nearly doubled to 2,800 units. While this figure is still modest for a Premier League club, it is an unprecedented improvement for Cambridge United.

A few warm-up games also made Cambridge United, a half-baked team, not even ten mature, but also six or seven points of maturity. It is worth mentioning that in these warm-up games, Tang Hua changed a set of main lineups almost every game, in addition to the main lineup last season, he also tried a new lineup that excited Cambridge United fans.

Of course, if the warm-up game that caught Linson's attention the most was undoubtedly the warm-up game against Manchester City.

In this warm-up game, Tang Hua discharged a starter with an average age of only twenty-two, and four players from the training camp appeared together. Cambridge United lost the game, but the process was enough to satisfy the Cambridge United fans at home, because in the first half, Cambridge United even once led by two goals to Manchester City, which sent an all-youth team lineup, only in the second half when the opponent changed to the first-team lineup, Cambridge United was defeated by the score.

Lin Sen didn't care too much about the result of the game, and his eyes were still on the young people he was most concerned about.

Stam, the best of the game, the tall central defender, did not have any stage fright in the face of Manchester City, showing his rare steadiness and maturity in this young man, winning almost all the one-on-one duels in the first half, although he still exposed the weakness of turning slowly and was stolen by the opponent, but it was not enough to erase his performance in this game, and the best player is the best praise for him.

Xiao Zhixing showed his own characteristics, there were no passionate goals, and there were no gorgeous skills, but the two goals of Cambridge United were closely related to him.

As for Francis, he was the player who surprised Linson the most in this game.

Francis in this game, can be called the worst player of Cambridge United, the success rate of one-on-one passes in the first half is very high, but unfortunately too lonely, several missed the best passing time, in the second half, when Manchester City changed to the first team players, facing an opponent who was higher than the first half in terms of experience and ability, Francis began to lose.

Lin Sen was surprised that Francis's sense of victory and defeat was so heavy, and it was not surprising that Francis's characteristics were too single, and when facing opponents with good defensive skills, he was too drilly, and it was too easy to dig holes and jump by himself.

In addition to these three people, George on the front line and Colin in the middle gave their own answers: George was responsible for Cambridge United's two goals, while Colin assisted one, of course, he is more eye-catching in his defensive statistics, with a success rate of 80% interceptions and 9 direct tackles......

This is a hopeful Cambridge United.

The performance of a few little guys made Lin Sen even more convinced of this, as for the inaccurate Francis, Lin Sen did not intend to intervene, this should be Tang Hua's job, not to mention, some pits need to jump out by himself-

Cambridge United are poised to take off, but the earth doesn't revolve around Cambridge United, and after the sensation caused by Linsen's arrival at Cambridge United gradually subsided, the opening of the summer transfer market quickly made people forget about Cambridge United's humble first-division team.

For the media in England, the Premier League is obviously much more lively than Cambridge United, which focuses on the whole team and cannot find a familiar face for most fans. Manchester City with a change of manager, Manchester United with a return to the Champions League, Chelsea with ambitions to reach the top of Europe, Liverpool trying to return to BIG4, and Arsenal with a never-say-die approach......

It was in this atmosphere that Cambridge United welcomed their first game in the First Division.

In the stands of Abbe Field, Mike Dawson's bloated figure is even more blessed, but his unkeept beard and blue cap on his head are still the same, and he is bragging to the person next to him about his experience of "encountering" Linson in the stands last season...... And at this time, Lin Sen's figure also appeared in the stands.

Linson was dressed casually, jeans, T-shirts, and when he appeared, he stood up and waved in front of the cheering home fans, and with him was the club's president, Dave Dougan.

"I'm a little jealous of you, I've been working here for decades, and I don't get as many cheers as you have only been here for a few dozen days." Looking at the enthusiasm of the fans, Dave Sr. joked.

"I can't help it." Lin Sen also joked, "I'm much more handsome than you." ”

Old Dave laughed.

The two Cambridge United executives were relaxed in the stands, but at this time, Tang Hua's mood was not relaxed.

Today's opponents of Cambridge United are Coventry City, whose head-to-head record dates back to the days of black and white television, and of course, as a long-lost promoted horse, most of Cambridge United's opponents this season have been like this.

From the point of view of strength, Coventry, which did not announce the success of relegation until the last few rounds last season, can only be regarded as lower in the league, and this season can only fight for relegation. Although in the eyes of the media before the game, Cambridge United, as a promoted horse, only has the advantage of Coventry, that is, home advantage, Tang Hua, who knows the goal of Cambridge United this season, knows very well that Cambridge United may not need to win this game, but it must not be a defeat.

As soon as the game began, Cambridge United showed that they were different from last season, first and foremost, the lineup changed from last season's 541 to a more offensive 4231.

However, the attacking formation does not necessarily mean that you will be able to overwhelm the opponent.

In the opening 30 minutes, Coventry, who were playing away, almost pressed Cambridge United in the half, and then until the end of the first half, the comparison of Cambridge United and Coventry had shots on goal was 10 to 1.

That is, in the entire first half, Cambridge United had only one shot on goal.

The team's performance was terrible, the atmosphere in the stands was naturally not much easier, Dave Dougan who entered the fan mode was even more cheerful and silent, and Linson did not speak, in fact, throughout the first half, his attention was not entirely on the court, and many times he was watching the bench on the sidelines.

Because in the first half, Cambridge United was on the bench, sitting a young man.

Xiao Zhixing, Francis, Colin...... (To be continued......)