"Are you interested in Angel?"

Hearing Linsen talk about Di Maria, Mendes was a little surprised, Di Maria is indeed his player, just signed last year, on the optimistic Cheng Dù, Mendes values the Argentine young man more than Falcao. He knew that Malaga had asked Di Maria last year, but it was just a question, and then there was no follow-up, but he didn't expect that Lin Sen would ask him now.

"He's one of my main goals this summer." Lin Sen didn't hide it, and briefly explained the situation. If you're interested in a player, your agent can't get around it.

"So, you decided to sign Di Maria? Giving up on David Luiz? Mendez asked, thinking all he wanted.

David Luis? That Brazilian? Listening to Lin Sen's tone, it seems that he is still very optimistic about this young man, but his performance in Benfica in the past two seasons is not very good, how did Lin Sen like him?

"On the contrary, I'm going to bring in David Luiz first. And it's not to give up on Di Maria, it's just that you have to wait. Lin Sen said lightly, "That's why I need you to do me a favor." ”

"That's it." Mendes nodded, then said with some confusion, "David Luiz is not my player, how can I help?" ”

"I'm going to apply the genius clause to David Luiz, because in a short period of time, it's very difficult for David Luiz to meet the criteria for a labor certification. Di Maria, on the other hand, is already a member of the Argentine national team, he just needs some time, and the labor certification is not a problem for him. So......" Lin Sen only said this, Mendes already understood what Lin Sen wanted to do.

"You want a right of first refusal?"

"That's right. In exchange, we could also loan Falcao to Benfica for free. ”

"Huh." For Lin Sen's suggestion, Mendes on the other side of the phone shook his head with a strange expression and laughed dryly, "I'm afraid Benfica won't be happy with such a deal." ”

Free rental? It sounds like Benfica taking advantage, but in turn, it is helping others to level up, which is not Benfica's intention to bring in Falcao.

"Falcao is just a bonus." Lin Sen could hear the meaning of Mendes' laughter, and he smiled as well. "If Benfica doesn't want it, it's very simple, I don't think Porto will refuse a free gift, if they don't want it either, then there's Sporting Lisbon, well, we just made a deal with them and it's a good relationship."

“……”

Mendes couldn't stop laughing.

Lin Sen's move is not unshady. As a Portuguese, Mendes knows the relationship between these three clubs in Portugal very well, because the entire history of the Portuguese Super League, in short, is a history of the struggle between these three clubs. At the moment, Benfica has won the most titles in the Portuguese Super League. Thirty-one titles, but since the eighties and nineties of the last century until now, Porto has almost monopolized the Portuguese Super League championship, especially in recent years, Porto has won six titles in seven years, and has achieved four consecutive championships, only one step away from equaling their own five consecutive championships in the last century.

In Portugal, what many Portuguese fans are concerned about now is not whether Porto can win the title, but when they can pull Benfica off the top of the most titles. In this case. Benfica will never want to see Porto continue to grow bigger, even if they make them even a little stronger......

"I see." Thinking of this, Mendes said helplessly. It's really called a combination of hard and soft.

On July 16, he led his new Manchester City. Lin Sen boarded a special plane to Johannesburg, South Africa, to start the pre-season warm-up race. In South Africa, Manchester City is expected to spend a week or so competing in a Vodafone-sponsored event called the Vodafone Challenge. And their first opponent is the Orlando Pirates, a veteran powerhouse in South Africa.

For this purely commercial South African training, Lin Sen was not happy to talk about the plan in his heart. One is because of the fatigue of the journey, and the other is because the opponent's strength is limited and the best warm-up effect cannot be achieved. However, as a newcomer, he could only accept the club's arrangement. Fortunately, after the training in South Africa, Manchester City will return to Europe, and the next Burnley, Glasco Rangers and Celtic, Manchester City basically do not have to leave England, as for the last warm-up game, the opponent is an old rival for Linson, because Manchester City has accepted the invitation of FC Barcelona and will participate in this year's Gamble Cup. It's just that at that time, the new season of the Premier League has begun, and it is actually not a warm-up game.

You can't hide from Barcelona anywhere. Thinking of this, Lin Sen smiled in his heart.

What makes Lin Sen more relieved is that the transfer work has been going very smoothly in the past few days.

Five days ago, Manchester City announced their seventh and eighth signings of the season, with 17 million signings of talented midfielder Javi Martinez from La Liga Bilbao and five million from River Plate. At the same time, Gary Cook's work in Spain finally made a breakthrough, first Gary Cook and Baldano were photographed meeting in a restaurant, which meant that Robben's transfer officially entered the actual phase, and then Valencia finally nodded to David Silva's transfer, thanks to the gradual soap opera trend of the transfer of Valencia's other star David Villa......

Three days ago, Linson's offer of 12 million plus 3 million for a total of 15 million for David Luiz was accepted by Benfica FC, and then Manchester City immediately applied to the UK Ministry of Labour for a hearing on David Luiz's labor certification, and the results of the hearing will be announced in a week. At the same time, another unknown deal is that Manchester City bought Di Maria's right of first refusal for three million, and Manchester City can buy Di Maria for two million for the next two seasons. Unlike the David Luiz deal, the deal was kept secret by both parties.

Just yesterday, Manchester City announced that they had just signed Colombian striker Falcao on loan to Benfica for a season.

It is worth mentioning that Falcao went to Portugal is not reluctant, because he originally refused Porto to come to Manchester City, and now Manchester City is ready to send him back to the Portuguese Super League.

Counting the wingers, Manchester City's forward line is almost much less than when Linson had not yet started to clean, but fortunately, the club has restarted the negotiation with Benjani to terminate the contract, and Linsen can only hope for a smooth future. As for the other "nail household" Brazilian striker Ruo, now this is no longer a hot potato, it has become pure kraft candy, but even so, this time when he comes to South Africa, Lin Sen still has to take him, not because Lin Sen came up with the idea of keeping him, but because if he stays in Manchester, he may make a fuss. Rather than that, it's better to bring it out and brush up on some value, you know, when he was training, he was in a hot state.

This trip to South Africa, Lin Sen brought the No. 22 people, except for Benjani, who stayed in the UK and negotiated the termination of the club, everyone including the Bend brothers was in the squad, which seemed to be a complete lineup, but in fact, several important frontcourt players have not been in place, which is already a little behind the plan, because according to Lin Sen's expectations when formulating the transfer plan, in mid-July, all the transfer work should be basically completed, but now, it can only be said that most of the completion is completed.

On July 18, at Orlando Stadium, Lin's Manchester City officially met the world.

Manchester City's first-half substitutes in the 4231st half, the score was 3-0, and it looked like they won easily, but in fact, none of them were open goals, Bellamyton Guò scored twice from the penalty spot, and Petrov's free-kick was the icing on the cake. Linson's debut wasn't that spectacular, but the results were impeccable.

After the game, Linson praised the entire team, focusing on the Bender brothers, who were the key to the game when the rest of the team was still looking for a tacit understanding with their teammates, and the two brothers teamed up to neutralize most of the Orlando Pirates' offensive outside the box.

It's just that although the two Bend brothers are excellent, they don't have a place for them in Linsen's new season plan, and Linsen plans to loan them out, and in order to make the two adapt to the rhythm of the Premier League, it is best to target a Premier League team. In this regard, Marwood is already paying attention to-

On July 20, Manchester City was still preparing for the second warm-up match against another South African team, the Caesar Chiefs, while in England, on this day, the Sun revealed the latest transfer news that surprised the entire English football world: Manchester City officially made an offer for Tottenham Hotspur star Gareth Bale.

Although everyone knows that the Sun's news can only be trusted by three points, this time, the Sun is conclusive.

According to them, as early as five days ago, Manchester City made an offer worth 15 million pounds to Bale, which is already three times the value of the Welshman's switch from Southampton to Tottenham two years ago, but this offer was rejected by Tottenham chairman Levy on the same day, and just yesterday, Manchester City, who did not give up, made their second offer, this time up by 5 million pounds from the previous offer, to the level of 20 million. Tottenham Hotspur has yet to respond, but according to Tottenham insiders, Levy summoned Tottenham manager Redknapp last night, and it is clear that Bale will be the main topic.

In an interview with The Telegraph, Bale said he didn't know anything about the transfer, but he would rather stay at White Hart Lane than go to Manchester to prove himself.

It's just that the player's statement can't prevent the birth of the scandal. (To be continued......)