In August, less than half a month before the start of the new Premier League season, the famous William Hill bookmaker has opened the latest odds to win the championship.

At the top, it is still Manchester United that has achieved three consecutive championships, although it has lost the footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, but they have introduced Valencia, Owen and other famous players, they are still favored by the bookmakers, in fact, as long as the old Scottish man is still there, you can't ignore Manchester United, their odds are 2.75.

They are followed by Chelsea, who have changed their manager, and Liverpool, who have changed their metronomes, who are priced at 3.5 and 3.75 respectively. Chelsea have changed their strategy this summer and only made some tinkering with the squad, except for some reserves and youth teams, the first team has not been affected much, only Peruvian striker Pizarro has returned to his famous hometown of Werder Bremen, and the only transfer to Zhirkov at the level of 10 million is more like a Russian player dream for the owner Abu. And after Liverpool let Xavi Alonso go to Real Madrid for 30 million, they immediately introduced Aquilani from Rome at a price of 20 million, and ate Glenn Johnson at a price close to 20 million.

In fourth place, it is the Arsenal that Chinese fans like to jokingly call the Arsenal who fight for the fourth, Wenger can talk about his ideals when talking about Manchester City's recruitment, but sometimes the ideal cannot be eaten, the so-called ideal is very plump, the reality is very skinny, Wenger sooner or later will have to embark on the road of spending a lot of money, anyway, Linsen just knows. Arsenal ranked fourth, just putting together the four giants of the traditional Premier League, but in terms of odds, Arsenal is a lot worse, their odds are 10, and it can be seen that the bookmaker is not optimistic about Arsenal winning the championship.

As for Manchester City, which is further behind, it is even more difficult to be optimistic. It's different from Arsenal. Arsenal is not favored because they spend too little, and Manchester City is not favored because they spend too much, the reason is very simple, spending more money is equal to a big change in the squad, and they were an example last season, so don't blame the bookmaker for not giving face, ranking Manchester City fifth is already considered to be due to the fact that Manchester City has spent so much money. Manchester City are 34 to follow, followed by Tottenham Hotspur and Aston Villa......

For the odds to win the championship. Lin Sen never took it seriously, excluding some people who sound like a "bad story", football lottery is only a derivative of football in the final analysis, once the cart is turned upside down, that means the death of football, so, in this regard, Lin Sen still prefers to be optimistic, the bookmaker is not optimistic about Manchester City. It's just to add some pre-tea and after-dinner conversation to Manchester City fans, and for Linsen, it won't change anything.

Manchester City in the transfer market is high-profile, but Linson himself is very low-key.

Internal. He focused his energy on the training ground, and because Tang Hua has been busy with coach training in recent days, he needs to do many things himself, and externally. In the face of reporters' intentions or unintentionally provoking disputes between him and other coaches, especially Ferguson, he has always been indifferent, and a slap in the face does not make a sound. Unless this slap is really in the face, otherwise, Lin Sen doesn't want to pay attention to the matter of chasing after the wind and shadows, it will be too tiring.

When fans and the media began to look forward to the new season and a new future, Lin Sen lightly solved a "number crisis" in the team, the matter originated from Adriano wanting to wear the No. 9 jersey, but this number currently belongs to his compatriot Ruo, as we all know, if it is a person who may leave the team at any time, if he is willing to change the number, then the wishful thinking naturally does not need Lin Sen to say anything, but the problem is that if he doesn't want to change at all, he ignored Adriano's request when he was depressed one summer, then the problem comes......

Just when the other players were guessing what to do at this time, Adriano suddenly chose another number, No. 18, of course, this is not Adriano taking the initiative to aggrieve the player to follow the former Inter star Zamorano to have a 1+8, but because Lin Sen talked to him and persuaded Adriano to change the number. In Lin Sen's view, the meaning of the number is given by people, because it is meaningless to grab the number and cause a dispute, if Lin Sen deprives Ruo of the number today, no matter how high-sounding the reason, it will inevitably set a bad precedent, because in that case, does it mean that in the future, if there is a star with a bigger name than Adriano, Lin Sen will have to peel off the number from Ade's body?

The reason is simple, Adriano accepted Lin Sen's persuasion. Number Nine is still wearing Ruo, although no one knows how long he will be able to wear it.

Then, after instructing the stadium manager Cohen to increase the width of the stadium for the new season, he led the team to Scotland, where Manchester City will play a warm-up match against the century-old rivals of the Soviet Super League, Scottish Celtic and Glasco Rovers, which will also be the last two warm-up games before the start of the Premier League this season.

Robben is here.

Marwood was upset again.

Because Robben's arrival was conditional on him giving up his goal.

Real Madrid and Manchester City have their eyes on the same target Tevez, and Manchester City also wants Real Madrid's Robben, so Real Madrid's football director Baldano came up with a plan, Real Madrid can agree to release Robben, but only if Manchester City needs to give up the pursuit of Tevez.

Again, it's an either/or option.

At this time, the opinion of head coach Lin Sen became the key.

In fact, among all the goals this summer, Lin Sen is the Dutch winger who is least optimistic about the trip, because there are too many factors restricting Robben's transfer to Manchester City, one is whether Robben himself can see Manchester City, because the current Manchester City is far from being a giant; Second, Manchester City has no Champions League to play this season, which invisibly reduces the attractiveness of Manchester City; The third is the competition of Bayern Munich, and the head coach of Bayern Munich is also a Dutchman, Van Gaal.

Therefore, when Linson got the news in Scotland, Linsen was still not very optimistic about this transfer, but when he heard that Gary Cook had initialed an agreement with Robben's agent, Linsen even couldn't believe it, his first thought was that Bayern Munich must not have intervened in the transfer, and then, it was ecstasy, regardless of his three-seven-twenty-one, as long as he could come.

For any coach, Bale on the left and Robben on the right are fantastic wings that money may not be able to buy. What's more, the arrival of Robben can indirectly bring Lin Sen closer to his other goal: Suarez!

After Lin Sen nodded to Real Madrid's Jianyì, since Gary Cook had done all the foreshadowing before, the rest of the things were basically just a matter of course. Negotiators are negotiators, and Gary Cook, a former Nike executive, is impeccable in this regard.

By the time City picked up their second draw at the Glasco Rovers' home of the Ebrox Stadium, Gary Cook had already completed negotiations and Robben was just a stone's throw away from Manchester. And when Robben himself showed up at Manchester International Airport, hundreds of Manchester City fans welcomed the Dutchman at the airport.

The Manchester Evening News described the transfer as unbelievable, and they used similar words last season, when Robinho arrived in Manchester at the last minute of the transfer window, and now, another superstar from Real Madrid is about to wear the Manchester City shirt, and Robben finally smiled at the warm welcome of the Manchester City fans.

Like his national team teammate Sneijder, Robben was originally reluctant to leave the Bernabeu, but when he found out that Real Madrid had always hesitated on his issues and even used him as a bargaining chip, he made up his mind to leave, but at that time he did not take Manchester City into account, Gary Cook showed his ability at this time, tied with Robinho for the highest weekly salary in the Premier League, the core position in the team, plus the big pie that Manchester City has drawn, after talking to his national team teammate De Jong, Arjen Robben eventually made the decision to return to the Premier League.

At this time, Bayern Munich, which Lin Sen was most worried about at first, had just made a move, but the progress had been behind them for more than a month, and it was too late.

When Marwood, along with Gary Cook, accompanied Robben to the press conference hall to introduce the Dutchman's arrival, Marwood, who looked smiling in front of the camera, was not so happy.

Perfection is a very noble thing, but it is not so easy for anyone to convince themselves to be open-minded if anyone needs to sacrifice themselves to fulfill others. Robben and Tevez, two transfers that were originally unrelated, Marwood was even close to reaching an agreement with Horabuchin, but he didn't expect that at this time, there was a sudden connection, and it was a life-and-death connection.

A qiē for the team.

It's a nice thing to say, but everyone has their own job and everyone has their own responsibilities. Looking at Manchester City's transfer work throughout the summer, Marwood, as the director of football, has been involved in many transfers, but only Azpilicueta, Cahill and Xavi Martinez are three transfers that he operated, the first two are transfers below the 10 million level and lack weight, and the latter is the most difficult to activate the minimum release fee, lacking difficulty.

On the other hand, Gary Cook, although he was only responsible for two transfers, was a heavyweight, previously David Silva, and now Robben, but Gary Cook is at a higher level after all, and it is Linson who gives Marwood a sense of urgency. As the head coach, Linsen's ability to show in the transfer, even he has to be impressed, although there are two transfers that Linsen took over from him halfway, but those are transfers that Marwood himself feels tricky, Vidal's transfer, a transfer that was originally about to be stiff, Linsen not only negotiated after taking over, but also seemed to ease the relationship with Leverkusen. Bale's transfer, everyone at the club's top management knew that Linsen's meeting with the player himself was decisive......

Now, who doubts that Linson, who was the decider on last season's transfer job in Malaga?

Transferring to the Big Three, Marwood had the initiative, but now he is falling behind.

How good is that? (To be continued......)