Chapter 2 Holidays
This season, Manchester City have four people in the attack: Bellamy, Robinho, Adriano and Suarez.
Among them, Robinho has been loaned to Santos in Brazil in the middle of the season, and nine times out of ten this summer is to leave the team, he can not be counted, the remaining three forwards, this season's table xiàn are good, Suarez is the main striker, and Adriano has become the first choice after slowly recovering his form, Bellamy's number of appearances has decreased compared with last season, but he can play multiple positions, and he is also an important chess piece for Linsen in the front line.
In such a situation, unless Linson changes his formation to a two-striker strategy next season, the Manchester City forward line with a single striker is actually saturated, and if Falcao is added with a single position, someone is bound to have to make sacrifices.
Benfica apparently thought that Linson certainly had no intention of changing the current situation of Manchester City's good forwards, so they felt that there was an opportunity, but they did not think of Falcao's status in Linsen's eyes at all.
"Renewing the lease?" Mendes didn't seem surprised by Linsen's answer, and he said with a smile.
In fact, from the beginning, Mendes didn't think that Linsen would let Falcao go, Falcao has shown his ability, no one is too many good strikers, Benfica made the wrong idea from the beginning, but as Falcao's agent, it is impossible for Mendes to reject Benfica in public and private, so after Linsen gave an answer, he changed his way.
However, Lin Sen still shook his head, and then seemed to not want to continue to dwell on this topic, and said with a smile: "When did you become the manager of Benfica?" ”
'I just agree with the sincerity of the Benfica side. Mendes smiled, "And, it doesn't seem like Manchester City need Romedal right now. ”
"You're thinking wrong." "He and Di Maria will be big players for Manchester City next season. ”
Hearing Lin Sen talk about this, Mendes nodded, and finally skipped the topic.
"I don't need to say more about the third thing, what do you think?"
Didn't think about it. Lin Sen directly spread his hands and said, "I don't have any ideas." ”
"No ideas?" Mendes laughed a little, "What does this mean?" ”
"It means it's all up to you." Lin Sen said with a smile.
Lin Sen does not have any special requirements, this renewal was originally mentioned by Manchester City, not that Lin Sen was dissatisfied with his contract, of course, no one will mind that his salary is a little higher, a little higher, but this is not a special requirement, and the renewal salary increase is certain. Linsen has full confidence that Mendes will be able to help him get the best possible conditions.
"Okay." Mendes had no choice but to nod, and then asked intentionally or unintentionally, "What about transfers?" ”
Last summer, Linson signed with Manchester City, and the only requirement was to ask for the transfer right, and in the end Manchester City did not give it all, only half of it, Mendes felt that if Linsen renewed his contract this time, he would mention it again. The chances of Manchester City letting go are still unlikely, but they are much higher than last summer.
"Don't force it, it's good now."
Again, this is true. The reason why Lin Sen wants the right to transfer is nothing more than that he does not want to be influenced by the club in the transfer. But judging from last summer's transfers, basically Manchester City's transfer work will go according to his ideas, so there is no need for him to have a lot of power. And. The two transfers of Robben and David Silva also made Lin Sen feel that there was something. It is true that there is a specialization in the art industry, at least, if he is allowed to operate these two transfers, he is not very sure that he will be able to succeed, this level of transfer, without considerable connections, empty "vision", is far from enough.
So, as he said, it's good.
Mendez understood Linsen's thoughts, he nodded slightly, thoughtfully-
After Mendez left, Lin Sen ate a casual bite to eat, then opened his notebook and began to think about his next personal plan.
The so-called personal plan is actually not entirely his own, because before he arranges his vacation, he needs to determine the team's pre-season training schedule for the new season, and also have a bottom of the transfer plan for the new season.
On the agenda, if nothing else, the new Premier League season will also start in mid-August, and the team's resumption of training will probably be more than a month earlier, that is, in early July. But this year, due to the World Cup, the pre-match training camps of the major European giants will definitely be affected to some extent. Of course, although the World Cup will not be played until mid-July, not all players will have the opportunity to wait until then.
What makes Lin Sen scratch his head a little is that the South African World Cup final in his memory was between the Netherlands and Spain, which means that core players such as Robben and David Silva will definitely return to the team later. In short, there will be no change in the training time of the new season, but in terms of personnel, it is destined to be untidy.
As for the transfer plan, Linsen has not yet communicated with Marwood, but some personnel in and out are already very clear, in addition to the 24 players of the first team last season, plus Robinho, the Bend brothers, Falcao and Di Maria who returned on loan, as well as Michael Johnson, Etuhu, Weiss and others, the first team will have more than 30 people at that time, and a purge is inevitable.
Next season's Manchester City lineup, Linson has already had a good idea, but the plan can never catch up with the changes, and there are a few points that Linson is not too sure, such as David Silva, who agreed to talk about it after the season, and if the positioning of several players needs to be adjusted, but he is not sure whether they will accept that adjustment, so what he can do now is to draw up a cleaning list first.
Yes, unlike last summer, who almost ignored the cleaning work, this summer, Lin Sen intends to clean first and then bring in reinforcements.
The order of purges and signings is almost a bellwether for many clubs, but for Manchester City, it has no such significance. The reason why reinforcements were introduced first last year naturally came from finance. But this year, it was cleaned first, and the confidence came from the lineup. The division of champions does not need to make a big move, not to mention, this is still a young division of champions.
It wasn't difficult to clean up the list, or rather, draw up a list that wasn't planned for next season, and Linson quickly circled a few names, then picked up his phone and called Marwood.
After a few minutes, Lin Sen put down the phone.
Regarding Lin Sen's purge list, Ma Wood did not express any objections on the phone for the time being, but like last year, Ma Wood did not say anything to death, only said that he understood what Lin Sen meant. In this regard, Lin Sen also did not care.
The fact that the purge has just ended the season may seem like a bit of a misfortune, but in reality, it's just a tacit fact for every manager, especially if a team has a solid squad. Moreover, the sooner this matter is determined, the more beneficial it will outweigh the disadvantages, whether it is for the team or for the players. Of course, these things cannot be made public for the time being. Lin Sen's intention to sue Marwood did not mean to urge Marwood, but to let Marwood have the bottom in the next transfer.
After all, although the World Cup will affect the pre-season training of club teams, the transfer market will not be shut down because of the World Cup, on the contrary, the transfer market will become more lively because of the World Cup. Because the World Cup is a bigger stage.
After doing this, Lin Sen began to arrange his vacation.
When it comes to holidays, it's always pleasant, and when people think of a player's vacation, a few things immediately come to mind: the beach, the sun, the bikini...... This is indeed the choice of most players, or at least most stars, but not necessarily for everyone.
Of course, Lin Sen will not have much to do with the choice of his team's vacation, and he is still very relieved for most of the opponents, but for individual players, he still has to focus on "taking care".
For example, Royce, Lin Sen asked Dina to prepare a holiday recipe for him. For example, Adriano, Lin Sen even deliberately pulled the other party to weigh himself, and then "threatened" the other party, if he exceeded the weight next time he returned to the team, then he was ready to go to the reserve team to report, when to resume and when to return to the first team, in this regard, Adriano just shook his head and smiled bitterly, who made him have a bad record.
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As for his holiday, as a manager, especially a manager with transfer responsibilities, although he does not plan to go to the World Cup to join in the fun, but Linsen's vacation is definitely shorter than anyone in the coaching staff, from now until the beginning of June, this is his most free time, and in June, the transfer work will gradually unfold, although it is not necessary to return to Manchester, but it is certainly not as leisurely as before.
Lin Sen's plan is to return to China, and then stay as long as he can.
Speaking of returning to China, Tang Hua has already booked a ticket to return to China, just today. Lin Sen originally planned to return to China with Tang Hua, but because Mendes' visit had to be postponed, the young man asked Lin Sen to contact him after returning to China, Lin Sen smiled at the time and said that he must be, it is worth mentioning that although he did not return to China with Tang Hua, this time Tang Hua returned to China but was not alone, because he also brought a person, a woman.
As for Dina, who had been to China with Lin Sen once, she didn't plan to go to China again this time, and she didn't even participate in yesterday's celebration, and went back to Spain directly. Ariel is still in Manchester, and her itinerary is the same as Linsen's: China. This is actually Dina's relationship, just because she always mentions Lin Sen's "hometown" with Ariel, so that the curious Ariel has asked Lin Sen more than once to bring her back to China next time, Lin Sen can only nod his head, he can't refuse, right?
But what Lin Sen didn't expect was that a few days later, Ariel who met him at the airport was not alone, and there was another person traveling with her.
Learned. (To be continued......)