There are many reasons why the media is not optimistic about Manchester City.

In terms of transfers, City's inaction was disappointing, but it was also to be expected. Manchester City's results last season were quite good, but after all, they did not participate in European competitions, and the income generated by the league championship alone was not as much as imagined, and the fame brought by the championship could not directly bring benefits, so Manchester City's actual income did not meet expectations, and considering that Manchester City was still burdened with huge debts, they could not invest too much in the transfer market.

Manchester City, on the other hand, have increased their spending a lot.

They need to give their existing players a raise, which alone will cost Manchester City a notch, and they also need to expand the east side of the Manchester Stadium, which is also a big expense, so it is very normal for Manchester City not to invest heavily in the transfer market, because their finances do not allow it.

The 'old-fashioned' nature of the tactics is also a problem, and the key reason why Manchester City were able to win the league last season was their new tactics, which caught other teams off guard, and this season, when all the teams understand their tactics and are prepared, the situation will be very different.

In addition, the strengthening of other teams is also key.

Manchester United overall addition is not much, coupled with the departure of Van Ni, Roy Keane and others, Manchester United squad is not as gorgeous as last season, Manchester United is undoubtedly strong, in the club officially completed the acquisition, after more than half a year of turmoil, Manchester United has no internal worries, then you can concentrate on the game.

So Manchester United is still very much to look forward to this season.

Chelsea came in Ballack, in Shepchenko, two superstars who came in the spotlight of the world. It is worth mentioning that Shevchenko's transfer also set a new record for Chelsea FC's transfer fee - 35 million pounds.

With the addition of these two superstars, combined with Chelsea's original squad, anyone would think that Chelsea will be the most favourable contenders for the Premier League and Champions League in the new season!

In addition, Liverpool and Arsenal have also added to the lineup. Newcastle, whose strength has improved and their results have improved last season, have also spent £30 million to bring in Duff and Martins to expand the army, and in this case, Manchester City, as the defending champions, will not be favored much.

The best comments from public opinion are that Manchester City are 'strong contenders for the top four in the league', and this is due to Manchester City's status as the defending champions.

In this kind of public opinion, Manchester City seems to be very low-key.

Wansheng did not argue with the media comments, but just prepared for the new season. At present, the team's training work is still mainly based on adapting to the new formation.

Although the basic tactics have not changed, only some adjustments have been made in the formation, but this adjustment will also bring a lot of changes, after the match with the Chinese team, Wansheng has a new idea, and the focus is on Morris.

Morris is already the team's most individual player, both in terms of technique and awareness. He's at the top of the team, and the formation has changed. Morris later became the offensive and defensive core of the team, but it somewhat limited the play of his individual ability, as evidenced by Morris's lack of performance in the warm-up matches with Nottingham Forest and the Chinese team.

If Morris was only capable of last season, it would have been good for the whole team, but now it's different. Morris's individual ability has improved a lot, Wan Sheng believes that he will not be much worse than Ronaldinho, such a player can not play to the advantage of individual ability, it is a great waste.

So Wansheng reconsidered putting Morris in the position of the premise, but in this way. There must be a player to replace his position, but unfortunately there are no other players in the team who can shoulder the task of attacking and defending the core, so he can only think of ideas on formation adjustment.

The easiest way to do this is to change the formation to 4231.

A player can't be the core of offense and defense, but if there are two backs, one attack and one receiver, both defense and offense are guaranteed, so there are more options, and Morris can also be the absolute core of the frontcourt.

The choice between the two midfielders is relatively easy, with Joey Barton, David Silva, Mesut Ozil, Ivan Crewe, and even the likes of Sun Jihai, Copelle Ferreira, Dunn and others all up to the task.

Of course, a combination of attack and defense is still needed, with players such as David Silva, Ivan Crewe, and Mesut Ozil being attacking midfielders, Joey Barton being relatively balanced, and defenders acting as defensive midfielders.

It will take a while to get used to 4231 well, but it frees up Morris and allows him to play freely up front, which will take the team's offensive ability up a notch.

Relying on the effect of 'cooperative' tactical training, in a few days, the training of changing formations has already had some effect.

Next up was the warm-up match against Charlton.

Manchester City and Charlton are both Super League teams, Manchester City are the defending champions, Charlton is not weak, they had a good result last season, and the strength is still there, so this game is still worth looking forward to.

The game was played at Charlton Athletic's home stadium and a number of media outlets came to do interviews, mainly to see how Manchester City were preparing for the game.

But the result of this game made many people even more disappointed with Manchester City.

1:2, Manchester City won the game, but the score was too mediocre, and it did not show the strength of Manchester City last season.

As a result, more people are not optimistic about Manchester City.

However, Wansheng is still very satisfied with the effect of the warm-up game, two goals are not much, but the reason is that the cooperation at the back is still a little chaotic, and the frequent substitutions have also led to some problems with the matching of players, so Manchester City does not have too much control over the game.

In the game, the most obvious thing to see was Morris's play, he only played in the first half, but he passed and shot, and became the best player of the game.

Charlton Athletic's players are very aware of this, they were all worried about Morris's position in the first half, because Morris's performance was so good, it was difficult for them to grab the ball, it was difficult to defend, and Morris often made threatening passes, which made Charlton's goal in crisis throughout the first half.

Fortunately, Morris came off in the second half, and their defensive work was much easier.

It's just that the media doesn't care about the performance of individual players. Some people may also praise Morris, but Morris is a member of the England national team, isn't it normal to perform well in a warm-up game? They look more at the whole, and the 2:1 score also represents that Manchester City's performance tends to be mediocre

Wansheng doesn't care about the comments of the media.

The tournament is followed by consecutive international breaks, with three days off. He also gave himself three days off, and after the match against Charlton, he threw the team to Diamares to lead the team back to Manchester, while he visited Anita at University College London.

Anita was very happy to see Wan Sheng, and the two hugged each other tightly.

This happened on campus, which was filmed by many people, and soon the picture of Wan Sheng and Anita hugging each other spread to the Internet, of course. This is not big news, the relationship between the two has been exposed, and there is no need to hide anything.

After that, Anita said something that embarrassed Wan Sheng, "My brother wants to meet you." ”

Does this count as meeting parents? Wan Sheng smiled bitterly.

It's men who are afraid of this, especially Anita is still Murdoch's daughter, Murdoch's son is definitely extraordinary, Wan Sheng feels a little numb in his scalp, but many times men can't say no. Especially in this kind of thing, this can be regarded as a kind of responsibility. So Wan Sheng nodded directly in agreement.

So the two drove to Klüber Boulevard and found a richly decorated restaurant waiting for the so-called brother.

James?

It's really hard to make much impression of Wan Sheng this extremely popular name in England, but when he saw this James, Wan Sheng still felt weird, wasn't this a strange middle-aged man he saw at Waddell's house?

"Wan Sheng, remember me?" Although he called Wansheng by name, James's tone was not very friendly.

Wan Sheng nodded. Politely shook James' hand.

Then the three of them dined together, during which James kept asking Wansheng about some of the situation, such as the situation at home, and talked about his investment company, which may be very remarkable in the eyes of others. But James is Murdoch's eldest son, and in front of the world news predators, an investment company with a total value of less than 100 million euros is nothing.

After that, James talked about Wan Sheng and Anita's problems.

"I don't agree with you being together." James said directly, "But my Anne likes you very much, she said so to me. ”

Wan Sheng looked at Anita, who blushed and lowered her head.

"Wan Sheng, you are very good, it is hard to imagine that you can make a name for yourself in Europe at this age. You're so much better than most people! "But I still don't like you being with Anne, do you know why?" ”

Wan Sheng squinted and listened.

"Because you're coaching Manchester City!" James said seriously, "I'm good friends with Waddell, he's the president of Manchester City, but I don't like Manchester City, I'm a Manchester United fan. I hate to see news from Manchester City, and I hate to see good news from Manchester City! ”

"I was disappointed last season and I don't want to be disappointed again this season."

"I won't affect your work because of my own preferences, but I don't want to see Manchester United lose the Manchester derby, so my condition is that Manchester City will lose to Manchester United in the next two Manchester derby, and I will agree to Annie dating you!"

James's words were sonorous and unquestionable, but Wan Sheng frowned tightly.

"What are you kidding!" Wan Sheng directly stood up and said angrily, "You are a Manchester United fan, so you want Manchester City to lose!" But I'm the manager of Manchester City and I'm going to lead the team to beat Manchester United! Once, twice, many times! ”

"Conditional on my coaching results? You're crazy! ”

"Since you say so, you just wait to see Manchester United lose and pee your pants!"

"Bastard! What did you say! ”

"I said Manchester United will lose pee your pants, and you will pee your pants too!"

"I'm Annie's brother!"

"What about my brother! You bastard, you don't deserve to be Anne's brother, I don't know how bad luck Mr. Murdoch was when he was young, and that's why he gave birth to you! ”

"What did you say!?"

"I'm talking about you idiot! Shameless, scum! Indecent people"

“”

Wan Sheng was annoyed and scolded James directly.

The breadth and profundity of Chinese culture was reflected at this moment, and James's face was so red that he could only listen to Wan Sheng's novel insulting words blurted out, but he could only refute them with a few 'bastards' and words starting with 'F'.

When the two of them were about to start scolding, there were already many people around them, including well-informed reporters who rushed to take pictures, Anita hurriedly separated the two, and then dragged Wansheng away.

James watched the back of the two of them leaving, and angrily broke the glass. (To be continued.) )