On his last day in South Africa, Wan Sheng watched a match between Ghana and the Netherlands.

He then flew back to Madrid.

There is still a semi-final and final left in the World Cup, but Wan Sheng has no time to watch the game and needs to return to the club to continue the transfer work.

In order to prepare for next season, the most important thing at the moment is to add an important player in the midfield, and Wansheng will target Mesut Ozil or Silva, both of whom are in the same position and both have a comprehensive ability, and getting either one is a huge boost for the team.

But Wansheng did not contact Mesut Ozil or Silva directly.

If the target is a strange player, no contract or only one person, Wansheng will contact him as soon as possible, but both of them are still Manchester City players, and Wansheng is also very familiar with him, he can't open his mouth to let them join, and go through formal channels to transfer, but it is a respect for them.

As for who will come to Atletico Madrid, or neither, let the Manchester City club decide.

Manchester City have received a transfer request from Atletico Madrid.

David Silva?

Ozil?

Atletico Madrid's transfer offer for both of them is 40 million euros, which is still very reasonable.

Manchester City FC was actually surprised when they received the transfer offer.

They are aware of the huge changes at Atletico Madrid, and their 'legendary manager' has taken the reins of Atletico Madrid.

As far as Manchester City is concerned, it is actually very friendly to Wansheng.

Wan Sheng brought countless titles to Manchester City, and before leaving, he also brought Manchester City the 'Grand Slam' of English teams, and put Manchester City at the top of Europe.

Even now, two years later, Manchester City still has the shadow of Wansheng, and many fans and even the club's staff have never forgotten Wansheng.

This has also affected City's upper echelons.

The Abu Dhabi consortium has moved in to Manchester City, and Manchester City has changed a number of managers, many of whom are not familiar with Wansheng, but at least officially, Manchester City FC is still friendly to Wansheng - and perhaps they must do the same, otherwise they will receive a boycott from the fans.

Who has made Wansheng a 'legend' of Manchester City and a huge prestige among Manchester City fans?

But prestige is prestige, influence is influence, transfer transactions are another matter, now Wan Sheng is the manager of Atletico Madrid, and player transactions are a matter at the club level of both sides, maybe they will give priority to Atletico Madrid, but they don't want to sell the players, they will definitely not sell.

In Wansheng's eyes, David Silva and Ozil are similar to each other, both belong to the midfield capable players, but in the eyes of many people in Manchester City, David Silva is much better.

Since 2008, when Mark Hughes began coaching, there are two core players in the midfield position, one is Morris and the other is David Silva.

Morris has left and they are definitely trying to keep David Silva.

Mesut Ozil has been relatively poor, and under Mark Hughes, he has not played as much, and even when he has played a lot of time in place of Morris or Silva.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Ozil has been reduced to a substitute in the past two years.

Other teams are very greedy when they see Manchester City's midfield, because a capable player like Mesut Ozil, even if it is a giant, must be the main force in the midfield, but Manchester City can only put the German talent on the bench.

There is no way around it.

Even the club's top brass understands Mark Hughes' approach, as few coaches have been able to put two players in the same position in the starting line-up like Wan Sheng did, and both of them were still doing well.

In fact, as early as last summer, Manchester City had considered selling Mesut Ozil, but Morris was uncertain at that time, so Manchester City finally chose to keep Ozil.

Manchester City have completed several heavyweight transfers since May.

After releasing Torres, they bought Ivorian midfielder Yaya Toure from Barcelona, Serbian left-back Aleksandar Kolarov from Lazio and Italian talent Balotelli from Inter Milan.

In midfield, City also have to add to the midfield, with Aston Villa's England midfielder James Milner being the best candidate to fill the midfield, and he is even enough to be used as a starter.

So Ozil was embarrassed.

Manchester City have already considered selling Mesut Ozil, AC Milan and Real Madrid have already sent transfer offers, seeing Atletico Madrid's transfer request, Manchester City's hierarchy is also considering it, because it involves the player's wishes.

No matter what time it is, the transfer is three-way.

The player's personal will can play a crucial role, and if Atletico Madrid does not intervene, Real Madrid may be the best choice, but even if there is no need to ask, Ozil will almost certainly choose Atletico Madrid, coached by Wan Sheng, because he can be sure that he will be reused in Atletico Madrid, and Mourinho's Real Madrid stars are so many that there is no guarantee.

With all these considerations, Manchester City FC soon responded to Atletico Madrid's transfer request, and their transfer value increased by 2 million to 42 million euros.

Ruan Hailong, who was in charge of the transfer work, notified Wan Sheng as soon as possible, and Wan Sheng thought about it, nodded and agreed.

The next thing is to wait for the end of the World Cup and negotiate a personal contract with Mesut Ozil.

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After the main lineup was replenished, Wansheng also began to consider adding bench depth.

For many teams, supplementing the depth of the bench means buying some players who are good and worth less, or signing some players on free transfers.

Wansheng doesn't do that.

He made this work a priority.

Substitutes actually mean the future, this season is a substitute, next season may be able to become the main team, with some memories of the past life, plus the talent evaluation now clearly tells him which player will become famous in the future, which player has potential, so this work represents the discovery of young talent.

The club's scouts gave him a profile that gave him a rough overview of some of the promising young talents he had found around the world.

Wan Sheng didn't use the Eye of Talent at all, and the job he had to do was simple, and that was to find a familiar name in it.

Before looking at the young players' profiles, Wan Sheng was surprised to find two names in Atletico Madrid's reserves, as well as among players with buy-back clauses.

Cork.

Fans who are familiar with Atletico Madrid will be familiar with this name, because Koke is a very good midfield talent in the future La Liga, and he has already entered the competitive Spanish national team in his early 20s.

Koke is still a Atletico Madrid reserve player.

A native of Madrid, he joined Atletico Madrid's academy at the age of eight.

Two years ago, the 16-year-old was transferred to Atletico Madrid's B team, and at this time, the Atletico first team were already paying attention to the young talent who came out of the Atletico Madrid academy.

Cork made his La Liga debut last year and started this season.

But because he was young in the past and his form was very inconsistent, not to mention the experience or anything, Koke was not stable in the first team position, and now there are a lot of times when he trains with the youth team.

Seeing Cork's name, Wan Sheng smiled.

In his previous life, Wan Sheng had only heard of Koke, and he didn't know anything about it, but now it would be great to have such a potential genius in the team.

Another thing that caught Wansheng's attention was that the team sold Diego Costa, who was sold to Spanish club Valladolid last year, and he did quite well in Valladolid, but unfortunately Valladolid was relegated last season.

A lot of clubs have taken note of Diego Costa, but where Atletico Madrid have the advantage is that they have a buy-back clause for Diego Costa.

(Thanks to the book friend "lyp0009" for the information)

Wansheng will not let go of this outstanding talent who can be selected for the Golden Globe Award in the future.

Soon Atletico Madrid activated the buy-back clause and recalled Diego Costa, who was in the midst of relegation with the team, to Atletico Madrid.

Outside the club, Wansheng checked the information given by the scouts and also found several familiar names.

Raphael Varane, the future Real Madrid first-choice centre-back, is also honing his skills at the local club AS-Hellemmes in Lille, France.

By this time, Varane was on the verge of taking off, but the league had not yet started and he was still an unknown youngster.

Francisco Román Araçón Suarez......

Another Suarez!

Seeing this name, Wansheng couldn't help but sigh, after 2010, the professional players of Suarez's 'family' really ushered in the 'peak season'.

Atletico Madrid's Suarez, Ajax's Suarez, and now another Sutarez, the nickname 'Isco', Suarez, Wan Sheng also has some impressions, and he will also be a member of the main squad of Real Madrid in the future.

Although I don't know much about Isco, he is definitely a very good player to be able to join Real Madrid strongly.

And now Isco is still in the Valencia youth team, but compared to the previous ones, Isco is much more famous, because in last year's World Youth Championships, he made 6 appearances, contributed 3 goals in 463 minutes of playing time, and in the third and fourth decisive against Colombia, it was he who sent a stunner in the 75th minute to contribute to Spain's third place.

The excellent performance of this competition has also made Isco known to the world football community.

The outside world knows that Isco is a talent, but at the moment he is still with the Valencia youth team, and his strength is not up to the level of the first team.

Wan Sheng believes that he will soon become famous.

Just like Raphael Varane, Isco has to fight for it as soon as possible!

After the decision was made, Wan Sheng hurriedly asked the transfer department to run the two transactions, and in order to get the talent first, he even went to Valencia himself. (To be continued.) )