As it turned out, Manchester City FC was right to announce the news in the first place.

After learning the news that Lin Quan renewed his contract with the club, De Bruyne was also happy to sign the new contract and complete the renewal with Manchester City.

The news of the two renewing their contract has made Manchester City fans breathe a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, after stabilizing the two cornerstones of the team, there is no need to worry about the team falling apart.

However, the gap caused by Kroos's departure must be filled as soon as possible.

For a top giants like Manchester City, they need the main midfielder, the strength cannot be weak, and the age cannot be too young, because they are not buying substitutes, but buying the main force that has strong immediate combat power and can play when they come.

There aren't many players who meet this kind of requirement, and many of them are not for sale by major teams, so it will not be easy to find a suitable replacement in a short period of time.

But City's luck was good and they managed to pick up the slack.

Dortmund's midfielder Gundogan had already negotiated terms with Barcelona and even went to Barcelona to complete a medical examination, but Barcelona was restricted from transferring, which led to the deal falling through.

Gundogan himself has a very strong desire to seek a transfer, and after learning that Manchester City is interested in bringing him in, he almost did not hesitate to agree to Manchester City's invitation.

Jokes aside, Manchester City is the reigning champion of the Champions League and the top club with the most limelight in the top five leagues at the moment.

And Dortmund has plummeted since the departure of a large number of main players and managers, and the strength of the team has plummeted, and it can no longer challenge Bayern's dominance.

What's more, Bumblebee began to start a black store business, and his pursuit of honor was not as active as before.

This has led to many aspiring players like Gundogan wanting to change platforms.

That would not only get a higher salary, but also have a better chance of chasing honors.

The attitude of the player himself made the deal go very smoothly.

With Gundogan's contract running out of time, Dortmund did not ask for a price, and after some haggling, the deal was finally reached for 26 million euros.

This transfer did not attract much attention, after all, the transfer amount is too low, and under the continuous breaking of huge transfer news in the football world, this transfer seems so unpretentious.

Compared to Kroos, who left, Gundogan's reputation is much lower.

On the one hand, it is because the platform he is on is not as famous and concerned as Kroos's previous team.

Another point has to do with his past performances, Gundogan has had a bit of an injury in the past few years, often missing club and national team games, inconsistent performances and frequent injuries, which makes people not very optimistic about his future.

On the other hand, Kroos's resume in the past four years can be called perfect, four Champions League trophies in four years, and he is still the core of the German team's midfield, such a brilliant record and transcendent status have made him the world's No. 1 midfielder in the eyes of many fans.

It's no wonder that the news of Kroos' move to Real Madrid has caused such a stir in football, because his performances in the past few years have been so good.

Compared with Kroos, Gundogan is obviously much inferior, and in the eyes of many people, he is almost a notch behind Kroos.

If Manchester City really want to use Gundogan as the main player, then the overall quality of their midfield will definitely decline.

This has led many people to start singing down Manchester City and turn to support Real Madrid, believing that Real Madrid will end Manchester City's Champions League hegemony.

Gundogan is still very young and malleable, and if he encounters a manager who is good at adjusting players, he may not be able to fully develop his potential.

And Manchester City just has such a manager who is very good at training players!

After learning that the team had bought John Stones, substitute defender Antonio Rudiger, who couldn't find much to play last season, was frustrated and wanted to leave the team and go to a team that could give him a place in the main team.

After trying to communicate with the player, Pep Guardiola finally chose to respect the player's own choice.

Roma, who had long had ideas about him, immediately moved and made an offer for Manchester City, and after some haggling, the two sides finally agreed on a price of 32 million euros.

Subsequently, Guardiola strengthened the team's full-back position, spending 30 million euros to bring in the opponent's substitute defender Danilo from Real Madrid.

Since Danilo is a player from the black shop Porto, Lin Quan advised Guardiola before the transfer to consider the deal carefully.

But Pep Guardiola doesn't seem to have listened to him, and perhaps he can't find a more suitable candidate in the short term.

So the deal was finally struck.

Real Madrid are naturally good, although they spent more money when they bought people from Porto.

But this guy can't play at all in the team, and he has a lot of shortcomings, and staying in the team will only waste places and wages.

Selling him would not only give him back the blood, but also reduce the pressure on the team's salary system and give Real Madrid a breather.

Kroos is good, but it is too expensive, and forcibly eating Kroos makes Real Madrid a little indigestion.

After the completion of this deal, Guardiola began to take a break, did not make any more transfer operations, and instead promoted a group of young players from the youth team, intending to give these young players more opportunities in the new season.

Manchester City's academy is now full of talent, with the likes of Jadon Sancho, Phil Foden and Erling Haaland shining in the youth league, making many people aware that there are three incredible young talents in the Manchester City academy.

If it weren't for Manchester City's protection work, these young players would probably have been poached by the major giants.

Once the transfer was completed, City's pre-match training camp began.

As always, Manchester City still chose to go to Asia this time to participate in a series of warm-up competitions such as the International Champions Cup.

There are many giants participating in this kind of competition, and the quality is not bad, which is suitable for training newcomers in the team.

Manchester City had good luck with Bayern, Borussia Dortmund and Manchester United, and the first game was Bayern.

Because there are no substitutions in this kind of game, Pep Guardiola fielded almost all substitutes in the first half.

Erling Haaland, Phil Foden, Jadon Sancho and others have all been given the chance to play.

However, of the three, except for Haaland, the remaining two did not perform well.

The Germans were physically and impactful, and Jadon Sancho and Foden's footwork struggled to show off in the face of the opposition's high physicality.

On the contrary, it was Haaland, this guy is not very good at his feet, but his physical fitness is really good, and he actually found an opportunity with physical confrontation and scored a goal.

However, in the first half, due to Bayern's half-main and half-substitute lineup, Manchester City was beaten very badly, and at the end of the first half, the score between the two sides was 4:1, and Manchester City was poured four goals by the other side.

The result was very frustrating for Foden, Haaland and others, who were deeply aware of the gap between themselves and their main players.

After Guardiola saw the expressions of the three little ones, he glanced at Lin Quan, and both of them couldn't help but snicker.

These guys are killing all sides in the youth league, one by one they are so inflated that they want to play in the first team.

Okay, now it's your chance, being abused, right?

Although these people are all geniuses, it is obviously not yet time for them to dominate the football world, so let's continue to practice patiently!

Compared with young players born in 2000 such as Foden and Haaland, Mbappe, who was born in 98, is 18 years old.

His physicality and skill at his feet were better than the trio, so in the second half, Pep Guardiola put him in the main line-up, replacing David Silva as a left winger.

Mbappe was very active on the flanks when he came on the pitch, frequently using his speed and dribbling to create chances on the flanks.

Seeing that the opponent was so active, Lin Quan also cooperated with him and frequently passed the ball to help Mbappe complete a hat trick in the second half and equalize the score.

However, Bayern took the lead again in the closing stages of the game with set-pieces to beat Manchester City 5-4.

The team lost, but Mbappe was very happy.

After the game, he sang and danced excitedly in the locker room, eager to become the king of dance.

In the following games, Pep Guardiola also took good care of the young players, giving them the opportunity to play in almost every game.

In the subsequent games, Foden and others adjusted their mentality, no longer looking at everything as they did at the beginning, and regarded the heroes of the world as grass mustard.

Although they still suffer a lot in physical confrontation, after adjusting their mentality, at least they will not be so lost and frustrated, and they will also look for opportunities to reduce direct physical confrontation with each other, and use tacit cooperation to open up the situation.

Although the effect was not very good, their attempt was still encouraged by Guardiola.

However, Manchester City still lost the game, losing the second game to Borussia Dortmund 2-1.

The last game was against local rivals Manchester United, and although it was only a warm-up game, neither team wanted to lose.

As a result, in the last game, the main forces of both sides were all out, and they did a real thing.

In the end, Manchester City defeated Manchester United with a score of 3:1, ending this Asian tour with a record of 1 win and 2 losses.

When Manchester City were training in China, they were invited by some local clubs to play a friendly match with them.

However, Pep Guardiola declined the invitation due to the schedule and the players' physical reserves.

After returning to Manchester, the team took a week's rest and watched the new Premier League season start soon.

Manchester City contacted Arsenal for a friendly match.

This summer, Arsenal's moves in the transfer market have not been small.

Maybe it's because the loan at the Emirates Stadium has been repaid, or maybe it's because the big boss finally has a conscience and is willing to spend money.

Arsenal have completed several big deals in the transfer market.

They first bought the talented midfielder Xhaka from Borussia Mönchengladbach for €45 million.

He also bought the opponent's main central defender Mustafi from Valencia for 41 million euros.

Then he spent another 20 million to buy Lucas, a striker from La Ruconia, and also bought Japanese international Takuma Asano from Sanfrecce Hiroshima in the Japanese J League.

Benefiting from the Japanese Football Association's strong support for the player's stay abroad, the transfer cost only 4 million euros.

Counting other miscellaneous transfers, Arsenal spent hundreds of millions of euros this summer, and the expenditure is really not small, at least more than Manchester City, whose net transfer expenditure is less than 50 million euros, which is less than half of Arsenal's.

With so much money spent, and the opponent's main midfielder being poached, the Arsenal obviously have some ideas about this warm-up game.

They don't necessarily think they can beat Manchester City, but they want to weigh in on what they are doing now and see how much they have dropped.

Although Arsenal keeps four every year, they still have a heart to win the title, if Manchester City really fails, then Arsenal may not have a chance.

Arsenal take this game very seriously, but Manchester City do not.

Pep Guardiola deployed a half-main and half-substitute line-up, and as a result, Sergio Aguero was brilliant in the first half, receiving assists from Lin Quan and Mbappe respectively, and scored twice to help his team take a 2-0 lead.

Arsenal was a little stunned, the opponent's semi-main squad is still so strong?

Is this in the river?

Arsene Wenger frowned and pondered, deciding to change tactics in the second half.

The adjustment quickly paid off, and Arsenal equalised in the second half thanks to goals from Xhaka, Theo Walcott and others.

The morale-boosting Arsenal, in the final stages of the game, almost kicked around Manchester City's goal, and finally scored a goal in the 89th minute in the chaos to freeze the score at 3:2.

Although it was only a friendly match, when the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, the Arsenal players on the field were still extremely excited, and they all hugged happily to celebrate this hard-won victory.

It's not easy, it's not easy, it's been a long time since they've tasted the win over Manchester City.

In the past few years, Manchester City have been so fierce that Arsenal have not taken advantage of them at all, but have been frequently humiliated by Manchester City.

Now that he has finally turned over and become the master, how can this not make people excited and happy?

It's just a friendly match, and it's not like that, but the problems reflected by Manchester City in this game have attracted the attention of Premier League teams.

Everyone has found that Manchester City's strength does not seem to be as strong as before?

They completely lost the initiative in the second half and were suppressed by Arsenal for the entire second half.

It's very strange because the Manchester City team they knew before wouldn't be like that.

Could it be that Kroos's departure really had a huge impact on Manchester City, causing their strength to drop to such an extent?

If that's the case, then you have an idea for the new season of the Premier League!

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