Glory Greenery

Chapter 409 Big Transfer
That's right, Yang Mo and Mancini rushed to Kiev specially for the famous Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

After deciding to sell Dzeko, Manchester City's top management began to look for a new center forward for Manchester City in order to guarantee their performance next season.

At this time, Ibrahimovic, who publicly announced that he would leave AC Milan and had an affair with Paris Saint-Germain, entered the eyes of Manchester City.

Although the Swedish god tower is 31 years old, he is still in a brave state in the two seasons of AC Milan, and has helped AC Milan win the league and the Italian Super Cup.

So buying Ibrahimovic will obviously improve Manchester City's striker strength qualitatively.

In addition to Ibrahimovic, in order to make up for the central defender gap after Kolo Touré left, Manchester City also valued another player that AC Milan put on the shelves, the famous Brazilian star Thiago Silva.

Speaking of which, it is a coincidence that this Thiago Silva is also flirting with Paris, which is ambiguous.

After snatching Yang Mo from Barry Saint-Germain last year, for Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva this season, Manchester City is obviously going to fight Paris again.

Simply comparing money with Paris, Manchester City, which is backed by the Abu Dhabi consortium, is not afraid.

In order to attract capable players to join, in addition to giving money, Manchester City has an advantage that is more attractive than Paris, and that is honor.

Both Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva have won the top league championships in Europe, but they have never owned the Champions League.

Needless to say, Thiago Silva, Ibrahimovic has publicly expressed his desire for the Champions League championship many times.

In this regard, Manchester City, which won the Champions League under the leadership of Yang Mo this season, is definitely more advantageous than Paris.

Although Paris is not short of money now, it is undeniable that in the Champions League, Ligue [-] teams are too uncompetitive.

Going to Paris can make money, and Manchester City can also make money, and it is very likely to win the Champions League. How to choose is already very simple for players.

Before, after Thiago Silval accepted the invitation of Manchester City and confirmed that Manchester City would give him the same treatment as Paris, he happily expressed that he would choose Manchester City.

However, in the negotiation with Ibrahimovic, although Ibrahimovic was more inclined to Manchester City, he proposed to meet the captain of Manchester City and the absolute core Yang Mo.

The original negotiation was to meet in Manchester, but Yang Mo happened to be watching the European Cup in Ukraine, so Mancini simply arranged to meet in Kiev.

Before coming to Kiev, Ibrahimovic's Swedish team had already been eliminated from the group stage due to two consecutive losses, so Yang Mo could feel the depression of the other party's mood when he saw Ibrahimovic at first glance.

After the two greeted each other, Ibrahimovic said straight to the point: "I don't deny it, I want to win the Champions League, so I am more inclined to Manchester City."

"Then come to Manchester City, I believe Manchester City will definitely be the first team to defend the Champions League after the restructuring!"

Ibrahimovic got straight to the point, and Yang Mo was also full of arrogance, showing the aura that the boss of Manchester City should have today.

Ibrahimovic looked at Yang Mo sharply and said, "Yang, no matter where I go, I hope to be the core of the team."

"If you want to be the core, then speak with strength, but I think the strongest person will always be me." The confidence in Yang Mo's words shocked Ibrahimovic.

As one of the most powerful players in today's football, Ibrahimovic has seen many players who are full of confidence, but he has to say that Yang Mo's strength and past honors are indeed worthy of this confidence.

"Then I hope we can cooperate happily."

After a few words, Ibrahimovic made a decision. They are all top players in the world, and they all know what they need, so there is no need to talk nonsense after setting the goal.

On June 6, just after the European Cup group stage, Manchester City and AC Milan officially announced the blockbuster transfer news at the same time.

Manchester City and AC Milan have reached a two-way transfer agreement. Manchester City player Balotelli will move to AC Milan in the new season, while Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva of AC Milan will join Manchester City in the new season.

As soon as this transfer news came out, it instantly detonated the European football world, and immediately set off a wave of public opinion in the world football world.

Balotelli's departure from Manchester City has long been confirmed, and Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva were still struggling with Barry Saint-Germain before, but who would have thought that they would join Manchester City in a blink of an eye.

Think about how terrifying the attacking firepower will be with Yang Mo, Aguero, and Ibrahimovic's Manchester City striker in the new season.

On the defensive end, Manchester City was the team with the strongest defensive ability in the Premier League last season, and the joining of Thiago Silva will undoubtedly bring Manchester City's central defender to a higher level.

How terrifying such a Manchester City will be in the new season is enough to give any opponent a headache.

Although Manchester City and AC Milan did not mention the transfer price when they announced the news, but before the transfer window opened, there were still "well-informed" media who immediately broke the news about the transfer details.

Balotelli moved to AC Milan, the transfer fee is about 2300 euros, which is full of floating clauses.

The Manchester City that Ibrahimovic joined is worth less than Balotelli, 2000 million euros.

However, according to the media that broke the news, Ibrahimovic signed with Manchester City for three years, and Manchester City offered Ibrahimovic the second highest salary in the team after Yang Mo, 500 million euros per year.

In fact, what the media does not know is that in the contract signed by Yang Mo with Manchester City, the annual salary will increase every year according to the performance of the previous year.

Last season, Yang Mo helped Manchester City win the league and the Champions League double. In the new season, Yang Mo's annual salary has reached 3000 million after tax in the Champions League, but neither side will publicize this figure.

Compared with the transfer fees of Balotelli and Ibrahimovic, in this transfer transaction with AC Milan, Manchester City actually paid the most for Thiago Silva.

Last season, Thiago Silva was praised by the Italian media as the world's No. [-] central defender. The world's No. [-] central defender's worth is naturally not low.

Of course, Thiago Silva's ability is naturally needless to say if he can be recognized in the defensive Italian football.

For 4600 million euros, in order to win Thiago Silva, Manchester City set a new transfer record for a central defender in world football, making Thiago Silva the veritable most valuable central defender.

However, compared to the second highest salary in the Ibrahimovic team, Thiago Silva's salary is relatively average, only more than 700 million euros.

After the completion of these three transfer transactions, Manchester City did not stop their pace in the transfer market.

On June 6, Manchester City announced that Dzeko, the hero who won the championship last season, would transfer to Rome for 22 million.

Although Dzeko's performance in the final stage of the league last season and in the Champions League was mediocre, looking at his performance throughout the season, it was actually remarkable. He was Manchester City's second shooter after Yang Mo.

Therefore, the worth of 500 million is actually not too much for Dzeko.

After announcing Dzeko's departure, on June 6, Manchester City announced another signing.

In 91, England star Rodwell, who performed brilliantly at Everton last season, joined Manchester City at a price of 1400 million euros.

The reason for the introduction of this new England star, in addition to meeting the registration requirements of British players, Manchester City is also to find a substitute for Manchester City in the midfielder position.

As Everton's defensive midfielder, Rodwell has a steady style of play and a tough defense. As a substitute for the aging Barry, in Mancini's view, he is undoubtedly suitable.

Once this news was announced, the Premier League media naturally did not forget to start touting the England star.

But when Yang Mo, who was participating in business activities in China, saw the news, he felt that Rodwell's choice to join Manchester City was definitely not a wise choice.

Although Barry is old, he is in good condition, and Yaya Toure's attack and defense in the midfielder position complement each other perfectly.

Even under rotation considerations, Manchester City still has De Jong sitting on the bench.

Rodwell came to Manchester City at a young age and was destined to sit on the bench. This situation is definitely not a good thing for a player who urgently needs games to improve his skills.

But everything is someone else's choice, Yang Mo can't intervene.

Moreover, Rodwell's joining Manchester City is good news for Manchester City. In the match against Everton last season, Yang Mo was very impressed with this young player.

Of course, Manchester City is destined to fight on multiple fronts in the new season, and Rodwell is destined not to lack playing time.

But whether they can secure the main position depends on the opponent's performance in the new season.

After announcing this signing, on June 6, Manchester City announced again that the central defender assistant Kolo Toure transferred to Liverpool for 29 million euros last season.

After entering July, Manchester City has successively completed the cleaning and signing of some players.

For example, 300 million signings Maicon, strengthening the depth of the bench for the multi-line battle at the right back position in the new season, selling Adebayor, Adam John, and so on.

Compared with the previous large-scale efforts, these follow-up actions are no longer enough to attract media attention.

However, when the European transfer window opened, there was an interesting thing that made everyone feel very interesting, that is, after failing to chase Ibrahimovic, Paris Saint-Germain finally chose to sign up, and it turned out to be Carlos Tevez, who was sold by Manchester City last season .

However, when Manchester City's top management was busy with transfer matters, on July 7, Manchester City notified the players to gather and start the new season training.

On July 7, after finishing a series of business activities in China, Yang Mo arrived in Europe by plane after a short rest.

This time Manchester City's continuation is not in Manchester, but in the French seaside town of Boulogne.

Boulogne is located beside the Strait of Calais. It is the largest fishing port in France and has a comfortable climate. Compared with Manchester, which is rainy all day long, it is undoubtedly a good training place.

Here, Manchester City rented a local football club in Boulogne, the home stadium of Boulogne Football Club for training.

This team played in Ligue [-] last season, but due to poor performance, it has fallen to Ligue [-] this season.

Although the strength of the team is mediocre, its home stadium, Liberation Stadium, has pretty good infrastructure.

What's interesting is that Yang Mo's good friend Ribery in Bayern, who is from Boulogne, also played for this team.

After learning that Yang Mo returned to Boulogne for training, Ribery was quite regretful, because he had to follow Bayern to prepare for the Telecom Cup, so he couldn't greet Yang Mo as a landlord.

After Yang Mo's plane arrived at the airport on the outskirts of Boulogne, led by the staff of Manchester City, he went to the hotel where the team lived to put away his things before rushing to the training ground.

Today is the day for the team to gather. At two o'clock in the afternoon, all the players for the new season of Manchester City have arrived.

Among them, the new aid Ibrahimovic, Thiago Silva, Rodwell and others have also arrived.

After entering the stadium, Yang Mo greeted everyone one by one, and the new players were of course no exception.

At the joining ceremony of Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva, Yang Mo personally showed up to welcome them, and the relationship between the three is quite harmonious.

Although Rodwell was touted by the British media as a British supernova player after joining Manchester City, he was somewhat proud of himself.

But when facing Yang Mo, the captain of the same age, Rodwell imagined the opponent's achievements, but he didn't dare to burst out the pride in his heart, and behaved quite "well-behaved".

However, among the new players, there was one who was quite embarrassed to greet Yang Mo, and that was Maicon, the right back from Inter Milan.

In the UEFA Champions League back then, Yang Mo had conflicts with Ribery because of Maicon shoveling Ribery.

However, it has been almost three years, things have changed, everyone is their master in the arena, and now they are teammates in the trenches. Yang Mo is not a mean person, but he stepped forward to express his welcome to Mai Kong.

And Yang Mo's attitude undoubtedly made Maikong feel relieved. Before coming to Manchester City, he was still worried that Yang Mo, the captain, would make things difficult for him.

But after much consideration, Maicon still bit the bullet and came because of the high salary offered by Manchester City.

It now appears that what was feared at the beginning did not happen.

After the collection, Mancini and the coaching staff immediately started preparations before resuming training in the new season.

After the introduction and welcome to the newly joined players, it is the body part that the players least like. The team must find out the physical state of the players after a holiday, and then set different recovery training according to the state.

Some players have poor self-discipline ability, and players who indulged themselves too much during the holidays, the physical test data naturally made Mancini furious.

And some more self-disciplined players somewhat calmed the anger in Mancini's heart.

Among these players, Yang Mo is of course the first to bear the brunt.

Although he was busy all over the world this summer, watching football games, participating in business activities, and taking vacations, he only completed the basic requirements for the training arranged by the system.

But this basic requirement is enough to satisfy him to maintain his physical condition.

In Mancini's view, this basic requirement can already be regarded as quite self-disciplined and hard-working.

In the end, except for Yang Mo and individual players, most of Manchester City's players were assigned heavy physical recovery training tasks by the coaching staff.

After the team assembled, with the progress of various trainings, the time soon came to mid-July.

At this time, under the arrangement of the club, Manchester City also ushered in the first warm-up match before the new season.

And the opponent of this warm-up match is the owner of the stadium they rented, the Boulogne Football Club.

On July 7th, the home stadium of Boulogne Football Club was liberated. Manchester City set up a new starting lineup for the new season, preparing to start the first game of this new lineup.

Although it was just an ordinary warm-up match, in order to witness last season's double champion Manchester City and the demeanor of superstar Yang Mo, the stands that can accommodate 5000 people were full of fans watching the game.

The media area of ​​the stadium is also full of reporters from afar, they want to see how different Manchester City will be in the new season.

　Thank you Tianjiao~Zifeng, A you are worth having, drunk and drunk, o Tian 0 Yu o, Zhu Kui's reward, I really appreciate everyone's support.

　　There is an idea to choose Boulogne as the venue for the warm-up match. I wonder if any brothers can guess it.

　　
　
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