Chapter 1226
Chapter 1226
In just a few days, Kaka conquered his teammates and coaches in training.
It can be seen from the training that his body has indeed recovered, at least much better than when he was in Real Madrid.
The Manchester City players who were still a little unconvinced about Kaka's arrival gradually accepted Kaka at this time.
As a team that has just won the Champions League, they feel that they are the best in Europe. Not everyone can join this team, it depends on whether they are worthy or not.
Originally, everyone thought that with Kaka's performance in Real Madrid, he did not deserve to come to Manchester City.
But looking at it now, if Kaka maintains such physical fitness, he can be a main force!
Sneijder is under competitive pressure.
Benítez soon saw Sneijder more active in training than before...
This was beyond his expectation. He was still having a headache on how to make the players more motivated, especially Sneijder.
Unexpectedly, a Kaka transfer came, and it turned out to be a catalyst to stimulate Sneijder to work hard.
Benitez realized that Kaka and Sneijder could become a benign competitive relationship, just like Rongguang and Ibrahimovic last season... However, he is not sure that the competition between Rongguang and Ibrahimovic should be called "benign"...
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After Kaka joined Manchester City, various discussions about Kaka's transfer to Manchester City are still not over. Is Manchester City buying Kaka a bad move or a clever move?
These issues are of concern to everyone.
However, Kaka was tight-lipped on this, and he never gave any other explanations except for his rhetoric at the joining ceremony.
As for whether Kaka's joining Manchester City is good or bad for Manchester City, now we can only wait until the team starts playing to know the result.
Before that, everyone can only wait.
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Originally Benitez thought that he could only stimulate the remaining players to work hard by cleaning some players, but after a series of things happened, the atmosphere in the current Manchester City team is surprisingly good.
Everyone worked hard, and the free and loose atmosphere in the early days of the training camp was swept away.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Rong Guang have been training very hard. Now there is another Kaka. Kaka is also working very hard in training. His training attitude is completely useless.Just looking at his training attitude, you can tell that he definitely didn't come to Manchester City to mess around and get a high salary.
He really wants to do something in Manchester City.
Under such circumstances, it suddenly became unnecessary for Manchester City to sign up heavily in the transfer market.
Their transfer work has mostly been tinkering with the lineup.
On the left back, Sun Hai's contract with Manchester City expired. This time he did not continue to renew his contract, but decided to leave Manchester City and return to China.
He hopes to continue his career in China. His body can no longer meet the high-intensity requirements of Manchester City, but it is more than enough to cope with domestic games in China.
After Sun Hai left, Manchester City was particularly weak in the left-back position. There was only Leighton Barnes alone, which was obviously not enough.
Manchester City has taken a fancy to Valencia's main left-back Alba this time.
As the main force of Valencia, Alba must be someone they are not willing to let go easily.
But Manchester City, which is not short of money, used money to blast open the gate of Valencia.
After half a month of negotiations, Manchester City finally brought Alba to England from Valencia for 600 million euros.
This young man who came from the La Masia youth training camp but was kicked out because of "poor talent" was reborn in Valencia and successfully attracted the attention of the same Spaniard Benitez. He is the player Benitez named.
The arrival of Alba may cause Leighton Barnes' main position to be threatened, but it can also compete with Leighton Barnes.
Alba himself seemed very happy to be able to join Manchester City.
"Manchester City are a great team and the Champions League just won proves everything. I am very happy to be here and play alongside such an amazing player!"
Alba said so at the joining press conference.
"Manchester Evening News" joked: "I think it won't be long before Manchester City have to change their name to: 'Rong's Fans' or 'Ring's Admirers'!"
Alba's joining Manchester City made Barcelona very upset, because this is the target they have been spying on. They have always hoped to bring Alba back to the Nou Camp... As a result, Manchester City's mobility is stronger than them, and they act first and snatch Alba away with money.
This seems to confirm Cruyff's evaluation of Manchester City before the Champions League final last season.He believes that relying on money to snatch stars is a retrogression of European football.
So after Alba moved to Manchester City, Cruyff jumped out unwillingly and wrote an article in the media to comment on Alba's transfer, saying that he was very disappointed with Alba's choice.
"...As a child of La Masia, I think returning to Barcelona is the right home. Going to Manchester City is not a good choice. England is completely different from warm Barcelona in terms of weather and food. Alba will encounter serious discomfort in England. I think this transfer is actually manipulated by Alba's agent..."
As a result, Cruyff's remarks caused another uproar, which caused Alba's agent to start a war of words with him.
"No one can refuse the call of Manchester City, because Manchester City is proud!" Alba's agent responded to Cruyff.
Cruyff's face was not good, because Rong Guang contradicted him several times in front of the whole of Europe before the Champions League final last season, which made him lose face.Alba's agent is still honoring in front of him, which is really a pot that can't be opened.
In other words, Alba's agent simply angered Cruyff on purpose.
"I think Alba has made a correct choice. Joining Manchester City will be a new peak of his career. In Manchester City, he will get honors that he could not have imagined before!"
Alba's agent also said.
In European football, there is already an unwritten "law", that is, glory represents the championship.
Whether it is the league championship or the European championship.As long as there is glory, this team will never be empty-handed this season.
Therefore, whether Alba considers money or career, going to Manchester City is a good choice.
In addition to Alba's possible main-level transfer, Manchester City's more transfers this season are used to strengthen the bench and focus on the future.
For example, on the back line, as Lucio got older, his performance on the back line also became unstable, and injuries began to increase.Benitez must plan ahead.
Godin can now successfully replace Lucio and partner with Kompany as the team's main central defender, but Manchester City is still relatively weak in the central defender position.
Especially Richards, a young man from Manchester City, has never been able to grow into what people hoped for. Too many injuries have greatly hindered his development.
So this time Benitez is eyeing the Brazilian team's defensive core Marquinhos, who performed well in the South American U20 Champions Cup in the first half of this year and in the U17 World Cup in Mexico this summer.
The young man born in 1994 is only 17 years old. According to the rules, he must then leave Brazil and transfer to a European club.
So if Manchester City wants to get Marchinhos this summer, it is too impossible.However, Benitez still hopes to reach an agreement with Marquinhos and Coritian, initially sign the contract, and then wait until the transfer period next summer, Marquinhos can successfully transfer.
Of course, Corinthians can't let go of the star of hope in their youth team so easily. The main way for Brazilian football clubs to make money is to sell these talented young people, so it may take a little more money to take Marquinho away from Osman City.
But for the Manchester City club, all problems that can be solved with money are not problems.
At the same time, Marquinhos is also very happy to be able to join Manchester City, which has glory and where Kaka is.Although Rong Guang is not a Brazilian player, his football career started in Brazil, so in the eyes of many young Brazilian players, Rong Guang has been regarded as a Brazilian player by them, and Rong Guang is their idol.
Marquinhos is a central defender, but this does not prevent him from regarding Rong Guang as an idol.
Benitez valued Marquinhos or his comprehensive ability in the defense line. In addition to central defenders, Marquinhos can also play right back and left back.
Soon the three parties reached an agreement, and Manchester City brought Marquinhos to Manchester City from Corinthians at a price of 600 million euros.This transfer agreement will take effect on July [-] next year.
Although the transfer of Marquinhos was finalized, it was a transfer after a year after all.
Benitez also needs to buy a central defender who will come soon for the team.
This time, his goal is not to reserve for the future, but to demand that he can fight when he comes.What he saw was Mangala, who played for Liege in the Belgian League Standard. The 20-year-old central defender is tall and already a well-known young central defender in European football. Many teams are chasing him, such as the famous "black shop" Porto in European football.
Porto's players are often bought at very low prices and then sold at very high prices, so they are called "black shops".But this nickname proves the vision of the Porto club from another aspect. Any player they fancy will have a huge rise in value after a few years, and they are called the goals pursued by European giants.
So since Porto is optimistic about Mangala, Benitez will naturally not let go of this opportunity.
To compete with Porto for players, Manchester City can only rely on money. Benitez has full confidence in the club in this regard-our Manchester City does not have many champions, but has a lot of money!The history is not brilliant, but the numbers on the bank account are brilliant!
In the end, Manchester City settled Mangala with a transfer fee of 800 million euros, while Porto's bid was only 700 million, which was a difference of 100 million.Facing the rich and self-willed local tyrant Manchester City, Porto can only give up. After all, they buy people to make money. If the purchase price is too high, the cost will be raised, which will reduce the profits earned by selling the players at that time, and it is not worthwhile to compete with Manchester City.
(End of this chapter)