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

In terms of transfers, Manchester City's inaction is disappointing, but in fact this is also expected. Manchester City's performance was quite good last season, but after all, they did not participate in European competitions. The income generated by the league championship alone was not as much as they imagined. The fame impact brought by the championship could not directly bring profits, so Manchester City's actual income did not meet expectations. Considering that Manchester City is still carrying huge debts, they cannot invest too much in the transfer market.

Manchester City has increased a lot of spending.

They need to raise their original players. With this alone, Manchester City's fiscal investment will rise to a higher level. In addition, they also need to expand the east side stands of Manchester Stadium, which is also a considerable expense. Therefore, it is very normal for Manchester City to not invest in large amounts in the transfer market, because their finances do not allow this.

The "oldness" of tactics is also a problem. The more important reason why Manchester City was able to become a league champion last season was their novel tactics, which caught other teams off guard. By this season, all teams understood their tactics and with some preparations, the situation would be very different.

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

Manchester United doesn't have much supplementary overall. With the departure of Van Nicht, Roy Keane and others, Manchester United's lineup is no more gorgeous than last season. There is no doubt that Manchester United is powerful. After the club officially completed the acquisition, after the turbulent period of more than half a year, Manchester United has no internal worries, so they can focus on playing.

So Manchester United is still worth looking forward to this season.

Chelsea came to Barack and Shepchenko. The arrival of two superstars made them the focus of the world. It is worth mentioning that Shevchenko's transfer also set a new record for Chelsea club transfer fee - 35 million pounds.

With these two superstars joining, coupled with Chelsea’s original lineup, anyone will think that Chelsea will be the most favorable contender in the Premier League and the Champions League in the new season!

In addition, Liverpool and Arsenal have also supplemented their lineups and their strength has improved. Newcastle, whose performance has increased last season, also spent £30 million to introduce Duff and Martins to expand their teams. In this case, Manchester City, as the defending champions, will not be highly optimistic.

The best comments from the public opinion only think that Manchester City is the "strong contender for the top four in the league", which is due to the fact that Manchester City is the defending champion.

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

Wan Sheng did not argue with the media for anything, but was just focused on preparing for the new season. The team's current training work is still mainly adapting to the new formation.

Although the basic tactics have not changed, and only some adjustments have been made in the formation, this adjustment will also bring about many changes. After playing against the Chinese team, Wan Sheng had a new idea, and the focus was on Morris.

Morris is already the most powerful player in the team, regardless of technology, consciousness, etc. He is the top player in the team. After changing the formation, Morrisla has become the core of offense and defense of the entire team. On the contrary, it has somewhat limited his personal ability. Morris's lack of performance in the warm-up match against Nottingham Forest and the Chinese team is proof of this.

If Morris was only capable of last season, it would be beneficial to the whole team, but now it is different. Morris' personal abilities have improved a lot. Wan Sheng believes that he will not be much worse than Ronaldinho. Such a player cannot play to his personal abilities, which is a huge waste.

So Wan Sheng considered the premise of Morris' position. But in this way, there must be players who replace him. Unfortunately, no other player in the team can shoulder the core tasks of offense and defense, so he can only think about the formation adjustment.

The easiest way is to adjust the formation to 41.

A player cannot be the core of offense and defense. But if there are two midfielders, one attack and one attack will be guaranteed, and the defense and offense will be more choices, and Morris can also be positioned and become the absolute core of the frontcourt.

The choice of the two midfielders is relatively easy, Joey Patton, David Silva, Ozil, Ivan Kru, and even Sun Jihai, Koppel Ferreira, Dunn and others are all competent.

Of course, the combination of one offense and one defense is still needed. Players such as David Silva, Ivan Krue, and Ozil are offensive midfielders. Joey Patton has relatively balanced abilities, while defenders can act as defensive midfielders.

It will take some time to adapt to the 41, but this liberates Morris and allows him to play freely in the front, which will increase the team's offensive ability to a higher level.

Relying on the tactical training effect of "collaboration", in a few days, the training of formation changes has already achieved some results.

Next is the warm-up match with Charlton.

Manchester City and Charlton are both Super League teams. Manchester City is the defending champion, and Charlton is not weak either. They performed well last season and had strength, so this game is still worth looking forward to.

The game was held at Charlton's home court, and many media also came to do interviews. They mainly wanted to see Manchester City's preparations.

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 did not show the strength of Manchester City last season.

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

However, Wan Sheng was still very satisfied with the effect of the warm-up match. There were not many goals in the two goals, but the reason was that the cooperation in the backcourt was still a bit messy, and frequent substitutions also caused some problems with the player matching, so Manchester City did not have much control over the game.

In the game, the most obvious thing to see was Morris' performance. He only played in the first half, but made a pass and shot, becoming the best player in the game.

Charlton's players have a lot of understanding about this. They all worry about Morris' position in the first half because Morris' performance was so good that it was difficult for them to grab the ball and defend it. Morris also often threatened the ball, which made Charlton's goal in the whole first half always in crisis.

Fortunately, Morris ended in the second half, so their defensive work was much easier.

But the media does not care about the performance of individual players. Perhaps some people will praise Morris, but Morris is originally a member of the England national team. Isn’t it normal for him to perform well in a warm-up match? They look at the overall score more. The 2:1 score also means that Manchester City’s performance is becoming mediocre.

Wansheng doesn't care about media comments.

After the game, there were consecutive international match days. On three days off, he also gave himself three days off. After the game against Charlton, he threw the team to Diamares and asked the latter to lead the team back to Manchester, and he came to University College London to visit Anita.

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

This happened on campus and many people took photos. Soon the scene of Wansheng and Anita hugging each other spread to the Internet. Of course, this is not a big news. Their relationship has been exposed and there is no need to cover up anything.

What Anita said later made Wan Sheng very embarrassed, "My brother wants to see you."

This is what the parents think? Wan Sheng smiled bitterly.

Men are afraid of this, especially Anita is Murdoch's daughter, and Murdoch's son is definitely extraordinary. Wan Sheng feels a little numb, but many times men cannot say that it is not possible. Especially in this kind of thing, this is also a kind of responsibility, so Wan Sheng nodded directly to agree.

So the two drove to Krubb Avenue and found a restaurant with gorgeous decorations to wait for the so-called brother.

James?

This extremely popular name in England is really hard to impress Wan Sheng, but when he saw this James, Wan Sheng still felt strange. Isn’t this a strange middle-aged man I saw at the Wadel’s house?

"Wansheng, do you still remember me?" Although he called Wansheng's name directly, James' tone was not very friendly.

Wan Sheng nodded and shook hands with James politely.

The three of them then had a meal together. During this period, James kept asking about Wan Sheng’s situation, such as the situation at home, and talked about his investment company. That might be very impressive in the eyes of others, but James is Murdoch’s eldest son. In front of the world news giant, an investment company worth less than 100 million euros is nothing.

Afterwards, James talked about the issue of Wansheng and Anita.

"I don't agree with you being together." James said directly, "but I, Anne, likes you very much, she said that to me."

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

"Wansheng, you are very outstanding. It is hard to imagine that you can make a name for yourself in Europe at this age. You are much better than most people!" James said, "But I still don't like you being with Anne. Do you know why?"

Wan Shengxu narrowed his eyes and listened.

"Because you coach Manchester City!" James said seriously, "Wardel and I are good friends. He is the chairman of Manchester City club, but I don't like Manchester City. I am a Manchester United fan. I hate seeing news about Manchester City, and I hate seeing any good news about Manchester City!"

"I was disappointed last season, and I don't want to disappoint this season."

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

James's words were sonorous and powerful, and there was no doubt, but Wan Sheng frowned tightly.

"What are you kidding!" Wan Sheng stood up and said angrily, "You are a Manchester United fan, so you want Manchester City to lose! But I am Manchester City's head coach, I will definitely lead the team to beat Manchester United! Once, twice, many times!"

"Take my coaching scores as a condition? Are you crazy!"

"Since you said that, just wait to see Manchester United lost the pants!"

"Damn it! What did you say!"

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

"I'm Annie's brother!"

"So what about brother! You bastard, you are not worthy of being Anne's brother. I don't know how bad Mr. Murdoch was when he was young, so he gave birth to you!"

"What did you say!?"

"What I'm talking about is you stupid guy! Shameless, scum! Low-rat race"

""

Wan Sheng was angry and started to curse James.

The profoundness of Chinese culture is reflected at this moment. James' face turned red, and he could only listen to Wan Sheng's novel insulting words blurt out, but he could only refute it with a few "bastards" and words with "'.

When the two of them were almost fighting each other, there were already many people around, including well-informed reporters coming to take photos. Anita hurriedly separated the two and then forced Wansheng to leave.

James looked at the two of them leaving and broke the cup in anger. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!