Chapter 897 Five Consecutive Victories
Jerome Boateng eventually moved to Bayern Munich for a transfer fee of 15 million euros.
The Bundesliga giants were eventually forced to agree to Manchester City's demands and paid the transfer fee. However, in an interview, Bayern chairman Rummenigge, who is also chairman of the UEFA Club Association, expressed doubts about Manchester City's sponsors.
It is mainly the sponsorship of Manchester City by several companies including Etihad Airways, which is the source of funds for Manchester City's massive signings.
Rummenigge believes that Manchester City's sponsorship is intended to circumvent UEFA's financial fair competition policy. He even said, "Manchester City should know that if they want to play tricks, we will not allow them to participate in the Champions League."
This is not just because of the transfer of Jerome Boateng. Manchester City refused to compromise on the transfer fee. More importantly, the traditional top teams have felt the threat from Manchester City in the introduction of stars.
For example, the transfer of Hazard this time, this is a treasure that all the top teams in Europe are coveting, but he ended up going to Manchester City.
Not to mention Bayern, just talk about the other giants, who can bear it?
Manchester City general manager Soriano came out to clarify that there is no problem with Manchester City's sponsors and welcomes UEFA's investigation at any time. He also said that Manchester City will continue to make additional investments and strive to build a team that is highly competitive in both the Premier League and the Champions League. "Our goal is to build Manchester City into a top club."
Jerome Boateng did not travel with the team to the United States, so his transfer to Europe and the dispute between Rummenigge and Soriano did not affect the Manchester City players training in the United States.
All the players lived a simple and boring training life. Apart from eating, drinking, defecating, urinating and sleeping, they trained every day.
Su Dong still takes some time every day to practice with Courtois.
At first, Manchester City players were a little surprised, but gradually they got used to it.
Unsue and Sudong's extra training did not exclude others. If Joe Hart and Given wanted to participate, they could do so at any time. Therefore, no one said much and did not think there was anything wrong with them giving Courtois special training.
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A week after the team arrived in the United States, Manchester City played its first warm-up match at the AT&T Stadium in San Francisco.
The opponent is Mexico's America team.
In this game, Manchester City still used last season's substitute lineup and several new players, but the team still adopted the 4-3-3 tactics.
The goalkeeper is Joe Hart, the defense is Leighton Baines, Javi Martinez, David Luiz and Trippier, the midfielder is Thiago, Milner and Gareth Barry are in front, and the trident is Hazard, Dzeko and Douglas Costa.
Although the lineup has changed, the team's passing and control tactics are still the main focus.
The players also performed very hard. After all, they could see that this game was a test for them.
After the opening, Manchester City took control of the situation, and Dzeko almost scored twice in the sixth and twelfth minutes.
In the 16th minute, Douglas Costa's breakthrough on the right gave Dzeko a chance to shoot in the penalty area. After the goalkeeper saved the shot, Gareth Barry made the follow-up shot and scored, making the score one to zero.
Then in the 27th minute, Douglas Costa scored another goal for Manchester City after another pass from Dzeko.
After the second half, Manchester City replaced many players, but in the 72nd minute, Adam Johnson cooperated with Toni Kroos and broke into the penalty area to score, expanding the score for Manchester City to 3-0! In the end, Manchester City defeated the Mexican team America 3-0 with goals from Gareth Barry, Douglas Costa and Adam Johnson, winning the first victory of the warm-up match.
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Three days later, Manchester City left the training camp in Los Angeles, USA, and headed north to Vancouver, Canada, to participate in the second warm-up match.
This time the opponent is the Vancouver Whitecaps.
Due to the team's pre-season physical reserve training, every player was in a low state. In addition, they had to fight for several days and travel a long distance north. More importantly, there were heavy rains in Vancouver for several days, which made the field very muddy and the game was almost forced to be cancelled.
So in the game, although Manchester City had all the advantages, they lost the ball first.
But in the 39th minute, Aguero equalized the score for Manchester City with a solo shot from outside the small penalty area.
After the second half, Sanchez reversed the game for Manchester City in the 68th minute.
In the 84th minute, Di Maria scored a goal with a long shot.
In addition, in the stoppage time, Di Maria scored another goal, and the score was finally locked at 4-1.
Manchester City successfully reversed the Vancouver Whitecaps away from home and won two consecutive warm-up matches.
However, both the coach and the players were basically dissatisfied with the course of the game.
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After returning to Los Angeles from Vancouver, Manchester City continued training.
This period of time is mainly focused on recovery and adjustment, as well as the team's technical and tactical drills.
But what’s interesting is that in daily closed training, Guardiola would practice the 3-4-3 tactics, but in external matches, he basically didn’t use it. Javi Martinez was used as a central defender, which caused quite a bit of controversy, but it was basically a four-back tactic.
This is also a means for Guardiola to deal with the outside world. He wants to save the 343 until the end and use it as a trump card.
After another week of training in Los Angeles, Manchester City also ushered in its last warm-up match in North America.
at the Home Depot Center against the Los Angeles Galaxy.
This is actually the most watched game among Manchester City's three North American warm-up matches, because Los Angeles Galaxy has Beckham, and Manchester City has also promised to let Su Dong start.
This is also Su Dong's first appearance in the three challenge games.
Just twenty minutes into the game, Su Dong deceived the opponent's central defender in the penalty area and scored, opening the scoring for Manchester City.
In the 29th minute, David Silva made a straight pass, and Su Dong got a one-on-one opportunity at the penalty spot, and he shot into the goal again, making it 2-0.
During the half-time break, both Su Dong and Beckham were substituted.
Later, Los Angeles Galaxy scored a goal, and Juninho also showed off his free kick skills, but hit the post.
Dzeko scored a goal for Manchester City in the second half.
In the end, Manchester City narrowly defeated the Los Angeles Galaxy 3-1 and won three consecutive victories in the North American warm-up matches.
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Su Dong spent some time with Beckham and Juninho Jr. after the game.
Beckham and Juninho are both free kick masters, and Su Dong is also very skilled in free kicks. Unfortunately, in the game, neither Su Dong nor Beckham had the chance to show their skills, and Juninho's free kick hit the post.
The three of them talked more about things outside the field. For example, Beckham recently had a daughter, and he has been trying hard to return to the European league. It can be seen that he still misses the days when he played in the European league.
The Major League Baseball is indeed a good place for retirement, but Beckham is determined to return to the mainstream European league.
Su Dong has never dared to ask him whether he regretted his decision to transfer to the United States after leaving Real Madrid?
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After Manchester City finished the World Football Challenge, several other teams also finished their games one after another.
Among the twelve teams participating in the ranking, only Manchester City, Real Madrid and Manchester United have won all three games.
In the end, the three teams had the same points, but Manchester City won the championship with a slight advantage thanks to its record of ten goals scored and two conceded, and an eight-goal difference, surpassing Real Madrid's seven and Manchester United's six.
This is also a good start for the new season.
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After playing against Los Angeles Galaxy, Manchester City left the training camp in Los Angeles, USA, and headed for Dublin, Ireland.
In Dublin, Manchester City made some minor adjustments and immediately welcomed an all-star Irish team.
This is an invitational tournament for the Irish Super Cup.
This team is composed of star players from the Irish League. Their strength is actually very average and their cooperation is very unfamiliar. After all, many of them do not play for the same team.
Manchester City also did not try their best and still put Su Dong on the bench, letting other players come on the field one after another.
In the end, Manchester City defeated the Irish All-Stars 3-0 with Gareth Barry's volley and Adam Johnson's double, winning four consecutive warm-up matches.
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Just one day later, Manchester City once again faced Inter Milan in the second game of the second match day of the Irish Super Cup.
In such two consecutive days of high-intensity competition, no one will give their all, and the focus will be more on rotation and observing the players.
Compared with the previous day, Manchester City replaced seven starting players, and goalkeeper Courtois also started.
The only thing that remained unchanged was that Su Dong still did not appear, which made all the Irish fans who came to the game feel disappointed.
After all, many people hope to watch Su Dong's games up close at home.
In the end, thanks to Aguero's goal in the first half and Dzeko's double in the second half, Manchester City once again defeated Inter Milan 3-0.
Inter Milan neither tried their best nor was in particularly good shape.
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After the warm-up match in Dublin, the Manchester City team returned to Manchester.
The whole team began to prepare for the Community Shield match against Manchester United, which is the prelude to the new season.
Manchester City has only won three Community Shields in its history, the most recent of which was thirty years ago.
Su Dong asked for leave from the coaching staff and took time to go to Amsterdam, where he was invited to attend Van der Sar's farewell match.
He was accompanied by young Belgian goalkeeper Courtois, an exception allowed by Guardiola and Unsoué.
Courtois is also looking forward to this trip to Amsterdam.
Van der Sar is his idol, and being able to attend his farewell event has a special meaning for him.
Of course, he was just following Su Dong to participate and had no way to actually play in the game. After all, he was not good enough to join the world star team, and Van der Sar did not invite him.
The reason I was able to be here this time was purely because of Su Dong.
Sorry, I was busy yesterday and missed a chapter
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