Robinho's transfer means that Manchester City's crazy transfer this summer is completely over.

Although there is still some time before the transfer deadline, Manchester City does not intend to continue to burn money.

This disappointed those who were waiting to watch the fun in the transfer market - they also hope that Manchester City can sweep the entire European football world and poach Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo...

As a result, there is only one glory that is really big enough.

Although the quality of the players introduced is not very high, Manchester City spends a lot of money.

This summer, Manchester City has introduced eight players, spending a total of 177.7 million pounds, making it the most willing team in the entire European transfer market this summer. Among them, Rong Guang's transfer fee costs 100 million euros and 80 million pounds

Robinho's transfer fee is £32.5 million.

The two most expensive players in the European transfer market this summer belong to Manchester City.

Of course, they also cleaned up many players. Joel Luca was sent to Tottenham Hotspur for 8.5 million pounds, Italian striker Bianchi went to Turin, and many other players were also sent away by the club.

In this way, Manchester City is a completely different team than last season.

Especially the team's core and skeleton have changed.

This also led to a particularly slow pace of tactical integration in Manchester City.

That's why Mark Hughes had to rely on glory.

After all, it takes time to retrain the tactics, and there is no direct dependence on the speed of glory.

And Glory did not disappoint him, scoring four goals in two league rounds, helping the team win two games. This strengthened Mark Hughes's idea of ​​continuing his tactics.

Glory's personal abilities can handle the Premier League. That's what Mark Hughes thinks.

The third round of the Premier League began three days after Robinho transferred to the team.

They challenged "Black Cats" Sunderland away.

In this game, Robinho, who had just transferred to Manchester City, started and replaced Sean Wright Phillips.

In addition, Rongguang and Berbatov also started.

Commentator John Motterson said that this may be the "offensive trident" that Mark Hughes intends to use at Manchester City.

If nothing unexpected happens, the offensive combination of these three people will be fixed. Berbatov is at the front, while Robinho and Rong Guang are relatively free, both left, center and right, and they can play, and they will continue to change positions during the game.

The theory is like this, but the first appearance of this offensive trident was not very successful...

Rongguang scored another goal in this game, scoring three consecutive games and five goals in three games.

Manchester City fully relied on glory, but Manchester City did not win.

Glory's goal did not bring victory to Manchester City.

Although they played all their main players, they lost to Sunderland away.

Robinho was replaced by Sean Wright Phillips after only sixty-six minutes. Although Berbatov played the whole game, he also performed poorly. In the game, he scored a goal that was not enough, otherwise Manchester City would have been able to surpass the score at that time.

"It seems that the offensive trident needs time to be adjusted. Robinho forced a start just after completing the transfer. He is not ready. His tacit understanding with the team is almost zero. I think if Mark Hughes let Wright Phillips continue to start, maybe this game would not be the result..." Commentary guest Alan Hansen criticized Mark Hughes.

"Maybe Robinho's starting point was an instruction from the club's senior executives?" Motson said.

"Ha" Alan Hansen smiled, "Let's not forget, after the first game, what did Mark Hughes say?'Arranging him to start in the first round of the league is definitely not a risk or gambling as some people say. I am not under any pressure from the club's senior management. I am the team's head coach. I decided to let who will play and who will not play,..."

He imitated Mark Hughes's tone.

Motson was amused, too.

"It was his arrangement to let Rong play and win. If Robinho starts and loses, it is pressure from the top management? There is no such a good thing."

Alan Hansen never hides his dissatisfaction with Mark Hughes, which started when Mark Hughes took over as Manchester City coach.

This may be understood as Alan Hansen is a player who once played for Liverpool, and Mark Hughes once played for Manchester United - this is the most famous pair of enemies in English football...

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"We need time. Robinho has just transferred here, and his physical condition and understanding with the team have not met the standards..." Mark Hughes said at a post-match press conference.

A reporter asked: "Since that's the case, why should he be arranged to start?"

"I hope he can feel the atmosphere of the Premier League in advance..."

"If I were just to feel the atmosphere, I could come on as the bench near the end of the game." The reporter of the Manchester Evening News was aggressive and did not give up.

"You're right, but I can also choose to let him start and feel the atmosphere - before making this decision, I can't predict what happens to us in the game. So it doesn't mean that my arrangement is wrong... Someone needs to be responsible for losing, I know, I will be responsible for the team's failure. But I want to emphasize that this summer, we bought eight new players and nine more players left. This Manchester City has almost nothing to do with the team last season. The team needs to start over, the tactics need to be re-established... It all takes time."

Speaking of this, even Mark Hughes, who has always been gentlemanly, was angry, with a clear smell of gunpowder in his tone.

As expected, no reporter asked questions, everyone just looked at him and remained silent.

Mark Hughes was very satisfied with the effect he had caused and signaled that the press officer was leaving.

So the press officer announced that the post-match press conference ended, and Mark Hughes stood up and left the court.

When he turned around, Mark Hughes did not see the light shining in the eyes of those reporters. If he had seen it, with his experience as a celebrity, he would definitely understand what these lights mean...

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The next day, reports of the game appeared in the English media.

Some media reports are still objective, only reporting on the results and process of the game, and then criticized Mark Hughes's command in a gentle tone.

But some media don’t care about that much.

The first time there was a criticism against Mark Hughes in the media.

The criticism mainly focused on his tactics, as well as on-site command.

But there are also people who are speaking out for Mark Hughes - at least it seems...

The title of the local media Manchester Evening News is "Mark Hughes needs time". The subtitle is very small, below the main title: "On the Amateur Management of Manchester City Clubs"

In the following report, the reporter defended Mark Hughes throughout the article, believing that what Mark Hughes said at the post-match press conference was correct. The team has changed too much this summer, and public opinion has given Mark Hughes too little time, and he needs time...

Mark Hughes may think that he has found a soulmate when he sees this article.

But some people don't think so.

If you understand the same thing from a different perspective, it will be completely different from the original meaning...

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Mark Hughes had just started working when he received a call from the club chairman secretary informing him to go to the office to meet the club chairman Mr. Fasim.

Mark Hughes was a little strange. If Fasim wanted to meet him, he would contact him directly. Now he contacted himself through a secretary in Heyang, and then asked himself to go to his office to meet him. This is somewhat too formal...

But he went anyway.

As soon as I entered the office, I saw Fasim standing in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, overlooking the first team's training ground.

After the third round of the league, it is the national team's turn to play. People who have national team competition tasks will leave the club in advance and return to their respective national teams to report.

So during this period, the training ground of the first team will be a little deserted.

But despite this, there will still be some non-national players staying, so the training ground is not completely closed.

But at this time, at 7:50 in the morning, even on the non-national team match day, it should be empty.

But now, there is a figure sweating profusely there.

Fasim stared at the man for a while before saying, "Rong came half an hour earlier than usual."

After Mark Hughes entered the door, Fasim ignored him. He was hung up for a while. Now he suddenly heard such a sentence, which was quite inexplicable.

After saying that, Fasim turned around, his face very...serious.

Mark Hughes subconsciously felt that Fasim called him to come.

"Don't you want to know why Rong came half an hour earlier than before, Mr. Hughes?" Fassim's English was a little big, but Mark Hughes didn't dare to laugh at the man in front of him.

Fasim is very polite to Rong Guang's agent Debola, but at Manchester City club, he is not a good man...

Without waiting for Mark Hughes to answer his question, Fasim continued by himself: "This is a kind of self-punishment. Because he didn't win, he practiced for half an hour."

Then he signaled Hughes to take the Manchester Evening News on the table.

Mark Hughes picked it up and looked at it.

In the main text, the evening newspaper reporter wrote: "... After the team lost to Sunderland, Mark Hughes complained that the club bought too many players in the summer and sold too many players, which led to Manchester City almost becoming a brand new team... At a sudden glance, he seemed to have left the responsibility to the club, but after thinking about it carefully, he had to admit that what he said made sense. Manchester City was indeed too turbulent this summer, and they even changed the club's boss... After buying so many players, it was really unrealistic to ask for results immediately. Manchester City is equivalent to rebuilding, and reconstruction also takes time... Not to mention that many players bought by Manchester City Club are actually repetitive and meaningless... So the team can't blame Mark Hughes for losing the game against Sunderland... He has tried his best. It just needs time, but will the Manchester City Club give him this time?"

At first glance, Mark Hughes didn't see anything wrong. This reporter said it was quite objective... Now there are fewer and fewer reporters who objectively respect facts...

But just now, Mark Hughes suddenly became alert - Fasim asked his secretary to call himself to his office formally, but it was definitely not for himself to read an article that would free himself from guilt...

So what's the problem?

He quickly scanned, and then his eyes stopped at the beginning of the article.

"After the team lost to Sunderland, Mark Hughes complained that the club bought too many players in the summer and sold too many players, which led to Manchester City almost becoming a brand new team..."

He immediately understood why Fasim's bad-looking face...

He raised his head and planned to explain to Fasim that he did not mean that, but that the reporter had misunderstood.

But Fasim waved his hand: "Save the explanation for the reporter, Mr. Hughes. I think you should be very clear that the club has spent so much money this summer, not to be criticized by the media."

Then, he waved his hand and signaled that Mark Hughes could leave.
To be continued...