Robinho's move means that Manchester City's summer transfer spree is completely over.

Although there is still some time to go before the transfer deadline, Manchester City do not intend to continue burning money.

This is a disappointment for those who are waiting to see the excitement in the transfer market - they also hope that Manchester City can sweep the whole of European football and poach Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo......

As a result, there is only one glory for the real big names.

Although the quality of the players brought in is not very high, Manchester City has spent a lot of money.

Manchester City brought in eight players this summer, spending a total of £177.7 million, making them the most willing team to spend money in the entire European transfer market this summer. Among them, the transfer fee of Glory alone cost 100 million euros, 80 million pounds!

Robinho's transfer fee is £32.5 million.

Two of the most expensive players in the European transfer market this summer are Manchester City.

Of course, they also had a number of players cleansed, with Joel Luka sent to Tottenham Hotspur for £8.5 million, Italian striker Bianchi to Turin, and a number of other players sent away by the club.

In this way, Manchester City are two completely different teams compared to last season.

In particular, the core and skeleton of the team have changed.

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

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

After all, it takes time to retrain tactics, and it doesn't directly depend on the glory to come quickly.

And the glory did not disappoint him, scoring four goals in two league games and helping the team to two victories. This cemented Mark Hughes' idea to continue his tactics.

Glory's individual ability is fully capable of handling the Premier League. Mark Hughes thinks so.

The third round of the Premier League kicked off three days after Robinho's move to the club.

They take on Sunderland away from home.

In this game, Robinho, who has just moved to Manchester City, started in place of Sean Wright Phillips.

In addition, Rongguang and Berbatov also started.

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

If nothing else, the attacking combination of the three men will be fixed. Berbatov is at the front, while Robinho and Glory are relatively free, left, center, right, they can both play, and they will constantly switch positions in the game.

The theory goes, but the debut of this offensive trident was not very successful......

Glory scored again in this game, scoring in three consecutive games and scoring 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 their main game, they lost 1-3 away to Sunderland.

Robinho played just 66 minutes before being replaced by Sean Wright Phillips, and Dimitar Berbatov, who played the full game, was also poor and had a must-have goal in the game that City would have been able to overtake at the time.

"It seems that the attacking trident still needs time to run in, Robinho just completed the transfer and forced to start, he is not ready, his tacit understanding with the team is almost zero. I don't think this would have been the case if Mark Hughes had kept Wright Phillips in the starting line......" commentator Alan Hansen criticised Mark Hughes.

"Maybe it was a directive from the club's hierarchy to start Robinho?" Mortenson said.

"Hah!" Alan Hansen smiled, "Let's not forget, what did Mark Hughes say after the first game? 'Having him start in the first league game is definitely not a risk or a gamble as some people say, and I didn't get any pressure from the club's hierarchy, I'm the manager of the team and I decide who to play and who doesn't'......'

He mimicked Mark Hughes's tone.

Morteson was also amused.

"It's his arrangement to let Rong play and win, and it's the pressure at the top to let Robinho start and lose? Not such a good thing. ”

Alan Hansen has never hidden his displeasure with Mark Hughes, starting when Mark Hughes took over as Manchester City manager.

This could be understood as Alan Hansen as a former Liverpool player, while Mark Hughes used to play for Manchester United – the most famous duo in English football......

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"We need time. Robinho has just made the move, and neither his physical condition nor his chemistry with the team is up to par...... Mark Hughes said in his post-match press conference.

A reporter asked: "In that case, why do you still arrange for him to start?" ”

'I want him to get a feel for the atmosphere of the Premier League in advance......

"If it's just to feel the atmosphere, I can come off the bench at the end of the game." The Manchester Evening News reporter was aggressive and didn't give up.

'You're right, but I can also choose to start him and feel the atmosphere – I can't predict what we're going to do in the game until that decision is made. So that doesn't mean I'm wrong...... Someone needs to be responsible for the loss and I know I'm going to take responsibility for the team's failures. But I want to stress one thing – we bought eight new players this summer and left nine more, and this Manchester City team has almost nothing to do with last season's team, the team needs to start all over again, the tactics need to be reinvented...... This qiē takes time! ”

Speaking of this, even Mark Hughes, who had always been a gentleman, was angry, and there was an obvious smell of gunpowder in his tone.

Sure enough, there were no reporters asking questions, and everyone just looked at him and was silent.

Mark Hughes was pleased with the effect he had done, and he motioned for the press officer to leave.

The press officer then announced that the post-match press conference was over, and Mark Hughes got up and left the field.

When he turned around, Mark Hughes didn't see the glint in the eyes of the reporters. If he had seen it, with his experience as a star, he would have understood what these rays of light meant......

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The next day, reports about the match appeared in the English media.

Some of the media reports were quite objective, reporting only on the results and process of the game, and then offering a softer criticism of Mark Hughes's command.

But some media outlets don't care so much.

For the first time, criticism of Mark Hughes appeared in the media.

Criticism focused mainly on his tactics, but also on his on-the-spot command.

But there are also people who are complaining about Mark Hughes – at least it seems like this......

The local media Manchester Evening News ran the headline "Mark Hughes needs time" with a small subheadline, below the main headline: "On the amateur management of Manchester City clubs"

In the text of the report below, the reporter defended Mark Hughes throughout, arguing that what Mark Hughes said in the post-game press conference was correct, that the team had indeed changed too much this summer, and that public opinion had given Mark Hughes too little time and that he needed time......

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

But some people don't see it that way.

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

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Mark Hughes had just started work when he received a call from the club's president's secretary, telling him to go to the office to meet the club's president, Mr. Fassim.

There's something strange about Mark Hughes. If Fasim wanted to see him, he would contact him directly, and now he is contacted by the secretary of Ha Duong Tong Guò, and then let himself go to his office to meet him, which is somewhat too formal......

But he went anyway.

As soon as he entered the office, he saw Fasim standing with his back to him, in front of a huge floor-to-ceiling window, overlooking the training ground of the first team.

After the third round of the league, it is the turn of the national team break, and those who have national team play tasks will leave the club early and report back to their respective national teams.

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

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

It's just that at this time, at 7:50 in the morning, even if it's a non-national team day, it should be empty.

But now, there is a figure sweating there.

Fasim stared at the man for a moment before he said, "Rong came half an hour earlier than usual. ”

After Mark Hughes entered the door, Fasim ignored him, he was left to dry for a while, and now he suddenly heard such a sentence, which was quite inexplicable.

After saying that, Fasim turned around, and the expression on his face was very ...... Yan sù.

When Mark Hughes saw his expression, he subconsciously felt that it might not be a good thing for Fasim to call him.

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

Fassim is very polite to Glory's agent, Debola, but he is not a good gentleman at Manchester City......

Without waiting for Mark Hughes to answer his question, Fasim went on to say to himself: "It's a kind of self-punishment. Because he didn't win, he gave himself an extra half hour of practice. ”

Then he motioned for Hughes to take the Manchester Evening News on his desk.

Mark Hughes picked it up and looked at it.

In the text, the evening newspaper reporter wrote: "...... After the team's defeat to Sunderland, Mark Hughes complained that the club bought too many players and sold too many players in the summer, and guided Manchester City to almost become a brand new team...... At first glance, it seems that he has thrown all the blame on the club, but when you think about it, you have to admit that he has a point. Manchester City have really been in turmoil this summer, and they have even changed the owners of the club...... It's really unrealistic to buy so many players and ask for results right away. Manchester City is rebuilding, and it takes time to rebuild...... Not to mention that many of the players bought by Manchester City FC are actually duplicates and have no meaning...... So Mark Hughes can't really be blamed for the team's loss against Sunderland...... He's done his best. It's just that he needs time, but will Manchester City give him that time? ”

At first glance, Mark Hughes didn't see anything wrong, and what the reporter said was quite objective...... There are fewer and fewer journalists who objectively respect the facts......

But just now with such a little smugness, Mark Hughes suddenly became alert - Fasim specially asked his secretary to call him into his office very formally, but definitely not to read an article to exonerate himself......

So what's the problem?

He quickly scanned it, then his gaze stopped at the beginning of the article.

"Mark Hughes complained after the club's defeat to Sunderland that the club bought too many players and sold too many players in the summer, and guided Manchester City almost to become a brand new team......

He immediately understood what was the reason for Fasim's unsightly face......

He looked up, intending to explain to Fasim that he didn't mean that, that the reporter had misunderstood.

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

Then, with a wave of his hand, he motioned for Mark Hughes to leave.

So Mark Hughes came over and was reprimanded, and without even saying a word, he turned around and left.

It's just that in his heart, he didn't forget to scold this arrogant Middle Easterner.

The club spends so much money and is not allowed to be criticized by the media? Do you because this is your dictatorship!

I do need time!

He didn't think the reporter was wrong at all.

How can you not give time to a team that has changed so much?

The English team has a lot of trust in the manager and will give a lot of time for the team to build on his ideas.

Only these outsiders are so ignorant of the rules!

But his own words would make the reporter say so...... Looks like we'll have to find out what they say about themselves......

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Back in the office, Mark Hughes asked people to buy a copy of every newspaper he could buy in the market.

Then, while training had begun, he first skimmed through all the newspapers about himself.

After reading it, he understood why Fassim was so upset.

Not only the Manchester Evening News has said this, but other media outlets have also agreed that Mark Hughes has put all the blame for the loss on the club.

The Manchester Evening News can be regarded as helping him speak, and some media criticize Mark Hughes, as the head coach of the team, for not having any responsibility at all, not daring to be responsible, and only knowing that it is very inadequate to put the responsibility on the club!

These criticisms were very harsh, and Mark Hughes was a little restless to watch.

To be honest, when he said that, he did mean to complain about the club, but he felt that he was generally objective and did not make any radical statements.

Unexpectedly, even so, it was captured by the media......

Those damn journalists!