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Chapter 422: China trip

Many Manchester United fans were disappointed by the announcement of Xu Qi's transfer.

Manchester United didn't make much move in the transfer market this summer. Their biggest signing was to sign De Gea for 20 million euros, using Manchester City's young goalkeeper De Gea to make up for the goalkeeper vacancy left by Van der Sar after his retirement.

Their other signings, including Jones and Ashley Cole, did not cause much noise, after all, Manchester City next door dominated the transfer market throughout the summer.

This is the situation now, and Manchester United fans can only regret that their team is difficult to invest heavily due to debt issues.

Many Manchester United fans sighed: Everyone knows that Xu Qi is a treasure, but only with money can you get it.

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In late July, Xu Qi officially debuted at the Etihad Stadium, and Aguero also appeared at the Etihad Stadium with Xu Qi.

The two met with the club's senior management and showed their jersey numbers.

Xu Qi still chose the No. 7 jersey. The player wearing this jersey was Milner. He was loaned to Aston Villa last season and should return to the team this season. However, since it is difficult for him to become a role player for Manchester City, the precious number of the No. 7 jersey was handed over to Xu Qi.

Aguero chose a not-so-eye number, No. 16.

A large number of fans gathered at the stadium here to welcome Xu Qi and Aguero. These two twin stars, who are second only to Ronaldo and Messi in La Liga, joined the Manchester City club this time. In the eyes of many fans, they will definitely bring glory to Manchester City.

Xu Qi and Aguero are also familiar. After all, they have had a fight in La Liga, and they have also had the experience of competing for each other on the La Liga scorer list.

When he was practicing with the whole team, Xu Qi was also a little amazed at the competitiveness of Manchester City's bench players.

Even Adebayo, who was loaned to Real Madrid in the second half of last season, may continue to lose his position at Manchester City.

On the front line of Manchester City, there are already fierce players such as Tevez, Dzeko, and Balotelli. This time, Aguero came again, and of course Adebayo had no chance. Therefore, Manchester City directly loaned Adebayo to Tottenham.

With such a star-studded front line, it is also a great worry for Mancini to choose who to play.

In fact, the midfield competition is also fierce, including Xu Qi, Nasri, David Silva, Yaya Toure, Barry, Milner, De Jong, Adam Johnson and many other famous players. Such a staffing configuration is indeed as many people say, and it can completely form two teams that can compete for the championship.

This season, Manchester City naturally continues to attack the Premier League champions.

At the Etihad Stadium, facing many visits from England media, Xu Qi also said that he hopes to create history with new team members, and he is extremely eager to win the championship. Whether it is the Premier League or the Champions League, Xu Qi wants to strive for it as much as possible.

After completing his debut at the Etihad Stadium, Xu Qi also quickly went to Hong Kong to join the team.

At this time, Manchester City Club had arrived in Hong Kong, China, preparing to start the tournament to China here.

First of all, there is an event called the "Premier Asian Cup".

The participating teams include Chelsea, Manchester City, Aston Villa, and Hong Kong Zhijie.

When Xu Qi and Aguero arrived at the airport in Hong Kong at the same time, they instantly detonated the fans here. There were many local fans in Hong Kong, and there were also many fans coming from Guangdong and other places.

They are extremely looking forward to Xu Qi's performance under their noses again after two and a half years.

The last time, Xu Qi came to Guangzhou, which is relatively close to here, to participate in the Chinese Super League. Xu Qi performed very well at that time, and gave two wonderful assists in one game.

And now, he is back as a Manchester City player.

In the first match between Manchester City and Aston Villa, this game was considered a warm-up match. Xu Qi and Aguero, who had just started training with the team, did not start.

With the fierce confrontation, the two teams played one-to-one in the first half. In order to meet the needs of the fans on the scene, Mancini replaced Aguero and Xu Qi in the last ten minutes, but also instructed the two to come on the court to find the ninth state. The win or loss of the game is actually irrelevant.

Therefore, Xu Qi and Aguero also adapted to the rhythm during the game and protected themselves as much as possible.

In the end, the two teams tied and had to play a penalty shootout according to the match system.

However, this penalty shootout is indeed not too nervous. Xu Qi scored a penalty kick at will, but Manchester City still lost the game in this penalty shootout.

In the end, Manchester City failed to reach the final of the so-called "Premier Asian Cup", but Xu Qi also completed a warm-up match.

There was no way to tell anything after more than ten minutes of performance. Many fans also expressed that they were not in a hurry. They knew Xu Qi's ability and he would always explode.

Afterwards, the team set off for China and arrived in Hangzhou to play a warm-up match with Hangzhou Greentown Club. Since the Chinese Super League is still in the beginning of the season, such commercial games will actually affect the performance of the Chinese Super League team in the league. Therefore, Hangzhou Greentown also sent a formation mainly composed of young players.

However, they could not resist the star attack line of Manchester City. Xu Qi and Aguero all scored in this warm-up match, which was a good start for their football career at Manchester City.

The result of the match against Hangzhou Greentown was an 8-1 score. Xu Qi scored one, Aguero scored two, Dzeko scored three, and Yaya Toure and Tevez scored one.

The business competition is actually not good-looking. After all, neither side will show 100% of their strength to fight hard. Mancini's purpose is just to get the lineup together.

After all, August is about to enter, and after August, preparations for the new season will be fully launched.

On August 16, the team will face Swansea's challenge at home.

That is likely to be Xu Qi's Premier League debut.

Before this, Xu Qi should also adapt to the team and the rhythm of the Premier League as much as possible.

In fact, for Xu Qi, the rhythm of the Premier League is not very difficult to adapt to. He has had experience in confronting Manchester City, Tottenham and Manchester United. At that time, Xu Qi performed very well, so it was no problem for Xu Qi to adapt to the rhythm of the Premier League.

Including David Silva, who was also a Valencia player before, was also very well adapted.

While practicing with the team, Xu Qi also tried his best to get along with his teammates. Xu Qi now does not have much language barriers and can communicate with his teammates. Relatively speaking, his relationship with Aguero is relatively good.

After all, the two of them came to this new environment at the same time, so some things were more conducive to each other. In the hotels in Asia, the two of them were also in the same room.

After the team left Hangzhou, they continued to move to Beijing.
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