Chapter 889： Transfer king

Time entered June, and the curtain of the European transfer market slowly opened.

Everyone has gradually noticed that some subtle changes have taken place in the wording of the major media when commenting on the Premier League.

For example, when talking about winning the Premier League before, it is bound to mention the big 4, or the traditional semi-finals, or the big four families.

These four teams are talking about Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool.

Although in the past few years, Everton, Tottenham Hotspur and other teams have occasionally shaken the position of the traditional semi-finals, it is basically difficult to shake the foundation, often after adjustments, they immediately recovered.

Nowadays, when everyone mentions the British overtime, they will unconsciously mention the top five.

Yes, on the basis of the traditional semi-finals, Manchester City has been added.

Even some media will mention the top six, in addition to Manchester City, there are Tottenham Hotspur.

In the Champions League last season, Tottenham Hotspur's appearance was too amazing, especially Gareth Bale, who can be said to climb to the position of European star on Maicon’s shoulder.

For the time being, many giant teams are still waiting to see how far Gareth Bale can play, and Tottenham Hotspur will continue to build the team around Gareth Bale. Tactics further highlight the role and ability of Gareth Bale, allowing him to play a higher value.

At this point, the goals of the club and the players are the same.

For a team like Tottenham, it is very necessary to obtain a huge transfer fee through Gareth Bale, strengthen the team's signings, and then drive the healthy development of the club.

Just like Arsenal, in fact, the Gunners are not not selling Fabregas, but Barcelona's price is not high enough.

The Gunners also urgently need a transfer income to help the club with signings. Otherwise, Wenger would be a clever woman who has nothing to cook for.

In fact, after last season's games, everyone clearly saw that the days of the Premier League have changed.

The rise of Manchester City is not a possibility, but a fact.

A team that can slaughter Arsenal and Manchester United on the road, if it is not a strong enemy, then what is a strong team?

More importantly, after the end of the Manchester City season, they proved their success with the Triple Crown, and at the same time let everyone clearly see the overall strength of Manchester City and the stable performance of the season.

Now that Manchester City is in a period of rapid growth, General Manager Soriano has made it clear that the team will continue to increase signings this summer and continue to improve the strength of the team. This is undoubtedly a signal.

What about other teams?

Manchester United is sucked by the Glazer family, Arsenal has no money, Chelsea’s boss does not invest, Liverpool is experiencing a trough, Tottenham Hotspur does not have the strength to beat the championship for the time being...

In this case, the Premier League is no longer a traditional semi-finals, but a real five or six.

No matter how it is arranged, Manchester City will definitely be included.

Even Tottenham Hotspur has the strength to hit the top four, because they almost broke into the top four last season.

Six teams compete for four places, how to make it?

Everyone is already very clear.

The competition in the Premier League in the new season will be unprecedentedly fierce, especially for the top four.

If it is said that participating in the Champions League originally belonged to the prohibition of the traditional semi-finals, now Manchester City and Tottenham have moved their cakes, and the traditional semi-finals must also give a strong counterattack to defend their own interests.

That's 20-30 million euros in income, who can ignore it?

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They all need to be strengthened, but the situation they face is different.

The strategy given by Manchester United is to be younger. With Van der Sar and Scholes decided to retire, Ferguson used 21 million pounds to introduce Spanish goalkeeper De Gea from Atletico Madrid to fill Van der Sar. At the same time, Cleverly and Welbeck were vigorously promoted.

At the same time, 17 million pounds introduced Phil Jones from Blackburn, and 16 million pounds introduced Ashley Young from Aston Villa. Ferguson has always insisted on the introduction of young players.

A few players are young, but they are all young rookies with full potential.

This makes people look forward to the situation of Manchester United, but also somewhat worried.

Can Ferguson really rely on these young players to wash away the shame of the Sanya king last season?

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The situation at Chelsea is more complicated.

After firing Ancelotti in a nearly humiliating way, no celebrity coach was willing to take over the Blues for a while, and finally Boas, who was only 33 years old, was chosen.

In order to get Boas, Chelsea even paid him a huge liquidated damages, up to 13 million pounds.

Even the Portuguese media can't stand it, and think it's too outrageous. The transfer fee of the head coach is even higher than the transfer fee of many first-line players. Isn't this a joke?

After signing Boas, Chelsea threatened to give a transfer budget of 80 million pounds.

After Boas joined Chelsea, the Blues quickly brought in talented center Lukaku from Anderlecht, Belgium, at a high price of 18 million pounds.

In the past year, this young player has been pursued by many European giants, including Manchester City.

But after several considerations, Lukaku finally chose Chelsea.

After the failure to dig Bayern’s Modric, Chelsea decisively adjusted the target, importing Portuguese midfielder Meireles from Liverpool at a price of 11 million pounds, and from Barcelona at a price of 5.5 million pounds. The teenager Romeu, brought in teenager Lucas Piazon from Sao Paulo, Brazil, for £7.5 million.

Just when everyone was wondering that Chelsea didn’t make any big moves, the Sun suddenly broke the news that under the operation of the agent Mendes, Chelsea eventually paid a termination fee for a high price of 40 million euros from Porto. Introduce Falcao.

This undoubtedly triggered a strong reaction in world football again.

If it is said that after Paris Saint-Germain has spent 45 million euros in introducing Pastore, the European transfer market finally has a king-size transfer again, and 40 million euros is also considered a high price.

Immediately afterwards, Chelsea announced that it would introduce Juan Mata from Valencia at a high price of 30 million euros.

This once again triggered a chain reaction.

Valencia finally raised enough funds, and immediately used the money to introduce central defender Lamy from Lille, talented midfielder Parejo from Getafe, Piati and goalkeeper Diego Alves from Almeria, etc. Players, further strengthen the team's strength.

After Chelsea invested heavily, the cleaning of old players was hindered.

For example, Drogba, Anelka, and even Lampard and other veterans are not in Boas's plan, but they have not been able to clean out the team. The high annual salary of these players has discouraged many teams.

And this may also bury hidden dangers for the new season.

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In the case of Manchester United and Chelsea in succession, Liverpool is acting more low-key.

Dalglish insisted on focusing on local players and successively introduced players such as Downing and Henderson. Among them, Henderson was also a midfielder that Manchester City had been following for a long time, but he eventually chose to go to Liverpool.

It is estimated that he is also worried that after he arrives at Manchester City, will he be reduced to a substitute player for the team like Gareth Barry, and it is difficult to play the main role.

After all, Guardiola has extremely high demands on midfielders, which everyone knows.

Arsenal sold the captain's soap opera, only after a few years, it finally came to an end.

But what is surprising is that Fabregas’s transfer fee is not as high as rumors outside, but only 26 million pounds. To some extent, this is equivalent to a low-price promotion.

In the past few years, everyone can tell that Fabregas has gone to Barcelona with all his heart, and now he has achieved what he wanted.

With the money from the sale of Fabregas, Arsenal filled more than 20 million pounds, imported Chamberlain from Southampton, Gervinho from Lille, and Korean player Park Joo-young from Monaco. Everton introduced Arteta, and also introduced high school defender Mertesacker from Werder Bremen.

Among them, Arteta is to fill the vacancy of Fabregas, and Mertesacker is to make up for the weak underbelly of the team's defense.

In the past few years, Arsenal's central defender has been humiliated.

For example, Senderos was hit by Soviet Union and was tortured by Drogba. Last season's Zhulu and Koscielny were also frequently humiliated by Soviet Union. All of these made Arsenal's defenders terrible. UU Reading www.uukanashu.com

This time Wenger also made up his mind and introduced high school defender Mertesacker.

With the provocation of the Independent newspaper close to Arsenal, "If Su Dong really has the ability to hit Mertesacker, I lose!"

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In the case that other teams are rushing to sign in, Manchester City is also operating in an orderly manner.

After signing Harvey Martinez for 25 million euros, the team soon announced that it would bring in Brazilian talented winger Douglas Costa from Shakhtar Donetsk, Ukraine, for 15 million euros.

Originally, it was Neymar that Manchester City wanted to introduce, but the player's ownership was very complicated and he was very close to Barcelona chairman Russell, so Manchester City finally adjusted the target and chose Shakhtar Donetsk's Douglas Costa.

Not only that, Manchester City soon signed Belgian talented winger Eden Hazard from Lille.

This Ligue 1 best player last season has been favored by many giants, but Manchester City finally convinced Azerbaijan thanks to long-term contact and two phone calls between coach Guardiola and captain Su Dong. Zal, dispelled his doubts and joined Manchester City.

In an interview with Belgian media, Hazard said, “Su Dong told me on the phone that he is looking forward to cooperating with me. This is an invitation that no one can refuse.”

As time just entered July, Manchester City announced the most important transfer this summer.

Atletico Madrid, Aguero!

The transfer fee is 45 million euros!

Evened the transfer fee of Paris Saint-Germain's introduction of Pastore and became the king of transfers this summer!

Manchester City also relied on this transfer, with a total investment of 110 million euros, becoming the team that invested the most in the European transfer market this summer.

This makes everyone firmly believe that Manchester City in the new season will only be stronger and better than last season!