Chapter 1384 Arms Race
If you want to use one word to describe the European transfer market in the summer of 2016, [hot] is definitely the most appropriate, but if you want to use one word to describe the mood of European football practitioners, it must be amazing.
Astonishing astonishment!
This is not because Pogba has created a record high transfer record, nor is it because Higuain has brought the highest transfer record in Serie A history, because these are just results, appearances, and the real surprise is inside. .
In fact, such a storm has long been foreshadowed.
In the past few years, with the massive acquisitions of local teams such as Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain, hot money from all over the world has poured into European football. For example, this year, Su Ling from China acquired Inter Milan, which caused There are too many outstanding European football stars, and the value of players immediately rises.
Therefore, this summer, Pogba's transfer fee exceeded 100 million euros, breaking the historical record set by Yang Yang in 2009.
Everyone had expected it, but they didn't expect it to be Pogba.
What is shocking is that immediately after Juventus turned around, they scooped up Higuain at an astonishing price of 90 million euros, which completely shocked the whole world. You know, Higuain is Already twenty-eight years old.
Is this still the Serie A that everyone is familiar with?
Stones, Sane, Xhaka, Mkhitaryan, Mane, Mustafi, Joao Mario, Batshuayi...
Familiar but seemingly unfamiliar names, some players may not even know European football fans very well, but these players are sold for a sky-high price of 40 to 50 million euros, and basically all of them go to the Premier League Powerful.
Why?
The most fundamental reason is that the Premier League will implement a brand new broadcast contract in the new season. This new contract will bring the Premier League a sky-high income of up to 5.1 billion pounds in the next three years, compared with the past three years. The execution of this broadcast contract has skyrocketed by 70%, which can be said to have shocked the whole world.
What's even more frightening is that this is only the copyright of the Premier League in the UK. The Premier League also has a huge overseas market, as well as copyrights in markets such as the Internet. These are very amazing income channels.
As early as before, some organizations have calculated that the salary of the newly promoted Queens Park Rangers in the Premier League exceeds that of the Serie A giants AC Milan. After signing such a brand new contract, the Premier League team will become richer. Allowing them to wave their checks more recklessly.
You know, according to the current income of this new contract, the relegated Premier League teams in the new season can get 90 million pounds in income, which is far more than other European leagues, so that Premier League teams don't think much of it at all Going to the Champions League, because the bonus is a bit too shabby.
In the official words of the Premier League, from an economic point of view, the Premier League relegation teams are stronger than the Eredivisie giants Ajax!
Then the question arises, when the deputy squad leader of the Premier League can get an income of nearly 100 million pounds, what will these teams do?
Put money in your pocket?
Wrong, in such a fierce competitive situation, any team that puts money in their pockets will definitely be relegated, so they will spend desperately to search for excellent players all over the world to strengthen their own strength , to cope with the fierce competition in the Premier League when the new season comes.
As a result, even Arsenal, which has always been stingy, began to squander. Wenger generously spent more than 100 million this time, buying strong players such as Xhaka, Perez and Mustafi, because he felt The threat of powerful enemies all around.
This is true for Arsenal, isn't it true for other teams?
In order to ensure their own competitiveness, all Premier League teams can only invest crazily.
There are only a few rich teams, and they are basically pursuing top stars, but there are twenty teams in the Premier League. When they invest in the transfer market with skyrocketing income, what follows is It's the madness of the summer transfer market.
As a result, thirteen of the twenty Premier League teams broke the club's historical signing record.
Guardiola coached Manchester City, Mourinho coached Manchester United, Conte coached Chelsea, and the three major Premier League teams changed coaches, which stimulated the Premier League transfer market and set off an intensified arms race.
It can be said that during the European summer transfer in 2016, everyone was dumbfounded, because no one thought that the entire transfer market would be so crazy that many unexpected things happened.
For example, after selling Higuain, Naples suddenly announced a high price of 32 million euros to poach Ajax's Polish striker Milik, and this young striker who was only 22 years old In the Eredivisie League this season, he scored 21 goals in 32 games, and his performance was not very good.
The reason why Milik is worth 32 million euros is that he performed well in the European Cup, especially in the group stage. Poland scored two goals in total. Milik passed and shot, but Lewandowski, who is the number one star in the team and played for Bayern Munich, performed mediocrely.
It can be said that the European Cup made Milik famous in the first battle, and he switched to Serie A at a high price of 32 million euros.
Not only Milik, but also Batshuayi who played for Marseille in Ligue 1. He was also not well-known before, and he was more of a young rookie. The sky-high price, transferred to Chelsea.
Andre Gomez and Joao Mario, the two humerus generals who won the Portuguese championship, also jumped into the dragon's gate, and they all transferred to Barcelona and other giants at high prices.
It is not difficult to see how crazy the entire European transfer market is.
It can even be said that it has reached the point of overheating and losing its calm and rationality. As long as it is a slightly budding star, the rich team would rather make mistakes than let them go.
However, for Ajax, this is actually a good thing.
Although the sale of Milik disrupted Peter Boss' plans and deployment, it also allowed Ajax to get a huge transfer income, plus Fisher, Van der Horn, Anderson, With the transfer of players such as Becker, Ajax has gained a total of 50 million euros.
In other words, at least, in the next season, Ajax no longer needs to worry about the team's financial budget, at least they can support themselves.
Of course, other players have nothing to do with the overall situation, but selling the two main players, Milik and Cillessen, will definitely have an impact on Ajax's preparations and results for the new season. It depends on how well they can perform. The quality of Van Gaal and Peter Bosz.
Yang Yang gave the green light to Milik's transfer. At the same time, he also admired Florentino's previous prediction of the European transfer market, and he clearly remembered that Florentino said that in the next few years, In the current European transfer market, the value of outstanding players will become higher and higher. This is an inevitable trend in the short term.
Therefore, the most important thing for Ajax now is to train young players, give full play to their advantages in youth training, and then reverse the club's financial dilemma.
The most surprising transfer throughout the summer was Real Madrid.
Real Madrid, which was originally widely rumored to poach Pogba with a lot of money, ended up not intervening in Pogba's transfer, but instead slacking off in the transfer market, except for Morata and Asensio, who have already booked In addition to good players, Real Madrid only introduced Kanter, which is also surprising.
The rival Barcelona spent more than 100 million euros, but Real Madrid did not even pay half of the opponent. This does not conform to the outside world's impression of Real Madrid's wealth.
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Since June, Yang Yang took his wife and children on vacation.
First returned to China, and then went on a trip, hiding from the media all the time, keeping a low profile.
It was not until mid-July that Yang Yang quietly returned to Europe. He first went to Amsterdam to deal with some matters, and then returned to Madrid to officially report to Valdebebas.
Real Madrid's training for the new season will start on July 16th, and according to Real Madrid's news from players, including Keylor Navas, Varane, Danilo and Carvajal, who participated in the European Cup and Copa America, will all Return to the team early to participate in the team's pre-season training.
This is undoubtedly very good news for Real Madrid.
Many people may be surprised, how did these players suddenly become so self-conscious?
In fact, this is not worth making a fuss about, because the competition within the Real Madrid team is brutal, and only the Real Madrid players themselves know that if they don't return to the team early to participate in the training camp, once they perform poorly at the beginning of the season, it is really possible to sit on the bench all the time.
On the day Yang Yang arrived at Valdebebas, Real Madrid officials also received a fax from FIFA stating that they formally rejected Real Madrid's appeal on the transfer ban.
After internal discussions, Real Madrid decided to appeal to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport. The reason was different from Barcelona. As serious as FIFA said.
Atletico Madrid, which failed to appeal at the same time as Real Madrid, will also make a decision within five days to see whether to continue the appeal.
It can be said that the entire process is basically following the route planned by Real Madrid in advance. If the appeal is successful, Real Madrid will shorten the suspension period. The ideal result is to punish only one transfer window.
Anyway, Real Madrid has never made transfers during the winter break. Even if they were punished for not being able to buy players during the winter break, it would not have much impact on Real Madrid.
After the introduction of Kanter, Morata and Asensio, Real Madrid is still strong and strong, and they are not afraid of any team's challenges. Naturally, they will not worry about being banned from signing during the winter break.
As for the club, Pintus has worked out a more detailed pre-season physical reserve training plan after gaining the experience of last season. , Real Madrid can also accept such terrifying training.
According to Pintus, although Real Madrid performed well last season, they are still far from the goal of the players he booked to run an average of 13,000 meters per game.