Chapter 1456 Transfer Feast
After entering July, the impact of several heavyweight transfers at sky-high prices has gradually fermented in the European football transfer market, entering an unprecedented prosperous scene, with a continuous stream of heavyweight transfers from major leagues.
In the Premier League, teams such as Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal started the arms race one after another. Chelsea also did not sit idle. They spent 25 million euros to bring in defender Zampacosta from Serie A Turin, followed by Rudiger was introduced from Roma for 31 million euros, Drinkwater was introduced from Leicester City for 35 million euros, and midfielder Bakayoko was introduced from Monaco for 40 million euros.
The Blues spent more than 100 million euros in one go, showing great ambitions.
Of course, at the same time, Chelsea did not forget to sell their own players. Matic switched to Manchester United for 40 million euros and played under Mourinho again. Cuadrado paid 17 million euros. Euro switched to Serie A Juventus.
After Manchester United signed Lukaku and Matic and spent more than 100 million euros, they signed Lindelof from Benfica for 30 million euros. The net investment of this summer's transfer exceeded 100 million. I was very surprised.
But in the crazy Premier League, the transfer investment of 100 million euros is not worth making a fuss about.
After Everton sold Lukaku to Manchester United, they successively introduced players such as Klaassen, Sigurdsson, Pickford and Michael Keane. They also spent over 100 million euros, and their net investment far exceeded previous years. .
But soon, another heavyweight transfer came from the Premier League.
After missing Lukaku and Diego Costa wanting to leave the Premier League, Chelsea had to look for an excellent center in the transfer market, and finally locked in Real Madrid's backup center Morata.
The Spanish center performed very well in the Real Madrid team last season and played the best statistics of his career, but Real Madrid did not intend to let Morata go, which forced Chelsea to choose to dig.
In the end, the Blues paid a sky-high price of 80 million euros to successfully sign the Spanish center forward, breaking the record for the highest transfer fee for a Spanish player and once again shocking the entire football world.
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Real Madrid sold Di Maria and Morata one after another, and sold Brazilian right back Danilo to Manchester City for 30 million euros. Signed Theo Hernandez from Atletico Madrid for a high price of 30 million euros, and signed Ceballos from Real Betis with a transfer fee of 10 million euros.
If it is said that everyone was shocked by Real Madrid's signing of Mbappe with a record transfer fee before, then in just over half a month, everyone couldn't help admiring the operation of Real Madrid, especially the signing of Mbappe timing.
When Neymar created a super sky-high price of 222 million euros and Dembele could create a sky-high price of 150 million euros, Mbappe's 120 million euros seemed extremely cost-effective.
What is surprising is that when the entire European football world is engaged in an arms race and many giants are frantically signing in, Real Madrid is signing Mbappe, Theo Hernandez and Sebastian. After Ballos, he didn't continue to do it. Not only that, Real Madrid also rented Ceballos back to Real Betis.
It seems that Real Madrid does not intend to participate in this transfer feast.
On the contrary, Barcelona, after signing Dembele, introduced Brazilian midfielder Paulinho from the Guangzhou Hengda team of the Chinese Super League. For this reason, Barcelona paid Paulinho a termination fee of 40 million euros. Signed Semedo from Benfica.
Not only that, Barcelona is still pursuing Liverpool's Coutinho, hoping to poach Brazilian players to make up for the vacancy left by Neymar.
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Dortmund, holding more than 100 million euros from Barcelona in their hands, finally made concessions on the transfer fee after stalemate negotiations with Ajax.
The Bundesliga team knew very well that with or without the 100 million, Ajax would quote two completely different prices.
The German international who performed well in the Eredivisie and Europa League last season, Flying Wing Younis finally moved to Borussia Dortmund for a high price of 35 million euros.
The player who showed his kindness to Peter Boss as soon as he took office finally returned to his home country as he wished and joined Dortmund. This is also an important signing for Dortmund after Dembele left the team.
Not only that, after Lewandowski left the team, Dortmund's center position has always been relatively weak. Whether it is Italian center Immobile or Colombian player Ramos, they are obviously lacking in meaning.
Now, Immobile has already left the team, and Ramos has also transferred to the Chinese Super League Chongqing Lifan this summer. Last season, Dortmund's goals were too much concentrated on Aubameyang alone, and Aubameyang left the team. It is also endless, which caused Dortmund to seriously consider signings on the front line.
Younis strengthened the wing, and in the center position, Dortmund finally introduced the 19-year-old Swedish center Dolber from Ajax for 30 million euros. Li performed very well and was the top scorer in the Ajax team, known as Zlatan Ibrahimovic II.
With two strong players joining the team, Dortmund spent 65 million euros on Ajax. In the end, it will be difficult to continue poaching corners, especially Peter Bosch's extremely optimistic young defender De Ligt announced that he will be with Ajax. When Jax renewed his contract and stayed in the team, he completely cut off the ambitions of other teams, including Dortmund.
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After renewing De Ligt, Ajax quickly announced the renewal of Ziyech, successfully retaining this frontcourt player.
In the last season, Ziyech and Klaassen were hailed as Ajax's midfield duo, and their performance was also very good.
Now, after selling Klaassen, it is very important to keep Ziyech.
It is a pity that although the team did everything possible to keep them, Davidson Sanchez finally chose to leave the team.
In the fierce competition among Manchester United, Manchester City, Barcelona and Tottenham Hotspur, the Colombian international finally successfully transferred to Tottenham Hotspur at a high price of 50 million euros, which created another European football club this summer. Another blockbuster transfer in football.
But for the frenzied European summer transfer market, there are already too many storms.
After Ajax successively sold Klaassen, Younis, Dolber and Davidson Sanchez, as well as Riedwald and Tate, they managed to earn a transfer fee of more than 150 million euros in the transfer market. This created Ajax's highest ever transfer market revenue.
But the price paid is also extremely painful. The midfielder Klaassen, the frontcourt offensive core Younis and Dolber, and the defensive core Davidson Sanchez have all left the team, which is bound to greatly weaken Ajax's competition. force.
Although they earn huge sums of money in the transfer market, Ajax does not intend to put all the money into the transfer market.
After selling many players, Ajax is also gradually introducing players.
With a transfer fee of 700,000 euros, the Dutch native defender Dumfries was introduced from Sparta Rotterdam. This 21-year-old player can play the positions of right back and center back.
Speaking of which, Dumfries' experience is also legendary. He has always played wild football before. In 2015, he officially participated in professional competitions in Sparta Rotterdam in the second division of the Netherlands. In the second season, he helped the team upgrade to the Dutch division. Elected as the best rookie of Holland Second.
In the Eredivisie League last season, Dumfries performed well and won the attention of Ajax, and because of his contract with Sparta Rotterdam, Ajax was able to pay as little as 700,000 euros. The price tag for the rookie.
In addition to Dumfries, Ajax also signed the youth training player Tangyell Mullen from Arsenal at a price of 550,000 euros. This player is only 18 years old. He performed very well in the Ajax youth training camp. He was favored by Arsenal two years ago and was forcibly poached from Ajax.
In the past two years, Mullen did not get any chances at Arsenal. Although he performed well in the youth training camp and won Henry's approval, he was still unable to play in the first team and finally chose to return to the Netherlands this summer. First.
Ajax has been in contact with Mullen since last year. In the summer of this year, in the competition with Eindhoven, Ajax finally took the lead and signed back the hopeful star of the former youth training.
These two transfers are not worth much, more like icing on the cake.
Ajax's real blockbuster signing was Serbian center Luka Jovic from Benfica.
Although Luka Jovic did not show the expected strength in Benfica and failed to get more performances, Ajax still spent a high price of four million euros for this player. Ajax's biggest transfer spend of the summer.
Sent away Younis and Dolber, introduced Luka Jovic and Mullen, and at the same time there are players such as Ziyech, Sancho, Neres, Stens and Boadu in the team. Klassen is gone, but there are still players such as Van der Beek, Frankie de Jong and Ndombele in the team.
Ajax's strategy is very clear, that is, it will not increase investment in the transfer market, because with Ajax's influence, even if they can afford the money, they can't buy better and better stars. That being the case, why should Ajax spend more money?
As for the income of 150 million euros in the transfer market, Wei Zheng has already started to make arrangements. It is estimated that 100 million euros will be invested in the construction of a youth training base in China. This will also be the first regular youth training base from a European professional team in China. training base.
This time Ajax has also learned from the experience and lessons of Cape Town, South Africa more than a decade ago, and strives to develop the Chinese market through youth training.
At present, the team has negotiated with the local government and is waiting for further approval.
The most troublesome thing is Ajax's handsome position.
After Pete Boss left the team, this position became a big problem.
The coach that Ajax likes may not like the Eredivisie, or cannot come for various reasons. Zell.
He led the second team of Ajax to the runner-up of the Dutch second league last season. He showed good coaching ability and is familiar with the young players in the team. Therefore, Van Gaal finally chose him to take over the first team.