Chapter 630: Come Here to Be Slaughtered

Since Moon Sports Services launched the Football Economic Forum and Player Database, its development in the football field has been rapid, and the scale of the two businesses is also getting bigger and bigger. Even if some companies that follow suit want to compete with it soon, they can't stop Moon Sports Services from getting bigger and bigger.

Now they have completely monopolized the entire market, with a market share of more than 99%. It is difficult for other competitors to challenge the market position of Moon Sports Services. Moreover, the company's business operation and development capabilities are also quite amazing. Not only in Europe, but also in South America, Asia and Africa, they are well-deserved leaders.

In the past few years, the fastest growing market for Moon Sports Services has been the Chinese market. Through their influence and channels, they have brought excellent foreign players and foreign coaches to China, and actively operated potential Chinese players to come to Europe and enter some European youth training clubs for training.

Moon Sports Services is different from some other companies. They basically no longer participate in the agent business. They are more focused on the high-end and classy commercial sponsorship field and actively operate the commercial market of players. In the words of this company, they want to make professional football players into superstars like Hollywood, so that they no longer rely solely on the salaries paid by the players, but fully explore and give play to the market value of the players.

In addition to the football field, Moon Sports Services is also actively developing other markets. For example, they entered the North American market last year and started in the most popular sports fields in the United States, such as basketball, rugby and baseball. However, the market competition in these fields is very fierce, so the core market of Moon Sports Services is still football.

The twice-a-year Football Economic Forum has gradually become the focus of attention of fans all over the world. It is also a rare event for all teams and clubs to gather. Compared with the annual summer transfer market, the winter transfer market has always been relatively quiet, which is a bit like the difference between the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics.

But in the winter of 2011, the transfer market became very hot, especially in the last three days, with heavy signings one after another, which surprised everyone.

First, Chelsea announced that it had brought in Spanish center Fernando Torres from Liverpool for a whopping 65 million euros. This is Liverpool's top scorer this season, and his ability has been tempered and affirmed by the Premier League in the past few seasons. He is the best and most suitable center candidate Chelsea can find.

The current Liverpool is completely different from the Liverpool in Ye Qiu's previous life. With the entry of the Indian tycoon, Liverpool's finances have been greatly improved. This season, a huge transfer fee has been invested to strengthen the team's signings. Therefore, Chelsea paid a painful price to dig Torres from Liverpool.

Or should we say that 65 million euros to introduce Torres is indeed a sky-high price, and Liverpool's lack of objection is understandable, and Benítez soon announced that the team introduced Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez from Ajax for a transfer fee of 26.5 million euros to replace Torres.

This top scorer in the Eredivisie last season, Ajax's top scorer who scored 35 goals in 33 games, has been recognized by everyone. The only suspense is whether he will become Van Nistelrooy who adapts to the Premier League? Or Kezman who has been on the decline since the Premier League?

Interestingly, both transfers were announced on the last day of the transfer market. Not only that, Chelsea also announced that it had introduced Brazilian central defender David Luiz from Benfica at a high price of 30 million euros, which made Chelsea's winter transfer investment reach a staggering 95 million euros.

This fully reflects Abramovich's determination to win the top four in the league. There are even reports that after introducing two powerful stars, Abramovich also wants to get Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Yaya Toure to ensure that the team can successfully enter the top four in the league and participate in the Champions League next season.

If Chelsea still cannot participate in the Champions League after such a huge signing, Ancelotti will have to leave.

Chelsea's huge investment has attracted much attention from the outside world. Liverpool's Benitez took the lead in saying that Liverpool will not be involved in a boring arms race. He said that he is very satisfied with Liverpool's current lineup and will not strengthen signings.

But for Liverpool, who are still relatively stable in the third place in the league, they can choose not to sign, but West Ham United, Newcastle and Manchester City, which are following closely, have been greatly impacted by Chelsea's signings, because the points between these teams this season are very close. If they perform well in the second half, everyone has the opportunity to enter the top four in the league.

Therefore, after Chelsea announced the introduction of Torres and David Luiz, the arms race in the Premier League was the first to ignite the flames of war. West Ham United soon announced that the team had introduced 29-year-old Mali midfielder Mohamed Diarra from Real Madrid. This time the latter was a free transfer, and this was also seen as a signal that Ranieri would strengthen the midfield.

You know, the current West Ham United has a strong offensive formation of Falcao, Eto'o, Giuly and Di Maria, and Carvalho and Lucio are in the backcourt. In addition, they have just introduced English left-back Bridge from Manchester City. West Ham United's biggest weakness is still in the midfield. This time, the introduction of Mohamed Diarra is a supplement.

But this is just the beginning. Soon, West Ham United announced that it would introduce Montenegrin player Stefan Jovetic from Naples for a transfer fee of 40 million euros. This player who can play in the midfield and forward positions has performed well in the Serie A. Ranieri hopes that his arrival will further strengthen West Ham United's midfield ability to create scoring opportunities.

Newcastle also announced that the team introduced Argentine player Lavezzi from Naples and right-back Van der Wiel from Ajax at a high price of 30 million euros and 20 million euros respectively. The two transfers cost the Magpies a total of 50 million euros. At the same time, Newcastle also announced the introduction of French star Ben Arfa from Marseille.

While several major competitors behind them have announced heavy signings to strengthen their competitiveness, Manchester City, whose lineup is already large enough, has also not been idle. They introduced Edin Dzeko, a popular European center forward, from Wolfsburg for 32 million euros, which made the already excellent frontcourt bloated.

But at the same time, Manchester City also announced again that it had launched an attack on Tottenham Hotspur's Ivorian midfielder Yaya Toure. Mancini even said in a high-profile manner that the introduction of Yaya Toure will become the most important and the last piece of the puzzle for Manchester City's midfield.

For a time, several local tycoon teams in the Premier League were almost waving their money and making large-scale acquisitions across Europe, with the idea of ​​introducing all the famous stars in the entire European football world to the Premier League. This also made the second half of the Premier League attract much attention from the outside world to see whether the large-scale money signings can really help the Premier League teams improve their own strength.

At the same time, many reporters wanted to find Ye Qiu or Tottenham Hotspur's CEO, Peter Kenyon, to ask whether the rumors about Yaya Toure's transfer were true. After all, several teams that are eager to strengthen their own strength, including Chelsea, West Ham United, Newcastle and Manchester City, want to get this African Footballer of the Year.

But Ye Qiu and Theobald closed the door to them.

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The players are obviously used to the hype of the outside media, and even they are used to the transfer of players in and out. After all, Tottenham Hotspur has been selling players in the past few seasons. It is no longer a suspense, and as professional players, even they themselves have enough psychological preparation.

The joy of Tottenham Hotspur II's 4:0 away bloodbath of Fulham's main and substitute mixed lineup and successfully advancing to the next round of the FA Cup did not dilute Ye Qiu's worries, because Yaya Toure told him that he wanted to leave the team.

It was a very frank conversation, everyone was unreserved. Yaya Toure told Ye Qiu that Manchester City's offer was very generous, which could ensure that he would get a salary of more than 10 million pounds a year, while Ye Qiu was blunt, Tottenham Hotspur could not offer such a high salary, because it would break the team's existing salary structure.

Moreover, Yaya Toure also said that he left not just for money, because Mancini personally told him on the phone that he would build a Manchester City with the strength to compete for the league championship around Yaya Toure as the core of the midfield, which was definitely a huge temptation for Yaya Toure.

If he could lead Manchester City to win the league championship, he would become a superstar-level player, instead of being a back waist who wiped the butt behind Messi, Ribery and even Fabregas like in Tottenham Hotspur.

Today is the last day of the transfer. Ye Qiu is sitting in Theobald's conference room. Peter Kenyon, Peter De Visser, Mauro Tassotti, Rick Link, Roland, and some of the club's management and first-team coaching staff and scouts have gathered in the conference room to discuss this issue.

"The offers made by the three teams are quite good. Now is the last day of the transfer. They are all eager to get this player and strengthen their own strength. So, even if the price is higher, as long as it is not too outrageous, they will agree!" Peter Kenyon is analyzing the current situation with Ye Qiu and others.

He is the CEO of the team. His focus is on whether the player is worth selling. As for matters in the football field, he will not intervene. Ye Qiu and the coaching staff will handle it themselves. In the end, both sides will reach a consensus on whether to sell or not.

Although the outside world has always said that Chelsea, West Ham United, Manchester City and Newcastle are interested in Yaya Toure, in fact, only Chelsea, Newcastle and Manchester City are really interested in Yaya Toure and have made tentative offers. West Ham United is more of a mouthful in the media.

But it is no wonder that Rebolovlev has already invested a lot of transfer fees. If he wants to introduce Yaya Toure again, he really has no advantage with his financial resources. Even Chelsea's sincerity is not very great. The real buyers are only Newcastle and Manchester City, which are two super rich teams.

There is no doubt that in Peter Kenyon's view, from a business perspective, Yaya Toure is now the most valuable and Tottenham has the most advantages. Selling him will definitely not be a loss.

Mauro Tassotti sighed when he saw that no one was talking. "If we barely keep him, we will probably have to sell him in the summer transfer because we can't afford such a high salary. In addition, forcing people to stay will cause some impact on both the players and the club."

Tottenham's finances are indeed very good now, with huge income, second only to Manchester United and Real Madrid, but you have to know that these incomes include Tottenham's huge income in the transfer market, so Tottenham's current income can only be regarded as temporary.

Of course, according to Peter Kenyon's prediction, by the summer of 2013, after the team gets Stratford Stadium, its income will completely catch up with Manchester United and Real Madrid, and even if it can have high income in the transfer market, it will completely surpass them and become the highest-income team in the football field, but these are all things in the future.

The current situation is that if Tottenham Hotspur raises the salary directly, the team will face great financial pressure, because once the salary is raised, it is almost impossible to reduce it. Moreover, the overall salary level of Tottenham Hotspur is not low, higher than Arsenal, only slightly lower than Manchester United and several local tycoon teams.

But you have to know that local tycoon teams spend money everywhere to poach people, and there is no healthy finance at all. As for Manchester United, Ferguson's team's salary structure has always been among the best in the Premier League. The salaries of Valencia, Nani, Anderson, and even some young players in the team are very high, making Manchester United's overall salary level quite high.

At this point, Ye Qiu does not think that Manchester United has anything worth learning from. On the contrary, Tottenham Hotspur's current salary structure is relatively reasonable and orderly, but the problem is that in the face of super high salary poaching from other teams, Tottenham Hotspur cannot retain people.

"What do you think?" Ye Qiu looked at Peter De Visser and asked.

The Dutchman was taking off his glasses and wiping them with a glasses cloth. After hearing Ye Qiu's question, he put them back on. "I agree with what Mauro said just now. Since he wants to leave, there is not much point in keeping him. He will leave sooner or later. It is more advantageous now. When the summer comes, he announces that he will not renew his contract with us, or other problems arise, we will be in more trouble."

And in the summer, there will definitely not be so many fat sheep coming to your door to be slaughtered!

After hearing this, Ye Qiu felt that several of his men were almost inclined to sell, after all, the players had revealed their cards.

"Well, after selling Yaya Toure, what about the defensive midfielder position?" Ye Qiu was a little distressed, "The current time does not allow us to recruit players at all!" Today is the last day of the transfer market. At 23:00 tonight, the transfer market in European football will be closed, and all signings after that will be useless.

In other words, there are less than ten hours left. Introducing a player in such a short time is not the style of Tottenham Hotspur, nor is it the style of Ye Qiu.

"Phil Jones performed well in the match against Fulham. Pogba can also try to play as a defensive midfielder. However, they are both relatively young. Varane can also play as a defensive midfielder!" Mauro Tassotti made his own suggestion.

In the match against Fulham, Phil Jones did perform well on the defensive end, and Tottenham Hotspur's midfield is indeed full of talents. For example, in the match against Fulham, Ye Qiu arranged for the 16-year-old young player Nick Powell to play as a substitute for Tottenham Hotspur for the first time, but there was no noteworthy performance.

There is no doubt that Phil Jones and Pogba are both young players. They have strength, talent, and potential, but they are still very unstable now. They are in the stage of passionate young people and need more training and maturity.

This reminds Ye Qiu of a jingle in his previous life: passionate young people, welcome to Manchester United!

But now the situation is different. The gathering place of passionate young people is Tottenham Hotspur, not Manchester United.

"Our Brazilian midfielder Sandro on loan at Ajax has performed very well. I think we can bring him in to replace Yaya Toure!" Peter de Visser is very optimistic about this player. Not only him, but Bobby Hams also likes Sandro and Lucas Moura, two Brazilian players on loan at Ajax.

"But his work permit is a problem. The current operation time is too short!" Roland Shepas immediately thought of the problem.

If there is no problem with the work permit, Sandro can be introduced quickly, and no transfer fee is required. He can be recalled directly.

Should we rush to introduce a defensive midfielder in just ten hours, risking being slaughtered and not adapting?

Or should we give up the signings and cultivate and promote young players such as Phil Jones and Pogba in the second half?

Both options have their own advantages and disadvantages. For Ye Qiu, this is indeed a dilemma.

The bigger problem is that he simply does not have enough time to think about this matter slowly. What he lacks most now is time.

"Inform Ron at the Hilton Hotel and tell him that we have negotiated with Manchester City and Newcastle and that we agree to let Yaya Toure transfer, but the transfer fee cannot be lower than Torres. Don't think that we will compromise if you get our players. If you don't spit out some blood for me, don't expect to take my players away!"

After hearing this, Peter Kenyon immediately guessed Ye Qiu's idea and offered a high price and paid it back.

To be honest, it is completely impossible for a midfielder to compare the value with a scoring center forward, but who makes Manchester City and Newcastle so eager to get this player now? And time does not allow them to hesitate. If they say no, it is not that Tottenham Hotspur does not agree, but that they themselves do not agree. There is nothing to say about the players.

"René, Ricardo!" Ye Qiu looked at the first-team coaches René Meulensteen and Ricardo Moniz. These two coaches are best at polishing the players' skills. "Starting tomorrow, we will have special training for Phil Jones and Pogba, especially Phil Jones. His skills and passing need to be further strengthened."

After Phil Jones came to Tottenham Hotspur, he became more elegant and improved his skills a lot after playing among a group of elegant technical players, but his passing was still unsatisfactory. He still had the style of rushing and running all over the field like a flying general.

Of course, his passion made him very eye-catching in defense, but the problem is that a defensive midfielder who only knows how to defend and press is just an ordinary defensive midfielder. A defensive midfielder who can grab the ball, protect the ball, and pass the ball is a first-class or even top-level defensive midfielder.

Ye Qiu has always believed that it is more dangerous to lose the ball immediately after grabbing it than not grabbing it!

With his words, everyone knew what he meant and started to act separately.