Facts have proved that Gao Shen, Lucas and Borrell's judgment was correct.
While Leeds United was undergoing summer training in full swing in the United States, Liverpool, who were also preparing for the International Champions Cup in the United States, came to Miami accompanied by their American owner John Henry and director of football Michael Edwards.
The two brought lawyers and teams and conducted secret contacts and negotiations with Leeds United.
Prior to this, Liverpool and Leeds United had had many contacts and exchanged psychological prices with each other.
In the end, Liverpool signed Brazilian midfielder Fabinho from Leeds United for a high price of 70 million euros.
This was a deal that had been negotiated for a long time, but John Henry, the American owner of Liverpool, finally gritted his teeth, stamped his feet, and bought the player.
According to the current progress of the transfer between the two parties, after the contract is signed, Fabinho will go to New York, accompanied by his agent, to join Liverpool who are training here, and will be directly arranged by Liverpool to undergo a medical examination in New York.
This is also a habit of signing people in the Premier League.
In fact, in European football, except for Real Madrid, no other team will hold a fan meeting specifically for them after signing the stars. Basically, they sign the contract, take a few photos, and send a press release to
Media, that's it.
The players and Liverpool have been in contact for a long time, and both parties have already reached a consensus on salary.
Liverpool will pay Fabinho a weekly salary of up to 200,000 pounds, while his weekly salary at Leeds United is only 70,000 pounds.
After calculation, Liverpool will have to pay Fabinho an annual salary of up to 12 million euros.
This is also the reason why Leeds United can't keep anyone.
Not to mention anything else, as far as the current salary within the Leeds United team is concerned, Kimmich's weekly salary is 50,000 pounds, but Leeds United has started a contract extension with him, and it is expected that he will receive a weekly salary of 100,000 pounds in the future.
This is because Leeds United caps the maximum salary at £150,000.
Another defensive midfielder, Rodri, renewed his contract in March this year, with a weekly salary of exactly 70,000 pounds.
After Fabinho transfers to Liverpool, Leeds United will reuse the two midfielders Kimmich and Rodri, allowing them to replace Fabinho and become the team's fourth player.
For now, Leeds United's salary control is actually pretty good.
Lucas has always been worried that Gao Shen would compromise with Mbappe because he was afraid of disrupting the team's salary structure.
A lesson from the past is Atletico Madrid this summer.
Simeone's team was originally a model in terms of salary control, but this summer, in order to force Griezmann to stay, it offered the first annual salary in Atletico Madrid's history of 23 million euros.
As a result, this contract extension completely broke the team's salary results. This summer, there were many problems in the Atletico Madrid locker room.
Many times, salary control affects the whole body with far-reaching influence.
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Fabinho's sky-high transfer to Liverpool shocked the entire European football world.
This is Leeds United's first transfer this summer. The initial purchase price is 70 million euros, which is really a big deal.
The British media reported on this transfer and believed that Leeds United had completely given up its ambition to compete in the Champions League.
"They never showed any ambition!"
The media believes that in the past, Leeds United could use the construction of a new training base and new stadium as an excuse to avoid excessive investment. But now, the new stadium has been put into use. Last season, Leeds United’s Premier League broadcast fee share reached as high as 150 million pounds. As a result,
They are still selling people now.
Does this look like a team that wants to compete in the Champions League?
Faced with doubts from the outside world, Leeds United did not provide any explanation to the outside world.
The British media admitted that Leeds United is one of the smartest and healthiest clubs in Europe, but it is by no means the most successful club.
"I bet that if Leeds United don't change the way they do business, they will never win the Champions League!"
"Last season was their last glory!"
The media's doubts not only come from Fabinho's transfer, but also from the news in the transfer market.
From Van Dijk to Dele Alli to Mane, to Fabinho, Kante, Harry Kane and Mbappe, almost the core players of Leeds United are facing poaching from the outside.
No matter how strong Leeds United is and how strong their bench is, can they still form a new team and continue to compete in the Champions League in the new season?
The media's doubts were overwhelming, but Leeds United fans behaved indifferently.
Because they have long been accustomed to it.
Every year, when Leeds United sells players, the media will say this, but in the following season, Leeds United will slap them in the face with results. White Rose fans have long been accustomed to this.
As Leeds United star Eddie Gray said in an interview, "They forgot that Kimmich and Rodri also performed very well last season."
Kimmich is only 23 years old and Rodri is only 22 years old. They are both very young players.
But Eddie Gray believes that Leeds United has very rich experience in cultivating young players, and the management also has very rich management experience. He believes that Leeds United must be ready.
"What I'm more curious about now is, between Kimmich and Rodri, who will be the best player in the new season?"
But just when the outside world's doubts subsided, the Spanish media Aspen once again broke the news.
"Just this morning, Real Madrid just agreed to Leeds United's offer and will sign Leeds United's Dutch central defender Van Dijk for a sky-high price of 150 million euros. This will create the highest central defender transfer record in the history of world football."
"At the same time, this transfer will also tie Felipe Anderson's transfer fee record to Barcelona and become the second-highest transfer record in the history of world football."
AS also revealed that Real Madrid actually considered putting players in the team on transfers, but Leeds United refused.
"The reason is that the salaries of Real Madrid players are on the high side, which is not in line with Leeds United's positioning."
According to AS, Van Dijk's annual salary after moving to Real Madrid will reach 15 million euros, which is equivalent to a weekly salary of 250,000 pounds, which is already nearly three times his weekly salary at Leeds United.
AS's news quickly attracted the attention of media and fans around the world.
I just sold Fabinho, and now I turned around and sold the core of the defense.
Are Leeds United planning to dismantle the entire championship squad?
Once Fabinho and Van Dijk are sold, how will Leeds United compete with other teams in the new season?
For a time, the entire European transfer market was in turmoil.
Real Madrid and Leeds United also quickly announced the transfer deal, confirming AS reported.
Regarding the team's continuous sales of core players, Leeds United CEO Lucas gave an interview to the British Times in the United States, saying that the team cannot compete with wealthy teams in terms of salary and benefits, which has led to Leeds United's inability to retain players in recent years.
human reasons.
But Lucas still expressed confidence that Leeds United is ready for the new season.
"We firmly believe that the team is still competitive."
But no one expected that as soon as the words from the United States fell, news came out again from France.
Paris Saint-Germain signed World Cup-winning French midfielder N'Golo Kante from Leeds United for a high price of 120 million euros.
This is the third player sold by Leeds United this summer after Fabinho and Van Dijk, and he is also the backbone of the midfield.
You know, in the past few years, Kante has been a conscientious midfielder of the team and has always been loyal to the team. However, it is unexpected that after Leeds United experienced the glory of last season, it turned out to be a failure this summer.
Specially sold.
The official website of Leeds United issued an official announcement shortly afterwards, wishing Kante better results in his new journey and thanking him for his contribution to Leeds United in the past few years.
"Leeds United's door will always be open for you!"
Kante is still on vacation, but he quickly tweeted the official account of Leeds United to express his gratitude to Leeds United and said that even if he has left the team, he will always be a part of Leeds United.
This also allowed everyone to see that the two parties were happy to get together and to part ways.
Not only Kante, Fabinho and Van Dijk are basically the same.
This has always been a characteristic of Leeds United. Even if players transfer, there will basically be no conflicts and the image has always been well maintained.
For the team to sell Kante, Leeds United fans reacted quite strongly this time.
After all, Kante has been loved by Leeds United fans in the past few years, especially when he rejected poaching offers from other wealthy teams several times and decided to stay in the team, which made the fans even more happy.
Now, even Kante is gone, Leeds United fans have very mixed feelings.
Many people are also very concerned about who can fill Kanter's vacancy in the new season?
Youth player Calvin Phillips? Or Uruguayan midfielder Valverde?
More importantly, who will be the next player to be sold?
In the current transfer market, the wealthy teams are coveting Leeds United, and Leeds United fans expressed that they are very worried.
After all, they all know that Leeds United's salary is not worth mentioning in the face of strong poaching from wealthy teams.
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This side continues to sell players, but across the ocean in the United States, Leeds United performed well in their warm-up matches.
Before the International Champions Cup, Pochettino's team first played a warm-up match with Benfica and Dortmund. The results were one draw and one win. They first drew with Benfica and then defeated Dortmund.
Then in the first game of the International Champions Cup, Leeds defeated Roma 4-1 in San Diego. Vardy scored twice and performed very eye-catchingly, while Milinkovic-Savic scored one pass and one shot.
This group of youngsters from Leeds United shocked people once again.
Who would have thought that before the World Cup internationals returned to the team, Leeds United could produce such a wonderful performance.
Just three days later, Leeds United defeated Barcelona 4-2 in Miami, including two set kicks, a corner kick and a frontcourt set kick. Vardy scored in three consecutive warm-up matches. Milinkovic-Savic scored
Two goals.
Three days later, Leeds United defeated AC Milan 1-0 in Ann Arbor. Vardy scored the only goal of the game, assisted by Portuguese genius Joao Felix.
With three consecutive victories, Leeds United won the International Champions Cup.
Although it doesn't mean anything, it is an encouragement to Leeds United.
After playing AC Milan, the team returned directly to the UK.
At this time, all the international players participating in the World Cup have also ended their vacation.
Mbappe announced a major decision during an interview in Paris, France.
