Last year, after Napoli won the Italian Triple Crown, they opened the door to the supermarket and sold out wantonly. In addition, Florentino returned to Real Madrid and Gao Shen took charge of Manchester City, creating a huge tsunami in the entire transfer market.
Perhaps, many, many years from now, it will be difficult to recreate the grand transfer market situation of last summer.
That will be a memory that will be remembered and talked about by countless fans.
But this year, the transfer market has obviously become much duller.
In the Premier League last season, Manchester City won the league championship five rounds ahead of schedule. The overall strength is evident. This means that Blue Moon will not be able to repeat the crazy signings of last season this summer. It is more just to supplement the team's strength.
Bench thickness.
Therefore, in June, Manchester City only finalized two transfers of Jerome Boateng and Fernandinho, spending a total of 25 million euros, which is not a small amount in the European transfer market.
, but it is far from the craziness of last season.
The same is true for Real Madrid.
Just entering June, Galacticos couldn't wait to announce a coaching change. Pellegrini was dismissed from get out of class, and Inter Milan's head coach Mourinho officially took over at the Santiago Bernabeu.
This is actually not surprising at all.
After Gao Shen rejected Real Madrid, Real Madrid had very few world-famous coaches to choose from. Mourinho was one of the few choices, and his situation at Inter Milan happened to not be so ideal.
Moratti invested a lot of money, but failed to produce results for two consecutive seasons. Cracks began to appear between Mourinho and the players in the locker room. At this time, it was best for both parties to break up.
After Mourinho took over, Real Madrid's signings became more pragmatic, and there was basically no sign of any stars.
The two major financial backers have begun to focus on cost-effectiveness, and the entire transfer market can be imagined.
Specific to the Premier League, the purchasing power of the entire league has obviously declined significantly.
As the league with the highest degree of commercial development among the four major European leagues, the Premier League has also been the most affected by the economic crisis. Although it is still far ahead of Serie A and La Liga, it has indeed slumped a lot compared to before.
Although Manchester United has reached the Champions League final, as Ferguson said, it is actually difficult for the Red Devils to find funds for signings this summer, and most of them can only make repairs and make small fuss.
Chelsea also made no big moves. The biggest signing was the signing of Ramires from Benfica, but center defender Carvalho is likely to be sold to Real Madrid because Mourinho appointed the Portuguese center defender to join.
In addition, Chelsea has also begun to clean up the first team lineup.
Players such as Ballack, Joe Cole, Beretti and Deco may all leave the team, and many of them will be free transfers.
This is bound to have an impact on Chelsea's lineup.
The thickness of the bench is crucial for a team that operates on multiple fronts, but maintaining a large lineup requires huge expenditures. This is a problem for Abramovich, whose financial resources have been greatly affected by the economic crisis.
More importantly, Chelsea has not been able to become financially independent over the years. They have invested heavily in youth training, but they have never been able to form an effective virtuous cycle.
All of these are hidden dangers.
If Gao Shen remembers correctly, Ancelotti's situation took a turn for the worse this season after a winning streak, and he was fired by Abramovich in the end.
Liverpool's situation is actually better. They finished third in the Premier League last season and their results were not bad. Continuing to participate in the Champions League is the greatest affirmation for the Red Army. Benitez is also different from Gao Shen in his previous life and can continue to stay.
Similarly, players such as Mascherano and Benayoun will continue to stay at Liverpool. The Red Army will still be very competitive in the new season. If they can strengthen recruitment in several positions, I believe the Red Army may not have the opportunity to challenge Manchester City.
In comparison, Arsenal's situation is worse.
Losing the qualification to participate in the Champions League for many consecutive years has not only caused the Gunners to lose tens of millions of euros in income, but more importantly, it has had an immeasurable impact on both sponsors and players.
Back then, why did Arsenal's management dare to make great efforts to build the Emirates Stadium and invest in real estate projects in Highbury?
It was because Wenger made the decision at a critical moment that he could guarantee the team's participation in the Champions League.
Facts have also proved that in the past few years, Wenger has always brought Arsenal into the Champions League and into the knockout rounds of the top 16.
Gunners fans can make all kinds of accusations and criticisms about Wenger, but they cannot ignore his contribution.
But now, the situation is obviously different.
The rise of Manchester City caused Arsenal to miss out on qualifying for the Champions League for the first time in more than a decade. This not only caused a loss of financial revenue to Arsenal, but also shook their confidence.
Sponsors offer big prices because they believe Arsenal can compete in the Champions League every year; players have continued to stay with the Gunners over the years because they know Arsenal can still compete in the Champions League no matter how poorly they perform.
But now, everything no longer exists.
Generally speaking, in Arsenal's current situation, they should make great efforts to invest in signings, introduce high-level stars, make up for the team's weaknesses and shortcomings as soon as possible, enhance the team's competitiveness in the Premier League, and regain their competitiveness in the Premier League.
Entering the Champions League.
But here's the problem, Arsenal has no money!
In his previous life, Gao Shen had heard a lot of jokes about Arsenal, such as temperature difference signings, 100 million interest deposits, selling the captain, etc. These can all be understood as the emotional output of fans who hate iron and steel.
But one fact is that, so far, Arsenal's liabilities are as high as 70% of the club's assets.
Basically, it means that if you sell the current Arsenal, you may not be able to keep a penny, and all of it will have to be used to pay off debts.
The Highbury real estate project is like a rope around Arsenal's neck, threatening to suffocate him at any time. Fortunately, the loan for this project will end next year.
It took eight full years!
It’s not surprising that Arsenal has a lot of cash reserves, but that doesn’t mean they can use the money to buy people.
These are two concepts.
Just like a person who has just received a monthly salary of 100,000 yuan and has abundant cash flow, it does not mean that he is willing to spend 10,000 to 20,000 yuan to upgrade that old laptop and mobile phone that has been used for several years.
Why?
Because he needs to repay his mortgage, car loan, credit card, Huabei, children's expenses, and daily family expenses, etc., he even needs to set aside some funds as a reserve to prevent the risk of a sharp drop in his income next month.
Maybe after spending all this, he didn't have a penny left, or even lost money.
That's what Wenger is like now.
Gao Shen has traveled through time. I don’t know if Arsenal fans in 2022 will miss Wenger even more after he travels through time, but he definitely knows that, at least from Wenger’s perspective, he is truly relieved.
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Gao Shen is on vacation in China, but he has been controlling transfers and signings in Europe.
After successively signing Jerome Boateng and Fernandinho, Manchester City's signings continue.
Even as the training date approaches, the pace is still accelerating.
In late June, Gao Shen ended his vacation and returned to Europe.
Just the day before Gao Shen's return trip, European football suddenly announced a shocking transfer.
David Villa from Valencia successfully joined Barcelona with a transfer fee of 40 million euros.
This immediately triggered a strong earthquake throughout European football.
David Villa is now the leading striker in Spain and has attracted the attention of many teams such as Barcelona, Real Madrid, Manchester United and Chelsea. As a result, the new chairman of Barcelona immediately eliminated him as soon as he took office.
Incidentally, in mid-June, as Gao Shen had seen in his previous life, Russell really defeated Laporta and became the new chairman of Barcelona, with Bartomeu serving as vice chairman.
This is enough to prove that the butterfly effect brought by Gao Shen is not enough to change the Barcelona presidential election.
The signing of David Villa is more due to the need of the superstar strategy of the presidential election, but Russell's target is not only him, but also Arsenal's Cesc Fabregas.
As soon as Bartomeu took office, he immediately attacked Arsenal, believing that they had set up obstacles for Fabregas to return to Barcelona, because Fabregas was originally stolen by Arsenal from the Barcelona youth training camp.
Treasure.
In addition to Fabregas, Russell is also actively preparing to introduce Atletico Madrid's Sergio Aguero. This Argentine striker has just helped Atletico Madrid win the Europa League. He is also favored by Real Madrid, but Guardiola is not interested in him.
Quite interested.
In order to better free up salary space, players such as Hleb, Cáceres, Henry, and Marcos will leave the team.
In addition, two generals, Eto'o and Yaya Toure, were once again put on the transfer market.
After selling David Villa for 40 million euros, Valencia announced that it had signed local midfielder genius Daniel Parejo from Naples for a high price of 20 million euros.
This midfielder performed well for Naples last season, especially after Rakitic and Biglia left. He shouldered the burden of Naples' midfield organization and is a veritable midfield organizer for Naples.
Valencia sold its stars for two consecutive seasons, and then saw teams such as Sevilla, Atletico Madrid and Villarreal rising strongly, and finally couldn't help but take action to strengthen the team's strength.
This transaction also allowed Gao Shen to receive 20% of the transfer fee, which was an unexpected gain.
Nowadays, the players in Naples are generally introduced and trained during the advanced period. I believe that this aspect of income will continue to come back in the future, especially players like Hamsik, Cavani, Pastore, Benatia, etc.
Players are basically stars who can be sold at a good price.
Leaving aside Serie A, Gao Shen took Emirates Airlines to transit in Dubai and went all the way to Abu Dhabi to meet Mansour. This was also Mansour’s invitation, because when Gao Shen came to shoot commercials before, he didn’t have time.
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After flying to London from Dubai, Gao Shen turned north again.
When arriving in Manchester, consultant Brian Marwood personally picked him up at the airport and reported the latest progress of Manchester City's transfer.
