By selling Jonathan Howson, Leeds United seemed to have opened the door to a supermarket and were out of control.
Swansea City, newly promoted to the Premier League, soon announced that it would acquire Argentinian center Luciano Becchio from Leeds United for £3 million. The 27-year-old center played 41 times in the Championship last season.
Scored 20 goals and provided nine assists.
If you look at the data purely, Becchio's data is not as good as Watford's Danny Graham. The latter scored 24 goals and eight assists and was the best center in the British Championship last season.
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But Graham played 3,909 minutes, while Becchio played less than 3,000 minutes.
In terms of efficiency, Becchio is even better.
In the end, the Argentine center who once played for Barcelona Masia successfully moved to the Premier League Swansea.
Compared to Jonathan Howson, Leeds United and Becchio got together easily this time and wished each other well.
Soon, Leeds United announced again that they would send forward McCormack to Aston Villa in the Premier League for a price of 2.5 million pounds. Villa's Scottish coach McClash was very optimistic about the Scottish international player.
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Another Scottish international, Snodgrass, moved to newly promoted Premier League club Norwich City for £3 million.
The team's second-leading scorer last season, 23-year-old Ivory Coast winger Marcos Garader, moved to French Ligue 1 side Saint-Etienne for £2.5 million.
These players were all Leeds United's best performers last season and are currently the most valuable players in the team.
After the team failed to compete in the Premier League, they all asked to leave.
Among them, Galadel immediately contacted the Ligue 1 team as soon as the season ended and wanted to leave.
Leeds United fans are quite disappointed about this, but there is nothing they can do about it.
Failure to reach the Premier League is a very painful blow to any team.
What really surprised both Gao Shen and Lucas was Schmeichel.
The goalkeeper who performed well in the British Championship last season has attracted the attention of teams such as Leicester City, Norwich City and Tottenham Hotspur. Among them, Tottenham Hotspur is the most attractive to Schmeichel.
The Danish goalkeeper also wants to go to North London.
Tottenham also had contact with Leeds United very early. The White Rose did not resist selling Schmeichel, especially after they introduced Navas from Albacete, a relegated team from the Spanish Second Division, and let Schmeichel go.
The thoughts are even more obvious.
But the north London club rejected Leeds United's asking price of £1 million plus Harry Kane.
Harry Kane is Tottenham Hotspur's highly regarded young center. He is only 18 years old, but he is already a famous player in England. When he was on loan with Leyton Orient in the third tier last season, he occasionally had eye-catching performances.
Performance.
This led Tottenham to believe that Leeds United's asking price was unacceptable.
Tottenham Hotspur is now full of talents, and there is no place for Harry Kane at all. This makes Tottenham Hotspur more inclined to loan him out, so they expressed the hope of signing him for 1.5 million pounds.
Sign Schmeichel at a price, and then loan Harry Kane to Leeds United for training for two years, with all wages paid by Tottenham.
Leeds United will definitely not agree to such cooperation.
The two sides therefore put it on hold for the time being.
Subsequently, Leicester City, which was acquired by Thai tycoon Vicha, joined the battle for Schmeichel and directly made an offer of two million pounds, which was obviously higher than Tottenham Hotspur's offer.
higher.
Fernando Lucas showed his ability at this time. On the one hand, he stabilized Leicester City, and on the other hand, he personally went south to London to have a two-day meeting with Tottenham Hotspur CEO Daniel Levy.
of negotiations.
The two sides still failed to reach an agreement, but Lucas turned to make an offer for Harry Kane.
In the end, Schmeichel moved to Leicester City for a transfer fee of two million pounds.
Leeds United signed Harry Kane from Tottenham Hotspur for £1 million.
Although Harry Kane is a fan of Tottenham Hotspur, he deeply feels that he will not get a chance to play in the team in the short term and is basically being loaned out. After several considerations, he was persuaded by Fernando Lucas and agreed.
Joined Leeds United.
In this way, Leicester City got Schmeichel, Tottenham Hotspur got one million pounds, Leeds United got one million pounds plus Harry Kane, and all three parties in the transaction were very happy.
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Five players were sold, and Leeds received a transfer fee of £12 million.
Coupled with Jonathan Howson's £10 million, the total revenue from the transfer market is £22 million.
This began to attract the attention of the media and Leeds United fans.
They are all worried and have sold almost all the club's leading stars. Can Leeds United still remain competitive in the new season?
Some people are even beginning to worry about whether Chinese capital will cash out?
But soon, Leeds United announced a blockbuster transfer, bringing in French midfielder Paul Pogba from Manchester United for one million pounds.
This is definitely a heavyweight transfer in the English Championship.
A very important reason is that Paul Pogba is a talented rookie who is well-known in the UK and even European football.
In order to compete for him, Manchester United was even sued by FIFA by Le Havre, and was almost banned from transferring like Chelsea. Now it is sold to Leeds United for one million pounds, which is undoubtedly very good.
Even though they were players from rivals, Leeds United fans were still very excited.
More news revealed that this deal was made by Gao Shen personally. After meeting with Pogba in Manchester, he persuaded the French midfielder to join. He also promised to build Leeds United's midfielder with Pogba as the core.
"Gao Shen promised not to be promoted to the Premier League within two years and let Pogba move freely!"
This immediately shocked Leeds United fans.
Including the Yorkshire Post, everyone was amazed by Leeds United's ambition, and at the same time welcomed Gao Shen's intervention.
Everyone knows that Gao Shen is best at discovering young players. He sent Paul Pogba to Leeds United, so it must be right.
However, soon, Leeds United fans were embarrassed again.
Because Leeds United announced that it has acquired midfielder Geoffrey Kondogbia from the relegated French Ligue 1 team Lens for a price of 500,000 euros.
The 18-year-old French midfielder has dual nationality of Central Africa and France. He played three times for Lens last season and his performance was average, but this time it cost Leeds United half a million euros.
This transaction once again reminded everyone that Leeds United is a professional bargain hunter after relegation!
Coincidentally, in the youth team of Monaco, another relegated team in Ligue 1, Leeds United signed left back Kurzawa, who has dual nationality of France and Poland, for a high price of 500,000 euros.
Nowadays, Monaco is on the verge of bankruptcy. It does not have the wealth and potential of a black shop after being acquired by a Russian tycoon in the future. It is helpless to be poached by Leeds United, not to mention that it has received half a million euros in transfer fees.
Kurzawa made five appearances in Ligue 1 last season and his performance was average.
This once again confirms that Leeds United specializes in poaching relegated teams!
Even the Yorkshire Post couldn't stand it anymore and asked if Leeds United should show any courage?
Needless to say, the team really responded to the call of the media and fans.
Leeds United announced that they have signed Kalidou Koulibaly from Ligue 2 Metz for 700,000 euros.
This 20-year-old central defender has dual nationality of Senegal and France. He played 19 times for Metz in the Ligue 2 last season. Since March, he has become the team's main central defender and his performance is remarkable.
This also caused Leeds United to spend more transfer fees, a total of 700,000 euros, in order to sign him.
More importantly, this time it is finally not about poaching relegated teams.
But it's not much better, because Metz is ranked 17th in Ligue 2, only one point more than the 18th place in the relegation zone.
At the same time, Leeds United announced that it had successfully introduced right back Nathaniel Klein and frontcourt winger Wilfrey from the 20th-placed team in the British Championship, Crystal Palace, for a price of two million pounds.
De Zaha.
The 20-year-old right back played 46 times for Crystal Palace in the English Championship last season, with three assists and no goals. He performed well.
Zaha played 41 times in the British Championship last season, scoring one goal and five assists, and his performance was okay.
These two million pounds are a timely help for Crystal Palace, which was almost relegated last season.
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While Leeds United was slipping further and further down the road of professional pick-up, the summer transfer market in European football also caused a violent earthquake due to the strong intervention of Paris Saint-Germain.
The French team first signed Argentine midfielder Pastore from Naples for a sky-high price of 50 million euros.
This is the talented youngster who performed best and was the most creative in Serie A last season. He is known as the new Kaka. He also has the reputation of being hand-picked by senior players and has attracted the attention of many wealthy teams.
Not only that, the wealthy Paris Saint-Germain quickly successfully signed Uruguayan center Cavani for a sky-high price of 80 million euros, and also signed Napoli center defender Benatia for a high price of 40 million euros.
In three transactions, he directly purchased the entire central axis of Naples for 170 million euros, which immediately triggered a strong earthquake in the entire European football world.
Everyone is shocked by the deep pockets of Paris Saint-Germain.
Who would have thought that a wealthy man from the Middle East would spend so much money at once.
Serie A giant Juventus, which aims to reorganize, followed suit and signed Italian central defender Bonucci from Naples for 35 million euros.
Bayern Munich paid a record-breaking price of 40 million euros to sign Chilean midfielder Vidal from Naples.
The two transfers allowed Napoli to once again gain a sky-high price of 75 million euros.
Coupled with Paris Saint-Germain's transfer fees, Napoli collected nearly 250 million euros in one summer, making it a veritable black shop.
De Laurentiis got excited about counting money. He himself did not expect that a wealthy man from the Middle East would be so cheerful. He didn't even bargain with him and just bought it. Moreover, the salary given to the players was quite generous.
I'm afraid I won't encounter such a Kaizi again in my life. If I don't kill him this time, how long will it take?
However, the thought of giving 20% to Gao Shen made him feel uncomfortable again.
It's all that damn Marino's fault. Why did he sign such contract terms in the first place?
At this time, no one except Gao Shen would have thought that this summer's transfer would completely change European football.
