In this summer, the Players Supermarket opens in Antwerp.
All the young Chinese players in the team who were the main players were transferred and left.
The one with the highest net worth is naturally Dong Fangzhuo, who has won the Golden Boot in both the Belgian League One and the Europa League. The transfer fee is a whopping 27 million.
Other key players such as Sun Xiang and Chen Tao all left with transfer fees exceeding 10 million euros.
From transfer fees alone, Antwerp made over 60 million euros this summer!
Sure enough, opening a black market for players in Europe is really profitable.
In fact, a very talented midfielder like Chen Tao still has considerable room for improvement.
Apart from anything else, being a teammate with a midfielder with world-class potential like De Bruyne will definitely not slow down your own level improvement.
It's just a pity, and I don't know if it was the experience in China that left Chen Tao with a shadow in his heart.
When a mid-table Bundesliga team extended an olive branch to him, he immediately applied for a transfer with the club.
When the news reached Wu Dong's ears, he didn't say much.
Since Chen Tao wants to leave, let him go, but the transfer fee cannot be less, and 15 million euros is more appropriate.
This is also the benefit of the team winning the Europa League. Otherwise, it would not be so easy to increase the transfer fee.
The team's three main foreign players, England's Lambert, France's Griezmann and Belgium's De Bruyne, are naturally hot spots in the transfer market.
However, the club's top management reached an agreement with them early.
After all, the team can play in the Champions League next season, and if they stay, they can compete head-on with many European giants.
As long as you perform well, there will naturally be no shortage of capable players.
On the contrary, right now, if they are in a hurry to transfer, they may go to a strong team in the five major leagues, but the opponent may not have the Champions League to play in.
Of course, the team guarantees that they will only keep them for one season. In any case, as long as there are offers from the five major league teams next season, they can directly transfer and leave if they are willing.
In order to keep the three core players, their salaries have increased a lot.
Fortunately, these three are relatively easy to convince. Lambert is the oldest, but he came up from a low-level league, and he values the most practical results.
The other two are more focused on the future, but it is not impossible to stay in Antwerp for another year.
As for the Chinese players in the team who are around thirty years old or in their early thirties, all the Chinese players who are willing to stay will stay.
Zheng Zhi, Sun Jihai, Li Gang and Li Datou in the defense will still be the main force in the League One next season.
The Chinese players promoted from the reserve team and youth team are all the best in the Guihua school team.
Maybe his playing skills are not as good as those of his predecessors, but his tactical execution ability and reading ability are much better than those of his predecessors.
Their biggest advantage is that they have extremely strong physical fitness and strong coordination ability. They are very qualified system players.
Naturally, he has talent, but he must use more high-end and intense competition to slowly unleash his full potential.
In order to improve the team's strength, Antwerp spent almost 8 million US dollars to bring Conca from Brazil.
It spent almost 15 million US dollars to package Brazilian players Paulinho, Goulart and Elkeson.
Ahem, these Brazilian players were actually some of Evergrande's most successful signings, and they were all picked up by Antwerp at this time.
No need to doubt their strength!
The Chinese Super League has entered the Jinyuan era, and the combat effectiveness of the strong teams is not bad at all.
Apart from anything else, Evergrande's performance in the Club World Cup was outstanding for all to see.
Entering the Jinyuan era, the Chinese Super League is known as the sixth league outside the five major leagues.
Although it is a joke, the Chinese Super League team with many big-name foreign players is no worse than the top teams in the A-League.
Those Brazilian players can become absolute powerhouses in the Chinese Super League. You can imagine how strong they are.
Apart from anything else, there is no problem at all in Bijia.
In this era, with the continuous development of communication technology, it is not that easy to catch the little devil in football.
Of course, there is still a chance to pick up the slack, but there is no need for it right now. Antwerp is already strong enough.
As the double champion of the Belgian League and the Europa League, Antwerp's every move has attracted considerable attention at least in Belgium and China.
Seeing Antwerp acquire four Brazilian players in one fell swoop aroused a lot of discussion in both Belgian and Chinese football circles.
The Antwerp club is unmoved. As long as there are enough Belgian players in the team, there is no need to worry about those who are not.
Once in and out, the Antwerp club made a net profit of almost 40 million euros this summer, which is quite impressive.
I believe that by the end of next season, the team's transfer fee income will reach a new high.
Sometimes, I have to admit that the value of having an EU passport and skin color really differ a lot.
There is a lot of noise in the domestic football world, with all kinds of comments on Antwerp's transfer matters, as if they can really get involved.
There have been various criticisms about Antwerp letting go of several young key players.
It seems that they paid enough attention to these players when they were in their lowest period before. It is simply a joke.
In addition, he is naturally jealous of the Antwerp club's income.
Forty million euros, converted into Chinese currency, is almost four small goals!
Some so-called multinational group companies may not necessarily have such high annual income.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the real value of the Antwerp club is the three foreign players they recruited last season.
Who said their household registration books were good?
Especially for Lambert, who has an English household registration. As long as his performance is as stable as ever and he is sold to a Premier League club with a little manipulation, 20 million pounds is the minimum price, and he might even be able to sell for 30 million pounds.
One person can probably earn more than three small goals for the Antwerp club.
Not to mention, both De Bruyne and Griezmann are very popular frontcourt players. As long as they perform well, the transfer fee will not be different.
Think about it, the transfer fee income of just three players may exceed 100 million euros!
What is that concept?
Converted into Chinese coins, that’s ten small goals!
Just thinking about this, who in the domestic football world doesn't have their eyes red with envy?
Unfortunately, it is completely impossible for them to intervene in the Antwerp club's transfer matters, so they can only settle for the next best thing.
It didn't take long for the Osmanthus Club to be crowded with so-called agents who promote players.
This was a tacit understanding reached long ago. Wu Dong instructed the Guihua school team to select capable players and then quietly join Antwerp.
To put it bluntly, the overall level of Bijia at this time is about one level higher than that of the Chinese Super League, which is not an exaggeration.
It is not difficult for Chinese players who are truly capable to gain a foothold in Belgium's Liga 1 as long as they can bring their strength into full play.
The key is the initial adaptation. This alone has stumped many Chinese players.
Due to differences in language, habits and culture, it will naturally take a long or short time to adapt.
Unfortunately, European clubs are very realistic. In addition to expanding their influence and commercial income in China, they also need to buy Chinese players who can be used in a timely manner.
The adaptation period given by the club is quite short. If you cannot fully adapt, even if you are very capable, you will only be able to play five or six points on the court. How can you perform well?
But Antwerp is different. The boss is Chinese and there are a large number of Chinese players here.
Naturally, the group of Chinese veterans in the team will not do anything at all.
In addition, after their transfer, they first need to adapt to the reserve team, and after adapting to the rhythm and style of the Belgian league, they can then join the first team to participate in the game.
Under such circumstances, unless you have psychological problems, as long as you are a truly capable Chinese player, at least being a substitute is not a problem.
With Antwerp's influence in the Belgian League at this time, even if he is just a substitute, as long as he performs normally, he will have the opportunity to join other teams and become the main force.
Of course, there is a high probability that they will export to domestic sales, but at that time they also experienced the baptism of the European League and adapted to the rhythm and intensity of Belgium.
When he returns to China, his individual strength will be much higher than that of ordinary Chinese Super League players.
Even if they are a little more expensive, it is understandable based on the strength they have shown.
As for whether there was anything fishy in the transfer process, anyway, they had no relationship with Wu Dong and Guihua Club at that time, so why bother with so much?
With such a tacit understanding in private, when the Belgian League resumed, people who were interested were surprised to find that the number of Chinese players in the Antwerp club was almost fifteen.
Of course, there are always five or six players in the main team, and a certain number of Chinese players are arranged for the reserve team and the youth team.
All competitions in Belgium are quite formal. Maybe the team doesn't pay attention to them, but they have no intention of playing perfunctory games.
As long as you are willing to work hard and compete seriously, there are many opportunities for improvement even in the reserve team and youth team.
After all the fiddling with it, Wu Dong felt speechless about the game.
He hopes that the Chinese players who have transferred to Antwerp will all work hard to improve and strive to play in Europe.
Of course, in addition to famous players, Wu Donghe and his clubs also pay attention to the young Chinese players who have studied abroad in Europe.
Especially the group of young players from Portugal are paying special attention.
The main reason is that the overseas Chinese contacted there are not reliable, and I don't know how I got in touch with the Football Association, who is responsible for the affairs of young players selected by the Football Association to play in Portugal.
It's a pity that except for Yu Dabao, who is somewhat famous in Benfica, the others have no signs of being kicked out. This is really fucked up...