In the next month, Pan Yi traveled around the world, talking about transfers with interested players.
Do you think it's hard? In fact, it's not hard either.
Just treat it as a trip and reimburse it with public funds.
Although the official transfer window in Europe will not open until July 1, it does not hinder transfer matters between teams.
Everyone negotiated and signed the contract, and they just waited until that day for it to take effect. In fact, many teams do this.
Pan Yi started work early and was not in a hurry when doing things. Even traveling around the mountains and rivers did not delay things and was even very efficient.
Unlike some teams that have to wait until the last moment when the transfer window closes to operate in a hurry. In the end, they don't buy a good fax machine, causing both problems.
The first is De Bruyne, the number one target.
Pan Yi promised this young Belgian genius a core position in Hamburg, which impressed him deeply.
Then it happened that De Bruyne really couldn't compete with anyone in the Chelsea team at this time, and he was also like a useless person in the eyes of coach Di Matteo - after the poor record this season, what he needs more is a mature man.
That’s combat power!
Therefore, when Hamburg sincerely offered a transfer fee of 12 million euros, the transaction was naturally completed.
Casemiro's negotiations also went smoothly.
To be honest, there are a lot of fringe international players playing in Brazil, and it is relatively easy for European clubs to poach them. Both the clubs and the players are very willing.
6 million euros was the final transaction price between the two parties.
Navas is even cheaper. Although he was loaned to Levante in La Liga this season, he only played once in total, and it was in an insignificant game in the last round of the league.
So he is essentially just a Segunda B player. Hamburg only paid 1 million euros to acquire this future Real Madrid goalkeeper.
In fact, the biggest difficulties Pan Yi encountered when conducting transfer operations were all within the Dragon Kingdom.
The first is Zhang Linpeng.
The reason why Pan Yi chose him actually had something to do with the regrets in his previous life.
At his peak, everyone said that this physically strong defender could play in the five major European leagues.
He is known as "Zhang Moss" not just because of his similar appearance and embroidery to the famous Real Madrid star, but because of his brave style and strong physical fitness on the court, which made Zhang Linpeng a native of the Dragon Kingdom at that time.
A rare and exciting player.
In particular, Lippi coached the Changzhou Heng Queen Mother, and Zhang Linpeng, together with Gao Lin, Zheng Zhi, Feng Xiaoting and other players, was rated by Silver Fox as one of the Dragon Country players who can establish a foothold in Europe.
As Zhang Linpeng's performance gets better and better, he has also attracted the attention of European giants.
In 2015, Inter Milan expressed its willingness to introduce Zhang Linpeng. During the same period, even Real Madrid also expressed interest in Zhang Linpeng.
But in the end, Hengtai offered a sky-high price of 8 million euros, which scared off all buyers from Europe.
Later, it was said that Hengtai and Zhang Linpeng signed a huge contract extension with an annual salary of more than 10 million, completely giving up Zhang Linpeng's idea of studying abroad.
Considered one of the best players in the Dragon Kingdom, he missed out on Europe. This can be regarded as the biggest regret in Zhang Linpeng's career.
And then in this life...
Pan Yi took the old path again.
Although Zhang Linpeng has not yet firmly established himself as the main player in the current Hengtai team, the young man originally spent RMB 10 million in transfer fees from Hengtai and regarded him as the core of the future team building.
Therefore, when Pan Yi came to buy it, Hengtai still offered a high price of 7 million euros.
How could Pan Yi spend so much money? This is more expensive than Casemiro.
In addition, Zhang Linpeng's own wishes were not very strong, so the deal could only fall through in the end.
What is lost is the east corner, and what is gained is the mulberry tree.
When Pan Yi gave up Zhang Linpeng and went to pursue Wu Lei, he got an unexpected gain.
Although Wu Lei is already the top scorer in the Chinese League One at this time, he has not proven himself on the highest stage in the country, so his worth will not be particularly outrageous.
Wu Lei himself has always been extremely passionate about studying abroad - in fact, in Pan Yi's previous life, when Wu Lei joined the Espanyol, he sacrificed a large part of his financial interests to pursue his dream.
Now that Pan Yi came to invite him personally, the negotiation went relatively smoothly.
After all, Pan Yi has had a relationship with Wu Lei. Now as the head coach of Hamburg, he is bound to give Wu Lei more and better guidance so that he can make greater progress, not just for the Dragons.
I came to the local market to buy a water dispenser.
This also made coach Genbao, who discovered and trained Wu Lei, nod.
Under the influence of multiple factors, the club finally reached an agreement with Pan Yi, and Wu Lei joined Hamburg for 2 million euros!
This is the greatest sincerity Pan Yi can show.
To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that Wu Lei is the "hope of the whole village", Pan Yi would be reluctant to spend so much money to buy a Dragon Country player...
Although the contract has not yet taken effect immediately, the news still detonated the Dragon Kingdom network.
Everyone is excited that this young Dragon Country international dares to go abroad and accept the challenge!
As negative examples, Changzhou Hengtai and Zhang Linpeng were naturally criticized in various ways, which will not be mentioned here.
Pan Yi is hiring people here, and Hamburg is constantly clearing out redundant personnel.
Pan Yi does not handle these matters personally, but he gives the club manager who handles this matter a principle: As long as you want to leave, I won't stay.
Therefore, in addition to the two main forwards, Guerrero and Petric, whom Chairman Yachov mentioned in the previous meeting, some players who were originally unable to play the main role in the team also submitted transfer applications.
They had long heard that the new head coach of Long Guo was planning to carry out drastic reforms to the team, so the players who had no confidence naturally chose to run away.
Most of them cannot be sold at a good price, but bits and pieces can also increase Pan Yi's transfer funds.
For example, Guerrero transferred to Corinthians for 3.5 million euros, while Torre went to Rubin Kazan for 3 million euros...
The total sum is probably around 10 million.
Including the transfer budget of 25 million euros promised by Yachov, the transfer funds that Pan Yi can use in this summer window are actually 35 million yuan.
The current transfer personnel in Hamburg are as follows:
De Bruyne, 12 million.
Casemiro, 6 million.
Makoto Hasebe, 3 million.
Wu Lei, 2 million.
Vardy, 1 million.
Navas, 1 million.
The total transfer expenditure was exactly 25 million.
In other words, Pan Yi still holds 10 million euros in transfer funds at this time.
After the forward, midfielder and goalkeeper positions have been strengthened, Pan Yi is of course planning to leave this money for the defense.
In Hamburg's current formation, captain Westermann and vice-captain Ogo can play as defenders, and they are actually quite reliable.
Westermann, in particular, was selected for the German national team to participate in the 2008 European Cup, and his strength is already quite good.
But it's still not enough.
As for the right back position, there is no suitable candidate.
According to Pan Yi's original plan, he was to buy Zhang Linpeng and then train him carefully to see if he could support Hamburg's right corridor.
But now that he doesn't come, Pan Yi can only make other plans.
Pan Yi had several candidates in mind, but decided to take a look at this year's European Cup first to see if there was anything cheap and useful that he had missed...