While Pan Yi is busy with various transfer and contract renewal operations, the competition for talents in European football in the new season has quietly begun.
After Bundesliga hegemon Bayern Munich won the "Triple Crown" for the first time in history, meritorious coach Heynckes officially retired, and his replacement was former Barcelona coach Guardiola!
This is arguably the most high-profile coaching transfer of the summer.
Guardiola, who completed the "Six Crowns" in Barcelona and built the Cosmos team, is now coaching a new Cosmos team!
Of course, in fact, Guardiola's joining Bayern was basically confirmed when last season was still going on, so Guardiola did not choose to renew his contract with Barcelona.
In terms of player composition, Guardiola did not make much adjustments to this almost invincible Bayern team.
They sold substitute forward Gomez to Serie A's Fiorentina for 15.5 million euros, and also transferred gradually marginalized Brazilian midfielder Gustavo to Wolfsburg for 17.5 million.
In addition, the contract of another midfielder Tymoschuk expired and he left for Zenit on a free transfer.
In terms of player transfer, Gotze, who was already confirmed at the end of last season, came from Dortmund, which cost Bayern 38 million euros.
Guardiola also brought his favorite Thiago from Barcelona for 25 million.
There is also the promotion of young Hojbjerg from the reserve team to the first team as a rotation.
Compared with last season's generosity, Bayern has been more restrained this time.
Lewandowski, who has been at the center of scandals, has not been poached by Bayern.
According to reports, since Lewandowski's contract will expire next season, he will join as a free agent at that time, so that Bayern can also save a transfer fee.
The only one injured was Dortmund.
But there is also good news for Dortmund, that is, head coach Klopp has decided to stay with the team!
He is determined to help Dortmund regain the lost Bundesliga title, and of course the Champions League title!
Therefore, apart from losing Gotze, the overall structure of Dortmund's formation this season has not changed much.
On the contrary, they also brought in several strong reinforcements.
The biggest move was the transfer of Armenia's number one star Mkhitaryan from Shakhtar Donetsk as Gotze's replacement, costing 27.5 million euros.
Then they spent 9.5 million euros to buy Greek defender Papastathopoulos from Werder Bremen to strengthen the defense.
Finally……
Purchased Aubameyang from AC Milan for 13 million euros!!!
In this transaction, it can be said that Pan Yi was "fooled" by Jia Tu.
When Milan was in trouble, Galliani didn't have anything not for sale, only whether he had enough money.
Because Aubameyang played more minutes last season than players like Salah who were deprived of their main position, he attracted more attention in the transfer market.
Klopp also took a fancy to Aubameyang's amazing speed and efficient goal-scoring ability, as well as making preparations for Lewandowski's departure next season, and made an inquiry to Milan early on.
Under the influence of Gaitu's master marketing skills, Milan finally sold Aubameyang at a higher price.
Of course, Pan Yi has nothing to regret about this, and he won't even blame Galliani for it.
The shopping mall is like a battlefield, and Pan Yi's feelings for Milan originally made him not care so much.
Moreover, anyway, he never regarded Aubameyang as the core of his team, otherwise he would not have made him a substitute during the Milan period.
Galliani was also sure that Pan Yi would not pay a big price for him, but the negotiations with Dortmund were not confirmed at that time, so he made up an excuse to take Aubameyang first.
If the negotiation with Dortmund breaks down, you can still go to Pan Yi and say something like, "For the sake of old friends, we will sell you even the youth training." Isn't this double insurance?
In short, no one loses.
Klopp got reinforced forwards, Pan Yi got Salah, Milan got more money, and everyone has a bright future...
And the Bundesliga teams purchasing from Milan Supermarket this season are not just Dortmund and Hamburg.
Schalke 04 also spent 10 million euros to take away Allegri’s favorite, Boateng!
This traditional Bundesliga team has also made frequent moves this season. In addition to Boateng and Ogo signed from Hamburg, it also bought Bochum's young midfielder Goretzka and Cologne's midfielder Clemens.
, Mainz's striker Sauloi and Dortmund's defender Santana have greatly enhanced their strength.
Leverkusen, another strong team, has also bought many players, such as Emre Can and other powerful players, but because it sold its main forward Schürrle to Chelsea of the Premier League for 22 million, it is still
It makes people wonder about their ambitions in the new season.
Of course, this 22 million seems like a lot to the Bundesliga teams, but in the Premier League and La Liga, it is nothing compared to the rich teams!
Even Gotze's 38 million pales in comparison to them.
The top transfer bidder in Europe this season is Bale.
The great saint switched from Tottenham to Real Madrid for a transfer fee of 91 million euros!
Then there are several strikers, Cavani from Naples to Paris Saint-Germain, 64 million;
Falcao from Atletico Madrid to Monaco, 60 million;
Neymar from Santos to Barcelona, 57 million...
These news can only make people sigh, it is really fucking good to have money!
And look at AC Milan who have no money...
They are selling like crazy this summer. Whether it is the first team, the reserve team or the youth team, they sell everything they can and rent out what they can't!
Not only to collect funds, but also to reduce salary expenditure.
In the end, they actually left the team with more than 30 players!
Most of the players who were added were visa-free or low-priced and low-paid, and many were second- and third-rate players, such as Poli, Saponara, and Silvestre.
The only two things that can make people excited are Italian international Balotelli, and the other is the return of Kaká.
Kaka is also visa-free!
It can be said that from now on, Galliani has officially entered the era of visa-free riding everywhere!
(Note: The transfer window usually lasts for two months, and some transfers only occur before the window closes. This article is a summary so that it does not need to be mentioned again later. Please ignore the time bug automatically.)
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During this summer training camp in Hamburg, Pan Yi was obviously much more relaxed.
First of all, the players. We are all old friends, including the new players. It is a pleasure to work with each other.
Then there are the coaches. Nagelsmann and Inzaghi have been able to arrange the team's various training plans in an orderly manner after a season of training with the first team.
The presence of Pintus makes Pan Yi completely confident that the players can return to their best physical condition after the vacation.
Pintus has designed many high-intensity training programs for Hamburg's summer training camp early on. Some are ball training, and some are a combination of physical fitness training in jumping, sprinting, balance and strength.
The intensity is really great!
For example, just the 10-15 kilometers run that is required before formal training every day makes Pan Yi feel lucky that he is not a player anymore.
Under such training intensity, players can fight harder at critical moments, especially when physical exertion is huge.
Of course, Pintus will also consider the players' recovery training to ensure that players will not be injured under such high-intensity exercise.
In the new season, he also applied to the club to introduce some high-tech equipment. During and after player training, he can monitor and analyze the players' exercise metabolism data in real time based on the data on the equipment, thereby gaining a more comprehensive understanding of the players' physical condition.
Then, Pintus can develop personalized training plans for specific players based on this series of data, so that they will not die of drought or drought.
Moreover, this careful bald man also proposed to increase the number of team doctors and upgrade the treatment facilities in the medical room, in order to provide the players with the most complete compromise protection.
Or……
Is it so that you can "abuse" players more unscrupulously?
Of course, Pan Yi supported Pintus's measures with both hands - he was not the one being abused anyway!
In fact, it's not just this.
Pan Yi, including Nagelsmann, has always been a coach who values high technology and data analysis the most.
They know that football is constantly improving, and more high-tech products and equipment will be introduced into the competition venues and training grounds.
Under more "meticulous" care, both adult players and young players can receive more and more adequate professional training.
This is why in the future, stars will become famous at an increasingly younger age, while the careers of self-disciplined stars will become longer and longer.
In the past, when you heard a player was 30 years old, you thought he was a veteran who was about to retire, or at least was declining rapidly.
But now, it seems that retiring at the age of 40 is nothing unusual, and players in their 30s are the backbone of world football.
Like Modric, Benzema, including Messi and Ronaldo, there are many people over the age of 30 who have won the Ballon d'Or.
In the 2022 Ballon d'Or selection, the top five players Benzema, Mane, De Bruyne, Lewandowski, and Salah are all players with 30+ points.
All these can show that with the development of science and technology, the potential of the human body is constantly being stimulated.
With scientific training and nutritional treatment, even if every team plays "mad dog" style in the future, the players will still be able to maintain good condition for longer and longer.
Of course, the premise of all this is "science". Now Pintus is synonymous with scientific training, just leave the players to him and that's it!
Therefore, from the first day the Hamburg players entered the training camp, they truly felt what the devil was.
This group of players is actually quite capable physically. After all, they have the youngest average age among the Bundesliga teams, probably around 21 or 22 years old.
But this time, the intensity arranged by Pintus was obviously higher than that of the winter training last season. Many players who overindulged during the holidays could not even last more than ten minutes.
An average training session of ninety minutes really makes them spend every second like a year!
With great difficulty, everyone gritted their teeth and survived this torturous training session. Just when they were all looking forward to taking a rest, the kind-hearted old man with a bald head appeared again.
He began to wave to the players, and then signaled that everyone still needed to run to "relax", not much, just ten kilometers.
These poor children almost collapsed.
And Pintus had to run at the front of the team and declared, "Everyone who runs behind me will be punished!"
So the players can only work hard and keep running hard!
Pintus cheered everyone up while running, shouting "Bravo! Come on! Come on!" and other languages.
Pan Yi, who was watching happily from the sidelines, sympathized with these players, but said he could do nothing to help.
Once on the training ground, our lives are in the hands of this bald man!
Only by practicing hard before the season can we reserve enough physical fitness for frequent games throughout the season, and can we cope with the hard battles at the end of each game.
And Pan Yi also knew that this was just the beginning.
As training progresses, the intensity will only get higher day by day.
This is a way to gradually increase the player's physical limit.
Make a little progress every day, and cumulatively, you will see earth-shaking changes!
The trickling streams merge into the sea, and the tiny bits of dust accumulate into the mountains!
Gradually, the players gradually broke away from the laziness during vacation and began to adapt to Pontus' training.
In the process of training, recovery, training, and recovery, the players also began to feel the improvement that Pintus brought to them. Each of them became more and more confident and practiced more and more vigorously.
Especially the players who just joined Hamburg this season.
For example, Van Dijk said in an interview with the "Hamburg Morning Post" that Hamburg's training intensity and level are very high, even higher than when he was at AC Milan!
"Maybe it's because Pan Yi was just an assistant coach at Milan, so he didn't implement this devilish training method in the team. Oh, of course, it may also be because Milan doesn't have Pintus."
"But this period of training really made me feel completely different from before. It was a visible improvement, an improvement in both my physical and mental aspects!"
"Maybe it's because after Pan Yi became the head coach, he was more free to do what he felt was right. Of course, I think he has become more 'cruel' than during the Milan period. We were often beaten by Pintus.
I was so tortured that I asked him for help, but he never turned a blind eye...haha..."
Salah is also full of confidence:
"Coach Pan Yi told us that this season we must focus on offense and defeat the enemy's defense in a devastating way."
"He also told me that my attacking talents would be rekindled in Hamburg. Of course I believed in him, just as I believed in him at Milan."
"He used a different formation here than in Milan, and also incorporated various football concepts from different schools. His views are really advanced."
"I feel like he is like a person from the future. Coupled with the various high-tech equipment in the club, when I first came to Hamburg, it was like a primitive man who went to the planet Cybertron..."
Of course, Kanter couldn't hide his excitement at being under Pan Yi's tent again. At the end of the interview, the reporter kept expressing his gratitude in English:
"F*** You!"
"F*** You!"
(Note: A video of the interview with Kanter will be released in the Easter Egg Chapter later, so you will understand what he is talking about)
(Another note: I don’t know why the Easter egg chapter has been blocked in the review... You can search for "Kante said thank you")
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At present, the Hamburg team is very popular in the eyes of the media.
Bundesliga runner-up, East Asian Allied Forces, and a coach with a (handsome) personality. When these factors are combined, it is impossible not to attract attention.
Therefore, there are a large number of media reporters squatting outside the door of the Hamburg training center every day.
It can be said that the number of reporters here is not even less than that of Bayern Munich!
Pan Yi is also very open. In addition to some important technical, tactical and routine training, the usual daily training is open to the media, and some fans are even allowed to enter the venue to watch.
This makes the Hamburg training camp very lively every day.
Without affecting training, this actually helps players get into match-ready condition more quickly.
It is a very noisy environment during official competitions, with cheers, horns, people calling your name, people cursing... you name it.
This can be regarded as allowing everyone to adapt to the competition environment in advance.
Most of Hamburg's players are young and will work harder in training when the media and fans are watching.
Who would want to let outsiders see them being lazy? Not to mention there are so many guns and mobile phone cameras pointing at them.
Of course, you will also encounter some surprises during this process.
For example, some female fans will hold up signs supporting Hasebe Makoto and shout: "Hasebe-kun is the best, Hasebe-kun is the best!"
Another group of fans clenched their fists and shouted: "I love Son Heung-min, I love Son Heung-min!"
Fans from both sides started quarreling when they disagreed, and the situation was relatively stalemate for a while.
In the end, Pan Yi personally came to appease the fans, and the fans naturally formed a united front, shouting: "Pan Yi, Pan Yi, I love you!" "If you marry, you must marry Pan Yi!" "Pan Yi Oppa, Yi Xitru!
" and other slogans, and they are as harmonious as a family.
After training, Pan Yi will also allow players to be interviewed, provided that they have not fallen down due to fatigue.
Pan Yi himself also accepted a focused interview with a reporter from "Bild" after the day's training.
The reporter asked: "There are rumors that Hamburg's transfer budget this summer is as high as 50 million euros, and everyone is also speculating whether you will bring a real superstar to the transfer market. But in fact you only spent more than 3,000 euros."
Wan, and apart from the introduction of a few old players from Milan, there are no exciting big-name stars. Can you explain why you made such a choice?"
Pan Yi said with a smile: "First of all, it's not as much as 50 million euros. Secondly, when I buy people, I always only look at their strength, not their fame. I also look at whether the new players can really be useful in my lineup. So I have
We are very satisfied with the operation of Xia Chuang. This is better than spending 50 million just to buy a Cavani? What’s more, we can’t afford it.”
The reporter asked again: "What Coach Pan Yi means is that the team's strength has still increased. So, will the championship goal announced last season still not change?"
Pan Yi smiled again and said with confidence: "We already won the runner-up in the league last season. If we don't win the championship this season, wouldn't it be a step back? This is not in line with my philosophy of life. So, this season I
I will definitely lead Hamburg to defeat Dortmund, defeat Bayern and win the Bundesliga championship!"
The reporters at the scene were a little excited.
Although Pan Yi had previously mentioned his goal of winning the championship, he announced it again before the start of the season, which further illustrates the confidence of this young coach.
This can be regarded as a challenge to the Bundesliga powers, especially Bayern, and it is even a bit provocative.
This is actually very rare.
After all, football matches are ever-changing and anything can happen in a long season. Therefore, even if you are as strong as Bayern and as confident as Guardiola, you would not dare to promise to win the championship before the game even starts.
Even when expressing the team's vision, most of them use vague language such as "I hope the team can win the championship", "We have to play the game one by one", "We have the ability to win the championship".
Pan Yi, as a young Dragon State coach who has just turned 27, dared to say so categorically that he "definitely wants to win the championship", which is indeed enough to make headlines.
The reporter asked: "The Hamburg team's players are very young, how can they compete with more experienced teams? Are you too optimistic?"
Pan Yi shook his head: "The addition of Van Dijk, Kante, and Salah has made them stronger. Although they are young, they have been fighting in Serie A for two seasons and are already considered to be excellent in immediate combat. Plus the captain
Westerman, Makoto Hasebe and others, we actually have no shortage of experience. We have spent a season running in, and the new players are also my old subordinates. They will get better and better as they play. Maybe I said this about them
There will be pressure, but if a team wants to be successful, it has to withstand all kinds of pressure."
The reporter asked: "Who do you think the team's biggest competitor is this season?"
Pan Yi smiled: "Isn't this asking a question knowingly? I have already answered it just now."
In today's Bundesliga, if you want to win the championship, you have to cross the two mountains of Dortmund and Bayern.
Of course, due to Dortmund's unstable state, Hamburg also beat them twice last season. In fact, this mountain has been crossed.
So Pan Yi's biggest enemy is Bayern!
Other teams are even less afraid.
The reporter still asked: "Aren't you optimistic about Leverkusen? Or Schalke 04, Monchengladbach. They have all improved to varying degrees."
Pan Yi shook his head: "I don't mean to disrespect them, but I only have Bayern in my eyes now."
The reporter asked: "You keep saying you want to beat Bayern, but do you think the current Hamburg has no shortcomings? Can it challenge a triple crown champion like Bayern?"
Pan Yi smiled: "Of course there are shortcomings, but I won't tell you."
The reporters all laughed.
Pan Yi continued: "But what I want to say is that if we encounter Bayern again this season, we will not take the initiative to defend because we are afraid of their strength."
Finally, Pan Yi ended the interview with a powerful speech:
"In the new season, we will show everyone how Hamburg plays a beautiful offense!"