Does UEFA's "Financial Fair Play Policy" have an impact on the transfer market? It definitely does, and it's definitely not small. Although Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus, and Bayern have made big investments, they have affected the European transfer market. But this year
The European transfer market is much quieter than last summer, even compared to the summer before that.
Last year, the transfer fees of the five major European leagues in the summer almost reached 2.7 billion euros, setting a new record in the European transfer market. However, the total transfer fees of the five major leagues this summer did not add up to 2 billion, and only just reached 1.5 billion euros.
That's all.
However, the player's agent is not discouraged. Because although the transfer market is not as hot as the previous two years this summer, player salaries have skyrocketed. Barcelona's Messi renewed his contract and received 13 million euros after tax. It has become the current
The highest paid player in world football.
Following him are Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaká. Both of their salaries exceed 10 million euros. The three of them are currently the only three players in European football whose annual after-tax salary exceeds 10 million euros.
.
Of course, if the three of them are the three most outstanding superstars in today's world football, other players do not need to be compared with them. Then the transfer of Yaya Toure can be regarded as a milestone in European football.
The influence of Yaya Toure's contract is definitely greater than that of Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Because Yaya Toure is a first-class player in European football and can be compared with him in European football.
There are still a lot of players. Therefore, many world-class players can use Yaya Toure as a benchmark.
Yaya Toure actually received a weekly salary of 220,000 pounds when he came to Manchester City, which instantly rewrote the history of the Premier League. Then Torres also received a weekly salary of 220,000 pounds. David Silva received 150,000 pounds.
Thiago Silva received 130,000 pounds. Except that although Tevez requested a salary at the same level as Torres, he finally only reached a weekly salary of 190,000 pounds with Manchester City.
Other Manchester City players have changed their contracts with Manchester City. For example, Modric received a salary of 170,000 pounds at once, Kompany received a salary of 130,000 pounds, etc.
Manchester City's contract extension this time has made European football clubs frown, but it has made European football agents crazy. They are all gearing up to demand higher salaries for their players.
Under such circumstances, the new season begins.
"Group C, Manchester City."
On August 31, 2009, the Champions League draw ceremony was held. As the Secretary-General of UEFA, in fact, the Secretary-General is the Chief Executive Officer of UEFA. Platini had just been elected President of UEFA. At that time, the UEFA President
The CEO is Olsson, Johansson's best friend. In other words, the CEO is the CEO of UEFA. He plays a very important role in European football and his power is boundless.
Therefore, Platini proposed the establishment of the position of Secretary General of UEFA, and the scope of responsibilities was that of the original CEO. Platini appointed Merkley Bawell as the Secretary General. Of course, this was agreed upon by everyone before.
Later, Olsson resigned. But the position of CEO, that is, chief executive officer, was abandoned because the power rested with the position of Secretary-General. Later, the title UEFA Secretary-General was used.
But because everyone is used to it, when talking about it, it still refers to the CEO of UEFA. Following the announcement of UEFA Secretary General Pavel Merkley, the face of Manchester City Club Chairman Mubarak collapsed in the audience.
He came down. Of course, Pellegrini's face didn't look good either.
But the camera turned to Mourinho, who was still cool. His real thoughts could not be seen. Galliani in Milan was also an old fox, and his thoughts could not be seen at all. Only Milan's
Head coach Leonardo looked ugly.
As for the other club Marseille, everyone has ignored it. This group is a veritable group of death, including Real Madrid, Milan, Marseille, and the last one is the upstart Manchester City.
After Mubarak and Pellegrini looked at each other, they both showed wry smiles. They understood that Manchester City, as a fourth-tier team, is prone to a group of death. But for such a group of death to appear, it must be
There is an element of deliberate suppression by UEFA. Especially Real Madrid was included in it to suppress Florentino's arrogance.
"Coach Pellegrini, who do you think can emerge from this group?"
This group is the only dead group in this Champions League group stage, so reporters rushed over just after the draw. Manchester City has been a very prosperous club in European football in recent years, and this summer it is the most prosperous club.
The Football Federation is furious.
"All teams that can compete in the Champions League are strong teams, but we at Manchester City are not a weak team either."
Although he encountered clubs such as Real Madrid and Milan, which are the real kings of the Champions League, Pellegrini was not depressed. On the contrary, now that there is a stage like Manchester City, he still hopes to compete with them.
…………
Ideals are beautiful, but reality is cruel. Compared with Real Madrid players, what Manchester City players lack most is competition experience. Basically every player on Real Madrid's side has experienced hundreds of battles.
Needless to say, Cristiano Ronaldo was the number one goalscorer at Arsenal. That period was when Arsenal was at its most glorious in the Champions League. It also entered the Champions League semi-finals and the Champions League final. Needless to say, Franck Ribery was even in the World Cup finals.
He has played and won the Champions League at Manchester United. Xabi Alonso even won two Champions League titles with Benitez at Liverpool. As for Casillas, needless to say, he was already the Champions League nine years ago.
He won the Champions League with Real Madrid. Others like Essien and Carvalho were the absolute main players during Mourinho's Chelsea period.
But Manchester City is different. Modric, the core of the midfield, played in Dortmund before coming to Manchester City. He never played in the Champions League at Dortmund, and he never played in the Champions League at Manchester City. Although David Silva is Pellet
A direct disciple of Grigni, but he was Riquelme's follower in the beginning, and he has only been on his own for two years. Torres's performance in Atletico Madrid's Champions League was not very good.
At present, for Manchester City, only Yaya Toure has rich experience in the Champions League. But Manchester City's defense is a very young lineup. Richards, Thiago Silva, Kompany, and Baines, their Champions League experience
Experience is relatively lacking.
Although the transfer fee for Manchester City players is high, in terms of Champions League experience, it is one level behind Real Madrid players. It showed after the game started. Mourinho's Real Madrid pays attention to fast and quick counterattacks. Pellegrini pursues
Although it is not Barcelona's ball-control style, it is still an attacking style after possession. However, facing Mourinho's Real Madrid, they were beaten to the point of dismemberment.
"Alonso, hand it over to Di Maria... Di Maria, long pass!"
In order to deal with Barcelona, Mourinho came up with a defensive counterattack strategy. Of course, Real Madrid's counterattack is very different from Chelsea's. It is a complete whirlwind style of play.
An attack can be completed in just a few kicks. Guardiola created the most amazing ball possession rate in Barcelona, while Mourinho created the most amazing counterattack in Real Madrid.
World football has developed for a hundred years. After Michels created the total offense and total defense tactic, and after Cruyff proposed the concept of owning the ball, many coaches adopted a pass-and-control style of play. But like Guardiola.
To the extreme of complete possession of the ball, Guardiola was the first.
Similarly, there are many coaches who practice defensive counterattacks since the development of football. Even now there are many active in European football. But like Mourinho, who uses the counterattack speed to such an extreme, Mourinho is definitely the first
indivual.
This was the case this time. The midfielder intercepted the ball, and then just passed it with two feet. The ball had already reached the feet of Cristiano Ronaldo. Di Maria looked very thin, but his breakthrough ability was very strong. But he was stronger.
Instead, it was this kind of 45-degree cross. The ball happened to bypass Manchester City's defense and came to the middle of Manchester City's two central defenders.
"Cristiano Ronaldo, he is very fast. Kompany obviously can't keep up with his speed... Cristiano Ronaldo, he passed Joe Hart."
Although Cristiano Ronaldo was very strong when he was at Arsenal, Arsenal's attack points were very scattered. In comparison, he was different at Real Madrid. The defensive counterattack created by Mourinho is very suitable for strong players.
, Cristiano Ronaldo played with fast speed and good shooting.
"Empty goal, this is an empty goal. Cristiano Ronaldo, shoot!"
"One to zero, one to zero. With a counterattack by Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid took the lead against Manchester City in the away game."
"Manchester City still has a big advantage at their home court. But it is obvious that Manchester City's attack was too fierce. On the contrary, Real Madrid was very low-key in the away game, and they actually greeted the game with a low profile. It should be said that Pellegrini said before the game
In terms of layout, he was inferior to Mourinho."
This is indeed the case. Pellegrini came to an upstart like Manchester City, and his mentality began to change. When he was at Villarreal, he was able to consciously lower his profile because he knew that Villarreal
Yal is a weak team. But after arriving at Manchester City and starting to spend money lavishly, he now has the ambition to compete with the giants.
Therefore, Pellegrini really wants to compete with Real Madrid in this home game. Therefore, Manchester City attacks and Real Madrid defends. Unfortunately, the opponent is Mourinho. Mourinho does not care about face. Winning is his only goal.
purpose. After the game started, it seemed that Manchester City had the advantage, but what Mourinho's team is least afraid of is the so-called advantage in possession of the ball.
"The group of death, the group of death. This is really the group of death." (To be continued...)
