Chapter five hundred and sixty-eight continuous signings
After Dick took over, Manchester City, which had seemed to be doing little, soon started making big moves.
A total of fifteen players were dumped into the transfer market. All the agents of the players Dick did not name have received notices from the Manchester City club. You are no longer in Manchester City's plans for next season. You can find a way out on your own or wait.
until the contract expires.
In fact, most of the Manchester City players are mentally prepared for this. There are no big stars among them, and their performance last season was not very good. Manchester City hired Dick and prepared to invest huge sums of money to definitely have an impact.
Champions, instead of aiming for the European stage, why keep them? Manchester City has always been used to buying people, and they don’t have any hardcore players they have trained themselves. To put it bluntly, these players in Manchester City are basically
Mercenaries are also accustomed to wandering. Their income in Manchester City is not very high, and they have never thought about resting on their laurels. After receiving such notice, they all began to prepare to find their next home. You must know that among these players
It’s not that they have nowhere to go. For example, Italian forward Corradi, Belgian forward Mponza, French midfielder Dabo, and local midfielder Sinclair also don’t have to worry about having nowhere to go.
After deciding on the list of purges, Dick was ready to sign players. In fact, the players left by Manchester City were not nine, but ten - you must know that Gareth Bale is actually from Manchester City, but
We will not officially join until the transfer window opens.
Two hundred million pounds of funds have been put into the club's transfer account. Dick can withdraw the money at will. Naturally, it has to be used in the transfer market.
Now Manchester City has no shortage of people at the goalkeeper and right back positions, and there is a shortage of other positions everywhere. Dick did not spend a big price to bring back a superstar as soon as he took office. That would only make Manchester City's future transfers more troublesome. He
The first thing he took a fancy to was Leighton Barnes, a local left-back who plays for Wigan Athletic.
Barnes, the full-back, is a pretty good left-back in the Premier League. In other words, the only English player who can be better than him at this position is Ashley Cole. There is a reason why he has never gone to a wealthy club.
, he has played in the Premier League for two seasons now and performed quite well. The reason why the four major teams did not buy him is because these four major giants have no shortage of left backs - Manchester United has Evra and Chelsea has Cole.
Liverpool has Riise, and it is good for Arsenal to use Clichy to play this position now. Moreover, Arsenal will not spend a lot of money to buy local defenders. This is why Everton missed him. Since then, he has performed well in the Premier League.
One of the most stable left backs, Dick will naturally not let such a player go.
Everton's asking price for Barnes was 6 million pounds, and Dick didn't ask more. He also offered 6 million pounds. Faced with this price, Wigan Athletic knew that they couldn't keep the full-back, and Dick didn't ask for more.
Ke seems to be very smart and has no intention of using money to hit people. Even if he insists on not letting people go, it will not bring much benefit.
After Wigan Athletic agreed to the bids of Everton and Manchester City at the same time, Moyes was very depressed to find that he could not compete with Dick. Although Everton will play in the UEFA Cup next season and Manchester City can only play in the league, but in Dick
Ke called Leighton Barnes and said, "Let's go win the Premier League championship together!" After that, Barnes thought about it for two minutes and decisively agreed to join Manchester City...
"Brother's name is of some use." Dick chuckled.
You must know that the position of full-back is often difficult to fill, so Dick first considered this position. Barnes is not the world's top full-back, but he is also a rare and reliable full-back. And Bell, Dick knows this little
Monkey is not suitable to play as a full-back, and it would be a good thing to hone his skills as a substitute.
After acquiring Barnes, Dick quickly acquired a second player. For the same price of 7 million pounds, he acquired local midfielder Scott Parker from Newcastle.
He performed well last season. Although he is injured now, Dick still believes that he can strengthen Manchester City's midfield. After some bargaining, Dick won the local midfielder.
The third signing continued to come from the local area. Ashley Young, who later played for Manchester United, should have joined Aston Villa at the beginning of this year according to historical circumstances, but for unknown reasons he stayed at Watford.
Germany, after discovering this, Dick quickly took action. At a price of 10 million pounds, Dick won this winger. He can play on the left or right, even in Dick's mind
He may not be able to play the main role, but he is also a good supplement to the frontcourt.
The first three signings cost Dick 24 million pounds. This is considered a big spendthrift for Dick, but there is a reason. The three signings are all local players in England. There is a characteristic of the Premier League.
, that is because local players are extremely expensive, and the household registration is valuable, so there is no way.
Such signings have also aroused many people's discussions. It is Dick's usual style to introduce local players on a large scale. Didn't you see that after he went to Inter Milan, he introduced several local players? Perrotta and Toni both
It can be said that he began to become the main force of the Italian national team under his hands. This characteristic is also very popular among fans. After all, there is no harm in having more local players.
The fourth signing surprised everyone. A signing team sent by Dick went to South America and finally acquired the 20-year-old Chilean midfielder Vidal for five million pounds.
The young player who led his team to third place in the South American Youth Championship and scored six goals, ranking second on the scorer list, is about to sign a contract with Manchester City. He will only be able to officially become a member of Manchester City once he gets his labor certificate - although he
He was not selected for the national team, but he played all the games in the South American Youth Championship. With such results, there is no big problem in obtaining a labor certificate.
Just one week later, Dick won four players in a row. However, among these four players, except for Barnes, who will be the main player, others may not become the main player. Dick's main force framework still needs to be slowly filled.
But now it is not enough to just buy players of this level. Dick naturally has his own intentions. The value of such a player will not be too high, at least not inflated. Facing such a player, he is attractive enough, so naturally he will be more valuable.
Smoothly, with such signings, you won't be easily ripped off if you buy top players.
At this point in the preparation, it was time for him to start showing off his talents.
"Well, it seems that I have never used so much money before... When I was at Atletico Madrid, I only invested tens of millions per season. Dortmund even used one money for two purposes. It was better at Inter Milan.
But I have to plan carefully, now... apart from the 29 million, there are still 171 million... enough for me to do a big job!"
Dick, who was smiling, picked up his cell phone and made a call.
"Hey, Fernando, how are you doing lately?" Dick said cheerfully and loudly after the call was connected.
Torres' wry smile came from the other end of the phone: "Not very good, boss."
"I know you are in a bad mood right now...how are you, are you in Madrid?" Dick asked with a smile.
"Yes, I didn't go on vacation." Torres seemed to know something, and then he also laughed: "Why, boss, do you want me to play for your current team?"
"I have this idea." Dick admitted this: "If you are in Madrid, I think we can have a good chat. I will be in Madrid tomorrow."
"I'm looking forward to your arrival, boss." Torres smiled on the other end of the phone.
After Dick hung up the phone, Torres fell into deep thought.
For Madrid's new golden boy, he never thought about leaving Atletico Madrid. Even though he admired Dick so much at the time, knowing that Xiao Hill drove Dick away out of boredom, he had no feelings for Xiao Hill.
He was very angry with the management, but he never thought about leaving Atletico Madrid because he grew up in the youth team of this club. He has been an Atletico Madrid fan since he was a child. He couldn't imagine wearing anything else.
Even after Dick left, Atletico Madrid was deteriorating from the Champions League winner to only competing for the top four, and then to competing in European competitions... But he never thought about leaving, because
He is the banner of Atletico Madrid. He is like Raul of Real Madrid or Maldini of AC Milan. When did you hear that the banner would leave voluntarily? Isn't this a joke?
However, towards the end of last season, his belief began to waver.
Atletico Madrid's performance last season was very poor. There was no hope of winning the championship. It was impossible to even enter the Champions League. However, it did not fall out of the top six and was guaranteed to win the UEFA Cup. Logically speaking, such results have not been achieved in the past one or two years.
This year is already considered a good one. After all, there are still European games to play next season. At this time, Real Madrid and Barcelona are fighting to the death for the league championship. Barcelona is tied with Real Madrid in points due to its own problems.
And they were lagging behind Real Madrid in terms of the win-lose relationship, which meant that they had to score at least one point more than Real Madrid in the remaining three rounds of the league to win the league championship. At this time, they met Real Madrid.
Competition.
Torres really wanted to win this game, because he learned one thing from Dick, that is, even if there is no honor to speak of in the game, as long as he goes out on the field, he must try his best. He also
He did this on the court - unfortunately, his teammates didn't seem to think so.
At their home court, Atletico Madrid conceded three goals in thirty minutes, and the fourth goal before the end of the first half. Torres worked hard on the court, but he received little support. On the contrary, the backcourt was blocked by a
Losing the ball one after another.
When he came off the field at the end of the first half, Torres and his strike partner Aguero smiled bitterly at each other. Torres also knew why this happened - the reason was simple. The outcome of this game no longer mattered to Atletico Madrid, and as Real Madrid's mortal enemy
, Atletico Madrid is happy to lose to Barcelona, giving Barcelona greater hope of overpowering Real Madrid to win the league title.
But just because he knew this didn't mean he would admit it. The behavior of his teammates and the tacit approval of the top management made him feel as sick as eating flies. During the halftime break, he took the initiative to replace himself.
, and then in the second half, he watched silently on the bench as the team lost 0-6 at home to Barcelona.
Torres began to feel that there was no need to stay at Atletico Madrid any longer. Dick's previous words rang in his mind - "A team can hate an opponent, but if this hatred will override the desire to win,
If it's above, then this team won't have much success."
