Time has entered June, and the European transfer market is slowly opening.
Everyone has gradually noticed that the major media have undergone some subtle changes in their wording when commenting on the Premier League.
For example, when talking about winning the Premier League in the past, BIG4, or the traditional top four, or the four major families were inevitably mentioned.
These four teams are Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool.
Although Everton, Tottenham Hotspur and other teams have occasionally shaken their position as the traditional top four in the past few years, it is basically difficult to shake the foundation. They often recover immediately after adjustments.
Nowadays, when everyone mentions the Premier League, they will unconsciously mention the top five.
Yes, on the basis of the traditional top four, Manchester City has been added.
Some media will even mention the top six, in addition to Manchester City, there is also Tottenham Hotspur.
In last season's Champions League, Tottenham Hotspur's performance was really amazing, especially Gareth Bale. It can be said that he climbed to the position of European star by stepping on Maicon's shoulders.
For the time being, many wealthy teams are still waiting to see how far Gareth Bale can play, and Tottenham Hotspur will continue to build the team around Gareth Bale.
Tactics further highlight Gareth Bale's role and ability, making him more valuable.
At this point, the goals of the club and the players are the same.
For a team like Tottenham, it is very necessary to obtain a huge transfer fee through Gareth Bale, strengthen the team's recruitment, and then promote the healthy development of the club.
Just like Arsenal, in fact it's not that the Gunners don't want to sell Fabregas, but that the price offered by Barcelona is not high enough.
The Gunners are also in urgent need of transfer income to help the club recruit players. Otherwise, Wenger will be a clever woman who cannot make a living without rice.
In fact, after last season's games, everyone can clearly see that the world of the Premier League has changed.
The rise of Manchester City is not a possibility, it is a fact.
If a team that can continuously slaughter Arsenal and Manchester United on the road is not considered a strong opponent, then what is considered a strong team?
More importantly, after the end of the season, Manchester City proved its success by winning the Triple Crown. At the same time, it also allowed everyone to clearly see Manchester City's overall strength and stable season performance.
Today, Manchester City is in a period of rapid growth, and general manager Soriano has made it clear that the team will continue to increase its recruitment efforts this summer and continue to improve the team's strength. This is undoubtedly a signal.
What about other teams?
Manchester United is sucked by the Glazer family, Arsenal has no money, Chelsea's owner does not invest, Liverpool is experiencing a trough, and Tottenham Hotspur do not yet have the strength to challenge for the championship...
Under this circumstance, the Premier League is no longer the traditional top four, but the real top five or top six.
No matter how it is arranged, Manchester City will definitely be included.
Even Tottenham Hotspur has the ability to hit the top four, because they almost broke into the top four last season.
Six teams compete for four spots, how to adjust?
Everyone is already very clear.
The competition in the Premier League in the new season will be unprecedentedly fierce, especially the battle for the top four.
If it can be said that participating in the Champions League was originally a ban for the traditional top four, then now Manchester City and Tottenham have touched their cake, and the traditional top four must also give a strong counterattack to defend their interests.
That’s an income of 20 to 30 million euros. Who can ignore it?
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They all need to be strengthened, but the situations they face are different.
The strategy given by Manchester United is to rejuvenate. When Van der Sar and Scholes decided to retire, Ferguson introduced Spanish goalkeeper De Gea from Atletico Madrid for 21 million pounds to fill Van der Sar's position. vacancies, while vigorously promoting Cleverley and Welbeck.
At the same time, Phil Jones was brought in from Blackburn for 17 million pounds, and Ashley Young was brought in from Aston Villa for 16 million pounds. Ferguson always insisted on the introduction of young players.
Several players are not very old, but they are all young rookies full of potential.
This makes people look forward to Manchester United's situation, but also somewhat worried.
Can Ferguson really use this group of young players to wash away the shame of last season's Sanya king?
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Chelsea's situation is more complicated.
After Ancelotti was fired in an almost humiliating way, no famous coach was willing to take over the Blues for a while. In the end, Villas-Boas, who was only 33 years old, was chosen.
In order to get Villas-Boas, Chelsea even paid a huge liquidated damages for him, up to 13 million pounds.
So much so that even the Portuguese media couldn't stand it and thought it was too outrageous. The head coach's transfer fee was actually higher than that of many first-tier players. Isn't this a joke?
After signing Villas-Boas, Chelsea threatened to give a transfer budget of 80 million pounds.
After Villas-Boas joined Chelsea, the Blues quickly introduced talented center Lukaku from Anderlecht in Belgium for a high price of 18 million pounds.
This young player has been pursued by many European giants in the past year, including Manchester City.
But after several considerations, Lukaku finally chose Chelsea.
After failing to lure Modric from Bayern, Chelsea decisively adjusted their goals and introduced Portuguese midfielder Meireles from Liverpool for 11 million pounds and Barcelona midfielder Meireles for 5.5 million pounds. The youngster Romeu brought in the youngster Lucas Piazon from Sao Paulo, Brazil, for 7.5 million pounds.
Just when everyone was wondering that Chelsea was not making any big moves, The Sun suddenly broke the news that under the operation of agent Mendes, Chelsea finally paid a high price of 40 million euros from Porto from Porto by paying the termination fee. Introducing Falcao.
This undoubtedly once again triggered a strong reaction from the world football community.
If we say that after Paris Saint-Germain spent 45 million euros to introduce Pastore, the European transfer market finally saw a top-notch transfer again, 40 million euros is considered a high price.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Immediately afterwards, Chelsea announced that it would introduce Juan Mata from Valencia for a high price of 30 million euros.
This once again set off a chain reaction.
Valencia finally raised enough funds and immediately used the money to introduce central defender Rami from Lille, talented midfielder Parejo from Getafe, Piatti and goalkeeper Diego Alves from Almeria, etc.
players to further strengthen the team.
After Chelsea invested huge sums of money, they were hindered in purging old players.
For example, veteran players such as Drogba, Anelka, and even Lampard are not in Villas-Boas's plan, but they have not been able to clear out the team. The high annual salaries of these players have discouraged many teams.
And this may also lay hidden dangers for the new season.
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While Manchester United and Chelsea have made big moves one after another, Liverpool has been more low-key.
Dalglish insisted on focusing on local players and successively introduced players such as Downing and Henderson. Henderson was also a midfielder that Manchester City had been paying attention to for a long time, but he finally chose to go to Liverpool.
I guess I am also worried that after arriving at Manchester City, I will be like Gareth Barry, becoming a substitute player for the team and unable to play the main role.
After all, Guardiola has extremely high demands on midfielders, and everyone knows this.
Arsenal's soap opera of selling their captain has finally come to an end after dragging on for several years.
But what is surprising is that Fabregas's transfer fee is not as high as the outside world rumored, but only 26 million pounds. To a certain extent, this is equivalent to a low-price promotion.
In the past few years, everyone can see that Cesc Fabregas has devoted himself to Barcelona, and now he has got his wish.
With the money from selling Cesc Fabregas, Arsenal spent more than 20 million pounds to introduce Oxlade-Chamberlain from Southampton, Gervinho from French Ligue 1 Lille, and Korean player Park Joo-young from Monaco.
Everton brought in Arteta and also brought in high school defender Per Mertesacker from Werder Bremen.
Among them, Arteta is here to fill Cesc Fabregas' vacancy, while Mertesacker is here to make up for the team's defensive weakness.
Arsenal's centre-backs have been humiliated a lot over the years.
For example, Senderos was knocked away by Su Dong and was brutally beaten by Drogba. Djurou and Koscielny were also frequently humiliated by Su Dong last season. All these made Arsenal's defenders miserable.
This time Wenger also made the decision to bring in high school defender Per Mertesacker.
The Independent newspaper, which is close to Arsenal, used the provocation, "If Sudong really has the ability to knock Mertesacker off, I will lose!"
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While other teams are recruiting heavily, Manchester City is also operating in an orderly manner.
After signing Javi Martinez for 25 million euros, the team soon announced that it had introduced Brazilian talented winger Douglas Costa from Shakhtar Donetsk, Ukraine, for 15 million euros.
Originally, Manchester City wanted to introduce Neymar, but the ownership of this player was very complicated and he was very close to Barcelona chairman Rosell, so Manchester City finally adjusted its target and chose Douglas Costa of Shakhtar Donetsk.
Not only that, Manchester City quickly signed the talented Belgian winger Eden Hazard from Lille.
The best player in the Ligue 1 last season was favored by many wealthy teams, but Manchester City finally convinced him with long-term contacts and two phone calls from head coach Guardiola and captain Su Dong.
Zall, putting aside his doubts, joined Manchester City.
Azar said in an interview with Belgian media, "Su Dong told me on the phone that he was very much looking forward to cooperating with me. This is an invitation that no one can refuse."
As time has just entered July, Manchester City announced the most important transfer of this summer.
Atletico Madrid, Aguero!
The transfer fee is 45 million euros!
It tied the transfer fee paid by Paris Saint-Germain to introduce Pastore and became the top transfer bidder this summer!
With this transfer, Manchester City's total investment reached 110 million euros, becoming the team with the most investment in the European transfer market this summer.
This makes everyone firmly believe that Manchester City in the new season will only be stronger and better than last season!
