Chapter 5 Crazy Summer 09
On the night after the Champions League awards ceremony, the European Super Cup will be held at the Monaco II Stadium. Qin Tian and his party did not come to watch it. After all, the evening is the fourth round of the Premier League. I have to say that the Premier League schedule is the most fucking one.
Chelsea, who played at home, did not give their opponent Burnley any chance, and won the opponent cleanly and neatly with 2:0. In this game, Qin Tian and Terry were arranged to play as a substitute in the second half. After all, they were still in Monaco during the day. Anyway, their opponents are not very strong, so they just think they are accumulating physical strength for the Champions League group stage.
Later, the whole Chelsea team also watched this year's Super Cup game collectively. After all, Barcelona will be one of Chelsea's main opponents in the Champions League this year. This game is a good opportunity to observe the opponent. It was not unexpected to people's expectations. 08-09 UEFA Champions League champion Barcelona defeated the UEFA Cup champion Donetsk Miners 2:1 and won the fifth championship. The Barcelona people are very powerful.
After the Super Cup, it was announced that other leagues in mainland Europe, La Liga and Serie A were about to kick off, and all teams entered the 2009-10 season. At this moment of each year, it is also the time for major TV stations and major media to summarize the summer transfers.
Although Chelsea has won the title of the king, the most talked about is Real Madrid in La Liga. As the mainstream media of European sports, France's "Team" also commented at the end of the summer transfer and made a summary, titled "European transfers have entered an unprecedented boom season, with four major excitement points stirring the market."
"Since Florentino's second time on stage at Real Madrid, it indicates that this summer will be extraordinary. La Liga led by Real Madrid has been the master of transfer news in a summer. Finally, after being suppressed by the Premier League for two years, it has become the first league in Europe to invest in transfers. You should know that La Liga would still be a league that will make a profit a year ago. Driven by this wave of money burning, the total transfer expenditure of the five major leagues this summer has reached
2.038 billion euros, surpassing 1.6 billion a year ago, second only to the 2.285 billion summer of 2007. The Premier League invested 584.14 million euros, La Liga invested 481.05 million euros, Serie A invested 447.65 million euros, Bundesliga invested 226.26 million euros, and Ligue 1 invested 249.55 million euros. The five major leagues were unified and the transfer market was unprecedentedly prosperous.
The curtain of the European transfer market slowly fell. Although there was no surprise that made people happy or excited on the last day, this did not affect the use of three big exclamation marks to describe this crazy summer.
The reason for such results is multifaceted. At first glance, the overall world economy has not recovered yet, and the purchasing power of each club is not too strong. The "luxury" transaction of players buying and selling does not have room for a significant increase in transaction volume. But the actual situation is not the case. The five major leagues each have their own excitement points, different motivations, and different purposes have jointly contributed to the continuous turmoil of the transfer market this summer. Almost from the first day to the last day, clubs waving checkbooks every day, and every day there are players we are familiar with flying over the European continent.
The most important word in La Liga and even the entire European transfer market is Real Madrid. Although Chelsea has emerged and Qin Tian has become the leader of the summer of 2009 for 100 million yuan, Real Madrid is still the only one in terms of overall impact.
Seeing that Barcelona, the only opponent in the same country, won three championships in the Champions League, La Liga and Copa del Rey last season, Real Madrid, as the leader of Spain, could no longer sit still. The crushing defeat against Barcelona last season made Chairman Calderon completely become a cross-border rat, and Florentino just took the lead.
After taking office, Florentino also changed his previous strategy of buying a superstar a year when he was in power. This time he changed to a fat man in one bite. He greedily looked at the top stars in England, Italy, Germany and France. In addition to pro-heaven, Ronaldo and Kaka came one after another, introducing the top Ligue 1 striker Benzema, invited Alonso from the Premier League, and acquired Albiol, Argentine central defender Gare. From June 2
Galliani flew to Madrid to negotiate Kaka's transfer and began to sell Oh to Getafe on August 31. Real Madrid purchased 9 players in total and sold 14 players. The investment in the transfer market reached a crazy 257.4 million euros, which was higher than the total investment added to Ligue 1 and Bundesliga. Imagine that if Bayern had not refused to let Ribery and Qin Tian was poached by Chelsea, what would this number be?!
More importantly, Real Madrid's investment has played a great role in promoting the transfer market. The most typical example is Barcelona, which was forced by Real Madrid to invest 111.5 million in the transfer market. Barcelona, which was originally planned to have only 30 million euros this year, had Real Madrid made huge moves, and Barcelona's management had to find ways to raise funds and increase investment. First, it introduced Ibrahimovic's superstar policy against Real Madrid, and finally, under the strong demand of Guardiola, Ziglinsky was introduced to enhance the team's competitiveness.
In other leagues, Real Madrid's influence is also very huge. AC Milan introduced Hunteral because Kaka was poached by Real Madrid, Manchester United introduced Valencia because of Ronaldo's prying, Liverpool introduced Aquigani because of Alonso's prying, Lyon introduced Lopez because of Benzema's departure... The transfer value directly introduced by Real Madrid's forced poaching was more than 50 million euros, and the series of subsequent chain reactions caused are even more difficult to estimate.
Looking at other leagues, the keyword in the Premier League is Chelsea, while that is Manchester City. When it comes to Chelsea, it is because the transaction they can make is still Qin Tian’s 100 million transfer. Apart from this, they are actually the same as the other three traditional giants, low-key. Everyone seems to have maintained an amazing tacit understanding and try not to invest in this summer that is not suitable for buying players, as Ferguson said. However, Manchester City people who have received oil and euros injected into the oil and euro obviously do not think so.
First, the purchase of Kaka failed in January, and then in the summer, the purchase of Qin Tian failed. The head coach and even the team's management had to readjust their transfer policies and lower the recruitment target from superstars to more operational quasi-superstars. So we saw Adebayo, Tevez, Toure and others coming one after another, and Manchester City supported half of the Premier League.
In a sense, it is Manchester City's crazy investment that has caused even greater stimulation to the mid- and lower-stream teams in the Premier League than the four giants. The reason is very simple. The four giants are unattainable, while Manchester City's rising strength will directly affect the survival space of the mid- and lower-stream teams.
The keyword of Serie A is Juventus. Since Real Madrid and Barcelona dominate the market, Serie A has begun to become the best place for La Liga to abandon players. Inter Milan made a big investment in the transfer market. In addition to taking over Etoo of Barcelona and Sneider of Real Madrid, they also miraculously made a big profit from Barcelona because of Ibrahimovic. This is definitely a big miracle in the history of Morati's helm.
Last season's runner-up Juventus was actively expanding his army to prepare for the war, with the goal of hoping to regain his strength. In order to urgently use a championship trophy to end the negative impact of the "phone gate" incident, he first invited Cannavaro from Real Madrid, and then snatched Fiorentina's trick midfielder Melo from Arsenal with 25 million real money, and introduced Bremen core Diego for 24.5 million. The introduction of Grosso on the last day fully demonstrated the ambitions of Ferrara and the old woman management, and made the team a sudden force in the transfer market today.
It is hard to imagine that after Kaka leaves, Hunteral, Oneu, Abat and others who make up for Kaka can make up for Kaka's lack. Perhaps the new season will be the most difficult season after Berlusconi comes to Milan.
The keyword of the Bundesliga is Schalke 04's top spot in the league standings for two consecutive years, which deeply stimulated the former overlord Bayern Munich. They were eager to regain their glory and their championship throne. For the same reason, Schalke 04 received 100 million yuan from Chelsea, allowing them to continue to convert into the team's investment for long-term stability, while other teams were inspired by Schalke 04's story.
The keyword of Ligue 1 is a new broadcast contract. Since last season, Ligue 1 has begun to execute new broadcast contracts worth up to 668 million euros (per season). Even Le Havre, the last place last season, received 13.14 million euros in broadcast revenue. The revenue of giant clubs such as Lyon, Marseille, etc. has increased its investment in the transfer market. "
At the end of the "Team News", a data statistics were also made, and 6 "five" (units are euros):
Five major money-burning clubs: 1. Real Madrid 171.9 million; 2. Manchester City 117.75 million; 3. Chelsea 99 million; 4. Barcelona 89 million; 5. Bayern Munich 527.5 billion;
Five major profitable clubs: 1. Manchester United 66 million; 2. AC Milan 58.5 million; 3. Porto 44.67 million; 4. Arsenal 37.7 million; Portsmouth 34.33 million;
The five major transfers are invested in clubs: 1. Real Madrid 257.4 million; 2. Manchester City 139.3 million; 3. Chelsea 136.5 million; 4. Barcelona 111.5 million; 5. Inter Milan 99.5 million;
Five major transfer income clubs: 1. Inter Milan 104 million; 2. Manchester United 103.1 million; 3. Real Madrid 85.5 million; 4. AC Milan 80 million; 5. Porto 65.8 million;
Five sky-high-priced stars: 1. Qin Tian 100 million; 2. Ronaldo 94 million; 3. Ibrahimovic 68 million; 4. Kaka 65 million; 5. Alonso 35.4 million.
When the transfer suspension ring rings on September 2, everything ended in 2009. The transfers of the five major leagues cost 2 billion, far exceeding last season. Real Madrid, Manchester City, and Chelsea's leading performances will become an indelible page in football transfer history.
Chapter completed!