Chapter 990 Entering August
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With the end of the goal-changing action involving seven well-known goalkeepers and five Serie A clubs, the European transfer market has finally entered a relatively calm period. In the past half month, the various powerful men who consumed a lot of shells began to calm down. They now need enough time to allow new players to run in with the team, form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, and play their due role in the team's journey in the new season.
Of course, as mentioned before, this calm is only relatively speaking. For some teams, such as Sampdoria, who has been trying to strengthen the roster after returning to Serie A, and Real Madrid and Barcelona, who are ready to move after the presidential election, these clubs will obviously not stop.
The first thing to do is Barcelona, who has lost the general Figo, and is eager to use heavyweight signings to regain his reputation among fans. Gaspart, who will invest all the transfer fee and original transfer budget that he received when he sold Figo, into the transfer market, and prepare to catch a few big fish this summer!
So, on the last day of July, Gaspart finally completed his first signing since taking office. Barcelona announced that they would introduce their two main players from Arsenal at a package price of 60 million US dollars: French midfielder Petit and Dutch fast Ma Ovemas!
People are still quite optimistic about these two acquisitions by Gaspart. Petit's arrival can effectively strengthen Barcelona's defense that has been criticized, provide the necessary hardness for the midfield, and allow Guardiola to devote more energy to the organization. Ovemas, who can be competent for the right forward, is regarded by Barcelona fans as the perfect stand-alone for Figo. The Dutch also has performed very well in this summer's European Cup. Moreover, as the golden generation of Ajax, he can easily integrate into the Barcelona team with the Dutch Gang as the main body, and the possibility of being unacceptable to the local environment is naturally reduced to the lowest level.
Immediately afterwards, Gaspart announced the next day that the team had introduced Gerard from Valencia for 24 million euros, bringing the leftover youth training bead back to the Camp Nou Stadium!
With the birth of these major acquisitions, Gaspart has somewhat recovered some of the image of losing after Figo's departure and won the trust of fans again... Of course, if you want to completely settle the position of Barcelona's chairman, Gaspart needs to let the team achieve excellent results in the new season, otherwise, fans and the media will not buy it.
Among the praises, only Zhuang Mingge took the opposite attitude towards this. Because only he knew that Gaspart's current seemingly wise transfers did not actually have the effect as it should be. Petit and Ovemas were both plagued by serious injuries after transferring to Barcelona and did not make much contribution at all. Gerard, who returned to his parent team, unfortunately caught up with the most chaotic period of Barcelona. In addition, several head coaches were unwilling to give him a chance, and finally exhausted his youth and aura on the bench and faded out of people's sight and became indifferent to everyone.
Compared with Barcelona, which has been making huge moves, Real Madrid has also introduced many players during this period. Although they consumed a lot of "ammunition" in Figo's transfer, Florentino, who had food in his hands, was obviously not panicked. "God's Lafite" who wanted to be on par with the legendary chairman Bernabeu, first dug up their main midfielder Flavio Concesan from last season's league champion La Coruna for a high price of $27 million, and then introduced Argentine winger Santiago Solari who played for his city's rival Atletico Madrid at a low price, further strengthening the depth of the midfield.
Although the team's strength has increased a lot, Lafite, who has not achieved the expected goal, felt very uncomfortable - the overall strength of the team has indeed increased, but the amount of sponsorship contracts and commercial cooperation with these stars has not reached Florentino's expectations!
It's no wonder that people are now focusing on Serie A, which has staged a team change game, and their attention to La Liga has naturally decreased.
The reason why Real Madrid in his previous life was able to have such a big impact after poaching Figo is largely because Real Madrid won the Champions League two times in the past three seasons, and also occupied three places in the Champions League semi-finals with Barcelona and Valencia in the 99-00 season, and staged the first civil war in the history of the Champions League final, greatly enhancing the position of La Liga in international football. These factors combined together lay a solid foundation for Florentino's superstar policy and commercialization operation. Therefore, although Figo's world number one value plays a key role in Real Madrid's commercialization process, it is not the most important part.
Now, due to the carefully planned Serie A team's goal change action planned by Zhuang Mingge and the Italian national team in this life's just-concluded European Cup, Florentino's move to poach Figo from his arch rival Barcelona at a sky-high price did not cause a global sensation like in his previous life, and was also diluted by the storm caused by the subsequent two heavy transfers of Tordo and Buffon.
After all, no matter how outstanding Figo's performance is, the one who made this transfer is Real Madrid, the club with the most brilliant record in Spanish football history. Now the strongest national team in the world is still Italy, the league with the highest football level is still Serie A, and the most familiar to fans is still Fiorentina, which has won four championships in the Champions League in five years, rather than Real Madrid, who has missed the Big Ear Cup for more than 30 years. Without these foundations, Figo has no way to challenge Tordo and Buffon in his peak period. It is naturally difficult for Lafayette to use the Portuguese transfer to establish the status of Real Madrid as a top giant.
Therefore, it is obvious that Florentino still needs a long way to go to further enhance Real Madrid's influence and money-making ability around the world.
The La Liga two are making trouble in the transfer market, and Sampdoria, who is backed by the Russian wealthy, is naturally not willing to fall behind. Repka and Kois, who play for Vicenza, and Miku, Monaco's front midfielder, refused to renew their contract with Florence and chose to leave freely, both of them were defeated under the money offensive of Berezovsky and became a member of the Aquarium Legion!
Chapter completed!