Chapter 372. Transfer War

After the end of the Netherlands-Belgium European Cup, major leagues such as Serie A, Premier League, Bundesliga and La Liga in Europe will not start until mid-August at the earliest, and the whole hot July has become a vacuum period for football.

Before the war, food and grass go first. Before the start of the major European leagues, a round of vigorous "big procurement" of soldiers will be carried out every year. Although the U.S. Nasdaq index collapsed in April 2000, the financial crisis in Europe and the United States has begun to spread. Williams, a famous Italian football economic analyst, wrote an article on the official website of the Italian Football Association: "European clubs have spent too much in all aspects in the first two seasons. The salary ratio of Italian players In the past, it increased by 50%, but the club's income has hardly increased, and the financial burden is serious;

In addition, clubs have hoarded a large number of players, and major banks believe that the outbreak of the football economic crisis is only a matter of time.

But Williams' words did not pay attention to it. European football has been booming for a century, and the hundred-legged insects are dead and not stiff. The economic bubble formed in the football transfer over the years has not been broken, and a large number of clubs are still bold and squandering.

First of all, the transfer battle is Serie A, which is known as the Little World Cup.

Italian football has been surviving under the aura of the top three in the North, but after the European Cup, everything changed. The two teams in the south of Rome took the lead in launching a suffocating transfer battle. Lazio, who had just won the championship in the league, bought the popular striker Crespo from Parma for 55 million euros. It also spent 17.9 million euros to buy goalkeeper Peruzi from Inter Milan. What's more incredible is that he ordered Fiore and Giannicada for nearly 50 million US dollars in advance, which is unimaginable. Rome, the sworn enemy of the same city, was not willing to lag behind. They dug 20 million to dig Emerson of Leverkusen, and 32.5 million invited Batistuta, the god of war of Florence. It was not halfway through in July, and both teams invested more than 70 million euros in a net transfer.

Then the battle began with Milan's two heroes. AC Milan took the lead in buying Argentine Prince Redondo for 17 million euros. Of course, the rich Inter Milan will not show weakness. Moratti immediately took action, with big-name strikers such as aliens Ronaldo, Vieri, Mutu, Zamorano and Recoba. In this case, he bought Hakan Sooke, who performed well in this summer's European Cup, for $6 million, and spent another 13 million pounds to buy Robby, known as Irish Owen, from Coventry in the Premier League. Keane.

Then AC Milan attacked everywhere and announced the acquisition of Dida, Kaladze, Josemari and Tomasen. If they can all succeed, it will cost a total of 58.5 million euros, while Moratti will start the transfer of Falinos, Sidorf, Ronaldinho and other big stars. If these players transfer successfully, Inter Milan It will cost 100 million euros.

In the face of the transfer battle between Milan, Juventus general manager Moggi cunningly sat on the mountain to watch the tiger fight and kept a low profile. He bought Italy's Trezeguet in the European Cup for only 23.5 million euros.

The transfer struggle between La Liga, Real Madrid and Barcelona, was even more cruel. After Real Madrid President Sans came down, Florentino came to power and took the Portuguese superstar and led Portugal to the top four of the European Cup, Figo from Barcelona to Real Madrid. Compared with the world's first-time price of $56 million, Figo's departure from Barcelona to turn to the enemy is even more shocking to the world. Everyone knows the hostile relationship between the two teams. Even fans with an IQ of less than 80 know how many wonderful stories there will happen in the national derby in the future.

In order to calm the anger of fans, Barcelona President Gaspat signed Ovimas and Petit from Arsenal for 30 million pounds, of which Ovimas' transfer fee is 20 million pounds and Petty is 10 million pounds. .

But the fans were not satisfied. Gaspat, who lost the league championship and was stimulated by Florentino, immediately announced that Herard, a youth training member who planned to recover from Valencia for 20 million US dollars, offered Betis 15 million US dollars to introduce Alonso, and 10 million euros to pursue Van Bommel of Alkmaar.

2000 was a watershed for Barcelona. In the previous decade, most of Barcelona's transfers were quite excellent, including the low-cost introduction of the Great Laudrup and the Dutch heavy gunner Ronald. Koeman, Dream Team member Bergeristan and captain Bakro, Stoickov introduced by 450W and Romario introduced by 400W, etc. Each of these transfers is a good, cheap and super affordable transfer, which not only allows the team to achieve results, but also allows the latter two to win the Golden Globe Award and World Football first. Born. Louis in 95. Enrique pitched free from Real Madrid and took Fiorengo of Sporting Lisbon from Parma for only $250. After that, Bosman's rule came into effect, and the transfer price of players gradually became higher and higher, but even so, Ronaldo, which was bought from Eindhoven at 1900W in 1996, and Rivaldo, which was introduced from La Coruna in 1997, proved the value for money with their own performance. However, after Figo's transfer to Real Madrid, Barcelona's management seemed to be crazy and there was a series of abnormal operations. Barcelona also entered the dark turmoil at the beginning of the beginning of the century from two consecutive league championships in the Van Gaal era. From then on, Barcelona went up and down until the arrival of Ricard five years later.

The Premier League and Bundesliga around 2000 are not the protagonists of European football. The protagonists are still Serie A and La Liga. In this transfer battle, they only play a role in adding fuel to the flames, not the waves.

Chelsea was the first to launch the transfer battle in the Premier League. Chelsea, which has always been known as a multinational force, hopes to join the first group in the Premier League, but it has been blocked by Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal for many years. They continued to invest this season, recalling Hasselbaink from Atletico Madrid to the Premier League for £15 million.

But the top three of the Premier League did not pay attention to Chelsea. Manchester United only spent 7.8 million pounds to buy goalkeeper Bats from Monaco. Liverpool spent a total of 9 million pounds on Everton's Bumby and Auxerre's Diomede. Babel, McAllister and Afickside are all free bargains. Arsenal's head coach Wenger even boldly sold Ovimas and Petit. Of the 30 million pounds, he only bought Pire from Marseille and 7 million pounds from Maroka to buy Lauren.

In fact, before Abu didn't become the owner, Chelsea was not a big crocodile. It can only be said that he was a rich man. He was very different from Abu four years later in the transfer. The top three of the Premier League should not be played, and Chelsea's transfer match will not be able to fight. Other teams are just a small fight. The transfer market that has set off a bloody storm in La Liga and Serie A can only be a small wave.

Although it didn't cost much money in the transfer market, the British media disdained the British and European public opinion that the Premier League is lagging behind other leagues, and that the Blue Legion led by Via's interest rate is still the Red Devils led by Ferguson in Europe this year. You won't lose to any splurge club. Prior to this, Arsenal's head coaches Frenchman Wenger and Keegan said that the Premier League club would not do well in Europe this season.

Wise, a columnist for The Sun, said sourly: "Clubs in other European countries do have a lot of transfers this season, but we will still achieve good results in Europe. Manchester United, Arsenal and Leeds can do the same. Spanish and Italian clubs have always spent more money than us. You can look back at the past few decades. History is not deceptive. Without a high salary and no signature fee, our players will also fight bravely in Europe to defend the honor of the Premier League. A player will not lose himself completely because of money.

Compared with the moneyless Premier League, the Bundesliga is more pragmatic. More than half of the transfer time in the summer of 2000. Only the Nigerian star Olisehe acquired by Dortmund from Lazio has reached a "sky-high price" of 7 million pounds. Most of the players can't be compared with other leagues in the five major European leagues. There are no big-name stars, and the price is mostly within 1 million to 2 million pounds.

However, this also reflects the pragmatic principle of the Germans. These unknown players may soar in value after playing in the Bundesliga for a season or two. From the perspective of the European Cup, German football is declining, and the Bundesliga is also more ugly than the five major European leagues. In terms of the input and output of the football industry, conservative German football is far from entering the "new economic era". In terms of competition, they have never taken the lead in the past 20 years.

In the face of the transfer frenzy set off by Serie A and La Liga, the top three of the Dutch League and the upstart Alkma are also frightened. Now the immortals are fighting and can't take care of their little shrimps for the time being, but when these superstars finish the transfer, I'm afraid the next step is to kill such a poor as them.

In fact, in mid-July, the midstream teams of La Liga and Serie A began to slow down to attack clubs outside the five major leagues, and Alkmaar, who magically won the Champions League last season, was the first to bear the brunt. Almost every day there are transfer rumors of players, and every day, clubs send letters to the market. Department manager Shelinga hopes to buy Alkmaar's young new star.

As the saying goes, if there are more lice, it will not be itchy, and if there is too much debt, Shringer is also harassed and tired. Under the operation of Jiang Mu and the coaching staff, the four defenders of the defense, Riser, Clone Camp, Lucio and Ismail all increased their salaries to renew the contract with the club. The goalkeeper Cesar also agreed to renew the contract, which at least made Shringer With a little bottom, with this guard line and goalkeeper, Alkmar will at least not be as embarrassed as Ajax in the first two seasons. As long as he retains a few more players in the midfield, or sells a high price and buys a few practical players, Alkmaar can almost keep the domestic position and ease the club's experience. Economic pressure.

However, at this time, suddenly a shocking news came. Milan's "Milan Sport" revealed that Inter Milan was persuading Lippi to resign voluntarily and invited Jiang Mu to coach Inter Milan. The reporter of La Gazzetta dello Sport said that Lippi was seen coming out of Moratti's office and said loudly that he would never resign.

Now Alkmar is in chaos, because Jiang Mu is the backbone of the team. Without Jiang Mu, it is difficult to keep the glory of last season without all the players. Even the long-decentralized club owner Dirk was also shocked. He took the initiative to invite Jiang Mu to dinner, hoping to know whether Jiang Mu is really playing. Count to leave Alkmaar.