Chapter 652 World Cup and Summer Transfer

The European League has just come to an end in May, and the World Cup between Korea and Japan in June has kicked off again.

This is the first World Cup football match jointly hosted by two countries in history, and it is also the first time that a World Cup has been held outside Europe and the Americas. It was also the first World Cup held in Asia. Therefore, there are also two host teams and the defending champion team in this competition. After this World Cup, the defending champion needs to participate in the qualifiers to enter the World Cup final.

Due to the removal of the two big enemies of South Korea and Japan, the Chinese national team, under the leadership of head coach Bola Milutinovic, entered the World Cup final stage for the first time in history. The whole country was jubilant. Everyone is looking forward to the Chinese team's breakthrough in scoring zero in the World Cup. Some media even proposed Shengge. Star Rica, draw with Turkey, a small loss to Brazil's four-point goal.

However, when interviewing Jiang Mu in the Globe, Jiang Mu admitted that the Chinese team has no hope of winning, and may not even get a goal, and is optimistic that the Brazilian team with his two generals will win the championship.

At this moment, the Chinese people are enthusiastic and disdain Jiang Mu's statement. Some reporters and officials of the Football Association think that Jiang Mu is jealous of Milutinovic's reputation in China, so they belittle the Chinese team.

But the facts quickly proved that Jiang Mu's foresight was clear. In the end, on this football feast, the Chinese team lost all three games, conceding nine goals and not scoring a goal, becoming the worst team.

Although the Chinese team played shamefully, they did not surprise the world football at this level. As a favorite to win the championship, the French team was out of the bottom of the group with three games, one draw and two losses, which surprised fans all over the world.

The Brazilian team, which staggered and almost failed to qualify from the South American qualifiers, showed courage. Under the leadership of Ronaldinho, Ronaldo and Rivaldo, the Brazilian team passed all the way, and finally defeated Germany 2-0 to win the fifth World Cup championship.

Ronaldo, who won the best scorer in the World Cup with 8 goals, specifically mentioned Jiang Mu after the game. He believes that without Jiang Mu's encouragement and guidance, he can't recover so quickly, nor can he score so many goals in the World Cup. He hopes to help Inter Milan defend the Champions League in the next season.

Ronaldinho, an important hero of the Brazilian team winning the World Cup, also thanked Jiang Mu after the game, believing that if Jiang Mu coached the national team, he would be fully capable of winning the World Cup.

The vigorous World Cup has passed, and the whole month of Yanyan seems to have become a vacuum period for football, and the transfer market has once again become the focus of the media.

As the saying goes, before the war is fought, food and fodder go first. Before the start of the major European leagues, a round of vigorous "big procurement" of soldiers will be carried out every year. However, compared with a large number of clubs in previous years, the European transfer market is very weak this year. Except for a few Premier League clubs such as Manchester United, which are slightly chic, other clubs have become stingy.

After a century of rapid development, the economic bubble formed in football transfers over the years has finally broken, and its sequelae began to sweep the European continent after the World Cup. Nowadays, the managing directors, presidents and coaches of each club have to consider the club's growing debt before taking action, and at the same time accumulate capital by any means.

Under the serious football economic crisis, Premier League clubs had to tighten their belts to live a hard life. In previous years, rich families could squander hundreds of millions of dollars at will, but now they are hesitating for tens of millions of dollars to buy a big-name star, not to mention those small clubs with shy pockets. This year's most expensive transfer deal is temporarily maintained by the Premier League Manchester United: they bought Leeds United's Ferdinand for 30 million pounds. However, the highest price of this year's transfer is nearly 20 million pounds less than the highest price set by Zidane's transfer last year - 48 million pounds. And Manchester United said that there will be no transfer transactions this year after the completion of the deal.

Chelsea Club, which won the title of "Multinational Force" in the Premier League for buying more foreign players, now has to face the increasing fiscal deficit. They even pushed their star scorer Hassel Baink to the market. Chelsea's Italian coach Ranieri is very rational about the imminent loss of love. He said: "The club needs to be frugal in the future, and the club will not spend a lot of money as much money as before. And I won't put more than five major players on the bench.

Williams, a famous Italian football economic analyst, wrote an article on the official website of the Italian Football Association and said: "European clubs have spent too much in all aspects in the last few seasons, causing a serious financial burden now. According to statistics, the deficit of Serie A last season was 702 million euros, of which Lazio Club The loss reached 60 million euros, and the Roman club lost 42 million euros. Under the current financial situation, banks are not willing to lend money to finance the club's acquisition of players. Because in the past four years, the salary of Italian players has nearly doubled as much as before, but the club's income has hardly increased. In addition, clubs have hoarded a large number of players, major banks believe that the outbreak of the football economic crisis is only a matter of time.

According to statistics, the salaries of Serie A players in the 2000-2001 season increased by 32% compared with the previous season. It is understandable that the value of players is directly proportional to the treatment of players; however, with the expansion of transfer fees, the income of football players has also begun to increase abnormally. In addition, due to the continuous decline in TV broadcasting fees, the total funding source of the league is decreasing, and the club has to control its expenses under this situation. The broadcast fee is a major source of income for those small and medium-sized clubs that already lack blood supply. In this regard, it will directly affect the expenditure and survival of these clubs.

The Bundesliga transfer market is relatively rich among the five major leagues. In this summer's transfer, the Bundesliga spent 96.52 million euros on 99 transfer players, but it was 35% less than last summer's record $1472.5 million.

The Italian Football Association recently introduced a policy prohibiting non-EU players from joining Serie A. The original intention of this policy is to require clubs to train local players. This can not only give young Italian players more opportunities to exercise, but also reduce the loss of foreign exchange to a certain extent and avoid the unnecessary internal consumption of big clubs in competing for foreign aid, so as to control the intensification of the football economic crisis. However, this policy will reduce the opportunities for Italian football to blend with outside football, and will also affect the development of the Serie A broadcasting market in non-EU countries.

With the influence of this policy, Serie A teams are more cautious in signing. Serie A clubs are keen to exchange players for player flow, and rarely buy them with cash.

However, for the three giants of Juventus, Inter Milan and AC Milan, the capital is not a big problem, but Inter Milan, who likes to burn money, is unwilling to recruit more horses in accordance with the principle that the winner does not make trouble after winning the championship. Juventus has changed a lot of blood last season, and the only hope is to burn money. It's AC Milan.

AC Milan did take the lead in taking the first step in the arms race. They took the lead in grabbing Lazio international Nesta for 30 million euros, and then poached the unsatisfied Dutch midfielder Siedorf at Inter Milan for 20 million euros.

Juventus fought slightly. The shrewd Moji spent 42 million euros to buy midfielder Camoranesi, strikers Divayo and Micoli. His strength was further improved, and it turned out that his deal was very cost-effective.

Inter Milan did not have much reaction. They just returned Adriano from Alkmaar for 27 million euros, and seemed to be ready to adapt to the changes.

But at the end of the transfer, the Milan Sport suddenly broke out a piece of sexistry news, saying that Inter Milan's midfielder Sedoff had an affair with the alien Ronaldo's wife Milani, and also attached a blurry photo.

For a while, the gossip about Sedorf cuckold Ronaldo spread all over Italian and European football. The big newspapers and tabloids were talking about it in the streets and alleys, and even among the players.

With the escalation of rumors, the media broke the news that Ronaldo and his wife Milani were not at odds and were preparing for divorce. Combined with Milan's pursuit of Seedorf, it seemed to be more confirmed that Seedorf and Milan were having an affair.

In the face of the affair between Sedorf and Milan, even Jiang Mu and the Inter Milan club have no good solution. The only solution now is to allow Sedorf to leave Inter Milan, so as not to be unable to get along with him and Ronaldo, which will affect Inter Milan's dressing room unity.

However, the affair of his wife's affair was also a great blow to the alien Ronaldo. Shortly after the transfer of Seedorf, he announced his divorce from Milan. At this time, Real Madrid offered Inter Milan 50 million to buy Ronaldo. Of course, Inter Milan will not give up the best scorer of the World Cup and Serie A, directly Expressed his refusal.

However, Ronaldo was frustrated in Italy because of the Italian media's exaggerated his wife's affair. Under the perseverance of Real Madrid's attack, he told Inter Milan that he wanted to change his living environment.

50 million euros is a large number in the period of economic crisis, and the current Italian environment is really not suitable for Ronaldo to continue to play. Of course, the most important thing is that Inter Milan is strong and the rise of Adriano. Even if Ronaldo is lost, it will not be true to Inter Milan. The force caused too much loss, so after communicating with Moratti, Jiang Mu decided to let Ronaldo leave Inter Milan.

So on the evening of August 31, 2002, before the closing of the European transfer market, Real Madrid and Inter Milan officially reached an agreement. Ronaldo transferred to Madrid and signed a four-year contract with a transfer fee of 54.5 million euros.