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The retention of Rafael Benitez made the players and fans very happy.

But Li Wei will not be satisfied with being a chairman who only writes checks. He forced a proposal to form the infamous "transfer committee" the next day.

In the Rodgers era, this transfer committee was controversial.

The transfer committee in the Levi era was to get the transfer power from Rafael Benitez.

The transfer committee consists of seven people, namely club chairman Levi, head coach Rafael Benitez, general manager Paslow, business director Al, and chief scout Eduardo Macia. (During his tenure at Liverpool, Macia was a key figure in the Red Army's introduction of Torres, Mascherano and Sterling.)
The remaining two transfer committee members are confidantes arranged by Li Wei himself.

Senior scouting manager Steve Walsh is mainly responsible for scouting work in France, Spain and Italy.

He was poached by Levi from Leicester City with a lot of money. In history, he helped Leicester City dig out Vardy, Mahrez, Kanter and other stars.

Harry Thompson, Levi's old partner, served as the team's public relations manager as early as when Levi was coaching Parma, and was the core figure in Levi's sale of Parma.This time when he came to Liverpool, he was no longer a PR manager, but the vice chairman of Liverpool Football Club!
With the addition of these two confidantes, Li Wei already has an extremely advantageous three votes in the transfer committee. He only needs to convince any one of the remaining four transfer committee members, and his transfer proposal can be easily completed. pass.

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Before Li Wei made waves in the transfer market, he had to choose to sell someone aggrieved!

Yes, Levi had no choice.

In order to buy Liverpool, he has already owed 1000 million pounds to Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster, and Mansour, the local tycoon in the Middle East.Although he still has [-] million pounds of liquidity in his hands, it is impossible to fully invest this money in the transfer market, because the club also needs funds to operate normally.

The first one to be sold was the team's main full-back Arbeloa. In fact, it is not so much bought, it is better to say that the players strongly demanded to leave.

Arbeloa is a youth training player of Real Madrid, not to mention that now Real Madrid is eager to call this wanderer, and Arbeloa's is inevitable immediately.

This transfer brought Liverpool a transfer fee of 400 million pounds.

This transfer fee is just a drop in the bucket for Li Wei who is in urgent need of money.

Fortunately, in addition to Liverpool, Li Wei also has Parma's support.When he sold Parma at a low price, he signed an agreement that he would enjoy 50.00% of the transfer fee for the Parma players he introduced.

In the 2008-2009 season, Parma led by Allegri went through bumps and bumps, especially at the beginning of the season, the team was first eliminated at the bottom of the Champions League group stage, and its ranking in the league once dropped to near the relegation zone .But after the winter break, Allegri led Parma to a wave of seven consecutive victories. In the end, with their outstanding performance in the second half of the season, Parma finally got the last train ticket in Europe-ranking No.7 in the league, which can be Qualifying for the Europa League.

Also because Parma performed well after entering 2009, it successfully attracted many buyers, including foreign football clubs.

The first to announce the transfer was Croatian international Rakitic, who was bought by Sevilla for 700 million euros.

Levi received a share of 350 million euros in this transfer.

Inter Milan coach Mourinho asked the club to invest more in the goalkeeper position. Inter Milan finally spent 500 million euros to acquire Handanovic from Parma.

Although Handanovic is lost, Parma has Sirigu as a supplement in this position, which is also one of the "legacy" left by Levi to Parma.

However, not every transfer is profitable. Liverpool has a large number of free transfers this season. Moved to Zaragoza in Spain, Swedish midfielder Ajajavic free transfer to small team Lancaster.

This is Levi's planned clean-up of redundant staff, and he has also received the support of head coach Benitez in this regard.

In addition to free transfers, there are also a large number of low-level transfers of players leaving.For example, central defender Jack Hobbs, although he was born in the youth training of Lincoln City Club, was recruited by Liverpool for 16 pounds at the age of 75.After arriving in the Liverpool youth team, he served as the captain in the 2005/06 season, leading the youth team to defeat Manchester City 3-2 in the two rounds of the FA Youth Cup final and winning the FA Youth Cup.

It's just that Liverpool's defense is overcrowded now, and Jack Hobbs has not performed impressively. This season, he was cleared by Liverpool to Leicester City in the English Championship for a price of 40 pounds.It is worth mentioning that Jack Hobbs was loaned to Leicester City last season and helped Leicester City win the League One Championship and upgrade to the English Championship.

Liverpool youth training winger Adam Hamill, a local player who won the FA Youth Cup with Jack Hobbs, was cleared to the British Championship team Barnsley Football Club for a price of 45 pounds.

Local teenager Paul Anderson was sold to Nottingham Forest, who once won the Champions League twice, at a low price of 25 pounds.

There are low-priced players, and naturally there are high-priced ones. On July 7, Liverpool accepted Panathinaikos' offer of 10 million euros for Argentine winger Sebastian Leto.

Sebastian Leto was bought by Liverpool from the Argentine League One team Lanus in the summer of 2007 for a transfer amount of 185 million pounds.

However, due to passport issues, after coming to England, Sebastian Leto has never been able to obtain a Premier League labor certificate. Benitez had no choice but to send Leto to the reserve team. Sebastian Leto Leto also never made a first-team appearance for Liverpool.

In June 2008, in order to allow players to play professional games, Liverpool reached an agreement with the Greek team Olympiacos. Sebastian Leto played for this Greek powerhouse for a season on loan.

In the Olympiacos club Sebastian Leto is good, helping the team win the league championship that season, which is also the fifth consecutive championship of Olympiacos in the Greek league.

Before the new season, Panathinaikos, who is also a Greek giant, was determined to end the dominance of the opponent (Olympiacos) in the new season. For this reason, they bought Sebastian Leto at a high price.

It's a pity that such a good thing is not common. Li Wei also smashed some players who could not be sold, and they could only be loaned out in the end. Earning a little loan fee is better than wasting salary in the club.

French goalkeeper Itangi has joined Portsmouth, who were relegated from the Premier League last season, on a free loan.

Hungarian striker Nemeth is on loan to Athens AEK, the loan fee is a low [-] euros, but Athens AEK will bear all the expenses and bonuses of Nemeth during the loan period.

The Hungarian forward Simon is also on loan to the Spanish small team Cordoba, and the loan fee is also [-] euros.

In just thirteen days, Li Wei cleaned up twelve redundant members of the team with a quick knife.

The transfer fee in exchange was only 20 million pounds, with an average of 85 pounds per player.

However, this is also a helpless thing. The players that Liverpool cleaned up, either their contracts expired, or no one wanted them. The transfer of 20 million pounds still depended on Sebastian Leto and Ahmed. Beroja contributed two people.