i want to be king

Chapter 890
Time has entered June, and the curtain of the European transfer market is slowly opening.

Everyone has gradually noticed that some subtle changes have taken place in the wording of the major media when commenting on the Premier League.

For example, when we talked about winning the Premier League before, we must mention the BIG4, or the traditional top four, or the four major families.

These four teams are Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool.

Although in the past few years, Everton, Tottenham Hotspur and other teams have occasionally shaken the position of the traditional semi-finals, but basically it is difficult to shake the foundation, and often recover immediately after adjustment.

Nowadays, when everyone mentions the Premier League, they will unconsciously mention the top five.

Yes, on the basis of the traditional semi-finals, Manchester City has been added.

Some media will even mention the top six, in addition to Manchester City, there is also Tottenham Hotspur.

In the UEFA Champions League last season, Tottenham Hotspur's performance was really amazing, especially Gareth Bale, who can be said to have stepped on Maicon's shoulders to climb to the position of a European star.

For the time being, many wealthy teams are still waiting to see how far Gareth Bale can play, and Tottenham Hotspur will continue to build the team's tactics around Gareth Bale, further highlighting Gareth Bale's role and ability, allowing him to play a higher value.

At this point, the goals of the club and the players are aligned.

For a team like Tottenham, it is very necessary to obtain a huge transfer fee through Gareth Bale, strengthen the team's signings, and then drive the healthy development of the club.

Just like Arsenal, in fact, it's not that the Gunners don't sell Fabregas, but that the price given by Barcelona is not high enough.

The Gunners are also in urgent need of a transfer income to help the club sign up, otherwise, Wenger is a clever woman who can't live without rice.

In fact, after last season's games, it is clear to everyone that the Premier League has changed.

The rise of Manchester City is not a possibility, but a fact.

A team that can continuously slaughter Arsenal and Manchester United in the away game, if it is not a strong enemy, then what is a strong team?
More importantly, after the end of the season, Manchester City proved their success with the Triple Crown. At the same time, it also made it clear to everyone that Manchester City's overall strength and stable season performance.

Today's Manchester City is in a period of rapid growth, general manager Soriano has made it clear that the team will continue to increase signings this summer and continue to improve the strength of the team. This is undoubtedly a signal.

What about other teams?

Manchester United is sucked by the Glazer family, Arsenal has no money, Chelsea's boss does not invest, Liverpool is going through a trough, Tottenham Hotspur is not yet capable of winning the championship...

In this case, the Premier League is no longer the traditional top four, but the real top five or six.

No matter how it is arranged, Manchester City will definitely be included in it.

Even Tottenham Hotspur have the strength to hit the top four, because they almost broke into the top four last season.

Six teams compete for four places, how to adjust?
Everyone has been very clear.

The competition in the Premier League in the new season will be unprecedentedly fierce, especially for the top four.

If it is said that participating in the Champions League originally belonged to the ban of the traditional semi-finals, then now, Manchester City and Tottenham have moved their cakes, and the traditional semi-finals must also give a strong counterattack to defend their own interests.

That's an income of 3000 to [-] million euros, who can ignore it?
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They all need to be strengthened, but the situations they face are different.

The strategy given by Manchester United is to rejuvenate. With Van der Sar and Scholes deciding to retire, Ferguson introduced Spanish goalkeeper De Gea from Atletico Madrid for 100 million pounds to fill Van der Sar's vacancy. At the same time, he vigorously promoted Cleverley and Welbeck.

At the same time, Phil Jones was introduced from Blackburn for £700 million, and Ashley Young was introduced from Aston Villa for £600 million. Ferguson always insisted on the introduction of young players.

Several players are not very old, but they are all young rookies full of potential.

This makes people look forward to the situation of Manchester United, but also somewhat worried.

Can Ferguson really rely on this group of young players to wash away the shame of the Sanya king last season?

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Chelsea's situation is more complicated.

After firing Ancelotti in an almost humiliating way, no famous coach was willing to take over the Blues for a while, and finally chose the 33-year-old Villas-Boas.

In order to get Boas, Chelsea even paid a huge liquidated damages for him, as high as 300 million pounds.

So much so that even the Portuguese media couldn't stand it anymore, thinking it was too outrageous. The transfer fee of the head coach was actually higher than that of many first-line players. Isn't this a joke?
After signing Villas-Boas, Chelsea threatened to give a transfer budget of 8000 million pounds.

After Villas-Boas joined Chelsea, the Blues quickly introduced talented center Lukaku from Anderlecht, Belgium, at a high price of 800 million pounds.

This young teenager has been pursued by many European giants in the past year, including Manchester City.

But after several considerations, Lukaku finally chose Chelsea.

After failing to poach Bayern’s Modric, Chelsea resolutely adjusted their goals and brought in Portuguese midfielder Meireles from Liverpool for £100 million, young player Romeu from Barcelona for £550 million, and teenager Lucas Piazon from Sao Paulo for £750 million.

Just when everyone was wondering that Chelsea didn't make any big moves, the Sun suddenly broke the news that under the operation of agent Mendes, Chelsea finally introduced Falcao from Porto at a high price of 4000 million euros by paying a termination fee.

This undoubtedly once again triggered a strong reaction from the world football.

If it is said that after Paris Saint-Germain spent 500 million euros on the introduction of Pastore, the European transfer market finally saw a top-notch transfer again, 4000 million euros is considered a high price.

Immediately afterwards, Chelsea announced that they would introduce Juan Mata from Valencia at a high price of 3000 million euros.

This set off a chain reaction again.

Valencia finally raised enough funds and immediately used the money to introduce central defender Rami from Lille, talented midfielder Parejo from Getafe, and players such as Piatti and goalkeeper Diego Alves from Almeria to further strengthen the team.

However, after investing huge sums of money, Chelsea has been hindered in the cleaning of old players.

Veterans such as Drogba, Anelka, and even Lampard are not in Villas-Boas's plan, but they have not been cleared out of the team. The high annual salaries of these players have discouraged many teams.

And this may also plant hidden dangers for the new season.

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In the case of Manchester United and Chelsea's successive big spending, Liverpool is more low-key.

Dalglish insisted on focusing on local players, and successively introduced players such as Downing and Henderson. Among them, Henderson is also a midfielder that Manchester City has been paying attention to for a long time, but he finally chose to go to Liverpool.

I'm probably also worried that after I arrive at Manchester City, will I become like Gareth Barry, a substitute player for the team, and it will be difficult for me to play the main role.

After all, Guardiola has extremely high demands on midfielders, which everyone knows.

Arsenal sold the captain's soap opera, which dragged on for a few years, and finally announced the end of the drama.

But what is surprising is that Cesc Fabregas' transfer fee was not as high as the outside rumors, but only 600 million pounds. To some extent, this is equivalent to a low-priced promotion.

In the past few years, everyone can see that Cesc Fabregas wholeheartedly defected to Barcelona, ​​and now he has got his wish.

With the money from selling Cesc Fabregas, Arsenal spent more than 2000 million pounds, introducing Chamberlain from Southampton, Gervinho from Ligue [-] Lille, South Korean player Park Joo-young from Monaco, Arteta from Everton, and high school defender Mertesacker from Werder Bremen.

Among them, Arteta is here to fill the vacancy of Fabregas, while Mertesacker is to make up for the weakness of the team's defense.

In the past few years, Arsenal's central defenders have been humiliated.

For example, Senderos was knocked into the air by Su Dong, was brutally abused by Drogba, last season's Julu and Koscielny were also frequently humiliated by Su Dong, all of which made Arsenal's defenders miserable.

This time Wenger made up his mind and brought in high school defender Mertesacker.

With the provocation of the Independent, which is close to Arsenal, "If Su Dong really has the ability to knock Mertesacker into the air, I will lose!"

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While other teams are rushing to sign up, Manchester City is also operating in an orderly manner.

After signing Javi Martinez for 500 million euros, the team soon announced that it had introduced Brazilian talented winger Douglas Costa from Shakhtar Donetsk, Ukraine, for 500 million euros.

Originally, Manchester City wanted to introduce Neymar, but the ownership of this player is very complicated, and he is very close to Barcelona chairman Rosell, so Manchester City finally adjusted the target and chose Douglas Costa of Shakhtar Donetsk.

Not only that, Manchester City soon signed the talented Belgian winger Eden Hazard from Lille.

The best player in Ligue [-] last season was favored by many wealthy teams, but Manchester City finally persuaded Hazard to dispel his doubts and join Manchester City by virtue of long-term contact and two phone calls between coach Guardiola and captain Su Dong.

Hazard said in an interview with the Belgian media, "Sudong told me on the phone that he is looking forward to cooperating with me very much. This is an invitation that no one can refuse."

And just entering July, Manchester City announced the most important transfer of this summer.

Atletico Madrid, Aguero!

The transfer fee is 500 million euros!

It equaled the transfer fee paid by Paris Saint-Germain to introduce Pastore, and became the king of transfer bids this summer!
With this transfer, Manchester City also invested a total of 1000 million euros, becoming the team that invested the most in the European transfer market this summer.

This makes everyone firmly believe that Manchester City in the new season will only be stronger and better than last season!
(End of this chapter)