From the man behind the football king to the football king.

Chapter 344 Mr. Million Euros

The meeting between Bruno and Ferguson lasted for a full hour. Ferguson exchanged opinions with Bruno extensively and was full of optimism about Manchester United's future after Bruno joined.

The old man even said that as long as his body allows, he will go to watch every Manchester United home game in the future to cheer for Bruno.

When parting, the old man and his wife went out to see Bruno off together, and did not return to the house until Bruno's car was far away.

After staying in Manchester for one night, Bruno quietly returned home to Porto the next day. For a while, he began to wait for news from the UK at his home in Porto.

Every morning, Bruno gets up early for morning exercises, and then goes to the gym to exercise, trying to adjust his condition and prepare for the new season.

Mourinho personally called him. The team has finished training in Asia and returned to Europe to prepare for the Community Shield Cup in early August. He has made it clear that he hopes the club can end transfer negotiations with Bruno before the start of the new season so that he can report to Manchester United on time.

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As time enters August, Manchester United has officially announced two transfers.

Under Bruno's implicit suggestion, Giaretta rejected Mourinho's original suggestion to introduce Bailey, forcing Mourinho to re-search for a central defender target.

Maguire is one option, while last season's dark horse Southampton centre-back, 25-year-old Dutch centre-back Virgil van Dijk, is another target.

The Dutch central defender moved to the Saints from Scottish Premiership giants Celtic last summer. In his first season in the Premier League, Van Dijk played 34 games on behalf of Southampton in the Premier League. He was the mainstay of the team's defense and an important contributor to the Saints' ability to finish sixth in the standings last season.

The outstanding performance led Southampton to choose to renew the Dutchman's contract until 2022 one year after he joined the team.

However, faced with the checks waving from the Middle Eastern tycoons and Van Dijk's own desire to join a top club, the Saints chose to let go after struggling for nearly two months.

Originally, Southampton planned to kill Manchester United severely, but when Manchester United made it clear that it would not pay a transfer fee exceeding the normal price, and Van Dijk himself also submitted a transfer application to the club, Southampton In the end, Manchester United's offer of 3000 million pounds was accepted.

Still, it has made Southampton a handsome profit. You know, they signed the Dutch central defender at the buzzer a year ago, and they only spent 1150 million pounds. A year later, his value had almost tripled to £3000 million!

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Later, Manchester United announced that it would spend 2500 million pounds to introduce midfielder Gundogan from Bundesliga Dortmund.

In another time and space, Mourinho originally liked Dortmund's other midfielder Mkhitaryan. The Armenian was the Bundesliga assists leader and MVP last season, and is also a popular midfield commander in the transfer market.

However, Mourinho knew early on that Manchester United would sign Bruno, so he naturally changed his goal and planned to introduce another midfielder from Dortmund, the German Gundogan, who is good at both offense and defense.

Manchester United grabbed Gundogan in the competition with Manchester City, because Guardiola is also interested in signing the German midfielder.

When Mourinho signed Gundogan, he planned to reserve a midfielder with good organizational skills for Manchester United. In Mourinho's plan, Kanter will definitely occupy one of the defensive midfielder positions, and Gundogan will share the other defensive midfielder position with veteran Carrick.

Two transfers were announced one after another. Manchester United's transfer operations this summer are coming to an end, and rumors about Bruno's transfer have also surfaced.

The Guardian was the first to get the news and broke the news that Bruno had quietly come to Manchester to look for real estate. This immediately excited the entire Manchester and British football world, and fans all over the world were excited.

Subsequently, the media soon received news from various sources that Bruno had chosen a luxury villa in a high-end community in Wilmslow, Cheshire, with a transaction price of up to 500 million pounds. The villa is not far from the villa of Manchester United godfather Sir Alex Ferguson, and the two even had a meeting.

Such reports almost tell the whole world that Bruno is about to join Manchester United. The only obstacle at present is the detailed negotiation of several sponsorship contracts, but it does not affect the overall situation.

As soon as the news came out, it immediately caused a huge shock all over the world. Fans all over the world had been looking forward to Bruno's transfer for a long time. Now they got such heavy news. Everyone was basically sure that Bruno would transfer. Manchester United is a sure thing.

Soon, the British "Sun" once again stood up and broke the news, saying that Bruno's transfer to Manchester United was already well-known in the circle, because last summer, Udinese rejected transfers from Real Madrid and Barcelona. The application was made because Manchester United’s new boss Jassim sniped midway.

"Bruno and Jassim met as early as early 2015. At that time, after Bruno participated in the Italian Super Cup in Qatar, he stayed in the Middle East for vacation. He accidentally met Jassim and the two formed a deep friendship. Last summer, At the same time that Jassim's team launched the acquisition of Manchester United, Jassim also went to Italy to convince Bruno and Udinese. He confidently promised that he would acquire Manchester United within a year and was willing to offer a Bruno was introduced from Udinese at a record-breaking price. Bruno also prefers Manchester United because he is not willing to succumb to Messi and Ronaldo."

If the "Guardian" broke the news and only vaguely revealed some of the truth, then "The Sun" directly lifted the veil and told everyone that all this had been finalized a year ago, and insiders Basically everyone knows.

But the whole world is still shocked by this, because according to "The Sun", Jassim promised Udinese that he would sign Bruno at a record-breaking price. So, what will this be? What price?

You know, last summer, Barcelona and Real Madrid both made an offer of 1.2 million euros to Udinese.

<divclass="contentadv">In the past year, Bruno won the FIFA Ballon d'Or again and led Portugal to victory in this summer's European Cup. Bruno's value will definitely rise again.

In the latest German transfer market, Bruno's worth has reached 1.5 million euros, making him the most valuable player in world football, surpassing Neymar and Messi with 1.4 million euros, and Cristiano Ronaldo with 1.2 million euros.

What's even more shocking is Manchester United's big deal this summer. It cost 4500 million euros to sign Kanter, another 3000 million euros to sign Maguire, and then spent 3600 million euros to sign Van Dijk and 3000 million euros to sign Gundogan respectively. More than 4 million euros have been spent on 1.4 transfers.

Although signing Ibrahimovic did not cost any transfer fee, it did pay Ibrahimovic a huge signing fee. No one knows the specific number except Ibrahimovic and his agent Raiola.

Now that Bruno is about to be signed, Manchester United's investment in transfers this summer is quite staggering. It has far exceeded the commitment that Jassim made when he proposed to acquire Manchester United to spend at least 2 million euros on signings, and may even exceed 3 million euros.

For world football, it is unimaginable that most teams can spend tens of millions of euros on signings in one transfer window.

Even if it is a European giant, spending hundreds of millions in a transfer window is still shocking.

But now the Middle East directly invests more than 3 million in signings in one transfer window. This is completely crazy!

Media all over Europe are exclaiming, oil dads are really not short of money!

All kinds of rumors, rumors and truths are intertwined, making it difficult to distinguish the true from the false.

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Friday, July 2016, 8.

The Premier League giants Manchester United officially announced the acquisition of Portuguese superstar Bruno from the Serie A team Udinese!

"We are very honored to tell the fans of Manchester United that we have signed a final agreement with Udinese for the transfer rights of Portuguese star Bruno Fernandez. This agreement will take effect immediately after signing. Bruno will stay at the club for the next five years. Old Trafford.”

"On August 8th, at Old Trafford, let us witness the joining of Bruno!"

With the announcement of this news, the two-year transfer rumors of Bruno leaving Udinese finally came to an end, and Bruno's new club was finally settled.

Although neither Manchester United nor Udinese announced the transfer amount of Bruno, the media quickly spread the news: 200 million euros!

This number completely blinded the eyes of the world!

Although the whole world had an estimate of Bruno's transfer fee, when this figure actually appeared in front of the world, everyone still felt unbelievable.

Although the Welshman Gareth Bale moved to Real Madrid three years ago with a transfer fee of 1.01 million euros, announcing that the world football transfer market has entered the era of million euros, in the following three years, No player's transfer fee has exceeded million euros.

In fact, world football is still stuck in the tens of millions of years.

Although the news that Bruno was leaving Udinese came out in 2014, everyone knew that once this super star left Udinese, he was likely to set a new transfer record in world football.

Especially with Bruno winning the Champions League and European Cup consecutively in the past two years, this possibility has become inevitable.

However, no one still dared to believe that Bruno would suddenly raise the new record to such a height!

Directly let the world football transfer market move from an era of tens of millions of euros to an era of 200 million euros!

Just crazy!

As for the rumors of Bruno's weekly salary of 5 pounds, not many people care about it, even though this has increased Bruno's salary income by as much as five times.

After all, compared to Ronaldo and Messi's annual salary of 2200 million euros, Bruno's treatment is less than 1900 million euros, and there is really a big gap.