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

Chapter 477 The Crazy Transfer Market

Although it was only the first training session in the morning and the first day of training camp, so there was no amount of training at all, many things could still be seen.

The first is new aid Lindelof.

He looks very strong and has excellent physical fitness, but in fact he is very delicate with his feet and has strong dribbling ability. During the team training, he dribbled the ball forward many times, which left a deep impression on people.

It is indeed not simple at all to allow Manchester United to spend 31 million pounds to introduce players.

Fitness coach Carlos Larin has carefully prepared a complete summer physical reserve plan for Manchester United, and it has also added many training items that were not available before.

But he’s not completely blind and one-size-fits-all.

Just like Bruno, because he only participated in the Confederations Cup in June, although his physical condition was good, Carlos Larin did not dare to be careless and gave Bruno a week of buffer period, hoping that he could slow down. Adjust slowly and then increase the amount later.

This actually made his teammates envious and jealous, and they felt that Carlos Larin was unfair. As a result, the always strict physical fitness coach replied directly: "If you have the ability, you can also win a world championship, and I can approve that you don't need to go to the gym."

The Manchester United players were immediately deflated and retreated speechlessly.

At the same time, negotiations for Manchester United to introduce Harry Kane and Mbappe have been going on with difficulty.

Although the media is full of reports about these two signings, judging from the reports of major media, neither transfer has made substantial progress.

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As Europe's top giants, the Champions League championship is the club's highest pursuit.

The club also attaches great importance to this. Although Carlos Larin granted Bruno a one-week adjustment period, he carefully developed a physical reserve training plan for Bruno.

Sometimes, after suffering too much, you get used to it.

The last time Manchester United won the Champions League was in the 2007-2008 season. Nine years have passed. If Manchester United can win the Champions League again in the new season, it will be exactly ten years later.

Last year, Bruno's transfer was only negotiated in August. In addition, he also participated in the European Cup with the Portuguese national team and missed the summer preparations. So strictly speaking, this is Bruno's first full summer preparation training at Manchester United.

Bruno still looks cheerful. Whether it is summer reserve training or the gym, although it is very hard, he is used to it because he has been suffering almost every day for the past five years.

Guardiola's Manchester City has made the most noise this summer. They have just experienced a season in which all four major players were defeated, and even barely got a Champions League berth. Such performance naturally does not meet the expectations of Manchester City management. However, they have not lost confidence in Guardiola. They are not short of money. He will continue to spend a lot of money in the transfer market and strongly support Guardiola's signings.

After all, that is an event that only the champions of various continental competitions can participate in. If you want to participate, you must first help the national team win the intercontinental championship. .

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Bruno was also very dedicated and devoted himself to the pre-season training, meticulously and resolutely conducting training according to the coaching staff's plan.

Several of Manchester United's competitors in the Premier League are making big moves.

Just after the season ended, Manchester City announced the introduction of Portuguese midfielder Bernardo Silva from Ligue 4300 champion Monaco. The transfer fee reported by the transfer media was million pounds.

The purpose of this is to hope that Bruno can perform better in the new season and help Manchester United go further and strive to gain something in the Champions League.

Is it that easy to win the world championship? Even if it's just a Confederations Cup.

In the next period of time, Manchester United began to enter a comprehensive summer preparation stage.

Then, on the first day of June, Manchester City once again officially announced a major signing, bringing in Brazilian goalkeeper Ederson from the Portuguese Super League giant Benfica, which cost another 6 million pounds.

In mid-July, Manchester City's negotiations to introduce Tottenham defender Kyle Walker were finally settled. The final amount of the transfer was 7 million pounds, with a floating clause of 4500 million pounds, which can be regarded as 500 million pounds.

The day after signing Kyle Walker, Manchester City once again announced that it would introduce talented player Douglas Luiz from the Brazilian team Vasco da Gama for 1100 million pounds.

<divclass="contentadv">In addition, the media are still reporting that Manchester City plans to introduce Brazilian midfielder Danilo from Real Madrid, and at the same time continue to poach Monaco's wool and poach their main center defender Mendy.

If both deals are reached, Manchester City's investment in the transfer market this summer will once again exceed 200 million pounds!

Having invested more than 200 million in two consecutive summer windows, Manchester City can be described as a "400 million reckless move"!

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Manchester City is constantly making moves, and Chelsea and other Premier League giants are not idle either.

Abramovich was not reconciled to the failure to compete with Manchester United for the championship last season and continued to strengthen the team this summer.

After Diego Costa fell out with the team, the Russian rich man immediately found a new gun for the Blues. Last season's Premier League copper boots, former Chelsea player Lukaku returned to the Blue Bridge for a sky-high price of 7500 million pounds.

The day after signing Lukaku, Chelsea made another move in the transfer market, acquiring center back Rudiger from Serie A Roma for £3200 million.

Immediately afterwards, Chelsea officially announced the signing of midfielder Bakayoko from Ligue 7 champion Monaco in mid-July. The transfer fee for this signing was as high as 4000 million pounds.

In addition, Turin midfielder Zampacosta and Drinkwater, a product of Manchester United's youth training in Leicester City, nicknamed "Drinking Brother", are also Chelsea's introduction targets. Once these two transfers are completed, Chelsea's investment in signings this summer will exceed 200 million pounds!

After Liverpool missed out on a Champions League spot, they also began to spend heavily on signings. They first hired Egyptian winger Salah from Roma for 3900 million pounds, and then introduced Oxlade-Chamberlain from Arsenal for 3500 million pounds.

Arsenal, which also lost its Champions League spot, lost midfielder Oxlade-Chamberlain, defenders Gibbs and Gabriel, and goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny, but Wenger is also actively recruiting. Lyon forward Lacazette, who was unable to complete the transfer because Atletico Madrid faced a transfer ban, became the target of the professor. The transfer was reached very quickly. On July 7, Arsenal officially announced that Lacazette had officially joined the club and signed a five-year contract with a transfer fee of 6 million pounds + a floating transfer fee of 5 million pounds.

Tottenham, which sold Kyle Walker and Bentaleb, also introduced center back Sanchez from Ajax, Aurier from Paris, and Spanish center Fernando Llorente from Swansea.

The signing of Llorente was considered by many British media to be Tottenham's preparation for losing Harry Kane.

Faced with Manchester United's wanton checks, the stubborn Levi was a little unable to control himself and found it difficult to keep his vow not to sell players to Manchester United.

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The predecessor of the International Champions Cup is called the "World Football Challenge", which is an exhibition match between international football clubs. The first tournament started in 2009. At that time, there were four participating teams: Chelsea, AC Milan, Inter Milan, and Team America. In the end, Chelsea won three games and won the championship of the first World Football Challenge.

In 2010, this event was not held due to the World Cup in South Africa. By 2011, there were 13 participating teams in this event, and Manchester United was one of them. There are a total of 14 games in this event, and the games are held in the United States and Canada. In the end, Real Madrid and Manchester United both won three games. Real Madrid defeated Manchester United to win the championship by virtue of their goal difference advantage.

In 2012, the third and final World Football Challenge attracted a total of 11 teams to participate. Since this tournament does not adopt a single round-robin group system, each team has a different number of entries, so there is no official championship this year. Among these teams, Real Madrid has played four games and is the team that has participated in the most games. In these four games, Real Madrid maintained a complete victory and scored a total of 14 goals.

In 2013, the World Soccer Challenge was officially renamed the International Champions Cup. This event is sponsored by Relevant Sports, owned by Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross and former New York Jets executive Matt Higgins.

So far, this event has become the most important commercial event in international football and has successfully established the brand recognition of the world's highest level pre-season event.

At first, this event, like its predecessor, was held in the United States and Canada, but as its influence expanded, China, Australia, Mexico, Singapore, and various parts of Europe also began to join the ranks of hosting events.

The format of the International Champions Cup has also continued to evolve with its own development. In the first two editions, eight teams participated and were evenly divided into two groups.

In the first tournament, the group stage did not adopt a single round-robin system. Instead, the two teams that won the first round of the group competed in the next round. The team that won two consecutive games in the group advanced to the finals.

The second tournament adopted a single round-robin group stage system, with the last two teams that topped the group advancing to the finals.

Starting from 2015, due to the addition of events in other stations except North America, the competition formats of each station will be different.

Since the International Champions Cup is essentially a commercial tour exhibition, this event encourages participating teams to play offensive football.

This is also reflected in the points rules of the event: in addition to the three points awarded to the winner during regular time, and one point to the draw. During regular time, the team gets one point for every goal scored. If there is a tie during regular time, the two teams will enter a penalty shootout, and the winner of the penalty shootout will add one point.

This year's International Champions Cup is scheduled to be held in North America, China, and Singapore. China will host 4 games, Singapore will host 3 games, and the remaining 12 games will be held in North America.

Manchester United is also one of the participating teams in this International Champions Cup and will participate in the North American Division.