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Chapter 243 The transfer situation
Skipping the turmoil of the transfer period, let's look directly at the crazy moves of various teams in this summer window from the perspective of God...

The Premier League has now gradually become the center of gravity of European football and even world football, so they have to be the ones with the biggest transfer moves.

In the transfer market on the eve of the 20-2011 season, the total expenditure of Premier League clubs reached 3.5 million pounds. Of course, there is still a distance from the previous year's 5.7 million pounds, and it is not as good as last year's 5 million pounds, a year-on-year decrease of 22%.

According to the "Transfer Market" statistics, this is the least invested summer for teams since 2004.It can be seen that the Premier League is slowly moving towards rational consumption.

Especially the Big Four, after several years of madness, due to various reasons, they are no longer the focus of the transfer market.In addition, the total value of players sold by the Premier League to overseas clubs reached 2.2 million, an increase of 66% over last year.But without the Premier League upstart Manchester City, the transfer expenditure reached 1.38 million, which accounted for almost 4% of the Premier League's total expenditure!
Among the top 10 personal transfer fees this summer, Manchester City has exclusive 5 seats.The six major new aids cost the club 1.38 million pounds, but the transfer income was only 765 million pounds, which is less than a fraction of the expenditure.

After Chelsea occupied the commanding heights of the Premier League transfer market a few years ago, Manchester City under the owner of the Middle East has become a club that can call the wind and rain.Barcelona bought Ivorian midfielder Yaya Touré, Valencia bought Spanish king David Silva, Lazio bought Serbian left-back Aleksandar Kolarov, and Inter Milan bought Italian genius Mario · Balotelli, Aston Villa bought England midfielder James Milner and 2008/09 Bundesliga top scorer Edin Dzeko from Wolfsburg.

It can be seen from this that Blue Moon's ambitions seem to be not small.The owner of the Middle East seems to want to create a miracle like Abramovich's Chelsea!

Except for Manchester City, Chelsea burns the most money among the giants, but the Blues only invested 3420 million pounds in the transfer market, digging Ramirez from Benfica and Benayoun from Liverpool.After the sale of Carvalho and Storch, the net investment is only 2150 million pounds.

After making a fortune selling Adebayor and Toure last year, Arsenal invested 2070 million pounds in the transfer market this year, poaching Koscielny and Squillac, and getting 783 million pounds by selling Eduardo and Simpson , with an overall investment of 1287 million pounds.It is worth mentioning that Shi Lei has gradually taken the main position in Arsenal.

In the past two years, Manchester United has been following a rational consumption route. Babe, Smalling and Hernandez spent a total of 2412 million pounds on the team, and the sale of Foster and Tosic earned 1540 million pounds, with a net investment of only 871 billion pounds. million pounds.

Calculated in this way, the total net investment of the three giants Manchester United, Chelsea, and Arsenal is 4300 million pounds, which is one-third of Manchester City.

As for other teams... After the dismal end of the Red Army Liverpool last season, this season has made a profit: a total investment of 2661 million pounds, but a total of 3258 million pounds from the sale of players, calculated for Liverpool to make a profit of 597 million pounds.Become one of the few teams that can negatively invest in the transfer market in the new season.

The most surprising this season is Villa.Before the start of the new season, Martin O'Neill left the team and Milner moved to Manchester City. The only signing was Ireland, which was still an addition to Milner's transfer.As a result, Villa earned a total of 2860 million pounds, embarrassingly becoming the most profitable club in the Premier League in the new season.

As a veteran team, Newcastle's return to the Premier League has also become a hot spot for fans.Although the Magpies did not recruit heavily this summer, the few signings are both affordable and not lacking in bright spots, which have become a model for signings from mid-lower teams: veteran Campbell was hired for free, Ligue 225 Marseille red star Ben Arfa was rented for £315 million. Eredivisie champion Twente bought Tiot for [-] million pounds.

In addition, Tottenham’s return to the Champions League after 48 years is not small. They brought in Gallas, Dos Santos and Lu Chen for free, bought Sandro from Brazil for 900 million pounds, and rented the 31-year-old goalkeeper Pu. Letikosa, the old Redknapp's lineup can be called luxurious. After such repairs, Tottenham look forward to achieving good results in the Champions League and the league.But letting Lu Chen go would be their worst choice.

In addition, in terms of other clubs, Sunderland loaned Manchester United genius Welbeck and Manchester City defender Onuoha, and bought Ghanaian international Gian for 1200 million pounds at the last moment of the transfer. Jones' income is 1470 million pounds, which is basically the same overall; West Ham sold Diamanti for 200 million pounds, and introduced Reid and Barre Lapizione for 920 million pounds; Yang Jiacheng's Birmingham introduced Foster and Zikic Spending 1332 million pounds to rent Hleb from Barcelona for one year, the investment is not too large; Everton, another Merseyside team, only invested 80 pounds this summer.Last season's Europa League runner-up Fulham sold Koncheski and Smalling, acquired Salcido, Haliche and Dembele, and their income and expenditure were basically balanced.

To say that the strongest league can still hover between the Premier League and La Liga, but if it is said that the most dominant club in recent years, it is undoubtedly Barcelona.Under the leadership of Guardiola, Barcelona restarted Dream Three, which set off a bloodbath in football.

However, this summer, Fornolentino stayed at the Bernabeu for the second time, and the second phase of the Galaxy Battleship set sail again, which immediately set off a frenzy of arms race. Driven by Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​La Liga spent a total of 20 million euros on the summer transfer of 4.98 powerful players. Buy players.But after the prosperity, everything fell silent. In the end, the total spending of La Liga clubs in the transfer market was only 2.6 million, which was almost half of last year.

In terms of selling people, the 20 clubs earned a total of 2.5 million yuan, which is about the same as last year's 2.45 million yuan.Calculated in this way, the transfer-in of La Liga this summer is only 1010 million less than the transfer-out, and it can be said that the income is basically the same.Compared with last year's 2.52 million, there is a big gap.

The slowdown of Real Madrid and Barcelona is the main reason for the lukewarm transfer market. This year, except for Barcelona’s 4000 million introduction of Villa, there is no more than 3000 million transfers. Cucurbita has naturally become the transfer of this year’s La Liga and even the entire European summer. Standard king.But this value is far behind even No.3 last year.This also reflects to some extent that the La Liga transfer market is not hot enough this year.

Real Madrid is still the leader in the transfer market, and the investment of 8100 million allows them to continue to be the leader in the La Liga transfer market this summer.In terms of selling people, Valencia made a lot of money. Villa and Silva alone made the Bat Corps earn nearly 7000 million euros, and they made a total of 8335 million income from selling people.

In addition to the two teams of Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, another powerful team in La Liga, has mainly repaired the midfield this summer when the two superstars Forlan and Aguero are determined to stay on the team. Uruguayan central defender Godin, who performed well in the World Cup, was introduced from Villarreal, Brazilian left-back Luis Felipe was bought from Deportivo for 800 million, and former Spanish international defender Ibanez was sent away for free , the left-back Peña also left the team when his contract expired. In addition, goalkeeper Roberto moved to Benfica for 1200 million, and Jurado even moved to Schalke 850 for 1300 million euros.

Atletico Madrid also gained in the frontcourt. They got the talented Merida, who had a hard time getting ahead at Arsenal, for free. In addition, they introduced two practical frontcourt players, Diego Costa and Suarez, from Munich 1860. They will join this winter. The young Argentine striker Salvio went to Benfica on loan.After careful calculation, the bed sheet army also earned 70 euros.

Unlike the above-mentioned big clubs, most of the small clubs in the middle and lower reaches of La Liga are careful and cautious in buying. The three clubs of Mallorca, Deportivo and Levante even have zero investment, while Bilbao , Villarreal and other teams are also careful budgeting, the financial crisis of the vast majority of small and medium clubs is the root cause of the bleak transfer market in La Liga.

As for the other two leagues, Serie A and Bundesliga, they have lost their original dominance.

Serie A's reputation as the "Little World Cup" has long since declined, and the Bundesliga has gradually become a retirement league. This is definitely not Lu Chen's first choice.

With the introduction of Ibrahimovic and Robinho one after another, AC Milan staged the final madness.As the "Quadruple Crown" winner, Inter Milan stood still, and Moratti seemed a bit overconfident.Marotta crossed the transfer market this summer, but unexpectedly missed at the last moment, leaving hidden dangers for Juventus.Roma got unexpected help from UniCredit at the last minute....Except for Inter Milan, the lineups of the other top three have been enhanced, supplemented by mid-range teams such as Genoa who have repeatedly offered big money in the transfer market.The new season of Serie A is destined to be even more exciting.

Compared with the Premier League, Italy, and Spain, there are still finales at the last moment, and the transfer market of the Bundesliga is closed quietly.Looking back at the Bundesliga transfer market this summer, it can still be described as calm, but the summer of 2010 was slightly different from the past.The Bundesliga giants this summer led the new trend of Bundesliga transfers. In the end, Bayern started the new season with an astonishing "zero signings".Schalke 04 and Wolfsburg's crazy exchange of blood this summer has also become an alternative landscape in the Bundesliga.

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