Chapter 876
As Christmas approaches, major European leagues have been suspended in addition to the Premier League, but rumors in the transfer market have begun to occupy important areas of major media and attract the attention of fans around the world.
The first thing to do is the Premier League with the strongest purchasing power.
Gao Han's Manchester City announced early that the team will not introduce recruits during the winter break. Gao Han also publicly revealed during the team's Christmas dinner that he is very satisfied with the team's existing lineup. Every player has contributed to the team. He does not think the team needs to sign ups, but also encourages all players to continue to work hard in the next six months.
Manchester City management also supports Gao Han's choice very much.
The only potential transfer in the transfer market throughout the winter is Bridge, and West Ham United hopes to be able to loan Bridge.
However, after negotiating with Gao Han, Bridge decided to stay with the team because he hoped to win an honor in his career, that is, the Champions League championship.
In an interview with the media, Bridge said that he would stay in Manchester, even if he was a substitute for Gao Han.
"He told me that he needs me, and I have been trying to adapt to the coach's requirements. I think we have a very hope of winning the Champions League this season, so I am willing to stay with the team."
Coincidentally, Manchester United will not make any big moves in the transfer market.
In addition to a substitute goalkeeper Lindegard who announced his joining early, Ferguson is more about finding a way out for young players, either on loan or transfer, but Manchester United does not intend to invest in the transfer market, and Ferguson hopes to maintain the stability of the lineup.
The same view holds this is Arsenal. Liverpool has poor performance this season. The Gunners have great hope of keeping the top four in the league. Wenger obviously has no motivation to introduce strong aids, but the team's forward problem obviously has become Wenger's heart disease.
The Gunners have begun to actively adapt to the mainstream style of European football in the past two years, changing from the original 442 to 433, which allowed the team's number one center Van Persie to have excellent performance. After having a left foot ligament torn off for five months last season, Van Persie still scored nine goals with 16 appearances and seven assists to conquer all Gunner fans.
But at the beginning of this season, Van Persie, who had just participated in the South African World Cup, once showed good goal momentum, scoring two goals in the first three rounds, but soon injured his ankle again and was absent to this day.
Interestingly, not long ago, media reported that Arsenal suspected that Van Persie's frequent injuries were related to his wisdom teeth, so he removed his wisdom teeth for the Dutch center. However, whether it works depends on Van Persie's performance after his comeback in January.
During the absence of Van Persie, Chamak's performance could only be considered as average and unsatisfactory.
In addition to Arsenal, the situation of another Premier League team, Liverpool, is even more embarrassing. Hodgson's team only ranked ninth in the Premier League after the 18th round of the game. Such a result made the Reds extremely dissatisfied.
It is reported that Liverpool has begun to re-find a head coach, and the most likely one is that celebrity Daglish takes over as coach.
According to the Liverpool Echo, Daglish has basically agreed to take charge of Liverpool, but the prerequisite is that the team must introduce a powerful center to make up for the team's weak offensive shortcomings.
"Daglish is interested in popular center Andy Carroll, who performed very well in Newcastle this season. He is known as New Hiller. He scored ten goals in the 18th round of the league and is the best local scorer in the Premier League this season."
"Liverpool's new management has basically agreed to Daglish's request and is currently raising money and preparing to operate Carol, but if you want to convince Newcastle to agree to this transfer, Liverpool may have to pay a huge transfer fee."
Compared with several traditional strong teams, other Premier League teams have little movement. The real influential transfer is Aston Villa actively operating Sunderland striker Darren Bent.
Aston Villa has not performed well this season, currently ranks 12th in the Premier League, but Sunderland has performed exceptionally well, currently ranked fifth in the Premier League, Darren Bent performed well, and the transfer fee is expected to be around 20 million pounds.
This is also in line with the common situation of winter transfers. Only teams that perform poorly in the first half of the year will invest in recruiting players in winter transfers.
This is true in the Premier League and La Liga.
After a period of hype and publicity in the media, Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone finally accepted an interview with the media after a regular meeting of the club on Christmas Eve and publicly stated that the team is indeed operating the midfielder Schneiderlin of Chinatown.
"You know, before I introduce a player, I will pay attention to his sign seriously. Schneiderlin is a Sagittarius, representing courage, decisiveness and independence, and has a sense of courage and courage to move forward without fear of difficulties. This is very consistent with my requirements for the players."
Regarding Diego Simone's words, the media generally reported them in a joke way. No one would believe that he really relies on the constellation to decide whether to introduce Schneiderlin, but it is obvious that he is more considering the player's personality.
Under Simeone's training, Atletico Madrid is gradually transforming, from the pass-control style that Gao Han has paid attention to to the high-intensity and oppression confrontational style that Simeone advocates. Although it still has high requirements for the players' foot skills, Simeone is more eager to get players like Schneiderlin.
At the same time, German media reported that Chinatown technical director Carlos Cantalero appeared in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, which made news that Chinatown would introduce Rakitic spread.
Two days later, the first day after Christmas, Chinatown officially announced that the team finally convinced Rakitic to introduce Rakitic from Schalke Zero Four for a transfer fee of 2 million euros.
At the press conference, Cantalero said the team firmly believed that Rakitic could help Chinatown improve its midfield strength, and also admitted that Schneiderlin would transfer to Atletico Madrid.
On the second day after Chinatown's announcement, Atletico Madrid also officially announced that the team introduced Schneiderlin from Chinatown for 30 million euros. Hill Jr. highly praised the French midfielder's performance in the La Liga in the past two seasons and the progress of the players, and firmly believed that he could bring huge changes to Atletico Madrid.
Diego Simeone also publicly commented that Schneiderlin would be a midfielder and would play a huge role.
Marca later disclosed that the 30 million euros introduced by Atletico Madrid will be divided into two installments and will be paid before the transfer this summer, while Chinatown's introduction of Rakitic is completed in a one-time payment.
"According to the information obtained by the reporter, Schalke Zero Four first asked Rakitic for as high as 7 million euros, but so far, only two teams have officially issued quotations to the Croatian midfielder, namely Chinatown and Sevilla."
"After multiple rounds of negotiations, Chinatown and Sevilla's offer were not high, and two different plans were given."
"Sevilla hopes to introduce the Croatian midfielder for 2.5 million euros, but it adopts a fixed transfer fee of 1.5 million, plus a million floating, depending on Rakitic's performance in Sevilla."
"Relatively speaking, Chinatown's transfer plan is more beneficial to Schalke Zero Four. They are willing to buy out Rakitic at one time for two million euros, which is 500,000 more than Sevilla. In addition, Rakitic himself is more inclined to Chinatown, so Schalke Zero Four decided to sell the players to Chinatown."
Two million euros, this is already a considerable transfer expense for Chinatown.
Regarding Rakitic's joining, Chinatown head coach Pochettino publicly expressed his affirmation and firmly believed that Rakitic can play a key role in the team. Although the transfer market during the winter break has not officially started, Rakitic also said that he will participate in Chinatown's training camp in advance to prepare for the second half of the league.
In the same situation, Schneiderlin also went to Atletico Madrid for training in advance, and the bedsheets army also introduced right-back Juan Fran from Osasuna for 4 million euros.
After losing Rakitic in the competition with Chinatown, Sevilla immediately shifted his target and introduced Chilean international Medell from South America for 3 million euros.
Relatively speaking, Barcelona, currently ranked first in La Liga, has not made much recruitment efforts, but has only introduced Afelle from Eindhoven for 3 million euros. This is the decision of the club's management, and Guardiola also agreed to sign ups.
Atletico Madrid and Chinatown both succeeded in signing around Christmas, and Real Madrid had to speed up the signing. After January, the Galaxy Battleship announced that it would introduce Brazilian midfielder Felipe Melo from Juventus at a high price of 30 million euros, which also allowed Felipe Melo to tie Schneiderlin and become the winter transfer bidder.
"As early as Mourinho coached Real Madrid, he had always been determined to introduce Felipe Melo, but he was unsuccessful. Now Mourinho has finally got what he wants."
"Although Melo's performance at Juventus has been controversial and is hailed as the winner of the Golden Garbage Award, Mourinho is full of confidence in him and he firmly believes that the power confrontation and tactical discipline of the Brazilian midfielder can help Real Madrid well."
In addition to Felipe Melo, Real Madrid soon announced that the team would introduce midfielder Moutinho from Porto, Portugal at a high price of 30 million euros.
This is another midfielder selected by Mourinho, with both offense and defense, and is the humeral general of the Portuguese national team.
Two powerful players joined the team, and Mourinho quickly cleaned up and loaned Mohamed Diarra to Monaco.
A transfer cost 60 million euros in a winter break, which is probably only possible for Real Madrid, which is rich and powerful, but the Galaxy still seems to be not satisfied. According to British media reports, Mourinho also hopes to get Chelsea midfielder Essin.
Everyone was surprised by this transfer rumor, because Essin is one of Chelsea's best midfielders this season, and it is impossible to get him without paying a huge transfer fee.
Chelsea officials also quickly denied the rumor, saying that the club will not let any player go in the winter transfer.
According to media reports, after Chelsea made consecutive big money in Falcao and Ramirez, it was a big deal. Scolari was not in a position to be coached, and Abramovich would not sign ups during the winter break, and temporarily put aside the transfer negotiations with Benfica about central defender David Luis.
David Luis is Scolari's central defender candidate, but now the Brazilian coach is in danger of protecting himself.
While Real Madrid waved their checks and Chelsea quickly refuted the rumors, the transfer bidder for the winter break finally appeared.
Liverpool finally announced that it would introduce local high center Andy Carroll from Newcastle at a sky-high price of 45 million euros.
This heavy transfer made Carol the new benchmark in the winter transfer market, and also proved Liverpool's ambition to return to the top four of the league.
Chapter completed!