Chapter 970 Those things before the final (2)
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After entering the July of the new millennium, as time passed quietly and the enthusiastic joining of the teams waving their checkbooks, the focus of fans began to quietly shift from the European Cup, and a considerable part of it was placed on the increasingly popular summer transfer market.
After all, although the European Cup final, which is the finale, has not yet started, there are at least three or four days left before the final. For fans, it is obviously unrealistic to keep their attention and enthusiasm for a game for such a long time, so it is understandable to temporarily shift your attention to the transfer market that constantly sends surprise gift packages outward.
People have a gossip, and this sentence is particularly applicable to most fans. On days without games, isn’t the fans’ favorite to watch the various rumors and transfer news about each team? If this is not the case, then those unconventional media workers will not rack their brains every day and try every means to create news to increase sales and ratings.
In the first summer transfer period after the arrival of this new century, it can indeed be said to be full of surprises. Early in the morning of July 1, the Premier League Chelsea announced that they would acquire the new La Liga Golden Boot for Atletico Madrid for 15 million euros. The 28-year-old Dutch center Hasselbaink dropped a bombshell on the first day the transfer door was opened!
Chelsea's heroic move of spending a lot of money on Hasselbaink was like a starting gun on the 100-meter field, triggering a new round of arms race for Premier League teams. Not long after, Aston Villa announced that they had signed former French international David Ginola, and for this they would pay Tottenham Hotspur a transfer fee of 3 million euros; Liverpool, who had not tasted the taste of a league championship for a full decade, poached German defender Babel from Bayern Munich with a high salary, which made Bayern general manager Hones so angry that he cursed in the office!
As for Arsenal and Manchester United, which are currently the most popular in the Premier League, Wenger and Ferguson have both turned their attention to France, which is fighting bravely in the European Cup. Therefore, even if they have the club, they can only wait until the European Cup is completely over before they can negotiate the contract with their favorite players.
Compared with the extremely lively Premier League stadium, La Liga and Bundesliga, which are both the four major leagues, seem much calmer. Whether it is Real Madrid and Barcelona, who are Spanish doubles, or Bundesliga classmate Bayern Munich, they did not take action immediately after the transfer door was opened, but instead pretended to be deep as if they were not concerned about themselves. However, many people know that such peace is just an illusion - Real Madrid and Barcelona will complete the presidential election in the next half month, so it is naturally impossible to launch an offensive in the transfer market at this time; the Bundesliga is because most teams generally lack financial resources and it is difficult to spend a lot of money to introduce strong players. In addition, the German national team's early exit in the European Cup group stage has brought a significant negative impact on German football, which has led to many famous stars not willing to play in Germany at this time.
After talking about the other three major leagues, let's take a look at Italy. The first team to take action is AC Milan, who was short of four major last season and was also at the bottom of the group stage in the Champions League.
On the morning of the transfer door opened, Gagliani announced with a gloomy face that they had successfully signed a five-year work contract with Georgian left-back Kaha Karaze, who played for Florence club! In order to introduce Karaze, AC Milan paid a transfer fee of 22 million euros, and finally got the transfer!
The Italian media still quite recognize AC Milan's signing. After all, in the past season, Carazze has participated in many games for Florence. Judging from his performance on the court, the Georgians have fully adapted to the atmosphere of the Serie A, and the probability of not adapting to the local conditions like Kovacevic and Jose Mali is naturally extremely low. Therefore, people agree that with the joining of Carazze, a backcourt versatile player who can be used as left back, left center back and back midfielder, the depth of AC Milan has greatly strengthened the bench depth and can effectively avoid the embarrassing situation that the team was not available on the left after the ** Ertini was on the back last season!
Surprisingly, after losing Carazze, an important substitute in the left-back position, Fiorentina did not announce any heavyweight transfers, but only introduced Dutch veteran De Huye, who failed to compete with Cudicini for the main position from Chelsea, which is cleaning the team. At the same time, Purple Lily also spent a small amount of about one million dollars to introduce local rookie goalkeeper Ivan Pelizoli, who was still four months away from turning 20!
Many people expressed confusion about Fiorentina's two signings in the goalkeeper position. After all, the team now has the great god Tordo and Desanctis, a qualified substitute, so why do other people need to come and cause trouble?
After some reasoning and analysis, people generally accepted the most reasonable statement, that is, this is a sign that Desanctis is about to leave Fiorentina. After all, for this young goalkeeper who is already well-known in Italian football, it is an indisputable fact that Fiorentina cannot provide him with enough training opportunities, so after he left, it is normal for Florence to find a reliable substitute for Toldo.
Although Fiorentina's current moves in the transfer market are somewhat disappointing, fortunately, the performance of other Serie A teams has largely distracted the fans: Inter Milan spent a lot of money to introduce Romanian striker Adrian Mutu from Verona, while Roma bought Brazilian midfielder Emerson, who just won the Bundesliga Player of the Year honors, and the soap opera performed between Lazio and Parma center Crespo also feasted the eyes of boring fans.
Sampdoria, who returned to Serie A after a year, attracted a lot of attention. With the support of Berezovsky's ruble, the Aquarium Legion frequently moved. Not only did it introduce Portuguese scorer Nuno Gomez for $20 million, but it also had scandals with popular figures in the transfer market such as Consicao and Zahovic, and it was not obvious that it was a newly promoted team.
Chapter completed!