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Entering the end of July, the European transfer market has become even more in full swing.

After receiving an investment from Singaporean tycoon Lim Eng Hock, Valencia, which had been sluggish in the previous seasons, also began to rebuild its morale and ambitiously wanted to compete in the La Liga in the new season.

The summer transfer has just begun, and Valencia announced the introduction of Tunisian central defender Abdel Nour from Monaco for a high price of 30 million euros. After that, the Bat Legion introduced Rodrigo, Gomez and Ca from Benfica in one breath. The three players of Cerro spent a total of 80 million euros, plus the introduction of Negredo from Manchester City, which cost 35 million euros. The Bat Legion has just entered July and spent 150 million euros.

Such a large-scale signing shocked the entire La Liga, and also excited many Valencia fans, who believed that the team finally brought in a wealthy owner and would strive to return to the top four in the new season.

Following Valencia, Atletico Madrid also made big moves.

After being reminded by Gao Han, Hill Jr. and Cerezo took action early and introduced Belgian player Carrasco from Monaco for 20 million euros. After the Shenlian Legion finalized the transfer with Monaco, giant clubs such as Barcelona and Chelsea successively announced their interest in the player. Carrasco was interested, and the player's value skyrocketed.

With this alone, the Sheets Army saved at least 10 million euros this summer. For this reason, Hill and Cerezo personally called Gao Han to express their gratitude. If Gao Han hadn't reminded them, they probably wouldn't have started operating so quickly.

In addition to the introduction of Carrasco for 20 million euros, Atletico Madrid also announced the introduction of forward Vietto from Villarreal for 25 million euros and the introduction of central defender Savic from Florence for 30 million euros. The young Argentine midfielder Krannivert was introduced from River Plate for 10 million euros.

In addition to these transfers, the Sheets are still actively operating other players and are expected to invest more than 100 million euros this summer. This has once again made everyone feel the financial strength of Atletico Madrid.

Barcelona is trapped by FIFA's transfer ban. It can buy people this summer, but cannot register. Therefore, Barcelona has not done much in the transfer market. There are only rumors about Griezmann. Danilo is still interested, but La Liga giants still hope to buy Danilo first, continue to rent him in Chinatown, and then join him after the winter break.

But players are not very willing to join Barcelona in this way.

On the contrary, it was Real Madrid. After Manchester City announced that it had acquired Stones for 60 million euros, the Galacticos first announced that head coach Carlo Ancelotti would take over the Bernabeu, and then announced that they would pay a sky-high price of 70 million euros. French central defender Laporte from Athletic Bilbao paid the liquidated damages and was the first to recruit this young La Liga talent to the Bernabeu.

This deal once again detonated the European football market.

Laporte and Stones, both central defenders, were born in 1994 and are still in their early twenties. As a result, one has 70 million euros and the other has 60 million euros, both of which set new transfer fee records for young defenders.

Ever since, the media's talk about the value bubble of European players has once again made noise in the dust. Everyone thinks that the value of players in the transfer market is so crazy that they have completely lost their minds.

Regarding this situation, more professionals have analyzed that it is mainly because the world is adopting monetary easing policies. When the United States and Europe are crazy about turning on money printing machines, money is depreciating faster than before.

Coupled with the rise of wealthy teams such as Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain, which has brought huge funds, high-quality stars have become in short supply. Not to mention famous stars, even young rookies such as Stones and Laporte are also in short supply. All of them are worth a hundred times more, and it's even hard to find a general.

After Real Madrid announced that it would pay Laporte's termination fee, Manchester City also quickly announced that Guardiola would officially serve as the team's head coach. At the same time, it would introduce right back Danilo from Chinatown for a high price of 80 million euros. .

According to British media reports, Guardiola personally persuaded Danilo to join, and this sky-high price deal seemed much more reasonable in the face of Laporte's sky-high price of 70 million euros.

Coincidentally, after Klopp took charge of Liverpool, the Red Army also decisively spent 70 million euros to introduce Brazilian forward Firmino from Chinatown by paying the termination fee.

This Brazilian forward, who was originally regarded as a target by Manchester United, has performed very well in the past two seasons. He is active in running and has comprehensive characteristics. He is the core force of Chinatown's forward line. However, this summer, he and Chinatown have to deal with contract renewal issues. Unable to reach an agreement, he was eventually sold to Liverpool by the team.

Klopp is excited about defeating Manchester United and winning Firmino. He believes that Firmino will greatly improve Liverpool's frontcourt attack power, and his comprehensive and running coverage will also drive the improvement of Liverpool's overall strength. .

After Firmino announced his move to Liverpool, Griezmann finally chose Manchester United.

For 150 million euros, the Red Devils Manchester United defeated many competitors and successfully introduced Griezmann from Chinatown.

This sky-high transfer equaled that of Neymar, but it sparked heated discussions among fans around the world.

Many people think that Griezmann is not worth the price, which is as high as 100 million euros at most. However, Guardian reporter Greenwald said in a column that the reason why Manchester United is willing to pay such a price for Griezmann is An important part of the reason for the sky-high price is the promotion of new sponsor Adidas.

After Chinatown announced its contract extension with Nike, Adidas strongly supported its teams in poaching Chinatown and once targeted Hazard. Teams such as Manchester United, Chelsea and Bayern Munich all coveted Hazard. However, Chinatown renewed Hazard's contract with an annual salary of tens of millions, dispelling all teams' attempts to poach him.

After that, Manchester United targeted Griezmann and Firmino, but Firmino was unexpectedly intercepted by Liverpool. This greatly stimulated the Manchester United management, fearing that Griezmann would be eliminated by Paris Saint-Germain or Paris Saint-Germain again. Barcelona intercepted Hu, and the Red Devils finally gritted their teeth and paid Griezmann a release fee of 150 million euros.

Chinatown, after selling Danilo, Firmino and Griezmann, soon announced a contract extension with captain De Gea. After the contract extension, De Gea's release clause will be as high as 300 million euros. Completely dispelled the idea of ​​​​poaching from Real Madrid and Barcelona.

After Casillas transferred to Porto on a free transfer, Real Madrid only had one goalkeeper left in Casillas, and signings were imminent. As for the poaching of Chinatown left back Alex Sandro from the left, there was no possibility. Don’t put it on hold.

On the other hand, Chinatown has sold three generals. Although it has a transfer fee of 300 million euros, it will actually take about two years to get all the money. In order to fill the forward vacancy, the team announced the recall of forwards from Brazil. In addition to the young player Jesus, the team's biggest move is to announce the comprehensive upgrade of the southern suburbs Chinatown training center.

In addition to further expanding the scale of the training center, this upgrade will also update the original equipment, software and hardware facilities. Player rooms will all be upgraded to five-star hotel standards, and a new player training building will be built. In addition to being used by youth team players, the building is also used by Chinese national teams who are about to come to Europe for training and participate in the Spanish low-level league.

Of course, the national team has to pay a reasonable fee for this.

What Chinatown has not announced to the public is that Chinatown will withdraw 100 million euros from this transfer fee in the next two years to invest in China’s youth training. In addition to building a new youth training center, it will mainly focus on comprehensively improving BJ China. The software and hardware facilities of the City Youth Training Center.

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While the European transfer market is in full swing, Chinatown has also concluded its trip to North America.

In the United States, Chinatown played a total of four warm-up matches. In the last two games, they defeated Chelsea 1-0 and lost 2-1 to Manchester United. They missed the opportunity to win the International Champions Cup North American Division.

One of the important reasons for the poor performance in the last two games was the departure of Firmino and Griezmann. Although players such as Morata and Dybala quickly stepped up, in the end the team had twists and turns and its combat effectiveness also been affected.

This situation even lasted until the European Super Cup in mid-August.

In the National Stadium in Tbilisi, Georgia, Zidane's Chinatown was attacked by Emery's Sevilla. The two sides fought hard and ended in a 2-2 draw.

It was not until the 117th minute of stoppage time that Jesé scored the winning goal in Chinatown, eventually defeating Sevilla 3-2 and winning the first championship trophy of the new season.

But four days later, in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup against Barcelona at the Real Stadium, Chinatown took the lead with Koke's goal in just 13 minutes, and then Morata's header and kick came on. A hat trick, and the team finally beat Barcelona 4-0 at home.

Messi and Suarez appeared in the main lineup in this game, but midfielders such as Xavi, Rakitic, Iniesta and Busquets were all unable to play. In the end, Barcelona's midfield was completely out of control, and then they were Chinatown was humiliated four to zero.

Three days later, when they returned to the Camp Nou, Barcelona played with its full lineup, while Chinatown made significant rotations. In the end, they defeated the visiting Chinatown 2-0 at home.

But with a total score of 4-2, Chinatown once again won a championship trophy.

Although the Spanish Super Cup has always been regarded as useless, Barcelona's 0-4 defeat in the first round still aroused heated discussions among fans around the world. Luis Enrique's team failed to get off to a good start and the state was not ideal. Coupled with FIFA's transfer ban, the prospects for the new season are indeed worrying.

While competing in the two major pre-season cups in Chinatown, the Chinese national team also ushered in the East Asian Cup in Wuhan.

They lost to the South Korean team 0-2 in the first round, defeated North Korea 2-0 in the second round, and then tied with Japan 1-1. The record of one win, one draw and one loss was pretty good, basically playing at the level of the national team. .

However, before and after losing to the South Korean team, many media broke the news that during preparations for the game in Wuhan, head coach Perrin left the national team hotel privately after the players rested many times and went to the bar with friends, which aroused heated discussions among the media and fans in China. .

From the first round of the World Cup preliminaries against Bhutan to the three East Asian Cup games, the performance of the national football team was completely different from the performance during the Asian Cup half a year ago, especially the mental outlook of the players.

This has also caused many media and fans to express general concern, fearing that the national team will make another mistake in the upcoming World Cup qualifiers. Voices of Perrin's dismissal have also begun to appear on the Internet.

The clubbing incident was more like a small opening in the whole curtain.