Super Marshal

If you were to use one word to describe the European summer transfer market in 2009, the most appropriate word would be turbulence.

In this rolling trend, Manchester City thundered in a silent place and became a blockbuster.

First, at the end of June, the media was the first to break the news that Manchester City would sign Gao Han with a sky-high annual salary, and soon the British media took photos of Gao Han's wife Lin Xia going to Manchester to look for real estate, which confirmed the rumors that Gao Han was coaching Manchester City.

This directly caused the entire European football world to explode.

After leading Bayern Munich to win the Champions League, Gao Han has undoubtedly embarked on the path of legend in the European professional leagues. Whether you like him or not, everyone is eagerly waiting for his final destination.

No one wants to be an enemy of such a coach.

But few people would have thought that he would coach a team like Manchester City that does not even qualify for the European competition.

So the media soon broke the news that after Gao Han coached Manchester City, his annual after-tax salary was as high as 50 million pounds. This is the highest annual salary in the history of European football. Even if the highest-paid coaches and players in European football are ranked On the list, the other nine in the top ten combined are not as many as Gao Han alone.

Did Gao Han coach Manchester City for money?

Many people are willing to think so, but some people don't, which has triggered controversy and discussion.

But just as everyone was discussing, the media once again broke the news that Manchester City suddenly rushed out, got ahead of Real Madrid, intercepted AC Milan's Kaká, and successfully won the player for a sky-high price of 70 million euros. World Footballer of the Year.

Everyone knows that AC Milan is in financial crisis and is in urgent need of money. Selling Kaká is their best option this summer, but no one thought that Real Madrid, who was originally considered to be a sure winner, would finally win Kaká. He actually lost to Manchester City. Why is this?

As Kaka's mentor, Gao Han has undoubtedly become the focus of public opinion again.

But the aftermath of Kaká’s record-breaking transfer has not completely subsided. While many media and fans are still immersed in this transfer of the century, the Italian media once again broke the news that Manchester City successfully transferred from Kaká to Kaká for a sky-high price of 100 million euros. Inter Milan signed Cristiano Ronaldo, following the signing of Kaká, Manchester City made two consecutive high-priced transfers in a week.

At 100 million euros, this is the largest transfer record in the history of European football.

Everyone was stunned and could not imagine such a result. Two superstars gathered in Manchester City.

Fans all over the world are going crazy and have serious doubts about what is going on with Manchester City?

What do they want to do?

Everyone has not yet received an answer, but the seismic transfer has once again detonated the football market.

Spanish newspaper Marca first revealed that Atletico Madrid's three superstar players, goalkeeper Petr Cech, midfielders Xavi Alonso and David Silva, will be transferred to the club for a package price of 100 million euros. Meet Manchester City.

Breaking 100 million again!

In less than ten days, Manchester City made two transfers worth over 100 million yuan, and this time they also introduced three superstar players in one go. This is absolutely incredible.

According to a report by Marca, the reason why Manchester City was able to persuade Atletico Madrid to release the player was because Gao Han personally negotiated with Cerezo and Hill Jr. during his stay in Madrid and successfully persuaded them to nod.

Atletico Madrid will use the transfer revenue of 100 million euros to pay off all the club's debts.

Besides being shocked, it’s still shocking!

Everyone was puzzled and couldn't understand why Manchester City was burning money like this?

But Manchester City's money-burning pace has obviously not stopped yet.

Soon, Spanish newspaper Marca once again broke the news that Manchester City had introduced midfielder Javi Martinez from Athletic Bilbao for a high price of 30 million euros by paying liquidated damages.

For fans who are not familiar with La Liga, they will not know him at all, let alone be familiar with him. But even so, Manchester City still paid 30 million euros for him, which is already the price of a first-tier European star.

It is completely conceivable that Athletic Bilbao is unwilling to sell, but Manchester City is poaching him forcefully.

So what is the reason why Gao Han values ​​​​Javi Martinez so much?

In less than ten days, a crazy investment of 300 million was made. What did Gao Han want to do?

Not to mention the entire Premier League, even the entire European football world, and even the world, were completely shocked.

In just a few days, Manchester City has completely become synonymous with sudden wealth, and many fans have even begun to criticize Gao Han, believing that his actions in Manchester City have disrupted the entire European transfer market.

No, all the superstars have been robbed by Manchester City. What else can Real Madrid rob?

Manchester City chairman Mubarak said in an interview with the British media that the club will unconditionally support Gao Han's decision and will bring all the players he wants to Gao Han at all costs, even Messi.

As soon as these words came out, the whole world was in an uproar again.

After snatching Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaká, Manchester City is still unwilling to give up and wants to snatch Messi again?

The most nervous one was Barcelona, ​​which made an emergency appointment with Messi's agent father to appease Messi to stay on the team.

But just when everyone was paying attention to Messi, Manchester City took action again and introduced French genius forward Benzema from Lyon who has performed very vigorously in the past two seasons.

This transfer is really a steal.

This summer, many teams were interested in Benzema. Ferguson's Manchester United and Real Madrid were determined to win this talented forward. However, unexpectedly, Benzema ended up with Manchester City.

Regarding this transfer, French newspaper L'Equipe interviewed an anonymous person familiar with the situation and revealed that the reason why Benzema went to Manchester City was because Gao Han personally flew from Manchester to Lyon to talk to him and explained to him in detail Manchester City's plans for the new season. planning.

"I don't know the specifics, but from what I understand, it was a very large experiment."

"It is said that the reason why Gao Han is willing to coach Manchester City this time is because Mansour personally promised to cooperate with Gao Han unconditionally to conduct a great experiment in Manchester City and the Premier League."

"Benzema told me that no one would refuse an opportunity like that, so he agreed to Gao Han's invitation without hesitation."

Coincidentally, after announcing Benzema's joining, German newspaper Bild quickly broke the news and received confirmation from a senior executive at Bayern Munich that the Bundesliga giant had agreed to Manchester City's offer for Luka Modric and allowed them to negotiate personal treatment.

This news once again set off the alarm in the entire European transfer market, and everyone found it unbelievable, because Gao Han looked like he was going to play football games and form a starting team of eleven people in one summer.

Could it be that this is the ideal eleven in his mind?

Obviously, no one knows the answer, but the madness caused by Manchester City continues.

After signing Modric, Gazzetta dello Sport quickly broke the news that Manchester City successfully signed Udinese winger Alexis Sanchez. The Chilean winger was also impressed by Gao Han's plan.

Sanchez, who is currently on vacation in South America, said in an interview with Chilean domestic media that he admired Gao Han very much. After a long overseas phone call with Gao Han, he asked the national team coach Bielsa for his opinion. Decided to move to Manchester City.

"Belsa told me, believe him, it will be a great journey."

Just one day after signing Sanchez, Manchester City officially announced that it had officially reached an agreement with Liverpool and successfully introduced Argentine midfielder Xavi Mascherano. This world-class midfielder will rush to Manchester from Argentina to sign a contract in the next two days.

It can be said that from late June to early July, media not only in Europe, but almost all over the world were reporting news about Manchester City every day. Everyone was shocked by this new powerhouse invested by Middle Eastern tycoons.

Especially when Manchester City signed Xavi Mascherano and announced that the club's transfer had come to an end for the time being, many people were even a little confused. Why did it stop?

Manchester City general manager Paul Futre said in an interview with the British media that the team's signing plan is almost in progress, and will next arrange for the transfer of players in an effort to control the number of first-team players to around 25.

This undoubtedly sounded the clarion call for Manchester City's purge.

But the tycoons are tycoons after all, and even the purge seems very arrogant. Many players even directly terminate their contracts and allow them to move freely, so that they can ask for higher salaries from their new teams, while the clubs take no money.

After entering July, Manchester City successively recruited superstars such as Kaká and Cristiano Ronaldo, and held grand debut ceremonies one after another at the City Stadium in eastern Manchester. Almost every superstar attracted The stadium full of Manchester City fans came to welcome him with great momentum.

The only regret for the fans and media reporters who arrived was that Gao Han never appeared from beginning to end.

Manchester City's crazy money burning has completely shattered the entire Premier League pattern. Especially the joining of Gao Han has made Manchester City the most popular team in the Premier League in the new season.

An astonishing investment of more than 400 million euros accounts for half of the total investment in the Premier League. The other 19 teams, including Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool, can only compete with Manchester City together.

This also made the British media very excited. The Sun even shouted the slogan on the front page: Manchester City singled out the Premier League heroes.

However, this season's Premier League transfer investment is indeed not as crazy as in previous years. With the exception of Manchester City, most of the other 19 teams' investment was inferior to last season.

Manchester United only has one heavyweight signing in Valencia, which cost 17 million pounds. The other players basically don’t spend much money. What’s more important is the operation of retaining existing players, such as the most recent Red Devils. Tevez in spirit.

Chelsea is also tightening money this summer. Many players, including Drogba, have been involved in transfer rumors. However, Chelsea still focuses on stability. After inviting world-class coach Scolari to coach, Chelsea Just the introduction of defender Zhirkov from CSKA Moscow cost 18 million pounds.

As for Arsenal, they only spent 11 million pounds to introduce defender Vermaelen from Ajax. Liverpool invested more, spending 20 million to introduce Aquilani from Roma and Portsmouth. Right back Glen Johnson cost 18.5 million pounds, plus Greek defender Kilgakos from AEK Athens, Liverpool's net investment was about 40 million pounds.

As for other teams, Tottenham Hotspur, under the auspices of old Redknapp, has invested a lot of money. It is the team that invests second only to Manchester City in the Premier League. However, overall, it is mainly practical and has introduced many talents including There are many powerful stars such as Crouch, Walker, Norton, Kranjcar and Basson, and they are basically players who have proven themselves in the Premier League.

Therefore, Tottenham Hotspur's strength has improved significantly this summer, but there is still a large gap between them and the traditional top four.

The only player who can truly challenge the traditional top four is Manchester City.

Fans, media reporters and people in the football industry all over the world are also waiting eagerly to see what kind of team Gao Han will create with his investment of more than 400 million.

It is in this atmosphere that the training camp for the new season has finally arrived.