Super Marshal

As Christmas approaches, with the exception of the Premier League, major European leagues have been suspended one after another. However, scandals in the transfer market have begun to occupy important pages in major media, attracting the attention of fans around the world.

The first to bear the brunt is the Premier League, which has the strongest purchasing power.

Manchester City, with Gao Han, announced early that the team would not introduce any signings during the winter break. Gao Han also publicly revealed at the team's Christmas dinner that he was very satisfied with the team's current lineup and every player was very happy. The team has made contributions, and he does not think the team needs to sign players. At the same time, he also encourages all players to continue to work hard in the next six months.

Manchester City management also supports Gao Han's choice.

The only potential transfer in the entire winter transfer market is Bridge, and West Ham United hopes 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 stated that he would stay in Manchester, even if he was playing as a substitute for Gao Han.

"He told me that he needed me, and I have been working hard to adapt to the requirements of the head coach. I think we are very hopeful of winning the Champions League this season, so I am willing to stay in the team."

Coincidentally, Manchester United will also not make any big moves in the transfer market.

Except for the substitute goalkeeper Lindegaard who announced his joining early, Ferguson is more interested in finding a way for young players, either on loan or transfer. However, Manchester United does not intend to invest in the transfer market. Ferguson prefers to maintain the lineup. Stablize.

Arsenal also holds this view. Liverpool has performed poorly this season. The Gunners have great hope of retaining the top four in the league. Wenger obviously has no motivation to bring in strong reinforcements. However, the team's forward problem has obviously become Wenger's. heart disease.

In the past two years, the Gunners have begun to actively adapt to the mainstream play style of European football, changing from the original four-four-two to four-three-three. This allowed the team's top center Robin van Persie to perform well. Last season, left Even though he was out for five months due to a torn ankle ligament, Van Persie still conquered all Gunners fans with his outstanding performance of nine goals and seven assists in 16 appearances.

But at the beginning of this season, Van Persie, who had just participated in the World Cup in South Africa, showed good scoring momentum. He scored two goals in the first three rounds. However, he soon injured his ankle again and has been sidelined to this day.

Interestingly, there were media reports not long ago that Arsenal suspected that Van Persie's frequent injuries were related to his wisdom teeth, so they removed the wisdom teeth for the Dutch center. However, whether it will be effective depends on Van Persie's performance after his return in January.

During Van Persie's absence, Chamakh's performance could only be regarded as satisfactory and not satisfactory.

In addition to Arsenal, another Premier League team, Liverpool, is in an even more embarrassing situation. Hodgson's team is only ranked ninth in the Premier League after 18 rounds. This result makes everyone in the Red Army extremely dissatisfied.

There is news that Liverpool has begun to re-search for head coach candidates, and the most likely candidate is the famous Dalglish to take over.

According to the Liverpool Echo, Dalglish 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 offense.

"Dalglish is interested in Andy Carroll, the popular center who has performed very well at Newcastle this season. He is known as the new Shearer. He has scored ten goals in eighteen rounds of the league. He is a good player for this season. The best local goalscorer in the Premier League this season.”

"Liverpool's new management has basically agreed to Dalglish's request and is currently raising money to prepare for Carroll's operation. However, if they want to convince Newcastle to agree to this transfer, Liverpool will probably have to pay a huge transfer fee. OK."

Compared with several traditional strong teams, other teams in the Premier League have not made much movement. The truly influential transfer is Aston Villa's active operation of Sunderland forward Darren Bent.

Aston Villa's performance this season is not ideal and they are currently ranked 12th in the Premier League. However, Sunderland performed extremely well and are currently ranked fifth in the Premier League. Darren Bent has performed well and the transfer fee is expected to be two Around ten million pounds.

This is also in line with the general situation of winter transfers. Only teams that do not perform satisfactorily in the first half will invest in signings during winter transfers.

This is true for the Premier League, and so is La Liga.

After a period of media hype, Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone finally accepted an interview with the media after a regular club meeting on Christmas Eve and publicly stated that the team was indeed operating Chinatown midfielder Schneider. Forest.

"You know, before I introduce a player, I will pay careful attention to his zodiac sign. Schneiderlin is a Sagittarius, which represents bravery, decisiveness and independence. He has a spirit of not being afraid of difficulties and moving forward courageously. This is very suitable. What I want from my players."

Regarding Diego Simeone's remarks, the media generally reported them in a joking manner. No one would believe that he really relied on his horoscope to decide whether to introduce Schneiderlin, but it was obvious that he was more considering The character of the player.

Under Simeone's guidance, Atletico Madrid is gradually transforming from the pass-and-control style that Gao Han focused on to the high-intensity pressing and confrontational style that Simeone now advocates. Although it still requires a lot of attention on the players' foot skills. High demands, but Simeone is more eager to get players like Schneiderlin.

At the same time, German media reported that Chinatown technical director Carlos Cantarero appeared in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, which made the news that Chinatown would introduce Rakitic spread like wildfire.

Two days later, on the first day after Christmas, Chinatown officially announced that the team finally convinced Rakitic to introduce Rakitic from Schalke 04 with a transfer fee of two million euros.

At the press conference, Cantarero stated that the team firmly believes that Rakitic can help Chinatown improve its midfield strength, and also acknowledged the news that Schneiderlin will move to Atletico Madrid.

The day after Chinatown was announced, Atletico Madrid also officially announced that the team had introduced Schneiderlin from Chinatown for 30 million euros. Hill spoke highly of the French midfielder's performance in La Liga in the past two seasons. With his performance and the progress of the players, I firmly believe that he can bring huge changes to Atletico Madrid.

Diego Simeone also publicly commented that Schneiderlin will be a strong player in the midfield and will play a huge role.

Marca later revealed that the 30 million euros for Atletico Madrid to introduce Schneiderlin will be paid in two installments before the transfer this summer, while the introduction of Rakitic to Chinatown will be a one-time payment. Finish.

"According to the information obtained by the reporter, Schalke 04 initially asked for Rakitic to be as high as 7 million euros, but so far, only two teams have officially made an offer for the Croatian midfielder, namely Chinatown and Serbia. Vilia.”

“After many rounds of negotiations, Chinatown and Sevilla’s offers were both low, and they offered two different plans.”

"Sevilla hopes to introduce the Croatian midfielder at a price of 2.5 million euros, but it adopts a fixed transfer fee of 1.5 million euros, plus a floating amount of 1 million. It depends on Villa's performance."

"Relatively speaking, Chinatown's transfer plan is more favorable to Schalke 04. They are willing to buy out Rakitic in one go for two million euros, which is more than Sevilla. Five hundred thousand euros, plus Rakitic himself prefers Chinatown, so Schalke 04 decided to sell the player to Chinatown."

Two million euros is already a considerable transfer expenditure for Chinatown.

Regarding the joining of Rakitic, 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 opened, Rakiti Qi also said that he will participate in the training camp in Chinatown in advance to prepare for the second half of the league.

In the same situation, Schneiderlin also went to Atletico Madrid in advance to participate in training, and the Shenlian Legion also introduced right back Juanfran from Osasuna for 4 million euros.

After losing the competition with Rakitic in Chinatown, Sevilla immediately changed its target and introduced Chilean international Medel from South America for 3 million euros.

Relatively speaking, Barcelona, ​​currently ranked first in La Liga, has not made much signings. It only introduced Afellay from Eindhoven for 3 million euros. This was the decision of the club management, and Guardiola also agreed to the signing.

After Atletico Madrid and Chinatown both succeeded in signing players around Christmas, Real Madrid also had to speed up its signing efforts. After entering January, Galacticos announced that it would introduce Brazilian players from Juventus at a high price of 30 million euros. Midfielder Felipe Melo, this also allowed Felipe Melo to tie Schneiderlin and become the winter transfer bidder.

"As early as the early days of Mourinho's coaching at Real Madrid, he had always wanted to introduce Felipe Melo, but suffered from failure. Now Mourinho finally got what he wanted."

"Although Melo's performance at Juventus has been controversial and he is known as the winner of the Golden Garbage Award, Mourinho has full confidence in him. He firmly believes that the Brazilian midfielder's strength confrontation and tactical discipline can be very good. Help Real Madrid."

In addition to Felipe Melo, Real Madrid soon announced that the team had introduced midfielder Moutinho from Porto, Portugal, for a high price of 30 million euros.

This is another midfielder appointed by Mourinho. He is both offensive and defensive and is the humerus general of the Portuguese national team.

Two strong players joined the team, and Mourinho quickly made a cleanup and loaned Mohamed Diarra to Monaco.

A winter break transfer cost a total of 60 million euros. I am afraid that only the wealthy Real Madrid can achieve this, but the Galacticos still seem to be not satisfied. According to British media reports, Mourinho also hopes to get the Chelsea midfielder Player Essien.

Everyone was surprised by this transfer rumor, because Essien is one of Chelsea's best midfielders this season, and it is impossible to get him without paying a huge transfer fee.

Chelsea officials quickly refuted the rumors, stating that the club would not let go of any players during the winter transfer period.

According to media reports, Chelsea’s previous big-ticket purchases of Falcao and Ramirez have been so debilitating that Scolari’s position as coach is not guaranteed, and Abramovich will not be promoted during the winter break. and temporarily shelved the transfer negotiations with Benfica regarding central defender David Luiz.

David Luiz was Scolari's chosen central defender, but now the Brazilian coach is in trouble.

While Real Madrid was waving checks and Chelsea quickly refuted the rumors, the top transfer bidder during the winter break finally appeared.

Liverpool finally announced that it would introduce local high center Andy Carroll from Newcastle for a sky-high price of 45 million euros.

This blockbuster transfer made Carroll the new top bidder in the winter transfer market and proved Liverpool's ambition to return to the top four in the league.

On the occasion of the birth of the standard king, the much-anticipated FIFA Annual Awards Conference finally kicked off in Zurich.