Chapter 29 Crazy transfer market [Please recommend and read! ]
After winning the warm-up match against Aberdeen, Werder Bremen only has one warm-up match left in July.
Coach Schaaf was very satisfied with the team’s offensive coordination in the midfield and frontcourt in these two games.
With the addition of Lin Quan and De Bruyne, Werder Bremen's frontcourt firepower this season has increased compared to last season.
However, the team's defensive problems still exist, so he began to look for the defender he wanted in the transfer market.
He first offered 1.5 million euros for Liberec defender Theodor Selassie, 26 years old.
Liberec was the champion of the Czech First League last season and will participate in the Champions League next season.
So they were unwilling to sell their players at a low price at this time. Faced with Werder Bremen's offer, they rejected it outright and stated that Selassie was not for sale.
However, due to the low level and low attention of the Czech First League, it is difficult for them to retain players invited by the top five leagues.
As long as the other party makes an offer that is impressive enough to impress them, they will eventually agree to the player's transfer.
Schaff is very clear about this. After all, the leagues in Eastern Europe, such as the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and even the Ukrainian league, are all the Bundesliga's private territories.
If they want to buy players from these places, unless they are favored by the top clubs in the five major leagues at the same time, there is nothing they can't buy! So he added 300,000 euros to the 1.5 million euros offer and offered another 1.8 million euros.
Liberec was impressed by the offer, as Selassie was not an indispensable and absolute main force in their view.
If they get the 1.8 million euros from Werder Bremen, they can go to the transfer market to buy some young players to train. As long as they can train one of these young players into a star, they will make a profit.
So they accepted Werder Bremen's offer and completed the transfer.
Selassie can play as a full-back and a winger, so he is a versatile player.
However, the team's central defender position has not been strengthened and they need to continue purchasing players.
Before buying any players, he had to first buy the team's main central defender Sokratis Papastathopoulos, who was loaned from Genoa.
The Greek is 24 years old, in his prime, and his market value was as high as 8 million euros two years ago.
However, after joining AC Milan in the 09-10 season, due to fierce competition within the team and not getting enough playing time, his value plummeted to 2 million euros.
Werder Bremen loaned him last season, and his performance after one season has won unanimous recognition from fans and the club.
Schaff thought this was a player with great strength and potential, so he offered 2 million to buy him out.
Although Genoa does not plan to recall Papastathopoulos, they do not want to sell him so cheaply.
Especially since he performed so well in the Bundesliga last season, a price of 2 million is not enough to impress them.
So they rejected Werder Bremen's offer and leaked that they would need at least 5 million euros to take the Greek away.
This price exceeded Werder Bremen's bottom line. Schaff gritted his teeth, raised the price to 3.5 million euros, and told Genoa that this was Werder Bremen's bottom line and they would not buy it if the price was higher.
When Genoa heard the offer, they immediately agreed to the deal, which made Coach Schaff realize that he had been tricked and he was immediately furious.
But even though he was angry, he knew in his heart that he had gotten a great bargain.
Spending 3.5 million euros to buy a main central defender who can play for the team for at least seven or eight seasons is such a good deal!
Moreover, judging from Sokratis Papastathopoulos' performance in the Bundesliga last season, if he can continue his outstanding performance this season.
Then he is very likely to be spotted by some wealthy clubs. If the team wants to resell him, they will not have to worry about not being able to sell him, and may even make a fortune.
So he informed the club and quickly signed Papastathopoulos.
After buying two defenders, Werder Bremen's budget was almost spent.
Therefore, they could only sign last season's Düsseldorf central defender Lukimya on a free contract with zero transfer fee.
Although Lukimya is a free agent, his strength is not weak.
He was the core of Düsseldorf's defense in the Bundesliga last season and was originally planning to transfer to Cologne in the Bundesliga.
However, Cologne was unexpectedly relegated last season, which caused the transfer to fall through.
He didn't want to play in a lower-level league, so he naturally accepted the olive branch extended by Werder Bremen without hesitation.
After signing three defenders and promoting a young player from the team's echelon, the financially stingy Werder Bremen ended its transfer schedule for this season.
This summer, Werder Bremen earned 11.25 million euros from player transfers and spent 6.25 million euros on purchasing and renting players.
In total, the net profit was 5 million euros, which is considered a small profit.
Different from Werder Bremen's thriftiness and careful budgeting, this year in the European football transfer market, the rich spent money like water and frantically bought their favorite players.
The Russian Premier League tycoon St. Petersburg Zenit's offer of 50 million euros for Porto striker Hulk has made the world aware of the terrifying financial power of Russian oligarchs.
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Paris Saint-Germain's transfer of AC Milan's main defender Thiago Silva for 42 million euros, the second highest price in history, not only almost broke the record for defender transfer fees in football, but also made the world aware of the arrogance of the Middle Eastern tycoons.
Unwilling to be lonely, Bundesliga giant Bayern Munich bought Athletic Bilbao's main defender Javi Martinez for 40 million.
This transfer directly broke the transfer record in Bundesliga history, raising the threshold from 33 million euros to 40 million euros.
Athletic Bilbao, to which Martinez belongs, did not want to let him go, so Bayern had no choice but to pay the penalty fee and take Hammar away by force.
This transfer also allowed Bayern to find the last piece of the championship puzzle.
The madness of the local tycoons seems to have ignited the enthusiasm of major clubs to buy players.
So they also took action.
Chelsea sign Hazard from Lille for £32m.
Real Madrid signed Modric from Tottenham for £30 million.
Arsenal captain Robin van Persie moved to Manchester United for £24 million.
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There are so many transfer news that it’s hard to keep up with them, but actually these have nothing to do with Lin Quan and the others.
However, in Barcelona, Mundo Deportivo revealed a piece of gossip: a Scottish Premier League club offered Barcelona 5 million euros, hoping to bring Lin Quan from the youth team to play in the Scottish Premier League.
Because the report was short and had no follow-up, it was quickly forgotten.
Lin Quan was not even aware of this.
However, some people at Barcelona could no longer sit still.
"Damn it, what on earth did that guy do? Why has someone already made an offer before the Bundesliga even started?"
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