Chapter 323 Summer transfers open, Real Madrid saves money to buy Lin Quan!
After the King's celebration banquet, the Spanish team held a parade as usual.
The streets of Madrid were already empty. Fans from all over the country, wearing the jerseys of the Spanish national team, gathered in the Plaza Mayor, patiently waiting for the arrival of the heroes in their hearts.
At 9:30 in the morning, the entire Spanish team appeared together, led by captain Casillas.
Casillas, holding the World Cup trophy high, was the first to appear on the field in the first bus.
After seeing the World Cup and the national team members, there was warm applause and cheers at the scene.
Through live broadcast on TV stations, this scene is also transmitted in real time to thousands of households in major cities across the country.
The streets, squares and bars in major cities across the country were filled with Spanish fans participating in the carnival and celebration.
The whole of Spain was plunged into a sea of celebration!
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Just as the streets of Madrid were empty and the Spaniards were happily celebrating the second championship trophy in their team's history.
The transfer market in European football is in turmoil.
This year is the World Cup year. After the World Cup, many players will choose to transfer.
Therefore, this year's transfer market is particularly lively, and the transfer market is full of transfer rumors of many big-name stars.
Although Lin Quan has publicly denied the rumors and rejected Paris Saint-Germain's invitation.
But the transfer market is still full of gossip about him.
Rumor has it that after watching Lin Quan's performance in the World Cup, Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has made up his mind to bring Lin Quan to the Bernabeu.
Once Lin Quan shows any intention of leaving Manchester City, Real Madrid will immediately start negotiations with Manchester City and bring Lin Quan back to Spain with the most sincere offer.
As for how much this "most sincere offer" is, the reporter who reported the matter did not disclose it, but hinted that it would not be less than 200 million euros.
After this report came out, before Manchester City had time to make a statement, another La Liga giant - Barcelona was unhappy!
Laporta, who is about to run for the club's presidency, publicly stated:
"Lin is the treasure of La Masia. We will never allow him to fall into the hands of our sworn enemy Real Madrid. If Lin wants to return to La Liga, his next stop must be Barcelona!"
The reporters were very dismissive of Laporta's statement. He is no longer a Barcelona player. What's your business if he transfers to a place? Besides, from Lin Quan's previous statements, it is clear that he has a grudge with Barcelona. Before the grudge between the two sides is resolved, it is a pipe dream to bring him back to Camp Nou.
However, Laporta's statement has won the welcome of many Barcelona fans.
After Spain successfully defended the World Cup title, Lin Quan's status in the hearts of Barcelona fans soared thanks to his outstanding performance in this World Cup.
Young, strong, suitable for passing and controlling football, a product of La Masia youth training...
In the hearts of countless Barcelona fans, Lin Quan is the best candidate to lead the Red and Blue Army to complete the revival and return to the top of the world! Barcelona fans are eager to see Lin Quan and Messi lead the team to kill all sides on the Nou Camp stadium.
It’s a pity that achieving this goal is really difficult!
Laporta's plan is good, but his election opponent Bartomeu obviously will not let him succeed.
After Rosell was imprisoned, Barcelona's first vice president Bartomeu temporarily took over the position of club president.
The outside world had predicted that Barcelona would hold the presidential election early this summer. However, Bartomeu postponed the date by one year to the summer of 2015.
Obviously, Bartomeu will not willingly give up the position of chairman to Laporta.
He invited back Luis Enrique and prepared to introduce James Rodriguez and Suarez to further strengthen Barcelona's lineup so that they can go all out to impact the Champions League next season.
If Barcelona can win the Champions League this season, he can use this achievement to win the hearts of more fans, so that he can defeat Laporta in the election next summer.
Bartomeu's move caught Laporta off guard.
A lot of the preparation he had done in advance was wasted.
Bartomeu acted quickly, at a time when other teams were generally hesitant about signing Suarez after the negative incident of him being suspended for biting.
Barcelona took a huge risk and signed the Uruguayan for 81 million euros!
The arrival of Suarez has formed the MSN combination of Messi, Suarez and Neymar in Barcelona's frontcourt.
People don't know enough about the strength of this combination now. When the new season starts and the three of them dominate the league and the Champions League, people will realize the terrible power of this combination! Suarez's transfer is the biggest deal in the football transfer market so far this summer.
With a transfer fee of 81 million, Suarez has temporarily become the record signing this summer.
However, this transfer record is destined not to last long! Because, in the transfer market, there is another player who shined in the World Cup - James Rodriguez, that is, James Rodriguez's next club has not yet been determined!
There are many more teams chasing James Rodriguez than the notorious Suarez, including Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester United, Liverpool and many other teams are interested in signing him.
Originally, Real Madrid, James Rodriguez and Monaco had basically reached a contract of intent, but after selling Suarez, the Reds Liverpool were full of concerns about the team's performance next season.
Although Liverpool still failed to realize their dream of winning the Premier League last season, they qualified for the Champions League with a good second place result.
Liverpool hasn't played in the Champions League for five years, and they are very ambitious about the league.
However, because they have been away from European competitions for too long, the Reds are very nervous and don't know how far the team's current lineup can go in European competitions.
Especially with the departure of Suarez, the team's top scorer, if they don't recruit new players, their performance in the Premier League, let alone the Champions League, will decline this season.
Therefore, Liverpool is eager to bring in a high-level player to fill the vacancy left by Suarez.
James Rodriguez fits their requirements very well! So, using the funds provided by Suarez's transfer and adding a little money of their own, Liverpool offered Monaco 85 million euros to bring James Rodriguez to Anfield.
This offer made Monaco temporarily terminate the negotiations with Real Madrid and plan to wait and see for a while.
After Lin Quan confirmed that he did not intend to leave Manchester City, the major giants seemed to have the funds to buy players.
Although James Rodriguez is not as strong as Lin Quan, he is also a rare superstar among young players.
Such a player will never have trouble selling. Since it is a sale, Monaco naturally hopes to make a little more money.
After receiving the news, Real Madrid was very angry.
For them, James Rodriguez is not indispensable.
Especially when the club chairman expressed his intention to buy Lin Quan, they needed to raise funds in advance to prepare for the introduction of Lin Quan.
As a result, Real Madrid once planned to withdraw from the competition.
If Liverpool wants him, then we'll give him to you. We'll save money to buy Lin Quan. Isn't that good?
The change in attitude of Real Madrid made James Rodriguez a little anxious.
If he were asked to choose between Liverpool and Real Madrid, he would definitely choose Real Madrid.
Real Madrid is the greatest and most successful club on the planet and the childhood dream of countless players.
It is also James Rodriguez's dream to wear the sacred white jersey at the Bernabeu Stadium and play for the best team in the world.
So, James Rodriguez asked his agent to put pressure on the club to make concessions on the transfer price and let him go to Real Madrid.
At the same time, James Rodriguez publicly showed his goodwill to Real Madrid and expressed his love for the club without any reservation.
This move won him the favor of Real Madrid fans.
James Rodriguez has a good appearance and temperament. He is exactly the kind of player that Real Madrid fans like, who has both good looks and ability.
Moreover, the fact that he won the Silver Boot in the World Cup and attracted so many teams to spend more than 80 million euros to pursue him proves that he is a real talent.
So, if the price is right, buying him would not be a bad thing for Real Madrid.
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Even if they need to raise money to buy Lin Quan in the future, they can just sell him to free up funds and salary space.
Players of his level, as long as they don't get seriously injured on the court and their performance doesn't decline drastically, will basically not lose too much, and may even make some money!
In the end, Real Madrid and Monaco reached an agreement on James Rodriguez's transfer, and James Rodriguez transferred to Real Madrid for 82 million euros.
This price also allowed him to surpass Suarez by a very narrow margin, becoming the highest-paid player in the 2014 summer transfer window.
After spending 100 million pounds to sign Bale last year, Real Madrid once again bought the top player in the transfer market.
The investment of the two La Liga giants in the transfer market goes far beyond this. After buying Suarez, Barcelona made a series of signings.
They first spent 12 million euros to buy Real Sociedad goalkeeper Bravo, and then brought Ter Stegen to Camp Nou from Borussia Mönchengladbach for the same price.
The arrival of these two players solved the problem of Barcelona's lack of main goalkeeper in the new season.
The situation of Valdes, who had previously refused to renew his contract with Barcelona, has become very embarrassing. As the Spanish team's second goalkeeper, he faces a situation of having no ball to play in the new season, which is quite regrettable.
In addition to spending 24 million euros to bring in two top goalkeepers, Barcelona also spent 18 million euros to take away Sevilla's main midfielder Rakitic.
Barcelona has also strengthened its defense.
They first took away the opposing defender Vermaelen from Arsenal for 19 million euros; then they took away the opposing main defender Mathieu from Valencia for 20 million euros.
At the last minute of the transfer window, Barcelona also brought back a defender named Santos from Brazilian club Sao Paulo for 4 million euros.
This summer, Barcelona spent a total of 160 million euros, which shows Bartomeu's ambition! Of course, it is not realistic to ask the club to spend so much money at once, so Barcelona also sold a lot of players while buying them.
Fabregas, who had clamored to return to Barcelona at his own expense, eventually left Camp Nou. He joined Chelsea for 33 million euros and returned to the Premier League.
Sanchez, who lost his main position after Suarez's arrival, was also sold to Arsenal by Barcelona for 42.5 million euros.
In addition, Tello was loaned to the black shop Porto for 3 million euros.
It is worth mentioning that Bojan, who broke numerous records of the Barcelona youth team and was regarded as the second Messi, was eventually sold to Stoke City by Barcelona for 1.8 million euros after struggling for several years.
After these transfers were completed, Barcelona's losses this summer were reduced to less than 100 million euros.
Compared with Barcelona, although Real Madrid bought the highest-paid player this summer, they sold more players.
Among them, Di Maria was sold to Manchester United for 75 million euros, Morata was sold to Juventus for 20 million euros, Xabi Alonso transferred to Bayern for 10 million euros, and Sahin was sold back to Dortmund for 7 million euros.
Calculated in this way, Real Madrid not only did not lose money, but also made a net profit of 30 million euros.
In addition to Barcelona and Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid has also made some moves this summer.
After selling Diego Costa and Felipe for £50 million, they have plenty of transfer funds.
Although Torres has returned to the team, Simeone feels it is necessary to continue to strengthen the forward line considering Torres' condition and the departure of Villa and Diego Costa.
So, taking advantage of the discord between Mandzukic and Bayern head coach Guardiola, Simeone spent 22 million euros to buy Mandzukic and bought Torino striker Cerci for 15 million euros.
Then they bought Granada defender Siqueira for 10 million euros and took Benfica's main goalkeeper Oblak away from Benfica for 16 million euros to replace the vacancy left by Courtois.
After these transfers were completed, Simeone set his sights on Real Sociedad's young striker Griezmann!
Last season, Griezmann played 50 games for Real Sociedad, contributing 21 goals and 5 assists. In the game where Real Sociedad defeated Barcelona 3-1 at home, his outstanding performance of one pass and one shot attracted Simeone's attention.
Simeone is very optimistic about Griezmann, and coincidentally, so is Real Sociedad.
Atletico Madrid initially offered 20 million euros to Real Sociedad, but the other party directly rejected it and stated that Griezmann was not for sale.
What is not for sale? Isn't it because the money is not enough? Simeone raised the price by 5 million euros and made a new offer to Real Sociedad at 25 million euros.
Real Sociedad's attitude has softened. They no longer say that Griezmann is not for sale. Instead, they emphasize that Griezmann is very important to the team and is an indispensable member of Real Sociedad.
Simeone was so angry that he vomited blood. Does the other party want more money?
The two sides negotiated for almost half a month, and finally Atletico Madrid was forced to activate Griezmann's buyout clause at a price of 30 million euros and forcibly brought him to Atletico Madrid.
This summer, Atletico Madrid invested a total of 120 million euros in the transfer market, recovered 95 million euros through sales, and had a net investment of 25 million euros.
This summer, the 20 La Liga teams invested a total of 480 million euros in the transfer market, and the top three La Liga teams accounted for 360 million. This shows the huge gap between the rich and the poor in La Liga.
The transfer investment of 480 million also made La Liga rank second among the top five leagues.
However, compared with the Premier League next door, La Liga is nothing.
In the summer of 2014, the Premier League spent a total of 1.02 billion euros in the transfer market, which is almost the sum of the other four major leagues! The reason for such a fierce arms race among Premier League teams is the sudden rise of Manchester City last season! With the investment of the Abu Dhabi consortium, Manchester City has jumped from a mid-to-lower-level team to one of the top teams in the Premier League in just a few years.
The major wealthy families, feeling seriously threatened, had to join the arms race in order to maintain their status.
The Premier League has done a good job in event promotion, and the broadcast revenue share of each team is much higher than that of other leagues. Even some teams ranked in the middle and lower ranks can get about 80 million pounds in broadcast revenue alone in a season! This gives these teams the confidence to spend money!
Therefore, this season's Premier League arms race is particularly fierce!
(End of this chapter)