Chapter 752 Transfer Battle
Bayern's restructuring plan has been prepared for half a year.
Since Hoeness was promoted to chairman of the supervisory board and Neilinger took over as sports director, Bayern has been working hard to promote restructuring.
This group of managers who understand football know very well that the best way to prevent the team from resting on its laurels is to carry out drastic restructuring.
If you don’t want to be revolutionized by others, you can only revolutionize yourself! But restructuring is also a profound science.
Just like on the front line, Su Dong's departure may not necessarily be a bad thing for Bayern.
Both Ribery and Robben have ambitions, but when Su Dong was on the team, they had no chance to show their desire in this regard. On the tactical level, they could only choose to cooperate with Su Dong unconditionally.
Although Su Dong is not a reckless shooter like Ronaldo, and often feeds back to his teammates, the top star is the top star. Ribery and Robben can only follow Su Dong's footsteps when attacking.
After Su Dong left the team, both of them must have been holding back their energy and wanted to take the opportunity to prove themselves. They will definitely continue to maintain their fighting spirit and may even perform better than before and take the opportunity to move up.
Of course, there are risks as well.
In the past, they were very well behaved because Su Dong was in charge of them. But now that Su Dong is gone, neither of them is willing to submit to the other, so they can only compete on the court. If they are not careful, the two of them may accidentally start a fight, and the conflicts in the locker room will be very troublesome.
With Su Dong leaving the frontcourt, the attacking firepower was greatly affected, and the introduction of Gomez was just a barely sufficient way to stop the loss.
The combination of Schweinsteiger, Modric and Mascherano has been Bayern's main midfield in the past few years and has performed very well, but now that Mascherano has been linked with top teams such as Barcelona and Real Madrid, Bayern has become nervous.
Schweini will definitely stay with the team. If Mascherano leaves, Modric will definitely not leave. In addition, Bayern will introduce Brazilian midfielder Gustavo from Hoffenheim, plus Tymoshchuk, to fill the vacancy left by Mascherano.
Hoffenheim's Gustavo is worth 15 million euros, while Bayern's asking price for Mascherano is 30 million euros.
In other words, with one player in and one player out, Bayern earned 15 million euros.
More importantly, Gustavo is three years younger than Mascherano and has a lower annual salary.
For the Bundesliga, there is really not much difference between Gustavo and Mascherano. The former has also proved his strength and value in Hoffenheim.
The same can be said about the defence, with Pepe and Marcelo leaving and Bayern promoting players directly from the youth team.
From a business perspective, we have to admit that Bayern's series of operations are indeed very smart, and even worthwhile.
After this wave of metabolism, the team's average age has dropped a lot, the annual salary pressure has been reduced a lot, and the club can make a lot of money in the transfer market, which can be said to be a fruitful harvest.
As for the weakening of overall strength, there is no doubt that Bayern will win in the Bundesliga. As for the Champions League, there will be no problem in the quarterfinals. As for the semi-finals and the final, Bayern is still confident of making it.
Therefore, Bayern won this game! …
After listening to Mendes and Ma Dawei's introduction, Su Dong smiled and shook his head.
"Only in the Bundesliga would Bayern dare to do this!"
Selling so many players in their prime in one summer, which team would dare to do this in the Premier League, La Liga and Serie A? But in the Bundesliga, Bayern did it.
After all, Bayern's management of the Bundesliga is so powerful that they have turned the entire Bundesliga into their rear base.
For example, Gustavo is a really strong player and a key player for Hoffenheim.
In other leagues, who would easily sell such a player? But in the Bundesliga, Bayern wants to buy, Hoffenheim buys, and the player also wants to leave.
These are unimaginable in other leagues, but in the Bundesliga, they seem to be natural.
The Bundesliga teams seem to naturally think that Bayern, the big brother, will lead them to a good life.
"After Modric's signing failed, Guardiola wanted to sign your junior, Moutinho from Sporting Lisbon."
Mendes sighed softly, "Sporting Lisbon's current situation is not very good. Porto also wants to buy Moutinho. Manchester City asked me to negotiate. The estimated transfer fee is around 10 million euros."
Su Dong nodded slightly. Sporting Lisbon's situation has not improved over the years.
Back then, they sold Sudon and Ronaldo, then they sold Pepe, and now they are selling Moutinho. It's all the same.
This is the way Sporting Lisbon survives. It used to be sold to teams in the four major leagues, but now it can only be sold to Porto. In the final analysis, it is still a step backwards.
But what else can we do?
The Portuguese Super League is now dominated by Porto.
Su Dong didn’t have much affection for Sporting Lisbon, so he didn’t think too much about it, but quickly thought of another thing.
"Jorge, send a copy of Toni Kroos's information to Guardiola later."
Mendes was stunned. He knew Toni Kroos, but this player was not a starter in either Bayern or the German national team.
"This kid is very good, and he has a lot of Xavi feeling. Guardiola should like him." Su Dong said with a smile.
After joining Manchester City, he naturally hopes that Manchester City can rise as soon as possible, and it is also his responsibility to provide advice to the coaching staff.
If Modric stays, it will be difficult for Toni Kroos to find a place in Bayern. Given his age, loan may be a way out, but he does not have as deep feelings for Bayern as Schweinsteiger, Thomas Muller and others.
Speaking of which, he joined Bayern at the same time as Su Dong.
More importantly, Su Dong had a very good relationship with him and was willing to lend him a helping hand when he was in trouble.
As for Bayern, they wouldn't mind this kind of thing.
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The news of Su Dong's arrival in London was quickly captured by media reporters.
But then, he seemed to have evaporated from the face of the earth and disappeared completely.
Everyone, including media reporters, basically believed that he was flying back to Europe after watching the World Cup in South Africa, and his flight happened to arrive in London.
But after meeting Mendes and Ma Dawei, Su Dong rested for a night in London and set off north the next morning.
This time, Su Dong did not go directly to Manchester, but went to Cheshire and quietly moved into Ronnie's house.
The day after arriving in Cheshire, Manchester City chairman Mubarak, general manager Soriano, technical director Begiristain, and head coach Guardiola all visited quietly.
The two sides met at Ronnie's home in Cheshire, attended by Wang Chuqing, Mendes and Ma Dawei.
The purpose of this meeting was simple. Manchester City explained in all aspects its preparations for Su Dong's arrival.
Soriano analyzed from a business perspective and said that Manchester City's commercial department, especially its business operation capabilities, is indeed not as good as giants such as Real Madrid, Manchester United and Bayern, but the team attaches great importance to it and he is also stepping up efforts to build a commercial team.
For example, this summer, Manchester City arranged its summer training camp in the United States with the aim of expanding its influence in the North American market, but this will take some time.
After all, Manchester City’s previous foundation was too weak, and it would be difficult to compete with these top teams in a short period of time.
Apart from other things, Chelsea proposed a vigorous profit plan that year, and even poached Peter Kenyon from Manchester United. What was the final result? Soriano was an old friend of Su Dong. Su Dong was very clear about his ability. He was always a pragmatic person, so Su Dong naturally believed in the plan he proposed.
Mubarak promised on behalf of Mansour that the most important task of the Abu Dhabi consortium in running Manchester City is not to make money, but to build a top club. He hopes that Su Dong can lead Manchester City to complete such a transformation.
Begiristain is in charge of the technical aspect. He said that the team's recruitment progress is relatively smooth. The plan to introduce Maicon failed, and the club will target Arsenal's Sagna.
"But there is a problem. After Sagna was injured last season, his form has not recovered. Wenger is not satisfied with him and is considering introducing Azpilicueta from Osasuna in La Liga to compete with him."
"Azpilicueta is also within our consideration. The Spanish right-back is very dynamic on the wing and performs very well. In addition, we have a young player on loan. Trippier and Josep are very optimistic about him."
Transfers are actually a war! In addition to the right back, the plan to introduce Modric in the midfield has basically failed.
"The latest news is that Mascherano is likely to transfer to Barcelona. Mourinho has made up his mind to gamble on a Champions League this season. Yaya Toure is not stable enough. He wants to get Mascherano, so Bayern will basically not let Modric go."
As for the introduction of Marcelo and Pepe, Manchester City has been pushing forward and negotiations with Bayern are also ongoing.
Both players have expressed their intentions to Bayern through their agent Mendes, and Bayern is also interested in selling players to support young local players. The two sides can be said to have hit it off, and the only thing left is the issue of transfer fees.
But for Manchester City, the transfer fee is actually not a big problem.
Although Begiristain did not say for sure, it is basically certain that these two players are already Manchester City players.
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Su Dong is still very satisfied with Manchester City's signings.
He is unfamiliar with the Premier League environment and only knows that the competition is fierce.
But with Manchester City's current recruitment efforts, I believe the chances of reaching the Champions League zone in the new season are still very high.
As for challenging for the Premier League title, it is really hard to say.
Guardiola briefly introduced to Su Dong the tactics he specially tailored for Su Dong. It was still his iconic 4-3-3. Di Maria and Sanchez played on the two wings, responsible for opening up the defense for Su Dong. David Silva was in the middle, and Busquets was responsible for pulling back to organize and sort out the situation.
Originally the other one was Modric, but now, we have to reconsider.
Su Dong also put forward some of his own opinions, including some of his playing habits and his suggestions on the team's tactics.
If it were someone else, Guardiola might not listen to him, but given Su Dong's current identity and status, Guardiola would still be able to listen to his opinions.
In addition, he also made a rather unreasonable request to Su Dong.
(End of this chapter)
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