Chapter 589 The 90 million pound offer for Van Dijk is crazy, everyone is crazy!

Two weeks have passed since the Champions League final ended. Discussions about this game gradually stopped on the Internet and in reality.

Fans' attention is gradually attracted by the increasingly fierce World Cup preliminaries and summer transfers.

Next year is the year of the World Cup. I don’t know if it is affected by this. The transfer market this summer is very crazy. Many stars have the idea of ​​​​changing teams in order to play in the World Cup.

The wealthy Barcelona, ​​stimulated by the victory of its old rival Real Madrid, continued to spend money this summer and make big purchases.

After buying Coutinho for 150 million euros, they spent another 105 million to buy Dembele from Dortmund.

Neymar's unexpected departure and Messi's increasing age have filled Barcelona with a sense of crisis.

Although they still have a slight hope of inviting Lin Quan, the gem of La Masia's youth academy, back to the Nou Camp, with Lin Quan's contract extension with Manchester City last summer, this hope has become even slimmer.

Therefore, Barcelona had to take precautions and eagerly wanted to find an heir for Messi.

There are rumors that Barcelona seems to be interested in Atletico Madrid's star Griezmann, but Atletico Madrid's asking price is very high. If Barcelona really wants to buy it, it will probably have to bleed again.

Although Dembele is already well-known in the Bundesliga and has attracted the attention of many wealthy clubs.

But he only spent 35 million euros on Dortmund a year ago, and his price increased by 70 million in just one year. This is really an exaggeration.

It is precisely because of this huge transfer that Dortmund has become Europe's new black shop, even overshadowing the Portuguese giants Porto.

However, not everyone is optimistic about this transfer.

Many people in the industry pointed out that there is a great overlap in the positions of Dembele and Messi, which will greatly limit his performance.

Unless Barcelona corrects Dembele now, otherwise, he will only be able to serve as a green leaf for Messi when he goes to Camp Nou, which casts a shadow on his prospects.

As for righting Dembele, this is obviously impossible. Messi has just turned 30 this year, and his peak period may last a few more years.

Considering his strength, condition and huge reputation, it is impossible for Barcelona to win him so quickly, unless Messi takes the initiative to leave Barcelona.

No matter what the outside world thinks, Barcelona still attaches great importance to Dembele.

After spending a lot of money to buy Dembele, Barcelona learned from Neymar's experience and directly raised Dembele's liquidated damages to 400 million euros.

With this liquidated damages, even Paris cannot forcefully take Dembele away.

Barcelona is on a shopping spree, but Real Madrid, the new Champions League champion next door, is cleaning out the players in the team.

Colombian star Ronaldo, who had previously spent 85 million euros on Real Madrid to snatch it from a number of wealthy clubs, was finally cleared by Real Madrid.

Bundesliga giant Bayern signed a two-year loan contract with Real Madrid, bringing the player who once shone at the World Cup in Brazil to the Allianz Arena.

According to Real Madrid head coach Zidane, he plans to sell Ronaldo directly.

However, Real Madrid Chairman Florentino does not seem to have completely given up on Ronaldo. It is not clear whether he is interested in the other party's highlight moment three years ago, or is influenced by the other party's ability to help Real Madrid expand its business territory in Latin America.

The reason why Bayern chose to loan Ronaldo to Real Madrid is simply because Heynckes felt that this person was still capable. It may be that Real Madrid used him improperly, or the other party was not adapted to La Liga's style.

Give him a change of environment and give him a try in the Bundesliga. If it works, activate the buyout clause and buy him. Anyway, it is only 40 million euros, which is not very expensive.

If it doesn't work, he can be loaned out for a period of time and then thrown back to Real Madrid.

Bayern doesn’t help people recycle garbage!

In the Premier League, Manchester United has announced several big-money transfers.

They first spent 35 million euros to buy the opponent's young defender Lindelof from Benfica.

The transfer fee was not high, but it broke the record of Manchester United and became the most expensive central defender in Manchester United's history.

From this point alone, it can be seen that Manchester United's defense has indeed not been strengthened for a long time.

Look at Liverpool next door. They are chasing Van Dijk for 85 million pounds. 35 million euros versus 85 million pounds. Well, the advantage is mine!

Manchester United is not stingy and reluctant to spend money, but they use the money to buy forwards.

On July 10, Manchester United officially announced that the club brought Romelu Lukaku, the former Chelsea striker who has performed very well in recent seasons, from Everton for 85 million euros!

This is the second-highest transfer in football this summer.

This is not over yet. Within a few days, Manchester United announced that it had bought Chelsea's champion midfielder Matic for 45 million euros!

Matic played 40 games on behalf of Chelsea last season and contributed 2 goals and 9 assists. Although the data is not luxurious, it is far less eye-catching than Fabregas.

But his contribution to Chelsea is obvious to all. Without his defensive strength to support Chelsea's midfield, Chelsea's defense would not have been as good last season.

His departure is a big blow to Chelsea, especially when Liverpool and Manchester United are recruiting players this season. It will be extremely difficult for the Blues to defend the league title they finally won.

Manchester United's three transfers covered the entire central axis of the striker, midfielder and defense, and cost 165 million euros. It was really a hemorrhage!

But Mourinho felt miserable. Although the club had strengthened the three lines as per his request, why were the people he bought not his first choice, but all alternatives?

Damn it, you, the club’s top brass, are trying to fool me, right?

Manchester United is recruiting, and Liverpool is not idle either.

While spending huge sums of money to chase Van Dijk, Liverpool spent 42 million euros to take away the outstanding Egyptian Pharaoh Salah from Rome.

Salah went round and round and returned to the Premier League, but this time, he joined no longer a team wearing a blue jersey, but a Red Army with red blood flowing!

Moreover, Klopp is planning to use him as the main player, which is completely different from his original situation in the Chelsea team.

Regarding this transfer, the outside world did not pay much attention to it.

Salah's performance in Serie A is indeed good, but he is not well-known, the transfer fee is not high, and there is no hype.

Compared to his transfer, the outside world spends more energy tracking the transfer of Van Dijk from Liverpool and Manchester City.

In response to Liverpool's 85 million offer, Manchester City still directly rejected it and repeatedly stated that Van Dijk is not for sale to the team. He is staying well at Manchester City and will not go anywhere.

Faced with another rejection from Manchester City, Klopp gritted his teeth and ruthlessly raised the price again, raising the offer to 90 million pounds.

Crazy, crazy, either I am crazy or the world is crazy.

When fans learned the news, their first reaction was to question the authenticity of the news. But when they confirmed that the news was true, they were even more shocked.

If someone spent 100 million pounds chasing a super giant like Lin Quan, they would still understand.

Although 100 million pounds is very expensive, such a strong, young and crucial super giant for the team is hard to come by, and it is not a loss at all to spend such a price.

But is it crazy to spend nearly £100m chasing a defender?

They said they couldn’t understand it at all!

Chelsea defender David Luiz shocked PSG a few years ago when he moved to them for £50 million.

Unexpectedly, there are experts who can raise the price to 90 million pounds in just a few years!

Football seems to have become strange overnight, making it difficult for fans to understand.

If you buy a defender worth 90 million pounds, how expensive will your striker be?

With so much money spent, who can afford to play football?

In fact, it's not that there aren't cheap and high-quality players, it just depends on whether you can seize the opportunity to pick up the missing players.

For example, Serie A hegemon Juventus just spent 20 million euros to successfully acquire the opponent's midfielder Matuidi from Paris Saint-Germain.

20 million euros, in this era of rising transfer fees and serious inflation, cannot buy any good players at all.

And a star like Matuidi, who has proven his strength in top clubs and is still in his prime, is still the main player of the French national team. He can be bought for 20 million euros, let alone a fan. Even Juventus themselves can't believe it.

The reason why Juventus was able to pick up the slack is also very simple. Paris needs to purge players in the team to make room for salary for Mbappe's arrival. Matuidi is the target of the purge, and Paris does not expect his transfer to be successful. No matter how much money he makes, I just hope he leaves as soon as possible.

Not to mention Matuidi, even Di Maria was almost eliminated by Paris Saint-Germain. Later, because Manchester City rejected Paris Saint-Germain's offer, the Angel escaped.

Juventus missed out and bought Matuidi, but failed to retain Leonardo Bonucci, the backbone of the team's defense.

Compared to Barzagli and Chiellini, Bonucci is the youngest in Juventus's three central defender system, but he did not expect to leave the team first.

And he went not to another league, but to AC Milan, another giant in Serie A.

After this incident came out, the Juventus fans who had just been beaming with joy because of their success in picking up the leak immediately stopped laughing.

Throughout July, in addition to the above-mentioned blockbuster transfer news, there was another transfer news that attracted widespread attention - Barcelona spent 40 million euros to take away a team from the Chinese Super League. The core of the midfielder, the international footballer from Brazil and the former Tottenham player-Paulinho!

The reason why this matter has attracted widespread attention and even discussion among fans is entirely because the Chinese Super League has always purchased players from Europe at high prices in the past. This is the first time that a top European team has purchased the other side's stars from the Chinese Super League at high prices.

When Paulinho joined Evergrande from Tottenham, the transfer fee was 14 million euros. Two years later, the transfer fee rose to 40 million.

Even if two years' salary of the players is deducted, Evergrande will still make money.

This is the most surprising point. After all, the Chinese Super League plays gold-dollar football. I didn’t expect that I could make money from Europeans by running a black shop...

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While various transfer news from the outside world is flying all over the sky, Manchester City, which is closely watched by many people, appears to be quiet and not making any moves.

This disappointed many fans and felt that Manchester City might have begun to give up on themselves.

The team's defeat last season exposed many problems. If these weaknesses cannot be filled by recruiting new players during the transfer period, they will definitely cause a lot of trouble for Manchester City in the new season.

Manchester City is not really as ineffective as outsiders say. In fact, Guardiola has inspected many players during this period.

On July 15, Manchester City made the first transaction of the summer window.

But what is surprising is that the team is not buying people, but selling people.

Manchester City announced that Son Heung-min will transfer to Tottenham for 50 million euros.

Affected by Mbappe, Son Heung-min's appearances at Manchester City dropped significantly in the second half of last season, and he was not even included in the squad for the Champions League final.

This made him feel very disappointed and confused, and he came up with the idea of ​​trying in a different environment. After all, he didn't want to sit on the bench all the time.

After the team had frank and in-depth communication with the players, they respected the players' opinions and agreed to the transfer.

The price of 50 million is not high. After all, it cost 35 million when he bought Sun Xingmin.

He has made great progress at Manchester City in the past two years, and his performance on the field is obvious to all. Tottenham will definitely not lose money if they can buy him at this price.

As for Manchester City, they can only barely protect their capital!

Son Heung-min's departure means that Mbappe's status in the team has increased significantly in the new season.

This season, his number of appearances will definitely increase significantly.

However, there are still problems in the team's midfield. In addition, David Silva is getting older and his condition has begun to decline. A substitute needs to be prepared for him.

Therefore, after announcing the transfer, Manchester City immediately used the money earned from selling Son Heung-min to buy seat B from Monaco.

Seat B is a player that Guardiola had his eye on last season. The reason why he did not take action is because Manchester City has a relatively rich reserve of personnel at this position.

But the painful lesson of the Champions League final told him that the team's bench depth is still not enough.

It is never too much to stock up on more players at this position. At worst, they can become all-rounders and rotate them frequently.

And this is also the direction that Guardiola will focus on reforming next.

He needs players to become versatile, because only in this way can they be better qualified to meet his requirements and complete his tactics well.

If buying Seat B is within people's expectations, then the fact that Manchester City spent 40 million euros to buy Benfica goalkeeper Ederson is a bit confusing.

Did Navas perform poorly?

Why spend so much money on a goalkeeper?

A goalkeeper worth 40 million euros is too luxurious to use as a substitute.

Therefore, when everyone saw this transfer, they all thought that Manchester City might have to change their goalkeeper.

The fans' speculation is correct, Guardiola is indeed somewhat dissatisfied with Navas.

Real Madrid's several goals in the Champions League final reflected Navas's weakness in defending against high-altitude balls.

In addition, he is not the kind of goalkeeper that Guardiola wants, so Guardiola learned from the pain and decided to strengthen the goalkeeper position! (End of chapter)