Chapter 743 Summer Window Closed

Hasenhüttl arranged Hojbjerg to mark Bruno today, and he has high hopes for the Danish midfielder.

Hoibel saw Bruno running out of the penalty area and quickly followed him. His idea was very direct, taking advantage of the opportunity when Bruno just got the ball, he tried to steal the ball.

However, Höjbjerg soon realized that he had taken things for granted.

Although Hoiber's physical confrontation ability is also very good, when facing Bruno, Hoiber felt like he was facing a wall.

Hojbjerg tried to poke the ball from behind. Once, twice...he tried his best but still couldn't reach the ball.

At this time, Hojbjerg could only settle for the second best, because Bruno had his back to the goal, and as long as he prevented the opponent from turning his body around, he could complete a successful defense.

Bruno controlled the football under his feet and his body leaned to the right, which was a subconscious action of turning to this side. Hoiber made a judgment immediately, so Hoiber immediately moved his body to prepare to withstand Bruno's turn.

But as soon as he rushed back, he felt tremendous pressure!

His first feeling was that the guy in front of him was like a wall, crashing directly into him.

Heibel staggered.

It was this stumble that gave Bruno the opportunity. He immediately took another step forward, squeezed Hoiber behind him, and at the same time, using Hoiber as the support axis, he turned his body completely around to face the direction of the goal.

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Heibel was shocked, but he was powerless at this time. He could only watch Bruno successfully turn around with him as the axis!

At this time, Hoiber could have committed a foul, a tactical foul to stop Bruno from breaking through.

However, when Hojbjerg stretched out his hand and was about to pull Bruno down, he hesitated because he had received a yellow card for a tactical foul against Rashford just ten minutes into the game. If he dared to commit a foul this time, the referee would definitely not be stingy with a yellow card, and that would be two yellow cards turning into one red card.

Should he commit a decisive foul and prevent Manchester United from having a great scoring opportunity, but he would be sent off with a red card; or should he let Bruno go and keep him in the game?

As Hojbjerg hesitated, Bruno had already entered the penalty area with the ball. Then, facing the attacking goalkeeper Gann, Bruno easily shot the ball into the net.

1: 0!

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!"

"Bruno! Bruno!! Bruno!!! 1:0, Manchester United leads Southampton 1:0, Bruno scored for the team, this is Bruno's fourth league goal this season!"

"Manchester United had a good start today, with Bruno opening the scoring in the 32nd minute."

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Mourinho stood up on the sidelines and applauded, cheering for the goal.

After Bruno's goal, Harry Kane's goal before the end of the first half extended Manchester United's lead to 2:0.

In the second half of the game, Rashford scored for Manchester United, and Mata, who came on as a substitute, assisted Mbappe to score a goal.

For Southampton, Vestergaard scored a header from a corner kick to help Southampton equalize.

In the end, in the first game of the fourth round of the Premier League, Manchester United defeated Southampton 4:4 at St. Mary's Stadium, achieved four consecutive league victories, and continued to lead the Premier League standings.

However, in other subsequent matches, both Liverpool and Manchester City achieved big victories, with Manchester City sweeping Brighton 4-0 at the Etihad Stadium and Liverpool beating Burnley 3-0 away.

BIG6的其它三支球队，切尔西在主场被谢菲尔德联2:2逼平。而在一场北伦敦德比战中，阿森纳主场跟热刺2:2握手言和。

After only four rounds of the league, the Premier League has returned to the situation of last season. Manchester United and Liverpool have won four consecutive games and are leading the league, with Manchester United at the top of the list thanks to their goal difference. Manchester City is third with three wins and one draw. Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham are already showing signs of falling behind.

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Manchester United actually did not sign any new players in this summer transfer market. In terms of outbound transfers, only Herrera transferred to French Ligue 1000 powerhouse Paris Saint-Germain, Damian transferred to Serie A team Parma for 2000 million pounds, and Smalling transferred to another Serie A team Roma for million pounds.

Manchester United, which was very active in every transfer market in previous years, has been very quiet this summer.

However, everyone knows that retaining stars such as Gundogan and Rashford and maintaining the stability of the team is the best performance of this Premier League champion in the transfer market.

………………The Premier League is still the most expensive league, and its position as the commercial overlord remains unshakable, leading the way for seven consecutive years.

Since the 2014-2015 season, the Premier League summer transfer expenditure has exceeded 10 billion euros for the first time and has increased year by year, finally breaking the 15 billion euro mark in this summer window. This also includes the Blues Chelsea, who were constrained by the transfer ban. They only spent 4500 million euros to buy out Kovacic this summer.

La Liga set a new record in this summer window with a number of blockbuster transfers worth over 10 million euros, breaking the billion euro mark for the first time, overtaking Serie A again and securing second place.

Serie A continued the "catfish effect" brought by Ronaldo's joining, with total investment exceeding 10 billion euros for the second consecutive year.

The investment in the Bundesliga is not as crazy as the above three leagues, with a total investment of less than 7.5 million euros, even less than half of the Premier League.

Ligue 1, which has relatively the least attention, ranks last in terms of investment.

In terms of net investment, the Premier League's nearly 7.37 million euros far surpassed other leagues and was more than twice the second place, even close to the total investment of the Bundesliga. The net investment of the three major leagues, Serie A, La Liga and Bundesliga, added together, barely surpassed the Premier League.

Serie A surpassed La Liga in net investment and became the second most expensive league.

It is worth mentioning that Ligue 1 is the only league among the top five leagues where transfer income is greater than transfer expenditure.

Although there is a certain gap between the total investment and net investment and the Premier League, in terms of single expenditure, the "La Liga Three" are undisputed, not only taking the three most expensive signings in La Liga, but also the three most expensive signings in this summer window: Atletico Madrid spent 1.26 million euros to introduce young player Felix, Barcelona spent 1.2 million euros to get Griezmann from Atletico Madrid, and Real Madrid was also not idle, spending 1 million euros to pry Belgian midfielder Hazard from the Blues. The three signings of over million euros have made La Liga earn enough gimmicks and eyeballs in this year's transfer market.

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Among the Premier League teams, Manchester City replaced Manchester United as the team with the largest total investment. They spent 1.7 million euros and became the only Premier League team to invest more than 1.6 million euros this summer.

Arsenal has changed its previous image of frugality and has invested more than 1.5 million euros. Many netizens have also said that "the budget of 4000 million has achieved the effect of 4 million."

Of course, most of the transfer fees are paid in installments.

In terms of net investment, Aston Villa, the old powerhouse that returned to the Premier League, took the lead in one fell swoop, spending a total of nearly 20 million euros on 1.49 signings, and had no transfer income. The players who left the team were either on loan or on free transfers.

Manchester City and the Gunners ranked second and third.

Manchester United, which had been at the top of the list for the past two years, suddenly dropped to the second to last place.

Manchester United seems to have lost the "cash ability" of the previous two years. Not only has it changed its previous style of spending money like water, it has even made a profit of 6500 million pounds, second only to Chelsea, which sold two superstars, Hazard and Lukaku, and made a profit of 1.2 million pounds.

In the entire Premier League, only four teams made money. In addition to Chelsea and Manchester United, the other two teams were Liverpool and Crystal Palace. Liverpool made 3000 million pounds, while Crystal Palace made 4000 million pounds.

La Liga is a three-way competition. Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid not only monopolize the top three in La Liga investment, but also have no rivals in Europe this summer, with each team making a deal worth over 3 million euros. Real Madrid even spent million euros soon after the window opened, including Belgium's top star Hazard.

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Manchester United sold three players, but the money they earned was not 7000 million pounds, but 6500 million pounds, because they still bought players in this summer window, but not for the first team, but for the youth team.

On September 18, there was an announcement in the corner of Manchester United's official website. Manchester United's U16 youth team signed Jude Bellingham, a young player who was about to turn 500, from the youth team of the English Championship team Birmingham City. Manchester United paid Birmingham City a one-time training fee of million pounds and obtained the ownership of the young player.

This news still caused some waves in the British football world. On the one hand, it was because Bellingham, a young player, had shown some talent in the England U16 and Birmingham youth teams, and on the other hand, Manchester United spent 500 million pounds to sign this player.

Although a signing of 500 million pounds is totally insignificant for a top club like Manchester United, that is only for Manchester United.

For an average Premier League team, 500 million pounds is not a small sum, let alone for a Championship team, especially a youth team.

However, the only stir it caused was that some British media reported the transfer in a less prominent position, but it was soon drowned out by the vast number of big-name transfer reports and did not cause much response.

Also on September 9, FIFA officially announced the final three candidates for the 2 World Footballer of the Year, with Messi, Ronaldo and Bruno being the top three favorites.

The 10-man list previously announced also includes Harry Kane, Rashford, Van Dijk, Kante, Mane, Mbappe and Salah.

2019足球先生评选是基于球员在2018年7月16日至2019年7月19日期间的表现为准，由FIFA专家选出候选名单，而最终获奖者将由球迷，专家国家队主帅和队长共同投票选出，颁奖典礼将于本月23日在米兰举行。