The 2014 FIFA World Cup final in Brazil at the Maracanã ended with Mario Gotze beating Argentina 1-0 to become the third team in FIFA World Cup history to win four titles, the other two being five-star Brazil and Italy.

After the World Cup, Tang Zheng also started his vacation trip.

With the 2013-2014 season in full attendance, the busy and difficult season to go back to the World Cup, and the 2014-2015 league season with almost a month to go, it's important to rest and enjoy life during this short vacation.

At the same time, the European transfer market is in full swing.

Compared to previous summer transfer windows, the transfer of a World Cup year is likely to be more interesting.

Because many players have performed well in the World Cup, according to the market, the value of these players will only be high.

Among them, the biggest transfer rumor is the popular fried chicken James Rodriguez in this World Cup, and there are countless giant clubs interested in him.

Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Manchester United, Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus and other teams have extended olive branches to him, but the extremely popular James Rodriguez plays missing, enjoying the fun of vacation as much as Tang Zheng.

Of course, Tang Zheng is also favored by major media and has become the headline of major media.

However, Tang Zheng's transfer possibility is incomparable with the possibility of James Rodriguez, first of all, Tang Zheng transferred to Real Madrid last year for a transfer fee in world football, and there are still five years left in the contract with Real Madrid, and other giant clubs must pay a huge buyout clause if they want to buy out Tang Zheng's remaining five years of contract.

According to Marca, Tang Zheng's buyout clause is as high as 550 million euros, which is even as much as 300 million euros higher than Messi's 250 million euros for breaking the contract.

No team dares to make a move for a player like Messi with such a high cost performance of 250 million euros, and Tang Zheng's 550 million euro buyout clause is naturally impossible to trigger.

But then again, just because no team triggers a buyout clause doesn't mean there are no transfer rumours, and anything is possible as long as the terms are agreed.

After all, there are no absolutes.

The 2014-2015 La Liga season will kick off on August 23, Spain local time, and Real Madrid's first league game will be at 8 p.m. at the Santiago Bernabeu on August 25 against promoted Cordoba.

There are two more Spanish Super Cups and European Super Cups before that, and as in past few seasons, there will inevitably be a series of warm-up matches before the start of the season.

With the first International Champions Cup coming out last year, attracting the attention of fans around the world, and the second International Champions Cup also going smoothly, Real Madrid's warm-up matches this summer are still in the continental United States.

Real Madrid were drawn in Group A of the International Champions Cup, playing a single round-robin group stage against Inter Milan, Roma and Manchester United, and the group winners reached the final.

Real Madrid's first match of the 2014 International Champions Cup will be played against Inter Milan at the University of California's Estadio California on July 26, for which the players will have a week of recovery training.

It is worth mentioning that players participating in the World Cup can get sufficient rest time, and Real Madrid players who enter the knockout stage get a longer rest time, which is represented by Tang Zheng, Di Maria, Marcelo and other players.

They were allowed to return to the team in early August to prepare for the 2014-2015 season.

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During Tang Zheng's vacation, he also paid great attention to the European transfer market news, and two of the transfer news made him regret and look forward to it.

The first is that his friend Alexis Sanchez reached an agreement with the clubs Barcelona and Arsenal to transfer to Arsenal for 35 million pounds, and this news has only been half a day after another transfer information.

Suarez, who caused an uproar in this year's World Cup, transferred from Liverpool to Barcelona for 75 million pounds.

It is a pity that his friend Sanchez transferred to Arsenal Tang Zheng, because if he wants to play against Sanchez in the future, he can only play at the national team level or through European competitions, and the national team level has only played this year, and the probability of meeting again is not high.

European games are even more difficult, unless UEFA deliberately makes them.

The expectation is that Suarez's ability will be recognized by the whole world, and with Neymar and Messi, the forward line will be capable enough to break any goal.

Suarez has just moved to Barcelona, and the media can't wait to give Barcelona's latest striker pair a new nickname - MSN.

In addition, Barcelona has a number of purchases in the transfer market, signing young German goalkeeper Ter Stegen for a transfer fee of 12 million euros, Rakitic for 21 million euros, and Chilean goalkeeper Bravo for 12 million euros.

If there are no surprises, Valencia's centre-back Mathieu is also likely to join Barcelona.

On the other hand, Tang Zheng's Real Madrid has some thunder and little rain, and there are only transfer rumors with German midfielder Toni Kroos and popular fried chicken James Rodriguez, but the actual progress is very slow.

Even slimming down before signing strong reinforcements, striker Morata with unlimited potential transferred to Juventus for 20 million euros.

In this regard, Tang Zheng was very helpless.

He wondered if Real Madrid had lost their ambitions after winning the 10th Champions League trophy in their history.

Just when Tang Zheng took his family from Hawaii to Phuket on a flight, a transfer rumor caught Tang Zheng off guard.

"The club has reached an agreement with Bayern Munich on the transfer of Tony Kroos, signing a six-year contract. ”

The German team can win the championship in this year's World Cup, which is directly related to the organization and scheduling of Toni Kroos in the midfield, Bayern Munich can be said to be a huge threat to Real Madrid in the Champions League, so Toni Kroos's transfer to Real Madrid for 25 million euros is confusing.

However, it was relieved to see the detailed report that followed, Toni Kroos and Bayern Munich club management have conflicts, and there is only one year left on the contract between the two sides, and 25 million euros is reasonable.

After playing in Phuket for less than two days, Tang Zheng saw an exciting transfer news released on the official website of Real Madrid Club.

"The club has reached an agreement with Monaco FC on the transfer of James Rodriguez, signing a six-year contract and wearing the number 11 shirt for the new season......"

As soon as I saw James Rodriguez joining Real Madrid, Tang Zheng's Twitter prompt sounded.

The corners of his mouth curled up slightly after seeing the content of the prompt, and his girlfriend Zhao Lina asked curiously, "What are you laughing at?"

"喏~"

Tang Zheng handed the mobile phone to Zhao Lina: "You'll know if you look at it yourself." ”

"Oh, Hames's handsome brother has joined Real Madrid, which means that you will be club teammates in the future?" Zhao Lina covered her red lips with her right hand, very surprised.

"Handsome brother?" Tang Zheng turned his head to look at Zhao Lina, and said meaningfully: "I remember that Hames is two months older than you. ”

"I'm your girlfriend, of course ......" Zhao Lina noticed Tang Zheng's playful smile, stared at her, and gave a roll of her eyes: "You tease me again." ”

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Real Madrid gave Tang Zheng a holiday until mid-August, a week before the European Super Cup, but Tang Zheng had enough rest at the end of July.

Even if he consciously continued to exercise during this period of vacation, he always felt that something was missing without systematic training, so Tang Zheng flew to the United States at the end of July to meet his club teammates who were preparing for the International Champions Cup.

As soon as he arrived at the lobby of the hotel where Real Madrid was staying, Tang Zheng saw a familiar face.

After hugging his teammates one by one, Tang Zheng deliberately looked at his new teammates Tony Kroos and James Rodriguez, who had just joined the team.

During Dortmund's tenure, Tang Zheng and Toni Kroos played for Leverkusen and Bayern Munich's clubs were not good, and although the relationship with Toni Kroos was not bad, it was definitely not good, just nodded.

Tang Zheng and James Rodriguez have a very good relationship, since they tried out together at Boca Juniors, their tacit understanding seems to be innate, they have always been opponents before, and now they are teammates, so they naturally have to have a good chat.

Tony Kroos looked at Tang Zheng with mixed feelings, the reason why he agreed to transfer to Real Madrid, in addition to the fact that the parent team Bayern Munich could not meet his contract renewal salary, was because he wanted to come to Real Madrid to challenge Tang Zheng's position.

However, Tang Zheng's performance has been stable and amazing in the past few seasons, and the World Cup stage even brought the Chinese team to the quarterfinals of the World Cup with one fell swoop.

If it weren't for the lack of luck, maybe the Chinese team would still be able to enter the semi-finals!

And Tang Zheng's status in the team seems to be very high, even if Tang Zheng came to Real Madrid for only one season.

Seemingly...... If you want to replace Tang Zheng's position in Real Madrid, there is a long way to go.

But Toni Kroos didn't give up on that idea because he was a professional footballer with a dream.

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Because Tang Zheng has just resumed training with the team, his physical condition is not yet suitable to play, so he did not play in the first two group games of the International Champions Cup, and he did not even enter the squad.

However, Real Madrid's opponents in the first two rounds of the 2014 International Champions Cup were not strong, Inter Milan and Roma from Serie A.

Tang Zheng couldn't make his debut, but Real Madrid's two new signings, Toni Kroos and James Rodriguez, were given the opportunity to play, and they were still starters.

James Rodriguez, who has just joined Real Madrid, is clearly very popular with the local fans, scoring seven goals in his first World Cup at a young age, almost single-handedly leading the Colombian national team to the quarterfinals of the World Cup, coupled with his handsome appearance, he has a great ability to attract fans.

As a core member of the new World Cup champion, Tony Kroos has received a lot of support from local fans in the United States, but he is much inferior to James Rodriguez.

The opening match at Berkeley's California Memorial Stadium came as a slight surprise, with Real Madrid, who had a clear overall advantage, drawing 1-1 with Inter Milan, who had suffered a serious decline in strength.

If it weren't for James Rodriguez, the savior of the world wave, Real Madrid would have lost 0:1.

Then he also scored a key penalty in the penalty shootout, helping Real Madrid win the game with an aggregate score of 4:3 and take all three points.

Three days later, there was an upset in the second round of the single round-robin group stage at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, where Real Madrid lost 1-0 to Roma.

A big reason for Real Madrid's loss was that Toni Kroos, who took over Tang Zheng's forward position, was a little out of step with Real Madrid's overall tactical rhythm.

Tang Zheng sat in the VIP seat of the stadium to watch the whole game, and his comment on Toni Kroos was - too impatient.

It stands to reason that Toni Kroos' style of play should be very stable, but both games were played too quickly, and they were not at all as comfortable as the German national team and Bayern Munich.

Toni Kroos, who wants to prove himself too much, put himself in chains, Real Madrid bought Tony Kroos is identified as replacing the 33-year-old veteran Xavi Alonso this year, but there is a huge gap between Tony Kroos's performance and the performance of the veteran Xavi Alonso, so Tony Kroos's poor performance has become the target of major media criticism.

Real Madrid won one and lost one in the first two group rounds, and must beat Manchester United, who have won both games, in the final.

In the third round of the group stage of the International Champions Cup, Tang Zheng, who Real Madrid fans were looking forward to, finally appeared in the squad for the game, but it was a pity that he did not appear in the starting lineup.

Manchester United won both games in the first two rounds to qualify early, without any pressure, and the game was a warm-up game, and Louis van Gaal, who took over Manchester United after the World Cup, made a wide range of changes to the team's starting line-up, mainly young players.

The same is true for Real Madrid, in the first half, some of the main players played with new signings and young players, and Tang Zheng sat on the bench.

Unexpectedly, in the key match at the Michigan Stadium in Arabia, Real Madrid fell behind Manchester United 0-2 in the first half.

At the beginning of the second half, Real Madrid made two substitutions in a row, with Tang Zheng and Jesus, who had returned from injury, coming off the bench to replace Toni Kroos and Isco respectively.

After Tang Zheng replaced Toni Kroos, Real Madrid's attack has improved significantly, both in terms of fluency and threat, giving people a pleasing feeling.

The fans at the scene and the fans in front of the TV watched it with great joy, and the Real Madrid players on the field also changed the decline of the 0:1 defeat to Roma in the last round and launched wave after wave of fierce attacks on the Manchester United backline.

Tang Zheng and James Rodriguez have been training together for a short time, but the game is quite tacit.

Both men also put on impressive performances at the World Cup, leaving the United defence unguarded.

In just five minutes, Tang Zheng assisted James Rodriguez and Benzema to score respectively, bringing the score to a 2:2 equalizer.

The live director is obviously very good at finding trouble, and gave Tony Cross a close-up at the first time.

Tony Cross's facial expression changed noticeably, but he quickly adjusted.

Van Gaal, who had just taken over Manchester United, felt very bad when he saw Tang Zheng again, so he replaced a large number of main players.

Carlo Ancelotti then made changes to the squad to give more players a chance.

Tang Zheng was also targeted by Manchester United players after a series of assists, and he failed to find his best form in the first warm-up game of the new season, so the score did not change until the end of the game.

2：2

Immediately, the two sides went on a penalty shootout.