Chapter 11: Warming Up for the New Season
The Granada team's money-burning behavior in the transfer city is basically over.
The introduction of important players such as Modric plus some other round diving players, calculated that during this transfer period, the transfer fee spent by the Granada team reached 330 million euros. As for the income of the transferred players, it is not worth mentioning.
The 330 million euro transfer fee was burned, which made Granada the team with the widest summer transfer bid in Europe. Even the Paris Saint-Germain team, which spent 220 million to buy Neymar, can only be second.
Granada not only spent the most transfer fees in European football, but even more than Real Madrid and Barcelona combined.
Although Barcelona began to buy people everywhere after selling Neymar. It's just that their transfer operation, which has always been unpleasant, hasn't bought many people. However, there was a purchase of Paulinho from the Evergrande Taobao team with the payment of liquidated damages.
Originally, Barcelona also took a fancy to Dembele, but the Paris Saint-Germain team, which bought Dembele and Mbappe in 17 years, had a lot of money and didn't care about Barcelona's offer at all.
It is said that the Barcelona team fell in love with Dembele in 17 years, but they didn't have the money to buy it. And Paris Saint-Germain originally wanted to buy Neymar, but they couldn't buy Neymar in exchange for Dembele.
Barcelona didn't buy anyone this time. Originally, they also had their eye on Mahrez, but they were preempted by the Granada team. Overall, this time the Barcelona team has made a lot of money.
As for the Real Madrid team, they didn't buy anyone, but a large number of players were eliminated. Similarly, in this transfer window, Real Madrid also made a lot of money.
By the time the summer transfer market closed, Real Madrid and Barcelona had become one of the most lucrative teams in European football.
Real Madrid and Barcelona have not changed much in the main line-up in the new season. As for whether the strength has improved, it is difficult to say.
And after burning so much money, the Granada team has naturally become the fastest improving team in La Liga.
Of course, these things are only on paper. It depends on how the team runs in internally. And Modric and others are new to the team, so it will naturally take a while to integrate into the team.
This time, the Granada team can be said to have undergone a major change. It's like the Nanbang girl spent a lot of money on plastic surgery. The whole team has been given a makeover, and the image has been renewed.
Another point is that although the Granada team has bought a lot of people, Pirlo has not forgotten the reserve youth players of the Granada team.
Pirlo also promoted two players from the reserve squad to the first team. And these two people are old acquaintances of Yan Feng and Sandel.
The first acquaintance is Yan Feng and Sandel's good friend Gomez. Stimulated by two friends, Yan Feng and Sandel, Gomez worked hard in the past season, and after unremitting efforts, his performance in the development team became better and better, and even made the reserve coach Lopez recommend Peel.
Gomez was ready to go home and drive a truck two years ago, but now he has been promoted to the first team. Gomez has taken a solid step towards his football dream. However, it will not be easy for him to establish himself in the first team, and it will take a long time.
Regardless, Gomez's arrival in the first team is definitely a celebration to celebrate. After confirming that he was transferred to the first team, Gomez, who was very happy, took out his pocket and invited Yan Feng and others to celebrate.
As for the other person who was transferred to the first team, although he was also an old acquaintance, Yan Feng didn't care much about it. Because, this person is the black and green Hamed who doesn't deal with Yan Feng much in the reserve team.
In fact, when he heard Hamed, at first, Yan Feng didn't have any image. Later, under Gomez's reminder, Yan Feng remembered Hamed's inexplicable and arrogant black and green.
Thinking of Hamed's difficulties when he was in the reserves, Yan Feng still had some feelings. Looking back now and thinking about those things again, Yan Feng only felt a little laughing.
Regarding Hammed's coming up to the first team, although Yan Feng doesn't like this person very much, he still has no opinion. As long as he trains hard and plays football well, Yan Feng will naturally not trouble this person. However, if he was still as inexplicably arrogant as he was in the reserve team, Yan Feng naturally didn't mind guiding the newcomers as the captain.
Yan Feng's image of Hamed was in the reserve at that time. When they met again in the first team, Yan Feng didn't see the arrogance of the other party. On the contrary, when Hamed faced Yan Feng again, he looked a little restrained. There is even a look of fear.
Seeing Hamed like that, Yan Feng no longer paid any attention to him. He won't deliberately make things difficult for the other party, as the captain, his mind can still accommodate some of the past festivals.
Ignoring Hamed, after the team was all in order, Yan Feng put everyone's attention on preparation.
Although the addition of new teammates has significantly increased the strength, in order to achieve the desired effect, everyone needs to work together to adapt to their own characteristics as soon as possible. Strive to cultivate a tacit understanding as soon as possible, so as to stimulate everyone's true strength.
In this regard, the coaching staff led by Pirlo has put all their heart and soul into it. They are constantly looking for the best style of play and tactics for the team.
With the passage of time, the tacit understanding between Yan Feng and the newcomer Modric and others is also getting better. As everyone began to get acquainted with each other and understand their characteristics and strengths, the team began to show strong competitiveness.
Before the start of the new season, Granada is looking for some teams to practice. And their first training target was Espanyol in La Liga. In the end, it was Granada who narrowly beat Espanyol by 1 goal.
Next, Granada's second warm-up opponent is Chelsea from the Premier League. This time, the two sides played to a 1:1 draw.
In this warm-up season, the weaknesses of the Granada team's lack of tacit understanding have been exposed more, but the occasional sparks between the players are still quite interesting. This time, the goal was that Yan Feng and Lin Fan first cooperated in the midfield to make a successful tackle, and then handed it to Modric, and then he organized a quick counterattack, and finally Sandel succeeded in grabbing the point.
Then, the Granada team played another warm-up game. This time, they did not perform well, and the new stars can bring brilliance from time to time.
In the three warm-up games, the Granada team exposed a lot of problems, but they also played well in one game. The tacit understanding is being cultivated, and the shortcomings are constantly improving. You can see that the whole team is getting better and better day by day.
At this point, all the preparations for the new season of the Granada team are basically completed. It can be said that everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.
"Let's start the league. My feet are already hungry!"