Entering the end of July, the European transfer market has also become more in full swing.

After receiving capital injection from Singaporean billionaire Lim Rong Hock, Valencia, who had been sluggish in previous seasons, also began to rebuild their morale and ambitiously wanted to make a big splash in the new season of La Liga.

As soon as the summer transfer began, Valencia announced the introduction of Tunisian central defender Abdounur from Monaco for a high price of 30 million euros, and then the Bat Army brought in Rodrygo, Gomez and Cacello from Benfica in one go, spending a total of 80 million euros, plus the introduction of Negredo from Manchester City, which cost 35 million euros, and the Bat Army spent 150 million euros just entering July.

Such a large number of reinforcements also shocked the entire La Liga league, and also made many Valencia fans excited, thinking that the team has finally brought in a local tyrant owner and will strive to return to the top four in the new season.

Immediately after Valencia, Atletico Madrid also made a big move.

Reminded by Gao Han, Hill Jr. and Cerezo made an early move to bring in Belgian player Carrasco from Monaco for 20 million euros, and after the Sheets Army finalized the transfer with Monaco, giants such as Barcelona and Chelsea have announced their interest in Carrasco, and the player's value has skyrocketed.

With this alone, the Sheet Corps saved at least 10 million euros this summer, for which Little Hill and Cerezo also personally called Gao Han to thank him, if it wasn't for Gao Han's reminder, they probably wouldn't have been operating so soon.

In addition to the 20 million Carrasco imports, Atletico Madrid also announced the introduction of striker Vietto from Villarreal for 25 million euros, central defender Savic from Fiorentina for 30 million euros, and young Argentine defender Kranivit from River Plate for 10 million euros.

In addition to these transfers, the Sheets are also actively operating other players, which are expected to spend more than 100 million euros this summer, which also makes everyone feel the financial strength of Atletico Madrid once again.

Barcelona is trapped by FIFA's transfer ban, and can buy people this summer, but cannot register, so Barcelona has little action in the transfer market, and Griezmann is more just a rumor, and Danilo is really interested, but the La Liga giants still want to buy Danilo first, continue to loan in Chinatown, and then join after the winter break.

However, the player is not very interested in joining Barcelona in this way.

On the contrary, Real Madrid, after Manchester City announced that they would take Stones for 60 million euros, the Galaxy first announced that coach Carlo Ancelotti would become the owner of the Bernabeu, and then announced that it would pay liquidated damages for French central defender Laporte, who plays for Athletic Bilbao, at a sky-high price of 70 million euros, and preemptively recruited the young La Liga talent into the Bernabeu.

This transaction once again detonated the European ball market.

Aymeric Laporte and John Stones, both centre-backs in their ninety-four years old and in their early twenties, turned out to be 70 million euros and 60 million euros, both of which set new transfer fee records for young defenders.

As a result, the media talk about the price bubble of European players is in the air again, and everyone thinks that the value of players in the transfer market is too crazy and completely out of their minds.

As for this situation, more professionals are analyzing, mainly because the world has adopted monetary easing, and when the United States and Europe are crazy to turn on the money printing machine, money is depreciating faster than before.

Coupled with the rise of local tycoon teams such as Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain, it has brought huge funds, making high-quality stars in short supply, not to mention famous stars, even young rookies such as Stones and Laporte are worth a hundred times, and even show a situation that is difficult to find.

After Real Madrid announced the payment of a termination fee for Laporte, Manchester City also quickly announced that Pep Guardiola officially became the team's manager, and at the same time, at the same time, right-back Danilo was brought in from China City at a high price of 80 million euros.

According to the British media, Guardiola personally came forward to persuade Danilo to join, and this sky-high transaction seems much more reasonable in the face of Laporte's sky-high price of 70 million euros.

Coincidentally, after Klopp coached Liverpool, the Reds also decisively paid 70 million euros to bring in Brazilian striker Firmino from Chinatown in the form of a release fee.

The Brazilian striker, who was originally regarded as a bag by Manchester United, has performed quite well in the past two seasons, running aggressively and with a very comprehensive character, and is the core of China's forward line, but he was unable to reach an agreement with Chinatown on the issue of contract renewal this summer, and was eventually sold to Liverpool.

Jurgen Klopp is excited to beat Manchester United and take Roberto Firmino, who he believes will greatly improve Liverpool's attacking prowess up front, and his all-round and running coverage will also lead to an overall improvement in Liverpool's strength.

After Roberto Firmino announced his move to Liverpool, Antoine Griezmann also chose Manchester United.

For 150 million euros, the Red Devils beat out many rivals and successfully brought in Antoine Griezmann from Chinatown.

This sky-high transfer tied Neymar, but it sparked heated discussions among fans around the world.

Many people think that Griezmann is not worth the price, at most 100 million euros, but Guardian reporter Green Wald said in a column that a large part of the reason why Manchester United is willing to pay such a high price for Griezmann is the promotion of new sponsor Adidas.

After Chinatown announced the renewal of its contract with Nike, Adidas strongly supported its team to poach Chinatown, and once targeted Hazard, Manchester United, Chelsea and Bayern Munich and other teams coveted Hazard, but Chinatown renewed Hazard's contract with an annual salary of 10 million, dispelling the idea of poaching all teams.

After that, Manchester United targeted Griezmann and Firmino, but did not expect Firmino to be cut off by Liverpool halfway, which greatly stimulated the Manchester United management, for fear that Griezmann would be cut off by Paris Saint-Germain or Barcelona again, and the Red Devils finally gritted their teeth and paid Griezmann a release fee of 150 million euros.

Chinatown, after selling Danilo, Firmino and Griezmann, soon announced that it would renew the contract with captain De Gea, and after the contract renewal, De Gea's termination fee was as high as 300 million euros, completely dispelling the idea of poaching Real Madrid and Barcelona.

After Casillas moved to Porto on a free transfer, there was only one goalkeeper left in the Real Madrid team, and the recruitment was imminent, and the poaching of Chinatown left-back Alex Sandro on the left side had to be put on hold for the time being.

On the other hand, China City, in the sale of three generals, although sitting on a transfer fee of 300 million euros, but in fact, the money will take about two years to get all the money, and in order to fill the vacancy of the striker, the team announced the recall of the striker Jesús from Brazil, in addition, the team's biggest move is to announce the comprehensive upgrade of the southern suburbs of Chinatown training center.

In addition to further expanding the scale of the training center, the original equipment and hardware facilities will be updated, including the players' rooms will be upgraded to the standard of a five-star hotel, and a new player training building will be built, which will not only be used by youth team players, but also for the Chinese national team that will come to Europe for training and participate in the Spanish lower league.

Of course, the national team has to pay a reasonable fee for this.

What Chinatown did not announce is that Chinatown will take 100 million euros from this transfer fee in the next two years to invest in China's youth training business, in addition to the new youth training center, the main thing is to comprehensively improve the software and hardware facilities of the Beijing Chinatown youth training center.

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While the European transfer market was in full swing, Chinatown also ended its trip to North America.

In the United States, Chinatown played a total of four warm-up games, the last two of which were a narrow 1-0 win over Chelsea and a 2-1 defeat to the Red Devils Manchester United, missing out on the North American title of the International Champions Cup.

One of the reasons for the poor performance in the last two games was the departure of Firmino and Antoine Griezmann, although players such as Morata and Dybala quickly rose to the top, but in the end the team had twists and turns, and the fighting power was also affected.

This situation even extended into the UEFA Super Cup in mid-August.

At the Tbilisi National Stadium in Georgia, Zidane's Chinatown was stubbornly sniped by Emery's Sevilla, and the two sides fought inextricably and at one point ended in a 2-2 draw.

It wasn't until the 117th minute of stoppage time that China City scored the winning goal from Jesus, and finally beat Sevilla 3-2 to win the first trophy of the new season.

But four days later, in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup against Barcelona at the Stadio Real, Chinatown took the lead thanks to a goal from Koke after just 13 minutes, before Alvaro Morata scored a hat-trick with an overhead kick to thrash Barcelona 4-0 at home.

Messi and Suarez appeared in the main lineup in this game, but Xavi, Rakitic, Iniesta and Busquets and other midfielders were all unable to play, and finally Barcelona's midfield was completely out of control, which was humiliated by China City 4-0.

Three days later, back at the Camp Nou, Barcelona played with a full squad and Chinatown rotated heavily to beat the visiting Chinatown 2-0 at home.

But with an aggregate score of 4-2, Chinatown won another championship trophy.

Although the Spanish Super Cup has always been regarded as a chicken rib, Barcelona's 0-4 defeat in the first leg has sparked heated discussions among fans around the world, Luis Enrique's team has not made a good start, and the form is not ideal, coupled with the transfer ban of FIFA, the prospects of the new season are indeed worrying.

At the same time as Chinatown competed in the two major cup matches before the season, the Chinese national team also ushered in the East Asian Cup in Wuhan.

Lost to South Korea 0-2 in the first round, defeated North Korea 2-0 in the second round, and then drew 1-1 with Japan.

However, before and after the loss to the South Korean team, many media broke the news that head coach Perrin left the national team hotel without permission after the players rested many times during the preparation for the Wuhan game, and went to the bar with friends, which caused heated discussions among the media and fans in China.

In the first round of the World Preliminary Tournament against Bhutan, to the three East Asian Cup games, the performance of the national football team is very different from the performance during the Asian Cup half a year ago, especially the mental outlook of the players, which is not the same.

This also made many media and fans generally worried, for fear that the national team would make another mistake in the upcoming World Cup qualifiers, and the voice of Perrin leaving class began to appear faintly on the Internet.

The clubbing incident is more like a small opening in the whole curtain.

(End of chapter)