While the whole of Spain was immersed in the atmosphere of winning the World Cup and the uprising of the 18th princes of La Liga, Gao Han returned to Manchester, England from South Africa to preside over Manchester City's summer transfer.

But for everything that happened in Spain, he was the first to receive the news and command it remotely.

As early as February, Gao Han has made it clear that Manchester City will focus on improving the thickness of the bench this summer, and there will be no more large-scale reinforcements, which also set a tone for the transfer market this summer.

And everyone knows that Gao Han has always done what he said.

Martin Petrov finally refused to renew his contract with the club, saying that the conditions offered by the club could not be agreed, so he finally chose not to renew his contract with the club and went to Bolton on a free transfer.

It also made him the first Manchester City to leave the club this summer.

The second to leave the team was Brazilian striker Ruo, who arrived at Manchester City in '08 for a transfer fee of 19 million euros, but was loaned to Everton after only half a year, but he performed well at Everton and Gao Han decided to stay.

Judging from last season's performance, if he failed to meet Gao Han's requirements, but another young player, Sturridge, performed even better and was a local player, so Gao Han decided to send Ruo away.

Originally, Everton were interested in the Brazilian centre-forward, but the Toffees could not meet Manchester City's request for a transfer fee, so they ended up going to Galatasaray in Turkey for a transfer fee of 10 million euros.

Sending away Petrov and Ruo one after another, Manchester City's new season only Cristiano Ronaldo, Benzema, Sanchez, Sturridge and Adam Johnson are only five players left.

In terms of midfield, Stephen Ireland was sent to the transfer market early on by Alpine, and the midfielder has also attracted the attention of a number of Premier League teams including Tottenham Hotspur, Everton and Aston Villa.

Among them, Aston Villa is also interested in former Manchester City captain Richard Dunn, a strong centre-back who just doesn't meet Alpine's requirements for a defender and is forced to leave the team.

Tottenham Hotspur are also interested in Manchester City's Croatian right-back Kolluka, with Redknapp hoping to bring in the defender to bolster the team's attacking and defensive play down the right flank.

But......

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'Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur are very sincere, but they don't have much money. ”

In the conference room at the City Stadium, Manchester City chairman Hosni Mubarak, general manager Paul Futtre and chief scout David Harrison, as well as Gao Han, who has just returned to Manchester from South Africa, are discussing the targets for the new season.

For the transfer of this summer, Gao Han only gave two or three candidates preliminarily, and arranged for the club to start operating early, but the introduction of other positions still needs to depend on the situation in the transfer market and adapt to changes.

In particular, Manchester City is now thinking about substitutes, and not every player can calm down and be a substitute and keep a water cooler, so they may adjust their recruitment plans at any time.

But after Gao Han listened to Paul Futrey's words, he was a little strange, "Why is there no money?"

It stands to reason that the distribution of broadcast rights in the Premier League is quite balanced, and each team gets a lot of money, so how can there be no money?

Paul Futrey certainly knew why Gao Han asked this, and smiled helplessly.

"In fact, the overall income of the Premier League has indeed increased very quickly in recent years, but the salary of players has increased even faster, I still remember that the 100,000 weekly salary was already sky-high in the past, but now it is hundreds of thousands of pounds per week at every turn, plus the club has money in previous years, and the overall strength has improved, but the investment is not small, and the operating pressure is also very large. ”

"Of the four teams, Manchester United and Arsenal are the most commercially capable and have the highest matchday earnings, but the former is trapped in the debt of the Glazer family, the latter is on a diet for a new stadium, and Chelsea have begun to tighten their money when the subprime mortgage crisis and the European debt crisis hit. ”

"It's still like this for the big teams, think about it, what else can the other teams do?"

Gao Han understood what Paul Futrey meant.

The income gap between Premier League teams is mainly concentrated in the three pieces of match day, Champions League and commercial development, but now several giant teams have encountered their own problems, Manchester City burned so much last year, and it is impossible to burn it again this year, as for Liverpool, there is not much confidence in the giants, so other teams in the Premier League have to live a hard life.

The professional league is like this, you have to have meat on top and soup on the bottom.

The same situation will definitely happen to La Liga in the future, even if this broadcast rights reform is really successful, then Chinatown must continue to insist on the three lines going hand in hand, especially in terms of commercial development, North America and Asia, especially the Chinese market, must increase its efforts.

"And what are they going to do?"

Paul Futrey grinned, "Loan first and buy out." ”

"They're bubbly beautiful. Gao Han snorted and laughed, this is simply the scene of a white wolf with empty gloves.

"However, if they are willing to trade people for them, they can consider it. ”

"Substitution?" Paul Futrey wondered.

Gao Han nodded immediately, "It's normal to exchange people for money if you don't have money." ”

Paul Futrey and David Harrison looked at each other, and they were both a little surprised, could it be that Gao Han really had his eye on them, or was it just a joke?

"Who do you want to change?"

Aston Villa's words...... That's James Milner. ”

"It's him!" Paul Futrey realized.

This player is the main midfielder of Aston Villa, he has performed very well, and is the record holder for the youngest appearance in the Premier League, a typical English player, but he has a good footwork, a solid fundamentals, and can play in many different positions, and is a very hard-working all-rounder.

'We're going to be on multiple fronts in the Champions League, the league and the two cups this season and Mil has a lot of opportunities to take him if Aston Villa are willing to do so. ”

"What about Tottenham Hotspur?" asked Paul Futrey again.

Tottenham Hotspur narrowly finished in the top four and entered the Champions League last season, but could only play in the Europa League, which has to be said to be a big pity, and after losing a lot of income, the north London team also had to start tightening their money.

Kohluka is the player Redknapp has always wanted, as has Stephen Ireland, but Redknapp also wants to get Real Madrid's Van der Vaart, so the pursuit of Ireland is not strong.

"Gareth Bell. ”

"Gareth Bale?" Paul Futrey hissed, frowning and thinking for a moment, "the youngster who did well in the second half of last season?"

'Yes, it's him, he's played against us, he has been on the wings with Aaron Lennon, he's fast, he's impactful, he's pretty good on the left, I think it's good. ”

David Harrison smiled wryly, "But he seems to be a defender." ”

Gareth Bale was born in the Southampton academy, like the academy of other Saints, the basic skills are very solid, 07 years to Tottenham Hotspur, but then a serious injury, a long time off, after returning from injury, more as a substitute debut, but every time he came off the bench, Tottenham Hotspur lost, so many people called him a disaster.

He was close friends with Theo Walcott, who played for Arsenal, and the two used to play together for Southampton, but he clearly didn't have the luck of the tiger and ran into Arsene Wenger.

At Tottenham Hotspur, Gareth Bale never got his chance, even last season, but then with left-back Héctor playing in the Africa Cup of Nations, Gareth Bale qualified to start and played as a left winger, and he did well and gradually established himself.

This is why there were the devil's wings formed by Gareth Bale and Alan Lennon against Manchester City later.

Colluka's transfer valuation is about 10 million euros, and Gareth Bale should be about the same amount now, one for another, but it can really be done.

"What about the full-backs, is there a difference for me?" Gao Han asked with a smile.

Everyone smiled helplessly.

This man really never cared about the position of the player, and was especially good at changing the position of the player.

"Will he be able to do it?" asked Paul Futrey with concern.

The Portuguese are often worried about England's youth players, and they are afraid that they will not be able to integrate into the cold team, and an investment will be wasted.

"Don't worry, this player is good. Gao Han laughed, "Oh, by the way, there is another one, we can add some more money, you talk to Tottenham Hotspur, the tall center forward who sat on the bench when we played before is called ......"

Gao Han didn't have much impression of this tall center, but that time he glanced at the bench, paid attention to it, and thought it was very good, and he was not very old, only seventeen years old, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

"Yes, it's called Harry Kane, it seems that you can't play at Tottenham Hotspur, put it in, one for two, we can add some money. ”

Paul Futrey smiled bitterly, is it Tottenham Hotspur poaching Manchester City players, or Manchester City poaching Tottenham Hotspur's corner?

But this is really wronged Gao Han.

In fact, if it weren't for Tottenham Hotspur taking the initiative to send them to the door, he really didn't think about poaching these two players, but there are substitutes on the left and right, and Gao Han prefers to poach this kind of more shaping young player, cultivate it, and train it out.

And he has seen with a keen eye that these two players are indeed the best of the young generation in Britain.

Of course, if it were to be changed to another team, Gao Han would also dig it up, but any Premier League team, except for Manchester City, which was ridiculed as an international column, who doesn't have one or two outstanding young players?

After the departures of Stephen Ireland and Richard Dunn, it was just in time to bring in Harry Kane, Gareth Bale and James Milner to fill the vacancy of the team's homegrown players and academy players, and strengthen the team's bench depth, killing two birds with one stone.

What's more, it doesn't cost much either.

"By the way, did you handle the two players I told you last time?" Gao Han asked with concern.

When the summer transfer plan was initially drawn up, Gao Han gave Paul Futre two people, one was a left-sided central defender that he selected for more than half a year, and the other was a substitute he intended to use as Kaka's backup, both of which he named and hand-picked, and the relationship is significant.

"Don't worry, I definitely don't dare to be careless about the things you explained, and I have already contacted them. ”

As he spoke, Paul Futrey handed over two materials to Gao Han.

"You see, if it's okay, sign it. ”

(End of chapter)