As soon as the World Cup ended, the attention of the sports media returned to the summer transfer window.

Thuram has been rumored to join Borussia Dortmund, but in the past few days there has been new news from the newspaper Sport - we contacted Thuram's agent, who confirmed the veracity of the rumours and called the deal a "transfer that had to be done", otherwise Thuram would have to go to Barcelona.

And the future football transfer expert Di Marzio also broke the news about this matter. He claimed that Thuram would join Dortmund because he had signed a mysterious agreement with Dortmund that was similar in nature to the agreement with Figo when he joined Real Madrid, but the exact details are not yet known.

At this time, Di Marzio was not so famous, and he was now just a host of Sky Sports' "Football Market" program, so the news he broke did not receive much attention from the outside world.

Although all kinds of news in the media revealed that Thuram's joining Dortmund was a sure thing, some Dortmund fans still couldn't believe it.

They have the same misgivings in their minds as the media outlets that have questioned the deal.

Why, or why...... Barcelona and Arsenal are not going, but they want to come to Dortmund?

However, on July 12, Dortmund's official website officially announced the news of Thuram's joining.

We are delighted to have reached an agreement with Juventus and Thuram to sign Thuram on a three-year contract and he will be part of Borussia Dortmund next season. To bring Thuram to Dortmund, we paid a transfer fee of €5 million.

Nick, who swiped out the news, couldn't believe his eyes.

, Thuram is actually here!

Dort fans are ecstatic, this transfer window is too exciting for them, the news of a large number of players in and out of a short period of time is constantly updated, and their mood is like a roller coaster.

Soreid, the head coach of Olympiacos FC in Athens, Greece, was not so happy. It's training time for their team, but their player Yaya Toure hasn't returned yet.

He had called the other party several times, but the phone had not been working, which made him anxious.

He had no choice but to contact the club's top management, and half an hour later, the head of the athletics department came to his office with a newspaper.

Sored took the newspaper and saw that it was in German, and it looked like it should have been reported by the German media.

It didn't matter if he couldn't read the text, he saw a photo in the newspaper that Yaya Toure's agent, Seruk, was having lunch with them.

"Sored, do you know where the reporter filmed him?"

Seeing that their athletic director had a grim face, Sored had a bad premonition in his heart: "...... Seville, Monaco, or Dortmund?"

"Dortmund. The director of Athletic Olympiacos nodded, "And he was having lunch with Dortmund's sporting manager Michel Zolke." ”

"This ......"

Soreid's face turned green when he heard this.

In the summer of 2005, Yaya Toure moved to their club. Just a year later, he was named to Eurosport's list of the world's most promising young players, which also includes the likes of Mascherano and Sergio Aguero.

They won the Greek Super League last season and Yaya Toure has been a huge help to the team in the midfield position. Toure's potential is obvious to all, and it is not only Borussia Dortmund who have made offers, but also Monaco in Ligue 1 and Real Betis in La Liga.

Olympiacos was reluctant to let Toure go so soon, so they rejected all offers from other clubs, as well as Yaya Toure's transfer request.

They thought that they could stay with Toure for at least another year, but they didn't expect Toure to directly refuse to come back to participate in the training camp!

"Sored, I don't think it's useful for you to keep him any longer, his heart is no longer with us. ”

Olympiacos, of course, could force Toure to stay, and he would have to come back at the start of the season, otherwise he would be in breach of his contract. But if it really comes to that point, not to mention missing the summer training, where will Toure still have the heart to play well?

Rather than that, it's better to make a transfer fee.

Sored is usually very fond of Toure, and Toure's appearance has also paid off his love tremendously, and he is always quite dedicated on the court.

A few days ago, he swore to the top management that Toure would definitely return to the team on time, but he didn't expect that this time the player he liked would slap him mercilessly.

After the anger he calmed down, and after a moment of silence, he shook his head helplessly. It's all like this, what else can I do?

“…… Alas, I see, just do what the club wants. ”

At a local hotel in Dortmund, Yaya Toure sat with his agent, Seruk, with a somewhat uneasy expression.

"Syruk, is it really okay for me to do this? Olympiacos ......"

Seruk understood that Yaya Toure was referring to his refusal to return to Athens for the team's summer training, and he smiled gracefully at the Ivorian to signal that he should not worry.

"Don't worry, Yaya, they can't do anything to you, the contract doesn't say you have to go to the team's summer training camp. ”

The dismissal of Yaya Toure was entirely instigated by Syrouk. Olympiacos refused to let him go, much to his annoyance.

The Bundesliga is clearly more interesting for his employer than the Greek league - look at Sergio Aguero, who joined Atletico Madrid this summer, is worth 23 million euros, while his employer Toure is still worth only about 4 million, in large part because the league he plays in is so unremarkable.

Although Olympiacos is the absolute hegemon of Greece, for Ceruk this supremacy is as worthless as outdated news.

Several of the clubs that sent offers to Toure were more famous than Olympiacos, and he couldn't bear to let Toure stay in Greece, but Olympiacos was not willing to let him go.

It was at this time that Dortmund's sporting manager Zorke contacted him.

They made an appointment to meet in a famous restaurant in Dortmund about Yaya Toure's transfer. Neither of them deliberately hid their whereabouts, just dined in the common area of the restaurant, or they just wanted the media to photograph them.

When Zolke proposed to strike the training, Ceruk's eyes lit up.

Why didn't he think of this trick!

Yaya Toure of Côte d'Ivoire still looked a little hesitant: "But ......"

"Yaya, listen to me. Syruk continued to reassure his employer, "Dortmund pays twice as much as Olympiacos...... Haven't you always wanted to build a new house for your family?"

Like many ordinary African children, Yaya Toure has had a great interest in football from an early age. But their family is as poor as most Africans, and his parents have seven more children and can only eat one meal a day.

As a child, Yaya Toure's biggest dream was to own a pair of football boots. The continent is scorching hot and infrastructure is underdeveloped, and every time Yaya Toure kicks a patched ball outside, he gets new scars on his feet.

But he never dared to tell his family that he wanted a pair of sneakers, and as a child, Toure thought that if he did, his father would even kill him.

After having the opportunity to play in Europe, Toure, like all ordinary people, first thought of giving back to his family and giving a better life to his parents, who had worked so hard to raise him.

If someone says he values money too much, Toure won't deny it, because that's what it is.

As a child, his excessively poor life made him pay special attention to money - why did he come to Europe to play football despite all the odds?

Yaya Toure doesn't think there's anything wrong with his thoughts.

Hearing Syruk mention his family, the hesitation in Yaya Toure's eyes suddenly dissipated: "I will do what you say, Syruk." ”

In the early morning of July 15, the staff of the Dortmund Network Department quietly updated another message on the official website.

We have agreed with Olympiacos that Ivorian player Yaya Toure will wear the number 4 shirt for the squad next season. We are delighted to have signed Toure on a five-year contract for €4.5 million.

Some fans who stayed up late swiped out the news, and they hurriedly took screenshots of the official website and posted it on the forum.

Don't sleep, get up, something is wrong!

Some attentive fans have made a statistic, so far, the team has bought 7 people, spending a total of 28.5 million euros, and transferred 8 people, of which Jan Kohler and Olisech are free transfers, Everton is part of the David Villa deal, and the remaining 5 people have brought them a total of 22.7 million euros.

In other words, as of the early hours of July 15, Dortmund's net investment in this summer's transfer window was only 5.9 million euros.

At first glance, Dortmund have made frequent moves, but they have a fairly good grasp of the control of funds, and they are no longer as lavish as they used to be in the past when they bought a large number of high-paid goalscorers. As soon as these high-paid players leave, the team's salary space will be saved a lot, and the final investment will definitely be less than 5 million euros.

Fans and the media are talking about it, and Dortmund has made fifteen transactions in the fifteen days since the summer window opened, which is really amazing.

They had a heated discussion, but no one knew that Dortmund's transfer window for the summer would be completely closed the moment Yaya Toure was announced.