If FIFA holds a symbolic closing ceremony for the transfer window at its headquarters in Zurich, then at 23:59 on August 31, FIFA President Sepp Blatter will find that he can slowly close the window with great grace: on the last day of the 2005 summer transfer window, although there are still many teams desperately scrambling for talent, the giants seem to be very idle, except for Real Madrid who spent 27 million euros to buy Ramos, most of the other giants have long left the window to do something else. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Looking back at the transfer in the summer of 2005, the most impressive thing is the "recovery". In the European transfer market in previous years, with the exception of Chelsea, an upstart team, few teams have made big moves.

Take Serie A as an example, due to the shrinking economy of the Apennines, the Italian giants have not bought big-name stars in the past few years, on the contrary, Crespo and other stars have left one after another. But this summer, the big deal is back.

This summer's Premier League title came as a bit of a surprise, with Chelsea paying €38 million for Essien. Although Essien is a very talented player, his arrival will certainly improve Chelsea's midfield. But is the black Lyon player really worth the price?

The Times' analysis makes sense, and if it wasn't Chelsea who made the bid for Essien, but other clubs, then Essien might not even be worth €20 million. So now a lot of clubs are adopting this strategy, which is to give Chelsea one price and another price to other teams.

In Italy, the local champion belongs to Gilardino, the Italian hopeful star who has emerged in recent years, and performed remarkably in Serie A last season. Gilardino was the top scorer among Italian players and, in the end, Milan worked hard to buy it for a whopping €24 million. In addition, Jankulovski spent Milan 8.5 million euros.

Defending champions Juventus have also made a big splash, with the 29-year-old Patrick Vieira costing the Bianconeri €20 million.

Of course, Inter Milan have always been one of the most active teams in the Italian transfer market, and this summer they overtook Real Madrid to become the biggest star of the transfer period in European football!

In order to help Inter Milan win their first league title since 1989, Mancini first paid £60 million for last year's new Ballon d'Or award-winning man Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and then bought Samuel from Real Madrid for €16 million.

This summer has shown that the Italian team has put a lot of effort into getting some fans back to the stadium. After all, today's Serie A can no longer be called the number one league in the world.

In Spain, Real Madrid continue their strategy of one superstar a year. This summer, the superstar who came to the Bernabeu was Robinho, and the Brazilian talent's debut at Real Madrid was eye-catching. In addition, the addition of Baptista, Pablo Garcia, Diogo and others has enhanced the overall strength of Real Madrid. Of course, the departure of Owen, Figo and Samuel is quite regrettable.

Barcelona retained the same team that won last season, and on that basis, the team brought in Van Bommel from PSV Eindhoven. There is no doubt that Barcelona are still very strong. However, it is not difficult to see from some other small and medium-sized clubs that they will hardly have the funds to compete with the two giants of La Liga, the most obvious being Sevilla.

In England, Chelsea are undoubtedly the focal point. Although Kenyon's arrival has made Chelsea's takeover rational. But Abramovich's ruble is still spilling outward.

Essien alone cost Chelsea £24.4 million, while Wright-Phillips was worth £21 million, but the England international was only a substitute when the new season began. And Del Orno fills the void on Chelsea's left flank, and his price is not cheap at €8 million.

Arsenal have made little moves this summer, selling Patrick Vieira, who will be in the prime of life next year, and spending £10 million from Stuttgart for Hleb.

What about Manchester United?

The arrival of American tycoon Glazer made Ferguson's shot somewhat shabby. The team only spent £18.5 million on players, of which Park Ji-sung bought for the Asian market. It is not difficult to see from the moves of Arsenal and Manchester United that the trend of large buying and selling of players by Premier League teams in previous years has eased.

Old Trafford's final day was busy with layoffs, not buys; Chelsea may have spent the second-highest transfer fee in Europe this summer, but their longest soap opera (Essien) only dragged on August 19 to finale; Arsenal is simpler, the big name acquired in the summer is only one Hleb, who has already been negotiated, and on the last day he just rented an old goalkeeper to make up the number temporarily; Liverpool, though still busy in the final stages, were not distracted by the bell that rang at midnight on 31 August, and wisely interrupted a few deals.

And in the Bundesliga, there are almost no big deals. Moreover, the transfer of Bundesliga players is basically carried out in China. A move to Arsenal like Hleb's is rare in Germany.

As the boss of the Bundesliga, Bayern's biggest move this summer was to sign Isamel from Bremen, who had a transfer fee of 8.5 million euros. And Schalke 04 bought Kuranyi from Stuttgart for the championship, spending 7 million euros. In Germany's rational market, it is not easy to make a big deal.

To a certain extent, the slumber end of the 2005 summer transfer has a lot to do with next year's World Cup: the big-name players who are trying to move to improve their chances of playing have already started working at the end of last season, and certainly won't wait to sign on until the last day; In order to prepare for the early arrival and long season, the team has trained in advance and run in early, and the buyers also try to rush forward to strive for more run-in time so as not to affect the results.

Another factor worth considering is that the big clubs are becoming more familiar with the new transfer regime that was established in 2001.

The summer of 2002 was the first summer of the new transfer system marked by the transfer window, when Ronaldo, Nesta, Cannavaro, Crespo and Di Vaio all settled on their new clubs on the last day, in large part because of the giants' lack of familiarity with the new rules.

And after 4 summers of baptism, the giants have figured out the law of the transfer window and no longer play the thrilling game of the last day.

Of course, in the summer of 2005, the economic conditions of the wealthy families were indeed much worse than before. The reluctance to buy large sums of money has caused the transfer spending of Dynamo Moscow, which is biased towards Russia, to jump to fifth in Europe, and quasi-giants such as Newcastle and Tottenham have stolen the limelight.

A team like Tottenham Hotspur is a bit less cautious on the last day of desperate buying, and they currently have a whopping 34 first-team squads, the most in the Premier League!

And the giants, who have already suffered a lot from last-minute panic buyouts in the early years, will not fall for this again.

Another consequence of the economic downturn is that many transfers form a cascading situation: Party A takes Party B's money before it can buy Party C's players; If there is a problem in any of the links in this chain, there is a risk that the contract will not be fulfilled on the last day.

The four major leagues, the Premier League and Serie A, are the most active in transfers, which also reflects the efforts of the teams in both countries for the new season. Of course, this is just the beginning. Wait for the transfer market to open again this winter, and then there will be a different picture.

As the triple champion of the Premier League last season and the winner of the Champions League twice, the first transaction in the summer transfer period was Blackburn Rover, which was sold for up to 60 million pounds, which is naturally the focus of football all over the world!

After Ibrahimovic joined Inter Milan, another veteran who had been with Blackburn Rovers for many years chose to leave.

Friedel Friedel, Blackburn's first-choice goalkeeper for the past four seasons and a two-time Premier League goalkeeper of the season, was defeated last season against the younger Petr Cech.

In order to be able to participate in next year's World Cup in Germany as the starting goalkeeper of the United States team, Friedel submitted a transfer application to the team, and Arthur personally gave the approval of it.

What's Friedel's next stop?

Alex Ferguson's Manchester United.

Manchester United eventually managed to buy Friedel for £10 million.

In the previous life, Manchester United also bought the starting goalkeeper in this summer, but now Ferguson's choice in the previous life Van der Sar joined the wealthy Chelsea a year ahead of schedule with Van Gaal.

Although Mourinho was very reluctant to let Friedel join his Premier League rivals, especially rivals Manchester United, the transfer talks between Friedel and Manchester United have been going very smoothly thanks to Arthur's approval.

Originally, Manchester United were worried that because of Mourinho's obstruction, Friedel's transfer could be dragged to the last minute of the transfer market, but in fact, Arthur soon asked Mourinho to stop worrying about where Friedel went, because he found a legendary goalkeeper for Mourinho who was more suitable to be a substitute for Cech.

The legendary French door god, Barthez.

To make Barthez the team's starting goalkeeper, his "butter hand" attribute neither Mourinho nor Arthur dared to make such an attempt.

But what if it was just Barthez as the team's bench rotation goalkeeper?

You must know that the bald goalkeeper has won one World Cup and one European Cup, and his experience in the tournament is enough to be a teacher for the immature Cech, playing the role of "passing on the help" and promoting Cech's faster growth.

And Barthez, who served as Marseille's No. 1 goalkeeper last season, is still good enough to be the No. 2 goalkeeper at Blackburn.

Of course, the key for Arthur is to acquire Barthez without spending a penny for Blackburn Rovers – who joined as a free agent after the termination of his contract with Marseille.

After entering and exiting in the goalkeeper position, Blackburn's signings have only just begun. (To be continued.) )