Chapter 287: Transfer Market (2)
Before the start of the new season, the most eye-catching thing is often the transfer of players.
The dynamics in the transfer market are the ones that attract the most attention from the media and fans.
Liverpool's 'new signings' have been officially announced, in addition to Sane, who returned from Schalke 04 on loan, it is from Schalke 04 that spent 4.7 million pounds to bring in young German goalkeeper Karius.
The team's training camp is about to start, and Liverpool has not made much movement in the transfer market, which also makes Liverpool fans very anxious.
Compared with the lack of reinforcements, Liverpool has been relatively quick to purge existing players.
A few days after the end of the season, Liverpool's official website announced that the backup goalkeeper Brad Brown from Australia. Jones terminated his contract with the club and the player moved on a free transfer to League One side Bradford.
The Australian goalkeeper has made 27 appearances and conceded 35 goals since joining Liverpool from Middlesbrough in 2010.
In addition to 2 young players Jordan. Luce and Mark. Pelosi has also been terminated from his contract separately from the team, having previously become a free agent on June 30 and is looking for a new club.
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In addition, Spanish striker Aspas, who had been on loan before, has returned from his loan, and Aspas was brought to Liverpool by Brendan Rodgers for £7.5 million. He looks like a real striker, creative, versatile and has a great vision, and Aspas' performance at Anfield has been so promising in the eyes of the media and fans.
Suarez was suspended at the start of the 2013/2014 season for biting Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic. This gave Aspas a good chance, however, in the first month of the season, he was not able to take it. Suarez then returned from his suspension, and in that season, he struggled to find his place when the team already had two strikers, Suarez and Sturridge. His most memorable moment at Liverpool was the screwed up corner, where he comically 'passed' the ball to Willian, who launched a counter-attack on the edge of the box.
In the subsequent 2014/2015 season, Liverpool loaned Aspas to his former parent club Celta, and then brought in Jiang Chenxi for the first price in Premier League history, and then brought in Italian talented problem goalscorer Balotelli.
Although the latter's signing proved to be a failure, Jiang's debut season at Liverpool was perfect.
Although Aspas has returned on loan, the player is not in Klopp's plans, and Celta, who previously signed Aspas on loan, are also interested in Aspas, and the player himself wants to flee Liverpool.
In the end, Liverpool and Celta Vigo agreed on the transfer of Aspas, and La Liga Celta got the team's former top scorer for a transfer fee of 6 million euros. With this in and out, Liverpool's investment in Aspas is at a loss.
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Fans and the media don't pay much attention to these departed people, they pay more attention to the team's recruitment.
In the evening of the day before Liverpool's training camp began, the media also reported Liverpool's second target: England international James Milner, who has just expired his contract with Manchester City!
Milner's contract with Manchester City has expired and the England international has decided to leave on a free transfer despite a £165,000-a-week contract with an incentive clause on his side.
In fact, Manchester City, who lack a hukou player in the team, have made a lot of efforts to keep Milner, and they continue to raise the weekly salary offer in the renewal negotiations, if Milner stays, his salary will be the same as that of captain Kompany, Joe. Hart et al. are equal, second only to Yaya. Stars such as Toure, Sergio Aguero and David Silva.
While offering monetary promises, Manchester City were unable to secure the playing time and position that Milner valued most, which was what prompted Milner's decision to leave.
Inter Milan manager Mancini admires Milner very much, in fact, it was he who brought Milner from Aston Villa during his time in charge of Manchester City, in addition, Arsenal also joined Milner's battle, such a player with good ability without spending money, or England's household book, Wenger naturally does not want to miss it.
At times like these, Liverpool struck.
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Jurgen Klopp admires Milner and what he values most is the quality of play of this English player, a Milner is an extremely hard-working player, and you can always see him running at all points whenever he is on the pitch.
In addition, Milner is the kind of player who is very obedient, even unselfish, and he will try to play well wherever the manager tells him to play.
Former England defender Stuart Pearce said that Milner is the best P4P player in Premier League history, what does it mean? Milner isn't the best by a single metric, but you have to take all things into account, and Milner is the best. That's why Milner can be up to the top in multiple positions.
Full-back, midfielder, winger, striker, and even goalkeeper and centre-back positions have all been played.
Such a jack-of-all-trades player who can play in multiple positions and is very hard-working, that's Jurgen Klopp's favourite thing.
In terms of salary, Liverpool naturally cannot be compared with Manchester City, the Reds can only offer a contract with a weekly salary of 100,000 pounds, which is much less than the contract extension offered by Manchester City to Milner, however, Klopp said that he would give Milner as much time as possible, after he left Liverpool, he went to Manchester to meet with Milner and personally invite Milner to join
Eventually, Jurgen Klopp's offer impressed Milner and the 29-year-old England international accepted the offer to win the new Premier League.
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On the evening of July 10, an announcement was made on the official website of the Liverpool club that England international Milner, who had played for Manchester City in the English Premier League for five years, had officially reached an agreement with the Liverpool club, and the player would join the Reds on a free transfer.
The announcement also announced Liverpool's victory in this battle for Milner.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger expressed regret over Milner's choice: "The fact that we offered a higher salary package than Liverpool and I told him that he would get a lot of game time at Arsenal, but, unfortunately, he didn't choose Arsenal, yes, it was hard for me to understand...... However, I respect his choice and wish him the best of luck at Liverpool. ”
That evening, Milner posted on his personal social account: "I am deeply honoured to be able to wear the Liverpool shirt and am very happy to be teammates with the best players in football!
Jiang Chenxi also quickly responded to the new teammate and veteran's overtures: welcome, welcome, warm welcome.
Wenger:......
On July 11, the start date of Liverpool's training camp for the new season.
Reporters were waiting at Melwood training base early, and a large number of Liverpool fans also came to the training base, creating a grand atmosphere to welcome the team to start the training camp and journey of the new season.
The first to appear at Melwood's training base is the team's new captain Henderson, after Gerrard's retirement, Henderson will wear the captain's armband, for the team's choice, in fact, some media and fans are questioning, thinking that Henderson may not be able to take on the responsibility of captain, which also makes Henderson have a lot of pressure, he told himself to lead by example.
After Henderson, the players arrived at Melwood training base one after another.
This also caused a burst of cheers from the fans.
However, to the surprise and anxiety of the fans and media at the scene, Jiang Chenxi never appeared.
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