Chapter 491: This Summer Is Busy (1)
However, in the warm-up match in July, the transfer situation in European football shocked the whole world.
500.505 million, 438.7 million, 293.69 million, 152.95 million, 223.04 million ......
The above figures add up to 1,608.885 million euros.
This means that the total transfer spending of Europe's top five leagues this summer exceeded 1.6 billion euros, which is not as good as the 2.285 billion in 2007, but it is also the second largest investment in the history of European football.
However, compared to the same period last year, the drop in Premier League transfer spending is significant, reaching 385 million euros.
The investment in Serie A has also reached an all-time high, but the investment in La Liga and the Bundesliga is not so much, and compared with the previous year, it is almost discounted.
Only Ligue 1 remains at the same level.
Although the overall scale has declined slightly, it does not represent a discount on the degree of excitement.
In particular, the active transfer market in Serie A makes people look at Milan City, which has both Mourinho and Ronaldo, in the new season.
Serie A: Inter Milan spills money, AC Milan earns money.
In the Apennines, defending champions Inter Milan president Moratti brought in new manager Jose Mourinho.
And Mourinho finally won his compatriot, Porto winger Quaresma, for a transfer fee of 18.5 million euros.
He had already spent €13 million to poach Brazilian winger Roberto Mancini from Roma, and then Ghana's midfielder Muntari spent €15 million from Portsmouth.
Therefore, Inter Milan's total investment this summer is 52.8 million euros, removing 7 million sales income, and the net expenditure is 45.8 million, which is the highest in Serie A.
And the madman Mourinho's recovery of Brazilian center Adriano and the actions of the two wingers in a row also make people see the reproduction of Chelsea's 433 formation.
Many media believe that this is Mourinho's move of the Chelsea formation to Inter Milan, but they don't know if it will be successful.
Even so, the media are still looking forward to another declaration from Moratti, who said at the end of the 2007/08 season that he wanted to bring Chinese goalkeeper Wu to Inter Milan.
Whether Inter Milan, who spent more than 50 million euros, will continue to spend money is something that everyone is looking forward to.
However, Wu Feng's current transfer fee was 50 million euros before, and he alone paid Inter Milan's transfer fee this summer, so whether Mourinho will continue to participate in Wu Feng's competition has also become the attention of the Chinese media.
And AC Milan's action is even more eye-catching, because Ronaldinho, the former world footballer of the year and winner of the European Ballon d'Or, landed in Milan from Barcelona with 21 million.
And Shevchenko, who went to Chelsea for two years to be disappointed, also returned to Milan in a mysterious transfer way, so that the three Ballon d'Or winners Kaka, Ronaldinho and Shevachenko will come together.
This gives the Rossoneri, who finished fifth in the league last season, hope for a revival.
However, except for Xiao Luo, Milan's rest of the strokes have not exceeded 10 million, including Zambrotta - 8.5 million, Borriello - 7 million, Flamini - free transfer, Senderos - loan, transfer expenditure of 47 million.
Counting the 14 million that disposed of Gilardino, the 10 million of Oliveira, and the 37.95 million recovered by Grimi and others, Milan's net expenditure was less than 10 million.
It can only show that the team owner, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is still reluctant to spend money.
However, their goalkeeper Dida is also starting to age, and changing the goalkeeper is starting to be included in AC Milan's plans.
It's just that all the Chinese media believe that AC Milan will not join the ranks of the fight for Wu Feng, at most it is just a little more resistance to Inter Milan.
And Juventus, another player in Serie A, has used all the good steel on the blade of Palermo striker Amaury, and the transfer fee of 22.8 million euros is the largest in Serie A.
The Danish midfielder Poulsen's 10 million made the Zebra's transfer expenditure reach 35.6 million, and the net expenditure was 16.8 million after removing the transfer income of Palladino, Nocerino and others.
Therefore, the Bianconeri should not be satisfied with the third place in the league this season.
And their goalkeeper Buffon is the current world No. 1, which is the year of playing, so Wu Feng has little chance of entering the Bianconeri.
Roma spent 9 million to bring in Baptista from Real Madrid, 10.5 million to lure Bordeaux's 21-year-old winger Mane and 5 million to Reese, for a total expenditure of 29.4 million.
After the sale of Mancini, Giuli and Kurchi, the net expenditure was 11.7 million.
In terms of strength, there is a slight decline, but Spalletti has become accustomed to this kind of scene after many years of experience in small and medium-sized teams.
Therefore, it is no longer possible for Rome to enter the scene of fighting for Wu Feng.
The Premier League, which used to be accustomed to creating European standard kings in a big way, seems to have died down this year, and Cristiano Ronaldo, Adebayo, Drogba and others have not succeeded.
Chelsea's introduction of Robinho was blocked until the last minute, when Robinho joined Manchester City for 42 million euros, setting the highest transfer fee so far.
As the double winner of the Champions League and Premier League last season, Manchester United does not have much need to bring in reinforcements.
Ferguson's focus this summer is also mainly to keep Cristiano Ronaldo, and after most of the summer's efforts, Cristiano Ronaldo finally stays in the team.
After the Portuguese announced that he would stay in the team, Ferguson began to be busy with other transfers, and after letting go of striker Saha, central defender Pique, and midfielder Eagles, Ferguson only added a few Brazilian youngsters.
The twin wing-backs Rafael and Fabio and midfielder Posebon have either been promoted from the reserve squad or have already been booked.
Moreover, Manchester United still snatched Berbatov from Tottenham Hotspur at the highest price in team history, creating another standard king.
From here, it seems that the possibility of Chinese goalkeeper Wu Feng entering the Manchester United team is also very small.
Portugal boss Lucel Scolari became Chelsea's new boss after the European Championship and came to Chelsea to appease the likes of Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba and Petr Cech.
On the basis of gradually getting familiar with the team and running in the lineup, West Dwell, Ben Haim, Blaruz, Pizarro, Wright Phillips, Shevchenko and other unused players have changed hands one after another, and Makelele has returned to Ligue 1 for retirement.
In the end, Frank Lampard, Drogba and others stayed in the team, and the arrival of Bosingwa and Deco further strengthened the squad.
From this point of view, the possibility of Wu Feng joining Chelsea is not very high, although Abu wanted to package Wu Feng and Zhang Cheng for 110 million euros before.
However, Scolari does not seem to want to destroy his squad, and the power of the Premier League manager seems to have less influence on the club president.
Arsenal lost a lot of mature players, Hleb and Flamini, or left on the pretext of "London is too noisy" or "the club is not sincere to keep me", and went to Milan and Barcelona to receive several times the Gunners' salary.
Veterans Lehmann and Gilberto have also gone to clubs where they could play in the main team, with only Bam Adebayor having to stay after the chase between Milan and Barcelona retreated.