408 Leipzig's Champions League prospects, the transfer fee ranking fell third
In recent years, UEFA has treated the Champions League newcomers in the five major leagues with a bit of a "water" meaning, just like Leicester City last season and RB Leipzig this season.
This very evenly balanced "group of death" was the first gift from Europe, and although Zhang Zhetian was unhappy with the results of this grouping, the real group of death that he expected did not appear.
Although Monaco and Porto are the big brothers of the Champions League, their strength is still significantly inferior to Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.
Leipzig is the only way to prove that they are the real "Red Bulls", and crossing their corpses is the only way.
Judging from the odds offered by Spinach for the group stage, Leipzig are the favourites to qualify, because they have the super modern goalkeeper with super lethality.
In terms of fixtures, Leipzig's difficulty is in November.
After playing Bayern Munich in the league on 28 October, Leipzig's November opponents are Porto, Hannover 96, Bayer Leverkusen and Monaco.
Every game is not difficult, but it is not difficult to take it lightly, and the two-front battle is a test for the giants, not to mention the new army with a weak bench.
Leicester reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League last season, can Leipzig go one step further this season?
Despite the loss of Bernardo Silva, Tiemoue Bakayoko and Benjamin Mendy, and the transfer of Kylian Mbappe and Thomas Lemar are also mired in transfer speculation, Monaco remain a formidable spoiler in the Champions League, and their youth storm can still strike fear into the hearts of the biggest players.
Besiktas are no slouch either, with Istanbul's Devils home stadium always scaring the visitors, and summer signings Pepe and Álvaro Negredo have bolstered their defence and attacking prowess at the Black Eagles.
Experts predict that the first place in Group G will be RB Leipzig, followed by Monaco.
At the end of the trip to Monaco, Zhang Zhetian and the other stars did not stay in Monte Carlo, but returned to Germany directly on a UEFA chartered flight.
At the airport, he met his new friends Cristiano Ronaldo and Gian Luigi Buffon in the Champions League, and said that whoever wins will be treated, and if there is a draw, the host side will be treated, and then, the three of them will say goodbye.
The day after returning to Germany, European football shook again, La Liga giants Barcelona officially announced that Dortmund's Ousmane Dembele officially joined the team, with a total transfer amount of up to 145 million euros, including a fixed transfer fee of 105 million euros, a floating transfer fee of 40 million euros, and a contract of 400 million euros.
After the total transfer price of 145 million euros made the 20-year-old Dembele the second transfer value in international football, the original second, 110 million euros Zhang Zhetian was squeezed to the third place.
This summer, Barcelona has Neymar's 220 million euros transfer money, but it has been unable to introduce its favorite players.
After Liverpool were determined not to let Coutinho go, Dembele was Barca's only option.
In order to join the team, Dembele first missed the Dortmund training camp for no reason, and then cut off contact with the whole team to play missing, and even missed the French team training camp because of this.
France coach Didier Deschamps has said he will not recruit an unhappy player.
After a month-long tussle and several tug-of-war between Dortmund and Barcelona, Barcelona finally bought the player they wanted, but the price of 145 million euros is enough to show Barcelona's helplessness, because in the valuation of the authoritative website "Transfer Market", Dembele's value is only 33 million euros, which is not even a fraction.
Is Dembele, who is only 20 years old, worth such a sky-high price from Barcelona?
Can he take Neymar's place?
The European football season will be over in May next year.
Dembele's transfer is not only the second most expensive transfer in the world, but also breaks the record transfer fee of Kevin De Bruyne, who joined Manchester City from Wolfsburg in the summer window two years ago (74 million euros), setting a record for the most players sold in the Bundesliga.
However, Dembele's departure, whether his value is worthy of his name or not, reflects an embarrassing reality in the Bundesliga: the inability to retain high-value, promising new talents.
Kevin De Bruyne two years ago, Julien Draxler who went to Paris in January this year and Granit Xhaka at Arsenal last summer window......
Also, Toni Kroos, who went to Real Madrid, although Bayern and Dortmund have many world-class stars, but the former basically monopolizes the talented players in their country, and the latter only has a world-class star like Pierre Aubameyang, who also wants to leave, no wonder compared to the Premier League and La Liga, even the French Ligue 1 has more stars than the Bundesliga.
Of course, the Bundesliga relies on good finances and youth training, but the lack of stars will undoubtedly be detrimental to the brand image of the Bundesliga.
Perhaps, the German Football Association and the German Football League put their hopes of building the Bundesliga brand on a talented player who is younger than Dembele, but more popular and famous.
Well, as everyone knows, this talented player is Zhang Zhetian.
"Do you think I would care if the transfer fee is number one or third in the world?" Zhang Zhetian said lightly.
Darko Makwitz sneered: "What the boss said is that the transfer fee does not mean the level of strength. ”
"It's good to know, don't make a fuss all the time." Zhang Zhetian glanced at him, this guy didn't know what to smoke, so he ran to him in a hurry, saying that he fell to the third, if the guy from Monaco also transferred, the third would not be guaranteed.
However, this summer's transfer market inflation is too serious, several transactions are hundreds of millions, and now the global economy does not seem to be thriving, and higher and higher transfer fees and salary income are not good for football.
Zhang Zhetian shook his head, he is an ordinary person, why do you want to do so much?
Even if the football collapses, Lao Tzu can open a martial arts gym, hehe.
By the way, you can also cooperate with Mao Dan's kid, the catering industry will never go out of style.
"Burke gone?" During training on Friday afternoon, Zhang Zhetian was slightly surprised when he learned the news.
This kid has a sick braincase, he doesn't play in the Champions League, he has to go to the middle team of the Premier League, West Bromwich Albion will play for another ten years, twenty years, and he won't get a ticket to Europe!
Oliver Burke, a 20-year-old Scottish international winger, left RB Leipzig to join West Bromwich Albion in mid-table Premier League side.
Although West Brom did not announce his transfer value, Leipzig's £13 million new star is unlikely to be sold for a low price, and the 13 million also makes the most expensive Scottish player in Scottish history.
"Young people are still too young, the team is now going to fight on two fronts, plus the German Cup, as long as you perform well, are you afraid that you won't have a chance to play?" Zhang Zhetian shook his head, the current young players are really impetuous.