Chapter 14 Low-key luxury has connotations

Croatian international Kovacic transferred from Real Madrid to the Premier League team Sunderland at a price of up to 50 million euros, and this news can be said to have made the major media catch the hype gimmick, in fact, it stands to reason that the transfer fee of 50 million euros is not particularly high for Kovacic from a commercial point of view or from the perspective of improving the team's strength, and Real Madrid also spent 35 million euros when introducing this player, Considering the serious premium of players in terms of value in the last two years, Sunderland actually did not spend much more than Real Madrid at that time. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Kovacic's ability does not need to be elaborated too much, as can be seen from the move of Real Madrid to bring him into the team from Inter Milan as the core of the future team, but because the current German international Kroos in the Real Madrid team and Croatian national team teammate Modric firmly occupy the two starting positions in the midfield, while Spanish golden boy Isco and the newly introduced Portuguese star Bernardo. Silva also further reduced his playing opportunities, so it was really difficult for him to find many opportunities to play in this star-studded galaxy battleship, so after careful consideration, he finally decided to join this promising Premier League dark horse Sunderland team coached by Shen Chao.

After talking about Shen Chao's series of actions before July 8th, we turn our attention to another good brother of Nan Xiao, Chen Mingshuo, who graduated from one of the best universities in China, Peking University.

Compared with Nan Xiao and Shen Chao now have 100 million pounds of transfer funds, Chen Mingshuo's budget this season is much shabby, because he only has a pitiful 30 million pounds for the new season's recruitment, and some time ago he has spent 18 million pounds from Nan Xiao's hands to introduce England's goalscorer Sturridge at a low price, and in order to balance the budget situation, he reluctantly sold Swiss winger Shaqiri to Nan Xiao again, recovering 15 million pounds of funds.

However, although Chen Mingshuo does not have much transfer funds in his hands, he does not have any distress because of this, after all, with his perennial "thrifty housekeeping" character, if the boss also gives him 100 million pounds, he will not know how to spend it, but this only 30 million can make him feel very relieved, and don't forget that the players in the Bundesliga league he knows best are notoriously cost-effective, and even now many Chinese Super League teams have begun to be willing to go to this league to buy people.

Chen Mingshuo's first player to target in the Bundesliga is Werder Bremen's youngster Sergi. Gnabry, the German player was born on July 14, 1995, is 173 cm tall, has excellent speed and dribbling ability, and he can not only play in the midfield position, but also can play as a winger and center forward. However, due to his young age, Gnabry did not get much of an opportunity to play in Stuttgart, so in 2011 Gnabry was brought to the Emirates Stadium from Stuttgart by Professor Arsene Wenger, who has a knack for discovering young people, and the deal cost Arsenal just £100,000.

The young Gnabry suffered a serious knee injury at Arsenal that left him without stepping on the turf of the Emirates Stadium for almost half a year, and last season Professor Arsene Wenger finally sent him to the distant Bundesliga.

England striker Sturridge is Stoke's first signing of the season, while Arsenal's former waiver Gnabry is the second, with Chen Mingshuo paying Bremen a transfer fee of €6 million to bring him in.

With the addition of Gnabry, Stoke City's reinforcements have gradually arrived, and most of these reinforcements are Chen Mingshuo from the Bundesliga team, including 5.5 million euros from Schalke 04 23-year-old midfielder Gees, 4 million euros from Cologne defensive defender Högel, and 7 million euros from Hoffenheim 26-year-old goalkeeper Oliver. Bowman, it is worth mentioning that this player was also a potential target for Nanxiao, but he chose Mexico international Ochoa at the last minute.

In addition to doing a good job in recruitment, Chen Mingshuo has also carried out a more thorough purge than Nan Xiao in recent times, because in his opinion, the current Stoke City team has too many too mediocre players, such as the 30-year-old Irish player Steven. Ireland, 31-year-old Scottish central defender Baddersley, 24-year-old Slovak player Dionata, Chen Mingshuo really doesn't understand why the team's previous coach Mark Hughes wants to keep these players in the team, maybe everyone's coaching philosophy is different, in short, Chen Mingshuo's first job after taking office is to clean these players who he thinks will not be able to play in the Europa League a few years ago from the team out of the team lineup.

At the same time, the 33-year-old Irish veteran Walters also sold Chen Mingshuo to Burnley, who will continue to fight for relegation in the new season, for 2 million pounds. Camron also went to Middlesbrough, who were relegated to the Championship last season, for the same price.

If Chen Mingshuo's transfer so far is described as "low-key luxury has connotation", then Gnabry, Gais, and Hegel should all be regarded as the "low-key" part, and the "luxury" part is the 23-year-old Brazilian potential star Wendell who spent 16 million euros to introduce from the "pharmaceutical factory" Leverkusen team; The Brazilian left wing-back is incredibly fast and has excellent assist ability, but his defence is relatively poor, which has led to him often receiving yellow cards in matches.

Due to the unexpectedly continued sluggish performance of Schalke 04 and Bayer Leverkusen last season, these two teams have also become the "mass supermarket" that many teams are vying to buy this summer, and Chen Mingshuo, who has always been very familiar with the Bundesliga, still did not let go of this rare opportunity, taking advantage of the chaos to smoothly take away two cost-effective players from the "pharmaceutical factory", which played a vital role in the formation of a new main squad for the team.

Nan Xiao's transfer work in Liverpool is almost over, Shen Chao and Chen Mingshuo are still in full swing in the transfer market, and many big teams have not yet begun to open their blood basins, but in either case, it can be easily seen from the increasingly lively transfer market that the new season is slowly kicking off.