Chapter 184: Back to the negotiating table

It is Diego Costa who needs to be talked about. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Diego Costa is a Brazilian player, but he also has Portuguese nationality and he can choose to join the Brazilian national team or he can choose to join the Portuguese national team.

Before last season, Diego Costa did not have such troubles, because he was not famous at all, and the striker worth 6 million euros was too much in Brazil and Spain, and neither national team had any intention of calling him up.

Now it's different.

With an astonishing efficiency of 21 goals in 28 league appearances last season, he has already caught the world's attention.

In the Atletico Madrid team, Diego Costa's performance is second only to Sergio Aguero, and after Aguero's departure, it will be difficult for even the '40 million euro Falcao' to compete with him for the main position.

Such a brave performance naturally attracted the attention of the national team, and whether it is the Spanish national team or the Brazilian national team, they are actually plagued by a problem, that is, 'weak forwards', although they have a top scorer on the front line, but the problem of difficult goals on the front line has always existed, so the two major football powers have launched a "Shenfeng" battle.

It was the Spaniards who took the lead.

Back in July, Spain national team coach Bosque and Football Federation secretary general Patrick Perez had dinner with Diego Costa, who told them that he was willing to play for Spain.

Since then, however, things have taken a turn for the worse.

First, the Brazilian Football Federation sent an official notice letter to the Spanish Football Federation, saying that Costa had played two friendly matches for the Brazilian team, and then the coach of the Brazilian team, Menezes, also said, "Only I have the right to decide whether to recruit Diego Costa, and no one except me is qualified to decide whether to recruit him to other national teams." A player who has played two friendlies for Brazil will not be able to play for other countries. ”

Although the two friendlies are not officially matches recognized by FIFA, the Brazilian Football Federation has warned in a strong tone that if Spain insist on calling up Diego Costa, they will appeal to FIFA.

If Brazil insists on not letting him go, Spain's desire to recruit Costa will also become a big problem.

Diego Costa became the most embarrassing person.

More than a year ago, Diego Costa didn't have this problem at all, and he also thought that he might be in the national team in the future, and he always thought that whichever national team invited him first, he would be in whichever national team was invited first.

Diego Costa made it to the Brazilian national team after last year's Copa America, but only played two warm-up games and has not been included in the Brazilian squad since, and has not played a single World Cup qualifier in 2014.

So when the Spanish national team came to invite him with sincerity, Diego Costa was tempted to join the Spanish national team and not always 'look at the face of the Brazilian team'.

As a result, it will be embarrassing for him to return to the Brazilian team until now.

In addition to Atletico Madrid's daily training, Wan Sheng also comforted Diego Costa, "As long as you can perform well, then all your choices are right!" ”

"Is that so?"

Wan Sheng nodded, "That's right, football is like that." They compete for you because you are good, and you choose Spain or Brazil, and it's right because you have two nationalities. If you choose one of them and you do very well, whatever the other country says, it represents your success, and on the contrary, no one cares what national team you go into, like a year ago, you understand? ”

Diego Costa nodded.

After listening to Wan Sheng's words, he felt much more relieved.

That's right, like a little over a year ago, whether it's Spain or Brazil, who team cares about him? It's different now, it's all because of my good performance.

Therefore, in the future, as long as you perform well, no matter how you choose, it is right, and whatever others say, it is just to prove that you are excellent.

After figuring it out, Diego Costa was also a lot more energetic in training.

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On September 10, all the players returned to the team.

Atletico Madrid began training as a group to prepare for the first match of the upcoming UEFA Champions League.

Atletico Madrid's Group A is undoubtedly the most watched of the eight groups, this group is the undisputed 'Group of Death', among the four teams, except for Napoli, which is slightly worse, Bayern Munich, Manchester City and Atletico Madrid, which team will be regrettable.

Between the three teams, there is also a lot to say.

For example, Manchester City and Atletico Madrid, because of the relationship between Wan Sheng, the relationship between the two clubs is very friendly, the summer transfer, Boateng transferred from Manchester City to Atletico Madrid, and Atletico Madrid sold Aguero to Manchester City.

Now that the two sides meet in the Champions League, there will certainly be a lot of sparks in direct matches.

Bayern Munich and Wan Sheng also have a lot of topics, once Wan Sheng led Manchester City, just met Bayern Munich in the group stage, the two sides played twice, and finally Manchester City ended in a complete victory.

Now that Bayern Munich and Atletico Madrid are together, in a sense, it is also Bayern Munich's chance for revenge.

In this season's UEFA Champions League, Bayern Munich is one of the most watched teams, not because Bayern Munich is only a German hegemon, a European giant, etc., but because the final venue - UEFA has set the final venue at the Allianz Stadium, the home of Bayern Munich, in other words, as long as Bayern Munich can reach the final, they will have the opportunity to win the championship trophy at their home stadium, and it is conceivable how much Bayern Munich wants to enter the Champions League final.

So in the entire Group A, the hardest to deal with is Bayern Munich.

Atletico Madrid's first round of Champions League opponents is Bayern Munich, which is played at the Calderon Stadium.

The first group stage was played at home, which was still advantageous.

Every team in the Champions League wants to get off to a good start in the first round, and Atletico Madrid is no exception, and the home game undoubtedly adds some chances of victory.

Bayern Munich has just experienced a miserable season, and perhaps all Bayern fans are reluctant to look back on the 2010-2011 that has just passed, for them, it is simply a nightmare that they will never wake up from, and it is like an endless bond.

But in any case, the facts cannot be changed.

Bayern Munich have had a miserable season. There was a total rout on all fronts, a change of manager at the end of the season, and a humiliating reversal by Inter Milan in the Champions League...... But the face is always to face, as in previous years, Bayern Munich completed the transfer early in June, which is a tradition of Bayern Munich, which likes to get all or most of the new player transfers before the start of the season.

Bayern Munich is the benchmark for Bundesliga transfers, and in order to solve the many problems encountered by the team, they have strengthened their recruitment skills and reinforcements - 22 million for German international Manuel Neuer, 9.8 million for Peterson in the German second golden boot, and 8.5 million for Raphinha, the transfer fee of these three players alone has reached 40.3 million euros, and even the loan fee of the little-known Takashi Usami is as high as 300,000 euros.

Bayern spent 40.6 million euros on signings over the summer, and Bayern alone spent nearly 30% of all 18 teams.

40.6 million euros is not the most expensive summer in Bayern's history, but it is also the second time in recent years that the club has spent so much money in recent years, except for the arrival of Toney, Klose and Ribery in the summer of 2007.

The recruitment of the new season is very targeted, especially after the addition of Neuer, Raphinha and others, it is a good supplement to the defensive problems that Van Gaal has been ignoring in the era, and it is reasonable for Otter, Kraft and other players who have no place in Bayern Mourinho to leave.

After the signings, Bayern Munich's defense was much stronger, which solved most of the team's problems.

The German media are looking forward to Bayern Munich's performance in the new season.

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Atletico Madrid have been hard at work in the days leading up to the game, having been preparing for the match against Bayern Munich since the international break.

The whole club takes the game very seriously.

This is the first time that Atletico Madrid has entered the Champions League since 1996, so the fans have also exploded into extreme enthusiasm, and the tickets for the game are sold out early, and it is conceivable that the stadium will be crowded on the day of the game.

Atletico Madrid are not fully focused on the game, and the club has one major problem that has not been resolved, and that is the contract for the team's television rights.

Just like the outside media thinks, if a club does not sell the TV rights, the game will not be broadcast live on TV, which is not only the loss of TV broadcast fees, but also has a great impact on the club's image and publicity, and with the two consecutive wins in the Atletico Madrid League, and the 3-1 defeat of Valencia away, all the media have seen the strength of Atletico Madrid, when Atletico Madrid shows its strength, those TV media also see the business opportunities of TV broadcasting.

The first is Pro Broadcasting Satellite TV, they and Atletico Madrid have been negotiating on the TV rights, before Pro Broadcasting Satellite TV was very dissatisfied with the Atletico Madrid club's 'privately' selling the TV rights of the 'Asian zone', and the contract could not be finalized when the two sides could not negotiate.

But with Atletico Madrid's excellent performance, Pro Broadcast TV is back at the negotiating table.

After thinking about it, the executives of Pro Broadcasting TV found that apart from the Asian distribution of the live broadcast of the game, it had little impact, and it could also reduce the price of the TV broadcast fee, so they wanted to negotiate the price by the number of games.

"One home game, 1.5 million euros."

This is the price offered by Pro Broadcasting Satellite TV. (To be continued.) )