Chapter 217: Rich is Really TMD!
While Pan Yi was busy with various transfer renewal operations, the competition for talent in the new season of European football also quietly kicked off.
After the Bundesliga hegemon Bayern Munich won the "treble" for the first time in history, the meritorious coach Heynckes officially retired, and he was replaced by former Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola!
It was arguably the most high-profile coach transfer of the summer.
Pep Guardiola, who completed the "Six Crowns" in Barcelona and built the Cosmos team, is now going to coach a new Cosmos team!
Of course, in fact, Guardiola's joining Bayern was basically confirmed when they were still in progress last season, so Guardiola did not choose to renew his contract with Barcelona.
And in terms of the composition of the players, Guardiola has not made much changes to this almost invincible Bayern team.
They sold substitute striker Gomes to Fiorentina in Serie A for €15.5 million, while the marginalised Brazilian midfielder Gustavo was sold to Wolfsburg for €17.5 million.
In addition, another midfielder, Tymoshchuk, has expired his contract and moved to Zenit on a free transfer.
In terms of player transfers, Götze, who had already been confirmed at the end of last season, came from Borussia Dortmund, which cost Bayern 38 million euros.
And Guardiola also brought his love from Barcelona Thiago, 25 million.
There was also the promotion of young Hojbier from the reserve squad to the first team as a rotation.
Compared with last season's big spending, Bayern is more restrained this time.
Lewandowski, who has been at the center of the scandal, Bayern did not carry out forced digging.
According to reports, since Lewandowski's contract expires next season, he will join as a free agent at that time, so that Bayern can also save a transfer fee.
It was only Dortmund who was injured.
But there is also good news for Dortmund, that is, manager Jurgen Klopp has decided to stay!
He is determined to help Borussia Dortmund regain the lost Bundesliga title and, of course, the Champions League!
Therefore, in the Dortmund team this season, apart from the loss of Gotze, the overall framework has not changed.
On the contrary, they also brought in several reinforcements.
The biggest move was the transfer of Armenia's No. 1 star Mkhitaryan as a replacement for Gotze from Shakhtar Donetsk, which cost 27.5 million euros.
Then he bought Greek defender Papastathopoulos for 9.5 million euros from Werder Breplum Blossoms to strengthen the defence.
And finally......
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was bought from AC Milan for €13 million!!
In this transaction, it can be said that Pan Yi was "fooled" by the baldness.
At the moment when Milan was in trouble, there was nothing for sale with Galliani, only the money was not enough.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been more noticeable in the transfer market as he played more minutes last season than Mohamed Salah, who was robbed of his main position.
Klopp also took a fancy to Aubameyang's astonishing speed and efficient scoring ability, as well as preparing for Lewandowski's departure next season, and asked Milan for an early offer.
Thanks to the bald masterful marketing tricks, Milan eventually sold Aubameyang for a higher price.
Of course, Pan Yi has nothing to regret about this, and even he won't blame Galliani for this.
Shopping malls are like battlefields, and Pan Yi's feelings for Milan made him not so careful.
Moreover, anyway, he didn't see Aubameyang as the core of his team, otherwise he wouldn't have used him as a substitute during the Milan period.
Galliani also saw that Pan Yi would not pay a lot of money to buy it, but the negotiations with Dortmund were not confirmed at that time, so he made up an improvised excuse to take Aubameyang off first.
In case the talks with Dortmund collapse, can you still find Pan Yi again, saying something like "For the sake of old friends, even if it is a youth training, we will sell it to you" or something like that, isn't it double insurance?
In short, everyone has no loss.
Jurgen Klopp got a reinforced striker, Pan Yi got Salah, Milan got more money, and everyone has a bright future......
And the Bundesliga teams that have bought from Milan's supermarket this season are not only Dortmund and Hamburg.
Schalke 04 also spent 10 million euros to take away Allegri's love for Big Boateng!
In addition to Boateng and Ogo signed from Hamburg, the traditional powerhouse of the Bundesliga has also bought Bochum's young midfielder Goretzka, Cologne's midfielder Clemens, Mainz's striker Sholoy, and Dortmund defender Santana, which has greatly strengthened its strength.
Another strong team, Bayer Leverkusen, although they have also bought a lot of players, such as Emre Can and other powerful players, but because they sold the main striker Schurrle to Chelsea in the Premier League for 22 million, it still makes people doubt their ambitions in the new season.
Of course, this 22 million seems like a lot in the Bundesliga, but it is nothing in front of the rich teams in the Premier League and La Liga!
Even Gotze's 38 million is nothing compared to them.
This season's European transfer champion is Bale.
Daishoning transferred from Tottenham to Real Madrid with a transfer fee of up to 91 million euros!
Then there are a few sharpshooters, Cavani from Naples to Paris Saint-Germain, 64 million;
Falcao from Atletico to Monaco, 60 million;
Neymar from Santos to Barcelona, 57 million ......
These news can only make people sigh, rich is really TMD good!
And look at AC Milan with no money......
They went on a fire sale this summer, whether it was the first team, the reserve team or the youth team, they sold everything they could, and rented out what they couldn't!
Not only to collect funds, but also to reduce salary pay.
In the end, they actually left the team with more than 30 players!
Most of the players who have been added are visa-free or low-cost and low-salary, and many of them are second- and third-rate players, such as Poli, Saponara, Silvestre and the like.
The only two things that can be exciting are Italy international Balotelli and the return of Kaka.
Kaka is also visa-free!
It can be said that from now on, Galliani has officially entered the era of visa-free cycling everywhere!
(Note: The transfer window usually lasts for two months, and some transfers only happen before the window closes.) This article is a unified summary, so that there is no need to repeat it later, please automatically ignore the time BUG. )
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In this summer training camp in Hamburg, Pan Yi was obviously much more relaxed.
First of all, the players, everyone is old friends, including the new players, and it's a pleasure to work together.
Then there are the coaches, Nagelsmann and Inzaghi have been trained in the first team for a season, and the team's training plans are well organized.
The presence of Pintus made Pan Yi completely reassured that the player could recover from the best physical condition after the vacation.
Pintus had already designed a number of high-intensity training programs for the summer camp in Hamburg, some with the ball, and some with a combination of jumping, sprinting, balance and strength.
The intensity is really great!
For example, just the 10-15 km run that has to be done every day before formal training makes Pan Yi glad that he is not a player.
With this level of training intensity, players are more able to play tough battles in key moments, especially when the physical exertion is huge.
Of course, Pintus will also take into account the recovery of the players to ensure that the players do not get injured under such a high intensity of exercise.
In the new season, he also applied to the club to introduce some high-tech equipment, which can monitor and analyze the player's sports metabolism data in real time according to the data on the equipment during and after training, so as to have a more comprehensive understanding of the player's physical condition.
Pintus can then use this series of data to develop personalized training plans for specific players, so as not to die of waterlogging.
Moreover, the careful bald head also proposed to increase the number of team doctors and improve the treatment facilities in the medical room, with the aim of providing the players with the best possible compromise.
Or rather......
So that players can be "abused" more brazenly?
Of course, for Pintus's initiatives, Pan Yi raised his hands to support - it wasn't him who was abused anyway!
But it's not all.
Pan Yi, including Nagelsmann, has always been the coach who places the most emphasis on technology and data analysis.
They know that football is always improving, and more high-tech products and equipment will be introduced in the stadiums and training grounds.
Under the more "meticulous" care, both adult players and young players can get more and more adequate professional training.
This is also why, the age at which future stars become famous will get younger and younger, while the careers of self-disciplined stars will get longer and longer.
In the past, when you heard about a player who was 30 years old, you thought he was a veteran who was about to retire, or at least he was going downhill quickly.
But now? Retiring at the age of 40 doesn't seem unusual, and players in their 30s are the backbone of world football.
Like Luka Modric, Benzema, including Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, there are many people over the age of 30 who have won the Ballon d'Or.
In the 2022 Ballon d'Or selection, the top five Benzema, Mane, De Bruyne, Lewandowski, and Salah are all 30+ players.
These can show that with the development of science and technology, the potential of the human body is constantly being stimulated.
With scientific training and nutritional treatment, even if the team is playing "mad dog" style in the future, the players can still maintain a good state and play for a longer time.
Of course, the premise of all this is "science", and now Pintus is synonymous with scientific training, and it is all over to hand over the players to him!
So, from the first day the Hamburg players entered the training camp, they really felt what the devil is.
These players are actually quite capable of building bones, after all, they are the youngest average age of the Bundesliga team, about 21 or 22 years old.
But this time, Pintus arranged the intensity of the schedule was significantly greater than last season's winter training, and many players who were too indulgent during the holiday even lasted about ten minutes.
An average of 90 minutes of training sessions really makes them spend their lives like years!
Finally, they all gritted their teeth and survived this tortured training session, and when they were all looking forward to resting, the kind old man with a spicy bald head appeared again.
He began to wave to the players, and then motioned for everyone to run "relax", no more, 10 kilometers.
This group of poor children almost broke down.
Pintus, on the other hand, was to run at the front of the line, declaring that "all who run behind me will be punished!" ”
So the players can only play hard and continue to run hard!
Pintus cheered everyone on as he ran, shouting "Bravo! Come on! Come on! and other languages.
Pan Yi, who was watching happily from the sidelines, sympathized with these players, but said that he couldn't help.
When you go to the training ground, your life will be handed over to this bald head!
Only by practicing hard before the season can you reserve enough physical strength for the frequent matches of the whole season in the future, and can you cope with the hard fighting in the latter part of each game.
And Pan Yi also knows that this is just the beginning.
As the training progresses, the intensity will only increase day by day.
This is also a way to gradually increase the physical limit of the players.
Make a little progress every day, and the accumulation will be earth-shattering!
A trickle of water merges into the sea, and a little bit of dust accumulates into a mountain!
Gradually, the players gradually got out of the laziness of the vacation and began to adapt to the training of Bentus.
In the process of training, recovering, training and recovering, the players also began to feel the improvement that Pintus brought to them, and they all became more and more confident and practiced more and more energetically.
Especially the players who have just joined Hamburg this season.
For example, Van Dijk, in an interview with the Hamburg Morning Post, said that the intensity and level of training in Hamburg is very high, even higher than when he was at AC Milan!
"Maybe it's because Pan Yi was just an assistant coach when he was in Milan, so he didn't implement this devil training method in the team. Oh, and of course, it could also be because Milan don't have Pintus. ”
"But this period of training really made me feel completely different from before. It's a visible lift, a boost for both your body and mind! ”
"Maybe it's because after Pan Yi became the head coach, he could be more hands-free to do what he felt was right. Of course, I think he has become more 'cruel' than he was in Milan, and we were often tortured by Pintus to ask him for help, but he never turned a blind eye...... Haha......"
Salah is also full of confidence:
"Coach Pan Yi told us that this season we are going to focus on offense and break down the enemy's defense in a devastating way."
"He also told me that my attacking talent will be reinvigorated in Hamburg. Of course I believed in him, just as I believed in him when I was in Milan. ”
'He's playing here in a different way than he did in Milan, and he's incorporating a different school of football, so his perspective is really advanced.
"I feel like he's a man from the future. Coupled with all the high-tech equipment in the club, I was like a primitive when I first came to Hamburg and went to the planet Cybertron......"
Kante, of course, couldn't hide his excitement about coming back to Pan Yi's account, and at the end of the interview, the reporter kept expressing his gratitude in English:
“F*** You!”
“F*** You!”
(Note: Later in the Easter Egg Chapter, a video of the interview with Kante will be released, and you will understand what he is talking about)
(Renote: I don't know why the Easter egg chapter has not been able to be reviewed...... You can do your own search for "Kante says thank you")
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At present, the Hamburg team is very popular in the eyes of the media.
The Bundesliga runner-up, the East Asian coalition, and the personality (handsome) manager, these factors together are simply impossible not to attract attention.
As a result, outside the Hamburg training center, a large number of media reporters are squatting every day.
It can be said that the number of journalists here is not even less than that of Bayern Munich!
Pan Yi is also very open, except for some important technical and tactical and routine play, like the usual daily training is open to the media, and even some fans are allowed to enter to watch.
This makes the training camp in Hamburg very lively every day.
Without compromising training, this actually helps the players get into action more quickly.
It is a very noisy environment during the official competition, what cheering, horns, shouting your name, scolding your mother...... The whole nine yards.
This is kind of getting everyone to get used to the competition environment in advance.
Hamburg's players, on the other hand, are mostly young and will work harder in training in the media and fans.
Who wants outsiders to see that they're lazy? What's more, there are so many long guns, short guns, and mobile phone cameras aimed at them.
Of course, there will be some surprises along the way.
For example, some female fans will hold up signs in support of Makoto Hasebe and shout: "Hasebe-kun is the best, Hasebe-kun is the best!" ”
Another group of fans clenched their fists and shouted: "I love Sun Xingmin, I love Sun Xingmin!" ”
The fans of the two sides quarreled as soon as they disagreed, and the scene was quite deadlocked.
In the end, it was Pan Yi who came over to appease the fans, and the fans naturally formed a united front and shouted: "Pan Yi Pan Yi I love you!" "If you marry, you have to marry Pan Yi!" "Pan Yi Oba, Yi Sitru!" and other slogans, and harmony as a family.
After training, Pan Yi will also allow the players to be interviewed, provided they are not tired of lying down.
And Pan Yi himself, after a day of training, also accepted a key interview with the reporter of "Bild".
"There are rumours that Hamburg have a transfer budget of up to 50 million euros this summer, and there is speculation about whether you will bring a real superstar to the transfer market," the journalist asked. But the truth is that you've only spent more than 30 million, and there aren't any big names to look up for other than a few veterans from Milan. Can you explain why you made this choice? ”
Pan Yi smiled: "First of all, it's not as much as 50 million euros. Secondly, I always buy people only based on strength, not fame, but also to see whether the new players can really be useful in my squad. So I'm very happy with the operation of our summer window, it's better than spending 50 million to buy just one Cavani, right? Not to mention that you can't afford it. ”
The reporter asked again: "What Coach Pan Yi means is that the strength of the team has increased." So, will last season's declared goal of winning the championship still not change? ”
Pan Yi smiled again and said confidently: "We have already won the league runner-up last season, if we don't win the championship this season, wouldn't it be a regression?" This is not in line with my philosophy of life. So, this season I will definitely take Hamburg to beat Borussia Dortmund, beat Bayern Munich and win the Bundesliga! ”
The reporters at the scene were a little excited.
Although Pan Yi had previously mentioned the goal of winning the championship, he announced it again before the start of the season, which shows the confidence of this young coach.
This can be regarded as a war letter issued by the Bundesliga powers, especially Bayern, and it is even a bit provocative.
It's actually very rare.
After all, football is changing rapidly, and anything can happen in a long season, so even if you are as strong as Bayern and as confident as Pep Guardiola, you don't dare to beat your chest and say that you can win the championship before the game even starts.
Even when the vision of the team is expressed, most of them are vague words such as "I want the team to win the championship", "I want the team to win the championship", "We have to play one game at a time", "We have the strength to win the championship".
Pan Yi, as a young Dragon Country coach who has just turned 27 years old, dares to say so categorically that "I absolutely want to win the championship", which can indeed make headlines.
The reporter asked: "The Hamburg players are very young, how can they play against the more experienced teams?" Wouldn't you be too optimistic? ”
Pan Yi shook his head: "The addition of Van Dijk, Kante, and Salah has made the strength stronger. Although they are young, they have been fighting hard in Serie A for two seasons, and they are already excellent immediate. Coupled with captain Westerman, Makoto Hasebe and others, we actually have no shortage of experience. We've spent a season getting used to it, and the new players are also my old men, so they're going to get better and better. Maybe I'm going to say they're going to be under pressure, but for a team to be successful, you have to be under pressure. ”
The reporter asked: "Who do you think the team's biggest rival this season is?" ”
Pan Yi smiled: "Isn't this asking knowingly?" I have already answered that. ”
In today's Bundesliga, if you want to win the championship, you have to cross the two mountains of Dortmund and Bayern.
Of course, Borussia Dortmund have been inconsistent due to their inconsistent form, and Hamburg also doubled them last season, and in fact the mountain has already been crossed.
So Pan Yi's biggest enemy is Bayern!
For other teams, there is even less to fear.
The reporter still asked: "Aren't you optimistic about Leverkusen?" Or Schalke 04, Borussia Mönchengladbach. They all have varying degrees of enhancement. ”
Pan Yi shook his head: "I don't mean to be disrespectful to them, but I only have Bayern in my eyes now." ”
The reporter asked: "You keep saying that you want to beat Bayern, so do you think that the current Hamburg has no shortcomings?" Can you challenge for a treble like Bayern? ”
Pan Yi smiled: "Of course there are shortcomings, but I won't tell you." ”
The reporters laughed.
Pan Yi continued: "But what I want to say is that when we meet Bayern again this season, we will not take the initiative to defend because we are afraid of their strength." ”
Finally, Pan Yi ended the interview with a resounding speech:
"In the new season, we're going to show everybody how Hamburg plays a beautiful attack!"
(End of chapter)