Chapter 219: Gorgeous Lineup

Abramovich was not willing to be lonely, and after Jiang Feng, he once again set off a huge wave in the transfer market. In the following two months, Chelsea spent more than £100 million (110.45 million) on Glenn. Johnson (6 million), Grammie (6.9 million), Bridge (7 million), Duff (17 million), Ransomware (500,000), Joe. Eleven players including Cole (6.6 million), Veron (15 million), Mutu (15 million), Smertin (3.45 million), Crespo (17 million) and Makelele (16 million) were brought to Stamford Bridge to show the world what real madness is.

While Abramovich was stirring up trouble in the international transfer market, Jiang Feng, who bought Manchester United, fell silent, because before Abramovich's action, with the addition of Ronaldinho, he had completed the final piece of the puzzle to build a new Manchester United.

Although Jiang Feng's Manchester United have some gaps with Roman Abramovich's Chelsea in terms of the total amount of players purchased, in the end, these deals have proved to be far better than Roman Abramovich's big money.

In this summer, Jiang Feng's Manchester United acquired a total of 14 players, totaling 91 million pounds!

Among them, on the forward line, Manchester United signed: Wayne Rooney (1200), Drogba (10 million), Torres (500), Van Persie (300), Villa (100) and other five players, although the total amount of money spent on these five players when they bought in was only 31 million pounds, but in the past year, the value of these five players has more than tripled. In the summer of 2004, according to the price tag given on the international transfer market, the five players were worth Rooney (30 million), Drogba (30 million), Torres (20 million), Van Persie (15 million) and Villa (15 million).

In midfield, Manchester United signed Cristiano Ronaldo (15 million) and Ronaldo (25 million). Robben (6 million), Carrick (2 million) and four other players.

At the back, Manchester United also signed four players, including Patrice Evra (2 million), Nemanja Vidic (2 million), Kompany (2 million) and McCone (2 million).

With players on these three lines, plus the two goalkeepers Van der Sar (2 million) and Howard (2 million), Manchester United's squad tends to be perfect. Because, Manchester United's original squad included Ruud van Nistelrooy, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Forlan (later transferred to Barcelona), Giggs, Scholes, Keane, Veron (later transferred to Chelsea), Fletcher, Phil Neville, Gary Neville, Ferdinand, O'Shea, Silvestre and other star lineups.

It can be said that after completing all the transfers, Manchester United has been able to put together two teams of equal quality.

Among them, the original team's lineup is basically the main lineup that won the league championship last season. Defenders (from left to right): O'Shea (22), Silvestre (27), Rio Ferdinand (5), Gary Neville (2); Midfielders (from left to right): Ryan Giggs (11), Scholes (18), Keane (16), Phil Neville (3); Forwards: Ruud van Nistelrooy (10), Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (20).

As for the newly purchased members, it is more than enough to put together a team, and even three strikers can be left as substitutes.

However, this summer, although Manchester United appeared to have spent more than 90 million pounds on the purchase of players, they did not really spend much other than the benefits from transferring players. Because Manchester United's gains in the transfer market are also remarkable. This includes transfer fees from David Beckham (35 million), Veron (15 million), Forlan (10 million), Butters (3 million) and a number of other role players (5 million), totalling £68 million.

In other words, the real transfer fee spent by Manchester United to buy players is only 23 million pounds. About $33 million.

Even the $100 million promised by Jiang Feng was only spent one-third!

And in fact, when the batch of players purchased by Jiang Feng grows up, their value. It has at least quadrupled compared to when it was bought. In the years that followed, United did not bring in any big stars. There were even some big-name stars sold (Ruud van Nistelrooy moved to Real Madrid for £20 million in the summer of '05), but no fan has said anything about it.

The lineup has been run in perfectly, is there anything else that needs to be modified?

It can be said that Jiang Feng's Manchester United is the biggest gainer in the transfer market this summer! Although, at this time, most of the media in the outside world are still laughing at Jiang Feng's stinginess.

The ridicule of the outside media is actually very understandable. After all, compared to Chelsea's net expenditure of more than 100 million pounds, Manchester United's handiwork is really a bit unsightly.

is still the top ten richest people in the world, the players purchased, except for Ronaldo, Ronaldo, Rooney and Drogba, are all small transactions of no more than five million, and what is even more contemptible is that most of these transactions are only two million, and even one million buy a little-known player in La Liga.

It's not like that!

Of course, the most important thing is that these media reporters, who are afraid of chaos in the world, have not seen the scene of the two super-rich people fighting for wealth in the international transfer market as they imagined, which is too disappointing.

In fact, at this time, many fans of Manchester United were also very dissatisfied with Jiang Feng's actions, but they couldn't say anything. Because in a sense, Jiang Feng has fulfilled his original promise, and even exceeded his promise: now the total amount of money for Manchester United to buy players has reached 91 million pounds, which is 130 million US dollars!

The reporters saw that the United fans were not beating, and they gradually lost their enthusiasm. However, from then on, Jiang Feng got an indecent title: the cunning oriental fox.

Come to think of it, on the surface, this guy has overfulfilled his promise to the fans and thrown out a huge amount of $130 million in the transfer market, but in fact, the money he really took out of his wallet was only 33 million pounds!

It's so cunning!

In fact, the real reason why Manchester United fans didn't follow these reporters who were afraid that the world would not be chaotic was because Jiang Feng issued a statement.

Jiang Feng at a press conference. When asked about the transfer, he said that the team will not bring in any more players in the short term, because the team is now very rich in all positions, and it is a waste to buy more players.

Jiang Feng said that he would not deceive the team's hundreds of millions of fans around the world, and the $100 million transfer fee he promised, although it will not be used for transfers, will be spent as a team benefit. He will put away the remaining 67 million transfer funds. Purchased an Airbus A320 aircraft for Manchester United as the team's special aircraft.

The Airbus A320 aircraft is sold for about $55 million, plus various renovation and maintenance costs, and the cost of this year is indeed about $67 million.

This kind of news makes both Manchester United players and Manchester United fans very satisfied. Especially the players of Manchester United, their attitude towards Jiang Feng can be said to be grateful to Dade and long live Shanhu.

This also has to do with the fact that Manchester United's annual schedule is too dense.

Do the math, Manchester United play 38 league games a year. Half of that needs to go to other cities. After the Champions League was restructured this year, although there are fewer games to play, if you reach the final, you still need to play a full 13 games. Among them. Seven of them had to go to other cities or even other countries. In the domestic arena, there are also two competitions, the FA Cup and the League Cup, of which the FA Cup, if counted according to the final. Manchester United need to play eight rounds, six of which are main draws, one semi-final and one final. And that's without taking into account the fact that a draw would require a replay. And the number of matches played in the League Cup. No less than the FA Cup.

These games add up to sixty-six games. More than half of them, or about thirty-five or so, need to go away.

Add to that the Community Shield at home, and possibly the UEFA Super Cup and Intercontinental Cup (Toyota Cup), and later the Club World Cup, which replaced the Intercontinental Cup, and United play nearly 70 games a year, of which about 40 have to travel away from home, some of which have to travel abroad or even to distant Japan, which is definitely a huge load for the United players. Especially if you need to take a flight, it can be even more exhausting.

However, if you have a team's own plane, you can save a lot of trouble and let the players have more energy to focus on the game.

With this news, the media finally stopped.

At this time, Hamdan, who had been playing in England for more than ten days, also returned to Manchester.

"Jiang, you've been very majestic lately!" After meeting, Hamandan said with a smile.

Jiang Feng smiled and said, "Hamandan, in fact, you can also be majestic, with your net worth, it is not a problem to buy a team to play with." ”

Indeed, as the son of the current crown prince of Dubai, Hamdan is also worth billions of dollars, and spending hundreds of millions to buy a team is no different from playing.

Hamdan shook his head and said, "I would like to, but my father won't allow me, and he won't even allow me to appear in public. ”

Jiang Feng was stunned for a moment, and then thought of something.

In another time, Hamdan was soon appointed crown prince after his father, Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, succeeded him as sheikh.

As the crown prince, he is destined to take over the position of the sheikh of Dubai, unless there is an accident in the back of Hamandan. As the future leader of the country, it is unlikely that the Dubai royal family will allow Hamdan to show too much.

As for the purchase of Manchester City by Abu Dhabi Prince Mansour in another time and space, it is because Mansour basically has no possibility of inheriting the position of chief of Abu Dhabi, plus he is a businessman himself, so there is nothing to do such a thing.

Moreover, even after Mansour bought Manchester City, although Manchester City continued to make big moves, Mansour himself rarely appeared in public.

Now, Hamdan's father has made such a request to him, which has already shown that Hamdan's future crown prince status has basically been determined.

"Congratulations, Hamdan!" Jiang Feng said hello to Hamdan. (To be continued.) )