Chapter 016: The Explosive Summer Window Closes
In the early morning of the first day of September, as the morning dawned in Europe, some football fans who were flipping through the sports pages of the newspapers nearly choked on the milk cereal in their bowls. 6:00 a.m. on September 1 was the time when the summer transfer window closed, and in the last hour before the closing, the transfer market, which thought the curtain had fallen, broke out again with a series of blockbuster transactions.
Zhuo Yang's transfer from Madiburg to AC Milan was like triggering dominoes, which had a chain reaction, and the major giants adjusted their recruitment strategies, and after half a month of trouble, they all thought that the dust had settled, at most, there were some seams to mend and gradually make no splash, but on the last day, there was finally a climax.
At 1 a.m., two young Argentine stars, Carlos Tevez and Mascherano, joined West Ham United, who are not much of a powerhouse in the Premier League, on loan from Corinthians in Brazil, which was a bit of a surprise. Tevez and Mascherano are not nobodies, and the second of the new generation of talented representatives of the Pampas who has risen in the past two years entered the Argentine national team as early as two years ago, and many European giants are paying attention to the little brothers.
Unexpectedly, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Manchester United, who have been eager to try, did not succeed, but the small club Hammers took the lead, or it was free, and I don't know what is famous in it.
At two o'clock in the morning, Real Madrid and Arsenal reached an agreement, with Baptista and Reyes swapping owners.
Brazilian 'Beast' Baptista, who moved to Real Madrid from Sevilla last season, did not perform well, at least better than Ronaldo and Zidane. However, this season's new coach Capello does not think he is a midfielder, and clearly told Baptista that there is no place for him in the new season. Helplessly, although he liked life in Madrid very much, Baptista had no choice but to leave.
Reyes, on the other hand, has been dreaming of Real Madrid for a long time, and he is the kind of player who has had a dream of Real Madrid since he was a child. The new president of Real Madrid sees that the transfer window is about to close, but none of the four major reinforcements he promised to his members will come, so he urgently needs a well-known Spanish player to make everyone hungry.
In fact, both sides wanted to make this business, so they put aside the dispute before the summer window closed, first leased each other for a year, and then talked slowly.
Capello, who entered the 'royal' palace for the second time, is in the prime of life at this time, and he has nothing to say about the construction of the lineup. You don't have to interfere with the club to buy people, but you have to have the final say on whether you buy people or not. Raiola also communicated with Capello about the future of the butcher de Jong in the new season, and the boss admired the butcher quite a lot.
There was another swap of owners, and it was Arsenal. Ashley Cole and Chelsea Gallas moved to another position, with Gallas defecting to the French base in London and Cole going to earn a better weekly wage. As a result, in the next Premier League match, it is very difficult to find English players among Arsenal's starters.
Another player swap that attracted much attention in football ultimately failed to take place, with Real Madrid and Inter Milan exchanging Ronaldo and Adriano but Capello and Roberto Mancini adamantly blocking each other.
Capello doesn't like Ronaldo, but he doesn't think Adriano can be any better than Ronaldo. Moratti wanted to kill Ronaldo, but Mancini insisted that Ade was much more affordable than today's Ronaldo.
Another blockbuster deal came from AC Milan, at 3 a.m., Braida completed an agreement to buy Brazilian striker Oliveira from La Liga Real Betis for 14 million euros + Vogel, who was also an acquaintance of Zhuo Yang.
Three years ago, in the 03-04 UEFA Cup, Madiburg and Benitez's Valencia played in the semi-finals, and Oliveira was the main Indian center forward for the Bats at that time. After moving to Real Betis in the 04-05 season, Oliveira won the top scorer in La Liga that season with 22 goals.
As the saying goes, it's not good for people to be crazy, and dogs are crazy to be bricks. Just when the spring breeze was proud, at the end of October last year, Betis hosted Real Madrid in La Liga, Oliveira first clashed with England defender Woodgate, was shown a yellow card, and then spoke wildly at Real Madrid midfielder Nigel de Jong. The butcher either doesn't get you, or he gets ruthless, so Oliveira was out of action for half a year due to injury, and the Brazilian national team's position in the World Cup was replaced by Lyon striker Fred.
Berlusconi introduced Zhuo Yang and released a big satellite, in fact, he didn't spend much money to sell Shevchenko at a high premium, and Prime Minister Bei, who was in a good mood, said to Ancelotti: Who else do you like, tell Lao Tzu, we are not short of money this year.
Ancelotti asked for Oliveira by name, and I don't know what he thinks.
Oliveira is 26 years old this year, and the 29-year-old Swiss defender Johan Vogel, who was part of his trade, is purely a passing visitor in AC Milan's history. After a free transfer from PSV Eindhoven last summer, Worgher has had little chance in the midfield positions of plus eight, sleepy skin, deputy and Seedorf, making 17 appearances in garbage time throughout the year.
However, the most sensational news on the last day of the summer window came from Inter Milan, the craziest of the transfer window. Prior to that date, Inter had brought in ten new players, all of whom were well-known players. Ibrahimovic, Vieira, Grosso, Crespo, Maxville, Darkote, ...... and, of course, some people who have been unable to keep up, Favali, Veron, Martins, Maria Oze, etc.
Facchetti, who is in charge of the transfer work, is now in the ICU, and the whole of Europe thought that Inter Milan would not make any more moves, however, at 5 o'clock in the morning, Inter and Juventus reached an agreement that the 21-year-old Ricardo Montolivo would transfer to Inter Milan for 35 million euros. Of course, this payment is in the form of a three-year mortgage.
Don't look at how much Inter bought in the summer, and it didn't actually cost much, the more expensive ones were Ibrahimovic with 26 million and Grosso at 23 million, and Vieira was only 9.5 million. Combined with the income from the sale of some players, the net expenditure will be in the early 40 million.
Moratti has a transfer budget of 60 million this year, so he has a lot of surplus in his hands. With Moratti's temperament, he can't even sleep without a clean flower, and he was a famous playboy and loser in the family when he was young.
As a coquettish person of the younger generation in Italy, the second brother naturally has an extraordinary influence in the Apennines, which is now old. Among the three young masters, Juventus used to have a second brother, AC Milan had Gilardino, and Moratti wanted to poach Roma De Rossi to be the top three in Inter Milan's Serie A. However, De Rossi loves Roma deeply, and Roma will never let him go, and Moratti sighs for a long time.
Juventus were relegated and many stars fled, which gave Inter Milan a good opportunity to seduce their second brother. However, Montolivo has always wanted to stay at Juventus, and if the final conditions are not negotiated, Moratti will not be able to impress anyone.
The conditions of the second brother are related to his own and Juventus' future.