Chapter 470: Atletico Madrid's summer transfer window

The contract was quickly settled, and the day after he returned to Madrid, he signed the contract.

No one will refuse to give themselves a raise.

Cerezo was very happy, giving Gao Bo a salary of nine million a year, and Atletico Madrid definitely earned it.

Gao Bo didn't spend much on the transfer budget last season, and Cerezo has also seen this season's recruitment plan, mainly to prepare for the departure of some veteran players and players on the bench who are highly paid but not needed, and the cost of reinforcements this season is much less than last season.

Such a manager who doesn't spend much money, can still bring good results, and looks at the players with an unparalleled vision, with an annual salary of nine million, Atletico Madrid is definitely making a lot of money.

After figuring out his contract, Gao Bo immediately put into the pre-season preparations.

Before the start of this season, Atletico Madrid still had a lot of players who wanted to leave.

The main focus is on the backline.

The biggest impact is of course Antonio López, the main left-back of the previous season, who lost his main position after Gao Bo became the head coach, and he also lost his province as a Spanish international, Antonio has not been called up to the national team for almost a year, which is also related to his situation at Atletico Madrid.

The relatively few games in normal times made the head coach of the Spanish national team, Bosque, not dare to trust his form.

As a result, Antonio López, who has lost his position, is ready to seek to leave.

For the departure of López, Gao Bo is still very sorry, his strength is good, and he can be regarded as an absolutely qualified substitute.

At centre-back, Ujfarusi has also made it clear that he is leaving, and Pereira seems to be looking for a home.

These old ministers left over from the previous dynasty no longer have the main position in Gao Bo's team, and it is normal to seek to leave, and Gao Bo did not set up obstacles to their departure.

Antonio López chose to wait until Gobo returned to the team to say goodbye.

"I want to thank you, Chief!"

Antonio said.

"Winning La Liga was the biggest moment of my career!"

"I wish you were able to stay, Antonio."

Antonio López shook his head, and he didn't say anything.

In fact, he could see that Gao Bo wanted him to stay, but only continued as Alex Sandro's replacement.

Speaking of which, Antonio López is the same age as Gao Bo, not yet thirty years old.

A 30-year-old player is still at the peak of his career, but he is also going downhill soon. López doesn't want to be in retirement mode at the age of 30.

In dealing with Antonio, Gao Bo showed his warm side.

Antonio has one year left on his contract, but Gao Bo is willing to give the Atletico Madrid academy player for free and serve the team for almost a decade, and also go through the painful process of being relegated from the first division to the second division and then to the first division with Atletico Madrid.

Although Antonio's Atletico Madrid career only won a Copa del Rey and a La Liga championship after Gao Bo came, these two important championship trophies, and they have little to do with him.

But for Atletico Madrid, Antonio Lopes is a real meritorious captain, so Gao Bo let him find his next home for free, but also so that the Atletico captain can have a wider range of options, and without transfer fees, it will make him more popular in the transfer market, and at the same time, because he leaves for free, so he can also get a contract with a high salary.

In the end, López chose to go to the Bundesliga, and he joined Bundesliga powerhouse Bayer Leverkusen.

In addition to Antonio, other veteran players who need to leave the team, Atletico Madrid also sent them away at a low price or simply for free.

These old courtiers of the old Atletico Madrid, with the aura of La Liga and Copa del Rey winners, left the team.

Ujfarusi returned to the Czech league, Pereira joined Athletic Bilbao in La Liga, and right-back Barella went to Ligue 1.

In addition to the defenders, Atletico Madrid has more departures, but also in the midfield.

Assunção and Elias, who didn't get much of a chance last season, have also opted to leave the team.

As a result, Atletico Madrid will have to bring in reinforcements in the defenders and midfielders.

Since there was a plan in advance, the transfer of Atletico Madrid was carried out very quickly.

The first to win is the central defender Miranda, Miranda plays for Sao Paulo, Brazil, after the end of this season, Miranda's contract expired, so Atletico Madrid is picking up a big bargain, in the form of a free transfer, Atletico Madrid introduced Miranda, the Brazilian international central defender who is enough to challenge Boateng's main position.

However, even with Miranda's arrival, Atletico Madrid only has three central defenders.

Not to mention the Champions League, the three central defenders have to take care of the Champions League, and even a one-line operation like last season is not safe, so Gao Bo plans to bring in another central defender.

This time he has his eye on the veteran Lucio.

At the end of the season, Lucio's contract at Inter Milan expired.

According to the normal development, Lucio will sign a two-year contract with Inter Milan this summer, and then next season, Inter Milan will be with him; Lucio terminated his contract, after which the veteran returned to the Brazilian league and faded out of the mainstream league.

However, Gao Bo believes that Lucio can play in the European League for at least two or three years, and now Lucio is 32 years old, and with the help of cards, there is no problem in playing until he is 35 years old.

And he brought in Lucio just to strengthen the team's bench, not to use Lucio as the main force to die, so Lucio, a strong and experienced central defender, has become a good choice.

Moreover, if Lucio is signed this summer, it will also be a free transfer!

Inter Milan fell a little surprisingly quickly in the last season, after the end of the season, Inter Milan got nothing, they got 76 points in the league, six points behind AC Milan in second place, in the Champions League they lost humiliating to Schalke 04 in the quarterfinals, showing a 1-2 defeat on the road, and then returned to home, Inter Milan were humiliated by Schalke 04 5-2!

And the reason for all this, in addition to the turmoil after Mourinho's departure, the biggest reason is the aging of the squad, and now Inter Milan is nicknamed "retirement home", and most of their main players are players over 30 years old.

Cesar is thirty-one, Lucio is thirty-two, Musael is thirty-two, Zanetti is thirty-seven, Cambiaso is thirty, Eto'o is thirty and Materazzi is thirty-seven.........

And Balotelli, the only younger one, defected to Manchester City after the Treble season.

Such a lineup is naturally weak and uncompetitive.

And more crucially, Moratti is not going to invest money either.

Inter fans laughed at themselves after losing a game: Daddy Mo has smoked Marlboro, I am innocently poor.

Don't invest money, the lineup is aging!

This is a problem that everyone can see clearly, which is why Moratti has come up with the slogan "sell first, then buy people" in this case.

It's just who can Inter sell for?

Ned? McConn?

Therefore, they can only clean up some veterans whose contracts have expired, leaving room for wages in order to attract some of the stars who are in their playing years to join.

And Lucio is in this context, Inter Milan has been slow to renew his contract, in real history, Lucio did not start until the league was about to start in half a month, and Inter Milan's contract was late.

Therefore, Atletico Madrid can take advantage of the danger during this period and take the opportunity to bring Lucio to Spain.

In fact, Lucio, who waited until the end of the season without waiting for his contract, was disheartened, and when Atletico Madrid offered him an olive branch, Lucio readily agreed and signed the contract that Atletico Madrid gave him.

Atletico Madrid's performance last season was obvious to all, and this season Atletico Madrid will appear in the Champions League, and Lucio believes that his Champions League experience is an important factor in Gao Bo's eyesight.

At Atletico Madrid, he doesn't have to worry about not having a chance to play.

With two centre-backs in place, the rest of the positions will need to be settled at some cost.

With two players left in midfield, Gobo intends to buy one from the transfer market and then move Saul to the first team to fill the gap between Assunção and Elias.

At the moment, the only defensive midfielders in the squad are N'Golo Kante and Mario Suarez, so Gobo is planning to buy another midfielder with enough defensive ability.

He's got his eye on Gabi!

The later Simeone confidant is a good defender in the midfield position and has a strong physical confrontation ability.

This season is not just a domestic league, Atletico Madrid is fighting on three fronts this season, so he must strengthen the squad.

Gabi is a good candidate because he is an Atletico Madrid academy player, he also played more than 50 times for Atletico Madrid before joining Zaragoza, and he has a buy-back clause in his contract - why not bring such a quality player back to Madrid for only three million euros?

Gabi's transfer went well, with Atletico Madrid paying a transfer fee of three million to bring the twenty-eight-year-old defensive midfielder back to Calderón.

In addition to Gabi's transfer, the transfer of left wing-back Jordi Alba is also progressing.

Valencia were reluctant to let go of the Spanish defender, but in the face of an offer of €8 million from Atletico Madrid, Valencia eventually agreed to let Alba go.

On the right side, Gao Bo is interested in Real Madrid's B team, Castilla's player Carvajal who plays in La Liga.

It would have been easy to convince Carvajal.

Carvajal, who has played in the B team for many years, is difficult to see the hope of promotion to Real Madrid, in fact, although Real Madrid's academy in Spain is on a par with Barcelona's La Masia, but due to Real Madrid's superstar strategy, it is difficult for their youth players to get opportunities in the first team. Forcing young players who don't meet the requirements of the first team to play alongside those superstars doesn't help to promote development, but rather kills a talented player.

So, at Castilla, many of the eighteen or nineteen-year-olds are looking forward to playing for other La Liga teams, at least they can get first-team experience and get training in La Liga.

The same goes for Carvajal, so it was easy for Atletico Madrid to convince Carvajal to join.

The obstacle is on the side of Real Madrid.

Real Madrid are reluctant to sell their academy players to Atletico Madrid, and the two sides are bitter rivals.

At the beginning, Real Madrid proposed to be able to loan Carvajal, but Atletico Madrid naturally refused, even if they turned their goals elsewhere, it was impossible to help Real Madrid develop players, and they were not Real Madrid's satellite team.

The second plan proposed by Real Madrid is for Atletico Madrid to buy Carvajal for a transfer fee of 3 million euros, and then sign a buyback clause.

Atletico Madrid hesitated, is Carvajal, a young player with no experience in La Liga, worth three million euros?

In the end, it's still a high-wave clapper, buy!

Three million to buy Carvajal, it's definitely worth it.

However, on the terms of the buyback, the two sides still need to argue.

In the end, in the contract, the two teams in Madrid reached an agreement: if Atletico Madrid were going to sell Carvajal, they would have to notify Real Madrid, and at that time Real Madrid could buy it back at the sale price of Atletico Madrid!

In this way, Carvajal smoothly joined Atletico Madrid.

Speaking of which, the exchanges between the youth players of the two teams in Madrid are still very frequent, and Raul, the flag of Real Madrid, switched from the academy of Atletico Madrid to Real Madrid.....

Atletico Madrid quickly completed their summer recruitment.

A total of five players were brought in, and a total transfer fee of 14 million euros was spent.

Atletico Madrid's squad is already very stable, and these five players are more of a supplement to the bench.

On June 20, although the transfer window has not yet opened, this does not prevent the players from joining, these players only signed contracts with Atletico Madrid, and then when the transfer window opens, the contract officially takes effect.

On Atletico Madrid's official website, Atletico Madrid released a photo of five players and Gao Bo in one go.

"The manager of the team has signed five new players, welcome to Atletico Madrid!"

On the homepage of the official website, a line of large Spanish characters stands out.