Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 579 Europe 2003 Storm ([-])

Midfielder McClen was bought by Crystal Palace at a price of 70 pounds, while the other two young midfielders, the 20-year-old Portuguese midfielder Viana and the 19-year-old England midfielder Ambrose, had different experiences. Was loaned back to the Ipswich Town team where he debuted, and Viana was left after talking with Mourinho. It was not Mourinho who took care of his Portuguese fellow, but this young lad After all, he is considered to be the most talented left-footed player in Portugal's new generation. His poor performance last year is probably due to his inability to adapt to English football.

England striker Carl Cotter was bought by the "Crazy Gang" Wimbledon. The 25-year-old striker has played less than ten times in the past two seasons. Mourinho has no intention of keeping him. And there are only two years left on his contract, so Pei Wei generously let him go for a symbolic £20, and Lualua stayed. After all, the DRC striker can also play right winger. And he himself was not very willing to leave (no team wanted it), so he simply stayed as a substitute among the substitutes. Ameobi was loaned to Portsmouth, another young man who was loaned out last year Striker Chopra continues to be loaned to Watford in League One.

This series of transfers was completed within a week. The main reason is that these players who helped Newcastle reach the Champions League last year are still relatively attractive in England, and Pei Wei did not care too much about the transfer fee. That's why it sold so fast.

Among the nine players who were transferred, except for the four players who were on loan, Newcastle only recovered £370 million from the other five players, which was not enough to spend on Ian Hart alone.

But this is inevitable. After all, you don't want these players, and there are no outstanding players. It is good to be able to recover more than 300 million transfer fees. Chelsea, which also underwent a major change, sold ten One player, except for two players who were loaned out, all the other players were transferred on a free transfer, including Italian veteran Zola and Dutch goalkeeper De Huye.

In this situation, apart from the fact that Abramovich is rich and does not take small money as money, the main reason is that the players transferred from Chelsea are basically older, or the contracts have expired, so they are basically free transfers, while Newcastle The transferred players are relatively young and have a relatively long contract period, so they can recover a little money.

After loaning another full-back, the 20-year-old Irish teenager Brennan, to Coventry City in League One, the only thing left in the team that needs to be cleaned up is a troublesome figure, former England international Lee Bowyer.

To say that Bowyer is still capable, but Pei Wei hates him because of his bad deeds, not to mention that he doesn't want the scandal of teammates fighting each other in Newcastle again, not to mention that Bowyer's annual salary is quite a lot. As high as 160 million pounds a year, disposing of him can also get rid of a burden.

However, after Pei Wei put Bowyer in the transfer market, he found that other Premier League teams had almost no interest in him. The strong teams looked down on him, and the weak teams that needed stars to relegation were even more afraid of such a troublesome figure. Afterwards, it affected the unity in the locker room, and few mid-range teams were willing to pay his salary. Finally, after Pei Wei repeatedly lowered his worth, Southampton expressed their interest. In the end, Pei Wei was almost like throwing garbage In the same way, Bowyer was dumped to Southampton at an ultra-low price of 120 million pounds.

During this period of time, Abramovich made another big deal. This time he extended his hand to Serie A Inter Milan for 680 million pounds. They bought Argentine striker Hernan Crespo from Inter Milan and sold Crespo. After Spoelstra, Inter Milan bought Crespo's substitute center Julio Cruz from Bologna for 700 million pounds. This move even aroused the dissatisfaction of top scorer Vieri, but who What I didn't expect was that this seemingly inconspicuous acquisition turned out to be the most successful acquisition of Inter Milan this year.

After knowing the news, Pei Wei sighed. Originally, he admired Cruise as a humble and low-key shooter. As a center, although he is not as radiant as those top centers, he can always get a goal. Another unpretentious goal, and what's even more rare is that no matter how long he sits on the bench, he has no complaints, as long as he is given the opportunity to play, he can contribute, just as Zaccheroni did to him Comments: "He may not be a 'phenomenon', but he will never be a 'trouble'!"

Such an efficient and willing to sit on the bench as a super substitute, there have been only Manchester United's Solskjaer and Kroos for 20 years.

Pei Wei once thought about buying Cruise, but for some reason, the performance of Argentine players in the Premier League has not been very good. The encounters of Veron and Crespo in the Premier League are quite failures, which also makes Pei Wei is a little apprehensive. In addition, Cruz personally prefers to stay in Serie A and Inter Milan, known as the "Argentine Gang".

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The soap opera about Makelele became more and more intense. After the application for a salary increase was ruthlessly rejected by Real Madrid, Makelele also became annoyed. Under the instigation of agent Rogge, the pre-season training in Real Madrid began. After that, Makelele did not appear on the training ground-he began to tear his face and stopped participating in Real Madrid's pre-season training camp, using such extreme methods to express his protest.

Real Madrid was furious. General manager Valdano said: "Makelele broke the contract without reason. This is a disciplinary issue. According to Real Madrid's documents, the club has the right to suspend and fine him, and does not rule out the use of legal weapons. The possibility.” And AS, which is almost the mouthpiece of Real Madrid, also cheered on the sidelines, and they reported that Real Madrid had reported Makelele’s strike to FIFA.

Makelele's agent, Rogge, certainly wouldn't take this threat to heart. He understood that it was impossible for Real Madrid to report this kind of thing to FIFA, and FIFA wouldn't take care of it when it was full. kind of thing.He said in the newspaper: "Makelele did not stop training. The reason why he did not participate in training was because he felt very tired after returning from Asia and wanted to rest for a few days."

After defending Makelele's actions, Rogge began to let Makelele play the role of a victim: "Mr. Chairman promised Makelele to renew the contract in September 2002, but the club delayed it. There has been no movement. Do you think it is normal for Makelele to get such a low salary?"

In the Premier League, Manchester United and Chelsea also came to join in the fun. It is said that Manchester United's head coach Ferguson has already negotiated with Rogge, while Chelsea offered a transfer fee of 200 million pounds to buy Makelele. Surrounded by frontcourt superstars such as Zidane, Figo, Ronaldo, etc., the unknown midfielder has become the focus of European football.

Now Real Madrid is in trouble. They don't want to let Makelele go, but the current situation is that Makelele himself wants to leave, otherwise he will have to raise his salary. Real Madrid wants to poach Manchester United's Beckham, but Manchester United instead. Came over to poach his corner, Chelsea and Newcastle directly reported a huge transfer fee, even Perez began to waver, after all, his mind is now on Beckham, and he doesn't want to be in Makelele's Wasting too much time on his body-for this chairman who later had mixed reputations, he valued the commercial value of the players more. At this point, Makelele obviously couldn't fall into his eyes, which is why he was willing to pay. Give Zidane and them an annual salary of tens of millions of euros, but they are unwilling to add a salary of 100 million euros to Makelele.

At this time, Pei Wei raised his offer by another 600 pounds. The price of 9000 million pounds is simply a sky-high price for a midfielder. When Real Madrid was still hesitating, I don’t know why Chelsea didn’t Continue to bid, after all, after buying Crespo, Chelsea has spent nearly [-] million pounds in the transfer market, even Abramovich is a bit too much - plus the cost of acquiring Chelsea, he has spent more than two [-] million pounds, and Ranieri did not make a strong request to transfer to Makelele. It is purely that Abramovich is a little unhappy with Newcastle and wants to sabotage it.

Manchester United is even more thunderous and rainy. They have the best midfielder in the Premier League. Keane and Scholes' central midfield position can't be shaken by Veron. After Makelele comes, it may not be possible Position, it is impossible for Ferguson to pay more than Pei Wei’s offer to buy Makelele. The purpose of participating in this soap opera is probably to disgust Real Madrid. After all, Sir Alex Ferguson hates Real Madrid who always wants to poach him. .

In the end, Real Madrid agreed to Makelele's transfer application on August [-]th. Newcastle's first offer this season and the last player to buy finally came to St. James' Park.

So far, Pei Wei has spent 20 million pounds in the transfer market, basically fulfilling his promise of "a transfer of [-] million pounds".

After such generous transfers in and out, Newcastle's lineup has taken on a new look. Mourinho is satisfied, and Newcastle fans are also satisfied. They can't wait for the start of the new season and the new Newcastle game .

However, Pei Wei still seemed a little dissatisfied.

PS: The update of the 370th ticket... Tomorrow will definitely not be so crazy. I stared at the computer screen for too long today, and now my eyes are blurred. I have to take a good rest tomorrow. Everyone understands.

(End of this chapter)