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Chapter 1456 Transfer Feast
After entering July, the impact of several heavyweight transfers at sky-high prices has gradually fermented in the European football transfer market, entering an unprecedented prosperous scene, with a continuous stream of heavyweight transfers from major leagues.

In the Premier League, teams such as Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal started the arms race successively. Chelsea also did not sit idle. They spent 500 million euros to bring in defender Zampacosta from Serie A Turin, followed by Rudiger from Roma for 100 million euros, Drinkwater from Leicester City for 500 million euros, and midfielder Bakayoko from Monaco for 4000 million euros.

The Blues spent more than 1 million euros in one go, showing great ambitions.

Of course, at the same time, Chelsea did not forget to sell their own players. Matic switched to Manchester United for 4000 million euros and played under Mourinho again. Cuadrado switched to Serie A Juventus for 700 million euros.

After Manchester United signed Lukaku and Matic and spent more than 1 million euros, they signed Lindelof from Benfica for 3000 million euros. This summer's transfer net investment exceeded [-] million, which is very surprising.

But in the crazy Premier League, the transfer investment of [-] million euros is not worth making a fuss about.

After Everton sold Lukaku to Manchester United, they successively introduced players such as Klaassen, Sigurdsson, Pickford and Michael Keane. They also spent more than [-] million euros, and their net investment far exceeded previous years.

But soon, another heavyweight transfer came from the Premier League.

After missing Lukaku and Diego Costa wanting to leave the Premier League, Chelsea had to look for an excellent center in the transfer market, and finally locked in Real Madrid's substitute center Morata.

The Spanish center performed very well in the Real Madrid team last season and played the best statistics of his career, but Real Madrid did not intend to let Morata go, which forced Chelsea to choose to dig.

In the end, the Blues paid a sky-high price of 8000 million euros to successfully sign the Spanish center forward, breaking the record for the highest transfer fee for a Spanish player and once again shocking the entire football world.

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Real Madrid sold Di Maria and Morata one after another, and sold Brazilian right back Danilo to Manchester City for 3000 million euros. The transfer fee obtained can fully pay for Mbappe's sky-high transfer fee. At the same time, it also signed Theo Hernandez from Atletico Madrid with a high price of 3000 million euros, and signed Ceballos from Real Betis with a transfer fee of 1000 million euros.

If it is said that everyone was shocked by Real Madrid's signing of Mbappe with a record transfer fee before, then in just over half a month, everyone couldn't help admiring the operation of Real Madrid, especially the timing of signing Mbappe.

When Neymar created a super sky-high price of 2000 million or 5000 million euros, and Dembele could create a sky-high price of 2000 million euros, Mbappe's [-] million euros seemed extremely cost-effective.

What is surprising is that when the entire European football world is engaged in an arms race and many wealthy teams are frantically signing in, Real Madrid did not continue after signing Mbappé, Theo Hernandez and Ceballos. Not only that, Real Madrid also rented Ceballos back to Real Betis.

It seems that Real Madrid does not intend to participate in this transfer feast.

On the contrary, Barcelona, ​​after signing Dembele, introduced Brazilian midfielder Paulinho from the Guangzhou Hengda team of the Chinese Super League. For this reason, Barcelona paid Paulinho's release fee of 4000 million euros and signed Semedo from Benfica for 3000 million euros.

Not only that, Barcelona is still pursuing Liverpool's Coutinho, hoping to poach Brazilian players to make up for the vacancy left by Neymar.

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Holding more than 1 million euros from Barcelona, ​​Dortmund finally made concessions on the transfer fee after stalemate negotiations with Ajax.

The Bundesliga team knew very well that with or without the [-] million, Ajax would quote two completely different prices.

The German international who performed well in the Eredivisie and Europa League last season, Flying Wing Younis finally moved to Borussia Dortmund for a high price of 500 million euros.

The player who showed his kindness to Peter Boss as soon as he took office finally returned to his home country as he wished and joined Dortmund. This is also an important signing for Dortmund after Dembele left the team.

Not only that, after Lewandowski left the team, Dortmund's center position has always been relatively weak. Whether it is Italian center Immobile or Colombian player Ramos, they are obviously lacking in meaning.

Now, Immobile has already left the team, and Ramos also transferred to the Chinese Super League Chongqing Lifan this summer. Last season, Dortmund's goals were too concentrated on Aubameyang alone, and Aubameyang left the team.

Younis strengthened the wing, and in the center position, Dortmund finally introduced the 3000-year-old Swedish center Dolber from Ajax for 19 million euros. This player performed very well in the Eredivisie last season.

Two strong players joined the team, and Dortmund spent 500 million euros on Ajax. In the end, it was difficult to continue poaching corners, especially when De Ligt, a defender who was extremely optimistic about Peter Boss, announced his contract renewal with Ajax and continued to stay in the team. This completely cut off the ambitions of other teams including Dortmund.

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After renewing De Ligt, Ajax quickly announced the renewal of Ziyech, successfully retaining this frontcourt player.

In the last season, Ziyech and Klaassen were hailed as Ajax's midfield duo, and their performance was also very good.

Now, after selling Klaassen, it is very important to keep Ziyech.

It is a pity that although the team did everything possible to keep them, Davidson Sanchez finally chose to leave the team.

In the fierce competition among Manchester United, Manchester City, Barcelona and Tottenham Hotspur, the Colombian international finally successfully transferred to Tottenham Hotspur at a high price of 5000 million euros, which created another blockbuster transfer in European football this summer.

But for the frenzied European summer transfer market, there are already too many storms.

After successively selling Klaassen, Younis, Dolber and Davidson Sanchez, as well as Riedwald and Tate, Ajax managed to earn more than 5000 million euros in transfer fees in the transfer market, which created the highest transfer market revenue in Ajax history.

But the price paid is also extremely painful. The midfielder Klaassen, the frontcourt offensive core Younis and Dolber, and the defensive core Davidson Sanchez have all left the team, which is bound to greatly weaken Ajax's competitiveness.

Although they earn huge sums of money in the transfer market, Ajax does not intend to put all the money into the transfer market.

After selling many players, Ajax is also gradually introducing players.

With a transfer fee of 70 euros, the Dutch native defender Dumfries was introduced from Sparta Rotterdam. This 21-year-old player can play the positions of right back and center back.

Speaking of which, Dumfries' experience is also legendary. Before that, he had been playing wild football. In [-], he officially participated in professional competitions in Sparta Rotterdam in the Dutch second division. In the second season, he helped the team upgrade to the Dutch second division.

In the Eredivisie last season, Dumfries performed well and won the attention of Ajax, and because of his contract with Sparta Rotterdam, Ajax was able to sign the rookie at a low price of 70 euros.

In addition to Dumfries, Ajax also signed the youth training player Donyell Mullen from Arsenal at a price of 55 euros. This young player made his debut in the Ajax youth training camp and performed very well.

In the past two years, Mullen didn't get any chances at Arsenal. Although he performed well in the youth academy and won Henry's approval, he was never able to play in the first team and finally chose to return to the Eredivisie this summer.

Ajax has been in contact with Mullen since last year. In the summer of this year, in the competition with Eindhoven, Ajax finally took the lead and signed back the hopeful star of the former youth training.

These two transfers are not worth much, more like icing on the cake.

Ajax's real blockbuster signing was Serbian center Luka Jovic from Benfica.

Although Luka Jovic did not show the expected strength in Benfica and failed to get more performances, Ajax still spent a high price of 400 million euros for this player, which became Ajax's largest transfer expenditure this summer.

Younis and Dolber were sent away, and Luka Jovic and Mullen were introduced. At the same time, the team also had players such as Ziyech, Sancho, Neres, Stens and Boadu.

Ajax's strategy is very clear, that is, it will not increase investment in the transfer market, because with Ajax's influence, even if they can afford the money, they can't buy better and better stars. In this case, why should Ajax spend more money?

As for the income of 5000 million euros in the transfer market, Wei Zheng has already started to arrange. It is estimated that [-] million euros will be invested in the construction of a youth training base in China. This will also be the first formal youth training base from a European professional team in China.

This time Ajax has also learned from the experience and lessons of Cape Town, South Africa more than a decade ago, and strives to develop the Chinese market through youth training.

At present, the team has negotiated with the local government and is waiting for further approval.

The most troublesome thing is Ajax's handsome position.

After Pete Boss left the team, this position became a big problem.

The coach that Ajax likes either doesn't like the Eredivisie, or can't come for various reasons.

He led the second team of Ajax to the runner-up of the Dutch second league last season. He showed good coaching ability and is familiar with the young players in the team. Therefore, Van Gaal finally chose him to take over the first team.

(End of this chapter)