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Chapter 658 Suspense After One Year

Liverpool training camp started, Yang Yang returned to the team on time to report!

This quickly attracted widespread attention from the media and fans in British and European football.

Everyone knows that this means that Yang Yang officially stays in the team, and Barcelona's poaching plan has failed.

On the day of the training camp, more than a thousand fans came to Melwood to meet Yang Yang and watch the team's training. Yang Yang was also in a good mood, not only accepting interviews from media reporters, but also doing his best to satisfy fans' wishes for group photos and autographs.

According to Liverpool's plan, the team will train in Melwood for ten days, then immediately go to Switzerland for a two-week training, then move to Germany and Spain, and finally return to the UK.

The training time is from early July to early August, and the first game of the new season, the Community Shield, will officially start on August [-].

According to tradition, the opponent of the Community Shield Cup is the FA Cup champion Portsmouth.

However, after entering August, Yang Yang will begin to return to China to participate in the Olympic men's football competition. It is still unclear to what extent he can play.

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The biggest difference from previous training camps is that Liverpool specially invited Winston Bogard back to the team this summer, and he and De Michel will be responsible for the strength training of all the team's players, especially last season's several injuries.

Winston Bogarde became famous after he trained Yang Yang. Not only did he gain great fame in China, but even Ajax and Liverpool highly respected him. Benitez had invited him to Liverpool many times before to train players.

Among them, Aurelio was highlighted by the media.

The Brazilian left-back had frequent injuries and was seriously injured in Valencia. However, under the training of Winston Bogarde, Aurelio's attendance rate last season caught up with his peak in Valencia. Especially in the second half, the attendance rate was very high and his performance was quite good.

In this case, Benitez and the coaching staff also tasted the sweetness, and immediately invited Winston Bogard over again, and not for a short period of time, but let him follow the team for summer training in the next month.

Winston Bogard's strength is unquestionable, and players know it well, but training with him is also very hard, especially some gym equipment training, which is simply a nightmare for professional players.

However, under the strict supervision of Benitez and the guidance of Yesterdan, the players also accepted the training of Winston Bogarde. Not only the seriously injured number like Daniel Agger, but even Xavi Alonso, who did not perform particularly well last season, obediently obeyed and executed meticulously.

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While Liverpool is in full swing for summer training, the club's transfer operations are still proceeding in an orderly manner.

The transfer focus of the Red Army this summer is undoubtedly to strengthen the team's midfield and bench thickness. Benitez put the transfer focus on Gareth Barry, but in June, Aston Villa repeatedly rejected Liverpool's offer.

This makes Gareth Barry very dissatisfied, because he obviously hopes to transfer to Liverpool, which can participate in the Champions League, and after Yang Yang stayed in the team, the Red Army has also shown a very strong momentum this season.

In this case, the relationship between Barry and Aston Villa was very tense, and there were even reports from the media that Barry was punished by the club for publicly criticizing the head coach Martin O'Neill.

When the time entered mid-July, Aston Villa finally made a concession and agreed to Liverpool's offer.

£500 million, plus a Finnan, was the final offer Liverpool made for Gareth Barry.

In mid-July, the Aston Villa captain finally joined Liverpool.

After the official announcement of the two clubs, Gareth Barry immediately moved from Birmingham to Liverpool, accepted Liverpool's medical examination, and directly participated in the team's pre-season training.

Gerrard, Yang Yang and others welcomed Gareth Barry's joining, and Harvey Alonso obviously felt the pressure of competition and trained more diligently. Even the gym equipment training, which was relatively exclusive in the past, is now practicing very vigorously.

Another one feeling the pressure is Lucas Leiva.

The joining of Gareth Barry has created a huge competitive pressure on the Brazilian midfielder. He must better improve his own strength to ensure that he becomes an important member of the team's midfielder.

As for Mascherano and Gerrard, due to their characteristics, they are basically the main players who play steadily.

On the third day after Gareth Barry's arrival at Liverpool, the team departed for Switzerland.

Accompanying the team is Welsh teenager Gareth Bale, who has just transferred to Liverpool from Tottenham Hotspur.

The Tottenham Hotspur disaster star was successfully acquired by Liverpool. The specific transfer fee was not disclosed, but outside speculation, Liverpool gave a high price of 700 million pounds, because Tottenham Hotspur spent 500 million pounds when they got him a year ago.

The media close to Liverpool quickly broke the news that Gareth Bell will be Yang Yang's substitute, and the Welshman is also a player named by Yang Yang himself. This made Gareth Bell respect Yang Yang very much after he came to the team and expressed his gratitude to him for his trust and support.

The Welshman is only 19 years old now. Although Yang Yang is only 21, the status and influence of the two in European football and the Premier League are completely different. Now that Yang Yang says a word, Gareth Bale's future will be much easier.

At least in the Liverpool locker room in the future, Yang Yang will be his umbrella.

After sending Finnan away, Liverpool non-stop introduced Glenn Johnson from Portsmouth. This English native right back performed well in the Pompeii Legion and was loved by Redknapp, but he was still introduced to the team by Liverpool at a high price of 1000 million pounds.

Gareth Barry, Gareth Bell, Glenn Johnson, the joining of three local British players has increased the number of local players in Liverpool, met UEFA's Champions League registration requirements, and also strengthened the overall strength of the team.

To this end, the Red Army has invested a transfer fee of 3000 to [-] million pounds. The investment in the Premier League even exceeds that of rivals such as Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal. It is a veritable major investment in the Premier League.

But at the same time, Liverpool also sold Carson, and after Gareth Bale and Gareth Barry joined, both players could play the position of left back, so the team sent away Riise, who had not renewed his contract for a long time.

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Liverpool's investment has improved the overall strength of the team. Although there are no big-name stars, the strength of the players is good. Gareth Barry and Glenn Johnson have proven themselves in the Premier League, and Gareth Bale has also performed well.

The outside world has also given high praise to Liverpool's signings this summer, but everyone believes that Liverpool's biggest achievement is to retain Yang Yang, which is a great guarantee for Liverpool's overall strength.

However, the Sun newspaper believes that although Yang Yang announced to stay in the team, he did not complete the contract renewal with Liverpool, so they speculate that Yang Yang's stay in the team is only temporary. As for why he stayed in the team, no one knows.

Some gossip media even broke the news that Yang Yang stayed in Liverpool because he got a promise from the Middle East consortium that bought Manchester City, and he would switch to Manchester City with an astonishingly high annual salary one year later.

But Yang Yang didn't pay any attention to the rumors from the outside world.

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After Liverpool completed the transfer, while conducting secret training in Switzerland, the European transfer market has also begun to enter a white-hot stage, especially news from Serie A and La Liga.

After Mourinho was rejected by Barcelona, ​​he announced to coach Inter Milan. The Portuguese maniac waved his checkbook as soon as he took office. He spent 6000 million euros in one summer and bought players such as Quaresma, Coutinho, Montari, and Mancini, which caused a huge commotion in European football.

City rivals AC Milan also not to be outdone, bought Ronaldinho and Zambrotta, then loaned Shevchenko back from Chelsea, loaned Senderos from Arsenal, and introduced Flamini on a free transfer from Arsenal.

Galliani continued his shrewd operation and didn't spend much money, but the player's cards were very big.

In terms of La Liga, after Barcelona introduced players such as Seydu Keita, Pique, Alves and Hleb, they finally failed to introduce Villa, but sitting on top stars such as Henry, Eto'o and Messi, Barcelona is still the most terrifying super team in European football.

After Real Madrid failed to operate Cristiano Ronaldo, it also hit a wall with Villa and Aguero. Calderon eventually introduced young players such as Garay, De La Reid and Xavi Garcia, but sold Cassano and Van der Vaart, of which Van der Vaart went to Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League.

After the failure to introduce Ronaldinho, Robinho announced his departure from the team. Calderon tried everything possible to keep him, but the Brazilian star made up his mind to go, but in the end he went not to Chelsea, where Robinho had just made a private life-long appointment, but to Manchester City, which had just received capital injection from the local tycoons in the Middle East.

The transfer fee was as high as 4000 to [-] million euros, and Manchester City became the king of the transfer market this summer as soon as they made a move.

And then Kompany was introduced from Hamburg, Wright Phillips from Chelsea, Sabaletta from the Spaniard, and Brazilian players from the Russian Super League if...

With the transfers of Manchester City, this Premier League upstart has also surpassed Liverpool, becoming the team that invested the most in Premier League transfers this summer. There are even rumors that Manchester City is further strengthening their signings, and the target even includes Kaka.

For a time, the entire European football world set off a huge wave.

Time quietly entered August.

Liverpool returned to the UK after playing a round of warm-up matches in Europe, while Yang Yang flew back to Beijing from London quietly.

The Olympics have begun!

(End of this chapter)