The European transfer market in January 2008 was very busy.
In fact, compared with last year's winter transfer market, there were fewer explosive transfers this year.
During last year's winter transfer period, the transfers of stars such as Ronaldo and Beckham set off a surge in European football.
This winter, each team has chosen more practical stars.
Anelka, who moved to Chelsea for 20 million euros, has become the "bidding king" this winter. He is also the biggest star among them. However, the French striker has been hanging out with Bolton, Manchester City, Fenerbahce, etc. in recent years. Small and medium-sized clubs no longer have the high spirits they had when they transferred to Real Madrid for 35 million euros 8 and a half years ago.
Of course, if it weren't for Anelka's recent heroics, the "Bidding King" would definitely have been won by a newcomer as before, because the transfer fee for the second-ranked Banega reached 18 million euros. This player is not yet 20 years old. The Argentinian midfielder joins Valencia from Boca Juniors.
The Premier League, which has the best economic situation, has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in transfer funds this summer. Each team has strengthened its teams, especially the teams competing in the European competition, hoping to make gains in the European battlefield.
The top players in La Liga have made little moves, especially Real Madrid, which has always spent money like water. They successively bought teenagers Gago, Higuain and Marcelo last winter, and this winter they only promoted a few players from the youth team.
Barcelona is also very quiet. Except for Brasilia, which has just changed coaches and introduced two strong reinforcements, other La Liga teams are very quiet.
Serie A and French Ligue 1 teams have not seen much movement this winter. It seems that they are quite satisfied with their respective lineups.
In the Bundesliga, the richest team is Bayern Munich. They have once again spent huge sums of money this winter and continue to make signings. The 18-year-old central defender Breno they signed from Brazil cost a total of 18 million euros. Although there is only such a deal, they still top the Bundesliga.
The top Bundesliga teams such as Schalke 04, Werder Bremen, Hamburg, and Wolfsburg have also invested. They don't spend much, but the new players are very good.
This winter, there are also many cases of Asian players traveling to Europe.
Last winter, Chinese players set off a wave of travel to Europe - Zheng Zhi joined Charlton in the Premier League on loan, successfully landed in Eredivisie Eindhoven and played in the Champions League, and Yu Dabao became a member of the Portuguese Super League giant Benfica. This winter, there are no News about Chinese players moving to Europe. Despite this, the performance of Yunsheng and Cottbus has brought a lot of warmth to Chinese football in the cold winter.
There has been little movement in China's neighbor South Korea, but Japanese players are still favored by many European clubs.
Makoto Hasebe and Shinji Ono have written a new history for Japanese football. These two Japanese national team midfielders joined Wolfsburg and Bochum in the Bundesliga respectively from Urawa Reds.
In addition, the main player of the Japanese Olympic team, Koki Mizuno, also signed a contract with the Celtics of the Scottish Premier League in January. He and Shunsuke Nakamura, the leader of Japan's "Overseas Corps", became teammates in a foreign country.
When someone comes, someone leaves.
Japanese players have traveled to Europe, but some have returned home sadly.
Frankfurt forward Naotai Takahara was abandoned by the club, and he transferred back to domestic Urawa Ruby this winter.
After playing against Cottbus in the eighth round of the Bundesliga, Naotai Takahara completely fell out of favor at the club. His poor performance in that game made Frankfurt coach Funkel completely disappointed with him. In the end, the Japanese forward had no choice but to return home. Playing football and losing the opportunity to travel to Europe.
In addition to Takahara Naotai, there is another player whose transfer has a lot to do with Yunsheng.
That's Ozil.
After the battle between Schalke 04 and Cottbus, Ozil was hit crucially by Adriano's free kick, and he was injured for a long time. After he recovered from the injury, he found that his main position was no longer available.
Schalke 04 coach Slonka has always been dissatisfied with him and took this opportunity to hide him.
In this way, Ozil, who had no intention of renewing his contract with Schalke 04, took this opportunity to propose a transfer and eventually moved to Werder Bremen.
But he never thought that even if he went to Bremen, his nightmare would still not end...
Generally speaking, the European transfer market this winter is quite lively.
There are many disturbances from the outside world, but Yunsheng still works and lives as usual.
During his stay in Cottbus for more than half a month, Yunsheng went to the office almost every day and flipped through countless game videos and player information.
Although he has already won the Bundesliga half-season championship, he knows very well that this championship does have a lot of luck and blessings. In terms of on-the-spot command, formation, and team management, he is still far from being a truly top coach and needs to continue to work hard.
There is no competition during this period, so it is a good time to seize the opportunity to improve and enrich yourself.
Time goes by slowly, and there is not much left in the winter break.
The second half of the Bundesliga starts on February 2, which is after the winter transfer window closes. Many teams resume normal training a week in advance and prepare for games early.
But Cottbus is different. Their players returned to the club two weeks in advance and started the exact training task.
Because on January 27, Cottbus will usher in the German Cup quarter-finals, so the players must return to the team early and start preparing for training in advance.
Although they returned to the team early and had fewer vacations, the players had no complaints. After all, being able to go further in the German Cup is something that everyone would like to see.
Seeing the players returning to the team, Yun Sheng was happy and worried at the same time.
I'm happy to be able to play alongside everyone again, but I'm worried that the players' condition has declined more seriously.
This is not only a problem for Cottbus, but also for many German teams.
After nearly a month of rest, the players' physical condition and game feeling are no longer comparable to the first half. Therefore, after the Bundesliga winter break in previous years, strong teams were often overturned by weak teams.
Even so, Yunsheng cannot increase the intensity of training all at once, as this will increase the risk of injury to the players, and the gain outweighs the loss.
Seeing the situation of the players on the training ground, although Yun Sheng was anxious, he had no better way.
After all, haste makes waste.
Fortunately, the opponents in this cup match are not strong teams such as Bayern, Hamburg, and Werder Bremen, otherwise Yun Sheng would really be crying.
When Yun Sheng was very depressed, the system promptly sent him good news.
[Because you led the team to win the first half of the Bundesliga, in order to reward your outstanding performance, the system will give you a "Winter Break Spell Pack" as a token of encouragement. 】
Yunsheng was immediately overjoyed!
There is such a good thing!
