If you want to use one word to describe the European summer transfer market in 2009, the most suitable one is the ups and downs.

In this wave of rolling trend, Manchester City made a thunder in silence and made a stunning splash.

First at the end of June, it was first revealed by the media that Manchester City would sign Gao Han with a sky-high annual salary, and soon the British media took photos of Gao Han's wife Lin Xia in Manchester to look for real estate, confirming the rumors about Gao Han coaching Manchester City.

This directly made the entire European football world furious.

After leading Bayern Munich to the Champions League, Gao Han undoubtedly embarked on the legendary road of the European Professional League. Whether he likes him or doesn't like him, he is waiting for his final destination.

No one wants to be an enemy of such a coach.

But few people would think that he would coach a team like Manchester City that does not even have the qualifications to compete in the European Cup.

So soon some media broke the news that after Gao Han coached Manchester City, his annual salary after tax was as high as 50 million pounds, which is the highest sky-high annual salary in European football history. If the head coach and players with the highest annual salary in European football are even listed in the ranking, the other nine out of the top ten will be added up, which is not as good as Gao Han alone.

So Gao Han coached Manchester City for money?

Many people are willing to think so, but some people don’t think so, which has caused controversy and discussion.

But just as everyone was discussing, the media broke the news again that Manchester City suddenly broke out and snatched Kaka from AC Milan before Real Madrid, and successfully won the world footballer at a sky-high price of 70 million euros.

Everyone knows that AC Milan is in a financial crisis and needs money in urgent need. Selling Kaka is their best option this summer, but no one expected that Real Madrid, which was originally considered to be a surefire to win Kaka, actually lost to Manchester City. Why?

As Kaka's mentor, Gao Han has undoubtedly become the focus of public opinion once again.

But Kaka's record-breaking transfer aftermath has not yet subsided. Many media and fans are still immersed in this century-old transfer, Italian media once again revealed shocking news that Manchester City successfully signed Cristiano Ronaldo from Inter Milan for a sky-high price of 100 million euros. This is two consecutive sky-high transfers in a week after signing Kaka.

100 million euros, this is the largest transfer record in European football history.

Everyone was stunned and could not imagine that this would be the result. The two superstars gathered in Manchester City.

Fans all over the world are crazy and seriously doubt what is going on in Manchester City?

What exactly do they want to do?

Everyone has not received any answers, but the earthquake-magnitude transfer has once again detonated the market.

Spain's Marca took the lead in revealing that the three superstar players in Atletico Madrid, goalkeeper Peter Cech, midfielders Xavi Alonso and David Silva, will transfer to Manchester City at a package price of 100 million euros.

It's over 100 million again!

In just less than ten days, Manchester City spent two transfers of over 100 million, and this time it also introduced three superstar players in one go, which is absolutely incredible.

According to Marca, the reason why Manchester City was able to convince Atletico Madrid to release the people was because Gao Han personally negotiated with Serezo and Hill while in Madrid and successfully persuaded them to nod.

Atletico Madrid will use this 100 million euros transfer income to pay off all the club's debts.

In addition to being shocked, there is also shock!

Everyone felt incredible and couldn't understand why Manchester City was so expensive?

But Manchester City's pace of burning money has obviously not stopped.

Soon, Spain's Marca broke the news again that Manchester City introduced midfielder Xavi Martinez from Athletic Bilbao at a high price of 30 million euros by paying liquidated damages.

If it weren't for the fans who were familiar with La Liga, they wouldn't know this player at all, let alone familiarity. But even so, Manchester City still paid him 30 million euros, which is already the value of a first-tier European star.

It is completely conceivable that Athletic Bilbao refused to sell, but Manchester City forced to dig.

So what exactly is the reason that Gao Han values ​​this Harvey Martinez so much?

In less than ten days, Gao Han wanted to invest 300 million in a crazily. What exactly did Gao Han want to do?

Not to mention the entire Premier League, even the entire European football world and the whole world were completely shocked.

In just a few days, Manchester City has completely become synonymous with getting rich. Many fans even began to criticize Gao Han, believing that his actions at Manchester City have disrupted the entire European transfer market.

Now, all the superstars have been snatched by Manchester City, what else can Real Madrid snatch?

Manchester City Chairman Mubarak said in an interview with British media that the club will unconditionally support Gao Han's decision and will do whatever it takes to bring Gao Han all the players he wants, even Messi.

As soon as these words came out, the whole world was in an uproar again.

After stealing Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka, Manchester City is still unwilling to give up and want to steal Messi again?

The most nervous thing is Barcelona, ​​who urgently met with Messi's agent father and comforted Messi to stay in the team.

But just as everyone was paying attention to Messi, Manchester City took action again, bringing in from Lyon the French genius forward Benzema who has performed very vigorously in the past two seasons.

This transfer is really a snatch of food from a tiger's mouth.

This summer, there are many teams who have taken a fancy to Benzema. Ferguson's Manchester United and Real Madrid are determined to win this talented striker, but unexpectedly, Benzema eventually fell into Manchester City.

Regarding this transfer, the French newspaper interviewed anonymous people familiar with the situation and revealed that the reason why Benzema went to Manchester City was because Gao Han personally flew to Lyon from Manchester to talk to him, and explained to him in detail the plans for Manchester City's new season.

"I don't know the specific situation, but as far as I know, it was a very big experiment."

"It is said that Gao Han is willing to coach Manchester City this time because Mansour personally promised to cooperate with Gao Han unconditionally to conduct a great test in the Premier League at Manchester City."

"Benzema told me that no one would refuse such an opportunity, so he agreed to Gao Han's invitation almost without hesitation."

Coincidentally, after announcing Benzema's joining, German Photo News quickly revealed that it was confirmed by a senior executive of Bayern Munich that the Bundesliga giants had agreed to Manchester City's offer to Luka Modric and allowed them to negotiate personal treatment.

The news once again sounded the alarm for the entire European transfer market, and everyone felt unbelievable because Gao Han seemed to be playing football games and formed a team of eleven people in one summer.

Could it be that this is his ideal eleven people?

Obviously, no one knows the answer, but the madness caused by Manchester City continues.

After signing Modric, Milan Sports News quickly revealed that Manchester City successfully signed Udinese's winger Alexis Sanchez, and the Chilean winger was also moved by Gao Han's plan.

Sanchez, who is currently on vacation in South America, said in an interview with Chilean domestic media that he admires Gao Han very much. After a long cross-border telephone conversation with Gao Han, he asked the national team head coach Bielsa and finally decided to transfer to Manchester City.

"Belsa told me to believe him, it would be a wonderful journey."

Just one day after signing Sanchez, Manchester City officially announced that it had officially reached an agreement with Liverpool to successfully introduce Argentine midfielder Xavi Mascherano, a world-class midfielder who will rush from Argentina to Manchester in the past two days.

It can be said that from late June to early July, not only Europe, but almost the world's media reported Manchester City news every day, and everyone was shocked by this new powerful team invested by the Middle East tyrants.

Especially when Manchester City signed Xavi Mascherano and announced that the club's transfer had come to an end for the time being, many people even felt a little lost. Why did they stop?

Manchester City general manager Paul Fottery said in an interview with British media that the team's signing plan has been almost done, and players will be transferred out next, and efforts will be made to control the number of first-team players to about 25.

This undoubtedly sounded the clarion call for Manchester City's great cleaning.

But the rich are rich, and even the cleanup seems very generous. Many players even terminate the contract directly and allow them to transfer freely, so that they can ask for higher salaries from the new team, while the club will not take any penny.

After July, Manchester City has successively held grand debuts for superstars such as Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo at the City Stadium in eastern Manchester. Almost every superstar attracted the crowd of Manchester City fans to welcome them, with a huge momentum.

The only regret that fans and media reporters arrived was that Gao Han never appeared from beginning to end.

Manchester City's crazy money-burning has completely broken the entire Premier League situation, especially Gao Han's joining has made Manchester City the hottest team in the Premier League in the new season.

An astonishing investment of more than 400 million euros accounts for half of the total investment of the Premier League. The other nineteen teams, including Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool, only barely compete with Manchester City.

This also made the British media very excited, and the Sun even shouted slogans on the front page headlines, and Manchester City beat the Premier League champions one-on-one.

But the transfer investment in the Premier League this season is indeed not as crazy as in previous years. Except for Manchester City, most of the other nineteen teams have been inferior to last season.

Manchester United only has one heavyweight signing, Valencia, spending 17 million pounds. Other players basically don’t spend much money. What’s more important is to retain existing players, such as Tevez, the most Red Devil-spirited one.

Chelsea has also tightened its money this summer. Many players, including Drogba, have made transfer rumors, but Chelsea is still mainly stable. After inviting world-class coach Scolari to coach, Chelsea only introduced defender Jirkov from CSKA Moscow, spending 18 million pounds.

As for Arsenal, it only invested 11 million pounds from Ajax to introduce defender Vermullen, and Liverpool invested a lot, spending 20 million to introduce Aquilani from Rome, and right-back Glen Johnson from Portsmouth to introduce 18.5 million pounds. In addition to the Greek defender Kilgarkos of Athens Aek, Liverpool invested a net investment of about 40 million pounds.

As for other teams, Tottenham Hotspur has invested a lot under the auspices of Redknapp, and is the second-most-invested team in the Premier League after Manchester City. However, overall, it is mainly practical, and has introduced many powerful stars including Crouch, Walker, Norton, Kranica and Basson, and they are basically players who have proved themselves in the Premier League.

Therefore, Tottenham Hotspur's strength has improved significantly this summer, but it still has a big gap with the traditional semi-finals.

Only the tall Manchester City is the one who truly challenges the traditional semi-finals.

Fans, media reporters and football people all over the world are also looking forward to it, just waiting to see what kind of team Gao Han's investment of more than 400 million will build.

It was in such an atmosphere that the training camp for the new season finally arrived.
Chapter completed!