From the man behind the football king to the football king.

Chapter 904: Premier League Powerhouse Dynamics

After more than a year of the epidemic outbreak, the 2021 summer transfer window is destined to be a busy summer window.

Premier League teams that are not short of money, especially the Premier League giants, have been making frequent moves in this summer window.

Among them, Manchester City is undoubtedly the biggest mover.

Although Guardiola's team has hardly won any decent honors in the past few years, Manchester City management still maintains trust in Guardiola.

On the one hand, Manchester City’s performance in the past few seasons was actually quite good. The reason why it was difficult for them to win the championship was that Manchester United was too evil. It can be said that Guardiola and his disciples were defeated without any fault.

On the other hand, in the current world football, it is basically impossible to find a better coach than Guardiola. Other Premier League teams, such as Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham, have frequently changed coaches, but their performance is not as stable as Manchester City and Liverpool, which have not changed coaches.

In fact, in the past five seasons, the most stable teams in the Premier League are Manchester United, Manchester City and Liverpool, who have not changed their coaches. Except for the 2016-2017 season when Liverpool did not enter the top four of the Premier League, the three teams entered the top four of the Premier League in the following four seasons, and the rest of the teams could only fight for the remaining Champions League spot.

In order to compete with Manchester United for the league title, Manchester City made two big transfers this summer. They first spent 7500 million pounds to sign the youth training talent Jaden Sancho from the Bundesliga Hornets Dortmund, and then signed the England international Grealish from Villa for a whopping million pounds.

For these two transfers alone, the Blue Moon spent 1.75 million pounds, ranking first in the team's spending list this summer.

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Of course, Manchester City is also making drastic moves to eliminate redundant players. Angelino, Harrison and Nmecha were sold, and veteran Aguero and center back Eric Garcia went to Barcelona for free.

The three players who left the club brought Manchester City £3500 million in revenue, while Aguero's departure freed up salary for Manchester City.

Manchester City also has a very important transfer target this summer, which is to sign the talented Norwegian center forward Haaland from Dortmund.

The transfer is currently being carried out in full swing, and it is said that the three points are very close to reaching an agreement.

After all, Haaland is looking forward to joining Manchester City, and his father's status as a Manchester City legend has a significant influence on him.

As for Dortmund, although they don't want to let Haaland leave, for the Bundesliga Hornets, as long as the money is in place, there is no one they can't sell. Manchester City, which is backed by Middle Eastern oil capital, happens to be the one with the most money.

Despite the constraints of the financial fair play principle, capitalists have too many ways to pay enough transfer fees for Manchester City.

After a season and a half of outstanding performance in Dortmund, the 21-year-old Norwegian genius is now worth 1.3 million euros, ranking fifth on the current German transfer market. Therefore, the media estimates that if this transfer is successful, it may be a sky-high price of about 1.5 million euros. The joining of Haaland will make up for the only shortcoming of Manchester City. At that time, the Blue Moon will truly have the capital to compete with Manchester United.

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It is worth mentioning that the four most valuable players in the German transfer market are all in Manchester United. Bruno is worth 2.5 million euros, which is far ahead of the others in the value list. Following closely behind are Mbappe with 1.6 million euros, Harry Kane with 1.5 million euros and Rashford with 1.4 million euros. Greenwood and Bellingham are currently worth 9000 million euros and 8000 million euros respectively, both of which are in the top 20 of the value list.

Due to the presence of these high-priced players, Manchester United has become the team with the highest value at present, and is far ahead. The team's total value is 13.2 billion euros. Manchester City ranks second, but the total value of the Blue Moon is only 10.4 billion euros, which is almost 3 million euros lower than Manchester United.

However, the two Manchester City clubs are also the only two teams in the current football world with a value of more than 10 billion euros.

In the current team value list, there are five Premier League teams in the top ten, namely Manchester United with 13.2 billion euros, Manchester City with 10.4 billion euros, Chelsea with 8.8 million euros, Liverpool with 8.6 million euros, and Tottenham with 6.3 million euros.

Other teams in the top ten include Paris Saint-Germain with 8.9 million euros (third), Bayern Munich with 8.2 million euros (sixth), Real Madrid with 7.5 million euros (seventh), Atletico Madrid with 7.4 million euros (eighth) and Barcelona with 6.6 million euros (ninth).

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Chelsea also made some moves in the transfer market, but they were mainly focused on personnel cleanup. In terms of transfers, they only signed Lukaku from Inter Milan for a whopping £1.035 million, and loaned Saul from Atletico Madrid.

In terms of selling players, they sold striker Abraham to Roma for 3600 million pounds, Zouma to West Ham United for 3150 million pounds, and center back Tomori to AC Milan for 2630 million pounds. In addition, players such as Zappacosta, Livramento, Moses, Giroud, Van Ginkel, Bakayoko, Emerson, Kennedy, Batshuayi, Gallagher, Gilmour, Miazga, Salt, Baba, Ampadu, Drinkwater and others have left the Bridge, either by sale or loan.

All in all, Chelsea has basically achieved a balance in terms of buying and selling, and freed up a lot of salary space. In the new season, they can be said to be lightly equipped.

It has to be said that Chelsea’s investment in youth training in recent years has indeed brought real returns to the team.

The Gunners also made a lot of moves this summer. They brought in central defender Ben White from Brighton for £5000 million, Odegaard from Real Madrid for £3000 million, Ramsdale from Sheffield United for £2400 million, Lokonga from Anderlecht for £1500 million, Takehiro Tomiyasu from Bologna for £1600 million, and Tavares from Benfica for £700 million. Whether it is transfer expenditure or net expenditure, they are currently only lower than Manchester City.

Tottenham also introduced players such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Brian Hill, Emerson and Sarr, with a total expenditure of more than 7000 million pounds.

Only Liverpool and Manchester United did not make much move. The Reds' only signing was Konate from Leipzig for £3500 million, but they also cleared out Harry Wilson, Shaqiri, Awoniyi, and with Wijnaldum leaving as a free agent, Liverpool basically maintained a balance between income and expenditure.

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