Chapter 575 Fist is the last word!
On January 27, in the 23rd round of the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur defeated the same-city team Fulham 0 with the goals of Ribery and Falcao at home, and continued to remain unbeaten. This is Tottenham Hotspur unbeaten in 22 rounds.
On January 30, Tottenham Hotspur challenged Birmingham away, with Messi and Thiago Silva's goals helping the team reverse their opponents and scored three-pointers again.
After 24 rounds of the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur scored 63 points with an impressive record of 20 wins and three draws. With one round less, it is ranked as the leader in the Premier League standings, followed by Chelsea and Manchester United. The Blues have also performed quite well in recent times.
Further down the standings, Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester City, Aston Villa and West Ham United are currently playing tight and are competing for the fourth place in the league and the UEFA Cup.
However, compared with the fierce competition in the Premier League, the transfer market during the winter break seems a bit dull. Not only the Premier League, but the transfer market during the winter break in the entire Europe is relatively calm. This has led to the successful establishment of Tottenham Hotspur’s Football Economic Forum, but the trading volume has fallen to a historical low, which feels like a lot of thunder and little rain.
However, if you carefully study the current situation, you won't feel strange.
Four months later, the South African World Cup will be the South African World Cup. For all the international players who are now hopeful to participate in the World Cup, changing the team will undoubtedly have to bear the risk of losing the qualification for the World Cup, because transfers often represent many uncertainties. Once an injury or discomfort occurs and becomes a substitute, it is likely that their four-year wait will be gone.
Because of this, almost all capable internationals will not choose to transfer at this time.
Another factor is that the economy is indeed in a downturn, especially with the arrival of the European debt crisis, the team's business operations have indeed encountered problems. In this case, it is not surprising that any team's signings must be cautious and tightened their money.
The team that invested the biggest transfer during the Premier League during the winter break was Birmingham, which invested 6 million pounds. In the entire European transfer market, the one invested the most was Dynamo Moscow in Russia, who invested 13.2 million euros, and the second place was Donetsk miners, who invested 12 million euros.
Looking at the general trend of the entire European football world, it is not difficult to find that almost all teams have tightened their money and are even trying their best to reduce expenses, because with the arrival of the economic crisis and the outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis, business operations will become increasingly difficult. If the open source encounters problems, then the team will naturally have to reduce expenses if they want to maintain balance between income and expenditure.
So we can see that in the last two days of the transfer market, Manchester United settled the loan of six youth training players at the Hilton Park Road Hotel in the east of Hyde Park, London, at the Football Economic Forum, and teams such as Liverpool and Arsenal are also doing the same.
Manchester City sent off Robinho, a big salaryman who had been making trouble, and loaned back to Brazil, but he rented Vieira from Inter Milan, and his salary also declined. However, Mancini also wanted to get Real Madrid's Van der Fate and Gago, but Real Madrid pursued a strategy of not entering or leaving during the winter break this season.
Barcelona and Tottenham also adopted the strategy of not entering or leaving, because neither team has any special needs to be strengthened, and their overall strength is also relatively outstanding.
But looking at the entire winter break, transfers, loans and free transfers have undoubtedly become the mainstream, and this is also an effective reduction measures taken by many teams to balance the team's fiscal budget. Therefore, in this summer, free transfers, such as loans or free transfers, have occupied an amazing height for RU in the transfer market.
Tottenham Hotspur is not very interested in throttling, because Ye Qiu's team has always done a good job in fiscal and salary structure control, and the team's business development is in a stage of rapid development. Even if it encounters an economic crisis, Tottenham Hotspur can still make up for it by effectively developing emerging markets in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and other regions.
For example, around Christmas, Tottenham Hotspur signed authorization contracts for telecom operators in eight Middle East countries, which will bring Tottenham Hotspur generous licensing fees every year, including telecom operators in Kuwait, Bahrain, the UAE, Qatar and other countries can use the Tottenham Hotspur team logo and the player's portrait rights when promoting and promoting.
This also has a lot to do with the regionality of telecom operators, so when contacting sponsors, Tottenham Hotspur also treated them separately and did not sign exclusive terms to achieve the greatest benefit in this way
With the pressure on the salary structure and steady improvement in business operations, and the team's lineup is reasonable, Tottenham Hotspur doesn't need to take action during the winter break. In the negotiations with Peter Kenyon and Robert Newman of Moon Sports Services, everyone was very sure that the situation would not improve much by the summer transfer.
In other words, even if there is a World Cup impact this summer, it is still hard to expect a transfer boom.
But there will definitely be some exceptions, such as Real Madrid and Barcelona. These two member-based teams do not need to worry about financial pressure at all. Their only purpose of making money is to attract stars, so they are probably able to continue to make big money.
The other ones who are most likely to continue to strengthen their strength are transfer giants like Manchester City and West Ham United. As for Chelsea, which was so glorious back then, even if the big salary owner Shevchenko has been sent away this summer, unfortunately, Barack is still in the team, and Chelsea's salary surge in the past few years has become a foregone conclusion, and the operating pressure will still be great. It is still difficult for Abramovich to invest heavily in Chelsea's recruitment.
To be honest, rich people are not fools. On the contrary, these rich people are smarter than the other.
It seems that the Qatar consortium, which was rumored not long ago, was frightened by the high price of the Glazer family and targeted Liverpool. However, they also encountered some problems in the acquisition of the Reds and were forced to shift their target again. This time, the possibility of their success is very high.
"I just got the news that the Qatar consortium has basically reached an agreement with Newcastle shareholders and is expected to complete the acquisition of Newcastle in April. Once completed, there will be another strong team in the Premier League." Rob Newman is the CEO of Moon Sports Services, and he has better news channels than anyone else.
After hearing this, Ye Qiu and Peter Kenion did not look relaxed.
Newcastle is currently the best in the English Championship, and the possibility of advancing to the Premier League is very high. If the Qatar consortium takes over and Newcastle returns to the Premier League, it will inevitably cause a storm in the transfer market. This is indeed huge benefit for the sluggish Premier League and European transfer markets, but for competitors, it may not be possible.
There are many strong teams in the Premier League now. Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool are the five strong teams. Although Tottenham Hotspur is a new strong team, its strength has been proven and affirmed. The strength of the other four teams cannot be underestimated, after all, they all have their own solid foundations.
Further down, Manchester City and West Ham United are upstarts. By waving the pounds in their hands, they are also quickly strengthening their strength. In addition, Everton, Aston Villa and other teams, which are not weak, the competition pressure in the Premier League is very high. If you add a Newcastle next season, it will be a nightmare.
"Is the news reliable?" Ye Qiu asked cautiously to Robert Newman.
"It's basically almost done," the latter answered, but didn't say much.
After hearing this, Peter Kenion smiled bitterly, "It seems that the Premier League will become lively in the future."
The Qatar consortium will not do losses. Although the specific acquisition amount is unclear, it should not be too expensive. However, the Newcastle they acquired is a traditional strong team in the Premier League. Moreover, the Magpies are the team with the largest number of fans in England and the most popular team in the local area. They even have a very high reputation all over the world.
If it were in the early years of the century, Newcastle was a traditional Premier League giant
Not only that, Newcastle itself is a well-known big city in the UK, a political, commercial and cultural center in northern Britain, and the most popular city in the UK. Newcastle Club is the symbol and flag of the city.
At this time, buying Newcastle was indeed a carefully calculated transaction, because first of all, Newcastle was reduced to the Championship. Although it had financial support from the Premier League parachute, the team's finances were very bad, and the relegation made Newcastle almost desperate. This was undoubtedly a very good opportunity to buy at the bottom.
With the acquisition of this most popular team in England, the Qatar consortium will undoubtedly gain both fame and fortune. It can not only use Newcastle to build its own popularity and brand, but also use Newcastle to land in the UK to make multi-faceted investments, such as real estate and some basic industries, which are industries that the Middle East consortium is very interested in.
From an investment perspective, although purchasing Manchester United can create huge influence and momentum, it is also difficult and has a great investment. It is not as good as Yu Qian's acquisition of Newcastle. The difference between the two teams' acquisition price exceeds one billion euros, which can completely guarantee that after the Qatar consortium acquires Newcastle, it will introduce a superstar every year for ten consecutive years.
Just imagine which acquisition method is more advantageous? Which acquisition method is more beneficial?
If you stand from the perspective of the bystanders, the Qatar Consortium has undoubtedly made a smart deal. If you stand from the perspective of the fans, you will naturally welcome a large consortium with a total asset of tens of billions into the Premier League, because it can bring more stars. Ye Qiu is not without worries from the perspective of the competitors. After all, the pressure of competition is too high, which will not benefit Tottenham Hotspur.
In fact, many people have not noticed that the reason why Tottenham Hotspur was able to defend the Champions League last season and won the Premier League championship is actually related to the fact that the competitive pressure in the Premier League is not very strong. Once the competition in the Premier League becomes fierce, it will have a great impact on Tottenham Hotspur's multi-line battle.
But before getting the new stadium, Ye Qiu will definitely not adjust the current team's business strategy, so if you want to strengthen your strength, you have to explore from the team itself, such as youth training, such as introducing some players that meet the needs of the team, which are of high quality and low price, etc.
But in general, a blacksmith must be strong himself. Tottenham Hotspur still has to ensure the strength of the team. This is the kingly way
While Ye Qiu was worried that the competition in the Premier League would become increasingly fierce as the Qatar consortium acquired Newcastle, Tottenham Hotspur finally stopped its unbeaten record.
January 27, 30, February 3, February 6, and February 10, these are Tottenham Hotspur’s schedules in the past period of time. The game on February 3 is the eighteen rounds of supplementary matches. If Tottenham Hotspur’s intensive schedule in January, the team’s schedule after the winter break is indeed very intensive, almost every one-week double match.
In such a intensive schedule, Tottenham Hotspur won Blackburn away on February 3rd, and then on February 6th, L beat Aston Villa, who is currently ranked seventh in the Premier League, but on February 10th, the team finally had problems and lost to Wolves away 0l, who is currently ranked 19th and is indeed a coward.
With Tottenham Hotspur's first defeat in the season, the team scored 22 wins, three draws and one loss in 26 rounds, with an amazing performance of 69 points, leading Chelsea's 58 points and Manchester United's 57 points, leading the Premier League standings with an almost absolute advantage.
If we just lead the standings, we might not have such a surprising performance. More importantly, Tottenham Hotspur is not only the team with the strongest attack power in the Premier League and Europe, but also the team with the best defensive ability in the Premier League and Europe. In addition, facing strong teams this season, Tottenham Hotspur has achieved an impressive record of winning, making Tottenham Hotspur's outstanding performance this season very valuable.
Looking at the Premier League scorer list this season, many people say it is Tottenham Hotspur's internal competition. Colombia center Romedal Falcao currently scores 30 goals in 26 rounds, shockingly ranking first in the scorer list. Messi is ranked second. The Argentine scored a total of 28 goals, including two of which were the best four goals. The most recent one was the team's l-sharp defeat of Aston Villa.
In addition, Ribery is also among the top ten in the standings, and French Scarface is also the first player in the assist list. The second assist is Fabregas, the third assist is Messi. In addition, David Silva, Alves and others also performed very well. In addition, when playing Aston Villa, left-back Marcelo performed well. Tottenham Hotspur's entire offensive system is extremely surprising, and it has brought a catastrophe to all opponents.
Therefore, the media have hyped up the media for the unexpected loss of the away game to Wolves, believing that Tottenham Hotspur is likely to start going downhill, but the fans' reaction is relatively mild, believing that the team has performed so well this season and has not been able to continue physically for a long time, so it is understandable that it is a loss away.
Ye Qiu also gave the home team a fair evaluation of the team's loss to Wolves, believing that Wolves performed better, while Tottenham Hotspur encountered some problems. The players did not show the strength they should have, and this also has something to do with the large rotation range when he played against Wolves.
But no matter what, if you lose, you lose, and Ye Qiu did not make too many excuses.
After playing Wolves, Tottenham Hotspur challenged Bolton away. As a result, Tottenham Hotspur, which is mainly young players, tied with Bolton, currently ranked 19th in the Premier League. Ramsey scored a goal to equalize the score in the second half.
But just three days later, Tottenham Hotspur ushered in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals knockout match and challenged Porto away, but the team started the game with a bad start and was pierced by Porto's opening attack in less than three minutes. Afterwards, Ziglinsky took advantage of a free kick opportunity to head the ball to equalize the score for Tottenham Hotspur.
But in the second half, Porto forward Barrela won another goal, helping Porto defeat Tottenham Hotspur at home.
This battle completely sparked the outside world's concerns about Tottenham Hotspur, and many media even made comments that Tottenham Hotspur had no chance in the Champions League this season, because in the past history of the Champions League knockout stage, most champion teams remained unbeaten in the knockout stage.
Therefore, Tottenham Hotspur's defeat, especially to a team like Porto, made many media believe that it is difficult for Tottenham Hotspur to make a difference in the Champions League. Although Tottenham Hotspur still has a great chance of winning when returning to home, the team's poor condition is indeed a difficult problem facing Ye Qiu.
Ye Qiu knew very well that the team had many problems now due to the multi-line combat, but in an interview with the media, he repeatedly stated that losing is not a disaster, and he still firmly believed that the team could solve the current difficulties.
“We are a mature team and I believe everyone will not be intimidated by the difficulties we are currently facing
Relatively speaking, Manchester United has been in better and better shape since Christmas, and their performance in the Premier League is nothing, but in the Champions League, the away game reversed AC Milan in the first leg and won all the applause. The frontcourt Trident and the team's midfield helped the team win this wonderful reversal battle.
The Red Devils Manchester United returned from San Siro Stadium, and this battle almost sentenced AC Milan to death. At least their hopes of advancing from the quarterfinals were very slim.
Tottenham Hotspur lost away and Manchester United reversed away. The two teams have huge differences in their encounters. There are even quite a lot of media reporters and professionals believe that in the past few games, Tottenham Hotspur's sluggish state has made people worry and may become a turning point in the two major competitions of the Premier League and the Champions League.
Porto's head coach Jesuardo Ferreira even said in an interview with Portuguese media after the game that Tottenham Hotspur is not as outstanding as many people imagine.
"Many people told me that Tottenham has the strongest attack in Europe and the most difficult goal to break, but after today's game, I found that Tottenham's attack always loses its accuracy, and their goal is as big as the open roof above the Dragon Stadium."
It is obvious that the Porto head coach wants to take the opportunity to take advantage of Tottenham Hotspur, and it is best to anger the opponent.
Chapter completed!