Football’s First Defender

In the summer transfer window, buying and selling are actually carried out at the same time.

In terms of selling people, teams like Liverpool basically operate normally.

After all, there are not many high-quality players who will be let go by Liverpool. Some players who want to let go are basically picked up by ordinary teams. This kind of small team not only needs to shop around and calculate carefully, but also to do it. Absolutely in line with the rules, it is impossible to bear additional expenses such as fines.

But in terms of buying people, for a big team like Liverpool, the players I fancy are definitely not bad.

Then, in front of many wealthy families who are not short of money, there may be the possibility of being intercepted by others who spend more money.

At this time, it is not only necessary to provide sufficient money in terms of transfer fees, and to determine the personal wishes of the players in advance, but also the team needs to make good arrangements.

Although UEFA does not allow early contact with players, this kind of ban is almost regarded as "waste paper" for wealthy teams.

When players are on vacation, appearing in a tourist attraction or a certain famous restaurant to have a "chance encounter" is the routine operation of these giant teams.

Sometimes for the protection of one's own players, the ban is brought over to UEFA and other teams to file a lawsuit, but when it is their turn to buy someone, in order for the player to put pressure on the original team, he turns a blind eye to contact the player.

Liverpool did not further increase Reina's salary when Reina's contract renewal negotiations did not progress, because Liverpool had already found a backup tire for Reina.

First get the players in private, and then pay a reasonable price.

Liverpool's first signing of the summer is to recruit Sunderland's starting goalkeeper, the Belgian Mignolet.

Mignolet made his debut from the Belgian team St.Truiden. In the Belgian league known for its high number of goals, Mignolet played 106 games in 6 seasons and scored 28 games. Not a bad result and won the Belgian goalkeeper of the year in 2010.

After Mignolet directly transferred to the Premier League, "Black Cat" Sunderland paid 2 million pounds to become the second team of his career.

Sunderland, who originally planned to buy and train this young man, directly pushed Mignolet onto the Premier League stage ahead of schedule after the main goalkeeper was injured at the beginning of the season.

In 26 league games, 9 games without a seal, Mignolet handed in a pretty good goalkeeping record, was directly helped by Sunderland, and became the team's starting goalkeeper.

In the 11/12 season, Mignolet played 35 games in all competitions and contributed 13 clean sheets. Relying on a fairly stable performance, he entered the vision of many better club scouts.

But in the position of goalkeeper, Mignolet is still quite "young", and many teams are on the sidelines of him.

Last season was Mignolet's breakout season.

In 38 Premier League games, all started and completed 11 games with zero seals.

Although there is not much growth in terms of the zero-block data, this is based on the "Black Cat" Sunderland's team's serious decline in team strength.

You know, Sunderland only completed the task of relegation in the final stage of the league. In a relegation team, being able to get zero seals in 11 Premier League games is definitely a good record.

The number of zero seals in the season ranks fifth among all Premier League goalkeepers, and the number of saves is 149, ranking second among all Premier League goalkeepers.

Sunderland can be said to rely on Mignolet's outstanding performance to lift them out of the relegation zone.

After the season, Mignolet also became Sunderland's well-deserved player of the year.

Rogers is very optimistic about Mignolet's future prospects, especially Mignolet's excellent goal line saving ability, which impressed Rogers.

The younger Mignolet can completely serve as a goal-line guarantee for Liverpool in the next few years. And Mignolet, who is always able to dedicate himself to attacking and complete zero seals, coupled with Liverpool's super defense, Rogers believes that Liverpool's defense will become stronger.

While the contact with Sunderland was still going on, Liverpool had already settled the issue of Mignolet's personal treatment in private.

With the pressure from Mignolet, Sunderland did not entangle too much, and sold Mignolet to Liverpool at a fairly reasonable price.

At the price of 9 million pounds, Sunderland made a net profit of 7 million pounds compared with the original, and they are still negotiating. They have obtained the loan rights of Liverpool striker Borini, which can be said to be quite a bargain.

The sadness of Reina's departure did not last long. Also in the Premier League, the arrival of Mignolet, who had made a name for himself, made the fans full of confidence in the team.

The replenishment of Liverpool's immediate combat power is still continuing.

After the official announcement of Mignolet, Liverpool officially announced that Kolo Toure was exempted from signing.

In the position of the team's central defender, although Carragher stayed for another year and did not retire, considering his age, the team's need for multi-line combat next season, and possible injury factors, Rogers still seeks stability. Another qualified backup central defender like Kolo Toure has been found. There is no transfer fee, but a reasonable veteran salary needs to be paid.

Experience at the central defender position plays a huge role. With young players like Yang Feng, Skrtel, and Agger starting the game, and veterans like Kolo Toure and Carragher standing by as substitutes at any time, Liverpool's defense will definitely not have too many problems.

However, after that, Liverpool's transfer fell into embarrassment.

Under the leadership of the Fenway Group, Liverpool is indeed not short of money, but they cannot spend money randomly.

This also means that although Liverpool has ample funds, they must not spend too much money to buy people at a premium.

This also made several giant-level players in Liverpool's interest, on the big stage of the summer transfer window, successively waved checkbooks by other giants and bought them at high prices, while Liverpool attacked everywhere, but did not gain much.

The players on Rodgers' buying list joined other giants one by one, which also allowed Rodgers to end his vacation, return to the team early, start his own transfers, and look for other players to replace him.

The third signing is a supplement to the team's striker bench, 7.6 million pounds. Liverpool bought Aspas from Celta Vigo to further enhance the overall strength of the team's striker.

However, the addition of players on the right side after Tangning's departure has been unfavorable.

Everyone is short of excellent wide players, and everyone should keep them for themselves, unless Liverpool can spend money. Unfortunately, Liverpool can spend 30 million to buy players worth 30 million, but they cannot spend 30 million to buy 20 million. millionaire player.

Few teams paid attention to the normal offer, and Rodgers was so helpless that he might need to recruit someone from Liverpool's youth training system.

After spending another 6.8 million to buy the young Alberto from Sevilla to further improve the strength of the team's bench in the frontcourt.

Rodgers began to concentrate on searching for left back and right wing players to further improve the lineup.

If you can't buy directly, then rent. Rogers now only wants to supplement the team's strength to prevent the team from getting injured.

Fortunately, the rich teams have enough personnel reserves. It may not be easy to buy people, but many teams are still willing to come on loan to help with leveling.

For a loan fee of 1 million pounds, Liverpool loaned left-back Ali Sissoko from Valencia to act as a substitute for Jose Enrique.

As for the position of the right winger, in the end Chelsea helped Liverpool a lot.

The same loan fee of 1 million pounds, Chelsea loaned Moses to Anfield.

There is no buyout amount for this loan. Even if Liverpool wanted to add a 15 million buyout amount, Chelsea refused to do it.

After all, the Chelsea players who came to Liverpool before can complete the transformation. Chelsea just want to use "metaphysics" to let Moses come to Liverpool to complete his growth, but he doesn't want to make a wedding dress for Liverpool.

Thanks to the arrival of two loan players, Liverpool has completed the expected reinforcement. The rest depends on the running-in of the team and the performance of the new season.