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For Suarez's transfer fee of 81 million euros, Liverpool asked for a one-time price and did not accept installments.

When Barcelona pays the money, they will be released directly.

As for Liverpool, in the transfer window of the new season, there are tens of millions of reinforcement funds. After all, the disadvantage of the team's lack of personnel on the bench has already emerged. For this reason, Liverpool wants to make a stronger supplement to the entire team.

Although some people worry that Liverpool will exchange a king for a bunch of "3, 4, 6, 7" like Tottenham last year.

It's just that, in today's football era, when single-point reinforcements can easily break through 50 million, they can't buy people. Liverpool can only choose to buy more reliable and capable players.

Moreover, Rogers could turn stones into gold at the beginning, and found that Sturridge still has the talent of Coutinho. The Liverpool management decided to still believe in Rogers' vision.

Buy a batch of powerful players and wait for appreciation.

Only this time, Rogers' buyers began to focus more on the Premier League's home league.

After all, the style and rhythm of the Premier League games are different from other leagues.

Liverpool's goal this season is to strive for the team to defend the Premier League title, so the team cannot afford to waste any more time waiting for new players to adapt to the rhythm of the Premier League.

Directly choosing players who are familiar with the rhythm of the Premier League can help the team form combat effectiveness to the greatest extent and the fastest, without delaying Liverpool's team goals for the new season.

With abundant funds, Liverpool is inhumanely throwing money directly at the face, poaching the corners of the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League.

It's just that although Manchester United is down and out, it still has a lot of prestige.

Even though Liverpool is the Premier League champion, in terms of soft power, there is still a huge gap compared with Manchester United, which has dominated the Premier League for two decades.

Perhaps Manchester United tends to buy more talented players from other leagues, but in the Premier League, some teams are still afraid of Manchester United's influence and do not choose to negotiate with Liverpool's offer.

After encountering a lot of soft nails, the wealthy teams also strictly guard against Liverpool's poaching. Only Southampton is open to Liverpool's buyers.

The team's youth training has performed well and the results have leapt. The Southampton boss wisely chose to cash in directly.

Firstly, if the players want to leave, the club cannot keep them, and secondly, even if they are forced to stay, the club has no hope of winning the championship.

However, Liverpool completely regard Southampton as their own youth training camp.

With an attitude of not bad money, buy, buy, buy. Attacking midfielder Lallana is 31 million euros, central defender Lovren is 25 million euros and forward veteran Ricky Lambert is 5.5 million euros.

Liverpool directly bald the fat sheep of Southampton and became the biggest buyer of Southampton in the summer.

If it weren't for Manchester United's early contact with Luke Shaw, signing the contract in advance, and Liverpool, which also needs full-back reinforcements, would really rush to spend all the 100 million transfer fee on Southampton.

It's a pity that Luke Shaw, who performed extremely well last season, is going to play at Old Trafford.

After poaching three players from Southampton, even if the Premier League team has personnel to sell, it is none of Liverpool's business.

The shot is the first bird. Liverpool, which has just won the championship, has been boycotted by many teams. If Liverpool does not want to pay a premium, it can only be separated.

After there were no suitable players in England, Rogers still had to go to the international market to find reinforcement targets.

The first thing to solve is the full-back problem. Even though the combination of Glenn Johnson and Flanagan performed well in the second half of last season, Liverpool still have to make enough personnel reserves in this position to deal with possible injuries. illness.

However, the position of full-back is originally a scarce product in international football. If the price is raised too high, it will definitely suffer. If the price is not high, most teams are not willing to let people go.

In the end, Liverpool spent 18 million euros to buy left-back Moreno from La Liga "black shop" Sevilla to strengthen the team's own wing offense and defense.

Although Moreno's height is a major hidden danger for Liverpool's air defense, his speed and excellent offensive ability will be a huge supplement to Liverpool.

After Carragher and Agger left the team, the lack of central defenders, and the lack of full-back reserves, Rogers can concentrate all his energy on the construction of the team lineup in the midfield.

As the head coach, Rodgers knows how important Suarez is to this Liverpool team.

What Liverpool let go is not only an efficient striker who can contribute 30+ goals in a season, but also a crucial offensive connection point in the frontcourt of a team.

In today's era when major giants are preparing for battle and superstar transfers are not easy, it is simply unrealistic to directly buy a top striker to replace Suarez. Rogers can only try to find players who can be similar to Suarez.

At first glance, Rodgers fell in love with Balotelli.

young fame, "why always me"

The highlight moment in the European Cup made the Italian striker well-known to the world.

However, unlike his outstanding talent in football, his low EQ performance in the world and chaotic off-field life are gradually ruining this new-age striker who is favored by countless people.

From Manchester City to AC Milan, Balotelli has not made great progress, and it is not even as good as his performance when he first debuted in Manchester City.

After Rogers thought about it, the offer of 20 million euros took over the hot potato in the hands of AC Milan.

He hopes to transform Balotelli into an outstanding striker comparable to Suarez, making up for the lack of firepower in Liverpool's offensive line after Suarez left the team.

Of course, Rogers has enough funds in his hands, and it is impossible to put all the treasures on Balotelli alone.

With sufficient funds, Rogers continued to cultivate his own plan to attack the little demon.

The success of Coutinho made Rogers choose to train another player of the same type. The Benfica star Markovic, who can play both side and side, became Rogers' signing target.

25 million euros, Liverpool spent a huge amount of money for this young player who is less than 20 years old to allow him to come to Anfield.

In addition to the enhancement of the offensive line, Rogers spent 12.5 million euros from Leverkusen to buy Emrejan, who has already shown his prowess in the Bundesliga, for the team with only one defensive midfielder.

In the end, because there was still 150 million euros in signing funds left, Rogers bought Origi, whose striker was still very young, from Ligue 1 Lille on the principle that saving money is a waste.

Originally, Origi was also a player that Rogers wanted to buy in the early days, but although Lille intends to sell, they still want to rent for at least a year to save a sum of money to repurchase the striker.

When the negotiations were put on hold for a while, due to the remaining funds of Liverpool, Lille's negotiation request was finally accepted.

After purchasing Liverpool, it will be loaned to Lille for one year. Origi will not be able to report to Liverpool until the summer of 2015.

After that, it was more about Liverpool's tinkering with the lineup.

The position of the substitute goalkeeper and the filling positions of other big rosters are almost visa-free players. Except for Suarez and Agger's departure, Liverpool's main lineup was retained last season.

In the new season, Liverpool's new battleship sets sail...