Chapter 174: What happened in the 98 World Cup

Like Marklele, Leiden Oriental also encountered huge competition when he wanted to introduce Van Nie, a scorer who was already well-known in the Netherlands. After scoring thirteen goals in the Eredivisie last season, Van Nie immediately became popular. The three top three of the Eredivisie wanted to call him under their command. Among them, Eindhoven, who has always had a tradition of super scorers, has an advantage in this competition. Their £4.2 million set a record of domestic transfer fee in the Netherlands, surpassed the other two old enemies, but at this time, a two-legged flying dragon emerged from England, and a price of £5 million was opened...

The twenty-two-year-old Luther Van Nistroy put on another red battle robe and began a life that was completely different from history.

Originally, Fanny was a little hesitant whether he should agree to join a Premier League team. Finally, Xiao Ming's words touched him - Stam became a Dutch international in Leiden East, which made the shooter born on the same day of the same month as Cruivit and Cruivit's heart-wrenching. You should know that Cruivit has been a Dutch international for a long time, but Fanny, who is in the same position as him, is still working hard to enter the giants...

After successfully signing Fanny, Leiden Oriental's transfer expenses this season reached 17 million pounds. Of course, the 10 million spent on Deselli and Boban were not announced. The only two officially announced signings were Marklele and Fanny. When they saw that Leiden Oriental, a newly promoted team, spent 7 million pounds but only bought two people who were not even international players, almost all England were ridiculed, but after the World Cup, they were all stunned...

No matter how ridiculed, Leiden Oriental's work before the start of the new season is still in an orderly manner. He renewed contracts with most of the players in the team, increased their salary, and brought their salary to the Premier League level. Players who have not received a renewal know that next season, they need to find a new employer.

McCassy freely transferred to Lincoln City in the English League Two, and Morrison freely transferred to Luton, who was also in the English League Two. Both of them did not play much in the Cup last season, but training with those outstanding players of Leiden Oriental also made their level more than enough to play in the English League Two. The two players who often get the game were much easier to find. In the end, Bristol City, the newly promoted team in the League One, bought Outrage for 100,000 pounds, while Oxford United last season bought McGrady for 170,000 pounds.

The departure of the four of them made the fans of Leiden East feel a little sad. After all, the four of them can be said to be the last trace of the Leiden East in the past. With the departure of the four of them, the traces of the Tony Wood era were completely erased, and replaced by the "Xiao era"...

However, most Leiden Oriental fans are mentally prepared for this. After all, since last season, these four people have basically become substitutes among substitutes. Except for McGrady who can sometimes get the chance to play, most of the others can't even sit on the bench.

Except for the four of them left, Seth Johnson also found Xiao Ming and asked for a transfer. He did not get much chance of playing in the two seasons of the transfer to Leiden East. Lenon and Jin Claze firmly controlled the position of the back midfielder and left front guard whom he was good at. Seeing that the team introduced another midfielder from France, he felt that the chance of playing was even slim, he took the initiative to propose a transfer, and he was not without a next player, because of his ability shown in the League Cup, the FA Cup and the limited league last season. In addition, he was a local player in England, and the Premier League Derby County fell in love with him and proposed to buy the player for one million pounds.

After having Lennon and Marklele, Xiao Ming really didn't need this young midfielder, but he didn't want to let go easily. After Hilton and the other party were sluggishly for more than a week, he finally raised the price to 1.5 million pounds, and increased 500,000 pounds more than 30 appearances. In addition, 20% of the second transfer, he extorted Derby County.

In addition to Johnson, all the players who wanted to stay successfully renewed their contracts for the new season, basically for more than three years, and their salaries reached the Premier League level, which has greatly doubled the salary expenses of Leiden Oriental in the new season. However, Xiao Ming had long been mentally prepared for this. It is impossible to spend more money if he wants to play in the top league. However, Xiao Ming is really not short of money now. Now the club has hundreds of millions of funds in the club's account. Moreover, after the new season begins, the newly built stadium can be put into use, which can accommodate 30,000 fans and has dozens of luxury private rooms. It is enough to bring much more wealth to Leiden Oriental than before.

In addition to the share of the Premier League broadcast fee, Xiao Ming does not have much pressure on the economy when participating in European competitions in the new season.

After a few years, is Xiao Ming still afraid that he will have no money? The first investment plan after the establishment of Mingming Fund can at least bring Xiao Ming billions of dollars in profits. As long as this money is used well, Leiden Oriental will not need to bother about money in the future.

After his rebirth, Xiao Ming didn't want to repeat the past. Taking a few big heads based on his memories of later generations is enough for him to spend all his life. Money can make money. He knows how Arsenal in later generations relied on a stadium and the most expensive tickets in London to balance the income and expenditure. When Leiden Oriental is so attractive that it can attract six or seventy thousand people to watch the ball every weekend, it will be a time when Leiden Oriental will not have a fiscal deficit. That day may be long, but Xiao Ming is confident of doing this.

Repeating unnecessary things yourself can only fall into clichés. After you have enough wealth, you can do what you like to do. This is the correct attitude towards life.

The 98 World Cup began under the gaze of the crowd. Everyone is talking about the strong Brazilian team. In the past three years, Brazil has almost never failed. Ronaldo, who is in full swing, is walking on his path to the king of football - no one will doubt this. Everyone is looking forward to the most anticipated genius after Maradona, looking forward to him being able to use his strong scoring ability to help the Brazilian national team win the World Cup easily. The king of football Pele also took the lead after winning the World Cup in Europe. This year, Ronaldo will become the undisputed third-generation football king in world football after winning the World Cup.

Although Romario, the lone wolf, was not selected for the Brazilian national team before the start of the World Cup, the "Robert Ronaldo combination" that has played invincible in the world in the past three years lacked a corner, but no one cares about this. As long as there is Ronaldo, there will be victory. What's more, Brazil has never lacked super forwards. In addition to Ronaldo, there are also Bebeto, Edmunddo, Rivaldo, Leonardo, De Nielsen...

In the past season, the hottest topics were not the leagues of various countries, nor the Champions League, but the fate of famous stars of those strong teams. Baggio was lucky because Piero was injured before the start of the World Cup. He was lucky with him. Clinsmann, Romanio and Gascoin were unfortunate. After learning that he was out of the election, Gascoin cried like a child. Romario hung his portrait of Zagallo on the door of the toilet as a target and threw it with darts every day - but who cares about these? Whether it was Gascoin's tears or Romanio's anger, they only increased the topic of conversation after dinner...

This is the world. Even if the tears of losers are remembered, they will only bring cheap sympathy. Only everything that wins, whether it is smile or tears, will be remembered forever.

After the start of the 98 World Cup, the strong teams did not perform well. Brazil only relied on the midfielder Sampayo and the opponent's own goal, narrowly defeated their opponent by 2-1, Ronaldo's premiere in the World Cup, and failed to score. Although France defeated South Africa with three goals, they played very hard before Dugari scored. Italy relied on the controversial penalty created by Baggio to tie Chile, Spain lost to Nigeria, and the Netherlands was tied by Belgium...

However, as the game progressed, the strong teams began to gradually show their strength. Except for Spain being eliminated in the group stage, the other strong teams successfully advanced, while the performances of Nigeria, Denmark and Croatia were eye-catching.

France is in a difficult progress, in the quarterfinals, Blanco's golden ball makes them difficult to eliminate Paraguay, in the quarterfinals, relying on penalty kicks to defeat Italy, in the semi-finals, Tulam two times helped them overtake Croatia...

Brazil's pace is not easy. It is relatively easy to eliminate Chile in the quarter-finals. Denmark almost forced them to a cliff in the quarter-finals. In the semi-finals, it even fought with the Netherlands until the penalty kick final before winning...

Then there was the final. Zidane headed two goals to help France lead two goals. Before the final game, Pettit's lightning strike completely established the victory. Ronaldo, who had a mysterious illness before the game, was like a sleepwalking on the court. France became the seventh team to win the World Cup championship and the sixth host to win the World Cup championship. Although Brazil is the country with the most World Cup championships, they are the only team in the World Cup championship that has not won the championship at home...

The smoke of the World Cup dissipated and the seats were scheduled. Davao Suk picked up the Golden Boot. Ronaldo won the Golden Ball after losing the World Cup. However, the subsequent selection of World Football and European Golden Ball Awards gave the honor to Zidane. Yake's stubbornness was rewarded. Although it led to Cantona's early retirement, it turned out that his approach was correct.

Putting aside that surprising final, this World Cup has undoubtedly become a classic and the World Cup with the least elimination rate of a strong team. The five world champion teams entered the quarterfinals include Brazil, Argentina, France, Italy and Germany, and the other three teams are Croatia, Denmark and the Netherlands, which were the best performers at the time. Compared with what the teams in the quarterfinals of South Korea, the United States, Turkey, and Senegal are filled with four years later, the value of the World Cup quarterfinals is much higher.

Xiao Ming did not make any tricks in football betting this time, and he couldn't make much money. Now he really doesn't like tens of millions. Although the whole world is almost optimistic about Brazil in the World Cup final, if he really put hundreds of millions of dollars on France, the gambling group will probably come to him.

However, Xiao Ming still played a few bets and made a little money on the quarterfinals betting and the best scorer candidates - this time it was purely entertainment.

After the World Cup, it is naturally a regular star transfer. After his outstanding performance in the Serie A and World Cup last season, Baggio transferred to Inter Milan and formed a heart-warming new "Royce combination" with Ronaldo. Chilean killer Salas transferred to Lazio with a net worth of 12 million. At the same time, Lazio introduced Italian internationals from Atletico Madrid for the world's first place, with a silver boot Vieri in the World Cup. Lazio's consecutive $50 million in the transfer market shocked the whole world, but this record was quickly broken by Real Betis of La Liga - they bought the bicycle boy De Nielsen of the Brazilian national team, with an astonishing $34.6 million! No one could have thought that this most expensive transfer in the world became a big joke soon...

Argentine midfielder Peron transfers to Parma, 12 million US dollars, Vierhof transfers to AC Milan, 17 million US dollars... The big money of Serie A teams is shocking. They have burned nearly 200 million US dollars in the transfer market this season, once again proving the status of the first league in Serie A. Compared with them, La Liga and Premier League teams did not spend much money. In addition to De Nielsen's transfer, the biggest transfer in La Liga was that Barcelona bought Cruivet from AC Milan for 13.8 million. Another giant club Real Madrid did not make any big moves due to financial issues, but only retained the top scorer Suk - Real Madrid is now in a financial dilemma, and it was just after Florentino came to power...

The 1998 World Cup was not only a classic World Cup, but the impact after that World Cup was far-reaching - it was between 1998 and 2002 that European clubs burned the most money in the past four years. In addition to attracting more fans, a star's net worth of tens of millions of dollars also puts the clubs on a heavy financial burden. Among them, Serie A clubs are the most. The tragedy of Lazio, Fiorentina and Parma lies here. There are also Leeds in the Premier League, such as Leeds United...

Seeing the Serie A clubs so crazy, the movements of the Premier League clubs seemed much smaller. Manchester United bought Trinidad and Tobago scorer Dwight York from Aston Villa for 12.6 million pounds, and Chelsea bought Danish striker Laudrup, who performed well in the World Cup, to transfer to Chelsea. At the same time, the transfer also came with Italian scorer Kasirach - Chelsea has now been deeply imprinted with Italy, Viali, Zora, Di Matteo, and now there is more Kasirach...

Arsenal's moves were much smaller. He bought Ryomberg from Sweden, Nigerian scorer Kanu from Inter Milan, and young local attacker Pennant from Notts County. These three people spent less than 10 million in total. But what surprised Xiao Ming was that Wenger didn't even buy a defender. Could it be that he still had great confidence in the defense line that was over 100 years old?

However, it is hard to say that Arsenal's defense line, which is tacit and experienced, cannot move easily. Wenger's first few years of coaching Arsenal were on the offensive line. Lauren, Toure, Campbell and Ashley Cole's defense line did not gradually take shape until after the 2002 World Cup. We must always be more cautious in the operation of the defense line.

In this case, when Leiden Oriental and AC Milan announced at the same time that AC Milan's French central defender Deseri and Croatian midfielder Boban transferred Leiden Oriental, the transfer fee totaled 10 million pounds, although it did not cause any response in Europe, it shocked the whole of England.

Ten million pounds, close to seventeen million US dollars, but no one thinks that this money is used too much. You should know that now is an era when money is rarely available to buy people...

Although England clubs have introduced a lot of players this season, except for Manchester United, other clubs have not spent much money to introduce players. After Leiden Oriental signed Boban and Deselli, the 17 million pounds they spent in the transfer market this season immediately ranked first in the Premier League summer - no one spends more money than they do, at least not now.

Deselli, Marklele, Boban and Fanny, two experienced veterans in their thirties, a strong midfielder who is 25 years old and is in his age, and a 22-year-old center. The first two are famous figures in the world football world, and the latter two are regular visitors in the top leagues. Among the discerning people, although Leiden Oriental has only introduced four players, an experienced and capable central axis has quietly taken shape, which costs a lot, but it definitely costs the point.

"This young man is indeed not simple. He is not impetuous at all, and he is very clear about what he wants." This is Ferguson's private evaluation of Xiao Ming.

"This is a guy who is willing to spend money and can spend money. It seems that in London, in the future, in addition to Chelsea, Tottenham and West Ham, there will be another opponent." Wenger looked at the newspaper and thought to himself.

Other Premier League clubs have also begun to feel that this newly promoted team may be ready to do a big game in the new season - they can quietly sign two world-class superstars, Deserley and Boban, before the World Cup. This club definitely has a simple and efficient transfer agency, otherwise they won’t be so quick and accurate!

With Deselli's performance of almost winning the Golden Balls in the World Cup, it may be difficult to buy him alone by 10 million pounds. As a result, he and Boban combined to use 10 million pounds of Leiden Oriental. Leiden Oriental must have no friendly relationship with AC Milan. This can only show one thing, that is, this transfer was finalized before the start of the World Cup.
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