In international football, there is no shortage of strange stories.
In the world football world in 2021, when pele and other ancient gods have recorded an ancient record, when the first big team in football has no power to match the prestige, football just proves once again, it is always accompanied by surprises and surprises, constantly breaking through the simple imagination of ordinary people.
As the king of the 80 Guinness records in football, although Messi has slowed down the pace of brushing data in the past year, it is still an orderly routine to surpass Pele: following the rewriting of the single club goal record held by the king of football in December last year, this year Messi quickly stepped up his whip, first increasing the total output of the national team to 80 goals in the World Preliminary Round, surpassing Pele's 77 goals, becoming the top scorer of the South American football national team; then scoring 5 goals in the Champions League, jumping to the fourth place in the list of goalscorers in football history with 758 goals in his career, surpassing Pele. At present, Messi is only 43 goals away from Cristiano Ronaldo and will continue to compete for the throne of the first scorer in history.
Messi is not the only one who wrote the legendary record in 2021. Cristiano Ronaldo surpassed Pele in total goals, and this summer he overtook Platini to become the all-time top scorer of the European Championship. Lewandowski's 41 goals in the Bundesliga last season and 43 goals in the Bundesliga in the 2021 natural year have made Gad Müller's great record an ancient one. This year, surpassing the gods of history, has become the routine operation of superstars.
Fifteen years after the "phone door" east window incident, Serie A once again made headlines for illegal operations: on November 26, the Italian Financial Guard conducted a search of Juventus's office with a statement of accusations from the Turin prosecutors. The club's transfer documents for the previous three seasons were the main targets. On the same day, 6 club executives were charged on the grounds of "suspected financial report fraud". The Bianconeri are suspected of "accounting" on the payment methods of the transactions of Christian Romero, De Miral, Locatelli and other players.
In three seasons, the total amount of accounts made by former Juventus sporting director Palatic has reached 282 million euros. Through false player transactions, forged transaction invoices and other means, Juve continues to falsely report financial data, thereby reducing the deficit. If squeezed out, Juve's losses in the last 3 seasons are staggering 171 million, 209 million and 240 million. In the report of the Football Club Supervisory Committee of the Italian Football Association, 62 transfers were suspected of irregular premiums, and 42 were related to Juve. In addition, in a number of player deals, Juve paid a large commission to agents led by Laiola.
Hit by this explosive news, on November 29, Juve shares plunged 25% at the opening of the market. Since Juve, as a listed company, leads the investigation of the Italian Securities and Futures Commission, or will be punished for financial fraud of the listed company, the prosecution department has also gained more power than when the 2006 investigation of the telephone door incident, and the possibility of upgrading to phone door 2.0 is increasing day by day, and at that time, Juve will face another heavy penalty.
With Messi, Ramos, Donnaruma, Wijnaldum and Ashraf signing in the summer window, forming a dizzying "MMN" combination in the front, and being in the under-competitive Ligue 1, Paris Saint-Germain should go all the way and seek defeat alone? The reality is not a football game, although in Ligue 1 still has a half-way 13-point advantage at a glance at the mountains, but the league frequently turns the competition between strength and weakness into a dangerous game that can only kill and grab points, and rarely plays convincing games since the beginning of the season, which shows the carelessness of Paris. Luxury striker chicken and duck, Ramos was expelled from the red on his second Ligue 1 appearance, and Icardi and Wanda made a family soap opera to the training ground is even more funny.
Paris has not yet established the main tactics, mediocrity is only the appearance, slack is the essence. Under the courtesy of the Qatari gold lord who is too generous and generous, the stars who are powerless to restrain the manager and director are almost inevitable to let themselves fly. Compared with the previous two seasons, the more luxurious Paris is not closer to the big ear cup, but farther away. However, from top to bottom, the club is "playing, then dancing".
Brilliant goals, mutual calculations, red and yellow cards flying, South American and American's high-frequency keywords are never nothing more than that. However, the Battle of Ba'a in the World Preliminary Tournament on September 6 only played for 5 minutes, which became a bizarre farce with two sides having their own opinions. Because there were 4 Premier League players in the Argentine squad who were not quarantined according to Brazil's epidemic prevention regulations, the staff of the Brazilian National Health Supervision Agency actually entered the field after the start of the game to "arrest people". Before that, the Premier League had just been involved in the storm of refusing to release a large number of South American foot kings, the relevant clubs vetoed the flight plan of 9 Brazilian internationals, but Argentina had 4 Premier League players with the team, and did not expect to end up in such a situation.
How to deal with this game, South American Football Federation and FIFA are still inconclusive. However, both teams have qualified from the World Preliminary Round, and how to pronounce the verdict is irrelevant.
What is the highest level of winning? Let the opponent shoot zero straight or even zero shots! In this year, many strong teams have suffered the shame of zero shots. In the quarter-finals of the European Championship, the Netherlands, who had won three consecutive games in the group stage, faced the Czech Republic's iron barrel formation and completely collapsed after De Ligt was red, shooting 7 and 0 on target. In this season's Champions League group stage, Barca, whose lineup is almost collapsing, faces the old bitter lord Bayern at home, 0-3 bloodbathed, but also left a 5-0 positive shame. When Atletico visited Liverpool, they not only lost 0-2, but also had only 27% of the ball, but also left a shame of shooting 0-6. Tottenham hottest are even more exaggerated, and even brushed up on 6 consecutive half-time 0-on-target spectacles before Nuno and at the beginning of Conte's tenure. If this is the case with strong teams, it is not surprising that at the beginning of Shevchenko's tenure, Genoa not only scored 0 goals in 4 consecutive games, but also shot 0 when visiting Juventus.
Teams often have zero shots in a single game, and players can continue to shoot zero shots. After returning to Atletico in the final moments of the transfer window, Griezmann's first six La Liga games were like this. Barca fans are not surprised by this, wearing a red and blue jersey against Bilbao in the last match, the "grid" handed over a dismal report card of 0 shots, 0 assists, 0 breakthroughs, 0 crosses and 0 threatening passes.
Once upon a time, paying high salaries from the Giants of the Bajia league to poach the backbone of the role was the tacit unspoken rule of the Chinese super team, but in 2021, when the golden yuan football was fully ebbed, the samba foreign aid, which was plagued by salary cuts and even unpaid wages, invariably returned collectively: the 2021 season of the Bajia came to an end, Atlético Mineiro won the championship after half a century, and the former Shanghai SIPG foreign aid Hulk won the three awards of the best player, golden boot and best striker in the Bajia. Corinthians, who brought together Gill, Jo, Guedes and Augusto, four former foreign players in the Chinese Super League, also achieved their best results since 2017 and qualified for the Copa Libertadores. In addition, Paulinho, who has been training with his parent team Corinthians since the termination of the contract with saudi Jeddah nationals, has also entered the countdown to joining, and his new teammates may also include Evergrande's veteran Goulart. With Axon, Luo Guofu, Alain and other people leaving China one after another, returning to the motherland to seek a livelihood, and even becoming a city hero again, the road of "curve to save the country" is really lamentable.
At the beginning of this year, less than three months after Bartomeu stepped down, The interim chairman of Barça's caretaker cabinet, Tusquets, released the club's worse financial results, while Messi's expiring contract with Barca was disclosed verbatim by Le Monde before the public. The four-year contract, signed on 25 November 2017 and expiring on 30 June 2021, includes salary, portrait rights, bonuses, subsidies and other variable income, with Messi receiving a total of €555 million from Barca and a net of €258 million after tax, an average of 64.5 million per year. However, as the Spanish analyst report said, Messi is Barca's "huge income generator", although it is impossible to directly give the Argentines to Barca every year, but most people in the industry believe that Messi brings Barca an annual income of between 250 million and 300 million.
Unfortunately, this document, which should have been top secret, was made public at the moment when Messi was wandering, which was of no benefit except to make the parties more embarrassed. After Laporta took office, this contract became a major obstacle for Messi to renew his contract, and eventually the club threw the La Liga salary cap.
The players changed the court, and it was natural for the new owner to pay for people, but the coach climbed another branch, and actually had to pay the transfer fee? After Flick returned to germany after the battle for the house, Bayern, who quickly began to choose a coach, finalized the young marshal Nagelsmann, who had been in the limelight for many years, and paid a sky-high "transfer fee" totaling up to 25 million euros to leipzig RB, which became the first value of the coaching world. Coincidentally, Borussia Dortmund poached Rozer from Mönchengladbach and Borussia Monchenghing took away Hüttle from Frankfurt, paying 5 million and 7.5 million, respectively.
The so-called "coach transfer fee" is more often the buyer taking care of the emotions of the poached, and after consultation and negotiation, everyone is happy to operate. Managers often have a more decisive role in a team than individual players, so it makes sense to pay a "transfer fee" for the right person.
Raise your salary and talk to your boss in person! The role of agents in transfer and contract negotiations has always been a topic of controversy in football. This year, we've seen a handful of cases where stars have left their agents behind their own and come to the negotiating table in person. In April, De Bruyne renewed his contract with Manchester City for four years, earning nearly £400,000 a week. The negotiations went smoothly and without brokers. Earlier, De Bruyne's father discovered that his agent, Decoste, had made a financial error in handling affairs and called the police. This time, the hands-on De Bruyne saved 10% commission, and 8 million pounds of fertilizer water did not flow to outsiders. Of course, after agreeing with Manchester City on the issue of remuneration, De Bruyne's father hired a team of legal experts from Brussels law firm Altius to work out other details with Manchester City. Altius' service fee is £500 per hour, but the total 100 hours of service is only £50,000, which is only 1/160 of the commission.
Coincidentally, in August, when Kimmich renewed his contract with Bayern, he did not rely on his agent, and finally received the second highest salary in the team after Levine, "When I renewed my contract last time, I didn't feel 100% very good. This time it's completely different. I recommend that all players participate in the negotiations themselves. ”
Since the new season, the new crown vaccination has become a compulsory course for major league teams. However, refusals to vaccinate in other sports leagues have not been spared in football, and Bayern's future captain Kimmich has become Irving in the Bundesliga. Doubting the long-term consequences of the vaccine, Kimmich refused to vaccinate for a long time. As a result, he went from being a close contact to being diagnosed positive, missing a large number of games at the end of the year, and Bayern also made a decision to suspend the salary of such players. After all, under Germany's latest labor law, employers can refuse to pay their quarantine salaries if they are not vaccinated.
Kimmich is an individual in the Bundesliga, and the Premier League is full of "Kimmich". At the end of the year, under the shadow of the Aumechjong virus, only the Premier League vaccination rate was extremely low, and the direct consequence was that in early December, led by Tottenham Hotspur, who had 13 people who had been infected, a number of clubs were recruited in a large area, and more than ten Premier League games were forced to be postponed. The UK is facing a surging epidemic of 120,000 cases a day, and from January next year, the Premier League will announce the vaccination rate at the end of each month, which will put more pressure on those players who refuse to be vaccinated.
Wen | Yang Jian
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U.S. editor | Tingting