Chapter 313 The Rich Man's Game
To be honest, it really made Sampdoria fans happy to be able to steal their talented players from the annoying Sassuolo team.
They are looking forward to this will be the climax of Sampdoria's summer transfer action.
But it was not until the summer transfer window was closed that they discovered that Berardi's transfer franchise was the climax of all transfer actions this summer...
After the summer transfer window was closed, Italian media summarized the performance of Serie A teams in the transfer market.
According to the comments of various media, this summer obviously does not belong to Sampdoria.
There are two most sensational transfers in Italian football this summer. The first is that Real Madrid's former main scorer "Little Smoke Gun" Higuain left Real Madrid, who had played for many years, and switched to Naples. For this reason, the Naples club paid a transfer fee of 37.5 million euros, and Higuain became the transfer bidder of the Serie A this season.
Another sensational transfer has nothing to do with money or feelings. Galliani helped AC Milan buy the former Milan golden boy Kaka from Real Madrid for free this summer. Kaka, who was not doing well in Real Madrid, could never prove himself again, so he gave up his struggle this summer and returned to AC Milan, which was like a family to him.
Kaka's return has made AC Milan fans very excited. Although they cannot play in the Champions League in the new season, with Kaka here, they will definitely be qualified for the Champions League next season!
The media also look forward to Kaka, who returns to AC Milan, to find his feelings again in the familiar environment and to become the omnipotent Mr. Golden Globe.
For AC Milan fans, they still have another idea. Kaka has come back. This season, he has asked Sampdoria to take revenge and return all the humiliation of last season a hundred times!
Although Berardi's joining Sampdoria can be regarded as a hot transfer news for Sampdoria fans and local media, among the top ten sensational transfers in the summer compiled by Milan Sports, Sampdoria has not signed any of them, but there was a transfer Icardi who transferred to Inter Milan for a net worth of 15 million euros, ranking fourth on this list by Milan Sports.
I don’t know if this is a humiliation from Sampdoria by Milan Sports Daily…
At the club level, Naples has become the most terrifying Serie A club this summer, with center forward Higuain from Real Madrid, center back down Albior from Real Madrid, winger from Real Madrid, winger from Real Madrid, nine million. Zapata from more than five million, Liverpool goalkeeper Renner on loan... etc., basically squandered all the transfer fees earned by Cavani, who sold to Paris Saint-Germain.
However, this series of suffocating operations fully demonstrates that Napoli is unwilling to be second in the league last season. They want to overturn Juventus and win the Serie A championship. For this reason, they have conquered the city in the transfer market and became the club with the most spending in Serie A this summer. They have introduced strong players to all kinds of risks, midfielders, defenders and goalkeepers. Napoli in the new season is the most anticipated team.
In comparison, Sampdoria is much shabby.
The most expensive signing is Berardi. Half the ownership cost Sampdoria 9 million euros, and it is still a situation where it is paid in three years. Otherwise, Sampdoria will find it difficult to take out the money at once...
The next signings that need to be spent on money will be gone.
The signings this season are either loaned, free transfers, or vouchers in transfer transactions, such as the young defender Saramon from AC Milan, and the vouchers for Poly to transfer to AC Milan... Oh, there are no other signings at all. Desilvestre, who was loaned to the team last season, continued to be loaned to Sampdoria this season, for which Sampdoria paid a loan of 150,000 euros.
Nine million, one hundred and fifty thousand, that's all the money Sampdoria spent on the transfer market this summer.
Not as half as worth of Icardi.
It is true that those who hear it are sad and those who see it cry.
There is no big price to buy in signings, but if you know how to do business, you can also introduce some players with high cost performance.
But except for Berardi and Desilvestre, other players who have either never heard of it, or they are not able to play in the game, or they are too young and inexperienced players...
In terms of transfer, Sampdoria is like a Taobao online store that is doing Double Eleven events. In addition to Icardi and Poly, Pataciola, Piovacari, Rosini, Macarone, Volta... These players who were either substitutes or rotated last season also left the team one after another.
In terms of transfer players, Sampdoria left a total of sixteen people, and they only introduced ten people. It is hard to say whether these ten people can fill the gap in the sixteen people's runaway.
For Sampdoria fans, the only thing that can comfort them is that after leaving Icardi and Poly, the departure of others has not had a big impact on Sampdoria's main lineup. Young people like Alberto Masi, Kostici, and Obiang have become more mature after the training of last season, and the future is more worth looking forward to. You should know that these people, plus Gao Zheng, have cooperated since the reserve team, and their tacit understanding is deeper than ordinary players.
As long as Gao Zheng doesn't have any surprises, referring to the team's performance last season, this season shouldn't be too bad.
Judging from the ratings of the signing work of Serie A 20 teams in Rome, Sampdoria received a six-point rating, with a full score of 10, and was just passing the exam.
The evaluation was quite reasonable. After Icardi left, Berardi came, but it was not easy to say that Berardi could fill the vacancy left by Icardi, and other signings lacked highlights. So Sampdoria still has to rely on the old lineup last season in the new season, and then how far they can go depends mainly on Gao Zheng's performance.
As for Gao Zheng's performance...
When this comprehensive score was released, Sampdoria had already played two rounds of the Champions League qualifiers.
Their opponent in the qualifying match is Eindhoven from the Netherlands, a traditional giant in Dutch football.
However, with Gao Zheng's three goals in two rounds, Sampdoria finally eliminated his opponent with a total score of 3:2, advanced thrillingly, and qualified to participate in the Champions League group stage, that is, the main competition.
After the game, the media said that Gao Zheng was the only reason Sampdoria advanced.
In the first leg, Sampdoria challenged Eindhoven away. If Gao Zheng hadn't helped the team equalize the score in the 78th minute, Sampdoria might have to lose to Eindhoven away.
Back at home, Gao Zheng won all two goals from Sampdoria, helping the team defeat Eindhoven 2:1, and then advanced with a total score of 3:2.
Without Gao Zheng, none of these three balls would exist, and Sampdoria would have been eliminated 0:2.
Sampdoria advanced to the Champions League main match naturally made Sampdoria fans and Genoa local media very happy. After all, this city has once again had the Champions League event.
But those who don't like Sampdoria and Gao Zheng, and are waiting to see the jokes of the two, are very unhappy.
Some media also said sourly that Sampdoria fans should not be too happy too early. Judging from their performance in the transfer market, it might be a good thing for them to be eliminated in the qualifying round. At least they can not be distracted from the Champions League and concentrate on the domestic league field, and finally get a reasonable ranking.
The Champions League game that the rich and rich are playing is not suitable for them at all. At that time, multi-line combat will definitely drag down this team with not strong bench strength.
In fact, whether it is the Champions League or the transfer, it is a game played by rich people. In these two games, no one is optimistic about Sampdoria's performance.
The performance of the transfer market can be concluded and has just passed the exam.
If you consider that this team still wants to play in the Champions League, it will be a failure.
After qualifying for the main game, Sampdoria was assigned to Group H in the group draw, which has the cosmic team Barcelona, as well as the old Dutch giants Ajax and the top Scottish giants Celtics. These three teams have won the Champions League.
In this group, Sampdoria, who has won only once Serie A and once Cup Winners Championship, is simply insignificant and worthless…
After the group results came out, Italian media could predict that Sampdoria would be eliminated after the group stage.
"...This is not a bad thing for them. At least they can put all their energy into relegation in the second half of the league."
Chapter completed!