Chelsea take advantage of a market conditioned by austerity

Carlos Mateos Gil

Madrid, Oct 6 (EFE) .- Chelsea became the great winner of the summer market by making a significant investment and taking advantage of the policy of economic containment followed by some of those who are usually their biggest rivals for taking over the greats Names.

This is how names like the Germans Kai Havertz and Timo Werner, the Moroccan Hakim Ziyech, the British Ben Chilwell, the Brazilian Thiago Silva and the French Edouard Mendy and Malang Sarr have come to the entity.

That doesn't mean that other teams competing for the Premier League have stood idly by. Manchester City, for example, has been reinforced with Nathan Aké, Rubén Dias, Ferrán Torres or Pablo Moreno.

In the case of Liverpool, he has signed Diogo Jota, Thiago Álcántara and Tsimikas. For its part, Eel Manchester United already has Donny Van de Beek, Edinson Cavani, Amad Diallo and Álex Telles; Arsenal with Willian, Gabriel, Thomas Partey, Leicester with Wesley Fofana, Castagne and Ünder and Tottenham with the return of Bale, Reguilón, Doherty, Hojbjerg or Carlos Vinicius.

Everton (James Rodríguez, Allan, Doucouré, Nknounkou and Godfrey), Wolverhampton (Fabio Silva, Semedo, Hoever), Aston Villa (Ollie Watkins, Bertrand Traoré, Emiliano Martínez, Ross Barkley), Crystal Palace (Eze), Fulham (Knockaert, Areola), Newcastle (Callum Wilson, Jamal Lewis), Sheffield United (Brewster, Ramsdale) and Leeds (Rodrigo, Diego Llorente and Hélder Costa).

Another team that has also made important adjustments is Bayern Munich, current European champions, with the arrivals of Leroy Sané, Douglas, Marc Roca, Alexander Nübel, Tanguy Nianzou, Bouna Sarr and Choupo-Moting.

To try to compete with them for the Bundesliga, Borussia Dortmund has hired the English Bellingham and the Belgian Meunier in addition to obtaining the loan of the Brazilian Reinier from Real Madrid.

As for the rest, RB Leipzig has opted for Sörloth, Hwang and Justin Kluivert and Henrichs; Bayer Leverkusen for Schick and Arias, Hoffenheim for Gacinovic and Ryan Sessegnon, Wolfsburg for Ridle Baku, Fribugo for Baptiste Santamaria, Hertha for Jhon Córdoba and Guendouzi, Union Berlin for Karius and Max Kruse, Colonia for Duda and Sebastian Andersson, Schalke for Ibisevic and Werder Bremen for Bittencourt and Toprak.

For its part, Paris Saint-Germain, current continental runner-up, focused on definitively closing Mauro Icardi and Sergio Rico until the edge of closure brought Danilo Pereira, Rafinha and Kean. While another French team in the Champions League like Rennes faces the competition with Guirassy, ​​Terrier, Rugani, Dalbert and the promising Doku.

Lille has paid a remarkable amount for Jonathan David to bring him from Genk, joining him with Yilmaz, and Olympique de Lyon has done the same to add Brazilian midfielder Lucas Paquetá, formerly of Milan, to the cause. Also incorporate De Sciglio.

Also noteworthy are some movements of Monaco (Volland, Disasi, Florentino), Nantes (Moses Simon), Brest (Mounié), Angers (Amadou, Boufal), Lens (Faríñez), Saint-Étienne (Kolodziejczak), Lorient (Grbic, Moffi), Montpellier (Mavididi) and Nice (Reine-Adélaïde, Bambu, Gouiri).

Already in Italy, hustle and bustle among the teams that will play the Champions League. Juventus has brought Brazilian Arthur, Spaniard Álvaro Morata, Federico Chiesa and Rolando Mandragora; Inter to Achraf Hakimi, Barella, Sensi, Kolarov, Vidal and Darmian; Atalanta to Pasalic, Cristian Romero, Miranchuk, Mojica and Lammers and Lazio to Muriqi, Fares, Reina, Andreas Pereira and Escalante.

When analyzing the rest of the Serie A teams, it is worth stopping at Roma (Kumbulla, Mancini, Mayoral, Pedro), at Milan (Tonali, Hauge, Brahim Díaz and Dalot), at Naples (Osimhen, Bakayoko) or at the Sassuolo (Maxime López, Chiriches).

Also in Fiorentina (Duncan, Callejón, Kouamé), in Parma (Inglese, Karamoh), in Udinese (Pereyra, Deulofeu), in Cagliari (Rog, Simeone, Godín), in Torino (Verdi, Linetty, Ricardo Rodríguez), in Genoa (Pinamonti, Zappacosta, Pjaca), in Sampdoria (Adrien Silva, Candreva), in Benevento (Lapadula, Glik), in Crotone (Magallán) and in Spezia (Zoet).

If one looks at the rest of Europe, movements such as those of Benfica (Darwin Núñez, Éverton, Waldschmidt, Otamendi, Pedrinho, Vertonghen, Todibo), Vitoria de Guimaraes (Quaresma), Zenit (Lovren), CSKA de Moscow (Ejuke, Gaich), Antalyaspor (Nuri Sahin), Fenerbahce (Perotti), Ájax (Antony, Kudus), PSV (Sangaré, Max), Celtic (Ajeti, Duffy, Laxalt) or Rangers (Ianis Hagi).

And in the rest of the world, for example, the march from Cazorla to Al-Sadd, that of Banega to Al-Shabab Riyadh, that of Abdennour to Umm Salal, that of Gonzalo Martínez to Al Nassr, that of Dudu to Al-Duhail or Gonzalo Higuaín's to Inter Miami. EFE