“Catch the World Cup Young Gun”… Big Club 'Another War'
The European professional football winter transfer market is already heating up. This is because a lot of attention is focused on the destination of the 2022 Qatar World Cup 'rising stars'.
The winter transfer market for European professional football, 꽁머니 especially the five major leagues, will be held next month. The English Premier League (EPL), German Bundesliga, and French Ligue 1 will be held from the 1st to the 31st of next year, and the Italian Serie A and Spanish Primera Liga will be held from the 2nd to the 31st. Since it is held during the season, a large amount of money comes and goes to recruit key players.
The winter transfer market opens next month, but negotiations between the clubs have already begun. In particular, there is fierce competition behind the scenes to bring in stars who emerged from the Qatar World Cup, which heated up the global village from last month to this month. On the 27th, Liverpool (England) fired the signal for their first major signing when PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) agreed to transfer Cody Hakpo. The 23-year-old Hakpo became the first player in the history of the Netherlands to score in all three World Cup group matches as a 'young gun' who led the Netherlands to the quarterfinals of the World Cup in Qatar. Transfermarkt, a transfer information site, estimated that Liverpool spent 42 million euros (approximately 56.8 billion won) in transfer fees to bring Hakpo.
There is a prospect that Enso Fernandez (Benfica), who won the Young Player Award, which is a rookie award by contributing to Argentina's championship, will also move to a big club. However, Fernandez's transfer fee is expected to reach the top 10 level of all time. Benfica was offered 100 million euros (135.2 billion won) for Fernandez' transfer fee before the opening of the Qatar World Cup, but it is known that he rejected it. 100 million euros is the 10th read more highest transfer fee for a football player of all time. In order to recruit Fernandez, it is expected that he will need 120 million euros (162.3 billion won), which corresponds to his buyout (transfer permission) clause.