First, in March last year, Bundesliga giant Bayern took a fancy to Atletico defender Lucas Hernandez, and then started a series of negotiations with Atletico Madrid. As a result, when the negotiations were not smooth, Bayern spent 80 million euros to introduce it, which was also a punishment for the players. The French defender finally officially switched to Bayern last summer.
Last summer's transfer window, two more Atletico players were poached, namely Gleizman and Rodley. Barcelona and Manchester City signed the two players with a transfer fee of 65.438+0.2 billion euros and 70 million euros respectively, and also signed the players by paying liquidated damages.
As a result, Thomas of Atletico Madrid also left the team this summer, and this time Arsenal signed him by paying a penalty of 50 million euros to the players. Therefore, after selling these four players, Atletico Madrid has accumulated a transfer income of 320 million euros! Looking back on the careers of these four players, we will find that three giant teams have been cheated unfortunately.
Lucas, who joined Bayern by breaking the team's transfer fee record, later became a glass player. So far, he has only made 27 appearances for Bayern, with only two assists. After joining Barcelona, Gleizman was called a parallel player. After all, he was out of place with Messi and played extremely badly in Barcelona. He played three times in the new season, and the data is 0 goals and 0 assists!
Relatively speaking, Rodley is in a better position than these two former Atletico players because he firmly occupies the main position. However, the team's performance has not improved. After all, after Manchester City got Rodley, the Premier League was snubbed by Liverpool and the Champions League was eliminated by Lyon. As it turns out, Rodrigo seems unable to play as a single defender, and his role is not as good as that of Fernandinho.
Now, after forcibly poaching Thomas, Arsenal has received another big bad news. Because before Thomas, the poached Atletico players did not come to a good end, and the players trained by Atletico Madrid were extremely controversial. Therefore, Arsenal's 50 million signing Thomas may also be wasted, which is something that worries Arsenal.