From giving up the policy of Tottenham Hotspur to Barcelona, Sky Sports Michael Sinks analyzed how the Super League helped paulinho to prosper. ...

Sky Sports News has learned that Barcelona is in contact with Guangzhou Evergrande about the transfer of paulinho, although it seems that Barcelona is unwilling to pay 35 million pounds for the 28-year-old Brazilian to terminate his contract.

The olive branch from the European giants confirmed that paulinho had returned to the top, and he became a core member of the Samba Corps.

So how did the violent bird recover? Let's recall the ups and downs of Brazilians over the years.

Lost Bailu Lane

If you look up "paulinho Hotspur", you will get the words "difficult, parallel imports". In the summer of 20 13, the Brazilian came to White Hart Lane at the price of170,000, setting a record for signing players at Tottenham Salon at that time. Of course, almost together, they sold Bell to Real Madrid for 85.3 million pounds. 13/ 14 season, the storm bird in the Premier League * * * played 30 times, but in 14/ 15 season, this number dropped to 15 times, and only started three times during the period.

In Pochettino's first season in charge of Tottenham Hotspur, Christian Eriksson firmly occupied the main position of paulinho's most familiar attacking midfield, while Moussa Dembele, Mei Sen and nabil bentaleb were relatively deep.

In an interview with Goal, paulinho recalled, "Pochettino is here, and I don't have much time. I only played about four games in my favorite position. Many times Pochettino doesn't think I am his best choice, but I always know that if he can let me play more games in my position, I can prove it to him. "

Without the trust of the coach and the dissatisfaction of the game, the situation is getting worse and worse. Paulinho lost his place in Sharon and the national team.

Super league is bright again

Pochettino's first season at Tottenham Hotspur was also paulinho's last year at White Hart Lane. In the summer of 20 15, Guangzhou Evergrande brought Brazilians to China for 9.8 million pounds. Evergrande coach Felipe Scolari once recruited Storybird into Brazil's national team in the 20 14 World Cup.

"Big Phil" built his own tactical system centering on paulinho, and soon bought Robinho to build Brazil's attack line.

But the cyclist only made 10 appearances for Guangzhou and scored 3 goals. What really shines is his countryman Ricardo garratt, 2065,438+05, who helped Evergrande win the Super League five consecutive championships with a goal of 19. Paulinho also became the main force of Evergrande, scoring a 40-yard free kick. In the 20 16 season, he played 30 games and scored 6 goals, which helped Evergrande complete the great cause of winning 6 consecutive championships. The storm bird in excellent condition was once again selected for the Brazilian team and played in the 20 18 World Cup qualifier. Seven starts in eight games, only one missed because of suspension. It can be called the midfield center of samba legion.

At the beginning of this year, against Uruguay, the storm bird even staged a hat trick. As a midfielder, this is amazing, which surprised many Premier League experts. They think he is now semi-retired in China.

Luiz felipe scolari is very satisfied with this. In March, the Brazilian coach said, "At that time, paulinho had already withdrawn from the national team, but he came back, so I was proud of the Super League. It is definitely wrong to say that the Super League is a star sanatorium. The competition in Chinese Super League is fierce. It turns out that it can bring stars back to the national team. "

Barcelona olive branch?

After the Super League 14 round, Evergrande ranked first, and Brazil has now entered the World Cup in Russia next year. Paulinho's 20 17 is a spring breeze.

So can you go to Barcelona in one step? Scolari is not optimistic. He stated that "paulinho's termination clause is 40 million euros (35 million pounds), and no Chinese Super League team will be willing to let their core players go, because it is too difficult and expensive to find a replacement according to the new regulations."

The new rules of Chinese Super League require Sharon to pay 100% to the Football Association when signing foreign aid, which will seriously limit the investment of Chinese Super League teams in big-name foreign aid.

At present, Barcelona is undecided about paying 35 million pounds, while Evergrande needs to pay 70 million pounds to sign a peer player, which makes the possibility of this transfer very low.

Scolari certainly hopes to keep his center, and regarding paulinho, when there is still 1 year before the World Cup, the main position of the super league giants is obviously a safer choice.