At the end of the Champions League group stage, the situation in which Liverpool is in is already clear.
Liverpool won the top spot in the group, while Wolfsburg won the second place in the group.
What attracted more attention in the last round was the match between CSKA and PSV Eindhoven, and the winner would win the third in the group to move to the UEFA Cup.
Liverpool challenged Wolfsburg as a guest, which was the second-to-last game before they went to the Club World Cup, while Situ Yunbing would rotate to the end.
Since Wolfsburg has advanced to the top 16 in the Champions League, they now need to take into account the league. Their performance in the league was much lower than last season.
This is true for many top-tier teams in the Bundesliga. If you can make a breakthrough in one season, you will easily lose performance in the league if you take into account the European game in the second season.
Hamburg is the most stable in recent years, like Bayern Munich and Dortmund.
When Wolfsburg's match against Liverpool began, everyone had a premonition that it would be a battle against each other!
Wolfsburg did not have the posture of defending the situation, and Liverpool launched an offensive unscrupulously.
The two teams played back and forth very exciting. Liverpool's midfield control was significantly reduced due to the start of Gondozi, and the defense was a bit messy, so it would give Wolfsburg many opportunities, but the final decision of the game was the quality difference between the two teams' last goal.
Sane, Vardy and Henderson's goals helped Liverpool win Wolfsburg 3:1 away, and ended with six consecutive wins in the Champions League group stage!
Back in the league on the weekend, Liverpool faced the challenge of West Brom at home.
With the help of Gareth Bale's strong performance, Liverpool beat West Brom 3-0 at home and scored 3 points.
Manchester City and Arsenal won one after another in the same league round, and Liverpool's lead continued to maintain 12 points.
It's time for the Red Army to set off for the Club World Cup.
This year's Club World Cup has been held in Japan again.
Before this trip to Asia, Situ Yunbing received a call from Alonzo.
Alonzo led the Chinese team to perform well in the second stage of the World Cup and is expected to reach the top 12, but it is still difficult to draw a conclusion whether it can enter the 2018 World Cup.
Since he entered the World Cup, Situ Yunbing did not intend to replace Alonzo to lead the Chinese team to the World Cup. On the one hand, he should give Alonzo enough respect and should not deprive him of his achievements. On the other hand, he also knew that the Chinese team still had a long way to go and that the transformation could not be achieved by a slight improvement in the performance in a short period of time.
On the way to Japan, Situ Yunbing was worried. He recalled the message Alonzo conveyed to him on the phone.
The salary limit order issued by the summer in the domestic football world caused a stir, and soon the voices of opponents disappeared.
With the end of the Chinese League, all teams are going to sign for the new season, and team building is imminent. The Chinese Super League teams that were originally clamoring to give up are very helpless when Situ Yunbing forced to Liangshan. But now they are facing a bigger problem. Under the salary limit order, the teams do not have much chips to compete for high-quality resources, and they need to replenish fresh blood.
Taking advantage of the East Wind of the World Youth Championship, nearly 10 young Chinese players led by Bai Yuanfan and Zhao Fenghua signed with the five major European leagues and second-tier league clubs, which opened the prelude to the craze for Chinese players to study abroad!
Some domestic players also take the initiative to contact foreign leagues to seek a way to study abroad.
In the past two years, the media, which was led by Situ Yunbing, has focused more on foreign countries, so this has formed a trend, and more young Chinese players who have the potential to study abroad are rejecting invitations from domestic clubs.
It seems that they have become paranoid, turn a blind eye to the Chinese Super League, and are determined to go abroad.
This is obviously incorrect, after all, people must be self-aware.
Regarding the position of domestic clubs, they naturally do not want to see that domestic talents are gradually scarce and the quality of local players in their hands is getting worse and worse. Then they could deceive themselves and say that they were robbing money from each other. Now they have to spend money to rob shit when they get it?
If this phenomenon worsens, it may really lead to a collapse of the Chinese Super League!
It becomes very difficult to reshape.
So there were three major real estate developers in China and two Internet giants sitting down to discuss countermeasures, led by the Chinese Football Association, intending to low-key hope that Japan will meet with Situ Yunbing to discuss a new plan during the Club World Cup.
They will definitely not fight against Situ Yunbing. Anyway, Situ Yunbing doesn't seem to care much about the reputation and image of the Chinese Super League, or in his eyes, Chinese football can also be pushed back and started over just like the team he coaches!
But they are businessmen after all, and the struggle for intention is completely meaningless, profitability is the core.
The fact that the Chinese Football Association can be led by the Chinese Football Association is enough to show that the Chinese Football Association also agrees with the plan they will discuss with Situ Yunbing.
Situ Yunbing was also very interested in the plan they proposed.
As for the heinous interests hidden behind this, he didn't care.
Or this is the law of the operation of the entire world and society.
Football is no exception.
Just like UEFA and fifa, how can there be no distribution of interests between all parties in the process of promotion and organizational development?
How much profit will a World Cup gain?
Are all the big cakes in the Champions League every year divided by participating teams?
It is not smart to be entangled in this, and we should see that it is profitable that we have a stronger driving force for promotion and development.
Liverpool was enthusiastically welcomed by local fans when they arrived in Japan.
The team stayed in Yokohama and attended a sponsor event during the day. When the banquet was held in the hotel at night, Situ Yunbing left the court halfway and told others that he would go back to rest early. It seemed like he wanted to set an example for the team, and it was also hinting that the players should go back to rest early.
But he came to the conference room on the other floor of the hotel.
In the conference room, he saw representatives of three domestic real estate developers and Internet giants. They have all been famous investors in the Chinese Super League in the past ten years. Some are time-honored brands, some have been engaged in football for 20 years, and some are new. After all, Internet companies have become giants in the past few years.
They left Situ Yunbing the main seat in the conference room. Situ Yunbing shook hands with the representatives who looked like elites and sat down and opened their prepared plans while listening to their introduction.
Situ Yunbing looked at the words on the cover of the plan and was stunned for a moment.
“Sun Project.”
It sounds really sunny and positive.
The starting point of this plan is to build a bridge for young Chinese players to enter the European Professional League, and at the same time it will become a supplement and auxiliary to the Spark Plan led by Situ Yunbing.
As we all know, the team's standard for selecting players is definitely strength.
It is natural for strong players to be ahead of their rankings in the competition.
But what if the strength is similar?
What is the criteria for choosing one of two?
Culture, language, age, potential, salary, etc. are all factors that are considered.
In fact, it is not easy for Asian players to gain a foothold in the European arena.
Language barriers are a big obstacle!
This is almost fatal.
Because most coaches won’t like players who can’t communicate with them!
Some people may say that there are players from all over the world in European football, so why are Asian players having obstacles?
But what is the truth?
There are four official languages ​​in most African countries: Arabic, French, English, and Portuguese!
As long as African players master any of the last three languages, they can choose a place in European football where they can communicate without obstacles!
What about South America?
Except for Brazil, it is Portuguese, other South American countries are Spanish!
Although there are local languages, due to the former colonial rule, there are also a large number of people in South America who master foreign languages.
What about the players from Asian countries?
Except for his own language, he has almost no other foreign language.
Therefore, Japan and South Korea's success in player output overseas is not just as simple as it seems.
Just like Son Heung-min, who Situ Yunbing once coached, he can be interviewed in fluent German after the German game. The efforts and efforts to learn foreign languages ​​alone are probably enough to be called a role model for Asian players!
Chinese players can be said to have lost their athletic talent, but if they say that they have lost their ability to learn foreign languages, it is really speechless.
Back to the topic, the basic plan of this Jiaoyang plan is to establish a new company overseas and then acquire different teams in leagues across Europe, with a total investment of about 300 million euros.
In addition to localization, the policy of managing the team is mainly to increase the supplement of cultivating Chinese players.
Then these European teams reached strategic cooperation with the Chinese Super League clubs!
In this way, the channels for Chinese players to study abroad will be expanded a lot!
Finally, a virtuous cycle between Spark Youth Training, Chinese Super League, and European clubs!
Situ Yunbing listened carefully and browsed the planned contents carefully.
This plan made him excited.
After 300 million euros, each company has not invested much, and they have made great concessions to Situ Yunbing in the distribution of equity. For example, Situ Yunbing can hold up to 30% of the shares!
At the same time, Situ Yunbing has the advantage of the company's veto, which is also the show of goodwill or surrender to Situ Yunbing in investing in football!
In this regard, it will not violate Situ Yunbing's will!
Situ Yunbing only needs to invest 10 million euros, and also provides resources for Starfire Youth Training to invest!
300 million euros sounds a lot, but is it actually more?
The Chinese Super League club invests nearly 10 billion yuan a year, loses more than 3 billion yuan, and burns at least 300 million euros every year!
However, if you take out these 300 million euros to invest in the future, the long-term benefits will be beyond imagination.
In particular, they will be one step ahead in the convenience of obtaining the resources of high-quality young players in China!
It will also greatly reduce the cost, because as long as the plan is implemented, the players transferred from European clubs to Chinese clubs are basically just left-handed and right-handed. As for how to allocate resources, they need to have internal agreements, but they will definitely be equally divided.
Chapter completed!