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Because of the league break, the club's actions in the transfer market will directly affect the team's performance in the second half of the year. It is reported that Evergrande Club has made up its mind to introduce Gilardino, while R&F Club has terminated Larsson's contract.
, which means that the club is still looking for an attacker in the transfer market. The most interesting one is Luneng Club. Kukah has previously stated that it will bring back two players from Brazil, which means Montillo, Aloisio,
Two of Lowe's three foreign players must leave the team. Originally, these three were considered to be comparable to the "Evergrande Trident", but after 14 rounds of the league, these three did not form a whole. The theme of Guoan Club this summer is to change
At least one of the forwards, Gronn and Utaka, will leave the team. The foreign forward may come from La Liga and is more likely to replace Utaka.
Basically, from the signing results of the second transfer window, we can judge how determined Evergrande is to defend the AFC Champions League, whether Guoan wants to win the championship, whether Luneng still wants to make a difference this season, and whether R&F
Really eager to play in the AFC Champions League.
Of course, some of these news are true or false, and some are blockbuster transfers that the media cannot dig up.
For example, just at the beginning of the intermission period, a blockbuster transfer began to circulate, that is, Guangzhou Evergrande once again extended its magic hand, this time to Dalian Albin. Yu Han and Li Xuepeng packaged
The transfer of 48oo has been confirmed. For Dalian Albin, which is facing a shortage of funds and poor team performance, this poaching can be said to be a move to remove salary from the bottom of the cauldron. The capsizing of a once-prominent Chinese aircraft carrier is just around the corner.
Just when Zhang Sheng was about to sit back and watch the storm rise and wait for the clouds to calm down, his own team also received a sudden attack. A talented team wanted to buy his players.
This team is the Leicester City team that has just been promoted from the English Championship to the English Football League this season.
Faced with Leicester City's current purchase, Zhang Sheng could only lament that the inertia of history is so strong, because the players they are seeking to purchase are Mahrez and Kante. Historically, both of them were at Leicester City.
Techeng made a big splash. Although I snatched them away a few years in advance, I didn't expect that the "original owner" would still take notice of them.
In fact, this process is very tortuous.
The initial reason starts with the owner of Leicester City.
In 2009, Thai billionaire Vichai began investing in football. According to Forbes, the Thai was worth US$2.9 billion at that time, ranking 612th among the world's richest people.
In 2010, Vichai led the Asian Football Investment Consortium formed by his own King Power Group and other Thai consortiums to acquire Leicester City Club for a total of £3900.
In 2011, Vichai acquired the remaining 20% equity of Indonesian Kronos Sports Management and became the single shareholder. His son Atwa became the vice chairman of the team and personally managed the team.
Of course, this 39 million pounds is a small part of Vichai's investment in Leicester City Club. From 2010 to 2015, Vichai spent more than 70 million pounds on club signings, excluding the income from selling players.
Vichai's net investment still exceeded 6 million pounds. In addition, Vichai also bought Leicester City's home stadium for 1.7 million pounds and renamed it the King Power Stadium, which added a lot of money to the club.
Income comes from stadium operations. He also helped Leicester City clear a debt of 130 million pounds in the form of debt-for-equity swaps, eliminating the club's annual interest payments on the debt.
These expenditures are necessary. The expenditure on signings is to enhance the strength of the club itself. After all, the people who play football are the players themselves, not Vichai and his Asian Football Investment Group.
Purchasing the stadium is also to provide the club with a more stable financial foundation. This not only eliminates the cost of renting the stadium and other related training venues, but also provides the club with a new source of income. The stadium's advertising revenue itself also
Quite impressive.
As for clearing the debt itself, it can help Leicester City avoid paying a large amount of interest every year, thus easing the club's financial pressure.
Vichai's capital investment is very important to Leicester City itself. Although he did not directly improve Leicester City's strength, he gave the club some room to play in terms of recruitment.
In the past, Leicester City had to be careful when it came to signings. The players they bought and the players they sold needed to reach a balance of payments to avoid the club going bankrupt. Therefore, Leicester City’s annual signing costs were not high.
, which is about one or two million pounds.
But now, with Vichai's financial backing, Leicester City can be more liberal in purchasing players. Starting from the 2o1o-11 season, Leicester City's net investment in signings has also been getting higher and higher.
It increased from £2.8 million when he first took over to £29.1 million in the most recent season.
It can be said that Vichai is a very good football investor.
As an Asian, Vichai has always wanted to expand his team's influence in Asia, so after his success in England this year, he first set his sights on Japan, which has produced a large number of outstanding players in recent years.
The person responsible for completing Vichai's task of purchasing Japanese players is their team's assistant coach and recruitment director Steve Walsh.
Steve Walsh once served as a scout for Chelsea for 16 years. He is famous for his sharp vision and good at discovering outstanding players. The famous "Warcraft" Drogba and Essien both worked under Steve Walsh
He came to Chelsea only after digging.
Of course, in addition to this, Leicester City also has a high-tech platform that diggers rely on - the yscout platform. This platform is developed by an Italian football data company of the same name. They have a technical analysis team of 2oo people.
Weekly monitoring of more than 1300 games in more than 80 countries around the world, and data analysis for thousands of players. These data will eventually become an important basis for clubs to select players. On this platform, they can obtain the games of players from all over the world
Videos and data, and learn about the on-field performances of domestic and international young talents.
This is not the last step. Steve Walsh will browse the recommended list that has been submitted and consult with the coach and director of football affairs Jon Raskin to decide which players should be targeted for recruitment.
Si Jin will act as agent for specific transaction matters after getting in touch with the Thai boss.
This time their target is Shinji Okazaki, who plays for Mainz Football Club in the Bundesliga.
Shinji Okazaki just transferred to Mainz last season for 150 euros. In the 2o13-14 season, Shinji Okazaki represented Mainz Football Club in 33 appearances in the German Football League, scoring 15 goals and assisting 1
times; played 2 times in the German Cup, and his performance was very good.
But Leicester City's mission to purchase Shinji Okazaki failed. Mainz did not want to let go of their absolute midfielder so easily. They offered a high price, so much so that Steve Walsh gave up.
This signing.
However, Steve Walsh did not give up his plan to continue to introduce Japanese players. He sent scout David Mills to the Japanese J-League to inspect those Japanese players who performed well on the yscout platform.
David Mills is also a very good scout. He once recommended Zola, Drogba and Essien to Chelsea. When he first came to Japan, he watched the AFC Champions League match between Kawasaki Frontale and Dragons.
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In this game, the Japanese national team player Yu Kobayashi that David Mills paid attention to did not perform well. On the contrary, he was stunned by the two players from their opponent Longteng team, because the two players were Mahrez.
and Kanter.
When David Mills saw the two of them, he felt as if he had seen a ghost, because both of these players had been inspected by him before, and he had certain impressions.
David Mills knows where Mahrez and Kante are coming from.
In 2009, Mahrez and more than 20 other players participated in a trial training with Quimper, a French fourth-tier league team hundreds of miles away from home. A month later, a club member said to him: "We still have
We cannot sign you because we are not sure whether you are really worthy of this contract. But we do want to keep you in the team. We will tell you the result after we discuss it with the head coach."
But the head coach made his decision and asked the club to sign Mahrez, which made Mahrez, who once called his mother in tears, overjoyed.
After joining the team, Mahrez did not immediately train and compete with the first team, but was first transferred to the B team. Quimper's B team participated in the seventh-level French league. Obviously, the team has not yet completely
Convinced of Mahrez's strength.
In the second half of the 2009-10 season, he became a regular in the team's first team. Although the team was unfortunately relegated in the end, Mahrez's performance was undoubtedly outstanding. In the end, it was Le Havre who signed him first.
The team's second team also plays in the French fourth-tier league. In his first season with Le Havre's second team, he scored 13 goals in 32 games; in his second season, he scored 11 goals in 25 games; during this period, he even played with the team on the first line.
The team played 9 games in Ligue 2. Of course, he played as a substitute, and the playing time was very short, and his talent has not been revealed yet.
At this time, David Mills took a fancy to him. In fact, when David Mills came to Le Havre for inspection, his focus was actually Mahrez’s teammate Ryan Mendes, but what really attracted him was
His eyeballs are indeed Mahrez's.
Just when David Mills was about to add him to his list of key inspections, the Longteng team took action. The Longteng team's offer of 20 euros and the high salary made Mahrez, who had a very ordinary family background, succumb.
When David Mills came to France from England again at the end of the winter break of the fourth French league, he discovered that Mahrez had actually gone to China to play for a Chinese League One team.
Reis was completely disappointed. A player who did not pursue much was not a player he liked, so he naturally gave up his pursuit of Mahrez.
Another player, Kante, is also a player that David Mills has paid attention to. In fact, Kante has shown his talent as a player very early. As Kante's fellow countryman, the famous French coach Arsene Wenger has already shown his talent.
Just know him: "You look at his career and it's surprising, he was at Suresnino in Paris when he was 9-1o years old, then he went to Boulogne as an amateur, but they didn't want to sign him
He. He was discovered by my friends when he was 10 years old and mentioned to me. We went to watch his games, but I thought he would come to England to play football later."
In any case, although Wenger gave up on Kanter, he was still a player that Wenger had paid attention to. Even if he gave up, he might have made a mistake. David Mills was one of the people who remained skeptical.
So when Kanter was given up by most people, David Mills kept paying attention to him. After Kanter arrived to play in Boulogne, David Mills felt that Kanter was very likely to join the Boulogne team.
The path of Franck Ribery, the number one star in history - from unknown to a blockbuster.
But David Mills was in the stage of job adjustment at the time. He was preparing to move from Chelsea to Leicester City with Steve Walsh. When he spent a lot of time completing his job adjustment, he 2o12
When he went to France again in 2016, Kanter had already left the team, and he heard from his informants in France that Kanter had gone to a certain team in Asia.
When David Mills heard that Kanter had left the center of football and went to Asia, he naturally gave up further observation. After all, Asian football was a completely wild land for David Mills.
In fact, if his informant had been more specific and said he went to China, David Mills might have continued to investigate, because Mahrez also went to China, but the informant obviously didn't know much about Asia.
In their view, Asia is all one country and there is no need to differentiate at all. This is also the unified understanding of Asia by ordinary people in Europe and the United States.
In fact, according to real history, David Mills values Kante more than Mahrez.
Historically, after Ranieri took over Leicester City, David Mills watched Kante's game after moving from Boulogne to Caen and analyzed the midfielder's statistics and highlights in detail.
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Ranieri was eventually convinced by the Frenchman's outstanding performance. In the first month of becoming coach, he always went to Walsh to discuss Kante's transfer and kept whispering in Walsh's ears.
Nagging "Kante, Kante, Kante". In the end, Ranieri's request was met, and Leicester City purchased Kante from Caen for more than 5.6 million pounds. (To be continued.)
