During this rare vacation, Zhang Sheng put down all his burdens and spent a few days playing with his wife and children.
However, this leisurely life was soon broken, because this time period is also the time when the transfer turmoil is the most serious. The Longteng team has always been the main exporter of players for Chinese clubs. It is true that you don’t want to be involved in it.
Thinking too much.
Zhang Sheng has actually been prepared for this for a long time. Unlike Zhang Sheng's transfer strategy at the end of last season, Zhang Sheng is not planning to export players on a large scale this season because reality has dealt a big blow to Zhang Sheng.
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In fact, after the FA Cup final, Zhang Sheng had already thought about it.
Compared with his ambition when he was promoted to the Chinese Super League, Zhang Sheng found that he had really underestimated the Chinese Super League.
Because he had the system in hand, coupled with the support of a large amount of money from his family, and no worries, Zhang Sheng always thought that winning the Chinese Super League championship was within his reach. Even if he did not win the Chinese Super League championship, there should be no problem in winning the Football Association Cup.
But the current reality is that after the season, the Dragons are empty-handed. If it were not for the qualification for the AFC Champions League, Zhang Sheng would even wonder if he had encountered a fake system, or simply a fake rebirth.
At the beginning of the season, he not only promised his father Zhang Zhijun that he would win the AFC Champions League within three years, but also made the same promise to the girls in the system. As for the Chinese Super League champion, Zhang Sheng did not take it seriously at all. In his opinion, the Chinese Super League champion is absolutely
It was something I had in my pocket, but now that I think about it, I was still too young, too simple, and sometimes naive.
Zhang Sheng also summarized some mistakes for himself.
The first is his own tactical immaturity.
This season, Zhang Sheng wanted to use a method similar to Tiki-Taka to dominate the game. Unfortunately, the intensity of the competition in the Chinese Super League is far beyond that of the Chinese League One. His team can use it in the Chinese League One.
You can play with the technical advantages casually, but in the Chinese Super League, the technical advantages were not brought into full play in the fierce confrontation. On the contrary, I almost fell into trouble.
The lack of victory in many consecutive games at the beginning of the league was the result of Zhang Sheng overestimating his opponent.
After that, Zhang Sheng could only adjust his tactics. He still chose the ordinary total attack and total defense tactics. He used the strong players in the team to do local small coordination, which could not lead to the full-court victory of Tiki-Taka.
The essence of Quick Pass Express has been brought out, but now the team is playing a low-end version of Tiki-Taka.
And this low-end version is not even a beggar's version. It can only be the same as the "Youth Edition" of a well-known mobile phone manufacturer. That is, everything is simple, and it can't be simpler, because if it is simpler, it will be Google and Sister Gu.
The difference.
When he was still a fan, Zhang Sheng believed that Tiki-Taka was not difficult. As long as the players' foot skills were good, they could do it with practice. When he added some things to it, it might be even better than Tiki-Taka. When it comes to reality,
, and found that that was not the case at all.
What style of players should Tiki-Taka arrange in each position, how should the players run and respond to each other, and how should they adjust when encountering different opponents? These are too detailed things, and without long-term accumulation, if you want to achieve the ideal
The Tiki-Taka tactic is completely fantasy.
In the past, Zhang Sheng didn't like people saying "you can, you up". He always thought that if he got up, he would be able to do it. Now that he has found himself up, he is confused about how to do it. As for whether he can do it, it all depends on God's favor.
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Now Zhang Sheng has set this goal very low. If he can make a tactic that looks like Tiki-Taka, Zhang Sheng will be very satisfied.
Therefore, Zhang Sheng has planned to start from this winter training period to further implement the details of fast passing and express cooperation, and to refine this tactic through various means, not to mention refining the tactic to more than 20,000 like rugby, but
In terms of local tactical refinement, there must be at least dozens of ways to deal with various situations.
So although Zhang Sheng is still on vacation, he has already begun to collect various Tiki-Taka tactical details, and has begun to view a large number of game videos and read various related materials.
When winter training begins, the players will be familiar with these tactical details.
Secondly, Zhang Sheng still reflected on his own loopholes in player equipment.
Zhang Sheng's biggest mistake this season was to only look at the ability index and let go of the previous goalkeeper Xu Di, leaving the team without a qualified substitute. By the time he encountered Zhou Wei's suspension and injury, it was already too late to regret it.
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In the AFC Champions League match against Evergrande, if Zhou Wei is still there, it is likely to have another consequence. If Zhou Wei is still there in the Football Association Cup final, how can the championship fall into the hands of others?
In the middle of the league, the departure of Kante and Mahrez also dealt a big blow to the team.
Although the departures of Kante and Mahrez are due to their own wishes and are difficult to stop, and they also have the idea of opening up channels for players to go to the Premier League, it is an indisputable fact that the team's competitiveness in the Chinese Super League has dropped significantly.
If Zhang Sheng had taken a tough stance at that time, it would have been completely impossible for Kante and Mahrez, who were still under contract, to leave without Zhang Sheng's consent.
Therefore, except for a few special players in special positions, Zhang Sheng will not let go of any more players this season.
Finally, another problem that troubles the club is that the capital flow of the group's parent company is very tight.
The Longteng Club is backed by the Longteng Group. It is said that the eggs are not destroyed when the nest is overturned. The current situation of the Longteng Group has an unparalleled influence on the Longteng Club.
Since 2013, China, from the central to the local governments, has been issuing various super-strict purchase restriction policies, regardless of whether they agree with it from the bottom of their hearts. It was at this time that the Longteng Group began its own expansion journey. Although the group took a different approach
Taking the road of sports real estate, it has more advantages than those real estate developers who directly invest money, but it is still affected by the general environment, and building a professional football stadium by itself consumes a lot of money from the group, which makes the group's funds
The chain is very tight.
On the whole, the real estate industry has fallen from the golden age to the silver age. In terms of trends, mergers and acquisitions by real estate developers have become the mainstream.
It is not difficult to find from national real estate statistics that some small and medium-sized real estate companies and less professional real estate companies have lost market share this year. In other words, although developers are not doing well this year, even individual large real estate companies are not.
They have to resell assets to cash out and optimize asset allocation in order to develop, but small and medium-sized real estate companies are facing pressure to survive.
As for Longteng Group, which has just begun to seek transformation and segmented development, it is in the position of a medium-sized real estate company and faces a pack of wolves that are eyeing the outside world. The pressure is huge.
Zhang Sheng can see the current situation of the group from his father Zhang Zhijun and brother Zhang Chen.
Before, Zhang Zhijun and Zhang Chen often called to ask if the club needed financial and personnel support for its development, but in the second half of the league, they never mentioned this topic again.
This also means that the Dragons next season may not be able to obtain more financial support from the parent company of the group, and may have to rely on themselves for everything.
When Zhang Sheng was reflecting on his mistakes last season and considering the current situation of the club, the outside world had changed a lot.
The most eye-catching thing is Guangzhou Evergrande, which reached the AFC Champions League final again this season and achieved four consecutive championships in the Chinese Super League.
On the night when the Chinese Super League ended, Evergrande sent out a bombshell.
At the press conference after Evergrande won the championship, head coach Li suddenly announced his resignation. Next season, Evergrande's head coach will be former Italian international Cannavaro, whom no one could have imagined. This seems to be an elusive arrangement.
, people can’t help but sweat for the newly promoted four-time champion of the Chinese Super League: No matter whether Lippi will stay behind the scenes or let go boldly next season, the end of the 2014 Chinese Super League has already warned everyone that the 2015 Chinese Super League will be more intense and more exciting.
Highly suspenseful.
This season, due to the emergence of the Dragons, it was extremely difficult for Guangzhou Evergrande to win the championship. Although they went further than ever in the AFC Champions League, they almost overturned in the Chinese Super League, which no one expected.
At the beginning of the season, no one thought that Guangzhou Evergrande, with veteran driver Lippi at the helm, would win the championship with a one-point advantage. If the Longteng team hadn't gritted their teeth and persevered at Beijing Guoan's home court, then Evergrande's fourth consecutive championship would not have been possible.
possible achievements.
Now Lippi’s declaration to step down is not sure whether it is because the club’s efforts and results do not match, or because of the huge recruitment mistakes this season. In short, Chinese fans will never see this wise old man sitting on the coaching bench in Chinese Super League games again.
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There are many opinions from the outside world regarding this change of head coach position.
Some media believe that Lippi resigned because he had a falling out with the senior management of Evergrande Club, while others said that Lippi missed his family and wanted to retire.
As a time traveler, Zhang Sheng paid attention to some details revealed by Evergrande Club and Lippi himself, and roughly understood the reasons.
The trigger for Lippi's resignation should be the mistake in signings. In fact, the introduction of Diamanti has not caused much dissatisfaction in the club. After all, he was an active Italian international at the time, and his ability was obvious to all. He failed to win in the lottery. More
It's because of issues of running-in and style. But Gilardino's joining completely deviates from Evergrande's previous recruitment principles. Instead, he overlaps with Elkson in position and is not the player the team needs most.
Before Lippi coached Evergrande, Liu Yongzhuo was solely responsible for negotiating the introduction of foreign players. The head coach only needed to confirm the player candidates. After Lippi joined, he took over all the rights to recruit players, and he handed over this "fat job" to
He bought his son's player agency and then earned agent fees in the middle. This did make the outside world have a lot of questions and accusations about Lippi's actions. Because this is an obvious nepotism. Between Diamanti and Gila
During the signing process of Dino, the transfer fee price was not satisfactory to the club. Liu Yongzhuo once said that Diamanti's transfer fee price should be much cheaper.
Of course, Evergrande, with Jack Ma's investment, is not short of money, and role is what the club and Xu Jiayin value most. However, the two Italian foreign players have brought little effect to the team, especially Gilardino, who was even complained by fans that he is not as good as domestic players.
The forwards are very useful, and the introduction of these two people is in line with the previous rule proposed by Xu Jiayin not to introduce players over the age of 28.
During the season, Liu Yongzhuo made public comments to the media in front of Lippi: "Foreign players must be upgraded, and all signing rights will be re-responsible by the club. In order to avoid suspicion, we will no longer cooperate with Lippi's agent team."
Such a slap in the face in public really embarrassed Lippi.
Another reason that makes Lippi want to step down is that the 67-year-old really wants to take a good rest and return to Italy to enjoy family happiness with his family, and does not want to continue running the team all year round.
Because China has a huge land area of 9.7 million kilometers, it takes a lot of time and energy every time Evergrande plays away teams in the Chinese Super League. In addition, the domestic flight delay rate is so high that "aircraft troubles" occur frequently.
This situation made Evergrande's away games even more heartbreaking.
At the same time, away games in the AFC Champions League are even more troublesome. As the largest continent in the world - Asia, every time Evergrande plays an away game in the AFC Champions League, it takes 15 or 16 hours before and after traveling to Australia and West Asia. Even if you fly to countries such as Japan, South Korea, and Thailand,
The flight time is also up to 5 hours.
This is really hard for the 67-year-old man.
It is human nature to be homesick. From raising your head to look at the bright moon and lowering your head to miss your hometown, you should know the things about your hometown when you come from your hometown. In the future, the winter plum blossoms will bloom in front of the beautiful window? This is not only true for Chinese people, but also for foreigners.
The same goes for skin.
As long as the team is on vacation for more than a week, he will choose to go directly to the airport to return to Italy that night after the game, even if he misses the post-match press conference and is fined. His wife, children, and grandchildren are all in Italy. As a 67-year-old
It is natural for the elderly to want more time with their families.
3 Chinese Super League championships, 1 FA Cup championship, and an AFC Champions League championship are Lippi's achievements in Evergrande. He has already helped Evergrande complete the Grand Slam in Asia, and he really has no motivation to lead the team.
Evergrande's annual salary is well known to be high. Lippi's salary is 9 million euros after tax. Coupled with Evergrande's high bonuses in the past few years, Lippi can get about 10 million euros every year in Guangzhou. From the perspective of Lippi's willingness to work in Guangzhou
He used part of his salary to persuade the club to invite Cannavaro, which is enough to show that Lippi no longer values money.
Not for money, lack of motivation, and extremely homesick, it was just that simple for Lippi to resign.
