The questions they asked were actually things that worried Zhang Sheng during this period.
According to Zhang Sheng's previous idea, Longteng Group should provide support to the club and go to Europe to buy clubs and serve as a bridge between domestic players and foreign leagues. However, now Longteng Group's capital flow is not abundant. As a real estate developer, its cash flow is not abundant.
It is a very serious problem. It is good that the group can protect itself now, but it will be very difficult to get the support of the group again.
However, people who came back from abroad had many solutions, and they put forward several opinions for Zhang Sheng's reference.
The quickest way is to use the club's equity as a mortgage to make a capital loan, and then use the loan to carry out the acquisition.
The two of them are very optimistic about the tangible and intangible assets of Longteng Club, and they think that how Longteng Club can use asset mortgages to obtain extremely high loan amounts.
But this too risky method was rejected by Zhang Sheng. Who knows how domestic football will change in the future. Once the country cold-treats the league, the value of the players, the club's biggest intangible asset, will plummet, and the loan payment cannot be deferred.
, the possibility of bankruptcy will be very high.
Their second method is to introduce external funds, appropriately distribute the club's shares, and then purchase them with external funds.
This method was also rejected by Zhang Sheng. After all, the dispersion of equity is likely to lead to various problems. Internal struggles, equity competition, etc. may lead to internal friction in the club. Zhang Sheng really does not want to participate in such things.
The last method they mentioned is to go public and raise funds from the stock market through the listing of the company.
Their suggestion was very much in line with Zhang Sheng's ideas. After all, this was also one of Zhang Sheng's recent goals.
After putting their suggestions forward to Zhang Zhijun, Zhang Zhijun also agreed with this approach and began to arrange the group's financial department to reorganize the finances of Longteng Club. At the same time, he also found the securities firm that the group had cooperated with before its listing to help.
As soon as the news of Longteng Club's internal adjustments and preparations for listing came out, it received visits from many securities firms.
As a club with the highest quality assets (many valuable players), the best performance (achievements), and relatively more standardized management in China, several of the largest domestic securities firms have given positive responses.
Among them, Huatai Securities is the most powerful, and Dajiang Securities, as a large local securities firm in Jiangcheng, is also full of sincerity.
After negotiating with these securities firms, Zhang Sheng learned that Guangzhou Evergrande Club had already prepared to go public at the beginning of the year. However, due to the decline in performance, the Longteng team has risen strongly again. During the negotiations with Duojia Securities Firms,
Falling at a disadvantage.
Among them, Guotai Junan, who was the most sincere and later helped Guangzhou Evergrande Club go public, proposed that Evergrande should be more successful in performance.
This is also the reason why during this period, Guangzhou Evergrande began to poach people from Longteng Club and Longteng Football School.
As the first listed football club in the country, they will never give up this title easily. While preparing to replace the head coach, they will purchase high-level foreign players, poach high-level domestic players, and attract high-level domestic coaches.
It's a top priority.
In fact, Zhang Sheng doesn't care much about whether the club is the first football club to go public. Expanding the influence of Chinese football is what he is most concerned about.
Leave professional matters to professional people. Zhang Sheng has now learned this lesson again. So after deciding to list the company, Zhang Sheng basically didn't care about the subsequent matters. What he needs now is to invest again.
In the management of the team, that is what he is good at.
After the game against Guangzhou Evergrande, two Olympic players from the Longteng team, Xiong Jian and Zhu Xuhe, went to France to report for the Toulon Cup. Zhang Sheng wanted to listen to the reports of the accompanying scouts.
Some time ago, due to the heavy workload of the Longteng team, none of the senior players in the first team participated in the training camp of the U19 national team. However, Peng Langjun, Tian Qijie and Wu Qingmin from the reserve team and echelon were selected as substitutes, so now they are far away.
There are also Dragons players in the Four Nations Invitational Tournament in Portugal in the city of Mafra, and Zhang Sheng also needs to pay attention to their performance.
At the same time, in order to prepare for the top 40 qualifiers of the Russian World Cup, two days before this round of the Chinese Super League, the Chinese Football Association notified the Longteng team that many people were selected, and this time the Longteng team had seven people selected, surpassing Guangzhou Evergrande’s six people.
, is the club with the largest number of players selected into the national team for the first time, ranking first in the league, and a reflection of its influence in defeating Guangzhou Evergrande. Of course, relevant personnel from the Football Association will also communicate with coach Zhang Sheng.
There are also some problems with the current contract renewal of Ivo and McGowan, and Zhang Sheng needs to communicate with the players.
Accompanied by these things, the 12th round of the Chinese Super League has officially begun. Zhang Sheng will lead the team to Tianjin to challenge Tianjin TEDA.
Originally this was a game that was not very eye-catching, but because of the actions of Tianjin TEDA's new sponsor Quanjian, fans across the country were a little confused.
Because in this game, Quanjian Group sent 26,000 employees from all over the country to TEDA's home field to support the match. The previous attendance rate at the Shuidi Football Stadium in Tianjin was not high. This time, Quanjian Group's corporate behavior coupled with the fact that it was beating the Longteng team again
Such a strong team can be considered as filling the slightly empty stands, and Quan Jian created a posture that was even more terrifying than the "stadium choir" the Dragons encountered when they went to Thailand to play Buriram United.
But the game is not about having more fans and more people cheering for victory. Although Tianjin TEDA has been in good form in recent rounds of games - three consecutive wins in the League and FA Cup, the strength gap between the players on both sides was reflected during the game.
In the first half, Pato continued his hot streak. In the 23rd minute, he continuously dribbled the ball horizontally in front of the penalty area. After avoiding the shooting angle, he scored a beautiful curve ball that broke Tianjin TEDA's goal.
goal.
This is Pato's 7th consecutive game in the Chinese Super League and AFC Champions League with a goal, and he has become the Longteng team's most powerful firepower.
In the second half, Ivo, who started in place of Ben Arfa, used his technical ability to pass three people in the midfield and reach the penalty area and successfully shot, extending the score to 2:0.
Although before the end of the game, Tianjin TEDA took advantage of the Longteng team's handball in the penalty area to get a point back through a penalty kick, they still lost the game without many shooting opportunities.
After this game, the Longteng team still leads the Chinese Super League standings with a 7-point advantage over the second place Luneng. There is still one round of games left for the Chinese Super League to enter the break period of the season. This result puts the Longteng team on the road to the championship.
He has gradually thrown away his opponents.
The team's good results have made the whole team's morale very high, but Zhang Sheng has something unhappy, that is, there is a problem with the contract renewal of Ivo and McGowan.
These two foreign players were the heroes who helped the Longteng team succeed in the Chinese Super League. After arriving in the Chinese Super League, they were in different situations.
Among them, McGowan is the main central defender of the team. Whether according to the rules of the Chinese Super League or the AFC Champions League, as an Asian foreign player, his position is guaranteed. There is never the danger of competing with other foreign players, so he
The location is always guaranteed.
Ivo seems a bit embarrassed. As a frontcourt attacking player, his ability has advantages over domestic players, but compared to big-name foreign players like Pato and Ben Arfa, he is far behind. At the same time, he
It is impossible to compete with Roque Gill for the defensive midfielder position, so his situation is very delicate. The situation of being more than above or below is why he did not sign up for the AFC Champions League, and he mostly played as a substitute in the league.
He believes that he has the ability to play the main force or even the core of a Chinese Super League team. He is not willing to accept this situation. He has been seeking a transfer through his agent.
McGowan's situation is a bit opposite to Ivo's. He is not worried about not having a position, but he wants to increase his salary, and the salary is not low.
When Zhang Sheng introduced McGowan, he was a substitute defender for the Australian national team. However, for the Longteng team, which was still playing in the Chinese Premier League at the time, the introduction of Australian internationals, even if they were substitutes, had to be attracted by high salaries. Although with
Historically, McGowan's annual salary of US$1.2 million when he joined Luneng was unmatched, but McGowan's annual salary also reached US$1 million.
After being promoted to the Chinese Super League, the Longteng team gave McGowan a salary increase of US$1.2 million. At the end of the first season of the Chinese Super League, it was increased to US$1.3 million, which is the same as the salary level he received when he joined Shandong Luneng in history. But now with the Longteng team
As the team's performance got better and better, the annual salaries of the foreign players they introduced were getting higher and higher. McGowan had the idea of raising his salary again, and proposed that the salary should be raised to 2 million.
Such a request far exceeds the upper limit that Zhang Sheng can give. You must know that Pato's current salary is only 3.5 million.
Zhang Sheng has always been troubled about the position of Yawai.
Those powerful Asian and foreign players, especially those who can play the main role in the European League, such as Son Heung-min, Honda Keisuke, Kagawa Shinji, Okazaki Shinji and others, cannot lose their main position in the European League to play in China. Their strength is also
They are far inferior to players from South America and Africa, so choosing to play in the backcourt in Asia and abroad is relatively less important and has become the choice of basically most Chinese Super League teams.
Playing in the backcourt, the strength is not top-notch, so high quality and low price become the first factor.
Originally, foreign players from Afro-Asia and foreign countries have already squeezed out the positions of domestic offensive players. Now, Afro-Asian foreign players have further squeezed the only midfield and backfield positions that domestic players can play. While limiting the growth space of local players, they also
Objectively, using the Chinese Super League to train troops has enhanced the strength of the national football team’s opponents in Asia.
According to Zhang Sheng's idea, it is good to give domestic players one more minute of playing opportunities. Why let Yawai come in to interfere? In addition, the Longteng team's own young players in the midfield and backfield also need to be trained. Their potential is worth
It's not low either, why not let go of the football outside Asia and let your own players come.
For example, after training in the game, Ma Yongli has reached his highest value of 83, and Lu Zhihui is also 78. Du Zhenyu, the substitute, is even closer, but now he is also in the system's tasks. After the task is completed, his potential value should not be higher than Lu Zhihui's.
Worse, these three players alone can already meet the Longteng team's central defender needs.
At the same time, several younger players have potential values in the 80s or even over 90s. Compared with McGowan's peak ability value of 85, they are more worth looking forward to.
What they lack is competition experience. If they are not given the opportunity to compete, they will only fall into an endless cycle of inexperience - unable to play - still inexperienced.
Therefore, Zhang Sheng has been very torn between the current record and stability or cultivating players.
In the end, Zhang Sheng chose to believe in himself. After all, he had a system. He was not afraid that the players would not grow quickly, but that they would not have the chance to play. Therefore, Zhang Sheng decided to sell McGowan to other Chinese Super League teams during the upcoming break.
, or let him go to Europe to play football.
After all, as the backbone of the defense of the first team in the league, there are still many teams with ideas. At least two teams, Hangzhou Greentown and Shandong Luneng, are contacting the Longteng team, hoping to get him.
As for Ivo, Zhang Sheng was really reluctant to let him go.
As a good and cheap foreign aid, he is not only a hero in helping the Longteng team reach the top spot, but he is also an indispensable chess piece used by Zhang Sheng in the rotation and substitute lineup of the Longteng team.
And he did make a difference.
Although he cannot play in the AFC Champions League, his abilities have been fully demonstrated in the limited Chinese Super League games. He has scored 6 goals in 12 Chinese Super League games, and even more in the Football Association Cup.
hat trick.
Compared to his status as a substitute, this scoring efficiency can be said to be the best in the Chinese Super League.
Ivo's performance is of course valued by countless teams in the Chinese Super League, especially Wuyang Wuyang, a club that wants to poach people after they know that he wants to leave the Dragons.
For foreign players like Ivo, in Zhang Sheng's opinion, he loses every time he leaves. It is basically impossible to buy a player of his ability at a cheap price. He should be the most cost-effective foreign player in the history of the Chinese Super League.
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Of course, as a reborn person, Zhang Sheng's advantages are extremely obvious. First of all, he knows which high-quality and cheap players are suitable for the Chinese Super League. At the same time, he is also very familiar with those players who are not very famous but have always maintained a very good condition.
There is no need to spend money to gamble with the rich clubs in Europe to steal players, and there is no need to spend money to win the international players of Brazil and Argentina with the rich players in the Chinese Super League.
According to Zhang Sheng's idea, since he is looking for substitute foreign players anyway, he might as well find those young players to train and resell them at a good price.
So this time Zhang Sheng planned to buy two together, one was from the Brazilian player Fernando Enrique da Conceição, who later played for Chongqing Lifan, and the other was from the Sao Paulo club recommended by the old Costa.
