On December 22, 2015, many players of the Longteng team, which was disbanded in Japan, began to buy, buy, buy, especially those young players who had no transfer worries. They rarely had time to come to Japan and buy some gifts to go back to them.
Favorite thing.
Many media also like to focus such news on players' private lives.
Of course, more media began to desperately report that the winter transfer period was about to start in more than a week.
Originally, according to the idea of the Chinese Football Association, 10 days to 2 weeks of national team training should be arranged in January, but whether it is Shandong Luneng and Jiangsu Suning who have just finished the Football Association Cup, or those who have just finished the Club World Cup
Team Longteng made strong protests.
The high-intensity competition throughout the season has pushed the team to the limit. If we don't take a good rest during this holiday, it is estimated that the players' condition will be sluggish and frequent injuries will become an Achilles heel starting next season.
Players need to rest, and coaches who usually think more about things than players need to rest even more.
Zhang Sheng has not been home for a long time. This rare vacation has become a good opportunity for Zhang Sheng to take a breather.
Zhang Sheng took a break, but the external transfer situation became more and more intense, and the Longteng team was also involved.
On December 25, former Brazil international and once world-class player Fabiano transferred to Chinese League One tycoon Tianjin Quanjian.
As the successor of Brazilian national team center Ronaldo and Adriano, he has always been called a dick. Many fans say that although he has no shortcomings, is diligent, low-key, and has solid basic skills, he is too European and lacks aura.
, relies heavily on the midfielder, but in real terms, he is considered the strongest striker in Brazil since 2008. Some fans joked that maybe in two years, Brazil will be the strongest in ten years.
Such a player is willing to settle in the secondary league of the Chinese Professional Football League, which can be said to startle a group of gulls and herons.
But this is not the end yet, Tianjin Quanjian began to saturate the Chinese transfer market.
The very next day, Guangzhou Evergrande announced that forward Deng Chaoqun and defensive midfielder Gao Junjun had been transferred to Tianjin Quanjian for 40 million yuan.
Deng Chaoqun and Gao Jun both transferred to Guangzhou Evergrande from Longteng 2 years ago, but with Lippi leaving, neither of them had many opportunities under Cannavaro and Luiz Felipe Scolari.
This time, Evergrande was able to successfully sell the goods to the Chinese League One team. Compared with the original 65 million they bought, they suffered a lot of losses.
The transfer of the two Evergrande players was not complete. Next, Tianjin Quanjian announced that he had bought the captain of Liaoning Hongyun and the team's goalkeeper Zhang Lu for 70 million. This was another big deal.
After Tianjin Quanjian finished swiping the screen, it was the turn of another Chinese Super League tycoon - Hebei China Fortune.
They first announced a buyout of Longteng player Zhu Xuhe, a former international player who had played for China Fortune Fortune for half a season, for 70 million, and then bought left back Ding Haifeng from Liaoning Hongyun for 50 million.
In addition, they are also in contact with the Longteng team, hoping to take away the former international player and the team's regular rotation player Yao Tian from this championship team.
In fact, Yao Tian's transfer was already on the agenda at the end of the season.
With national team experience and excellent personal skills, he is the absolute main force in any Chinese Super League team except Guangzhou Evergrande. However, because the Longteng team has too many reserves in the midfield, and they pay attention to all aspects.
The tactics of pressing the court and emphasizing defense starting from the forward do not allow a purely offensive player like Yao Tian to have much room to survive. He only has the opportunity to play when the outcome of the game has been decided.
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Already the absolute main force of the Chinese Olympic team, he obviously does not want to be positioned as a pure substitute player in the team, so seeking a transfer has become his first choice because of his arrogance.
However, China Fortune Fortune is not the only one who has been eyeing Yao Tian for a long time, including Tianjin Quanjian, a local tycoon in the Chinese League One, Guangzhou R&F who pays attention to foot skills, and even Shanghai SIPG who intends to strengthen the strength of their rotation players. They have all coveted him for a long time.
The promise of finally being able to play the main role in the Chinese Super League strengthened Yao Tian's determination to transfer to China Fortune, and the Dragons officially released him.
In this way, Yao Tian was transferred to China Fortune Land Development for the same price of 70 million.
Regarding the two transfers of Zhu Xuhe and Yao Tian from Longteng to China Fortune, the outside world believed that they made a profit.
Yes, you read that right. The reason they all think they made a profit is that both players were born after January 1995. They are not over 21 years old now. According to the 533 rule (winter window transfer) stipulated by the Chinese Football Association
Only five players with no age restrictions can be purchased, three foreign players, and three players under the age of 21.) Now, Zhu Xuhe and Yao Tian are both players born in 1995, so there is no need to occupy the front.
Instead of five player quotas, the two quotas for players under the age of 21 are directly used, giving Hebei China Fortune Fortune enough room to operate those players who have been famous for a long time and have experience.
This seems like a really good deal.
After the two emerging local tycoon teams exerted their efforts, some established strong teams also began to vigorously recruit players.
First, Beijing Guoan spent 8 million euros to buy last season’s Brazilian League MVP, the main attacking midfielder of the Brazilian national team, and Corinthians’ midfield brain, Renato Augusto.
With a transfer fee of 8 million euros and an annual salary of 6.5 million euros, this is the largest investment in foreign aid by Beijing Guoan in history. Although it only ranks tenth in the history of foreign aid in the Chinese Super League,
This also broke the transfer fee record in team history (3.5 million euros) set by Argentinian Batala 2 years ago.
At the same time, Augusto's teammate, defensive midfielder Ralph, was also rumored to be having an affair with Beijing Guoan. The media also said with certainty that in order to come to Beijing Guoan and get a high salary, he would spend one million US dollars out of his own pocket.
Buy out your own buyout fee, and then come to Guoan to get four times the annual salary of Corinthians.
In terms of internal aid, Beijing Guoan has a huge demand for players because Zhou Ting is old, Shao Jiayi retired at the end of the season, and captain Xu Yunlong's condition has declined sharply.
Especially at the full-back position, they did not have an attacker with outstanding offensive power, so they set their sights on the Longteng team, hoping to find treasures from this team that sells players if they are given enough money.
Among them, Xiao Yunfan, Wei Zhimin and Zhou Zhou have become their main targets. Two of these three players are just 22 years old, and one is a month shy of 20 years old. However, the three of them have played the main force in the Chinese Super League for two seasons.
At the same time, he played many games in the AFC Champions League and even the Club World Cup as the main player and rotation player.
Based on the performance of the three of them on the field and their status as active national players, it can be said that they can improve the team's strength. Of course, the relative transfer fee is also very high.
For this reason, Beijing Guoan has been in contact with the Longteng Club, hoping to bargain on the price.
It's a pity that there are not a few clubs that value these three players. Shanghai Shenhua, who also lacks full-backs, Jiangsu Suning, who barely have enough full-backs, and Guangzhou Evergrande, who are both recovering from injuries, Shu Jun and Zou Zheng, are also keeping an eye on the three of them.
At this time, due to the lack of good domestic players, clubs with insufficient youth training capabilities are at a huge disadvantage.
For example, Beijing Guoan, which is also an established and strong team, has not invested much in youth training in recent years. The club's echelon cannot provide more talents to the first team, so they have to buy players from other teams at high prices.
Teams like Shandong Luneng and Shanghai SIPG can sell some marginal players to recover costs while ensuring that their strength does not decline.
During this winter break, Shanghai SIPG has not bought a single player so far, but sold Zheng Dalun, who was unable to play, for 20 million. Shandong Luneng has vigorously purged players, selling Wang
Qiang, Han Peng, Cui Peng and other veterans were all sent away, and Shao Puliang, Mi Haolun, Luo Senwen, Gao Zhunyi, Zhou Yuchen, Chen Hao and others also left the team.
Several teams with insufficient club funds, such as Liaoning Hongyun and Hangzhou Greentown, also make a living by selling off their first-team players and promoting players from their youth teams.
Of course, a team like the Dragons that gets stronger the more it sells its captain is an anomaly.
But this time, Zhang Sheng was still a little hesitant about releasing the three full-backs.
As the team's vice-captain, Zhou Zhou is very stable on the defensive line. Although his assist ability is poor, his defensive ability is still remarkable. Zhang Sheng really needs an experienced full-back in key games.
Can hold it.
To be honest, Xiao Yunfan and Wei Zhimin thought Zhang Sheng could stay or let go.
Although the two of them have strong assist ability, their defense is relatively rough. The 3-5-2 formation Zhang Sheng is preparing for next season requires two full-backs or wing-backs who can go up and down, and have the ability to shuttle players back and forth.
The requirements are very high.
Therefore, Zhou Zhou can stay and enrich the team's playing style, while Xiao Yunfan and Wei Zhimin can definitely be sold as long as the price is right, because at the full-back position, the Longteng team's reserves are still very sufficient.
After the end of the 2015 season, the players who were previously loaned to the Chinese League One have now returned to the club. After receiving the baptism of regular games throughout the season, they have grown very rapidly.
Among them, the ability value of Huang He, the right back, has now exceeded 70. If combined with winter training, he can completely replace any of the three existing full-backs.
The same is true for Shen Jun. After being trained in the World Junior Championships, his ability and self-confidence have greatly improved. With an ability value of 70, he is definitely qualified for the substitute position.
When outside transfers were in full swing, Zhang Sheng, who had rested for more than a week, also began to plan the blueprint for this season.
The first thing to do is to buy a foreign player with sufficient strength to replace Pato.
Zhang Sheng had already prepared for foreign aid candidates. As early as the middle of the season, the Longteng team's coaching team had already begun to examine foreign aid candidates. Of course, at that time, it was just a long-term plan for the Longteng team to prepare for a rainy day. It had not been thought of yet.
Pato will leave the team.
The club focused on investigating Zahavi, an Israeli player who would later shine in the Chinese Super League.
In fact, Zhang Sheng was not very familiar with this player. When Zhang Sheng traveled through time, Zahavi had just been bought by the Guangzhou R&F team. Zhang Sheng only had time to watch his debut - the game between Guangzhou R&F and Shijiazhuang Yongchang.
In the middle, Zahavi made his Chinese Super League debut. Zahavi had one shot and one pass throughout the game, helping R&F defeat its opponent 4-2.
Therefore, it was the Longteng team's coaching staff and scouting department who proposed to examine this player, and they did not focus on the advantages of Zhang Sheng's traveler.
If it was known that Zahavi would perform well later and be able to select players suitable for the Longteng team from many players, the scouting department of the Longteng club could be said to have taken the greatest credit, and Zhang Sheng would have given them a certificate.
But now there is a problem: Zahavi still wants to play in the Champions League.
Now the 2015-2016 Champions League group stage has just ended. Although Zahavi’s Israeli giant Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club has played six games against Mexico, they have conceded 16 goals and only scored one - a penalty kick.
The penalty shot was made by Zahavi.
However, in the previous qualifying match against the Swiss giant Basel, Zahavi eliminated the opponent with a score of 2:2 away and 1:1 at home. All three goals were scored by Zahavi. This was also the first time after a long time.
Eleven years later, the club reached the main stage of the Champions League for the second time.
Reluctant, Zahavi is ready to continue playing in the Champions League to prove his strength.
As the number one star of the Israeli national team, Zahavi’s strength is undoubted. He once led the team to the historic Europa League and qualified as the top spot in Group C, advancing to the top 32.
Knockout round.
This season he led the team to the group stage of the Champions League, taking another step forward.
Zahavi also had experience playing in the five major European leagues. After joining Palermo in Serie A in 2011, his performance in the next two seasons was very average, scoring only 2 goals and contributing 2
assists.
But when he returned to China, he still crushed all the players and won the Israeli League Golden Boot for two consecutive seasons.
After the start of the 2015-2016 season, even in the third-line battle, the team led by Zahavi was only three points behind the first place. He was holding back a lot of energy and wanted to overtake the opponent. After winning the championship, the next one
Continue to play in the Champions League this season.
After Pato decided to leave, the Dragons contacted Maccabi Tel Aviv because Zahavi still had two years of contract with the club.
The Maccabi Tel Aviv club was rather confused about the offer from the Dragons, because the transfer fee offered by the Dragons was not low. When Zahavi transferred back to Tel Aviv from Palermo in Serie A, it only cost 250,000 euros.
This time, the transfer fee of 5 million euros offered by the Dragons was twenty times more than before.
After Zahavi came to the team, he helped the team win the league championship and made the team historic once again enter the Champions League. It can be said that the transfer fee of 250,000 euros is absolutely worth the money.
But the transfer fee of 5 million euros is too huge, so huge that it can offset the entire team's salary expenditure for a year and still have more.
It's just that the team has just been eliminated from the Champions League, and its morale is relatively low. It was pulled from the first place in the league by its opponents. It is difficult to say whether it will enter the Champions League next year.
You must know that if the team cannot enter the Champions League, the losses will still be very heavy.
According to the performance of the teams in the Champions League this year and based on UEFA's Champions League bonus distribution principles, in the 2015-16 season, the 32 teams that entered the Champions League group stage will receive at least 12 million euros in dividends, even if they lose all.
No problem.
Tel Aviv is exactly the kind of team that lost all in the group stage.
Therefore, the club decided to let Zahavi continue to play for the team to see if he can qualify for the Champions League-the league championship.
