At the same time, Zahavi was in a bit of a dilemma. Longteng Club also contacted him through his agent. After learning about the situation of Longteng Club, Zahavi also hesitated.
A team that can compete with Barcelona has a large number of players going to Europe to play, and it seems that Pato is also going to be sent to Europe. Such a team is not a rubbish club.
At the same time, in terms of annual salary, even if it is a verbal promise, the Longteng team is very sincere.
Although he is now Israel's number one star, Zahavi's annual salary in Israel is not high, only 600,000 euros. This is already the highest salary in the history of the Israeli league, and the Dragons offered him 2 million.
Annual salary of €300,000 and a signing fee of €300,000.
You must know that Pato only had 3.5 million when he joined Longteng Club. Even if his annual salary was increased once, it was only 4 million.
The price offered by the Dragons is more than three times his current annual salary.
In view of the strength of Bellman, the championship rival in the Israeli League this season, once Zahavi fails to win the league championship, according to the allocation of places in the major leagues of the Champions League, only the champion of the Israeli League can play in the second round of qualifying.
In other words, it is entirely possible that he will not even be able to play in the Champions League next season.
In the end, after thinking about it, Zahavi insisted on his opinion - to work hard and see if he can play in the Champions League again.
Since neither Maccabi Tel Aviv nor Zahavi are willing to leave the team in the middle of the season, the Dragons Club can only regard him as a supplement to the team's recruitment.
In fact, it’s not just the Dragons who are eyeing Zahavi, there are also many competitors.
As early as the beginning of 2015, Tianjin TEDA proposed to buy Zahavi. Maccabi originally let him go, but unfortunately they were losing consecutive league games and saw that the championship was not guaranteed, so they did not sell him.
Also interested in him is Guangzhou R&F, which bought Ivo from the Dragons in mid-2015. The current head coach of Guangzhou R&F, Stojkovic, is the same coach as Jokanovic, the coach of Maccabi in the Champions League last year.
As a Serbian and a good friend, the latter recommended Zahavi to Stojkovic.
Historically, Guangzhou R&F also relied on this relationship. In the middle of 2016, during the intermission after the Israeli league results, when Zahavi was bored on vacation in Thailand, the R&F club specially sent someone to contact him to negotiate.
Therefore, the Maccabi Club certainly welcomes the Dragon Team's hookup.
Unable to capture Zahavi immediately, Zhang Sheng decisively contacted the four former South American brothers.
After the Dragons began to make a name for themselves in the Chinese Super League, four friends from South America became more closely connected with Zhang Sheng. Roque Gil was introduced by his brother Martin from Argentina, and Chavez was introduced by Costa after spending a lot of money.
Transfers facilitated with less effort.
This time the Longteng team entered the Club World Cup, and the four of them made a special call to chat with Zhang Sheng for a long time, especially since the brother of Mexico's Herrera was a scout for the American team, and Zhang Sheng even made a bet with him at that time.
Whoever wins in the end will end with Herrera calling Zhang Sheng "Uncle" three times.
Ever since Zhang Sheng traveled through time, how to deal with the situation once the traveler's omniscience and omnipotence are no longer available has been a question that Zhang Sheng has been considering.
Zhang Sheng had been planning this for a long time. In the first two years after he time traveled back, because the Longteng team was limited by the low league level and could not recruit players, Zhang Sheng had to keep in touch with these friends in South America for a long time.
Help them pave the way in the Chinese Super League and help them introduce players to the Chinese Super League and the Chinese League One to gain profits.
Next, Zhang Sheng took the initiative to participate in this interest group, jointly established a brokerage company, and continued to help them open up the Chinese football market so that everyone had common interests in addition to personal relationships.
At the same time, he vigorously invests in the club's basic foundation, builds a good software and hardware environment, creates a large scouting team, and urgently leads the team to upgrade. These are all Zhang Sheng's preparations for a future without welfare.
After arriving in the Chinese Super League, Zhang Sheng abandoned the well-known cost-effective foreign players in the Chinese Super League and instead introduced Roque Gil and Chavez, two players who had never played in the Chinese Super League in history, just to prove himself.
, the vision and strength of the coaching staff and scouting team.
At least judging from the current results, Zhang Sheng has not failed yet.
If he knew about Zahavi's history of killing all sides in the Chinese Super League and the team could focus on Zahavi this time, Zhang Sheng would have a greater sense of accomplishment.
You know, the Middle East, especially West Asia and North Africa, has always been the territory of China's "famous" agent Jing Chang. Historically, he introduced Hammoud, Aaron, Svensson, Michel, and Bruninho.
, even Contra walked this line.
It took a lot of effort and effort for the Dragons' scouting team and agency to reach out here.
As time gets closer and closer to the day when Zhang Sheng originally traveled through time, Zhang Sheng becomes more and more confident about his future.
Regarding Zhang Sheng's request to buy a winger, the four brothers all gave a lot of suggestions.
Brazil's Costa recommended Leo Chitardini, Douglas Baggio, Adrian Oliveira Tavares and others to Zhang Sheng, and seeing Roque Gil's good performance
Demichelis appeared to be more practical and recommended many practical wingers to Zhang Sheng, including the long-famous Acosta, Rigoni, and Diego Perotti, who temporarily encountered difficulties.
Players with potential such as Rodrigo De Paul and Rodrigo Gomez.
Foreign players were being selected, and Zhang Sheng was not idle either. While the players of the Longteng team were still resting leisurely, Zhang Sheng and the coaching staff had already begun to gather.
The Longteng team's winter training preparations for the 2016 season have officially begun, and compared to other Chinese Super League teams, the Longteng team is already the club with the shortest winter training arrangement.
Because according to FIFA regulations, players who have worked hard for a season should get at least one month of vacation. Therefore, the Dragons did not regroup until January 20.
As the saying goes, the plan for the year begins in spring. When winter gradually passes and the temperature warms up and enters spring, it is the time for the Chinese Super League teams to complete their hard work. Each team needs to find a warm and suitable place to train, and also needs to choose a suitable warm-up.
Competition opponents. These two months of winter training play a vital role in the team's running-in, inspection of new players and formulation of tactics.
Especially when the Longteng team is still working hard in the Club World Cup, some teams have already started their own winter training.
Among the sixteen Chinese Super League teams, Liaoning Hongyun was the first to gather. Liaoning Football Team started winter training on December 1, 2015, almost 50 days earlier than Longteng, which started last. Because there is no strong lineup, there is no huge amount of money.
Investment, and at the same time selling a large number of players, without "flying first", the results of the 2016 season can be described as worrying.
Most of the teams training at the same time as Liaoning Hongyun are promoted teams, relegation teams and two teams that need to play in the AFC Champions League play-offs. Their training time is in mid-December.
This winter training, the Longteng team is divided into two stages. The first stage is from January 20 to February 5. This period is mainly for physical reserves and new tactics. They have four days off during the Spring Festival.
After that, the Longteng team will fly to Europe for the second phase of training. The main task this time is to conduct warm-up matches with the agreed partner clubs, and use games against these teams to verify Zhang Sheng's tactics.
On February 24, the Longteng team will fly back from abroad to participate in the opening show of the 2016 season - the Super Cup match against Jiangsu Suning, the 2015 Football Association Cup champion.
Finally, the team is allowed to conduct restorative training to prepare for the upcoming 2016 Chinese Super League season.
Like last season, the winter training of domestic teams has become more scientific and systematic. Fewer and fewer teams go to the plateau - Kunming and Hongta for training, but more and more clubs go to Hainan and Guangdong for training.
There are more and more teams, not to mention the teams that go overseas for training. Most of the Chinese Super League teams that already have tens of billions of sponsorships can now afford those few million.
Not to mention that overseas bases can guarantee higher standards of facilities and environment, and the effect of winter training will be better. From the perspective of player psychology, overseas training and competition can bring freshness and excitement to players, which is conducive to
Stimulate players' enthusiasm for training. Due to the language barrier, it seems inconvenient for players in foreign countries to go out and indulge during their breaks.
Moreover, overseas training can also accelerate exchanges and cooperation between domestic clubs and overseas. Especially for clubs such as Longteng, Guangzhou Evergrande, and Shanghai SIPG that seek overseas expansion, whether it is commercial or competitive, it will have a great impact on the club's development.
have a positive impact on long-term development.
Even more lively than the heated winter training is the current winter transfer in the Chinese Super League.
Just the day after the Long Teng team began to gather, Guangzhou Evergrande sold its meritorious forward, "Little Bear" Elkeson, to Shanghai SIPG. As the top scorer in the Chinese Super League for two consecutive terms and a super forward in the AFC Champions League,
SIPG has been envious of him for a long time and hopes that he can replicate the previous success of Guangzhou Evergrande with Conca.
At the same time, Guangzhou Evergrande also felt that Elkeson was not enough to help Evergrande against the Dragons last season. In addition, the Evergrande club, which had just been successfully listed during the Spring Festival, also needed a more influential striker to make its name.
The giants of the Chinese Super League also hit it off, and in the end Elkson successfully transferred to Shanghai SIPG for 15 million euros.
This transfer is not without a sensation. Even the day before, Guangzhou Evergrande's Zhao Xuri was transferred to China League One tycoon Tianjin Quanjian for 30 million, which was also suppressed.
These two transfers can be seen as Guangzhou Evergrande's new policy - to pursue more income to make the club's financial statements look good after listing, and at the same time reduce its bloated first team personnel.
After the transfer scandal at the end of the season, Tianjin Quanjian began to exert force again. The entry of former international players like Zhao Xuri was just a piece of cake. In the next 2014 season, he was awarded the best newcomer in the Brazilian League and in the 2015 season in the Brazilian League.
The Brazilian star Guinho, who scored 10 goals and had 5 assists, was acquired by them for 30 million euros. This not only set a new transfer record in the Chinese League One, but also set a new transfer record in Chinese football.
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If you add in the previously purchased Judson from Corinthians for 5 million euros, Quanjian's investment has reached an astonishing 380 million, which is really terrifying for a league of this level.
However, Corinthians, who sold Judson next, almost cried because their defense core Gill was bought by Shandong Luneng again, and the transfer fee this time also reached 10 million euros.
It can be said that as the Brazilian champions last season, the team has two cores - Brazilian MVP Augusto, captain Ralph switched to Beijing Guoan, league assists leader Judson joined Tianjin Quanjian, and main center back Gil went to Shandong
Luneng, and Brazilian international midfielder Elias also received offers from China, and Corinthians felt that their bodies were hollowed out.
Some Chinese fans joked - let's see which Brazilian team dares to win the championship in the future. Historically, Corinthians' performance dropped sharply in the 2016 season, and they only finished eighth.
Even Zhang Sheng, who had known the result for a long time, couldn't help but be stunned by the huge purchases of Chinese League One and Chinese Super League teams. These constant blockbuster transfers have also become a hot topic of discussion among the players in the Longteng team.
Since the start of winter training, Longteng Club has recruited all the players on loan for next season's tactical drills, including the previous players Yan Xiaoyu, Ni Kai, Qu Wenming, Tang Jin, Huang He, and even loaned players.
Fernando, the "little motorcycle" who went to snow leopards in the Tianshan Mountains of Xinjiang.
The withdrawal of Fernando is mainly to cope with the extreme situation - being unable to buy the foreign player he likes throughout the transfer period.
This is a situation that Zhang Sheng must prepare for. The current purchase of foreign players by Longteng Club is no longer the stage where Zhang Sheng was just slapping his head and saying which player is easy to use, which player is cheap, and which player we should buy. How to cooperate with Zhang Sheng?
Techniques and tactics, how to fit the club's budget, considering that the club is still a listed company, and the market's reaction, are all things that must be taken into consideration.
Historically, Guangzhou Evergrande failed to consider all aspects of this issue, resulting in big losses.
After the end of the 2015 season, they successfully sold Elkeson. It seemed that they had recovered four times the previous transfer fee after three years of use. However, the subsequent recruitment of new foreign players was affected by the entire Chinese Super League's foreign recruitment craze.
Affected by the atmosphere, he did not make a good plan, but hurriedly found Mendes, the so-called number one agent in Europe, and bought Jackson Martinez.
In order for Jackson Martinez to win the Portuguese Super League Golden Boot for three consecutive seasons, Guangzhou Evergrande paid 42 million euros, and everyone knows the result.
Later, Liu Yongzhuo resigned, Guangzhou Evergrande struggled to win the championship, and was eliminated from the AFC Champions League. It was not unrelated to the introduction of Jackson Martinez. Later, it even affected the share price of Guangzhou Evergrande Club on the stock market.
Since the Dragons want to decide on a signing to replace a core player like Pato, they have to be cautious and cautious. Sometimes it is better not to buy than to buy indiscriminately.
Of course, this is indeed a sequelae of the disappearance of time travel benefits.
