The first week of the Longteng team's training camp in Hainan was mainly focused on physical training. At the same time, player transfers are also an issue that must be considered, because this will affect the subsequent positioning of the main lineup.
The first one to leave was Xiao Yunfan.
As the "misplaced trio" who came together at the beginning, he was the one with the lowest potential. He was not very strong physically. After switching from forward to full-back, his defensive ability has not improved, and he became the Longteng team's back line.
A hidden danger that has always existed.
Although Xiao Yunfan is very sharp in assists, it is common for him to be broken through when encountering powerful forwards and wingers.
Previously in the AFC Champions League and the Club World Cup, he was the target of heavy blows from his opponents.
Being able to have such a brilliant performance in the Dragon Team depends more on the overall strength of the Dragon Team.
In fact, this conclusion can be drawn from Xiao Yunfan's current potential value and ability value. Now Xiao Yunfan's two values are 74/74. After Zhang Sheng sold players last season, which led to the upgrade of the average level of the Chinese Super League, many players in the Chinese Super League
The ability value and potential value have reached or even exceeded this level.
When the Chinese Super League was first promoted in the 2015 season, Zhang Sheng observed that the potential of many players, especially the main players in Guangzhou Evergrande, Shanghai SIPG, and Jiangsu Suning, was already higher than this number. For example, several players from Guangzhou Evergrande
For the core players, Gao Lin's statistics are 76/82, Feng Xiaoting's is 80/84, Zengcheng's is 78/83, Zou Zheng, Yu Hanchao and others also mostly have around 75 ability value and around 80 potential value. Of course, the highest is undoubtedly
Zheng Zhi, the captain of Guangzhou Evergrande, has always maintained his ability value and potential value at 87/110. If it were not for his age, it would have been perfectly fine for Zheng Zhi at his peak to play as a main force for a mid-to-lower team in the five major European leagues.
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Based on Xiao Yunfan's data, to be honest, he is just an ordinary main player when he goes to Guangzhou Evergrande.
Of course, his advantages are also very obvious. He is only 22 years old. As long as he maintains his condition, he will be better than those players in the Guangzhou Evergrande team who are generally about to reach 30 years old or even over 30 years old.
Stable, because once most players reach the age of 30, their ability values will decline. After all, not everyone can maintain it as well as Zheng Zhi did.
What's more, most teams are counting on Xiao Yunfan's continued growth.
So when the Dragons revealed their intention to replace Xiao Yunfan with younger players, countless clubs came to contact the Dragons.
In the end, Jiangsu Suning, which had just taken over the team and was directly qualified to play in the AFC Champions League, took the lead. Just to create influence, they offered a price that the Longteng team could not refuse - 100 million.
Xiao Yunfan is the absolute main force of the last double-champion Longteng team. It is not clear how high the price is, but it can satisfy Xiao Yunfan's insistence on playing in the AFC Champions League and his relatively high salary requirements - after tax.
10 million, such a condition can only be achieved by Jiangsu Suning, who spent a lot of money to make a name for himself after accepting the club.
Xiao Yunfan's departure means the disbandment of the "Three Misplaced Musketeers" in the Longteng team.
Zhou Zhou, as the oldest of the three, has now taken over the position of captain of the Dragon Team and will not leave the club in a short time. Although Yu Bo has the highest human ability and potential among the three, due to his position
The reason - midfielders and frontcourt players have to serve as substitutes for foreign players.
Now it is finally Xiao Yunfan's turn to leave the team. The players that the Longteng team recruited when they were in the second league finally began to slowly fail to keep up with the development of the club.
Shortly after Xiao Yunfan left the team, another player that Zhang Sheng wanted to stay for another season also proposed a transfer, and that was Wei Zhimin.
As the team's semi-main player, Wei Zhimin played a lot of games last season. When facing weak teams, he was Zhang Sheng's first choice at left back.
The situation of Wei Zhimin and Xiao Yunfan is roughly the same. He is also a full-back with strong assist ability but poor defense.
Compared with Xiao Yunfan, Wei Zhimin's advantage is even more obvious, that is, at just twenty years old, he does not occupy one of the five age-restricted players who can buy into the club. He can be introduced as a U21 player.
With the U21 player quota as the main force of the team, it has become a matter of course to rob him.
In fact, according to Zhang Sheng's idea, in the position of full-back, at least one player with sufficient game experience must be retained on both sides. However, Wei Zhimin was too tempted by the outside world. With an annual salary of 10 million after tax, he also gave
There is also a signing fee of 30 million.
With such a price, to be honest, the Longteng team really has no choice.
As a listed club, the Longteng team has its own regulations on salary framework.
For example, in addition to foreign players, the highest annual salary in the team is Lin Feng, who left after transfer. His annual salary is 3.5 million after tax. The other main players such as Ma Yongli, Lu Zhihui and Tao Wentao only only have 200 to 200.
An annual salary of three million after tax.
In fact, this is also a pretty good salary in the Chinese Super League now. In addition to Guangzhou Evergrande's annual salary far exceeding that of Longteng, the salary given to players by Longteng Club is definitely among the top. And as players who came out of their own youth training system, the salary is generally high.
It is normal to be lower than others.
The results of the double championship in the 2015 season prompted many players to ask for a salary increase. After Lin Feng failed to propose studying abroad, he also made a request for a salary increase. His request was not high, just being on par with Guangzhou Evergrande's main players, but
Such a request completely broke the salary structure of the Longteng team. It was rejected by the Longteng club, and subsequent transfers became inevitable.
After the season, the Longteng club generally increased the salaries of its players. Ma Yongli, the core of the team's defense, was raised from three million to four million.
But compared with the clubs outside that spend huge sums of money to recruit people, it's really not good enough.
For example, the price offered by China Fortune Land Development this time was much higher than Wei Zhimin's annual salary of only two million. Zhang Sheng really couldn't say anything about such attraction.
Now Hebei China Fortune's head coach Li Gang seemed very embarrassed. He made a special call to Zhang Sheng and said that this was the club's arrangement and he did not ask Wei Zhimin by name.
Zhang Sheng understands it very well. After all, China Fortune Land Development is now eager to spend money to strengthen the team. What professional players ultimately care about is their own income. For Wei Zhimin, who already has multiple championships in hand, it is difficult to fault him.
In the end, China Fortune Land Development acquired Wei Zhimin for the same price as Xiao Yunfan, and the transfer fee of 100 million was quite a lot.
Not long after Wei Zhimin left, Pato's transfer was also decided.
It should be said that Pato's agent Kilma Velos has really good abilities and connections. As in history, it was Chelsea who took a fancy to Pato and proposed a loan-cum-buyout contract.
Chelsea is really miserable now. Although Mourinho has dismissed get out of class, the medical dispute between him and team doctor Eva has put the entire team in turmoil. Who would have thought that Chelsea, which aims to win the championship, will be in trouble in three months?
After the league, was it once ranked in the relegation zone?
Although the morale of the army has stabilized a lot after Hiddink took over the team, the two people who performed well last season have completely fallen into a slump, especially Costa, the hero of last season's championship, did not score in many rounds, and at the same time, the substitute
Several forwards also performed haphazardly.
For this reason, finding a striker is Chelsea's top priority.
After going around in the transfer market, Chelsea suddenly discovered that there were really no forward players who could make an immediate impact during the winter window. At this time, Pato, who was recommended by Kilma Velos, received the attention of Chelsea Club.
Chelsea doesn’t attach too much importance to Pato’s performance in the Chinese Super League and AFC Champions League, but his performance against Mexico’s América and Barcelona in the Club World Cup is obvious to all. Hiddink has very high requirements for players’ running, and Pato is in the Chinese Super League.
His performances in the AFC Champions League and Club World Cup are definitely satisfying.
At the same time, he ran a lot without getting injured, which proves that Pato's body is indeed in the best condition.
In the end, Chelsea, who were in urgent need of strikers, signed Pato at the cost of half a season's salary, two million euros plus a buyout clause.
Such conditions are already very good for a player coming from the Chinese Super League.
This negotiation between the Longteng team and Chelsea has opened up a communication channel between the two parties. Chelsea has also made demands for many Chinese players in the Longteng team, especially Nie Jiang, a genius who is already well-known in European football.
Chelsea even made a request for the right of first refusal.
In the end, Zhang Sheng excused Nie Jiang by saying that his age did not meet the requirements.
Even though the two sides did not reach an agreement on the Nie Jiang issue, the two sides still made considerable progress in the cooperation between the two clubs. Regarding the exchange of visits between the two teams after the end of the season, the arrangement of friendly matches, etc.
There is a long-term plan.
With Pato's departure, the Longteng team also accelerated the introduction of foreign players.
Unfortunately, the news waiting for the Longteng team is not good. Judging from the situation reported by the scout team, Brazil's Costa recommended Leo Chitardini, Douglas Baggio, Adrian...
Oliveira Tavares' performance is very average now. After becoming famous at a young age, these players fell very quickly. Some were sent back to the youth team by the first team, and some could not find a chance in the youth team.
Already.
It seems that the players who had not played well before Zhang Sheng traveled through time were indeed not very good.
As for several Argentine players, the situation is very complicated.
For Acosta, the Lanus team asked for a very high price. Maybe they heard that the Chinese Super League clubs have money, and they even offered him a price of 30 million euros.
For a player who has been selected for the Argentine national team but has now returned to Argentina from Europe, such an asking price is too outrageous.
At the same time, Acosta himself did not have much interest in playing in the Chinese Super League, so the Longteng team had no choice but to give up this goal.
As for Diego Perotti, now the Dragons have encountered a powerful opponent.
Diego Perotti's Genoa is now the second-to-last team in Serie A in terms of offensive power. His performance on the offensive line is not good. Even so, in order to replace the vacancy left by Iturbe, Serie A giant Roma
The team still took a fancy to him. Among the choices between the Chinese Super League team and Roma, Diego Perotti chose the latter.
This makes the Longteng team very discouraged. It seems that as long as players are confident in their abilities, it will still be difficult for them to come to play in the Chinese Super League unless they offer very high prices.
Rigoni doesn't mind playing in the Chinese Super League, but his asking price is too high, and his own situation is also very complicated. Half of his current ownership rights are in the hands of his current team, Atletico Argentina, and the other half.
In the hands of debut team Belgrano.
Sporting agreed to the Longteng team's proposal to buy out his ownership, but Belgrano firmly disagreed and wanted to maintain 50% ownership of Rigoni.
Longteng Club hesitated for a long time and finally chose to give up because the club was not familiar with things like 50% ownership and had no experience in what situations it would encounter. In the end, it targeted Rodrigo Gomez.
and Rodrigo De Paul.
Rodrigo Gomez is currently playing in Argentina's youth team, and he is a substitute. He is well regarded by the outside world, but judging from his actual performance, his too thin body and ordinary confrontation ability make his future uncertain.
Not too good.
In addition, the Dragons already have players like Fernando on the wing who are fast but thin, so Rodrigo Gomez's role is too low.
In the end, the Dragons set their sights on Rodrigo De Paul.
Rodrigo De Paul moved to Valencia in La Liga in 2014, but the high expectations the club gave him did not come true. For a player who landed in La Liga at the age of 19, if he does not perform very dazzlingly,
It is difficult to become the main force.
Therefore, he did not have many playing opportunities in Valencia. During this winter window, Rodrigo De Paul had the intention of leaving Valencia.
Now he has several options, one is to directly return to Argentina to play football to maintain his condition, and then seek a transfer to Europe, the other is to directly loan to a low-level team in Europe, and the last is the current Longteng team's purchase.
Rodrigo De Paul was quite impressed with the sudden appearance of the Dragons team. As a fan of Messi, he had been paying attention to Barcelona's games. Just some time ago, the Dragons appeared in the match against Barcelona.
in the game.
Rodrigo De Paul originally had a dismissive attitude towards Barcelona's opponent, the Dragons, but the course of the game changed his view. The Dragons' tenacity allowed them to equalize the score for a time.
"The strength of the Chinese Super League team may be pretty good." This was the first impression that Longteng left on him about the Chinese Super League team.
And as Pato was loaned to the giant Chelsea, he saw how close this team is to the European League. Even now there are European teams chasing him, but Chelsea's name is still real.
It shocked him.
Soon, Valencia adopted a laissez-faire attitude towards the team's fringe players, and the Dragons' offer of four million euros was far more than when they originally bought him. The club agreed to let the Dragons and Ronaldo
Drigo De Paul goes to talk about personal treatment.
It can be said that Pato, the player who left, also made contributions to the Longteng team.
