During the entire European winter training period, the Longteng team's warm-up matches were very meaningful.
There are both high-level players, some of comparable strength, and even those who have received training. Through various opponents, Zhang Sheng has made a lot of improvements to his new tactics.
In the battles with these teams, the players on the team, especially the substitutes, grew up very quickly. Of course, Zhang Sheng’s empty inventory in the system now proves that he has emptied his inventory, and all his inventory has been exhausted.
Tactical accelerator symbols and player growth accelerator symbols were wiped out.
Finally, through these games, Zhang Sheng confirmed his main lineup for this season.
The goalkeeper is still Huang Dawei. His overall performance, especially in terms of stability and turnover rate, is much better than Zhou Wei. Unless there are accidents, Zhou Wei will still play mostly in cup matches.
In the center position, Chavez's comprehensiveness is not yet comparable to that of Nie Jiang. Nie Jiang will be positioned slightly further back and play as a shadow forward.
Among the three midfielders, the left midfielder Zhou Zhou will focus on defense, and the right midfielder will be Tao Wentao for the time being. Although De Paul, the Argentine player's strength is definitely among the top three in the team, it is different from the team's.
The cooperation is not very tacit, and it takes time to get familiar with it; the defensive midfielder position is still Rock Gill.
The two wing-backs, Ben Alpha on the left and Xiang Tiange on the right, have no objections.
The three central defenders from left to right are Lu Zhihui, Ma Yongli and Du Zhenyu.
This main lineup is actually not much worse than the Dragons last season. Except that the lack of Pato, a hot spot, may make the team's counterattack less powerful, other positions have even improved.
For example, Tao Wentao, who replaced Lin Feng, not only defended hard, but also had far better footwork than the former.
Last season, the left and right full-backs were the shortcomings of the Longteng team. This season, whether it is Xiang Tiange and Tao Wentao on the right, or Lu Zhihui and Zhou Zhou on the left, the overall defensive strength has improved a lot.
In terms of substitutes, the Longteng team has improved the most. De Paul and Qi Ming are players who have the ability to change the situation on the court.
Specific to the player index, the overall data for the new season is also very impressive.
Among the players whose ability value exceeds 110, there is Ben Alpha: 118/125; among the players whose ability value exceeds 100, there is Chavez: 106/112, De Paul 100/117; the player whose ability value exceeds 90 is Roque
.Gill: 97/104, Nie Jiang: 90/118; at the 80 level, there are also Tao Wentao: 85/90, Ma Yongli: 83/83, and Du Zhenyu: 80/84.
There are many more players with an ability value of over 80 than last season, which is Zhang Sheng’s greatest confidence in achieving results this season. You must know that in the Chinese Super League, even the core players of the national team are only in their early 80s, but even if the goalkeeper stands alone,
, the team is divided into four lines, and there are only four core players. There are four domestic players in the Longteng team who have reached 80 ability points. They all have the ability to compete for the team's core players.
Only Guangzhou Evergrande can compete with the Dragons, and this is the data they only had after they bought Lin Feng.
Of course, the largest group of Dragons players are players with an ability value over 70.
According to the players who stayed on the team this season, they are Lu Zhihui: 78/78, Huang Dawei: 78/78, Xiong Jian: 77/78, Qi Ming: 76/120, Yu Bo: 76/76, Zhang Hao: 76/76
, Zhou Wei: 75/75, Zhou Zhou: 75/75, Xiang Tiange: 75/82, Zou Weijia: 75/77, Yan Xiaoyu: 74/83, Ni Kai: 72/78, Liming: 72/78,
These twenty-five players will be the first player registration list for the Longteng Club this season.
Compared with the past, the team may have many players with an ability value in the 60s and 50s to make up the numbers. Now all the players on the Longteng team have an ability value in the 70s or above. This means that these players will go to any team except Guangzhou Evergrande.
All Chinese Super League teams can play the main role.
Compared with the past few seasons, another big difference between the Longteng team is the increase in the average age of the starting lineup. Just after entering the overtime, the Longteng team once set a record for the lowest average youth of the team at 21.8 years old.
This season, although many of these players have left, the overall age of the team has slowly increased. If calculated based on the starting lineup determined by Zhang Sheng, the average age is over 23 years old, which is considered to have improved a lot.
Such an average age can be said to be the most powerful stage. They have good competition experience, are young and strong, and can run and break out. Double matches a week can withstand their recovery ability.
In comparison with its biggest competitor, Guangzhou Evergrande, the Longteng team can better reflect this advantage.
The age of Guangzhou Evergrande's main lineup this season is as high as 28.12 years old. This is even after buying Lin Feng (22 years old) and two slightly younger foreign players, Jin Yingquan (26 years old) and Goulart (25 years old).
Some data.
It can be said that once there is a problem with Guangzhou Evergrande's foreign players, Guangzhou Evergrande, whose average age is close to 30, will be very dangerous. With the character of their boss, who wants any championship, it is impossible to fight on two or even three fronts.
Things to avoid, if someone of this average age plays in a three-line match, it would be really tricky if he can withstand it.
Historically, Guangzhou Evergrande has had a harder time playing in subsequent seasons. In addition to opponents spending a lot of money, the increase in their average age is a very critical factor.
In history, the Chinese Football Association has been criticized by fans for its U23 policy. To be honest, it would be a bit unfair to say that this policy was formulated by the Football Association as soon as it was thought of. Because Guangzhou Evergrande is really
Not only is it the one with the oldest average age, Shanghai Shenhua is even more serious than them, but the same serious situation includes Beijing Guoan, Hebei Huaxia and Tianjin Quanjian.
There are a lot of international players in these teams, and there are even a lot of players over 30 years old.
In the 2017 World Cup preliminaries, in the match against Uzbekistan, the average age of the Chinese national team's starters was as high as 29.18 years old, and more than half of those who were over 30 years old were chosen. This is why Deng Hanwen, a 22-year-old youngster, was selected.
, and looking at the players on the bench, those who can be sent out are basically over 30.
With such an age structure, if you say there is no problem, no one will believe it. It can only be said that the dark environment of the previous ten years has caused a complete talent gap in Chinese football.
On the contrary, look at the average age of the world's top teams at that time. The youngest average age is the German team, only 25.17 years old, followed by the French team, 25.38 years old, England, the third youngest team, 25.58 years old, and Italy, which used to give people the impression of being old, is only 26.15 years old.
, ranked fourth.
Next is Switzerland with 26.22, Belgium with 26.32, Portugal with 26.8, Wales with 26.83, and Spain ranks 10th, but it is only 27.52.
It can be seen that the age of traditional powerful players is around 26. This is the age structure of the national team that is in line with today's trends. But we are 3 years older!
Just like our close neighbors Japan and South Korea, the average age of national teams is around 26 or 27. Nowadays, those over 24 years old in European leagues are embarrassed to call themselves teenagers, and are instead regarded as battle-hardened veterans.
From here everyone will find that a reasonable age is very important for the team to achieve good results.
It’s not without reason why local players in the Chinese Super League are so expensive, and why players from the Dragons are so highly sought after.
Thanks to Zhang Sheng's systematic help, while maintaining the strength of the team, he can also allow the Longteng team to provide a large number of talents to outside clubs. Otherwise, what if Zhang Sheng is given a lot of money?
Good player?
Even if the Longteng team continues to sell players, these players are only a drop in the bucket for the Chinese Super League. If Zhang Sheng does not expect, the Chinese Super League's U23 policy will still be introduced by then. The only possible situation is that the mandatory force will not be so strong.
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When the Dragons returned to China from Europe, the winter (pre-season) transfer window for the 2016 Chinese Super League was about to close, and the arms competition between the wealthy and local giants had also ceased.
During this winter window, the Chinese Super League is even more terrifying than last season. Their spending far exceeded last year’s 353 million euros, making it the most money-burning league in the world in winter. The Premier League, which has always been known for its money-burning in the past, spent only
There are 253 million euros, which is a full 100 million euros less than the Chinese Super League. The third-ranked Serie A is only a quarter of the Chinese Super League. From this perspective, the Chinese Super League has become the world's most money-burning league.
What is surprising is that as a secondary league of the Chinese Professional Football League, the Chinese Football League actually has a transfer expenditure of 60 million euros, ranking fourth in the world, which is 52 million euros more than the fifth-ranked Bundesliga.
Still high.
Even the Chinese Football League can rank among the top four in the world, and Chinese football's money-burning has completely reached scale.
Corresponding to the high prices are stars whose reputations are far greater than before.
Teixeira, J. Martinez, Ramirez, Gervinho, Guarin...
In the past, Chinese fans could only watch players of this level play in European giants, but now they can finally see them at their own doorstep and in their home team.
It has to be said that the introduction of Pato by the Dragons at the beginning and later Pato's performance in the Chinese Super League gave them a lot of inspiration - the world-class stars in their playing years are far from the stars who treat the Chinese Super League as a nursing home.
In this Chinese Super League winter window transfer, Jiangsu Suning topped the list with more than 100 million euros, and Hebei China Fortune ranked second with 72 million euros. In the past, Guangzhou Evergrande, which has always spent the most, "only
"We spent over 60 million euros and sold many players at the same time, recovering a lot of costs.
Due to the explosive buying of most teams, the value ranking of the Chinese Super League teams has also undergone great changes. Guangzhou Evergrande, which used to be at the top of the list, was squeezed to the second place by Jiangsu Suning, and the Longteng team, which was previously ranked second due to Par
With Tuo's departure, the team's value and ranking plummeted, being pushed down to fifth place by China Fortune Land Development and Shanghai Shenhua.
Compared with the players, those famous coaches who come to the Chinese Super League to look for gold are not inferior. In the face of real money, the world's famous coaches are completely unable to resist.
Last season, Shandong Luneng, who had nothing to lose in all four majors, dismissed Cuca and hired Meneses, the former Brazilian national team coach like Scolari. Beijing Guoan, who also had nothing in all four majors, invited Zaccheroni.
Unlike in the past when information on some second- and third-rate international coaches was sent to China to "fool around", there are always piles of information on super foreign players and world-famous coaches on the desks of general managers of Chinese Super League clubs.
Even master tacticians like Prandelli and Ancelotti are on the legendary list.
While recruiting high-quality foreign players, clubs in the middle and upper reaches of the Chinese Super League are also paying more and more attention to the quality of foreign teachers. On the one hand, the football concepts of excellent foreign teachers are more conducive to maximizing the team's competitiveness. On the other hand, good players can be trained by good coaches.
Only then did you obey.
In such a crazy atmosphere, the Longteng team became a "clean stream" for the entire Chinese Super League.
First, he loaned his team's sharpest winger to Europe. Then, the captain Lin Feng, whom outside fans agreed was the core of the team, was sold to rival Guangzhou Evergrande at a high price. Last season, the team's two wingers were poached by local tycoons.
Let's go, there are two substitutes with good abilities who were also snatched away by rich people.
Under such circumstances, the team still only introduced a slightly famous foreign player.
Therefore, when many media visited the Chinese Super League teams and made pre-season previews, they were skeptical about the Dragons. Of course, after experiencing the Dragons' pre-season sales in the previous two seasons, they also
I don’t dare to say it too harshly. After all, no matter how much the Dragons sell people, their results have always been good, and they even won the double championship last season.
Regarding the doubts from the outside world, everyone seemed confident at the "family forum" before the season that has become a habit.
Zhang Sheng even said bluntly: "This season, our minimum goal is to win at least one championship. If possible, I want to win the Triple Crown."
Zhang Zhijun also specifically warned: "During the Spring Festival, when I attended the government's tea party, the provincial and municipal leaders specifically mentioned this matter. They also hope that we can continue to maintain the results of last season and continue to contribute to Hubei Province and Jiangsu Province.
The city brings honor. I gave them reassurance and promised that we will achieve good results. I believe in you."
Zhang Sheng was very grateful that his father gave him firm support even when he was selling players like this. I guess the relevant provincial and municipal leaders were very anxious when they saw the Longteng team selling players like this, for fear that they would lose money if they made money.
He ran away. The business card of the football city that was finally built cannot be thrown away just like this.
My brother Zhang Chen lamented the transfers this winter and the value of domestic players: "I never thought football was so expensive, and I never thought football could be so profitable." He looked at Zhang Sheng with envy on his face.
, asked, "This winter, our club will earn a lot of money from selling players."
"Indeed. You have seen the accounts this winter." Zhang Sheng said proudly, "The income is really good."
Around this Spring Festival, the Longteng team's player sales alone reached an astonishing 490 million yuan. Lin Feng's 150 million, Xiao Yunfan and Wei Zhimin both 100 million, Zhu Xuhe and Yao Tian both 7,000
Thousands of dollars, plus the training fees for many players from the youth team and football school, the Longteng team has made a lot of money.
The team's only investment in personnel is De Paul's 4 million euros, which amounts to more than 28 million yuan.
If you add in the Dragons' income from the Club World Cup, this alone has deducted a lot of De Paul's transfer fee.
The prize money of the Club World Cup is US$5 million for the champion, US$4 million for the runner-up, and US$2.5 million for the third place. The reward for the third place of the Longteng team is still very generous.
At least the club won't have any difficulties regarding money.
