This season Guangzhou Evergrande's uniform team has been criticized a lot.
After Alan was seriously injured in the 2015 season, Evergrande did not replace foreign players, but waited for him to recover after surgery. Judging from the current situation, he is not as dazzling as Elkerson and Muric.
Paulinho is very strong, but he is a defensive midfielder and cannot provide the offensive organizing function like Conca.
Goulart is also good, but it is too tiring to have him score goals, organize offense, and be both a father and a mother.
As for Martinez, who spent a huge sum of money to introduce at the beginning of the season, he has become the target of everyone's complaints. He has not scored many goals and suffered many injuries. In Scolari's tactics, he has completely failed to play the fulcrum role in the frontcourt.
, and now, there is simply no chance to play.
Scolari is a head coach with a center complex.
In his tactics, the position of the center is very important. He not only needs to have the ability to hold the ball with his back, but also needs to be able to turn around and shoot. If the requirements are higher, he must be able to use his body and technology in the frontcourt.
Creating opportunities would be even better.
Therefore, a center that can play a fulcrum role in the frontcourt is Scolari's bottom line.
Among the existing Evergrande players, neither Goulart nor Alan can do it because they are not strong enough.
Historically, even though the performance of traditional strong teams such as Beijing Guoan and Shandong Luneng has been extremely sluggish this season, and the threat to Evergrande has been greatly reduced, Evergrande still has a very difficult time in the league, and it is even more direct in the AFC Champions League.
Being out is not without reason.
If Evergrande still wants to show competitiveness in the Chinese Super League and the AFC Champions League, then it is essential to introduce a strong center during the upcoming Chinese Super League summer window transfer period.
What is slightly different from history is that even though Evergrande was humiliatingly eliminated from the AFC Champions League group stage at that time, it was still able to make do with a half-position lead in the Chinese Super League without making adjustments to foreign players. Now in order to maintain the status of Evergrande Club
To achieve good results, Xu Jiaying had to pay for it.
Ever since, rumors began to spread throughout the circle that Guangzhou Evergrande was preparing to spend a lot of money to adjust foreign aid.
From the veteran Miroslav Klose, the Netherlands' "General Van" - Van Persie, to famous forwards like Adebayor, and even the popular striker Diego Costa, they all appear in Guangzhou Evergrande's recruiting horizons.
All kinds of news about "three noes" are flying around.
In the Longteng Club, the issue of foreign aid is also being discussed, that is, what to do after Ben Alpha leaves?
In the last crucial game against Guangzhou Evergrande, Zhang Sheng was very dissatisfied with Ben Alpha's fear of injury.
Zhang Sheng's tactics for the Longteng team are based on physical confrontation and high rhythm. Once a player like Ben Alpha shrinks back, it will have a huge impact on the entire team.
So it happened that Ben Alpha had accumulated yellow cards and was unable to play in the next round, and the transfer contract with the French team Nice also stipulated that the transfer would start on July 1. Zhang Sheng thought it would be better to inform Ben Alpha and discuss letting him
Forget it, go back to Europe first.
Now the question arises, after Ben Alpha leaves, how to allocate foreign aid.
The Longteng team currently has a lot of foreign players. In addition to Roque Gil, De Paul and Chavez, Fernando is also rented out to the Xijiang Tianshan Snow Leopards. If you also count Weigel, who is rented out to Red Bull Leipzig,
There are a total of five foreign players.
But the actual situation now is that the loan players will definitely not be used, Chavez is injured again, and there are only two foreign players who can really help the Dragons.
Under the premise of deciding on the strategy of abandoning Asia and foreign countries and making room for local players, the Longteng team inherently has one less foreign player than all its Chinese Super League opponents.
So far, only two foreign players have opened a gap with other Chinese Super League teams.
After Ben Arfa left, whether to introduce another foreign player became an issue that the club management and coaching staff had to discuss. Even Zhang Zhijun participated in this topic.
At an internal high-level meeting, Zhang Zhijun put forward his own opinion: "After Ben Alpha left, the Longteng team will have no influential foreign aid. As the super business card of the Longteng Group, I think that after comprehensive consideration, there must be an Asian player."
Super foreign aid at all levels.”
Zhang Zhijun's statement received limited support from Chen Zhuoyi, director of the sports department, Shi Junjie, director of the administrative department, and Shi Zhiqiang, director of the marketing department.
As the director of the sports department, Chen Zhuoyi's introduction of strong foreign players will obviously help improve performance, but he must also consider the impact of foreign players on the overall tactics and team atmosphere.
Shi Junjie thinks more from the perspective of internal competition. Having a well-known foreign player in the team can at least give other foreign players a sense of urgency in addition to "technical poverty alleviation" for local players.
As for Shi Zhiqiang's reason for support, it is even simpler. A well-known foreign player has an unparalleled influence on the team's business development. Of course, the foreign player's performance cannot be too bad, otherwise, the influence will become negative.
But Zhang Sheng didn't take his father's views seriously.
Now the Longteng team's tactics determine that every player on the field must devote 100% to pressing, which means that no matter whether they are foreign aid or not, and no matter what position they play, they must participate in defense.
After Ben Alpha leaves, the foreign players introduced will definitely be forwards. If we really buy a well-known star, it is unknown whether he will be willing to participate in the defense obediently.
Once he is arrogant and does not want to waste energy on defense, or is perfunctory, whether Zhang Sheng criticizes him or not, the consequences will be very serious.
Zhang Sheng is not a well-known coach who came to China to coach after becoming famous in Europe. It is difficult to say what the attitude of foreign players will be.
Although there was a conflict, Zhang Sheng, as the actual owner of the club, certainly had the upper hand, but the high transfer fees and salary invested were in vain.
What's more, from another perspective, the Dragons now have a large number of summoned players who need a lot of games to improve their skills. After Ben Alpha leaves, it is better to let these young players hone their skills in the vacated positions.
Even if the team's temporary performance will be affected, it will be more helpful to Chinese football in the long run - it is very likely that the Dragons will send one or two high-level international players to the national team - especially in China.
When the team lacks good forward players.
Zhang Sheng, who had been prepared for this for a long time, expressed his thoughts one by one.
Of course, there are some high-level officials who support Zhang Sheng. The head of the finance department is very much in favor of recruiting his own players - after all, taking away a high-paying player will save him a large amount of transfer fees, which will put a lot less financial pressure on him.
And when the time comes, as a listed company, Longteng Team’s annual report will look much better.
We must know that in history, even though Guangzhou Evergrande won seven consecutive Chinese Super League championships and two AFC Champions League championships, it suffered a cumulative loss of nearly 2.5 billion yuan after its listing, and the shareholders' equity attributable to the parent company was -380 million yuan, with a net loss of nearly 2.5 billion yuan.
Assets have become negative. According to relevant domestic regulations, Evergrande Taobao has been issued a risk warning and classified as an ST stock.
Domestically, ST stocks are mostly kept away from investors except those death squad investors and institutions, which has a very bad impact on any company.
Zhang Sheng actually knows what his father Zhang Zhijun is worried about.
As the most popular football club in the country, the Longteng team is now a guest of many local governments. The Longteng Group has also taken advantage of this shareholder trend to transform from a local real estate company into a well-known real estate developer with industries across the country.
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The overall assets and influence of Longteng Group also inflated like blowing bubbles.
What Zhang Zhijun is afraid of is that during the current period of rapid expansion of Longteng Group, Longteng Club suddenly fell into a downturn due to its reputation and strength, which would have a great impact on the strategic planning of the entire group.
Regarding Zhang Zhijun's concerns, Zhang Sheng solemnly made a promise: "I can guarantee that even if they don't bring in big-name foreign players, the Longteng team can guarantee at least one championship every year."
Zhang Sheng's guarantee is based on his own confidence.
In the entire Chinese Super League team, all players have an ability value in the 70s, and players over 80 are rare. Domestic players with an ability value over 80, or even as high as 90, have become the standard starter for the Longteng team.
Football is a multi-person team sport, and overall level is the basis for achieving results.
Look at the Japanese and Korean clubs next door. They don't have any super-high-level foreign players, but under the condition that the local players are generally better than those in China, they also play back and forth with the Chinese Super League players, and they don't lag too far behind.
Zhang Sheng believes that with the current domestic players and existing foreign aid, the Dragons will definitely remain the top club in Asia.
Zhang Zhijun is very familiar with Zhang Sheng's attitude.
Ever since the establishment of the Longteng Club, Zhang Sheng's guarantee with a military order has never failed.
Thinking of this, Zhang Zhijun chose to believe in his son again.
After the meeting, Zhang Zhijun and Zhang Sheng went together to inspect the construction status of the stadium.
From the groundbreaking to the present, the Longteng Club's stadium has been under construction for more than two years. The main structure has been successfully built, and now all that is left is the installation of seats, interior decoration, and the layout of various instruments and equipment.
In the VIP stands at the highest point of the stadium, Zhang Zhijun still expressed his concerns: "This summer transfer period, I heard that several Chinese Super League clubs are preparing to introduce very big-name foreign players. In the second half of the year, there will be the Olympic Games, the Asian Youth Championship, and the Asian Youth Championship.
If we want to play, the team will have to deploy a lot of people. You have to be careful, otherwise, the attendance of this stadium will be affected."
Although Zhang Sheng said: "I have prepared for these things.", he was still worried in his heart.
The Chinese Football Association attaches great importance to this Olympics. The main reason is because the previous results were so poor.
Since the founding of New China, China has only entered the finals of the Olympic Games twice, and both times it was eliminated in the group stage with 1 draw and 2 losses.
In the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the Chinese Olympic team failed to win a game and failed to score a goal, just like the 2002 World Cup. Therefore, it was also rated as the "least enterprising team."
In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the results of the Chinese Olympic team as the host were the same as last time, with one draw and two losses. They were eliminated in the group stage. The only thing that left a deep impression on everyone was Tan Daxia's move against Belgium.
"Cut off the children and the feet of the grandchildren".
Therefore, the Chinese Football Association believes that Chinese football has made great progress in the past few years, and it is very promising to launch a satellite. Qualifying from the group has even become their most basic requirement.
In this Olympics group group, the Chinese team is in the same group as the German team, Mexico and Fiji. Perhaps because of the existence of the weak team of the Fiji team, the Chinese Football Association feels that it will try to tie the other two teams.
The hope of promotion is still very high, so they even proposed the idea of letting the Chinese Olympic team train for a long time.
It's just that not only the Chinese Super League clubs opposed their decision, but the clubs of several players playing in Europe did not abandon the Chinese Football Association at all - FIFA stipulated that except for international match days, other times can be decided by the clubs themselves.
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Among them, the one with the greatest opposition in the country is the Longteng team, because there are as many as nine Longteng players selected for the Olympic team, and most of them are the team's starting and rotation players. We really want the Chinese Football Association to do this, Longteng
The team can directly declare relegation.
If the resolution on long-term training camps is not passed, the Chinese Football Association can only make a fuss about the league schedule.
In order to allow time for the Olympic team to participate in warm-up matches and Olympic competitions, the three clubs with the largest number of selected players, Longteng, Shandong Luneng and Hangzhou Greentown, have all adjusted their game dates.
For example, after the next league game, the Longteng team will have a bye, and then the league will take another week off, giving the Olympic team more than two weeks to play warm-up matches.
In July, the Longteng team will have more bye games, also to make up time for the Olympic team. Of course, all the bye games of the Longteng team will be made up with a double match a week.
With such a fragmented competition schedule, Zhang Sheng also admitted that Zhang Zhijun's concerns were justified.
When a team participates in the league, maintaining the status of the players is a key, because the league is a long-term process. How should the coaching staff adjust the status of the players when there is one game a week; what should the coaching staff do when there are double games a week?
Different measures are a very human problem.
Not to mention that the Longteng team will also encounter many situations where they will not play a game for two weeks, and then play a double match for a week. In such an irregular game schedule, the ups and downs of the players' condition are foreseeable.
To solve this problem, it is actually a good choice to reserve more players and buy big-name foreign players who have experience and are very good at adjusting their own status.
As Zhang Zhijun also comes from the sports front, he obviously knows this area well, and it is understandable that he proposes to introduce big-name foreign players.
After confirming that they will no longer purchase foreign aid, the Longteng team's focus returned to the game. Because the next round of the league will soon arrive, this game requires the Longteng team to fly long distance to Jilin to challenge Yanbian Fude. Against Yanbian Fude.
Zhang Sheng admires the German team very much and has long anticipated the difficulty of this game.
