Facing Zhang Sheng's analysis, both Zhang Chen and Zhang Zhijun nodded in approval.
The leader’s reminder is certainly not without purpose. Since we have received a well-intentioned reminder, we can be sure that controlling financial risks must be implemented.
To control financial risks, the Longteng Club's salary limit must be put on the agenda.
"Your brother still sees far." As a father, Zhang Zhijun was embarrassed to admit his mistake directly to Zhang Sheng, but he still expressed his meaning tactfully.
Zhang Sheng smiled inwardly: "This is the first time that my father has admitted his mistake in front of him."
Just when Zhang Sheng was still feeling proud, Zhang Zhijun's next words silenced him again.
"It's a good thing to look far. But how to deal with the current situation?" Zhang Zhijun raised his head and stared at Zhang Sheng and asked, "Your previous idea was to immediately start limiting the salary of the players in the team. This will most likely lead to foreign aid.
Run away. For these foreign aids, the reason why they come to China is because the money in China is easy to make, and it is much more than what they can earn abroad. Once they can't make the extra money, they would rather take less money to go to Europe or go back to South America, but
Don't believe what they say now about 'I love China'. You know the consequences yourself."
"On the other hand, the club's current performance is so good, it is certain that domestic players will demand a salary increase. Now not only are you not prepared to raise salaries significantly, you are also prepared to limit them. Our opponents will not limit their salaries honestly.
Salary, they still want you to announce the order to limit salary tomorrow, so that they can send people over to poach people the next day." Zhang Zhijun continued to analyze the dangers with high probability, "The temptation of money is far beyond your imagination.
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"The loss of personnel will immediately affect the team's stability and performance. Without these experienced players, how can you make your tactics be implemented to the letter? Without good foreign aid, the team's strength will be different from that of the team."
Compared with opponents, the relationship between one and the other is ebb and flow. Which team's foreign players are still upgrading now."
"Even if the performance does not decline, how can we ensure the enthusiasm of the fans and attract greater investment from sponsors even if the star players leave? How can the club's influence be guaranteed?"
"Also, our club is now a listed company. The above-mentioned things will definitely affect the market value. Although it is only the New Third Board, how can we appease those investors? Besides, are we willing to stay on the New Third Board forever? We don't want to transfer to the GEM.
Don’t want to transfer to small and medium-sized boards, don’t want to transfer to main board? Any changes in the history will affect the transfer.”
After talking about these hidden dangers, Zhang Zhijun said earnestly: "Everything will be done if it is forewarned, and if it is not forewarned, it will be ruined. We must think clearly before making any major decisions."
After listening to these words, Zhang Sheng had to admire his father's careful thinking and thorough consideration. He confirmed that he had considered the possibility of impact on the team's performance, as well as the response from fans and sponsors, but he was concerned that the company was a listed company.
This property and its subsequent impact have not been considered.
After all, Zhang Sheng really has no research on this topic, and Zhang Zhijun, as the chairman of a listed company, is very familiar with it.
Despite the admiration, Zhang Sheng did not give up at all on his decision to implement a salary limit.
After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Sheng said: "Dad, you have indeed considered the impact of salary restrictions more comprehensively than me. However, I don't think you need to worry too much about the negative reactions."
"Competitive sports, after all, have to come back to performance. Didn't we set up an e-sports department last year? Now there is a popular saying on the Internet, 'E-sports, dishonesty is the original sin.' In fact, I think this sentence is suitable for all sports.
sports."
"Foreign players have left, and local outstanding players have left. It doesn't matter, as long as we can win. As long as we can win, the fans will support us. The team's star flavor will no longer be strong. If we win and the results are good, we will have stars."
, the star flavor of the team is coming. As long as everyone doesn’t think our flavor is too strong when the time comes.”
Zhang Sheng was very relaxed and even made a joke.
"As for the sponsorship mentioned, as long as the team performs well and other sponsors don't rush to sponsor our championship, why not sponsor other teams?"
"As for the stock price, I really didn't think about it before. But I think it should be the same as what I said above. In the case of salary restrictions and player sales, if we maintain good results, the stock price will only be higher. After all, we
The financial report will be more beautiful. I heard from a friend some time ago that Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao, which is listed on the New OTC Market like us, has suffered huge losses in a row. If there is no improvement next year - they should not be able to improve next year - they even
Will be stung." Zhang Sheng also thought of rhetoric about the company's stock price.
"Of course, I have plans for specific operations."
Next, Zhang Sheng began to introduce his thoughts on adjusting the team.
"First of all, in terms of foreign aid. Chavez, I am ready to let him go. He has already told me that he wants to transfer, and he has high salary requirements. If I force him to stay, as for DePaul and Fernando, they
The salary is not high and the contract period is very long. Even if the salary needs to be adjusted, the extent will not be large."
"Besides, the all-Chinese class has always been the strategic goal of our club. This time Chavez is gone, and I have no plans to buy any more foreign players next season."
Seeing the surprised expressions on Zhang Zhijun and Zhang Chen's faces, Zhang Sheng quickly raised his hand and said, "Wait until I finish."
"Of course, if there are cheap and beautiful players, I will buy them. After all, we still have sufficient resources in South America, and they have no shortage of such players. Fernando is an example. He still has good potential to tap."
At this time, Zhang Zhijun and Zhang Chen looked at each other, relaxed their expressions slightly, and nodded together.
"As for worrying about our local players transferring to other teams and affecting the team's performance, you can rest assured. The best players in our team, Nie Jiang and Qi Ming, will all go to Europe. They
I will not stay in the country, this has nothing to do with money. No matter how much money I give, they will not stay."
"Except for Nie Jiang and Qi Ming, I will keep the best players in the team. As for the other players, if they want to leave, let them go. There are better players waiting behind.
As for the top position. As for which player is better, after so many years, you should also believe my vision, right?"
Zhang Zhijun shook his head helplessly and said with a wry smile: "Although I don't know how you judge the quality of players, your brother and I both believe you on this point."
Zhang Chen on the side even playfully gave Zhang Sheng a thumbs up.
In Zhang Sheng's mind, Nie Jiang and Qi Ming should go to Europe after the World Cup. With the strength of the Longteng team, the player reserves behind them can definitely keep up.
If he can't keep up with this, Zhang Sheng, who is cheating on his body, might as well find a noodle and hang himself.
"Well...if we really want to say that if we can still guarantee results by removing a group of players, there is actually a lot of room for maneuver." Seeing Zhang Sheng's determination not to hit the wall or look back, Zhang Zhijun started.
Figure out how to get the most benefit from it.
"During this period, we have been discussing some acquisitions with Wanda, and they are preparing to transfer some real estate projects." Zhang Zhijun confessed some of his thoughts to Zhang Sheng, "This year Dalian Yifang entered the Chinese Super League, and they are short of players.
It’s very powerful. Just a few days ago, Lao Wang was talking to me about this. I guess Lao Wang has the intention to return to the football circle."
"The price offered by Wanda is quite good, and there are many people who want it. Since he mentioned this to me, it means there is a chance. I think so, next season, I will ask our group to increase your sponsorship. You
We can provide them with two or three players here. When they first come here, their salary will certainly be high, and their transfer fee will not be low either. After all, good players are in short supply everywhere."
Since trying to use Longteng Club players to pave the way and reaching multiple real estate cooperation and acquisitions last year, Zhang Zhijun has begun to maximize his profits.
If you can buy good players from the Longteng team and cooperate with the prosperous Longteng Group, many people will pay a certain premium.
The Longteng Group has countless ways to return this benefit to the Longteng Club.
For example, we can increase the sponsorship fee for Longteng Sports - not just Longteng Football Club, support the youth training of Longteng Club in the name of helping the development of domestic football, provide venues in Longteng's residential projects for Longteng Club to establish small youth training points, etc.
Even Zhang Chen's company can provide a lot of help to the Longteng team. For example, he promised to give more endorsements to the star players of Longteng Sports next year. The salary limit is only salary and bonuses. In terms of endorsements, the Football Association has always supported it.
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With the current enthusiasm for the Chinese team to qualify, especially for the World Cup next year, it is completely blameless to find players from a championship team like the Dragons to endorse.
It can be said that this communication between father and son not only minimized the negative impact of the salary-limited club, but also maximized the interests of Longteng Group.
After the discussion, Zhang Sheng became particularly happy. A major problem that had been bothering him during this period was solved. He was finally able to devote himself wholeheartedly to the pure football competition that he was most familiar with and loved most.
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While the outside media were still reporting and analyzing the Longteng team's second AFC Champions League title at length, Zhang Sheng had already begun to prepare for the next two rounds of the FA Cup championship match with Shanghai SIPG.
However, before the game, the Longteng team still has to rush for one thing, that is, on November 29, the 2017 AFC Awards Ceremony will be held in Bangkok, Thailand.
This year's Dragon Club is the biggest favorite for multiple awards. Once someone wins, they will also usher in a media carnival.
In fact, in Zhang Sheng's heart, he was very reluctant to attend this award ceremony because it would have a great impact on the subsequent FA Cup final.
But he and the Longteng players who were selected for this time's shortlist had to go because according to the regulations of the AFC - if you don't show up, you won't get the prize.
This rule will be set by the AFC from 2005, mainly because the top players in Asia basically play in Europe, and the award ceremony is mostly scheduled in early December. This is the most fierce competition in the European leagues and the schedule
The most intensive time.
Players playing in Europe don't want to waste time for a useless Asian Footballer of the Year award, or cause dissatisfaction with the club.
This has led to many players who play in the Asian League to follow suit and not attend the ceremony many times, citing competition as an excuse.
Before 2005, the AFC was very enthusiastic about selecting these stars who played in Europe, but others did not attend the ceremony at all.
For example, the Asian Footballer of the Year award in 2010 was won by Ognenovski, which was very surprising at the time. Because he was supposed to have a game on the day of the award ceremony and did not attend, but by chance, he was injured before the game.
Taking this opportunity, he attended the award ceremony and won the honor of Asian Footballer.
Historically, stars such as Son Heung-min, Park Ji-sung, Shinji Kagawa, and Keisuke Honda did not win trophies because they were not present.
The most outrageous thing is that in 2005, the candidate list included Park Ji-sung, Lee Young-pyo, Hidetoshi Nakata, Shunsuke Nakamura, and Ali Karimi. However, they announced early that they would not attend. Among the remaining players, the favorite Jab suddenly
The day before the awards were given, I informed the AFC that the club was unwilling and gave up attending.
As a result, in the prestigious Asian Footballer selection, there were only two people left on the final candidate list. It's a shame that the club of these two people allowed them to participate, otherwise, there would be a vacancy for the Asian Footballer of the year.
Therefore, there is no future for being a dog licker. The goddess's words "I'm asleep" can make the dog licker break his defense on the spot.
The AFC, feeling that it had lost face, made this rule angrily.
Later, the AFC simply stopped including these players on the candidate list.
This time Nie Jiang was selected for the Asian Footballer of the Year candidate list, competing with Omar Khribin and the UAE's "Gulf Messi" Omar.
If those players who play in Europe are also included in the candidate list, Nie Jiang will most likely not win this award, but now, his award is basically certain.
At the same time, Liming was also selected as the best young men's player. After all, he was born in 1998, and as the absolute main force of the Longteng team's defense, he has a season of highlight performance, which fully meets the conditions for selection. Those who compete with him are
They are two Korean players, Lee Seung-woo and Baek Seung-ho.
On the shortlist for the best men's coach, Zhang Sheng competes with Australia's Postkoglu and Japan's Takashi Hori.
It is also worth mentioning that there is a former Longteng player on the candidate list for the best overseas player, that is Li Yun, who currently plays for Red Bull Leipzig in the Bundesliga. Whether in the Bundesliga or the Champions League, he is unbeatable for the team.
The main central defender, and his performance is very dazzling.
Of course, the competition Li Yun faces is also very fierce. Japanese player Shinji Kagawa and Korean player Son Heung-min are both well-known stars.
In addition to Nie Jiang, Zhang Sheng and Liming, other Longteng players, coaching staff, and staff were watching the awards ceremony in Shanghai. They had already flown over to prepare for the game.
In the large conference room specially prepared for the Dragon Team in the hotel, everyone was waiting for the final result.
On the large projected TV screen, the broadcast cameras were frequently aimed at the Chinese delegation, because all the popular ones were there.
Zhang Sheng, Nie Jiang and Liming in the camera appear to be smiling and chatting, but in fact, they only have one sentence in their hearts right now: "Hurry up and finish it, I want to go home!"
