This season, Guangzhou Evergrande's uniform team has been sprayed very badly.

After Allan was seriously injured in the 2015 season, Evergrande did not replace foreign aid, but waited for him to recover after surgery to play, and from the current situation, he is not as dazzling as Elkeson and Muric.

Paulinho is very strong, but he is a midfielder and does not provide the same playmaking function as Conca.

Goulart is not bad, but it is too tiring to let him score goals and to organize the attack, and to be a father and a mother.

As for Martinez, who spent a lot of money at the beginning of the season, he has become the object of everyone's complaints, there are not many goals, but there are many injuries, and the role of the fulcrum in the front court that he must assume in Scolari's tactics has completely failed, and now, he simply has no chance to play.

Scolari is a manager with a centre-forward complex.

In his tactics, the position of the center forward is very important. He needs to have the ability to play with the ball with his back, he needs to be able to turn around and shoot, and if the demand is higher, it would be perfect to be able to create chances with his body and technique up front.

So a centre-forward who can play the role of a fulcrum up front 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 if the performance of traditional strong teams such as Beijing Guoan and Shandong Dongluneng is extremely sluggish this season, and the threat to Evergrande has been greatly reduced, Evergrande is still playing very difficult in the league, and it is not for nothing that it is directly out of the AFC Champions League.

If Evergrande also wants to show competitiveness in the Chinese Super League and AFC Champions League, then in the upcoming summer transfer window of the Chinese Super League, it is essential to bring in a strong center forward.

What is slightly different from history is that even if Evergrande was humiliatingly eliminated in the AFC Champions League group stage, it was still able to make do with a small half of the lead in the Chinese Super League, and did not adjust foreign aid.

As a result, the whole circle began to spread that Guangzhou Evergrande was ready to spend a lot of money to adjust foreign aid.

From the veteran Klose, the Dutch "General Van Persie" - Van Persie, to famous strikers like Adebayor, and even Diego Costa's popular striker all appeared in Guangzhou Evergrande's field of vision, and all kinds of three-no news were blown up.

And in the Dragon 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, Ben Alpha's fear of injury made Zhang Sheng very dissatisfied.

Zhang Sheng's tactics for the Dragons are based on physical confrontation and high tempo, and once a player like Ben Alpha cringes, the impact on the whole team is very big.

So it happened that Ben Alpha could not play in the next round of accumulated yellow cards, and the transfer contract with the French Nice team was also negotiated to start the transfer on July 1, Zhang Sheng felt that it was better to inform Ben Alpha and discuss letting him go back to Europe first.

Now the question arises, how to allocate foreign aid after Ben Alpha is gone.

In addition to Roque Gill, De Paul and Chavez, Fernando is also on loan at the Tianshan Snow Leopards in Western Xinjiang, and if you count Wigel, who is on loan at RB Leipzig, there are five foreign players.

But the actual situation now is that the loan is definitely not needed, Chavez is injured again, and there are only two foreign players who can really destroy the city for the Dragons.

Under the premise that the strategy of abandoning Asia and making room for local players has been determined, the Longteng team is born with one less foreign aid than all Chinese Super League opponents.

So far, only two foreign players have opened up the gap with other Chinese Super League teams.

After Ben Alpha left, whether to bring in another foreign player became an issue that the club's management and coaching staff had to discuss, and even Zhang Zhijun was involved in this topic.

At the internal high-level meeting, Zhang Zhijun put forward his opinion: "After Ben Alpha left, the Longteng team will have no influential foreign aid. As the super business card of Longteng Group, I think that all things considered, there must be a super foreign aid at the Asian level. ”

Zhang's statement received limited support from Chen Zhuoyi, head of sports, Shi Junjie, head of administration, and Shi Zhiqiang, head of marketing.

As the head of the sports department, Chen Zhuoyi's introduction of strong foreign players obviously helps to improve the performance, but he also needs to consider the impact of foreign aid on the overall tactics and team atmosphere.

Shi Junjie is more from the perspective of internal competition, there is a well-known foreign aid in the team, in addition to the "technical poverty alleviation" local players, at least other foreign aid can have a sense of urgency.

As for Shi Zhiqiang's reasons for support, it is even simpler. A well-known foreign player has an unparalleled influence on the team's business development, of course, the performance of this foreign player cannot be too bad, otherwise, this influence will become negative.

But Zhang Sheng's opinion of his father is not too disagreeable.

Now the tactics of the Longteng team determine that every player on the field must be 100% committed to pressing, that is to say, whether it is a foreign aid or not, and no matter what position is played, they must participate in the defense.

After Ben Alpha left, the foreign reinforcements brought in must also be on the front line. If you really buy a well-known star, it is unknown whether he will be willing to participate in defense obediently.

Once he is arrogant and doesn't want to waste his physical strength to defend, or is perfunctory, whether Zhang Shengpi criticizes him or not, the consequences are very serious.

Zhang Sheng is not a well-known coach who came to China to coach after becoming famous in Europe, and it is difficult to say what the attitude of foreign aid is.

Although there is a contradiction, Zhang Sheng, as the actual owner of the club, certainly has the upper hand, but the high transfer fee and salary invested will be wasted.

Not to mention the other way around. The Dragons now have a large number of call-up players in the squad who need a lot of games to improve their game, and with Ben Alpha gone, it is better to let these young players hone in the free space.

Even if the team's results will be affected for a while, it will help Chinese football more in the long run - it is very likely that Longteng will send one or two high-level internationals to the national team - especially if the Chinese team lacks good strikers.

Zhang Sheng, who had been prepared for this for a long time, said all his thoughts one by one.

Of course, it is not without high-level support for Zhang Sheng, and the head of the finance department is very much in favor of his own players - after all, if a high-paid player is gone, he will spend a lot less money on the transfer fee, and there will be a lot less financial pressure.

And when the time comes, as a listed company, the annual report of the Longteng team will look much better.

You must know that in history, even if Guangzhou Evergrande held seven consecutive championships in the Chinese Super League and won two AFC Champions League championships, but because of the cumulative loss of nearly 2.5 billion yuan after listing, the shareholders' equity attributable to the parent company was -380 million yuan, and the net assets were negative.

In China, ST shares are mostly shunned by investors except for those death squad shareholders and institutions, which has a very bad impact on any company.

Zhang Sheng actually knew what his father Zhang Zhijun was worried about.

As the most popular football club in China, Longteng team is now the guest of many local governments, and Longteng Group has also taken advantage of this shareholder wind to transform from a local real estate company to a well-known real estate developer with an industry all over the country.

The overall assets and influence of Longteng Group also bulged like blowing bubbles.

What Zhang Zhijun is afraid of is that in the period of rapid expansion of Longteng Group, Longteng Club suddenly fell into a downturn because of its fame and strength, which had too much impact on the strategic planning of the entire group.

Regarding Zhang Zhijun's worries, Zhang Sheng made a solemn promise: "I dare to promise." Even if they don't bring in big-name foreign players, the Dragons can guarantee at least one championship every year. ”

Zhang Sheng's guarantee has his own confidence.

In the entire Chinese Super League team, everyone's players are more than 70 ability values, and players over 80 are rare, and domestic players with ability values of more than 80 or even as high as 90 have become the standard for Longteng team starters.

Football is a multi-player team sport, and the overall level is the basis for achieving results.

Look at the Japanese and South Korean clubs next door, they don't have any super high-level foreign aid, but under the condition that the local players are generally better than China's, they also play back and forth with the Chinese Super League players, and they are not too far behind.

Zhang Sheng believes that with the current domestic players and the existing foreign aid, the Longteng team is definitely still the top club at the Asian level.

Zhang Zhijun is very familiar with Zhang Sheng's attitude.

From the beginning of the establishment of the Longteng Club, Zhang Sheng's guarantee with a military order has never been disappointed.

Thinking of this, Zhang Zhijun chose to believe in his son again.

After the meeting, Zhang Zhijun and Zhang Sheng went to check the construction of the stadium together.

Since the initial groundbreaking, the stadium of Longteng Club has been under construction for more than two years. The main structure has been successfully built, and now all that remains is the installation of the seats, the interior decoration, and the arrangement of various instruments and equipment.

In the VIP stand at the top of the stadium, Zhang Zhijun still expressed his concern: "This summer transfer period, I heard that several Chinese Super League clubs are preparing to bring in super-big foreign players. In the second half of the year, there will be the Olympic Games, the Asian Youth Championships, and the Asian Junior Championships, and the team will have to draw a lot of people. You have to be careful, otherwise the attendance of this stadium will have an impact. ”

Zhang Sheng said in his mouth: "I am prepared for these. But there was still a faint worry in my heart.

The Chinese Football Association attaches great importance to this Olympic Games, mainly because the previous results were too poor.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, China has only entered the finals of the Olympic Games twice, and both times they were eliminated in the group stage with 1 draw and 2 losses.

In the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the Chinese Olympic team did not win a game and did not score a goal, just like the 2002 World Cup. As a result, it was also rated as the "least aggressive team".

In the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, as the host, the Chinese Olympic team had the same results as the last time, still one draw and two losses, and the group stage was defeated.

Therefore, the Chinese Football Association believes that Chinese football has made a lot of progress in recent years, and it is very promising to release a satellite, and qualifying from the group has even become their most basic requirement.

In this Olympic group grouping, the Chinese team and the German team, Mexico and Fiji are in a group, perhaps because of the existence of the Fiji team, which makes the Chinese Football Association feel that it is trying to draw the other two teams, and the hope of advancing is still very great, so they even put forward the idea of letting the Chinese Olympic team train for a long time.

It's just that their decision is not only opposed by the clubs of the Chinese Super League, but also by the clubs of several players who play in Europe and do not dump the Chinese Football Association at all - FIFA has stipulated that unless the international break, the rest of the time can be decided by the clubs themselves.

Among them, the biggest opposition in China is the Longteng team, because there are as many as nine Longteng players selected for the National Olympic team, and most of them are still the team's starters and rotation players.

If the resolution of the long-term training camp is not passed, the Chinese Football Association can only make a fuss about the league schedule.

In order to allow time for the national Olympic team to participate in the warm-up matches and Olympic competitions, the three clubs with a large number of selected players, Longteng team, Shandong Luneng and Hangzhou Greentown, have all adjusted the dates of the competition.

For example, after the next league game, the Longteng team will have a bye, and then the league will be suspended for another week, giving the national Olympic team more than two weeks to play warm-up games.

In July, the Longteng team will have more byes, and it is also for the National Olympic team to make time. Of course, all the byes of the Dragons will be made up in a two-game situation.

With such a fragmented schedule, Zhang Sheng also admitted that Zhang Zhijun's worries were justified.

When a team participates in the league, the form of the players is a key because the league is a long-term process. In the case of one game a week, how to adjust the condition of the players, and what different measures the coaching staff should take in the case of two games a week, is a very difficult problem.

Not to mention that the Dragons will also encounter a lot of two weeks without playing, and once they play, it will be two games in a row, and in such an irregular game schedule, the ups and downs of the players' form are predictable.

To solve such a 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 condition.

As Zhang Zhijun, who also came out of the sports front, he obviously knows this well, and it is understandable that he proposed to introduce big-name foreign aid.

After confirming that they would no longer buy foreign players, the Dragons team's focus returned to the game. Because soon the next round of the league will come, this game will require the Longteng team to fly long distances to Jilin to challenge Yanbian Fude. Zhang Sheng admired the Yanbian Fude team very much, and had long anticipated the difficulty of this game.