This time, out of a friendly attitude, the Longteng Club sent letters to all Chinese Super League clubs inviting them to come over to watch the game.

Many clubs originally wanted to politely refuse, so as not to go to the scene to see their opponents go to the top and be stimulated, but now they all agreed to the invitation of the Longteng club if they didn't want to.

Among them, Guangzhou Evergrande was full of sincerity, and sent a team represented by Liu Yongzhuo to Jiangcheng, and he also gave a conclusive reason for coming: "Before coming, our Chairman Xu specially talked to me about his study in Jiangcheng. Of course, not only him, but also my feelings for Jiangcheng are also very deep, after all, I also spent the most unforgettable time of my youth in Jiangcheng. ”

Like Xu Jiaying, chairman of the board of directors of Guangzhou Evergrande, Liu Yongzhuo, who used to be a graduate student at Jiangcheng University of Science and Technology, had a reminiscent expression when talking to Zhang Sheng: "Although I am from Fujian, my wife is from Jiangcheng. ”

Hearing Liu Yongzhuo's words, Zhang Sheng only smiled and didn't answer, he knew that these words were just a joke, and Liu Yongzhuo's later words must be the point.

Sure enough, Liu Yongzhuo quickly turned to football: "In recent years, Longteng Club has contributed a lot of talents to Chinese football, and Chairman Xu and I are sincerely happy for you. ”

"In fact, Chinese football is the same as other industries, 'a game of chess for the whole country'. Liu Yongzhuo continued, "Maintaining the flow of talent and improving the overall level of league competition is what we have always adhered to. ”

If others said this, Zhang Sheng would listen to it, but when it was Guangzhou Evergrande's turn to say this, Zhang Sheng almost believed the words of the Chinese football boss in front of him.

Historically, Guangzhou Evergrande said that it was the second most powerful hoarding of outstanding players in China, and it is estimated that no one dared to call it the first.

From Gao Lin to Zheng Zhi, to Huang Bowen, to Mei Fang, Zengcheng and others in the back, which one is not the first to start, resulting in other local tyrants waving checks and books to buy good players, and even slightly usable players have been fired to sky-high prices.

Zhang Sheng couldn't help but reply at this time: "As a senior of Chinese football, I am the same as you, and this has always been my and our club's point of view." ”

As if he hadn't heard Zhang Sheng's sarcasm, Liu Yongzhuo said with an exaggerated expression: "This is an undeniable fact that deserves our encouragement." ”

For Liu Yongzhuo's words, Zhang Sheng is now a punctuation mark and does not believe it.

Historically, the favorite of this bigwig in Chinese football is to show off English famous sentences and famous sentences in Chinese on Weibo from time to time to post "Chicken Soup for the Soul".

And in private, he is not such a gentle person.

His most famous quote is at the celebration banquet in 2016: "Our way of playing today is that I deliberately let you go and chase another one! Let you have a little hope, and then get you back! The champion in China, the champion that Evergrande wants, if I don't give it to you, you can't grab it!"

Perhaps it became the first "Triple Crown" club in the history of Chinese football to win the league championship, the Super Cup, and the FA Cup, which revealed Liu Yongzhuo's hidden character.

It is also the "internal declaration" at the celebration banquet after the FA Cup, although Liu Yongzhuo's impassioned declaration is just a word used to inspire everyone within Guangzhou Evergrande, which is understandable in itself, but it has been circulated by the media, causing a lot of negative impact among other teams and fans, and it is even rumored that Xu Jiaying gave Liu Yongzhuo a "gag order" afterwards, asking him to "speak carefully" in the future!

Now that Liu Yongzhuo has such a low posture, the plan must be big.

It's just that Zhang Sheng is also an old man, and it is a basic ability to be happy and not show his color.

"This time, I heard that your club intends to transfer Lin Feng. I don't know if the rumors are true?" Liu Yongzhuo finally made it clear.

"That's true. Now that he has agreed to Lin Feng's transfer request, Zhang Sheng also feels that there is nothing to hide.

Hearing Zhang Sheng's words, Liu Yongzhuo almost jumped up with joy: "I heard the news before, but unfortunately it was sabotaged by some people with ulterior motives, which almost made us lose the opportunity." ”

"Lin Feng is a good player. Liu Yongzhuo's eyes lit up, "You know it too." We Evergrande have also been having a headache for Zheng Zhi's successor. I'm also a cheerful person, if you make a price, whatever you want, we Evergrande will consider it. And it will never be revealed casually, affecting the important games in the next few days. ”

"I'll have a few heart-wrenching words for you. Zhang Sheng's face was sincere, "Now in the club, I take care of the competition, but in business, it is inconvenient for me to speak, you also know that our club has been adjusted in the middle of the year, and I am not responsible for that part." But I dare to pack a ticket with you, when it comes to Lin Feng's transfer, Guangzhou Evergrande is definitely a partner we have always trusted, and I will not set any additional conditions. ”

If you believe Zhang Sheng, Liu Yongzhuo will see the hell, wouldn't Zhang Sheng know who suddenly made Lin Feng's transfer rumors known to everyone last time?

In fact, Zhang Sheng's words are really not fake, from Gao Jun, to Deng Chaoqun to Shu Jun, the captain and vice captain of the Longteng Club have all transferred to Guangzhou Evergrande.

The Longteng Club has never been treated differently because Guangzhou Evergrande is the team's biggest competitor.

"That's fine. Liu Yongzhuo also took a step further, "See if you can say hello to your Mr. Shi, after all, the Dragon Club was cultivated by you." ”

"Okay. Zhang Sheng agreed very happily, he believed that with Shi Zhiqiang's ability, Guangzhou Evergrande would not have a lot of blood this time, and Lin Feng's transfer would be more difficult than ascending to the sky.

Liu Yongzhuo didn't expect Zhang Sheng to agree so simply, he was even slightly stunned, and soon knew what Zhang Sheng meant-everyone wants to buy Lin Feng, anyone can come, it depends on whose money is in place, as for the player's personal requirements, whoever talks about it will be counted.

With Zhang Sheng's attitude of treating everyone equally, Liu Yongzhuo was completely relieved.

In China, when it comes to buying players, money, and player transfers, Guangzhou Evergrande has never been afraid of anyone.

As long as the idea of the Longteng Club is confirmed, this time in Jiangcheng, most of the tasks given to Liu Yongzhuo by Xu Jiaying will be completed.

"Haha. Hope we have a great time working together again. Liu Yongzhuo's laughter this time was really from the heart, "When the time comes, I will cheer for Longteng on the field, and I also wish Longteng Club can sweep the opponent in the next game and give our Chinese football another AFC Champions League championship." In this way, the future of our Chinese football will be really good, and the influence will be greater. ”

Zhang Sheng, who thought that he could prepare for the AFC Champions League final with peace of mind after receiving Liu Yongzhuo, now regrets it a little, because after Liu Yongzhuo, three or four more clubs called in a row to ask about Lin Feng's transfer.

Zhang Sheng also felt that he was beeping the dog, he was just the head coach of the team, and the player had been allowed to transfer, so if he didn't find the president of the club, or talk to the person in charge of business of the club, why did he come to himself.

It's a pity that the outside world doesn't seem to believe in the internal position adjustment of the Dragon Teng Club at all, and identifies Zhang Sheng as the last person to speak, and Zhang Sheng has to explain his responsibilities in the Dragon Club to others again and again.

It wasn't until the day before the game, when Zhang Sheng took the team into the training base, that his phone was quiet.

On November 21, 2015, the second leg of the much-anticipated AFC Champions League final was about to begin, and Zhang Sheng and his disciples were full of confidence, and everyone vowed to wear the Asian crown on their home turf.

In fact, this is also the confidence that East Asian football has given to Zhang Sheng and his players over the years.

Historically, UAE teams have been able to dominate the top level of Asian clubs, having only experienced it once before, in 2002-03 with Al Ain.

This is also a portrayal of the confrontation between East and West Asian football clubs in recent years - the AFC Champions League "eastward" trend is very obvious, the last 10 seasons 8 times are the East Asian teams have the last laugh, the only exception is 2011 and last year, in 2011 from Qatar's Al Saad team in the 2-2 draw in regular time relied on penalty shootouts to laugh to the end, last year Saudi Arabia's Al Hilal used the referee to snatch the championship from Guangzhou Evergrande.

In fact, this was not the case in the early days of the AFC Champions League reform.

At the beginning of the 2002–03 season, the AFC merged the Asian Club Championship and the Asian Cup Winners' Cup into one competition and named it the AFC Champions League. In the first three years of the AFC Champions League, the West Asian team has achieved outstanding results, winning three championships in a row. The first champion after the AFC Champions League restructuring was the UAE's Al Ain team.

In 2004 and 2005, the star-studded Saudi Arabia's Ittihad even won the award for two consecutive years, becoming the first club to win the AFC Champions League in a row, and the only club to do so far.

At that time, Ittihad directly pursued players with heavy money, and even had superstars such as former Inter Milan striker Caron, but since then, the club in West Asia has begun to slump.

Because with the increasing investment of East Asian teams, the importance of the AFC Champions League has gradually increased, and the East Asian teams have come from behind in the AFC Champions League.

At that time, the AFC Champions League was not divided into two divisions, so in 2008 the West Asian team did not even make it to the final.

In 2009, the West Asians, who came to power in the AFC, began to expand their squad in order to save the West Asian club's results in the AFC Champions League, increasing the number of participating teams to 32 teams, and changing the format of the final to a winner-winner, but this did not change the situation that the West Asian teams were at a disadvantage.

In addition to winning the title on penalties in 2011, after the 2013 AFC Champions League final was again a home-and-away two-legged match, the West Asian clubs were excluded from the AFC Champions League final that season, and the two teams in the final became a civil war for East Asian clubs.

I have to say that the West Asians treat the AFC Champions League like the World Table Tennis Federation treats the Chinese table tennis team, in order to frustrate the strong side, they try their best to change the rules of the game frequently.

In order to ensure that at least one West Asian team can enter the AFC Champions League finals, in 2014, the AFC restructured the AFC Champions League, the AFC is divided into two divisions of East and West Asia, and the champion will be produced in the divisional champions.

In the final analysis, the fall of the West Asian club has long been a sign of death.

Early West Asian football still contributed a lot to Asian football. In the 1994 World Cup in the United States, Saudi Arabia reached the round of 16 with Ovilan's thousand-mile single-handedness, allowing the 98 France World Cup to expand the Asian team to 4 places, which has a large part of Saudi Arabia's credit, but this is the only glory of the West Asian team in the World Cup, and it is also the last glory so far.

In the 2010 World Cup, no West Asian team entered the finals of the World Cup, and the decline of West Asian football was already very obvious.

There are many reasons for this, which are worth learning from Chinese football.

First of all, the external objective conditions, many countries in West Asia have been affected by the war, and the countries are in turmoil, and football is certainly not immune.

Like Iraq, Syria are typical examples.

The second is the interference of political factors.

This includes both the political factors of the international environment and the domestic political factors of West Asia.

For example, Iran has been under sanctions, and it has become extremely difficult for football players to stay abroad.

Even more outrageous is the impact of domestic politics on football. From 2001 to 09, 10 national teams received FIFA bans, and the number of bans involving Asia reached 5 times.

Politics has repeatedly interfered in football, which has become a stubborn problem in football in West Asian countries.

The Saudi king removed the president of the Football Association in a fit of rage, the Iranian Football Association replaced the head of the Football Association on its own, the Raq government announced the dissolution of the country's Olympic Committee and individual sports associations, the Kuwaiti government interfered in the election of the Kuwait Football Association, and the Iranian Football Association forced players to retire, such a thing is unbearable for FIFA.

Of course, going against the basic laws of football development is also a major reason for the decline of football in West Asia.

The countries of West Asia are not only too rich, but also too easy to get money, so they have developed the characteristics of tossing and turning, and have no patience, thinking that money can open up all joints. What Asian Cup loses the first game to change the head coach, what World Cup group stage in the first two games to force the head coach to hand over the handover of the hand, such a joke-like operation in the world football power, in the West Asian team is commonplace.

In order to pursue the team's short-term results, spending money to bring in foreign aid from other countries and naturalizing foreign players has become a regular operation for West Asian teams.

Since everyone's eyes and goals are aimed at the senior team, the youth football training in West Asian countries has naturally been neglected, in West Asian countries, football schools are scarce in society, and it is not a matter that clubs do not have regular youth teams.

There is no perfect system for the cultivation of their football youth, and the emergence of seedlings depends on luck.

So it's not hard to understand that Al Ahli in Dubai wants Longteng Club to help them set up a youth football camp.