25. Pre-season preparation

After winning the championship of this cup, Zhang Sheng is full of haze, because there is still half a month before the Chinese Super League will start, and the most urgent is the AFC Champions League, as the champion of the FA Cup last season, the Longteng team got the opportunity to directly enter the AFC Champions League, the team will go to Japan in ten days later to challenge the Kawasaki Frontale, and now Ivo's injury makes the Longteng team have to rely on Tao Wentao to organize the attack or let Xiong Jian carry out the tandem in the front. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Tao Wentao has indeed made great progress since he returned from the United States last season, and he is also stronger than most of the players in China physically, and he has slowly picked up what he left off before, but he is still young after all, not even 19 years old, and he has not been back for a long time to participate in the team's training, only 7 months ago, with his ability is not enough to support the burden of midfield organization and attack, he still needs more time to grow.

As for Xiong Jian, he can only be used as a lubricant in the midfield, his characteristics are similar to the previous Sun Yu, at most he plays a defensive and tandem role, and he does not have much ability to pass forward, so he can't be expected to organize the attack.

Both of these players have a lot of potential, more than any other player in the country, but that's the future, and you can't count on them yet.

Zhang Sheng had to adopt a compromise plan - to move Kante, who was not going to sign up for the AFC Champions League, to the position of a forward midfielder, and let him be a defensive forward for a while.

In this game, the Longteng team has lost a lot of personnel, but it should be said that there is a lot of money in the money, and after entering the Chinese Super League this season, the Longteng team has adjusted the price of the team's tickets.

During the run-up to the Chinese Super League this year, a number of Chinese Super League clubs have announced ticket prices for this season. Among all clubs, the highest ticket price is Shanghai Shenhua, their bulk ticket prices are 80, 100, 150, 200, 380, annual tickets are 500, 1000, the lowest ticket price is Shandong Luneng, their bulk tickets are 50, 40, 60, 100, 500, the deck is divided into six levels are 150, 200, 400, 600, 1000, 6000, 6000.

As for other Chinese Super League teams, the minimum loose tickets are generally between 30-50, the high-end tickets are between 200-300, and the annual tickets are generally 300-1000. However, the teams in the Chinese Super League have some tacit understanding, that is, there will be fluctuations in loose tickets, if the ticket price will fluctuate up to 100 when playing against a strong team, and the ticket price will be reduced by about 10-50 when playing against a weak team.

The price of tickets for the AFC Champions League is much higher than the price of the Chinese Super League, and all the annual tickets of the Chinese Super League teams do not include tickets for the AFC Champions League, that is to say, if you are a member of the club and you have purchased the deck, you also need to spend money to buy tickets for the AFC Champions League, and the price of the tickets is basically 100, and the ticket price of the highest grade will soar to about 500.

From the above data, everyone generally thinks that the price of domestic tickets in China is okay, but according to professional statistics, in terms of tickets/purchasing power, the Super League is very expensive. In several major leagues, Germans earn an average of £523 per week, while the average price of a Bundesliga ticket is £19.17, so German fans can earn 27.3 tickets per week. In comparison, Serie A fans can only buy 22 tickets per week, La Liga has 20 tickets, and Premier League fans can only earn 14.3 tickets per week. Obviously, Bundesliga fans spend the smallest proportion of their revenue, which is a big reason why the Bundesliga can attract the largest number of fans in the world.

As for China. According to professional media statistics, the average weekly income of Chinese is 140 pounds, while the average price of Chinese Super League tickets is as high as 10 pounds, which means that Chinese fans can only buy 14 tickets per week, ranking first among the 34 major leagues in the world, and even lower than the Premier League, which has always been criticized for high ticket prices.

Zhang Sheng also wanted to see if he could set up a certain discount for fans in terms of tickets, but unfortunately both the group and other senior executives of the club denied Zhang Sheng's idea, and in the company's statistics, it can be seen that people who can now afford to buy tickets to watch the game basically have a certain economic foundation, that is, they will not be too sensitive to the price - provided that you can't be too black.

This set of data shows that in China, whether it is from the investment of the players themselves or to the fans, football is a light luxury, which is not something that the most ordinary people can afford, and in Zhang Sheng's view, this is also one of the obstacles hindering the development of Chinese football.

In the end, the price of the loose ticket for the Dragons this season was set at 40, 60, 100, 450, 600, 800, 800, 80, 80, 80, 150, 300, and 100, 200, 500 for the AFC Champions League knockout round. This price is a moderate price in the entire Chinese Super League, because it is in the same city as the Longteng team, and the bulk ticket price of Jiangcheng Zhuoer, which was relegated to the Central League this season, is also similar to that of the Longteng team. The price set by the Dragon Club can also be regarded as a run on Zall - the same price, depending on whether the fans choose the Chinese Super League or the Chinese League.

Like this Super Cup, the Longteng team earned more than 250w from the tickets alone, not counting the income of the club's several restaurants and peripheral stores attached to the sports center, which is far higher than the small stadium and extremely low ticket income in the Central League.

After this game, Zhang Sheng had to make another adjustment to the team's tactics, Kante was promoted to the position of the midfielder, Lin Feng was placed behind Kante, and behind Lin Feng was Zhang Hao who was responsible for sweeping, and Xiong Jian was used as a substitute to replace Kante or Zhang Hao.

In the face of the injury of Ivo of the Dragons, the outside media unanimously lowered the goals of the Dragons this season.

Originally, after the end of the Chinese League, especially after the Longteng team won the FA Cup, the outside media was unanimously optimistic about the results of the Longteng team in the Super League this season, although everyone did not have much expectations for the results of the Longteng team in the AFC Champions League, but the Longteng team won the midstream results of the Super League next season is still unanimously agreed.

With 2 internationals in the Longteng team, a number of former national youth main lineups, plus 3 are top foreign aid in the Chinese Super League, the outside world agrees that the Longteng team will be at least the top 6 in the Super League next season, if the performance is better, the top four in the Super League to get a place in the AFC Champions League is also a high probability event, everyone agrees that the Longteng team is likely to be a team that changes the pattern of the Super League big4.

It's a pity that the Longteng team's big sale of the players in the team made the media feel that the Longteng team was fighting for relegation, especially the departure of the main striker Deng Chaoqun, which made everyone feel that the Longteng team was the most stinky move. As a rare striker in China who makes a living from archery in recent years, many people regard him as a natural candidate for the national team striker in the next decade. Such a player is released to the Evergrande team, which will only make Evergrande stronger, and it is a great loss to the strength of the Longteng team.

However, the Longteng team soon released a big move, and Pato's arrival finally let everyone know why the Longteng team let Deng Chaoqun go, with Pato's strength, Deng Chaoqun is indeed incomparable, so that many fans on the Internet said: "There is Pato, what more bicycles." ”

In a league like the Chinese Super League, where a star can raise the team to a higher level, a former superstar like Pato is not just a matter of raising a notch, it is completely to the point of killing a lot. And this is also the most expensive foreign aid in the history of the Chinese Super League, and the introduction of tens of millions of euros has also increased the value of foreign aid in the Chinese Super League to an incredible height.

But just when everyone agreed that the Longteng team would be another "Evergrande" local tyrant team, Ivo's injury made everyone have to lower their expectations again, as the real midfield core of the Longteng team last season, the three-month injury completely lowered the team's grade by one notch. And Ivo's injury has had a much bigger impact on the overall tactics of the Dragons than just one less good player.

The previous tactics of the Longteng team were mainly based on the penetration of the middle in the attack, and now Ivo's departure has made a huge gap in the most important middle link of the Longteng team, and in the eyes of the outside world, the Longteng team now has no candidate who can replace Ivo, especially those who have been expecting the Longteng team to have a breakthrough in the AFC Champions League are also completely disappointed.

Even Zhang Zhijun called and asked: "Does the team need to introduce another strong foreign aid forward, 5 foreign aid quotas, you only used one, you can introduce another one to kick first, don't worry about the money, you can invest in the new stadium from the transfer fee The line can be used first, this is originally unplanned money." ”

Zhang Sheng resolutely denied this approach: "There is no need, Kante now has a certain organizational ability, and the team's Lin Feng and Tao Wentao have the potential to play this position." There's no need to buy a player for an injury, that's not a team that has always matured. ”

Hearing Zhang Sheng's answer, Zhang Zhijun couldn't persuade him anymore, he could only say: "You are professional, but you also have to take precautions, if it really has an impact on the team's state and results, buy it in the mid-term transfer." ”

Zhang Sheng also agreed with his father's statement: "Let's talk about it then." ”

Next, Zhang Sheng directly used an advanced tactical forming accelerator to give the current tactics, so that the players could quickly familiarize themselves with this set of tactics. (To be continued.) )