12. Local tyrants
Last year, when the Longteng team chose the Jiangcheng Sports Center, there was some helplessness to rush to the hospital, after all, the team was put together by the Zall team, and there was no other choice, so the sports center was really not selected. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Judging by last year's ticket revenue, this is indeed the case.
Except for those games against Guangzhou Evergrande and Beijing Guoan, the attendance of the stadium is not too high when facing other Chinese Super League teams, especially compared to the good results of the Longteng team.
As the third place in the league, the Longteng team only ranks 6th in the professional club, and the data of just over 2w is more than 3000 lower than the fifth-ranked Shandong Luneng, and only more than 1000 higher than the seventh-ranked Henan Jianye.
Of course, there are objective reasons for such an unsatisfactory situation.
Jiangcheng Sports Center is located in Zhuankou, the location is relatively partial, fans from the city to the sports center, whether by car or by bus, it usually takes 3 hours or even longer to go back and forth, plus the time to watch the game, it often takes half a day, after watching the night game home to 1 o'clock in the morning, the time cost is too high, if it is Friday, Saturday is better, after all, the next day off, if the game is scheduled on Sunday, the situation is worse, this is the main reason why many people are reluctant to go to the sports center, and it is also the reason why the popularity of the sports center has not reached expectations over the years, and the impact on the Longteng team is also very large。
However, this season, the situation has changed slightly, first of all, Jiangcheng's subway line 4 opened in December 2014. Although this subway line cannot go directly to the Jiangcheng Sports Center, it has a stop in Wangjiawan, which is not too far from the sports center, and fans can go to Wangjiawan to take the subway home after watching the game.
Secondly, by August 1, 2015, the first phase of Dongfeng Avenue in Jiangcheng will be opened, and it will be much more convenient for fans who drive to watch football in the urban area to go out of the city.
Of course, if you want to do it once and for all, then at the end of 2015, the opening of Jiangcheng Metro Line 3 will completely solve the problem of fans watching football. At that time, Line 3 and Line 1, 2, and 4, which have one stop at the sports center, can be transferred, and fans in Jiangcheng can spend up to 1 hour to reach the stadium without worrying about delays, congestion, etc.
As for the opening of Line 6 in 2016, the significance of the Longteng team is not much, although Line 6 to the sports center only need to transfer one station, which is also very convenient, but after all, the Longteng team does not need to use the Jiangcheng Sports Center as the home stadium is not necessarily, because at that time the Longteng Club's own professional football stadium has been completed.
The slightly smoother traffic conditions make this season's package ticket sales significantly better than last year, the club made an estimate of preparing 10,000 sets of tickets through data statistics and analysis before the season, but the fans obviously gave the Longteng Club a big surprise, Zhang Sheng took the team to return to China after the sale of the package tickets in just one day sold more than 2,000 sets, 10,000 sets of package tickets estimate almost became a joke, can only quickly print another 5,000 sets.
The staff of the club really did not expect this to be the case, after all, this season the club has raised the price of the package, at the beginning of last season, the price of the loose ticket of the Longteng team was 40, 60, 100, the deck was set at 450, 600, 800, the ticket for the AFC Champions League group stage is: 80, 150, 300, and the AFC Champions League knockout round is: 100, 200, 500 price.
And this season, as Guangzhou Evergrande began to increase the price of its own bulk tickets and packages, most clubs also began to adjust their prices. Of course, the magnitude of the adjustment of each club is not the same, for example, Evergrande is fine-tuned by 100 yuan on the low-end package ticket price, and 700 yuan on the high-end package ticket price, while most of the other teams are only raised by 100-200 at the same time.
There is a certain pressure on the capital of the Longteng team also raised the price, the bulk ticket has not changed much, the minimum ticket price is still 40 unchanged, the back of each added 10 yuan, the package is the lowest price unchanged, the back has become 800 and 1000, but also increased a 1500 package, this advanced package has a variety of club activities to participate in, as for the AFC Champions League tickets rose sharply, the lowest qualifying round is from 120, the highest ticket price of the knockout round has reached 800, obviously the club has been eyeing the beginning of the outbreak of the Chinese Super League fan market。
It is not only the Longteng club that is eyeing this market, just look at the ticket price information of the Chinese Super League clubs at the beginning of the season, and you can know that the ticket price of the Longteng team, as an AFC Champions League team, is only at the middle level of everyone, and it is not even as high as the ticket price of a promoted horse like Shijiazhuang Yongchang.
Now the entire Chinese Super League is in a thriving momentum, a large number of stars have arrived, the media publicity, the country's attention, and the national team's record is far better than the historical results, so that the entire Chinese Super League is really in a hot fire, flowers are blooming.
In terms of attendance, the total number of spectators in the 2014 season of the Chinese Super League was 4.556 million, with an average of 19,000 per game, a record high, while in 2013 it was 4.456 million and 18,600 respectively, exceeding the 17,200 per game of the Japanese J League.
Zhang Sheng even knew that after this season, the attendance rate of the Chinese Super League would surprise the whole world, with 55w views and an average attendance rate of more than 20,002 per game, which made the global football league attendance ranking of the Chinese Super League rise by 4 places to 6th place, only 1,000 away from the fifth place Serie A.
Zhang Sheng believes that if the national team or the National Olympic team with Longteng and Guangzhou Evergrande as the core has good results this season, it may surpass history and rise to the fifth place, and the Chinese Super League will really be regarded as the top five leagues in the world at that time.
Of course, it is the stars who attract fans to watch the game, and the transfer of this winter training period is also extremely lively, and even attracts the attention of the whole world.
Compared with the tight Longteng Club, the local tycoons of this winter waved checkbooks and frequently attracted the attention of the world football world.
Guangzhou Evergrande, as the top brand of the Chinese Super League, did not disappoint, after a thrilling season, two club bigwigs who want to push the club to the market have increased their investment, and have made big moves in terms of internal and external aid.
As the director of the team, Lippi made a special trip to Brazil to help Guangzhou Evergrande select foreign aid in order to wash away the rumors of kickbacks for the previous transfer.
During Lippi's stay in Brazil to select foreign players, rumors of various transfers never stopped, from the defending champion of the Brazilian Liga Cruzeiro midfield core Ribeiro, the team's Golden Boot Glatt to Corinthians' Peruvian center Guerreiro, attacking midfielder Enrique, then Atletico Mineiro midfielder Datolo and striker Luan, and then to Santos's newcomer Lucas Lima, who performed second only to the veteran Robinho in the season, and finally including Fluminense's former Brazilian international Fred, and even Conca entered this time again" list".
The outside media basically sorted out all the high-level players who may transfer in Brazil, not to mention that Guangzhou Evergrande's reputation in Brazil has skyrocketed.
Zhang Sheng, as a person who travels through the people, of course, knows that these are just rumors, if nothing else, the current Brazilian international Goulart should be the target of Guangzhou Evergrande this time, and the others are either smoke bombs, or the hype of the players themselves and the club's salary increase, which has no practical significance.
Sure enough, after Guangzhou Evergrande loaned Diamanti to Fiorentina, it soon announced the transfer on its official website, and Brazilian international Goulart transferred to Guangzhou Evergrande for 15 million euros, equivalent to more than 100 million yuan, which is also the first transfer transaction in the history of Chinese professional football with a transfer fee of more than 100 million yuan.
It can be said that Guangzhou Evergrande's transfer this time was very successful, they used countless rumors and misleading to make everyone look away from Goulart, and the team was not affected much by the media in the negotiations.
And when Guangzhou Evergrande also loaned Gilardino back to Parma, reporters who were already familiar with Evergrande's routines probably knew that Evergrande was going to sign players again, send one away, and come again, this rhythm will definitely not change.
The transfer rumors this time are basically from Europe, including Mutula, Balotelli, Valbuena and other players are related to Evergrande, but this time everyone has learned to be obedient, without Evergrande's official announcement, they will not believe it, let alone these players who obviously do not meet Evergrande's recruitment requirements.
Sure enough, the day after Gilardino left, Evergrande announced through its official Weibo that it had officially signed the Austrian giants Red Bull Salzburg's main striker Allan for a transfer fee of 11.1 million euros.
After Zhang Sheng, who was still leading the team in Europe at the time, heard the news, he could only pray that Alan would not be seriously injured as soon as he came to China as in history, and it took more than a year to show his skills as a killer on the pitch.
Evergrande's two signings have also shown the world their financial strength, and the teams in the Chinese Super League have since become accustomed to the level of transfer value of more than 10 million euros.
There is also a very influential one this winter is SIPG, which has just mastered the club, and although their transfer fee of 3 million euros to introduce Conca is not high, it has created an extremely big topic, and the previous "king of celestial bodies" returned to the Chinese Super League is obviously not expected by everyone.
In addition to SIPG, including Shenhua's 3 million euro introduction of Su Enzo and Shuntian's 5 million euro introduction of Samir, they have all been very hot.
Of course, in terms of domestic aid transfers, various media are also full of various rumors every day.
And the price of domestic aid is also obviously incredible, from 50 million for Wen Kai of the Longteng team, 70 million for Shu Jun, and then to 50 million for Yu Hai and 35 million for Yu Dabao, their prices make all the fans staggered.
When the outside world was boiling over transfers, the pre-season family banquet of the Dragon Club officially began as usual.
Compared with the previous pride, Zhang Zhijun and Zhang Chen both looked a little dull this time, obviously the parent company of the group could not provide much financial help to the club, but needed the club to use the results to feed, which really made them very frustrated.
In front of his father and brother, Zhang Sheng was of course embarrassed to stimulate them, so this time Zhang Sheng didn't say anything after briefly introducing his goals.
Hearing Zhang Sheng say that he wanted to win at least one championship, Zhang Zhijun and Zhang Chen both felt a little incredible, at least one championship, whether it was the FA Cup championship, the league championship or the AFC Champions League championship, it was not so easy.
Zhang Sheng seemed very calm: "On the contrary, I think this season will be better than last season, because we are more stable." ”
Zhang Zhijun asked, "What do you say?"
Zhang Sheng patiently explained: "A large part of the reason why our results fluctuated greatly last season was because our players came in and out too frequently, changing foreign aids, changing the main force, dialing one after another, the team's tactics did not have a fixed time, always in order to adapt to the players kept changing around, so the game results were sometimes good and sometimes bad." ”
Zhang Zhijun couldn't help but nod and said: "That's true, no matter what it is, whether it's a football club or a company, the big actions of the personnel will always hurt their vitality." ”
Obviously, the stability that Zhang Sheng mentioned reminded Zhang Zhijun of the turmoil at the group headquarters.
Zhang Sheng was obviously very embarrassed, this matter was a pain in his father's heart during this time, but he didn't expect it to be lifted by himself again.
As an elder brother, Zhang Chen also quickly opened the topic and said: "The players are stable, are they capable enough?"
Zhang Sheng glanced at Zhang Chen gratefully and said, "Don't worry about this, brother." You look at several of our foreign aids, Pato, Ben Alpha, which is not well-known, Ivo is also very outstanding, Roque Gilna can mix well with Argentina, McGovern is also a first-class Asian foreigner, this level of foreign aid, in the Super League absolute top few. As for the domestic players, I said that it is not the first, and I also need others to believe it. ”
"Yo, you say you're fat, you're still panting. Zhang Chen scolded with a smile, "I know that there are many national team players in your team, how can I say that next time I will let your players come over to support my real estate?"
"Brother, as long as you say a word, I will definitely fully cooperate, I know that you have no money now, I will come out of the money, in the past few years, I have been making US stocks, investing in some angel investments, and the income is very good. Zhang Sheng showed off.
In fact, Zhang Sheng also gave his father and brother a bottom this time, so that they can relax and not worry too much about money, in addition to them, there is also a male general in the family!
Hearing Zhang Sheng mention the fact that he had money again, Zhang Zhijun was really interested, and he asked Zhang Sheng: "You have said in front of me more than once how good your investment is, come, tell me what investments you have made and how much money you have made." ”
Zhang Sheng didn't make too many reservations, and reported (Yao) his investment in IT, shares, etc., when Zhang Sheng finally concluded that he had earned nearly 300 million, Zhang Zhijun and Zhang Chen were a little stunned.