44. Renewal Issues
The question asked by the two of them was actually something that Zhang Sheng was more worried about during this time. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
According to Zhang Sheng's previous idea, it should be Longteng Group to give support to the club, go to Europe to buy clubs, and connect domestic players and foreign leagues, but now Longteng Group's capital flow is not abundant, as a real estate developer, cash flow is not abundant is a very serious problem, the group can now protect itself is already good, and it is very difficult to get the support of the group.
However, there are many ways for people who have come back from abroad, and they have put forward a few opinions for Zhang Sheng's reference.
The quickest way is to take out a loan as collateral for the club's shares, and then use the loan to make the acquisition.
The two of them are very optimistic about the tangible and intangible assets of the Dragon Club, and feel that how the Dragon Club can do asset collateral and obtain an extremely high loan amount.
But this too risky method was rejected by Zhang Sheng, who knows how the changes in domestic football will be in the later period, once the country does cold treatment of the league, then now the club's biggest intangible asset - the value of players will plummet, waiting for the loan can not be deferred, and the possibility of bankruptcy will be very large.
Their second method is to bring in outside money, share the club's shares appropriately, and then buy them through external funds.
This method was also rejected by Zhang Sheng, after all, the dispersion of equity is likely to lead to various problems, internal struggles, equity battles, etc., which may lead to internal friction in the club, and Zhang Sheng really does not want to participate in this kind of thing.
The last method they mentioned was to go public, and raise funds from the stock market through the company's listing.
Their suggestion is very much in line with Zhang Sheng's thoughts, after all, this is also one of Zhang Sheng's goals in the near future.
After putting forward their suggestions to Zhang Zhijun, Zhang Zhijun also agreed with this approach, and began to arrange for the group's financial department to rectify the financial situation of the Longteng Club, and at the same time found the securities dealers that the group had previously listed and cooperated with to help.
As soon as the news of the internal adjustment and preparation for listing of Longteng Club came out, it received a number of visits from securities firms.
As the club with the highest assets (more valuable players), the best performance (results) and relatively more standardized management in China, several of the largest securities firms in China have given positive responses.
Among them, Huatai Securities is the most powerful, and Dajiang Securities, as a large local securities dealer in Jiangcheng, is also full of sincerity.
After negotiations with these brokers, Zhang Sheng learned that Guangzhou Evergrande Club had been preparing to go public at the beginning of the year, but because of the decline in performance, the Longteng team rose strongly and fell behind in the negotiations with Duojia brokers.
Among them, Guotai Jun'an, who has the greatest sincerity and helped Guangzhou Evergrande Club to go public in later generations, proposed that Evergrande should be more successful in performance.
This is also the reason why during this time, Guangzhou Evergrande began to poach people from Longteng Club and Longteng Football School.
Interested in being the first listed football club in the country, they will never give up this title easily, and while preparing to replace the head coach, it is imperative to buy high-level foreign aid, poach high-level domestic players, and attract high-level domestic coaches.
In fact, Zhang Sheng doesn't care too much about whether the club is the first football club to go public, and it is what he is most concerned about to expand the influence of Chinese football.
Professional things are handed over to professional people to do, and Zhang Sheng can now be regarded as having learned such a lesson again, so after deciding to go public, Zhang Sheng basically didn't ask about the next things, what he needs now is to devote himself to the management of the team again, and that is what he is good at.
After the match with Guangzhou Evergrande, Xiong Jian and Zhu Xuhe, two players from the Longteng team, went to France to report on the Toulon Cup, and Zhang Sheng wanted to listen to the report of the accompanying scouts.
Some time ago, because of the many tasks of the Longteng team, the school-age players in the first team did not go to participate in the training camp of the U19 national team, but Peng Langjun, Tian Qijie and Wu Qingmin in the reserve team and echelon were selected instead, so now there are also players of the Longteng team in the Four Nations Invitational Tournament in Portugal, Mafra City, where the game is played, and Zhang Sheng also needs to pay attention to their performance.
At the same time, because of the preparation for the top 40 qualifiers of the Russian World Cup, two days before this round of the Chinese Super League, the Chinese Football Association notified the Longteng team that many people were selected, and this time the Longteng team had seven people selected, more than the six people of Guangzhou Evergrande, and it was the club with the largest number of selections in the national team for the first time.
In addition, Ivo and McGovern's current contract renewal have also encountered some problems, and Zhang Sheng needs to communicate with the players.
Accompanied by these things, the 12th round of the Chinese Super League has officially started, and this Zhang Shengyao will lead the team to Tianjin Gate to challenge Tianjin TEDA.
Originally, this was not a very eye-catching game, but because of the move of Tianjin TEDA's new sponsor Quan Jian, fans across the country were a little confused.
Because in this game, Quanjian Group sent 26,000 employees from all over the country to TEDA's home stadium to help, before Tianjin's home water drop football stadium attendance was not high, this time Quanjian Group's corporate behavior and it is a strong team like the Longteng team, which is a slightly empty stand to be crowded, and Quanjian made this posture more terrifying than the "stadium choir" that the Longteng team went to Thailand to play Buriram United encountered.
But the game is not a lot of fans, more cheering people can win, although in recent rounds of the game Tianjin TEDA is in good form - the league FA Cup three consecutive wins, in the game, the difference in the strength of the players on both sides is reflected.
In the first half, Pato continued his hot form, in the 23rd minute, he dribbled horizontally in front of the penalty area in succession, and after dodging the shooting angle, a beautiful curling ball broke through Tianjin TEDA's goal.
This is the seventh consecutive game in which Pato has scored in the Chinese Super League and the AFC Champions League, and he has become the most powerful firepower of the Longteng team.
In the second half, Ivo, who started in place of Ben Alfa, used his technical ability to beat three people in the middle of the field and successfully scored in the penalty area to extend the score to 2:0.
Although before the end of the game, Tianjin TEDA took advantage of the handball in the penalty area of the Longteng team to save a point through a penalty, but they still lost the game without many shooting opportunities.
After this game, the Longteng team is still 7 points ahead of the second-place Luneng to lead the Super League standings, and there is still a round of games in the Super League to enter the middle of the season, which makes the Longteng team gradually throw off the opponent on the road to the championship.
The team's good results have made the morale of the whole team very high, but Zhang Sheng has something unhappy, that is, there is a problem with the contract renewal of Ivo and McGovern.
These two foreign aids, as the heroes who helped the Longteng team to soar through the success of the Chinese Super League, were in different situations after arriving in the Chinese Super League.
Among them, McGovern, as the team's main central defender, whether it is in accordance with the rules of the Chinese Super League or the AFC Champions League, as a sub-foreign player, his position is guaranteed, and there has never been a danger of competing with other foreign aids, so he has always been able to guarantee his position.
Ivo is a little embarrassed, as a front-court attacking player, his ability is compared to domestic players, there is an advantage, but compared to Pato and Ben Alpha such a big-name foreign aid, he is a lot worse, and at the same time he can't compete with Roque Gil for the position of the back, so his situation is very delicate, more than the situation of the top and the bottom makes him not register for the AFC Champions League, and the league is also dominated by the number of substitute appearances.
He believes that he has the ability to play the main or even the core of the team in the Chinese Super League, and he is not willing to accept this situation, and he has been seeking a transfer through his agent.
McGovern's situation is a bit the opposite of Ivo's, he doesn't worry about losing his position, but he wants to raise his salary, and it needs to be a lot more.
When Zhang Sheng introduced McGovern, he was a substitute defender for the Australian national team, but for the Longteng team, which was still playing in the Chinese League at the time, the introduction of Australian internationals even if they were substitutes, they had to rely on high salaries to attract, although it was not comparable with McGovern's $1.2 million annual salary when he joined Luneng in history, but McGovern's annual salary also reached $1 million.
After being promoted to the Chinese Super League, the Longteng team raised McGovern's salary to $1.2 million, and at the end of the first season of the Chinese Super League, it was increased to $1.3 million, which is the same as the salary level of Shandong Luneng in history. But now, as the Longteng team's results are getting better and better, and the annual salary of foreign aid is getting higher and higher, McGovern has the idea of raising his salary again, and he proposed to pay 2 million.
Such a requirement far exceeds the upper limit that Zhang Sheng can give, you must know that Pato is only 3.5 million now.
For the position of Yawai, Zhang Sheng has always been more entangled.
Those who are strong in Asia, especially those players who can play in the European League, such as Son Xingmin, Keisuke Honda, Shinji Kagawa, Shinji Okazaki, etc., are unlikely to lose the main position in the European League to play in China, and their strength is far less than that of players in South America and Africa, so choosing to play in Asia is relatively less important in the backfield, which has become the choice of most Chinese Super League teams.
Playing in the backfield, the strength is not top-notch, so good quality and low price have become the first element.
Originally, foreign aid from Africa and Asia has squeezed the position of domestic offensive players, and now Asia has further squeezed the position of the only midfield that domestic players can play, and when limiting the growth space of local players, it has also objectively used the Chinese Super League to train soldiers and enhance the strength of the national football team's opponents in Asia.
According to Zhang Sheng's idea, it is good to give domestic players one more minute of playing opportunities, so why let Yawai mix?
For example, now after the tempering of the game, Ma Yongli has reached his highest value of 83, Lu Zhihui is also 78, and the substitute Du Zhenyu is almost, but now he is also in the task of the system, after the task is completed, the potential value should not be worse than Lu Zhihui, and these three players alone can already ensure the needs of the central defenders of the Longteng team.
At the same time, several younger players also have potential values in their 80s or even 90s, which is more worth looking forward to compared to McGovern's ability value of 85, which has reached the top.
What they lack is the experience of the game, and if they don't have the opportunity to play, they can only fall into the cycle of inexperience - not being able to play - or being inexperienced.
So whether to have the current record and stability, or to train players, Zhang Sheng has always been very entangled.
In the end, Zhang Sheng still chose to believe in himself, after all, he has a system, and he is not afraid that the players will not grow up fast, but he is afraid that the players will not have a chance to play, so Zhang Sheng decided to sell McGovern to other Chinese Super League teams in the upcoming break, or let him play in Europe.
After all, as the backbone of the defense of the No. 1 team in the league, there are still many teams with ideas, at least now there are two teams in Hangzhou Greentown and Shandong Luneng in contact with the Longteng team, hoping to get him.
As for Ivo, Zhang Sheng was really reluctant to let go.
As a good foreign aid with good quality and low price, he is not only the hero who helped the Longteng team surpass, but also an indispensable chess piece used by Zhang Sheng in the rotation and substitute lineup of the Longteng team.
And he did make a difference.
Although he was unable to play in the AFC Champions League, his ability was still on full display in the limited number of Super League games, and he has now scored six goals in 12 Super League games and scored a hat-trick in the FA Cup.
Compared with his status as a substitute, such a goal efficiency can be said to be the best in the Super League.
Ivo's performance is of course valued by countless Chinese Super League teams, especially a lot of clubs that want to poach people after knowing that he wants to leave the Longteng team.
A foreign aid like Ivo, in Zhang Sheng's view, is a loss if you go one, and it is basically impossible to buy a player with his ability at a cheap price, he should be the most cost-effective foreign aid in the history of the Chinese Super League.
Of course, as a reborn, Zhang Sheng's advantage is extremely obvious, first of all, he knows which cheap players adapt to the Chinese Super League, and at the same time he is very familiar with those players who are not very famous, but have always maintained a very good condition, no need to spend money with the group of local tyrant clubs in Europe to gamble and rob demons, and there is no need to spend money with the local tyrants of the Chinese Super League to grab Brazil, Argentina internationals.
According to Zhang Sheng's idea, anyway, it is better to find substitute foreign aid, it is better to find those young players to train, and they can be sold for a good price.
So this time Zhang Sheng is going to buy two together, one is the Brazilian player Fernando Enrique da Conceição, that is, the small motorcycle that later played in Chongqing Lifan, and the other is an Argentine striker from the Sao Paulo club recommended by the old Costa - Andres Chavez.