2. Crazy transfers
"It's fine. Zhang Sheng also suddenly figured it out, "How much is the difference in funds for that project?"
"Actually, it's not that the group doesn't have money. Zhang Zhijun said the situation in detail, "At the beginning, this project was won by a real estate developer in Shanghai, and later it was released because of financial problems, and we Evergrande wanted it, and finally reached an agreement, each accounting for 50%. But now all of a sudden, there is an urgent need to negotiate and raise funds, and Evergrande says it will be 51%, and you know the gap between the two percentages. ”
With that, Zhang Sheng probably knew what was going on.
Guangzhou Evergrande must have contacted Du Zhenyu here, and they also know that the price will not be cheap, and Qian Evergrande can afford it, but whether the Longteng team sells it or not is another matter. Now if the Longteng team sells people, the financial problem of the Longteng Group will be gone, and if it is not sold, the dominance of this project will be gone.
Evergrande only needs a gesture to raise funds, and Longteng Group has to give in.
In fact, joint development of real estate is now a general trend, such as in Shanghai, where land is extremely expensive in first-tier cities, it is the norm for a project to be joined by two or even three real estate developers, but who occupies the dominant position is very different.
Like Evergrande, the land reserve is sufficient, the national capital channels are smooth, and the company with precipitation is much more relaxed than the company that has suddenly taken off in the past two or three years like Longteng Group.
"In the centre-back position, we still have a lot of reserves. Zhang Sheng patted his leg lightly and gave the answer, "Du Zhenyu's Evergrande work must be done." But the transfer fee cannot be less than 150 million. ”
"If you really sell to them, the project funding will definitely be gone. Zhang Zhijun smiled bitterly.
Zhang Sheng didn't let his father continue: "Dad." The club really needs money now, and the funds from the original loan to build the stadium have also reached the repayment period, so let's figure out a way together. ”
The next day, Du Zhenyu's father called, and the other party politely asked for a transfer.
"What does Du Zhenyu think?" Zhang Sheng was still a little reluctant.
"If the club can adjust the salary to the same as the other side, we don't really want to leave. "Father Du is very direct.
"How much?"
Father Du hesitated for a moment, and then said proudly: "Ten million." ”
Zhang Sheng couldn't help but gasp and shook his head: "It's impossible for the club to offer such a high salary." ”
Now the highest salary of the Longteng Club is foreign aid Chavez, his annual salary is 250,000 euros, the highest domestic player is not the leading striker Nie Jiang, his contract is only 5 million yuan signed last year, and now the highest is the team's vice captain Ma Yongli, he is the team's old qualified player, just signed a new contract in the middle of the year, and the annual salary has reached 6 million yuan.
Du Zhenyu's current salary in the team is 4 million per year, and his salary will more than double immediately when he goes to Guangzhou Evergrande, not to mention that Guangzhou Evergrande's winning bonus is much higher than that of the Longteng team.
In fact, the salary of the domestic players of the Longteng team is not too low, Tianjin Quanjian gave their captain Zhang Lu only 5 million, like Zhao Mingjian, Jiang Ning, including Yao Tian, who transferred to Hebei Huaxia last year, is only 6 million, Zhang Xizhe, Wu Lei They are almost 10 million, but these players are the stars of their respective teams.
It can be seen that in the Chinese Super League, the salary of Longteng Club is at the upper level of the middle stream.
Evergrande is different, Gao Lin in their team has been higher than 10 million, it is said that this time the salary has been increased again, will reach 15 million, other players above 10 million abound, these income is not counting Evergrande's high game bonuses, most of the club's players want to go to Evergrande is not without reason.
The high salaries of Chinese Super League players have been like an invisible boulder weighing on the club's body.
This season, the income of the Longteng team is a lot, the Chinese Super League company has a dividend of 100 million, plus other total appearance fees and bonuses have reached 130 million, advertising expenses have reached more than 400 million, and tickets have reached nearly 50 million, because the business development has done well, and the commercial and commodity income of this season has also reached more than 40 million.
So the club's total income reached almost 700 million (not counting transfer income), but the salary expenditure cost nearly 400 million (all the above salaries are after tax, including the entire coaching team), and this is also the salary expenses of the two highest-paid players Pato and Ben Arfa after leaving the team.
It is conceivable that because there are no such good results of the Longteng team and there are not so many good players, in order to ensure the results, other clubs can only bring in foreign aid at a high price and offer extremely high annual salaries -- for example, Guangzhou Evergrande's Diego Costa, whose annual salary is as high as 15 million euros, Paulinho's 12 million euros, and J. Martinez, who has been injured for a long time, is 12.5 million euros; SIPG has offered Hulk a bonus of 20 million euros, and Oscar, a foreign aid in the scandal, has opened 24 million euros; and Shenhua is said to be negotiating with Tevez with the world's first annual salary of 38 million euros.
The income of these clubs is less than that of the Longteng team, Guangzhou Evergrande's income this year is only 620 million, SIPG is less than 400 million, Shenhua is just 300 million, their salary expenses make them unable to make a profit at all, like Evergrande's expenditure this year is as high as 10 billion, SIPG is said to be 700 million, Shenhua spent all the income with just one Tevez.
From a purely commercial point of view, it is a very urgent need for Chinese Super League clubs to reduce their salary burden.
If the Longteng Club also has a high salary like Evergrande, the club's annual income will be in addition to the salary and daily expenses, where will the money come from to invest a lot in youth training - this year, the club's youth training investment is as high as 150 million.
In the end, Zhang Sheng categorically rejected Du's father's salary request.
Sure enough, the transfer negotiations between Longteng Club and Guangzhou Evergrande on Du Zhenyu have just begun, and Evergrande has relented on the Shanghai project, and it is estimated that they are also waiting for the results of the negotiations here.
On the second day of the start of negotiations, Zhang Sheng also received an important news: because some people at the top raised objections, thinking that the Chinese Super League is now too dependent on high-priced and high-paid foreign aid, young players have few opportunities to play, and most of the team's young players participate in very few games and cannot grow.
There are two meanings in this statement, one is that foreign aid, especially Asian foreign aid, is completely unnecessary, and the other is to give young people more opportunities.
Therefore, the Football Association gave various clubs a letter of opinion, talking about whether foreign players should maintain 4+1 or change to 3+1, and whether to add mandatory playing conditions for U23 players.
What Zhang Sheng doesn't know is that compared to the real history, because of the poor performance of the national team, the Chinese Super League team was eliminated early in the AFC Champions League, under the instructions of the leaders of the General Administration, foreign aid directly changed from 4+1 to 3+1, and the 18-man squad must have two U23 players, one of whom must start.
This time, the Football Association has given the clubs a buffer period to discuss before making a decision.
When such a blockbuster news shook the entire Chinese Super League, it was also eye-catching that the same blockbuster signings - the Chelsea player who has always been rumored, the Brazilian "little golden man" Oscar transferred to Haigang for 60 million euros, and also transferred to a foreign country, the captain of the Uzbekistan team, Akhmedov, whose transfer fee is 7 million euros.
The opinion letter of the Chinese Football Association, in the long run, it is worth encouraging to reduce the number of foreign aid and control the burning of money, but the suddenness is too strong, and the clubs, especially those with the task of the AFC Champions League, lack a foreign influence is still very large, after all, the Chinese Super League clubs do not have a large number of excellent local players like the K League and the J League.
As for netizens on the Internet, they also have their own opinions.
Some are venting: simply cancel foreign aid, and one goal under U23 counts as two. A win at the U23 counts as six points. Winning seven games in a row is directly the Super League champion!
Of course, someone replied below: Crazy hints at the Dragons.
Some questioned the implementation process: What if a young man is injured in a game, what if the red card, and you still give them an injury test? I don't believe it!
The same reply is below: still hinting at the Longteng team, and possibly also hinting at Guangzhou Evergrande.
Some are manager-type: teach you a trick and replace the starting Under-23 in the first second of kick-off.
Some are big chess fans: it is long overdue to pay attention to the issue of foreign aid and young players, and Chinese football should be gradual and not impatient.
There are also fewer conspiracy theories: the Football Association is actually trying to abolish the entire backline of the South Korean team and leave them without the ball. At the same time, it is necessary to abolish the core of Uzbekistan and let them collapse.
There are also a lot of people who eat melons: five foreign aids, 1 starter, 4 bench seats, flexible scheduling, it's perfect!
From the standpoint of netizens and ordinary fans, the vast majority of people certainly hope to see the more famous and powerful the foreign aid of each team, the better, so that the game will be more exciting.
From the standpoint of the media, they also want more stars and more news that fans follow.
At the same time, the most dissatisfied with this opinion letter of the Football Association is the relevant practitioners, one less foreign aid, the agent will be less than countless commissions, the middleman will make a lot of money less, and the person who recovers the deduction will have one less chance. It is also these people who scold the most in the media.
Regarding this opinion of the Football Association, Zhang Sheng secretly raised his limbs to agree, no matter which one it was, it was very beneficial to the Longteng team, but Zhang Sheng really didn't dare to agree too loudly in public, because it was not a person who offended.
Now think about the transfer of Du Zhenyu that Guangzhou Evergrande talked about with himself, the 21-year-old Du Zhenyu will obviously be more expensive.
While the clubs were still arguing, they did not relax on transfers, and the price of players was higher than last year. 、
The first shock - the shock here is not the shock of UC and Toutiao, but the shock that really shocked all football people - the news is that the Argentine star, former Manchester United striker, nicknamed "The Beast" Tevez transferred from Boca Juniors to Shanghai Shenhua for 11 million euros, and his annual salary is really as much as the outside media introduced - a weekly salary of up to 615,000 pounds, becoming the world's first annual salary, far exceeding the two superstars of Messi and Ronaldo.
While everyone was still shocked by the arrival of a former top player like Tevez in the Chinese Super League, new news came.
Belgian midfielder Witsel transferred to Tianjin Quanjian, a new local tycoon in the Chinese Super League with an annual salary of 20 million euros and more than 20 million euros, and then South Korean foreign aid Kwon Jingyuan was accepted by Tianjin Quanjian to the team for 11 million US dollars.
The same local tyrant is Hebei Huaxia Happiness, Zhao Yuhao, who was brought over by them from the relegation team Zhejiang Greentown, spent 100 million, and then took Zhang Chengdong away from Beijing Guoan at a price of 150 million (one said 80 million, and the other is the signing fee).
Not only are Chinese fans unbearable, but even foreigners can't stand it, and Spain's Marca newspaper is also surprised that the player, who is actually worth 475,000 euros, sold for an outrageous price of 20 million euros.
Chelsea manager Conte was directly criticized by the Chinese Super League on the first day of 2017: "I think the amount of these offers is inappropriate, these prices are unreasonable, we must have enough respect for money, such offers are not the right direction for the development of the football market." ”
When Conte said this, in fact, the real window of the Chinese Super League has just opened, because the Football Association stipulates that the winter transfer window for the 2017 season is from January 1 to February 28, 2017, but the clubs have long been unable to hold back.
On the first day of the winter window, an explosive news was announced by Guangzhou Evergrande: the international central defender of the Longteng team, the 21-year-old rising star Du Zhenyu, transferred to Guangzhou Evergrande.
The fans of the Longteng team are not shocked, so many captains have left, and they don't care about transferring such a player again, everyone just bless him, and the fans of Guangzhou Evergrande are laughing so much that they can't close their mouths, Liu Yongzhuo Niu B's reply is full of the entire Guangzhou Evergrande official WeChat.
Neutral players are speculating about how much money Guangzhou Evergrande has spent.
There was speculation that it was 100 million, but it was quickly despised: "100 million? Buy a leg? What level is Yang Shanping, 100 million, Zhang Chengdong wants 150 million, if you can call the name Du Zhenyu, the price will not be low, how can 200 million be wanted." ”
"I think 200 million is less. Think about it, if the rules of U23 are really implemented, such a player will be scarce in the Super League, and he will definitely rise by 50% on his own value of 200 million, 300 million. "This is a fan with a bigger brain.
In fact, Du Zhenyu's price is not so exaggerated, after negotiation with Guangzhou Evergrande, after the Shanghai project was restored to its original state, the price of his transfer to Guangzhou Evergrande was only 150 million yuan, which was the same price as Lin Feng's transfer to Guangzhou Evergrande.
With such additional conditions that are not known to outsiders, Du Zhenyu's price can still be 150 million, it is conceivable that if you really want to buy it, what will the price be?
When Du Zhenyu left the team, there was another player in the team who asked for a transfer, that is, Xiong Jian, a midfielder who played awkwardly in the Longteng team, was always not physically fit enough, and was attracted by the high salary outside.