In the process of collecting information about the opponent, Zhang Sheng also flew to Dubai with the team.

Because Dubai Al Ahli is still in the process of litigation with Saudi Al-Hilal, the Longteng team can only be regarded as a temporary settlement in Dubai, once the Saudi Arabian side successfully appeals, Zhang Sheng can only take the team to Saudi Arabia to participate in the final of the AFC Champions League.

Although Dubai Al Ahly has sealed the position of the AFC Champions League final in history, but now even Guangzhou Evergrande has become a Longteng team, what else is impossible.

Zhang Sheng has several worries about this game, first of all, the first is the referee's problem.

When it comes to what happened to the Chinese Super League teams in the AFC Champions League, the referee problem cannot be overstated.

From the 2003 Asian Club Cup semi-finals away match against Al Ain by the Bahrain referee on duty during the unwarranted red card and penalty, to two years ago Evergrande in Japan away from Iran "black whistle" Doki mediocre law enforcement unjustly lost, more than 10 years of similar regret experience is numerous, so when the Longteng team advanced to the AFC Champions League final for the first time in history the night before, some people in the football world pointed out with concern, "The first leg of the Longteng final is a guest in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in addition to going all out, you need to be careful." 'Black Whistle'. ”

In addition to this season and last season, the AFC Champions League in which the Longteng team participated twice also encountered unfair whistles many times, and also fought with the AFC for this, and it is really difficult to say what treatment the Longteng team will receive in the AFC Champions League final this time.

Of course, there is good news, the recent notice issued by the AFC conveyed a message, the director of the referee office who plays a pivotal role in the AFC refereeing community has changed people, and the former Japanese director Yoshimi Ogawa finally chose to leave after nearly 9 years in this position, and the person who replaced him is definitely an "acquaintance" for the Chinese football community - the 49-year-old Singaporean, the former AFC Golden Whistle Maiding.

In the past few years, Ogawa Jiashi has been in place, and it is also the most lost years for the Chinese Super League team, and some games, especially the few times when Doki is in charge, are no longer black whistles, but directly official whistles, otherwise it is difficult to understand why Doki still gets some kind of protection from the AFC after making a mediocre judgment that is not conducive to Evergrande in the AFC Champions League match between China and Japan.

However, from the first leg of the AFC Champions League final announced by the AFC, they sent a team of referees from South Korea, the referee was Kim Jong-hyuk, and the two assistant referees were Zheng Xie Xiang and Yoon Kwang-yeol.

The second issue that Zhang Sheng worries about is the problem of away fans.

With only 12,000 seats at Al Rashid Stadium, Dubai's home stadium in Al Ahli, such a small stadium is very uncomfortable for fans of Dragon Club.

According to AFC regulations, the home team needs to provide 8% of the tickets to the away team, which means that if the Longteng team really comes according to the rules, it can only get 960 tickets.

With the good results of the Longteng Club in recent years, there are more and more Longteng fans in China, and the range of Longteng fans has slowly spread to all corners of the country from the beginning of Jiangcheng and Hubei Province, and even has a group of fans among overseas Chinese, so this time there are a large number of fans who want to travel to Dubai from all over the country to watch a game by the way.

As a result, the lawsuit in Dubai's Al Ahli, the small stadium, left the fans in a dilemma.

It is said that in history, they speculated tickets to $300 a ticket, and once the lawsuit is not in favor of Dubai Al Ahli, then the tickets that fans have worked so hard to buy will be wasted - Dubai is the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Hilal is in Saudi Arabia, and no one will apply for visas for the UAE and Saudi Arabia at the same time.

At the same time, Longteng fans may not be able to enter the stadium when they buy tickets, and many Guangzhou Evergrande fans have bought tickets in history, but they were locked out of the stadium by Dubai Al Ahli with too many spectators, and they were also driven and kicked by the Dubai Mounted Police, which caused a lot of international impact.

The United Arab Emirates, especially Dubai, for its own international influence, in order to make the team achieve good results, but do everything they can, for the sake of the safety of fans, such an off-the-board move has to be guarded against.

In the end, Zhang Sheng is worried about the status of the players.

Because the leagues in West Asia are all New Year's Eve, it is now the middle of the league for clubs in West Asia, and the players are very hot in terms of physical fitness, spirit, and competition. Al-Ahly, for example, is now on a five-game winning streak in the league and is provisionally third in the table with 15 points, two points behind Al-Nassr and three behind leaders Al Ain, but both opponents have played two games more than Al-Ahly.

And for this AFC Champions League final, the UAE Football Association also made a bloody investment, and they also adjusted Al Ahli's league schedule for the AFC Champions League final.

Ahead of the AFC Champions League final on 7 November, Al Ahly had two league games to play on 29 October and 2 November. In order to support Al Ahli in his preparations for the AFC Champions League, the UAE Football Federation has postponed the league match on October 29 to October 31, and the away game on November 2 to the end of November. As a result, Al Ahly has a week to prepare for the first leg of the AFC Champions League final after playing the league on 31 October. In addition, before the away challenge to the Dragons on November 21, Al Ahly's league game will also be postponed in order to prepare for the defeat of the Dragons.

At this time, the Longteng team has just completed a season of fierce battles, even if the championship is relatively easy, the physical consumption is far greater than the opponent, and after winning the championship, the team must have a sense of relief, in terms of mental concentration, the player's competitive state will definitely have ups and downs, which is also commonly known as the cold feet in the industry.

To this end, Zhang Sheng postponed the club's scheduled league championship party, and after the last game, he only had one day off, and gathered the players for training, of course, the training intensity will be correspondingly smaller.

At the same time, in order to adjust the time difference as soon as possible, the team set off four days before the game, and after negotiation with Jiangcheng Tianhe Airport and the air traffic control department, the Longteng Club specially chartered two special planes to fly to Dubai.

Just one day before the start of the first leg of the AFC Champions League final, an event that has been eagerly awaited by domestic football was widely publicized - Jiangcheng Longteng Club was successfully listed on the New Third Board, and "Longteng Sports" was officially listed.

The listing of Longteng Club also means that the football club, which has been established for less than six years, has become the first stock of Asian football, and all analysts believe that the listing of Longteng Sports means that the corporatization, marketization and capitalization of Chinese football have officially opened. In the future, countless football clubs and even other sports clubs will follow in the footsteps of Longteng Club to this point.

The listing of the Dragon Club is indeed sought after by countless people.

Wealthy people and institutions set up one-to-one special accounts to hang a large number of buy orders, and those who are not qualified to buy also set up special accounts through multi-person platters to ask for buying.

At the same time as the listing, the announcement of the club's private placement of shares was announced. This time, the Longteng Club will supply several products of the Longteng Group, and agreed to issue an additional 17.387 million shares at an issue price of 45 yuan per share, and plans to raise 7,824.24 billion yuan.

The funds are used to invest in the club's youth facilities, youth coaching staff and a new football school branch.

If the additional issuance of Longteng Club is successful, the market value of this club will reach a high price of 14.2 billion yuan. Moreover, the additional shares issued will be listed and traded on January 19, 2016, which means that after the Spring Festival next year (the tenth day of the Lunar New Year), the time to test the real stock price of the Dragon Club will come.

In fact, the additional issuance of Longteng Club is more sought after than the additional issuance of Guangzhou Evergrande in history.

Historically, most of the successful issuance of Guangzhou Evergrande has relied on the related households of Evergrande Real Estate, such as the company that provides decoration to Evergrande Real Estate and the company that provides building materials. After all, the Evergrande Club loses money and loses a lot every year. In the prospectus provided by Evergrande when it was listed, it was shown that the club's net profit from January to May in 2013, 2014 and 2015 was -576 million yuan, -483 million yuan and -265 million yuan respectively, all of which were losses.

Even if Evergrande's operating income is higher than that of the current Longteng team, and the tax paid to the government is higher than that of the Longteng Club, there is one thing that the Longteng Club far exceeds them, that is, the Longteng Club is still profitable, and the profit is very stable.

For example, from the middle of this year to the middle of the year, the Longteng Club has earned nearly 250 million yuan through the sale of players, and after the adjustment of the commercial department in the middle of the league, the club's sponsorship income has also increased suddenly, it is said that Dongfeng Group is ready to sign a sponsorship contract with the Longteng Club, which will also be the highest price contract in the history of the Chinese Super League, and the amount of the contract will be as high as 250 million.

That is to say, including tickets and various incomes, this year's Longteng Club is likely to get nearly 400 million in income, in view of the relatively low salary of Longteng Club players and the bonus system that is not too high, this year's Longteng Club's profit will be more than 100 million.

With the growth of outstanding young players of Longteng Club, the youth training has been further consolidated, and the stadium with large investment has been built, and Longteng Club will be stronger in terms of income.

Therefore, in this additional issuance plan, there is also a large number of "asset management plans".

This asset management plan is actually the purchase of many investment funds on the New Third Board, or some domestic sports private equity funds, which must buy football clubs in accordance with the structured asset allocation plan. And now on the new third board, only Longteng Sports, the target of the football field, exists, so it is logical to buy these "asset management plans".

A large part of these capital operation methods come from the operation of Huatai Securities, which is responsible for the listing counseling. They will also benefit greatly from this successful underwriting.

The listing of Longteng Club not only had a great impact in China, but even in Dubai, the away game of the AFC Champions League, there were reporters who mentioned this problem to Zhang Sheng many times, but Zhang Sheng prepared for the game with his own team and did not pay attention to prevarication.

If the reporter believes Zhang Sheng, it is a ghost, Zhang Sheng is not just the head coach of a club, he is the actual controlling person of the club.

Of course, Zhang Sheng refused to say anything, and the reporters were not easy to ask, otherwise Zhang Sheng would be unlucky if he was unhappy and blocked, and he was not a reporter who was not banned by Zhang Sheng, and even his own company was unlucky.

However, the game is not a team game, you can't interview Zhang Sheng, you can always interview the other party, so Olaroyo suddenly became the darling of China's domestic media, and everyone flocked to interview him, and from his mouth set his opinion on the Longteng team.

The long-tested Olaroyo cliché is a set of clichés, and the praise of the Dragons is poured out without money.

"The Dragons are not the strongest team in Asia, but they are one of the three strongest teams in Asia I can think of. Olaroyo has put the Dragons in a very high position, "They are a strong team and they have invested a lot of money. They have the best players in Asia, they beat the same strong Guangzhou Evergrande, they reached the semi-finals last year, and we will give everything we can to deal with them this year. ”

As the largest Arabic newspaper in the United Arab Emirates, the Manifesto newspaper has a special column to report on the AFC Champions League final, including an article dedicated to the emerging giants from China that West Asian fans are not familiar with.

This article "What We Don't Know About Jiangcheng Dragons" provides detailed information on the eight internationals in the Longteng team, and then gives a comprehensive description of the two foreign stars of the Longteng team, Pato and Ben Arfa, who have crushed Asian clubs.

If you only look at the statements of the UAE side, it seems that the Dragons have already won this game by 100 percent.

But for the Longteng team, which has been accustomed to countless such seemingly sought after but actually fooled, it will only make them more vigilant.

At the pre-match preparation meeting, Zhang Sheng mentioned it very lightly: "Just listen to what the other side said, just when they advertised us in the UAE, when the game was played, you all understand." ”

Hearing Zhang Sheng's teasing, the coaching staff and players laughed.

Compared with the relatively relaxed pre-match preparation of the Longteng team, the Chinese national junior team was much more nervous, because Nigeria had been terrible in the previous games.

The African powerhouse scored eight goals in the group stage and conceded only three, two of which were conceded in the last game when they had already finished top of the group, in the final of the eighth, they played a score of 6:0, and in the quarter-finals, they also swept 3-0 against the world's top team like Brazil, and basically did not give Brazil any decent chance at the end of the game.

Such a terrifying offensive strength, such an efficient goal rate, and such a solid defense can be said to have stunned all the fans.

In fact, they did defeat Mexico 4-2 in the semi-finals, and stood at the top of the championship without dispute after a 2-0 clean sheet in the final.

This year's Nigeria was also touted by the media as the strongest U17 champion team of all time.

In the face of such a strong opponent, how can the Chinese team not be nervous.