51. Winners

If Yu Bo's transfer has already been on the rise, then Zhou Zhou's transfer is both reasonable and unexpected.

As early as when the Longteng team was still in the Chinese League, Beijing Guoan tried to buy Yu Bo's request, but unfortunately Yu Bo was very important to the team at that time, Zhang Sheng didn't let go no matter what Guoan said, and finally Guoan chose to buy Liu Xing instead.

Since then, there have been rumors at the beginning and end of each season that North Jing Guoan has bought Yu Bo, which shows their dedication to Bo.

Now it's time that the boots on the upper floor have finally landed.

With Yu Bo's strength - 76/76 ability value and potential value, he is definitely a top player in China, and the transfer fee of 85 million can even be said to be a friendship price, not to mention that the current Super League players can't be bought at all.

And Zhou Zhou's transfer is a bit sudden.

As the captain of the Longteng team - of course, it is already a common practice for the Longteng team to sell the captain - Zhou Zhou has been the absolute main force of the Longteng team before this season, and he has helped the Longteng team win a FA Cup championship, a league championship and an AFC Champions League championship, which can be said to have made great contributions to the Longteng team.

Zhou Zhou may be deficient in the attack on the side, but his steady defense has always been a problem for the Chinese Super League and even the AFC Champions League opponents.

Even if Zhang Sheng's tactical changes this season are rare, as the captain, he rarely has the opportunity to play, and it is no problem to be a qualified substitute in the Longteng team. Perhaps it was the captain's title and the issue of the national team's stable position that gave Zhou Zhou more ideas.

In fact, as early as a month or two ago, Guangzhou Evergrande, Jiangsu Suning and Shanghai SIPG were chasing the captain of the Longteng team.

Guangzhou Evergrande wants to make up for his shortcomings in fullbacks, especially right-backs; Shanghai SIPG is to make up for their unstable defense; as for Jiangsu Suning, they have eaten the sweetness in the Longteng team players, Xiao Yunfan's joining has at least brought the team the third place in the league and the AFC Champions League.

So in this competition, Jiangsu Suning is more active than all competitors, in their opinion, the Suning team can completely copy the previous Longteng team's guard system, Zhou Zhou's arrival can be with Xiao Yunfan, who can also play as a left and right defender, so that the whole Super League team is afraid.

Zhou Zhou's transfer is very hot in the outside world, but it is very calm within the Longteng team. As early as a few months ago, Zhou Zhou had already made a transfer request to Zhang Sheng, and Zhang Sheng also expressed his understanding and agreed to his request, and now it is just a matter of letting Zhou Zhou choose by himself.

What really makes Zhang Sheng more concerned is the Europa continent, thousands of miles away from China, because several former Longteng players are carrying out transfer operations there, and they will all bring a lot of money to the Longteng team without exception.

The first to complete the transfer was N'Golo Kante, who was extremely good at Leicester City.

As a player from the past of the Longteng team, Kante has become a living advertisement for the Longteng team in Europe, and he himself has repeatedly mentioned in interviews the cultivation of the Longteng team and the Chinese Super League, and he will never forget the promotion given to him by Zhang Sheng.

After the end of last season's Premier League, Kante was named to the French national team as the best player in the Premier League in 2015-2016 and helped the French national team to a runners-up finish at the European Championship.

Chelsea, who had long coveted him, took the lead, and after competing with Manchester City, Manchester United, Arsenal and other teams, Chelsea, who showed more sincerity, signed N'Golo Kante for a slightly higher price than the historical £32 million - £35 million.

Kante was brought to the Super League by Zhang Sheng from France for a mere 100,000 euros, and when he was sold to Leicester City for the first time, it was 1 million pounds plus 40% of the second transfer share.

Of the 35 million pounds generated by this transfer, the Dragons were able to share 14 million pounds, which is probably nearly 120 million yuan according to the real-time exchange rate.

If N'Golo Kante's transfer is basically not much different from history, Riyad Mahrez is completely different.

Historically, when Mahrez played in Leicester City and was not too famous, he chose to join the Algerian national team in advance in order to play in the 2014 World Cup, and when he became famous, it was impossible to be selected for the French national team again.

The emergence of Zhang Sheng changed this situation.

After bringing Mahrez to play in China, the selection of the Algerian national team in 2014 fell through, and the Algerian coach could not go to China's lower leagues to scout the players.

After the 2014 World Cup, Mahrez later moved to Leicester City, and suddenly he exploded, and it was only natural that the French national team would be selected for Euro 2016.

After the European Championship, Mahrez, who has goals and assists, helped the team to win the runner-up of the European Championship, and he has also been favored by countless big clubs.

Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger, who has always liked to use French players, has repeatedly said that he wants to buy Mahrez, and Chelsea, who fell into a striker shortage in the forward line last season, wants to pack Kante and Mahrez, plus Manchester City, Juventus in Serie A and other teams are paying close attention to this new star.

Historically, after Mahrez won the championship in Leicester City, although there were scandals with countless teams, but in the end he stayed in Leicester City, and the next result was not very good, the team failed to defend the Premier League, and even almost relegated in the second half of the season, although it advanced all the way in the name of miracles in the Champions League, and was finally eliminated by Atletico Madrid in the quarterfinals.

Affected by the overall environment of the team, Mahrez's own goals and assists have also dropped significantly, and later Manchester City kept trying to buy him, but there has been no result because of the transfer fee, and Mahrez even came up with extreme measures such as a strike, which can only end in compromise.

Now it's different, Arsenal are no longer just rumors, but directly offer Leicester City, and Wenger is still sticking to the style of coming up with small money to do big things this time - the price is £35 million, the same price as N'Golo Kante.

Leicester City did not agree to Arsenal's offer at the first time, except that the price was low, and who will replace him after Mahrez leaves, there is no confirmed candidate.

Leicester City's selection has implicated another former Dragons player - Pato.

After spending last season on loan at Chelsea, Pato performed well, at least far more than the €2 million salary he was given, but the Chelsea manager's change cost Pato another chance.

The new Chelsea boss Antonio Conte has a tough personality and a strong sense of likes and dislikes, and Pato is not the type of player he admires, so there are many rumours that the excellent Pato will leave Chelsea at the end of the season, and there are many teams interested in the return to form, including Leicester City.

After the constant entanglement of "love triangles" such as Leicester City, Chelsea, and Arsenal, things have finally come to an eyebrow.

Arsenal bought Riyad Mahrez from Leicester City for £45.7 million after a number of rounds of bargaining tug-of-war with Leicester City, while Leicester City bought Pato for £16 million. In this transaction chain, the Longteng team has become the biggest winner, in addition to Pato's transfer fee in vain, Mahrez originally transferred to Leicester City for 2 million pounds and 30% of the second transfer share, and the Longteng team got 1371 pounds again, which means that the three transfers this time, the Longteng team got nearly 260 million yuan in revenue.

After some media disclosed the transfer process, he concluded: "The Longteng team has become the big winner of this transfer. ”

It can be said that through Pato, Kante, and Mahrez, the Longteng team has a great reputation in Europe, and many fans in Europe, especially the Premier League, know that there is a football club in China that will not only buy, buy, buy, but also train and train players.

Domestic fans also joked: "The Longteng team is the mastermind behind the transfer of the Premier League, and they have arranged the Premier League giants clearly." ”

Just when the vast majority of people in China were paying attention to the three transfers with a lively mentality, they soon found themselves also insiders, and Guangzhou Evergrande, which had been silent for a long time, broke the big news again, that is, Chelsea sold Diego Costa, a striker who had an extremely sluggish performance last season, to Guangzhou Evergrande after selling Pato.

The price of this transfer is as high as 53 million pounds, which is 40 million yuan more expensive than Hulk, who joined Shanghai SIPG with 5,580 euros not long ago.

The arrival of Diego Costa, so that the national fans were dumbfounded, as the former Chelsea thigh, although his performance is high and low, but last season was the overall downturn of the team, Costa was also implicated, his own strength is still undoubted, he came to the Super League more or Conte's distrust of him.

Fans had to sigh: "I found that in the end, Guangzhou Evergrande was the biggest winner." ”

Guangzhou Evergrande fans are still happy for the team to bring in world-class stars, Longteng team after making a lot of money, began the FA Cup journey, this time against Jiangsu Suning.

Compared with the last league game, the Longteng team is the main force this time, Nie Jiang, Qi Ming, Tao Wentao, Xiang Tiange, and Du Zhenyu are all the starters. On the contrary, there was an injury on Suning's side, if foreign aid, domestic players Xiao Yunfan, Jixiang, and Liu Jianye were all injured and couldn't get on.

The result of the Longteng team's all-main start was that Nie Jiang scored in the first five minutes, and it was Tao Wentao who assisted him.

Just commented on this game or Li Xin and Dong Lu, the former sighed: "Compared with the previous game, the Longteng team is a completely different state, Nie Jiang's technical ability in the front court, Tao Wentao's offensive organization ability, and Qi Ming's rhythm control are definitely the top domestic players now." ”

Throughout the first half, even though Ramirez kept running back and forth to participate in the defense, because of the weakness of other domestic players, the Suning team as a whole was still overwhelmed by the strong pressing style of the Longteng team, and the yellow cards of the two backs Wu Xi and Zhang Xiaobin are the best proof.

After the second half, Jiangsu Suning conceded the ball again, this time it was Nie Jiang and Qi Ming's cooperation in the front court that attracted most of Suning's defensive attention, De Paul received Qi Ming's transfer ball, and gained great space on the side, he cut into the penalty area and hit the goal successfully, expanding the score to 2:0.

However, the star is still a star, in the second half shortly after the Longteng team scored, Teixeira used his personal ability to force the gap left by the Longteng team's right side to Tiange forward, and after shaking two players of the Longteng team in a row, finally his long-range shot from outside the penalty area caught Huang Dawei off guard and pulled a goal back for Jiangsu Suning.

Just when Suning's side regrouped for this goal and played several attacks in a row, the efficient counterattack of the Longteng team was successful again, Roque Gill cut off the ball of Wu Xi who stepped in to assist in the middle, and then transferred it to Xiang Tiange, who passed the inverted triangle pass after running all the way down the right side, looking for the center Zou Weijia, although Zou Weijia in the middle could not turn around and shoot, but he cleverly returned the ball to Nie Jiang in front of the penalty area, Nie Jiang almost shot from the same position as Teixeira's shot, and the Longteng team expanded the score to 3:1 again.

Suning's head coach Cui Yongzhu quickly made adjustments, Zhang Xiaobin was replaced by Xie Pengfei, who had stronger offensive ability, and the two fullbacks who were physically fit to the limit, including Yang Xiaotian, who was suppressed by the two wings of the Longteng team in this game, were replaced.

It can be seen that Choi Yongsu wants to give it a go.

It's a pity that this time the Longteng team's defense has Du Zhenyu, it has stabilized a lot, Ramirez's two consecutive headers were destroyed by Dawn with Du Zhenyu's filling, and Choi Yongsu's hope set-piece tactics were also unsuccessful.

Even if Zhang Sheng later replaced Nie Jiang, Tao Wentao and Xiang Tiange in succession, the Longteng team, which had already played smoothly, still maintained the advantage on the field.

When the whistle blew at the end of the game, the score was fixed at 3:1, Dong Lu had to sigh: "It was another typical Longteng-style game, the high-level pressure of the whole court, the non-stop pressing and the smooth passing, and finally the goal of the key players in the front court, the Longteng team, which had the overall strength, won the expected victory." ”

On the second day after the game, Jiangsu Suning replaced the internal and external aids, and the Brazilian center who has been performing poorly was disliked by Cui Yongzhu because of his standing style of play, and was not very famous by Colombian striker Roger Jr. Martinez replaced, and at the same time, Choi Yong-so's cronies and defenders Hong Zhengzheng also officially transferred to Suning, and finally Suning won the first place in the competition with several clubs, and spent 100 million to buy the team with Zhou Zhou, the captain of the Longteng team, and in the aftermath of the introduction of Diego Costa, Jiangsu Suning completed the introduction of several key positions, and they can be regarded as the winners of the summer recruitment.

With the end of Suning's transfers, the summer recruitment of the 2016 season of the Chinese Super League has also come to an end, except for the Longteng team is still selling foreign aid and selling captains, basically all the Chinese Super League teams have been strengthened, and the overall investment has once again reached a record high in the summer transfer period.

The competition in the Chinese Super League will be more fierce in the second half of the season.