1. Crazy transfers
On December 22, 2015, many players of the Longteng team that were disbanded on the spot in Japan began to buy and buy, especially those young players who did not have transfer worries, and they also rarely had time to come to Japan, and buying some gifts to go back became their favorite thing.
A lot of the media also like to focus on the private lives of players.
Of course, more media are starting to desperately report that the winter window is just over a week away.
Originally, according to the idea of the Chinese Football Association, it was necessary to arrange a 10-day to 2-week national team training camp in January, but whether it was Shandong Luneng and Jiangsu Suning, which had just finished the FA Cup, or Longteng, which had just finished the Club World Cup, they all raised strong protests.
The high-intensity games throughout the season have pushed the team to the limit, and if this holiday is not a good rest, it is estimated that at the beginning of next season, the players' form will be sluggish, and frequent injuries will become Achilles' heel.
The players need to rest, and the coach who usually thinks more than the players needs to rest.
Zhang Sheng has not been home for a long time, and this rare vacation has become a good opportunity for Zhang Sheng to take a breath.
Zhang Sheng is resting, but the external transfer situation is intensifying, and the Longteng team is also involved.
On December 25, former Brazil international and former world-class player Fabiano transferred to the Chinese League A tycoon Tian Jin Quanjian.
As the center of the Brazilian national team, Ronaldo, Adriano's successor, he has always been known as Dick Silk, and many fans say that although he has no shortcomings, he is diligent, low-key, and has solid basic skills. But too European, lacking aura, and relying heavily on the midfield, but really speaking, he is the strongest striker in Brazil since 2008, and some fans joke that maybe in another 2 years will be the strongest in Brazil in the decade.
Such a player is willing to succumb to the secondary league of the Chinese Football Professional League, which can be described as a wave of gulls and herons.
But that's not all, Tian Jin Quanjian began to swipe the screen in the Chinese transfer market.
On the next day, Guangzhou Evergrande announced that the team's striker Deng Chaoqun and defender Gao Jun were both transferred to Tianjin Quanjian for 40 million yuan.
Deng Chaoqun and Gao Jun both transferred to Guangzhou Evergrande from the Longteng team 2 years ago, but with the departure of Lippi, the two of them did not have much opportunity under Cannavaro and Scolari.
The transfer of Evergrande's two generals is not over, and then Tian Jin Quanjian announced that he bought the captain of Liaoning Hongyun and the team's goalkeeper Zhang Lu for 70 million, which is another big deal.
After Tianjin Quanjian finished swiping the screen, it was the turn of another Chinese Super League tyrant - Hebei Huaxia Happiness.
They first announced that they would buy out the former international player Zhu Xuhe, who has been playing in Huaxia Happiness for half a season, for 70 million, and then bought left fullback Ding Haifeng from Liaoning Hongyun for 50 million.
On top of that, they are also in contact with the Longteng team to take away former international player Yao Tian, the team's regular rotation player, from this championship team.
In fact, Yao Tian's transfer was already on the agenda at the end of the season.
With national team experience and excellent personal skills, he is the absolute main force in any Chinese Super League team except Guangzhou Evergrande, but because the reserves in the middle of the midfield of the Longteng team are too rich, and they pay attention to the full-court pressing, emphasizing the tactics of defense starting from the forward, so that pure attacking players like Yao Tian do not have much room to live, and he has more opportunities to play when the game has decided the outcome of the game.
He is already the absolute main force of the Chinese Olympic team, and he obviously does not want to be positioned as a pure substitute player in the team, and seeking a transfer has become his first choice for the arrogant.
But it is not only Huaxia Happiness that has long been eyeing Yao Tianhu, including the local tyrant Tian Jin Quanjian of the Chinese League, Guangzhou R&F who pays attention to the skills of his feet, and even Shanghai SIPG, which intends to strengthen the strength of the rotation players, have coveted him for a long time.
In the end, the promise of being able to play the main force in the Chinese Super League strengthened Yao Tian's determination to transfer to Huaxia Happiness, and the Longteng team officially released him.
In this way, Yao Tian transferred to Huaxia Happiness at the same price of 70 million.
Regarding Zhu Xuhe and Yao Tian's two transfers from Longteng Team to Huaxia Happiness, the outside world thinks they have earned it.
Yes, that's right, they all think that the reason for the earnings is that both players were born after January 1995, and neither of them is now over 21 years old, according to the 5+3+3 rule stipulated by the Chinese Football Association (the winter window transfer can only buy five players with no age limit, three foreign players, and three players under the age of 21. Now Zhu Xuhe and Yao Tian are both players born in 1995, so they don't have to occupy the first five players' places at all, but directly use the two places of players under the age of 21, so that Hebei Huaxia Happiness still has enough space to operate those players who have been famous for a long time and have experience.
It looks like a real deal.
After the two emerging local tyrant teams made efforts, some old strong teams also began to vigorously introduce reinforcements.
First of all, Beijing Guoan spent 8 million euros to buy Renato Augusto, the MVP of the Brazilian national team last season, the main striker of the Brazilian national team, and the brains of Corinthians' midfield.
The transfer fee of 8 million euros and the annual salary of 6.5 million euros are the largest investment in foreign aid in the history of Beijing Guoan, although it can only rank tenth in the history of foreign aid in the Chinese Super League, but this also broke the transfer fee record (3.5 million euros) set by Argentine Batala two years ago.
At the same time, there are also scandals with North Beijing Guoan, Augusto's teammate, back Ralph, and the media also said conclusively that in order to come to Beijing Beijing Guoan to get a high salary, he will pay one million dollars out of his own pocket to buy out his buyout fee, and then come to Guoan to get four times the annual salary of Corinthians.
In terms of domestic aid, Beijing Jingguoan is very old because of Zhou Ting's age, Shao Jiayi retired at the end of the season, and captain Xu Yunlong is in a very bad state, so the demand for players is very large.
Especially at full-back, they don't have an attacker with outstanding attacking power, so they set their sights on the Dragons again, hoping to dig up treasure from a team that sells people for enough money.
Among them, Xiao Yunfan, Wei Zhimin and Zhou Zhou have become their main targets, two of these three players are just 22 years old, and one is 20 years old, both of which are a month away, but the three of them have played in the Chinese Super League for two seasons, and at the same time played many games in the AFC Champions League and even the Club World Cup as the main and rotation players.
With the performance of the three of them on the field, as well as the status of the current international players, it can be said that they can improve the strength of the team, of course, the relative transfer fee is also very high.
For this reason, Beijing Jingguoan has been in contact with the Longteng Club, hoping to bargain on the price.
It's a pity that there are not a few clubs that value these three players, Shanghai Shenhua, who also lacks fullbacks, Jiangsu Suning, who is barely enough fullbacks, because Guangzhou Evergrande, where Shu Jun and Zou Zheng are recovering from injuries, is also staring at the three of them.
At this time, because of the lack of good domestic players, clubs with insufficient youth training ability are very at a loss.
For example, it is also an old strong team, Beijing Jingguoan has not invested much in youth training over the years, and the club's echelon cannot provide more talents to the first team, so they have to buy players from other teams at a high price.
And teams like Shandong Luneng and Shanghai SIPG can sell some marginal players to recover their costs without losing their strength.
During this winter break, Shanghai SIPG has not bought a player so far, but sold Zheng Dalun, who could not play the game, at a price of 20 million, Shandong Luneng vigorously cleaned the players, and sent Wang Qiang, Han Peng, Cui Peng and other veterans away, Shao Puliang, Mi Haolun, Luo Senwen, Gao Zhunyi, Zhou Yuchen, Chen Hao and others also left the team.
Several teams with insufficient funds in the club, such as Liaoning Hongyun and Hangzhou Greentown, also rely on selling the main force of their first team and promoting players from the youth team to make a living.
Of course, a team like the Dragons that sells their captains stronger and stronger is an outlier.
However, this time in the release of these three fullbacks, Zhang Sheng was still a little hesitant.
As the vice captain of the team, Zhou Zhou is very stable in the backline, although his ability to assist is poor, he is still commendable in defense, and Zhang Sheng really needs an experienced full-back to be able to defend in key games.
And Xiao Yunfan and Wei Zhimin are honest, Zhang Sheng thinks that they can stay and let go.
Although the two of them have strong assist ability, they are relatively rough defensively, and the 3-5-2 formation prepared by Zhang Sheng next season requires two fullbacks or wingbacks to be able to go up and down, which requires a very high return ability of players.
Therefore, Zhou Zhou can stay to enrich the team's style of play, and Xiao Yunfan and Wei Zhimin can definitely sell as long as the price is right, because in the position of fullback, the reserves of the Longteng team are still very sufficient.
At the end of the 2015 season, the players who had been on loan in the second division have now returned to the club, and they have grown very quickly after a full season of regular competition.
Among them, Huang He, a right-back, has now exceeded 70 ability, and if he is integrated through winter training, he can completely replace any of the three main full-backs.
The same is Shen Jun, after the World Junior Championships, his ability and self-confidence have been greatly improved, and his ability value of 70 is definitely qualified for the substitute position.
When the transfer from the outside world was in full swing, Zhang Sheng, who had rested for more than a week, also began to plan the blueprint for this season.
The first thing to do is to buy a strong enough foreign player to replace Pato.
As early as the middle of the season, the coaching team of the Longteng team had already begun to examine the candidates for foreign aid, of course, at that time, it was just a long-term plan for the Longteng team to prepare for a rainy day, and Pato did not expect Pato to leave the team.
The club's focus is on the Israeli player who later shone in the Super League, Zahavi.
In fact, this player Zhang Sheng is not very familiar with it, when Zhang Sheng crossed, Zahavi had just been bought by the Guangzhou R&F team, and Zhang Sheng only had time to watch his debut - in the game between Guangzhou R&F and Shijiazhuang Yongchang, Zahavi made his Super League debut. Zahavi scored and passed throughout the game to help R&F win 4-2.
Therefore, it is the coaching staff and scouting department of the Longteng team that propose to examine this player, and it is not focused on the advantages of Zhang Sheng's traverser.
If it were known that Zahavi had an excellent performance later and was able to select a player suitable for the Longteng team from a large number of players, the scouting department of the Longteng club could be said to be a great contributor, and Zhang Sheng would have given them a grand prize.
But now there is a problem that Zahavi still wants to play in the Champions League.
Now that the group stage of the 2015-2016 Champions League season has just ended, Zahavi's Israeli giants Maccabi Tel Aviv FC have conceded sixteen goals in six games, and only one goal has been scored - it was still a penalty, which was scored by Zahavi.
However, Zahavi eliminated the opponent with a score of 2:2 away and 1:1 at home in the qualifying round against the Swiss giants Basel, and all three goals were scored by Zahavi, which is also the second time that the club has entered the main stage of the Champions League after 11 years.
Reluctantly, Zahavi is ready to continue playing in the Champions League to prove his quality.
As the number one star of the Israeli national team, Zahavi's quality is undeniable, having led the team to a historic Europa League and qualified for the round of 32 as Group C winners.
This season, he led the team to the group stage of the Champions League, which is one step further.
Zahavi also played in Europe's top five leagues, and after joining Serie A side Palermo in 2011, he was average in the next two seasons, scoring just two goals and providing two assists.
But back home, he still crushed all the players and won the Israeli League Golden Boot for two consecutive seasons.
Since the start of the 2015-2016 season, Zahavi's team has only been three points behind the top three, even in the third front. With a lot of energy in his heart, he also wants to overtake his opponents, and after winning the championship, he will continue to play in the Champions League next season.
The Dragons have made contact with Maccabi Tel Aviv after Pato decided to go, as Zahavi and the club still have two years left on his contract.
For the offer of the Dragons, Maccabi Tel Aviv Club is more entangled, because the transfer fee offered by the Dragons is not low, when Zahavi transferred back to Tel Aviv from Palermo in Serie A, it only cost 250,000 euros, and this time the transfer fee of 5 million euros offered by the Dragons is 20 times more than before.
After Zahavi arrived in the team, he helped the team win the league championship and let the team enter the Champions League again in history, and it can be said that the transfer fee of 250,000 euros is absolutely worth the money.
But the figure of a transfer fee of 5 million euros is too large to offset the salary expenses of the whole team for a year.
It's just that the team has just been eliminated from the Champions League, and the morale is relatively low, and the opponent in the league has been pulled down from the first place, and it is difficult to say whether it will enter the Champions League next year.
You must know that if the team can't enter the Champions League, the loss is still very large.
Based on the team's performance in the Champions League this year, according to UEFA's Champions League bonus distribution principle, in the 2015-16 season, all 32 teams that enter the Champions League group stage will receive at least 12 million euros in dividends, even if they lose all of them.
Tel Aviv is the kind of person who lost all of their group games.
Therefore, the club decided to let Zahavi continue to play for the team to see if they can qualify for the Champions League - the league title.