4. Straighten out the team
The news that Pato has been spotted by Chelsea and has been loaned out is actually very influential.
Historically, Paulinho played out of form in Guangzhou Evergrande, was recruited to the Brazilian national team, and then went to Barcelona, which once became a live advertisement for the Chinese Super League.
In addition, Paulinho's performance in Barcelona is indeed good, which makes the Chinese Super League a lot higher in the eyes of outside fans, especially European fans.
This time, Pato was favored by Chelsea, which is also a giant, even if he was loaned in the past, there is still the possibility of being returned, which still makes the fans of the Chinese Super League talk about it for a long time, as for the European fans, they still maintain the attitude of Paulinho's transfer to Barcelona - a player who plays in the Chinese Super League is also worthy of playing in the European giants?
So when Pato decided to go to Chelsea, Zhang Sheng gave him a long advice: "I know. Chelsea are very important to you, and that proves that you do have the capital to be looked up to by others. But I want to remind you that playing at Chelsea there are countless people who will have their eyes on you and your every move will be under their watch. Once you don't do well, maybe it's your last chance to play in Europe. ”
Pato nodded cautiously: "I know." I'm not going to let them look down on me. ”
"Originally, I wanted to put you in touch with a mid-table team, but now that you've made your decision, I trust you. Zhang Sheng said, "Finally, I still ask you for one thing, that is, don't let others look down on the players who go beyond it. Now the Chinese fans are very concerned about you and hope you can do well in Europe. ”
"I am very grateful to the Longteng team and the Chinese Super League for nurturing me again. Pato said with emotion, "I will not let the fans of Longteng Club and the fans of the Chinese Super League disappointed." ”
"Once, I say once. If you don't feel happy in Europe, we are waiting for you to come back with open arms. Zhang Sheng finally gave Pato a reassurance.
"I think if I come back again, it should be that I have won enough honors in Europe, when I start to get tired of Europe. Pato looked very confident, "When the time comes, I will return to China, which is my second home." ”
"Come on. Zhang Sheng's thousand words can only be combined into this one sentence in the end.
Soon after, the Dragons announced on their official website that Pato was leaving the club to play for Chelsea: "We have announced that Pato has moved on loan to Chelsea Football Club in the Premier League. Let us thank Pato! Thank him for the wonderful games he has brought to the fans and for his contribution to Chinese football! Let us wish Pato a great success! I wish him continued to play well in the world's top football clubs! All the best!"
Immediately after the announcement was made, Chelsea's Brazilian Willian tweeted: 'Brother, welcome to Chelsea, let's fight together. ”
Chelsea's loan spell of Pato has had a big impact in the Premier League.
The Dragons' first foray into the Premier League was the transfer of N'Golo Kante and Riyad Mahrez to Leicester City.
The two players have been in horrific form this season since arriving at Leicester, with N'Golo Kante adding to his interceptions in midfield an even more beautiful shot than he has ever done in history, while Riyad Mahrez has continued his frenzied performances.
Leicester are now stronger than they have ever been, and after 23 league games, they are at the top of the Premier League table for the third time this season.
Two players who were poached from the Chinese Super League have become the object of concern of all Premier League clubs, and the poached team, Longteng Club, has also become a hot topic in the Premier League.
Now Pato's arrival has generated interest across the Premier League – maybe this is another player who can turn the tide of battle?
In fact, Chelsea are willing to sign Pato on loan, and the performances of N'Golo Kante and Riyad Mahrez are not without adding points.
Chelsea fans have remained cautious and optimistic after a little skepticism, and they still have the confidence to be optimistic in the face of the disdain of fans in other European leagues.
In fact, the performances of Kante and Mahrez have long caused great repercussions among Chinese Super League fans and Chinese Super League clubs.
As a player who was dug up from a low-level club, Zhang Sheng has grown up playing in China and is now able to call the wind and rain in the Premier League, and what could be more amazing than that.
At the same time, Kante and Mahrez have also been very good for Zhang Sheng, to the Longteng club, and to the Chinese league on many occasions, when they were interviewed by reporters and asked about their previous experience of playing in China, they have always said that the Chinese league is not as low as everyone thinks, and they think that there is still a very good help for the improvement of the player's ability.
When Premier League fans paid attention to the fact that the Longteng team still has the Golden Ball and Golden Boot of the World Junior Championships like Nie Jiang, as well as a large number of players who have performed extremely well in the World Junior Championships, they have firmly established an idea - the Longteng team is a club that is very good at developing players, especially young players.
When the outside world was discussing Pato's loan, the Longteng club also quickly reached the stage of the final negotiation of personal treatment with Rodrigo De Paul's transfer, the Longteng team's annual salary of 1.5 million euros, and the treatment of 300,000 euros of signing fee were agreed by Rodrigo De Paul, and the average annual salary of the entire Valencia club was only 1.22 million euros, which was the result of the high salaries of so many main players in the first team.
Players like Rodrigo De Paul, who are signed according to the team's young reserve players, have a very low annual salary, only 300,000 yuan, which is still the salary he was given when he was regarded as a future star by Valencia, in fact, many young players are taking La Liga's "minimum salary" - 15.50 million euros,
Following the end of Rodrigo De Paul's transfer, as last year, the Dragons announced the official end of their 2016 Chinese Super League campaign for foreign signing.
Although the outside world has been prepared, but the Longteng team such a neat introduction still gave everyone a lot of discussion, after the departure of two core players, two main forces, two substitutes, the team announced the end of the recruitment so quickly, and the results of the Longteng team next season Everyone maintained a cautious and cautious attitude.
When the outside world continued to criticize the Dragons for so few players, the Dragons announced the player's loan news.
Among them, Fernando will continue to stay in the Tianshan Snow Leopards in Western Xinjiang for another year, and at the same time, after recovering the two players that the Tianshan Snow Leopards loaned last season, Qu Wenming, a midfielder, and Peng Langjun, a fullback, will be loaned to them to play in the Chinese League.
After the Longteng team opened the opening of the loan, countless Chinese league teams came over.
Last year, the Longteng team loaned five young players to the Chinese League to play games, and loaned out Fernando, a foreign aid who could not play, and the result was that the West Xinjiang Tianshan Snow Leopard, which had the most loan players, had already announced the success of relegation when there was still a third of the league, and the three players of the Longteng team played a huge role, which was the result of two domestic players being frequently sent out to play the Toulon Cup, the national Olympic team, and the national youth team.
The other three players on loan have unexpectedly become the main players of each team, such high-quality loan players have made the outside world extremely surprised, because according to the outside world's judging standards, these five local players plus foreign aid are all proper Chinese Super League players.
In any case, the strength of the loan players of the Longteng team has reached a consensus in the Chinese League A team, so this time when the Longteng team wants to loan players again, the Chinese A team that comes to pull the relationship can be said to be endless.
In fact, not only the Longteng team is now sending a large number of young players to the Chinese League and the second team, including Guangzhou Evergrande, Shandong Luneng, Shanghai SIPG These teams are also the same, seeing that the Longteng team has obtained excellent training for young players in the Chinese League, they have also begun to follow the practice of the Longteng team, and those who have potential in their echelons, and the first team cannot play the game for the time being, and they have been sent to the Chinese A and the Chinese B teams.
This situation is actually very much in line with the practice of European clubs, who often buy players with potential and then form partnerships with small clubs that lack the funds at a certain discount and a clear real price for the number of games played.
Now the more professional youth training methods such as the Longteng team, coupled with the mandatory compression of first-team players by the Chinese Football Association - each Chinese Super League and China League A team is only allowed to have 25 local players sign up for the league, so that the Chinese League and the second team are full of young people who are underneath.
The loan of a large number of young players has given birth to another decision of the Chinese Football Association - the expansion of the Chinese Second and Chinese League A.
In the past, China's professional league was a very unscientific inverted pyramid structure - 16 Chinese Super League teams, the players were still extremely bloated, and there were as many as 30 or 40 players in each Chinese Super League team; 16 Chinese Super League teams, the situation was similar to that of the Chinese Super League, but most of the players were young and older or mostly messy; and when the Chinese League B was few, in the 2010 season, there were only 10 teams.
In mature European leagues, most of the low-level teams are several times that of the top leagues, so the foundation of the Chinese football league is extremely weak.
After the Dragons entered, the situation was greatly improved.
The first team of the Longteng team has been sending talents to the outside world, and the echelon has also been cultivating good seedlings, injecting a lot of fresh blood into the Chinese professional league that lacks players.
For example, in the 2014 season, there were as many as a dozen former players of the Longteng team who played in the second and second divisions, and in the 2015 season, this data was even larger, and some of the Chinese C (National Amateur League) teams even had as many as 4-5 players in the echelon of the Longteng team.
Coupled with the promotion of football policies in recent years, the demand of the market, and the improvement of the national team's performance, a large number of localities and enterprises have an urgent need for the formation of professional teams.
In the 2014 season, because of the influence of the Longteng team, there was one more team in the second division than in history, no longer there were only eight teams in the North District, but there were nine teams in the South District, and the number of teams in the North District also reached nine.
Such conditions led to the expansion of the 2015 season, and while restricting the qualifications for the league, the number of teams in the second division was expanded to 20.
After the end of this season, in the face of the surging demand for the expansion of the Chinese League, the Chinese League was expanded to 24 at one time, and the Football Association also issued a plan to expand the Chinese League to 30 within three years, and the Chinese League to 18, of which there will be 17 teams in the 2017 season.
Considering that the level of the Chinese League is gradually rising, and the players who were loaned to the Chinese League last year are also growing very rapidly, Longteng Club decided to loan more players to play in the Chinese League and the Chinese League.
In the end, the players who were decided to go out on loan included Qu Wenming, Peng Langjun, Tang Jin, Tian Qijie, Wu Qingmin, Lu Yangyang, Wang Xing (Zhong B), Gong Yuzhe (Zhong B) and foreign aid Fernando.
Of these, Fernando is the most controversial.
Last season, Fernando performed extremely well after arriving at the Tianshan Snow Leopards in Western Xinjiang, scoring nine goals in half a season, while also contributing three assists.
The Dragons' coaching staff agreed that Fernando could stay with the team as a super substitute – and that the team needed to play on the counter-attack.
But Zhang Sheng thinks more long-term, in Zhang Sheng's view, Fernando is not just a player who plays counterattacks, Fernando's running and passing ability still has a lot of room for growth, he must rarely get the opportunity to hone in the Longteng team, but in the Chinese A team, he must be an absolute core level player, maybe a season of training in the Chinese League, the Longteng team is not just a counterattacking fast horse, it is very likely to be a good foreign aid who can both score goals and assist.
Zhang Sheng did not guess wrong, in history, when Fernando first joined Chongqing Lifan in the 2015 season, he contributed 3 goals and 3 assists in half a season; in the 2016 season, the blockbuster motorcycle contributed 9 goals and 4 assists; and in the 2017 season, even if the Chinese Super League clubs that have long known him very well have strengthened their attention to him, Fernando still has 7 goals and 8 assists in the face of the opponent's strict defense, becoming the team's second scorer and first assist king.
It can be said that it is too wasteful to just treat him as a fast horse for counterattacks.
In the end, Zhang Sheng persuaded the coaching staff, and at the same time talked to Fernando, asking him to think more about how to be in the position of organization in the attack, improve his ability more comprehensively, and also gave a promise: "If you can make progress in the offensive organization, then there will definitely be a place for you in the team next season." ”
Fernando, who received Zhang Sheng's promise, returned to the Tianshan Snow Leopard in Western Xinjiang with confidence.
When the Longteng team announced the end of the recruitment and a large number of young players were loaned to other teams, there were indeed more and more blockbuster transfers in the Chinese Super League.
First of all, the world's top attackers such as "Hot Bird" Gervinho joined Huaxia Happiness for 15 million euros, setting a new transfer record for Elkeson, and then the main midfielder of the Brazilian national team and an important member of the Premier League giant Chelsea Club - defender Ramirez transferred to Jiangsu Suning for 28 million euros, almost doubling the transfer record of the Chinese Super League.
To be honest, if it weren't for the traverser, a player like Ramirez would transfer to the Chinese Super League, and Zhang Sheng would have been shocked.
It seems that he still hasn't been able to stop the history of the Super League.