Chapter 104: The 2011-2012 season begins

After returning to China for a few days off, on June 30, Cheng Hai and others returned to Germany to prepare for the pre-season training of the new season.

On 1 July 2011, the European summer transfer window officially opened, with Borussia Dortmund announcing two major transfers.

One is the transfer of Nuri Shaheen to the Galacticos Real Madrid for a transfer fee of 10 million euros, which is a deal that has been negotiated for a long time, but it will not officially take effect until the transfer window opens on July 1.

For the core of the organization that won the Bundesliga and UEFA Cup double last season, this transfer fee is quite low, and Dortmund has suffered a lot of losses.

And Shaheen also said in the media that he yearns for Real Madrid and cannot refuse Real Madrid's call.

As a result, almost no one was nostalgic for Shahin's departure, and fans instead issued resentful abuses against him on various occasions.

It's normal for professional players to transfer, but Shahin is a player trained by Borussia Dortmund's own academy, and he is not loyal at all, not to mention, even if you want to leave, why don't you leave more transfer fees for your parent club?

As a result, Shahin just didn't renew his contract, resulting in only one year left in the contract, Dortmund had no choice but to let him go to Real Madrid with a low price of 10 million euros in order to stop the loss.

After Shahin's departure, Dortmund were missing a striker.

Although Shinji Kagawa can shoulder the responsibility of organizing the front midfield, then the full-back will have to be poor, and the forward position needs to be replenished.

After all, next season Jurgen Klopp is ambitious to go hand in hand on the three fronts of the Bundesliga, German Cup and Champions League, and must strengthen the bench.

Others don't have such a perverted recovery ability as Cheng Hai, and they will definitely have to rotate in the second half of the season.

However, Dortmund is not a big-spending team like Real Madrid, Barcelona and Chelsea after all, what they are best at is digging up cheap young players, and then playing for a few years and then selling them to other local tycoons at a high price.

Therefore, after looking around, Dortmund did not look for the stars of their playing years, but bought a 20-year-old playmaker Ilkaj Gundogan from Nuremberg for a transfer fee of 5.5 million euros.

Despite his young age, Gundogan has been the heart of Nuremberg's midfield for two consecutive seasons, and was a key contributor to Nuremberg's sixth-place finish in the Bundesliga table last season.

For Dortmund, the double-champion team that can transfer to the Bundesliga and the League Cup, Gundogan is naturally very happy to be able to partner with the European Golden Boot Cheng Hai next season and impact the Champions League.

On the first day of reporting on July 1, he said a lot of compliments to the media and fans, saying that it was an honor to come to Dortmund and fight with everyone, and he would do his best to contribute.

In addition, No. 10 striker Zidan, who was already of low importance to the team and had few appearances, and a number of other fringe substitutes who were not allowed to play were also traded.

Naturally, with Dortmund's style, it is natural that a few unobtrusive young players have also been introduced, which can be regarded as the credit of Dortmund's scouting system.

If there is a genius like Gotze and Shaheen among them, it will make a lot of money.

Of course, there is no need to think about Cheng Hai's example, for example, Dortmund has been envied and hated by football clubs all over the world.

Cheng Hai has been listed as an alien genius at the same level as Ronaldo, and some people even think that at the age of 18, Cheng Hai's talent and strength, speed of progress, honors, etc., are more powerful than Ronaldo, and he is a super genius in world football once in a century.

In any case, Jurgen Klopp's Dortmund team is very mature.

Except for Shahin's transfer and Gundogan's transfer, the other main players have basically not changed much, whether it is the personnel lineup or the tacit cooperation of the players, they are almost the same as last season.

Although Shahin's departure has caused Dortmund to suffer a great loss in midfield organization, with Cheng Hai's growing strength and growing understanding with his teammates, Dortmund's strength should be similar to last season.

If Gundogan can quickly integrate into the team and play at the heart of his midfield at Nuremberg, Dortmund will be even stronger than last season.

It's no wonder that Klopp has the idea of fighting on three fronts.

The media is also very optimistic about Dortmund's future this season, believing that Dortmund is likely to attack the first treble team in the Bundesliga.

Of course, it's too early to talk about the Treble, the competition still has to be done step by step, now let's start pre-season training and preparation!

After introducing Gundogan to the squad, Dortmund began training on 1 July.

Of course, some of the players who still have national team play tasks such as Barrios have not yet returned to the team, but most of the players are already ready to start training normally.

It was also on the day of the start of pre-season training on July 1 that Cheng Hai received the club system task for this season.

Mission 8: German Super Cup

Mission: Help Borussia Dortmund win the 2011 German Super Cup

Success Reward: 10 Skill Points

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Mission 9: UEFA Super Cup

Mission: Help Borussia Dortmund win the 2011 UEFA Super Cup

Success Reward: 20 Skill Points

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Mission 10: Bundesliga Champion

Mission: Help Borussia Dortmund win the German Bundesliga title this season

Success Reward: 50 Skill Points

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Mission 11: Champion of the German FA Cup

Mission: Help Borussia Dortmund win the DFB Cup this season

Success Reward: 30 Skill Points

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Mission 12: Champions League Champion

Mission: Help Borussia Dortmund win the UEFA Champions League for the season

Success Reward: 200 Skill Points

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Because the German Super Cup and the UEFA Super Cup are both win-or-lose championships, the time cost is relatively small, so the rewards are relatively low, but they are both good.

The Champions League rewards were doubled by last season's League Cup awards, which can be described as a heavy reward.

In addition, the additional skills that were rewarded after winning the double last season made Cheng Hai have more expectations.

Because he asked the system, when a new champion is added every season, an additional random skill will be rewarded.

In other words, if Cheng Hai can lead Dortmund to win all five titles this season, then he will be rewarded with four additional random skills.

With more and more experience required to level up and more difficult to level up, earning new random skill rewards through multiple crowns is a way out.

In the following days, teams from the five major leagues reported on the start of pre-season training, and the European League also entered the summer transfer period.

On July 7, the draw for the third round of the men's football Asian qualifiers for the 2012 London Olympics was held in Kuala Lumpur, the headquarters of the AFC, and the Chinese Olympic team was finally divided into Group A with South Korea, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

In addition to the Chinese Olympic team, which has a goal machine Cheng Hai and has just won the Asian Games Asian Cup, is the only one, for South Korea, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, the group stage with only one qualifying place and one play-off place is the group of death.

But it's none of Cheng Hai's business.

In Asia, he has led the National Olympic team that is not afraid of any team. As long as he plays, no opponent can bother him.

Cheng Hai is absolutely confident that he can lead the national Olympic team to win the first place in the group and directly enter the London Olympics.

The Olympic teams of South Korea, Qatar and Saudi Arabia can only grab the play-off places for the second place in the group, and then play the play-offs with the second two groups in the other group, and then compete with the play-off teams from other states for the final qualifying spot.

Tired must be very tired, and the hope is very slim, but it is not Cheng Hai's business.

Therefore, Cheng Hai only glanced at the news and did not pay much attention to it, he was concerned about the first pre-season friendly of the new season on the same day: Dortmund away against an amateur team, Wolfred.

Playing an amateur team with the strength of the Bundesliga and UEFA Cup doubles will naturally not be a surprise.

Even though Dortmund kept changing substitutes and the whole team of more than 20 people rotated almost all over the game, Dortmund still played a super-large score of 9-1 on the road.

But the opponent didn't feel insulted or anything.

Not to mention 9-1, even if Dortmund scores more than 10 goals, there will be no surprise.

This score is also the reason why Dortmund keeps changing substitutes and the lineup is unstable.

Cheng Hai only played 45 minutes in this very casual friendly match, scoring 4 goals, assisting 3 and directly creating 7 goals.

This pre-season friendly is informal and there isn't much to be covered.

But after the game, there were still many media reports on Cheng Hai's 4 goals.

Because, counting all the games with video records such as the Huaguo Football Federation, the club friendly match, and the Asian Games of the National Olympic Team, Cheng Hai has scored a total of 146 goals in the 73 games of his football career so far, which just reached the efficiency of 2 goals per game.

This efficiency is simply a bit appalling, much higher than that of Gad Müller.

In just over a year, 146 goals have been scored.

If you calculate it this way, ten years later, Cheng Hai will surpass Gerd Muller's 1,461 football career goals scored in 1,216 games.

Cheng Hai's appearance seems to prove that Gerd Müller's record can be broken.

Of course, more than 100 goals, far from Gerd Muller's more than 1,400 goals, is still too far away, and it is too early to talk about surpassing.

It's a long-term process.

It's just that Cheng Hai's goal efficiency just reached an average of 2 per game, so everyone took it out to talk about it and discuss it.

But no matter what, at least after scoring more than 100 goals, the average efficiency per game can still reach 2 goals per game, which is rare in world football throughout the ages, and it is no problem to say that Cheng Hai has the hope of surpassing Gerd Muller's record of 1,000 goals.