Chapter 131: Samba and Winter Turn
The biggest change in the 201617 season's La Liga schedule is the addition of the winter break, which used to be only closed during the Christmas national holiday, but this season's La Liga, the winter break will start on December 18 and last until January 7, which is up to three weeks, which gives La Liga teams a short adjustment break in winter, and Dai Zhiwei also ushered in a two-week long holiday.
Two weeks is 14 days, which is a bit embarrassing for Dai Zhiwei, because if he wants to fly back to his hometown, it will take at least 4 days to come and go, and he feels that the vacation time is basically spent on the road, so he simply did not go home.
It's not that he is indifferent to family affection, because he has already discussed it with his family, during the Spring Festival this year, Dai's father and mother will come over to celebrate the New Year with him in Villarreal, and by the way, he will take his parents to Spain, so it doesn't matter if he doesn't go back on New Year's Day.
As for Christmas Eve and Christmas, Dai Zhiwei is completely indifferent to these Western festivals, and he has no religious beliefs anyway.
The god of the West, can he still care about him, a man from the East?
However, Dai Zhiwei did not stay alone in Spain to watch other people's families celebrate Christmas, but after consulting Pato's opinion, he went to Brazil, which is now in the middle of summer.
Some people say that Brazil is not very safe, but Dai Zhiwei played there for 10 days this time, and he was not stolen, robbed, or infected with any diseases.
Of course, this also has to do with the tour group Dai Zhiwei chose, which cost almost $50,000 for a 10-day trip, not including round-trip business airfares.
Poor travel is completely impossible for Dai Zhiwei, who is wealthy in this life.
Brazil is in South America, in the southern hemisphere, and the seasons are opposite to those in the northern hemisphere. During Dai Zhiwei's 10 days in Brazil, the temperature was around 33 every day.
Because Brazil was once a colony of Portugal, it declared its independence on September 7, 1822. The Brazilians Dai saw in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Iguaçu, mostly white, were very different from what he had imagined.
The only thing that upset him was that several Brazilians asked him, "Are you Japanese?" ”
Dai Zhiwei first had the patience to tell them that I was Chinese, but then he didn't even have the heart to speak.
Portuguese is the official language of Brazil, so Dai Zhiwei's communication in Brazil is not a problem at all.
Dai Zhiwei's first stop on this trip to Brazil was São Paulo.
The first reaction of Brazilian locals when talking about São Paulo is r, and they are all complaining about how congested the traffic in São Paulo is.
Hearing the complaints of the locals, Dai Zhiwei laughed, this is completely trivial, that is because these people have not been to China's Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other big cities, otherwise they will definitely miss the traffic in São Paulo.
São Paulo gives Dai Zhiwei a bit like Shanghai: business is concentrated, there are many people and cars, and there is also smog.
However, the greenery in São Paulo is quite good, and there are trees everywhere in the city.
While playing, Dai Zhiwei came to Brazil alone without bringing his female companion, and Dai Zhiwei naturally wanted to experience the style of samba beauties.
Rio de Janeiro is the most beautiful city in the world by the Brazilian population, and is one of the world's leading metropolises in terms of climate, natural environment, and human history. Because of this, after the 2014 World Football Cup, the 2016 Olympic Games kicked off in Rio, and tourists from all over the world flocked to it.
Dai Zhiwei was in Rio for three days, almost every day was intoxicated, living a fluttering life, not only to eat, live and enjoy extremely much, watching the natural scenery, mainly on the beach in Rio, being embraced by beautiful women every day, it is difficult to meet without glamorousness.
Brazil is a country full of exotic South American culture, with complex races, 90% of whom are mixed-race, which means that the people there are particularly passionate and open, and it also shows that Brazil has a colorful culture and is a multi-ethnic and multicultural country. Regardless of economic development, Brazil leads the world in sports, music and dance.
Rio's beaches are as white as cotton, clean and delicate, parasols are like flowers, and bikini beauties and macho guys from all over the world have become a world tourist landmark.
Under the illumination of the blue sky and white clouds, the sea surface is like a realm, the sea water is lake green, and the seagulls soar in the air, which is beautiful.
At Copacabana Beach in Rio, he meets a group of college girls wearing bikinis and being sexy. The beauties and handsome guys on Rio's beaches are generous and friendly, and they are not at all inhibited. Compared with the Brazilian style, the country seems to be small.
Rio itself is synonymous with openness, Brazilian samba is a feature of Rio, and Rio's beaches attract the sexiest women in the world, as well as the world's lustful people to come here in search of flowers and willows, and sexual encounters are commonplace in Rio.
There are also many handicraft stalls near the beach, but Dai Zhiwei is not too interested, just picks some to send back to China to show his parents.
The evening meeting is on the beach opposite the hotel, and choosing a hotel during the tour is also crucial, saying that it is luck, but in fact it is based on experience.
Dai Zhiwei's footsteps on the beach in Rio are completely disobedient, and he just follows the beauty.
The girls in Rio gave him the impression of being arrogant and uninhibited.
Of course, what will happen at night is indescribable.
However, he heeded Pato's reminder and always wore a small umbrella.
Just when Dai Zhiwei was playing in Brazil and not thinking about it, the winter transfer window of La Liga also kicked off.
This year's La Liga top two Barcelona is very quiet, Real Madrid is silent because of the ban on transfers, La Liga's biggest transfer this winter turned out to be Villarreal Yellow Submarine sold Pato to the Chinese Super League promotion Ma Tianjin Quanjian for 18 million euros, which is the largest transfer in La Liga.
On the afternoon of January 2, local time in Spain, Villarreal Club officially announced that the Brazilian striker officially transferred to Tianjin Quanjian of the Chinese Super League. The two clubs have agreed on a transfer fee of 18 million for Pato, who will be offered a three-year contract with an annual salary of 15 million euros. Last summer, Villarreal bought Pato for just €3 million.
Pato, who rose to fame at a young age, was an effective goalscorer during his time at Milan in Serie A, but continued to suffer injuries that affected his fitness and his form went on a downward spiral. In 2013, Pato left Serie A and returned to Brazil to join Corinthians, where he was loaned to Sao Paulo and Chelsea.
This season, Pato officially moved to La Liga club Villarreal for 3 million euros, hoping to return to his former form, but his performance in the team is still sluggish. In the past half season, Pato has played 22 official games for the submarines, 13 league games, two Champions League qualifiers, five Champions League group games and two Copa del Rey games, scoring six goals, but he was unable to compete for the main position, so he was distracted.
The promoted Ma Tianjin Quan Zhengzheng in the Chinese Super League hopes to bring in foreign players with both strength and fame, and soon after the offer was nodded by Villarreal, Pato also completed the negotiation of personal treatment.
After signing the contract, Pato will go to the winter training ground of Kwon Jian in Italy to meet directly with the club, and wear Kwon Jian's training shirt to undergo a medical examination for Kwon Jian, and after passing the medical examination, his transfer will be completed.
After Pato's transfer was completed, Marca reported that Villarreal's other substitute striker Soldado is also about to transfer to Chinese Super League team Tianjin TEDA.
Tianjin TEDA had already submitted an offer of 7 million euros for Soldado as soon as the winter transfer window opened, but it was rejected by Villarreal. Subsequently, Tianjin TEDA continued to raise the offer for Soldado, which has been raised to 10 million euros, and this time Villarreal did not refuse at the first time, but invited the other party to come for further negotiations.
On the evening of January 5, Villarreal's official website confirmed that Soldado would leave the team to join Tianjin TEDA.
The official website of the Yellow Submarine said that the two clubs have reached a basic agreement on the transfer of Soldado, and Soldado will officially leave the team after passing the physical examination of Tianjin TEDA.
According to the newspaper As, the transfer fee of Soldado is around 11.5 million euros, and the Spanish striker will sign a two-year contract with Tianjin TEDA with an annual salary of more than 6 million euros.
This season, Soldado has made just 10 appearances for Villarreal in all competitions, accumulating 762 minutes, scoring three goals and registering two assists.
"Niang Xipi, they are all rich guys!" After Dai Zhiwei saw the transfer news of Pato and Soldado in Brazil, he sent a farewell text message as soon as possible, and couldn't help but feel that the Chinese Super League team is really rich, Soldado's annual salary exceeds 6 million euros, and Pato's annual salary has reached 15 million euros, throwing Dai Zhiwei to 108,000 miles away.
However, he believes that the sky-high annual salary of the Chinese Super League is deformed, which can indeed attract a lot of world-famous foreign aid, but it is very detrimental to the growth of domestic players.
Now, the annual salary of any Chinese international player is one or two hundred million, but is their strength worthy of such an income?
Many foreign players have made a fortune through their own efforts, but domestic young master players who play football casually for two years are at least multimillionaires, or even billionaires, drunk every day, where is there an urgent need to continue to grow?
Moreover, in recent years, the older the country is, the fewer people want to play in Europe, but many people return to China at a very young age after staying abroad to gild, mainly because the pound and the euro are not as profitable as the yuan.
After selling Soldado and Pato in succession, Villarreal can be considered rich and generous in this winter transfer window.
On the day of Soldado's departure, Villarreal announced through the official website that they had officially reached an agreement with Milan on the transfer of striker Bacca, and the player would return to La Liga on loan, with a buyout option at the end of the season.
With a loan fee of €1.8 million and a buyout fee of €20 million for half a season, Baca will wear the number 9 shirt left by Soldado when he joins the club.
The 30-year-old was born in the NR youth academy in Colombia, joined Belgian giants Club Brugge in 2012 and Sevilla in 2013, winning the Europa League twice with the team.
In the summer of 2015, Baca joined Milan for 30 million euros and played 69 games, scoring 29 goals and scoring 10 goals in 26 appearances this season.
Dai Zhiwei didn't react much to Baka's joining, after all, it was impossible for the other party to steal his position, at most, he would compete with Bakambu for the team's second striker, and he couldn't threaten himself at all.
After spending Barca on loan, Villarreal bought second goalkeeper Andres Fernandes for 2 million euros, who will remain with the team until the 2021 season.
The 30-year-old Andres is a Mallorca academy graduate who has played for Osasuna and Huesca. He joined Porto in 2014 and moved to Granada on loan in 2015.
Andrés joined on loan this season and played a total of 10 games for Villarreal, including six in the league and two in the Champions League, keeping a clean sheet in three of those games.
However, Villarreal did not expect to almost catch fire in the back door.
Just a day before Dai Zhiwei and other players were scheduled to return to the team, French media outlet France Football reported that Bakambu was being sought to sign by a number of Chinese Super League teams.
According to French football reports, many Chinese Super League teams, including Beijing Guoan and Shanghai Shenhua, have thrown olive branches to Bakambu, with an annual salary of tens of millions of euros, and whether he can sign depends on his attitude.
However, at the moment, these teams have not made any official contact with Bakambu, because the departures of Soldado and Pato have only four strikers left in the squad, including new signing Baka, so it will be extremely difficult to sign the Congolese striker this winter.
In order to eliminate the coveting of Bakambu by other teams, before Dai Zhiwei and other players returned to the team, Villarreal announced that the team's transfer window would close early this winter, and Bakambu would definitely not leave the team this winter unless it was in the form of liquidated damages.
In this winter transfer window, Villarreal earned 29.5 million euros by selling veterans Soldado and Pato, and invested less than 4 million euros in the transfer market in total, including buying out the old goalkeeper Fernandes, who has been on loan from Porto, and the striker Baca who has been on loan to Milan, achieving a profit of more than 25 million euros, which can be called the first winner of this winter break.
The reason why Villarreal is called a winner, in addition to profits, is also because their strength has not decreased a bit, under the premise that Dai Zhiwei has occupied the absolute main force in the front line for a long time, Pato and Soldado can play a role no more than the new signing Baka, plus their own team to cultivate the striker Bakambulu team, their ambition to fight for 4 in the league and the Champions League is also obvious.
What awaits Dai Zhiwei will be a new Villarreal with a hint of familiarity and strangeness.
Attached 201617 list of 27 Villarreal players after the winter transfer period:
Goalkeepers: 1 Asenjo, 13 Fernandes, 25 Barbosa
Defenders: 2 Mario Gaspar, 3 Joiangel, 5 Mousacchio, 6 Ruiz, 11 Costa, 12 Gonzalez, 15 Jokic, 22 Rukavina, 23 Bonella, 30 Binot
Midfielders: 4 Alfred Ndiaye, 7 Cheryshev, 8 dos Santos, 14 Trigueros, 16 Rodrygo, 20 Roberto Soriano, 21 Bruno Soriano captain, 26 Pablo, 27 Cantara Piedra, 19 Castillejo
Forwards: 9 Baka, 10 Dai Zhiwei, 17 Bakambu, 24 Rafael