Won.

Schalke lost ground across the board in midfield, but Schalke also found a good solution. That is, Dortmund's midfield is very strong, it should be said that their tactics are very right, and the counter-attack in the front field is very successful. Successfully restrained Schalke's possession in midfield.

So Stevens just dropped the midfield.

Let Schalke drop straight back in midfield to protect the back. Then he started to play the most primitive and simple way of playing, that is, the backcourt players directly looked for the center Huntelaar. Then use the personal abilities of Huntelaar, Raul, and Jin Ming in the front court to create zào opportunities.

Huntelaar is the centre-forward, and a very standard centre-forward.

He is tall, has a good body, and although his skills are simple, he is not bad, and he can stop the ball and control the ball in the front court. As soon as he succeeds in stopping the ball, then he starts looking for players to work with, either Raul or Jin Ming, and of course the occasional Farfan.

The next step is to rely on their individual strength.

Among them, Raul's in-situ skills are the best, his ability to get rid of them is not bad, and more importantly, Raul's vision is very good and his passing ability is very good. So as long as Huntelaar can get the ball to Raul, then Raul will be able to find the point of counter-attack.

Then it will be up to Jin Ming and Farfan, players with strong assault ability, to see how they create chances.

This is actually the way a weak team deals with a strong team. In many weak teams, there will be very good strikers. These strikers all have excellent ability to play alone, in order to be used on counter-attacks. Although it seems very primitive, it looks very simple, and it looks very untechnical. But the effect is very good. Dortmund was hard.

In the end, Schalke relied on two goals from Jin Ming to defeat Dortmund 2-0 and enter the final of the German Cup.

Jin Ming has scored 12 goals in the German Cup so far.

And not long after the end of this game, the transfer that has been going viral for a long time was finally announced.

On April 1, 2012, Arsenal officially announced that Arsenal had brought in Schalke's Jin Ming for 23 million euros. Then soon Schalke officially confirmed the transfer.

It's been just going viral. And not entirely sure.

But at this moment, both clubs announced the recognition of the transfer, and the long-rumored transfer was finally confirmed.

Of course, the announcement on both sides is very simple.

Schalke just confirmed this matter, and then thanked Jin Ming for his contribution to Schalke in the past three years on the official website, and blessed Jin Ming for the rest of his career. And Arsenal are very simple.

just said that the transfer price was 23 million euros, and then it was written that Jin Ming's contract period was four years.

As for the specific content of the contract, it has not been announced.

Of course, even if Arsenal did not announce the specific content of the contract, it is not difficult for many journalists to get the content of the contract. Soon many media outlets followed up on the incident.

What Jin Ming gets a weekly salary of 100,000 pounds, what Jin Ming and Arsenal have other business conditions, etc.

However, for Arsenal fans, they don't care about the specific content of the contract. Because for them. Arsenal's ability to sign Arsenal is enough to make Arsenal fans ecstatic. Not only Arsenal fans in China, but also Arsenal fans in the United Kingdom. It's not that England's Arsenal fans love Jin Ming.

Even many of them had heard of Jin Ming's fame, but they didn't take it seriously.

England fans are proud.

Although Jin Ming is excellent in the Bundesliga, he even has an excellent table in the Champions League. But for them, Jin Ming is still just a young player who has just become famous.

For arrogant England fans, there are very few players who can make them look at them.

Even many English fans rarely pay attention to the matches of other leagues. Not to mention a club like Schalke, even Bayern's ball, England fans will not watch it.

Because they always think that the Premier League is the first league in European football.

Therefore, they do not think that Jin Ming is very strong. I haven't watched Jin Ming's game either.

But they are happy that Arsenal have finally spent their money. What has been the most painful thing for Arsenal fans in recent years. That is to only watch their good players leave Arsenal one by one, and rarely see any good players brought in by Arsenal.

Every summer time. The Arsenal hierarchy began to boast that Arsenal had a transfer fee of 70 million pounds. But every time in the summer transfer market, Arsenal only sees their players leave the club, and never sees what powerful stars Arsenal bring in.

This has made Arsenal slowly become a laughing stock in the transfer market. The 70 million pounds became something that other fans ridiculed Arsenal.

So much so that when Arshavin was introduced. Arsenal fans are really rejoicing. It is believed that Arsenal has finally brought in a player with good quality and good reputation.

And this time the introduction of Jin Ming is like this.

They are not interested in the arrival of Jin Ming, but to see the changes in the club. Although Arsenal fans don't know Jin Ming very well, they are also quite derogatory to Jin Ming. But they can't help but admit that Jin Ming is really very sought-after.

It is not worse than the current Chelsea chasing very closely, and Arsenal has not been able to bring in Hazard.

Even more so than Eden Hazard, he was recognized by other clubs.

But Arsenal was able to beat a lot of opponents and introduce Jin Ming, which is really good and very morale-boosting. Because Arsenal introduced Jin Ming, it also said from the side that Arsenal is still attractive enough. At this time, Arsenal fans began to appeal, calling on Van Persie to renew his contract quickly.

Because the biggest reason why Van Persie did not renew his contract in the first place was that Arsenal was not competitive.

Van Persie made it clear when he rejected Arsenal. Robin van Persie wants to win a title at the end of his career, and Arsenal don't have that quality. That's why Van Persie turned down Arsenal.

In fact, to put it bluntly, Van Persie thinks that Arsenal's current results are not worthy of him.

Now Arsenal are starting to bring in reinforcements.

And it also broke Arsenal's all-time transfer record. Now that Arsenal has brought in such an outstanding talent as Jin Ming, there should be no reason for you to have Robin van Persie. You should see that Arsenal are also ambitious and have started spending money.

Let's stay.

This is the wish of Arsenal fans. After all, Van Persie grew up at Arsenal and is now the top striker in the Premier League and the captain of Arsenal. Arsenal fans certainly hope that Arsenal will keep Robin van Persie.

Many fans speculated that Arsenal brought in Jin Ming this time, and announced the news in the middle of the season before it ended. It's just to keep Van Persie. I want him to know that Arsenal still have ambitions and that Arsenal are out of the economic crisis.

It's a pity that they all guessed wrong.

Arsenal announced the transfer on April 1, not for Van Persie. In fact, the Arsenal club and Van Persie have already collapsed at this time, and the two sides have not found a compromise at all, and Van Persie is now bent on leaving.

Even Arsene Wenger knows where Van Persie is going, and Wenger has already acquiesced in his departure.

So there is no such thing as Arsenal bringing in Kim Ming for Van Persie's contract.

This time it was announced in such a hurry because of Arsenal's trip to China this summer. The Chinese company that operated Arsenal's China tour this time was Zhongao Yanxu Company, and the general manager of this company was Han Xu, a former player from Beijing Guoan.

They started operating very early.

As early as February this year, Zhongao Yanxu Company began to contact Arsenal. began to prepare for the operation of Arsenal to play in China.

Premier League Templar Cup.

That's the competition they organize. In fact, they want to learn from Wansheng Company, which organized the Italian Super Cup in China and made a lot of money. One game made Wansheng Company earn tens of millions of yuan. This makes other sports companies very angry.

After all, that's tens of millions of yuan.

Therefore, Zhongao Yanxu Company is ready to invite two Premier League clubs to a direct confrontation. Take advantage of the fact that the Premier League has been hot in recent years to earn more money.

The two clubs they invited were Arsenal and Manchester City.

Of course, Zhongao Yanxu Company is a new company, and its strength is not good. They can only invite Arsenal and Manchester City. One of these two clubs is a recent upstart, and although it has good strength and good results, it is a pity that there are not many fans in emerging markets. In China, Manchester City fans are even rarer.

Therefore, Manchester City is also eager to explore some emerging markets, especially the Chinese market. That's why I accepted this invitation.

And Arsenal needless to say. Although Arsenal's economic situation is slowly improving, it is not completely without problems. At least Arsenal don't have much money this summer. They still need to make some extra money.

The giants are all making money in China, and Arsenal is also very red-eyed.

Although Arsenal is a traditional powerhouse in the Premier League, it has many fans in China. It's a pity that Arsenal hasn't won the title for many years. And the development of emerging markets is not as good as that of Manchester United. In addition, Arsenal's strength is not good, and the star flavor is dim, and there are few stars in the first team who can be called. So the appearance fee is not as good as the nouveau riche Manchester City.

Manchester City don't look like an upstart, but they have Yaya in their hands. Top stars like Toure, Carlos Tevez, Sergio Aguero, Silva. There are also powerful generals like Nasri, Milner, Kompany, Joe Hart.

According to the original plan of Zhongao Yanxu Company. Manchester City's appearance fee is one million euros, while Arsenal is less than one million euros. If it had been last year, Arsenal would have accepted it.

But not this year.

How could Arsenal accept such an appearance fee, which is too low. So Arsenal broke the news at this time. It is also a direct complaint to the company that our Arsenal is now in a completely different position.

Because Arsenal has the golden name that has great appeal in China.

If you only give Arsenal less than 1 million euros in appearances, we won't be working with you. Because since it was rumored that Arsenal signed Jin Ming, there are not one or two Chinese sports companies that have contacted Arsenal.

They all understand the value of Jin Ming.

Just look at the broadcast of Chinese television.

Originally, whether it was the German Cup or the Europa League, it had no influence in China. Because these games are not rich enough to attract the attention of Chinese fans. That is, some die-hard fans may take a look at the average fan who will pay attention to such a game.

But this season's German Cup and Europa League broadcast rights are in the hands of CCTV, and CCTV attaches great importance to such games.

As long as it is Schalke's game, whether it is the Europa League or the German Cup, CCTV will never let it go. And Jin Ming's performances in the German Cup and Europa League are too exciting, and Jin Ming is the top scorer in both events.

For example, the Europa League matches are all in the early morning, but the ratings can rush to the forefront of CCTV's five sports programs. Even a game with a very low gold content such as the German Cup will surpass many Bundesliga and La Liga in terms of ratings.

It can be seen how influential Jin Ming is in China.

Therefore, there are many sports companies that want to operate Arsenal to play commercial matches in China. Of course, there are also many shell companies in it, and they want to empty the gloves of the white wolf. But regardless of what these sports companies think, the appearance fees they give are far higher than the holidays given by Zhongao Yanxu Company. Things have come to this point, anyway, Zhongao Yanxu Company is in a hurry.

Really anxious.

They had been building momentum back in February, saying they would invite Arsenal and Manchester City to play. If Arsenal runs away at this time, then Zhongao Yanxu Company is not at a good time.

In addition, they are also very concerned about Jin Ming's joining Arsenal.

If they can't invite Arsenal with a golden name at this time, then they will definitely become a laughing stock for everyone. It will even be abandoned by the media and fans, and they will really lose money when they organize such an event.

So at this time, Arsenal broke such news, and Zhongao Yanxu Company could only take a step back. In the end, he retreated all the way to Arsenal and paid 1.8 million euros for appearances.

Although it can't be compared with Real Madrid and Manchester United, in fact, the real gap is not big. This kind of appearance fee is already in the forefront of European football giants.

This made Gazidis laugh.

Originally, Gazidis's idea was that Arsenal's trip to China this summer would be to play one game in Beijing and then one game in Hong Kong. In this way, it would be good to be able to earn nearly 10 million euros from the end of the business competition in Asia.

But with Jin Ming, his mind changed completely.

The first stop was to play the Premier League Temple Cup in Beijing, while the second stop was to play a commercial match with Guangzhou Evergrande in Guangzhou. Increase the number of competitions in Chinese mainland.

To put it bluntly, it's all about the money.

Jin Ming's transfer fee is 23 million, which is an unplanned expenditure. Originally, Arsenal contacted Podolski, and his transfer fee was more than 10 million euros.

But in the end, Podolsky was abandoned and Jin Ming was introduced. Since it was an unplanned extra of more than 10 million euros, Gazidis of course wanted to earn this back. The easiest place to earn money back now is, of course, China.

He wants to earn his money back in China. (To be continued......)