Chapter 594: Relegation Preparation for the New Team

At the same time, Li Zihan also announced that the new team will establish a partnership with the Premier League Arsenal club. Tiancheng Group has previously established a work contract with South Korean coach Lee Jang-so, and Lee Zihan said that Lee Jang-so will continue to be the head coach of the new team, if the South Korean coach is still responsible.

Arsenal have already sent second assistant coach Neil Banfield to China, with the Welsh coach set to act as Lee's assistant from the second half of the league onwards, while Zou Yoo-geun will coordinate with each other.

The character of "Old Porridge" is very good, and there is some taste of the world's indisputable and good people. Therefore, it was best for him to do the coordination, and Wei Qun's artillery was also coordinated by Yao Xia for him.

The arrival of Neil Banfield caught everyone even more off guard, and although the coach rarely appeared in public, he spent most of the time sitting quietly in the coaching staff behind Arsene Wenger. But his fame is not small, as a member of Wenger's coaching staff, he played for Arsenal for 17 years. Most of them were in youth coaching roles, while also spending eight years as head coach of Arsenal's development team.

Banfield has produced many young players, most notably Wilshere and Gibbs. Of course, when Theo Walcott and Chamberlain were still in the youth team, it was also Banfield who coached them.

Therefore, Banfield's fame is not small, although he has not won any weighty titles, but he is also an indispensable member of the Arsenal coaching staff.

And now this member has come to China to serve as an assistant coach of a small club hovering in the Chinese League A and China B League, which is not scientific!!

Neil Banfield's CV is enough to support him as a manager in a Championship team, and with some experience in the Champions League, everyone believes that he can definitely be a manager in a team in the bottom of the Premier League. The premise is that he can leave Arsenal, and in fact a number of Championship and League One teams have also thrown an olive branch to Banfield in the past, hoping that the Arsenal coach can come to coach their teams, including the famous Middlesbrough, Millwall and Wolves.

But Neil Banfield has a deep affection for Arsenal, like Steve Boulder and "Uncle Onigiri", who sees Arsenal as his home.

So everyone can't believe that Neil Banfield is coming to China to be the coach of Tiancheng Club, and he is also an assistant coach and not a head coach

The key is that Lee Jang-so and Banfield, two famous coaches, came to coach Tiancheng at the same time, which is the future Quanxing team.

But who is the team going to listen to? Lee Jang-so is nominally the head coach of the team, but he also has a very successful and deep coaching background in China. Scenery and experience. Banfield is a member of the meritorious coaching staff of the European giants Arsenal, and has accompanied Arsenal up and down for 17 years, and according to the complex relationship network between Li Zihan and Arsenal, Banfield and Wenger, Banfield is definitely not here to play soy sauce.

So the question is, who will the team listen to in the future?

Chinese football has too many columns in this regard, the team's veterans, coaches and team leaders have a disagreeable relationship, and finally the team is divided into three factions, and no one's words can play a key role, and finally the team fell apart, and the results also plummeted.

The most obvious example is the current Guizhou Renhe team of the Chinese Super League, their current head coach is Gong Lei, but their team leader and assistant coach is Zhu Jiong, Zhu Jiong used to be the head coach of the Shanghai Shenxin team, formerly known as the Nanchang team, led the team to two consecutive seasons of relegation, and Zhu Jiong was also the main member of the Shanghai Shenhua team when he was young. And Gong Lei is even more needless to say, in the end, the two did not get along, and the team also went up and down, among which there was news that the "ball bully" Sun Jihai was not convinced by the two

Lee Zihan had already thought about it, he said that the head coach of the team is Lee Jang-so, so the players and coaching staff will also follow Lee Jang-so's orders, even if Neil Banfield comes over to assist Lee Jang-so.

Of course, Li Zihan doesn't want the team to have a gap at this critical time and finally fall apart, now is the critical moment for the team's relegation, and unity is the most important thing.

After announcing the future prospects of the team with reporters, Li Zihancai and the person in charge of Tiancheng Group officially signed the team transfer agreement.

After returning to the reporters' free questions, Li Zihan left the table and handed over the rest of the time to the press officer, Yao Xia and others.

Li Zihan rested in Chengdu for a night and flew to London the next day to report on the team. It's now approaching the Arsenal club's reporting camp, and those involved in the World Cup have extended their vacations, with one of them reaching the final, Mesut Ozil, Merdesartt and others taking the longest vacation.

Not long after Li Zihan left, Chengdu Tiancheng Club in order to deal with the relegation in the second half of the league, the team carried out reinforcement work.

One of them announced several blockbuster transfers as soon as it came up, successfully poaching several first-team standing defenders of Dalian Albin, and then turned around to poach Jilin Yanbian and Harbin Yiteng, which is also a Zebra. At the same time, he also loaned several young players in Shanghai Dongya and Guangzhou Evergrande in the Chinese Super League to enrich the team's squad.

These transfers are incomprehensible, first of all, several players of Dalian Albin and Harbin Yiteng still have great hopes of surpassing again if they stay in the original team, and as a force on the sidelines, they cannot play without the ball, but they chose to join a team that is fighting for relegation.

Although the transfer fee is not unexpected, the rotation of the players in the Chinese League is not expensive even if it is the main team, which everyone expected, but the detailed contract of the player has never been revealed.

Some media in Chengdu only know that the annual salary of these new players is about 200,000 or 300,000 yuan more than the annual salary in the original team, but the other details are not known.

The loan of Shanghai Dongya and Guangzhou Evergrande is very understandable, first of all, Shanghai Dongya has relied on Xu Genbao's ten years of sharpening his sword and cultivated many young players. Although the Chinese Super League team in East Asia has provided many opportunities for Genbao Football School at the Chongming base, some young players still have not had the opportunity to play, so loan has become the best option.

Guangzhou Evergrande is not lacking in players, relying on the boss Xu Jiayin's generosity, Evergrande has a lot of players, but the first team can sign up for more than 20 or 30 people, more reserve team and youth team players have no chance, and at this time Tiancheng Club is giving them a chance.

At the same time, Yiyi also came forward, after finalizing the management level of these two clubs, and made a heavy commitment to the goals of these young players, as for what the commitment is, no one knows, but everyone can see that these young players are very motivated to loan to Tiancheng Club.

And as soon as you go on loan, you sign a contract for two seasons. In these two seasons, Chengdu Tiancheng Club will bear the salaries and bonuses of these players.

These are not big spenders, the real big ones came on the fifth day of Li Zihan's return to Arsenal. Chengdu Tiancheng Club sold all three of their non-Asian foreign players at once, and the prices were very low, which felt like a clearance sale.

It was then announced that the club would be signing three foreign players on loan at Arsenal, including 21-year-old centre-back Semi Ajay

Born in '97, talented attacking midfielder Danielle Crowley, a typical number 10, is currently one of the most talented youngsters in Arsenal's youth squad, and his technical finesse has quickly become a regular for Arsenal's Under-18 team.

There is also Caderen Sintz, who was born in '98, a speedy striker who can play wide and center forward. He is currently one of the main strikers for England's Under-17 squad and scored both goals in Arsenal's 2-0 win over Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League youth tie last season.

Once again, the addition of these three foreign players will make a big difference in the daily news, and these three players are well-known even in England, where football is standout, and they can be on loan at a League One side or even a Championship side as a regular main player to gain game experience.

But when you come to a second-tier league like China, everyone doesn't know what these players think, and the difficulty is because of the friendly relationship between Li Zihan and Arsenal and their individuals?

But these youngsters don't joke about their future

In any case, these transfers have indeed been completed, and the problems may only be known to their parties.

Now that everyone's attention is focused on Germany's World Cup triumph, there is not much attention paid to such a team, and perhaps the only thing that pays attention to them is their relegation rivals. Even the teams in the upper reaches of the league are bent on promotion, where is the time to pay attention to the life and death of the relegated team, now whether it is to be promoted to win the championship or relegated, it is time to fight the bayonet.

Tiancheng Club's rectification is hot, and the mainstream European teams are not idle, including when the reporter asked the Champions League champion coach Arsene Wenger what the goal of the new season is.

Arsene Wenger said modestly that of course it is the champion, as for that champion only God knows, but Arsenal will definitely not go home empty-handed in the new season, after eight years without a title and a double, Arsenal has built up self-confidence and strong strength.

At the same time, Wenger also said that he has received strong support from the club's board of directors in the new season, and his transfer funds will be as high as at least 70 million pounds!!

The first reaction of reporters who heard this number was to roll their eyes, and then complained: "Damn, it's 70 million again!! ”

Arsenal's $70 million has been around for a long time, and it is said that in the distant 2005 or 2006 season, Arsene Wenger has always said that the team has prepared $70 million in the summer transfer period, but this money has never been seen.

It wasn't until the summer transfer period last season that Arsenal introduced Mesut Ozil and Li Zihan in one go, which allowed everyone to witness Arsenal's 70 million, but how many years have passed?

So as soon as the reporters heard Wenger's words, they knew that the stern old French man was joking again