Within a few days at Borussia Dortmund, Zhou Yi and Cortana joined up with the team and went to warm Spain to begin their winter training camp. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Before the start of the training camp, the club gave every player who returned to the team a physical examination, Zhou Yi's physical condition is not bad, a slight decrease compared to before the winter break, but it is also within the normal range, after all, it is impossible to maintain the normal training intensity and plan during the season.

After Klopp got Zhou Yi's physical examination report, he jokingly said to Dr. Braun, the team leader: "Cortana and Zhou Yi are together, I really didn't expect that there would be such a benefit for us - to supervise Zhou Yi's living habits." ”

After the medical examination, the whole team set off for Spain to start their training camp.

This winter break is actually very important for Borussia Dortmund.

Because the team has suffered a lot of injuries, there are several tasks in the winter break training camp, on the one hand, of course, to ensure that the players do not continue to be injured. On the other hand, it is to ensure that the team has enough fitness in the second half of the season.

Because there is a World Cup this summer, the leagues of all countries have to end earlier than in the past, which leads to a relatively denser schedule this season, Dortmund now whether it is the German Cup or the Champions League, have entered the next stage of the competition, plus the league, the schedule will be very dense, and the physical requirements of the players will be higher.

Fortunately, the Bundesliga has a winter break, which allows the players to rest and rest, and then adjust their fitness through training camps, so as not to run out of gas at the end of the season.

But even so, the situation is not encouraging.

After all, too many players have been injured in Dortmund this season, which has drastically reduced the thickness of Dortmund's bench.

There is a winter transfer window during the winter break, during which Borussia Dortmund should seize the time to bring in reinforcements to fill the personnel gap that the team is currently facing.

In fact, in December last year, Dortmund was already actively starting the transfer operation. There have been a lot of rumours in the media about Borussia Dortmund's transfer during the winter break.

But a lot of the rumors were in the summer of 2014.

Far water can't quench the thirst of the near.

For example, what plans to re-transfer Shinji Kagawa, who had a bad time at Manchester United, in the summer, or want to buy Khedira from Real Madrid in the summer. There is also the possibility of considering bringing in another centre-forward this summer, Romelu Lukaku from Chelsea.

These are all rumors, and the eight characters have not been skimmed yet, and they are all "far water".

How can we solve the problem of lack of manpower that Dortmund is facing now?

In fact, it's not that Dortmund doesn't want to solve it, but it's troublesome to solve.

First of all, apart from Gundogan and Subotic, everyone else is not the kind of injury that needs to be rested for a season, they can come back later, if they come back and Dortmund brings in players in the same position, will it be a waste of human resources?

In addition, it is difficult to buy a satisfactory player for a winter break transfer. It's customary and the winter break transfer is not as important as the summer transfer because it's a transfer in the middle of a season, and a lot of players are playing well in this team, and the team is certainly not willing to let him go. If the season is over and the new season has to be rescheduled, it doesn't matter how many players are released.

Everyone knows that it is difficult to buy transfers during the winter break, and they are naturally reluctant to let their players go easily, because once they are released, they want to replenish personnel from the transfer market, but it is not so easy......

For a variety of reasons, there is a lack of players who are influential enough and capable enough in today's winter transfer market. With Dortmund's current status and vision, of course, not just any cat or dog can be looked down upon by Dortmund.

Friedrich had signed a firefighting contract that ended at the end of the season, and it was naturally impossible to give someone a half-season contract if he transferred to buy someone during the winter break, right?

All of these factors have contributed to Dortmund's current struggle in the winter break transfer market.

It was previously reported that Dortmund intends to continue to strengthen in the position of striker, and they are not very satisfied with Schiebert's performance in the first half of the season, so they took a fancy to Hoffenheim's Volland, but why did Hoffenheim release him during the winter break?

The team also intends to play against the old Bundesliga international Kadlec of the Czech Republic, who plays at Fenerbahçe, who plays at left-back but is 1.85 meters tall and can also play as a cameo at central defender. This is an addition to Dortmund's current backline, which is riddled with injuries.

But it is not easy to say whether Fenerbahce will let go or not, and many people are worried about the strength of Kadlec, wondering whether if he does join Dortmund, it will mean a supplement or a hole in Dortmund's backline......

After a turn, Dortmund finalized a transfer, Augsburg's South Korean striker Ji Dong-won. But returning to Dortmund at the end of the season still doesn't help the team's current understaffing problem.

In addition, Dortmund FC has another very important task, which is to renew the contract and keep Gundogan.

Gundogan was reluctant to renew his contract with Borussia Dortmund before, but after Real Madrid were not interested in him after a serious injury season was reimbursed, the road to contract renewal finally took a turn for the worse. Recently, Gundogan agreed to renegotiate a contract extension with the club.

Although Gundogan is basically out of action this season, Dortmund still wants to keep him. Why?

Because Dortmund has always had a concern - after the end of this season, will they be able to keep Zhou Yi?

At the end of last season, Zhou Yi was actually very close to leaving, after all, he won all the titles he could win at Borussia Dortmundso. Is there any reason to keep him going?

Affection?

No kidding.

However, an accident happened, Gotze and Lewandowski left one after another, so that Zhou Yi had no choice to leave the team at this time, otherwise he would be infamy. At this time, the relationship can be discussed......

With Gotze and Lewandowski both leaving the team at the same time, Zhou Yi can't leave even if he wants to, he must stay.

So he renewed his contract with the club.

But there is no guarantee that he will remain at Dortmund in another year or two.

Borussia Dortmund themselves are well aware that they may never be a club like Bayern Munich, because they have experienced a painful economic crisis, so they have never been very open to spending money. They are also unable to make a big deal with Bayern Munich's investment at the club, and this mentality has led to a lack of ambition.

They themselves didn't believe that they could stay with Zhou Yi forever. A player like Zhou Yi will definitely have more pursuits, such as salary...... Borussia Dortmund could not have imagined that they would offer a player an annual salary of 10 million euros.

Thinking that Lewandowski asked Dortmund for an annual salary of three million euros, Dortmund Club was reluctant to give it.

Not to mention ten million.

But as Zhou Yi becomes more and more famous and his achievements become higher and higher, his requirements for salary will become higher and higher. The club does not believe that Zhou Yi is the kind of saint who only talks about dedication and does not ask for anything in return.

When Zhou Yi's agent Lion opened his mouth and asked for a contract with an annual salary of more than 10 million euros, what should the club do?

In fact, an annual salary of 10 million euros is not uncommon in European football, before Serie A completely declined, Ibrahimovic and Kaka got contracts of 10 million euros at Inter Milan and AC Milan respectively. This is especially true in the Spanish Super League giants Real Madrid and Barcelona.

The Bundesliga has always adhered to the principle of financial health, so there are many restrictions on wage expenses to keep the Bundesliga's salary level from breaking the sky.

It's just that Zhou Yi, as the absolute core of the team and the number one star, only got an annual salary of 8 million euros for the recent contract renewal, and this is still before tax, and only half of it is actually received.

If there are really giants who want to poach Zhou Yi and offer an annual salary of 10 million euros, how can the player himself resist?

Whether it's for career or income reasons, Dortmund FC don't think it's possible for them to stay with Zhou Yi forever.

Now that this premise has been set, who can take over this class after Zhou Yi leaves?

Before moving to Real Madrid, Shaheen had this ability, but after a few seasons between Real Madrid and Liverpool, Shaheen's ambition and confidence have been greatly hit, and his strength has stagnated, and he no longer has the aura he used to have. It is impossible for him to lead the Dortmund team now.

Mkhitaryan?

At least not yet, I don't see that he has such ability.

The club side is more optimistic about Gundogan.

Although Gundogan was seriously injured. But he still has some similarities with Zhou Yi in terms of technical characteristics, and he is the best successor after Zhou Yi leaves.

That's why Dortmund will negotiate a contract extension with Gundogan, hoping that Gundogan can stay.

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Apart from a few 'far waters', Dortmund's actions in the transfer market have been inefficient.

None of the people they fancy can come, and they can't even look down on those who can......

The disadvantage of the recruitment work made Klopp always frown during the training camp, and even the atmosphere of the team was not as relaxed as before.

Everyone is gradually realizing that if the club are unable to bring in new signings in the transfer window during the winter break, the next half season will be a tough test for every Borussia Dortmund player, who will be paying more than usual and even facing no replacement in some key positions.

During this period, Cortana's physiotherapy team became more and more busy, and in order to ensure that the players would not be injured in training, it was important to relax after training, and the workload of their physiotherapy team naturally increased.

Although the two of them are openly married, they do not live together during club training, Cortana lives in a room specially arranged for the physiotherapist, and Zhou Yi lives in the same room with Mark.

On weekdays, Zhou Yi had no other contact except for going to her for a massage after training. And even if it is a physiotherapy massage, it is in a large room, and there are several players doing physiotherapy together at the same time, and there is no way to talk about some personal matters.

They could only occasionally look at each other in the crowd and make eye contact.

Even so, Zhou Yi felt satisfied.