The fifth round is also the last round of regular free throws.

This time it was Paulinho who played in the Evergrande team.

Li Xin: "It's time for Wang Dalei to change direction this time!" ”

Dong Lu: "Who knows, it's hard to say, but I always feel that Wang Dalei is in a bad state today, and it's easy to compete with himself when people are in a bad state!" So, maybe he'll stick to the same direction as before."

Gao Yuan felt that Li Xiaopeng's hand on his shoulder trembled slightly.

Gao Yuan secretly glanced at it, but saw that Li Xiaopeng looked as usual on the surface. Gao Yuan understood that the head coach was using great self-control to maintain calm.

Wang Dalei, please, don't be stubborn!

But Wang Dalei still pounced on the left.

Paulinho, who has been through a hundred battles, has long seen through Wang Dalei and easily put the ball into the right side.

The last player on the Taishan team was the veteran Cui Peng.

Li Xin: "I didn't expect that the final finale was Cui Peng, Li Xiaopeng guided to withstand the pressure and sent him to play, can he repay the trust of the head coach at a critical moment?" ”

Dong Lu didn't answer again this time, just staring at the field with his eyes like torches.

Cui Peng adjusted his breathing and started.

His steps seem to be stepping on the hearts of everyone in the Olympic Sports Center, keeping pace with the rhythm of the heartbeat.

The slightly bloated Cui Peng ran to the ball, got up, and the door!

The ball flew out, and Liu Zuo's body also pounced sideways.

Aligned in the same direction!

The ball was blocked by Liu Zuo's hands!

The ball didn't go in!

The Olympic Sports Center fell silent in an instant.

Gao Yuan only felt that Li Xiaopeng's arm on his shoulder seemed to collapse in an instant, as if at this moment, something in the depths of his soul was withdrawn!

The penalty shootout score is fixed at 4:5, and the aggregate score is 7:8!

The Taishan team still failed to cross the mountain of the Evergrande team and was eliminated in the 1/8 match of the AFC Champions League!

The players of the Evergrande team were like crazy, cheering, running and celebrating.

After a moment of silence in the Olympic Sports Center, sighs of regret, invective of disappointment, and cries of pain sounded·····

Li Xiaopeng was silent for a few seconds, then raised his arms and applauded the players on the field, "Pa-pa-pa-pa-"

There is no doubt that he is the most painful person at the moment, but he can't show it at this time, because he is the pillar of the team and he can't collapse!

Gao Yuan's tears couldn't help but welled up.

Such a long period of hard work, such a painstaking preparation, all came to naught at this moment. He was disappointed and miserable, not only because he was part of the Tarzan coaching staff, but also because he was a die-hard Tarzan fan.

He's not a manager, so he can vent his emotions without fear at the moment. When the tears welled up, his heart lightened a little. Sure enough, tears are the best vehicle to release stress and pain.

Thinking of this, Gao Yuan looked at Li Xiaopeng on the side, he was still applauding and encouraging the players, and there was no sadness or joy on his face. But Gao Yuan knew that he was suppressing himself in pain, and tears could not flow out of his eyes, but could only turn into blood droplets and fall on his heart.

One day, he will become a coach himself, and at that time, he will also lose the right to suffer and grieve in front of the public.

This is also the price to be paid behind the glossy appearance of the head coach!

Li Xiaopeng noticed Gao Yuan's eyes and tears, and he comforted: "If Dacheng is missing, life is unsatisfactory, regrets are permanent, and imperfection is life." We've worked hard to the extreme, and it's enough to lose to fate! ”

Gao Yuan nodded as if he didn't understand, a little helpless, a little confused, but he seemed to understand something.

After the AFC Champions League was eliminated, the strategic goal of the season of the Taishan team changed. A multi-front operation has become a two-front operation. Because the league points have been far away from the top three of Evergrande, SIPG and Guoan, the FA Cup, which was originally the most inconsequential, has become the most important championship of the season.

Affected by the defeat in the AFC Champions League, the additional funds for the recruitment also came to naught, although at the insistence of the club, the board of directors added another 10 million yuan for the recruitment. But this is almost a drop in the bucket, and it can only be said that it is better than nothing.

The efficiency of the recruitment team was not bad, and several target candidates for the reinforcements were quickly determined.

Among them, the number one target listed as the first target is Vermaelen.

Yes, it's Vermaelen, who is known as the "High Priest of Darkness".

Thomas Vermaelen (born 14 November 1985) is a Belgian centre-back who currently plays for FC Barcelona.

Vermaelen debuted at the Belgian club Akron, became famous at Ajax in the Netherlands, and became the captain of the team at Arsenal. In 2014, Arsenal moved to Barcelona under the excellent tradition of "selling captains", but since then he has been plagued by injuries, making only one appearance in the league in his first season, but completing the treble with the team.

Vermaelen is 1.83m tall and weighs 80kg. He has excellent defensive skills, good ability to bounce and landing, and his headers are quite good. Not fast but able to keep up with the pace of the opposition, good positional sense and capable of playing in multiple positions at the back.

Compared to his defensive ability, the biggest characteristic of this player is that he is often injured, but strangely, after he is injured, the rest of the team is no longer injured, and the team's record is also quite good, so he is nicknamed "the high priest of injury sucking" by fans.

Although it is just a joke, people in football circles are very superstitious, and this is true both in China and abroad. Just as some people believe that ugly girls can be prosperous, many people in football circles are also convinced that Vermaelen can be prosperous.

The reason why the Taishan team's reinforcement team is in love with Vermaelen, in addition to his outstanding personal ability, is more because his contract in Barcelona is about to expire, and if he is introduced, he only needs to negotiate his personal treatment. He and Marouane Fellaini are team-mates in the Belgian national team, and after seeing Fellaini's success, he is also interested in joining the Far East side.

But the only thing that made the Tarzan team feel uneasy was the glass genus of his body. After all, he has only played 53 games in his five seasons at Barcelona, and compared to him, the famous glass man Bale in La Liga can be regarded as an iron man.

However, in the recent season, Vermaelen has not had any major injuries, and according to the medical report provided by his agent, Vermaelen is currently very healthy.

In addition to Vermaelen, the replacement for the team is Brazilian player Moises, who is a midfielder who currently plays for Brazilian giants Palmeiras, but he still has a contract in place, and if Taishan bring him in, it is estimated that it will cost around 6 million euros.

One is a much-needed defender for the team, and the other is a dispensable midfielder; One is a famous star who plays for a European giant, and the other is a lesser-known foreign aid who is mixed in the Brazilian league; One can be exempt from paying a transfer fee, and the other will cost at least 6 million euros. It's almost clear which is better and which is inferior.

The recruitment team is set up by the club with elite personnel from all departments, including the team's coaches, as well as the financial staff, the administrative staff of the external relations department and the marketing department. After all, determining the target of recruitment is only the first step, and the subsequent negotiations and transfer procedures are even more troublesome.

The recruitment process for state-owned enterprises is very cumbersome. First of all, the recruitment team will first provide the target, and then the team coaching staff will discuss and determine the candidates, submit them to the club's office meeting for consideration, and then report to the club's board of directors for approval after approval, and finally report to the investor State Grid for approval. The last two steps are basically to stamp a seal and go through the process. The most important link is in the first three steps.

Judging from the experience of recent years, the club has a mature and standardized mechanism for recruitment, and under normal circumstances, the foreign aid candidates determined by the recruitment team will not be opposed by the team's coaching staff. If the coaching staff of the team does not object, there is no need for the club office to argue.

In other words, in recent years, after the foreign aid team has been determined, it will go directly through the process to start preparing for negotiations.

But this time, there was an accident.

The recruitment team submits the recruitment target to the coaching staff, and the coaching staff holds a special meeting to discuss.

Hao Wei and Pep are members of the reinforcement team, so the situation of the reinforcement target is also introduced by Hao Wei in combination with video data.

“······ That's the basics of Vermaelen. In fact, as a well-known star, his popularity is no less than Fellaini. The introduction of Fellaini has proven to be a great success, and we have reason to believe that Vermaelen will be able to rejuvenate the second place! If you don't have any opinions, let's hurry up and go through the procedure, because not only us, but also several teams in the J-League and the Korean K-League have also taken a fancy to Vermaelen and are in close contact, so we have to race against time! ”

After Hao Wei's introduction, he emphasized the urgency of time.

Li Xiaopeng looked at the members of the coaching staff: "What do you think?" ”

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, no one has expressed an opinion. After all, Vermaelen's name is there, a world-class star who has played for Arsenal and Barcelona, and there is no transfer fee, which is a good thing that cannot be found with a lantern!

"If you have an opinion, then ·····" Li Xiaopeng was about to speak.

Gao Yuan suddenly raised his hand.

"Hey, Xiao Gao, do you have anything to say?" Li Xiaopeng asked.

Gao Yuan had been staring at the top of the video material Rivelmalen's head, and studied it for a long time before he confirmed his opinion.

He didn't directly say his opinion, but asked Hao Wei first: "Director Hao, was this video material filmed recently?" ”

"Yes, this is the latest situation provided by Vermaelen's agent, so that we can determine his status through the recent video recording." Hao Wei didn't understand why Gao Yuan asked, but he still replied.

'Vermaelen isn't in great form and I think he's got a big injury problem.

"How do you tell? It looks like he's in good shape in the video."

"Of course, the video materials provided by the agent are all edited. Just looking at the video clips, any player is no worse than Ronaldo and Messi! ”

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