Grass roots glory

Chapter 145 Schalke's "God Operation"

After getting off to a good start, the Chinese team ushered in the first home of the qualifiers in the second round of Group D of the Asian Cup qualifiers three days later, sitting in Hangzhou Huanglong Sports Center against the world-ranked 135th Vietnam team.

Back at home, the Chinese team finally found the feeling of playing against the underdogs.They took the lead in the first 3 minutes, and the whole game blossomed even more. Four players scored goals and finally beat the Vietnam team 6:1. Zhou Tiancheng even staged the first hat-trick of the national team.

At the end of the game, gorgeous fireworks rose in the sky at the Hangzhou Huanglong Sports Center. CCTV explained He Wei's love, and began to show his unique style of "poet commentary", saying: "A big victory is expected Among them, the fireworks may just be a sign that the end of the year is approaching, and the blessings of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new. But when they appear in the sky above the stadium at this moment, we may not be able to regard this as a blessing and expectation for the future of the national team. These two games have not been difficult for everyone I feel that the national team is also undergoing little changes. The last game was able to reverse and conquer the away game in West Asia. Zhou Tiancheng's joining is gradually making the Chinese team's temperament stronger. Perhaps in the near future, there will be such a day that the Chinese team's performance It is worth the fans lighting up fireworks that are ten times more splendid than this."

After the game, Zhou Tiancheng bid farewell to the national team and returned to Gelsenkirchen.Although the taste of the new year is getting stronger in China, the team is about to start winter training and prepare for the second half of the league.

This is the inconvenience of playing football in Europe. When it comes to traditional Chinese festivals, they are basically busy. Zhou Tiancheng is easy to say, anyway, his father is not far away.But Chu Yunling also said that she didn't want to go back to China, so she just took her parents over to play at this time.

Zhou Tiancheng was a little surprised: "Chinese New Year is a reunion day, can uncles and aunts come over?"

"I told them that this year the school arranges to do a project, and if they can't go back, they must come. Hey, I don't want to go back anyway, and I'm so tired of dealing with those seven aunts and eight aunts every year... What, you want Shall I go?"

Zhou Tianguo resolutely shook his head like a rattle. He was too clear about Chu Yunling's brain and didn't know what big move was waiting for him, so he resolutely denied it.

On the [-]th day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, we had a small gathering for one night, and then Zhou Tiancheng was busy again. When most Chinese people are on holiday, he had to adjust his state to prepare for the winter training and the second half of the league.

At the same time, the European winter window transfer period is still open. Under the New Year’s Eve competition system of the five major leagues, it is generally difficult to make big money in the winter window. Relatively speaking, Manchester City, backed by the Arab consortium, has become the most active in the entire winter window in Europe. His club: 1800 million euros to introduce De Jong from Hamburg, 900 million euros to introduce Irish goalkeeper Given from Newcastle, 1550 million euros to introduce old Liverpool player Bellamy from West Ham United, and also loaned Jo, Ben Haim and other players.Manchester City began to show their deep pockets.

Seeing such a big move by Manchester City, the Chinese fans were delighted for Sun Jihai: after more than six years, they finally have to wait for a group of powerful teammates.If the club had been able to spend money like this when he was at his peak two years earlier, Sun Jihai might have had one or two Premier League titles in his hands.

At the Bundesliga level, the theme of the winter window is to leave the team.Originally all the German media focused on the top four teams in the standings, especially Schalke 04 at the top of the standings.After all, this year has a better chance of winning than two seasons ago.

As a result, Schalke 04's successive official announcements went in the opposite direction. Not only did they not make any big reinforcements, but they kept sending players away!

First, it was announced that the three young players Ze Roberto Oliveira, Bourier and Marcus, who had no place in the team, were on loan. Everyone thought that Schalke's streamlining of the first-team lineup was a prelude to the introduction of big-name stars. , As a result, everyone was eagerly looking forward to it. Without waiting for any official announcement of signings, they announced that Gustavo Varela and Lowenkland, who performed well in the first half, would not renew their contracts when they expired!
As soon as the news came out, more than half of the German media were in an instant uproar. Even a player like Lowenkland with four goals and two assists in the half-time would not stay?Schalke is planning to have a good time in the first half and stop playing in the second half?

The club's choice is completely incomprehensible. If the contract expires, if the contract is not renewed, the person will be released. The club will not get any profit at all, which is tantamount to no benefit at all.

Even the Schalke media couldn't understand what the club was doing.A local newspaper that has been established for 50 years, "Mining District News", commented in a tone of hatred: "Schalke has never seen such a choice in this transfer window!"

And because of Zhou Tiancheng's existence, the domestic media who pay special attention to Zhou Tiancheng's every move are even more surprised. "Football News" has a comment when doing the winter window transfer summary: So far, the most surprising clubs in the winter transfer period are two. Home: First, Manchester City's signings are far ahead of all traditional top giants, and second is Schalke 04's superb operation.

The so-called "spiritual manipulation" applies to two extreme situations: the first is to turn the tide in a desperate situation and turn decay into magic;

Obviously, in the eyes of the media, Schalke's series of performances belong to the latter.

Even after Schalke announced the introduction of Liverpool U19 striker Prier, it was finally considered an introduction, but not only did the media not buy it, but as far as the club itself was concerned, this winter window signing was actually a failure.

In fact, the club's top executives are in a state of desperation right now. In fact, the actions behind the scenes are not as calm as they appear on the surface. It's just that Schalke's signings are indeed almost on the verge of signing, and none of the people they are looking for has been recruited.

Hamburg midfielder De Jong was originally on Schalke's signing list, but was cut off by Manchester City with a high transfer fee of 1800 million euros.This price has exceeded Schalke's expectations, which was voluntarily given up.

Immediately after Lowenkland's contract renewal negotiations collapsed, club director Helt set his sights on Hoffenheim striker Ibisevic and Wolfsburg striker Sanogo, but both failed. .Ibisevic was raised by Hoffenheim at a price of 1500 million euros, clearly not wanting the mainstay of relegation to be pried away.And when he turned to Sanogo, Helter was rejected directly by the opponent's senior management.Wolfsburg general manager Allofs directly replied to Helt: "We will never sell players to championship opponents."

There is no need to talk about it!
"Mirko, we haven't made any gains in this winter transfer period. Everyone is very concerned about players with some strength. If we maintain the current lineup, how sure are we of keeping the top spot?" Helter called Slomka I went to my office to talk and asked such a question.

"90.00%!" Slomka smiled slightly.

"It's so high? Are you sure? Mirko, this is not a joke. It determines whether we want to reinforce it or not."

Slomka stood up from his seat, leaned on the table with both hands, and said every word with confidence: "Horst, I'm serious. Although there are one or two guns missing from the front line, our real nuclear weapons are still there! "

After hearing this, Helter was taken aback for a moment, and then smiled: "He is very good, I know."

"No, Horst, the word excellent is not enough to describe him. He is a phenomenal player, including me, he has conquered everyone. I am going to make him a real team leader next season."

(End of this chapter)