With the dust settling on Guoan's coaching position, Guoan has officially begun to enter the preparation for the new season. Recently, news about the introduction of national security reinforcements has come out frequently, and they are all familiar names, including: Zhang Chengdong, Ding Haifeng and Klimetz.
Some fans asked, is it a good thing or a bad thing that these national security old will come back? Beijing's home stadium "ID: bjzhuchang" can only say one thing about this: if it was three years ago, it was definitely a good thing, if it is now, it is necessary to re-evaluate the advantages and disadvantages.
Let's first talk about the recent situation of these three veteran national security generals, after all, they have been away from national security for several years.
The last to leave Guoan was Klimets, who left after the 2017 season, mainly because the Football Association reduced the number of foreign aid registrations and cancelled the so-called "Asian foreign" quota, which made Klimets very awkward.
After leaving Guoan, Klimets returned to his parent team, Tashkent Cotton Farmers, and continued to serve as the team's main player and captain, as well as a main member of the Uzbekistan national team. In 2019 and 2020, Klimets made 28 and 29 starts for Tashkent Cotton Farmers in league and AFC Champions League matches, and was clearly the main player of the team. He also represented the team at the 2019 Asian Cup.
However, in recent years, Klimetz's form and performance have declined to a certain extent, and he has faded out of the Uzbekistan national team for a while, and the last time he played for the national team was in a friendly match in 2020. In early 2021, his contract with the cotton farmers expired and was then renewed for a year. After the expiration of his contract with cotton farmers in 2022, he joined the Namangan New Year team.
The main reason for Klimetz's decline in status and performance is related to his age and injury, last year Klimets suffered a more serious injury, and he also took advantage of the recuperation period to have a meal with guoan old friends who came to Tashkent to participate in the AFC Champions League.
At present, Klimets is still the main player of Namangan's New Year team, but the team is only a mid-level team after all, and Klimets is no longer an international in Uzbekistan.
Mr. Klimets left Guoan before Mr. Zhang, who returned to his hometown of Hebei after 2016. Since then, he has become the captain of the Hebei team. Zhang Chengdong has been the main force of the Hebei team over the years, whether it is the period of Happy Burning Money in China or the period of decline now, his position in the team is very stable.
However, Zhang Chengdong's position on the Hebei team has also changed greatly, and in the past in Guoan, his position was mainly on the right side, and occasionally made a cameo appearance at the right back. But in Hebei, his position is getting closer and closer, from right forward to right back, to center back and back.
The current Zhang Chengdong, more like Yu Dabao in the previous two years, "swept" in the backcourt with his body and experience.
Ding Haifeng left Guoan very early, to be precise, he did not actually play in the Guoan first team at all. Ding Haifeng's departure once made Guoan feel sorry for the fans from Ronin down. After all, he is the full-back cultivated by the national security echelon itself, but in the end he blossomed outside.
After Ding Haifeng left Guoan, he went to many teams in the Chinese First Division and the Chinese Super League, and Shenzhen Red Diamonds, Liaoning Hongyun, Guangzhou R&F and so on all left his figure. In the two years when he performed best, he was favored by Evergrande and was also selected for the national team.
Since coming to Hebei, Ding Haifeng's main position is still left-back, and if he is in the system of three central defenders, he can play a good left wing-back.
In the past two years, Ding Haifeng's starting number has reached about 15 games, which is also the starting efficiency of the team's main level in the Chinese Super League, which has shortened the schedule.
It is not difficult to see from the above that these three Guoan veterans are currently the main players in their respective teams, but their status and ability have passed their peak. The main reason is because of the increase in age.
Zhang Chengdong, the oldest of the three, was born in 1989, the same age as Hou Sen and Yu Yang in the national security team, and he is 33 years old this year, which is definitely a full veteran. Zhang Chengdong was known for his excellent physical fitness in his youth, and when he followed Guoan to the AFC Champions League, Japanese fans commented that Zhang Chengdong's body was a "rugby player". However, as he grew older, his physical fitness gradually deteriorated, and the impact of the front court was weakening, so he would move his position backwards and develop towards the back and center-back positions.
Ding Haifeng was born in 1991, he is a player of the same level of the Guoan echelon as Zhang Xizhe and Lei Tenglong, a year older than Li Lei, who has just stayed in Yang. Ding Haifeng's state in the past two years is better than Zhang Chengdong, after all, he is also a technical player with certain characteristics, and his left foot pass has certain characteristics, but the increase in age also has a certain impact on his physical fitness.
Klimetz was the youngest, born in 1992, not yet on his 30th birthday. But for a tall centre-back like him, as he gets older, his flexibility and explosiveness will further become his weaknesses.
From the perspective of national security, there is indeed a certain demand for the above three people. In the right-back position, Jiang Tao was already close to retirement, and it was Li Ming who really couldn't find a suitable full-back, so he signed a short-term job with Jiang Tao for half a year. Jiang Tao has now cooperated with Lei Tenglong to carry out youth training projects, and it is estimated that he is not far from retirement. In this way, the position of right-back is only Wang Gang and Kim Tae-yeon, both of whom are 33 years old like Jiang Tao.
After the left-back position left Li Lei, kim tae-yeon and Liu Huan were available, but they were also 33-year-old players. There are also young Nabi Eda and Xiaoqiang in the reserve team, but these two youngsters are too young.
The position of central defender is the most headache for Guoan, and it seems that there are many people, but there is no reliable except for Yu Yang. Liang Shaowen and Ruan Qilong showed great potential in the last few league games, but the potential is only potential, and at this stage, they can only be tired of coping with the situation on the field. In addition to these three people, Yu Dabao, who has a two-year maximum salary, has become a "chicken rib". Not to mention Jin Pengxiang. Yang Fan and Bai Yang occasionally made mistakes, but fortunately they were still young and had some room for growth, but they were not stable. Moreover, Guoan's current center-back position does lack a tall defender with strong air defense capabilities.
So, the question is, since Guoan has a demand for the above three veterans, should we quickly recruit them back into the embrace? I'm afraid many people think not.
The reason is simple, the youngest of these three is 30 years old, the oldest is 33 years old, if you sign 3 30-year-old veterans in one go, what will the young people do? The previous "replacement of the old and the new" has become an empty phrase again.
If it is said that "the old leads to the new", the veterans in the national security team are actually enough. Hou Sen, Yu Yang, Park Cheng and Jang Si-cheol, plus Wang Gang and Chi Zhongguo, can completely bring the newcomers together, is it necessary to bring in three more veterans? After the three veterans come to Guoan, if they form the main squad with the previous veterans, where are the opportunities for young players?
For such doubts, Beijing's home stadium "ID: bjzhuchang" is also worried.
The problem now is that if the three veterans don't come and use young players to come up hard, the club doesn't seem willing to take the risk. And even if the three veterans come, Guoan is unlikely to win the league championship. So what is the significance of these three old people in the future?
In fact, it is a role in ensuring the stability of the team's performance. If so, then for these old future and not coming, the key is to see how to manage and use.
First of all, before welcoming back the three veterans, Guoan should first clean up some players, some "players who occupy the position but do not play a role or even have a negative role", such as Jin Pengxiang and Yu Dabao, who are relatively high-paid but cannot match their abilities and have no room for growth. It has long been they who have influenced the growth of young players.
Secondly, if Guoan really signs back these three veterans, it must not give them a long contract or a big contract. Sign for one year or sign for up to two years, and give a veteran annual salary. We must not let them be like Yu Dabao, who is in his 30s and gives a 5-year maximum salary, making jokes that 35 or 6 years old is still the highest salary in the Chinese Super League.
Third, coaches and clubs should be cautious about the role and position of these veterans. In the position where they are needed, they can kick and kick, can not play and must not let them be on the line, not to mention that in order to let them play more, they will have to change their positions casually, especially players like Zhang Chengdong, full-backs suppress Xie Pengfei Li Boxi, full-backs suppress Xu Dongdong Naibijiang, backs suppress Shi Yucheng Hu Jiaqi, center-backs suppress Ruan Qilong Liang Shaowen, and finally Yu Dabao did not ask to leave, and then came Yu Dabao II, then in a few years, Guoan will have to pay for this transfer of recruiting veterans.