Special correspondent Zhao Botong reported that after qualifying for the Chinese Super League through the play-offs last season, Chengdu Rongcheng head coach Xu Zhengyuan began his layout for the first season of the Chinese Super League.
Shortly after the end of the league, Xu Zhengyuan's old club Suwon Samsung Club in South Korea came to the news, the team captain Kim Yu-woo said goodbye to his teammates and revealed that he would follow his mentor Xu Zhengyuan to play in China next. On February 11, the official account of Suwon Samsung Club announced that Kim Yu-woo would transfer to Chinese Super League team Chengdu Rongcheng. Jin Yuyou forwarded the news of the club, under the news, the Brazilian foreign assistant Jonathan, who also played for Suwon Samsung before and also played for the Tianjin Teda team in the Chinese Super League, left a message - see you in Chengdu.
Jonathan has signed a contract with Chengdu Rongcheng last year, and then because of epidemic prevention reasons and Jonathan is in a period of rehabilitation, resulting in not being able to meet the team in Chengdu, in the middle of the league, considering that the team urgently needs forward players, after Xu Zhengyuan's evaluation and contact, the team loaned Jonathan to Gwangju, and instead introduced another Brazilian high school striker Felipe from Gwangju. Judging from Jonathan's message, he will return to the Chinese Super League this season. Jonathan proved his level in Tianjin, and rongcheng players who had previous experience playing against him in the Chinese Super League once commented, "If Jonathan fully recovers from injury, he is a very powerful striker in the Chinese Super League." In this way, together with Romulo and Leonardo, the team already has 4 Brazilian and 1 Asian, including 3 strikers and 2 midfielders. It can be said that the team's foreign aid pattern has been determined, although there are no big stars, but all the foreign aid is xu Zhengyuan introduced according to his own ideas, and the club gives Xu Zhengyuan the greatest power.
Xu Zhengyuan has reserved the quota of foreign aid in the midfield, plus the team's existing personnel, the midfield has hoarded enough players, but all Rongcheng fans know that the biggest shortcoming of rongcheng team in the Super League is the back line.
Last season, it was the instability of the backline that led to the team falling into the play-offs, and what is more frightening is that the backline is seriously aging, last season's captain Gan Rui was 37 years old, Liu Tao was 37 years old, Liu Yu was 37 years old, and even Li Jianbin was 33 years old, this back line obviously could not compete against the Chinese Super League. "The focus of player introduction is the back line", the club's top management and Xu Zhengyuan are aware of the biggest shortcomings of the team now. Because Henan Jianye midfielder Zhou Dingyang's contract expired, there is news that the Rongcheng team is very close to it, considering the position relationship, this news is likely to be a misinformation, and what Rongcheng urgently needs now is a defender.
In the first season of the Chinese Super League, yang Ting, a central defender imported from Guizhou in the middle of last season, belongs to the players trained by the Chengdu Football Association, and has been recovering from injury since signing, and this season should be able to make a comeback with full blood. According to Xu Zhengyuan's thinking, the club's internal support will fully target the defender, the club will be responsible for recommending some personnel to it, and Xu Zhengyuan will also choose the right person through his own channels. "The final decision is still up to the coaching staff, we will only provide candidates as needed." A club insider said.
As a state-owned enterprise club, rongcheng team investment will be carried out in accordance with the regulations of the Chinese Football Association, the possibility of spending a lot of money to introduce well-known players is minimal, practical is the club's first choice, which is actually one of the reasons why the club chose Xu Zhengyuan, "Before he took the Suwon team, he did not spend a lot of money to buy well-known players, more are the introduction of practical players and echelon promotion." Considering the current situation of Chinese Super League clubs, a secure and stable club like Rongcheng is likely to attract the favor of many powerful players, "The players are not stupid, rather than staying in unstable clubs, it is better to choose a guaranteed and stable club even if the salary is lower." ”
Xingcheng Group, the club's investor, has laid out the club's own hematopoietic function, injecting many of the group's high-quality assets into the Rongcheng Club, in addition, Xingcheng Group has also classified its sports industry projects into the football club, and the injection of these high-quality asset projects and sports industry projects can not only ensure and promote the club to have a certain blood transfusion function, but also ensure the re-employment of retired players and young players in the club, so that their future life path will not be confused. Xingcheng Group's club-running model has been recognized by the Chinese Football Association, which is considered to provide a new way of thinking for the development of clubs in other places. Because of these supports of Xingcheng Group, Rongcheng Club has launched a player retirement guarantee plan, and after the retirement of outstanding players, the club will arrange to re-work with its relevant departments, which is likely to attract many players to join.
According to the club's arrangement, on February 20, rongcheng team will re-concentrate on preparing for the new season. Because of the epidemic, the team is likely not to consider going to other places for training in the early stage and stay in Chengdu for spring training. In the later stage, due to the consideration of warm-up matches, it is planned to go to the place where the spring training teams are concentrated to prepare, but this depends on the dynamics of the epidemic.