Recently, the scandal of the Taishan team's new recruits Zeka and Kazaishvili have arrived in Jinan by plane, and they were warmly received by fans late at night. Of course, the two have just finished a full season in the K-League, and they are in very good physical condition, and it is only a matter of time before they sign successfully after passing the medical examination. The foreign aid lineup of the Taishan team has been preliminarily formed, including Cressan and Judson, and the final determination of the fifth foreign aid is complete.
Zeka and Kazaishvili, both of whom were introduced by the Tarzan team, are both K-League MVP candidates, either candidates for the best player or selected for the K-League Team of the Season, and their strength can be said to be very outstanding. In terms of the cost of recruitment, midfielder Kaza's contract with Ulsan Hyundai expired and he moved to Tayan on a free transfer, which can be said to be a very good deal. Another Brazilian center forward Zeka, he still has a contract with Pohang Steelers itself, but because of his outstanding ability, he is deeply loved by Choi Kang-hee, so there is a transfer fee for this deal. In recent years, there have not been many transactions with transfer fees for domestic transfers.
According to domestic media sources, Zeka's transfer fee is about 1.8 million euros, although this figure is only a fraction of the transfer fee of tens of millions of euros in previous years, but compared with the current domestic league environment, it is already a sky-high transfer fee. And if nothing else, Zeka, who has a transfer fee of 1.8 million euros, will become the standard king of the Chinese Super League in the 2024 season. It's not a joke that 1.8 million euros can become the standard king, and now domestic clubs can afford to buy more than one million euros to buy foreign aid, I'm afraid that the only ones who can afford to buy foreign aid are Taishan and Haigang, and the latter has no high-level foreign aid introduction plan so far, so Zeka is likely to become the king of the Super League.
The situation in the Chinese Super League last season was even worse, the standard king was Aziz of Wuhan Three Towns, but the transfer fee was only 900,000 euros, so the league investment in the 2024 season was even better than last year. In the past two seasons, the recruitment of foreign aid by each team is either free of sign or the transfer fee is only 20 or 300,000 euros, and the million-level reinforcements are very small. Looking further back at the 2016 season, the Super League reinforcements are calculated in tens of millions of euros, and this season alone has 56 million euros of Hulk, 28 million euros of Ramirez, 50 million euros of Teixeira, and 42 million euros of Martinez. In the 2017 season, the harbor spent 60 million euros to introduce Oscar, the historical champion of the Chinese Super League.
The 1.8 million euro Zeka is not only crushing his team's new signings in terms of transfer fees, but also in terms of ability. Don't underestimate the current K-League, the top foreign players are not necessarily worse than the foreign players of the mainstream European leagues. The Taishan team also spent a lot of money on reinforcements because of the king of Sanya last season, and I believe that the competitiveness of the Taishan team will be strengthened a lot in the 2024 season.