This period of time, because of Gao shunyao playing in Wolfsburg, Li Ze has been paying attention to Wolfsburg. Although he can't do anything for Gao shunyao himself, he still can't help asking about the news.
But this summer, magate is operating Wolfsburg's transfer, Li Ze also has been looking in the eye. And magate's transfer practice, also let him some aware of magate's ambition.
His transfer operation, the most obvious is that he introduced players, according to different age groups, the amount of investment is also different. For young players, his investment is obviously larger, while for older players, his investment is slightly smaller.
This way, Li Ze saw something different.
Every strong team usually has a good age class. Only when the three generations of old, middle-aged and young help each other can they form a good team. The veteran players are experienced and can deal with all kinds of emergencies and situations on the court. The strength and technology of the young players are at the top of the team. They are the pillar of the football team and the symbol of strength. The young players mean the future of the team. Their existence makes the team vigorous and stronger.
A strong team needs these three kinds of people. If not, it's easy to go wrong. Milan's two teams are in trouble because there are too many old people. Inter failed last year, while AC Milan have been haunted by the plight of nursing homes. In the same way, the youth army is also prone to problems. Although they are often gifted, they are difficult to realize their talents. Other people don't say that Arsenal is the best example. Even though they have the top youth team in Europe and play the best football, they are still very difficult to achieve if they refuse to pay for players.
Of course, in addition to these two kinds, there is another kind that is all middle-aged players. Such a team is likely to make achievements in the short term. But with the passage of time, it's easy for teams full of middle-aged players to face the problem of aging. If this team is rich and wealthy, such as Chelsea, it's a big deal to buy a batch of new ones when they are old, then things are much better said. However, if there is not so much money, it's better not to play such a hand. During the period of the seven sisters in Serie A, some ambitious teams in La Liga and the Premier League have done similar things, but in the end, the results of these teams are all in a mess and unsustainable.
Compared with them, Wolfsburg has to be more careful about the outcome: shalke complained not long ago that magate spent too much money, making shalke seriously affected. Naturally, Wolfsburg can't follow the same old path - what's more, they already tried this last year. It's a failure to introduce Diego in his first year of fighting, and it's hard for them to withstand such a blow again.
Maybe it is for this reason that the transfer of Wolfsburg this year is different from that of last year. Their transfer brings in players from all over the world. What they need to do is not to spend a lot of money to strengthen them completely, but to improve their players of all ages in an all-round way.
This kind of thing is not difficult, because Wolfsburg is not without people. They have a lot of good players, so when they buy people, they have a lot of good choices.
Wolfsburg are not short of veterans. Andre Lenz of 73 is the oldest player in the Bundesliga. Josue of 79, Pollack of 81, madelen and Misimovic of 82 are all about 30 years old in the new season. For players, this is a very old age.
These players have been left by Wolfsburg this year. Including Misimovic, who always wanted to leave before, also chose to stay in the team under the persuasion of magate. Although Wolfsburg still let go of their former meritorious service graffiti, they still left enough old players to supplement the team's experience.
And more than that. Wolfsburg have also brought in some old players this year. Salihamidzic has been signed by Wolfsburg after his contract with Juve expired. Although the old player is very old, the player who played for Bayern can still bring a lot to Wolfsburg.
Also signed free of charge is former German national team's Thomas hitzelspeger, a midfield player who can offer many changes to Wolfsburg's tactics. Similarly, Wolfsburg also announced the loan of Hleb in Barcelona, his age and injury situation are not optimistic, and the loan contract also clearly shows that Wolfsburg do not have enough confidence.
But, anyway, these old players, this year are the players of Wolfsburg.
These people can provide a good experience for the team. They are quite useful. Moreover, Li Ze is very concerned that the introduction of these players did not cost any money of the team.
It's quite a good thing not to spend money on veterans. Although veteran is really a good capital, it is not a sustainable investment after all. It's good for saving money to get these veterans by signing and renting freely.
In this respect, Wolfsburg has done a good job.
And Wolfsburg are not short of young players. Benalio was a goalkeeper in 1983, while Sheffield in 1984, hasebu Cheng, manzuki in 1986, djuga and HELMOS in 1984 are all young players. In the team, they will play the role of pillar, from the back line to the central axis, you can see their shadow.Of course, these are not enough, if you want to make a team really strong, in addition to the main force, of course, there must be a substitute. But Wolfsburg this year to the young player's introduction, many are aimed at the bench to do the enhancement.
Magate has always been famous for his numerous reinforcements. Although the transfer period has not yet passed completely, Wolfsburg have signed several good players and done some repairing work. For example, when he was relegated from Frankfurt, he only signed a 3 million contract with Oakes for free.
These two deals enhance the strength of the team's back line, and make Wolfsburg's back line which is not so good all the time have substitutes, but they don't cost much. Compared with other deals, these two deals can be regarded as less expensive supplementary deals.
These transactions can not make the team stronger in essence. However, with enough thickness of the team, whether the team wants to change the formation or face injuries, it can have better countermeasures, which is also what a mature team needs.
However, although Wolfsburg has spent a lot of money on this aspect, it is obvious that this is not the focus of their investment. Although they have investment in this age group, their main purpose is to find some solid and reliable substitutes, not for real enhancement: if they want to enhance by buying players before they play, it's definitely an expense that Wolfsburg can't afford.
It's easier to buy them than to buy young players.
Compared with young players, Wolfsburg is the most vulnerable. Their youth training camp is not without people: kenohe, Schulze and others are also talented players. Unfortunately. After all, there are few such players, only two or three.
This is also the common feature of football all over the world. Talents will not all be concentrated in the same training camp. Good players are scattered all over the world. If you want to have enough good players in your team, you need to introduce new talents.
And now Wolfsburg is doing, is doing such things.
They bought pericic, they bought Mattic, obviously ready to strengthen their young players. Spending money on young players is an effective long-term investment. In their team, there are not no other young players. Keyar is left behind. Juzizhe can also be regarded as the representative of young players. Gao shunyao is not 22 years old, which is also a young age for Gao center.
Moreover, these are not all the transfers of Wolfsburg. They are still working hard in this aspect. Bilby said Wolfsburg are still negotiating a move for Sebastian Jung to take the young defender.
And if he is included in Wolfsburg's 8-man recruitment, will there be more people involved in magate's crazy transfer? Li Ze did not expect it. After all, he is rational. He is still a bit stunned by magate's crazy transfer mode.
However, he also saw that these people, Wolfsburg, had invested more than 10 million in them. Compared with those two age groups, they had totally different investment intensity.
Of course, such investment, in the eyes of some Premier League and La Liga teams, it is simply poor. Some teams always buy tens of millions of people. It's amazing that they are rich. For example, when they go out from Wolfsburg to Dzeko at Manchester City, they can't play as the main force with a price of 37 million, which makes Wolfsburg people collapse. And not to mention those real top talents, such as Neymar, bell and so on, even if they haven't transferred yet, they are incredibly high in value.
Such a transfer, Wolfsburg is certainly no match, not to mention Wolfsburg, Bayern can not come up with such a price. When Aguero was transferred to Atletico, Bayern, who had been in favor of him, looked at Atletico's offer and denounced it as vicious competition. The Bundesliga team doesn't have so much money to bring in young people. Compared with buying superstars, they prefer to buy players at the same price and then cultivate themselves.
About 5 million worth of players, this is the price Wolfsburg can accept. And such a few players, after growing up together, play good results, for Wolfsburg is also a better choice. Compared with those who buy enough top players at a high price, Wolfsburg do it because they want a better future.
And that's where Lizzie thinks Magath is ambitious: he may want more than a place in Europe, or even a place in the Champions League. If he really wants to do that, it's good to find a few good players, but he wants to find a group of young players and let the old people lead them forward. Magate's real purpose is obviously more than that.
He once won the league with Wolfsburg. Now, does he really want to do it again? However, the Bundesliga is different from the previous two years. Can he really do it?
However, whether he can do it or not, Gao shunyao will be very happy if he understands his idea? Because in Gao shunyao's career, it seems that he has never won a league championship