Hoffenheim is not the previous Hoffenheim team. They no longer need to transfer to a large number of young men who are seventeen or eighteen years old to train them again. That takes too much time. Rangnick urgently needs to produce results now. Because if he cannot produce results, he will not be able to retain the core players in the team led by Chu Zhongtian. Youth training is Hoffenheim's tradition, so of course you have to respect it. But youth training and first-team results are not contradictory. If you buy excellent young people to train them, it will not prevent you from conquering the world with powerful adult players.

So this season, Hoffenheim's transfer phalanx is mainly aimed at famous players, and no longer focuses on finding young but extremely potential players.

Zhengtai Guan Rangnick was also forced to rely more on the player in his year of playing.

Chu Zhongtian asked Rangnick: "What is the style of our team, Ralph?"

Rangnick thought about it. In his first season in the Bundesliga, the team's characteristics were fast, simple and practical, fast assaults. The teams who were used to slow football in the Bundesliga were not used to it. In the second season, because the team changed to play 442 with double midfielders, the wing could not be fully utilized, and the fast was not so prominent. In fact, they were always looking for styles this season. Later, Chu Zhongtian found his personal style, but the team seemed to have not stabilized. To be quick, for example, last season was fast, and to be changed, it seemed that there was no question... It seemed that there was only a very vague "offensive football" that was the characteristic style of the team.

But such an answer is not satisfactory. There are many teams playing offensive football, and offensive football is divided into many types. Are Hoffenheim's offensive football and Barcelona's offensive football? Arsenal's offensive football is different from Hoffenheim, and Barcelona's offensive football.

Seeing that Rangnick had not spoken for a long time, Chu Zhongtian knew that he had thought of the key to the problem.

Hoffenheim still lacks an obvious style, so naturally there is no clear idea.

"I think we can take 'fast' as our style and completely carry forward the fast football." Chu Zhongtian said to Ralph.

"We need faster wing players." Chu Zhongtian continued.

He imagined this - Hoffenheim's first season of football was suffocating, but it could only pose a threat in the Bundesliga. He could not play it after leaving Germany. It was not that fast football could not play it, but that the team's strength was limited and that this kind of football could not be played.

So there is nothing wrong with being fast, you should stick to it.

Of course, football like Barcelona is good, but sometimes too complicated organization and ball control will make people feel drowsy. But Hoffenheim's fast football is more impactful, more oppressive, and more exciting. Fans also like it. A few passes can create a threatening shot, why not? What is the purpose of football games, and it is just to pursue shooting? All defense, all passing, and all the extraordinary points in the end pointing to a point - shot! If you don't shoot, you don't have a chance to score, you can't score the ball without shooting, you can't win the game without shooting, you can't win the game without shooting, and if you don't beat the thirty-four rounds of the league, you don't win the championship, so you have to pursue victory, and you need to score goals.

You spent ten minutes passing twenty-six feet back and forth, so what if you didn't let your opponent grab the ball? I shot once with three feet. Which goal has a higher chance of scoring? Now it is the world of efficiency, and the more efficient team has a greater chance of winning.

Mourinho's Inter Milan win gave Chu Zhongtian some touch. Although he does not appreciate Mourinho's defensive football, he believes that the theory of efficiency does not distinguish between defense and offense, and any football can be used. It is not that the focus on efficiency football is negative football, conservative football, not aggressive, and not gorgeous.

If the world football is full of the gorgeous football like Barcelona, ​​wouldn’t it be too boring? It’s like there are only flowers of one color and shape in the world, everyone looks the same, and everyone has the same abilities... What’s the point of living in such a world?

Defensive football can be efficient, and offensive football can be efficient. I keep launching an offensive in one game, and there will be a shot with three to five passes, which lasts for 90 minutes. Who dares to say that such a game is not good? Who can say that you can't win in such a game?

Therefore, Chu Zhongtian believes that Hoffenheim should be more sharp, and should be faster when attacking, run faster, pass faster, and shoot faster. The most important thing is to think quickly. Always think one step more than your opponent.

This is the most difficult and most important thing. If their thinking cannot keep up, the fast-paced football will soon be unable to persist because they are physically exhausted. Because they can't imagine that if they are so fast, it will be no different from passive defenders. For defenders, Hoffenheim's fast football makes them uncomfortable. They can't keep up with the rhythm and can only be led by the opponent, and their physical strength will of course be consumed quickly.

"We need players with fast speed and players with high ball quotient." Chu Zhongtian did not recommend specific players, he just made such a request to Rangnick. As for buying those people, he felt that it was the job of the head coach, not his own. Even if he entered the team's coaching team, he was just an ordinary coach and player. He might be able to discuss the team's tactics and give advice, but Chu Zhongtian didn't want to involve too much. He didn't want Rangnick to have any other ideas about him.

Chu Zhongtian has always been a very smart person, otherwise he would not have had a net worth of 500 million euros in just a few years.

※※※The question of who to buy is left to Rangnick. Chu Zhongtian returned to the team early and had another thing waiting for him - renewal of the contract.

The club had long wanted to renew his contract with him, but he flew everywhere this summer. His agent Meili always said that Chu Zhongtian was very busy and had no time to discuss contract renewal during this period, and asked the club to postpone the date of renewal negotiations.

Now that he is back in Sinsheim, the team's training camp is about to begin, so he will never be busy anymore, right?

So the contract renewal negotiations were mentioned before him again.

In fact, Chu Zhongtian didn't intend to hide from Hoffenheim some time ago. If he wanted to leave, he would leave long ago. He was really busy and had no time to care about this. If there were a lot of work waiting for him to deal with in a short period of time, he would prioritize these matters, prioritize the most important and important matters, and put things that are not too urgent and do not need to make a decision immediately. For him, renewing the contract with the club is of course the least important thing, because he still has two years of contract with the club, and the four-year contract has only been halfway through. What should he do if he is so anxious to renew the contract?

Now, with Platini's strong promotion, UEFA has implemented a new policy, which means that European clubs must ensure balance of income and expenditure in the future and must not use the unexpected capital of their own operations to help the team operate. This is not a problem for most Bundesliga teams. With this new policy, it means that there is no such thing as this new policy, Bundesliga teams have always done this. Bundesliga teams are the only clubs that can make profits among the top five European leagues.

Platini's new policy is believed to target the clubs in the Premier League, because the Premier League is the most active league with foreign capital. Many clubs have the shadow of foreign capital. The basis for survival of many teams is simply the "moisturization" of future capital. For example, Abramovich's Chelsea operates in debt every year. If there weren't a rich boss, they would have gone bankrupt long ago. In addition, there is Manchester United controlled by the American boss Glazer family. Although it is the club with the most successful business operation, it still has more than 500 million pounds.

Debt. Of course, it is also impossible to miss Manchester City clubs, which rely on the UAE's Abid Dhabi consortium to get rich overnight. Manchester United are all fine, with their main targets being Chelsea and Manchester City. If these clubs do not rely on the support of the big bosses and consortiums, they may not be able to handle it any longer, but they can still spend a lot of money in the transfer market and frequently create transfer fee records. Last season, Manchester City spent more than 100 million pounds in a summer and made a big splash in the transfer market, second only to Real Madrid, who bought C. Ronaldo and Kaka at a sky-high price.

Although I didn't expect that Hoffenheim was indeed affected at first. Because the club's funding source was all from Ditma. Hope alone, especially in the previous few seasons, the team was still unknown. The TV broadcast was not much money, the surrounding goods could not be sold, the stadium was pitiful, and the ticket revenue for a season was not enough to spend... Without Ditma. Hope's investment, this team would definitely not have been today.

But now the situation has changed. UEFA wants to kill these foreign capitals and stipulate that the money for the team to buy people in the future must come from the profits generated by the club's own operations. It is absolutely not allowed to invest in the boss or borrow from a bank loan to buy people, creating one sky-high transfer fee record after another.

This has led to Hoffenheim having to reduce his investment in the transfer market, because the team's current transfer expenses are basically paid by Hope alone. Although the team's operating conditions are very good and can maintain balance of income and expenditure, it is impossible to spend a lot of money and spend more money to buy those big-name players.

And this world is so realistic. If you don’t have the capital to buy stars, then your team will be at a disadvantage in the championship battle. The Bundesliga teams have repeatedly failed in European competitions over the years, which is not unrelated to their cautious and rational business philosophy. If you want to operate without debt, you cannot always borrow from banks. If you don’t borrow, you will not have more money. Without more money, you will lack greater competitiveness in the transfer market. The lack of greater competitiveness will lead to them being unable to buy players they have long wanted, and they will naturally have to look at Eastern European stars who are cheap and cheap. Over time, the Bundesliga team has become like this. Only Bayern Munich still has the ability to throw a bombshell like 30 million euros to buy players they like, such as Ribery, Gomez, and Robben... Hoffenheim's rise is inseparable from the financial resources of their boss.

Now UEFA's new policy hit Hoffenheim.

Last season, it can be seen that Hope rarely appeared in public, and the stories about him and Hoffenheim are not very popular in the newspapers. He is working hard to eliminate his influence on this club. His ultimate goal is to allow Hoffenheim to continue to survive if he leaves him and stay at a relatively high level, just like those professional clubs now.

Hoffenheim's new training base is under construction not far from the Rhine-Neka Stadium, and the project has entered its final stage. It is expected that at this time next year, if the team trains again, it should be in a new training base. The new training base location is carefully selected by Hope, and the core is the famous Hicheld Hunting Palace. This palace was once known as one of the most beautiful palaces in the Rhine-Neka region and is a classic Baroque building. In this three-story palace, many dukes lived in. After World War II, the palace was abandoned and later became a disco. Last year, Hope took the spotlight on this place and took over the maintenance of the palace. The interior was remodeled and renovated to be used as a club office building.

Around the Hielder Palace, there is a training ground with an area of ​​more than 7,500 square meters. This training ground includes 16 training grounds, which can simulate the lawn conditions of various Bundesliga stadiums and provide targeted training for the team. The team's youth team can also train here. The total investment in construction of the training ground is more than 15 million euros, which is equivalent to Bayern's new training center. The Eleven People magazine called it "the most advanced and attractive training ground in Germany, and will become a paradise that countless players yearn for."

This new training base and Rhine-Neka Stadium are the gifts Hope wants to leave to Hoffenheim. Even if he cannot continue to invest in this club in the future, with the stadium and training base, Hoffenheim can continue to survive and live a good life.

According to UEFA's plan, this new policy will be promoted and implemented from the 2011-2012 season. At that time, the finances of football clubs will be subject to very strict scrutiny. Clubs that do not meet the requirements may lose some rights, such as qualifications to participate in European games, such as being required to be relegated, etc.... By then, no one knows what Hoffenheim will become. Can they continue to perform wildly like these two seasons? But one thing makes everyone feel very grateful - fortunately Hoffenheim bought Chu Zhongtian two seasons ago, otherwise they would not even have the chance to rise wildly... This new policy also affected Chu Zhongtian's negotiations to renew the contract with the club.

Chu Zhongtian came to Hoffenheim not to help the poor. He was attracted by Hoffenheim's background and assets at the time, thinking that although such a team is still just a promotion, it has all the factors to become a strong team. Unexpectedly, UEFA introduced such a new policy the next year... In order to ensure that this team is still competitive and ensure that he can get more opportunities to play in this team. Chu Zhongtian instructed his agent Meri to add this item to the contract when negotiating with the club: "Ho

Finheim Club must promise to invest no less than 20 million euros in transfers in the future," otherwise he will not renew his contract. This number has been considered repeatedly and he thinks it is more reasonable. 20 million euros say more or less, and it is not too much. Although it is not necessary to buy a world-class star, those players with good quality and low price can still buy a few. If they are reluctant to give up this investment, it means that the team has no mind to continue to invest, and the so-called ambitions are gone. Then there is naturally no need to stay.

This is also one of the reasons why Chu Zhongtian believes that there is no hurry to renew the contract. He also plans to continue to see what the club does.

If it is normal, the investment of 20 million per season is really not enough for Hoffenheim, but it may become a luxury in the future. At least 20 million per season, it doesn't seem much in a certain season, and it's too late to bear it for several seasons.

In the Bundesliga season, the team spent nearly 20 million euros to buy people during the winter break alone, and in the first season of the Bundesliga, it cost 30 million yuan to buy Chu Zhongtian. Judging from these investments, Hope is indeed an ambitious person.

Unfortunately, no matter how ambitious he is, he is only his arm. UEFA is his thigh. He can't twist his thigh. He originally wanted to deal with the Premier League, but Hoffenheim was implicated, which made him do nothing.

Chu Zhongtian was very worried about this, so he hoped to indicate in the contract that if the club cannot meet such requirements, he would not renew the contract. He did not want to tie his future to Hoffenheim. After all, he was only twenty-six years old and very young. When the year of playing was just beginning, he felt that with his physical condition, he could at least play until he was thirty-six, which was still ten years old, which was very long. If he renewed his contract with the team rashly, he would tie himself up. Even if he signed a four-year contract again, he would be thirty years old when the contract expired. A thirty-year-old player and a 26 or seven-year-old player are completely different concepts. A team like AC Milan is not the mainstream in European football... but his request made the club feel very embarrassed... The renewal negotiations between the two sides were stalemate from the beginning and could not continue.

Hoffenheim hopes to retain Chu Zhongtian by means of increasing wages and benefits, but Chu Zhongtian said that he does not value these personal treatments at all. He hopes that the team will show ambitions. How to show ambitions? Of course, it is increasing investment in the transfer market.

Since it is impossible to reach an agreement, it is natural to temporarily put aside the renewal negotiations. Chu Zhongtian agreed with this. Anyway, the contract has expired for two years, so why should he be anxious? Even if the contract expires, he can transfer freely, it will be the last season, and there is still one season.

Chu Zhongtian still feels that it is more important to play the next season with peace of mind. He led the team to the top 16 last year, which has already made the European powers admire him. This season he hopes that the team can go further and even more steps. He doesn't think about things that are too long, and he won't think about what to do when the contract expires. He now wants to lead Hoffenheim to have a better performance in the Champions League. Anyway, he doesn't have to worry about the next home, and the transfer and contract issues cannot affect his mood. As a player, his job is still playing football.
Chapter completed!