With the Chinese team sweeping Malaysia, one of the hosts, 5:1, fans gradually forgot the regret that Li Huan could not play for the national team and shifted their attention to the Asian Cup. The first [***] win made the players and coaches full of confidence, head coach Hu Guangzhu said in high spirits at the press conference: The current Chinese team is strong, Sun Hai, Shao Jia, Sun Xiang, Zheng Zhi, Dong Fang all play in Europe's top leagues, Han Peng is one of the best center forwards in Asia, Li Weifeng is the best center back in Asia, and there are outstanding players on all lines. Some players think that they are the best in the world when they make a little achievement, and they think that the team cannot win without him, but in fact, the absence of any player will not affect the strength of the Chinese team, nor will it affect the goal of the Chinese team to win the championship. ”

In the face of Hu Guangzhu's insinuating attack, Li Huan did not make any response, and he knew the situation of the Chinese team's subsequent games well, and he knew that the facts would soon hit Hu Guangzhu in the face.

In the second game of the Asian Cup, facing the strongest opponent in the group, the Iranian team, the Chinese team was equalized by the opponent with two goals in a row while leading 2-0, and the Iranophobia was finally not completely cured. But the domestic media was amazed by the performance of the Chinese team, Hu Guangzhu's national team is also considered to be the strongest national team in Chinese history, from reporters to fans, to the officials of the Football Association believe that the national team has a very big hope of winning the championship, and it is very easy to run in and enter the World Cup in South Africa.

In the last round of the group, the Chinese team faced Uzbekistan, and in the case of a draw, Hu Guangzhu's team suddenly ended up without a problem, and was easily won by Uzbekistan 3-0, the first time in 27 years, the group failed to appear, and it became the worst national team in 27 years.

National fan reporters and Football Association officials were inexplicably surprised, no one knew what happened to this national team, it turned out that Hu Guangzhu, who was lifted to the clouds, fell heavily into the mud, at this time the media and fans naturally remembered Li Huan, if Li Huan is here, will this national team not even be able to qualify from the group? As a result, China's media began a vigorous campaign to reverse Hu again, demanding that Hu Guangzhu leave class and that Li Huan be recruited into the national team.

But at this time, Li Huan was no longer in China, and soon after his younger brother Li Xiao finished the college entrance examination and got the results, he went directly to the United States to participate in the filming of "One Ball to Fame" 2, and then went directly to Germany from the United States to prepare for the team's pre-season training.

The Bundesliga and Ligue 1 have always started earlier, and because there is a European Championship next year, this year will start even earlier than before. The first round of the German Cup will be played on August 4, and the Bundesliga will kick off a week later, and many German teams will start training at the end of June, and Hoffenheim's training camp is relatively late among the Bundesliga powers, gathering at the beginning of July.

When Li Huan arrived in Germany, the training camp had not yet begun, and the staff of Hoffenheim FC were busy relocating, and they had reached an agreement with the Mannheim team and the city of Mannheim to rent the Karl Benz Stadium in Mannheim for this year's Bundesliga. Although they spent close to 30 million euros on signings during the winter break last season, and the team was invincible in the Bundesliga and German Cup, manager Rangnick was not satisfied, Rangnick has a wealth of experience in the Bundesliga, and he knows that Hoffenheim has a lot of work to do this season, and those from last season alone are simply not enough to support the team's third-tier operations. This is also thanks to the fact that the Football League will not hold a League Cup this year, otherwise Hoffenheim would have to play on four fronts, which is almost impossible for a promoted polo team.

This season, Rangnick and the club set the goal of relegation, but they don't want to be too ugly in the first European competition, as the defending champions, they can't give up in the German Cup, so that in addition to the league, they have a few more games to play this season, in Rangnick's opinion, their squad in the Bundesliga can only last for half a season. If the team wants to continue to be successful, it has to buy people. Although their original goal was to play steadily and step by step, they did not expect to be able to qualify for the Bundesliga so quickly and also enter the League Cup, but now that they have come up, Rangnick certainly does not want to fall down and climb up again. Hoffenheim have been in the transfer market since the transfer window opened on June 1, but so far they have only managed to buy substitute goalkeeper Otzkan, which has made Hoffenheim's managers Rangnick and Schendelmaize anxious.

Hope's request for Rangnick is unconditional support, he gave Rangnick a transfer budget of 40 million euros, within this range Rangnick can buy players at will, if not enough, you can apply to him again, Rangnick is not like other German teams worry about money, he is worried about finding the right person. Hoffenheim's principle is not to buy famous stars, as club manager Schendelmeize said, "Ronaldo is a bit old for Hoffenheim. "This is also related to the special surname of Hoffenheim's style of play, although Xiao Luo has extraordinary skills, but he is not suitable for this Hoffenheim, now Hoffenheim requires everyone to play the ball quickly, press all over the field, Xiao Luo is impossible to do such a job. Hoffenheim need young players with a malleable surname, who can adapt to the team's style of play after a short period of training and can also appreciate in value.

The current Hoffenheim is most lacking is the left back and the back, in the last season, the left back Loew is more than enough to defend even in the face of the Bundesliga team, and Jankel's offensive ability is also very poor, and often have to make up for the lack of the veteran central defender Setz, if it is not for Li Huan's super offensive ability, Hoffenheim's side can not be opened at all. Now that the opponent has been upgraded to a Bundesliga team, Loew and Jankel are afraid that not only will the offense not work, but the defense will also be broken by the opponent. The purchase of a left-back is already an imminent matter.

Rangnick is eyeing Freiburg's back-up left-back Ibezberg, the 25-year-old Austria international who moved to Freiburg three years ago and has since gradually found his groove as a regular defender for Freiburg, but with injuries he has gradually become a fringe figure in Freiburg, playing less than a third of last season. His strength lies in defense, and his assist ability is not strong, but for the current transfer market, a good left-back is really rare, and there is no need to think about it if there are no more than 20 million euros to attack and defend well, for Hoffenheim, there is a strong Li Huan on the right side, and the assists on the left side are almost acceptable, as long as the defense can be firm.

Freiburg bought Ibertsberg from RB Salzburg in Austria for only 300,000 euros, but because Hoffenheim and Freiburg are rivals in the same state, although Ibertsberg wants to go to Hoffenheim to play in the Bundesliga, Freiburg is reluctant to sell the player to Hoffenheim. Directly raised the price to one million euros.

Hoffenheim is not short of money, but they are not like Chelsea, they are very rational to buy players, and they will never shoot blindly, so they directly rejected Freiburg's offer, thinking that Freiburg was suspected of ripping money, and they directly contacted Ibertsberg's agent privately, promising to give Ibertsberg a high salary and the position of the main force, so that Ibertsberg could put pressure on Freiburg. One is a substitute in the Bundesliga, the other is the main player in the Bundesliga, Ibertsberg must know that he should choose this, and now Ibertsberg is training at home, so that the agent can coordinate with the club, he would rather not train and not play than must join Hoffenheim.

Another player Hoffenheim is interested in is Brazil's Gustavo, who is now playing for Maceio Brazilians in the Brazilian league and is only 20 years old, but he has a tough style of play, fierce tackles, good passing and great vision. There is also the ability to shoot from a distance. And the physical fitness is excellent, and the height of 1.87 meters can be a solid barrier in front of the backline. In Rangnick's opinion, Gustavo is exactly the kind of midfielder he needs. Gustavo is still young, but it doesn't matter, he can now rotate with Tebel and play a dozen substitutes. Then gradually replace Tebel.

Gustavo is very eager to land in the top five European leagues, and the Maceio Brazilians team is also willing to release him, but the current situation is that Gustavo's ownership is very complicated, and the Maceyo Brazilians team does not have all the ownership of Gustavo, he is also a rented Gustavo, Gustavo's old club is the Alagoas Center team, and the Alagoas Center team heard that the Maceio Brazilians team wants to sell it, and they also want to be able to get a piece of the pie. So on the basis of the one million euros quoted by the Brazilian in Macejo, another 50,000 euros were added, and 150 euros was not too big a number, but Hoffenheim's club manager Shendelmaize thought that the transfer fee had been agreed, and now the sudden increase of 500,000 would have a bad impact, making other clubs think that Hoffenheim has no principles in buying people and spends money casually, so that when Hoffenheim buys people again, the opponent will definitely ask for a sky-high price. Therefore, Hoffenheim has not budged, and Gustavo is now actively negotiating with his two old clubs. He is now determined to enter Europe.

In addition to these two players who are urgently needed now, Rangnick also needs to find a replacement for Li Huan, although Li Huan has good physical fitness, but after all, he is not an iron man, and he has also suffered a cruciate ligament injury, Rangnick is worried that Li Huan's body will not be able to stand it in the case of third-line battles, and a good coach should take precautions, not a headache.

Now Rangnick still wants to dig the corner of the team in the same state, Stuttgart II is a treasure trove, in addition to Weiss and Jaisler, Stuttgart II right-back Beck is also an excellent offensive player, and was promoted to the first team by Amingfeld last season to play four games, although Beck's performance is average, and has not attracted the attention of other club scouts, but it can't be hidden from Hoffenheim in the same state, Jaisler has recommended Beck to Rangnick many times, And Rangnick also thinks that Baker's owner has similar characteristics to Li Huan, who is good at breaking through and passing, and can play part of Li Huan's role when he is a substitute for Li Huan.

However, Stuttgart was defeated by Hoffenheim in the German Cup last season, and the two youngsters from Stuttgart, Jaisler and Weiss, played a big role, which was an incurable wound in Stuttgart's heart, and this time they never wanted to repeat the same mistakes, not only immediately extended the contract of the 20-year-old Beck, but also promised him a place on the first bench in the new season. Beck is now hesitating, with both sides on the bench, and he is unsure whether to stay at Hoffenheim or Stuttgart.

The first to join Hoffenheim was Ibertsberg, and the Austrian, who had been out of training at home, finally forced Freiburg to accept Hoffenheim's offer for 350,000 euros. Hoffenheim offered him an annual salary of 800,000 euros, which was almost double what he did in Freiburg.

Seeing that Ibetzberg's annual salary has reached 800,000 euros, Stuttgart's young defender Beck has also publicly expressed his dissatisfaction with his annual salary of 300,000 euros.

Hoffenheim's efforts to dig into the corner of his brothers in the same state were condemned by Karlsruhe, Freiburg and Stuttgart, all three of whom were victims, and all three of them had players poached by Hoffenheim, so it can be said that all three teams indirectly raised a tough opponent for themselves. Karlsruhe, in particular, was saddened by the loss of Li Huan for their fans and club officials.

Karlsruhe coach Becker believes Hoffenheim's move will soon have a ripple effect, with the Bundesliga's balanced wage structure soon being disrupted and Kim Won dominating the Bundesliga as he rules the Premier League. Rangnick must stop poaching now.

Stuttgart's head coach Amingfee was distressed by the poached Weiss and Jaisler, seeing that they were getting better and better at Hoffenheim, worth more than three million, and at that time they did not even receive 100,000 euros, which made Amingfee's heart extremely unbalanced, and he called on the German professional league and the German Football Association to legislate to protect the rights and interests of the club, and not let the young players that the club has worked hard to cultivate be coaxed away by the lollipop of clubs like Hoffenheim and Arsenal. What's the use of that little training fee, it's not even a tenth of the real value of the player.

Bayern manager Hoeness, who already feels the threat posed by Hoffenheim, also supports Stuttgart's suggestion, believing that the club's rights and interests must be protected, and that the youth team players are also the club's wealth, and the club cannot just help others develop players without getting the benefits themselves, so that no club is willing to work hard to develop young players.

Shendelmeze was dismissive of Hoeness's words, he thought that Bayern was the least qualified to say this, Bayern poached the players of the Bundesliga team better than any other team, and Shendelmeze asked Hoeness to wipe his ass clean before anyone else.

(To be continued)