In recent years, the national soccer team has been cocked up by Chen Xuyuan and Li Tie, and has been in a total slump. 2023 has seen new coach Aleksandar Jankovic lead the national soccer team back on track. He is happy to have naturalized internationals such as Ackerson and Fernando back in the Chinese Super League as he is eager to use them, as pure as Lippi's initial thoughts, convinced that reusing some naturalized internationals at the same time can strengthen the national soccer team and affect the performance of the game.
Unfortunately, the aging of the naturalized international players is becoming more and more apparent as time goes on. Six naturalized international players, including Ackerson, Fernando, Li Ke, Luo Guofu, Alan, and Jiang Guangtai, were called up at the same time. Among them, Li Ke and Fernando are in the adjustment stage; Allan is running the Chinese Super League and needs to find his form. He has played only one game in the Barclays Premier League this season; Luo Guofu is in good form in Brazil, scoring tons of goals in various matches, with 12 goals in 27 games, but he has already planned to retire, and it is very unlikely that he will return to his country to participate in the tournament.
In June, Jankovic recruited only two naturalized internationals, Eckerson and Jiang Guangtai. According to the schedule, the national soccer team will participate in the Asian Preliminary 36 at the end of the year and the Asian Cup at the beginning of 2024, when the overall strength will be full of variables. Although all five naturalized internationals, including Fernando, Eickson, Li Ke, Alan and Jiang Guangtai, may return to the team, the fighting strength is difficult to predict.
According to the latest value list of the authoritative transfer website "German Transfer", naturalized international players such as Eckerson, Allan and Fernando, who were originally worth much more than local players, are worthless and have dropped in value across the board, which is a combination of the players' strength, age and form. Iversen, once the most valuable player in the national soccer team, is now worth only 400,000 euros, as is Allan at 400,000 euros, Fernando at 350,000 euros, Li Ke at 250,000 euros, and Jiang Guangtai, who is relatively stable, could be worth 800,000 euros.
With the declining value of naturalized players, Wu Lei, the top player of the national soccer team, remains stable and stands out with a value of 2 million euros, which is equivalent to 15.79 million yuan, the only value among Chinese players. However, Wu Lei is not an excellent individual ability player, he needs excellent passes from his teammates as support, so Wu Lei's unique file can't bring qualitative changes to the national soccer team, but rather Luo Guofu, Zhang Yuning, and Ekerson, a powerful center forward, can bring qualitative changes to the national soccer team's offensive system, but only Ekerson's stable development can play the next two matches. Zhang Yuning is arguably the most unfortunate local center forward. He became famous at a young age, became a study abroad brother at 19, won the Dutch league and represented the national soccer team in the World Cup preliminaries. His value rose to €2 million at one point, making him the most valuable Chinese player at the time.
Now, although Zhang Yuning still has a value of 850,000 euros, ranked second on the national soccer value list, after Wu Lei, but the physical condition is very poor, often injured, surgery at the beginning of the year to rest for a few months, comeback a few serious injuries, very frustrated, confirmed the end of the year to comeback, serious injuries directly postponed the Asian Games, the world preliminaries and the Asian Cup three games, Zhang Yuning was appointed as the Asian Games veteran player, due to injuries, missed the Asian Games, the National soccer team, Zhang Yuning will be difficult to maintain the status of the preliminaries and the Asian Cup.
