As the National Day holiday fades away, the Dalian Football Association released an announcement as if to summarize the first two losses, while calling on fans to remain calm and rational.
In the announcement, a thought-provoking passage reads: "We can fully understand the disappointment of the fans over the loss, because the deeper the love, the deeper the pain. Although the results are not satisfactory, the fans' sadness and criticism are human nature. We all want to win, but the charm of sports is that the results are often unpredictable. Dalian People's team is only a lower-ranked team in the Chinese Super League in terms of strength and investment, and their goal before the match was to stay in the relegation, while showing good spirit and athleticism. After all, we are a new team in the Central League, is trying to overcome the shortcomings of the gold dollar soccer, recently introduced some new players, is in the integration stage, the results of the ups and downs is normal.
Dalian people's performance this season, for the city is amazing, so every home game is exceptionally hot, even if the cold wind, the stadium is far away can not stop the enthusiasm of the fans. This passion also touches the attention of Dalian Municipal Government, Municipal Football Reform Team, Municipal Sports Bureau, Municipal Football Association and Dalian People's Club. For them, the mood and feelings of the fans, touching their nerves, but also a deep understanding of the team's performance in the fans and even what the city means. October 9 evening, Dalian people will face the rival Chengdu Rongcheng, a victory is not yet expected, and if there is a similar situation, the Dalian fans can remain calm, it is difficult to predict. Therefore, the Dalian Football Association is looking forward to cooling down the fans before the match, as well as reducing the pressure on the team.
However, the fact that the relevant parties can not only ask fans to be patient, but also to give hope - although the results may not be satisfactory for the time being, but must let the fans see the team's hope for progress. "We are not unable to accept that the team lost, we are not the top team in the Chinese Super League, only, we have many regrets ......" a senior Dalian fans said. What exactly are their regrets? At least three.
How can Dalian soccer lose? Of course can, because Dalian fans know soccer, as long as the team played the spirit of struggle, win or lose love this team. "But these two losses are a little wimpy, obviously from the past can be pressed to play, but these two games were pressed to play." A fan who watched the game complained.
"Just press and play" has been the label of Dalian since the beginning of the season, and fans are used to seeing their home team face champions such as Seaport and Luneng, and they are no slouches. However, when facing the Jinmen Tigers, Dalian looked a little out of their depth.
Why do Dalian fans, and even many Chinese fans, love to watch Coach Xie Hui's "just press and play"? Because this kind of tactic is like taking the mood that we have been suppressed by the epidemic all these years, taking the pace that the national soccer team has been confined, and releasing it together. The baptism and test of the city of Dalian, no one who has lived here, experienced, it is difficult to empathize. The reason why we like or worship that no big names, on the pressure to play the Dalian team, is because the team, mapping their past, full of everyone's expectations of the future.
"Idols are in fact the spokespersons through which countless worshippers satisfy their sense of self-identity, and thus an idol's performance is essentially the worshipper's inner self singing or dancing." Prof. Wang De of Fudan University once said this.
Rather than fans not being happy to face a decline in results, they are not happy to look back on that wasted past, as well as, the Dallians' press out reflects a determination to challenge the future.
Therefore, the Dalian Football Association can only persuade, and the pressure, all on the management, coaching staff and the team.
The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus said, "The way up and the way down are often the same way." Right now, the Dallians are stuck in the in-and-out phase. "In order to explore the evils of golden dollar soccer, measure and pragmatically bring in some new players", the brutal value of the process of de-goldenization, embodied in other teams, is gradually emerging. Compared with the weakness of most teams after the fading of the golden dollar soccer, Dalian soccer has given the fans unlimited hope and fantasy, and now there is a danger of disillusionment again, the fans issued an appeal. But fans can't ignore the fact that if you want to build two formations that can play a full season, it seems unrealistic not to pay a certain value for the results. If the value is too great, someone must be "responsible" for it.
The family is no place for grandstanding, and the same applies when it comes to the club and the fans; reason and thought are for the team, emotion and love are the prerogative of the fans.
Dalian fans are a special group of Chinese fans, once stood at the peak of the professional league, but also wandered in the trough for a long time. A batch of investors who came and went, left slogans, left memories, and even left dreams, but no one left such a promise - "With us, Dalian soccer will definitely be better." Although the current management does not dare to make such a promise, but at least, the responsibility and commitment of state-owned enterprises, will make this Dalian people club more pro-people than ever.
Just as when something goes wrong, no one shrugs it off first, but instead faces it positively and looks for a solution.
The game against the Jinmen Tigers before the Dalian began to cool down, the game day cold wind, but even so, still can not stop the enthusiasm of the home fans, as the announcement said, "love to blame the deep".
All the fans involved hoped that the foreigners had found their form and that the Darenians would be able to pick up a win with their familiar pressing tactics, but surprisingly, suffered back-to-back defeats after being woefully outclassed by the two mulligans.
Of the players who joined during the second turnaround, three foreigners and one inside backer were controversial, except for Lawless and Wu Nano, who achieved recognition.
People's questions are: if you know that the level of cheap foreign aid is not good enough, why do you still want to buy; why do you not adhere to the tactics of playing under pressure when you have a full Chinese class, and add foreign aid, but it is a self-defeating tactic; if you know that the funds for attracting foreign aid are limited, why can't you buy two fewer to ensure the quality; and whether the attraction of foreign aid is the will of the governor or the opinion of the manager, Mr. Xie Hui?
Regardless of the consolation, the storm of doubt will escalate as long as the management fails to face up to a few major questions and the foreigners are unable to play as well as they should.
Reporters through a large number of interviews, trying to unveil the answers to the relevant questions, may not represent the whole truth, but more or less able to provide some basis for judgment.
At the beginning of the year, the Dalian people from coach recruitment to player selection, go through the process of social recruitment of state-owned enterprises. Public recruitment advertisements, the requirement to participate in the bidding of coaches or players to submit their resumes and then also self-promotion, established coaches and players are involved in open competition and the risk of being eliminated.
It can be said that from the beginning, Dalian people want to take a different path of exploration with the past, in the head coach Xie Hui's efforts did also do it, to a cadre of other teams do not see the players, into a star. Therefore, in the selection criteria of internal and external assistance, price and seniority is not the first element, rather than the actual quality, they are more happy to Taobao, pluck some potential stocks to cultivate their own. As long as the strength, whether amateur or semi-professional players, give them a chance to advance to the professional team stage, which is also a feat of the Dalian People's Club, although these players did not stay, but the club did not lose anything as a result.
After Dalian released the first poster for the introduction of players, fans left comments asking if this was going to be a U37 team and a late night disco.
And the result? We all saw it. Yan Xiangguan, Zhu Ting, Fei Yu, Shang Yin, all played at a level, so the doubt of buying them knowing the quality is not good enough is not valid, the Dalian people rely on the form of remodeling, all of which relies on Xie Hui's wonderful hands. Most of the players everyone favors go over the budgeted amount and don't fit.
After losing to the Jinmen Tigers, Xie Hui confessed that it is not that he does not want to stick to the tactics of pressing, but the reason why this set of tactics seems to be skillful and fluent is entirely based on the condition that there is a full three-month period of bonding and a number of warm-up matches to do the padding, and the foreign aiders have just arrived, and it is not possible to have this tacit understanding right away, and it takes time. In fact, he is difficult to say is that the Dalian People's Club does not have the ability to buy plug-and-play, or according to their own tactical needs of the players. It can only buy what it can get, and then integrate them according to the players' characteristics.
In the past, the concept of a good foreign aid is a person to deal with the battle, but such a foreign aid is not expensive, or need time to carefully select, and Dalian people do not have this capital, because they are very uncertain about the attraction window, and even whether it can be opened is not easy to say. There are not so many suitable players willing to wait for Dalian people, so this directly leads to Dalian people can choose foreign aid range narrowed again.
As for like Cangzhou, buy two less for a big killer like Kante, but Kante's price, the transfer market is 1.4 million euros; Dalian people foreign aid price, Tesonev, Mamba, Bosanjic and Manzocchi combined, only a little higher than Kante. In addition, Cangzhou original foreign aid, and Dalian people tactical system has many loopholes, the number of players needed is more, regardless of the level, the position can not be vacant, there must be rotation, which is the most basic.
Therefore, the Dalian people to supplement the foreign aid must focus on the number, and then only on the basis of merit, in fact, the Dalian people of this batch of foreign aid, the pay level is the average of the Dalian people's main pay, and some big team's replacement can not be compared. In a particularly limited moment, want to do inexpensive, is not a fairy tale, is a myth. But this also does not mean that there are such conditions can be random reinforcements, the management concerned do not have to bear the corresponding responsibility for this. According to the reporter's understanding, in the issue of attracting reinforcements, has always been to the head coach Xie Hui's opinion as the center of the dominant, and then to the leadership of the approval, through the football reform group review, the club management to discuss, the brokerage company to fulfill.
Among the new recruits, the most questioned is Manzocchi, and journalists had doubts about it for a while.
Let's start with NJ City Saloon's Mercer Paoli, is he a good player? The answer is yes. Xie Hui had his eye on him when he was coaching Nantong, and when he arrived at Dalian Ren, Xie Hui thought that Messi Paoli's technical characteristics were particularly suited to the team. But Messi Pauli is the core player of Nanjing city, in the 29 goals scored by Nanjing city so far, Messi Pauli scored 14, it can be said that the fate of Nanjing city in his hands, such a player, not to mention the Dalian people did not give a sky-high price, even if it is open, Nanjing will also have a certain hesitation. Therefore, this pile of transfer, the beginning is full of uncertainty, talk into is fate, talk is not the will of God.
The club had options, and Manzocchi wasn't the only one, but he was the only one who talked, why? Because Manzocchi belongs to the same agency as Messi Paoli. If you look closely at Manzocchi in the transfer market, he still has zero value until today. So why was he chosen? Because apart from his technical characteristics, there is also maneuverability and the quality of the player himself.
Some would counter that picking players is not picking laborers, and that no amount of quality is going to help. But Manzocchi isn't completely out of his depth, in fact, the Dalian man has very little to choose from, and there's a practical problem to consider: if he signs but can't register, how will he be compensated for the loss? Some players are not willing to take such a risk even if the club is happy to compensate them. Therefore, Dalian only signed Mamba and Tesonev in advance, who were hand-picked by Xie Hui, and the club signed a "guarantee" for these two players - if they can't be registered, the club will be happy to bear their salaries and find them The club also signed a "guarantee" for the two players - if they fail to register, the club will be happy to cover their salaries and find them other homes in China. But Dalian's financial resources are not enough to make such a commitment to every player, Manzocchi was signed after the window opened, at that time, a number of African salon teams also liked him, but for him, to come to China is more challenging, the income is also slightly higher, and with Messi Pauli belongs to the same agency, eventually, he came to China.
Manzocchi, who previously played in the Ugandan league, won five awards this past season, including MVP and Golden Boot, with Manzocchi unanimously selected as MVP in the eyes of his rivals in a vote by the 16 team captains. The reason for his high recognition is that he is "professional" enough.
"His best trait was his self-discipline, not drinking a drop of alcohol and only eating food that was good for training and playing, even if it was tasteless. His father, Joseph, was also a professional player and his mother a basketball player, and he looks a little on the skinny side, but there is not an ounce of fat on his body and he is able to run at full speed at all times." That's what Manzocchi's coach said about him. At the club, Manzocchi was close to many and well loved.
It is worth mentioning that in Uganda, Manzocchi was nicknamed "The Emperor", but he never claimed to be a star, he always worked hard and when he scored, he always gave credit to his team.
But does any of this have anything to do with Dalian? What the Darenians need is a center who can be a pivot and also score, which Manzocchi isn't, but he's hard-working, physical and happy to fit in with the team and be motivated, which is what the Darenians, who are limited in finances but seek to have a quest for team management and culture building, need.
"The ability of foreign aiders is already limited, and if they cause the manager a lot of trouble in management and fail to set a good example for Chinese players in terms of match style and discipline, they will be losing a lot of money for a small reason. In this regard, Manzocchi is relatively suitable. We never say that the foreign aid we bought is the best ability, only that under the existing conditions, we are introduced after careful consideration." This is the attitude of the club's senior management.
To summarize, in the case of time constraints, financial constraints, Dalian people completed the summer window reinforcements, perhaps the results are not satisfactory, but certainly not capricious. Of course, as an outsider, it is impossible to fully understand all the details of the club's operations, but from the perspective of an onlooker, Dalian people this road is not good to go, can only feel the stone to cross the river, and in the process, no matter whether it is the applause, skepticism and even scolding, are the norm.
