On May 22, the Tianjin Jinmen Tigers ended their vacation and immediately went into intense training. During the month-long break, the team needs to make up for the lack of fitness during winter training. With the restart of the league at the end of June, the Jinmen Tigers will face even tougher challenges, and the intensive fixtures will place higher demands on physical fitness. At the same time, the depth of the bench also puts forward a higher demand.
With a new round of double round robin matches, the Chinese Super League is about to enter the summer transfer window. Despite the Jinmen Tigers' slow progress in winter training and the winter transfer window, they are at the forefront of the second transfer window before it opens. Despite limited funds, they have finalized Brazilian midfielder Jefferson Junior. In addition, according to the coaching staff's plan, a foreign striker will also be brought in, with the number of foreigners tentatively set at two. As for Cao Yangzheng, whom Tianjin fans are looking forward to, he is no longer in the plans of the Jinmen Tigers coaching staff, although he is still in Tianjin waiting for the finalization of the naturalization procedures.
Brazilian midfielder Jefferson Júnior joined Jinmen Tigers from the Turkish Super League. After 5 matches in the first phase, Jinmen Tigers achieved 1 win, 1 draw and 3 losses. Although winter training and reinforcements were delayed, the team performed well with excellent defense, only one big defeat, and the rest of the matches conceded less than one goal. It can be said that the opponents in the Suzhou district, if there is no super strong front line, it is difficult to break through the dense defense of the Jinmen Tigers. This year, the front line of each team has been greatly reduced due to the inability of foreign aid to return, and the situation of the Jinmen Tigers is not as bad as imagined in advance.
Not conceding a goal ensures not losing, but to win you have to score. Jinmen Tigers adhere to the main defensive counterattack, the defense line is solid, but the front line counterattack firepower is obviously insufficient. According to statistics, the number of shots on goal in the first five rounds of the Jinmen Tigers was the lowest in the Chinese Super League, and there were only three goals scored, with only two goals scored in the campaign. Although the team has two foreign aid, but Kadar mainly defense, Iroquois most of the time substitutes, from the coach on his use of the situation, he has not reached the ideal state of the coaching staff. At present, the most threatening thing on the offensive end of the Jinmen Tigers is Barton.
With the second transfer period of the season coming up in July, Zimmen Tigers missed the best time to add personnel in the first transfer window. There is still more than a month's preparation time for the second transfer, in order to ensure that the new foreign aid can be in place in time to participate in the joint training, Zimmen Tigers has been in the forefront of the earliest to confirm the approach of attracting reinforcements in the summer of the Chinese Super League clubs. It is reported that this reinforcement, Zimmen Tigers is mainly to supplement the central axis, plans to introduce a foreign striker and a foreign midfielder. 27-year-old Brazilian midfielder Jefferson Junior is close to signing with Zimmen Tigers, and is now dealing with the formalities of coming to China. He has played 32 games for Turkish Super League side Gaziantep FK this season, scoring four goals and assisting three times. Junior is a defensive midfielder and his arrival could free up Cong Zhen to be more involved in the offense. Meanwhile, the Jinmen Tigers coaching staff had hoped to bring in the team's striker at the same time, but for some reason it did not work out, but the coaching staff will continue to push for the introduction of a foreign striker at a later time.
Cao Yangzheng: confirmed return
Before the transfer window opens, the Jinmen Tigers still need to be tested by strong teams such as Beijing Guoan and Shanghai Shenhua. During the recovery training period, the team will mainly strengthen their physical fitness to cope with a more intensive schedule and more intense matches in the next phase. Jinmen Tigers plan to play several warm-up matches during this preparation period, with the most recent planned to be a warm-up match against Shenzhen Football.
After two rounds of matches, the transfer window opens, and the Jinmen Tigers will also welcome the addition of new recruits. Of course, when it comes to this year's second transfer period and registration period, everyone will also be watching to see if Cao Yangzheng, the Chinese player the team has been naturalizing, will be able to sign up to play for the team in the second phase.
Cao Yang was training with Shandong Taishan's reserve team during the past winter preparation period, and then with the rise of Tianjin Jinmen Tigers, he returned to the team for a while to continue training and wait for the finalization of naturalization procedures. In the first phase, the Jinmen Tigers club did not enroll him, and he had to train with the team as he had done in the past. In the process, it was speculated that Cao Yang would sign up to play for Jinmen Tigers in the second transfer period, and the distance between him and Jinmen Tigers was actually only one naturalization procedure.
