After staying in Dortmund for a few days, Zhou Yi and Cortana met with the team and went to the warm Spain to start their winter training camp.

Before the training camp began, the club gave every player who returned to the team a physical examination. Zhou Yi's physical condition was not bad, which was slightly lower than before the winter break, but it was within the normal range. After all, it was impossible to maintain the normal training intensity and plan during the season during the holidays.

After Klopp got Zhou Yi's physical examination report, he joked to the team doctor leader Dr. Braun: "Cotana and Zhou Yi are together. I really didn't expect that there will be such benefits for us - we can supervise Zhou Yi's living habits."

After the physical examination, the whole team set off for Spain to start their training camp.

This winter break training camp is actually very important for Dortmund.

Because the team has suffered many injuries, there are several tasks for the winter break training. On the one hand, of course, it is to ensure that the players should not continue to be injured. On the other hand, it is to ensure that the team has sufficient physical fitness in the second half of the season.

Because there will be World Cup games this summer, leagues in various countries will end earlier than before, which will lead to a relatively dense schedule for this season. Dortmund has now entered the next stage of the match, whether in the German Cup or the Champions League, and in addition to the league, the schedule will be very dense and the physical requirements for players are higher.

Fortunately, there is a winter break in the Bundesliga, so players can rest and then adjust their physical fitness through training and re-store their physical fitness so that they will not be completely exhausted at the end of the season.

But even so, the situation is not optimistic.

After all, too many players have been injured this season, which has suddenly reduced the thickness of Dortmund's bench.

There is a winter transfer window during the winter break. During this period, Dortmund Club should seize the time to sign ups and strengthen the staff gap that the team is facing now.

In fact, Dortmund had already started transfer operations actively in December last year. There were many rumors in the media about Dortmund's transfer during the winter break.

But many of these rumors were from the summer of 2014.

Distant water cannot quench near thirst.

For example, what plans to re-transfer in the summer to introduce Shinji Kagawa, who has been having an unpleasant life at Manchester United, or want to buy Khdira from Real Madrid in the summer. They may also consider introducing another center this summer, Lukaku, the "little Warcraft" from Chelsea.

These are all rumors, and there is not a single word of the eight characters, and they are all "far water".

How to solve the problem of insufficient manpower facing Dortmund now?

In fact, it’s not that Dortmund doesn’t want to solve it, but that it’s very troublesome to solve it.

First of all, except Gundogan and Subotic, no one else is the kind of injury that needs to rest for a season. They can come back later. If they come back and Dortmund introduces players from the same position, will it cause waste of human resources?

In addition, it is difficult to buy satisfactory players during the winter break. This is a routine. Transfers during the winter break are not as important as summer transfers, because this is a transfer in the middle of a season. Many players are playing well in this team, so of course the team is unwilling to let him go halfway. If the season is over and the new season needs to be re-planned, it doesn't matter if you let a few players go.

Everyone knows that transfers during the winter break are difficult to buy people, so they are naturally unwilling to let their players go easily, because once they are let go, they want to replenish their staff from the transfer market, but it is not that easy...

Various reasons have caused the lack of players with enough influence and sufficient strength in the winter transfer market today. With Dortmund's current status and vision, of course, no cat or dog can be looked down upon by Dortmund.

Friedrich signed a firefighting contract that ended at the end of the season. It is impossible to buy someone after the winter break, right? You must be very cautious.

These factors have caused Dortmund to struggle in the winter break transfer market.

There was news before that Dortmund planned to continue to strengthen his strength in the forward position. They were not very satisfied with Schiber's performance in the first half of the season, so they took a fancy to Hoffenheim's Walland, but why should Hoffenheim release the players during the winter break?

In addition, the team also plans to play for the former Bundesliga player Czech international Kadeletz, who plays for Fenerbahce. This player is the left-back, but he is 1.85 meters tall and can also play a guest role in the centre-back. This is a supplement to Dortmund's current defense line with wounded soldiers.

But it is not easy to say whether Fenerbahce will let go, and many people are worried about Kadletz's strength. I don't know if he really joins Dortmund, will it mean supplements or loopholes to Dortmund's defense line...

After a round, Dortmund finalized a transfer, Augsburg's South Korean striker Chi Dong-won. But he also came to Dortmund after the end of this season, which still did not help the team's current shortage of manpower.

In addition, Dortmund Club has another very important task, which is to renew the contract and leave Gundogan.

Gundogan was unwilling to renew his contract with Dortmund before, but with the serious injury season reimbursement and Real Madrid was not interested in him, the road to renewal finally turned around. Recently, Gundogan agreed to renegotiate with the club about the contract renewal.

Although Gundogan basically can't play this season, Dortmund still wants to keep him. Why?

Because Dortmund has always had a concern - can they still stay Zhou Yi after the end of this season?

At the end of last season, Zhou Yi was actually very close to leaving. After all, he won all the championships he could win at Dortmundsor. Is there any reason to keep him staying?

emotion?

Stop kidding.

However, an accident happened. Gotze and Lewandowski ran away one after another, making Zhou Yi unable to choose to leave the team at this time, otherwise he would be infamous. At this time, the relationship can be discussed...

With Gotze and Lewandowski leaving the team at the same time, Zhou Yi couldn't leave even if he wanted to leave, and he had to stay.

So he renewed his contract with the club.

But no one can guarantee that he will continue to stay in Dortmund in another year and two years.

The Dortmund Club itself is also very clear that they may never become a club like Bayern Munich. Because they have experienced a painful economic crisis, they are always not very relaxed in spending money. They cannot do big things like Bayern Munich in club investment, which makes them lack ambitions.

They themselves don’t believe that they can keep Zhou Yi. Players like Zhou Yi will definitely have more pursuits, such as salary... Dortmund Club dares not think that they will give a player an annual salary of 10 million euros.

Thinking about Lewandowski asked Dortmund for an annual salary of 3 million euros, the Dortmund club was reluctant to give it to him.

Not to mention ten million.

But as Zhou Yi became more and more famous and his achievements became higher and higher, his salary requirements would also become higher and higher. The club does not believe that Zhou Yi is a saint who only talks about dedication but does not seek rewards.

At that time, Zhou Yi’s agent, Leo, made a big statement and proposed a contract requirement for an annual salary of more than 10 million euros. What should the club do?

In fact, an annual salary of tens of millions of euros is no longer a rare thing in European football. Before Serie A was completely declining, Ibrahimovic and Kaka both received tens of millions of euros in Inter Milan and AC Milan respectively. This is even more so in the Spanish Premier League doubles Real Madrid and Barcelona.

The Bundesliga has always adhered to the principle of fiscal health, so there are many restrictions on salary expenses, so the salary level of the Bundesliga is not as high as the sky.

However, Zhou Yi, as the absolute core of a team and the number one star, has only received an annual salary of 8 million euros this time, and this is before tax, and it is actually only half of it.

If there are really wealthy families who want to poach Zhou Yi and offer an annual salary of tens of millions of euros, how can the players themselves resist it?

Whether for career or income considerations, the Dortmund Club believes that it is impossible for them to keep Zhou Yi forever.

Since this premise has been decided, who can take over this shift after Zhou Yi leaves?

Shahin had this ability before transferring to Real Madrid, but after Real Madrid and Liverpool had been wasting several seasons, Shahin suffered a great blow in both ambition and confidence, and his strength stagnated and he no longer had the previous aura. Now it is impossible for him to lead the team Dortmund.

Mkhitaryan?

At least I haven't seen that he has such ability yet.

The club is more optimistic about Gundo'an.

Although Gundo An was seriously injured, he still had some similarities with Zhou Yi in terms of technical characteristics. He was good at attacking and defending and was the best successor after Zhou Yi left.

That's why Dortmund negotiated a contract extension with Gundogan, hoping that Gundogan can stay.

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Apart from some "far water", Dortmund's actions in the transfer market are not efficient.

No one they like can come, and no one they can come...

The disadvantage of the signing work made Klopp always frown during training, and the atmosphere of the team was not as relaxed as before.

Everyone has gradually realized that if the club cannot introduce new players to strengthen the team during the transfer window during the winter break, the next half season will be a severe test for every Dortmund player. They will pay more than usual and will even face unchanged situations in some key positions.

During this period, the physiotherapy group where Cortana is in is getting busier and busier. In order to ensure that the players will not get injured during training, the physiotherapy relaxation work after training becomes very important, and the workload of their physiotherapy group naturally increases.

Although they were openly couples, they did not live together during the club training camp. Cortana lived in a room specially arranged for the physiotherapist, while Zhou Yi and Mark lived in the same room.

On weekdays, Zhou Yi had no other contact except for going to her for massage after training. Moreover, even if it was a physical therapy massage, he was in a big room, and several players were doing physical therapy together, so he couldn't talk about some private matters.

They could only occasionally look at each other in the crowd and look at each other with their eyes.

Even so, Zhou Yi felt satisfied.
Chapter completed!