Coaching legend

"George is definitely joking."

This season, the English Football Association has started new regulations. That is, in the transfer process, there is an additional regulation for the work permit. That is, each club will have an extra quota every season, which is the newly introduced "special talent clause".

This quota is set up for those players who have not yet entered the national team, or because of some other reasons, the number of appearances for the national team does not meet the requirements of the work permit.

However, more Premier League clubs understand that this quota is actually for those young talented players. Especially talented players from America and Africa.

Of course, the "special talent clause" also has very strict procedures, because a hearing must be held every time.

The "special talent clause" also shows the way the English Football Association handles things. Under the pressure of many Premier League clubs, it is willing to make changes. But at the same time, it is unwilling to make too much change, so it can only do something that is neither fish nor fowl.

That thing that is neither fish nor fowl is the "special talent clause" that has been introduced now. This kind of thing can only be done by the English Football Association.

If it were other national football associations, under the pressure of many clubs, they might choose to make a net. That is, directly give each club one quota every year. But the FA insisted on the so-called "special talent clause".

George knew the FA's way of doing things at the beginning, so he proposed it.

Since this policy has been introduced, George will never waste it. George is the first head coach in the Premier League to apply for the "special talent clause" from the FA.

This policy is the first time it has been introduced, and all the media are paying attention.

They all want to know what this policy is like? How will the Premier League teams use this new policy. Now George is the first to use this clause. Many people want to see which talented player George, the proposer of the "special talent clause", wants to introduce?

But when they saw the players George applied for, they were very surprised.

If we talk about talents, there are a lot of them in South America, and there are many players who became famous in the World Youth Championship and the World Youth Championship. Because there are too many good players in national teams such as Brazil and Argentina, these young talents cannot enter the national team. That is, they cannot pass the review of the work permit.

There are many such players. And there are many famous players.

Even the current Blackburn youth team players, that is, Essien, who was loaned to Metz by George, are also famous players. If he had applied for the "special talent clause", the English media would not have been so surprised.

But the players George chose were not these people.

The players George chose were players whose names no one had heard of. And they were from Eastern Europe, from Belarus, where football is not strong.

And George only used a transfer fee of 100,000 euros. What does this mean? Go to Belarus to get a player who has just entered the professional football world and is worth only 100,000 euros. George called him a special talent, which not only surprised the media, but also many people in the English Football Association disagreed with this.

They thought George was just making fun of them.

Isn't this an insult to our English football? A Belarusian player worth 100,000 euros is also called a special talent?

You go to South America and Africa to find a well-known young player, and you can give him a break because George is the best young coach in England. But now George is completely contemptuous of English football.

Although George has the reputation of a talent scout. But you can't just pick one and tell us that it is a genius!

Who is the player George applied for? It will surprise all the media, and even the FA has a lot of opinions about George.

George chose Romedal's replacement this time, or he paid more attention to him than Romedal. The player George chose to apply for the "special talent clause" was Alexander Pavlovich Hleb, a young player from Belarus.

For Hleb, no fans later would not know him.

He is known as the "Bundesliga dribbling king" and has dribbled countless times in the Bundesliga. Hleb is not fast and not strong. His dribbling is all about changes in rhythm and changes in direction. But it is this ability that makes him unstoppable in the Bundesliga.

Later, Hleb went to the Premier League and Arsenal, and this did not change. On the right side of Arsenal, he still maintained his nature as the dribbling king. Later, he was bought by Barcelona as Ronaldinho's replacement. Although it was a double-loss result, Hleb's reputation in European football at the time was evident.

Of course, many people also criticized that Hleb was completely dribbling for the sake of dribbling, and he lacked a sense of the overall situation. Many players dribble past opponents to tear open the opponent's defense. But Hleb's dribble is just for the sake of dribble past opponents.

Also, many people say that Hleb likes to dribble past opponents and pass the ball, but he is unwilling to shoot.

Although he has this or that problem. But no one can deny that Hleb is a talented player. Hleb is currently playing in Belarus. And he plays for the Belarusian champion team BATE Borisov.

With the popularization of computers, it is not so tiring for George to find a player now. George can find the players he needs from the registered players of the Football Association of any country.

Hleb is a versatile frontcourt player. You can play on the left, center, or right. The most important thing is that Hleb's outstanding passing ability is George's favorite. Now Blackburn is getting stronger and stronger and will face all kinds of intensive defenses.

When the time comes, having a player like Hleb with excellent skills and extraordinary skills will be a very good weapon.

Hleb is only nineteen years old now, still a very young player. In addition, Belarus is a very backward country in football. Even the players of the Belarus national team are very cheap, let alone a player like Hleb who is only 19 years old.

George threw 100,000 euros, and Borisov BATE didn't refuse at all. Jean George brought Hleb to England.

The Football Association stipulates that players under the "special talent clause" must go through a hearing. In fact, there are only two most important steps in the hearing. One is to show them the player's video, and the other is that a heavyweight is needed to prove it.

Just like when Manchester United introduced Park Ji-sung, it was Hiddink who proved it to him.

In fact, this kind of thing depends on your public relations ability. If you have connections, find an influential figure in football. As long as they come here to prove it, the "Special Genius Clause" is basically just a decoration.

Player videos are easy to talk about. Not to mention a truly talented player like Hleb, even if he is the least skilled among the Chinese players, if the editing is done beautifully, it is Maradona. The most unreliable editing in the world is this.

Hleb's editing is so beautifully done that it will blow your mind if you see it. Because it’s all about how Hleb excels. There are even many pictures of Hleb starting from the midfield and reaching the opponent's penalty area.

Anyone who saw this video and said that Hleb was not a genius, George would definitely go up and slap him in the face.

As for finding a heavyweight, it's not easy.

Blackburn's rise is well established. As long as there are no major changes, it is inevitable that Blackburn will stand side by side with Manchester United and Arsenal in the Premier League. Moreover, George has many good players, and George is also one of the major shareholders of Allen's agency.

There are now more than 20 players in Allen's agency. There are also top players like Klose, Deco and Cudicini. Those coaches will not have trouble with George.

However, George will not just go to the coach casually. Not only will it have no weight, but he will also owe others favors. What is the most rare thing in this world? I owe people favors, because favors always have to be repaid.

In fact, George wanted to find Magath. Because Magath has already begun to pay attention to Hleb and wants to introduce Hleb. Magath quickly introduced Hleb after entering Stuttgart. Magath is very important, but George has no relationship with Magath, and George doesn't know Magath.

So George couldn't find Magath. So George approached Ferguson.

Ferguson is powerful enough. It was up to him to prove that there would be no problem at all in applying for the "Special Genius Clause". As for the favors owed, they will be paid back slowly in the future.

During the hearing, they really wanted to embarrass George. After all, this is the first player with the "special talent clause", but after Ferguson came in, things immediately became much easier. Ferguson's proof is simple. Ferguson said that he had also been interested in Hleb for a long time, but he was unable to introduce him because of labor certification issues. I didn’t expect to be beaten to the spot by George.

If this is obviously full of loopholes, it will still have enough power at the hearing.

Although he did not express his position on the spot, George was all smiles when he came out. With Ferguson's testimony and the beautifully done video, it seems there is no problem in bringing in Hleb.

"Thank you, Coach Ferguson."

George was very grateful to Ferguson for coming to testify despite his busy schedule.

"George, I think that's enough." Ferguson said with a smile.

"certainly."

From the first time he met Ferguson, Ferguson has always been good to George. This has been the case since George was a head coach in the lower leagues.

"But I'm a little dissatisfied."

George was stunned. It seems that he has never had any bad relations with Manchester United. There is no fault of Ferguson.

"George, why did you sell Hyypia to Liverpool? Even if you didn't sell it to me, you shouldn't have sold it to Liverpool. Don't you know you can't sell players to direct competitors?"

George smiled bitterly when he heard Ferguson's words. Hyypia is not someone he is willing to sell.

As for not selling to direct competitors, George smiled slightly. In George's eyes, only Manchester United and Arsenal are direct competitors in the Premier League. The other Liverpool, Chelsea, Newcastle, etc., at least for now, are not in George's eyes at all.

"I will never sell players to Liverpool in the future."

George gave Ferguson a different kind of guarantee.

"That's right. Don't look at Liverpool's decline now, but Liverpool is a giant team in England after all. Once they start to prosper, they can no longer suppress them."