The Godfather of Football

"Haha, I really didn't realize that you have such a manly side!"

In the restaurant in the commercial district south of Arena Stadium, Eliza was very impressed with Ye Qiu. She didn't look like she was frightened by being teased. Instead, she stared at Ye Qiu as if Columbus discovered the New World.

On the contrary, Ye Qiu's intuition told him that Eliza had misunderstood.

Ye Qiu hit Huizinger more because of Huang Chu. Although he would have hit him if he saw Huizinger teasing Eliza, he really did it for Huang Chu this time, but Eliza thought it was because of her.

But there is no way to explain this kind of thing. You can't just say, sorry, I didn't do it for you, right?

"What's the matter? The food doesn't suit your taste?" Ye Qiu saw Huang Chu who didn't do much.

Huang Chu shook her head. She was a good cook, but she was very casual about food. She was just a little worried about Ye Qiu. "Although Bobby and the others persuaded me, will this matter have any impact on you?" Ye Qiu shook his head and smiled. "What's there to be afraid of? At worst, I will not work in Ajax. It's not like I don't have other places to go!" During the winter break, a Dutch second-tier professional team contacted Ye Qiu, hoping that Ye Qiu could coach in the second half, but Ye Qiu refused because he hoped to prove himself in the Ajax second team and continue to finish this season. As for the next season, he has no detailed plans for the time being, but it is certain that he will never be unemployed. Sometimes when I think about it, I feel helpless. I worked for others in my previous life, and I still have to work for others in this life. Is it really my fate to be a worker all my life? "Right, I am a very righteous person. If you help me, I will not let you lose your job. At worst, you can come to the company to help!" Eliza said with a smile. Ye Qiu glanced at him, "Please, you are a small shareholder of the company, and I am the major shareholder, okay?"

Eliza was stunned, and then she thought of the original agreement, especially when she saw Ye Qiu's vicious eyes, as if to say, if you are rude to the boss again, I will fire you, she immediately laughed and quickly changed the subject.

"By the way, Ah Chu, when did you come back?" Eliza aimed at Huang Chu.

"Just arrived today!" Huang Chu replied with a smile. She also knew that Eliza was their neighbor, and Ye Qiu had told her about the Dutch cow outfit before. She had a good impression of Eliza.

Looking at Ye Qiu, she was a little shy, "I wanted to be more diligent, but I didn't expect..."

Eliza was so smart that when she saw Huang Chu's eyes, she immediately noticed some clues. Her intuition told her that the two did not look like a couple. The reason why Huang Chu went to work as soon as he arrived today was probably to give Ye Qiu a surprise, right?

I have to admire this woman's sixth sense, she guessed it almost right.

To be honest, when these two women get together, men become light bulbs.

Huang Chu and Eliza are of similar age and both look beautiful. They sit together and chat, and from time to time they make all the men in the restaurant fall in love with them, which makes their female companions at the same table furious. Ye Qiu has also become the object of envy and hatred of those men.

But at this moment, Ye Qiu is thinking in his heart, should he continue to stay in Ajax?

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Standing in the office on the second floor of the Arena Stadium, you can directly see De Tokmost in the distance. The lamp posts and the white iron posts with barbed wire are very bright under the dark clouds.

That is the foundation of Ajax!

Van Praag has no doubt about this, so he has always attached great importance to De Tokmost.

However, yesterday, a word from Bobby Hams made him feel very heavy.

"Do you want to make drastic reforms? Or do you want to maintain the status quo? You need to give everyone an accurate signal, instead of being worried about gains and losses like you are now. In the end, it will only make the team sink deeper and deeper, and the team will miss more talents and more opportunities for revival!"

Van Praag heard about Ye Qiu beating Huizinger. Hearing that the tall and strong Huizinger was beaten badly by Ye Qiu, Van Praag has clearly called Westhoff and must deal with this matter strictly.

The damn guy who spent his $4 million, his performance improved a little bit, and he immediately raised his tail to the sky. He dared to harass female colleagues in the team's medical department. After being stopped and warned by Ye Qiu, he went out and immediately harassed the club's partners. This is simply damnable!

If it were normal, Van Praag would even consider expelling him from Ajax, because such a person would only tarnish Ajax!

But now, can he?

Just when Van Praag was full of worries, he heard a knock on the door outside.

Ye Qiu walked in and turned around to close the door.

"Ye Qiu, come and sit here!" Van Praag invited Ye Qiu to sit down at the desk, and looked at this young man who was highly regarded and valued by Bobby Hams, "I have heard about what happened yesterday. Huizinger will also be punished, and the club has fully considered your feelings, so it has decided not to pursue your assault."

Ye Qiu has heard the result from Van Dude, and this time he was a little surprised that the management acted so quickly.

"Ye Qiu, I hope you understand that the current situation of the club is not very ideal. We are all full of hope for the second team led by you, and I have also thought carefully about it. You will be in charge of Detokmo next season. ster and continue to coach the second team!”

It should be said that the bargaining chip given by Van Praag is indeed not low. With Ye Qiu's 25-year-old age, it is already very difficult to be able to coach Detok Most and Ajax's second team. It was said to be unprecedented, but for Ye Qiu, this temptation was not very ideal.

The reason is simple. He hopes to be able to stand alone, instead of being restricted by others like he is now.

Coaching the Ajax second team is not bad, but the problem is that with the current performance of the Ajax second team, no matter who will be the head coach next season, it is inevitable to vigorously promote the youth training. By then, the second team will What's left?

Ye Qiu is not an idiot. He also knows very well that once the second team's performance is poor, he will face all kinds of pressure at any time. Even if the head coach of the first team doesn't like him, he may learn from it. Just like Waters did to Westhoff, he squeezed him out.

Westhoff also had Leo Benhak at the time, and where were his qualifications, but what did Ye Qiu have?

Youdao is like a strong dragon but not a local coward. The first team member is the eldest son, and the second team member is the baby boy.

"What's the matter? What do you think?" Fan Praag asked with a smile when he saw Ye Qiu being silent.

Ye Qiu shook his head, stood up, and took out a letter from his pocket, which was written in English.

"Resignation letter?" Van Praag took it and looked at it, a little surprised.

Ye Qiu sighed deeply, "Yes, after the second team's games this season, I am ready to leave Ajax!"

"Why?" Van Praag stood up directly, with a puzzled look on his face.

"I'm just a coach. I don't like to be involved in intrigues, power struggles and whirlpools all day long. I just hope to have a peaceful and stable environment where I can get freedom and power, and I can arrange things according to my ideas. I coach a team and don’t have to worry about this and that all day long, and that makes me tired!”

After hearing this, Van Praag had nothing to say.

Ye Qiu came to Ajax for one season. From the dispute between Waters and Westerhoff at the beginning of the season, to now Westerhoff has sole power, even though Van Praag asked Westerhoff not to interfere. The second team, but in fact, Westerhoff still squeezed Ye Qiu in many things, such as the scouting department.

Bobby Harms mentioned before that when Ye Qiu challenged PSV Eindhoven and Utrecht, he was unable to get first-team intelligence from the scouting department, and the crux of the matter was Westerhoff.

Moreover, the second team is still the second team. Whenever the first team wants people, the second team must hand them over unconditionally. Ye Qiu has no right to make his own choices and can only follow orders.

If it were Ye Qiu who had no influence or fame before, he would choose to compromise, but now that he has enough chips and capital, he can shout loudly that he will not stay here, he will have his own. My place!

Can Van Praag blame him?

Why blame him?

"I won't accept the letter. You keep it, think it over carefully, and then give me an answer!" Fan Praag shook his head and pushed the letter in front of Ye Qiu. He didn't want to let this talent go just like this.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Van Praag, I've already decided!" Ye Qiu pushed the letter back, nodded to Van Praag, turned around and walked out of Van Praag's office.

After Ye Qiu left, Fan Praag suddenly fell down on his office chair and stared blankly at the office door.

He finally understood why Bobby Harms persuaded him.

He has always appreciated that Ye Qiu doesn't like fighting for power, but this does not mean that Ye Qiu likes to be passive and obey orders. On the contrary, because Ye Qiu doesn't like fighting for power, he hates this complicated environment. He hates being restricted and excluded by others.

"Is it really irreversible?"

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On February 9, 2000, in the 21st round of the Eredivisie, PSV faced Ajax at home.

Since being eliminated from the Dutch Cup by Ajax's second team, Eindhoven has devoted all its energy to the Eredivisie championship battle, which has also made Eindhoven's lead become very important. Obviously, they are currently 10 points ahead of Heerenveen, which is second in the league.

But even with the league championship almost guaranteed, PSV still tried its best in this game against Ajax and arranged its strongest lineup to face this game. Give them a mortal enemy that only wants to breathe fire.

Gerets has vented his anger and resentment towards the Ajax second team on this first team.

They defeated Ajax 3-0 at the Philips Stadium with goals from Ruud van Nistelrooy and Van Bommel, and achieved an almost perfect victory. Ajax was unable to have the slightest impact on PSV throughout the game. Threatened, they can only accept the disastrous defeat.

On the next day, major media and newspapers in the Netherlands praised Eindhoven's performance, while also criticizing Westerhoff's team, believing that there was already a case where Ajax's second team defeated Eindhoven. In the front, Westerhof is still looking for death and fighting against PSV. This is simply courting death.

"If we had played the second team in this game, we would not have lost so badly, and we might have won again!" The Amsterdam Evening Post used the victory of the second team to highlight the poor performance of the first team, which is also the voice of Ajax fans.

Westhoff said in an interview with the media after the game that the loss of this game was related to the absence of Huizinger, but Westhoff did not give a reason or explanation for why this Dutch center forward who has performed well recently was absent.

However, in the following week, Ajax defeated William II and Grafschap at home with 3:1 and 2:1 respectively, which immediately aroused praise from the media, believing that Westhoff's team had gotten out of trouble.

But a week later, Ajax lost to the opponent 0:1 away.

This defeat once again sounded the alarm bell for Ajax.

March 18th is the big day of Ajax's centenary celebration. With the season already destined to end empty-handed, all Ajax fans are already indignant. But if the team still lacks fighting power at this time, it will inevitably further ignite the anger in the hearts of the fans.

Therefore, after a defeat, Ajax's management immediately held an emergency meeting.

At this meeting, Van Praag once again asked Westhoff to lead the first team out of the current predicament in the shortest possible time to ensure that the team will not be humiliated at home during the centenary celebration.

At this meeting, Westhoff confidently assured that the team has been running-in almost, and he has enough confidence and assurance to lead the team out of the predicament. He even promised that this season's Ajax will strive to participate in the UEFA Cup next season and continue to appear in the European arena.

This promise undoubtedly gave the management enough confidence, but just a week later, the team challenged Fortuna Sittard away, but was defeated by this Dutch team ranked in the middle and lower reaches by 2 goals. Westhoff's team was mediocre throughout the game, and the attack again and again was fruitless.

The two consecutive defeats before the centenary celebration also cast a shadow on Ajax's centenary celebration battle with Twente on the evening of March 18, and even many fans began to condemn the inaction of the club management.

At the beginning of the season, Waters' coaching performance was not ideal. After being dismissed halfway, Westhoff, who was temporarily appointed, also did not improve. The fans were very disappointed and angry with the performance of the club management in the past year, and they all hoped that someone could stand up and tell them what was going on?

At the same time, some fans even came to the square in front of the Arena Stadium and held a banner for the second team to participate in the centenary celebration, indicating that compared with the poor performance of the first team, at least the second team is more in line with the Ajax spirit than the first team.

You know, in March, Ajax II reversed Feyenoord and won consecutive victories along the way. Now it has turned around and led Feyenoord II by 3 points, ranking first in the Youth Team A League.

Not only that, the second team also reached the semi-finals in the Dutch Cup, which also tied the best performance of the second team in the history of Ajax II. The last time it reached the semi-finals was when Van Gaal coached the second team, but Van Gaal also stopped in the semi-finals that time and could not go further.

In the minds of many Ajax fans, the second team seems to have become a mirror of the first team. From the second team, they see the incompetence and lack of combat effectiveness of the first team.

The 33-year-old veteran, a product of De Tokmost, who later moved to Serie A Lazio and Inter Milan, Aaron Winter criticized the slack performance of some players in the team when he was interviewed by the media. Among them, he specifically criticized the newly introduced center forward Huizinger and the Portuguese genius midfielder Dani Carvalho.

The former is Westhoff's favorite player, but after being introduced in the winter break for more than two months, he has not made any contribution except for two goals. Instead, he has begun to appear more and more in newspapers and media. Aaron Winter feels that this has seriously affected the unity within the team.

There is also the Portuguese genius Dani Carvalho. Aaron Winter believes that this player has some problems both in training and in the game. "At least he should use his strength to prove that he is worthy of this price!"

No one stood up to refute the accusation from the former meritorious service, but the head coach Westhoff accepted an interview with reporters and expressed dissatisfaction with Aaron Winter's bombardment, believing that he should focus more on the game instead of bombarding his teammates.

The mutual attacks between the head coach and the main players also made everyone see the internal contradictions of Ajax clearly, and also revealed the biggest problem of Ajax at present, that is, unity.

Even the Amsterdam Evening Post wrote an article asking, "How can a disunited Ajax beat its opponents on the field?"

The fans are even more worried about the current situation of the club, and even began to call for Westerhof to be fired. The Ajax first team is in a panic, and many players have even started to contact privately.

All of this gives people a feeling that the Ajax ship is going to sink!

It was in such a sad atmosphere that Ajax ushered in its 100th birthday.