The Godfather of Football

Ye Qiu doesn't want more attention on himself. He doesn't want everyone to focus on his dual identity as the largest shareholder of his agency. He wants everyone to focus on his Tottenham Hotspur boss and head coach. identity of.

But he knows very well that the old model will be broken sooner or later. Since Italy took the lead in breaking this model a few years later, now, he feels that he should break it himself and carry it forward further.

Eliza is very classy, ​​not to mention she is beautiful, she is elegantly dressed, has a calm demeanor, and has a pleasant voice. She stands on the main podium, elegant and graceful, and matches her every word and deed, which makes her unique and charming. No matter how you look at it, She doesn't look like a woman who is about to run away from school, but more like a young girl full of vigor and vitality.

And it is precisely her innocence with a hint of maturity that makes her so charming.

"What I want to say is that this is not a special ban for our brokerage company. This is an open platform. I can even say that in the future we will gradually transform and engage more in peripheral industries such as business development and advertising sponsorship. , gradually getting out of the player transfer market.”

This is a difference between high-end and low-end. Player transfer has always been a low-end industry and hard work, but business development and advertising sponsorship are the high-end and high-value-added sports industry, especially for a professional player. The packaging and operation are simply a profitable business.

From the beginning of Ye Qiu's cooperation with Eliza Moon, they established that they would take the high-end route. Therefore, over the years, the agency has developed very rapidly, but not many players have been signed. Basically, they are concentrated in The most high-end players, or the players coached by Ye Qiu, basically don't sign the others.

This also made the brokerage company less competitive with its peers from the beginning, and also allowed the company to focus more on high-end businesses such as business development and advertising sponsorship. Now among all the brokerage companies in the world, they are The most professional and capable person to run a player's business development and image packaging.

For Ye Qiu and Eliza, since they want to take the high-end route, they have to put themselves in a neutral position and abandon some low-end, low-value-added businesses, so that others will be willing to cooperate with you.

Just like YeZi Technology's mobile phones, Ye Qiu has positioned itself as the highest-end phone from the beginning, and then left the mid- to low-end market to other mobile phone manufacturers. Ye Qiu is even thinking about what if one day Zeus phones can no longer be sold. , he will consider putting it away and specializing in the research and development of high-end mobile phone systems, mobile phone hardware and applications, so as to become an innovative company like Microsoft.

"We have created an open platform, which is the largest and most complete player database in the world. We currently have more than 60,000 full-game videos in it, and we will add 500 more every week. We have more than 3 Ten professional analysts analyze and integrate these game videos and data to serve all football clubs around the world!”

Many teams have their own player databases, such as Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal. More modern scouting systems have such databases, but they are certainly not as large and comprehensive.

But the database is only part of it. The key lies in user experience and application convenience.

In addition to the large and comprehensive data, the scouting database of the agency company also has many innovations. As Eliza Moon showed it one by one, it was all presented to everyone at the scene. They all Full of surprise.

For example, the database can allow scouts to edit all the on-ball and off-ball actions of a certain player in a certain game, and can even make a separate video for download, which can make the scout's investigation easier. It’s more targeted and easier and more convenient.

In addition, everyone can access this platform through PCs, notebooks, mobile phones and other terminals, because there are special software programs on PCs and notebooks, while mobile phones have special APP applications, and they can even use their mobile phones to shoot players. The video is uploaded to the platform.

Of course, in order to serve every customer, you can choose to keep it confidential or make it public.

All agents can also use this method to upload their own players' videos and videos, and through the public method, the whole world can watch their players' game videos and videos at the same time. At the same time, the platform allows agents to provide each player with Create a file, improve the information, and set up various labels at the same time, such as the strengths and weaknesses of your players, some of your players' hard requirements for transfers, or some hopes and messages, etc.

Not only that, the platform also has a dedicated community forum service that allows everyone to communicate openly and privately on the forum, and even allows player agents and teams to release player transfer information on it.

For example, if my players want to transfer, what kind of team they want to go to, what kind of salary and team positioning they want to get, etc., they can choose to publish it on the forum, and all registrants who enter this forum go through Strictly assessed.

For example, team employees must provide their employment reports, and agents must submit their agent certificates. In the future, some commercial users will be introduced, such as some sponsors, some industrial developers, etc.

Of course, for example, some secret sections on transfers will certainly not allow sponsors and industry developers to enter. The forum will ensure absolute confidentiality. The forum will even set up different private sections according to the level of player agents and teams. , let alone opening a private chat.

The annual fee for each user is 10,000 euros, but no commission will be taken from player transfers and commercial sponsorships reached!

From this point of view, everyone can rest assured and do not have to worry about leaks, because it will be difficult for reporters and fans to enter, and it can also ensure that privacy is not leaked to the greatest extent, and at the same time, part of the benefits will be shared.

As Eliza was on stage in less than twenty minutes, she kept demonstrating the platform's various and complete services and facilities, especially some humanized designs, such as player selection can be based on Age, EU status, location, etc. are used to screen and select in various aspects.

"Not just this platform, we will hold two forums like this every year, which will be arranged in the last few days of summer transfer and winter break transfer, and starting from next season, we will open them one after another Teams from La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1 have entered the forum, eventually transforming the forum into a global football economic forum!”

At the end of her speech, Eliza Moon stated this ambitious goal and expectation, which shocked and amazed everyone present, because if it really goes that far, it will definitely completely revolutionize all existing methods. Transfer mode.

Ferguson, Wenger and others were sitting in the first row, sitting with Ye Qiu. None of them expected that Ye Qiu's launch would be such a big deal. This was not only shocking, it was simply going to break the current situation. transfer and football market landscape.

If this platform is really implemented, the movement of players will become more convenient and efficient in the future than it is now.

Thinking of this, Ferguson couldn't help but think of Platini's admiration for Ye Qiu a few days ago. Now that he thought about it, Platini obviously knew the thoughts and ideas of Ye Qiu and Eliza Moon, so he allowed it this time. Secretary General David Taylor came to the scene to show that this move was affirmed and supported by UEFA.

"This generous act of yours is indeed big enough!" Wenger sat aside and said to Ye Qiu with a wry smile.

His team has been playing full games for so many years and has accumulated information on nearly 10,000 players. The videos are less than one-tenth. But now Ye Qiu has 60,000 videos of the whole game, and they are from all over the world. Based on this calculation, there will definitely be more and more comprehensive videos of players, which is indeed terrifying.

Data is king, everyone knows that the more data a platform like this collects, the more attractive it becomes.

Ye Qiu smiled, but in his heart he was thinking that the Dutch team's scouting system has accumulated so much knowledge over the years that other league teams cannot surpass it in a short time, especially for players like Ajax. Teams like PSV, PSV, and Feyenoord, their collection of players from all over the world is amazing.

Of course, 60,000 is just the beginning, and more will be collected in the future, but then it will have to be done by agents and part-time scouts from all over the world. After all, one person, or even a group of people, can never be as good as The general public.

"I'm very surprised. Since there is such a platform, why do we still have a forum?" Ferguson frowned and asked.

Ye Qiu smiled, "A platform is a platform, and a forum is a forum. In the future, the forum will be held in the last few days of the transfer market. The purpose is to attract those teams that are still hesitating and provide them with a face-to-face meeting with player agents." , or an opportunity for officials of the opposing club to communicate face-to-face and gain trust.”

"Perhaps, they had already talked about it before meeting, but for the sake of safety, they decided to find an opportunity to meet, and the forum provided them with such an opportunity. Of course, there are other benefits, such as major football associations Even UEFA’s registration office will be at the forum.”

After hearing this, Ferguson couldn't help but nodded repeatedly, and asked with a smile: "Let me tell you frankly, how many customers do you have now?"

Ye Qiu chuckled and shook his head, "This is a secret!"

When Ferguson and Wenger heard this, they immediately started laughing and scolding, even playing a mystery game.

Benitez on the side suddenly said, "It seems that several teams in La Liga have joined."

When Fatty Bei said this, Ye Qiu couldn't deny it and nodded with a smile, "That's why we are so confident that we will join La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1 next year, and even Eredivisie and Portuguese Super League. Complete the celebrations of the major European leagues.”

When he said this, Ye Qiu couldn't help but added: "Actually, I don't know if you have noticed or not. Maybe you have not noticed that the salaries of players are increasing, the salaries of head coaches are increasing, the coaching staff and even many club positions are increasing. Employees’ salaries are increasing, but our scouts’ salaries seem to have not increased in years.”

According to a detailed market collection report obtained by Ye Qiu, the average salary of scouts in England's four professional league clubs basically adopts the principle of distribution according to work. That is to say, every time you submit a player inspection You only get a fee when you report, and the average is £4.

Of course, scouts can get a monthly salary from the club every month, but this salary is so low that you can't even believe it yourself, and it's impossible to support yourself, let alone your family, so you have to find another job with a higher salary to support yourself, so most scouts are part-time.

The reason why Sevilla can constantly introduce so many high-quality and low-priced stars is that they have 700 scouts outside, but all of them are part-time, and each scout can only get an income ranging from four to ten euros depending on the report when submitting an analysis report on a player, and their basic salary is almost negligible.

Therefore, for Sevilla, it is not difficult to support these scouts.

There is another type of scout who specializes in tactical investigation, called tactical scouts, that is, investigating opponents, which is done by watching games, so when they submit game reports and analysis, they can get reimbursement for ticket fees and some appropriate travel expenses, but the average inspection fee for each game in the Premier League is also four pounds.

But if you simply look at it this way, you may think that tactical scouts are obviously much more profitable than player scouts, but the problem is that after observing the game, tactical scouts must write a game analysis report. In order to prevent scouts from cheating, each team has requirements for the length of the game analysis report, at least ten pages of A4 paper, and the maximum is even required to be twenty pages.

Tottenham Hotspur's current scout system has less than ten full-time players, including Peter De Visser. The other nine full-time scouts are either responsible for analysis and collection at the Theobald training base, or are distributed around the world, specializing in a certain area, developing the club's scout network and system, and of course attracting some part-time scouts to work for the club.

Next, according to Ye Qiu and Eliza's idea, the platform will also absorb this huge group of scouts, expand and improve the platform's player database in the shortest time, and they also believe that this can create a new opportunity for scouts and change the traditional interests and working model between them and the club.

Ye Qiu even asked Eliza to contact Sky TV to see if the other party was willing to sell OPTA Data Company.

After the data company was acquired by Sky TV, its scale gradually expanded, but it had few employees, only dozens of people, and the company was not large, but it was already a very authoritative banner in football data. Now it can earn tens of millions of euros in turnover every year just by selling data, but the overall market value will not be too high, and the acquisition is not difficult, but it is a very necessary supplement to the scout data platform. After all, the concept of building the platform is that data is king, and OPTA's authoritative data is undoubtedly necessary.

After Eliza Moon introduced the characteristics and services of the player database platform, the football economic forum officially began, but don't imagine that this will be an orderly venue, because you will definitely be disappointed.

Although everyone who entered the venue wore a well-fitting and straight suit and a carefully selected special tie, they looked polite, but when the forum started, you would find that they all rushed forward without caring about their image.

Because this forum attracted teams from the four levels of England, and the most eye-catching among them were undoubtedly the 20 Premier League teams, so the Premier League teams, especially the top-ranked Premier League teams, attracted the most independent agents, and they all wanted to recommend their players to these clubs.

For a time, the areas where these clubs were located were overcrowded and overwhelmed. Judging from the number of people on the scene, Manchester United, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur attracted the most independent agents, followed by Chelsea, Liverpool, Everton and other teams. The others were almost the same, and even many Championship teams were quite popular.

For these clubs, in fact, they did not lose anything. Participating in such a forum can allow them to obtain data on players submitted by many agents, and it is also a self-display platform for all teams and agents.

Seeing such a lively and chaotic scene, Ye Qiu and others all smiled bitterly.

"Perhaps you will be interested in VIP!" Ye Qiu smiled and recommended an independent area next door.

The so-called VIPs are actually some big-name agents. For example, the agent company of Portuguese agent Jorge Mendes arranged a vice president to come to the scene to recommend his players to some potential clients. There is also Juan Feger from Brazil, who specially arranged his son and a senior executive to come to the venue.

Even the agent company of Ferguson's son came, but they didn't know the specific content and projects beforehand.

After hearing this, Ferguson seemed to be really moved. He walked over with a smile, ready to see it and get to know a few people by the way. After all, he has been in the football circle for many years and is familiar with many agents. Naturally, there will be some independent agents who will give Ferguson some information and reports on some players.

The Scotsman seemed to be quite happy and took it all with a smile.

Seeing Ferguson leave, Wenger and Benítez also left one after another, Mourinho glanced at Ye Qiu with some envy and jealousy, and walked towards the VIP box where Jorge Mendes was. Even though he was reluctant, he had to admit that he was indeed not as good as Ye Qiu in terms of innovation.

Ye Qiu was not too surprised by the chaos on the scene, because this was a rare opportunity for independent agents. Why didn't they quickly recommend their players to football clubs?

Don't think that only big teams can attract the attention of agents. In fact, on the contrary, as long as you know how to operate, small teams often have many advantages that big teams don't have, and even small teams will have more opportunities.

Ye Qiu had a hunch that there would not be too many transactions in this football economic forum, and if there were no accidents, they should all be small teams. This was an experience of losing money and making a lot of noise, but it was an important process and stage for the player database platform to make a name for itself and gradually build this football economic forum into a brand.

Ye Qiu himself didn't need any players. At present, Tottenham Hotspur's various fronts were very reasonable, and he had no demand for the time being.

But just because he didn't have this idea didn't mean no one would come to him.

In fact, an independent agent soon came to him to recommend his own players!