The Godfather of Football

17!

This was the headline on the front page of the Guardian on the morning of December 19th. The big red Arabic numerals were very eye-catching.

Below the headline was a picture of the players celebrating after Tottenham Hotspur scored a goal during the game. If you didn't watch the live broadcast of the game, you would definitely think that it was a celebration after the game. In fact, it was a celebration when Cavani scored the second goal for Tottenham Hotspur during the game.

The first goal in the game came from David Silva. During Fabregas' absence, David Silva took up the responsibility of organizing the midfield. Whether his partner was Ramsey, Eriksen, or Pogba, the Spaniard's stable performance made people feel at ease about Tottenham Hotspur's midfield.

And his performance in recent times was also very eye-catching. Messi's performance in this game was very average. There was no impressive performance, no goals or assists. Ye Qiu guessed that this was related to the approaching FIFA Golden Ball Award ceremony. He was inevitably a little nervous.

The team's third goal came from Neymar who came on as a substitute, while the team's two biggest stars Messi and Ribery did not get any data, which is also a more regrettable thing in this victory.

And Tottenham Hotspur also conceded a goal in this game. It happened after leading by three goals. The young player Nastasic made a mistake, which led to the team losing the ball. In the end, they defeated the newly promoted Blackpool 3:1 and won 17 consecutive victories, setting a new record of consecutive victories in the four major European leagues.

In this way, Tottenham Hotspur is far ahead in the Premier League standings with an unbeaten record of 17 wins and 1 draw in 18 games, with 52 points, followed by Manchester United with 34 points and Liverpool with 35 points. The fourth place is Manchester City with 32 points, followed by Arsenal, West Ham United, Chelsea and Newcastle.

Judging from the current ranking on the standings, Chelsea's situation is indeed quite bad. If they want to regain the feeling of a strong team, then the winter break signings have become a necessary condition. It is reported that Abrahimovic has asked Pini Zahavi to make arrangements to introduce players that the team urgently needs during the winter break at all costs.

In Abramovich's view, if Chelsea eventually loses the top four in the league and loses the qualification to participate in the Champions League, the loss to Chelsea will be huge, because losing the Champions League is not only a huge Champions League income, but also means that Chelsea's history of participating in the Champions League for several consecutive seasons will be completely interrupted.

But Chelsea wants to make big signings, and so do potential competitors. In addition to Arsenal, including Manchester City and Liverpool, they have also expressed their intention to strengthen the team's lineup and introduce players during the winter break, striving to enable the team to participate in the Champions League next season, especially Liverpool, which is in a very good situation now.

It is reported that Chelsea's Pini Zahavi has placed his hopes on Liverpool's Spanish striker Torres to strengthen the team's forward scoring ability, but Liverpool refuted this, believing that the team is in good shape and has no shortage of money.

In fact, if you carefully study the links, it is not difficult to find that it is not strange for Chelsea to fancy Torres.

First of all, because Chelsea now needs the kind of attacker who can improve the team's strength, so this player must be a star who has proven his strength. At the same time, for the sake of safety and security, it is best to have proven himself in the Premier League. In addition, he must have the strength to be the head of Chelsea. There are not many such players.

In all, Manchester United's trident, but the possibility of recalling Rooney is zero, Tevez is unlikely, Benzema has only played well for half a season, and he cannot meet the requirements for the time being, and Cavani of Tottenham Hotspur meets Chelsea's requirements. The key question is, how high a price Chelsea can offer?

You know, Tottenham Hotspur sold Falcao for a sky-high price. Now Tottenham Hotspur only has one center forward. It is conceivable how difficult it is to convince Ye Qiu to sell him. Moreover, according to Ye Qiu's usual black shop policy, even if he is willing to sell, he must pay a sky-high price to convince him.

Chelsea wants to introduce both forwards and defenders, so the price cannot be too high.

Falcao is also an ideal choice, and there are reports that Abramovich has a good relationship with Rebolovlev, but the problem is that the Colombian center forward is now the pillar of the Hammers and has only joined the team for one season. If Rebolovlev sells him, wouldn't he be self-contradictory?

So in the end, after all the calculations, there is only one most suitable candidate left, Torres, the only one!

Liverpool is now rich, but according to Pini Zahavi's usual transfer strategy, as long as he can convince the players, there is nothing he dare not do, so who can say that this transfer cannot be successful?

West Ham United also wanted to introduce suitable players during the winter break to strengthen its own strength, so before Christmas was over, West Ham United announced early that it had introduced English rookie Andy Carroll from Manchester City. The former Tottenham Hotspur center forward was not reused in Manchester City, and Ranieri hoped to introduce him to serve as the team's tactical surprise.

At present, West Ham United's entire front court is actually full of talents, including European famous stars such as Falcao, Eto'o, Giuly, and Argentine rookie Di Maria. In this case, introducing Carroll is actually more about strengthening the team's bench thickness, and Carroll's current value is not high, only 15 million euros.

Of course, this is indeed not high for the rich man Rebolovlev.

When other Premier League teams announced that they would recruit players during the winter break, only Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United and Arsenal remained silent. Among them, Tottenham Hotspur rarely has the habit of recruiting players during the winter break, and now Ye Qiu and the club are more concerned about the selection of players on the Talent Day and the upcoming Christmas Carnival.

Compared with Arsenal's failure to recruit players due to financial problems, Manchester United's current problem is mainly in the right back position. After Maicon was snatched away by Manchester City, Ferguson once tried to introduce Kyle Walker, but was rejected by Ye Qiu, so he began to strengthen the cultivation of young player Rafael at the right back position, and now he has made up his mind not to buy anyone.

This is also related to the current lack of excellent right-backs in European football. At present, except for three or four players such as Alves, Maicon, Lahm and Ramos, there are basically no reassuring players among the outstanding right-backs, and players such as Glen Johnson, Zabaleta and Sagna are basically not for sale by various clubs.

In this case, Ferguson chose to cultivate himself.

Buying and cultivating have become two different powerful strategies implemented by Premier League teams before the winter break.

Coincidentally, Ye Qiu also appeared in the first class of the new youth training coach training class of Tottenham Hotspur, which was held in the conference hall of the Theobald News Building, and the theme of his class was the new model of football success!

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"Once, many, many years ago, before the Bosman Act, the player mobility in European football and even in the world football was relatively poor. At that time, all teams were basically based on their own players, such as the Milan dynasty, Real Madrid's five eagles, Barcelona's Dream Team, Ajax, etc., all like this!"

"Because of the poor player mobility, when a team needs to supplement or strengthen a certain position, it is generally difficult for them to find a suitable star outside that they can dig out, so their best choice is to look back at their youth training camps, and then select a suitable one to cultivate."

As Ye Qiu spoke, the big screen behind him showed the youth training lineups of many giant teams before the Bosman Act. All future youth training coaches who came to the scene could easily find a lot of former superstars who might be their idols.

"Now when we look back at the superstars of the past, we can easily have a wrong mindset, thinking that they were so great when they debuted, or always imagine them to be very great and perfect in our minds. In fact, the facts are completely different. They are just like the current players. They have shortcomings and deficiencies. They also make mistakes and perform poorly."

"So..." When he said this, Ye Qiu smiled, "... Some people say that the strongest star in history is in everyone's mind. I think this is absolutely correct!"

This made all the students present burst into laughter. You know, Ye Qiu's personal teaching not only attracted this period of youth training coaches, but also attracted most of Theobald's coaches, including the first-team coaches to listen. Some even had no place to sit and stood directly.

But each of these people was taking notes very seriously. Obviously, Ye Qiu's random words were like the Bible to them, and they were regarded as the direction and opportunity for their future breakthroughs and self-improvement.

"But this situation gradually changed with the birth of the Bosman Act. After that, the mobility of players has increased dramatically, especially within the European Union. Of course, there was no European Union at that time, but there were similar organizations."

"This increase in player mobility has made many teams, including Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​AC Milan, Inter Milan, etc., some wealthy and powerful teams, feel that it is not cost-effective to train players. It is better to directly spend money to introduce suitable players. There are so many players in the world for you to choose from, so they gave up the previous business model and switched to It became a business model based on purchase. "

"So during that period, youth training was almost forgotten. We noticed that Germany had not produced any outstanding stars since the mid-to-late 1990s, except for a few such as Ballack and Klose. Did Real Madrid produce any youth training products after Raul, Guti and Casillas? "

"Similarly, if you look at Manchester United, AC Milan, Inter Milan and Juventus, we can easily find that the top teams at that time were mainly based on purchase and poaching, which directly led to higher and higher transfer fees for players, and the salary requirements of players were also rising. "

"During this process, I must mention a team, Barcelona. It is a very special giant because they always attach great importance to youth training. This also has something to do with my good friend Cruyff. , and Barcelona was at its lowest point in history at that time, so they had no money and could only focus on their own training!”

Ye Qiu's words once again made everyone laugh, but he himself was very serious, "I don't mean to disparage Barcelona, ​​but what I want to say is that there are indeed quite a few teams that pursue youth training. Because there is no money, such as my other good friend, my neighbor Arsene Wenger and his Arsenal!”

The crowd burst into laughter again, louder than before, and Ye Qiu himself couldn't help but smile. He wondered if Wenger would scold him to death after hearing this?

"But what I want to say is that this situation is changing quietly and unnoticed by most people, because we must clearly realize that people's hearts will never be satisfied. When a player The transfer fee is getting higher and higher, and the salary requirements of the players themselves are also rising steadily. The club's endurance will definitely reach a peak. It is impossible for him to rise endlessly, even if it is like Manchester City. All the teams can’t bear it!”

"So, as we Chinese say, this is called the extreme of things, which means that when you start to be unable to bear the high salary and high transfer fees, what will you do?"

Many youth training coaches and trainees present nodded, and some even shouted, "Grow your own!"

"Yes, train it yourself!" Ye Qiu smiled and nodded, "Just like my other good friend, Ferguson, he can't buy a right back, so he can only train it himself. Let us bless him!"

There was another burst of laughter, and Ye Qiu walked around the conference room before returning to the big screen.

"This is the history of the development of football clubs in the past twenty years. We will find that, going around and around, we are back to the old path. But everyone, please don't get me wrong. I am not saying that football is going backwards. What I want to say is that football is going backwards. In fact, football, whether it is club management or tactical innovation, is actually following a spiral path, do you understand what I mean?”

Ye Qiu's question received answers from most of the people present, and they all explained clearly.

"I'm telling you all this. I'm not telling you the history of the football club, nor am I telling you any nonsense. I just want to tell you that in the next ten years or so, youth training is the key to all clubs. Core competitiveness, because transfer fees, especially for top players, will be so high that you dare not look up to them.”

“To put it in a relatively simple sentence, what is the most expensive thing in the 21st century?”

"Talent!" Everyone in the conference room shouted with laughter.

Ye Qiu nodded, "Yes, talent. Players are talents, coaches are talents, youth training coaches are talents, and scouts are also talents. Let me tell you, everyone, everyone who works in a club, everyone Everyone is a talent, and only clubs that value talent can hope to succeed!”

Ye Qiu's words immediately received thunderous applause, because he almost raised the role of this group of people to the level of top stars, and even sounded like it was even higher.

Anyone who is familiar with Ye Qiu knows that the most important thing for Ye Qiu Technology is talents. The slogan of an internal reform promoted by Ye Qiu not long ago is to maximize the value of talents. Now, he wants to pass this concept on to Tottenham Hotspur, pass it on to everyone who works in this club, even if he is just an aunt sweeping the floors.

"As I just said, youth training is the future trend, the mainstream, and the wave. So in youth training, what is the most important and precious? Star embryos? Wrong, it is to discover and guide the progress of these young players. You, you will be the most important and scarce talents in football in the future!”

Ye Qiu's words immediately received thunderous applause once again, and many people even responded to him with cheers.

"We Chinese have a saying, I am born to be useful, which means that God created everyone with his own role, but what I want to say is that the most important thing in everyone's life is, It’s about figuring out your role and playing your role in the world.”

"I say this to you all today. I want to tell you, my future colleagues, that you will have the opportunity to become a top superstar in the future, the most important person on your growth path, because you will Responsible for helping them figure out their role in this team and the world, and helping them better play their role. This will affect the players' lives. This is also an extremely noble job that deserves everyone's respect! "

Ye Qiu's words were nodded in agreement by everyone present. Perhaps many of them came to this coaching training class with one purpose or another, but Ye Qiu's words not only clearly told them , this job will be very promising in the future, and it also gives this job extraordinary significance.

No one would say that Ye Qiu is boastful, because among all the teams in the Premier League, only Tottenham Hotspur has established a special training class for youth coaches, and this training class has also been recognized by UEFA. Every year, Tottenham Hotspur The investment in this was a huge amount, but Ye Qiu was willing to do it.

In his opinion, youth training coaches are the most scarce profession in the future and what English football needs most now.

If you want to improve your youth training, is it possible without these youth training coaches and scouts who discover and cultivate young players?

Therefore, in Ye Qiu's view, this is an investment in the future, not only for the future development of Tottenham Hotspur, but also for English football.

However, relatively speaking, Ye Qiu is more willing to make his thoughts more selfish. After all, he has never been a great person who wants to change everything. He is very small and just thinks about how to change himself and the people and things around him.