The Godfather of Football

In May, the sky in London still has no intention of clearing up, it is still gray, just like Tottenham Hotspur now.

The team's performance in the league is not bad. After all, Tottenham Hotspur is still very strong and still very dominant in the Premier League. First, they defeated Chelsea 2:0 at Stamford Bridge, adding an important part to their championship, and then defeated West Bromwich 4:0 at home in the 34th round of the Premier League.

Then in the 35th round of the Premier League, the team defeated Manchester City 1:0 away.

To be honest, this feeling of one game a week is not only not very accustomed to the players of Tottenham Hotspur, but Ye Qiu himself is also not accustomed to it, because he has long been accustomed to the busy rhythm in the second half of the season, which has been the case in the past few seasons.

Now that he suddenly relaxes, the whole person is a little overwhelmed, not knowing what to do.

So, this person is really a mean bone!

Manchester United lost 1:3 to Barcelona in the first round of the Champions League semi-finals. It seems that it is very difficult to reverse the situation at home. Ferguson's weakness on the right side is still very obvious.

The Champions League is the most tactically challenging stage in the world of football. This is universally recognized. Even major competitions such as the World Cup and the European Cup have begun to lag behind the Champions League in terms of tactical content. Therefore, if you want to achieve good results in the Champions League, the team's lineup strength and tactics are indispensable.

However, all this has little to do with Tottenham Hotspur, because Ye Qiu's most important thing now is no longer the game. After winning the Premier League championship in advance, all his energy has been focused on preparing for the next season.

At the same time, it is more important to further improve the team's training and youth training system.

Just as Ye Qiu was thinking about the window, there was a knock on the door in the office.

"Come in!" Ye Qiu turned around and walked back to his desk.

Mauro Tassotti and Roland Schepas came in at the same time.

"Do you have something to talk to us about?" As soon as Fatty Luo came in, he sat down in front of Ye Qiu without any hesitation.

Mauro Tassotti maintained his usual gentlemanly demeanor and politeness. After Fatty Luo sat down, he also sat down slowly, but if he was on the court, he would be completely different.

"I have something to discuss with you!" Ye Qiu nodded and said. He had nothing to hide from his two assistants. Roland had been his partner for more than ten years, and Mauro Tassotti had been his assistant coach for five years. They had a very deep friendship.

"I have decided that starting from this summer's preparations, you will be fully responsible. Roland, you assist Mauro!" Ye Qiu made his decision, which was also the beginning of his further transfer of power.

To be honest, it is not a good thing for a person to have too high prestige in a team. Just like Ferguson, he has not found his suitable successor so far, which has led him to not dare to slack off at all and insist on being on the front line at an old age.

"What do you mean?" Mauro Tassotti was a little confused.

Roland understood Ye Qiu's thoughts. He had been tested by Ye Qiu before to see whether he would continue to be an assistant coach in the first team, or go to the youth team, or even go out to coach alone. Fatty Luo knew his own strength, and he would not do the brain-consuming and thankless job of the head coach.

According to Fatty Luo's work standards, it would be best for him to get the highest salary without working.

"It means that you have the final say on most of the first team's affairs in the future!" Fatty Luo laughed at the side.

Mauro Tassotti was a little surprised, even flattered. After all, Tottenham Hotspur is now a big company. Not to mention that the entire team is now valued at more than 1 billion pounds, even Theobald and the first team are worth a lot. Ye Qiu just handed it over to him?

It's not that he didn't think that Ye Qiu would retire one day, but he didn't expect it to come so suddenly, and Ye Qiu is still so young, so he just retired to the second line?

"You will lead the coaching staff to be responsible for the pre-season preparations for the new season, as well as the pre-match preparations and the team's daily training arrangements. You will be fully responsible. I will only tell you how we are going to play the next game. In addition, I need you to give me a detailed preparation plan for the team in the summer."

The power transferred at once is not small. Mauro Tassotti is really flattered. He even let him participate in the transfer. It is conceivable that Ye Qiu wants to cultivate him as his successor, so that he can slowly get familiar with the situation of the first team and take over in the future.

Perhaps seeing the doubt in Mauro Tassotti's eyes, Ye Qiu laughed, "Because I find that a person's energy is always limited, and now the research center project is also very important to me, which will take up a lot of my attention. So, Mauro, I hope you can look at the team's problems more from the perspective of the head coach in the future."

"I understand!" Mauro Tassotti understood everything now.

"After the team fully takes over the new stadium and makes a steady transition, this position will belong to you!" Ye Qiu said with a smile.

Mauro Tassotti nodded solemnly. He knew very well how much Ye Qiu valued him. The reason why he joined Tottenham Hotspur was because he was impressed by Ye Qiu's tactical thoughts and some concepts, so he He also once aspired to take over Tottenham Hotspur one day, because this team also has his brainchild.

Of course, perhaps in the eyes of many people, this is more like a long-range futures contract, because Mauro Tassotti now has no shortage of teams interested in him, but the Italians will not see it that way, because he is better than Everyone knows Ye Qiu's mentality, the importance Ye Qiu attaches to Tottenham Hotspur, and his consistent employment principles.

Ye Qiu has always adhered to the principle of "better than wrong". He is a person with a strong perfectionism complex, but at the same time he is very realistic and rational. He is not a person like Wenger or Van Gaal who is controlled by perfectionism. He will be very Think carefully about every step and the risks and consequences of doing so.

In his words, he would usually take risks as long as he was about 60 to 70% sure.

Van Gaal is the kind of person who will go for it when he is 50% sure, but Wenger is the complete opposite. He is too cautious. Generally, he will only do it after about 90% certainty, or the situation forces him to passively accept it. Such an adventure.

This has also led to the different coaching styles of the three famous coaches in the Premier League. Ferguson is more radical, more unreasonable, and even outspoken. However, he has an excellent understanding of football, and has good on-the-spot command and adaptability. But in terms of overall tactics, In terms of framework construction and football concepts, this is his weakness, but he can make up for this more by learning from his opponents.

Wenger is relatively calm. His ability to build an overall tactical framework is excellent, and his understanding of football is one of the best in the world. His football concepts are also very advanced, but his weakness lies in his control of the team and his ability to adapt on the spot. Insufficient, and sometimes too idealistic.

Ye Qiu is like the middle ground between the two head coaches. He is more moderate. Ferguson is a realist and Wenger is an idealist. Ye Qiu is sometimes realistic and sometimes idealistic, but in general, he is about 40% realistic and 60% realistic. Idealistic, he is a rather contradictory person.

After years of being influenced by the coaching development system, especially reading the works of so many famous writers, and reading the coaching and tactical experiences of so many well-known head coaches, Ye Qiu’s football literacy is also very high now, and his concepts are also very high. Advanced, not to mention his vision, he has his own uniqueness in building a tactical framework and understanding of football.

After all, for the past dozen years, he has been reading the tactical insights and understanding of football from all the head coaches around the world almost every day, and his on-the-spot command and adaptability has always been good, so he can be considered relatively average.

But mediocrity does not mean poor. On the contrary, Ye Qiu is accomplished in almost every aspect. This is what Mauro Tassotti admires most about him. In the past few years, Mauro Tassotti has also He learned a lot from Ye Qiu, some of which he had never thought of himself, and he benefited a lot.

As for the future succession, because it was still early, Ye Qiu didn't say much, nor did Mauro Tassotti. They quickly changed the topic to another direction, which was the current situation of the team.

"Fabregas has told me that he hopes to transfer back to Barcelona this summer. I also told him that there is no problem, but the premise is that Barcelona must make an offer that satisfies us. If the two sides end up having a falling out, , I don’t even rule out letting him go to Real Madrid, or stay in the team, or even sit on the bench.”

Ye Qiu had a conversation with Fabregas in this office yesterday. What he is doing now is that he does not want Fabregas to cooperate with Barcelona to put pressure on Tottenham Hotspur. This will end up harming everyone. There is no benefit. If Ye Qiu is really angered, everyone will fight to the death to see who is unlucky.

Of course, Ye Qiu and Fabregas have only a short friendship, and Fabregas has always respected Ye Qiu. But now he is eager to return to Barcelona, ​​so the relationship is a bit tense. However, both of them still speak very restrainedly. Ye Qiu These words were only conveyed through meaning, rather than directly stated.

"I'm tired of this endless transfer war. I've told Peter Kenyon that if Barcelona calls again, tell them, in one sentence, if you pay them, they will take them away. If you don't pay, you will Just get as far away from me as you can, don’t keep chattering all day long, just like a fly!”

Ye Qiu is obviously not tired of the recent hype from the Spanish media and some European media. He has indeed considered selling Fabregas because the Spanish player's heart is no longer in Tottenham Hotspur. Since If you change your mind, break up. Ye Qiu is also very straightforward in this regard.

Not only that, all players who want to leave the team can leave. This time Ye Qiu is determined to undergo major surgery!

As Sean Ingle said, Ye Qiu's temper is like this, and regarding Fabregas's transfer, Ye Qiu doesn't need to do anything at all. As his hands relaxed a little, his desire to transfer quickly began to sprout.

The same is true for the transfer of other players!

But if you want to sell, you also want to get a good price. A person like Russell who chatters endlessly, bargains all day long, wants to buy but can't pay the price, has no money to sell, but stays in front of your store all day long to hinder your business, is simply Just a bastard.

"After Fabregas leaves, how will the team's midfield be configured?" Mauro Tassotti is very concerned about this, because now he is responsible for summer preparations and must know Ye Qiu's thoughts clearly.

"As we said before, I plan to move the organization back to the defensive midfielder position!" Ye Qiu said.

"You mean, introduce an organizational defensive midfielder?" Mauro Tassotti understood it immediately.

Ye Qiu smiled and nodded, "Do you really think that I let Ramsey play as an organizational defensive midfielder and use Phil Jones as Gattuso on a whim?" Ramsey has played as a single defensive midfielder in both the league and the Champions League, especially after the game against Manchester United, and Phil Jones is also the flying general as always, running all over the field, with the momentum of Gattuso.

This is simply to learn the Christmas tree tactics of AC Milan during Ancelotti's period, but the difference is that Ancelotti's tactics were slower at that time, and the emphasis on ball control was consistent with Ye Qiu's philosophy, but Ye Qiu paid more attention to effective ball control, and Ye Qiu emphasized fast-paced one-touch and high-intensity pressure, rather than slow ball control and pulling.

So strictly speaking, this is the Premier League version of Ancelotti's original four-number-ten tactics.

"To be on the safe side, we still need to recruit players in the midfield, and at the same time we need to strengthen the players' physical reserves and physical training at the beginning of the season, because our tactical running will be more!" Ye Qiu said.

This is what he talked about when he communicated with Bobby Rams and Mauro Tassotti before. If you want to make your offense faster and more impactful while maintaining the current advantages in technology, ball control, rhythm and initiative, you have to pull the opponent's formation as far as possible.

Ye Qiu had read about the football philosophy of Italian head coach Sacchi in the store of the coach training system before. Many things of this famous Italian coach were very much in line with Ye Qiu's appetite, but he was also absorbing the essence of Cruyff's thoughts.

According to the views of many people in Ye Qiu's previous life, Dortmund's Klopp's football philosophy was very similar to Sacchi. According to Ye Qiu's current thinking, this should be a tactical blend of Barcelona and Dortmund, or a Dortmund with more delicate passing and smarter running.

This involves an important idea, that is, as the tactics become more and more meticulous, the future tactical ideas are destined to be more outstanding, more meticulous, more penetrating and more impactful tactics, which must be based on more running, so physical fitness will become more and more important for professional players.

If you don't believe it, you can look at the football tactics in the 1990s, the beginning of the century, and around 2010, and you will find that the running distance and physical fitness of the players are actually constantly rising, which is the most powerful proof.

To put it in simpler terms, when the duration of a football match remains the same, the faster your overall speed is, the longer your players must run. Otherwise, how can you survive ninety minutes?

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After Ye Qiu reached a consensus with Mauro Tassotti and Roland Schepers, the last three rounds of the Premier League were also in suspense. Tottenham Hotspur drew with Blackpool 1:1, defeated Liverpool 2:0 away and Birmingham 3:0 at home, ending the entire 10/11 Premier League season.

The league championship trophy was also brought to White Hart Lane in the last round. After the game, the English Football Association, the Premier League, and sponsors awarded the league championship trophy to Tottenham Hotspur. This is the third consecutive season that Tottenham Hotspur has won the Premier League championship.

Three consecutive championships undoubtedly made Tottenham Hotspur reach the pinnacle of Premier League history, because in the more than 100 years of English football history, there are many teams that have won three consecutive championships, but there has never been a team that has won four consecutive championships, even in the past English League One, even Liverpool, Aston Villa and other teams at their peak, have never had such a feat.

Entering the new season, Manchester United has failed to win four consecutive championships twice, and Chelsea also tried to win four consecutive championships, but ended up in a miserable defeat, and it was still defeated by Tottenham Hotspur. Therefore, with Tottenham Hotspur's three consecutive championships, many fans began to speculate whether Tottenham Hotspur can reproduce the glory of the past three seasons in the next season?

You know, in the second half of this season, Tottenham Hotspur has clearly shown a decline. If there is no performance in the transfer market this summer, Tottenham Hotspur may really repeat the curse of three consecutive championships, and end up empty-handed and bleakly in the next season.

While Tottenham Hotspur won the championship, the top four teams in the Premier League were also determined in a fierce competition.

Although Liverpool lost to Tottenham Hotspur at home in the penultimate round, the Reds relied on the advantages accumulated before to establish the top four positions in the league early, but were finally suppressed by Manchester City and fell to fourth place in the league.

In this way, the top four teams in the Premier League are obvious, namely Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United, Manchester City and Liverpool, followed by Arsenal, Chelsea, West Ham United and Newcastle, and then Everton, Fulham and Aston Villa.

From the performance of the Premier League this season, all teams have performed strongly, especially the local tyrant teams led by Manchester City, West Ham United and Newcastle, which makes people see the subversion of the Premier League pattern. Many people even speculate that if several Premier League teams do not make adjustments this summer, the results of the next season will be even bleaker.

Because Liverpool, Manchester City, West Ham United, Newcastle and other teams have called for further introduction of strong reinforcements in the summer transfer, which also makes the league just ended, but everyone is full of expectations for the new Premier League season.

After all, a new season will always bring new suspense and new excitement!