The Godfather of Football

Two consecutive rounds of games resulted in a massacre against the Manchester duo. This immediately made Tottenham Hotspur's new season's limelight sweep the entire Europa football world, and even caused a huge response among fans around the world. and shock.

They slaughtered Red Devils Manchester United 8:0 away and defeated Blue Moon Manchester City 5:0 at home. They scored 13 goals in two rounds and did not concede any goals. This impressive record made Tottenham Hotspur's start to the new season It won unanimous recognition from everyone and became the most popular team at the beginning of the season.

However, after the victory over Manchester City, Ye Qiu said in an interview with the media that the current state of the team did not explain anything, because the league has just started, and it is too early to say who can win the championship in the end.

Many fans and reporters have pointed out that Tottenham Hotspur can play such fierce offensive football this season. Ye Qiu smiled and said that these were some of the changes he made after deciding to reorganize the team's midfield. , he hopes that his team will become more impactful and more varied.

"I have always hoped that Tottenham Hotspur can try more different changes. Many people think that we will continue on the road of technical refinement, but I have always emphasized that 55% to 60% The ball possession rate between 3% and 30% is reasonable ball possession, and all we need to do is how to create as many threats as possible during this reasonable ball possession time.”

"At the same time, how should we ensure that our defense is solid when the opponent has 40% to 45% of the time of possession. This is a balance between offense and defense. If you attack well but defend poorly Yes, you can score goals, but you can also concede goals, and vice versa. This is a kind of balance, which can also be seen as a kind of integration!”

In addition to tactical issues, many reporters also asked about player changes. They also hoped to hear something from Ye Qiu about the current Tottenham Hotspur midfielder and the past. The difference between that set of midfield configurations, or in other words, a comparison of advantages and disadvantages.

Of course Ye Qiu would not fall into the trap. He believed that both sets of midfielders had their own advantages and disadvantages.

"The midfield of Cesc Fabregas, David Silva and Yaya Toure is very controlling, and their passing and creativity are also very good. They are very delicate and can cut the opponent's defense with passes like a butler. system, and then find gaps to create opportunities. I think in this regard, they have reached a very high level and are not inferior to the combination of Xavi and Iniesta!”

"The combination of Ramsey, Vidal and Pirlo is different. They are more impactful, run more, cover a wider area, and do better physical confrontation and pressing. This can well support the frontcourt players. Attacking while also protecting the defense behind us makes us more balanced and allows us to integrate our frontcourt, midfield and backcourt more effectively.”

"Another thing I think is that the individual players in the previous lineup have reached their peak. They are better than the players in our current lineup in terms of strength, but this also means that our current group of players are still There is high potential for development, both Ramsey and Vidal! ”

Even at the end of the interview, Ye Qiu still didn't say which lineup configuration was better. The answer he gave could only be that different preferences choose different configurations, but everyone could clearly see that Ye Qiu had better choices. Qiu also spoke highly of Ramsey and Vidal, and said that they can perform even better in the future.

There was also a small climax at the post-match press conference, when a reporter asked Mancini about the news that Manchester City had previously intended to introduce Cavani from Tottenham Hotspur, who was worth as much as 50 million euros. Mancini It said that Manchester City is indeed considering it because Cavani is the kind of top center who can help any team.

Whether it was for the purpose of interfering with the opponent, or because he wanted to get Cavani from the bottom of his heart, Mancini's answer was affirmed by the reporters, but they quickly threw the same question to Mancini who was sitting there. Looking at Ye Qiu next to Ni, the latter burst out laughing.

"Do you know? This game actually proves one thing, being rich does not mean having everything!"

Ye Qiu's words made all the reporters present burst into laughter. This was definitely a powerful counterattack against Mancini.

Yes, Manchester City is rich. They can wave the oil money in their hands to buy famous stars everywhere and bring themselves the most luxurious top lineup in the world, but they have no way to get rid of Tottenham Hotspur. won a victory, and looking at Tottenham Hotspur's lineup, there are more stars trained by them.

Ribery, Messi, Cavani, Thiago Silva, Kompany... almost all of them came out in this way, and Ramsey and Vidal will be closely followed. If they If he continues to maintain his current growth momentum and excellent performance, he will hopefully become a new batch of world-class midfielders.

As if in response, Martin Samuel satirized Mancini's previous remarks in his column, "On par with Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City, just go to sleep!" In the article, he also gave a fierce attack on Manchester City's poor performance, believing that if Manchester City continues to perform like this, it will be impossible to win the championship in the new season.

"At least, if I were to buy a lottery ticket now, I would choose Tottenham Hotspur without hesitation!"

In fact, after two consecutive high-level performances, Tottenham Hotspur once again widened the gap with league competitors such as Manchester United and Manchester City, and became the top favorite to win the Premier League, and the odds of major bookmakers are also the highest.

In the third round of the Premier League, the strong teams basically defeated their opponents. Manchester United defeated Arsenal 2:0 at home, and Chelsea, Liverpool, West Ham United, Newcastle and other teams also won successively. Among them, Chelsea defeated Southampton in Adrianse 3:1 at home, but Adrianse's team performed well in this game and took the lead for a long time.

After three rounds of games, Tottenham Hotspur won two games and drew one game, but relied on a strong goal difference advantage to become the leader of the Premier League standings. However, both Ferguson and Benitez said after the game that Tottenham Hotspur's excellent state is only temporary. The real league has just begun, and it is far from the time to decide the champion.

"No matter how Tottenham Hotspur performs now, the real championship will not be decided until February or March next year. I hope Tottenham Hotspur will still be in such an excellent state by then!" Ferguson was very satisfied that the team could quickly get out of the shadow of the 0:8 defeat.

In fact, he was not wrong. There are teams that started amazingly but then declined and slumped all the way. There have been such teams in almost every season in the past few seasons. Therefore, it is difficult to say how long Tottenham Hotspur can maintain its state, especially with the start of the Champions League and cup games. Whether Tottenham Hotspur can still perform so well on multiple fronts is hard to say.

This is also one of the main reasons why Ye Qiu kept a low profile after winning.

Of course, the research center has long drawn up a detailed plan and schedule for the team's physical distribution. They will do their best to ensure the players' physical fitness and state and maintain the team's competitiveness on multiple fronts.

After the third round of the league, the Premier League ushered in two weeks of national team matches, but on the second day, August 28, all the Tottenham Hotspur team appeared in Stratford, not only to visit the Stratford Stadium, which had been basically completed, but more importantly, they were going to attend the opening ceremony of Zhenhua Building.

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Many people have always had a misunderstanding that Britain and even Europe do not like to build skyscrapers, and then find all kinds of reasons and reasons, such as they will say that skyscrapers are not safe enough and so on.

In fact, this is a typical misunderstanding created by inferring the cause from the conclusion.

London has always had the ambition to build the financial district into Manhattan in the United States, so in the entire financial district, even in the new town area in southeast London, buildings can be seen everywhere, and the former Mayor of London Livingstone is very encouraging these skyscraper buildings, because London is expensive, if all the buildings are built into two- or three-story buildings like those in the West End, how can London become the financial center of Europe and compete with cities such as Frankfurt?

Let's not talk about the distant past. If Ye Qiu's market research is not authoritative enough, then look at the official data from London. In 2016, there will be 700,000 new residents providing accommodation and office space. This is because more and more young people will flock to London from other parts of the UK and the European continent.

Let's look at London again. From 2006 to 2008, the whole of London was building skyscrapers on a large scale, but it was mainly concentrated in the southeast area and the financial district. Only the former highest point in London, the Shard, which is more than 300 meters high, is on the south bank of the Thames.

Cucumbers, cheese graters, walkie-talkies, and the Zhenhua Building, which is called an aerial flywheel, the whole of London's new city area has been in a continuous boom in skyscraper construction, but there is another problem.

Just like the very famous Shard, which obtained construction permission in 2002, but this skyscraper, which is known as a landmark building in London, has not been completed on schedule even now. It will have to wait until 2013 at least, or even later.

From a commercial perspective, skyscrapers are indeed necessary in large cities with scarce land resources, but the problem is that in many cases, the construction cycle of skyscrapers is relatively long, and the project is easily affected, or even directly left unfinished, just like the Shard, which has been left unfinished several times.

London has approved many high-rise buildings over 100 meters in the past few years, but with the outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis, and even before the subprime mortgage crisis, many real estate developers in London fell into a financial crisis, and the broken capital chain caused many ongoing projects to stop.

So now London's urban planning has begun to change, from approving the construction of skyscrapers in the past to encouraging the renovation and transformation of old buildings, as well as the continuation of some existing projects.

In fact, to be frank, even Robert Noel, the head of the London Land Comprehensive Utilization Agency, said in an interview with the media that one of the important reasons why London no longer approves the construction of high-rise buildings is the lack of sufficient construction funds. This is the core consideration for London not to build skyscrapers!

You know, the higher a skyscraper is built, the greater the construction costs in terms of design planning, structural reinforcement, etc. If the economic conditions are good, this will not be a problem, and there will even be many powerful developers involved. But if the economic conditions are bad, there will be unfinished projects similar to those that have frequently occurred in London in recent years.

So why did Ye Qiu and Chen Zhong choose to build skyscrapers at this time?

Doing business cannot be said to be following the trend, but you must know how to play the time difference!

Although the current situation in London is not ideal, with the holding of the Olympic Games next year, London's economy will begin to improve overall, and the office leasing situation in the financial district and the new city will pick up and recover on a large scale. In addition, the 700,000 young entrepreneurs who have just poured into the city will enter the peak period starting in 2012. It is definitely worth entering this market now.

Maybe someone will ask, you understand, but others don't?

Yes, others also understand, so Qatar, the UAE and other Middle Eastern consortiums and a lot of international capital are now bottom-fishing in London, and even in the whole of Europe. There are also many capitals from China and all over the world that are bottom-fishing in London and other European cities. They are not stupid.

The difference is that everyone values ​​different fields and goals. Middle Eastern consortiums prefer to acquire infrastructure, such as London's water, electricity and natural gas companies, but these fields are big capitals, and it is difficult to enter without tens of billions or even hundreds of billions.

Ye Qiu has always insisted on using small capital to win big, so his and Chen Zhong's strategy is to buy some real estate projects with higher cost-effectiveness at the bottom, rather than entering those high-investment fields, which are what the world's top consortiums do. For example, Li Ka-shing likes to acquire such public service companies.

Facts have proved that Ye Qiu's idea is right.

During the construction of Zhenhua Building, the leasing situation was very hot. It is adjacent to the Olympic Village. Not far away is Ye Technology's data cloud and flagship store. Beyond is Tottenham Hotspur's Stratford Stadium, which is the main venue of the Olympics. The transportation is very convenient and the flow of people is also very large.

More importantly, this building will become a landmark building in London and a very important tourist attraction. Whether it is the sightseeing area above the wind turbines, or the surrounding Olympic Village and data cloud, plus the beautiful Olympic Wetland Park after the future renovation, the geographical location of Zhenhua Building is very ideal.

Therefore, the office occupancy rate of Zhenhua Building is very high. Now more than 78% of the office space has been rented out, and this hot scene will get better and better as the Olympics approach.

Ye Qiu brought everyone from the team to attend the opening ceremony, and on this day, London Mayor Boris Johnson also appeared at the venue and delivered a speech for the opening of Zhenhua Building. He highly regarded this building as a perfect cooperation between London and Chinese companies, and also hoped that through this building, more and more Chinese investors would enter London.

In the final analysis, development requires money, and GDP growth also requires money. It is no big deal to have guns and cannons in your hands these days. The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council dare not fight casually. You have to have money to be the boss. Now the richest country in the world is China!

After Boris Johnson, Huang Tian Group's CEO Chen Zhong also took the stage to give a speech. He said that the opening of Zhenhua Building and Zhenhua Hotel proved the strength of Huang Tian Group and fired the first shot of the group's entry into overseas markets. Next, Huang Tian Group will continue to focus on overseas investment projects, but will not be limited to real estate.

You know, Huang Tian Group's current business is also very wide. Among them, it is one of the best in the country in logistics, automobile sales, yacht agency, semiconductors, etc., especially logistics. Shunfeng Express has developed very rapidly in the past few years. Basically, its business is spread throughout East Asia and Southeast Asia. Therefore, if the time is right, it may also enter the European market, or even make acquisitions.

Peter Kenyon spoke as a representative of Tottenham Hotspur. Tottenham Hotspur also has shares in this project, but the shares have been transferred to Tottenham Hotspur Real Estate Company, which is directly owned by Ye Qiu, but Peter Kenyon is still the nominal person in charge.

Afterwards, Zhenhua Building also signed a number of cooperation agreements, the most eye-catching of which was the cooperation agreement reached with Moon Sports Services. Not only did Moon Sports Services move its headquarters into Zhenhua Building, but the twice-a-year Football Economics Forum will also be held at Zhenhua Hotel in Zhenhua Building.

This is a big project. Although it is held twice a year, it is still very beneficial to the influence and promotion of the hotel. At least in the past few years, the Hilton Hotel in Hyde Park East has benefited greatly from this. However, Ye Qiu has decided to change the location based on the idea of ​​not leaving the fat water to outsiders.

Paul Newman, CEO of Moon Sports Services, also appeared at the venue. When he was interviewed by reporters later, he explained the reason for changing the venue in London.

Of course, the official statement is that no agreement could be reached with Hilton Hotel on cooperation matters, and Zhenhua Hotel can provide better venues and more complete supporting services, but in fact everyone knows it well.

However, Paul Newman smiled and said at the end of the interview that there will be a very important news that will be announced on the last day of the Football Economics Forum.

"I know that the outside world has received some news in the past, but I want to say that this is a big event that is enough to shock European football, including UEFA President Mr. Platini, and the top giants in Europe. All leaders will attend the press conference, but we cannot disclose the specific project!”

The media reporters at the scene immediately cursed the bald Irishman in their hearts. Damn it, can’t you say that you deliberately leaked it to us? Isn't this just toying with people?

What kind of big project is it? How could Platini and other UEFA bosses, as well as leaders of wealthy teams, participate?

Some reporters who had picked up some clues before were suddenly enlightened, but they could only rely on guesswork, and they might only know a small part of it, a very small part.