The Godfather of Football

"Hey, you guys, be serious!"

"Look carefully, the one standing in front of you is the greatest active head coach in the European professional league!"

As Ribery stood on the wardrobe in the locker room, he could only look as tall as Ye Qiu by standing on the wardrobe. His so-called opening remarks immediately made everyone in the locker room burst into laughter, especially when he patted his face and said that he was the greatest active head coach. It would be a pity not to act!

"Laugh? You guys, double the training later!" Ribery jumped down from the wardrobe and walked to Luke Shaw. This kid was officially promoted to the first team this season.

"Hey, Luke, you are the youngest here, remember the rules!" With that scarred face, he had the ruffian spirit of Hongxing Dafei, especially the way he patted Luke Shaw's shoulder, who was taller than him, was very funny, and there was another burst of laughter.

"Hello, Cesar, call me Frank!" Ribery walked in front of Azpilicueta.

"Hello, Frank!" Azpilicueta was a little nervous. Is this the superstar Ribery?

Thiago Silva, who was next to Azpilicueta, pushed Ribery away, who wanted to get close and looked like he was going to collect protection fees, and pointed at the Frenchman with a laugh, "Hey, Frank, just blackmail Luke. He's new here, don't scare him!"

"Captain, why didn't you say anything when you did it yourself?" Ribery looked aggrieved.

"I'm the captain, you're not!" Thiago Silva laughed and bullied others with power.

Ribery shrugged helplessly, "I voted for you as the captain, damn, just like the president of the United States, he doesn't care about the lives of us voters after he is elected!" That bitter look made everyone in the locker room laugh again, and Thiago Silva was so angry that he almost kicked him, but the Brazilian central defender kept laughing.

"Don't worry about him, this is our rule!" After driving Ribery away, Thiago Silva smiled at Azpilicueta, "The newcomers have to treat every player to a meal, this has become a tradition. This time it's Ribery's turn. If he doesn't come, he has to pay for everyone's meal out of his own pocket."

Azpilicueta heard that this was the case. It was the first time he heard of such a locker room tradition, but he immediately turned around, "Frank, I'll treat you, but I'm not familiar with this place. You can set the time and place, okay?"

This Spaniard is honest and frank, and he immediately gives people a trustworthy feeling.

"Look, look, good man!" Ribery walked back, grabbed Azpilicueta's hand and shook it hard, "Just for your words, Cesar, I tell you, you will be the main player this season and crush that Kyle Walker!"

"Fuck you!" Kyle Walker next to him pretended to kick him.

"Hey, are you planning to be sold to Reading?" Ribery dodged immediately, because Kyle Walker didn't take the kick seriously.

When everyone heard about Reading, they burst into laughter again. This team is in the west of London and was promoted to the Premier League this season. It is a famous team with a barbaric style of play in the surrounding area and is often regarded as a synonym for barbarism. Ribery was using Reading to make fun of Kyle Walker's swift legs.

Just when Ribery and Kyle Walker were about to quarrel, they saw Drogba and Nesta walked into the locker room one after another.

I don't know why, it's just a feeling. When many people saw the two of them, they really felt that the air seemed to be condensed, and they all became serious. Ribery and Messi were very familiar with Drogba, but when they saw Nesta, they couldn't make a joke.

Thiago Silva, as the captain of the team, walked up to him in a very serious manner, "Hello, Didier, Alessandro, welcome to Tottenham Hotspur, I am Thiago Silva!"

"Hello, Captain!" Nesta shook hands with Thiago Silva with a smile.

After shaking hands with Thiago Silva, Drogba looked at Ribery, "Hey, Frank, was that the voice of the boss just now?" The Ivorian laughed and showed his full white teeth, which were particularly obvious on his dark face.

"Is it like it?" Ribery asked with a grin.

"The boss said that he is not as arrogant as you, and he is just like the mafia!" Drogba laughed even more happily.

"Boss?" Ribery's face froze.

"Ah, he has been listening outside for a long time, you don't know?" Drogba looked surprised that you really didn't know.

Ribery immediately had a sad face. He had a feeling that he would be very sad today. It was all Thiago Silva's fault. He actually arranged for him to collect the debt. This was simply pushing him into the fire pit. It was too outrageous.

"But, the boss said, if you are willing to treat us all to a meal, he can let it go!" Drogba said with a smile.

Everyone laughed again. Ribery knew that he was fooled by this big stupid elephant.

"Hello, Alessandro!" Varane walked to Nesta with a nervous look on his face.

Varane was really nervous in front of Nesta, because when Nesta started his career, Varane had just been born, and when Varane first came into contact with football, it happened to be Nesta's peak moment. At that time, Nesta was known as the synonym for the perfect central defender. Real Madrid had been desperately pursuing it for many years but never got it.

Therefore, being able to train and compete with seniors like Nesta is undoubtedly a great motivation for Varane.

"Hello...Raphael!" Nesta looked at Varane for a while and chuckled. He had seen a photo and information of all the first-team players sent by Tottenham Hotspur. Varane, there is just a slight difference between the photo and the person.

"Yes!" Varane was very happy that Nesta knew him and raised his phone. "Can I take a photo with you?"

Nesta shook his head, "No, no!" Seeing Varane's somewhat stunned and disappointed expression, he chuckled, "One picture is not enough, I need to take more pictures. Also, I have to tweet it too. Use Facebook to let them know you!”

Following Nesta's words, Varane relaxed and immediately called Nastasic next to him to come over and take pictures of them. He took several pictures at once, and the Serbian also went up to take a group photo. Then many people rushed to take pictures, including Thiago Silva and Kompany.

To be honest, among players who play center back or even defender, there are really not many people who don't like Nesta. It is almost rare to hear that people hate Nesta. The Italian center back is indeed good in this regard.

A group of players were talking, laughing and taking photos in the locker room. Even Ye Qiu, who was coming down from the second floor and wanted to go to the training ground, heard the sound. After he and Mauro Tassotti looked at each other, they felt This phenomenon is quite good.

The most important consideration in bringing in two veterans, Drogba and Nesta, is to lead the new with the old, especially Nesta. Ye Qiu also talked about this when he met with the two veterans, and they both promised He will play his role in the team's locker room, so Ye Qiu was very satisfied to hear such a voice on the first day of training for the new season.

In this summer's transfer operation, Tottenham Hotspur sold Alves and Alba in exchange for a transfer fee of 85 million euros, plus several second-team players from the youth team. Including the transfer fee to introduce Azpilicueta, the team will make a net profit of approximately 80 million euros in the transfer market.

This money will be invested in the renovation of the new stadium starting in September, which is also the team's most important top priority in the next year.

Another very important thing is that the team's investment promotion for the new stadium has already begun. After all, the team will enter Stratford Stadium in the summer of 2013, and everything must be completed before then.

Although selling Alves and Alba has brought some impact to the team, it is not significant overall.

The goalkeepers are Cech, Courtois and another youngster promoted from the youth team. Courtois mainly played in domestic cup competitions last season and performed well. Frans Hoque is very optimistic about this youngster. young player, but Petr Cech is only 30 years old now and is in the peak period of a top goalkeeper. This is indeed very detrimental to Courtois.

At present, the Tottenham Hotspur coaching staff is also studying. Southampton has extended a loan invitation to Courtois, hoping to replace the 36-year-old veteran Kevin Davis with a Belgian goalkeeper. This will be a good choice for Courtois. It is also a very valuable loan for Watt, after all, he can get more game training in Southampton.

Tottenham Hotspur and the players are also eager to accept such a challenge, but there is a prerequisite, that is, Tottenham Hotspur can introduce Irish veteran Shay Given from Manchester City, or introduce Finnish veteran Yasirana from Bolton Wanderers. Sklenin, after all, the team needs a substitute goalkeeper with sufficient strength.

In terms of defense, Kyle Walker and Azpilicueta are on the right, Marcelo and youngster Luke Shaw are on the left, and Thiago Silva, Kompany, Nesta, and Valencia are in the center. Rané and Nastasic.

Although the strength of the entire defense line has been weakened to a certain extent without Alves and Alba, overall it has not declined much. And with the growth and improvement of young players, I believe that as the season progresses, the strength will improve. Improved.

In the midfield, seven players including Sandro, Ramsey, Phil Jones, Pogba, Eriksen, Pirlo and Vidal compete for the three main positions, and the midfielder is also Tottenham Hot The key link in the entire tactical system that has changed the most and has the greatest impact at the same time. Therefore, Ye Qiu did not make any changes to the midfielder this summer and just retired Beckham.

In the frontcourt, the combination of Ribery, Messi, Cavani, Neymar, Hazard and Drogba is also full of expectations. Without the more flexible Raul, it has an additional tactical fulcrum role. With a bigger Drogba, Tottenham Hotspur's tactical methods will undoubtedly become more diverse and varied.

After all, Raul's role can also be effective when Messi is pulled into the center, but Drogba's role cannot be replaced by Cavani. No one in the Tottenham Hotspur team can compete for the third place like Drogba. One drop.

Overall, although Tottenham Hotspur sold two players, its overall strength has not declined, but has improved. At least its tactical methods have become richer.

Another important feature is that Ye Qiu clearly showed it in the first training session, that is, he intends to further train another offensive routine after Tottenham Hotspur introduced Drogba.

As early as when Fabregas and David Silva occupied the Tottenham Hotspur midfield, Ye Qiu realized a problem, that is, the team's ground attack has reached its limit and needs to be improved, introducing more medium-distance and long-distance passes, while increasing the passing speed and creating more tactical means.

Some people would say that this is a weakening, because the longer the passing distance and the faster the passing speed, the more passing errors there will be.

This is true, but the problem is that if you have been obsessed with this world of ball control and do not make progress, then the final result is that your team has become a stagnant pool of water, and you will slowly be replaced by your opponents.

So Ye Qiu introduced Pirlo. Pirlo can bring more than just the core of the organization to Tottenham Hotspur. At the same time, he can also bring the soul-stirring diagonal long pass to Tottenham Hotspur, which makes Tottenham Hotspur's offense change from the original ground cooperation and penetration to a richer three-dimensional offense.

In the past, Fabregas and others would occasionally pass high balls, but high balls have never become an important offensive means of the team like last season. Ground penetration is, so the introduction of Pirlo seems to make Tottenham Hotspur's midfield hidden dangers become very obvious, but in fact, it also makes Tottenham Hotspur change from the original two-dimensional plane attack to a three-dimensional attack.

But Ye Qiu knows very well that Cavani is not suitable for the frontcourt tactical fulcrum. He has this ability, but his strongest point is the frontal attack, so Pirlo and Thiago Silva and others' long passes from the backcourt are more about looking for diagonals and behind, but what if there is no behind? What if the opponent is tight?

So we need a Drogba, a tactical fulcrum in the frontcourt who can grab the first landing point for Tottenham Hotspur even in the face of dense defense from the opponent. This is the purpose of Ye Qiu introducing Drogba.

Last season, Tottenham Hotspur's three-dimensional attack could only be regarded as semi-three-dimensional at most, but this time he wants to make a full three-dimensional attack.

Ye Qiu's offensive concept has always been very clear, a quick and concise pass, using the fastest speed to send the ball to the frontcourt in the shortest time, and as long as the ball is at the feet of the players in the frontcourt, I will do everything possible to create threats. Even if I lose the ball, I don't care, because the ball is in your half, and I will invest in counter-grabbing and oppression in the shortest time.

This has formed a very interesting situation, just like when facing Barcelona, ​​on the surface you control the ball, you get what you want, but you can't effectively push the ball possession area into my half. You have the ball, but do you control the game?

Obviously not, the game is still under my control, you just got the ball!

At this time, another question must be clarified. Does possession of the ball mean everything?

Wrong, possession of the ball does not mean everything. Strictly speaking, threatening possession of the ball means everything. If the ball is in your own half, there is no threat at all. This is just possession of the ball, nothing. But once you are in possession of the ball in your own half, I seize an opportunity and make a counterattack, then it is threatening possession of the ball.

99% of possession in your own half is not as effective and threatening as 1% of possession in the opponent's half!

It should be said that last season's Champions League made Ye Qiu taste the sweetness, especially the two-round massacre of Barcelona, ​​which made him very clearly aware of what to do next. The final against Bayern Munich made him realize the team's shortcomings, because if Drogba was there, Tottenham Hotspur last season would not only slaughter Barcelona 9:0, but also beat Bayern Munich 2:0.

If Drogba was there, Tottenham Hotspur would sweep these two giants and would definitely create a more amazing score.

However, there is no if in the world. Drogba was introduced this season to fill a weak spot, but whether the Ivorian can adapt to the team and what he can provide to the team, as well as Alves' departure, how will Kyle Walker perform after taking over? At least the Brazilian can cut inside and go down the bottom, but Kyle Walker's ability to cut inside is obviously not very strong.

Therefore, Tottenham Hotspur needs to readjust and re-evaluate its offense this season, but there is no doubt that the existence of this group of players has already laid the bottom line for Tottenham Hotspur.

In the new season, Tottenham Hotspur will continue to launch the strongest and most powerful impact on the Premier League and the Champions League.

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When the team was training in Theobald, Courtois was finally loaned to Southampton.

Ye Qiu was very satisfied with Adrianse's training of Lucas Moura and Coutinho. Both players performed very well in the Saints. Adrianse was also ambitious this season and wanted to make a difference in the Premier League, but Ye Qiu was not very optimistic about the team's league ranking.

It is easy to play your own style, but if you want to get a good ranking in the Premier League where there are many rich people and the competition is so fierce, unless you have accumulated a strong lineup early like Tottenham Hotspur, it is impossible without a huge investment.

After Courtois was loaned to Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur brought in Irish veteran Shay Given from Manchester City. This Irish veteran, who had not played a game in Manchester City for two consecutive seasons due to the arrival of Joe Hart, had long since stopped wanting to stay in the team. Considering that he only had one year left on his contract, Manchester City sent him to Tottenham Hotspur for 1.5 million euros.

This can also be considered as a kind of retirement, but retirement in Tottenham Hotspur can still win championships, but not in Manchester City, so Given chose to go south to London.

On the third day after announcing the introduction of Given, the team collectively left London and went to New York, USA, to participate in the pre-season training camp. The re-landing of Tottenham Hotspur caused a huge response throughout North America, especially after the previous preheating by the club and sponsors, which made all American fans full of expectations for the arrival of Tottenham Hotspur.

The day after Tottenham Hotspur arrived in New York, Ye Qiu made a big news that amazed fans all over the world. That was giving a speech at Harvard Business School. This was the first time in football history!