The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 417 Not For Sale

On May 5th, London belongs to Tottenham Hotspur on this day!

The last time they won a European championship was in 1984, when the team won the UEFA Cup. In the history of Tottenham Hotspur, they have never won the Champions League, so , After 23 years of absence, the team won the UEFA Cup again, which made all Tottenham Hotspur fans feel excited.

This time, Tottenham Hotspur also changed from the past low-key style of doing more and talking less, but adopted a more publicized way. After winning the championship last night, the club notified the public that the team will depart from Glasgow, Scotland, around noon. Heading south, back to London, this time the team will arrive at Heathrow Airport.

Ever since, the time has not yet come, but Heathrow Airport has gathered countless Tottenham Hotspur fans from all over the world. If we say that, according to the geographical location, this place should belong to West London teams such as Chelsea and Fulham. The site, but now it has become a place for Tottenham Hotspur fans to celebrate their UEFA Cup victory.

Some of this group of fans drive by themselves, and some take buses under the operation of fan organizations, but the number is very large, at least more than [-], because Tottenham Hotspur has had a long, long history in the past. Time has not won the championship, or it has not celebrated the championship.

When everyone in the team arrived at Heathrow Airport, the police and airport security had put the scene in order. The players held up the UEFA Cup trophy all the way out of the gate and were greeted by all the Tottenham Hotspur fans. Cheers and cheers.

Walking out of the waiting hall, the team's bus was already waiting here, accompanied by another championship trophy, which was the League Cup champion of the Premier League this season, and when the players boarded the bus, the two championship trophies were placed on the Together, they are placed in the most conspicuous position on the roof of the open bus.

Both BBC TV and Sky TV specially dispatched filming teams to follow up and report, and saw all the Tottenham Hotspur fans, led by the team's open-top bus, get on the highway around the city in a hurry, and there was a lot of traffic All the way to the north, the momentum was overwhelming.

Anyone can see that this was intentional by the Tottenham Hotspur fans. They wanted to celebrate on the territory of their arch-rivals and disgust them to death. However, it is a pity that the team failed to enter the city, so There is no way to pass outside of Arsenal's Emirates Stadium, otherwise, I believe such celebrations will be more enjoyable.

But no matter what, Tottenham Hotspur fans feel extremely satisfied to be able to get to this point.

After all, London is an international metropolis. There is no way for some small and medium-sized cities, such as Liverpool or Manchester, to parade throughout the city after winning the championship. There is no way for London to do this. Whether it is the city government or the district council Certain restrictions have been placed on the route of Tottenham Hotspur's championship parade.

Moreover, Tottenham Hotspur is located in the north of London, a certain distance from the urban area, so no matter how you travel, you will not be able to travel to the urban area of ​​London, and there is no way to enter the area where Arsenal is located, even if the district council and The city government made an exception to relax the restrictions because Tottenham Hotspur won the UEFA Cup, and there is nothing they can do.

After all, winning the championship is a good thing, but if the restrictions are really relaxed and you are allowed to go to the parade, which disrupts the traffic order in London, the loss will be immeasurable. After all, during the celebration of such a championship parade, riots or disturbances Neither is uncommon, so the government and the police are taking it seriously.

Still the same as before, after Ye Qiu arrived at Heathrow Airport, he didn't participate in the team's celebration. He let the players get on the bus and celebrated with the fans, while he himself drove northward in private. Return to White Hart Lane.

The following summer will still be a very busy one, as Tottenham Hotspur will move the team's training base to Theobald, Hertfordshire this summer. The department will be busy with many things.

Equipment purchases are largely over, but hiring continues, especially given that everything will start to fall into place after the team regroups in July, and preparations for this summer will only increase.

Ye Qiu also fully considered that the team has just moved to a new training base, and both the players and the coaching staff will need a period of adaptation. Therefore, this summer, the team's training camp will not be arranged outside, but will be all in the west. Obold training base, and even the team's warm-up matches are arranged around London as much as possible.

The only foreign competition was when Ye Qiu promised Ajax that he would go to Amsterdam to participate in the Amsterdam Cup Invitational Tournament organized by Ajax. Ye Qiu had no way to refuse the invitation from his old club and old friends. After all, he I have always hoped to have more cooperation with Ajax.

This summer, Ye Qiu decided to bring left-back Marcelo, who was previously bought out but on loan at Ajax, to London. For this, Tottenham Hotspur have reached an agreement with Ajax. Marcelo Will come to London to follow the team training in July.

For any football club in the top European leagues, the focus of work every summer is inseparable from transfers.

In addition to Tottenham Hotspur wanting to introduce Marcelo, Ye Qiu also hopes to increase the number of young players in the team to prepare for the future youth training places, so he is also looking for a few more potential players who are also suitable for the team. Tottenham Hotspur needs the teenager as a reserve for the future.

Next season Tottenham Hotspur will compete in the Champions League, Premier League, League Cup and FA Cup on four fronts, especially the Champions League.

You know, the UEFA Champions League is not at the same level as the UEFA Cup. The competition in the former is far more brutal than the UEFA Cup. Therefore, this season Tottenham Hotspur can easily hold on to the two main fronts of the UEFA Cup and the Premier League. , but Ye Qiu firmly believed that if Tottenham Hotspur want to keep good results on both fronts next season, they must strengthen the team lineup, and then send a group of young players to play in the cup.

In addition to transfers and signings, Tottenham Hotspur also has a very important job this summer, contract renewal.

Many players in the team have performed very well this season, contract renewal has become an inevitable thing, and when rumors and rumors are constantly spreading in the transfer market, there is nothing more convincing than a contract renewal Forced counterattack, so contract renewal will be a focus of Tottenham Hotspur's work this summer.

"Our performance this season is indeed good, but our player lineup is still relatively young, and we can continue to improve next season, so our most important challenge this summer is to maintain the stability of the current team's main lineup!"

In the chairman's office at White Hart Lane, Ye Qiu put several club executives, including Eliza Moon and Robert Milson, as well as Mauro Tassotti, Peter Brandt, Roland Shepas and other core members of the competitive department called to their office for a meeting.

This group of executives from Tottenham Hotspur will probably meet every once in a while, the location is uncertain, sometimes at the training base, sometimes at White Hart Lane, and sometimes they even simply ask out for dinner together, and hold a meeting by the way ,very free.

That's why many people said that Ye Qiu and Eliza Moon brought the management method of Leaf Technology into the football club.

But today is obviously different, because there is one more person than in the past, a very old person, and that is the new head of the scouting department.

"From past experience, almost all the middle and lower reaches of the team, the reason why it is difficult to maintain the team's high level of performance, it is difficult to maintain the team's combat effectiveness, a very important reason is the loss of players, In other words, they lack long-term planning and ambition!"

Just like Everton, Ye Qiu often felt that this team missed the opportunity to rise. This is true, but the problem is that the management of Everton may not even think about rising. It is also a very good choice to get a vote when the team performs well. They are already content with the current status of the team.

This is the case for the team in Liverpool. If it is in other cities with less developed business, or even some poorer cities, the football clubs here are strictly restricted by the urban economy. It's not big, and it's not strong, so they can only choose to get one vote and be satisfied.

Looking at all the top giants, the teams that have maintained their competitiveness for a long time are almost all in big cities, while some other cities may have had very good brilliance, such as Nottingham Forest, but after all, the foundation is relatively weak and it will not be sustainable.

Ye Qiu still remembered reading an analysis in his previous life. Many people believed that the Bundesliga’s steady development and progress in the past few years, and even the major clubs maintained healthy operations, were the key roles played by the football association and club policies, but in fact , Germany's economy is also a key factor.

Just like Bayern Munich, also as a giant, but Bayern Munich's business income is second to none among the major European giants. This is due to the fact that Bayern Munich attaches great importance to management, but there is also the reason why the German economy is superior to the EU countries. Germany's excellent economic background makes it much easier to operate.

So, when Ye Qiu was selecting the team to acquire, Ye Qiu had always focused on London.

There are indeed many Premier League teams here, and the competition is fierce, but as an international metropolis, there are also many opportunities. Even for Tottenham Hotspur, for Ye Qiu and Eliza Moon, staying In London, it is equivalent to getting twice the result with half the effort, because they themselves have excellent resources and channels.

Now, Tottenham Hotspur has the external objective environment and conditions, what it lacks is its own accumulation.

And what is accumulation?
Accumulation does not mean that if you have good grades today, you will immediately sell the players who performed well, and then introduce a new batch of players, re-run, re-tune, grow and improve again. This does not mean that such a team cannot win the championship. , but he can't achieve a wealthy family at all, because his achievements will always fluctuate.

What the real giants need is long-term stable results. This means that after the team has performed well, it needs to maintain the stability of the team's lineup, so that the team's performance can continue to rise.

Hearing what Ye Qiu said, Eliza Munn smiled, and the group of men in Ye Qiu's office couldn't help being dazzled, "Real Madrid and Barcelona are very sincere, they are asking about Ribery's price."

After hearing this, Ye Qiu shook his head, "Not for sale!"

Ribery has performed very well this season. He ranks second in the team in terms of goals scored, second only to Ruud van Nistelrooy. Ye Qiu has always placed him in an important part of the team's tactics, so he Ribery will not be allowed to transfer, and he also believes that as long as he does not let go, Ribery will not take the initiative to make a fuss about leaving.

Ye Qiu understood the character of this French scarred face, and he couldn't say how loyal he was, but as long as Ye Qiu wanted to stay, he would definitely not refuse, Ye Qiu was still very sure about this.

"What about Van Nistelrooy?" Eliza Moon asked again, "Now it's not just Real Madrid that wants to get him, Juventus, AC Milan and Inter Milan are all interested in him, and he will be 31 soon gone."

The last sentence was obviously to remind Ye Qiu that Ruud van Nistelrooy is a veteran.

And in the past, Ye Qiu also revealed his thoughts to Elisa in private exchanges, that is, to support Van Persie to come up and form a front court trident with Ribery and Messi, and if there is a suitable offer , Selling Ruud Fanni, it might be a good thing to kill two birds with one stone.

"From a competitive point of view, Van Nistelrooy's performance did decline in the second half, and the scoring rate remained good. The important factor is that the team has a strong ability to create opportunities, and from a tactical point of view, Van Nistelrooy's performance has indeed declined. It's true that Nee is a bit unable to meet the current requirements of the team!" Peter Brandt also put forward his own analysis.

Peter Brandt is in charge of the team's research center. His responsibility is to give professional advice when the team makes some decisions, such as introducing and selling players. He will give a special report for evaluation .

Right now Tottenham Hotspur's frontcourt combination is ideally disordered.

This kind of disorder is not the kind of chaos that everyone thinks, even on the spot, no, this kind of disorder still has his order and some of his fixed routines in the final analysis, but the position of the players is compared with the movement. Be flexible, keep interspersing and running in front, looking for opportunities, and cooperate with each other tacitly.

Van Persie, Ribery and Messi all have such abilities, Cavani, Carroll, Asavin, Ashley Young are also good additions to the team, and if you want to play this kind of tactics, the central position A forward must have a strong ability to support the wings and retreat to get the ball, but Ruud van Nistelrooy obviously does not have this, and even his running is showing a downward trend.

Ye Qiu didn't have much opinion on selling Fanny away, but he glanced at Robert Milson, the head of the news department.

The latter was also looking at Ye Qiu, and he had to pay attention to Ye Qiu's thoughts and opinions, so when Ye Qiu looked at him, he immediately shrugged with a smile, "The fans really like Ruud now, many The media also portray Ruud van Nistelrooy as the guarantee of our team's goals, but if the club still decides to sell him, we can operate."

Ye Qiu thought for a while, then shook his head and reminded: "I have to correct one thing, we won't take the initiative to sell Ruud Ruud, but as long as the offer is suitable and the players themselves don't object, we will consider it!"

These words made Eliza Munn smile, and glared at Ye Qiu angrily. This guy wants to gain both fame and fortune. He not only wants to sell Fanny, but also wants to take the opportunity to raise the price. At the same time, he also hopes to appease the fans. At the very least, it is necessary to create a feeling that Tottenham Hotspur is not very willing, but the opponent digs people very aggressively, and the team cannot keep people.

But it has to be said that this is how all clubs operate, otherwise, if they really want to force them to stay, who would leave?
Even for Arsenal's Ashley Cole back then, if Wenger really got angry and wanted to keep someone, Chelsea would not only be unable to poach him, but might even face a lawsuit because of it, but Arsenal themselves did have The idea of ​​selling people.

There are also super expensive transfers like Zidane, Ronaldo, and even later Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka. Even if many fans think it is so, in fact, in the final analysis, it is what you want and what you want trade.

"Davis is going back to the Netherlands, and Huddlestone is also sold. As a result, our midfield looks a bit weak and we need to introduce players. In addition, there are central defenders. If I see a suitable one, I want to introduce them. A central defender sold Mike Dawson!" As the team's head coach and owner, Ye Qiu said this after careful consideration.

Huddlestone can't play in the current Tottenham Hotspur, and his position is not even as good as that of Lucas Leiva, and his style is also incompatible with the team, so he simply sold it, and Mike Dawson is not Ye The type of central defender that Qiu likes, the English central defender's skills are indeed too rough, and his defense is also frizzy.

In the offensive and defensive system of Tottenham Hotspur's entire team, passing and receiving cooperation is a very important part, and if you carefully observe Tottenham Hotspur's game, it is not difficult to find that even two full-backs They often actively advance forward, but the two central defenders must be late, serving as the team's support point for the team to hold the ball and control the ball.

If the lagging central defender is not capable of receiving and distributing the ball, or if there is a problem as soon as he encounters a press, then Tottenham Hotspur's ball control will not only be ineffective, but will become the team's biggest hidden danger. The team will force your central defender to grab the ball, force you to play the ball blindly, and even make mistakes on your own initiative.

One more thing to mention here is that some people think that Mike Dawson and Terry are very similar, but Ye Qiu thinks that the biggest difference between the two lies in stopping and releasing the ball. Terry can ensure the minimum stability , and Mike Dawson couldn't help it. Just because of this, Ye Qiu dared to bet that Mike Dawson would never be able to reach Terry's height in his entire life.

And after a round of discussion and research, Ye Qiu also found that although he hoped that the team would be tinkering, but in fact, after this round of operation, the team's movement is still not small. There will be some in and out of the line, and even if the players brought in are more capable players, the price will be equally high.

But Ye Qiu is very clear that this is the path that any team must take.

For any professional club team, the professional league is like sailing against the current, if you do not advance, you will retreat.

Therefore, from the moment he took over Tottenham Hotspur, it was already doomed that he could not go back, and could only lead the team, this group of players, and continue to move forward.

(End of this chapter)