The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 419 Mutual non-poaching agreement
Ye Qiu's villa has one advantage, that is, whether it is the second floor balcony or the garden, it is surrounded by green trees, flowers and plants everywhere, even in the hot summer, the whole villa is very cool.

As for flowers and trees, Ye Qiu only likes to look at them, enjoy the cool air, and appreciate them, but he doesn't understand and doesn't like to do it with his hands. Fortunately, his father Ye Changming and his father-in-law Huang Jinsong are both people who like to make troubles, so Ye Qiu is happy and leisurely. Don't bother and take care of these flowers and plants.

Therefore, even now, he still doesn't understand how many plants are planted in the garden, and how to match the trees and flowers to avoid raising mosquitoes, but he really likes to sit in the gazebo in the garden and smell the birdsong , Smelling the fragrance of flowers, I feel relaxed and happy.

Wenger has been to Ye Qiu's house many times. Although he is full of envy and hatred for his garden, he is not surprised. On the contrary, Ferguson, who came for the first time, was a little surprised, and asked which family he hired for the garden The company got it for him, and when he finally heard that it was Ye Qiu's father and father-in-law, he said that he would definitely come to visit again another day.

His villa is in Cheshire, which is also a small town in the countryside. It has a large area and a large garden. It seems that he also likes to toss flowers and plants, but this guy probably doesn't understand.

The three of them were sitting in the gazebo, on the balcony on the second floor, Huang Chu was packing up his things, this scene made Ferguson nod his head, and kept saying that Ye Qiu married a good wife, at least young people nowadays are rarely so virtuous that's it.

Wenger, on the other hand, directly responded, "There are very few virtuous husbands like you, and you don't do all the housework in your family?"

"I'm going to fuck the reporter!" Ferguson immediately yelled, but he couldn't give evidence to refute it, especially when he saw Ye Qiu and Wenger smiling, he knew in his heart that he would be washed away by jumping into the Yellow River. I don't know.

Who made him afraid of his wife and being famous?
Speaking of them, the three of them are really interesting. Ferguson is the Premier League champion this season, Ye Qiu is the third in the Premier League, and Wenger is the fifth in the Premier League. Ferguson has a good impression of Mourinho, who is second in the Premier League. Qiu and Wenger didn't like him, but Ye Qiu had a good impression of Benitez who was fourth in the Premier League, but Ferguson didn't like him at all.

Sometimes the relationship between people is really complicated and elusive.

It's like, if it gets out now, who would believe that Ferguson and Wenger would sit down and drink together?And still drink that kind of Patus with a bottle of more than 3 euros?The key is still out of Ferguson's own pocket?

I believe everyone will be amazed after hearing this, can this miser be so generous?

Thinking of this, Ye Qiu couldn't help but smile on the sidelines. Ferguson immediately shook his head when he saw his wicked smile, pointed at Wenger, pointed at Ye Qiu and said, "He must be thinking about us right now. Bad words!"

Wenger felt the same way, and this was the first time he echoed Ferguson's words.

Ye Qiu didn't explain, and smiled, "It's not a bad word, it's just that I was thinking that if people knew that the three of us had a drink together, they would definitely guess that we were plotting something, and maybe it would be spread outside tomorrow. The news of our mutual poaching came out, and then another round of overwhelming hype and publicity."

This is indeed the case with the English media. As long as they catch a little clue, they will immediately be full of waves.

Ferguson and Wenger looked at each other, and they both heard that there were other meanings hidden in Ye Qiu's words.

"Do you want to say something, kid?" Ferguson asked with a smile.

Ye Qiu glanced at the two old ghosts, "Don't you guys want to say anything?"

The three of them laughed. In fact, they all had the same thoughts, that is, to take this opportunity of drinking together to negotiate some things. When the big teams adopt a group approach to collectively speak out, it will be more powerful.

Of course, all of this is based on the premise of not harming the interests of small and medium teams, otherwise, they would not do it.

For example, when the winter break is introduced, the mid-lower teams don’t care about you. Anyway, they only have domestic competitions, and they don’t care about your life and death in the European arena. They even hope that your performance will be affected because there is no winter break, because it means They will have a better chance in some domestic competitions.

Of course, there is another consideration. Before and after the winter break, especially during the Christmas period, the Premier League can monopolize the entire European football market, because at that time only the Premier League had games, and fans all over the world had to watch the Premier League if they wanted to watch football games. .

Therefore, the winter break has been shouted for so many years, but it has not been implemented. The reason is still here, and all the Premier League teams take advantage of this aspect, even Manchester United and Arsenal, who often The teams playing in the Champions League also tasted the sweetness, so the willingness to introduce the winter break is not so strong.

"I think we should reach an agreement. We should avoid this kind of mutual poaching and mutual consumption transfer strategy!" The three sat in a triangle shape in the gazebo, and Ye Qiu stared at it. The two people on the opposite side said, "Of course, I don't mean not to transfer each other, but to adopt a more aboveboard approach instead of illegal private contact and poaching players."

Regarding Ye Qiu's proposal, Ferguson and Wenger looked at each other. The two old thieves clearly saw through Ye Qiu's intentions, because now Tottenham Hotspur is like a treasure trove of young players. I want to come in and take a look.

"Are you afraid that we will poach your players?" Ferguson said with a smile.

When Ye Qiu heard this, he also smiled, "I have great confidence in my players, but I'm afraid I can't help poaching your players."

When Ferguson and Wenger heard this, they couldn't help laughing out loud. This guy just had a stubborn mouth, but soon, Ye Qiu said another sentence, which made them a little bit unable to laugh.

"I was thinking, we should be involved in Tevez's competition, and my scouts are also paying close attention to Dinamo Zagreb in Croatia, two, what do you think?"

It was no secret that Manchester United wanted Tevez, so Ferguson's instinctive reaction to Ye Qiu's words was that his eyelids twitched, because he could quickly feel that if Tottenham Hotspur also joined the competition, West Ham United will definitely sit on the ground and raise the price, but is Tottenham Hotspur necessary to participate?
With the current lineup of Tottenham Hotspur, there is no place for Tevez when he comes, so if Tottenham Hotspur is really involved, the only explanation is that he deliberately wants to make life difficult for Manchester United and let Manchester United play against Tevez. A lot of money wasted on the introduction.

But thinking about it this way, Ferguson looked at Wenger again, Dinamo Zagreb?Did Wenger take a fancy to the players of this team?

Ye Qiu took the reactions of both of them into consideration, and said with a slight smile: "I believe we all have one goal. In the European arena, our Premier League team should be at the same level, and in the Premier League, everyone should also Be upright, show your gentlemanly demeanor, fight hard, rely on tactics on the court, rely on technology to see the truth, right?"

Wenger was the first to nod, because Arsenal's current situation is indeed unfavorable, the finances are not very rich, and he is also a victim of this kind of private poaching. For example, Chelsea poached Arsenal's Ashley Cole, and in the past A few years ago, when Ye Qiu was in charge of Chelsea, he even broke the news that Vieira and Henry were going to be poached, forcing Wenger to give them a salary increase.

Ye Qiu's actions really made Wenger a little angry, but Ye Qiu didn't really do anything in the end, but after Ye Qiu, Chelsea contacted Ashley Cole in private, which obviously broke the tacit understanding between the clubs and rules.

Seeing Wenger nodding, Ferguson also thought the proposal was good, "But, if we agree, will Chelsea agree?"

Benitez's Liverpool has never liked English players. This Spanish fat man is a bit like Ye Qiu, and he prefers continental players. Therefore, there are not many English players in Liverpool's team, and the introduction is more inclined to come from the European continent. The introduction, so Liverpool is not a big problem.

"As long as we have an agreement with Tottenham, Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool, do you think they can say no?"

When Ferguson thought about it, he was right. It is hard to cause public anger. Chelsea must agree, otherwise, they will not even think about signing in in the future.

Strictly speaking, Ye Qiu's proposal is indeed reasonable, to avoid the arms race in the Premier League similar to Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​so that everyone can build their own team with peace of mind, and avoid getting caught up in poaching and competing with each other, which is in vain. Cheaper than the practices of other league teams.

At least, in the past few years, haven't Real Madrid and Barcelona attached great importance to maintaining a private agreement not to poach and compete with each other?
Wenger remained silent all this time. He felt that this proposal would be beneficial to everyone, but it seemed impossible for Ye Qiu to do so because he was worried about being poached, unless... "I received a message. I heard that you recently had a ball Head of the detective department?"

Ferguson was taken aback after hearing this. Does Tottenham Hotspur have a head in charge of the scouting department?
He does know that Arsenal has Steve Lawley, Manchester United also has its own chief scout, that is Ferguson's younger brother Martin Ferguson, and Chelsea also has Frank Arnesen, Liverpool also has Eduardo Macia, these are all They are well-known top scouts in continental Europe, they either have a pair of sharp eyes, or they have an excellent network.

The so-called chief scout is actually responsible for the player inspection of the first team and the youth team, which is equivalent to the head of the scouting department of Tottenham Hotspur. It seems that the head of the management department does not have this authority.

After Frank Arnesen was poached to Chelsea, Ye Qiu took over Tottenham Hotspur. There was no so-called technical director and director, and even the head of the scouting department was vacant. This made many people suspect that Ye Qiu wanted to focus on the results of the first team first, and then gradually build up the scouting system, but now it seems that he intends to take two steps together.

This reminded both Ferguson and Wenger of the second half of last season. At a regular summit meeting of the Premier League, Ye Qiu submitted a proposal through Eliza Moon, hoping to reform the rules of English football clubs. The scope of talent selection for youth training allows some capable and financial teams to select talents from all over England.

"You kid, you keep all of us in the dark with every move!" Ferguson pointed at Ye Qiu and scolded with a smile.

Ye Qiu smiled after hearing this, "We indeed appointed the head of the team's scouting department not long ago, the former head of the scouting department at PSV Eindhoven Peter Dewissel."

If it is someone else, even if you ask Moyes, Benitez, or simply Mourinho, they may not know about Peter Dewissel, and you may even ask PSV fans, I believe There are also a lot of fans who don't know him, most of them don't know what he looks like, or even how old he is.

The only Dutch fans remember this person is the Dutch Michels Award in 2005, which is the lifetime achievement award of Dutch football. Contribution to Dutch football.

If anyone wants to know De Vissel's biography, you will find that you can know very little, or even almost nothing. Only those who really understand Dutch football can catch a little bit of news about him, such as He has been coaching alone since 1964 and has been coaching for 30 years. He has coached teams such as William II, Breda, Roda JC and AZ Alkmaar, but his achievements are not very conspicuous.

Compared with his coaching achievements, his vision in selecting players and his scouting network have very rich resources. For example, he has very good interpersonal relationships in European and South American football. Leo came to PSV because of his recommendation and relationship.

In 1993, after he dismissed get out of class from Breda, Arnesen took over the position of general manager of PSV Eindhoven. The Amsterdam native, who was at home and could no longer work as the head coach, chose to be a part-time scout. , By the way, waiting for the opportunity to coach again, and then his friend recommended Ronaldo to him.

The next thing is very simple, Ronaldo came to Eindhoven as a matter of course, and even recommended Ronaldinho, Kaka and Robinho to Eindhoven early in the next few years, but In the end, these players failed to come to PSV because of the transfer fee.

In Ye Qiu's previous life, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Robben, Stam, Van Bommel, Hovland, Alex and other Eindhoven players were all written by him, because he was the chief player of Eindhoven at that time. Scouts, just because he has never appeared in newspapers and media, so no one knows his existence.

It was not until 2005 that he received the Michels Lifetime Achievement Award and was hailed as the world's number one scout by the Dutch football circles. It was the first time that he was known by Dutch fans, but no one knew his photo. No one knew what he looked like, or even how old he was.

Perhaps because of Peter Dewissel's low profile, Frank Arnesen, who was the general manager of the club at the time, was naturally pushed to the front desk. In addition, the Danes naturally like to take credit, and they are formerly meritorious players. It was radiant, so a fair amount of the credit naturally falls to Frank Arneson.

But in fact, Frank? Arnesen relies heavily on Peter? Dewissel, and the latter's scout network resources.

The last two transactions that Peter de Vissel participated in were Alex and John Obi Mikel. After the latter entered Cape Town Ajax, he was targeted by De Vissel. It was recommended to Arnesen, which led to this dispute with Manchester United.

Outsiders may not know Peter Dewissel, but Ferguson has dealt with Eindhoven for many years, and Wenger has also been involved in this business for many years. Both of them have heard of him more or less. He was hired by Tottenham Hotspur, everyone was a little surprised, but not much envious.

Now that the information is so developed, the role of scouts is actually weakening, and whether it is for Manchester United or Arsenal, Peter DeVissel is very good, but they also have their own set of scouting networks, So don't be envious of others.

"To be honest with you two, we will vigorously develop youth training next, and we have even drawn up a very detailed youth training promotion plan. We also support all interested teams to come to visit and learn, but we do not welcome Unscrupulous scout!"

Ye Qiu stands at a very high position and sees a wide range of things. He feels that the promotion of youth training does not necessarily have to be done by himself. The whole England or even the whole world can do it. Anyone who wants to learn can come to learn and visit. It doesn't matter, because the more stars cultivated by others, the wider the selection range of Tottenham Hotspur in the future.

All the rich teams in the world are like this, even Ye Qiu can't wait for all the English teams to learn from him. This is a combination of Ajax, Holland, and even some other youth training systems in continental Europe. The youth system, because it is good for Tottenham Hotspur.

And Ye Qiu has always felt that the most important thing about youth training is not the method, anyone can learn the youth training method, if you want, you can enter Ajax's youth training camp at any time, as long as you have a certain relationship and recommendation I believe, but why is there only one De Tokmost in the whole world?
Youth training, the most important thing is not the method, but a culture!
And something like youth training culture is not something you can learn if you want to learn it. It takes years of accumulation and precipitation to appear.

Compared with Tottenham Hotspur, which has just reorganized and restarted, the youth training of Manchester United and Arsenal has been accumulated for many years, and they have even basically completed the transformation towards mainlandization. Benitez is now Liverpool's Kirkby academy is also being restructured, and Chelsea's youth system is being restructured under the guidance of Frank Arnesen.

In other words, the youth training of the Premier League teams has received great attention, but don't expect to see results in a short period of time, because it will take at least ten or eight years before talents can appear, which is why there is no The reason why many teams are willing to insist on youth training.

Too much risk, too long payback period!

Ferguson and Wenger were not surprised by Ye Qiu's series of actions, because Ye Qiu understood football very well. All the football club owners in the world, and even the decision-makers, no one knew football better than Ye Qiu. Even the former football superstars of Bayern Munich.

Therefore, they were not surprised at all by Ye Qiu's generous investment and forward-looking decision-making.

It's just not surprising that they felt threatened more or less, because this also meant that Ye Qiu was leading Tottenham Hotspur forward in a big stride, and they even vaguely had the prospect of becoming the first team in the Premier League. strength and influence.

With time, the title of Premier League giants is no longer out of reach for them, but within reach.

(End of this chapter)