Chapter 594: Me, That's Me
Near noon, a Lufthansa Airbus plane slowly landed at Munich Airport. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
In order to hide people's eyes, he specially sat in the first class cabin in the cold, accompanied by his companions Cantarero and Sergio Garcia, and after getting off the plane, he got directly on the tarmac and got into the reception car specially arranged by Bayern Munich and left the airport.
He was greeted by German international Christian Nelinger, who has played for Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Kaiserslautern and is also the newly appointed Bayern Munich manager.
Although it was the first time to meet, Gao Han was famous, and he was the new coach of the team, Nelinger did not dare to slack off, and specially told the driver to go all the way south, pass through the Allianz Stadium, and then go to the Sebena training base.
Gao Han is a newcomer, and he is not familiar with the place, so he naturally arranged it with him.
Along the way, Nelinger gave an enthusiastic introduction to the traffic situation in Munich.
It turned out that Munich Airport was far away from the city, located in the northeastern suburbs, while the Allianz Arena was in the northern suburbs of the city, and the Sebena training base was in the southern suburbs of the city, which can be said to be far away.
Walking from the airport, you will soon reach the vicinity of the Allianz Arena, but you can only see the appearance of a white round of hovercraft in the distance, and you can't get any closer.
"That's the Allianz Arena, which we use with 1860 Munich, but we've always wanted to get a stake in 1860 Munich and use it as our exclusive home stadium. Sitting in the passenger seat, Nelinger pointed to the Allianz Arena and introduced.
"The exterior of the stadium is white now, but when it comes to the evening game, if we play ours, it will turn red, if it's Munich 1860, it's sky blue, it's very beautiful. β
"I've heard of this, but I haven't seen it yet. Gao Han replied with a smile.
Nelinger also looks proud, and the stadium is arguably one of the most fantastic in European football today.
Pass by the area of the Allianz Arena and continue south to the Sebena training base.
Gao Han is not in a hurry.
A few days ago, after he met Pochettino, the Bielsa protΓ©gΓ© agreed to coach the China City team on the spot, and even did not ask too much in terms of salary, and Gao Han officially signed a coaching contract with him yesterday.
Although Pochettino is still young and has no coaching experience, Gao Han is very optimistic about him, and if he can invite him to coach the China City team, he can be regarded as letting go of one thing in his heart, and the rest is to find a qualified operator for the team.
But this matter has been handed over to Mendes to be responsible.
After doing this, the China City team can finally relax for a while.
"By the way, Christian, how is Robben's transfer going?" asked Gao Han with concern.
Nelinger quickly turned back from the front row, "I don't know the specific situation, but I heard that it is going well, Chelsea have relented, and Mr. Hoeness will go to London to negotiate in person, there should be good news." β
Gao Han nodded, Chelsea was willing to relent, then the final obstacle was only the price difference between the two sides.
"Has Thomas arrived?" Gao Han asked again.
"It's here, it's at the Sebena training base. β
Gao Han snorted and said no more.
At the beginning, Gao Han agreed with the Bayern Munich Big Three to ask for an assistant coach who was familiar with the Bundesliga, and the Big Three began to look for them after returning to the Bundesliga, but they failed to find a suitable candidate.
The coach was met when he was in Covelciano and has been in contact since then, with Tuchel regularly consulting Gao Han on some issues, and even travelling to Milan twice in six months to learn and visit Inter Milan's training.
As a result, Hoeness got in touch with Tuchel, who agreed on the spot as soon as he heard that Gao Han was going to coach Bayern Munich and intended to invite him as an assistant coach.
Thomas Tuchel is a man with an unremarkable career resume, even in Germany, he may not even be a second-rate player, but he has a lot of coaching experience, not to mention that he is only 34 years old, but he has been in charge of the youth team in Stuttgart for five years, and in Augsburg for two years, as a youth team manager and assistant coach of the first team.
It can be said that Tuchel has a lot of coaching experience and is very familiar with the situation in the German league.
What's more, in many contacts, Alpine trusted Tuchel.
Sometimes, that trust is more important than anything else.
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The Sebena training base is located on the southern outskirts of Munich, two streets across the street, from the Munich 1860 training ground.
Along Sebena Strasse is a long row of three-storey low-rise buildings, where Bayern Munich is headquartered.
Since it was not the league and training camp, and it was noon, there was no one outside the gate of the office building.
The driver drove the car directly outside the gate, and after Neilinger beckoned Gao Han and the three to get out of the car, he went directly into the office building.
Inside the building, Beckenbauer and Rummenigge had already led the crowd there, and as soon as they saw the arrival of the high cold, they immediately greeted them.
"Welcome to Bayern Munich. Beckenbauer held out his hand from afar, laughing.
"Thank you, Franz. β
Beckenbauer immediately took the initiative to introduce Gao Han to the rest of the room, including Bayern Munich's financial director Carl Hopfner, scouting team leader Wolfgang Dremler, youth director Wiener Cohen, and a number of key members of the management and board of directors, especially Adidas CEO Herbert Heiner, who is the first vice chairman of the board.
After getting to know the senior management of Bayern Munich, Gao Han realized a very interesting phenomenon, that is, most of the core management of Bayern Munich are former retired stars, including the scouting team, youth department and technical department.
However, in some business departments, such as the Ministry of Finance and the Department of Commercial Operations, external professionals are employed, many of whom have been working for a long time, such as Finance Director Hopfner, who has been at the club for more than 20 years.
Gao Han has heard that Manchester United and Bayern Munich are two of the healthiest business benchmarks in European football, but the difference is that Manchester United is more focused on business, while Bayern Munich is more traditional.
Now, after getting to know the Gao Han of Bayern Munich, Gao Han also understands the meaning of this sentence.
At the very least, everyone present is someone who has a deep understanding of professional football, and many things are much easier and easier to communicate.
Bayern Munich attaches great importance to youth training and has a complete youth training echelon and talent training system, but in the Sebena training base, there are only eight fields in total, the first team occupies the best two, and the remaining five standard and one small field are all for the youth team, which is a bit crowded.
In response to Gao Han's doubts, Rummenigge said with a smile that the team has also noticed that it is considering building a youth training center, but this will require a lot of money, so it will take time to prepare.
"Actually, in our whole youth system, there are not many people who can come to Sebena to train, more of them are training in our 15 partner clubs, such as Unterhachen, who is our most important partner, and the youth training is doing quite well. β
Gao Han understands this youth training model, because it is also the mainstream in European football.
For example, in Inter Milan, there are dozens of youth training cooperative clubs throughout Italy.
So far, the China City team has been a youth training partner club of Atletico Madrid.
But what really attracted Gao Han was the slogan at the door of the academy.
"I, that's who I am. β
This sentence sounded simple, but it made Gao Han stop and ponder.
"It's '95, when we were pushing for academy reform, a slogan that Karl and Uli came up with, and we've been implementing it to this day. Beckenbauer introduced with a smile.
Gao Han smiled appreciatively at Rummenigge and nodded, but he was secretly sighing in his heart, people who know the ball are different in the end.
Many teams develop youth training, often focusing on building the best hardware facilities, poaching the best youth coaches, and finding the best youth directors, but it is easy to ignore one of the most important things, the concept.
Ideas sound like chicken soup for the soul, but in fact, it is the heart of coaching a club's academy, or it should be said to be the soul.
It is not difficult to build hardware facilities, youth coaches, etc., and it can be done by burning money, but it is very difficult to do this kind of thing, which not only affects the youth training of a club, but also affects the coaches here, and even affects every player trained here.
I am who I am.
This sounds like a no-nonsense statement, but in fact it reveals a maverick temperament that does not match the traditional giants of Bayern Munich.
Or rather, it's about emphasizing the personality of the players.
It's a century-old brand!
Gao Han thought with admiration in his heart.
Accompanied by a group of management, Gao Han toured the academy and first-team training facilities in Sebena before returning to the conference room in the office building, just as Uli Hoeness was calling from London.
"Uli asked me to convey it," Rummenigge looked at Gao Han with a smile, "He has already negotiated the last terms with Chelsea, and he will officially sign the contract this afternoon, 30 million euros, Robben belongs to us!"
When they heard the news, everyone applauded in unison.
Gao Han also secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as Luo Ben is in place, then most of his ideas can be realized.
Beckenbauer and others looked at Gao Han with a little relief, because they all knew that without Gao Han, they would not be able to convince Robben at all, because it was impossible for the Dutch Flyers to go to a team that could not play in the Champions League.
When Bayern Munich contacted the intermediary in private, Robben did not consider Bayern Munich at all, and in the end, it was Gao Han who persuaded the Dutch at Robben's wedding, which led to this transfer deal.
With Robben here, Bayern Munich is like a tiger in the new season.
'Well, Robben's move is gratifying, but we still need to keep up the good work. Beckenbauer said excitedly.
Everyone nodded and applauded.
"Next, let's talk about the restructuring ideas for this summer. Rummenigge said.
Everyone suddenly looked at Gao Han in unison.
For this kind of scene, Gao Han was already familiar with it, and smiled unhurriedly.
"Before I come up with an idea, I would like to take the liberty of asking, what is Bayern Munich's transfer budget this summer?"
Beckenbauer and Rummenigge looked at each other, and then at Hopfner.
"According to the decision of the board meeting, we can come up with a transfer budget of 100 million euros, which is already our limit. β
"What about the transfer income from the sale of players?"
"At your disposal. β
In other words, Bayern Munich's budget of 100 million is a net investment.
Everyone immediately looked at Gao Han with concern, because they knew that this transfer budget of 100 million was already the biggest gamble in Bayern Munich's history.
But it's not surprising, because Bayern Munich don't have a star who can handle it at the moment.
100 million, not too much, not too much, one Robben spent 30 million, and there are 70 million euros left.
But Gao Han thought about it a little in his heart, nodded and said: "Enough, I promise, after using up this 100 million, I will definitely create a European-level strong team for you." β