"I'm really a bit embarrassed by the face of a reborn person, even if the starting point and foundation are so good. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info" Arthur sighed as he lay on the queen bed in the luxurious suite of the Hilton Hotel.

After coming to New York for more than a month, Arthur naturally came here for the money in this year's Internet bubble.

As early as the beginning of the rebirth, Arthur set his sights on this year's Internet bubble.

On March 10, 2000, the NASDAQ stock index reached its peak of 5,132 points, and the dot-com bubble began to burst as the financial situation of various Internet companies deteriorated, financial fraud, and executives cashed out. On April 3, 2000, the Microsoft monopoly case was pronounced, declaring that the concept of "market size" pursued by the new economic model was illegal, which led to a stampede in the subsequent NASDAQ market, and accelerated the bursting of the NASDAQ bubble due to the NASDAQ's investment leverage function. Cisco's stock fell 90 percent, and Microsoft posted its biggest one-day decline.

In the next two years, the Nasdaq fell from 5100 to 1100. The price-to-earnings ratio fell sharply from 78 times in 1999 to 23 times in 2012. In 1999, there were 457 IPOs in the United States, most of which were related to technology stocks, and 117 of them doubled their shares on the day they went public. By 2001, the number of IPOs had plummeted to 76, while no company had doubled on the day it went public.

"How can it be so difficult to take advantage of this opportunity to make a lot of money even if you hire a professional team, even if you have the advantage of foresight." Arthur tapped his forehead with some dissatisfaction.

Of course, if Arthur's appearance is seen by other elites on Wall Street now, I don't know how many people will want to pick up the heavy objects around them and knock Arthur on the head.

This time in the stock market, Arthur began to lay out a year ago, and now he has begun to enjoy the harvest results, investing no less than one million dollars before and after, employing a senior team of Wall Street to operate, using ultra-high capital leverage, up to now, Arthur has made a profit of nearly forty from less than $1 million!

This means that in one year, Arthur turned less than a million dollars in his hands into nearly 40 million dollars!

In addition to caring about obscene novels, this data is worth boasting about!

"But now is not the time to completely end it, this Internet bubble is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, by the time of the summer transfer period, it should be able to be almost 50 million euros, right?" Arthur thought to himself.

"However, by January, it is estimated that some of it will be spent on winter transfers." Arthur clearly still has some dissatisfaction with the squad, especially the strikers.

"Wait, next summer!" Arthur suddenly remembered something, sat up straight from the big bed, and laughed, "How did I forget that!" Ha ha! It's not a dream to take advantage of that thing and double it for 50 million euros! ”

"Hahaha......" Immediately, in the luxurious suite on the top floor of the Hilton, Arthur's happy laughter sounded.

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After returning to Blackburn Rovers from New York, Arthur's first target on his return to the club was not the first team, but the Academy.

Blackburn Rovers in October, half a day of rain and rain, half a day of haze, and every day of the Blackburn Academy ended with a chorus of "1, 2, 3, Blackburn Rovers".

"Edwin, are you still used to being here?" Arthur asked the hook-nosed man beside him with some fancy hair.

"Aside from the fact that it's too cloudy here, I still like it here and the little guys." The answer to Arthur was none other than his big-money youth director, Edwin Berkamp.

Edwin Berkamp, this name is unfamiliar to many veteran fans, and even in later generations on the Internet, it is rare to find information about this name, but in fact, the status and role of this old man is a real big man in the European football industry.

Because he created the new world of Dortmund again!

As one of the two giants of the Bundesliga, Dortmund is not as rich as Bayern Munich, and countless Dortmund players have been poached by the other side over the years, but Dortmund's strength has not diminished at all, and frequently threatens Bayern's dominance, which is inseparable from their strong youth system.

Dortmund has been able to stay behind in the confrontation with Bayern for so many years, precisely because of their complete youth training system, even if a leading star is poached, such as Gotze, they will quickly have a new person to fill the gap.

And the Dortmund academy was able to do this because of their academy director, Edwin Berkamp.

Therefore, after deciding to focus on building the team's youth academy, Arthur's first decision was to poach Edwin Berkamp, who had served in different positions at Borussia Dortmund since 1987, with a high salary, and let the latter take full charge of the club's youth system.

After many communications, negotiations, and even arguments with Arthur, Arthur and Edwin Berkamp finally reached a consensus on several basic points about youth training:

1. Material selection: Priority for Lancashire products

There are currently eight teams in Blackburn's youth system, but Arthur and Edwin Bercamp have that not enough, and their plan is to form a total of 12 teams from the Under-8 team to the Under-19 team, including more than 240 cadets.

The order of priority for selecting players is: Blackburn Rovers> Lancashire> England> within the United Kingdom> worldwide, mainly Brazil and Argentina.

2. Training

The players do not do physical and tactical training before the age of 15, they all train with the ball, and the early stage is to train the young players' ability to control the ball. Players from all echelons of the club only train for a maximum of one and a half hours a day, and are not allowed to train for more than one and a half hours.

In Arthur's previous life, many so-called experts in the country believed that football and training should be played and trained endlessly every day, but what was the result? Go without saying.

Players in the Under-8 and Under-9 age groups train three times a week, plus one game on Saturday. The Under-12 and above teams train four times a week, and the Under-16 and above teams train five times a week, and like Blackburn Rovers, they all have one game every weekend.

Young players have summer vacations, generally 30 days above U16, and the younger the age, the longer the vacation, which can be as long as 45 or 50 days.

3. Life and Learning

All the kids who train at Blackburn Rovers don't have to pay a penny!

To be honest, this is the point that Arthur envies the most of European football teenagers, because in the previous life, only rich second-generation and debt-indebted working-class children were able to join those domestic football schools.

Blackburn Academy operates in two ways. On the one hand, children who live in Blackburn or Lancashire and go to school and live with their families like all children, and the club will rent a car to pick them up from school for training and send them back in the evening.

It's a lot of money to do it every day, but Arthur thinks it's worth it because he values the impact of homeschooling on his children.

On the other hand, children who do not live in Lancashire, as young as 12 years old, live in a rented apartment with the club, and the club takes care of all living expenses and school fees, including having a teacher attend classes in the apartment.

Because the growth of children needs the care of their parents, for some young players who have left home, the club will also provide jobs for their parents, so that children can grow up with their parents.

The school attaches great importance to education, and this is also an aspect that parents attach great importance to. The camp will punish children who do not study hard or do not respect their teachers, which ensures the children's academic performance to a certain extent.

If you don't fall behind in your studies, you can go to college if you can't play football, which allows parents to rest assured that they can hand over their children to the academy.

Fourth, Blackburn's unique philosophy of nurturing talents: play good football. Read good books. Be a good person

Blackburn's philosophy is not just to develop players, it's to develop people.

Arthur, who had been growing up under the red flag in his previous life, took great care to develop them into good people, to be athletes, not just players.

Blackburn Rovers has three principles in the game: the first is that the game must be sportsmanlike, gentlemanly, less fouls, less cards;

The second is that the team has to be more aggressive, more constructive than the opponent, we have to play better than the opponent;

In the end, it's the win.

"Edwin Berkamp, I'll leave it to you, I'm relieved!" Arthur patted the young man, who was more than twice his age, and moved on to the next topic, "How are we preparing for our new academy?" ”

Arthur's new Blackburn Rovers Academy Centre, which Arthur is building at Jack Walker Stadium, covers a total of 6,000 square metres and includes training grounds and well-equipped medical facilities.

In the new academy, there will be an Arthur who "copied" the youth weapon of the later generation of Dortmund - the cage. This is a completely high-tech product, in a square cage of about 400 square meters, there are two layers of one meter square lattice on the four sides, and the lattice is equipped with sensors. The cage training can be controlled by humans, and the machine will shoot the ball in four directions.

The launch is random, and the player in the field cannot predict which direction the ball will come from, so he has to stop the ball after receiving the ball and shoot the ball into a grid that is also randomly lit.

Players who are at least 14 years old can receive this kind of training, and the technical ability of the players will be improved dramatically after training in the cage.

The young players' dormitory is just across the basket, and the training ground can be seen from the window, and in order to ensure the nutrition of the players, Arthur is also going to hire two chefs to take care of the players' diet.

The composition of the coaching staff of Arthur's youth team is also different, in addition to professional football coaches, there is also a psychological coach, after all, any successful player must have excellent psychological qualities in addition to football skills.

"I hope that all the heroes of the world will be in my place!" Arthur stood on the top of the academy and whispered in anticipation.