Zahavi nodded, "Trust me, Daniel is here with sincerity!" ”

"You came to the team and I didn't just want to play to your strengths, but I also wanted to help you grow! You have the potential to be a top-three player in the world, but you also need the right guidance! As you know, I've only been in charge of Crystal Palace for more than half a season, but I have a reputation and a track record in the use of young players! Wen Sheng also boasted about himself.

"You come to the team, you can play multiple positions, multiple roles, I don't want you to be a single passer, but I want you to grow with the team and one day be the brain of the team."

Wen Sheng began to talk to De Bruyne and the others in the room about how he used De Bruyne.

He had been talking for a long time, and De Bruyne had listened very carefully, and he was now more and more motivated.

For nearly two hours, Wen Sheng was speaking.

De Bruyne gradually became less shy and began to ask his own questions, the child has his own understanding of football, and his own ideas.

After a lot of saliva, Wen Sheng finally achieved De Bruyne's satisfaction, and De Bruyne himself gave Wen Sheng a clear reply, saying that he was willing to go to Crystal Palace and play under Wen Sheng.

Bidding farewell to the De Bruyne family, Wensheng and Zahavi drove to Ghent, where they have to return to London today, and Wensheng has an important meeting tomorrow morning.

Sitting in the car, Wen Sheng rubbed his eyes tiredly, "I hope my brain cells today are not wasted in vain!" ”

"Definitely not!" Zahavi admires Wen Sheng, says a lot, and has his own unique views on De Bruyne's future development, of course, he doesn't know that Wen Sheng is just copying Gua Shuai's use of De Bruyne.

"Hopefully, as I said, we lack a passer and a playmaker, and I think this kid can help us a lot!" Wen Sheng let out a long breath and said, "The rest is up to you!" ”

"Don't worry, it's on me, as long as you don't forget to give me the hard money!" Zahavi is full of confidence, his task is to work with De Coste to lower the price, Wensheng asked for this deal his bottom line is a total price of 9 million pounds, Zahavi and De Coste can reduce the price, they can get as much profit.

This low price is actually relatively high, but it can't be helped, De Bruyne himself is very valued by Genk, and Genk is not a dirt bun, so it is not so easy to deal with.

……

The next day, Wensheng's hotel in London and the sales director of Prozone, a football statistics company, were Chad. Clement met, this meeting Wensheng was an offer, and Clement planned to promote the product and cooperate with Wensheng.

Not only is this gentleman looking for Wensheng, but also statDNA, matchanalysis, amisco and other data companies have had salespeople call Wensheng, hoping to cooperate with Wensheng.

At present, in world football, the coach's fine use of data is far from reaching the level of later generations, these data companies have just started, and there are really not many coaches willing to cooperate with them, and now they are looking for a way around, and Wen Sheng, a young and newly promoted Premier League manager, has become the object of their private pursuit.

In their thinking, using big data to help the team, young coaches like Wen Sheng may have a much higher acceptance of brains, while those old men may not trust big data, and some data is not useful at all in the eyes of many coaches.

Wen Sheng is indeed different, he has long planned to upgrade the team's data analysis team, which was also in his summer planning schedule.

Of course, he is not the first to eat crabs, in fact, Big Sam Allardyce worked with Prozone when he was in charge of Bolton, and the effect is not bad.

Cooperation needs to find skilled people, so Wen Sheng accepted Clement's invitation to have lunch together.

After lunch, in his hotel room, Clement began to describe the benefits of big data in football to Wensheng, giving an example. Examples of corner kicks.

Football fans in England have an inexplicable fascination with corner kicks, whenever the team gets a corner, the fans seem to see a very rare opportunity to score, inexplicably excited and inexplicably excited, many coaches attach great importance to corner kicks and other set-piece tactics.

However, data analysis shows that the attacker only has a 20.5 per cent chance of converting a corner into a shot, and then 89 per cent of the shots are squandered by the attacker, with Clement saying that the average number of goals per corner is actually 0.022.

Wen Sheng really didn't know that this was the case.

"Daniel, you know Pep Guardiola's Barca, right?! They rarely take corners straight into the box, but are used to using short corners to reorganize the attack! Clement mentioned Barca.

Wen Sheng suddenly remembered, it seemed that it was indeed the case.

"Regarding the corner kick, Mourinho once couldn't understand why our fans here are inexplicably excited!" Clement cited Mourinho, who is now in a mess.

Jose Mourinho did ask reporters on one occasion: "Count on your fingers, there are a few countries around the world where fans give almost the same applause for corners and goals?!" Only here, only in England will such a situation happen! ”

Wen Sheng didn't know this story, but he couldn't help but be a little unhappy to see Clement blowing big data like a flower.

So he said to Clement, "I have an example here, too!" Charles. Rip ......"

"Daniel, Daniel...... that's just a misunderstanding! It's someone else who misunderstands Mr. Rip's data analysis and words! "Clement certainly couldn't have known the name of this man, Charles. Rip is technically their grandfather.

Wen Sheng learned about the origin of the theory of long passing and hanging in English football because he was concentrating on tactical research and study in his previous life, and the beginning of the story was this Charles. Rip.

Charles. Rip was born in Cornwall in 1904, the son of an accountant who was influenced by Arsenal captain Charles Brown. Jones's inspiration sparked, why not combine accounting with a football interest to start a career?!

The idea was unique and avant-garde, and Rip began to work on statistics, which eventually formed the basis for an academic dissertation, "The Strength and Luck of Soccer", which had a profound impact.

The analysis of the data revealed many mysteries of football, such as one in the paper: 30% of the ball recaptured in the opponent's penalty area created something that hit the goal frame; And almost half of the goals scored came from possession that was recaptured in this way.

One more thing: football is a sport where possession is constantly exchanged, and most possession ends after a pass.

Probably referring to these two ideas, the FA's technical director at the time, Charles . Hughes was deeply influenced to create his own school of football theory, POMO (Positions of Maximum Opportunity), which means "Positions of Maximum Opportunity Theory". Hughes discussed football theory with Britain's best missile experts in the '60s, and he concluded that the simplest was the most effective. If there are more than 3 passes before a shot, the efficiency of the football will be greatly reduced.

As a result, England's famous long ball rushing tactics were born, no need for useless possession, just need to pass the ball into the opponent's box as soon as possible, and then shoot.

His theory actually brought a lot of damage to English football, resulting in worse and worse ball control ability, more and more simple tactics, and a lot of physical energy consumption of players in the process of chasing possession opponents, which is a weak chicken in European competition.

However, Liverpool, which dominated England in that era, did not have any traces of POMO theory under the leadership of Shankly and Paisley, and Nottingham Forest, which won the Champions League for a second time, did not have any traces of this theory.

Nottingham Forest's greatest manager, Clough, even satirized the POMO theory, "If the ball is flying in the sky, why not build grass into the sky?!" ”

As soon as Wen Sheng pouted his ass, Clement knew that this classic story was going to come out, so he hurriedly defended.