Chapter 53: Data Analysis
Frederick's voice was too loud, and his voice was heard throughout the floor.
Zhang Yang listened to the door several times, and the corners of his mouth were grinning, and then he took a long breath, adjusted his mentality and emotions, and knocked on the door hard.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”
The sound of a huge wooden plank crashing immediately attracted everyone in the room. Frederick's throat finally rested.
Grigory cleared his throat, "Please come in!" ”
Zhang Yang walked in upright, with a smile on his face, as if he was in a good mood, but everyone in the room knew that the knock on the door just now was definitely a reminder and protest to Frederick to read the small report.
Zhang Yang glanced at Frederick.
Frederick was a little embarrassed, no matter how bad things people said, it was not a glorious thing to be caught by the people at the time, but he quickly adjusted his mood and put on a cheeky attitude of 'what Lao Tzu said'.
Everyone else held back laughter.
"Ahem......"
Gregory coughed lightly a few times, slightly relieving the awkward atmosphere and drawing everyone's attention, and then he got down to business, "Now I call you here, I have an important matter to discuss. ”
Everyone became serious.
"You should all know that the club's financial situation has not been good lately and we have a £1.5 million bank debt due which we have to pay by February."
"So, I'm sorry, Denis." Gregory looked at Wise, "I can't give you transfer funds this winter. ”
Denise Wise nodded when he heard this, he had already prepared in his heart.
Millwall is so poor!
In the London region, a place where football is glorious, there are a large number of top teams, Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur and Fulham, four teams almost monopolized London, and there are several small clubs in the same class as Millwall, Watford, Charlton, Crystal Palace, West Ham United, etc.
Millwall has a 100-year history, but it has always faced fierce competition.
This competition is mainly reflected in the fan competition.
The competition for fans is at a disadvantage, and the lack of fan support will directly affect the club's finances.
In the 21st century, the commercialization of football has developed rapidly, but Millwall has never entered the top flight, needless to say that in the whole of England, the whole of London, even in the Millwall area and the surrounding area, the development of the club has been somewhat stagnant.
At present, the market value of the entire Millwall club is only about 8 million pounds, the club is burdened with a lot of debts, and the only visible asset is Neil Stadium.
It would be almost impossible for such a team to come up with funds during the winter transfer period.
What Grigory had to say was not just that there was no money to transfer, otherwise he wouldn't have to call everyone up, and after he finished talking about no transfer fee, he continued, "We need to sell the player to raise funds. ”
"Sell players?"
Wise, Frederick, and Zhang Yang are all a little unacceptable, Millwall is still in the relegation zone, and if the main players are sold, whether the team can be relegated has definitely become a problem.
Grigory saw everyone's surprise and sighed slightly, "I can't help it, the club's situation is like this, we need to prepare funds, otherwise the debt will expire, and it will be a big trouble for the bank to collect the money." ”
Gregory refers to the audit.
If the debt is due and the debt is not repaid for a long time, the bank has the right to send someone to check the assets of the Millwall Club, and then all the debts will be exposed in front of the media and the public.
Now Millwall's economic situation is basically 'tearing down the east wall and making up the west wall', if all debts are exposed, it may face large-scale debt collection, not to mention that there will be a lot of trouble, in case it affects the team's results, so that the team can not complete the relegation, and the club can almost only face bankruptcy.
In comparison, selling a key player doesn't seem like a big deal.
Then the few people began to talk.
Gregory asked Wise to say that he could consider selling players, but as the leader of the team, he definitely didn't want to sell the main players, and Wise was talking about players in the corners.
Gligory's answer, of course, was no.
Those players simply don't sell for much money, and by the end of the season, the club will even consider letting them leave on a free transfer in order to reduce their salary spending.
This made Wise very difficult.
There are only a few valuable players in the club, they are all the main players, the backbone of the team in the league, and it is too difficult to decide which one to sell.
Eventually, Wise came up with two names.
One is Jody Morris, who is the core of the team's midfield, Millwall's most valuable player, worth more than three million pounds, and it can be said that one Morris is the top half of the team.
If Jody Morris is sold, the club will certainly have no problem paying off the debt, but without the core of the midfield, it is not certain what level the team will be able to perform.
Wise's idea is that as long as he plays more, he can also make up for the absence of Jody Morris.
Anyone else knows what he thinks, and they probably won't be too optimistic.
Wise was a big star in the past, not now, and his age was there, making it difficult to play 90 minutes, and he didn't run much on the court.
Jody Morris, on the other hand, is a player in his prime who has played for Millwall in a row and played the whole game, with a high level of technical prowess, a strong level and a lot of experience.
If it weren't for the lack of chance, he was more than capable of going to the top flight.
Compared to the two, Morris clearly wins.
The other is striker Scott Dobby, the former West Bromwich Albion striker, who joined Millwall in the summer for a whopping £2 million transfer.
So far, Scott Dobby has not played well, only contributing one goal to the team, and the penalty kick in the last game was kicked off, but Wise believes that Dobby just did not adapt to Millwall's environment and will definitely get better and better in the future.
If Scott Dobby is sold, who will be able to score for Millwall in the second half of the fixture? He doesn't have the ability to replace a striker.
With that in mind, Wise ranked Scott Dobby behind Jody Morris.
Wise named the two players, and everyone began to study them together.
Jody Morris?
Scott Dobby?
It was a difficult choice, both of them were very important to Millwall, and several people discussed and discussed to no avail.
Wise is one who doesn't want to sell.
Grigory is leaning towards selling Jody Morris because Morris is worth more money, and Scott Dobby has just joined the team, and selling now is tantamount to admitting that the transfer has failed.
Frederick didn't even have a tendency, he talked about Jody Morris indispensable, Scott Dobby could perform better, and then he talked about how important the two were to the team, and what the consequences would be if they sold one of them, and the whole room couldn't understand what he was trying to say.
Ebenezer just listened quietly, with a faint smile on his face, and a look of 'which player to sell has nothing to do with me'.
Zhang Yang is a complete outsider.
He has only come to the club for the second time, and he is only a 'match coach', and he can't say which player to sell.
Choosing one or the other is often tough.
After a few people pondered and discussed for a long time, they still couldn't pay attention, and Ebenezer couldn't help but say, "You don't want to ask Zhang's opinion?" He's the match coach and he's in charge of leading the team with Dennis, so I think his opinion is important as well. ”
Several people in the room looked at Zhang Yang.
Frederick said disdainfully, "He just came to the club, he can't even recognize the player's name, what advice can he have." ”
Wise didn't speak.
Gregory asked, "Zhang, what do you think?" Scott, Jody, which one do you pick? ”
Zhang Yang had already thought about it just now, but he felt that there was no room for speech, and when he heard Grigory ask, he said, "If I had to choose, I think selling Scott Dobby would have less impact on the team." ”
"Why?"
"Because Scott Dobby wasn't doing well." Zhang Yang began to speak with statistics, "If I'm not mistaken, from August to now, Scott Dobby has made 12 starts in the league, 3 substitutes, and played nearly 1,200 minutes in total, but he has only scored one goal!" Just one ball! It can be said that the team's current bottom of the league table is also related to Scott Dobby's poor performance, and if he can score a few more, maybe the team will not be so low in the table. ”
Wise couldn't help but say, "But I've said it all, he probably just doesn't fit in......"
"Probably?" Zhang Yang asked, "Are you sure he will be able to adapt in the future?" What if he doesn't fit in all season? ”
Wise pursed the corners of his lips.
There are many factors that contribute to a player's poor performance, and no one can be sure that Scott Dobby will perform well next.
Zhang Yang let everyone digest what he just said, and continued, "I chose Scott Dobby for another reason. I've looked at Scott Dobby's profile, he's not that kind of talent, he's got his start in the lower leagues, first Carlisle United, a team whose names are hard to remember, and then he went to West Bromwich Albion, who was 23 at the time, and West Bromwich Albion played for four seasons and played with him in the Premier League for two seasons. ”
Zhang Yang paced around the room and said slowly, "In his first Premier League season, he made 31 appearances for West Bromwich Albion and scored five goals, and the goal efficiency was not high. ”
'Two years later, last season, he only made five appearances, and it wasn't because of injury or other force majeure, it was just because of poor performance and West Bromwich Albion lost his place.
'I said he's not a genius and it's true he could play in West Bromwich Albion in the Championship, but if there is a choice, West Bromwich Albion won't use him.
'At the age of 23, he scored just 10 goals in 43 Championship appearances, and he hasn't scored more than five goals in the last few seasons. Now that he's over 28 years old, a player who is almost 30 years old, and he's already starting to decline, who expects him to have a second life in his career without adapting to Millwall? ”
After Zhang Yang finished speaking, everyone in the room was silent.
After about half a minute, Grigory clapped his hands, and the others applauded whether they wanted to or not.
Ebenezer gave Zhang Yang a thumbs up.
Grigory turned to Frederick and said, "Zhang can tell such accurate figures, do you still think he didn't work hard?" ”
Frederick remained silent.
He couldn't help it.
Just now, Zhang Yang just used data to analyze Scott Dobby, and he didn't have any future, but even he didn't know that the data was clear, and it would definitely be the next effort to remember this.