Coventry is less than 160 kilometres from London and can be reached in about 45 minutes by car. If you take the train way, because of the direction of the railway, it will not save too much time, but it can save a lot of energy. As an excellent late-stage lazy cancer patient (except for taking care of his daughter), Li Mudi's choice is obvious, and he still failed to get a driver's license.

As a valuable male human being, he has not had any preference for cars since he was a child, and even some dislikes, he can obviously be regarded as an outlier, so after adulthood, there are obviously countless opportunities to get a driver's license, but it has never been considered, which is still relatively rare in the Celestial Empire, where almost every post-80s generation can drive today, and it is even more strange in Europe and the United States.

When he coached the Torino team, in order to travel for himself, Li Mudi also hired a bodyguard and driver Forcina, but when he left Italy, he also terminated his contract normally, because in addition to staying on the farm in Mallorca, he traveled around the world, and no longer needed a special driver.

But the birth of his daughter still changed the habit he originally thought had been ingrained, because he often had to go to the business district to buy some baby products, and the paparazzi in the UK were too annoying, making it extremely inconvenient to take public transportation, so Li Mudi moved the idea of taking the car book.

It's just that this country's road test is the strictest in the world, and various regulations make the Arsenal manager, who has never touched the steering wheel, directly become a mentally retarded child, and basically has been declared disqualified just after hitting the road.

According to rumors on the Internet that I don't know whether it is reliable or not, in 2010, 300 people from all over the UK took their tenth road test, and the final pass rate was less than one-third, which is very scary! It's no wonder that the UK has one of the fewest traffic accidents in the world, and it's a very different world from some of the places where road killers run the ground.

After three attempts, Li Mudi officially announced that he had basically lost his life to such a thing as a driver's license, and began to consider hiring a new driver, but before, he still had to rely on planes or trains for longer journeys.

After meeting up with Raul, the two men drove to the Coventry club's home and held a meeting with all the top management in the afternoon to discuss the team's development plans for the first season after changing the behind-the-scenes owner.

Because it is necessary to complete the run-in work on the Arsenal side as soon as possible, after providing a few suggestions to Hierro and others on recruitment, Li Mudi has never been distracted by the operation of Coventry's side, because the general plan has been determined in several previous collective exchanges, as long as it is implemented.

However, the various problems in the actual operation are far from being fully prepared when talking on paper, and the difficulty of running a football club that is already very mature in all aspects is naturally not comparable to the video games that can be played well by sitting in front of the computer and clicking the mouse.

From this meeting, he can also clearly find that there are some gaps between them, the new senior management of the club, which is composed of many Real Madrid celebrities, and the original staff of Coventry, in many business ideas and the courage to do things, which makes the development speed of the club always in a less than ideal state, which makes Hierro and others who hope to show their strength feel helpless.

Of course, these are not too big problems, and it is normal for Spaniards and British, new and old employees to have some problems in thinking and getting along with each other. Generally speaking, with the increase of contact time with each other, it is basically possible to coexist with river crabs. Even in the worst-case scenario, the CEO in charge of personnel is hired by the new boss after he takes office, and it is natural that he will make adjustments.

Therefore, Li Mudi did not pay attention to these situations at all, and the main purpose of his rush from London was to take a closer look at the strength of this team, and in addition, to listen to the club's development progress in youth training.

As mentioned before, the competitive level of the Coventry first team is not outstanding, and in the predictions of the outside world, it is only about three or four places above the relegation circle, and there are worries about relegation. There are two main reasons for this result, one is that the team's hematopoietic ability is not strong, and it has been cultivated in history - well, it seems that there are really no bulls in the ancestors, so embarrassing! The veteran qualification team, which has been established since 1883, has not even had a famous name, and it is also drunk!

(PS: Robbie Keane debuted at Wolves Academy and was 19 years old when he joined Coventry; Sturridge has only been in Coventry's Under-18s squad for one year and is therefore not eligible to be part of the team's academy. It's just that even if these two people can be regarded as cultivated by this team, this grade is too lo, and it is all tears to talk about it. ）

As for the second reason, the previous club management is short-sighted, although the academy is already very bad, but it is inevitable that there will be occasional blind cats and dead rats, and some talented seedlings can be signed. It's just that former Coventry City chairman Ray Ranson and his team didn't pay enough attention to those hard-won future stars, and easily let go of the team's future under the lure of other teams to shell out a little pound.

The most infuriating thing is that the departure of these good seedlings did not bring any decent returns to the Sky Blue Army, and it can even be said to be a serious "asset sale".

Charlie McCann, a versatile midfielder hailed by the media as an "incredible football talent", was poached by Manchester United, and because it was an under-15 transfer, the Red Devils only needed to pay a development fee; Midfielder Ben Stevenson, who has been a regular in the team since the age of 19, was sold to Wolves for a transfer fee of just £600,000; In the 2016-17 season of the English Championship (English League Championship, abbreviated as EFL. Held annually in the final of England's third to fifth divisions, young striker George Thomas, who scored the winning goal to help his team beat Oxford United to win the trophy, moved to Leicester City on a free transfer, leaving not a penny for his old club.

In terms of transfer investment, Coventry City has maintained a record of zero for five consecutive years, and all the new signings are either free to join or are on loan from other teams, and the quality difference can be imagined.

I can't cultivate a good youth training, and occasionally there are a few players with better potential who can't keep or don't want to keep at all, and it is the most money-saving operation method in terms of recruitment, and the team's results can really get better.

Therefore, after Li Muddy became the de facto owner of this team, the first thing he thought of was to follow the strategy he implemented during his tenure in charge of the Torino team - while increasing the investment in the club's youth training, he went to England to poach teams at all levels, and tried to use a large number of "second-hand goods" to respond to emergencies before his real youth players grew up.

It's just that although the plan is good, it is extremely difficult to operate in reality.

Improving the quality of the academy is a good thing to say, as long as you can continue to spend money on it, the hardware facilities will soon reach the world-class level. As for the coaches, it is not too difficult, Hierro and others have enough connections in Spain, coupled with Li Mudi's plug-in, it is quite easy to hire some outstanding youth coaches. The most troublesome is the selection of young players, after all, although the football population in the UK is among the highest in the world, but the competition is also fierce, but as long as it can provide better treatment, it is still attractive for families with children aged 8-12 who have not yet fully demonstrated their potential.

Therefore, Li Mudi has little to worry about the development of this aspect, and there will always be a harvest day, but it is just a matter of time sooner or later.

The question that made him scratch his head actually appeared in the second plan, because the list he handed to Hierro with the names of all the current English players under the age of 21 and with a potential of more than 140 in the scouting tool was almost unsuccessful, which made it a little difficult for the new Gunners coach to accept that he had previously been invincible in this regard.

But after considering some of the circumstances they were facing, he could not vent the resentment he had pent up, because the difficulties of the task were far greater than he had previously anticipated.

If the distribution of potential demons in Italian football today is: Juventus dominates, Torino is catching up, Milan is stable, other teams are extremely important, and if they want to poach, they must pay a lot of real money, then the situation in the UK is basically the same, and the young players with excellent development prospects are basically in the hands of several Premier League giants, especially Manchester City, Liverpool, Tottenham and Chelsea. The difference is that it will be difficult for others to poach until these teams completely abandon those young players.

Thanks to the changes in the business philosophy of various clubs and the introduction of various favorable policies of the Football Association, England's national youth teams at all levels have become champions since 2016, winning one U20 World Cup, two U19 European Championships, one U17 World Cup and one U17 European Championship, which can be said to dominate the world football at the age of 21.

A number of youngsters, including Manchester City striker Ben Knight, central midfielder Tommy Dow, striker Bobby Duncan, Liverpool striker Curtis Jones, and defender Matt O'Leary, have reached 160 or even more than 170 potential in the FM system, not to mention young talents such as Joe Gomez, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Josh Temon and Callum Gribbin, who have already secured a solid position in their respective teams and are gradually starting to transform into star status.

The teams with these good seedlings basically adopt an extremely protective policy, even those weak teams will not choose to sell such a future core easily, unless the giants come up with a very considerable transfer fee, otherwise they are more willing to cultivate their own talents and then sell them for a high price.

Coventry's strategy to attract other clubs has failed for the time being, mainly because they have not been able to come up with transfer fees that would impress other clubs. In addition, the temporary situation of being in the third division is not very attractive to the player himself and the team he belongs to, and even the plan to implement the loan of a few potential stocks and wait for the opportunity to buy them out has failed.

For more than a month, only two youngsters with a potential value of around 145 have become part of the Sky Blues' academy, which was only achieved by Hierro by taking a premium acquisition. This reality forced Li Mudi, who was leading Arsenal to a pre-season warm-up game, had to change his previous plan and turn his attention to absorbing potential demons outside the British Isles.

Affected by the Premier League's hukou and labor certification policies, as early as 2008, the transfer value of British players has almost doubled on the basis of the already high level. In addition, after Brexit in 2016, the FA made new adjustments to the league's foreign aid policy, so that the transaction price of local players has developed in the direction of breaking through the sky, which directly caused the number of foreign aid in the lower leagues to increase rapidly, because small teams are almost unable to buy British players.

Unlike the top-flight "hukou" policy, teams below the Championship are much more relaxed in terms of foreign aid restrictions, and before 2019, the rules were that these teams did not need to submit a squad for the whole season, but only that of the 11 starting 11 and seven substitutes for each game, there must be at least six "hukou", which means that they can have an unlimited number of non-British players if conditions allow.

However, since last summer, the FA has changed this rule, raising the number of "household registers" to eight, which has increased the restrictions on the use of foreign aid by these teams, but there has been no change in the introduction of foreign aid.

It is with this in mind that Li Mudi decided to dispose of all the small number of foreign players in the Coventry squad and replace them with a new batch of potential foreign players, which can strengthen the team's talent pool and make up for the vacancies that cannot be filled by a large number of local talents.

Specifically, on the one hand, it can ensure the future performance of the team, and on the other hand, it can also cash out at the right time, earn a huge difference from it, and provide sufficient funds for future localization.

This strategy is obviously a curve to save the country adopted by Li Mudi in desperation, and in the context of the Premier League's restrictions on foreign aid will only become more and more harsh, he must pave the way for the team to rush to the Premier League in advance. Otherwise, once the FA will implement a labor certification policy for all non-British players in the future, as expected by the media, then Coventry, which cannot compete with those giants in the short term and meet the conditions for introduction, can only temporarily rely on the "All England class" selected by the giants to support, which is too passive.

So for the day that may or may not come, the Blues' transfer strategy began to take place in an unusual way in the summer of 2020. And it is in this environment that one by one, foreign players who have been identified as having great potential in the FM system have begun to arrive at the team's training base, including Li Tenglong, who has already made one appearance on behalf of the senior men's football team of the Celestial Empire.

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