Millwall began work on the transfer.

Gregory trusted Zhang Yang very much, and he fully delegated power to Zhang Yang, only letting Ebenezer assist.

Ebenezer had no opinion.

Millwall is a small club, the division of work is not so clear, Ebenezer is the only manager with a lot of power, and he can also be said to be the CEO of the club, he has too many tasks to take over the transfer work at all.

If it weren't for Zhang Yang's lack of work experience, he wouldn't want to get involved at all.

This is also a benefit of small clubs.

In big clubs, the transfer work is very important, a summer transfer can involve tens of millions of pounds of funds, a little fraction is enough to eat and drink, the right to transfer work will naturally be fought for, Millwall is completely different, the transfer funds provided by the club are only 6.1 million pounds, which sounds like a lot, but for a team that has just risen to the Premier League and urgently needs to replenish the squad, it is needless to say that there is no need to say anything about oil and water, and they cannot bring in high-value players.

Zhang Yang's transfer power is in his hands, but he is actually a little at a loss about work.

Although he thought about how to make a supplementary arrangement for the formation, he still felt that it was a mess when he really wanted to start work, so he simply started from the most basic - carefully analyzing the current lineup.

Here's what needs to be done.

To compete in the Premier League, every position in the team must be carefully considered, and there can be no 'make-do' position, otherwise it is easy to be targeted by opponents.

There are too many places for Millwall to 'make do' right now.

The forward, midfield, and backfield are incomplete, and in terms of analyzing the three-line lineup, the midfield is relatively better, with Jody Morris in the middle of the midfield, David Livermore, Marvin Elliott, and Josh Simpson and Joey Healy on the wings.

Millwall are relatively complete only in midfield.

The forward line must be replenished.

Zhang Yang attaches great importance to the ability of the striker, because the level of the striker is directly related to the team's ability to break through the opponent's goal.

At present, on the front line, Braniff and Neil Harris can only be regarded as 'half a striker', and it is not necessary to say what can be played in the Premier League, so we must add a 'strong striker who can score goals'.

The back line is even worse.

There is only one Darren Ward in the entire back line who can have the level of 'English Super', and others such as Tim Clancy and Tony Clegg can only be used as substitutes at most.

The focus of the summer transfer is to add to the back line.

Zhang Yang set a goal.

Then the first transfer goal is to bring in a strong striker goalscorer, in addition, to bring in a good defender, at least two, a central defender, a right wing-back.

The goalkeeper is on the back burner and Graham is at a decent level that he doesn't need to be replaced.

When Zhang Yang thought about the goal, he began to study the players who played in various English teams, he mainly looked at the lower leagues, and most of the players who played in the Super League were too expensive and could be directly eliminated.

On a football data website, Zhang Yang quickly browsed through it, and then he found that he was thinking a little too much.

Zhang Yang originally thought that he would definitely see some familiar names, after all, he often watched football games and football news in his previous life, and some players who could play famous would have an impression, but he found that 99% of the players in England's leagues at all levels were very unfamiliar, and occasionally one percent appeared, and they were basically loan players from big clubs, either veterans who were about to retire, or they had already become famous.

He looked down from the second league, the first level.

The day's time was wasted on this, but there was no gain at all, so Zhang Yang finally found that there was not much point in doing this: players who can play famous in the future will either be famous or still in the youth teams of various clubs!

That's why!

There are many famous balloon stars, who also started from the lower leagues, but the proportion is relatively small.

This seems to be similar to the principle of social elite screening.

Grassroots people can also have a good future, but the proportion is too small, and those who come from high-level universities can easily rise to the top.

It's the same with football.

Starting from the lower leagues, it is equivalent to the grassroots class, some of them can play, but the proportion is too small, but the youth teams of those giant clubs have attracted countless talents to join, they would rather become professional players later, but also stay in the youth team of the giants, and when the youth team is out, they can play in the top league all of a sudden, which is almost equivalent to one step to the sky.

Most of the top players come from this background.

It's like David Beckham, who was born in Manchester United's youth team, Wayne Rooney who was born in Everton's youth team, Steven Gerrard who was born in Liverpool's youth team, and so on, most of the star players are from the youth teams of big clubs, and it is too difficult to find 'familiar names' in the squad of teams in the lower leagues.

Zhang Yang sighed.

He was about to close the web page when he clicked on the website of an unknown team, and the name of a player in the list on it immediately attracted attention.

"Jamie Vardy?"

"It's ...... Storz Bridge Steel? ”

Zhang Yang's brain is a little cloudy, Vardy is a very famous striker in the future, and he is the leading scorer of Leicester City who has created miracles to win the Premier League.

Is this Vardy Pivaldi?

Zhang Yang was not sure.

In the memory of his previous life, before entering Leicester City, Vardy could be described as 'unknown', but after that, he was out of control, so where did Vardy play before joining Leicester City?

It's a pity that there are no photos on the page.

The players of this kind of amateur league team, the website only counts the name, and there will be no photos at all.

Zhang Yang wrote it down.

In the afternoon, Ebenezer approached Zhang Yang and handed over a document, "The information you want!" ”

"So fast?" Zhang Yang was a little surprised.

Ebenezer explained, "It's just information about the youth team players at all levels of the English club and the players who are listed for sale in the transfer market. We'll have to wait for the information on the other leagues, I've already sent someone to collect it, but it will take a few days to collect it. ”

"It's a pity we didn't prepare for it."

Zhang Yang said with a little regret. The transfer work of other clubs starts in March and April, such as some big clubs, there are professional scouts responsible for collecting all kinds of information, which players perform well, will be recorded, what kind of players the manager needs, you can get the information provided by the scouts, and then you can also observe the performance of the players on the spot.

Millwall don't have that much system in place for the time being, and their transfers can only be made through information shared by various clubs.

"That's right." Zhang Yang took out a pen and paper, wrote the name of 'Jamie Vardy', as well as the name of the team of 'Storz Bridge Steel', and handed it to Ebenezer, "Help me check the performance of this player in the past few seasons, it is better to have a photo." ”

"Storz Bridge Steel? What team is this? ”

"An amateur league team."

Ebenezer tugged at the corners of his mouth, "Are you sure?" What quality players can an amateur league team have? ”

"Just help you check."

"Okay."

After Ebenezer left, Zhang Yang began to study the new information he had obtained.

This information has a lot of content, which lists the names of many players, including players listed for sale by professional league clubs at all levels from the Premier League to English Two, as well as the information of various well-known youth team players, and the youth team players have also been investigated.

There are nearly 20 pages of content in the information, Zhang Yang flipped through the pages one by one, only glanced at the names of the players, and immediately read the next one when he saw that he didn't have much impression.

Soon he found the name he was interested in --

Theo Walcott, who plays for Southampton's youth team, is 16 years and two months old.

Zhang Yang knew that Walcott was still in the 2006 World Cup, when Walcoat entered the England national team and caused a sensation, and the speed of his rocket-like rise was what people were concerned about.

After Walcoat entered the first-team team of Southampton, he was favored by Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger in only half a year and transferred to Arsenal, and then only played as a substitute for Arsenal once, and was quickly promoted to the England national team for the World Cup.

Walcott's performance later proved that it was indeed an 'exceptional' promotion.

It wasn't until 2008 that Walcott began to make his mark, constantly entering for Arsenal in all competitions, and before 2010, Walcott was not a regular Arsenal player, he was just a young fringe player in the team.

This is Walcott.

Presumably, Southampton also knew Theo Walcoat would be a future talent, and he was only 16 years old when he was close to making his first team for Southampton.

A talented striker of the future?

Zhang Yang thought about it and finally made a decision, "You can fight for it, but if the transfer fee is too high, forget it." ”

Walcoat is not a must-have player.

Perhaps Walcott will be a future talent, and if he can get it almost for free, he can consider it, but if the asking price is too high, even if it is a million pounds, he doesn't need to think about it, because Walcott will not be able to play in the main team next season.

On the day Walcoat became famous, Zhang Yang didn't know if he would still coach Millwall.

Zhang Yang looked at the next name he was interested in--

Darren Bent, 21 years and 3 months, currently plays for Ipswich Town.