Chapter 12 - Ligue 1 Scouting League

Aston Martin is speeding down the asphalt road to the airport, lined with autumn scents. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoNewcastle is very unusual, with its beautiful River Tyne, quaint and elegant street buildings and nightscapes no less than London's. When night falls, the English wind sweeps over the hearts of every wanderer, and it is an incomparable superiority.

I forgot to mention that Zhang Lihua's car is the new Aston Martin One-77, limited to 77 units worldwide. The car was directly given by the owner of the club at the equity issuance meeting. With the price tag (£1.25 million), Zhang Lihua still knows what Ashley's generosity means. From this, he deduced Ashley's more real personality, that is, if you can afford it, you have to spend it magnificently.

Also, I forgot to add that Zhang Lihua's annual salary is as high as 5 million pounds, equivalent to about 49 million yuan. Together with the annual dividends, his annual income is as high as 8 million pounds, equivalent to more than 60 million yuan. This annual salary is no less than that of working as a consultant at Goldman Sachs and working as a stock on Wall Street.

These successful people, who have an annual salary of 60 million, have a very different understanding of money and material things from the ordinary middle class in China, and their attitude towards their careers and life is infinitely closer to that of politicians. The traditional "three immortal theories" of the Chinese seem more and more true in Zhang Lihua's heart. He wanted to make a name for himself in football. He wants his children to have the highest level of life experience. He even thought about returning to Liaoning to set up an industrial factory in the year of confusion and become a veritable leader in Liaoning.

Of course, football has a purer and more magical charm, which can bring non-material and non-vain spiritual gains to every practitioner. Because the division of labor in the entire football industry is very clear, you can substitute or satisfy all kinds of self-fulfillment points such as Führers, Commanders, Stormtroopers and Bloody Thugs on and off the pitch. The status of a football coach on the football field is like that of a general in the army.

Looking at Zhang Lihua's grim expression, he half leaned on the top luxury sports car, moving the turntable wantonly, and flying his fate in the prosperity. And old George and Fat Mo both wore a pair of sunglasses, pursed their lips and didn't say more nonsense.

Regarding the previously mentioned "Ligue 1 Scouting League", Old George didn't seem to mention a word, and Zhang Shaoshuai was not in a hurry to ask.

Along the way, the three of them each had their own thoughts, and the picture that appeared in Zhang Lihua's mind was actually extremely chaotic. Sometimes it flashed Suna's graceful body, sometimes it was the arrogant ridicule of Joey Barton and others, and sometimes it was the formation of Drogba and Lampard who dominated the world after breaking through the gates of Krul. Football and his life were so close to each other that he felt depressed like never before.

People who are too ambitious often feel inside themselves differently from their external scenery. People are always indifferent to the rights they hold in their hands, and they are full of desire for conceptual rewards that have not yet been obtained. This truth is placed on Zhang Lihua, and it is obvious everywhere. Including his desire to collect power stars.

When he played FM2010, he was eager to buy all the European superstars with Manchester City. When he can really grasp the real power and operate the transfer, he is more fond of the mainstay whose strength is higher than or equal to his own fame.

Ten or twenty good players are not too few. "Mick Ashley has money, anyway." Zhang Lihua thought of this, so he rashly contradicted the arrogant Ashley. Mick Ashley instead took an interest and offered to play a game of stud with him. Rich people like to play with stance, play with conceptual experiences, and play the kind of power games that ordinary people can only imagine.

It's an all-around competitive game. Bringing those stars to the British Isles will enhance the team's competitiveness and bring a new brand symbol to the team. The Newcastle star has been plastered on the façade of St James' Park with homegrown scraps, and no away fan will look up at Kevin Nolan or Joey Barton's decadent, overindulgent stupidity. Ashley had long thought about buying some flowers to broaden the storefront.

Eden Hazard and Raphael Varane are not low in appearance, and Matuidi is also very good-looking. Buying them is also an image project.

At around 7 o'clock in the evening, three members of the Newcastle coaching staff passed through the security check with great expectations. As the British Airways Boeing 787-9 roared through the sky, everyone's expectations for new signings and new team refreshers have drifted into the clouds.

At this time, Zhang Lihua and Old George sat in the same seat, eating the same amount of fruit salad, which seemed particularly close. Without waiting for the Newcastle coach to take the initiative to speak, the elder George told him everything related to the "French Scouting League".

Let's start with the structure and tradition of the French Serie A.

Ligue 1 (Championnat de FrancedefootballLigue1) is the highest level of professional football league in France, and it is well known that it is known that it is one of the top five leagues in Europe along with the English Premier League, Serie A, La Liga and Bundesliga. However, unlike La Liga or Serie A, which are clearly divided into teams, the distribution of strength between French teams is even more even than that of the Premier League.

For more than 100 years, there has never been a superpower team that has been able to maintain its dominance in Ligue 1 for long. Even in today's era of impetuousness and quick success, there are still many small clubs that have won the league championship by relying on the youth team. It can be seen that every team in Ligue 1 pays great attention to the cultivation of young players. In terms of recruiting youth talents, Ligue 1 is already ahead of the rest of Europe's four major leagues.

The Ligue 1 Scouting League is a special and non-professional organization. The predecessor of this alliance is called the European Scouting Association, which is said to have been founded by French football pioneer Henri Delaunay, and is a special spy organization in European football active in the sixties and seventies of the last century. It has played a crucial role in the history of European leagues going overseas to develop the talent market. The Scouting Association almost monopolized the youth training supply of the major European giants at the time.

Members of the Scouting Association have discovered Eusebio for Benfica and Tigana for Bordeaux. ,

Later, Europe's economy became unbalanced, and scouting associations were transformed from purely professional football supernumeraries to political bodies serving UEFA. As a result, the members of the French branch of the association felt that the spirit of football had been degraded, and several important leaders of the association cancelled the expansion of membership on a European basis and instead limited themselves to providing services to clubs in France.

Later, the scale of the alliance became more and more refined, and the nature of the service became more and more weak. The identities of the members of the league are no longer public, and many of the team members have even turned into player agents, pushing talent promotion for Ligue 1 teams in an alternative way.

George Sr. said that he worked with the current leaders of the league in the 70s and 80s, or that George Sr. has always been a part of the league. In the entire Ligue 1 youth market, George Sr. is more proficient than most scouts in the UK.

It is worth mentioning that Arsène Wenger was also part of the scouting league. For the league, the commission for the introduction of players drawn will not be too low, and Wenger has always been a senior collaborator in the league's business. The league has always been able to select the best talent from Ligue 1 for Arsenal, including Patrick Vieira and Pire earlier, and later Flamini, Nasri and Klich.

"The alliance has a professional evaluation system of the alliance. Almost all of the younger players are agents for them by members of the league. Ligue 1 is not a low transfer water. But judging from the outside news, Ligue 1 players are still cheap. In fact, the non-public transfer fee drawn by the league is not much higher than it actually is. Pogba was poached for Manchester United, and the league received a total of 3 million Ouyang transfer commissions. Therefore, if you want to buy someone from Ligue 1, you have to say hello to the scouting league. George Sr. seemed to feel a little proud of his status as a member of the overseas group of the Scouting League.

Zhang Lihua listened to the relevant introduction, and only felt that his impression of Ligue 1 had changed 306 degrees.

In the past, I didn't know anything about Ligue 1, I just felt that the level of this league was very average, and there were no rich buyers. It's hard to keep talent, so the European points in this league are very average. Now he knows that Ligue 1 is a business of processing and exporting talents.

After all, most romantic French people just think of football as a game, a delightful weekend show. They don't particularly value the team's wins and losses. The attitude towards football is nowhere near as persistent and fanatical as that of the British or Italians. One after another traditional strong teams can't retain talents, and if one goes, the next one. Anyway, football is just a fashionable pastime for the French. It is only a business trick of some businessmen.

Mick Ashley should have dealt with a number of Ligue 1 owners. There should be no less knowledge of the Scouting League than George Sr. In Zhang Lihua's heart, Boss Mick's supernatural powers are by no means ordinary. Going to France to buy players, Ashley is only afraid that he has a plan in advance. It's just that Zhang Lihua advanced this plan by half a season.

At the beginning of the game, Ashley did not invest in reinforcements, but only loaned Ben Arfa? Of course, the role of a Ben Alpha has already beaten Laudridge and other homegrown wings. Perhaps Ashley was initially not interested in the team's purely competitive stuff, so he missed out on a lot of people to improve their strength.

Suna's recruitment of this wave of coaching staff talent for the team is undoubtedly an asset, and it is with George Sr. and Edward Rohn that the team's reform has a clear direction. The existence of Zhang Lihua is to provide qualitative and speedy variables for reform.

When the plane completely crossed into the airspace of the European continent, Zhang Lihua and others were getting closer and closer to Saint-Etienne and Matuidi in France.