Chapter 141: Cultivating the Future
After the arrival of the professor and Thierry Henry, some overly optimistic fans even claimed on the fan forums that Willingham would win the rest of the season and then qualify directly to the Premier League by finishing first in the Championship.
"I'm not a savior, these people are too exalted of me," Wenger said to Lao Liu with a wry smile, "However, after my understanding of Willingham for a while, to be honest, I don't think it's likely that you will be promoted this season, will you be disappointed if I say that?" ”
Lao Liu Zheng was a little surprised that the professor called him over early in the morning, saying that he wanted to talk about some serious things, and thought that he had found some problems with the team, and when he heard this, he was happy, "Professor, do you think I invited you to come and work hard to let Henry join for a short time, just for the promotion of this season?" Arsene Wenger was also happy, "I know you're going to say that, but if you don't qualify this season, will you and the fans be very disappointed? ”
"No, it won't." Lao Liu replied very firmly.
"Oh," Liu's attitude made Wenger very interested, "Actually, I wanted to talk to you about deception when I promised you to come here, but I still didn't say it, because I found that this question is not clear, and I can be sure that you are not so short-sighted, but I don't believe you will not be disappointed." ”
Lao Liu took out a cigar and asked Wenger to light it very leisurely after being rejected, "I really won't be disappointed, because according to my plan, this season needs to be adjusted, and the changes in the team after you came made me more determined to this idea, in fact, in many ways, Willingham is still far from a Premier League team, if it is so easy to play football in England, I think, English football will not be so attractive." ”……
Meanwhile, on the training ground, under the leadership of Mike and Bout, the club's first team split into two sides and were preparing to play a training match, due to the injuries of Van den Boray, Hleb Jr. and goalkeeper Johnson who were recovering from injuries and did not appear on the training ground, according to Wenger's request, the main detachments in yellow vests were: Carsdier, Summerel, Diawara, Rosenar, Tomson, Cabo, Siwalker, Heilder, Edwards, Henry and Christian Ferrores; The Blue Vests were substituted by Gubi, Madis, Peterson, Tony Chang, Daleval, Edwards, Song, Cambass, Patterson and Miller, while Reid and Huckleby made temporary cameos as linesmen.
Henry has relied on his charming smiling face and no big-name style of dealing with people, and has blended well into the collective, and the players are very proud of being able to block the attack of this super striker, especially since everyone has made a bet on this, but it seems that there are not many people who can win, and Henry's speed and super ball sense have left a deep impression on everyone.
"By the way, Holder, why didn't you see the club's youth team, didn't they train here?" At the end of the morning training session, as he walked down the field, Henry asked this question that he felt a little puzzled.
"Wellingsm doesn't have a dedicated youth team yet, we only have a reserve team of 20 people, you know, three years ago this team was still struggling in League Two, there are too many things to worry about the boss during this time, maybe there is no time to carry it out."
Henry's eyes widened, "What, there's no youth team, won't it, is this a team ready to attack the Premier League?" You know, a club like Arsenal has a dozen youth teams across five age groups, and each year several players are promoted from the youth team to add to the first team. ”
Hearing their conversation, the player and coach Bout walked over, "In fact, there is no way, when the boss came, the team didn't even have the funds to survive, and every year they had to rack their brains for various expenses, and they had to keep adjusting the lineup and striving for promotion, and now the club can be like this, it is not easy, and we have a few good young players, loaned to low-level clubs, which can be regarded as a way to cultivate young players." ”
Henry didn't speak, seeing that the atmosphere was a little gloomy, Patterson came over and asked, "I don't know what kind of style the professor has in teaching, I always have a mysterious feeling when I watched his conductor before."
"The biggest advantage of a professor is that he can completely force out all the potential of everyone," said Wenger, and Henry smiled again, "playing under him, you just need to try to play better, you don't have to worry about other mysteries, and, I think, now he should be talking to the boss about the youth team, the professor can't tolerate the club without a youth team." ”……
"Are you really going to do this to prepare for the youth team?" The professor looked at Lao Liu with some differences, this method is not impossible, but when he heard it, it was a little unbelievable, as if no team had done this.
"Why not? Now the football club is completely a business, so why can't we run the team according to the company's approach, you think about it, what is the purpose of our youth team, isn't it just that we need to select some excellent young talents from the middle? Why do we have to find a bunch of people who just have some potential to sign up for the club to train and the club has to arrange everything for them. ”
"But isn't it the same to have our youth team in another club?"
"No, it is to set up a junior youth team in the key areas of our selection and local clubs, sign a mutual agreement or our preferential acquisition agreement, so that more players can grow up in an environment they are familiar with, or an environment that we arrange for them, and accept our attention at any time, and once the time is ripe, they will sign back to join our youth team under the age of 18, so that the competitiveness of our young players will increase a lot."
"So how can the other clubs be at our mercy like that?" Wenger was a little moved, he knew very well that many young geniuses lost the opportunity to become a talent because they couldn't solve the problem of leaving their families too early, Lao Liu smiled, "So we said that we should follow the development model of the enterprise, profits, and enough returns can allow them to do enough things." ”
(To be continued)