On 11 October 2011, Schalke announced a new head coach.

Schalke's greatest coach in 100 years, the head coach from the Netherlands. Stevens will replace the resigned Rangnick as Schalke's new coach. The contract was signed on June 30, 2013.

Schalke fans were ecstatic about Stevens' arrival.

On almost all social networking sites, Schalke fans chanted Stevens' name and welcomed Stevens. The local media in Schalke also welcomed Stevens en masse.

Because Stevens is the greatest coach in Schalke's history, he led Schalke to their only European title, the UEFA Cup. And Schalke defeated Inter Milan in the final that year.

He went on to win two German Cups with Schalke.

There was even a time when he was very close to the Bundesliga title. More than that, Stevens has been in charge for Schalke for six years, making him the longest-serving coach in Schalke's history.

He made a lot of his personal history of Schalke.

Such a meritorious coach comes to the club, and the fans will of course be happy.

It was announced on October 11 that Stevens had arrived at Schalke's training ground that afternoon. From this day on, he officially fulfilled his duties as head coach.

"Hello everyone."

Hubu. Stevens, he's not very young. Stevens, who is about to be fifty-nine, is also a seasoned veteran, with 20 years of coaching. Although he is almost sixty years old. But the hair is combed back, just like Chow Yun-fat in a Hong Kong movie.

And Stevens doesn't look old at all. From the outside, Stevens is in his forties. It is conceivable that he should be relatively handsome when he was young.

Stevens has been coaching in Germany for a long time. Not only did he spend six years at Schalke, but he also coached Bundesliga clubs such as Hertha Berlin, Cologne and Hamburg. Therefore, he is able to speak German fluently.

"The Bundesliga has played a quarter of the games and we have a good result. I hope you can keep it that way. Hope we have a happy cooperation. ”

Stevens said it politely.

It's completely different from the legend. Legend has it that Stevens had a very bad temper, and the Schalke players recalled Stevens and said that Stevens was very strict. They didn't even dare to look at Stevens face to face. Standing in front of Stevens, you will feel your legs tremble.

This is how Schalke players felt about Stevens back then.

But maybe it's getting older, and Stevens' temper has changed a lot. Anyway, it's polite. Of course, this is also understandable.

Although Stevens is Schalke's best coach of the century, it has been almost ten years since Stevens left Schalke.

Decade.

If the coordinates are human history, then ten years is really too short. But if the coordinates are the coach or the player. So ten years is a long time. Especially for players, ten years is almost half of a career.

So in ten years, Schalke completely changed. There wasn't a single player from the Stevens era.

Schalke's squad has changed completely in ten years, and now the first team doesn't talk about the players at that time. There are even such as Jin Ming. Never heard of Stevens' players at all.

People like Raul, Jurado, Atsuto Uchida, and Papadopoulos are all foreign players who don't know anything about the Bundesliga, and they really don't know Stevens.

And even the players who know Stevens don't have much of an impression of him. After all, after Stevens left Schalke, there were no outstanding results to be remembered.

Stevens has also been away from the major leagues for too long.

The current stars don't know him, and they don't accept him. Of course he understands that, so he doesn't treat players like he did when he was younger.

Stevens just arrived. And it's mid-season. Plus Stevens is a very conservative person and won't change anything lightly. So after coming to Schalke. It didn't change the way it was trained.

Or the assistant coach from the Rangnick era who arranged the training.

Stevens sat there quietly. It's been too long to leave, and there's a lot of variation in the mainstream leagues. Prior to accepting Schalke's offer this time, he was coaching Austrian clubs in the Austrian league.

I don't know much about Schalke.

He himself also needs to get to know Schalke's players and their technical characteristics.

"The players are very good runners."

Stevens watched the players train while still holding the players' counts during the game. Stevens was delighted to see how far Schalke players had run. Stevens is an old-fashioned coach.

I prefer players who can run and rob.

"Hubu, what do you think about the next game?"

Eschkorn may not look like an assistant coach, but he is not young at all. And he also has a lot of experience, he was born as a player and later worked as a coach in many clubs. Including being a head coach at a Bundesliga club.

Then he worked as an assistant coach for Magath, starting with Bayern Munich and then to Wolfsburg and then Schalke. He was acting as the team's head coach before Magath left and Rangnick came to Schalke. Rangnick left and Stevens came in the time he was acting as head coach again.

Today is the 11th, and the next game is the 15th.

That's just four days. And that's including today, which adds up to four days. There's not a lot of time to prepare.

"It's business as usual."

Stevens is not a very popular coach of change, but a very conservative coach.

He wants to change the team on his own terms, but it's the middle of the season. Stevens was worried, worried that his changes would affect his results. So Stevens wants to take his time.

"Yes."

…………

"Mr. Lawley, I may be unreasonable. But I still have to say, with the current strength of Arsenal, can they win the title? With the current financial resources of Arsenal. How much can the salary be? ”

Now there are more clubs that have been in contact with Wen Dongfang.

Wen Dongfang's purpose is to find the most suitable club for Jin Ming from these clubs.

But Wen Dongfang really didn't expect Arsenal to come. Although Arsene Wenger at Arsenal is very fond of collecting talented players, even talented players have to be graded. Just like Jin Ming. Although he is already twenty-one years old, he is already out of the category of simple genius.

Arsene Wenger brought in talented people who were seventeen or eighteen, or under twenty, and were still just growing.

But the real top talent, Arsenal has lost its appeal in recent years. Even with Arsene Wenger's name, Arsenal are still unable to attract true top talent. It is already very obvious that those top talents dislike Arsenal.

This is already a well-established fact.

Take a look at the top talents that Arsene Wenger has taken a fancy to in recent years. Which one would like to come to Arsenal. Recently, Arsene Wenger's favorite Hazard is still in France, where Wenger has the most connections, but he has still not been able to bring him in.

Hazard's top talent at this level. It's already not good for Arsenal.

Ten years ago, it would have been a rare occurrence. Looking at the attraction of Arsenal back then, many talented players heard Arsenal's call, and most of them would choose to join Arsenal.

Just like Reyes back then. and the competition with Alex Ferguson for Ramsey. Arsene Wenger got his wish in the end.

It's a pity that that was ten years ago.

Jin Ming's current situation is similar to Hazard's. Both men are waiting for the European giants to call, but that doesn't include Arsenal. Because Arsenal does not have the strength to win the championship, it also does not have enough money to give Jin Ming a high salary.

For the text of the Oriental, Steve. Lawley wasn't angry.

Because he has seen this many times in the past few years. As Arsenal's chief scout, he will represent Arsenal after scouting a lot of talented players. Except for those who are fifteen or sixteen years old. Or in addition to the eighteen or nineteen-year-old young geniuses who have not yet shown their strength, they have reached the level of Hazard and Jin Ming. Arsenal are no longer considered at all.

For Steve. This is not the first time this has happened. So he's very calm.

"Mr. Wen, we at Arsenal have been struggling with the financial situation in recent years, so there have been a lot of problems. But it's not a big deal anymore because Arsenal's finances are going to improve soon. As long as the short-term debt is repaid, Arsenal's economic strength is still in the upper reaches of European football. As long as we start to invest money, I believe that Arsenal's strength will definitely improve quickly in a short period of time. ”

"With all due respect, Mr. Lawley. Jin Ming will be twenty-two next season, and he is not a seventeen or eighteen-year-old player. He can't wait for Arsenal to build up and then win the title. ”

Wen Dongfang still refused directly.

There are some impossible transfers, and Wen Dongfang is unwilling to waste time. I also don't want to hang each other.

"Huh. Mr. Wen, I understand what you mean. But Jin Ming will only be 22 years old next season, and his strength is still growing. As I am sure you know, Jinming still has a lot of potential to develop. I think Coach Wenger still has a big say in developing young players, especially attacking players. When Henry came to Arsenal, he was also twenty-two years old. The situation is worse than the current Jin Ming, but what Henry's achievements are in the end, I'm sure you also know. ”

Wen Dongfang originally vetoed it directly, but at this time he was silent.

Steve. Lawley is right. Arsene Wenger has been brilliant in developing young attacking talent. Especially in the field of developing goalscorers, Wenger is really good.

Henry was raised, and after Henry was Adebayo, and after Adebayo was Van Persie. Arsenal have never been short of top scorers anyway. Among these three, except for Adebayo who was born as a center forward, Henry and Van Persie have all turned from the wing to the center.

Twenty-two years old, the age is not big, but the small is not small.

With Messi, Cristiano. Ronaldo standard, then twenty-two years old is actually not too young. When Messi was nineteen years old, he already followed his big brother Ronaldinho and won the Champions League. And at the age of twenty-two, he has already won six crowns as the core of Barcelona. He became the first person in European football at that time.

Cristiano. At the age of nineteen, Ronaldo had already won the European Championship runner-up with Portugal, and at the age of twenty-one, he reached the semi-finals with Portugal. Although the two competitions dare not be said to be the absolute core, they are also the absolute main force.

At the age of 23, he led Manchester United to the Champions League. Won the Premier League Best Young Player, Premier League Player of the Year, Premier League Top Scorer, Champions League Top Scorer, and European Golden Boot Award. Won the World Footballer of the Year and won the European Ballon d'Or.

Compared with these two perverted players, Jin Ming's age is not young.

But compared to some other superstars, they are actually not very old.

When Henry was twenty-two years old, he was disappointed at Juventus and had to join Arsenal. Didier Drogba, another of Chelsea's generation, was still playing in the French second division at the age of 22. Even Zinedine Zidane, a generation of midfield masters, played in Bordeaux in France when he was twenty-two years old.

Wen Dongfang thinks more.

If Jin Ming arrives at a wealthy family, once he can't play football, it will affect Jin Ming's business income strictly. Going to Arsenal, the main position should be guaranteed. But thinking of Arsenal's low salary, Arsenal has not won the championship for many years, Wen Dongfang is still very resistant.

"Mr. Lawley, you make us think." (To be continued......)