Ye Qiu's villa has an advantage, that is, whether it is the balcony on the second floor or the garden, it is surrounded by green trees and flowers and plants, even in the hot summer, the whole villa is very cool.

For flowers and trees, Ye Qiu only likes to see, like to enjoy the coolness, and likes to appreciate, but he doesn't know and doesn't like to do it, fortunately, his father Ye Changming and father-in-law Huang Jinsong are both people who like to toss, so Ye Qiu is happy to be idle, and he doesn't have to pay attention to and take care of these flowers and plants.

Therefore, even now, he can't figure out how much is planted in the garden, and how to mix trees and flowers to avoid mosquitoes, but he likes to sit in the gazebo in the garden, smell the birds, smell the flowers, and feel relaxed.

Wenger has been to Ye Qiu's house many times, although his garden is full of envy and jealousy, but he is not surprised, but it is Ferguson, the first time he came, he was a little surprised, and hurriedly asked which garden company he invited to get it, and after arriving at the most, he heard that it was Ye Qiu's father and father-in-law, so he said that he would definitely visit again another day

His villa is in Cheshire, which is also in a small town in the countryside, with a large area and a large garden, it seems that he also likes to toss flowers and plants, but this guy probably doesn't understand.

The three of them were sitting in the gazebo, on the balcony on the second floor, Huang Chu was packing up his things, this scene made Ferguson nod his head, and kept saying that Ye Qiu had married a good wife, at least there are few young people who are so virtuous now.

And Wenger directly said, "There are very few virtuous husbands like you, aren't you all responsible for your housework?" ”

"I'm going to fuck the reporter" Ferguson immediately scolded, but there was no way to give evidence to refute it, especially when he saw Ye Qiu and Wenger smiling, he knew in his heart that he couldn't wash himself by jumping into the Yellow River.

Who made him afraid of his wife and afraid of being famous?

Speaking of the three of them is really interesting, Ferguson is the Premier League champion this season, Ye Qiu is the third in the Premier League, Wenger is the fifth in the Premier League, for the second Mourinho in the Premier League, Ferguson has a very good impression, Ye Qiu and Wenger don't like him, but for Benitez who is fourth in the Premier League, Ye Qiu has a good impression of him, but Ferguson is not like him at all.

Sometimes the relationship between people is indeed very complex and elusive.

It's like, if the rumors were to go out now, who would believe that Ferguson and Arsene Wenger would sit down and drink together? And still drink the kind of Patus that costs more than 30,000 euros a bottle? The point is that Ferguson paid out of his own pocket?

I believe that after hearing this, everyone will be surprised to say, can this miser be so generous?

Thinking of this, Ye Qiu couldn't help but look at himself on the sidelines, and after Ferguson saw his smiling expression, he immediately shook his head, pointed at Wenger, pointed at Ye Qiu and said, "He must be thinking of us now."

Arsene Wenger agreed, and this was the first time he had echoed Ferguson's words.

Ye Qiu didn't explain, and smiled, "It's not a bad thing, it's just that I'm thinking that if people know that the three of us drink together, they will definitely guess that we are plotting something, maybe tomorrow there will be news outside that we poach each other, and then another round of overwhelming hype and publicity." ”

This is indeed the case with the media in England, as long as they catch the slightest clue, it is immediately a wave of waves.

Ferguson and Wenger glanced at each other, and they both heard that Ye Qiu's words contained other meanings.

"Are you trying to say something?" Ferguson asked with a smile.

Ye Qiu glanced at the two old ghosts, "Don't you want to say anything?" ”

The three of them all laughed, in fact, they all had the same thoughts, that is, to take the opportunity to drink together this time to negotiate some things, after all, many things in the current Premier League are still louder for big teams to speak, especially when the big teams take the form of a group to speak collectively, it will be more powerful.

Of course, all this is based on the premise of not harming the interests of small and medium-sized teams, otherwise, they would not be.

For example, if you introduce a winter break, the middle and lower reaches of the team don't care about you, anyway, they only have domestic competitions, and they don't care if you live or die in the European arena, and even they want your results to be affected because you don't have a winter break, because it means that they will have more opportunities in some domestic competitions.

Of course, there is another consideration that is around the winter break, especially during Christmas, when the Premier League can monopolize the entire European football market, because at that time, only the Premier League has a game, and fans all over the world have to watch the Premier League if they want to watch the game.

Therefore, the reason why the winter break has been shouted for so many years, but it has never been implemented, is still here, and all Premier League teams have taken advantage of this aspect, even Manchester United and Arsenal, which often play in the Champions League, have also tasted the sweetness, so the willingness to introduce the winter break is not so strong.

"I think, should we reach an agreement, we should avoid this kind of mutual poaching, mutual consumption of transfer strategy" The three of them sat in a triangle in the gazebo, and Ye Qiu stared at the two people opposite and said, "Of course, I don't mean to say that they don't transfer each other, but that they should adopt a more upright approach, rather than illegal private contact and poaching of players." ”

For Ye Qiu's proposal, Ferguson and Wenger both glanced at each other, and the two thieves obviously saw through Ye Qiu's intentions, because the current Tottenham Hotspur is like a treasure trove of young players, and everyone wants to come in and take a kick.

"You're afraid we're poaching your players, aren't you?" Ferguson said with a smile.

When Ye Qiu heard this, he also smiled, "I have a lot of confidence in my players, I'm afraid that I can't help but poach your players." ”

When Ferguson and Wenger heard this, they couldn't help but laugh at once, this guy just had a hard mouth, but soon, Ye Qiu said another sentence, which made them all a little unable to laugh.

'I was thinking we should be involved in the Tevez competition and my scouts were keeping an eye on Dinamo Zagreb in Croatia, what do you think?'

It's no secret that Manchester United wants Tevez, so Ferguson's instinctive reaction to Ye Qiu's words was a jump in his eyelids, because he could soon feel that if Tottenham Hotspur also joined the race, West Ham United would definitely sit on the ground, but is it necessary for Tottenham Hotspur to be involved?

With the current Tottenham Hotspur lineup, Tevez has no place to come, so if Tottenham Hotspur is really involved, the only explanation is that he deliberately wants to get along with Manchester United and let Manchester United waste more money on the introduction of Tevez.

But thinking about it this way, Ferguson looked at Wenger again, Dinamo Zagreb? Could it be that Arsene Wenger has his eye on the players of this team?

Ye Qiu saw the reactions of the two in his eyes, and said with a slight smile: "I believe that we all have only one purpose, in the European arena, our Premier League team should be unanimous in their guns, and in the Premier League, everyone should also be above board, show their gentlemanly demeanor, fight hard, rely on tactics on the field, and rely on skills to see the truth, right?" ”

Wenger was the first to nod, because Arsenal's current situation is indeed disadvantageous, the finances are not very rich, and he is also a victim of this kind of private poaching, for example, Chelsea poached Arsenal's Ashley Cole, and in the past few years, when Ye Qiu was in charge of Chelsea, he also broke the news that Vieira and Henry were going to be poached, forcing Wenger to give them a salary increase.

Ye Qiu's approach did make Wenger a little angry, but Ye Qiu didn't really do it in the end, but after Ye Qiu, Chelsea contacted Ashley Cole privately, which obviously broke the tacit understanding and rules between the clubs.

Seeing Wenger nodding, Ferguson also felt that the offer was good, "But, if we agree, will Chelsea agree?" ”

Benitez's Liverpool has always disliked English players, this Spanish fat man is a bit like Ye Qiu, they all prefer continental style players, so there are not many English players in the Liverpool team, and the introduction is more inclined to be imported from the European continent, so Liverpool has no big problems.

"As long as we have a tacit understanding with Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool, do you think they can refuse?"

Ferguson thought about it, and yes, the anger of the public is difficult, and Chelsea must agree, otherwise, they will not want to bring in reinforcements in the future.

Strictly speaking, Ye Qiu's proposal does have a certain amount of truth, to avoid an arms race similar to Real Madrid and Barcelona in the Premier League, so that everyone can form their own teams with more peace of mind, and avoid falling into the practice of poaching each other, competing with each other, and cheapening other league teams for nothing.

At the very least, in recent years, have Real Madrid and Barcelona also attached great importance to maintaining a private agreement of mutual non-poaching and competition?

Wenger didn't speak, he felt that this proposal would be beneficial to everyone, but it seemed impossible for Ye Qiu to do so for fear of being poached, unless, "I received news, I heard, you have a scouting director here recently?" ”

Ferguson was stunned when he heard this, does Tottenham Hotspur have a dedicated head in charge of scouting?

He does know that Arsenal have Steve Lawley, Manchester United also have their own chief scout, that is Alex Ferguson's younger brother Martin Ferguson, and Chelsea also have Frank Arneson and Liverpool have Eduardo Marcia, these are all famous top scouts on the continent, they either have sharp eyes or excellent networks.

The so-called chief scout is actually responsible for the scouting of players in the first team and youth teams, which is equivalent to the head of the scouting department of Tottenham Hotspur, but the head of the administrative department of Tottenham Hotspur reported in the media before does not seem to have this authority.

After Frank Arneson was poached and went to Chelsea, Ye Qiu took over Tottenham Hotspur, and did not arrange the so-called technical director and director, and even the head of the scouting department was empty, which made many people suspect that Ye Qiu was going to start the results of the first team first, and then slowly build up the scouting system, but now it seems that he intends to take two steps together.

This can't help but remind both Ferguson and Wenger of the second half of last season, at a regular summit of the Premier League, Ye Qiu submitted an initiative through Eliza Moon, hoping to reform the youth selection range of English football clubs, allowing some teams with the ability and funds to select talents across England.

"You kid, you made every move, and you kept all of us in the dark" Ferguson pointed at Ye Qiu and scolded with a smile.

Ye Qiu smiled after hearing this, "We did just appoint the team's head of scouting not long ago, former head of the scouting department of PSV Eindhoven, Peter De Visser. ”

If it were someone else, even if you asked Moyes, Benitez, or Jose Mourinho, they might not know about Peter de Vesser, or even if you asked the fans of PSV Eindhoven, I believe there are a lot of fans who don't know him, and the vast majority of fans don't know what he looks like, or even how old he is

The only person that Dutch fans remember was the Dutch Michels Prize in '05, the lifetime achievement award of Dutch football, which was awarded to Peter De Visser for his contribution to Dutch football.

If anyone wants to know about Wiesel's resume, you will find that you can know very little, if not all, about it, and only those who really know Dutch football will be able to catch a little bit of information about him, for example, he has been coaching alone since 1964 and has been in charge for 30 years, with the likes of Willem II, Breda, Roda and AZ Alkmaar, but the results are not very conspicuous.

Relative to his coaching achievements, his eye for player selection, and his scouting network is very rich, for example, he has a very good network in European and South American football, so Romario came to Eindhoven because of his recommendation and connections.

In 1993, after he stepped down from Breda, Arneson took over as managing director of PSV Eindhoven, and the Amsterdammer, who was no longer at home as head coach, chose to work as a part-time scout and waited for a chance to return to coaching, before his friend recommended Ronaldo to him.

The next thing is very simple, Ronaldo came to PSV Eindhoven naturally, and even in the following years he recommended Ronaldinho, Kaka and Robinho to Eindhoven early, but these players did not come to PSV because of the transfer fee.

In Ye Qiu's previous life, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Robben, Stam, Van Bommel, Hovland, Alex and other Eindhoven players were all from his hand, because he was Eindhoven's chief scout at that time, just because he had never appeared in newspapers and media, so no one knew about his existence at all

It wasn't until 05 that he won the Michels Lifetime Achievement Award and was hailed as the world's No. 1 scout by Dutch football people, and he was really known by Dutch fans for the first time, but no one knew his photo, no one knew what he looked like, and no one even knew how old he was.

Perhaps because of Peter Devisel's low profile, Frank Arneson, who was the general manager of the club at the time, was naturally pushed to the forefront, plus the Danes naturally like to take credit, and they were born as a former meritorious player, shining brightly, so a lot of credit naturally fell to Frank Arneson.

But in reality, Frank Arneson relied on Peter Devisel and his scouting network.

Peter De Visser's two most recent deals were for Alex and John Obi Mikel, who was targeted by De Visel after entering Cape Town Ajax and was later recommended to Arneson, which led to the dispute with Manchester United.

Outsiders may not know Peter De Visser, but Ferguson has dealt with PSV Eindhoven for many years, and Wenger has also been involved in this industry for many years, both of them have heard of him more or less, and when they heard that Ye Qiu actually poached him to Tottenham Hotspur, they were all a little surprised, but they didn't have much envy.

Now that information is so advanced, the role of scouting is actually weakening, and Peter De Visser, whether it is for Manchester United or Arsenal, is quite good, but they also have their own set of scouting networks, so there is no need to envy others.

"Don't hide it from the two, we will vigorously develop youth training in the future丨 Even we have drawn up a very detailed youth training promotion plan, we also support all interested teams to visit and learn, but we do not welcome scouts with bad intentions"

Ye Qiu stands in a very high position, sees a wide range of things, he thinks that the promotion of youth training does not necessarily have to be done by himself, the whole of England and even the whole world can do it, anyone who wants to learn, can come to learn, can come to visit, it doesn't matter, because the more stars cultivated by others, it means that the wider the selection of Tottenham Hotspur in the future.

This is the case with all the big teams in the world, and even Ye Qiu wishes that all the English teams would like to learn from his youth training system that has been blended from Ajax and the Netherlands, and even some other youth systems on the European continent, because it is beneficial to Tottenham Hotspur.

And Ye Qiu has always felt that the most important thing in youth training is not the method, the youth training method can be learned by anyone, if you want, you can enter the youth training camp of Ajax at any time, as long as you have a certain relationship and recommendation letter, what can you do in the whole world There is only one Detok Most?

The most important thing is not the method, but a culture

And youth training丨 culture is not something you can learn if you want to, it has to go through years of accumulation and precipitation to appear.

Compared with Tottenham Hotspur, which has just reorganized and restarted the academy, Manchester United and Arsenal's academy has been accumulated over the years, and has even basically completed the transformation to the direction of continentalization, while Benitez is now reorganizing Liverpool's Kirkby Academy, and Chelsea's academy system is also being reorganized under the guidance of Frank Arneson.

In other words, the youth training of the Premier League team has received great attention, but don't expect to see the effect in a short period of time, because it will be at least ten or eight years before there will be talents, which is why not many teams are willing to stick to youth training! Cause.

Too risky and too long payback period

Ferguson and Wenger were not surprised by Ye Qiu's series of actions, because Ye Qiu knows football too well, and all the football club owners in the world, even the decision-making level, no one knows football better than Ye Qiu, and knows football better, even including the former football superstars of Bayern Munich.

Therefore, they were not surprised at all that Ye Qiu made such a large investment and made forward-looking decisions.

It's just that it is not surprising that they also feel more or less threatened, because this also means that Ye Qiu is leading Tottenham Hotspur forward in great strides, and even they have the strength and influence to be among the first group of the Premier League.

With time, the title of Premier League giants is no longer out of reach for them, but within reach.