Chapter 680: Artificial Genius
With an 8-0 win at Manchester United, a 5-0 win at home to Manchester City, a 2-0 win away to West Ham United and a 4-0 win at home to Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur have played the pinnacle of the top teams throughout the league opening period.
In the first five rounds of the league, Tottenham Hotspur encountered four strong teams with the strength to compete for the top four in the league and even the league title, and they won all four consecutive games, which is indeed very difficult, but what is even more difficult is that in such a strong dialogue, Tottenham Hotspur played crazy offensive football.
The media have given high praise to the north London team's crazy performance this season, and they even believe that Tottenham Hotspur are definitely the strongest contenders for the Premier League title this season, which is undoubtedly a powerful counterattack for those who doubted Tottenham Hotspur's decline before the season.
Four wins and one draw in five games, which is perfect for Tottenham Hotspur, who are deeply involved in the devil's schedule.
The team has won one game after another, and the atmosphere inside the team has adjusted quite well, after all, everyone has a game to play.
The Champions League, Premier League, League Cup, UEFA Youth Champions League, plus a bit of a warm-up tournament for the reserves, Tottenham Hotspur have players in as many as five competitions so far.
The club has always had reasonable arrangements for which players participate in what kind of games, especially according to the physical condition of the players, they will be arranged to play different games, and with the start of the league, especially the Champions League and League Cup, Tottenham Hotspur, which is fighting on multiple fronts, has also begun to prepare for the whole season.
That is, the rotation is about to begin.
On the second day after playing Liverpool, Ye Qiu arranged for all the players who participated in the start of Liverpool's game to rest for a day, while the other players went to Theorebold for training, but he did not plan to go to Manchester to watch the key game between Manchester United and Chelsea. Tasotti and Peter? The two of Devisel went to the scene.
Now Ye Qiu basically doesn't care about many things, such as the team's training, he basically decentralizes.
Mauro? Tasotti's ability is indeed very good, whether he is arranging training programs or coaching players, he is a good player, and he is a very careful person, meticulous, and very demanding of players, but he is not the kind of hardliner who does not know how to communicate with players, or is very stubborn.
After this period of observation, Ye Qiu was interested in Mauro? Tasotti and Roland? Shepas was so satisfied with the combination that he didn't even attend the coaching staff's daily pre-training meetings many times. Tassoti is in charge.
In early autumn, London began to get wet, and the asphalt of the training base was always wet, as if it had just been washed with a sprinkler truck, and if you looked closely, you would find that some flowers and trees on the side of the road were always covered with dewy droplets.
That's fog, and it's one of the origins of the fog capital of London.
Ye Qiu walked from the training building to the research center, and after coming to London for so many years, he had long been accustomed to the climate in London, so when he left the training building, he zipped up his training uniform, grabbed the collar at his throat, and walked quickly to the research center not far away.
Theobold's research center is mainly composed of three parts, two experimental departments, respectively in the youth team and the first team, each responsible for one, and there is also a medical research and development department, located in the research center of the first team, but this area is not even allowed to enter the players, mainly responsible for some medicine, sports, technology application and other aspects of research and development.
The experimental department is usually the Theobold Research Center that many fans and media from the outside world are talking about, but everyone in the management knows that this is just an application department, and the real core is the medical research and development department, which is the heart of Theobold, because the series of research carried out here affects not only Tottenham Hotspur, but even Leaf Technology, and the whole football field.
Like Leaf Technology's research department, Theobald's medical research department is home to a group of geeks, including people from prestigious universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, and even Harvard, as well as leaders in the field of sports medicine, some of whom previously worked in AC Milan's Milan lab.
For the medical R&D department, Ye Qiu basically rarely manages it, and even the club doesn't interfere much in the management, mainly relying on Peter? Brandt, Mel Seman and others are in charge, and Ye Qiu and the club belong to the kind of Kaizi who asks for money, people for people, and equipment for equipment, and let them slaughter them, and they also count the money with a smile.
Ye Qiu, the experimental department of the first team, often comes, it is located on the first floor of the research center, there are a lot of various equipment in it, and the players have to deal with them almost every day, and many people will also take advantage of the training to come here for additional training, but this kind of training has little to do with football.
If you want to practice the ability to train with the ball, you have to go to the training room, or go to a special training venue.
The training in the research center is mainly related to the brain.
"Who's in there now?" Ye Qiu walked to the control room of the meditation room and found that the four meditation rooms were all in use, but they were all lying on a soft sofa bed similar to an operating table, wearing helmets, and there were many automated instruments around their bodies, so Ye Qiu couldn't tell who was who.
The technical staff turned around and saw that it was Ye Qiu, and he was not surprised, because he came almost every day and pointed to the surveillance video on the big screen, "Phil? Jones, Sandro, Pogba and Neymar! β
After a pause, the technician tapped the keyboard a few times, and the screen immediately switched, "Phil? Is Jones looking at Chelsea midfielder Michael? Some of Essien's videos from around 2008 to 2010, Sandro watched some of Emerson's videos at AC Milan, and Pogba watched Yaya? Toure's, Neymar is watching Raul's video. β
After Ye Qiu listened, he didn't say anything, just looked at the situation in the surveillance video, several players were lying on it, motionless, because they were all in a semi-hypnotic state now, but the whole person was immersed in the immersive 3D high-definition video displayed in front of them by the helmet, and even the whole person, including body and mind, was integrated into it.
There are detection instruments next to the sofa bed in each meditation room, which will clearly show the physical condition of the players at this moment, such as their heartbeat, blood pressure, etc., a lot of data, so that the technical staff can clearly understand the current physical condition of the players, and even emotional fluctuations.
"You're here!" Demichelis also walked into the control room.
Ye Qiu nodded, "How's the situation?" β
Demichelis smiled, "Which one do you want to know?" β
"You know, we need to rotate players next, especially our midfielders!"
Demichelis nodded, "You come with me!" β
The two left the control room one after the other, turned around and walked into Demichelis's office, which is also the place where he specializes in coaching the players, and after the players have been trained in the meditation room, they will have to come to him for a period of psychological counseling, and Demichelis will learn about their progress from face-to-face communication and training in the next few days.
The same is a video and video, different people will have different gains from watching it.
"You know, we look for templates for players, on the one hand, we take into account the existing database, and on the other hand, we take into account the technical characteristics of the players, as well as their own circumstances, such as personality, preferences, habits, etc., which are taken into account!"
The whole process is actually a very complex system engineering, it's not like an FM football manager, you see a lot of numbers, you can compare them and draw conclusions, it's very simple and easy, but the reality is not like that.
It's like a lot of people say Nick? Powell is like Pirlo, how is it like Fa?
They play in a similar way, with their left and right feet, their skills are excellent, and they are very calm with the ball...... Wait, you can find a whole bunch of likes.
But you can't put Nick? Powell has developed into a player who is exactly like Pirlo, because Nick? Powell isn't as smart as Pirlo, which means that if Pirlo just glances at his surroundings, he can know where all the players, including teammates and opponents, are standing and where they're running, but Nick? Powell may need to look twice.
When Pirlo is pressed closely, it may only take a tenth of a second to decide what to do because he is very confident and decisive, but Nick? Powell will be a little weaker in this area and he may need 0. 2 seconds, and that's because he doesn't have as much confidence as Pirlo.
Of course, this is a difficult psychological situation to grasp, but people are so strange.
Also, after a period of spiritual training, everyone found a very strange thing, that is, Nick? Powell has a strong understanding of many aspects such as running, passing awareness, technical sports, etc., and learns and masters quickly, but he just has no feeling for free kicks, even if his long and short passes are very good, but the free kick progress is very slow and slow.
But he has a very good sense of long-range shots, and you can't understand why he is like this, but he is!
So, finding a template for a player, or perhaps coaching a player to improve, is actually very troublesome, very complicated, and at the same time requires a lot of patience and a lot of hard work.
"What do you think of Phil? Jones like Essien? Ye Qiu found it interesting.
Demichelis thought for a while, shook his head and said: "A lot of things are not like it, but when I was at Chelsea, I personally carved out Essien, I think Phil? Jones had a lot in common with Essien in the early days, so I asked him to watch some of Essien's later stats and videos, and I found that he was a quick learner, especially when it came to running. β
Essien was also of the rampant type in the early days, but gradually opened his mind, especially after Carlo Ancelotti arrived at Chelsea, helping Essien to complete the transformation very well, and he began to run smarter and pass the ball better.
According to Demichelis, the player's own efforts cannot be ignored because of Essien's enlightenment, but the training in the meditation house has also helped him a lot.
Demichelis and MeΓ«l Seman, along with a few other people from the Milan lab, came to Tottenham Hotspur and brought a lot of relevant data, which helped Tottenham Hotspur a lot when it came to developing players and sculpting players.
"I'm still letting Phil these days? Jones kept watching videos of himself running around and some of his own stupid mistakes, and I believe this will allow the player to better integrate into the game and keep his emotions in check. β
Some players are not good at controlling their emotions, just like firecrackers, they get angry when they are violated, and they easily lose their minds, but if they are in a meditation room, in a semi-hypnotic state, and repeatedly let him relive this process, he will gradually develop a kind of resistance, and then after the same situation occurs, he can control his emotions better.
In fact, there is also relevant training in the military, for example, they will repeatedly let the soldiers relive the scene when the bullet hit the body, and even let them have an immersive pain, which can help them better overcome the fear of injury and pain, and some are to help the soldiers after the war to get out of the shadow of the war.
The principle is actually the same, but Ye Qiu has applied this series of techniques to football.
For today's Tottenham Hotspur, the body can be built at will, and the skills can also be carved to the maximum, and even theoretically, as long as there is enough data in hand, as long as two people have exactly the same temperament, personality, mental awareness, etc., they can copy two identical players.
Of course, this is theoretical, but people are unique, so it is impossible to have two players who are exactly the same, it can only be said to be close.
"I don't think Pogba looks like Yaya at all? Toure, the two of them are very different! Ye Qiu thought of Pogba, who is also a young player who is very favored by De Visser.
"Devisel says he's a bit like Gerald with more delicate skills!" Demichelis smiled and said, "But the problem is, I don't have Gerrard's stats, so I was thinking, are you considering bringing in Gerrard?" β
"I'm thinking about a fart!" Ye Qiu scolded with a smile, introducing Gerald? Not to mention Liverpool, which is now wealthy, even if it was the Liverpool team in the previous life, it is estimated that it is impossible to sell Gerrard, and just because Pogba is like Gerrard in some aspects, it is necessary to introduce Gerrard, and De Visser also said that Sandro has some aspects like Vieira and some aspects like Emerson, but where do these two players go to bring in?
Demichelis was also joking, and after hearing Ye Qiu's laughter and scolding, he couldn't help laughing, "This is the direction of our next research, we can no longer rely so much on the data brought by the player template, we need to have our own set of data related to the various abilities of players in each position." β
This kind of data is not the number of passes, the number of crosses, the number of dribbles and the like, it is purely for the fans to see, and the data required by the research center is that the pass of 38 meters should be the most accurate, the relationship between the direction and the contact position, and even the angle and position of each toe when it comes into contact with the ball, and the power and so on.
This is a data that most people don't want to know at all, it's very boring, but it can clearly tell researchers what kind of ball can be passed so accurately and just right, and then cultivate and carve the player's pass according to this model.
"Yes, the template template is always just an imitation, what we need to do next is to help the players, according to their physical condition, psychological quality, mental state, etc., to tailor a set of data for them, and then use this set of data to train and cultivate them, and urge them to grow!"
This is what Ye Qiu said, a key step for artificial genius.
But everyone must be clear that even if this step is successful, it does not mean that anyone can become a genius and become a top superstar, because there is a cost involved.
That is to say, if there is a player who is very timid, easily panicked, and his basic skills are also very bad, then if you want to train him to become the best superstar, you will undoubtedly need to put in a lot of energy, and at the same time, you have to invest a lot of resources, and you have to take a huge risk of success or failure, which is very not cost-effective.
And theoretically, even if a player is successful, he has a comprehensive and masterful range of football skills, and he is very good at using them, but the question is, how much he can play on the pitch, which is another question.
Therefore, artificial geniuses, and even high-tech things, can only be used as an aid.
Man, as the spirit of all things, can never be artificially created, or even completely controlled by technology.
This involves another problem, that is, the more advanced your technology is, the more complex and elusive people become!
As soon as Ye Qiu finished speaking, when he saw Demichelis again, he couldn't help but shake his head, "You're looking for me for money!" β
Demichelis chuckled, "I need a brand new set of equipment, and at the same time a new data analysis system!" β
To put it bluntly, it is asking for money!
All R&D needs money, and it needs to be constantly invested, so after two or three years of making fun of AC Milan's Milan laboratory, AC Milan finally couldn't help it and suspended the research of the medical department, just because all R&D is a money-burning thing.
Ye Qiu is not Galliani, nor is he Berlusconi, he is well aware of the importance of research and development, and he is also well aware that this project will play a revolutionary role in the future of Tottenham Hotspur, and even the future of football.
While Tottenham Hotspur can artificially produce the most well-rounded and outstanding talent, all other teams can do is sit back and wait, which will be a revolution in football!
In Ye Qiu's previous life, Barcelona built several players' abilities such as stopping, passing, getting rid and running without the ball in batches through youth training, and they completely changed the situation of the entire football world and completely dominated the football world of Ye Qiu's previous life.
If Tottenham Hotspur can build a batch of talented superstars, let alone succeed in the most difficult future, even on the road to success, it will be enough for Tottenham Hotspur to dominate the entire football world and completely change the existing landscape of the football world.
There is no doubt that this is what Ye Qiu and Tottenham Hotspur want to do!
Compared with such a harvest, the entire Tottenham Hotspur research center investment is only a few million pounds, and now Demichelis wants to introduce equipment and set up a new analysis system, at best, it is hundreds of thousands of nearly a million pounds of investment, this money for Ye Qiu, for Tottenham Hotspur, scattered!
"If I'm happy with the performances of a few players, I'll consider saying yes!" Ye Qiu threw down such a sentence before leaving.
But in fact, Demichelis knew that Ye Qiu would definitely agree.
He didn't want to blackmail, nor did he think that Ye Qiu was a Kaizi, but because Ye Qiu recruited them to Tottenham Hotspur, he wanted them to do these things, would he disagree?