Early in the morning, the sky was just dawning, and an old Ford Mondeo was speeding down the 5th Ring Road.

The radio in the car was playing this morning's weather forecast, showing that the next few days will be the best weather in London since the beginning of winter, with the snow melting, the weather warming, the maximum temperature expected to reach eight degrees, and the next few days will be difficult to see snowfall.

Although it is clear that the weather forecast is an unreliable thing, but hearing this news, Paul Brinton still smiled, and the already quite good mood also improved, casually raised his hand to the roof of the car, opened the sunroof, and took the opportunity to look up and glance overhead, the blue sky, just faintly hung with a few thin clouds.

"Let's hope it doesn't rain," Paul Brinton muttered hopefully.

Highway 5 drilled into a tunnel, and when it came out again, a branch road appeared on the left side of the road, and the sign of the AI0 fork showed a left turn, and Paul Brinton immediately turned the left turn signal, slowly drove into the AI0 branch road, and came to the four-way intersection between Enfield and Checent.

Heading north around the four-way ring road, it didn't take long for me to come to a roundabout with obvious road signs at the intersection.

Tottenham Hotspur Theorebold training base, turn left

St. Mary's Communal School District, turn left

Both signs clearly indicate pedestrians, and Paul Brinton passes by here every day, so he just glanced at the signs at random, then turned to the left and went straight into the road named Lieutenant Ellis, which was named after Lieutenant Ellis.

After driving dozens of meters ahead, there is a small roundabout, turn left is the Theobald training base, the intersection sets up a very conspicuous Tottenham Hotspur team emblem, a lively cockfight on football, and turn right is St. Mary's College, the gates of both sides are hidden in the dense woods, leaving only a small road to meet the roundabout.

In fact, the entire Lieutenant Ellis Road is covered with dense woods on both sides, so that people can't see everything in these two famous places on either side, and there are almost no gaps, and they are completely hidden.

Paul Brinton turned left and walked through the woods to Tottenham Hotspur's Theorebold training base.

If the dense woods are just a camouflage, then walking through the woods will make you feel a sense of relief, because Tottenham Hotspur's main gate is a large open park, planted with all kinds of flowers and trees, even in winter, covered with snow, but still adds a bit of an unusual scenery, especially the snow-covered treetops.

The door slowly opened when he saw Paul Brinton's car, who drove to the car park behind the security building, where there was a space for him, as he was the security captain at Tottenham Hotspur's Theorebold training base.

It's about to enter 10 years, counting up, Paul Brinton has been working at Tottenham Hotspur for six or seven years, he is not very old, forty-five years old, he has been a policeman for more than ten years, and then he was injured, if you pay attention, it is not difficult to find that his left leg is a little lame, but it is difficult to find if you don't pay attention.

As early as when Tottenham Hotspur's training base was still in Siegwell, Paul Brinton was already the captain of security, and later moved to Theobold, everything was emphasized and asked for regularization, Paul Brinton once thought that he would be fired, but it turned out that he not only continued to be his security captain, but also was sent to training at public expense by the team

The team paid for the five young security guards who were on duty at the Siegwell training base to receive formal security training, and then continued to return to the Theobold training base, but the training base has grown larger, and the security team is also expanding, and now Paul Brinton has more than 30 people, taking turns to protect the Theobold training base 24 hours a day.

Not only that, during the team and youth team out to play, the security team also arranged for people to accompany them, after all, their own people are more comfortable to use, and these security guards are formally trained, especially the London Police Department has cut its budget in recent years, laid off a lot of staff, and the salary is not very good, so Paul Brinton has recruited a lot of former London police officers to Tottenham Hotspur as security guards through his relationships.

By the time Paul Brinton arrived at Theobald, the dedicated parking lot was already full of vehicles, large and small, and by the time he walked to the security building, all the members of the security team were already in place, including the employees who had been on shift.

"Everyone" Paul Brinton walked up to everyone, except for those on duty outside the door

"Today is the first day of Genius Day, and one of the major challenges we've taken on in recent years, and I hope that all of you will be very vigilant and make sure that there are no surprises during the Genius Day, understand?"

"Understood," everyone replied in unison, and it was clear that Paul Brinton had a lot of prestige in this group on a daily basis, and that Tottenham Hotspur was also very generous with the security guards, at least much better than the London Police, which cut its budget every year.

"I'm going to tell you about some of today's precautions" Paul Brinton took out a notebook from his pocket, which was some important things that Ron Gurley had to convey to all his assistants as soon as possible when he went to the White Hart Lane Stadium for a meeting yesterday, and he had to relay it to all his assistants as soon as possible to make sure there were no problems.

"There will be a hundred volunteers from the fan organization coming to the training base later, everyone is no stranger, how to do it usually, how to do it today, when the time comes, I need four people in two groups, with volunteers at the gate to organize vehicle parking, to ensure that this passage is not congested" Paul Brinton pointed to the gate of Theobald, outside there is a grass field next to the park to park.

Tottenham Hotspur will organise and receive volunteers to help out every game at White Hart Lane and every game of Theobald Youth, so the next three days of Talent Day will continue to do so.

"The first-team area is not open to the public, so the sentry at the intersection should pay attention, and the training building, research center, training room and indoor stadium of our youth team are also not open to the public.

Paul Brinton introduced a lot of rules, and the members of the security team below were all very careful to record in their notebooks, and all of them knew very well that although Tottenham Hotspur's Talent Day activities were to be open to the public, it was only moderately open, and it was impossible to let everyone run around in the training base.

You know, there will be a lot of people coming to the scene today, and there may even be scouts from other teams mixed in, if they are allowed to run around in the training base, no one knows what will happen.

"Finally, wait for everyone to go to their own posts, and at the same time make sure that the area they are responsible for, whether the street signs and facilities are in good condition, and if there is a problem, immediately notify the people in the miscellaneous department to deal with it, understand?"

"Understood," everyone replied in unison.

With a wave of Paul Brinton's hand, everyone suddenly dispersed.

Time is running out, with the selection for the Talent Day starting at 9am and less than two hours left, they will have to prepare as soon as possible as soon as possible, as they will be welcoming a large number of parents, fans and journalists over the next three days.

Paul Brinton used to be a well-known police officer in the London Police, and he was able to become a security captain not only because of his resume, but also because of his cautious style.

After the meeting, he was not at ease, and he walked almost every road from the park and parking lot outside the gate to the youth training area of Theobold, confirming every link that needed to be confirmed to ensure that nothing went wrong.

"Hello, Mr. Brinton"

When Paul Brinton walked to the fork in the road outside Central Lake Park, he saw several people stop in front of the big map.

"Hello, Mrs. Ye" Paul Brinton immediately walked up to Huang Chu and greeted him politely and politely.

Huang Chu is rarely seen at Theobald's training base, but everyone knows her because she is the kind of woman you are so beautiful that you will never forget it at a glance, and more importantly, she is also a very skilled doctor, and she has a high reputation at Wellington Hospital and London.

Standing next to Huang Chu are three men, two old men and a middle-aged man, these three people Paul Brinton also know, a few days ago Ye Qiu specially introduced to him, two of the old men are the team's nominal consultants, and the middle-aged man is the team's newly hired youth training director, Jan Alder Riklink, the former Ajax youth training director.

The people who can let Ye Qiu's wife accompany him are not ordinary people, they are all good friends and mentors of Ye Qiu and his wife in the late period, they are the famous assistant coach of former Ajax, Bobby Harms, who is now a technical consultant at Tottenham Hotspur, and the other is Pym van Dude, who is a consultant in the R&D center.

Paul Brinton had never heard of these three men, but Ron Gulley had told him that Ricklink was Ajax's most vicious academy coach, known as Hawkeye, who almost never looked away from young players and was very good at organizing and maintaining youth academies. Bobby Harms is an expert in youth training, and his hands include Cruyff, Van Basten, Rijkaard, De Boer, Kluivert, Van der Vaart and other Ajax stars.

As for Pym van Dude, I heard that he has a lot of experience in sports medicine and has worked with Peter Brandt.

Bobby Harms and Pym van Doud are both retired, but this time they were forcibly poached by Ye Qiu Tottenham Hotspur, which is enough to give Ye Qiu, a good friend, face, but they will not stay in London for a long time, but only come over for a trip when the team needs it, that's all, because relatively speaking, they don't like life in London.

As for Rick Link, he will be the team's youth director, and naturally he will stay in London for a long time.

The distribution of Theobald's youth training area is clearly listed on the map, including every field, including each building, which is very clear to appear on it, clearly marked, and also makes people feel the perfection and advancement of Theobold, especially those youth training venues, each field is arranged with monitoring and video, which is to facilitate the research center to collect data and information, and then combine the various sensors carried by the players to conduct in-depth analysis of each player.

And when Huang Chu walked into the youth team with his group, passed by the training building, came to the training ground, and found that every training ground was very clean, which couldn't help but make Bobby Harms and Pym Van Doud and others exclaim.

It has snowed in London in the past few days, and the weather is relatively bad, but from the field, there is no trace of rain and snow at all, which shows that each field has excellent geothermal and drainage systems, and it is important to know that Tottenham Hotspur's youth team follows the Ajax system, that is, six age groups, each age group has a total of two groups, including from seven to eighteen years old, and each group has a dedicated turf.

If all 12 pieces of turf were to be fitted with geothermal and drainage systems, the cost would be a surprising amount.

Many people are surprised by the cost of Tottenham Hotspur's Theobald training base, and even many people feel that it is exaggerated, but that is because they don't know the inside story.

In normal times, you really don't see the slightest difference, because you can't see the geothermal heat and drainage, and even the cameras and sensors hidden in all corners of the training ground, but when it snows and rains, you can clearly appreciate the difference.

Only insiders can clearly know that Ye Qiu spent a lot of money to build Theobold, not to spend money in vain, but to directly put it in place in one step, creating the most complete and advanced training base in the world, such money can get such an effect, it is worth it

If nothing else, just for Chelsea, for Manchester City, and with all this money, do you have what it takes to build a new Theobald training base? Stop dreaming, you can't do it even if you spend twice as much

"It's really a big deal," Bobby Harms was also amazed.

Obviously, not only in the youth training conditions of Kwasio Bold, but also in the investment and ambition of Kwasiobald, at least in this aspect, Ajax can't catch up because they lack such ambition and lack such foundation.

Isn't there a saying? How bold is the heart, how fruitful is the earth

"He still does things the same way, a little too much pursuit of perfection, and now he is still tossing, not long ago he also built a special analysis system, and he also invested a lot of money" Huang Chu was a little complaining about her husband.

It's not that you feel sorry for money, but when others praise your husband, you always have to be humble and euphemistically say something about your shortcomings.

At least, Huang Chu is not the kind of woman who will follow others to praise her husband.

"I know that the system is very popular now, and Ajax also planned to ask him for a set before, but the cost will be more expensive" Bobby Harms knows Huang Chu's careful thoughts, the two of them are in love, and the two old men have also helped match, so I don't know what Huang Chu is thinking in his heart.

"Go back and let him send a set," Pym van Dudha, laughed.

Paul Brinton followed on the side, and he found that he couldn't speak, because no matter what he said, it was not appropriate to say anything, after all, this group of people were Ye Qiu's closest family and friends.

"I heard that he plans to build a youth training and amusement center in Theobold?" Bobby Harms asked.

Paul Brinton finally had a chance to talk, "Yes, Mr. Harms, it will be placed next to Central Lake Park, and it will be open to children under the age of seven, but it needs to be accompanied by a parent, and there will be no fee, just to cultivate children's interest in football and Tottenham Hotspur." ”

"It's a good idea, based on the long-term, and it can subtly let the child accept the youth culture of Tottenham Hotspur." Pym Van Dude directly said Ye Qiu's thoughts.

Building a team, especially a team with culture and heritage, is not just about how much money you invest, how many superstars you buy, how many championships you can achieve, wrong, you have these, but it does not necessarily mean that you have culture and heritage, because you lack a core culture, a core culture that can infect people.

It's like everyone who mentions Manchester United immediately thinks of the spirit of the Red Devils.

Also, many low-level teams tend to have quite a lot of diehards in the fan base, even if their results are bad, even if they perform badly, but they just have so many diehards, why?

It can be said that building the culture of a club is a very long, long and complex process, and it requires you to start from all aspects and fields, from the first team, to the youth team, to the children, and even to all aspects of society, all of which require you to establish your own image and unique culture.

Only in this way will others naturally think of your culture and identify with it when they think of you.

After Paul Brinton accompanied the group around the youth training area, the club's staff and volunteers also arrived at Theobold, and the busy talent day selection activity finally kicked off.

By half-past eight, more and more fans began to appear outside, and the bus arranged by the team to pick up the players and their parents for the Talent Day event also arrived in Theobold.

It was a busy day off the ground, especially as more and more fans flocked to Theorebold to see for themselves what kind of talent Tottenham Hotspur would pick out, and the crowd inevitably mixed in with scouts from other teams.

Like the scouts who mingled with the Ajax fanbase and pretended to visit De Tokmost, they wanted to use Tottenham's influence and connections to find opportunities to pick and poach the youngsters they fancied.

Tottenham Hotspur has no way to stop such a thing, so there is a rule in the team's Talent Day activities, that is, all ratings will not be released to the public, even the players and their parents.

The analysis of the players who participated in the Talent Day selection event is only known to Tottenham Hotspur insiders.