Walking into Amsterdam City Hall, it is not difficult to find that there are already many celebrities from all walks of life in Amsterdam, many of whom are related to Ajax, such as Ajax's directors and shareholders, as well as several Ajax executives and former football stars.

The former head coach of the team was awarded the honorary citizenship title by the city government, which is also a great honor for Ajax, so even Van Praag, who has left Ajax and only holds the title of honorary chairman, was specially invited to participate.

Ye Qiu walked into the venue accompanied by Eliza, and immediately became the focus of everyone's attention and congratulations.

Along the way, people kept stretching out their hands to him and congratulating him, but everyone took the initiative to make a way so that Ye Qiu could go to the front, Van Praag and the others were here, and when they saw Ye Qiu arrive, they all greeted him one by one.

"Congratulations, Ye Qiu" Van Praag stretched out his hand from afar, Ye Qiu was able to come to this day, and he also followed suit.

Now everyone is full of praise for him as a former chairman, because during his tenure, the team has created two brilliant peaks, one under Louis van Gaal, and the other during last season's Ye Qiu, which is very difficult.

Whether it is the media or fans, they like to compare, they will compare the difference between Van Gaal and Ye Qiu's two peaks, and will compare who has more influence, and the final conclusion is undoubtedly Ye Qiu.

Because Ye Qiu is the only team that has won the Champions League without the four major leagues after the expansion and restructuring of the Champions League, this is called a miracle by many people, because before the expansion, although the teams participating in the European Champions Cup are the league champions of various countries, the strength is uneven, and the competition is not fierce enough.

But also because of this, Ye Qiu led the team to the very end, and everyone was full of praise for him, because they all knew very well that this was definitely not relying on verbal propaganda, but relying on real strength.

Because of this, the whole of Amsterdam is very supportive of the city government's decision to award Ye Qiu the title of honorary citizen.

As the name suggests, honorary citizenship is an honorary award to recognize those outsiders who have made outstanding contributions to the local area, which has rich and lofty social significance, and is an important symbol to measure the humanistic connotation of a city.

For Amsterdam, the title of Honorary Citizen was undoubtedly bestowed on Ye Qiu, who led Ajax to the second treble in their history, and almost all Ajax fans had no objection to it.

"Now that you're in the limelight, the media all over the world are hyping up your so-called acquisition list"

After some greetings and politeness, everyone immediately gathered the object of discussion to the hottest topic at the moment, which is undoubtedly Chelsea's madness, and in Chelsea's crazy poaching, Ye Qiu is undoubtedly a figure on the cusp.

In the past period, Ye Qiu's attention has even exceeded Beckham's transfer, and the media in the world are hyping up the news of who Ye Qiu wants to poach, even the slightest clue will be infinitely magnified.

Of course, according to Eliza, there are some people who are using Ye Qiu and Chelsea in the transfer market to elevate their influence.

Ye Qiudu has become accustomed to this, many times, fans are easily deceived by the media, thinking that what they see is true, but as everyone knows, the press releases of many media may not be dug up by their reporters, but are likely to be the revelations that the parties themselves actively seek, the purpose is just for publicity and hype.

"No" Ye Qiu shook his head modestly, his respect for Van Praag will not change, not only him, but also Bobby Harms, Van Dude, Leo Benhack and others, without the help, trust and supervision of these people, it would be difficult for him to get to where he is today.

By the way, with the departure of Van Praag and the departure of Ye Qiu, Leo Ben Hack also followed, so he did not attend today, and Ye Qiu has not been in contact with him for a long time, and he doesn't know what he plans to do next.

"But to be honest, I enjoyed watching your poaching, really," Van Pragha laughed, "That big family is now eager to divide our Ajax, and now you are going to poach them crazily, which also indirectly shares the pressure for us." ”

As European leagues gradually move towards a pyramid-shaped distribution, it has become inevitable that the four major leagues at the top of the pyramid will suck the blood of those leagues that are not as good as them.

Why is it difficult for a team that is not in the big four leagues to stay competitive with the big four leagues for a long time?

The reason is very simple, most of the money and resources are in the four major leagues, they have money, fame and influence, as long as the four major leagues have enough outstanding rookies to come out, immediately poaching, out of one to dig one, out of two to dig a pair, weaken the low-echelon league, strengthen their own strength, one and the other, the four major leagues are more competitive in European competitions, especially the Champions League, and with competitiveness, there is a higher income, and it becomes richer.

This is a virtuous circle for the teams in the big four leagues, especially the big teams.

But for the low-echelon leagues, their status and role have been stereotyped, that is, to make blood for the teams of the four major leagues and provide them with an endless stream of new forces, can they resist?

Half a time is OK, want to last a long time? Stop dreaming

Therefore, when Ajax reached the semi-finals last year, they were already rushing over to poach people, but in the end, Ye Qiu relied on his influence and the cooperation of Ajax's management to keep people, but after winning the Champions League this year, they will no longer keep their hands, and they are all crazy.

Barcelona, Real Madrid, Juventus, Inter Milan are all eyeing Ibrahimovic, Bayern Munich, Inter Milan, Juventus are eyeing Lucio, Barcelona and Real Madrid are all trying to pack Robben and Van der Vaart, in addition to Kifu, McConn, Sneijder, Van der Meyde, Kolo Toure and a group of outstanding stars are all targeted by the giants.

Now for Ajax, it is no longer a question of whether to keep people, but how many people can stay.

"The board of directors has consulted with me and asked me for my opinion, and I think we should do our best to keep people, at least some of them, and continue to ensure that the team is competitive in the Eredivisie and Europe." Van Praag sees this very clearly.

If they want to stay all, Ajax doesn't have the ability or the financial resources.

"It's definitely a compromise." Ye Qiu also nodded in support, "And with Ajax's current scouting system, I believe that we will be able to find a strong supplement soon, plus Marco, there will be no problem."

Van Basten has been in Ye Qiu's coaching staff for three years, and he is a former legend of Ajax, loved by fans, plus Bobby Harms and Rick Link, two coaches who are familiar with Ye Qiu's tactical system, unless Van Basten wants to completely overturn Ye Qiu's system for Ajax, his dominance in the Eredivisie should be extended.

As for Ajax's scouting system, in the past three years that Ye Qiu has been in power, Ajax has invested a lot of money every year to improve this system, as long as the role is played properly, the problem of selling players is not big, because it can be effectively supplemented quickly, but Ajax can embark on a virtuous cycle of introducing at a low price, carving and cultivating, and selling at a high price.

There is also a downside to this, which is that it may be difficult to compete in the European arena anymore, but this is the cruelty of reality.

Even if Ajax can meet a crazy money-throwing owner like Abramovich, it can't hide the reality that the entire league system of the Eredivisie is much less competitive than the big four leagues, because many things are doomed.

"You're holding me here, but you're digging into my wall on the other side, like words?" When Van Basten heard Ye Qiu supporting him, he immediately said something jokingly about him.

"Don't use words like digging the foot of the wall, it's too hurtful" Ye Qiu didn't care, and said with a smile, "I have given enough sincerity, I haven't treated you badly at all, UU 10,000 euros to introduce Van der Sar and McConn, this deal is enough for you to be happy"

Everyone also laughed after hearing this, but they also had to admit that UU Wan introduced Van der Sar and McConn, and Ajax did not lose.

Van der Sar is not young, although he has maintained his form well in the past two years, but who knows how long he can still maintain it? And Van der Sar has an ideal natural replacement, Stekelenberg, who has been waiting for his chance.

After Ye Qiu got in touch with Van der Sar through the latter, Van der Sar's agent is also Eliza, so many transfer issues are no longer a problem, as long as Ajax agrees, personal treatment negotiations and signing can be carried out immediately.

As the saying goes, it's better to use raw than cooked, Ye Qiu's high-post defensive tactics are to need a goalkeeper like Van der Sar to sit in charge, and it is not impossible to introduce other goalkeepers, Ye Qiu has also considered it, such as Reina or Cech, but he is still a little worried about the run-in problem.

Chelsea has made such a big introduction this summer, and the expectations of fans can be imagined, Abramovich has high hopes for him, if he can't show results that match his investment, Ye Qiu himself feels unreasonable.

Therefore, things in this world are fair, and the risk and return are always proportional.

As for McConn, Ye Qiu has swept the whole of Europe, and there are not many right-backs who meet his definition of an attacking full-back, and Lahm can buy them, but this player is inexperienced and short, and no one can be sure whether he can adapt to the Premier League.

Alves is still relatively immature, and he can't get a labor certificate from the Premier League, so Ye Qiu finally chose McConn.

There are a lot of right-backs in Ajax, such as Heitinga and De Jong, who can play this position, and if not, Van Basten can bring in another right-back from the outside, and I believe that the cost is not a fraction of McConn's transfer.

That's why Ye Qiu said that he was sincere.

After a burst of laughter and conversation, Ye Qiu looked around, looking for his goal.

"By the way, I heard that Edgar Davis is also here, why didn't I see him?" One of his missions in Amsterdam was to get in touch with the Juventus midfielder.

"Well, over there," Bobby Harms pointed not far away.

Ye Qiu only noticed at this time that there was a lonely person sitting not far away, with long hair and dark skin, but compared to the fierce wild boar on the court, Davis was now wearing a suit, tie, and taking off his iconic glasses, no wonder he couldn't recognize it.

"I'll go over and talk to him," Ye Qiu said with a smile.

Davis had noticed this side for a long time, but Van Praag and the others all paid attention to Ye Qiu, and he was not very familiar with Ye Qiu, so he didn't come up to join in the fun, so the wild boar seemed very calm and lonely alone.

It's similar to what happened to him at Juventus.

"Can I sit down and have a few words?" Ye Qiu walked up to him and asked with a smile.

Davis raised his head and was a little surprised when he saw that it was Ye Qiu, but he nodded and pointed to the side lightly, "Sit down"

Ye Qiu sat down across a seat from him and looked at Edgar Davis, he felt that even now, the Dutch were still unruly and unruly, perhaps, even now, he still felt that he was the one who was reasonable.

Of course, Ye Qiu has always felt that Davis's affairs and Lippi must be at fault, and there is no need to blame anyone, but Lippi must be blamed on Davis, and Davis must blame Lippi, people, aren't they all like this?

"Have you ever thought about changing the environment?" Ye Qiu is very straightforward and straight to the point.

Davies was a little surprised, he didn't expect this person to be so direct, after staring at Ye Qiu, he shook his head, "I don't think about leaving Juventus and leaving Serie A for the time being"

Ye Qiu didn't think it was strange about this, although in the past two or three years, Davies has been rumored to leave Juventus almost all day long, but in fact he is putting pressure on the club, Capello was going to take him to Rome, Moggi had to agree, but the transfer was announced to be aborted, and some people said that Davies refused.

But he didn't go to Rome and stayed at Juventus, he was still not reused by Lippi.

"I heard that Juventus recently recalled Manuel Blasi, and Moggi pointed at Blasi at the press conference and said that this is our new Davis" Ye Qiu did not continue to entangle, but knocked sideways.

The matter he said has also been in the thick of the news recently, with news that Juventus are going to sell Davies, because the latter's contract is about to expire, but the renewal has never been negotiated, for the simple reason that the Dutchman wants the club to give him a guarantee for the main position, but Lippi refuses to make such a commitment.

Davies made a lot of appearances under Lippi, but many of them were substitutes, and the feud between him and Lippi made it difficult for the Dutchman to accept such a contract extension, so he had to continue to negotiate.

Negotiations will have to put pressure on each other, and Moggi's recall of Manuel Blasi on loan in Perugia is undoubtedly a kind of pressure, and not only that, Juventus are currently on the offensive against Parma's Stephen Appia, the Ghanaian midfielder with similar characteristics to Davies, who came to Juventus to replace the Dutch boars.

Ye Qiu believes that Davis will not be unable to understand the twists and turns in this, but he still wants to leave some hope, after all, he has been in Turin City for six years, and he has also been in Italy for eight years, and he must be a little reluctant to leave.

Davis listened to Ye Qiu's words, and a trace of anger flashed in his eyes, not only dissatisfied with Ye Qiu revealing his scars in person, but also angry at Juventus's approach, because he has been in this team for a full year and has brought so many honors to this team, but the team treats heroes like this?

Many things people don't understand, just like Juventus hooked up with Ancelotti in advance before Lippi got out of class, which proves that Moggi does not allow any feelings to be mixed with the operation of the team, everything is for the sake of profit.

But often some people always feel that they can be the lucky exception

That's true for buying lottery tickets, and it's the same for Davis

'Chelsea are certainly not as influential as Juventus at the moment, but we are full of fighting spirit and passion, I am not Lippi, I will not resist any player with fighting spirit and passion like you, I will give you the most suitable space to play and give you the opportunity to prove yourself again'

After a pause, Ye Qiu said with a smile: "You know, there is a saying in my motherland, a tree moves the dead and the person moves, which means that if a tree moves, it is easy to die, because its roots are confined there, and it can't be moved, but people are different, people have their own thoughts, their own way of survival, and sometimes in the predicament that is difficult to break through, change a way of thinking, change an environment, and often be able to turn a dead road into a living road."

"I have always believed that even now, you are still one of the best midfielders in Europe, but that must not be to stay on the bench at Juventus, that is not what the best midfielder in Europe should be, the best players should be on the stage where they can play to their strengths, and compete with the strongest opponents to prove their strength."

When he said this, Ye Qiu shrugged his shoulders, "So, I chose to leave Ajax, give up everything I built up at Ajax, go to Chelsea in the Premier League, and compete with top coaches like Ferguson and Wenger, for me, this is the best way for me to prove myself." ”

Davis still didn't speak, his head a little lower, and it was hard to guess what he was thinking.

"If I'm not mistaken, you're 30 years old, right?" Ye Qiu laughed twice, "Think about it yourself, how many years can you maintain your state?" Do you want to stay at Juventus? Think about it yourself."

After finishing speaking, Ye Qiu stood up and walked towards Van Praag's group again, leaving Edgar Davis behind him alone, still with his head down, not knowing what Lu Dao was thinking, and not knowing what Lu Dao Ye Qiu said, whether he really listened to it.