At the end of the 17th round of the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur defeated Chelsea 4-0 at home, winning a 67-game unbeaten record, causing a lot of movement in the entire Premier League and European football, but soon, with the end of this round of matches, many media have shifted their attention to Tottenham Hotspur's Christmas carnival.

It has become an important annual festival in north London, and Tottenham Hotspur's biannual Talent Day selection event was held on the 23rd, three days after the end of the 17th round of league games.

Tottenham Hotspur's academy has developed rapidly in the past few years, and the strength of the youth team has changed dramatically compared to when Ye Qiu first took over, and the current first team is full of youth players including Ramsey, Eriksen, Hazzard, etc., if according to the youth rules, including Neymar, Coutinho and others.

In addition to being famous in the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur's youth team performed the same as the first team in the group stage of the first UEFA Youth Champions League this season, winning all six games, and they scored more goals than the first team, scoring 26 goals in six games, an average of more than four goals per game.

This is indeed a surprising statistic for many, and Tottenham Hotspur's youth team includes Philippe Coutinho, Lucas? Moura, Pogba, Eriksen, Nick? Powell, Raphael Varane, Nastasic, Luke? A group of young rookies such as Shaw and Chambers have been eye-catching.

In addition to these rookie players who are already well-known in forums and fan bases, three more talented players have emerged this season, namely Belgian talented star Januzaj and England midfielder Will ? Hughes and Croatian centre-back Jedevic.

Tottenham Hotspur has always been known for its technology, and the youth team has always been very respectful of technology, so the current young players in the Tottenham Hotspur team are more likely to win with skill and spirit, and do not have an advantage in terms of physicality.

Even Raphael Varane, Nastasic and Jedevic, these three central defenders don't have much advantage in terms of physical confrontation, they can just guarantee not to suffer, but their skills are quite good, especially Jedevic, this player's foot skills are not lost to the technical midfielder at all, and the ball is very good at the back.

And there is also a good advantage that his defense is more about awareness and skill to win, and he is physically at a disadvantage, which is also a distinctive feature of Tottenham Hotspur's entire youth system.

If you look at Tottenham Hotspur's academy in the past few years, it is not difficult to find a very interesting phenomenon, that is, the younger they are, the less satisfactory their results are, but the youth teams such as Aston Villa, Leicester City, Coventry, Fulham and Reading have achieved better results.

But by the U19 age group, Tottenham Hotspur's overall strength has improved a lot.

In England's Under-21 national team, Nick? Powell, Will? Hughes, Luke? Shaw, Callum? Four players including Chambers were selected, among whom Nick? Powell is only seventeen years old, but he is already the core of this team, and if you count Kyle? Walker, Phil? In the case of Jones and Beckham, Tottenham Hotspur's international contribution is not bad.

And if you look down a little further, to the U18 national team, Patrick? Roberts, Ryan? Ledson, Dan? A group of young rookies such as Crowley also occupy the main position of this national team, especially Dan? Crowley, who is seen as a future rookie, has excellent skills at his feet, while Patrick? Roberts is known as Messi II.

It's obvious that Tottenham Hotspur's players are almost all cross-age groups. Powell and Luke? Xiao and others were supposed to play U18, but they were transferred to U21, and Phil? Jones made it to the national team and occupied a key spot, while Dan, who was about fifteen, or a little more than fourteen? Crowley and others have entered the Under-18 national team, which is a challenge to skip the level.

Of course, like many players who challenge beyond the ranks, many players are not able to play in the main team in the age group of the national team, but this is a kind of training process for them, they play against players who are a year or two older than them early, and Tottenham Hotspur attaches great importance to technical details, so they play hard to carve and exercise their skills and awareness.

In the past few years, Tottenham Hotspur's academy has also produced a lot of players, but almost none of them have been able to enter the first team.

Even at the beginning, many people were dissatisfied with Ye Qiu's promotion of young rookies including Hazzard, Ramsey, Nastasic and Varane, and brought in Phil? After Jones, many people also felt that Ye Qiu attached importance to youth training on the surface, but did not reuse youth training.

But Ye Qiu's attitude is very clear, the youth academy he wants is the kind of youth training system that is the same as the top youth training system in continental Europe such as Ajax, which is modern and in line with future tactical trends and trends, rather than the original British style.

Some people may wonder again, so why bring in Phil? Jones?

This is an attempt by Ye Qiu, as if Wenger is now doing almost everything to reuse Wilshere, and it took so long to transform Vieira and Alexander? Like Song and other players, Ye Qiu is also trying to see, if he can make Phil? What happens if Jones' technique is upgraded to meet Tottenham Hotspur's requirements?

If there was such a man in Tottenham Hotspur's youth squad, he wouldn't need to be brought in, but sadly, no.

On the current youth team that has won all six games in the group stage of the UEFA Youth Champions League, Ye Qiu's tactical ideas are vividly reflected, because there are fewer physical confrontations, more technical content, and more clear tactical ideas.

Active running and coverage, high-intensity pressing and pressing, passing and cutting are all very good, and the cooperation is also relatively tacit, with a lot of multi-corner passing and receiving balls, and more to send the ball into the opponent's 30-meter area or the big penalty area to complete an attack, rather than long-range shots and irresponsible indiscriminate shots.

It's a tactical concept as a whole, but the key problem is that this team seems to be very integral, everyone in the team is working together, but if you analyze it carefully, you can see that this team is fighting as a whole, but at the same time, it is more about the talent and freedom of the players.

One of the obvious characteristics is that they have very few positions and responsibilities, and the players are on the pitch and can do whatever they like, and play wherever they want.

Like Nick? Powell, he's a playmaker, but you can often see him moving forward behind the striker, or even moving to the wing to be a winger, or even dropping back to play a centre-back, and the same goes for Will? Hughes, this is a very well-rounded English player, you can't even tell what position he's playing on the pitch.

Some people say, Will? Hughes is like Ballack in the Leverkusen period, ostensibly a midfielder, but in fact he actively rushes forward, his running and physical fitness are very good in the team, and when he rushes to the front, as soon as he loses the ball, he immediately throws into the counter-attack, looking like a ball-grabbing machine, grabbing from the front to the back.

In this framework of advocating running, advocating pressing, and advocating pressing, the running and endurance of Tottenham Hotspur's group of young players have been maintained quite well, and Mauro, who led the team to play in the Youth Champions League? Tasotti has also actively carried out a large-scale rotation system, so as to ensure the overall combat effectiveness of the team.

It can be said that in the past few months, Tottenham Hotspur's youth team has won a lot of media attention, coupled with low ticket prices, which has made them crazy support from Tottenham Hotspur fans. Samuel spoke highly of it in his column, believing that the tactical concept of this youth team is very advanced, and it has played the closest concept to all-offense and all-defense.

Regarding such remarks, Ye Qiu also felt that the concept of the youth team was indeed very advanced, but it was not suitable for the adult team.

First of all, a very important and unavoidable factor is that the physical confrontation of the senior team is more demanding, and the physical consumption is greater.

It's like the youth team playing Valencia, the whole game used possession and running to pull Valencia away, the young players of the Bat Army can't restrain the youth team of Tottenham Hotspur at all, run, run, can't run, grab can't grab, the rhythm is also pulled by the opponent, you have no way to contain him.

If you go to the senior team, it doesn't matter, I'm a little savage, more physical, and even a lot of professional players' small faults such as small movements, or more secret harassment and foul language, these are things that everyone is accustomed to on the professional court, and they can also effectively contain the opponent.

But it's rare in the youth team.

From another point of view, although Tottenham Hotspur's youth team performed well in England, it was not amazing, mainly because the vast majority of players in England's youth team were too physical, which was a misunderstanding that would occur in the selection of English teams in the past, or in other words, there were such misunderstandings in youth training all over Europe.

To be honest, Ye Qiu was asked by the media before whether the youth team could win the UEFA Youth Champions League, and Ye Qiu expressed his confidence, but he said privately to the coaching staff that he was not optimistic.

The reason is very simple, the opponent in the group stage is relatively weak, and the pertinence is not strong, but in the knockout round, all the teams that advance to the knockout stage basically belong to the team with stronger strength and better tactical targeting.

At this time, you have to face two choices, one, you want results, and two, stick to your original style of play and ideas.

One case worth noting is Chelsea.

Ye Qiu once tailored a youth training system for Chelsea, but later with the arrival of Arneson, Ye Qiu left the team early, this system was completely disrupted, and it became very eager for quick success.

Looking at the so-called rookies that Chelsea has launched in recent years, of course, there are good embryos such as Kakuta, but more of them are some precocious players, these players have a physical advantage over their peers, so as long as the technical gap is not large, they can use their bodies to suppress opponents, and then make themselves perform very well and crush their peers.

But all scouts know that this is a delusion!

You can crush your opponent physically at the age of sixteen, and you can crush the opponent at the age of eighteen or nineteen, but the gap is not that big, what if you are twenty or twenty-one? The other party's body is up, what advantage do you have at all? You'll only expose your technical flaws, that's all!

A lot of dicks blow up when they are young, but they look mediocre when they become adults, that's it!

The growth of all young players is a step-by-step model, step by step, slowly climbing forward.

Why is Chelsea's academy in a hurry to achieve quick success because it is full of people including Michael? Woods and a group of other players with a very precocious body, whose precocious body allows them to easily ravage their peers and opponents, and then achieve excellent results.

But Ye Qiu chose the latter one, when he founded Theobald to set up a research center, there was a so-called player training practice center in it, where a group of Bobby? Led by Harms, the academy is very good, very experienced, and theoretically excellent, and they exist to establish and maintain a rigorous ladder of player development system for Tottenham Hotspur.

This group of people will keep track of the detailed statistics of each player in the Tottenham Hotspur team, and focus on a few players that the coaching staff is optimistic about, and tailor a set of improvement and development plans for them to help them climb the ladder one step at a time.

So many people say that Tottenham Hotspur's youth training rate is very high, Ramsey is firmly in the main force, Hazzard's performance is eye-catching, Neymar, Coutinho, Eriksen and others are very good, Phil? Jones seems to be starting to go the technical route, and it's actually the center of player development practice that's at work.

In order to cooperate with the selection of Talent Day, Ye Qiu specially made an exception to allow Sky TV to enter Theorebald's academy, and successively interviewed youth training director Rick Link, youth training consultant Bobby? Harms, as well as a grand introduction to the fully formed and stable youth system, as well as the introduction of the mysterious player development practice center.

Sky TV produced a special episode for this purpose, and broadcast it on the sports channel, which attracted wide attention from the outside world and the media, and everyone was surprised to find that there were still such departments within Tottenham Hotspur.

For example, they never heard of a tactical library where a group of tacticians gather to discuss and study future football tactical trends, a player development practice center dedicated to developing players, and a match analysis group dedicated to analyzing and studying opponents' advice to the head coach......

With the broadcast of Sky TV, the program quickly spread all over the world, and was reprinted and reported in major newspapers, magazines and TV stations, and everyone was surprised to find out that Tottenham Hotspur had such a large and meticulous operation team behind the success.

With the TV show finally, Tottenham Hotspur CEO Peter? Kenyon said that operating these departments costs at least 10 million euros a year more than other teams, but this amount of money can pay for itself in terms of player transfers and reduced injuries, which is still a huge profit.

This is undoubtedly Tottenham's campaign for the Talent Day selection.

In fact, it has become an event that all football fans and journalists around the world are watching, not only because of the Christmas carnival, but also because they all want to know who will win the favor of Tottenham Hotspur. Who can become another genius chosen by Ye Qiu?

However, Tottenham Hotspur broadcast an interview with Ye Qiu on the official website and APP.

In this interview, Ye Qiu said that Tottenham Hotspur's so-called talent day selection is not necessarily a talent, and when the team selects players, it is not necessarily the player's existing ability, but more potential, and the potential includes the attitude of the player.

"Football, like all industries in the world, is easy to get started, you can run and jump and you can play football, but it's very, very difficult for anybody to become the best and best superstar in the game, not only because you have to have great skills and talent, but more importantly, you have to have a great personality and you have to have a great ability to learn."

For what Ye Qiu said in the interview, Rick Link also mentioned on Sky TV that the Dutch mentioned a Belgian player, Yuri? Youri Tielemans, now 14 years old, was unsuccessful in the talent selection exercise because he didn't perform well, but his personality was liked by the team and he was recommended.

Today, he is a regular in Tottenham Hotspur's Under-16 age group and is also the captain of the team, and he has performed very well.

Also like Will? Hughes, who didn't perform well when he first participated in the Talent Day selection event, but his attitude in training and confrontation made Tottenham Hotspur scouts think highly of him and invite him to participate in the selection again, and he eventually entered Tottenham Hotspur and performed well.

With Tottenham Hotspur's previous round of publicity and promotion, coupled with Tottenham Hotspur's achievements and influence in the past few years, as well as the good reputation won by the north London team in the youth field, Tottenham Hotspur's talent day selection activity has once again been respected by many young players and players' parents around the world.

However, with the restrictions of FIFA and UEFA rules, players must be over 18 years old for international transfers, and transfers within the EU must be 16 years old, so the selection activities for Talent Day are still mainly based in England, supplemented by EU countries.

Even, a slight carelessness may cause transfer disputes.

But even so, the first day of the Talent Day selection event was still overcrowded.

Ye Qiu arrived at Theobold with his two children, and when he entered the youth team, he found that many people had gathered in one of the venues, where there was a crowd of people, as if they were watching a very surprised thing.