"I really didn't expect that when I was coaching, I didn't have the opportunity to sit down and drink coffee and chat like I am now, but I was laid off and got the honor of drinking coffee with you."

At Old Trafford in Manchester, after just watching a warm-up match for the England national team, Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson called Ye Qiu, and the two met in a coffee house near Old Trafford.

Ye Qiu believes that with Ferguson's personality, it is not enough to fall into the well, after all, as opponents, mutual respect is the minimum, and Ye Qiu has always felt that Ferguson is an admirable opponent no matter what.

"Originally, I was worried that you would be depressed, and I was thinking about whether to give you a phone call to comfort you or give you a job" When he said this, Ferguson obviously remembered the fight with Ye Qiu that day, and laughed, "But seeing you like this, I think you should be fine." ”

"What can I do?" Ye Qiu smiled and asked, "I feel more relaxed now, at least I don't have to wake up every morning in the future, I have to always worry about the next game, the next opponent, I don't have to force myself every day to get up at what time, what I have to do, my life is very comfortable and casual." ”

"What's more, I now have more time to spend with my family, oh, if you have time, feel free to call me for dinner, as long as you're in for a treat, I'll fly in from London at any time."

Ferguson laughed when he heard this, "The ticket money from London is enough for your kid to have a good meal in London."

"That's different, you Sir Alexon have a treat, there are few people in the world who have this kind of treatment" Ye Qiu was right.

Ferguson smiled, and after putting aside the identity of his opponent, the more he looked at Ye Qiu, the more pleasing he felt, "Do you have any plans for the future?" ”

"I want to take a break, but Sky TV has invited me to partner with Andy Gray to talk about next season's Premier League and Champions League, and I have to think about it, and several newspapers have asked me to write a column and I'm thinking about it."

After hearing this, Ferguson laughed again, "You kid seems to be more popular after losing the position of head coach."

"That's nature" Ye Qiu didn't blush, and a cowhide remark made Ferguson laugh again.

I don't know what Lu Dao is for, maybe it's because he is not in the head coach position, the whole person is relaxed and let go.

Ferguson looked at Ye Qiu with interest, he remembered from Ye Qiu's body now when he decided to retire, at that time, he also felt like Ye Qiu at the beginning, as if the mountain that had been pressing on him for a long time had finally moved away, and the whole person felt relaxed and in a very good mood.

But after a long time, I will miss the time when I was coaching, the pride of chanting your name at tens of thousands of fans at Old Trafford, the tension and excitement of chasing after your opponent in the standings, and the anxiety and anxiety of walking on thin ice and walking step by step with a strong opponent in the knockout rounds of the Champions League.

As a result, not long after he retired, he came back again, and he still couldn't let go

He believed that Ye Qiu would definitely be like this, because he could see that Ye Qiu, like him, belonged to the kind of person who decided to treat football as a lifelong career, and this kind of person could not do without football.

"Have you heard?" Ferguson picked up the coffee cup, took a sip and asked.

Ye Qiu nodded, "The action is fast, it was premeditated" After speaking, he smiled coldly.

The two are talking about Chelsea's official announcement today that Porto manager Jose Mourinho has been appointed as Chelsea's manager for the new season, and at the same time, it was also announced that Shevchenko will transfer to Chelsea, and this time-consuming transfer soap opera has finally come to an end.

After the club announced the hiring of Jose Mourinho at the helm, more than 10,000 Chelsea fans in London rushed to Stamford Bridge to protest because the Porto boss had just brought down Chelsea in the semi-finals with lethal tactics, and without him, Chelsea would still be the favourites to win the Champions League.

But in the blink of an eye, the management invited such a public enemy to coach the team, and the anger of the fans can be imagined.

Of course, Ye Qiu prefers to believe that this is a premeditated hire, from the time he forced the palace, maybe even before the palace, the management has paid attention to Mourinho, didn't it be rumored that Abramovich was close to Juan Figer?

"I've received the news that Ronaldinho has applied for a transfer," Ferguson said, with a twinkle in his eyes.

Ye Qiu was stunned, he didn't know what to do with this news, and after thinking about it, even if Ronaldinho applied for a transfer, it wouldn't have much to do with Manchester United, right? With Manchester United's financial resources, they can't afford Ronaldinho's transfer fee, right?

"The most likely places to go are Real Madrid and Barcelona," Ferguson said.

Ye Qiu couldn't say clearly, he didn't know what Ronaldinho wanted to transfer for, and he didn't hear Eliza Moon say that he had been on vacation for a while now, and he was not disturbed by the outside world, that is, this time he came to Manchester to watch a warm-up game, and that's it.

However, Mourinho's arrival will certainly trigger a round of changes at Chelsea, and he has made it clear that he wants to metabolize Chelsea, including veterans such as Van der Sar, Cannavaro and Davies, and he has also threatened to remove some players who do not deserve to stay at Chelsea.

This is not surprising, because Mourinho cannot directly take over Ye Qiu's team, he cannot survive in Ye Qiu's shadow, and if you want to break Ye Qiu's shadow, the most direct and effective way is to reorganize Chelsea, even if this approach seems a bit rough.

"Thief-eyed, I don't think you have any good intentions" Ye Qiu smiled at Ferguson, he had already left Chelsea, everything in Chelsea had nothing to do with him, at best, he would only care about his former favorite generals.

Ferguson smiled, "You know what I need."

Manchester United have a lot of problems right now, there are very obvious problems in all three lines, and even the goalkeeper position has flaws and deficiencies, and Ferguson is obviously interested in getting enough cheap from Chelsea, at least Van der Sar is the goalkeeper that Ferguson has always admired.

However, hearing this, Ye Qiu felt that Mourinho's tactics might not be suitable for Van der Sar.

Why do you say that?

Van der Sar is a scavenger-style attacking goalkeeper, even if his physical function has declined now, but his control range is still very large, and his passing and receiving ability is excellent, if you want to play Van der Sar's strength, you must maintain the right distance between the defense line and the goalkeeper, but will Mourinho's tactics leave such a distance?

Of course, it doesn't mean that Van der Sar can't do it on the goal line, on the contrary, Van der Sar's goal-line skills are also very good, but the reaction is not enough, after all, when he is older, the reaction is definitely not better than that of a young person, if he really puts him in the goal-line area, maybe it will be the next Lehmann.

Manchester United's front, midfield and backfield all need to be adjusted, of which the front field is the striker, Ruud van Nistelrooy is no longer liked by Ferguson, the midfield is in need of a strong covering midfielder, and the backfield is the weakness and deficiency of left-back and central defender, and on the contrary, these are all in the Chelsea team, and there are players that Ferguson admires.

For example, the striker, Rooney almost transferred to Manchester United in the first place, midfielder Essien has always been Ferguson's favorite to bring in to replace Keane, and the back line Ferguson has always wanted to get Heinze, it is conceivable that this guy will definitely not be soft when poaching.

There is news from the outside world that Abramovich has set a transfer budget of 500 million euros for Mourinho, not including Shevchenko, and it is obvious that the Russians also want to dilute Ye Qiu's influence in the team in the shortest possible time, and the most ideal way is undoubtedly to sell some Ye Qiu's players and bring in some new stars.

Chelsea's move would undoubtedly open up new opportunities for Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool.

In other words, apart from Mourinho, Ye Qiu really can't think of anyone else among the famous European coaches who is willing to pick up Chelsea, because this is definitely a thankless thing, not to mention whether the results can break through Ye Qiu, even if it is a breakthrough, everyone will still give the credit to Ye Qiu, the famous coaches cherish their feathers the most, who wants to do this kind of thing?

"I've heard that Arsene Wenger is also ready to do it, this guy is very shrewd, I heard that he is now picking cheap young players, he has a crush on Cesc Fabregas, Messi, Robin van Persie and Ribery, and he is going to reform Arsenal at a young age"

When he said this, Ferguson smiled and sighed, "You kid is indeed good enough, when you came to the Premier League, it caused huge fluctuations, and now you leave, it still causes a big earthquake." ”

Ye Qiu smiled after hearing this, "Don't worry, I'll be back soon."

There are some things that Ye Qiu has already begun to prepare, Eliza is currently holding Ye Qiu's money on the one hand and investing it in the Russian stock market, preparing to take advantage of the soaring stock market in Russia in the second half of the year to make a lot of money, and at the same time looking for an ideal team for Ye Qiu in English football, as long as the money is in place, Ye Qiu will immediately enter the negotiations

And for this, Ye Qiu would definitely not say it to Ferguson.

Entering the U month, Ye Qiu was reluctant to leave Huang Chu for a moment.

Not only him, but Ye Changming and Huang Jinsong also live in London, guarding their daughter-in-law and daughter, waiting for the birth of their granddaughter, which is a big event for both of them.

It happened to be the suspension period, and Ye Qiu didn't have anything to do, so he just looked at some materials and papers related to tactics and head coaches in the study room, and also looked at some of the essences and tactical concepts of other head coaches by the way.

In fact, Ye Qiu found a problem when he played Benitez's Liverpool, that is, he had a weakness in defensive adjustment.

Or it should be said that Ye Qiu has a unique way of adjusting offense and ball control, because his personality tends to attack, so when he studies other people's things, he is more inclined to study other people's offense, and ignores some defense.

When was the last time Ye Qiu studied defense?

When he first coached Ajax, Ye Qiu at that time synthesized the understanding of defense by Rehhagel, Saki, Michels and others, and came up with an overall defensive system, but this system is just a big framework, and the specific details and arrangements are not what Ye Qiu is good at, and even looking at Ye Qiu's coaching staff, they are not good at this.

Ten Carter is characterized by possession and training, and is not very good at tactics and defense.

Therefore, looking at the teams that Ye Qiu coached in the past, they basically relied on blending the individual abilities of the players into an organic whole to assist in defensive response, which can indeed form a very solid defensive system, but this is only a part of the defensive tactics.

In his spare time, Ye Qiu went to study the defense, and to study the defense, it was natural to study the Italian defensive system, among which the most recommended set of defensive system construction papers in the store was called "On the Movement and Coordination of Players in the Construction of the Defensive System of the Four Defenders".

In the evaluation and explanation given by the store, it is believed that this set of defensive theories is the most in line with the modern football defense concept, and it is also the most suitable set of concepts to play the team's defensive strength, and this is not only a set of tactics, but also a set of defensive training methods.

In this set of papers, Ye Qiu noticed that it placed a lot of emphasis on movement, but it was not a blind movement, but a targeted prediction of the attacker's movement, and it believed that a very important point in defense was to force the opponent to the side, force him to slow down, and then wait for the right moment.

In terms of preventing counterattacks, it focuses on the protection of the weak side, how not to let the opponent sneak attack their weak side, which is the focus of the prevention of counterattacks, and it is also the weakness and deficiency of almost all offensive teams.

The most embarrassing and the most appreciative of Ye Qiu, and at the same time, Ye Qiu has always emphasized and insisted on is that predicting the opponent's passing route and blocking and intercepting it is undoubtedly the most compatible point with Ye Qiu.

In addition, he also listed his own evaluation criteria for the selection of defenders, such as the central defender should be confident enough, able to command the entire defence and call the shots for the manager, have good skills and accurate long passing, good speed, effective marking, and excellent headers.

The most important thing is to have the ability to read the tactical understanding of the game, and have a good grasp of the team's ability to choose the timing of the team's defense and individual defense.

The ideal centre-back combination is a great marker and a scramble sweep.

Full-backs are chosen to have excellent defensive and attacking ability, to be able to provide width to the team's attack at all times, while having the ability to take advantage of the space left by their teammates.

Fast, good passing, high-speed dribbling and good crosses are all qualities that a full-back should have.

Seeing his requirements for players, Ye Qiu had to smile bitterly, where is there such a perfect player in this world?

But I still have to say that this person's taste is really similar to Ye Qiu, very similar, both are heavy tastes

If the above is just a big framework, then the details of the defensive training that followed, as well as his explanation of the movement of the defensive line and the position of the assistant defense, made Ye Qiu's eyes shine.

He advocates the use of slashes, pyramid positioning, slashes needless to say, easy to understand, and the pyramid is actually a triangle, but the triangle is composed of three players, and he is composed of four players, and the other player's position is the same as the lowest player, which is the base of the pyramid, and can be delayed at any time.

That is, when the opposing player with the ball breaks through the defensive point at the apex of the triangle, the fourth player immediately drags back and forms a triangle defensive zone.

Here we must talk about the theory of protection of defense.

Everyone knows that the best way to break through the defense is to break through the surface with points, such as using the player's personal ability to break through the opponent's point, and then disintegrate the opponent's entire defensive system.

But when the attacker finds this, the defender immediately evolves, and that is protection.

How to protect it?

Manufacturing depth, that is, taking multi-level protection echelons.

There are only two layers of triangles, but now a fourth person has been added to this defensive system, and the fourth person can delay the defense according to the situation on the field anytime and anywhere, and then create a triangle defensive area, which virtually forms three layers of protection.

It's also important to say that more layers isn't always better, it depends on what tactics you like to use

To put it simply, teams that like to create offsides do not like multi-level defense, because multi-level defense is not suitable for offside, and it is easy for the players in front of them to run out of the offside trap, but the players who can lag behind have not come out and directly fail to make offsides.

And if it is a frontal attack, multi-level protection is very important, because the single layer is too thin and easy to be breached.

Then the problem comes, multi-level emphasis is on depth, then the width of the defense is definitely not as good as a single layer, the same four players, you pull into a straight line and form a diamond, the depth of defense and the width of the defense are definitely different.

Therefore, strictly speaking, whether it is a single-layer defense or a multi-level defense, there is no superiority or disadvantage, it can only be said that different changes are made according to different situations on the field, and in this set of theories, single-layer defense is also divided into oblique positions and parallel positions, the former is to create defensive depth as much as possible in the case of having a certain tactical width.

To use an easy-to-understand example, when the enemy attacks from the wing, there is a single layer of defense, and when the ball comes to the middle, it has to be a multi-layered defense, of course, this is only a general statement, and it needs to adapt to the situation.

The concept also includes a series of defensive details to discuss and study the counter-attack after conceding the ball, and even lists some specific training methods to achieve this goal.

The goal of the back line given by this man in the end is an elastic band, which moves consistently, can be tightened and loosened, and can be retracted and released.

This set of theories really made Ye Qiu's eyes shine, the Italians' understanding of the defensive system is indeed unique, at least they can study the construction of the defensive system to such a deep extent, which is indeed difficult for outsiders to understand.

Thinking of this, Ye Qiu suddenly realized that he didn't seem to know the name of this person

Originally, he thought that at least Capello, Sachi, Lippi, and at least Ancelotti, Mancini, etc., but what he didn't expect was that the author of this article was a former legendary superstar, and the current AC Milan assistant coach Mauro Tassotti.

This surprised Ye Qiu, but also thought that AC Milan's defense line has been old in recent years, and many people think that it is the Milan laboratory and the role of Ancelotti, but this article by Mauro Tasotti makes Ye Qiu believe that at least in the defensive layout of the whole team, Mauro Tassotti must also play a vital role, even a core role.

"Talent, talent, you must meet if you have the opportunity" Ye Qiu was really interested in him.

Because of defense, it has always been his weakness