There was a time when Ye Qiu would stand in the perspective of a club operator and think about a question, that is, why is there so many European giants, so few teams that can really maintain stable results and influence for a long time?

Just like Real Madrid, Florentino had unlimited scenery in the early days, but in the later stage of the Galaxy Battleship, it fell apart, and Calderon's coming to power made the brand value of the horse fall to a pitiful point, what is this for?

Also, like Inter Milan, the situation of Inter Milan is known to the whole world, but what can Moratti seem to have no intention of introspection? Why is he always wrong again and again? Or does he simply not feel like he was doing anything wrong?

On the other hand, Manchester United has maintained a strong competitiveness for a long time in the past, whether in the Premier League or in Europe, and among them, although Ferguson has made a lot of mistakes, on the whole, it has been relatively stable, and the overall strength and finances of the team have not been greatly affected.

There is another quite important example, Bayern Munich.

This team is one of the best in terms of commercial development of any of Europe's biggest clubs, even on par with Manchester United.

Many people may feel that Bayern Munich has been sluggish in the past few years, but it should also be noted that this has actually been dragged down by the domestic league, especially after the bankruptcy of the Bundesliga's number one sponsor Kirsch Media Group at the beginning of the century, which not only affected the Korea-Japan World Cup, but also completely broke a series of bubbles in the Bundesliga.

The years before and after the turn of this century were the glorious period of the Bundesliga, when the Bundesliga limelight even overshadowed La Liga, from Dortmund to Bayern Munich, and then to Bayer Leverkusen, the madness of the Bundesliga is undoubted, and it was precisely after the bankruptcy of the Kirsch Group that the broadcast of the Bundesliga was completely in trouble, resulting in the financial difficulties of almost all Bundesliga teams.

Coupled with the lack of talent in German football, both pressures have forced the Bundesliga to transform, and Bayern Munich is the best of all the Bundesliga teams, although they are somewhat lacking in combat effectiveness in Europe, but on the whole, they are among the best in Europe in terms of player level and team financial health.

If you carefully analyze these two teams, it is not difficult to find one thing in common: the centralized distribution of power, and the continuity of policy.

At Manchester United, Alex Ferguson is in charge of Athletic, which is the core policy of Manchester United, and before Eduardo, then Peter Kenyon, and then David Gill, no matter who becomes the CPO of Manchester United, Ferguson's position will not be shaken, and Athletic is the team's top priority.

Even if the Glazer family wants to buy Manchester United later, they must first convince Ferguson and promise to ensure the interests of the competition to succeed, and on the basis of ensuring the interests of the competition, the team will carry out commercial operations to the maximum, so Manchester United can be said to be one of the best and most ideal teams in terms of business and sports.

The same is true for Bayern Munich, the troika headed by Beckenbauer is all from a football celebrity, but they have undergone professional training丨Because they understand football, and after training丨, they have the ability to develop commercially, plus these troikas have been in charge of Bayern Munich's main power for a long time, so some important policies of Bayern Munich have not changed over the years.

There are two sides to everything, just like power, many people say that they want to separate powers, and Chelsea also engaged in the separation of powers, but many times it proves that power is too decentralized, it seems to be a mutual check and balance, it seems to be harmonious, but in fact it may not be advanced, not a great man has said that democracy is the most inefficient game in the world

But it's not good to be too centralized, just like Florentino's Real Madrid, like Moratti's Inter Milan, are caused by too much concentration of power, and it is easy to lead the team astray because of some preferences, shortcomings and problems of the person who has the power, leading to problems in the team's management.

Therefore, Ye Qiucai feels that centralized distribution is the best, just like Manchester United and Bayern Munich, concentrated in the hands of a few people, through negotiation and communication, to formulate the development direction of the team, and then persistently adhere to it.

In Tottenham Hotspur, Ye Qiu also implements the centralized distribution of power, as a head coach, he hardly interferes in business matters, and Peter Kenyon and Ron Gurley are also very clear that the most important core foundation of Tottenham Hotspur is still in competition, or the team's performance and combat effectiveness.

When both sides have a clear division of power between each other and agree on some aspects, then the overall operation of the team will become very harmonious, and everyone in this team will feel very comfortable, at least on the surface.

And when Ye Qiu met the current Ajax chairman John Jacques at the Golden Thin Man at the Arenal Stadium, a Chinese restaurant he hadn't been to for a long time, he once again clearly realized that sometimes too much concentration of power is really not a good thing.

In Ye Qiu's impression, John Jacques has never been an ambitious person, compared with Ye Qiu's good friend Van Praag, he lacks enough personal charm and majesty, he is tall, but a little thin, not young, but he looks white and clean, Sven.

Seeing him, Ye Qiu remembered his old friend Van Praag, who is now very nourishing in the Dutch Football Association, with the title of honorary president of Ajax, but nothing is done, this guy is now at ease

Wasn't Ajax's glory days in the 90s created by the strong Van Praag and the equally strong Van Gaal? And isn't this another example of Ye Qiu's so-called centralized distribution of power?

But Ye Qiu himself knows very well that the scale of the Dutch economy is not very good, there are many fans, but it is also limited, the entire market is so big, and it is difficult to feed so many Eredivisie teams, especially after the arrival of the European debt crisis, the management of the Eredivisie team is even more unbearable.

Ajax changed a chest advertisement this year, and the sponsorship fee was increased from the original 7 million to 12 million euros, but this money is put in the Premier League, that is, the medium level, but in the Netherlands, it is already very high, and Ajax's total income a year is only about 70 million euros, which is still the first in the Netherlands, about 20 million euros higher than Eindhoven.

With the increase in player salaries in recent years, Ajax's situation has become more and more embarrassing, Ye Qiu's income from winning the treble, as well as the players, have now been squandered, because the current situation forces Ajax to sell players to make a living, but this summer wanted to sell Huntelaar, but did not get much response.

Over the years, the team's management has become increasingly embarrassing, and the scouting system that Ajax used to be proud of and proud of is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain, first of all, because of the academy! The high stakes are high, the output is not proportional, and Ajax alone simply cannot sustain such a large scouting system.

Just like Sevilla, which has been in the limelight in recent years, don't look at their current awesomeness, it seems to be amazing, as long as their team's results decline and their income declines, the scouting system will immediately be streamlined, and then it will be like Ajax, going into a vicious circle.

This is also the reason why Ye Qiu attaches so much importance to the Football Economic Forum and the player database, because when even a team like Ajax does not have enough financial resources to maintain a huge scouting system, there must be other ways to help these teams tap talents, and the Football Economic Forum and the player database play such a role.

Of course, there is another option in front of Ajax now, which is to work with Tottenham Hotspur in all aspects.

Ye Qiu's Tottenham Hotspur has a lot of money, invests a lot of money in the scouting network every year, and is fully capable of integrating Ajax's scouting system, and the two sides share resources, while Tottenham Hotspur, as the parent team, can arrange young potential players to Ajax at any time to receive training, and has the right of first refusal to buy Ajax players.

Ajax is not desperate now, they still have a choice, but they have tasted the sweetness from the cooperation with Ye Qiu and Eliza in the past few years, not to mention the four players that Ye Qiu put in Ajax, let's just say that Di Maria and Alexis Sanchez, who gave up in order to introduce Thiago Silva's four, are now worth a lot of money.

Previously, Ye Qiu recommended Suarez through Bobby Hams, Ajax introduced 800,000 euros, and now it is worth more than 10 million, and the team does not know how much it has profited, and these have made Ajax clearly see the future prospects of cooperation with Ye Qiu and Tottenham Hotspur.

Of course, for such cooperation, neither side will reveal it to the outside world, only that Tottenham Hotspur and Ajax will carry out comprehensive cooperation in youth training, and the specific details will not be said to the public.

"I am sure that our cooperation will be very pleasant"

In Jin Slender Man, Ye Qiu used a dinner that had just arrived in the Netherlands to get John Jacques, and the two sides agreed to cooperate in all aspects, and it is almost certain that from now on, Ajax will become a satellite club of Tottenham Hotspur and an important base for Tottenham Hotspur's future talent selection

As a famous man who has brought great glory to Ajax, when John Jacques asked Ye Qiu about the new head coach after Van Basten left the team, Ye Qiu recommended the former Ajax star Michel Laudrup, who left Getafe this summer, he believes that the Dane will be a good manager for Ajax, and it is also in line with Ajax's tradition of only inviting their former stars as head coaches.

Sending off John Jacques, Ye Qiu also let go of a major event in his heart, the two sides agreed that the cooperation would be announced at the press conference of the opening match of the Amsterdam Cup two days later, and as for Michel Laudrup's smooth management of Ajax, Ye Qiu did not know.

Sent away John Jacques, Ye Qiu and Van Dude, Ricklink, Bobby Harms and a group of old friends at the Golden Thin Man dinner, not long after, Van Praag also came, a group of people were rare to get together, a beautiful meal, Van Praag and Bobby Harms and others also mentioned Huang Chu, saying that they missed Huang Chu's cooking skills.

"This cooperation is also good for Ajax" Van Praag has long known about Ye Qiu's cooperation with Ajax, which is not a secret to them, and this is also good for Ajax.

Ajax wants to continue to operate, the most important thing is to ensure the income of the team, and the main source of income of the team is on the one hand to play and enter the Champions League, which requires results, and players are needed, and high-level players often represent high salaries, which is overwhelming for the current Ajax, so it is necessary to promote young players with good quality and low price, so the scouting system is very important.

The other is high transfer income, the same reason, cheap young players in Ajax after the famous, sold at a high price, the club earns a high price difference, this is the business model after Ajax's transformation.

"When I heard that you were going to buy a team, I thought you were going to buy Ajax," Van Praag laughed, "but now it turns out that if you do buy Ajax, you will have no future." In this regard, the former president of Ajax can only sigh and regret, because he has seen the decline of the Eredivisie from Ajax.

The Eredivisie will not represent Dutch football because high-level players will go abroad to play, but it will be difficult for the Eredivisie to be competitive anymore, especially against the top leagues with deep pockets, such as the Premier League, La Liga and Serie A.

Ye Qiu had never considered the Eredivisie at the beginning, and after hearing this, he just smiled, "Our current scouting network has spread out in South America and Africa, and after cooperation, we will integrate all scouting resources, and when the time comes, we will arrange a few players to come to Ajax to play." ”

Now if you want to be cheap, you still have to find it from South America, Africa and Eastern Europe, so Ye Qiu found several South American players through an agent company and bought their ownership, one is Ramirez, who plays for Cruzeiro, he is worth about one million euros, and the other is Sandro, a defender who plays for the Brazilian international team, he is cheaper.

The other two are Hulk, who plays for Japan, and Romedal Falcao, who plays for River Plate, Argentina.

In Ye Qiu's view, if Ajax wants to ensure its operation, it has to learn the way of the black shop Porto and Lyon, the operation of these two teams is simply the benchmark for all European middle and lower reaches of the team, by buying low and selling high to earn the difference, and to ensure the team's results, they are still living quite nourishing, it is indeed quite not simple.

Every team is like a different person, each with its own way of living, but with only one purpose, that is, to live better.

At present, Tottenham Hotspur, in addition to Ajax, has basically done Brazil's Santos, this team will cooperate with Tottenham Hotspur to become Tottenham Hotspur's partner in Brazil, and the agent company has also bought out the ownership of Lucas Jr. in the Sao Paulo team, which is also quite cheap, and sent the player to Santos to play.

These players can be selected by Ajax at that time, and the rest will either stay in Brazil or send them to other clubs in Europe, and now the agent has established a very wide network in Europe, and it is not difficult at all to help a player enter a professional club in Europe.

In the future, Tottenham Hotspur will continue to further expand their network of partners, not only to work with them in the academy, but also to ensure that they can be supplemented by high-quality players at a reasonable price anytime and anywhere, which is something that all big teams rely on.

Manchester United has more than a dozen satellite clubs, including Sporting Lisbon, Nantes, Sao Paulo, Fluminense and other well-known teams, and Manchester United also cooperates with them in the form of youth training! The first refusal of the players, or the sending of some of the players they fancy to them for training.

There are quite a lot of the same situation, Arsenal, AC Milan, Inter Milan, etc., almost all giants have satellite clubs, and there are different roles in these satellite clubs, such as some are training young players, some are overseas marketing, and so on.

But the world of football is very strange, compared to Tottenham Hotspur and Ajax, and even the game with Inter Milan, the two teams have established a partnership, which is worthless in the eyes of media people, because it has no publicity and hype at all, and it is not as gimmicky as Ye Qiu vs. Mourinho

In the opening match of the Amsterdam Cup, Tottenham Hotspur defeated hosts Ajax.

As Bobby Harms said before, the current Ajax team is indeed not very competitive, and after successive sales, the quality of players has not been strongly supplemented, which has affected the overall combat effectiveness of Ajax.

Inter Milan drew 00 with Sevilla, Jose Mourinho's side did not show an impressive level in the warm-up game, and Inter Milan's sluggish form continued into the second round of the next day, where they lost 0 to Tottenham Hotspur.

Ye Qiu's team performed well in the pre-season warm-up matches, even after the departure of many players, including Messi, they still lost to Inter Milan and Ajax, two teams that are not weak, in the Amsterdam Cup, and the overall strength of the team has also been affirmed by the outside world.

This summer, the team played a total of seven warm-up games, and won all of them, which also made the outside world happy with Tottenham's performance, which is what the reigning Champions League champions should be.

In the Amsterdam Cup, Yaya Toure was withdrawn to the central defender position, and his performance was quite good, and the cooperation between him and Thiago Silva was also very tacit, coupled with his ability to hold the ball, it was indeed satisfying, and even many media and reporters believed that Ye Qiu should transform him into a central defender.

Ye Qiu believes that hearing this news, Yaya Toure is even more sad than him, because if the Ivorian is really allowed to play as a central defender, maybe he will become a central defender who loves to attack and move forward more than Lucio, and what can the back line do at that time? Could it be that someone has to wipe his ass for him?

Thinking of this, Ye Qiu felt that it was better to forget it

After returning to London from Amsterdam, the team returned to Theorebold to recuperate and focus on the upcoming Community Shield, which will face Champions League final opponents Manchester United.

However, the Red Devils' recent situation does not seem to be very promising