Volume 1 Chapter 297 The Sole Decision-Maker
The training camp for the new season has actually been well prepared, but Ye Qiu is still very busy.
A very important reason is that he has to reassure all the players as soon as possible.
Three players have been introduced this season, Heinze, Essien and Wayne Rooney, all three players will inevitably have an impact on some players in the team, for example, the most obvious is the same left-back, Evra and Heinze will inevitably have competition, plus Heinze can also play central defender, Gallas can play left-back, so the competitive pressure is very high.
Although Heinze will be at least mid-September because of his participation in the Copa America and then the Olympic and European Championship qualifiers, there is no way to do it, who has made this summer's national team so intensive?
Ye Qiu had to take time to communicate and exchange with players such as Gallas and Evra before and after announcing the introduction of Heinze, and he repeatedly emphasized that Chelsea's front in the new season will still be a two-line battle based on the Champions League and the Premier League, plus the League Cup and FA Cup, Chelsea's game task is very heavy, and Heinze's joining is to ensure the thickness of the team's squad.
What he didn't say was that he also wanted to use Heinze to put some pressure on Evra and Gallas so that they could be better fit and more obedient to the manager's commands.
The introduction of Essien, the impact of more players, Davies, Fabregas, Deco, Makelele and others, Ye Qiu must also communicate and exchange with them one by one, among them, Ye Qiu mentioned to Davies that the team will make appropriate adjustments and changes in tactics in the new season, I hope he is psychologically prepared, and the Dutch veteran also said that he will continue to stay and participate in the competition.
Frankly speaking, Ye Qiu still admires Davies very much, and he also believes that this midfielder who can play multiple positions will definitely be able to help Chelsea in the new season, so he also gave Davies a lot of encouragement and commitment.
Rooney's signing has had the biggest impact on Franck Franck Franck Ribery.
Originally, Ye Qiu had planned to promote Ribery to play the main force this season, but now the addition of Rooney has made this plan uncertain, who can become the main starting member of the team, Ye Qiu has no way to give a commitment.
Ribery didn't know what Ye Qiu was planning to do, so he felt threatened by Rooney's joining, but he didn't think too much, after all, to be honest, he had only played in the professional league for a year, although he had a Premier League championship and a Champions League title in hand, but he didn't have the capital to be proud now, especially in front of Ye Qiu, who he regarded as a mentor.
Ye Qiu also made a promise to Ribery, he hopes that Ribery can adjust his form well, avoid encountering the rookie wall, and continue the excellent performance of last season, then the Frenchman must still be the most important member of the Chelsea squad.
The competition in the team is so fierce, Fabregas, Messi and Robert Hutter and other young players also feel the pressure, Ye Qiu is open and honest in the exchange said that they will not be able to start the main team for the time being in the new season, but Ye Qiu will still continue to give them opportunities in the cup and bench seats, so that they can get training and accumulate more experience.
"You're only 17 years old, the most important thing for you now is not the main position in the first team, the competitive pressure in the Premier League is very high, and playing in the main team of the Premier League too early is not necessarily a good thing, I believe you should also be mentally prepared for this, so the most important thing for you now is to learn."
This is also what Ye Qiu has always asked Fabregas and Messi, hoping that they can learn as much as possible from their teammates' playing style and awareness, whether it is Ronaldinho, Davies, Deco, Makelele, Lampard and other players, or others, they have a lot of things to learn from young players.
Not much else, after coming to the Premier League for a year, Fabregas and Messi's physical fitness has improved a lot, thanks to Ye Qiu's special request for Peter Brandt to draw up a physical strengthening training for them to ensure their delicate skills and agility, improve their physical fitness and confrontation ability.
But the body is actually only a part, and it is more important to learn how to compete with opponents on the field smartly, in this regard, Ronaldinho, Davies and Makelele have done a good job, especially Davies and Makelele, they are not tall players, but they are not at a disadvantage in the confrontation.
Fabregas and Messi have always felt deeply about Ye Qiu's cultivation, so when Ye Qiu took the initiative to communicate and communicate with them, the two youngsters also gave understanding and promised that they would continue to work hard and strive for progress in the future.
After this round of measures to appease the players and stabilize the internal atmosphere of the team, the first week of the training camp passed like this.
Because the main players are not there, Ye Qiu's training camp is more based on physical reserves, but even so, he still focuses on training with the ball, which is different from the previous emphasis on pressure, and now Ye Qiu emphasizes more on passing and receiving on the basis of pressure.
Playing and responding has become a very important topic in training, which makes it the first time to participate in Chelsea training camp! Rooney felt very fresh, because before in Everton, the team's pre-match training camp was always spent in running laps, but now Ye Qiu obviously does not advocate running laps, but replaces traditional physical reserve training with high-intensity ball training
Chelsea's plan for this summer is to train in London for two weeks, play a warm-up match against Oxford United in the English League and then travel to the United States for the Champions Tour against Celtic and Roma, before returning to Europe for the Amsterdam Cup in the Netherlands and then back to London for a warm-up game against Zaragoza from La Liga.
The whole schedule is very compact, and Ye Qiu's idea is to adjust the team's state before the arrival of the new season, run in the tactics of the new season and determine the main lineup, and continue to attack the championship from the beginning of the new season.
With the addition of Heinze, Essien and Wayne Rooney, Ye Qiu is very confident in the strength of Chelsea in the new season, but a season is very long, and anything can happen, so he still doesn't dare to be careless.
Perhaps because many of the main players were not there, the substitutes wanted to work hard at the beginning of the season to show their strength and level in front of the manager, so a week and a half after the training camp, when the team welcomed Oxford United, Chelsea played a 10-0 victory, which shocked the whole of England.
Ye Qiu's starting lineup for this game is goalkeeper Van der Sar, and the backline is Evra, Gallas, Cannavaro and Sun Jihai, because Italy only played the group stage in the European Cup, Cannavaro started to take vacation early after that, so he returned to the team a few days after the training camp.
The midfield has been adjusted, Deco is absent, Ye Qiu has discharged the double back combination of Davies and Makelele in this game, Ronaldinho on the left side of the front field went to participate in the Copa America, Lampard has just returned, Ye Qiu has discharged the front lineup of Ribery, Joe Cole and Rooney, and the single striker is Drogba.
This is actually a set of changes that Ye Qiu is brewing, and he wants to see if Joe Cole can play the role of the core of the midfield in the absence of Deco and Ronaldinho.
As it turned out, Joe Cole played a very good and amazing form, and he was given the opportunity to fully display his delicate skills and creativity in the game, because Ribery and Rooney were frequently active on the wings, Drogba blocked the defensive pressure in front of Joe Cole, and after Davies and Makelele broke off, Joe Cole played his strength unscrupulously.
The 10-0 win is indeed surprising, Chelsea showed very good attacking ability in this game, especially the two wings, Evra on the left is in excellent form, and Ribery's partner is the source of Chelsea's attack, and the combination of Sun Jihai and Rooney on the right side is not far behind, especially Rooney, who is like two rampage bulls with Drogba in the front, stirring up the Oxford United backline is a storm.
Ye Qiu was full of praise for this warm-up game, thinking that the team showed a very good momentum, and more importantly, showed the results of training in the game, which was more gratifying than anything else.
'It was really surprising and very satisfying for the players to be able to perform so well after a lot of hard training and fitness because I could feel their fatigue before the game, but I asked them to work harder, show our spirit and fighting spirit, and they gave me hope that we will continue to challenge for the title in the new season, and I am confident that we will be the strongest contenders for all the titles in the new season."
Ye Qiu's statement also won the affirmation of the players, among them, captain Terry said, "After last season's outstanding performance, we have obviously become more confident, if someone asks, what the European championship and the Premier League double brought us, then there is no doubt, it must be confidence, the two championships let us see our strength and level more clearly." ”
"In the new season, we have received great reinforcements, we have become more mature and stronger, we will launch a new round of attacks for each title, no one will be satisfied with the double last season, we hope to be able to create a better peak under the leadership of the head"
But just when Chelsea beat the opponent and was about to leave for the United States, the English media suddenly broke the news, because Abramovich will not accompany the team to the United States, so some media broke the news that this is because of the Russians' dissatisfaction with Ye Qiu, and there is news that at the critical moment of the team's preparation, Abramovich has not appeared at the Cobham training base for a long time.
"It was revealed that Abramovich had already finalized Shevchenko's transfer with AC Milan, and he hoped to use Davies as a transfer chip to let the nuclear warhead join Chelsea, but Ye Qiu vetoed this transfer very strongly, he believes that Drogba will be a vital member of the team, and Davies is also indispensable to the team."
"According to the reporter's internal contact at Chelsea, after Ye Qiu won the double, his status in the hearts of London and Chelsea fans is in full swing, even if it is Abramovich, it is difficult to shake Ye Qiu's influence in the hearts of the team and fans, so when Ye Qiu vetoed the transfer, Abramovich went on vacation in a fit of anger, and the team did not come back after the training camp."
After this news was published, the outside world immediately talked about it, because the news told the details and content with a nose and an eye, and in the past year, Abramovich has indeed been associated with Shevchenko, and even some reporters photographed Shevchenko and Abramovich watching the Champions League final together.
But suddenly, Abramovich and Shevchenko both disappeared, and Ye Qiu's sudden announcement of the introduction of Rooney was considered a compromise on Abramovich's superstar strategy, and the club owner and manager formed an irresolvable contradiction because of this.
In response to this piece of news, Chelsea officials immediately reacted and clarified that Peter Kenyon, who accompanied the team to the United States, said that there was no problem between Abramovich and head coach Ye Qiu, and all aspects were well coordinated.
"In fact, Ye Qiu's contract renewal was personally made and supervised by the boss"
As for Wayne Rooney, Peter Kenyon also said that Chelsea have long been interested in the young English talent, but they have always been relatively low-key and not too public, and it is definitely not the result of any compromise as the outside world says.
But it is clear that the rumors are too realistic, and even a lot of details and insider stories make people feel that this is not a rumor at all, because many things in it are too coincidental, and even have a nose and eyes, which is too hard to believe that this is fake news.
Later, the media revealed that in the contract Ye Qiu signed with Chelsea a year ago, and now in the contract terms of the renewal with Chelsea, there is also a hidden clause, that is, Ye Qiu has the right to unilaterally terminate this contract at any time and under any circumstances, without paying Chelsea liquidated damages.
In addition, it was revealed that a very important reason why Ye Qiu's contract renewal negotiations this year have not been finalized is that Ye Qiu wants to get a guarantee, that is, he has the right to decide on the team's recruitment and transfer, and at the same time ensure the stability of the team's lineup, which is precisely the biggest disagreement between him and Abramovich.
"We can analyze that Ye Qiu is very satisfied with the players he has cultivated and promoted, and Chelsea's strong fighting power has also been very obvious last season, and everyone can see that Chelsea is already one of the strongest teams in football today
"In this case, we have reason to believe that when Ye Qiu feels that his players and squad are threatened, he will definitely stand up to defend his players and rights and interests, but for Abramovich as the owner, the team won the double, and his ambition has obviously become greater, as early as when he bought Chelsea, he said that his biggest wish is to build Chelsea into a galaxy battleship like Real Madrid, and with the momentum of the double, he has every chance to achieve this."
"From what we know about Chelsea and interviews with Chelsea players, it is not difficult to conclude that Ye Qiu is deeply loved and supported by players and fans, he is the well-deserved king of Chelsea, but don't forget that the owner of Chelsea is Roman Abramovich, and he is the only decision-maker who decides the fate of Chelsea."
More and more analyses have emerged from the rumors, and more and more media have dug up some insider information, such as Shevchenko's many appearances at Chelsea games, and Abramovich and Pini Zahavi are friends, but Pini Zahavi has been in contact with Shevchenko many times, and even the friendship between Pini Zahavi and Frank Arneson has been exposed.
Frank Arneson, everyone knows that he and Ye Qiu are mortal enemies, and the grievances between the two were still raging in the Netherlands back then.
So, combined with so much news, everyone came to a conclusion, it seemed that Abramovich wanted to fire Ye Qiu, who did not obey his will and orders
As the rumors become more and more, it has obviously affected the players, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, Ye Qiu also had to accept a pre-season interview with Martin Samuel of the Times the night before he left for the United States, once again making it clear that he has control over the team and his determination to stay at Chelsea, and at the same time, in order to appease Rooney and the players, he has repeatedly said that Rooney is a player he personally asked to introduce.
'I can reiterate that in the current Chelsea squad, every player who stays or leaves or brings in, the decision is made by me and only me, no one can change my responsibility to this team, no one knows better than me the quality of this team, we will continue to be successful'
'I can't say much to those who think I'm going to leave Chelsea, but I can say with absolute certainty that if I do leave Chelsea one day, it must be because some people want to force me to go, but it certainly won't be now'
When Martin Samuel asked who wanted to force Ye Qiu away, Ye Qiu chose to remain silent, but he denied that it was Abramovich, "I still have good contact and communication with Roman, we just had a phone call yesterday, and he also told me that he is on vacation and can't accompany the team to travel, and I hope that our new season can continue the glory of last season." ”
As a result, the media have believed that it is likely that the person who really wants to force Ye Qiu away is Abramovich's friend Pini Zahavi, the Israeli has always been regarded as a person with a decisive influence on Chelsea, because he was the one who single-handedly facilitated Abramovich's acquisition of Chelsea.
Now, the new season is coming, the big game is coming, but at this time, there is such news, which shakes the morale of the army, and the only one who can do this kind of thing is obviously Pini Zahavi.
As the truth unfolded, more and more Chelsea fans joined the opposition to Pini Zahavi, arguing that the Israeli was trying to upset Chelsea's morale because he was a good friend of Manchester United and Alex Ferguson.
It was in the midst of this noise that Chelsea left London and arrived in the United States.