"We lost! Utterly lost! Should lose too! ”

These were Mourinho's first words when asked by reporters at the post-match press conference, and he looked like he was full of frustration and disappointment without the rebelliousness of the past.

For him, it was a humiliating game because his team lost badly.

"It's not like we haven't lost, but in many games in the past, no matter how bad we played, at least we would have some chances, but in this game, we had almost no chances, what I saw was a team, crazy, unscrupulous, pressing my team to play, and we had no ability to resist, like a child who was bullied."

Mourinho shook his head, "This is not the strength and level that a team aiming to compete for the Premier League title should show, on the contrary, with the table we have today, we should go to relegation!" ”

'In the first half, we gave the opposition too much space, especially in midfield, we lacked a sharpness, even when we had the ball, our overall formation was not compact enough, which made us make ridiculous mistakes, but it wasn't just pressure from the opposition, we lost the game!

"At halftime, I told the players, I have been coaching for so many years, I can clearly realize the special nature of this game, I tell them, if we continue to play in the first half, we will pay the price in the second half, and the result, everyone has seen it!"

Mourinho shook his head again and sighed, "I don't want to shirk the responsibility, because as a manager, I have to take all the responsibility, even if I am fired tomorrow, I feel normal because I am the manager!" ”

"However, if I had to make a choice again, I would not have started any of these eleven men, I would rather go to the youth team and pick any eleven men than choose them, I am very, very disappointed in this game!"

Ye Qiu, who sat next to Mourinho, took the initiative to defend the Portuguese, believing that Mourinho's team has structural shortcomings, and this is precisely the problem of the team's transfer operation in the summer, and should not be blamed only on the manager, after all, Mourinho has done well enough.

'Everybody knows that the structure of a centre-back pair and a central midfielder who likes to play is a problem in itself, and it's a problem that no manager can overcome, so I don't think Mourinho should be responsible for this game, and it could have been the same for anyone else.

But Ye Qiu also repeatedly emphasized that he couldn't believe the big win in this game, but he spoke highly of the players' performance in this game, especially Matic, who firmly helped the team control the midfield in the game.

"Mr. Ye Qiu, we have all noticed that in several key games this season, you have arranged Matic to start, and the Serbian midfielder runs an average of more than 13 kilometers per game, and the control of the midfield is also quite good, does this mean that you will gradually replace Pirlo with Matic?"

Ye Qiu smiled and shook his head, "I have to reiterate my thoughts again, Pirlo and Nemanja Matic, even any member of the team, are crucial for Tottenham Hotspur, but we have to consider the reality that Pirlo is thirty-four years old and he can't play every game." ”

'Our standard and requirement for Tottenham Hotspur is to start with the best players, like a week before Chelsea, I told Sù Pirlo that you should take a break and prepare for the second round of the Champions League group stage, so I started Nemanja Matic for this game and I think every game is very important!

'In my opinion, the most appropriate and ideal thing is that we allocate the playing time of each player right, just like Andrea Pirlo and Nemanja Matic, and allocate their playing time so that they can play their best every appearance, and I think that's something that the coaching staff and the players themselves are very happy to see and accept.

Ye Qiu's answer was also affirmed by Pirlo after the game, although he was not included in the starting lineup in this game, not even in the squad, but he confirmed Ye Qiu's words in an interview with the media after the game, saying that he did have an agreement with Ye Qiu before, he wanted to play in the Champions League, so the league against Chelsea was on Matic.

'I know a lot of people, including fans, are worried about my place in the team, but I want to say that I'm doing well at Tottenham, I'm in my third season here, and I love it here, except for the weather in London!'

However, Pirlo also said that he would reconsider whether to stay with the team after the end of the season.

In fact, in the second round of the Champions League group stage in midweek, Ye Qiu did arrange for Pirlo to start, and when Tottenham Hotspur encountered the stubborn sniping of Shakhtar Donetsk in Ukraine, in the 38th minute, it was Pirlo who used his scalpel-like through ball to assist Ramsey and then inserted into the penalty area to score.

The Welsh midfielder has been in ridiculously good form since the start of the season, especially after the accumulation of last season, his confidence and experience have been further improved, and this season has shown that he has been in very good form.

His ability to run and cover, his ubiquitous ability to carry and play the ball, as well as his increasingly creative and organisational skills, have made Ramsey's role in Tottenham Hotspur an ever-increasing role, and his performance in the team has become more and more impressive.

In the second half, it was Pirlo who received the ball on the right side of the 30-meter area, and made a diagonal pass to the middle of the penalty area, and Drogba beat Shakhtar Donetsk's central defender to score with a header, 2:0!

This is also the biggest problem of the Shakhtar Donetsk defense line, their average height is in the early reaches of one meter, and the tallest player is one meter eighty-four, and the entire defense line is over thirty years old except for Rakitsky, which can be described as an old defense line, so Ye Qiu is on Drogba, although he is also a veteran, but Drogba's impact and high-ball advantage are still obvious.

After taking a two-goal lead, Tottenham Hotspur continued to adopt an offensive strategy, Ramsey inserted it once, received Drogba's knock back and plugged it straight behind him, Messi rushed into the penalty area and calmly pushed and hit, 3:0!

At this time, Shakhtar Donetsk completely lost their fighting spirit, and the old coach Lucescu was also frustrated on the sidelines.

Immediately afterwards, Messi scored two goals in a row and had an assist, while Ribery made a pass and a shot, and Shakhtar Donetsk did not steal a goal until the last minute, and finally Tottenham Hotspur beat Shakhtar Donetsk 6-1 away.

Bringing back another big win from Ukraine, Tottenham Hotspur's momentum this season has not only surprised fans and the media, but even Tottenham Hotspur, including Ye Qiu.

In Ye Qiu's original plan, this season should belong to a transitional season, not only him, everyone felt that the stable transition of this season was more important than the results, but the development of things surprised everyone.

So far this season, Tottenham Hotspur have been almost invincible, not only winning six in a row in the Premier League, but also winning every game very cleanly, as well as in the Champions League group stage, with Tottenham Hotspur dominating almost every game.

Even more surprising is that Tottenham Hotspur have shown three different midfield set-ups and styles of play this season.

One is to go to Pirlo, continuing last season's 433 tactics, with two covering midfielders in front of him who are both offensive and defensive; There is also a way to play Matic, and change to 4231 tactics, which has the strongest attack power of the team; The last one is on Nemanja Matic or Stroman, the team still plays 433 tactics, which are the most controllable.

Although Ye Qiu said at the European Coaches Summit that the future trend is to give up the midfield, this kind of abandonment does not mean that the midfield is not wanted, but that the midfield is quickly cleared and the competition for the control of the midfield is abandoned, but the importance of the midfield is still very large, because without the midfield, who will support the frontcourt attack and who will assist the backfield defense?

Tottenham Hotspur's three sets of different midfield configurations have greatly enriched the team's tactical changes and means, and Ye Qiu can choose different tactical play styles according to different types of opponents, and carry out a wide range of rotation and adjustment.

It's like using Pirlo to play 433 tactics, after killing Shakhtar Donetsk 6-1 away, Tottenham Hotspur returned to London, sat at Stratford Stadium, and switched back to 4231 tactics, or 424 tactics, on their home turf, with goals from Kompany, Lewandowski and Pogba, defeated West Ham United 3-0.

This is the first east London derby, West Ham United although the midfield lineup is strong, but with the aging of Lucio and Carvalho, there are problems with the metabolism at the back, the team's defense is in a mess, Ranieri's position this season is also facing threats and turmoil, and the 0-3 defeat away to Tottenham Hotspur undoubtedly exacerbated this crisis.

After West Ham United, the coaching staff felt relieved to have a two-week international break, but there were some issues that had to be settled, and that was the goal for the season!

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The coaching room at Theobald's training base is very large, because Ye Qiu has always believed in the principle of fairness, for example, all the tables in the Tottenham Hotspur restaurant are round tables, and all the main and substitute players and even the youth team players eat at a round table, which reflects a kind of fairness.

The same goes for the coaching room, where the rest of the coaching staff work together except for the head coach, who has a separate office.

So, it's also a very simple time to hold a coaching staff meeting, wait until everyone is there, walk in, say a word, and the meeting starts without the slightest delay.

"I think we should adjust our goals for the season!" Mauro? Tasotti proposed a coaching staff meeting, and it was naturally him who came up with the first topic of the meeting.

"To be honest, the performance so far this season has been beyond everyone's expectations, I think it's an explosion of the team over the last few years, there's a lot of talent in the squad, all the players are ambitious, we have to set goals and give them enough motivation!"

Mauro? Tasotti is now the direct controller in the dressing room and he is well aware that the atmosphere within the squad is very good at the moment and that all the players feel that with the current form and momentum of the team, they should be more ambitious.

Sometimes setting a goal doesn't have to be achieved, but it's a way to prove your ambition.

It's like every season ago, Wenger said he wanted to win the championship, Mourinho also said he wanted to win the championship, Benitez said he wanted to win the championship, and Moyes also shouted to win the championship, but the problem is that there is only one championship, so many people, how to divide it?

According to some people, these guys are all, and when they can't win the championship, it's a shame, but is that really the case?

Everyone should have a goal, winning the championship is their goal, it is naturally the best to achieve it, and if it cannot be achieved, it should not be ridiculed, because he has worked hard for this goal, what is there to laugh at? What is there to be sarcastic and sarcastic about?

If, according to some people, you are afraid of being ridiculed, then it is simple, every season all the managers say, my goal is to be relegated or relegated, then no one will laugh at you, because no matter how bad you are, you have achieved your goals.

But for teams like Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United, and Liverpool, isn't such a goal a laughing stock? Isn't that a ridiculous thing?

Therefore, before Ye Qiu's season, he adopted a low-key strategy and refused to discuss winning the championship, but he did not set a clear goal, because he knew very well that this season was of a transitional nature, but the team has played to the current stage, and the strength of the team has shown, if you can't come up with a goal that allows the players to struggle and work hard, then the players will gradually lose their fighting spirit.

To put it bluntly, the goal is a carrot hanging in front of a donkey's head!

Ye Qiu in Mauro? After Tasotti finished speaking, he looked around the crowd in the coaching room and found that everyone's expressions were one of approval and excitement, and it was obvious that they had discussed this matter before, and it should be overwhelmingly supportive.

So he also smiled, "Then what do you think our goal should be?" ”

Luo Fatzi slapped his desk hard and stood up, "Then it goes without saying, all the champions, there is no one left, they are all covered!" ”

It's as easy as going to Amsterdam's red light district to get the ladies.

Everyone in the coaching room laughed, but no one questioned Roland's statement, and it can be seen from the expressions of many of them that for them, it seems that the goal that Roland said is what they should strive for, as for what to say low-key, what transition, it is all nonsense.

For Tottenham Hotspur, even in the transition period, the metabolic period, the goal should be to win the championship!

Ye Qiu felt that he still greatly underestimated his imperceptible influence on the team for seven or eight years, because from the current internal atmosphere of the team, as well as some details shown by the team's coaching staff and management, Ye Qiu could see that this team was full of ambition and full of the domineering spirit of a giant team!

This temperament is exactly what Ye Qiu has been instilling in the team in the past few years, and for Ye Qiu, he should be proud and proud of his discovery of this, because this temperament has penetrated into every corner of the team, everyone's body and heart, and even guides the behavior of everyone in the team.

Thinking of this, Ye Qiu also smiled, nodded and said, "Okay, since everyone thinks that this goal should be set, then set it, it happens to be two weeks now, Mauro!" Ye Qiu looked at Mauro? "You go to Stratford Stadium with Roland today and talk to the administration, especially about the prize money!" ”

Tottenham Hotspur has been sticking to the salary structure in the past few years, and the salary is mainly divided into two pieces of weekly salary and commercial income, which is also reported by the outside media, but in fact, many people ignore another point, that is, Tottenham Hotspur's huge bonus.

Not to mention, Tottenham Hotspur paid out a total of €30 million in prize money last season, which is second to none in European football, and that doesn't include the more than one million dollars from the Club World Cup, or the club's coaching staff and other staff.

Tottenham Hotspur's prize money has always been quite high, and this is also the case with Ye Qiu and Peter? Kenyon's strategy is because the prize money is tied to the team's performance, and once the team is doing well, you have a higher income, and the higher the income, the more you can pay the players, which is a positive interaction.

Just as there are many people who don't know the details when criticizing Tottenham's salary structure, some people who have a little bit of knowledge think it's wrong, because if Tottenham Hotspur simply considers the salary, it is indeed not high, or even very low, but the commercial income and performance bonuses are relatively high.

The former is linked to the player's personal image and the stadium table, while the latter is linked to the team as a whole, and Tottenham Hotspur is the two ways to adopt an internal transparent operation mechanism, so that all players are clearly aware of how they should get higher and more income.

And with this model, the team's operating pressure will be relatively small.

Ye Qiu let Mauro? Tasotti and Roland went to the executive branch to talk, which is tantamount to delegating power to Mauro? Tasotti went to operate, and once this thing was successful, Mauro? Tasotti's prestige within the team will be established all at once.

Managing a football club and managing a company is actually about the same in nature, controlling financial and personnel transfers, often holding a lot of power, Mauro? Tasotti has now been given financial power, and Ye Qiu will gradually transfer personnel rights to him, such as the drafting of the starting list for each game, etc.

But just after Tottenham Hotspur agreed on their goals for the season and prize money, something went wrong.