Coming out of Kingston-on-Thames via the Nl Highway to the West Obold training base in southern Hertfordshire, the total distance is 60 kilometres and the time is about an hour.

It's a significantly shorter journey than the previous journey from Kingston upon Thames to Southampton, which takes about two hours to reach each time, and Tottenham Hotspur have an impact that Southampton can't match as reigning Premier League champions and a newcomer to two consecutive Champions League titles.

The only regret is that Luke Shaw's entire family is a Chelsea fan.

Six years ago, when he was eight years old, Luke Shaw was involved in Chelsea's talent selection at the Guildford Football Development Centre, but he was not taken into account in that selection for the same reason that David Silva had encountered when he was selected for Real Madrid's academy, which was that they were too thin.

But it was also in this selection that Luke Shaw was selected by Southampton's famous scout Pulide Barry and was taken to Southampton, which lasted for six years, until this summer, Southampton ran into trouble and fell into bankruptcy, and Tottenham Hotspur scout Peter De Visel found Luke Shaw and persuaded the Saints to take him to North London.

This is the first time he has been to the Theobald training base this season.

Today is the first day of training camp for Tottenham Hotspur in the new season丨When Ye Qiu called him before, he expressed the hope that he could come to the team in advance, because he hoped to have a face-to-face communication with Luke Shaw.

"Hello" security guards stopped Luke Shaw's father's car and motioned for them to roll down the window.

"Hello, sir, I'm Luke Shaw's father, Mr. Ye Qiu called, let's come and meet him"

The security guard had already been notified, and the name Luke Shaw was recorded, and after nodding, he said: "The first team is training, so we can't let you drive in, wait a minute, please drive the car to the external parking lot behind the security room, and then walk in, Xie Lu Xie"

Luke Shaw's father followed the security guard's instructions and drove into the gate of the Theobald training base, turning right to the parking lot between the press building and the security room, which was a special parking area for outsiders.

After getting out of the car, the father and son returned to the main road and walked inside.

"It's like a garden, Luke's father is a little Grandma Liu into the Grand View Garden, everything is full of amazement.

Luke Shaw was a little speechless, he had never imagined in Southampton that a training base could be built like a park, it was amazing, especially when he thought that the Theobold training base was the most advanced ultra-luxury super five-star training base in the world, he was thrilled.

In the future, he will have the opportunity to train and play with Messi, Ribery, Cesc Fabregas and other top players in the world in such a training base, which is a great encouragement for him.

It didn't take long for them to come to the fork in the road, and immediately a security guard came up to show them the way, telling them directly that the training area of the first team was turning from the right, but reminded them to pay attention to keep quiet, because the first team was training for the new season

Entering the first-team training area, they naturally felt a lot of emotion, and soon, they came to the training building, which was full of BMWs, and then their attention was attracted by the people in the comprehensive training area in the distance.

As in previous years, Tottenham Hotspur's first training session of the season was in the morning, which was open to all fans and reporters, but it was now afternoon and this training session was closed, so when Luke Shaw and his son entered here, they found that everyone was meticulously warming up on the training ground.

"Luke Shaw?" Just as they were hesitating who to go to, his name was called.

The father and son turned their heads, but saw that it was Ye Qiu who was followed by several famous coaches, which made Luke Shaw almost stunned, he never imagined that his first meeting with Ye Qiu would be like this.

"Yes, yes, Mr. Ye Qiu" Luke Shaw was a little nervous.

Ye Qiu smiled, turned his head to look at Tasotti, and smiled and proposed, "Mauro, aren't we missing a left-back?" Why don't you let him go up and try it? It's a training session anyway."

Tassotti smiled, nodded in agreement, and looked at Luke Shaw, "Luke, how are you preparing?" Dare to go up and try it? ”

"First team training sessions?" Luke Shaw was a little surprised, he had just arrived.

"Yes, Marcelo is in the Confederations Cup final and won't be in the United States tomorrow to join us, so this afternoon we will play squad training, one less left-back, you can play in this position, even though you are only 14 years old, but give it a try" Mauro Tasotti also found it interesting.

There is actually not much red tape in the football club, so it is not a big surprise for Luke Shaw to participate in training directly as soon as he arrives in the team, after all, it is very common for the first team to temporarily draw players from the youth team to participate in training, but the youth team has not started training today丨 caught a Luke Shaw.

"Questions?" Ye Qiu looked at Luke Shaw.

The latter looked at his father, who was about the same height as him, and felt the joy and encouragement from his father, and then looked at Ye Qiu, nodding heavily, "No problem, I'm willing to try"

Ye Qiu immediately called over a staff member and asked him to take Luke Shaw to the locker room, hurry to change clothes, and warm up by the way.

Tottenham Hotspur's training building dressing room is very spacious, Luke Shaw swears it is many, many times more spacious than Southampton's stadium dressing room, and all kinds of facilities are very complete, including shower rooms, massage chairs, projectors, tactical boards and a series of equipment and props that can only be found in the stadium dressing room.

"This is Marcelo's replacement training, you are about the same size, try it out" The staff found a training set and arranged a wardrobe for him to store his things.

The training is the iconic Adidas, but the logo on the chest is Vodafone, which is Tottenham Hotspur's training sponsor for the new season, and the contract has just been signed not long ago, and the total sponsorship fee is said to have reached 10 million euros.

The chest advertising sponsor of Tottenham Hotspur in the new season is Qatar Airways, and the sponsorship fee they provide to Tottenham Hotspur is a sky-high sponsorship of 30 million euros a year, but because of this huge sponsorship, Tottenham Hotspur's plan to split the jersey sponsorship of the league and cup matches has failed, and all of them have been contracted by Qatar Airways.

As for the shirt sponsor Adidas also mentioned 35 million euros in annual sponsorship costs, which is a price increase given by Adidas after Tottenham Hotspur retained Messi, because Tottenham Hotspur currently only has Tottenham Hotspur sponsorship in the Premier League.

With two major sponsors and a shirt sponsor, Tottenham Hotspur earns as much as 75 million euros a year from jerseys and training, which has surpassed Manchester United's 70 million euros and becomes the highest-paid team in the Premier League and the highest paid team in Europe, which has a lot to do with Tottenham Hotspur's successful defense of the Champions League.

As soon as he thought of this, Luke Shaw's immature face was full of excitement and excitement blood red, quickly put on his jersey and pants, walked out of the locker room under the leadership of the staff, and ran quickly to the comprehensive training area, without even saying hello to his father when he passed by his father who was waiting outside.

Tottenham Hotspur's first day of training has a lot of fresh faces, including several players who Ye Qiu has drawn from the youth team, such as Nastasic, Varane, Pogba and other players, Eriksen, who is ready to go on loan to Ajax, Neymar, Coutinho, Lucas Jr. and other players on loan in Santos are also in the team.

It is said that they will also participate in this trip to the United States with the team and have a pre-season training camp with the team for more than a month

However, there are currently a number of Brazilian and Spanish internationals in the team who have participated in the Confederations Cup, so including Cesc Fabregas, David Silva, Thiago Silva, Alves, Marcelo are not there, and the captain's armband is on the arm of England legend David Beckham, who immediately ran over to Peter Brandt for a warm-up when he saw Luke Shaw walk in.

Tottenham's warm-up was not a simple warm-up, but a targeted, one-size-fits-all for today's training session and the physical and technical characteristics of the different players, so Luke Shaw felt fresh when he first arrived.

"Wait a minute, don't be nervous, play your best as you want," Beckham patted Luke Shaw on the shoulder before leaving, encouraging, and said the same to Kyle Walker and to Phil Jones, who had just joined the team.

After a ten-minute warm-up, Luke Shaw returned to the training team and began to train with the team.

When he stood on the sidelines just now, he already felt that Tottenham Hotspur's training focused on training with the ball, everyone held the ball, carried out all kinds of basic movement training, and some quick passing and receiving cooperation, many of which were even some difficult, and the whole training was fast-paced.

Luke Shaw's skills are good, he is young, his hands and feet are very nimble, this kind of training is a bit difficult for him, but he can barely cope with it, but after it is completed, he has already sweated profusely unconsciously.

At this time, he realized that if he hadn't fully activated his body during the warm-up just now, he would not have been able to complete such a high-intensity training, and this made him realize more clearly that everything about Tottenham Hotspur is very scientific.

After that, two games were played, Monkey Walk and Wall Crash, which were also Tottenham Hotspur's signature games

With the rise of Ajax, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur, these two games have long been imitated and borrowed by countless teams, even in Southampton, they have learned both games, Luke Shaw has also played them, but it is clear that at Tottenham Hotspur's training ground, they are faster and more accurate.

"The common problems in England's youth training have been very well verified by Phil Jones and Luke Shaw," Mauro Tasotti said with a sigh as he watched the training beside Ye Qiu.

Ye Qiu and Tottenham Hotspur's scouts and coaching staff have made a summary of England's youth training system, the big field youth training and LJHF field youth training is difficult to have specific advantages and disadvantages, and the gap in skills is not completely irreparable, after all, England has also begun to pay attention to the details of the players' skills in the past few years, and many people find it strange that for what England's youth training players generally give people a feeling that they look rough both offensively and defensively?

This is mainly due to their own sense of playing space.

A player's sense of space is a comprehensive quality, including the judgment of the ball path and landing point in the game, whether he can maintain an appropriate distance from his teammates, whether he can find loopholes in time according to the situation, or cut to the ball in the air, or help his teammates to respond to the transition and advance, whether he can accurately predict and arrive at the position that needs to be filled in when defending, and so on.

For a long time, England's youth academy has done a terrible job in this regard, even Terry and Ferdinand, who are known as the strongest central defenders in England, still lack a sense of space in their game, that is to say, the biggest manifestation is that they have not been able to form early warnings of danger signals in time in the defensive process.

And the reason why they can become top central defenders is mainly based on their physical fitness, rather than game awareness, so although they can also have some extremely amazing performances, they will also have some reckless deductions from time to time.

Of course, it is impossible for any central defender to be flawless, it can only be said that the sense of game space is a big common problem of English players, and this common problem makes the training received by English players in the youth training stage, such as irregular running, not strong awareness, rough skills, etc., are more vividly reflected in the process of the game.

So we can see that in the Premier League, all the teams that can play fast and hearty passing and receiving are basically teams with more foreign aid, such as Tottenham Hotspur, such as Arsenal, these two teams are almost all foreign players account for the vast majority of the team, and local players have almost no place for the team.

An important reason for this is that England players will greatly reduce the flow of the team's passing and receiving combinations, as was the case with Tottenham Hotspur's Carroll and Ashley Young, and even Gareth Bale.

So, does it mean that there is no way to solve this problem at all?

Ye Qiu thinks not, because from the past few years, Kyle Walker's progress has been very great, after the latter joined Tottenham Hotspur, Ye Qiu and the coaching staff focused on passing and receiving the ball, game situation observation and interactive strategy to help him improve, and kept reminding him to pay attention to changes in the situation and teammates' movements, as well as the opponent's pressing.

It can be seen that he is now much better than in the past, he has become more confident and calm in handling the ball on the court, and his use of skills is more reasonable, and he has further optimized his sense of space, physical fitness and coordination, sharpened his offensive and defensive skills and overall awareness, and further refined his basic skills, making Kyle Walker have improved significantly in the past few years.

Of course, it is impossible to turn Kyle Walker into a player with delicate skills, but at least it can give him what it takes to become a good right-back in terms of skill, awareness and ball intelligence, and even have the opportunity to become a top player.

In order to do this, whether it is Kyle Walker, Phil Jones or Luke Shaw, they need to quickly enrich their poor tactical literacy since childhood, and through more games and training, they can develop their own experience in dealing with complex and changeable situations, and then gradually develop their own sense of playing space.

As the game ended, the two sides began to fight in groups, Ye Qiu deliberately placed Phil Jones in the right-back position, while Luke Shaw played on the left and Kyle Walker played at right-back to further observe the three English players.

The other two new players this season, Coentrão and Romerdal Falcao, were arranged by Ye Qiu to play left-back in the main team, and Falcao was arranged to play as a center forward in the substitute team.

In the group training, the main team and the substitutes played very openly, and neither side kept their hands, not only because this was an internal training match, but also because this was the first training of the new season丨Everyone wanted to leave a better impression on the head coach.

Needless to say, everyone on the main side did their best, and relied on the trident of Ribery, Cavani and Messi in their strong front, as well as the combination of Ramsey, Yaya Toure and Beckham in the midfield, and quickly established an advantage, constantly launching waves of attacks, and breaking through the substitute team's goal again and again.

The substitutes are losing and falling, which also has something to do with the fact that the substitutes are generally young, with Neymar, Falcao and Eden Hazard forming the trident, Christian Eriksen, Paul Pogba and Philippe Coutinho forming the midfield, Phil Jones, Raphael Varane, Nastasic and Luke Shaw forming the backline, and Joe Hart as goalkeeper.

The huge gap in strength between the main force and the substitute makes the substitute team frequently beaten passively.

The pair of substitute players is very energetic, fighting for every ball, very hard-working, after all, it is a small character in the team, and it is very clear that he has a chance only by fighting, so he is not timid at all, and directly opposite the main team.

Neymar, Falcao and Eden Zaha also frequently created some counter-attacking opportunities, especially a combination between Neymar and Coutinho, near the midfield, Neymar kicked a long ball over the top and fell precisely behind Ziglinski, Falcao used his speed to force overtaking, rushed ahead of Ziglinski, rushed into the penalty area, and fired low into the net.

Neymar's pass won the applause of Ye Qiu and the coaching staff, don't underestimate this kick, it reflects the insight of reading the game, and Falcao's performance in the first internal confrontation game was also eye-catching, a total of five kicking opportunities, as a result of which he scored four goals, the efficiency is not terrible.

What surprised Ye Qiu and the coaching staff the most was Falcao's calmness in the penalty area, as well as his handling of the ball, especially when handling the ball before shooting, which made him very skillful and smooth throughout the whole process from handling the ball to subsequent adjustments and kicks, without the slightest hindrance.

And everyone knows that as long as there is no blockage, it will be difficult for the defender to stop him from getting up and shooting.

Ruud van Nistelrooy, Van Persie, Van Basten, etc., almost all the top scorers have this quality, and Falcao is too, which is an important factor in his ability to have such an efficient scoring efficiency, and more importantly, he is very balanced on his left and right feet, although he is not tall, but his heading ability is very good, and he is a very well-rounded and efficient goalscorer.

Ye Qiu is very satisfied with the current talent pool of the team, Neymar will not be able to join Tottenham Hotspur until next summer when he turns 18, but he is already very familiar with the team's tactics, after all, he has been training with the first team for a long time every year.

And although Gareth Bale is gone this season, Messi stays, plus Eden Hazard and Falcao, the front court has hardly been affected, and the biggest test for Ye Qiu is to help Falcao integrate into the team's frontcourt attack combination as soon as possible during the summer training camp and find an effective offensive routine.

Whether it is Cavani's main force or Falcao's main force, for the time being, we have to see the progress of the warm-up game to know