The Anfield clash ended with a 3-0 victory for Chelsea.

In the 80th minute of the second half, Eden Hazard took a corner kick and captain John Brown took a corner. John Terry's header from inside the box gave Chelsea another goal and sealed the score at 3-0.

As a result, Chelsea have officially equalled Arsenal's record of 49 games unbeaten, and are only one game away from breaking that record!

For this victory, the guests of Sky Sports are full of praise for Pan Yi, including the Red Army legend Carragher.

Everyone said that today was an eye-opener to see a team without full-backs play such a pleasing football.

Of course, Zola, a Chelsea legend who achieved "slapping the face at the speed of light", felt that his face was shining and that he had become a little more magnificent.

Carragher made another point:

'As it turns out, Pan Yi has put Chelsea together as a strong whole, and no matter what formation he plays, there is always a strategy to match and bring out the best in the player's ability.

"It's a really scary thing. Can he leave all the wing-backs out of the squad today, or he can not have any strikers tomorrow, and he may not have a midfielder the day after tomorrow? ”

'It may be an exaggeration to say that, but with Chelsea's first team close to 30 men, it doesn't feel like there are any injuries or suspensions to stop this team.'

"We know that sometimes a team looks strong, but often after a key player is injured or suspended, the team hits a low ebb.

"Some teams are even more unlucky, such as losing troops in the same position in a row, resulting in no one available, and finally collapsing."

'But in Pan Yi's Chelsea team, it seems like we'll never see that.'

"First of all, their physical training, recovery training, and medical system are very developed, and the players themselves can rarely get injured while maintaining high-intensity training and games;"

'Secondly, the Chelsea players are all versatile players who can play in multiple positions, and even if there are multiple injuries in the same position, there is still someone to add to them;'

In the end, it is Pan Yi's tactical adaptability and diversity. Let's assume that today Chelsea are Marcos Alonso, Azpilicueta, Joao Cancelo, Yoonvanovic and others are all injured, and Pan Yi can also put out this somewhat weird-looking wingback lineup and easily beat a strong team like Liverpool. ”

This also means that it is really difficult to have anything to stop Pan Yi's advance. I also think that Pan Yi's slogan of the seven crowns released before the season is definitely not bragging, but a very practical goal show......"

'I'll say a word for Liverpool and Jurgen Klopp, we're convinced.'

As for Klopp's lineup in this game, the guests felt that it was not a big problem.

They can also see that the 4-3-2-1 released by Liverpool today is the 3-5-2 that Klopp specially used to deal with Pan Yi, but how could they have imagined that they faced a strange formation that has never been seen in history?

Whoever comes here will be lost in the lake!

Therefore, the fault of losing such a high-end game is not Klopp, Pan Yi is too cunning!

What's more, this is only Klopp's third Premier League game in charge of Liverpool, and under the premise that the personnel are left by the predecessor and cannot be strengthened, to be honest, the game is okay.

It is also believed that in time, Jurgen Klopp will be able to take this Liverpool team to new heights.

Obviously, Pan Yi also thinks so.

Nonsense, as a traverser, who doesn't know that Klopp did lead Liverpool to regain the Champions League and Premier League titles?

Even in a season when they didn't win the title, Liverpool were able to compete in the Premier League and Champions League.

Not to mention anything else, FM players will have to shake their legs when they see Klopp's Liverpool in the game!

After the game, Klopp also invited Pan Yi to have two drinks, and Pan Yi naturally agreed, anyway, he will return to London tomorrow.

Klopp then led Pan Yi to the second floor of what looked like an 18th-century merchant's house at an old-fashioned cocktail bar on Duke Street in the heart of the city.

The bar is still characterful, with an ornate marble fireplace and 18th-century wooden floors, all with soft lighting and comfortable furnishings.

"I've only been here for a few weeks, but Rogers is a nice guy who not only rented me a cheap apartment, but also showed me a lot of good places to go." Klopp laughed.

Liverpool's former head coach Brendan Rodgers is a well-known uncle, and it is also a good thing to say that he is so enthusiastic about the "current".

This place is really nice.

Pan Yi and Klopp are in a small private room, the surroundings are very quiet, and no one disturbs, which is very suitable for friends to have a drink and chat.

The two talked nonsense, such as complaining about the food in England, the weather in London, etc., and Klopp suddenly asked:

"I have a question that I'm curious about."

"What's the problem?" Pan Yi took a sip of the cocktail, which was still quite delicious.

'Will you stay at Chelsea?'

"Oh?" Pan Yi stopped drinking and put down the wine glass, "Why are you asking this?" ”

"I'll be honest, don't laugh at me." Klopp lifted his glasses, "Liverpool have never won the Premier League, and it's been 25 years since they last won the top flight. I'm here with the first goal of leading the team to this championship. ”

"Oh...... So what does this have to do with me? Pan Yi smiled, "If you want to take it, go and get it!" ”

"With your current dominance in the Premier League, I'm afraid ......," Klopp said a little embarrassed, "I'm afraid that even if I stay at Liverpool until I retire, I won't have much of a chance." ”

"Haha......" Pan Yi laughed.

This scumbag uncle is really scared of himself.

"I don't want to admit it, but you really crushed almost everyone tactically, including me." Klopp shook his head, "Your 3-2-4-1 today really shocked me, the original formation can still be like this?" The use of players is even more absolute, I may be able to learn a tactic like yours through research, but it is impossible for me to come up with a set of tactics out of thin air. ”

"Tactical crushing doesn't necessarily mean a guaranteed victory." Pan Yi smiled, "After all, the ball is still kicked by the players on the field." ”

"But isn't it more amazing that all the players under your command are going to play well?" Jurgen Klopp's head was about to break, "I really don't know if you can get these good players or if these players will get better in your team......"

"Maybe I'm lucky." Pan Yi wrote lightly.

"No kidding." Klopp smiled wryly, "It may be good luck in a season, but how long have you been unbeaten and lucky?" ”

Pan Yi thought for a while and said with a smile: "Okay, I'm really strong." ”

"......" Klopp was speechless for a moment, then asked, "What did you say about the question just now?" ”

Pan Yi said: "Before I won the Seven Crowns, I won't think about anything else for the time being. ”

"Do you really want seven crowns?" Klopp was a little surprised, but quickly calmed down.

Also, a talented genius like Pan Yi is uncertain about such a goal, what else is the point?

Everyone has won the Triple Crown two or three times!

At this rate......

Chelsea have already won the UEFA Super Cup and Community Shield, and are also making great progress in the Premier League, League Cup and Champions League, plus the FA Cup and the Club World Cup in December, it seems that there is really no one who can stop him.

"Well, I'll bear with it." Klopp whispered.

"What did you say?" Pan Yi didn't hear clearly.

Jurgen Klopp took the opportunity to talk about something else: "Oh, I want to ask, are there any players you don't want?" Give me two plates. ”

"What type?"

"Winger, fast, good dribbling."

"Not really."

What Jurgen Klopp is looking for, of course, is there in the Chelsea squad.

Like Gnabry, Mbappe, including Hazard, B, aren't they all like this?

Even Romelu Lukaku is a figure who can make soup on the side.

But the problem is that these are all Pan Yi's favorite generals, how can they be handed over to competitors?

"Hey." Klopp sighed.

In fact, there is no need for him to say, Pan Yi also understands.

Jurgen Klopp's 4-3-3 mad dog style of play at Liverpool requires two strong wingers to support it, and it can even be said that this tactic is the essence of this tactic.

And the current Liverpool team, neither Coutinho nor Lallana, can meet this need.

Pan Yi also knows that the promotion of wingers is only part of Klopp's plan, or the beginning.

When Liverpool's squad is really formed and can call for wind and rain in the Premier League and Champions League, today's squad may only leave a few people such as Firmino and Henderson.

"If you look at it that way, I'm going to go to Southampton and ask about Mane's price, or I'm going to Hamburg to see Salah." Klopp touched his beard.

"You have a crush on them?" Pan Yi involuntarily touched his chin.

These two are Klopp's tiger generals in the previous life, and they are absolute revival heroes, and it seems that it will be difficult to escape Klopp's "clutches" in this life.

However, this is actually very understandable, there are so many world-class wingers in the world, plus a few particularly expensive ones that meet Klopp's relatively strict tactical needs, minus a few particularly expensive ones (such as Bale, Neymar, etc.), in fact, there are few.

And in this life, Mane and Salah have the shining buff of "Pan Yi's old general", which is really not eye-catching.

It's just that Mane has just transferred to Southampton this season, and Salah has actually talked to Liverpool but not yet, so Klopp initially wanted to see if Pan Yi's Chelsea had cheaper youngsters to give him.

Klopp nodded: "They are all very fast, they are all technical, and they are all very good at shooting, which meets my needs for an inside striker. Hehe, when you were in Milan, didn't you also take a fancy to these characteristics of them and bring them to Serie A? ”

Pan Yi also nodded yes, there is nothing to deny.

Anyway, Klopp won't know that when Pan Yi went to Milan, he used Uncle Scum's Liverpool 4-3-3 tactics, so of course it is most suitable to use these two tiger generals.

"You've made a lot of money for Milan." Klopp looked a little drunk, "Actually, I think you don't have to be a manager, just be an intermediary or something, and you can make a lot of money, haha." ”

"Intermediary?"

"Don't you know? Oh yes, you go to the players yourself. Klopp explained, "Like those scouts or agents in Brazil who operate third-party ownership, they don't have to do anything, they just loot some high-quality and cheap players in Brazil, maybe only hundreds of thousands of dollars, some even tens of thousands of dollars, and recommend them to European clubs, and the price quoted will be several times, or even dozens of times." ”

Pan Yi nodded: "Oh, this is considered to be paying for information." It's like if you ask me for a player today, if I recommend someone to you, you actually have to give me an information fee. ”

"Yes."

Pan Yi understood.

Anyway, Klopp gave him a wake-up call.

Of course, it's not that Pan Yi really goes to be an intermediary or anything, but his own Yorktown, in fact, also needs to establish such a scouting network.

In this way, in addition to the little demon he knew in his previous life, maybe he can also dig out more unknown players like Baker.

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Players who can use it themselves can use it themselves, and if they can't use it, they can be processed and then sold as a black store.

In this way, not only the results have gone up, but also the economy is guaranteed, and the phenomenon of poaching can be minimized.

After all, now that he is taking Chelsea, he doesn't have to worry too much about being poached;

But in a team like York City, which has little international prestige, players can't match their level of wages after playing, and it is almost inevitable that they will be poached by big clubs.

Therefore, the team needs to establish a mature evaluation system for the value of players, so as to find more good players, but also to avoid the occurrence of cheap or high buys, and will have more chips and intelligence when negotiating transfers.

When the team has more money, the waist can be hardened.

After saying goodbye to Klopp, Pan Yi immediately took a moment to think about it and clarify his thoughts.

Obviously, Benfica, who previously packaged and sold Seat B and Cancelo to Chelsea, is the representative club of the black shop, and it should also be the object of Pan Yi's study.

In Pan Yi's previous life, although they sold the team's main players at high prices every year, their league and European results were not bad, and they often staged unpopular battles to kill strong teams.

It has to be said that Benfica is undoubtedly the most successful academy in Europe in the last decade, whether in terms of talent development rate, profit conversion rate or any aspect.

And they are developing young players, not just a single academy that develops players through youth training.

It also has a function, that is, relying on the powerful scouting system in its system, digging out potential stars from other youth academies for retraining, and finally selling players trained by other academies to the five major league giants in the method of "buying low and selling high".

For example, among the stars who left Benfica at a high price in those years, Felix and Dias are Benfica's own youth products, while Nunez and Enzuo are potential young players that Benfica poached from other youth academies for retraining.

Benfica are well aware that if they want to make a big profit by selling potential new stars, it is not enough to rely on their own youth training.

Therefore, in addition to cultivating their own players, Benfica's academy also has another task, which is to tap those young players with high potential from other academy to come in and re-develop.

This task needs to be achieved by relying on the scouting network, which also places high demands on the scouting network.

And it turns out that Benfica has the best scouting network in Europe.

Earlier, in 2011, Benfica sold David Luiz to Chelsea for 25 million, while Benfica only paid 500,000 when they brought him in from Brazilian side Victoria.

In the same year, Benfica also brought in Nemanja Matic from the Chelsea Academy for 5 million, and then sent it back for 25 million after three years.

The two bidders sold by Benfica later proved the boldness of Benfica's scouts.

Liverpool's Nunez was taken away by Benfica at the age of 21 for a high price of 34 million, and was sold for 80 million after only two years of training.

Chelsea's winter window target Enzo Fernandez, Benfica, who only came in the summer window of 2022, is also 21 years old, with a transfer fee of 44.25 million, and for him, Benfica was even sold for 121 million after only half a season.

So much so that during the winter window, many reporters exclaimed, "I have never seen a youth academy so profitable as Benfica." ”

Benfica only cultivated Enzuo for six months, and he made a net profit of nearly 60 million on him!

Benfica are more than willing to play such an intermediary role, and they have a large number of scouts in South America, who are responsible for sourcing players from their youth bases in South America and allowing themselves to serve as a transit point for South American stars to enter the top five leagues.

In addition to the aforementioned Nunez, Luiz, Nemanja Matic and Nzuo, the players who have entered the top five leagues through Benfica's intermediary channels include Di Maria, Ederson, Raul Jimenez, Jovic and others...... Benfica made a lot of intermediary fees on them.

Benfica is willing to provide a platform for these potential players to receive training, and is willing to give these players a stepping stone to the top five leagues, which is naturally liked by players with lofty goals.

In addition, Benfica dared to take the road to the extreme after formulating this development plan.

One of the disadvantages of doing an intermediary business is that it is easy to "smash the goods", because doing an intermediary business means that the players to be bought by the club must be very young novices, and there is a high possibility that they will not be able to exchange talents for various reasons, and eventually there will be no giants.

Therefore, the "purchase price" of general intermediary clubs is often controlled below 20 million.

But Benfica dared to believe the eyes of scouts and spent huge sums of money to "scratch the ticket".

Or the example of Enzuo. When he bought Enzuo in July 2022, Benfica spent a huge sum of 45 million, and in the end, he left half a year later at a price of more than 100 million.

Of course, Benfica's own youth system is also doing very well.

In their system, the development of players is also targeted, such as emphasizing pressing tactics, requiring players at all levels to dominate the game with pressing tactics.

From the Under-8 onwards, Benfica's coaches have asked their players to improve their ability to keep possession of the ball and run off the ball defensively in training.

Coaches want their players to start adapting to pressing tactics and attacking style of play when they first join the Academy. There are even times when the coach will directly ask the young players to reduce their defense, and the whole team will devote themselves to the attack.

And perhaps because of the emphasis on pressing and attacking tactics, Benfica-trained strikers have always scored a lot of goals, and as a result, they have produced many versatile players like Bernardo Silva on the wing and in midfield.

And the cultivation of young players is also gradual.

When young players first join the football school for 5-10 years, they are all learning football with their families, and the training system is a bit like a hobby class.

When these players reach the age of 14, the Benfica Football Academy's local branches will conduct a player selection.

At the age of 14, the successful candidates will be sent to the Benfica Football School headquarters in Lisbon to further their studies, during which the training content will also change from initial training to very in-depth tactical training, and these players will live together in the 100-person dormitory of the academy, and there will be special trainers to monitor their physical condition.

When the players reach the age of 18, they will continue to be selected, and some of the people who have no way to embark on a career path will be eliminated, while the rest will move out of the dormitory and rent on their own, and start to live independently, planning their own time and handling personal affairs.

At this time, the team will also start to gradually exert external pressure on them, encouraging them to face the media public opinion and difficulties.

And when the academy players reach the age of 23, they will have to say goodbye to the academy team. A very small number of players have already played in the main or rotation of teams in the five major leagues at this time, and most of the players will go to other European leagues or second and third leagues to play the main team or rotation, and they have basically succeeded in becoming professional players.

In addition, there are some players who are 23 years old and have no suitable professional team willing to sign them, they can only stay in Benfica to play in the reserve league, these players are likely to be unable to play professional football, they will switch back to their parent club as youth coaches, or stay in the team as scouts, analysts and other related jobs.

Of course, don't worry that most of the kids who can't follow a career path will have no way out.

They learn football skills at the same time as they are educated in the cultural classes of the partner schools, so the children who are eliminated can do other jobs just like ordinary children.

It can be said that proper self-positioning, training programs that are not limited to nationality and courageously sticking to the line are the key to the success of Benfica's youth training, and in fact, it is also the law that all football schools in the world must follow if they want to run a good academy.

Now, Pan Yi has decided to follow this pattern and transplant Benfica's successful experience to York City.

Of course, this is first of all to start with the renewal of the youth training base, and step by step.

Later, it gradually invested in the opening of youth schools, and set development goals with the core of developing young players, and then established a scouting network from the United Kingdom, and then gradually radiated to the whole of Europe, South America, and the world......

Rome wasn't built in a day, but if you don't build it, you never build it.

Although York City is still only a League Two team, the youth work can start now.

After some general directions and details were worked out, Pan Yi called Jason McGill, the chairman of York City......