(The chapter that was banned yesterday was revised and released.,If you see this and feel wrong.,That's the previous chapter I didn't read.,The plot is not connected)

While fans and media were paying attention to the upcoming Arsenal vs Chelsea and Chelsea vs Liverpool two big battles, Pan Yi went to Yorkshire.

Go back to your home in Yorkshire.

This home is an apartment that Pan Yituo bought for himself in Yorkshire some time ago, so that Valentina can also have a good place to live.

In fact, Pan Yi originally wanted the entire ancient castle.

You know, in a historic city like York, there are really a lot of castles like those in "Downton Abbey".

Even the castle in the story of "Downton Abbey" is in Yorkshire.

In fact, almost all of the stories in the TV series are set in Yorkshire – even though they were filmed in Hampshire.

Just some time ago, a castle was put up for sale on the outskirts of Yorkshire.

The sheriff's Hutton Castle, once owned by the famous Richard III and Henry VIII, has a large castle tower and outbuildings, including a villa, and exterior defensive buildings and gardens, covering a total of 11.5 acres.

And what is the price of it once it enters the local property market? Only £1.1 million.

But no one cares.

The reason for this, of course, is not because the house is expensive.

Such a large piece of land, equivalent to less than 10 million RMB, where is it expensive?

It's not as good as a set of ordinary commercial houses of several hundred square meters in first-tier cities in China.

Any idea how big 11.5 acres is? That's almost more than 40,000 square meters!

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10 million RMB to buy more than 40,000 square meters, even if it is just a piece of flat land, absolutely no one will say expensive.

The castle can't be sold, mainly because its maintenance costs are still quite high, although Pan Yi doesn't know much about it, but he can also understand a thing or two through the description of "Downton Abbey".

So that's it.

When the club is set up in the future, you can really make a lot of money, and then consider experiencing the life of ancient kings, dukes, and counts here.

And now, your money still has to be spent on the blade.

After all, some of the current team's infrastructure, including the replacement of future players, all need money, and I still have to continue to invest as the owner.

At this moment, in Pan Yi's new apartment, the heating was turned on, and several people gathered in a circle in the restaurant to stir up beef hot pot.

Which people?

York City FC President Jason McGill, Head Coach Scaloni, Finance Director Valentina, and owner Pan Yi.

It can be said that the four most important people in the club, the York Four!

"Well done lately, congratulations." Pan Yi raised his glass, and the cups of the four people touched together, and everyone's faces were beaming.

At present, the 27th round of League Two has been completed, and York City is in second place.

The top team has become Northampton with 18 wins, 4 draws and 5 defeats with 58 points, while York City is just one point less.

Then Plymouth is third with 55 points.

Then there are Oxford United, Portsmouth and Accrington in 4-6 places, with 49, 48, 47 points.

The crux of the matter is that the top three in League Two can be promoted directly, and now the top three have begun to open up the gap with the teams behind them.

In other words, as long as York City maintains their current momentum and maintains their position in the First Army, promotion to League One should not be a problem at the end of the season.

In terms of cup competitions, York City, as a League Two team, has played in the FA Cup from the first round.

Their signing luck is still good, and several of them are League Two civil wars.

York City beat Accrington 3-2, then narrowly beat Portsmouth 1-0 and finally beat Yompswich on penalties to reach the fourth round.

It's just that in the fourth round, their luck was not good, and they met Arsenal, the first strongest player in the "Thermos Cup", and they were still playing away, and there was little hope of qualifying.

Of course, as a League Two team, York City's performance is already very good, and Pan Yi doesn't expect them to go far.

And going to the Emirates Stadium to play a game, you can also get a lot of money, this deal is profitable no matter what.

"You're still a good teacher, boss." Scaloni modestly said, "Since buying Baker and using your 4-4-2, the style of play is simple and effective, and the wins have followed."

Of course, this is not modest either.

If it weren't for Pan Yi's guidance, Scaloni might still be using the 3-5-2 pass-and-control style on the ground, so where would the group of rough brothers play?

Jason McGill said: "I don't know the exact situation, but it's clear that the club's training facilities have been upgraded and the enthusiasm for training has increased a lot. Add to that the fact that we've been winning in the league and the morale is high, which is really gratifying."

When he said this, Jason McGill kept a smile on his face that couldn't be hidden.

As a hardcore of York City, he is of course happy to see the team have such good results and a bright future that can be foreseen.

Of course, he also admired Pan Yi even more.

If Pan Yi hadn't taken over York City, where would he have come from such good coaches and players, and so much money?

Valentina, who is the finance director and boss lady, also reported to her boyfriend: "The attendance of the team has been very high in recent times, and the excellent performance in the cup has also received a lot of additional ticket sharing and distribution costs. In addition, more and more companies are approaching us to sponsor teams. We are now screening and reviewing to pick the best ...... for us."

An obscure League Two team, picking sponsors?

It's a thing that can't even be thought of in the past, but it's nice to be able to pull sponsorship everywhere!

On the one hand, it is related to York City's recent good results;

After all, this is a potential League One team, if they sign a long-term sponsorship contract while they are still in League Two, won't they make money in League One?

On the other hand, it is mainly because of Pan Yi!

As time passed, Pan Yi's purchase of York City became largely known.

And Pan Yi also talked to Abramovich about this.

Abu was surprised by this at first, and after having a very in-depth exchange with Pan Yi, he also expressed his understanding of this.

Isn't this similar to what he did when he bought Chelsea?

It's just a low-profile, beggar's version.

In addition, Abu himself promised Pan Yi that as long as Pan Yi can lead Chelsea to win the seven crowns, he will support whatever he likes!

Now Chelsea's record also proves that Pan Yi's move to buy York City has not affected the operation of the team.

Therefore, Abu even told Pan Yi that if there is any need in the future, whether it is Chelsea Club or Abu personally, he can help.

In fact, Pan Yi doesn't need Abu's help for the time being.

That's because the name "Pan Yi" is the club's greatest wealth in itself!

As the best head coach in the world, his charisma is amazing!

In particular, many companies in the Dragon Country have approached York City in the hope of sponsoring the team.

Advertisements on the chest, advertisements on the back, shorts, shoulders, buses......

As long as you can think of a place, there are all companies that want to rub a wave of traffic!

What, you say a League Two team, not like that?

Such a scene can be truly staged in Pan Yi's previous life.

In 2021, "Deadpool" actor Ryan Reynolds and his friend, Rob McHenney, who is also an actor, acquired the location

A national league team from Wales, Wrexham.

At this time, Wrexham has been in the fifth division for more than ten years......

But that didn't stop Wrexham from quickly becoming one of the most trafficked teams in the world.

That's because Ryan Reynolds is their boss, of course!

starred in the role of the little cheap Deadpool, which ushered in the second spring of Ryan Reynolds's acting career, and his popularity soared.

And he himself is happy to show himself in public, with a total of more than 52 million followers on Twitter and INS, which is below one person and above 10,000 among all Marvel actors (the first is Iron Man Robert Downey Jr.).

So the boss has traffic, and of course the team has traffic.

The two bosses often broadcast advertisements in person, and later heavyweight sponsors such as TikTok, the overseas version of Douyin, actually found them and printed TikTok on the chest of Wrexham's jersey.

For the first time in the FIFA game, a team from the fifth tier of England has been added to the game, making it the lowest-ranked of all the available teams.

Then Ryan Reynolds also asked the TV station to follow the team to make a documentary called "Welcome to Wrexham", which made the team's traffic bigger!

Of course, their investment in the team is also quite large, renovating the stadium and other infrastructure, and buying some players who can establish themselves in League One, the League Two Golden Boot or something, a proper national league aircraft carrier.

However, in the first season, they only entered the promotion play-offs and lost 4-5 to Grimsby and failed to advance.

In their second season, they won the national league title ahead of schedule and were promoted to League Two!

It is foreseeable that in the near future, this otherwise little-known team will receive more attention in the higher professional leagues.

And what about Pan Yi now?

Compared with Ryan Reynolds's fame, it can be said that it is not false at all.

You can even say it politely, you can throw him far away!

Pan Yi has only opened his own channel in the domestic AB station so far, but his current number of fans has exceeded 50 million, ranking first in the whole station.

Let's put it this way, if Pan Yi also goes to open Twitter and INS, and you can also log in at will in the Dragon Country......

Shouldn't the number of fans be measured in at least 100 million?

Suffice it to say, Pan Yi is now in Yorktown, and he is a little taller than Ryan Reynolds in Wrexham.

Whether it is the level of the star or the level of the team, it must be a higher level, which can be said to be a remake of "Welcome to Wrexham", or it can be said to be an upgraded version!

Or, if you have the opportunity in the future, you can really ask someone to make a Yorktown documentary, just "My Heart Will Always Follow Yorktown", or "Welcome to Yorktown"?

Well, speaking of which, this documentary is even earlier than these clubs, and it can even be said to be a prequel......

In short, due to Pan Yi's relationship, there will only be more companies coming to York City now, so Valentina's "investment promotion" work will of course be carried out more easily.

It's a seller's market!

"When the season is over, the stadium and training ground can be upgraded again." Pan Yi said.

In terms of the training ground, the geothermal system has been almost paved, otherwise this past winter, the training in York City would not have been able to carry out normally.

It can be said that this is also the premise that York City can guarantee excellent results during the winter break.

And now what Pan Yi has to do is to replace all the turf of the stadium, and then renovate all the stands on all sides, and then see if it can be expanded.

York City's stadium has been around for so long that the turf has long since rotted, otherwise there wouldn't have been last season's 'vegetable field battle' with Chelsea.

Of course, it all takes money.

Moreover, it's not just a matter of getting some grass and planting it as ordinary fans think, which will also be a lot of money!

"I've consulted with professionals and it's possible to change a set of professional league turf to at least £1 million, or two or three million if it's of higher quality." Jason McGill said.

Seeing that Pan Yi didn't answer, Jason McGill continued:

"Boss, you asked me to see what else needs to be improved on the stadium and training ground, and I'll talk about it now."

"The expansion of the training ground is not a big problem, because there are about four standard fields of flat land on the edge of the original training ground, which are now used as temporary parking lots on match days."

"At that time, we will include these flat areas as training grounds, so that we can support the training of multiple echelons according to the boss's ideas. The parking lot can be moved to the other side of the stadium."

"However, in this case, the drainage and water supply systems must be renovated, because the conditions of the original site are not enough to meet the needs of such a large site."

"Also, the length of the training ground used for the first team is not standardized, or it is not a standard field, which also needs to be renovated."

"Also, the fence around the stadium also needs to be maintained, because there are many places that are directly accessible. It used to be fine, but after the team's exposure has increased recently, a lot of people will come in and record videos or something."

"Also, according to your standards, a new training building needs to be built immediately, as well as a composite running track, outdoor court analysis cameras and systems, a heated pool and gymnasium, a freezer and spa pool, and so on......

Hearing this, Valentina's brows furrowed, and she turned her head to look at Pan Yi:

"My dear, if all of this is done, the sponsorship I received here will not be enough to spend."

Pan Yi laughed and stroked Valentina's hair, "I knew you would say that. As the boss, of course, it is impossible for me not to pay for it, and when the time comes, I will just make up for more and less. I'm not going to be called a vampire by the fans!"

Scaloni and Jason McGill laughed, while Valentina pouted.

Women, when they ask their husbands to pay for it, they still don't feel so happy......

But Pan Yi quickly said: "Don't worry, when our training base and youth training base are built, we can continue to send talents out. At that point, I guess even if I wanted to spend money, I wouldn't need to."

This is what Pan Yi told them before, hoping that York City can build a complete set of youth training and scouting system by then.

When the time comes, York City's level will rise higher and higher, and you can also let the player play as high as possible and sell it at a high price.

Considering Pan Yi's excellent record as a "human trafficker" since he entered professional football, no one will doubt him at this point.

Scaloni said, "Boss, you're talking about hardware investment, but what about staffing?"

This is actually to match the hardware upgrade.

If you're a training ground, a first-team team, and a youth team with or without it, then you probably just need a manager, a coach or two and a doctor or two.

But if you want to build the whole youth system like a real professional team, then each team needs their head coach and coaching staff, and they also have team doctors, fitness coaches, goalkeeper coaches, and so on.

Even in the first team, you need performance analysts, physiotherapists, sports science consultants, recruitment analysts, and as many scouts as possible......

Therefore, running a team is not only a one-time investment in hardware, but also a long-term operating cost.

The team plays a game, and it seems that there are only a dozen players and a few coaches busy there, but behind the success, it is inseparable from the support of a whole large team.

If you compare it to a BIG team in the Premier League, there are about 15 members of their coaching team, recruitment team, and medical team!

Add to that the various executive directors, football directors, and directors of different departments, and it adds up to a big team of 50 to 60 people.

And how many are there in Yorktown now?

Less than 10.

That's the huge gap between the small team and the big team.

"Prioritise the construction of stadiums and training grounds, then recruit good members of the youth coaching staff and medical team, take your time, you can't get a fat man in one bite." Pan Yi said.

This was a decision made out of prioritization of the most pressing goal of the team's promotion.

A mature and complete club needs more employees, and Pan Yi certainly knows this.

Even if he's not a head coach now, even when he plays FM Football Manager as a fan, he understands it!

Why does every team need to recruit so many people if it doesn't help the team a lot?

However, more personnel means more pressure on the team's finances.

For the vast majority of professional clubs, the hardest hit area of their money is not recruitment.

If you carefully analyze the financial reports of major clubs, it is not difficult to find that salary is the biggest expense of a club, and in many cases it even exceeds 80%.

And the pay structure here is not just about the players, but also about the coaching staff and the employees.

As for the employees, in addition to the team doctors, physiotherapists, analysts, scouts, etc., there are also a large number of support staff.

With your youth training system set up, the number of players in the team has increased, and there will be more people like chefs, cleaners, and security guards.

This includes the stadium maintenance department, the administration department, the matchday service staff, and so on.

Even the youth team needs to be equipped with professional subject teachers and tutors to help the children with their homework......

All of this makes up a very large group.

And behind this, the club is constantly burning money.

Because in Europe, human resources are the most expensive cost.

So, everything has to be done slowly, step by step.

Even if you play a game, you need to slowly upgrade the infrastructure one by one, and the number of recruits is also slowly increasing, and it is impossible to fill it all up, and it will definitely collapse immediately.

Today, Pan Yi came to these three core members, in fact, he also went through these ideas again, did a good job of priority, and did it slowly.

Yes, it's hard, it's tedious, it's definitely a lot more complicated than being a pure player or manager.

However, watching Yorktown such a nearly blank piece of paper be painted by myself one by one, and finally become a world-famous painting, this sense of accomplishment is much more than simply being a coach!

Pan Yi continued, "The training base and youth training will be the core competitiveness of our future in the future, so we would rather shrink our clothes and diet in other aspects, and we should not be stingy in this aspect."

No one knows the importance of this piece better than Pan Yi.

Players are the core competitiveness of the club, and a high level of training is the only way to ensure that players can play better on the field.

It would be short-sighted to put money on player transfers or salaries and ignore the improvement of training levels.

After listening to Pan Yi's words, everyone also nodded one after another.

Recently, Pan Yi's "brainwashing" of them has been very successful, and now everyone agrees with Pan Yi's team building policy.

"One day, York City will be in the Premier League."

Pan Yi finally said:

"But I want everyone to understand that it's also important to build a good foundation for the team."

"Stadiums, training bases, youth training systems, scouting systems, logistics teams...... All of these are our foundations, and these foundations help us to improve our competitiveness bit by bit."

"If you are competitive, you will be able to gain a foothold in the higher leagues and become a real powerhouse."

It's destined to be a very different path from Chelsea.

Chelsea are on the local route, with the aim of achieving the best results in the shortest possible time and then gaining worldwide coverage

and then go to youth training and localization, and this requires a huge investment.

With Abramovich's financial resources, it is natural that he can do this.

And Pan Yi, even if he has a rainy day Bitcoin investment, even if he is the world's highest-paid head coach, he has no way to take such a route.

Therefore, he must accumulate slowly and come out step by step.

Of course, on this road, Pan Yi is a shortcut to Yorktown.

He will give full play to the advantages of the traverser and his connections in European football to protect York City to the greatest extent!