The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 635 Great Fusion

It has to be said that Tottenham Hotspur are now becoming more and more like a wealthy team.

You know, a League Cup championship was enough to make the Tottenham Hotspur fans in London excited and crazy for a long time, but now they seem to ignore a League Cup championship at all, and just look at Yue The Premier League champion who has an increasing chance of winning, and the Champions League champion who has been away for two years.

In fact, after selling Yaya Toure, many people feel that the possibility of Tottenham Hotspur winning the Champions League is very low.

Looking at all the teams, the teams that won the Champions League are basically teams with a relatively balanced offense and defense, but Tottenham Hotspur’s current offense is nothing to say, but the defense is very problematic, especially in the midfielder position. El Jones was still not convincing.

Even, many people feel that he has no strength to gain a foothold in the first team.

Is it because Ye Qiu pulls out the seedlings and encourages them to grow?Or did the media get it wrong?

The fans are also guessing in their hearts, but it is a pity to sell Yaya Toure. This is an indisputable fact.

When everyone in English football was arguing about Tottenham Hotspur, Tottenham Hotspur, who had just won the League Cup, announced a day off to allow the team to take a good rest.

But many people in the team don't think so, such as Raul and Beckham, these two veterans basically come to the training base every day, they need this kind of non-stop training to maintain their state, even if They've played very few games a season, especially Beckham, but he's doing it anyway.

There is only one purpose, once you appear on the court, you must show your best side to the fans.

Phil Jones also came to the training base.

The team did not practice, but he could arrange his own training programs more freely. For example, after a series of warm-ups, he went directly to the practice room, because he found that the practice room was not effective for his passing, stopping and Responses are a huge help.

Of course, the premise is that you have to drive the serve faster, to create a sense of urgency for yourself as if you are in a game, constantly facing the high-speed incoming ball, and at the same time quickly adjust and pass the ball In the right place, these are very similar to the scenes that take place in actual combat games.

If you slow down the speed, then this kind of slow training is meaningless and more like play.

After practicing for an hour, he was already dripping with sweat, and his signature flush appeared on his face.

When it was time for the practice room, it was automatically turned off, so he grabbed a towel to wipe off his sweat and walked out of the practice room.

Only then did he realize that two children, a man and a woman, were watching him train outside the practice room.

It has been many years since he came to Tottenham Hotspur, and Phil Jones also knows very well that these two are Ye Qiu's two children, and they will come to the team to participate in some children's activities every weekend.

"Hi!" Phil Jones squeezed out a naive, but actually a bit disgusting expression.

Little Huang Rong stuck out her tongue playfully and made a grimace, as if she was telling this thick guy, we are called cute and innocent kawaii, and yours is called disgusting pretending to be tender.

"You're too slow!" Ye Chen had an innocent expression as if I were telling the truth.

Of course Phil Jones knew that Ye Chen was talking about his speed. Compared with Messi and others, he was indeed slow enough.

The fastest should be Messi and Van Persie. Raul who joined this season is also very fast, and Fabregas, Hazard, Ribery, Neymar and others are a little bit behind, but they are also very fast. Phil Jones' speed just now was already the limit for him, and it was much better than when he first joined Tottenham Hotspur, but it was still worse than many teammates.

He is estimated to be the worst group in the team in this regard, almost at the same level as Thiago Silva, Cavani, and Kompany, but if it is in other teams, he is at least the same Above average, it can be seen how high the overall technical level of Tottenham Hotspur is.

"That's why I have to practice, you know!" Phil Jones was very open-minded, and he didn't get angry when faced with children's criticism, at least it was completely different from his performance on the court.

In fact, he has long been used to this kind of blow, because quite a few players in the youth team are much better than him technically. To put it bluntly, the practice room is dead, as long as your basic skills are solid enough, You can play well here, but not necessarily on the court. After all, there are so many factors that determine a player's performance on the court, and it is simply not possible for the practice room to simulate all of them.

"I'm going to practice, bye!" Phil Jones waved his hands at the two children, pretending to be tender before leaving.

"Let's go, let's go with him too!" Elder sister Huang Rong pulled her younger brother to follow Phil Jones.

This little girl doesn't like to go to some activities, she always thinks that those activities are for children, she is a girl now, how can she play with a group of crying kids, right?

The two were relatively slow. When they came to the training ground, they saw that Phil Jones had already started.

In the middle of a horizontal bar that is about four meters high, there is a football hanging down. Not far behind the horizontal bar is a horizontal bar that is more than two meters high. same thing.

Phil Jones is on the side of the horizontal bar where the football is tied. He keeps jumping up, hitting the ball with his head, and letting the ball hit the gong. If it hits, there will be a sound, and then the ball will be tied to it. The rubber band of the ball was pulled back, Phil Jones judged the direction of the ball, and then pushed it to hit the gong, but only he himself knew where it hit.

"It's so boring!" Huang Rong watched bored from the sidelines.

Xiao Yechen found it quite interesting, especially when he heard the sound of the gong, he kept counting outside, "One, two, three... one hundred and one, one hundred and two, one hundred and three... "This kid calmed down and sat on the sidelines watching Phil Jones train, while his sister Huang Rong ran and played by herself.

"Do you think it's very interesting?" Beckham walked up to the kid and sat down beside him when he didn't notice, and asked with a smile.

Ye Chen hummed, all his attention was on Phil Jones, he was obviously thinking, how could he not feel tired?
"I'll teach you how to play football, okay?" Beckham has a good impression of Ye Qiu's son. He looks very elegant and tender, but he is very smart and likable. As for that girl, she is good at everything. She must be a big beauty who is not inferior to her mother, but her mouth is too talkative, and she likes to talk back.

Seeing Ye Qiu's sons and daughters, he and Victoria were also very envious. They planned to give birth to a daughter themselves, and the due date was in July. They hoped that it would be a girl who would not lose to this girl.

"Okay, but I have to wait until I finish counting!" Xiao Yechen was very serious. When he spoke, he was still counting silently in his heart, so he didn't stop.

"Then you come here to find me later, I'll play with you!" Beckham felt that football is still a man's sport. Huang Rong's girl doesn't like football, but Ye Chen likes football very much. I heard that he is now He has to watch every Tottenham Hotspur game, and his favorite player is Scarface Ribery. It is estimated that this has something to do with Ribery's frequent visits to his house.

Ye Qiu could see everything that happened on the training ground clearly in the coaching room on the second floor, because the coaching room, like his office, has a huge tempered glass curtain wall facing the side of the training ground, allowing the training Everything on the field is at a glance.

Of course, he couldn't hear exactly what they were saying, and he wasn't thinking about it.

He is currently in a meeting. In addition to Mauro Tassotti and Roland Shepas, there are also Bobby Harms who came from the Netherlands, and the team's chief scout Peter De Wiesel, Peter Brandt, the head of the Sports Research Center, can say that the core layer of the entire Tottenham Hotspur field is here.

It's no wonder, because the topics they discussed today are very serious and important, and will even affect the future development of the entire Tottenham Hotspur, so the expressions on everyone's faces are very serious, without the usual cheers Laughing language.

Ye Qiu intends to reorganize Tottenham Hotspur's tactics!
Everyone knows that two seasons ago, Tottenham Hotspur won the double crown of the Premier League and the Champions League. The tactics of this team reached their peak, but after that, Tottenham Hotspur began to enter Adjustment and a new round of exploration stage, but the effect is not very satisfactory.

Of course, there are many factors involved in this, for example, the team has been selling people, but Ye Qiu and everyone who is familiar with Ye Qiu's thinking know the reason, it is not because of selling people, because if necessary , people can not sell.

The reason why Tottenham Hotspur have been adjusting and fumbling for the past two years is because Ye Qiu himself doesn't know what to do.

And there is a very big limitation in that Tottenham Hotspur already have a perfect and stable tactical framework, whether it is selling Van Persie, re-Falcao, or Cavani now, or selling Removing Ziglinski and using Kompany is only a partial adjustment within this tactical framework, without any major changes.

Ye Qiu is now thinking about making major changes to the team's tactics.

"From a tactical point of view, we realized early on that we need resilience!" Ye Qiu explained the reason why he decided to do this, "The so-called resilience can also be regarded as flexibility, that is, when we stop fighting , we can play the strongest defense, and when we press out, our pass-and-cut offense can be unstoppable."

Many people may think this is a contradiction, but it is not, because whether it was Tottenham Hotspur or Manchester United last season, they are actually very resilient teams with excellent tactical flexibility.

So, what factors make this resilience?

It's midfield!
To put it bluntly, any team integrates the front offense and the rear defense through the midfield, so only by creating a resilient midfield can they have a resilient tactical style.

"I would say that we're too technical now, we're losing that resilience, even when Yaya Toure was around, and his departure just made us discover the problem, and there is One thing that people may not have noticed is that our midfield lacks impact."

David Silva and Cesc Fabregas are more than delicate, but not enough impact. When Yaya Toure is around, his dribbling forward can show impact at the right time, or Tia Go Silva's dribbling is fine, but after the team's entire tactical framework is formed, almost everyone is playing according to this framework, and it becomes lack of freshness, stimulation, and desire.

Of course, Tottenham Hotspur's overall advantage is still very obvious, the offense is as good as ever, and the defense is getting stronger and stronger, but the problem is that the team has not changed much compared to two years ago.

In other words, Ye Qiu's exploration and changes in the past two years have not achieved much effect.

As Ye Qiu said to many senior executives of Leaf Technology, everyone, every company, and even every team must have the courage to dare to attack themselves, because only in this way can the existing pattern be broken , to create a brand new, larger pattern, and achieve more breakthroughs.

Just like the Barcelona in Ye Qiu's previous life, why after Guardiola, this team seems to be more and more unimproved and the same, and their performance in the European arena is becoming less and less dominant ?
Modern football tactics are progressing too fast. If you don't keep improving, you will be caught up by your opponent in two or three years. What awaits you is to be overtaken and replaced by your opponent.

"I once said that the current football tactics pay attention to the integration, the future of the Premier League tactics is also integration, and the blurring of positions is itself a kind of integration, and this integration is not just a combination of the delicate techniques of the Latin schools in Brazil and Spain. Bringing small-scale cooperation to the Premier League is not only about integrating the integrity of the Bundesliga and Serie A tactics into the team's bone marrow, but more importantly, bringing out the traditional advantages of the Premier League. The passion is high and the competition is fast!"

Ye Qiu thought of this, paused, and continued: "I've been thinking about a problem recently, and I've always emphasized in the past that the next innovation of football concepts must have a fast pace. The future of football Tactics will become faster and faster, and even this speed will exceed the limit of a person!"

This is no longer a secret inside Tottenham Hotspur, and the kind of speed that surpasses the limit of human beings mentioned by Ye Qiu does not mean that one needs to go beyond one's own limit alone. It may be that fast, but in football, the speed of the ball can exceed the limit of human beings.

"The Premier League has always been very fast, from the previous long ball rush to the current fast-paced game style, and we all know that this fastness is reflected in the moment of offensive and defensive transitions, so I was thinking, if there is a group of The players are all highly invested and passionate in the game. They have excellent physical fitness and strong personal ability, but also have an excellent sense of teamwork. Make the most of every inch of space on the court."

"But more importantly, no matter who they are, after anyone steals the ball, they can start from him, organize and plan counterattacks at the first time, and complete the process of turning from defense to offense. We all know that if the stealer has the ability With the ability to break through independently and cooperate with fast passing and receiving, he will not only help the team complete the transition from defense to offense, but also bring a very rich offensive option to the team."

Ye Qiu's idea is undoubtedly a further improvement on Tottenham Hotspur's existing foundation.

If the current Tottenham Hotspur looks a bit like the Premier League of Barcelona's pass control system in the previous life, then what Ye Qiu thinks is to add more running, more impact, and more Tough play.

We all know that Barcelona in Ye Qiu's previous life didn't have much toughness. Their defense and physical confrontation ability were not good, and the team's offense had no impact. Two types of teams are very troublesome, one is that the defensive system is very strict, just like Mourinho's Inter Milan, and the other is the team that suppresses them, which not only reflects their poor offensive ability The impact is too weak, which also reflects their poor defense.

Of course, in Barcelona's high ball possession system, it is difficult for any team to play against them, so this possibility can only exist in concept, or occasionally, but this high ball possession The rate play itself is unreasonable.

What Ye Qiu promoted in Tottenham Hotspur was the effective ball possession rate, which can be regarded as a choice based on the Premier League.

Tottenham Hotspur's pass-and-control tactic has reached its peak, and many players in the team have adopted the same pattern to play. If Ye Qiu continues to play with the current team, it is impossible to have a major impact. Breakthrough, so if he wants to try a more impactful, resilient, and more comprehensive style of play, he must change and adjust his staffing.

Or to put it in the simplest and most direct way, Ye Qiu wants to attack the midfielder, making Tottenham Hotspur's midfielder capable of attacking, retreating and defending, and at the same time have amazing toughness and impact.

Or, imagine a midfield composed of three all-round English midfielders like Steven Gerrard and Lampard with finer skills and stronger organizational skills. Coverage, and the technical characteristics of advancing, attacking, retreating and defending, then this set of midfielders is almost unsolvable.

According to Beckenbauer, the strongest is the weakest, and Sacchi said that a Kaka needs a Gattuso.

Assuming that Kaka is [-]% offensive and [-]% defensive, and Gattuso is [-]% offensive and [-]% defensive, the combination of the two players happens to be a pair of best partners, but the problem is that this pair of partners has a very clear It is easy to defend against the division of labor. Against Kaka's defense, Gattuso has no offensive ability.

You know, football is the same as all industries, the more you go to the top, the more difficult it is. Ten points is not difficult, and seventy points is even easier. It is a lot to grab casually. Similarly, defense is also the same.

Then the problem arises, if you find some players or cultivate a player yourself, let him score more than [-] points in defense and offense, and if you look at it individually, the offense is not as good as Kaka, and the defense is not as eye-catching as Gattuso, but the problem But he can both attack and defend, and all of them are above [-] points.

You know, it is very, very difficult, even impossible, for a player to have Kaka's offense and Gattuso's defense at the same time, but if Kaka's offensive ability is [-] points , Seventy points of Gattuso's defensive ability, this is very possible, especially in England.

So, which is stronger, the combination of Kaka and Gattuso, or the combination of two midfielders with [-] points in offense and defense?

The answer is self-evident, it must be the latter!
Or someone will say, is there such a player?
Yes, Ye Qiu knew a lot in his previous life, Yaya Toure, Schweinsteiger, Vidal, Pogba, but the one who best represents Ye Qiu's thinking should be Arsenal Arsene Wenger. The two players, Wilshere and Ramsey.

Especially Wilshere, many people call him the prince, because he was regarded by Wenger as the core midfielder of the team early on, and the reason is that he almost embodies Wenger's integration of English football with the European continental style. This kind of understanding, in the season when he performed the best, Wilshere intercepted, steals, passed, organized, cooperated, and made personal breakthroughs, almost omnipotent, and all of them were above [-] points. So young and still growing and improving.

You know, in the FM Football Manager game, the upper limit of players is 200, but in reality, there is no upper limit to the potential of players. In other words, if Wilshere continues to improve like this, it is even possible for all of them to reach [-] points. Even more than ninety points, this is why Wenger is optimistic about him!
If it is said that in the first few decades of modern football tactics, the position on the pitch has been continuously subdivided, then the future trend of football is position blurring, and the result of position blurring is the omnipotence of players. change.

If you think carefully about the many positions and types of players today, it is not difficult to find their versatility.

Of course, it must be clear that all-roundness does not mean that everything is good. Everything is excellent, and there will be gaps, so this requires a reasonable combination of players to see how to maximize the combat effectiveness of the team.

To be honest, Ye Qiu has never regretted letting Yaya Toure go. Even though Yaya Toure is very suitable for his position from the current tactical level, he never felt that the decision he made at that time was the right choice. It was wrong, firstly because the players decided to leave, and secondly, Ye Qiu always believed that there was no irreplaceable player.

Because of this, he sees hope. Under the influence of the continental European style, English players have integrated a more versatile, efficient, and tactically malleable player style.

He even thought that Mancini valued Yaya Toure so much, maybe he discovered this, and Wenger valued Wilshere, in fact, he wanted to find the way to play this way from him.

It can even go a little further. Ferguson turned Anderson into a waist, and Mourinho turned Mikel into a beast. They may have such ideas and ideas subconsciously, but they have no specific concepts yet.

Think about the most glorious times of Arsenal and Manchester United. Vieira and Keane are both offensive and defensive, with strong impact, and at the same time they are responsible for the team's offensive and defensive transition.

Therefore, Ye Qiu is very sure that this is the future prospect of the big integration he imagined, not only in the midfield, but also in the frontcourt and backcourt, so from now on, Tottenham Hotspur, whether it is the first team or Youth teams need to make some adjustments in direction.

At least for now, there are two very suitable players in the Tottenham Hotspur team, Ramsey in the first team, Nick Powell in the youth team, Bobby Harms and Peter Dewissel. Powell's evaluation is that he looks like Pirlo!

In other words, the technical level has been achieved, and at the same time, it also has the passion and tenacity of the English, it depends on how to refine it in the future.

"This is indeed a very fascinating midfield concept!" Bobby Harms is an experienced old man, and he also knows Ye Qiu very well, because they often discuss together. If you follow Ye Qiu's thinking, then this midfielder Even this team will be an all-around team.

In fact, whether it is Michels' Ajax or Sacchi's AC Milan, they are very close to all-round teams, because they can switch back and forth between the strongest offense and the strongest defense.

"But..." Bobby Harms thought for a while, and then said: "If you really do what you say, then Tottenham Hotspur will not only change the midfield, but a front-to-back transformation." Great revolution!"

After hearing this, Ye Qiu knew that Bobby Harms agreed with his judgment, and he felt more confident, "So, I plan to take the first step of the plan this summer, sell a superstar, and then introduce another one." Superstar!"

(End of this chapter)