Chapter Five Hundred and Ninety Fifth: Ball Saint's Lip Service

"Mr. Yang Huan, this is our Adidas Sports Center!"

When the two teams arrived in Amsterdam, located in the south of the city, next to the Amsterdam Arena, the Ajax training base De Tokmoster, the core management of Ajax was warmly welcoming the guests .

Yang Huan took Peter Kenyon and others into the Adidas Sports Center in De Tokmost.

Accompanied by Adidas representative, longtime friend Marcus Baumann.

The sponsors of Southampton and Ajax are Adidas, so Adidas obviously hopes to strengthen the communication and connection between the two teams in this way.

Yang Huan led a group of people with a smile. Accompanied and introduced by Ajax chairman John Junker, head coach De Boer, and Overmars, who is in charge of the team's transfer operations, they started to walk into the city. This is a sports center.

The white building is just like its name, a sports center.

The largest area is an indoor football field, which is provided for the training of the first team and the youth team.

In addition, there are a series of things that sound high-end and atmospheric, such as a speed measurement track, a motion measurement system, and an analysis system.

John Jacques and other core executives of Ajax, I don’t know if they want to prove it in front of Marcus Bowman, or they really think it’s awesome. Anyway, they just want to blow up this sports center. There is nothing underground, as advanced as it is.

Yang Huan smiled perfunctorily along the way, followed and visited, not thinking it was a big deal.

For example, Ajax said that their technology can integrate team and individual sports data, and analyze the future development direction of players, as well as the improvement of the team's training programs and so on.

But when Yang Huan wanted to know more about the extent of their research, the person in charge of the Ajax Sports Center just said that they are still exploring, but they believe that results will be made soon. he.

Regarding this, Yang Huan could only be hehe.

There is no doubt that Ajax has excellent experience in training young players, and it can even be said to be unparalleled in the world, but they have their own fixed training model, which has been in operation for many years.

Now I want to transform this traditional training model into an informatization model. I am afraid that it will not be possible overnight. The advantages of the past have now become the disadvantages of holding back.

This has to be said to be a very sad thing!

However, if Ajax continues to invest and research in this area and perseveres, it will definitely be able to make a difference in the future.

After all, what they have is valuable experience that other teams do not have.

Regardless of how informatization is used and how it develops, in the end, it is still a player in the final analysis!

Just judging from the current situation, Ajax seems to lack such patience.

Especially when the person in charge of the Ajax project proposed that Ajax has been ahead of the world in these aspects of research for nearly ten years, Yang Huan couldn't help shaking his head and laughing. Is this fooling investors?

If you Ajax are ahead of the world for several years with this little technology, then what are we Southampton?

Oh, don't we belong to the earth?

Well, let's go back to Mars then!

The entire Adidas Sports Center gave Yang Huan the feeling that it was beautiful and costly, but lacked an innovative atmosphere, and was full of old stereotypes and ruts.

This is not a good sign!

But Yang Huan was a guest, and he was rotten in his heart about this kind of thing, so he didn't say anything.

"Mr. Yang Huan, what do you think of our sports center?"

The group walked out of the Adidas Sports Center again, and John Jack asked Yang Huan next to him with a smile.

Yang Huan chuckled, "Very good, quite good."

"Yes, we have been researching some technical projects for two years, and we plan to spend another three years to make this sports center reach its maximum potential."

When John Jack was introduced, he was full of high-spirited pride and ambition.

Yang Huan still nodded, "Well, Ajax is indeed the world's leader in these aspects!"

John Jack was obviously very satisfied with the praise and affirmation from Yang Huan. After laughing a few times, he was actually humble.

"Since the Velvet Revolution, Ajax has undergone tremendous changes in the past three years. We have re-formulated the club's future development direction and strategy, and invited players including Bergkamp, ​​De Boer, Overmar Former famous players such as Stanley and Edwin van der Sar entered the home team."

"We will resolutely implement the business strategy proposed by Cruyff in this technical report. In the next few years, while ensuring Ajax's domestic advantages in the Netherlands, we will try our best to improve the team's competition in the European arena. Strength, get a better ranking, and regain the glory of the past!"

When John Jack mentioned Cruyff, many people around showed a little fanaticism.

But there are also some people who seem very indifferent and noncommittal.

Obviously, even within Ajax, it is not monolithic.

When Yang Huan heard this, hehehe again.

With the current situation of Ajax, it is not bad to be able to keep the leading position in the Netherlands.

Still counting on making a difference in the Champions League?

Don't be ridiculous, okay?

Not to mention comparing with the five major European leagues, even compared with the Portuguese Super League, Ajax does not have the slightest advantage.

In the final analysis, one word, people are rich!

The current professional football is dominated by capital, youth training and so on. If you have money, you can be willful.

How was Chelsea's youth training? What about Tottenham Hotspur's academy? When Arsenal took over under Wenger, was the youth training good?

But now?

Ten years ago, how was the youth training in Germany?

Then what is it, in ten years, from the original talent withering to the current talent blowout?

rely on money!

If German football hadn't received huge sums of money in the past ten years to promote the reform of youth training, would it be where it is now?

What can Ajax have?

A football field, a training base, a group of rigid old people, what else?

As for the mention of Cruyff, Yang Huan felt hehe again.

After Rosell in Barcelona came to power, Cruyff couldn't stay in Barcelona anymore and was immediately kicked out.

And after that?

With De Boer, Overmars and other Ajax celebrities, in the past, he incited the Ajax fan club, launched the so-called velvet revolution, overthrew the Ajax board of directors twice, and drew the Piece of beautiful cakes, but is it realistic?

To put it bluntly, this is a game of intrigue, don't think Cruyff is so great!

Maybe, in the heart of the old ball saint, because he was kicked out by Barcelona, ​​his heart was empty and lonely, so with the help of Ajax, he continued to have a sense of presence in professional football!

As for Overmars, Jonker, De Boer, and even Bergkamp and others, do they really have the ability to lead Ajax?

As for coaching, Yang Huan is a layman, so he can't say for sure, but as far as club management is concerned, he failed at all!

What is the most important thing about a professional team?

There is no doubt that the transfer signings!

It can be said that the quality of transfers and signings determines the competitiveness of a team.

Ajax's current youth training is completely unable to meet the needs of the first team, so signings are very important.

But look at Ajax's signings after the Velvet Revolution.

Among the imported players, how many are worth the money?

For a small team like Ajax, value-for-money signings alone are not enough. What they want is to buy low and sell high, so they must be value for money!

But now?

Led by Overmars and others, the players brought in are not even worth their money!

As for the Danish midfielder Poulsen, the former Liverpool player Babel, etc., they are all a group of players who can't get along in the five major leagues, but their annual salary is not low, and they are very old. Is it useful to introduce them? Can it sell for a good price?

A few years ago, Ajax spent more than 16 million euros to introduce Soleimani from Heerenveen. What happened?

The player became Ajax's biggest parallel import ever.

According to the usual logic, since it is no longer possible, why not just sell it at a high price?

But is Ajax's management biased?

Stay in the team, feed, guard the drinking fountains, and then... this summer, leave on a free transfer!

If you are a savvy Ajax fan, you should shout at Overmars and others.

Dude, don't you always think about buying someone?

Occasionally, you also sell people!

In Yang Huan's view, this group of former famous executives of Ajax may know how to play football, but they must not know how to play professional football.

Moreover, all those who talk about loyalty, feelings, and feelings these days are always very unreliable.

More importantly, they followed Cruyff, but they didn't learn any other skills, but they learned the words of the ball saint.

Empty talk harms the country, but hard work rejuvenates the country!

Ajax's problems right now are many and complex.

But there are some people who are unwilling to face the cruel reality and always fantasize about their past glory peak.

What's the use of that?

Can the Champions League trophy placed in the honor room be eaten? Can I exchange money? Can it attract players?

To put it bluntly, if Ajax can be more pragmatic, put down their posture, and learn from Porto, it will be considered a success.

At the very least, Ajax is indeed experienced in player training.

But the problem is, you can't even learn from teams like Porto, Sporting Lisbon and Benfica now!

Yang Huan knew very well in his heart that the reason why Adidas took advantage of the opportunity of the Europa League final and did everything possible to invite Yang Huan and others to De Tokmoster, to put it bluntly, was to facilitate the cooperation between the Saints and Ajax.

But after learning about Ajax's situation, Yang Huan was not interested.

As a boss, he doesn't like the kind of employees who don't want to keep their feet on the ground and always like to talk.

And as the boss, he doesn't like the younger brother who puts on a particularly outrageous show at all.

So, after walking out of the Adidas Sports Center, Yang Huan gave Peter Kenyon a wink.

The latter understood what Master Huan meant, and walked out immediately.

"Master Huan, it's almost time, Miss Zhuang is probably waiting!"

When John Jack and others heard this, they all looked at the time.

No, it's still early for kick-off. What do you mean it's almost time?

Unexpectedly, Yang Huan pretended to be suddenly enlightened and said, "Yes, it's almost time!"

"No, Master Huan, it's still very early, why don't we go to the office and sit for a while, then look around, and we'll treat you to dinner in the evening..."

"Another day, another day!" Yang Huan waved his hands with a smile, "I'm really sorry, I already have an appointment for dinner tonight."

Everyone in Ajax immediately looked at Marcus Bowman one by one, as if they were asking, buddy, we haven't talked about the most important thing yet, so we can't let him just leave!

But Marcus Bowman was depressed and could only smile wryly.

You blow yourself up so much that you scare people away, what can I do?

Besides, who can control what Master Huan does?

I can only look for opportunities in the future and think of a way!

Yang Huan pretended not to know about this, greeted Peter Kenyon and Long Wu, and left after a few more polite words.

This group of people is left behind, you look at me, I look at yours, sighing.

It was as if a godsend opportunity had been missed. r1148

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