Chapter 657 Worth It!

After Huorabchian heard Yang Huan's question, a look of helplessness obviously flashed in his eyes. He had the feeling that an ugly daughter-in-law would always want to see her in-laws. He hesitated for a while, and finally opened his mouth.

"Originally Chelsea had a very tough attitude and asked us to go to the Portuguese Super League, but we were worried that going to the Portuguese Super League would affect Oscar's position in the national team, so we refused."

Yang Huan nodded again and again, although Oscar's performance in his debut season in the Premier League can only be regarded as acceptable, but after all, is he gaining a foothold in Chelsea, the main midfielder of the Brazilian national team, such a player leaves the Premier League to play in the Portuguese Super League?

As long as it is not a person with a broken brain, who would agree to such a stupid thing?

Besides, the World Cup in Brazil is coming soon. If Oscar loses the main position of the World Cup host Brazil because of leaving the Premier League and joining the Portuguese Super League, it will be a huge loss no matter from the competitive level or the commercial level.

Therefore, letting Oscar go to the Portuguese Super League can only be regarded as wishful thinking by Chelsea.

Seeing the young master Huan's expression, Hoorabchian seemed unmoved, and understood it in his heart.

He searched all the teams in the middle and upper reaches of the Premier League, including Manchester United, Arsenal, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur. Although some teams were also interested in Oscar, most of them still adopted the strategy of watching with a cold eye.

The reason is simple, Chelsea's asking price is too high!

"I talked to Granovskia, and she told me that if Oscar doesn't want to go to the Portuguese Super League, that's okay, as long as we can find a team willing to pay 20 million euros for Oscar, then Chelsea will be fine. Will let it go!"

Yang Huan frowned when he heard that, twenty million euros?

When Chelsea introduced Oscar, they spent a total of 25 million euros. Now that a year has passed, they asked for 20 million euros, which is not too outrageous, but the question is, is anyone willing to make a move?

Judging from Oscar's performance in the Premier League last season, there are bright spots, but the flaws are also obvious.

For example, his honesty and hard work, as well as his contribution at both ends of the offense and defense, but his pass success rate is low, which is also quite fatal for a central midfielder.

Judging from all signs, Oscar is not good at being a core player, but more of a deputy.

There is no shortage of such players in Manchester United, Arsenal, Manchester City and other teams, and the same is true for Southampton.

For a midfield substitute,

Is it worth it to spend 20 million euros?

Yang Huan couldn't help but fell into hesitation all of a sudden.

Even if he has a lot of money, he still doesn't want to be treated as a winner, so he has to consider whether the money is worth it, isn't it?

Joorabchian had been keeping an eye on Master Huan, seeing his hesitation, he couldn't help but glance at his partner Bertolucci.

Both of them seemed very helpless, because they had been rejected by many teams!

At this time, Bertolucci, who had been silent all this time, spoke.

"I heard that Master Huan has always been very interested in youth training!"

Yang Huan raised his head, looked at the Brazilian super agent in front of him, and nodded, "Yes!"

Giuliano Bertolucci is an agent who has just risen in Brazil in recent years, but the momentum of rising is very fast. In addition, the original agent Figel and others have changed careers one after another. Qin started cooperation, so he became the hottest agent in Brazil as a matter of course.

At present, almost all Brazilian players in the Premier League are mostly from them.

Such as Willian of Tottenham Hotspur, Ramirez of Chelsea, Oscar, Lucas Piazon and so on.

"I believe that all clubs that value youth training cannot ignore South America."

Bertolucci's words were once again approved by Yang Huan.

South America is rich in football talents, which is already well known in world football.

Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay are all old-fashioned talent concentration camps. In recent years, Colombia and Chile have also risen very fast, making South American players have always occupied a pivotal position in world football, even the most conspicuous position.

Of all the teams that value youth training, who dares to ignore South America?

After seeing Master Huan nodding, Bertolucci was encouraged and continued: "In Brazil, I am confident that as long as? I can help you win the players you like at the lowest price. In addition, we We can also cooperate with you in more aspects, for example, to help Southampton form a scouting network in South America!"

I have to say, this one is really quite attractive.

In the current professional football world, the division of labor is becoming more and more detailed, and there are more and more types of jobs and categories. The labor costs of club operations are rising steadily. It is quite expensive to set up and maintain a scouting network.

It’s like Ajax, who was ambitious in the early years and wanted to go abroad and expand the youth training system to South America and Africa. At that time, Ajax even founded a football club in South Africa, which once attracted the attention of the football world.

But a few years have passed, and the South American strategy has long been thrown away. Ajax in Cape Town is on the verge of bankruptcy, and Ajax itself is even more difficult to protect itself. It is to cut the budget for the scouting system, abandon the African strategy, and re-focus on the Netherlands and the Nordic region.

Just imagine, even a veteran youth training team like Ajax cannot independently support a youth training system, so how can other teams?

Looking at European football, no team has a scouting network that can cover every region.

So, what is the most typical approach?

Just like Barcelona's approach, their scouting network is mainly concentrated in Spain, which is an important part of their entire scouting network, because the so-called registered players are urgently needed by any team.

As for the selection of talents from regions outside of Spain, there are many tricks. For example, some players recommend themselves. It seems that Messi relied on his own connections to recommend himself to Barcelona for trial training, and was admitted.

Others are recommended by brokers or intermediaries with cooperative relationships.

Interestingly, the identities of these intermediaries are also varied, some are former Barcelona players, some are family members or friends of the players, and some are even recommended through various channels.

In short, there are any ways.

And they have only one purpose for recommending players to Barcelona, ​​that is, once the players they recommend pass the trial training and are admitted, then they can get a considerable introduction fee from Barcelona.

But don't underestimate this, because for Barcelona, ​​the introduction fee may be 10,000 to 20,000 euros, or even a few thousand euros, which is very insignificant, but it is enough for ordinary people to support their families.

According to this model, in theory, Barcelona can spread its scouting network to all parts of the world.

But this is just a theory, in fact, it is very difficult, and Barcelona also has its own set of professional full-time scouting system, the number of about a dozen people, each person is responsible for a different area.

According to the process, a piece of player information is submitted to the scouting department of Barcelona. After passing the initial review, Barcelona will first establish a file, and then arrange its own professional scouts to visit, or watch a few games, and some even follow up for a long time.

Once you pass the inspection, you will be invited for trial training. If you encounter some outstanding talents, you may even sign a contract directly.

The advantage of such a scouting network system is that the club does not invest much, but it can spread eyeliners all over the world. Once a newcomer emerges, the club can grasp the information as soon as possible.

But there are definitely disadvantages.

Because the goal of these agents and intermediaries is the introduction fee, they often adopt the fisherman's method of casting a net, and submit player recommendation letters to multiple teams at the same time, so it is easy for a player to show up immediately. He was targeted by a large group of European teams, and even rushed to grab it in a swarm.

In the past, Southampton's scouting network was mainly concentrated in the UK. However, in the past three years since Yang Huan acquired Monaco and Atletico Madrid, the integration of scouting information has been completed, and the scouting network has also begun to spread to the European continent.

The Saints' youth training model mainly adopts an operation model similar to that of Barcelona, ​​but it is different.

That is the digital reform that Yang Huan has been promoting in the past!

The first is the recommendation link. Everyone can recommend players to Southampton by installing Southampton's mobile app, filling in detailed player recommendation information, and shooting player videos.

In Southampton, the club's scouting department will have dedicated analysts responsible for tracking and analyzing, conducting preliminary screening, giving timely feedback, and interacting with recommenders.

At present, in this ring, Southampton collects nearly a hundred player recommendations every day. If there are some big matches, it will be as high as over a thousand player recommendations every day. The eye-catching so-called demon star attracted the attention of the Southampton scouting team.

The next thing is similar to the scouting operation mode of other teams such as Barcelona.

In addition to simplifying the referrer link, Southampton is also promoting the partner model.

For example, in Argentina, Southampton has cooperated with Cesarini Football Club.

Hearing this name, I am afraid that many people will feel unfamiliar. His founder is the former Argentine international Jorge Solari, the uncle of the Argentine star Solari who once played for Real Madrid and Inter Milan. The father-in-law of top midfielder Redondo.

The Cesarini Club is known as the West Point Military Academy of Argentine football. It has trained Argentine internationals including Demichelis and Mascherano. The second and third generations of the Solari family are also here. Trained in a football school.

The current owner of 50% of the shares in this school is Messi!

The cooperation between Southampton and Cesarini is mainly in the fields of data-based training and analysis. Southampton helps Cesarini conduct scientific analysis of training data to improve and perfect the training of young players. The latter's training data and The results of the analysis were made public to Southampton.

This kind of cooperation is more beneficial to Southampton, because the data obtained is more detailed, it is also more conducive to long-term tracking, and the operating cost is quite low, which is an advantage that other scouting networks of other teams cannot have. .

More importantly, once these partners cooperate with Southampton, it will be difficult to cooperate with other teams.

With time, the advantages of Southampton's entire scouting network will be fully reflected.

Therefore, Southampton intends to make great efforts to expand its scouting network and find more high-quality partners in the next few years, and Brazil, the football kingdom, is undoubtedly the most important area besides European football and Argentina. .

If in Brazil, Giuliano Bertolucci, who is familiar with the road, can assist, wouldn't it be more effective?

You know, Bertolucci earns his living in this business, and who else knows Brazilian football better than him?

Thinking of this, Yang Huan couldn't help laughing.

Isn't it 20 million euros?

Not only can you get an Oscar, but you can also get Bertolucci's help, it's worth it!