Seven Hundred and Forty Eighth Future Daniel

City announced their disbanding the day after the parade around the city, all kicking off the summer break.

Gao Shen did not stop, and accompanied by Su Qing, Lucas, Borell, Sarri and others, he came all the way to Leeds, more than 60 kilometers away.

The British media is really crazy. They can even arrange people to squat outside the Elland Road Stadium.

The purpose is just to know whether Gao Shen will come or not?

Come, it proves that Gao Shen is inextricably linked with Leeds United.

In fact, this is well known in the industry, and everyone can guess it, but Gao Shen still chose to keep a low profile.

For the time being, this kind of thing is better known than seen.

It pays to be low-key.

Not to mention, Leeds United will be reorganized next time. Once Gao Shen participates too much, or even goes out in person, there is no guarantee that he will not be targeted.

On the contrary, it is as good as it is now, secretive.

Just like Keylor Navas.

The Spanish media reported the news that Leeds United poached Albacete's Costa Rica national team, but what does it matter?

The media far-fetchedly listed Gao Shen in it, but who knows if he really participated?

Those teams that are really short of goalkeepers will bet on a nobody like Keylor Navas?

But if Gao Shen came forward in person and endorsed Navas, the situation would be completely different.

This is why Gao Shen feels difficult and tricky now.

Therefore, he simply rented a house in the town of Wetherby, a northern suburb of Leeds, to serve as a temporary command post.

It happened that the Thorpe Arch training base was starting to be remodeled, and it was very convenient for the club management to come over.

Surrounded by countryside, the reporter was not interested in tracking.

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As the handover of Gao Shen's acquisition of Leeds United is gradually completed, the work of establishing the club's management is also in full swing.

On the one hand, there is the administrative department headed by Su Qing. Su Qing is in charge of all these, and she is in charge of the finance department herself.

On the other side is Fernando Lucas as the CEO, mainly responsible for external work, including a series of large and small tasks such as news public relations, marketing, and fan services.

One of the most important tasks of Lucas is to build the club's entire competitive operating system.

The biggest difference between modern football and the past is that the degree of specialization is getting higher and higher.

Many fans will look at the success of a club with a heroic view of history. The simplest thing is to dig out the so-called big cows behind it, as if a certain big cow is the club's success code.

It is undeniable that many talented big cows are indeed very powerful.

But don't forget, Maxima often exists, but Bole does not often exist.

No matter how powerful a big bull is, he also needs to be on a platform that can display his abilities in order to be able to shine.

For example, in the current Leeds United, Gao Shen's positioning of the club is cost-effective management, buy low and sell high, and follow the model of training players.

As a result, if Gao Shen blindly poachs talents from wealthy teams, sorry, the possibility of success is extremely low.

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Many fans are wondering why Florentino doesn't dig Sevilla's Monchi?

It is undeniable that Monchi is indeed one of the best football directors in European football, but what he is best at is completely different from Real Madrid's business philosophy. Monchi is good at buying low and selling high, or even buying high in the middle Sell ​​this ring.

But what about Real Madrid?

Florentino wanted stars.

You see, if these two different ideas collide, it will be a ghost to succeed!

Not to mention, if Monchi leaves the platform of Seville, can he still succeed?

Later, he went to Rome, didn't he also succeed?

Peter Kenyon jumped ship from Manchester United to Chelsea. He was so awesome, and he was still the CEO. As a result, was it successful?

Therefore, modern football has long had a very clear professional division of labor.

For a club, it is more effective to create a system that runs smoothly than to introduce some big stars.

This is why Gao Shen chose Fernando Lucas as the CEO and Rudolf Borel as the technical director.

But beyond that, there are others.

The first director of the newly built data center was Victor Horta from Seville. He can be regarded as Lucas' direct disciple and he did a very good job in Seville.

Gao Shen originally meant to recruit Pablo Blanco, the director of scouting from Sevilla. He knew Pablo Blanco and called him personally, but Blanco didn’t care. Whether it is a player or a staff, they are all in Seville, and they are determined.

No way, after Gao Shen persuaded him, he gave up the top scout in the FM football manager with almost full judgment potential and judgment ability.

This naturally affected his plan to transplant Sevilla's scouting system.

Still, great talent abounds in European football.

Gao Shen quickly chose another one.

Assistant coach and chief scout for Championship Hull City, Steve Walsh.

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Steve Walsh's parents are both Irish. Uncle Michael Walsh is a player and a professional referee, so they got in touch with football very early, and played for Blackpool, Unlike teams like Everton, Queens Park Rangers and Porto, Steve Walsh lacks this talent.

But this also led him to transition behind the scenes like his uncle very early, so he became a coach.

At the beginning, he worked as a physical education teacher in a church school, but because his brother played for Everton, he met the agent of Everton midfielder Robson at the time, and this agent was also at the Brie Club serve.

So, he became a part-time scout.

In the next few years, he worked as a teacher and a scout at the same time.

The first-line youth sports teaching work allowed Walsh to accumulate rich experience, let him understand the characteristics of teenagers more clearly, and helped him evaluate and screen, which made him better and better at the scout position. The club even includes Chelsea.

You know, Chelsea at the time was just a mediocre Premier League mid-range team. Because Walsh did a good job, the Blues gave him his first professional contract in his career, a full-time scout.

In 1991, Steve Walsh officially became a full-time Chelsea scout.

It's very insignificant, but he has done it for more than ten years.

It was the transfer of Italian international Zola that allowed him to really establish his position in Chelsea. Walsh was the scout that Chelsea arranged to investigate Zola. With Zola's success, he also gradually rose in Chelsea.

Afterwards, he almost participated in most of Chelsea's important transfer player inspections, such as Makelele, Petr Cech, Robben, Drogba, Essien...

Club scouts are busy, but also fulfilling.

The inspection of many players allowed Walsh to accumulate incomparably rich experience, and he switched to Newcastle in 2006.

The Magpies gave him a chance to make a further breakthrough, assistant coach and chief scout.

But in Newcastle, he assisted head coaches such as Rodell, Allardyce, Keegan and Pearson. From Allardyce, England's first generation of big data madman, he also started big data, But also through the turmoil at Newcastle.

Due to his close relationship with Pearson, he accompanied Pearson to Leicester City in the third tier league in 2008, and successfully brought the team to the British Championship.

In 2010, he moved to Hull City with Pearson and was still an assistant coach and chief scout.

Until now, no one has really understood Steve Walsh's ability.

Because he is just like other scouts, inspecting players, providing supporting services for the head coach, and providing reference opinions for the team's signings, it seems that there is nothing special.

At best, his scouting reports are always better than others, or even everyone.

But Gao Shen knew that Steve Walsh would follow Pearson to the Leicester City team and chose to stay after Pearson left.

But this time, he ushered in a career take-off.

Not only has Leicester City unearthed many treasures in England, but also searched for a lot of talents in continental Europe for the team, such as Kanter, Mahrez, etc., which makes him a strong recommendation from Ferguson to Manchester United The most influential man in the Premier League.

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It was quite a surprise for Steve Walsh to suddenly receive an invitation from Leeds United.

Gao Shen personally called and communicated with him for more than an hour.

Steve Walsh thought about becoming an assistant coach, maybe even a head coach, but he was fifty-five years old, long past that age, and the only reason he was still doing it was to earn an extra salary.

But now, Gao Shen directly invites him to serve as the head of scouting for Leeds United, and is fully responsible for the construction of the scouting network.

This made Steve Walsh very surprised, but it was really exciting.

So, he went from Kingston upon Hull to Manchester, and had an in-depth discussion with Gao Shen. After he knew Gao Shen's whole idea of ​​running Leeds United and the competitive system he wanted to build, he was even more tempted. He accepted Gao Shen's invitation on the spot and joined Leeds United as the head of scouting.

This time Gao Shen came to Leeds United from Manchester to participate in the first high-level meeting of Leeds United.

In addition to Steve Walsh, Gao Shen also met the U18 youth team head coach Francisco Javier García Pimienta for the first time, and the second team head coach Luis Ramis .

The former is from the Barcelona youth training camp and was recruited by Borrell; while the latter was poached by Lucas from the Real Madrid youth training camp. He has worked in the Real Madrid youth training for many years and has a considerable ability to train young players. outstanding.

Both of them talked with Gao Shen on the phone.

The first management meeting of Leeds United was held in this house on the outskirts of Wetherby.

But a little embarrassingly, many departments are still empty.

For example, in the news and public relations department, Lucas is contacting a familiar senior reporter and the marketing department, but has not yet found a suitable candidate, and Lucas is still in the process of recruiting and searching.

Sarri is also planning to go to Italy in these two days to form his own coaching team. By then, the staff of Leeds United will be more organized.