Seven Hundred and Fortieth Nine

As a manager, you must first let your team understand what the team's goals are.

With a clear goal, everyone will have a direction to work hard, and will not fight alone.

Gao Shen told everyone very clearly that Leeds United's next goal is to return to the Premier League within two years.

"I know, this is not an easy goal to achieve." Gao Shen said bluntly.

"I believe you all have seen it. We can be said to be poor and white now. The youth team is seriously unorganized and the training base is very backward. It is very bad. Not to mention you dislike it, I can't stand it myself."

Gao Shen's words made everyone present smile.

You know, in European football, Gao Shen has extremely high requirements for training facilities.

Many people even regard a profound sentence as the bible.

"One of the most important purposes of training is to improve players' self-confidence. Only high-intensity and high-level training can achieve this purpose and truly improve the actual combat level of the team!"

How can a head coach who can say such a thing not pay attention to the training facilities?

"The Thorpe Arch training base is only temporary. In the future, we will build a new state-of-the-art modern training center and youth training center in the center of Leeds, which is our core!"

After finishing speaking, Gao Shen told everyone unabashedly, "For the time being, we have no money!"

"But after reaching the Premier League, we will have it!" Gao Shen said confidently.

If this is the case, everyone will definitely sneer at it from another person.

Go to Nima's spicy chicken boss and draw big pancakes, is it interesting?

But it is very different if these words are said in a profound way.

Especially at this moment, almost all the media and fans around the world, and even all the teams, worship Gao Shen like a god.

What time did he fail to deliver on what he said?

"I know that everyone has done a good job in their respective teams before. Maybe you will ask in your heart, what can you bring to you after coming to Leeds United? Is it a professional breakthrough? Or an improvement in ability? Or Is it to make you famous?"

Gao Shen shook his head, "Sorry, I can't guarantee any of these."

"But what I can guarantee is that I will fight side by side with you. Together, we will create a working environment and cooperation atmosphere for Leeds United that is different from all teams. We will produce a different team culture and use it These are to attract more like-minded colleagues and players."

"We will not be the club with the highest salary, we will not be the most famous top club, we may not even be the team with the best performance, but we will definitely be the most special and different team The team, the club."

"I can guarantee that each of you, all the hard work you have put in here, and everything you have gained will become the most distinctive, and perhaps even the most precious and cherished treasure in your future career!"

"This is me, the purpose of resurrecting Leeds United!"

...

Gao Shen's remarks are very provocative.

As the most successful manager in the world, no one knows better than him the shit that employees and players have encountered in the club.

And how and why these things happened.

He had seen and heard too many similar things.

Therefore, he wants to make Leeds United a team in his mind, a club he wants.

And the first thing this club needs to do is to be professional and precise!

This seems simple enough, right?

Many people even sneered, thinking: Fuck, what is there to say?

But if they have a deep understanding of European professional football, they will no longer have such thoughts.

In 2021, when Gao Shen traveled, many people were wondering, how did Real Madrid win the lottery so well?

And Seville, Monaco, Leicester City...

How do these teams always find good players?

When it comes to big data, the scouting system, and professional talents, there is no shortage of those wealthy teams, and they are not even short of money.

Yes, that's right, there is indeed no shortage of giants.

It's like Barcelona, ​​which is heavily in debt and keeps burning money. What's the situation?

Many people question Manchester United's signings, but they probably don't know that Manchester United has long had its own scouting system and network. Their database has gathered thousands of videos and reports from players from all over the world.

In 2019, Manchester United wanted to introduce a right back. There were more than 800 candidates in the scout system. fifty million pounds.

This is really a very, very outrageous thing, even amateurish.

This is one of the important reasons why Manchester United is called the price-raising alliance.

It's not that they don't have resources, but they don't know how to make good use of their resources.

This seems unprofessional and unprecise!

And this is the foundation Gao Shen wants to lay for Leeds United.

He wants to build this Leeds United with professionalism and precision in the way of modern enterprise management, so that this old and decaying team with a history of more than 90 years will be completely new in his hands.

...

After the meeting, everyone got busy.

Gao Shen and Su Qing drove out of Leeds, headed west from the M62 highway, and returned to Manchester.

Soon after passing Bradford, I came to a small village called Elan.

Get off the highway from here, head north all the way, cross Elland, and then enter Halifax after a short walk.

This is a small town, larger than Elam, but limited.

Like every English town, Halifax has its own football club named after the town.

This team has just won the championship and promotion of the English Football Northern Premier League, the seventh level of England, and has been promoted to the sixth level of the English Football Association Northern League.

Don't think that they are all in the Northern League, and there is one less super, which seems to be very low-level.

In fact, only entering the sixth level can be regarded as truly entering the scope of the national league planned by the FA, while in the seventh level, it is all regional leagues.

Along the main road of the town, following the navigation, it is easy to come to the Shay Stadium where the headquarters of the Halifax Club is located.

If Leeds United's Elland Road Stadium is considered crude, then this stadium looks really dilapidated, with only three stands and a not-so-spacious parking lot in front.

It can be seen that there are not many fans driving here on weekdays.

So much so that when Su Qing parked the car in the empty parking lot, she asked Gao Shen specifically.

"Are you sure it's this place?" Her pretty face was full of doubts.

Gao Shen looked around through the car window, nodded and said, "It shouldn't be wrong."

Su Qing curled her lips and said helplessly, "Then I'll go in and have a look."

"This is your first player transfer negotiation, I believe you can do it, come on!" Gao Shen encouraged with a smile.

Su Qing rolled his eyes at him angrily, opened the car door and left.

Gao Shen sat in the car bored, playing with his mobile phone, while thinking in his heart, should he send a tweet later?

Well, don't post it yourself, let Leeds United's official Twitter account post it, retweet it yourself, give it a like, and get a wave of popularity.

Just do it!

Gao Shen immediately sent a text message to Fernando Lucas who stayed at Leeds United, and the two chatted.

When Gao Shen hadn't researched it properly, he saw Su Qing had come out of it, followed by a middle-aged man in England, who wanted to take her to the parking lot, but was rejected by Su Qing, but still stood at the door far away Waving hands, no matter how you look at it, it looks like those salesmen in Gao Shen's previous life were holding God, very humble.

"So fast?"

As soon as Su Qing sat up, Gao Shen asked.

"There is no one in there. The club owner is also the CEO, technical director, team leader and front desk receptionist. Just talk to him directly." Su Qing said while putting on her seat belt.

"and then?"

"I went in and asked him if there was anything you said, the player named Jamie Vardy, he said yes, and asked me what I did. I told him that I was the secretary of the chairman of Leeds United."

"And then?" Gao Shen was amused.

At this time, the car has completely driven out of the range of Shay Stadium.

"Then there is nothing to say, I just said, he is doing well, we want to buy Leeds United, he was stunned at the time, and then he just touted, kept praising his players, and said how good Vardy is, and entered Lots of balls and stuff like that."

Gao Shen nodded, "Sales usually do this, and then I should sell my other players by the way."

Su Qing was happy, "That's right, but I'm not interested, so I just made an offer, £80,000."

Gao Shen was stunned for a moment, he clearly remembered that what he said seemed to be 150,000 pounds.

"He agreed?"

"How could it be so easy? After asking back several times, the price was finally 100,000 pounds, so I took out the standard contract I prepared before and signed an agreement with him, that's it."

From beginning to end, it seems to be about ten minutes.

Gao Shen smiled wryly, isn't this a little disrespectful to the future England international and Premier League Golden Boot winner?

But I have to say that one hundred thousand pounds is really a sky-high price for Halifax, which has just been promoted to the sixth level.

However, it is also because Vardy did perform well in Halifax, scoring 26 goals in 33 games, showing his outstanding strength in the seventh-tier league.

And Vardy's fellow, Harry Maguire, who came from the Sheffield United youth training camp, was not so lucky.

The 18-year-old Maguire played five times on behalf of the team in the British Championship last season, when Sheffield United was already doomed to relegation and the hearts of the people were scattered. He started four times and came off the bench once.

Maguire is worth 45,000 pounds, and Leeds United also offered a transfer fee of 100,000 pounds for the 18-year-old.

Sheffield United, which has been relegated to League One, agreed.

From Kaylor Navas to Harry Maguire now, Gao Shen has to say that picking up leaks from the second-level relegated team is really fragrant.

What's more, the players of the newly promoted polo teams in the second-level league are sometimes worth a lot of money, so it's not too bad to pick them up.