Chapter 1444 Someone Poached My Corner

After playing the semi-finals of the Champions League, Real Madrid ushered in a period of loose adjustment.

On the weekend, in the thirty-seventh round of La Liga, Real Madrid defeated Sevilla 4-1 at home.

Yang Yang scored twice and was voted the man of the match, while Azpilicueta and David Silva each scored a goal.

Since this is the last home game of the season, the award ceremony for the La Liga champions will be held right after the game.

Ramos and Marcelo, as the team's captains and vice captains, represented Real Madrid players on stage to receive the La Liga championship trophy.

The entire Bernabéu stadium was also full of joy. More than 80,000 Real Madrid fans cheered for the league championship together, but the team did not organize other celebrations, because there are two more important cup championships to come.

The Copa del Rey final against Barcelona and the UEFA Champions League final against Juventus both draw Real Madrid's attention more than the already settled La Liga champions.

There is a one-week gap between the 37th and 38th rounds of La Liga, so Real Madrid gave the team a day off after the recovery training the next morning after the game, so that everyone can have a good rest.

Holidays are definitely a luxury for Real Madrid players. Because of multi-line battles, Real Madrid has almost always played a week of double matches since the beginning of the season. Except for the holidays around Christmas, the rest of the time is very happy. nervous.

It was a rare holiday. After the players finished their training in the morning, they didn't even eat lunch, and they all dispersed.

Only Zidane and the coaching staff still stayed in Valdebebas, preparing for the next two focus finals.

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"Looks like you're in trouble."

When Zidane returned to his office, he saw Yang Yang sitting on the sofa, frowning and thinking about something, and couldn't help laughing.

The relationship between the two is irreversible, so he naturally knows what Yang Yang is worrying about.

"At the beginning, when the grades were not good, I was annoyed. Now that the grades are good, I am still annoyed."

Zidane smiled and sat down opposite him, "So, I said at the beginning, you have caused yourself a big trouble, I don't understand, why did you want to take over Ajax in the first place?"

"We Chinese have a saying that if you are rich, you will benefit the world, but if you are poor, you will be alone. You are from France, so naturally you can't understand our Chinese thinking, because you don't need to worry about it at all."

Zidane understood what Yang Yang meant.

France is one of the countries with the best youth training in the world. Even if there are ups and downs in the middle, it can always recover quickly.

Just like the new century, after experiencing the golden generation headed by Zidane, Henry and others, French football has been in a downturn for many years, but in recent years, young French football rookies have sprung up like mushrooms, and many of them are Lane, Mbappé, Dembele and other European stars who have already become famous.

But China is different. The foundation of youth training is too bad. Although they have reached the World Cup finals before, everyone feels that once Yang Yang retires, will Chinese football continue to dominate Asian football?

Not to mention going to the World Cup stage to fight.

As Yang Yang's best friend, Zidane also knows that Yang Yang paid more attention to Ajax's youth training when he bought Ajax, hoping to use Ajax's youth training to help China develop youth training, but this is also certain It will bring more pressure and burden to yourself.

"Some people say that when people live in this world, they are always solving troubles." Zidane comforted with a smile.

Yang Yang nodded, "The biggest trouble now is that someone is poaching my corner."

"Oh?" Zidane became interested, "Who is so bold?"

"Dortmund."

"This is troublesome." Zidane also realized the seriousness of the problem.

After Dortmund left Klopp, Tuchel also did not work for too long. Now that the coaching position is empty, it is not surprising that Peter Boss, who led Ajax to the Europa League final, was targeted.

Then Peter Boss doesn't have the slightest idea of ​​wanting to switch to Dortmund?

One is the giants of the Bundesliga, and the other is the declining giants of the Eredivisie. It will not be difficult to choose any head coach.

"Frankly speaking, I don't think Peter Boss is very capable. If you dig it, you will dig it. The key is that Dortmund is also in the reorganization stage. If Peter Boss switches to Dortmund, he will come back to dig our players. , that would be troublesome."

It is nothing new for a head coach to poach the corner of his old club after he quits. On the contrary, it is quite normal.

When Benitez switched from Liverpool to Real Madrid, besides Yang Yang, Harvey Alonso and Arbeloa, he also recruited Mascherano, which directly crippled Liverpool's midfielder.

This can be said to be a very normal thing, because it is better to use the familiar, and the head coach also needs some players he is familiar with to help him stabilize the team as soon as possible, achieve better results, and consolidate his coaching position.

"It's really troublesome, but don't worry too much. Dortmund is notoriously stingy. They don't have much money, and the stars who can sell high prices are almost sold. Don't worry too much." Zidane comforted.

From Gotze to Lewandowski, and then to Hummels, Dortmund's stars are exclusively for Bayern Munich. Now Aubameyang is the one who can really sell at a high price in the team. The problem is that there are not many buyers.

The teenager Dembele is very famous. Dortmund even called out a price of over 100 million in the media before, but who would buy it?

Unless the transfer market is crazy, otherwise, who will pay more than 100 million transfer fees for Dembele?

How outstanding Mbappe's performance in the Champions League is, Real Madrid's psychological price is only about 100 million euros. Dembele is no less than Mbappe, at least 20 to 30 million euros less.

Of course, even so, in the opinion of Yang Yang and Zidane, it is still ridiculously high.

Dortmund can't sell money, so naturally they can't invest, so Ajax doesn't need to worry too much.

It's just that the problem now is that there are a lot of teams eyeing the fat of Ajax.

"I still remember that Simon Cooper's [Football Economics] said that transfer is an inefficient behavior, because most of the buyers have no way to get the corresponding return from the investment, but the current European football The transfer market is still so crazy, sometimes I wonder if I'm crazy?"

In that book, Simon Cooper cites the example of Torres and Michu, arguing that if the transfer market worked, Torres would have worked twenty-five times better than Michu, but it didn't.

It is precisely because of the inefficiency of the transfer market that many teams are very cautious in their strategies in the transfer market, and some even do not participate in this market at all. The most typical representative of the former is Real Madrid. Over the past few years, the transfer operation has been very careful, and it has become more and more careful, almost no more big money.

As for withdrawing from the transfer market, it does not mean withdrawing completely, but to maintain a sense of reason, prefer not to buy, and not blindly. The typical example is Manchester United in the late period of Ferguson's coaching. But he refused to buy people in these positions, especially after the failure of the introduction of Owen Hargreaves.

Ferguson's explanation for this is that the player's value is too high, he thinks it is not suitable, and the risk is too great, so he does not buy it.

Arsenal under Arsene Wenger had the same idea as Ferguson.

Whether it is Ferguson or Wenger, although they are not blindly invested in the transfer market, or even not invested at all, they have invested a lot in training young players, strengthening the training of young players in the team and the support of their own youth training.

Of course, after Ferguson retired, in order to maintain competitiveness, Manchester United basically gave up the transfer strategy of Ferguson's period and began to step up efforts to introduce strong players, while Arsenal has long followed Wenger's transfer strategy. The competitiveness is deteriorating, and this season, it was slaughtered ten to two by Bayern Munich in the round of sixteen.

"In the long run, Ajax is definitely a high-quality resource. Their youth training ability is the best in the world, especially after your capital injection. This season, the second team has won the runner-up in the Dutch League. It can be maintained for a long time, internal blood supply, self-sufficiency, and then introduce suitable players as appropriate, I believe there will be no problem, this is a sustainable development path.”

Zidane admires Yang Yang's foresight and courage. He started at Ajax's downturn. Now Ajax is also the Europa League final team, and the value of the players has risen a lot compared to before.

"There are many teams with excellent youth training. The youth training of Real Madrid and Barcelona will not lose to Ajax, but the problem is that their self-positioning in European football is the top giants. The players have higher requirements and cannot give youth training. There are enough training opportunities for players to train players, so the youth training and the first team are disconnected, but Ajax is doing the best in this regard.”

Yang Yang kept nodding his head, Zidane's words were Yang Yang's views and plans for Ajax.

"The current trouble is short-term. Selling people is only temporary. Blindly relying on selling people will only drag Ajax further into the quagmire in the end, so we need to return to the Champions League as soon as possible. The best chance was next season, but now ..." At the end of Yang Yang's speech, countless depressions turned into a long sigh.

Zidane can understand that Yang Yang is a very planned person. Since he took over Ajax, he has a whole set of overall plans, and he has completed them very smoothly. But now, the team's performance has suddenly improved. Into the Europa League final, Peter Boss may quit, these have disrupted his plans for Ajax.

More importantly, his agreement with the Supervisory Council.

This is an acquisition worth more than 100 million euros. With the current development situation of Ajax, if it succeeds, Yang Yang will dig a gold mine, which will have a huge impact on his long-term plan to support China's youth training. How can he Will it bother you?

"It can't be helped. That's how professional football is. If you can't beat you, you will be crippled. The rich teams like to do it." Zidane said with a chuckle, including Real Madrid itself, all the rich teams play like this.

Yang Yang was also quite helpless, he didn't feel it when he didn't dig him before, but now he felt pain when he was dug.

In addition to the poaching of players, the poaching of the head coach is also troublesome.

With the current situation and status of Ajax, who can replace Peter Boss?

Do you have to go there?