Chapter 36 He Reminds Me of Someone

The busy summer season is finally here.

After an empty-handed season, the pressure on Ajax's management has doubled.

The defense core and captain Qi Wu and the sharpest right winger in the frontcourt, Van der Meyde, have to transfer, which presents a huge problem for Ajax. Come up with a plan.

Signing?

This is unlikely. There are many players in the first team who are facing the problem of contract renewal. Once they are renewed, they must increase their salary.

If a club's finances are regarded as a scale, then transfer fees and salary budgets are two ends of the scale. If you want to raise one side, you have to suppress the other.

The reason why the management decided to sell is also due to the pressure of the team's salary increase.

If you don't sell people, where will the money come from to raise wages for Vandervaart, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Sneijder?

Not only selling people, but not being able to make big signings in the transfer market, but also to keep the team competitive, and even to perform better than last season, this undoubtedly posed a big problem for the sports department.

Ronald Koeman has made it clear that he will continue to promote young talents from the youth team to the first team in the new season. At the same time, he also requires the scouting department to find a group of outstanding young players to join the team as soon as possible, so as to provide enough resources for the first team. Talent supply.

Even 16- or 17-year-old players such as Babel and Ram Rabat have already begun to enter the first team's watch list.

Tony Browns Slots is the head of the scouting department, and it's his responsibility naturally.

Recently, he has also been very busy. He is greeted and sent to him every day. The information on the players who have passed him is unknown, which makes him dizzy and has a headache every time he enters Detokmost. .

Especially when he saw Patrick Radru and Fred Arroyo coming with him, his brows furrowed even more.

"I hope you brought me good news." Slots pouted and said bitterly.

Radru and Arroyo smiled at each other.

Patrick Radru is a veteran of Ajax's youth training and has been coaching the youth team. After Leo Benhak left early, he was recruited to serve as a youth training assistant.

Fred Arroyo is a scout under Slots, who is responsible for inspecting Ajax players on loan, and submits an inspection application regularly.

The two have been busy with the same thing lately, the Summer Amateur.

"Don't say it, there is really good news." Fred Arroyo laughed.

"tell me the story."

"Aren't you having a headache for the centre-back and right-winger lately?"

"Yeah." Slots nodded.

These are also the two positions that the team is most urgently in need of signings.

"In terms of centre-back, I strongly recommend Alkmaar's young centre-back, Vlar."

Slots nodded. He knew that this player performed well in the amateur game, and his physique was also a typical central defender. He was young and immature, but the prospects were still worth looking forward to.

"This player is really good, but he's younger, you know the current problems with our team, we need more mature players, so the scouting department and the coaching staff are more interested in Julian Ace from Rennes in Ligue 1. Kud, he's going to be twenty-four soon, and he's more experienced."

Patrick Radru shrugged, "It doesn't matter, we have a good relationship with Alkmaar, and we can talk about it first."

Obviously, he and Arroyo are very optimistic about the central defender Fraar.

Slots thought for a while, "I'll think about it again, you know, we can't recruit all the best young people in the Netherlands into the team, we have to consider whether we have enough opportunities to exercise, we still have no chance in the central defender position. There's Thomas Vermaelen, the Belgian we signed in 2001, but he hasn't played in the first team yet."

After listening to the two, they no longer insisted. For a team like Ajax, the most scarce thing is young players.

"The other is a right winger, you must have heard of it." Arroyo laughed.

"Oh?"

"The Chinese in Almere, Yang Yang."

"It's him." Slots nodded, "Last night, Aaron Moy's football online was basically discussing him. He scored twice in the away game against Volendam, and two goals helped Almere. Reversing the home team, this performance is really good."

"We watched him play live." Arroyo smiled. "His breakthrough on the right side reminds me of someone."

"Who?"

"Ronaldo."

"Please, the aliens are the strikers."

"I know, I mean, he's a lot like Ronaldo."

When Arroyo said this, Slots suddenly remembered something, and immediately signaled his two colleagues to wait a moment. He walked to the cabinet full of documents next to him and searched for a while. A document was drawn from it.

"Forgot how long ago, our scouts also recommended him."

With that said, Slots handed the document to the two colleagues.

While they were watching the scouting report, Slots was also playing a copy of Arroyo's game footage on his computer.

The game last night was played at the Karas Stadium in Volendam. Although it was not broadcast live, at the request of Ajax, the scene was videotaped. Arroyo specially edited and copied Yang Yang's game highlights. to the U disk.

When Slots watched, his brows could not help but wrinkle even deeper.

If he remembered correctly, the scouting report should have been put on his desk more than a month ago, but he didn't pay much attention at that time, because the person who recommended it thought Yang Yang was Ronaldo II, which was judged by Slots For grandstanding.

But judging from the game video submitted by Arroyo, Yang Yang's breakthrough on the right side is indeed sharp, and his investment in the frontcourt game, especially in defense, is very high, which is very important in offense. It is very rare among players.

Although Sloz is not a head coach, he is very clear that a player who is willing to put his physical strength into defense and has excellent offensive ability is what any head coach regards as a treasure.

The reason why Ronald Koeman doesn't have a lot of trust in Ibrahimovic is because the Swedish centre is not keen on defending.

Watching the game video carefully, Slots found that as long as Yang Yang hit the ball head-on, the success rate of one-on-one was almost 100%, which was unbelievable.

But the video also exposed Yang Yang's many problems.

"The basic skills are too bad, especially the first stop, the passing is very thoughtful, but it is not good, and his cross is very bad."

Being able to take charge of the scouting department of Ajax, Slots can be described as a keen eye, and he can see Yang Yang's strengths and weaknesses at a glance.

If it weren't for the poor basic skills, if the first stop and cross were more reliable, this player would be very good. In this game, Almere definitely scored more than two goals.

This is a player with obvious strengths and weaknesses.

Arroyo and Radlu looked at each other, and both saw the helplessness in each other's eyes.

"I listened to Football Online last night, and many enthusiastic fans said on the phone that Yang Yang was still unable to play in Almere two months ago, but in the past two or three months, he has suddenly improved rapidly and has become a football player. The core of the team.”

Slots looked at Radru, "Patrick, what do you mean..."

"I think we should take a good look at him, preferably you go there yourself."

"Well, I'll consider it." Slots thought for a while and said.

Arroyo on the side also saw Slots' perfunctory, hesitated for a while, and said, "Tony, I know you've been very busy recently, but I really recommend you to think about Patrick's proposal."

"Huh?" Slots also sensed something was wrong.

"I saw Gullit in Volendam last night."

"Well, he has decided to take over the Netherlands U18 national team this summer." Slotz is not surprised.

"There were also scouts from Utrecht, Henk Funk, scouts from Feyenoord, Michelle Bakers, and scouts from several other teams, all of whom spoke highly of Yang Yang. ."

After Slots heard it, he immediately paid attention to it. He didn't expect that someone was staring at him, but he had to pay attention.

"Also, I saw Pete DeViser at the scene."

"Pete De Visser?" Sloz was taken aback, staring at Arroyo and asked with concern, "Are you sure? Did you see the wrong person?"

"It's absolutely true that with him is Karas Van Baren." Arroyo said with great certainty.

Slotz's face changed and changed, and he didn't speak for a long time, but finally he stood up.

"I'll call Luther Carroll right away."

After he finished speaking, he looked at Fred Arroyo in front of him again, "Fred, you help me check it out right away to see when Almere's next game is and who his opponent is. Get the exact news as soon as possible.”

Arroyo knew that he had attracted the attention of the head of the scouting department, so he immediately stood up and agreed.

Patrick Radru added, "Tony, you'd better call John Rep."

Slots and Arroyo all immediately exclaimed.

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After playing Volendam, Almere returned triumphantly and was warmly welcomed by Almere fans, especially Yang Yang, who scored twice, who once again became the savior of the team.

Everyone gathered again at Shenji Chinese Restaurant to celebrate, and went home to rest after a meal.

That night, in the super training ground, Yang Yang and Lao Bing conducted a post-match review, mainly focusing on some mistakes made by Yang Yang in the game, some of which were caused by poor basic skills, and it was difficult to improve in a short period of time. But some are Yang Yang's own problems, which should be avoided as much as possible in the next game.

Encounter problems, solve problems, this is how Yang Yang has been making progress in the past three months.

The next morning, Yang Yang went to the skate park for special training in high spirits.

Due to the game last night, the team suspended training for one day today, so Yang Yang basically spent the rest of the time in the skate park training except for the lunch break, and did not return to the restaurant until dinner time to help.

After finally busy with the meal, after dinner, Henk Dimmel and others came to the door again.

Not long after, even John Rep came.

This is the first time ever.