Chapter 350 Talent

"I really didn't expect that when I was coaching, I didn't have the opportunity to sit down and drink coffee and chat like now. Instead, I was laid off, but I got the honor of drinking coffee with you."

At Manchester Old Trafford, after watching a warm-up match of the England national team, Manchester United coach Ferguson called Ye Qiu, and the two met in a coffee shop near Old Trafford.

Ye Qiu believed that Ferguson would not take advantage of his misfortune. After all, as opponents, mutual respect is the minimum, and Ye Qiu has always felt that Ferguson is an admirable opponent no matter what.

"Originally I was worried that you would be depressed, and was thinking about whether to call you to comfort you or give you a job..." When he said this, Ferguson obviously remembered the quarrel with Ye Qiu that day, and laughed, "But seeing you like this, I think you should be fine."

"What can I do?" Ye Qiu asked with a smile, "I feel more relaxed than ever now. At least I don't have to wake up every morning and always worry about the next game and the next opponent. I don't have to force myself to get up at a certain time and do something every day. My life is very comfortable and casual now."

"More importantly, I now have more time to accompany my family. Oh, if you have time, call me for dinner at any time. As long as you treat me, I will fly over from London at any time."

Ferguson laughed, "The airfare from London is enough for you to have a good meal in London!"

"That's different. You, Sir Ferguson, treat me. Few people in the world have such treatment!" Ye Qiu was justified.

Ferguson smiled. After putting aside the identity of his opponent, the more he looked at Ye Qiu, the more he liked him. "What are your plans next?"

"I want to take a break, but Sky TV has invited me to partner with Andy Gray to comment on the Premier League and Champions League next season. I have to consider it. Several newspapers have also invited me to write column reviews. I am also considering it."

Ferguson laughed again after hearing this, "You seem to be more popular after losing the position of head coach!"

"Of course!" Ye Qiu didn't blush. His words made Ferguson laugh again.

I don't know why, maybe because he is no longer a head coach, the whole person is relaxed and relaxed.

Ferguson looked at Ye Qiu with interest. He recalled the time when he decided to retire from Ye Qiu. At that time, he also felt like Ye Qiu at the beginning, as if the mountain that had been pressing on him for a long time had finally been removed. The whole person felt relaxed and in a particularly good mood.

But as time goes by, I will miss the time when I was coaching, the pride of tens of thousands of fans shouting your name at Old Trafford, the excitement of chasing each other in the standings, and the anxiety and uneasiness of treading on thin ice and taking every step carefully in the Champions League knockout rounds with powerful opponents.

As a result, not long after retiring, he came back again, and still couldn't let it go!

He believed that Ye Qiu would be the same, because he could see that Ye Qiu, like him, was the kind of person who decided to treat football as a lifelong career, and such people could not live without football.

"Have you heard about it?" Ferguson picked up the coffee cup, took a sip, and asked.

Ye Qiu nodded, "It was very quick, and it was premeditated!" After saying that, he smiled coldly.

The two were talking about Chelsea's official announcement today that Porto head coach Jose Mourinho would be hired as Chelsea's head coach for the new season, and at the same time announced Shevchenko's transfer to Chelsea. This time-consuming and laborious transfer soap opera finally came to an end.

After the club announced the hiring of Mourinho, more than 10,000 Chelsea fans in London rushed to Stamford Bridge to protest, because the Porto coach had just dragged Chelsea down with a lethal tactic in the semi-finals. If it weren't for his Porto, Chelsea would definitely still be the favorite in the Champions League, and might even have won the quadruple championship.

But in the blink of an eye, the management invited such a public enemy to coach the team, and the anger of the fans can be imagined.

Of course, Ye Qiu would rather believe that this was a premeditated hiring. Since he forced the palace, or even before the palace, the management had already noticed Mourinho. Wasn't it reported that Abramovich had a close relationship with Juan Feger?

"I received news that Ronaldinho has applied for a transfer!" Ferguson said with shining eyes.

Ye Qiu was stunned. He didn't know about this news. Then he thought, even if Ronaldinho applied for a transfer, it would not have much to do with Manchester United, right? With Manchester United's financial resources, they can't afford Ronaldinho's transfer fee, right?

"The most likely destinations are Real Madrid and Barcelona!" Ferguson said.

Ye Qiu couldn't explain it clearly. He didn't know why Ronaldinho wanted to transfer, and he didn't hear Eliza Moon say that he had been on vacation recently and was not disturbed by the outside world. This time, he ran to Manchester to watch a warm-up match, that's all.

However, the arrival of Mourinho will definitely trigger a round of changes at Chelsea. He has made it clear that he wants to revamp Chelsea. Veterans such as Edwin van der Sar, Cannavaro, and Davis are not accepted by him, and He also threatened to remove all players who are not worthy of staying at Chelsea from the team.

This is not surprising, because Mourinho cannot directly take over Ye Qiu's team, and he cannot survive under Ye Qiu's shadow. And if you want to break Ye Qiu's shadow, the most direct and effective way is Reorganize Chelsea, even if it seems a bit crude.

"You're so mean-spirited, I don't think you have any good intentions!" Ye Qiu smiled at Ferguson. He had already left Chelsea. Everything about Chelsea had nothing to do with him. At best, he would only care about his former favorites.

Ferguson chuckled, "You know what I need!"

Manchester United has many problems now. There are very obvious problems in all three lines. Even the goalkeeper position has flaws and deficiencies. Ferguson obviously wants to get enough benefits from Chelsea. At least Edwin van der Sar is. A goalkeeper that Ferguson has always admired.

However, after hearing this, Ye Qiu felt that Mourinho's tactics may not be suitable for Van der Sar.

Why do you say that?

Van der Sar is a sweeper-type attacking goalkeeper. Even though his physical function has declined now, his range of control is still very large, and his passing and receiving ability is excellent. If you want to use Van der Sar's strength, you must Maintain a suitable distance between the defense line and the goalkeeper, but will Mourinho's tactics leave such a distance?

Of course, it doesn’t mean that Van der Sar is not good at the goal line. On the contrary, Van der Sar’s goal line skills are also very good, but his reaction is not enough. After all, he is older and his reaction is definitely not as good as that of young people. It really makes him stay in the goal line. Line area, maybe he is the next Lehmann.

Manchester United's frontcourt, midfield and backcourt all need to be adjusted. The frontcourt is the forward. Ruud Ruud is no longer liked by Ferguson. The midfielder needs a strong covering midfielder, and the backcourt is the left back and There are weaknesses and shortcomings in the central defender, but unfortunately, these are all in the Chelsea team, and they all have players that Ferguson admires.

For example, as a forward, Rooney almost moved to Manchester United. Midfielder Essien has always been Ferguson's favorite to bring in to replace Keane, and in the defense, Ferguson has always wanted to get Heinze. It is conceivable that poaching this guy is definitely not possible. Will be soft-hearted.

There is news from the outside world that Abramovich has offered Mourinho a transfer budget of 150 million euros, which does not include Shevchenko. Obviously, the Russians also want to transfer him in the shortest possible time. , downplaying Ye Qiu's influence in the team, and the most ideal way is undoubtedly to sell some of Ye Qiu's players and introduce some brand new stars.

This move by Chelsea will undoubtedly bring new opportunities to Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool.

To put it another way, apart from Mourinho, Ye Qiu really couldn't think of any other famous European coach who would be willing to take over Chelsea, because this is definitely a thankless job, let alone performance. If you can't break through Ye Qiu, even if you do, everyone will still give the credit to Ye Qiu. Famous marshals cherish their own feathers the most. Who is willing to do such a thing?

"I heard that Wenger is also ready to take action. This guy is very smart. I heard that he is now specifically looking for cheap young players to start with. He is interested in Cesc Fabregas, Messi, Van Persie and Ribery. He is We need to rejuvenate Arsenal!”

When he said this, Ferguson smiled and sighed, "You are indeed good enough. You caused huge fluctuations when you came to the Premier League. Now that you leave, it will still cause a big earthquake."

Ye Qiu chuckled after hearing this, "Don't worry, I will be back soon!"

Ye Qiu has already begun to prepare for some things. Eliza is currently taking Ye Qiu's money to invest in the Russian stock market, preparing to make a fortune by taking advantage of the Russian stock market surge in the second half of the year. At the same time, she is also working in England. The football world is looking for an ideal team for Ye Qiu. As soon as the money is received, Ye Qiu will immediately enter into negotiations.

Regarding this, Ye Qiu would definitely not tell Ferguson.

Entering June, Ye Qiu was unwilling to leave Huang Chu for a moment.

Not only him, but also Ye Changming and his wife and Huang Jinsong and his wife lived in London, guarding their wife and daughter, waiting for the birth of their granddaughter. This was a big and huge event for both of their families.

It happened to be the suspension period, and Ye Qiu had nothing to do. In his free time, he just spent time in the study room reading some materials and papers related to tactics and head coaches, and also taking a look at some of the essence and tactical concepts of other head coaches.

In fact, Ye Qiu discovered a problem when he played against Benitez's Liverpool, that is, he had a weakness in defensive training.

Or it should be said that Ye Qiu is unique in training offense and ball control. Because his personality tends to be offensive, when he studies other people's things, he tends to study other people's offense more and ignores it. Some defense.

When was the last time Ye Qiu studied defense?

When he first coached Ajax, Ye Qiu combined the understanding of defense by Rehagel, Sacchi, Michels and others to come up with an overall defensive system, but this system was nothing more than It is a big framework, but the specific details and arrangements are not what Ye Qiu is good at. Even Ye Qiu's coaching staff is not good at this.

Teng Cate's characteristics are ball control and training, but he is not very good at tactics and defense.

Therefore, looking at the teams that Ye Qiu has coached in the past, they basically rely on combining the individual abilities of the players into an organic whole to assist in defense and support. This can indeed form a very solid defensive system, but this is only part of the defensive tactics.

In his spare time, Ye Qiu studied defense carefully. To study defense, he naturally had to study the Italian defense system. Among them, the most recommended defense system construction paper in the store is called [On the movement and cooperation of players in the construction of the four-back defense system].

In the evaluation explanation given by the store, it is believed that this set of defense theory is the most in line with the modern football defense concept, and it is also the most suitable set of concepts to bring out the team's defense strength. Moreover, this is not only a set of tactics, but also a set of defense training methods.

In this set of papers, Ye Qiu noticed that it emphasizes movement, but it is not blind movement, but a targeted prediction of the movement of the attacker, and it believes that a very important point in defense is to force the opponent to the side, force him to slow down, and then wait for the opportunity.

In terms of counterattack prevention, it focuses on the protection of the weak side, how to prevent the opponent from sneaking into your weak side, which is the key point in counterattack prevention, and is also the weakness and shortcoming of almost all offensive teams.

The last and most appreciated point by Ye Qiu, and also the point that Ye Qiu has always emphasized and insisted on, is to predict the opponent's passing route and block and intercept it. This is undoubtedly the point that fits Ye Qiu best.

In addition, he also listed his own evaluation criteria for the selection of defensive players. For example, the central defender should be confident enough to command the entire defense line and give orders on behalf of the head coach, have good skills and accurate long passes, good speed, effective marking, and excellent headers.

The most important thing is to have the tactical understanding ability to read the game, and have a good grasp of the team's timing in team defense and personal defense.

The most ideal central defender combination is an excellent marking and a stealing sweep.

The choice of full-backs is to have excellent defensive and offensive capabilities, to be able to provide width to the team's offense anytime and anywhere, and to be able to use the space left by teammates. The last sentence actually refers to the ability to attack from behind.

Fast, excellent long and short passes, high-speed dribbling and excellent crossing ability, these are the qualities that a full-back should have.

Seeing his requirements for the players, Ye Qiu had to smile bitterly. Where in the world can there be such perfect players?

But it must be said that this person's taste is really similar to Ye Qiu, very similar, both of them have heavy tastes!

If the above are just the big framework, then the details of the defensive training that follow, as well as his explanation of the movement of the defense line and the position of the auxiliary defense, make Ye Qiu's eyes light up.

He advocates the use of diagonal and pyramid positions. The diagonal position is easy to understand, needless to say, and the pyramid type is actually a triangle, but the triangle is composed of three players, while he is composed of four players, and the position of the other player is level with the player at the back, which is the base of the pyramid and can be dragged back at any time.

In other words, when the opponent's ball player breaks through the defensive point at the vertex of the triangle, the fourth player immediately drags back again, forming a triangular defense area.

Here we must talk about the protection theory of defense.

Everyone knows that using a point to break through a surface is the best way to break the defense. For example, using the individual ability of a player to break through a point of the opponent, and then disintegrate the opponent's entire defense system.

But when the attacker finds this point, the defender will immediately evolve, that is, protection.

How to protect?

Create depth, that is, adopt a multi-level protection echelon.

The triangle has only two layers, but now the fourth person has been added to this defense system. The fourth person can drag back to assist defense anytime and anywhere according to the situation on the field, and then create a triangular defense zone, which invisibly forms three layers of protection.

One thing that must be said is that the more layers, the better, it depends on what kind of tactics you like to use.

Simply put, teams that like to create offsides do not like multi-level defense, because multi-level defense is not suitable for creating offsides. It is easy for the front player to run out of the offside trap, but the player behind has not come out yet, and the direct offside fails.

If it is facing the attack head-on, multi-level protection becomes very important, because a single layer is too thin and easy to be broken through.

Then the question arises. Multi-layer defense emphasizes depth, so width defense is definitely not as good as single-layer defense. The same four players, if you pull them into a straight line and form a diamond, the depth and width of defense will definitely be different.

So, strictly speaking, there is no difference between single-layer defense and multi-layer defense. It can only be said that different changes are made according to different situations on the field. In this set of theories, single-layer defense is also divided into diagonal positions and parallel positions. The former is to create as much depth of defense as possible under the condition of having a certain tactical width.

To use an easier-to-understand example, when the enemy attacks from the wing, single-layer defense is required, and when the ball comes to the middle, multi-layer defense is required. Of course, this is just a general statement, and the specific situation needs to be adapted to the changes.

This set of defensive concepts also includes discussions and research on a series of defensive details about counter-grabbing after losing the ball, and he even lists some specific training methods to achieve this goal.

The goal of the back line given by this person is an elastic band, which moves consistently, can be tight or loose, and can be retracted or released.

This set of theories really made Ye Qiu feel bright. The Italians' understanding of the defensive system is indeed unique. At least they can study the construction of the defensive system to such a deep level, which is indeed difficult for outsiders to understand.

Thinking of this, Ye Qiu suddenly realized that he seemed to not know the name of this person.

Originally, he thought it should be at least Capello, Sacchi, Lippi, and at the worst Ancelotti, Mancini and the like, but what he didn't expect was that the author of this article was a former legendary superstar, the current AC Milan assistant coach Mauro Tassotti.

This surprised Ye Qiu, and he was also thinking that AC Milan's defense has aged in recent years. Many people think it is the Milan laboratory and the role of Ancelotti, but Mauro Tassotti's article makes Ye Qiu believe that at least in the defense layout of the entire team, Mauro Tassotti must also play a vital role, or even a core role.

"Talent, talent, I must meet him if I have the chance!" Ye Qiu is really interested in him.

Because defense has always been his weakness!