Chapter 762 Legitimacy

In April, it was time for the monthly meeting again.

But this time the meeting was a little different, because Ye Qiu called all the major executives of Tottenham Hotspur's administrative department to Theobald, and asked the senior management of the competitive department and the administrative department to sit together for the meeting, which made this meeting more unusual, and everyone smelled something special.

According to the practice of the monthly meeting, it was still necessary to summarize first, and at Ye Qiu's instruction, Chief Operating Officer Ron Gourlay first reported on the team's operating and financial situation last month. Among them, Ye Qiu focused on asking him to give a detailed introduction to the progress of the Stratford Stadium project.

The renovation project of this stadium has been going on for six months. At present, the main project has been basically completed. The next step is the arrangement and layout of the decoration and facilities. The construction period is even earlier than originally expected. It must be said that the construction team from China has made a big splash this time.

The construction period is shorter than others, the cost is cheaper than others, and the quality is better than others. It is simply impeccable.

Of course, the smooth construction was also due to another reason, that is, Tottenham Hotspur has sufficient funds.

"I was just joking with Peter. If we can make it to the Champions League final, maybe we can arrange some member fans to go to Stratford Stadium and use our huge LED TV screen to broadcast the Champions League final live, so that they can feel the shock and atmosphere!"

Ron Gourlay's proposal was supported by many people present. This proposal is good, a good warm-up suggestion, which is much more interesting than inviting strong teams to play warm-up matches before the next season.

"Wait until we make it to the final, and wait until the new stadium is completed!" Ye Qiu also stopped the topic with a smile.

He is not very interested in this topic based on two or even more hypothetical conditions.

Following Ron Gourlay, Mauro Tassotti, as the senior executive of the sports department, also summarized the team's performance in the past month, mainly focusing on the Premier League and the Champions League. The current situation in the Premier League is still unclear. Although Tottenham Hotspur has a five-point advantage, they still cannot relax.

As for the Champions League, after reaching the quarterfinals, they met Real Madrid, which is also a very difficult team.

Another point that Mauro Tassotti specifically mentioned is that the team should be careful of a kind of carelessness, underestimation of the enemy and laxity, especially when the team performs well in the Premier League, this kind of emotion needs to be more vigilant.

Then Ricklink, as the director of the youth training department, said a few words and briefly introduced the situation of youth training.

This season, Tottenham Hotspur's youth team participated in the European Youth Champions League and performed well. It has also reached the quarter-finals. The style of this team has also continued Tottenham Hotspur's inheritance of the overall creative offensive football concept. Many young players have emerged in the team, such as Januzaj, who is actually familiar to fans. He has played in the cup many times.

But it is worth mentioning that the style of this Tottenham Hotspur youth team is very open, but it is not very consistent with the current first team. They are more inclined to delicate footwork and creativity, which makes their games very good. Every game attracts countless fans to Theobald to watch.

Some people even say that Tottenham Hotspur's youth team is more popular than the first team.

This is also an interesting phenomenon in the European Youth Champions League. It pays more attention to technology and free play, and is more inclined to open offensive battles, so there are many games with big scores, and this event has also received more attention from fans and the media.

Mauro Tassotti is the current head coach of this youth team, and his coaching has also been recognized by many fans.

After all the senior executives finished speaking, Ye Qiu said that he had something to say, so the conference hall of the Theobald first-team training building became silent, and more than 20 Tottenham Hotspur senior executives fell silent.

"As I mentioned to everyone before, if nothing unexpected happens, the next season will be my last season as coach, so there are many things and a lot of work that we need to prepare in advance!"

Ye Qiu's opening remarks did not bring more sentimentality and farewell. Although he is no longer the head coach of the team, he is still the chairman and owner of the team. He is still the only owner of Tottenham Hotspur. He still works and works with everyone present, but he is no longer in the front line.

For this decision, everyone present basically already knows and accepts it.

"First of all, it's the issue of successors!" Ye Qiu sat on the chair. He didn't need to draft. With many of his colleagues present who had worked with him for six or seven years, he didn't need to be polite enough to draft. It didn't matter if he said something wrong, just wipe it and say it again.

"Mauro will undoubtedly become the next head coach of Tottenham Hotspur. This has been recognized and supported by the competitive department, the administrative department and most people. Although it is not time to officially announce it, we must have such a consensus internally."

Ye Qiu's words were nodded in agreement by everyone present. Tottenham Hotspur is a professionally managed football club and will not do things that are casual and impromptu. The selection of Mauro Tassotti also came from many sources. Considerations have been made from various aspects, such as from the professional field of football, feedback from fans, and even from a business perspective.

As a great professional player, Mauro Tassotti has served as an assistant coach at AC Milan for a long time. He became famous after coming to Tottenham Hotspur. Everyone knows Tottenham Hotspur’s current tactics. In the system, he takes the most credit. After Ye Qiu retires, it would be ideal for him to take over.

"Here, I must emphasize that fans are often easily deceived and deceived, but our management must remain calm and rational and look at possible problems objectively."

After a pause, Ye Qiu smiled, "It's like Barcelona, ​​​​switched from Guardiola to Vilanova. From a professional point of view, are there any problems? There are no problems. Vilanova may not be better than Barcelona." Guardiola is bad, but why has Barcelona's competitiveness declined? Why do Barcelona's players feel completely different from those under Guardiola?

"And!" This issue is a key issue that Ye Qiu wants to mention. It is also an important issue that will arise after all top teams take over the head coach. "If we look at Manchester United again, I dare say that once Ferguson retires, , there will be huge turbulence in Manchester United. The more profound the impact Ferguson has on Manchester United, the greater the turmoil will be!”

"Liverpool swept across England and Europe in the 1980s. After two huge tragedies, it did not affect the team's dominance in England. But why did the Red Army lose after Souness, the former Liverpool great star, came to coach? The empire collapsed overnight?"

Listening to Ye Qiu's words, many people present were thinking about this issue. Ye Qiu had also discussed this issue with Ferguson and many famous players and veterans in European football. Ye Qiu even discussed it with Dalglish. To answer this question, why is there such a big difference between Liverpool's previous successions and Souness's one?

There is no doubt that the two tragedies broke up the cohesion within the Liverpool team, but the lineup left by Dalglish, including John Barnes, Ian Rush and others, are all at the right time. years, and these players were all well-known top stars in Europe at the time. With them here, and Liverpool's status at the time, there should not be such turmoil.

Some people say that Souness is too radical. He is eager to change everything in Liverpool. He is ambitious and wants to leave his mark on Liverpool, just like when he was a player, and his ideas and changes The direction was right, but it was too anxious and too reckless, and ultimately it paid the heaviest price.

If you look at the entire history of European football, Souness is definitely one of the most prodigal and cheating managers.

"Legality, this is the problem that Vilanova of Barcelona, ​​the successor of Ferguson of Manchester United, and Souness encountered at the beginning. They lacked the legitimacy to take over the coaching position!" Ye Qiu said what he wanted to say the key of.

A country's ruling party needs legitimacy, and a team's head coach also needs legitimacy.

Just like when Mourinho entered Stamford Bridge for the first time, he was met with overwhelming doubts. Fans and media used colored glasses to criticize his every move, magnifying his mistakes countless times. He made accusations, but this time he entered the palace for the second time, the controversy he encountered was much smaller, and the reason was legality.

Ye Qiu had just resigned. The management couldn't wait to announce that Mourinho had come to power. All the fans refused because Ye Qiu had done so well, which caused the fans to support Ye Qiu too much. They began to question the management for forcing Ye Qiu to leave and choose Mourinho. Rinho's decision, so at this time Mourinho lacks the recognition of fans and lacks legitimacy.

Without this kind of legitimacy, no matter what you do, you will not be loved by the fans. If you win, they think you should be the result of your predecessor. If you lose, they will start to criticize you and think you are too good. It's incompetent and the head coach should be held responsible.

But things are different when he enters the palace for the second time. The previous head coaches did not do very well, but Mourinho did quite well at Inter Milan. Therefore, for many fans, Mourinho got one. legitimacy to take over Chelsea.

The same situation happened to Liverpool back then.

As John Barnes said, when Souness first came to power, the fans did not like him and did not accept him because Dalglish did so well, and as a head coach, Souness He must bear the ups and downs of the team, and because he lacks legitimacy, once he loses, fans will only direct their fire at Souness, not the players.

So what are the consequences of doing this?

That is, there are many players who will not be criticized by fans, media and management because of their poor performance, so they will start to relax and slack off. Anyway, no one will scold me if their performance is bad. What are you afraid of?

This is a kind of human nature, and it is a decision that a person will make subconsciously!

"What I want to say is that in this case, the level of a head coach's coaching level has become unimportant. What is important is that no matter what he does, he must be a loser!"

This is why Guardiola ultimately rejected Ferguson. The answer is simple. Even if he went to Manchester United, he would still fail in the end because his predecessor was too brilliant and he lacked the legitimacy to take over. .

"The same thing, the same leadership change, there are many, many cases around the world, there are successes and failures, but what I want to say today is that we must succeed, because once we fail, we will lose everything we have worked hard for in the past few years. Everything we have worked so hard to build will be in vain, and we have to start all over again!”

Ye Qiu's words are a warning to everyone present. It should be said that it is not a good job for anyone to pick up Ye Qiu's shift. On the contrary, it must be a hard job. If Tottenham Hotspur's The management did not realize this and blindly placed too high and blind expectations on Ye Qiu's successor, which would only lead to failure in the end.

Mauro Tassotti is sitting next to Ye Qiu. He is now the top person in the competitive department, second only to Ye Qiu. And he did not expect that Ye Qiu would give him such in-depth consideration. Maybe this Not just for him, but also for Tottenham Hotspur, but these in themselves are enough to move Mauro Tassotti.

He must admit that football clubs are far from reaching the level of professionalism of those big companies in many management transitions. In many cases, they are even very impatient and lack the willingness to think deeply and analyze problems. For many For football club managers, the head coach is like a socket.

Give it a try, use it if it can insert the ball, and change it if it can't. It's very simple and convenient.

But it's obvious that Ye Qiu doesn't think about the problem from this perspective. He will analyze and look at the problem more comprehensively, more professionally, and more deeply, and even try to solve the problem.

Ferguson has recently begun to proudly say that he has left a team with rich championship experience for his successor. He believes that after the successor comes up, he can only strengthen the parts of the team in the shortest time to be able to compete in the league. The champion attacks, thus minimizing the pain caused by the transfer of power.

But the problems Ferguson saw were only on the surface. He only saw the team's lineup, but not the people's hearts.

He stands on the edge of Old Trafford. Whatever he does, even if it is wrong, the fans will not blame him, but blame the players who performed poorly. But if it were another player The head coach, they need to prove themselves in front of Manchester United fans again, and everything they do, even if it is right, but the players mess up, the fans will blame the head coach for having problems, otherwise why did Ferguson do what he did in the first place.

This kind of pain can be short or long, but no matter what, the impact on the team is fatal.

So now Ye Qiu not only wants to create the most relaxed environment for Mauro Tassotti's succession in terms of the team's lineup structure, but also wants to give Mauro Tassotti the best in other aspects, including people's hearts. environment of.

"Robert!" Ye Qiu looked at the news director Robert Milson, one of Tottenham Hotspur's three giants. After hearing Ye Qiu's shout, he nodded, "Starting from next season. , all head coach’s activities, including pre-match and post-match press conferences, are all in charge of Mauro!”

"Roger!" Robert Milson raised his right hand to indicate that he understood, and then smiled at Mauro Tassotti, indicating that he didn't have to worry, it was no big deal.

"In addition, we should also pay attention to guiding fans in news publicity and promotion. You should understand my meaning and requirements!"

Ye Qiu didn't want to hear any doubts and doubts when Mauro Tassotti took over a year later, but he couldn't exaggerate too much. Instead, he should look at some issues realistically and objectively and guide the fans. Go support Mauro Tassotti.

"Understood!" Robert Milson smiled and nodded.

Tottenham Hotspur now has very strong news and public relations capabilities, because they have established very good cooperative relationships with many British and European newspapers, so as long as Tottenham Hotspur gives Mauro Tassotti Support, in terms of media, there won't be any big problems.

Of course, if the team's performance is too bad, that's another matter.

But judging from the current Tottenham Hotspur lineup, the team's performance is too bad. Basically, aside from the player's strength, it must be a problem with the player's mental state, so this aspect needs to be prepared for a rainy day.

For example, Ye Qiu has handed over weekly communication with players to Mauro Tassotti in the past period. This is a gradual handover method, and because of this, the outside world has become more and more aware of it. There was a strong signal for Mauro Tassotti to take over.

"I'm sorry, Peter!" Ye Qiu looked at Peter Devisel, the director of the scouting department. "After careful consideration, I decided to give up Fernandinho. He is too old and not suitable." us!"

De Visser nodded. He knew exactly what Ye Qiu and Mauro Tassotti wanted.

"I would like to reiterate one point again. What we at Tottenham Hotspur emphasize and emphasize is pioneering and forging ahead, not standing still and copying others, because we must be very clear about the special nature of football. It is impossible for there to be two Exactly the same players, so we can't stay the same."

"From the past to now, we have been changing almost every year. Sometimes we make changes that hurt our bones, and sometimes we improve and repair details, because we know very well that as long as we stop, the opponent will be able to restrain us immediately."

"Back then, we played pressure and pressing in the front court, and played high defense. How long has it been? All the strong teams in Europe are playing this set. It's all over the street. Is it still fresh?"

So, for Ye Qiu, Mauro Tassotti and Tottenham Hotspur's technical staff, the next focus is not to find a second Pirlo to take over, because there can't be a second Pirlo exactly the same in the world.

Including Nick Powell, who was loaned to Southampton by Tottenham Hotspur, he has begun to deteriorate.

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