Back from Manchester, Ajax soon welcomed Witters.

At Arena Stadium, with Van der Fate's brace, Ajax finally defeated Vitus 2:0.

Three days later, at Arena Stadium, Ajax defeated Groningen 4-1 and successfully reached the semi-finals of the Netherlands Cup. Feyenoord was the other match, and Udrecht and Eindhoven.

On March 8, Ajax challenged Zwolle away, and this game completely became the stage for the Ajax Trident performance.

Van der Fate scored just 5 minutes into the opening game. The talented star hailed as the New Cruyff has performed very shockingly this season, and has scored consecutive goals recently.

Ibrahimovic was not willing to be outdone. In the 20th minute, he quickly drifted past two opponents in a narrow range in the opponent's penalty area and scored a single goal, 2:0.

In the 32nd minute, Robben suddenly entered the penalty area on the left. After getting Arteta's pass, he shot hard with his left foot to help Ajax further expand the score, 3:0.

Trident's outstanding performance made Ajax seem unstoppable, but in the second half, Trident's limelight was not weakened at all. Van der Fate and Ibrahimovic scored consecutive goals in the 58th and 65th minutes respectively, helping Ajax beat Zwolle 5:0 away.

This victory once again shocked the entire European football world.

21-year-old Ibrahimovic, 20-year-old Van der Fate, 19-year-old Robben, Ajax's frontcourt Sanyouji is not only young, with outstanding talents, but also shows his strong personal abilities. When they cooperate together, they form an extraordinary tacit understanding.

In the four major leagues, they are still rookies at the age of 20, and they can only play soybeans in the first team and play experience. However, in the Dutch Eredivisie and Ajax, this group of players have played in the league for three years and have accumulated extremely rich game experience. They have won the League Cup, the Dutch Eredivisie championship, and reached the semi-finals of the Champions League.

Not only the trident forward, Sneider, Arteta and Mascherano in the midfield are also very young, and Macon, Givo, Lucio and Abidal in the backcourt are also not very old. Such a group of young guards composed of around 20 years old have shown strong combat power in the Eredivisie and European arena, which has attracted the attention of the whole world.

"This Ajax reminds me of the young team with genius when Van Gaal won the Champions League."

This is what Cruyff said in his column after Ajax defeated Manchester United, but he also said, "But Ye Qiu is obviously different from Van Gaal. Ye Qiu's pride is hidden in his heart, while Van Gaal's pride is exposed, which makes the former more likely to accept other people's opinions, while the latter seems more stubborn and domineering."

"I have no doubt that Ajax has already found it difficult to satisfy Ye Qiu. He should go to a broader stage to prove his strength. With his style, he should go to La Liga and Barcelona. I am very much looking forward to the combination of Ye Qiu and Barcelona. He will regain Barcelona and regain its revitalization and be invincible in the European arena!"

This was the first time Cruyff expressed his admiration for Ye Qiu without any concealment, and expressed his opinion that he hoped Ye Qiu would take over the Camp Nou, but this could not be done in a short period of time.

Because Barcelona's interim chairman Reina is only a transitional nature. He will not sign or sell players, nor will he fire or hire a head coach. All of this will not be decided until after the season is over, Barcelona will re-elect their head coach.

But there is no doubt that Cruyff's praise of Ye Qiu has led many candidates for Barcelona's president to pay attention to the Ajax coach, who has become famous in recent years, and hopes to tie him to his side.

They all knew very well that getting Ye Qiu's joining was equivalent to getting Cruyff's support.

So for a moment, the media in Spain and even Europe began to hype the news that Ye Qiu would take over Barcelona in the summer. With the relationship between Ajax and Barcelona, ​​and the relationship between Van Plague and Cruyff, everyone thought this was a natural thing. This was how Van Gaal came by back then.

Faced with the media's hype, Ye Qiu had to come forward to clarify.

“I have never received any invitations and had no idea to leave Ajax, I have only one idea now, which is to lead the team to better results, and I will not think about anything about my future until the end of the season.”

As Ye Qiu's agent, Eliza is happy to see such news and hype, but she also knows very clearly that Ye Qiu wants a quiet coaching environment, so this time it is rare that she did not stand up and contribute to the fire, but instead pushed Ye Qiu silently, pushing Ye Qiu's influence to a higher level.

On March 1, Arena Stadium, Ajax welcomed Leverkusen at home.

This unlucky Bundesliga team has lost four consecutive times in the group stage, but their priority now is obviously not the Champions League, but the relegation of the Bundesliga, so they still played very unmotivated in this game, with a lot of substitutes playing.

Ajax has gradually settled in the top spot in the group, and Ye Qiu has also begun to retain some strength, but the goals of Hunterlaer and Kroo Toure helped Ajax defeat Leverkusen 2:0.

Manchester United encountered a tenacious sniper from Moscow Locomotive at Old Trafford Stadium. The two sides finally drew with L:L. Manchester United's unlucky defense line once again exposed problems. Everyone felt that if the problem of the defense line was not solved well, it would be very difficult for Manchester United to continue in the Champions League.

On March 15, Ajax defeated SBV elites 5:00 at home, Sneider, Robben, Arteta, Ibrahimovic and Mai Li scored goals for Ajax respectively.

On March 19, Ajax challenged Moscow Locomotive away, and finally defeated his opponent 2:0. Hunteral scored twice, showing the high efficiency of the Dutch shooter.

At this point, all six rounds of the second round of the Champions League group stage were finished. Ajax finally won 5 wins and 1 draw, qualifying from the top of the group with a head-on record, while Manchester United won the second place in the group, Moscow Locomotive third, and Leverkusen lost 6 consecutive games, with the bottom of the points, and was eliminated in dismal places.

Not only that, Ajax scored 15 goals and conceded 3 goals in 6 games, making it the team with the most goal difference in the second round of the Champions League group stage. Their goals were 3 more than Barcelona, ​​which ranked second, but the latter only conceded 2 goals, and the defense was slightly more stable than Ajax.

What is most surprising is Valencia, who performed in the first round of the group stage. Benitez's team was greatly reduced when they really encountered a strong opponent in the second round of the group stage.

They achieved a record of 2 wins, 3 draws and l losses in 6 rounds. Although they won the first place in the group, they only scored 5 goals and conceded 6 goals. This report card is really a big gap compared to the first round of group stages. Therefore, many people have greatly reduced Valencia's results in the first round of group stages, believing that it was because they encountered the moisture produced by the weak team.

On the contrary, Ajax became the best team in the second round of group stages, surpassing Real Madrid, which also surprised fans and professionals, but the bookmaker still did not have high expectations for this team.

Among all the teams that have reached the Champions League quarterfinals, Ajax ranked fifth in the championship odds, lagging behind Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Juventus and Manchester United, which once again proves that the giants are always the protagonists of this game.

Ajax was extremely happy when he once again entered the Champions League quarter-finals, which can be seen from the club's atmosphere.

The day after the six-round group stage, UEFA will hold a draw ceremony for the quarterfinals of 8 knockout matches in Nyon, but this time Ajax just arranged technical director Leo Benhack to go, while Ye Qiu and Bobby Hams were invited to Van Prague's office.

As soon as he entered the door, the Ajax chairman laughed and gave Ye Qiu a report from the Finance Department.

The team's performance has been rising steadily in recent years, and the authorization of part of the club's business to Eliza's company has also greatly improved Ajax's revenue and its financial situation has improved a lot. If the shareholders were not very interested, Van Prager even considered taking back all shares if the shareholders had not had a lot of opinions.

Of course, it is not a big problem whether to take it back or not now, because shareholders can no longer interfere with the club's operations.

Now Ajax's real decision-making body is a board of five people, and Van Prager is now in charge of power.

"10 million euros?" Ye Qiu was a little resistant to this report. He just casually browsed the bottom summary, a little surprised, because the team had only reached the quarterfinals and increased its revenue by 10 million euros?

"Yes, the revenue this season will increase a lot compared to last season. The Finance Department even gave me an estimate. If you reach the semi-finals, it is expected to reach 15 million and reach the finals, it will be 20 million. This is not the share and bonus given by UEFA."

Ye Qiu had long known that the Champions League was profitable, but when he really saw this data, he knew how profitable the Champions League was.

I remember when he just took over Ajax, the team was worried about the transfer fee of several million yuan, but now they earn more than 10 million yuan in one event. This is not the income from the group stage, but just the increased income. I'll take it, it's terrifying!

No wonder the wealthy families are fighting to the Champions League nowadays, which is so profitable!

"I'm here to come to you this time, mainly to talk to you about how to spend money!" Van Prag said with a smile.

In the past, Ajax had a headache about money, but now he has a headache about how to spend money.

"We are in good financial situation now, but this is only temporary. If you spend money, you should spend it in places with potential for value-addedness, such as further improving the scouting system, further improving our youth training system and DeTok Most training base." Ye Qiu suggested.

These are the places where Ajax can bring continuous benefits to Ajax in the future. Even if Ajax's performance declines in the future, it can still be strongly supplemented by these, laying the foundation for its future resurgence.

On the other hand, if you spend money at will now, and when the fiscal revenue becomes tight in the future, it will be too late to regret it.

"I have considered what you said, but one thing is very important. I think it must be implemented as soon as possible." Van Prager has always been obedient to Ye Qiu. Now what he wants to do most is to keep Ye Qiu.

It is rumored that Ye Qiu is going to Barcelona. Although Van Prager repeatedly indirectly and asked Bobby Hams, Ricklink and Roland who are close to Ye Qiu, they all got clear news, that is, Ye Qiu is now all thinking about Ajax, but he is still worried.

Van Prag knew how Ajax rose. Without Ye Qiu, the team would have lost their soul.

Recalling the fact that Ajax and his group of players rushed to the government forcing the palace three years ago, Van Prager knew very well Ye Qiu's influence in Ajax. As soon as he left, Ajax's hearts dispersed, and it would be a matter of time before these players left the team.

But some things are better to come late than to arrive early, at least he can prepare calmly.

"What's the matter?" Ye Qiu couldn't guess thoroughly.

Van Prager smiled and said, "Give the player a salary increase and renew the contract."

Generally speaking, clubs need to renew contracts with players. If the contract period is reached, then it depends on the situation. If it is a veteran, it would be good not to reduce the salary. If it is a young rookie or a player in his year of playing, the salary will generally increase. If the contract period is not reached and the club is in a hurry to renew the contract, it will definitely increase the salary.

Nowadays, this group of Ajax players is generally not yet reached the contract term. Van Prager is in a hurry to renew his contract, and is obviously under pressure from the outside world. Many wealthy families are watching this treasure house of Ajax. If they don’t renew their contracts one by one, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not be in a passive situation in the future.

Moreover, now that the contract renewal is now, even if it is selling people in the summer, Ajax can use this as a bargaining chip for negotiations and price increases.

"I decided to use all this 10 million euros for players-related investments, basically salary increases and recruitment, and part of them is used to improve the environment of the players' living area in DeTok Most, and we need to create a comfortable player rest environment."

Some clubs do not pay attention to these at all, such as Inter Milan, where the dormitory does not even have air conditioning, while others pay great attention to it. Ajax did not pay much attention to this aspect before, but after Ye Qiu came, the situation improved a lot, but Ye Qiu felt that it was not enough. Now Van Prager obviously wants to continue to improve.

Of course, these don’t cost much, most of them should be in the players’ pockets or used as signings.

With the current influence of Eredivisie, a player can spend three to five million euros, which is a big deal. In addition, Ajax's salary is generally not high, and 10 million can do a lot of things.

"I think some news should be revealed in this regard, but the specific negotiations will be left until after the end of the season. I hope to minimize the emotional fluctuations of players." Ye Qiu suggested.

Negotiations are related to salary. Negotiations are now inevitable that they will affect the players' training and competition.

Ajax's players do not expire in the summer, so the current contract renewal is not very different from the subsequent contract after the season.

"Okay, you can draw a report at that time." Van Prager handed over the matter to Ye Qiu with full responsibility.

If Van Prager's monopoly of power in Ajax is more in the administrative department, then the power of the competitive department will fall into Ye Qiu's hands, and even Ye Qiu has the final say in personnel appointments and removals, let alone the issue of players' salary increases. This shows how powerful he has.

When Ye Qiu nodded and agreed, he also wanted to deepen his salary, which was to raise the players' salary, which also meant that his salary would also increase, because there was a clause in his contract with Ajax, and he would definitely be the person with the highest salary in Ajax.

As Eliza said, you can ignore the amount of salary, but you can’t ignore the impact of salary. When you are paid less than others, it’s hard for you to let others listen to you obediently.

Therefore, in the past few years, Ye Qiu has always been the highest salary among Ajax.

Now that he wants to raise his salary for players, he, as the head coach, will definitely not be able to avoid it and will also increase.

Ye Qiu didn't need to talk about such things, nor did he ask. He knew that Van Prag and the club knew how to do it.

When your importance is so high that you don’t need to fight for any profit, and you will automatically come to you.

That is, when Ye Qiu talked to Van Prager about how to spend money, Leo Benhack, who was far away in Nyon, called and gave the lottery for the quarterfinals knockout round on the phone.

In fact, many media have guessed a rough guess before the game, and some even guessed it right.

Ajax was assigned to the first half of the zone, and his opponent was Juventus from Serie A. This was a tough guy. Although Lippi's team only scored 2 wins, 1 draws and 3 losses in the 6-round group stages, and lost 1 goals and scored 1 goals, this team is very good at playing knockout rounds.

Some teams are good at playing points games, while others are good at playing targeted knockout matches. What Ye Qiu is most reluctant to encounter is this kind of hard role. As soon as he thinks about it, he feels unhappy, because Juventus is almost the strongest in the second place in the group.

If Ye Qiuxuan can be asked to run into Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Arsenal and Inter Milan, he is not willing to run into Juventus. Lippi, the old fox, is too difficult to deal with.

Barcelona and Arsenal are also divided into the first half of the zone, while Real Madrid and Manchester United, Inter Milan and Valencia are in the second half. What is interesting is that the three teams in La Liga, the Premier League and Serie A are both two teams, but there is no derby in the same country. This has to be said to be a very interesting coincidence.

This result has been leaked by many media, but I didn't expect it to happen.
Chapter completed!