"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 got off duty and got the honor of drinking coffee with you."

At Manchester Old Trafford Stadium, just after watching a warm-up match for the England national team, Manchester United coach Ferguson called Ye Qiu, but the two met in a coffee house near Old Trafford Stadium.

Ye Qiu believes that with Ferguson's character, it is not enough to put down the wrong person. After all, as opponents, respecting each other is the minimum. Moreover, Ye Qiu always feels that Ferguson is an admirable opponent no matter what.

"I was worried that you would be depressed and was thinking about whether to give you a phone call to comfort you or give you a job." When I said this, Ferguson obviously remembered the verbal fight 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 unprecedented relaxation now. At least in the future, I don't have to wake up every morning, and I have to always worry about the next game and the next opponent. I don't have to force myself to get up at what time every day, and what I have to do. My life is very comfortable and casual."

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

Ferguson laughed and said, "The air tickets flying from London are enough for you to have a good meal in London."

"That's different. You Sir Ferguson treat you. There are not many people in the world who are treated like this." Ye Qiu was justified.

Ferguson smiled and put aside his opponent's identity, the more he looked at Ye Qiu, the more he felt like he was, "Do you have any plans next?"

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

After hearing this, Ferguson laughed again, "You guy seems to be more popular after losing your position as head coach."

"That's natural." Ye Qiu didn't blush, and his coquettish words made Ferguson laugh again.

I don’t know why, maybe it’s because I’m not in the head coach position, so I feel relaxed and let go.

Ferguson looked at Ye Qiu with interest. He remembered from Ye Qiu's current situation when he decided to retire. At that time, he felt like Ye Qiu at the beginning. It seemed that the mountains that had been pressing on him for a long time had finally moved away. He felt relaxed and in a very good mood.

But over time and over time, I miss the time I coached, the kind of passion that tens of thousands of fans shouted your name at Old Trafford Stadium, the kind of nervousness and excitement of chasing each other in the standings with my opponents, and the kind of nervousness and anxiety of walking on thin ice in the Champions League knockout match with my strong opponents, step by step.

As a result, he returned soon after retirement, but still couldn't let it go

He believed Ye Qiu would be like this, because he could see that Ye Qiu was like him, who was the kind of person who decided to manage football as a lifelong career. Such people are inseparable from football.

"Have you heard of it?" Ferguson asked, picking up the coffee cup, taking a sip.

Ye Qiu nodded, "It's very fast, I've planned it long ago." After saying that, he smiled coldly.

The two said that today Chelsea officially announced that it would hire Porto coach Jose Mourinho as Chelsea's head coach in the new season, and also announced that Shevchenko's transfer to Chelsea. This time-consuming and labor-intensive transfer soap opera has finally come to an end.

After the club announced the hiring of Mourinho to take charge, more than 10,000 Chelsea fans in London rushed to Stamford Bridge to protest because the Porto coach had just dragged down Chelsea with lethal tactics in the semi-finals. Without his Porto, Chelsea would definitely be a big favorite in the Champions League and might have won the four-time champion.

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

Of course, Ye Qiu would rather believe that this was a premeditated employment. Since he forced the palace, maybe even before the palace was forced, the management had already paid attention to Mourinho. Isn’t there any news that Abramovich and Juan Firge have a close relationship?

"I received the news that Ronaldinho has applied for a transfer," Ferguson said with his eyes lit up.

Ye Qiu was stunned. He didn't know the news. Then he thought, even if Ronaldinho applied for a transfer, it would have nothing to do with Manchester United, right? With Manchester United's financial resources, he can't afford Ronaldinho's transfer fee, right?

"The most likely places to go are Real Madrid and Barcelona," Ferguson said.

Ye Qiu couldn't explain clearly. He didn't know why Ronaldinho had to transfer, nor did he hear Eliza Moon say that he has been on vacation recently and is not disturbed by the outside world. This time he ran to Manchester to watch a warm-up match, that's all.

However, Mourinho's arrival will definitely trigger a round of changes for Chelsea. He has made it clear that he will metabolize Chelsea, including veterans like Van der Sar, Cannavaro and Davis, are not accepted by him. He also threatened to clear out all the players who are not worthy of staying at Chelsea.

This is not surprising, because Mourinho cannot take over Ye Qiu's team directly, and he cannot survive in Ye Qiu's shadow. If he wants to break Ye Qiu's shadow, the most direct and effective way is to reorganize Chelsea, even if this approach seems a bit rough.

"I don't think you have any kindness, I think you're not satisfied with anything." Ye Qiu smiled at Ferguson. He had left Chelsea. Everything about Chelsea had nothing to do with him. At best, he would only care about his former beloved players.

Ferguson laughed, "You know what I need"

Manchester United now has many problems, and there are very obvious problems in the three lines, and even the goalkeeper's position has flaws and shortcomings. Ferguson obviously wants to get enough cheap from Chelsea. At least Van der Sar is the 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 so?

Van der Sar is a scavenger-like goalkeeper. Even though his physical function has declined now, his control range is still very large and his passing and receiving ability is excellent. If you want to exert 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 is not that Van der Sar is not good at the goal line. On the contrary, Van der Sar's goal line skills are also excellent, but he has not responded enough. After all, he is old and his reaction is definitely not as good as a young man. If he really wants him to be in the goal line area, he might be the next Lehman.

Manchester United's frontcourt, midfield and backcourt need to be adjusted, among which the frontcourt is the forward, and Van Nie is no longer favored by Ferguson. The midcourt requires a strong cover midfielder, and the left back and central defender in the backcourt has weaknesses and shortcomings. But these Chelsea have players in the team and Ferguson appreciates.

For example, the striker, Rooney almost transferred to Manchester United at the beginning, and midfielder Essim has always been the favorite of Ferguson to introduce and replace Keane, while Ferguson on the back line always wanted to get Heinze. It is conceivable that this guy will definitely not be ruthless when he poached.

News from the outside world that Abramovich offered Mourinho a transfer budget of 500 million euros, not including Shevchenko. It is obvious that the Russians also want to downplay Ye Qiu's influence in the team in the shortest time, and the ideal way is undoubtedly to sell some Ye Qiu's players and introduce some brand new stars.

Chelsea's move will undoubtedly bring new opportunities to Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool.

To put it another way, except Mourinho, Ye Qiu really can't think of anyone among the famous European coaches who is willing to take over Chelsea, because this is definitely a thankless thing. Not to mention whether the results can break through Ye Qiu. Even if it breaks through, everyone will still give the credit to Ye Qiu. The famous coaches cherish their 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 specializing in choosing cheap young players and is interested in Fabregas, Messi, Van Persie and Ribery. He is going to reform Arsenal in a youthful way."

When he said this, Ferguson smiled and sighed, "You kid is indeed powerful enough. When he came to the Premier League, he caused huge fluctuations. Now he left, he still caused a big earthquake."

After hearing this, Ye Qiu smiled, "Don't worry, I will be back soon."

Ye Qiu has already started to prepare for some things. Eliza is currently taking Ye Qiu's money and investing in the Russian stock market, preparing to make a fortune by taking advantage of the surge in Russia's stock market in the second half of the year. At the same time, she is also looking for an ideal team for Ye Qiu in the English football world. As long as the money is in place, Ye Qiu will immediately enter the negotiations.

And Ye Qiu would definitely not say anything to Ferguson about this.

As the month of U enters, Ye Qiu is reluctant to leave Huang Chu for a moment.

Not only him, Ye Changming and Huang Jinsong and his wife also live in London, guarding their daughter-in-law and daughter, waiting for the birth of their granddaughter. This is a big deal for both of them.

It happened to be the suspension period, and Ye Qiu had nothing to do. When he was free, he just took a look at some tactics and the head coach-related information and papers in the study room, and also looked at some of the essence and tactical concepts of other head coaches.

In fact, Ye Qiu discovered a problem when playing against Benitez, which is that he has weaknesses in defensive training.

Or it should be said that Ye Qiu has unique features in the training of offense and ball control. Because he tends to attack in his personality, he tends to study other people's offense more when studying other people's things, and ignores some defenses.

When was Ye Qiu last studied defense?

When he was coaching Ajax just now, Ye Qiu combined the understanding of defense by Rehager, Sakki, Michels and others and came up with an overall defensive system. However, this system is just a big framework, and the specific details and arrangements are not what Ye Qiu is good at. Even Ye Qiu's coaching staff are not good at this.

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

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

Using his spare time, Ye Qiu went to study defense carefully. To study defense, he naturally had to study Italy's defensive system. Among them, the most recommended defensive system construction paper in the store is called [On the movement and cooperation of players in the construction of the four-defender defense system].

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

In this set of papers, Ye Qiu noticed that it emphasizes movement very much, but it is not blind movement, but targeted prediction of the offensive side's movement. It also 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 preventing counterattacks, it focuses on protecting the weak side and how to prevent opponents from attacking their weak side. This is the focus of preventing counterattacks, and it is also the weakness and shortcomings of almost all offensive teams.

Finally, Ye Qiu appreciates the most, and Ye Qiu has always emphasized and insisted on it, predicting the opponent's passing route and blocking and intercepting it. This is undoubtedly the most in line with Ye Qiu.

In addition, he also listed his evaluation criteria in the selection of defensive players. For example, the central defender should have enough confidence to command the entire defense line and give orders instead of the head coach, have good skills and accurate long passes, good speed, effective man-tapping, and excellent heading.

The most important thing is to have the tactical understanding of reading games and have a good grasp of the team's timing of team defense and personal defense.

The ideal central defender combination is an excellent target and a rushing game.

The choice of full-back is to have excellent defensive and offensive abilities, to provide width for the team's offense anytime and anywhere, and to be able to use the space left by teammates. The last sentence actually means to insert offensive abilities.

Fast, excellent long and short passes, high-speed dribbling and excellent crossing ability are all qualities that full-backs should have.

Seeing his request for players, Ye Qiu had to smile bitterly, where did such a perfect player come from in this world?

But I still have to say that this person's taste is really similar to Ye Qiu, very similar, both of which are heavy tastes

If all of the above are just big frames, then the details of the defensive training followed closely, as well as his explanation of the movement of the defense line and the assisted defense position, Ye Qiu's eyes lit up.

He advocates the use of slashes and pyramids. Needless to mention the slashes, it is easy to understand. The pyramid type is actually a triangle, but the triangle is composed of three players, and he is composed of four players. The other player's position is the same as the player at the back. It is considered the base of the pyramid and will be dragged back at any time.

In other words, when the opponent takes the ball and breaks through the defensive point of the triangle vertex, the fourth player immediately drags it back and forms a triangle defensive area.

Here we must talk about the protection theory of defense.

Everyone knows that breaking through the surface with points is the best offensive method to break the defense, such as using the player's personal abilities to break through a point of the opponent, and then disintegrate the opponent's entire defensive system.

But when the attacker finds this, the defender immediately evolves, that is protection.

How to protect?

The depth of manufacturing means adopting a multi-level protection echelon.

There are only two layers of triangles, but now a fourth person has been added to this defensive system. The fourth person will assist in defense anytime, anywhere according to the situation on the field, creating a triangle defense zone, which invisibly forms three layers of protection.

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

To put it simply, teams that like to create offside do not like multi-level defense, because multi-level defense is not suitable for offside, and it is easy for the front players to run out of offside traps, but the players who dragged behind have not yet come out and directly failed to create offside.

But if you are facing an attack head-on, multi-level protection is very important, because the single layer is too thin and easy to be broken through.

Then the problem comes. Multi-level emphasis is on depth, so width defense is definitely not as good as single-level. For four players, if you pull it into a straight line and form a diamond, the defensive depth and defense width are definitely different.

Therefore, strictly speaking, there is no advantage or disadvantage of whether it is a single-layer defense or a multi-layer defense. It can only be said that different changes are made according to different situations on the field. Moreover, in this set of theories, single-layer defense is also divided into diagonal stance and parallel stances. The former is to create the defense depth as much as possible when having a certain tactical width.

To use a relatively easy-to-understand example, when the enemy attacks from the side, one layer of defense is required, and when the ball comes to the middle, it needs to be multi-level defense. Of course, this is just a generalized statement, and it also needs to adapt to changes in the situation.

This set of defensive concepts also include a series of defensive details about counter-attack after conceding the ball, and he even listed some specific training methods to achieve this goal.

The goal of the defense line this person finally gave is an elastic band, which can move consistently, be tight and loose, and be retracted and released.

This set of theories really made Ye Qiu feel the eyes 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 didn't seem to know what this person was named

Originally, he thought it would be Capello, Sachie, Lippi, and the worst was Ancelotti, Mancini, etc., but what he didn't expect was that the author of this article was a legendary superstar of the past, now AC Milan assistant coach Mauro Tassoti.

This surprised Ye Qiu, and he also thought that AC Milan has become old in defense in recent years. Many people think it is the Milan laboratory and Ancelotti's role, but this article by Mauro Tasotti made Ye Qiu believe that at least in the defensive layout of the entire team, Mauro Tasotti must also play a crucial role, or even a core role.

"Talents, talents, you must meet when you have the opportunity." Ye Qiu was really interested in him.

Because defense has always been his weakness
Chapter completed!