Ye Qiu once saw such an article in his coaching development system, which clearly explained the core elements of a football club's desire to succeed. It is not an outstanding head coach, nor a great chairman, nor a group of very outstanding superstars, but long-term stability.

This stability includes all aspects of the team, including the chairman, management, the head coach and coaching staff, as well as players, and even some important employees and staff of the club.

Throughout the history of football, the peak period of almost all great football clubs was born in a period of stability.

The peak period of Real Madrid was the period of Chairman Bernabeu. Even the Five Eagles in the 1980s can be regarded as the legacy of Mendoza; AC Milan's peak period came from Sachi and Capello after Sachi, and they can be regarded as a lineage.

The same case also happens to many teams, such as Liverpool. Although the head coach changed many times during Liverpool's peak, Liverpool had a very famous culture at that time called boot room culture. In other words, the head coaches all came from the former assistant team, which can ensure the long-term stability of the team.

If you carefully study the history of all great successful teams, it is not difficult to find that in fact, this head coach inheritance from boot room culture is not an isolated phenomenon, but a very common phenomenon, because all teams with a stable tactical system will first consider adopting this method to ensure the unity and inheritance of team tactics.

Of course, this kind of inheritance does not mean that there is no change at all, but that good advantages can be inherited, and then ways to improve the disadvantages and adopt a gradual reform. This is not only applicable to a country, but also to a team, especially a professional team, which basically has huge performance pressure.

This is true for the head coach and so is the player.

If all teams at their peak want to ensure stability, in addition to the head coach, the stability of the player lineup is also a major key, and this also involves the team's transfer.

Stability does not mean that you don’t transfer. If you don’t transfer, it’s a stagnant pool of water, without novelty or vitality.

The so-called stability also refers to adopting a gradual transfer method to preserve advantages and improve disadvantages.

All fans know that every head coach will have his own different tactical ideas and ideas. If it is not for this kind of inheritance similar to boot room culture, the first thing a new head coach does when he comes on stage must be to reorganize the team and introduce some players who have their own preferences and conform to his tactical philosophy, which will inevitably cause turmoil.

Therefore, almost all great teams at their peak often represent the team's success in youth training output.

This is definitely not an accident, but an inevitable. The reason is very simple. The team has stabilized in all aspects. The head coach is familiar with the team's tactical system and does not easily reorganize the team's lineup. The team has a rise of outstanding young players, driving internal competition of the team and stimulating the pressure of players in the team. Such a team is the easiest team to succeed.

Perhaps some people will find it strange again, how to ensure the output of youth training?

This involves many issues, but the output of youth training here does not mean that you have to grow up and become a talented club since childhood. Such a so-called youth training concept is too narrow, because you must understand that the greatest use of the youth training system is to cultivate available talents for the first team, so there is no need to worry about whether this person comes to the team at the age of eight or eighteen. As long as you have talents for the first team, it is considered a successful youth training丨丨丨丨

Someone once made such a statistics, which is also a signing strategy that teams such as Lyon, Ajax, and Porto have always pursued, that is, the first-team signing is generally around 20 years old. According to the characteristics of young players' precocious maturity, it can be appropriately relaxed to around 18 years old.

Why do these teams known for their black shops follow such a strategy?

There are many reasons. Young players around the age of 20 generally have their skills and tactics and are in the rapid development stage of their careers. Therefore, the success rate of introducing them is very high, but because they are still growing rapidly, the price is generally not too high. It can be said that they are of good quality and low price. After being introduced to the team, they can make a name for themselves and make a move at any time to earn the difference.

So, what if you are younger?

This involves a problem of risk and fiscal control.

The younger players, such as around 18 years old, are generally very famous for their young players who play stable strength. For example, Rooney has a high transfer fee because they are called genius teenagers. It is not cost-effective to introduce them at this time. If the strength is not stable, the chance of becoming a talent will be more risky.

There is another problem. When a wealthy team considers high-priced recruitment, they will first consider mature players. It will take at least three years to join the team at the age of 18, and some even need to be twenty-four or five years old.

All traders know what kind of trade is the most profitable?

Fast in and out without financial pressure. That is to say, for trade teams, they not only need to consider buying players, but also how long the players will hold them in their hands. Of course, they are good to play for a period of time after introduction, sell quickly after price increases, and earn the difference without financial pressure. This is the ideal result. The longer they stay in the hands, the more unfavorable it will be for the team's capital operation. Therefore, fast in and out is a strategy pursued by all black store teams.

Therefore, there is such a thing: around 20 years old, the golden age for first-team recruitment.

But this article obviously does not apply to Tottenham Hotspur, because Tottenham Hotspur is a team with a mature tactical framework and they have certain requirements for the players' skills. Therefore, whether to introduce players at the age of 20 is a question, and there is a question of the length of adaptation period.

In Ye Qiu's view, for a youth training-type team like Tottenham, the most suitable age for the youth team to introduce players should be around 14 years old, because the technical plasticity of the fourteen-year-old players is still there. After joining the team, they will play for two or three years, adapt to the team's overall tactical system, and after making their mark, they will then enter the first team to play substitutes and cup games. Those with strength will climb up, enter rotation, or even the first team.

This was not created by Ye Qiu himself. In fact, teams including Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid, Manchester United and Arsenal, and even Ajax's youth training camps all pursue this policy of introducing semi-finished youth training products, but this requires a prerequisite, that is, the team itself has a certain youth training and crafts the strength of players.

Players including Pogba, Ramsey, Varane, Nastasic, Hazard and other players basically came to the team around the age of fourteen or five. Tottenham Hotspur arranged personnel to focus on cultivating these players from the beginning. For example, Ye Qiu asked Monitz and Murenstin to focus on taking care of this group of young players, and sometimes even arranged one-on-one guidance for professional coaches.

Not only that, Ye Qiu also dared to delegate power. Pogba was only seventeen years old until March, but he had played in the reserve team for half a season and played many games in the League Cup, and had direct face-to-face competitions with low-level teams and Premier League teams.

There are also Varane and Nastasic, who are also under seventeen years old, but they still play in the League Cup and perform well.

To explain Ye Qiu's idea is to use games to train players. Tottenham Hotspur actually does not pay attention to games like the League Cup and the FA Cup. The North London team's pursuit is to go to the Premier League and the Champions League, so Ye Qiu uses cup games to train young players.

With the progress of football professionalization, high-tech and systematic youth training丨 makes the younger players a trend. For example, this season, the English media is hyping up the young player Nobel Lazaros of the English Champions League. This player has appeared in the Championship field only in the 15-year-old and forty-five days this season, but he appeared in the Cup last season and played two games. He has attracted the attention of Manchester United. Ferguson also invited him to Carrington for a trial

So although Pogba, Nastasic and Varane are only sixteen years old, they do not perform badly in the framework and system of Tottenham Hotspur’s entire team, because in the team, they are not fighting alone. As long as they integrate themselves into the entire team’s system, their individual disadvantages will be properly covered up and may even perform well.

It was like this time when the counterattack against Manchester City, Cavani rushed to the front and attracted artillery fire. Hazard, Ramsey, Pogba and others followed closely. Cavani quickly caught up with the ball and wanted to use inertia to break through, but failed. After being intercepted by Sabaleta, the latter failed to clear the ball.

Hazard caught up and passed it to Ramsey, who failed to make an effective attack and distributed it to Pogba.

This stubborn African-American French player caught the opportunity as soon as he came up and swung his foot and shot another heavy artillery.

Ji Wen didn't expect Pogba would suddenly make another kick. By the time he realized, the latter's long shot had crossed the goal line and drilled straight into the goal. 0

Pogba, who had dark skin and hair like a pile of weeds, rushed to the side of the field after seeing the goal, excitedly opened his big mouth along the way, revealing his white teeth. After rushing to the sidelines, he even stuck out his tongue at the camera with excitement, but his teammates rushed up from behind and hugged him directly.

Under seventeen years old, Pogba completely broke Tottenham Hotspur's record of the youngest goalkeeper, although only in the Cup

All Tottenham Hotspur fans were very excited. They obviously felt the club's efforts to promote young players, and this group of young players was indeed very powerful. Although they had various shortcomings and deficiencies, their progress was very obvious, especially in the cup matches, and they performed very well.

This reminds people of the genius day selection event last Christmas. Tottenham Hotspur signed 15 young players in one breath, which aroused a huge response in the English football world. Many people even publicly criticized Tottenham Hotspur's behavior, believing that both the FA and the Premier League should impose appropriate restrictions.

Young people are the future of the team. Young people perform well, and the future of the team will be bright.

The current group of young players at Tottenham Hotspurs does make people see hope. Whether it is Pogba, Varane, Nastasic and other young players who are still in the reserve team, or Phil Jones, Ramsey, Kyle Walker, Hazard and other young players who have performed in the first team, they all feel their bright future.

Tottenham Hotspur's goal completely pushed Manchester City to a cliff, forcing Mancini's team to fight back.

Because according to the League Cup system, in the two rounds of the semi-finals, if the total score between the two sides is tied, the team with more goals will advance directly. If the goals of both sides are the same, the overtime match will be played. If the overtime match is the same, the side with the most away goals will win directly.

The first leg was I, but now Tottenham Hotspur scored in the second leg. The total score of both sides is according to the rules. If the score has not changed after entering overtime, Tottenham Hotspur scored a away goal and automatically advanced.

Therefore, after Tottenham Hotspur scored, Manchester City almost desperately launched a fierce attack on Tottenham Hotspur, and Tottenham Hotspur was suppressed by Manchester City's crazy attack and had to retreat and fight back.

But as time went by, Mancini gradually felt the pressure and replaced Santa Cruz, Bellamy and other players one after another to continue to strengthen the team's offense, which made Tottenham's entire defense line tighter, and Ye Qiu directly changed the team, allowing Beckham to return to the midfielder position, and the team began to pay more attention to defense.

Both sides are in full swing, especially by the final stage of the game, almost all of Tottenham Hotspur's teenagers have been exhausted. After all, their age is at a disadvantage, and their physical fitness is naturally not as good as those stars in their twenties and in their golden age, so the later the time is, the more obvious their adverse situation is.

Ye Qiu also used up all the substitutions in the team's difficult moments, further adding the team's defense, and successfully dragged the game into overtime. The tenacious performance of Tottenham Hotspur, a group of young players who fought to the death to resist Manchester City's offense, also won the recognition and affirmation of the fans in the stands.

But not long after the overtime began, Robinho used a mistake in Tottenham's defense to help Manchester City score an equalizer. This goal also made Tottenham Hotspur defeated, followed closely behind. Santa Cruz assisted Bellamy to score another goal, and finally Manchester City l reversed Tottenham Hotspur again.

Both rounds scored first goals and were reversed, which made the Tottenham Hotspur young players who were trying their best felt very depressed and unhappy. At least in their opinion, if they were more tenacious and harder, Manchester City might not be able to score.

But after the game, all the fans of White Hart Lane Stadium stood up and gave applause to the group of young players. Although they were eliminated from the League Cup and they were unable to perform miracles in the end, their performance was definitely worthy of anyone's recognition, especially for this group of young players.

Ye Qiu stood on the sidelines and hugged the players who walked off the court one by one. He told each player that he was proud of their performance, and at the same time encouraged them not to be discouraged and continue to strengthen their strength, so that they will definitely have a chance to avenge their revenge.

Every player was obviously disappointed and frustrated when he walked off the stadium, but this was not beyond Ye Qiu's expectations. He didn't even feel surprised when he lost the game, because Tottenham Hotspur is too young, especially this group of 16 or 17-year-old players. Facing Manchester City, Ye Qiu was mentally prepared for losing.

But why did he continue to choose this group of players?

Why did he announce the starting lineup in advance after the first leg of the game and continue to arrange for them to play?

In addition to rotating for the main players of the first team, Ye Qiu also wanted to tell all young players that the coaching staff trusted them very much, and the players' performance in the second round was indeed quite good. In this case, losing is a valuable experience for them and a painful lesson | This will make them more motivated to improve their strength in the future.

As a League Cup champion, there is a chance to compete for every season, but if one season’s defeat in the League Cup can be exchanged for the ambition and fighting spirit of young players, Ye Qiu thinks that no matter how you look at it, it will be a very cost-effective deal.

At the press conference after the game, Ye Qiu repeatedly stated that he was proud and proud of the performance of this group of young players, and would continue to give them opportunities to give them more time to show their strength.

Not only Ye Qiu, the British media gave high praise to Tottenham Hotspur, a group of young players who are almost considered youth teams, who actually played so fiercely with Manchester City, and believed that Tottenham Hotspur's youth echelon performance gave everyone hope, and the 16-year-old young player Pogba, who scored a goal for Tottenham Hotspur, also made everyone remember his name.

As it turns out, Ye Qiu continued to fulfill his promise. Three days after playing the second leg of the League Cup, in the fourth round of the FA Cup, Tottenham Hotspurs challenged Leeds United in the third-level League League. As a result, Tottenham Hotspur defeated Leeds United with Cavani's hat trick.

Although this group of young players were eliminated from the League Cup, they continued to get opportunities in the FA Cup, and their performance also made people feel their excellence. As the winter break transfer period approached, many teams actually made offers to Tottenham Hotspur's group of young players, including Pogba and Joe Hart. However, Tottenham Hotspurs all told the public that they are the future of the team and are non-selling products.

Not only that, Tottenham Hotspur also announced early that they had reached agreements with these young players and signed a contract. As early as last year, they had become official professional players when they turned 16, which could have blocked the outside world's covetousness for Tottenham Hotspur's group of young treasures.

Didn’t there be a saying? If you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves thinking about them
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