Chapter 768 Dig as much as you like!
This year's awards ceremony has gains and losses for Tottenham Hotspur.
The PIPA Golden Globe Awards fell to Messi for the fourth time, which also made the Argentine superstar amazing influence and would also push Messi's football position to a whole new level.
But Ye Qiu lost the Best Coach of the Year Award in the competition with Boske. Although Ye Qiu has won many times, with the honors of the Premier League and the Champions League, the two most substantial club competitions, they were ultimately unable to match Boske's European Cup championship. This has to be said to be a regret.
Of course, Ye Qiu believes that this is not a shady curtain, but more of a trade-off.
In the selection of the best team of the year, Tottenham Hotspur also completely lost. It changed the past glorious front head and became a bit dismal. Only three players were selected for the best team, namely left back Marcelo, right winger Messi and center Cavani. Other positions were basically covered by La Liga players.
The goalkeepers are Casillas, Marcelo, Ramos, Pique and Alves in the back line, Iniesta, Xavi Heronso and Xavi, and Cristiano Ronaldo, Cavani and Messi in the front court.
Among them, the outstanding performance of Spanish players is more due to their outstanding performance in the European Cup, and Alves' selection is more due to his performance at Tottenham Hotspur. Therefore, some people believe that Tottenham Hotspur cannot be said to be disappointing.
After the Golden Globes ceremony, British media wrote articles that Tottenham Hotspur will continue to dominate European professional football and Messi will continue to maintain his position as a superstar in the world.
The Daily Mail's number one British reporter Craig Brown has rarely written an article to comment on this incident in his column. Interestingly, his only two football-related columns were about Tottenham Hotspur, which made many people wonder whether he became a loyal Tottenham Hotspur.
In his column, Craig O'Brown once again provides everyone with a different perspective. Unlike the perspectives and views of all football professionals, he believes that Messi and Tottenham will be difficult to stop.
"I once asked a question like this with my good friend Martin and Samuel, and I asked, why can Tottenham maintain such glory? On what basis was their peak empire built?"
"I think this is unreasonable, because football has always been about long-term systematic management and construction. But when it comes to history, Tottenham Hotspur's rise has only been less than six or seven years. Even with the Levi period, it will only be more than ten years. Why can a team that was originally in the middle and lower reaches of England be transformed into a top wealthy noble?"
"If you want to talk about financial resources, as far as I know, Ye Qiu has always pursued a healthy finance. Although Tottenham Hotspur is currently in debt, the interest rate is very low, and the risk is completely controllable. They have huge cash flow. But at the same time, they always insist on the construction of salary structure for the team. Therefore, in terms of financial resources, don't compare with the two Western Premier League champions, even if they have no advantage over Manchester City and other teams, why can they retain players? But Arsenal cannot?"
"Many people like to talk about tactics, ideas, and offensive football. Let's take a look. Barcelona has a super football concept and has persisted for more than ten years. They have a tacit understanding that other teams cannot reach. Real Madrid's football concept is gorgeous offensive football, the top superstars, and their football is also full of charm."
"If you want to talk about high-level defense, it is now flooding, and midfield pressure and pressing are not new, and there is nothing to show off even with one shot. But why is Tottenham Hotspur so special? So unique?"
"Haha, I'm so proud, because Martin Samuel, that damn fat man was asked by me, and he was speechless."
"Yesterday, the editor-in-chief of our newspaper told me, "Let's write about Messi and write a column for your idol, but I think there is nothing good about Messi's phenomenon that is worthy of being a big book, which caused him to win the Golden Globe Awards in a row. The reason is very simple. Since FIFA and French Football merged the two major awards, the Golden Globe Awards attach the most importance to the players' fame and influence, rather than their professional performance that year."
"From a rational point of view, Iniesta has reason to think there is a shady story here, but this is the rule of selection, and everyone is in the rules. As long as the Golden Globes continue to value influence and ignore professional performance, it will not be an accident that the offensive scorer will continue to monopolize the title."
"If you want to say something special, I think it is Tottenham's active operation"
"We must clearly know that in the current professional football world, the star resources are over-concentrated, and all fans, journalists and media are focused on the top teams and stars. So, we see that any player to pick out Tottenham Hotspur is more famous and has a better reputation than the leading stars of mid- and lower-level teams."
"In this case, the World Footballer merged the European Footballerer, bringing the original two heavyweight individual awards into one, which has caused another kind of resource concentration, which has led to the current situation, that is, the stronger the strong, the weaker the weaker."
"I mentioned Tottenham because I found an interesting phenomenon, that is, their business department is very good at business operations, and many people mistakenly think that they devote all their resources to Messi and Ribery. This makes sense in itself, but the problem is, they forget a little bit, the radiation effect."
"Messi and Ribery are undoubtedly the top superstars today. They are like Tottenham Hotspur's locomotive, but the problem is that if they want to succeed, they need teammates. If they want to score goals, someone has to pass them. Whoever passes the ball to them will be able to gain popularity with the influence and popularity of Messi and Ribery.
"So, Messi and Ribery led a group of second-tier stars such as Cavani, Neymar, Vidal, Ramsey, Hazard, Thiago Silva, Pirlo, etc., and then used the first and second-tier stars to drive the third-tier stars, making the entire Tottenham Hotspur star system form a high-end, mid-range and low-end brand array."
"This is a very, very amazing innovation, because when we look at Real Madrid and Manchester United, their operations in this aspect are still focused on the main stars. So in the past few years, after selling Cristiano Ronaldo, the brand management has fallen into a bottleneck because Rooney can't take over, and the team has that kind of power, but there is no place to use it."
"But Tottenham Hotspur won't have such a problem. It can be foreseen that if any of Messi and Ribery leave the team, immediately, there will be a person among the second-tier stars who will rise rapidly and replace him because he has a solid foundation. As long as the team thinks he is suitable and pours a lot of resources into him, he will be able to succeed."
"After seeing the success of ugly men such as Ronaldinho, Ribery, Drogba, etc., some people think that it must be handsome men to become popular?
"At Tottenham, even the lowest-level players, such as the newly joined Aspiricueta, it is reported that Tottenham Hotspur has signed three sponsorship contracts for him in the past six months, two from Spain and one from Portugal, which can bring Aspiricueta more than one million euros in revenue share a year."
"For sponsors, Azpilicueta is not as famous as first-tier stars, but his sponsorship fee is cheap and his image is consistent. More importantly, they can use the Tottenham Hotspur brand, and behind the brand is Tottenham Hotspur's unique club culture, which is very telling. The value of this brand is driven by superstars such as Messi and Ribery. This is a kind of radiation."
"The above are all on the business level, what about the football level?"
"Martin Samuel once said that Tottenham Hotspur's football is the most flexible football in the world."
“What is elasticity?”
"First of all, he must have a very rigorous and strong overall concept. If it is a loose structure, it is impossible to have flexibility at all. But at the same time, he cannot be rigid. He must know how to adapt, have loose freedom, and be able to change his structure and form according to external forces."
"Barcelona and Real Madrid represent two extreme footballs. Barcelona emphasizes super football concepts and running-in, which is a kind of close football. Real Madrid is different. They emphasize super recruitment ability, relying on constantly introducing superstars with outstanding personal abilities, and then giving these superstars a free environment for playing on the court. What the head coach has to do is to properly combine the team into a whole while ensuring the superstars' free performance.
"It's hard to say whether Barcelona has a better concept or Real Madrid's ideas have advantages, but we can clearly see that they have advantages and shortcomings. For example, Barcelona, they suppress the players' personality and desire to play freely, while Real Madrid's integrity is much worse than Barcelona."
"But since Ye Qiu took over the team, Tottenham has always taken a middle route, insisting on integrity and emphasizing freedom of play. Many people think that this is impossible because they are a contradiction in themselves, just like you cannot ask Messi to run wildly like Vidal, while also being able to continue to maintain excellent performance on the offensive end, sprinting forward again and again and again, he cannot do it."
"But Ye Qiu put forward another idea, he told you that it is possible, the premise is moderate."
"Ye Qiu has explored a very distinctive mean route for Tottenham Hotspur, attaching importance to the whole, and taking into account freedom. If the left side is integrity and the right side is freedom, then he will draw a line on the left and a line on the right side. The team's tactics swing back and forth between these two bottom lines."
"Sometimes, we have to admit that this is a creative and inclusive mind. Even Mourinho said that Ye Qiu's team has further completed integration and progress on the basis of inheriting a series of tactical concepts, and has made major breakthroughs in both integrity and freedom."
Craig Brown also pointed out at the end of the column, "It is no longer an external force that can defeat Tottenham Hotspur, because from the current perspective, the two teams closest to Tottenham Hotspur, Barcelona and Real Madrid are still hovering in two extremes, while Bayern Munich, Dortmund, Manchester City and other teams may be able to defeat Tottenham Hotspur in the short term, but there is still a long way to go to collapse this empire."
"So, they are the only ones who can defeat Tottenham Hotspur. The players leave the team or grow old. The management foolishly subverts the system created by Ye Qiu. Otherwise, in the next many years, Tottenham Hotspur will still be the most powerful team in European football and will still be the most powerful contender for all championships."
Craig O'Brown's column immediately caused a huge response among fans in the UK and even the world. Many non-Tottenham fans even highly affirmed this column. Many people believe that only people with background and culture like Ye Qiu can integrate such a team because he comes from China, which pursues the doctrine of the mean.
Many fans also believe that this column will make Tottenham Hotspur competitors clearly realize that only poaching can destroy the Tottenham Hotspur empire. "So, rich people, wave the euro in your hands and dig it out as much as possible."
But soon, Tottenham Hotspur fans made a counterattack. They believed that with the team's talent reserves and foundation, those rich teams could not dig down Tottenham Hotspur's walls.
Of course, some fans will also be worried. After all, Ye Qiu's intention to retire is already very clear. Once Ye Qiu retires, will Tottenham Hotspur usher in a major change? Can the successor suppress this group of stars in the team? This is also a hidden danger for Tottenham Hotspur in the future.
When the FIFA award ceremony ended, soon the media around the world shifted their targets and focused the hype on Tottenham's unbeaten record, because Tottenham had tied the 108-game unbeaten record of Abidjan's mimosa.
As of the end of last season, Tottenham Hotspur's unbeaten record was 88 games, while this season has been 21 rounds so far. However, because Tottenham Hotspur participated in the Club World Cup, there was one less round in the middle, so he tied the unbeaten record of Abidjan Mimosa.
On the evening of January 12, this away game against the Queens Park Rangers became a key battle for Tottenham Hotspur to break this legendary record that was claimed to be impossible to break.
From January 1 to 12, Tottenham Hotspur's main lineup received eleven days of rest. Although he experienced a FA Cup game in the middle, Ye Qiu arranged all young lineups to play. Tottenham Hotspur defeated Coventry 30 away and successfully advanced to the next round.
The eleven-day rest is actually equivalent to a winter break. Ye Qiu still follows his past experience, first giving the players a break, and then performing physical fitness adjustment and reserve training. This training intensity is relatively high. The purpose is to provide physical fitness reserves for the second half of the season, and then give the players a holiday. After returning to the team, adjust and restore sexual training.
Regarding the so-called unbeaten record, Ye Qiu made a clear statement when he challenged the Queens Park Rangers away. He did not pay any attention to it. Relatively speaking, what he paid more attention to is the team's performance in the second half of the season.
"The winter break in every season is often the most difficult adjustment period. I have clearly told my players that we don't need to be obsessed with the so-called unbeaten record, because it means nothing to us. What we pay more attention to is what we can gain after the season, and this is the key."
In fact, Tottenham Hotspur has not given any stimulating rewards for the unbeaten record. On the contrary, for league championships and Champions League champions, the team's rewards are amazing. The whole world is shocking Tottenham Hotspur's huge prize money, and all players are determined to win the prize money.
But sometimes, fighting spirit and mental strength have to succumb to objective facts, that is, after a period of high-intensity physical reserve and adjustment training, the players' bodies became obviously very tired. In the 22nd round of the Premier League, they tied the Queen's Park Rangers 00 away.
This is obviously not a score worth celebrating. Even though Tottenham Hotspur possession rate is as high as U%, even if Tottenham almost pushed the Queens Park Rangers out of breath throughout the game, they still failed to break through the opponent's goal.
He scored a point at home. Redknapp of the Queen's Park Rangers in October last year smiled from ear to ear, saying that this game will inspire the team, and congratulated Tottenham on setting an amazing historical record, believing that this is a legendary team that is unprecedented and will be difficult to have another visitor in the future.
With a high hat, it could not cover up Tottenham's sluggish form. Four days later, all Premier League teams were suspended and rested, but Tottenham Hotspur had a seventeen-round rematch. In the 85th minute, he relied on Kompany's header and Uj Laudrup's Swansea.
Tottenham Hotspurs performed very poorly in two consecutive games, especially in the match against the deputy squad leader Queen Park Rangers. The game was full of mistakes, proving that many players were seriously out of shape. When playing Swansea, if it weren't for Kompany's free kick at the critical moment, it would have been 00.
Regarding the team's performance in recent times, Ye Qiu said that everything was under control, at least the team did not lose its position as the leader. He also said that after the amazing state of the winter break schedule, the team needs to have a good rest and take a breath.
But the schedule will not be suspended because of Tottenham Hotspur. Three days after playing Swansea, Tottenham Hotspur welcomed Manchester United at home, but Ferguson's team was shocked at the beginning. Van Persie opened the goal with Benzema's assist in just five minutes after the opening.
Chapter completed!