Chapter 635 Great Fusion

It has to be said that Tottenham Hotspur is now becoming more and more like a top team.

You know, a League Cup title was enough to make Tottenham Hotspur fans in London excited and crazy for a long time, but now they seem to have completely ignored a League Cup title, and are eagerly looking at the Premier League title, which is becoming more and more likely to win, and the Champions League title, which has been away for two years.

In fact, after selling Yaya Toure, many people feel that it is very unlikely for Tottenham Hotspur to win the Champions League.

Looking at all the teams, the ones who win the Champions League are basically teams with a relatively balanced offense and defense, but Tottenham Hotspur's current offense is beyond reproach, but the defense problem is huge, especially in the defensive midfielder position, Phil Jones still failed to convince people.

Even many people feel that he has no ability to gain a foothold in the first team.

Is Ye Qiu forcing things to grow? Or did the media make a mistake?

The fans are also guessing in their hearts, but it is a pity to sell Yaya Toure, which is an indisputable fact.

When everyone in the English football world was arguing about Tottenham's problems, Tottenham, who had just won the League Cup, announced a day off to let the team rest.

But many people in the team didn't think so, such as Raul and Beckham. These two veterans basically come to the training base every day. They need this kind of non-stop training to maintain their condition, even if they have played very few times a season, especially Beckham, but he still does it.

There is only one purpose, once you appear on the court, you must show your best side to the fans.

Phil Jones also came to the training base.

The team did not train, but he could arrange his training programs more freely. For example, after a series of warm-ups, he went directly to the practice room because he found that the practice room was of great help to his passing, stopping and reaction.

Of course, the premise is that you have to serve faster, creating a very urgent feeling as if you are in a game, constantly facing high-speed balls, and quickly adjusting to pass the ball to the right position, all of which are very similar to the scenes that happen in actual games.

If you slow down the speed, then this slow training is meaningless and more like playing.

After practicing for an hour, he was already sweating profusely, and his face also showed his signature flush.

The time in the practice room was up and it was automatically closed. He grabbed a towel and wiped his sweat while walking out of the practice room.

Only then did he realize that there were two children, a boy and a girl, watching him train outside the practice room.

It has been a few years since he came to Tottenham Hotspur. Phil Jones also knew very well that these two were Ye Qiu's two children, who would come to the team every weekend to participate in some children's activities.

"Hi!" Phil Jones squeezed out an expression that he thought was very naive, but actually a little disgusting.

Little Huang Rong playfully stuck out her tongue and made a face, as if to tell the burly man that this is what is called cute and innocent Kawaii, and yours is called disgusting and pretending to be young.

"You are too slow!" Ye Chen had an innocent expression that said I was telling the truth.

Phil Jones certainly knew that Ye Chen was talking about his training speed. Compared with Messi and others, he was indeed very slow.

The fastest should be Messi and Van Persie. Raul, who joined this season, is also very fast. Then Fabregas, Hazard, Ribery, Neymar and others are slightly worse, but also very fast. Phil Jones's speed just now is already the limit for him, and it is much better than when he just joined Tottenham Hotspur, but it is still worse than many teammates.

He is probably the worst in the team in this regard, and is about the same level as Thiago Silva, Cavani, and Kompany, but if he is in other teams, he is at least above average, which shows how high the overall technical level of Tottenham Hotspur is.

"That's why I have to practice, you know!" Phil Jones was very open-minded. He didn't get angry when facing the criticism of the children. At least it was completely different from his performance on the court.

In fact, he had long been accustomed to this kind of blow, because many players in the youth team were much better than him in terms of technology. To put it bluntly, the practice room is a dead thing. As long as your basic skills are solid, you can play here, but it may not be the case on the court. After all, there are many factors that determine the performance of players on the court, which cannot be fully simulated in the practice room.

"I'm going to practice, bye!" Phil Jones waved to the two children, and didn't forget to pretend to be young before leaving.

"Let's go and see him too!" Sister Huang Rong pulled her brother to follow Phil Jones.

This little girl doesn't like to participate in some activities. She always thinks that those activities are children's toys. She is a girl now. How can she play with a group of crying little brats, right?

The two were slow. When they arrived at the training ground, they saw that Phil Jones had already started.

In the middle of a horizontal bar that is about four meters high, there is a hanging football tied to it. Not far behind the horizontal bar is another horizontal bar that is more than two meters high, on which are fixed several things that look like gongs at different heights and positions.

Phil Jones was right next to the horizontal bar with the football tied to it. He kept jumping up and hitting the ball with his head, letting the ball hit the gong. When it hit, it would make a sound, and then the ball would be tied to it. The rubber band was pulled back, Phil Jones judged the direction of the ball, and then pushed it to hit the gong. Only he knew where the ball hit.

"It's so boring!" Huang Rong looked bored from the sidelines.

Xiao Yechen found it quite interesting, especially when he heard the sound of the gong, he kept counting outside, "One, two, three... one hundred and one, one hundred and two, one hundred and three... "This kid was patient and sat on the sidelines watching Phil Jones train, while his sister Huang Rong ran off to play by herself.

"Do you think it's interesting?" When the kid wasn't paying attention, Beckham walked over to sit down next to him and asked with a smile.

Ye Chen hummed and focused on Phil Jones. He was obviously thinking, why doesn't he feel tired?

"Can I teach you how to play football?" Beckham has a good impression of Ye Qiu's son. He is very handsome and fair, but he is also very smart and lovable. As for that girl, he is good at everything and grows up. She must be as beautiful as her mother, but she is too talkative and likes to talk back.

Seeing Ye Qiu's children, he and Victoria were both envious. They planned to have a daughter of their own. The due date was in July. They hoped that she would be a girl who was not inferior to this girl.

"Okay, but you have to wait until I finish counting!" Xiao Yechen was very serious. When he spoke, he was still counting in his heart, so he didn't fall behind.

"Then come to me here later and I'll play with you!" Beckham felt that football is still a men's sport after all. That girl Huang Rong doesn't like football, but Ye Chen likes football very much. I heard that he is now He goes to watch every Tottenham Hotspur game, and his favorite player is Scarface Ribery. This may be because Ribery often goes to his house.

Ye Qiu could see everything that happened on the training ground clearly from the coaching room on the second floor, because the coaching room, like his office, had a huge tempered glass curtain wall facing the training ground, which could separate the training ground. Everything on the field is visible.

Of course, he couldn't hear exactly what they were saying, and his mind wasn't on that.

He is currently in a meeting, and sitting in front of him are not only Mauro Tassotti and Roland Schepas, but also Bobby Harms, who came specially from the Netherlands, and the team's chief scout Peter De Wiesel, head of the Sports Research Center Peter Brandt, it can be said that the core layer of the entire Tottenham Hotspur athletic field is here.

It's no wonder, because the topic they discussed today is very serious and important, and will even affect the future development of the entire Tottenham Hotspur, so the expressions on everyone's faces are very serious, without the usual cheers. Laughter.

Ye Qiu plans to reorganize Tottenham Hotspur's tactics!

Everyone knows that two seasons ago, Tottenham Hotspur won the Premier League and Champions League double crown, and the team's tactics reached their peak, but after that, Tottenham Hotspur began to enter. Adjustment and a new round of exploration stage, but the effect is not very satisfactory.

Of course, there are many factors involved. For example, the team has been selling people. But the reason, Ye Qiu and everyone present who are familiar with Ye Qiu's thoughts, know that it is not because of selling people, because if necessary , people don’t have to sell it.

The reason why Tottenham Hotspur has been adjusting and groping in the past two years is because Ye Qiu himself doesn't know what to do.

And there is a very big limitation that Tottenham Hotspur already has a perfect and stable tactical framework, whether it is selling Robin van Persie, reusing Falcao, or today's Cavani, or selling now The removal of Zygrinski and the appointment of Kompany are only partial adjustments within this tactical framework, and there are no major changes.

Ye Qiu is now thinking about making major changes to the team's tactics.

"From a tactical perspective, we have realized early on that we need to be resilient!" Ye Qiu explained why he decided to do this. "The so-called resilience can also be regarded as elasticity, which is when we hold back and fight. , we can play the strongest defense, and when we press out, our passing, controlling and cutting offense can be invincible.”

Many people may think this is a contradiction, but in fact it is not, because both Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United last season are actually very resilient teams with excellent tactical flexibility.

So, what are the factors that create this resilience?

It's midfield!

To put it bluntly, any team uses the midfield to integrate the offense in front and the defense behind it. Therefore, only by building a midfield full of resilience can it have a resilient tactical style.

"I want to say that our current technological tendency is too much. We are losing this resilience, even when Yaya Toure was here, and his departure only made us discover this problem. There are One thing that everyone may not notice is that our midfield lacks impact.”

David Silva and Cesc Fabregas are more than delicate, but lack impact. When Yaya Toure is here, his dribbling forward can show impact at the appropriate time, or Tia Go Silva can advance with the ball, but as the team's entire tactical framework has taken shape, almost everyone is playing according to this framework, which has become a lack of freshness, excitement, and desire.

Of course, Tottenham Hotspur's overall advantage is still very obvious, the offense is as good as ever, and the defense is getting stronger and stronger, but the problem is that the team has not changed much compared to two years ago.

In other words, Ye Qiu's exploration and changes in the past two years have not achieved much results.

As Ye Qiu said to many Ye Zi Technology executives, everyone, every company, and even every team must have the courage to attack themselves, because only in this way can the existing pattern be broken. , to create a new and larger pattern and achieve more breakthroughs.

Just like Barcelona in Ye Qiu's previous life, why since Guardiola, this team seems to give more and more people a sense of lack of progress and sameness, and their performance in European competitions has become less and less dominant. ?

Modern football tactics are advancing too fast. If you don't keep improving, you will be caught up by your opponents in less than two or three years. What awaits you is to be surpassed and replaced by your opponents.

"I once said that today's football tactics emphasize fusion, and the future of Premier League tactics is also fusion. The blurring of positions is itself a kind of fusion, and this fusion is not just about combining the delicate techniques of the Latin schools of Brazil and Spain with the Bringing small-scale cooperation to the Premier League is not only to integrate the integrity of the Bundesliga and the tactics of Serie A into the team's bones, but more importantly, to bring into play the traditional advantages of the Premier League, such as speed, a kind of high-level The passion is high and the game is fast!”

Ye Qiu thought of this, paused, and continued: "I have been thinking about a question recently. I have always emphasized in the past that the next innovation of football concepts must include fast pace. The future of football Tactics will become faster and faster, and even this speed will exceed one's limit!"

This is no longer a secret within Tottenham Hotspur, and the kind of speed that goes beyond human limits that Ye Qiu talks about does not mean that a person has to go beyond his own limits. No matter how fast human beings are, they cannot It might be that fast, but in football, the speed of the ball can exceed human limits.

"The Premier League has always been fast, from the long pass rush to the current fast-paced game style, and we all know that this speed is reflected in the moment of transition between offense and defense. So, I was thinking, if there is a group of Players have a high level of investment and passion for the game. They have excellent physical fitness and strong personal abilities, but also have an excellent sense of teamwork. They can continue to run, press and press at high intensity and in a wide range, as much as possible. Utilizing every inch of the pitch.”

"But more importantly, no matter who they are, after anyone steals the ball, they can start from him, organize and plan a counterattack immediately, and complete the process of switching from defense to offense. And we all know that if the person who steals the ball has the With the ability to independently break through and cooperate with quick passes, he will not only help the team complete the transition from defense to offense, but also bring a very rich offensive option to the team.”

Ye Qiu's idea is undoubtedly to build on Tottenham Hotspur's existing foundation.

If the current Tottenham Hotspur looks a bit like the Premier League version of Barcelona's passing and control system in the previous life, then what Ye Qiu wants is to add more running, more impactful, and more powerful to this basis. Tough style of play.

We all know that Barcelona in Ye Qiu's previous life did not have much resilience. Their defense and physical confrontation were not good, and the team's offense had no impact. They could only rely on constant pulling and penetration to complete the offense, so they were against Two types of teams are a headache. One is a very strict defensive system, just like Mourinho's Inter Milan. The other is a team that suppresses them. This not only reflects their poor offensive ability, The impact is too weak, which also reflects their poor defense.

Of course, in Barcelona's high ball possession system, it is difficult for any team to beat them, so this possibility can only exist in concept, or occasionally, but this kind of high ball possession The rate play itself is unreasonable.

Ye Qiu promotes effective ball possession at Tottenham Hotspur, which can be seen as a choice based on the Premier League.

Tottenham Hotspur's passing, controlling and cutting tactics have reached their peak, and many players in the team also adopt a certain model to play. If Ye Qiu continues to play with the current team, there will be no major success at all. Breakthrough, so if he wants to try a more impactful, more resilient, and more comprehensive style of play, he must make changes and adjustments to the personnel configuration.

Or to put it in the simplest and most direct way, Ye Qiu wants to take action on the midfielder, making Tottenham Hotspur's midfielder capable of attacking, retreating and defending, while also possessing amazing toughness and impact.

Or, you can imagine that when three all-around British midfielders like Gerrard and Lampard, who are more technical and have stronger organizational skills, form a midfielder, they rely on each other to cross positions and rely on active running in a wide range. Coverage, as well as the technical characteristics of advancing, attacking, retreating and defending, then this set of midfielders is almost unsolvable.

According to Beckenbauer, the strongest is the weakest, and Sacchi said that one Kaka needs one Gattuso.

Suppose, Kaka's offense is 90 points and his defense is 10 points, while Gattuso's offense is 10 points and his defense is 90 points. The two players are combined together and just happen to be a pair of best partners, but the problem is that this pair of partners has a very clear division of labor, and it is easy to defend. Gattuso has no offensive ability to defend against Kaka.

You know, football is like all industries. The higher you go, the harder it is. In other words, it is very, very difficult to reach Kaka's level of 90 points in offense. There may be only a few in the world, but it is not difficult to reach 80 points in offense. 70 points is even easier. There are a lot of people who can reach it at random. The same is true for defense.

Then the problem comes. If you find some players or cultivate a player yourself, and let him reach more than 70 points in defense and offense, pick them out individually, the offense is not as good as Kaka, and the defense is not as eye-catching as Gattuso, but the problem is that he can both attack and defend, and both are more than 70 points.

You know, it is very difficult, even impossible, to have a player with both Kaka's offense and Gattuso's defense. But if Kaka's offense is 70 points and Gattuso's defense is 70 points, it is very possible, especially in England.

So, which one is stronger, the combination of Kaka and Gattuso or the combination of two midfielders with 70 points in offense and defense?

The answer is self-evident, it must be the latter!

Or someone will say, is there such a player?

Yes, Ye Qiu knew a lot in his previous life, Yaya Toure, Schweinsteiger, Vidal, Pogba, but the two players trained by Arsenal Wenger, Wilshere and Ramsey, are the most representative of Ye Qiu's idea.

Especially Wilshere, many people call him the prince, because he was regarded as the core of the team's midfield by Wenger early on, because he almost embodied Wenger's understanding of English football integrating the European continental style. In the best season, Wilshere intercepted, robbed, passed, organized, cooperated, and made personal breakthroughs. He was almost omnipotent, and all of them were above 70 points. More importantly, he was still so young and continued to grow and improve.

You know, in the FM football manager game, the upper limit of players is 200, but in reality, the potential of players is unlimited, that is, if Wilshere continues to improve like this, it is even possible to train all to 80 points, or even above 90 points. This is why Wenger is optimistic about him!

If it is said that in the first few decades of modern football tactics, the positions on the field have been constantly subdivided, then the future trend of football is position fuzzification, and the result of position fuzzification is the omnipotence of players.

If you think carefully about many positions and types of players now, it is not difficult to find their omnipotence.

Of course, it should be made clear that being versatile does not mean being good at everything, and there will also be some gaps, so it is necessary to make a reasonable combination of players to see how to maximize the team's combat effectiveness.

To be honest, Ye Qiu never regretted letting Yaya Toure go. Even from the current tactical level, Yaya Toure is very suitable for his position, but he never felt that the decision he made at the time was wrong. First, it was because the player decided to leave, and second, Ye Qiu always believed that there is no irreplaceable player.

Because of this, he saw hope. The English players, under the influence of the European continental style, have created a more versatile, more efficient, and more tactically malleable player style.

He even thought that Mancini valued Yaya Toure so much, maybe because he discovered this, and Wenger valued Wilshere, in fact, to find the way to this style of play from him.

Even further back, Ferguson turned Anderson into a defensive midfielder, and Mourinho turned Mikel into a beast. They may have such ideas and thoughts in their subconscious, but they don't have a specific concept yet.

Think about the most glorious times of Arsenal and Manchester United. Vieira and Keane were both offensive and defensive, with strong impact, and they were also responsible for the team's offensive and defensive transitions.

Therefore, Ye Qiu was very sure that this was the future prospect of the great fusion he imagined, not only in the midfield, but also in the front and back courts. So from now on, Tottenham Hotspur needs to make some directional adjustments, whether it is the first team or the youth team.

At least there are two very suitable players in Tottenham Hotspur, Ramsey in the first team, and Nick Powell, a young player in the youth team. Bobby Hams and Peter De Visser's evaluation of Nick Powell is that he looks very much like Pirlo!

In other words, the technical level has been reached, and at the same time, there is the passion and tenacity of the English. It depends on how to carve it in the future.

"This is indeed a fascinating midfield concept!" Bobby Hams is an experienced old man who knows Ye Qiu very well, because they often discuss together. If Ye Qiu's idea is followed, then this midfield and even this team will be an all-around team.

In fact, whether it is Michels' Ajax or Sacchi's AC Milan, they are very close to all-around teams, because they can switch back and forth between the strongest offense and the strongest defense.

“But…” Bobby Hames thought for a moment and said, “If we really do what you said, Tottenham Hotspur will not only change the midfield, but also a revolution from front to back!”

After hearing this, Ye Qiu knew that Bobby Hames agreed with his judgment, and he felt more confident. “So, I plan to take the first step of the plan this summer, sell a superstar, and then bring in another superstar!”