Sometimes, Ye Qiu would think about a question from the perspective of a club operator, that is, why, among so many European giant teams, there are so few teams that can truly maintain stable performance and influence for a long time?

Just like Real Madrid, Florentino was incredible in the early stages, but in the late stage of the Galaxy Battleship, it fell apart, and Calderon's coming to power made Real Madrid's brand value fall to a pitiful level. Why is this?

Also, like Inter Milan, the whole world knows the situation, but why does Moratti seem to have no intention of reflection? Why is he always making mistakes again and again? Or, he doesn't feel that he has done something wrong at all?

On the other hand, Manchester United has maintained strong competitiveness for a long time, both in the Premier League and Europe. Although Ferguson has made many mistakes, overall, it has always been relatively stable, and the overall strength and finance of the team have not been greatly affected.

Another very important example is Bayern Munich.

This team is one of the best teams in Europe with the best commercial development capabilities, even comparable to Manchester United.

Perhaps many people think that Bayern Munich has been in a recession in the past few years, but it should also be noted that this has actually been dragged down by the domestic league, especially after the bankruptcy of the Bundesliga's top sponsor Kilch Media Group in the early 2000s, which not only affected the Korean and Japanese World Cup, but also completely broke the series of bubbles in the Bundesliga.

The years before and after this century were the glorious period of the Bundesliga. At that time, the Bundesliga's popularity even overshadowed La Liga. From Dortmund to Bayern Munich, to Leverkusen, the madness of the Bundesliga is beyond doubt. It was precisely after the bankruptcy of the Kilch Group that the broadcast of the Bundesliga was completely in trouble, causing almost all Bundesliga teams to fall into a dilemma.

In addition, German football talents are not in the past, and both pressures force the Bundesliga to transform. Bayern Munich is the best among all Bundesliga teams. Although they lack combat effectiveness in Europe, overall, they are top in Europe, both in terms of player level and team financial health.

If you carefully analyze these two teams, it is not difficult to find one thing in common, the centralized distribution of power and the sustainability of policies.

At Manchester United, Ferguson controls competition, which is Manchester United's core policy. In the past, it was Eduardo, later Peter Kennyon, and later David Gill. No matter who becomes Manchester United's CPO, it will not shake Ferguson's position. It regards competition as the team's top priority.

Even if the Glazer family wanted to acquire Manchester United later, they had to convince Ferguson to promise to ensure competitive interests before they could succeed. On the basis of ensuring competitive interests, the team operates commercially to the greatest extent, so Manchester United can be said to be one of the best and most ideal teams in the combination of business and competition.

The same is true for Bayern Munich. The three troikas led by Beckenbauer are all from football celebrities, but they have been professionally trained because they understand football and have the ability to develop commercially. In addition, these three troikas have long held the main power of Bayern Munich, so some important policies of Bayern Munich have not changed over the years.

Everything has two sides, just like power. Many people say that the separation of powers is needed. Chelsea also had the separation of powers at the beginning, but it often proved that power is too dispersed, it seems to be checks and balances, and seems to be harmonious, but in fact it may not be advanced. No great man once said that democracy is the most inefficient game in the world.

But it is not good to be too concentrated in power, just like Florentino's Real Madrid and Morati's Inter Milan are all caused by too concentrated in power. It is easy to lead the team to go astray due to some preferences, shortcomings and problems of the person with power, causing problems in the team's management.

Therefore, Ye Qiu felt that centralized distribution is the best, just like Manchester United and Bayern Munich, concentrated in the hands of a few people, through consultation and communication, the team's development direction is formulated, and then persisted.

At Tottenham Hotspur, Ye Qiu also promoted the centralized distribution of power. As the head coach, he hardly interfered in the business field. Peter Kenyon and Ron Gurley were also very clear that Tottenham Hotspur’s most important core foundation is still in competition, the team’s performance and combat effectiveness.

When both sides clearly divide power and reach a consensus on some aspects, the overall operation of the team will become very harmonious, and everyone in this team will feel very comfortable, at least on the surface.

When Ye Qiu was at Arena Stadium, a Chinese restaurant that he hadn't been to for a long time, met the current Ajax chairman John Jacques, he once again realized that sometimes it is not a good thing to be too concentrated in power.

In Ye Qiu's impression, John Jacques has never been an ambitious person. Compared with Ye Qiu's good friend Van Prager, he lacks enough personal charm and majesty. He is tall, but a little thin, not young, but looks white and clean, and is gentle.

Seeing him, Ye Qiu remembered his old friend Van Prager. He is now very comfortable in the Dutch Football Association, with the title of honorary chairman of Ajax, but nothing is wrong. This guy is now free and easy.

Wasn't Ajax created the powerful Van Prag and the equally powerful Van Gaal in the glorious period of the 1990s? And isn't this another example of Ye Qiu's so-called centralized distribution of power?

But Ye Qiu himself knew very well that the Netherlands' economy is not very large, there are many fans, but it is limited, the entire market is so big, and it is still necessary to support so many Eredivisie teams. It is easy to imagine how difficult it is, especially after the European debt crisis, the Eredivisie team management has become even more unbearable.

Ajax changed his chest advertisement this year, and the sponsorship fee increased from the original 7 million to 12 million euros. However, the money was placed in the Premier League, which is at the medium level, but in the Netherlands, it was already very high. Ajax's total annual income is only about 70 million euros, and it is still the No. 1 in the Netherlands, about 20 million euros higher than Eindhoven.

With the increase in players' salaries in recent years, Ajax's situation has become increasingly difficult. The benefits brought by Ye Qiu's victory in the triple crown and the players have now been squandered, because the current situation forces Ajax to survive by selling players, but he wants to sell Hunterra this summer, but he has not received much response.

Over the years, the team's management has become increasingly difficult to maintain, and the scouting system that Ajax once relied on for pride and pride is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain. First of all, it is because of youth training! High risks, large investment but output is not proportional. In addition, Ajax alone cannot maintain such a huge scouting system.

Just like Sevilla, who has been in the limelight in recent years, although they are awesome now, it seems that they are amazing. As long as their team's performance declines and their income declines, the scouting system will be immediately streamlined, and then it will be like Ajax, and will embark on a vicious cycle.

This is also the reason why Ye Qiu attaches so much importance to the football economic forum and the player database, because when even teams like Ajax do not have enough financial resources to maintain a huge scouting system, there must be other ways to help these teams explore talents. The football economic forum and the player database play such a role.

Of course, there is another option in front of Ajax now, to carry out all-round cooperation with Tottenham Hotspur.

Ye Qiu's Tottenham Hotspur is rich and invests a lot of money on the scouting network every year. He is fully capable of integrating Ajax's scouting system and sharing resources between the two sides. As a club team, Tottenham Hotspur can arrange young and potential players to go to Ajax to receive training at any time, and has the right to buy Ajax players.

Ajax is not at a desperate situation yet, and they can still choose, but they have tasted the sweetness from their cooperation with Ye Qiu and Eliza in the past few years. Not to mention the four players Ye Qiu had in Ajax, but also the two players Di Maria and Alexis Sanchez who gave up in order to introduce the four Thiago Silva, are now worth a lot of money.

Previously, Ye Qiu recommended Suarez through Bobby Hams. Ajax introduced him at 800,000 euros. Now he has a net worth of over 10 million. The team doesn't know how much it will make, and these all make Ajax clearly see the future prospects of cooperation with Ye Qiu and Tottenham Hotspur.

Of course, neither side will disclose such cooperation to the outside world, but will only say that Tottenham and Ajax will carry out comprehensive cooperation in youth training, and the specific details will not be mentioned to the outside world.

“I believe our cooperation will be very pleasant.”

In Jin Shouzi, Ye Qiu got John Jacques with a dinner that had just arrived in the Netherlands. The two sides agreed to cooperate in all aspects, and this is almost certain that from now on, Ajax will become Tottenham Hotspur’s satellite club and an important base for Tottenham Hotspur’s future talent selection

As a famous celebrity who once brought Ajax great glory, when John Jacques asked Ye Qiu about the candidate for the new head coach after Van Basten left the team, Ye Qiu recommended former Ajax star Michelle Lauderup, who left Getafe this summer. He believed that the Danes would be a very good head coach candidate for Ajax, and this is also in line with Ajax's tradition of only inviting his former stars as head coaches.

After seeing off John Jacques, Ye Qiu also put down a major event in his heart. The two sides agreed to announce the cooperation at the press conference for the opening match of the Amsterdam Cup two days later. As for whether Michelle Lauderup can successfully take charge of Ajax, Ye Qiu doesn't know.

After seeing off John Jacques, Ye Qiu and a group of old friends were having dinner with Van Dude, Ricklink, Bobby Hams and others. Not long after, Van Prager also came. It was rare for a group of people to get together and had a beautiful meal. Van Prager, Bobby Hams and others also mentioned Huang Chu, saying that they miss Huang Chu's cooking skills very much.

"This cooperation is also good for Ajax." Van Prag had known for a long time that Ye Qiu and Ajax's cooperation is no secret for them, and this is also good for Ajax.

If Ajax wants to continue to operate, the most important thing is to ensure the team's income. The team's main source of income is the competition. If you enter the Champions League, this requires results and players. High-level players often represent high salaries. This is overwhelming for Ajax, so you have to promote young players with good quality and low price. Therefore, the scouting system is very important.

Another one is high transfer income. By the same token, young players with high quality and low price will sell at high prices after Ajax make a name for themselves, and the club will earn a high difference in the middle. This is Ajax's business model after transformation.

"At the beginning, I heard that you were going to buy a team, which scared me so much that I thought you were going to buy Ajax." Van Prager laughed, "But now it proves that if you really buy Ajax, you will have no future." In this regard, the former Ajax chairman could only sigh and regret because he saw the decline of the Eredivisie from Ajax.

The Eredivisie will not represent Dutch football because high-level players will play abroad, but it will be difficult for the Eredivisie to be competitive, especially compared to the top leagues with rich wealth, such as the Premier League, La Liga, and Serie A.

Ye Qiu had never considered the Eredivisie at the beginning, and after hearing this, he just smiled, "Our current scouting network has been very open in South America and Africa. After cooperation, we will integrate all scouting resources, and then we will arrange a few players to play in Ajax."

Now that you want to be cheap and cheap, you still have to look for it from South America, Africa and Eastern Europe. So Ye Qiu found several South American players through his agency company and bought their ownership. One is Ramirez, who plays for Cruzero, whose net worth is about one million euros, and the other is Sandro, a midfielder who plays for Brazil's international team, who is cheaper.

There are also two other ones: Hulk who plays in Japan and Romedal Falcao who plays in the Argentina riverbed.

In Ye Qiu's view, if Ajax wants to ensure business, he has to learn the black shops Porto and Lyon. The operation of these two teams is simply the benchmark for all European mid- and lower-level teams. It earns the difference by buying low and selling high, and ensures the team's performance. They still live a very comfortable life, which is indeed quite not simple.

Each team is like a different person, each has its own way of living, but there is only one purpose, that is, live better.

At present, in addition to Ajax, Tottenham Hotspur has basically settled Brazil's Santos. This team will cooperate with Tottenham Hotspur to become Tottenham's partner in Brazil. The agency has also bought out the ownership of Lucas Jr. in Sao Paulo's team, which is also quite cheap and sent the players to Santos to play for.

At that time, Ajax can choose these players, and the rest will either stay in Brazil or be sent to other European clubs. Now the agency company has established a very extensive network of contacts in Europe. It is not difficult and easy to help a player enter a European professional club.

In the future, Tottenham Hotspur will continue to further expand its partner network, not only to cooperate with them in youth training, but also to ensure that they can get supplements from high-level players with high quality and low price at any time and anywhere. This is also something that all giant teams have.

Manchester United has more than a dozen satellite clubs, including well-known teams such as Sporting Lisbon, Nantes, Sao Paulo, and Flumenense. Manchester United cooperates with them with the same youth training plus! Players are given priority to buy, or send some players they like to train.

There are quite a lot of the same situations, including Arsenal, AC Milan, Inter Milan, etc. Almost all giants have satellite clubs, and there are different roles in these satellite clubs. For example, some are young players training | Some are overseas market promotion, which is not the same.

But the world of football is very strange. Compared with Tottenham Hotspur and Ajax, and even with Inter Milan, the two teams have established partnerships, which is worthless in the eyes of media people, because it has no meaning of publicity and hype at all. It is not as good as Ye Qiu's fight against Mourinho as a gimmick.

In the opening match of the Amsterdam Cup, Tottenham Hotspur defeated host Ajax.

As Bobby Hams said before, the current Ajax team is indeed not very competitive. After selling people one after another, the quality of the players is not strongly supplemented, which has affected Ajax's overall combat effectiveness.

Inter Milan tied Sevilla at 00, and Mourinho's team did not show a dazzling level in this warm-up match. Inter Milan's sluggish state continued until the second round of the second day, losing 0 to Tottenham Hotspur in the game.

Ye Qiu's team performed well in the pre-season warm-up match. Even after several players, including Messi, left the team, still lost two strong teams, Inter Milan and Ajax in the Amsterdam Cup, and the overall strength of the team has been recognized by the outside world.

This summer, the team played a total of seven warm-up matches and won all of them, which also made the outside world satisfied with Tottenham Hotspur's performance, believing that this is the performance that the defending champion of the Champions League should have.

In the Amsterdam Cup, Yaya Toure was retreated to the central defender position and performed quite well. He cooperated with Thiago Silva very well. In addition, his ability to take the ball is indeed satisfying. Many media and reporters even believe that Ye Qiu should transform him into a central defender.

Ye Qiu believed that when Yaya Toure heard this news, he felt even sadder than him, because if the Ivorians were really allowed to play as a central defender, he might become a central defender who loves attacking and forwards than Lucio. What will happen to the defense line at that time? Could it be that someone would wipe his butt specifically?

Thinking of this, Ye Qiu thought, let it go

After the team returned to London from Amsterdam, they returned to Theoborde for rest and took full advantage of the upcoming Community Shield Cup, and their opponent was Manchester United in the Champions League final.
Chapter completed!