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Chapter 518 First defeat of the season

As a fan, Ye Qiu always admired an interesting tradition of English football, that is, he went to work without a license, that is, he did not have a professional coach certificate, but he served as the head coach of the Premier League team. Later, he summarized his experience and thought about it. This is a rebellious mentality, rebellion against managers.

To a certain extent, people do have the need to be managed, because not everyone can know clearly what they want. Often, many people only know until they miss it or get it, oh, it turns out that this is what I want, and only a very small number of people know how to get it.

It is useless to just talk about what I want and what I want. The key is to know how to get it, which is helpful to humans, because everyone will say it, but it is not necessarily true that they do it.

Just like in the world of football, many people will say that there are even many things that are so scattered, but in the end there is nothing at all, such as Grant during the Chelsea era, or the former England international Gareth Southgate, who is now sitting next to Ye Qiu.

Southgate is another example of England's unlicensed job. He was once highly praised by the English media, believing that his career was a very excellent central defender. After retiring, he was able to become a rising star in English football and a famous young coach. However, facts have proved that in the past few years he coached, Middlesbrough has always been lukewarm.

Many people say that coaching a wealthy team is not a skill, and coaching a middle and lower-stream team can show real skills. The reason is very simple. Mid-stream teams cannot win or win championships, but at the same time they cannot be relegated. Only in the middle and lower-stream teams where the player quality is generally low, the head coach can play his own tactical role.

Ye Qiu felt that this was a bit nonsense. He dared not say which one is better, the head coach of the mid- and downstream team or the top team, but he could say with certainty that if the mid- and downstream teams can better reflect the role of the head coach, it is nonsense.

And when he truly understood the tactical knowledge, management level and other things needed for the head coach position, he truly realized that taking a job without a license is actually a very stupid and backward appointment method.

The reason is simple. It's like you hand over all the power of a listed company to someone who has no experience in business administration, or like the US government, who handed over the core position of the president's national power to someone who has not even managed a city alone. This is called absurdity, not a sacredness.

In a listed company, at least there are many different departments, boards of directors, and other senior executives that can form constraints. In the US government agencies, not to mention the large consortium behind the scenes, but to say that there are quite a few departments that have restricted the president's power, these can ensure that they will not do anything randomly.

But in a football club, who will restrict the head coach?

Everyone knows that Middlesbrough’s current lineup is actually not bad, and I dare not say that he can make it to the front, but at least he doesn’t need to enter the relegation zone like this, because their team has top Premier League stars with good strength, including Downing, Robert Hutter, Adam Johnson, etc.

But now, Southgate will only announce to the public again and again that the team has no problems. He has found a solution to the problem, but the game has proved again and again that he cannot solve the problem at all.

The Middlesbrough fans who came to White Hart Lane Stadium even sarcastically in the stands, believing that Southgate lost only one thing, that is, the club chairman Gibson trusted him, and in addition, he even lost his underwear.

To use Middlesbrough fans' comics, Southgate, who had taken off his clothes, had a pair of underwear with Gibson's trust written on his face, which shows the dissatisfaction and dishearteningness of Middlesbrough fans with him.

When the team is in good shape, you win games and win opponents. This is not your ability. The real measure of a head coach depends on how you can help the team out of the predicament in adversity and crisis.

Compared with Middlesbrough, who had just defeated Liverpool at home 0 in the last round and won a week off, Tottenham Hotspur's situation in this game is obviously more unfavorable because they have been fighting on multiple fronts for a long time and have just lost to Manchester United in the League Cup final and missed the League Cup championship. The morale is undoubtedly at a low point.

Under such circumstances, many media before the game felt that Middlesbrough was not completely out of the way.

But Ye Qiu took the boldest changes and adjustments in this game, and resolutely chose to return Ribery, who had just returned from injury, to the starting lineup, but not in the position of the left winger who was most familiar to him, but asked him to play the right winger. The left winger used the young player Eden Hazard to start, and the single forward was Cavani.

After changing the starting trident, the midfielder maintained a combination of David Silva and Fabregas, and the midfielder changed to Lucas to start, while the defense was composed of Aveloa, Kompani, Thiago Silva and Kyle Walker, and the goalkeeper was still Peter Cech.

Such a half-main lineup surprised and surprised a lot of people before the game, because they all knew very well that this game would be crucial for Tottenham Hotspur, but at this time Ye Qiu chose to rotate significantly and won the best-in-form Messi, Van Persie and Alves, which was really puzzled.

But such a lineup defeated Middlesbrough 40 at White Hart Lane Stadium, bringing Southgate's team further into the abyss of relegation. The goal for Tottenham Hotspur was Cavani's first record, Eden Hazard scored the second goal, and Ribery followed suit and scored twice.

It is obvious that Tottenham Hotspur did not lose its competitiveness due to large rotations. On the contrary, because of large rotations, Tottenham Hotspur performed quite well in the game, especially Eden Hazard on the left, who almost became Tottenham Hotspur's most threatening player. Although Ribery scored two goals, his performance was not as good as Cavani and Eden Hazard.

So, at this moment, at the White Hart Lane Stadium, when the reporter asked Ye Qiu about whether he had absolute confidence in winning Middlesbrough before the game when he had a large rotation of this game, Ye Qiu said that he was confident but was not sure.

"Sometimes we can't play cards with complete confidence, because before the game is played, no one knows the result, but before the game, I already felt that I think many players in the team need to rest, because they are at a critical point, whether in terms of physical fitness or mental state, they need to relax."

"Mr. Ye Qiu, Ferguson's Manchester United has performed very well in recent times. Currently, the gap between them and Tottenham Hotspur is only four points left, and everyone in Manchester United is ambitious to say that they want to reverse. What do you think?"

After hearing this, Ye Qiu smiled, "If it were me, I would definitely say that they were dreaming.

Everyone present smiled after hearing this, thinking that this was a bit rough, but relieved.

"What I want to say is that we have indeed encountered a problem recently, but we are already a mature team. I think it is difficult for our opponents to have a chance to challenge us under our current situation. We only have one enemy, that is ourselves."

Another reporter raised his hand, "I think you are right, Mr. Ye Qiu, but in the past period of time, your team has encountered many problems due to multi-line combat, just like losing to Manchester United in the League Cup final."

"You don't need to emphasize our loss, I know." Ye Qiu used a relatively relaxed, joking tone to remind the reporter who obviously wanted to uncover the scars of Tottenham Hotspur, "But that's all over. We are still moving on the two fronts of the Champions League and the Premier League. I am full of faith in the future.

After playing Middlesbrough, the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinals was ushered in the middle of the week.

Tottenham Hotspur still uses the starting lineup for the first leg. The only change for the eleven starting players is to replace Marcelo with Aveloa at the left back and freeze Robben.

As a result, Tottenham Hotspur beat Real Madrid, which had completely lost hope of promotion at home, and eliminated Real Madrid from the Champions League with a total score of 0 and successfully advanced to the quarterfinals.

The day after the game, UEFA held a draw ceremony at its headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. Ye Qiu did not attend this time, and the club's CEO Peter Kenyon participated in the team, while Tottenham Hotspur's opponent in the quarterfinals knockout was Sporting Lisbon from Portugal.

This is the weakest team among all the teams that have reached the quarterfinals, and it is also a compensation for Tottenham Hotspurs after they encountered Real Madrid in the first round of knockout. Tottenham Hotspurs were also in the second half of the game between Manchester United and Porto, England and Portugal.

In the first half, there was a showdown between England and Spain. Barcelona met Bayern Munich and Arsenal met Chelsea. This was also a siege of UEFA against four Premier League teams in the draw arrangement to avoid these four Premier League teams having the opportunity to monopolize the semi-finals.

But everyone has a very deep understanding of the strength of the Premier League. In the past two seasons, the Premier League has occupied three seats in the semi-finals of the Champions League, and it is also very likely to occupy three seats again this season. With the decline of Serie A, the situation of a single Premier League team becoming a leader has become very obvious.

After playing Real Madrid and returning to the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur challenged Martin O'Neal's Aston Villa away, Ye Qiu continued to rotate appropriately, and successfully used the successive goals of Fabregas and Cavani at the opening, taking the lead by 0.

But in the second half, Aston Villa created several threats, the most threatening one was the single shot of striker Abanglaho. It was almost one-on-one and was about to be passed by Abanglaho, but Cech decisively abandoned the goal and forced the ball to snatch the ball from Abanglaho's feet, and tripped Abanglaho with the momentum.

But the referee thought it was a beautiful attack, so he did not punish Cech for a foul. Tottenham Hotspur also saved the record of not conceding goals in the 16th consecutive game with Cech's save at a critical moment.

The goalless goal in this game also made Cech famous. With these sixteen consecutive games without concing, he successfully won the second place in the FIFA world goalkeeper's record record. He is the first person in active service, only behind Brazil's goalkeeper in 1977, and to break the record of Majaropei, it will take at least five games.

Because there is a week's rest between the 29th and 30th rounds, Tottenham Hotspur Club has also specially arranged a series of activities to celebrate Cech's record set and arranged for Cech to be interviewed by the official website and the media.

Regarding his goal-lossing record, Cech said he didn't take it too seriously. "What I think most now is how to help the team continue the current unbeaten record and victory momentum. I firmly believe that we will definitely be able to succeed this season."

"I think the most grateful thing to be able to break so many records and achieve such results is my teammates and head coach. Without their support and help, I would not have been able to get this honor, so I hope to repay them and fans with better and better performances."

Perhaps because there were no competitions or news this week, the outside media tried every means to dig around the news, but they did not expect that they would actually dig it out.

On Wednesday, the Sun reporter, who is known as omnipresent, photographed Manchester City CEO Gary Cook and transfer adviser Horabchin heading south to London and met with Tottenham CEO Peter Kenyon in a hotel, and also released a series of photos and evidence of the meeting.

According to the Sun reporter's discovery, a potential transfer has officially surfaced. That is, this summer, Tottenham Hotspur's number one superstar Leo Messi will transfer to Manchester City at a super sky-high price of 150 million euros. This will be a super sky-high price that breaks all transfer fee records. Moreover, Manchester City will give Messi a huge salary twice as high as he is now, making him completely the number one person in football in all aspects.

The Sun, this is a famous newspaper in England. They poached the inside story of Beckham's transfer, and provided photos of Peter Kenyon, who was working at Manchester United at the time, meeting with Real Madrid's senior executives. They also exposed some explosive inside stories many times, which were called omnipresent by English fans.

This news from the Sun immediately triggered the global media. On the one hand, everyone was surprised by Manchester City's big moves, and was also surprised by Tottenham's operations. In the past few years, Tottenham has sold people almost every year, but the overall strength of the team has not been affected at all, but instead has been rising steadily in performance.

The number one black store in Europe, this must be worthy of Tottenham Hotspur.

Ye Qiu was unintentionally the most valuable black shopkeeper in this black store, because if he didn't have the pair of sharp eyes he looked for, how could Tottenham Hotspur be sure to sell his leading star at will?

Tottenham Hotspur directly denied the rumors about the outside world, saying that the team had not received any offer and had never had any contact with Manchester City, but such a statement was obviously unconvincing.

Soon, Real Madrid also joined the battle circle. Spanish media revealed that Florentino intends to return to Real Madrid this summer to reshape the Galaxy battleship. Messi is a crucial part of Florentino's superstar strategy. The former Real Madrid chairman hopes to pack up the three superstars Messi, Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo in one go, and regain the glorious peak of the Galaxy battleship era.

Barcelona is also joining the battle circle, but relatively speaking, Barcelona has no way to compare with Real Madrid in terms of transfer fees, let alone Manchester City, so what Barcelona can give is sincerity and emotional offensive for players. Therefore, many media in Catalonia have rumored that Messi will return to Barcelona this summer.

In addition to Messi, there are many players in Tottenham Hotspur team that have been targeted by their opponents, such as Gareth Bale. There are reports that Ferguson plans to sell Cristiano Ronaldo and introduce Gareth Bale from Tottenham Hotspur. From these two transfers, Manchester United should be able to make a net profit of about 50 million euros.

But there are also news that Ferguson has begun to introduce Lyon's talented striker Benzema, and Chelsea's England star Rooney is also within Ferguson's consideration. It is news that Ferguson plans to reorganize Manchester United's trident this time by selling Cristiano Ronaldo's funds.

In addition, like Van Persie, Fabregas, Alves, and Yaya Toure, who performed very well this season, have become popular in the transfer market and have been targeted by many competitors. However, Tottenham Hotspur has denied these transfers one by one, saying that Tottenham has no plan to sell people.

It was obviously influenced by the overwhelming news hype from the outside world. Tottenham Hotspur hosted Chelsea at home in the 30th round of the league, but this time Tottenham Hotspur faced Chelsea who was defensive, and obviously performed very badly, lacking threat in offense and not doing a good job in defense.

The two players performed the best in the game, one was Beckham who replaced the injured Fabregas, and the Englishman helped Tottenham win Chelsea with a direct free kick, while the other was Peter Cech, who performed the best in the game, who helped Tottenham to keep the goal.

In this round, Manchester United lost to Fulham away from home and took the lead in losing the chain.

But in the 31st round of the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur's goal finally failed. When playing Blackburn, who played Allardyce away, the team paid a heavy price for Messi. Kompany's red card was also lost to Violent Ben away. What made Ye Qiu feel helpless was that McCarthy was the one who scored the goal for Blackburn.

Mourinho's disciple almost exclusively targeted Tottenham Hotspur, and he can be called a Tottenham Hotspur killer
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