Everyone mentioned the English Youth Training丨There must be no one to escape a club, that is the century-old Saint Southampton.

Let’s talk about England’s youth training丨The youth training of Manchester United, West Ham United, Aston Villa, Middlesbrough, Arsenal and other teams have always been good, but Southampton is undoubtedly the most famous youth training among all England teams.

But the English youth training team is currently facing a serious debt crisis. Not only did they drop from the English Champions League to the League One last season, but they were forced to file for bankruptcy protection since April and entered the government custody state. They were also deducted ten league funds in the new season of the League One.

Given the current situation in Southampton, the hope of returning to the Championship in the new season can be said to be very, very slim.

Matthew Leticier, the God in the minds of Southampton fans, is not as good as the English legendary superstar Alan Shearer from Southampton, in the hearts of all Saints fans, because his career only fights for Southampton.

He and Borgkamp are the only two players who scored two goals at the same time and were selected into the top ten goals in the Premier League history. Even as an offensive midfielder, in the minds of quite a few fans, his strength is worse than that of the well-known Gascoin, but he has played in Southampton all his life, so his fame is not as good as Gascoin.

As the club's legendary superstar, Leticier was demoted to the League One and on the verge of bankruptcy, he tried every means to run around the city, raising 500,000 pounds to the club to relieve the salary of employees and players. At the same time, he decided to form a consortium to acquire Southampton, and this move was supported and affirmed by all Saints fans.

However, to complete the acquisition, it will take at least a huge sum of 25 million pounds to complete the acquisition.

Perhaps, £25 million is simply not worth mentioning for some super rich people, but for Leticier, it is not something he can afford. So in the past few months, he has been running around the city, attracting many local wealthy people to join his consortium, hoping to get their financial support, acquire Southampton and save the saints.

As time entered July, one after another of the team's stars who were in their play were sold by the custody committee, and the team was about to fall apart, Leticier was helpless because even now, he had not raised enough funds to acquire the club.

Just when he was helpless, Leticier received a call from London. On the other side was Tottenham Hotspur CEO Peter Kenyon, who was invited by Manchester to London.

Leticier is full of favor for this North London powerhouse that just took Luke Shaw from Southampton. He used to be a skilled player when he played football, so he likes Tottenham Hotspur, which also advocates the technical school, but what is the purpose of this team meeting him now?

With such a doubt in mind, Leticier drove 80 kilometers to London, but to his surprise, the people he met this time, in addition to the expected Tottenham CEO Peter Kenyon, there was also a person he could not even imagine. Ye Qiu

Although Leticier is not the young entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley who have dreams and carry a thick plan with him, he always feels that he is not satisfied with his talent, but when he sees Ye Qiu, he still feels a little nervous because he is a football coach himself and he knows very well that Ye Qiu plays an important role in the current world football world

The meeting place between the two parties was not ostentatious, but deliberately chose to meet in a more secret hotel, avoiding all the journalists and media, which also made Leticier full of doubts about what Ye Qiu and Peter Kenyon wanted.

"I heard that you are raising funds everywhere recently and want to acquire Southampton?" Ye Qiu was as straightforward as ever. As soon as Leticier sat down and ordered a cup of coffee, he asked him directly about the purpose of his appointment with him.

Leticier decided to go north, and now he felt very uneasy when he heard Ye Qiu say this, his uneasiness is even more obvious because he always has a premonition that Ye Qiu and Tottenham have ambitions for Southampton.

"Don't be nervous, Mr. Leticier, I just want to know your thoughts." Ye Qiu saw Leticier's anxiety and said with a smile.

Leticier stared at Ye Qiu for a few glances. He really admired Ye Qiu and his football, but this was related to Southampton, so he was very serious and said to Ye Qiu almost word by word, "I will not betray Southampton."

After hearing this, Ye Qiu looked at Peter Kenyon and both of them laughed.

"I think you misunderstood, Mr. Leticier," Peter Kenion explained for Ye Qiu with a smile. "We are the owners of Tottenham Hotspur. According to the rules, we cannot acquire Southampton again. Even if this team is now in the League One, it is completely unruly whether in the FA or the Premier League, you know."

Leticier only remembered that the FA and the Premier League do have such regulations. Of course, this is mainly reflected in the controlling stake, but if it is holding shares, it is not a big problem, because a considerable number of investment companies hold shares in multiple English football clubs at the same time, but not many of them are just.

"Then is the purpose of you asking me?" Leticier's tone slowed down, and he felt that he was too concerned.

Ye Qiu smiled slightly, "I want to fully support your consortium to acquire Southampton."

"What?" Leticier was shocked, "Support me with all my strength?"

Perhaps this seemed to him completely unreasonable, but looking at Ye Qiu and Peter Kenyon's expressions, they didn't seem to be joking at all, but were very serious and certain.

Ye Qiu learned about the current situation in Southampton from Peter DeVisel. When the latter poached Luke Shaw, he got some insider information, such as the current financial crisis and bankruptcy filing in Southampton, and the only consortium that is interesting to Southampton is the only one that formed by Leticier. But the problem is that they simply cannot raise enough funds to acquire the team.

How valuable is Southampton is, it depends on whoever looks at it. In Ye Qiu's opinion, the greatest value of this team is that they have a very complete youth training system that maintains consistency from the first team to the youth team. And because they are in southern England, the FA made an exception to allow Southampton to establish a satellite base in Cardiff, Wales.

That's why Gareth Bale was able to enter Southampton, which has always been seen by many Welsh players as a springboard for entering the English League.

After being surprised, Leticier quickly woke up, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I don't understand what you mean very much, Mr. Ye Qiu, I said, I will not betray Southampton."

"I never said I wanted you to betray Southampton," Ye Qiu also said with a smile.

"Then you said just now that you should fully support me in the acquisition of Southampton?" Leticier was a little puzzled.

Peter Kenyon took the initiative to speak again at this time. After all, Ye Qiu is indeed inconvenient to say more about many things, "Mr. Ye Qiu means that we strongly support you in terms of financial resources to acquire Southampton. We know that you lack funds, and we can provide you with sufficient funds, not only to acquire Southampton, but also to renovate the youth training camp in Southampton, and provide the best and best training equipment and technical personnel support.

Funding is indeed a huge temptation, but Tottenham Hotspur provides the best and best training equipment and technical support, which is also a huge temptation, because the whole world knows that Tottenham Hotspur’s Theobord training base is the best and most advanced training base in the world, and almost all teams hope to get their support.

But looking around the world, except for Ajax, who has a partnership with Tottenham and Santos of Brazil, it has always been difficult for other teams to share their scouting intelligence and training skills from Tottenham.

It can be said that the two bargaining chips given by Tottenham Hotspur are all things Southampton cannot refuse.

Because, after the team fell into a financial crisis, Southampton's scouting system was almost collapsed, and most of the scouts were scattered. Because no one was willing to guard this team that could not even pay wages, Southampton's youth training has almost no future.

But if they can get strong support from Tottenham Hotspur, they will be able to get out of such adversity quickly, not only in terms of financial resources, but also in terms of training equipment, training technology and human resources.

"I don't understand very well. What's the benefit of doing this for you?" Leticier is not a fool. He can't get up early without any profit. Although he doesn't understand this Chinese sentence, he knows very well. Will Ye Qiu do things that have no benefits?

Peter Kenyon laughed, "It's very simple, you know we have reached partnerships with Ajax and Santos. We have invested in these two teams one after another, and have held certain shares of them. It's just that we are not well-known to the outside world. We have shared youth training results and scout information with them.

Leticier understands, “You want Southampton to become Tottenham’s star-making factory?

As the most famous youth training club in England, even if Southampton has scattered talents, with the reputation and strength of this club, only with sufficient financial support, there may not be no possibility of regrouping in a short period of time. If the saints can be revitalized, then for Tottenham Hotspur, having such a youth training club as a talent reserve center will surely ensure that Tottenham Hotspur always maintains its personnel supply chain.

All the giant teams actually have their own talent supply chains, just like Manchester United, they have more than a dozen cooperative teams spread all over the world to ensure that they can get a constant supply of talents, and the same is true for Arsenal.

After Tottenham Hotspur got the two talent processing centers, Ajax and Santos, the talent reserves are strong, but they still want to continue to further strengthen their talent advantages, because professional football, to put it bluntly, what they are fighting for is talents, which means who can get a better supply of talents.

"It can be said that" Peter Kenyon did not hide at all, because everyone is smart. Sometimes the more you hide, the more you are disgusted by the other party. On the contrary, you express your intentions straight to the point, accept it if you can accept it, and refuse if you can't. It will be easier for everyone to talk about it.

"We hope to invest in your consortium, and you will be the chairman of the consortium to acquire Southampton. We believe that with your influence and appeal in this team, as long as you put in place enough funds to impress the custody committee, the acquisition will not be a big problem."

Of course Leticier knew this, "What do you want?"

"49↑Team Shares, at the same time, we hope to establish a modern management model similar to Tottenham Hotspur in Southampton, as well as a more complete and advanced youth training system. And I can invite a famous European head coach for Southampton to strive to help the team return to the Premier League in the shortest time."

The head coach Ye Qiu mentioned is Ko Adriansé. This famous Dutch coach has become less and less successful in recent years. Although his strength is absolutely not doubtful, in the past few years, he has suffered various unsatisfactory due to various reasons. He has suffered Waterloo in Portugal, Ukraine, Qatar and Austria, and is currently at home.

Ye Qiu has learned about Adrians' situation with Bobby Hams. He firmly believes that the Dutch head coach will definitely be interested in taking over Saints Southampton, because this is a team that is very consistent with his characteristics. It has a complete and prolific young player production line. Coupled with the poverty caused by the financial crisis, he can form a brand new team exactly as he wants.

Of course, the premise is that the board of directors must give full support and affirmation.

Returning to the Premier League is a dream event for Leticier. Since Southampton was relegated, he has been thinking about how to help the team return to the Premier League almost all the time. Judging from Ye Qiu's tone and vision, this is not completely impossible.

"How much can you invest?" Leticier lingers in his heart for a long time, but finally decided to bow to the capital.

If you lack money for professional football, you can't play anything.

"Twenty million pounds, plus some brand new training equipment needed for youth training camps and training bases"

Leticier thought in his mind that with the funds he can raise at present, if Ye Qiu's 20 million pounds is more than enough to buy Southampton, even if he wants to renovate the training base, it will not be a big problem. If he can continue to raise more funds in Southampton, the summer transfer may be able to take out 30 million pounds to sign up.

And it must be said that Ye Qiu gave great sincerity, because the current price offered by the trusteeship committee to Southampton is about 25 million pounds. In other words, Ye Qiu's payment is fully capable of acquiring Southampton, but he only has 49 shares, which has to be said that Leticier took advantage.

"But I have a requirement." Of course, Ye Qiu could not take out the money and let Leticier do whatever he wanted.

"Speak and listen"

"As I said just now, I want to establish a modern management model in Southampton, and at the same time introduce the mainland system to integrate Southampton's tradition with the mainland football system. I believe you should see that the Premier League style is gradually moving towards mainlandization, which is the future trend."

Leticier is not unfamiliar with this. The mainlandization of the Premier League started when Ferguson introduced Perron to Ye Qiu, and when Ye Qiu landed in Chelsea, it attracted attention from the outside world. Until the rise of Tottenham Hotspur, it completely sounded the clarion call for the mainlandization of the Premier League and triggered this trend.

"Of course, I can tell you very surely that I hope you can become the chairman of the team, because I believe that you have been playing football for many years and have received many years of coach training after retirement | You have been protecting Southampton for life and are more eager to run this team well than anyone else, and we can provide you with the talent support you need, such as team management, business marketing, scouts, etc."

Leticier has to admit that the bargaining chips given by Ye Qiu are indeed difficult for him to refuse. Despite this, Southampton will be tied up with the Tottenham Hotspur chariot from now on and become Tottenham's youth training center. But from the moment, Southampton has almost no choice unless fans can accept it going bankrupt.

Because even after more than three months, no rich man has been able to stand up and express his willingness to take over the team.

The UK economy has been sluggish in recent years, and the recent European debt crisis has made the British economy worse, and the unemployment rate remains high. Southampton itself is not a big city, there are not many rich people, and Southampton is not a giant team in English football. It is not very attractive, so no one has ever been willing to take over it.

Ye Qiu is not a sucker. On the contrary, he is very smart in his calculations. Judging from this transaction, he has indeed suffered a loss. He has received a big loss for 20 million pounds to exchange for 49 shares, but in the long run, he is not at a loss because he has a long-term youth training center like Southampton, and the stars produced here can be allowed to be won by him and Tottenham Hotspur. Just this relationship alone is enough to ensure that he will not suffer any losses.

And you should also note that if Southampton really has the chance to return to the Premier League as he said, the team's total assets will rise by then, and the 49 shares he invests now in 20 million pounds will increase several times in the future.

"Can you reveal your head coach?" Leticier said, the head coach is also an important part of a team.

"Co Adriansé" Ye Qiu said with a smile.

This is indeed a very powerful and well-known head coach. Especially in recent years, Dutch head coaches have generally been valued and recognized by the outside world, because Dutch head coaches have always paid great attention to system construction and tactical qualities, which is very in line with the needs of the modern football tactical system and are considered to be a representative faction of mainlandization.

"He is willing to come to the League One?" Leticier was a little suspicious.

Ye Qiu shrugged and smiled, "This is my business, I can handle him."

After a pause, he added, "But I hope he can serve as the technical director."

Head coach and technical director, this is also Ye Qiu's trust and affirmation of Ko Adrians. At least he and Bobby Hams know Ko Adrians very well. With the strength of the Dutch, as long as you give trust and support, he will give you enough rewards. At least he can lay an extremely solid foundation for you, and he is very good at youth training.

When Leticier heard this, he really couldn't think of any reason to refuse. The reason was very simple. He needed Ye Qiu's support in terms of financial resources or other aspects.
Chapter completed!