The busy summer has finally arrived.

After a season of empty hands, the pressure on Ajax management doubled.

The core and captain of the defensive team, Qi Wu and the sharpest right winger Van der Mede, both have to transfer, which has raised huge problems for Ajax. It is impossible to keep it anymore. The management requires the competitive department to come up with a plan as soon as possible.

Signing?

This is unlikely. There are multiple players in the first team facing renewal issues, and they must have a salary increase once they renew.

If the finances of a club are regarded as a balance, then the transfer fee and salary budget are both ends of the balance. If you want to raise one side, you have to suppress the other end.

The reason why management decided to sell people was due to the pressure of the team's salary increase.

If you don’t sell people, where can you get the money to give Van der Fate, Ibrahimovic, Sneider and others a raise?

Not only does it sell people, but it cannot make big signings in the transfer market, but also keeps the team competitive and even performs better than last season. This undoubtedly raises a huge problem for the competitive department.

Ronald Koeman has made it clear that he will continue to promote young talents from the youth team to the first team in the new season. At the same time, he also requires the scouting department to find a group of outstanding young players to join the team as soon as possible to provide enough talent supply for the first team.

Even the sixteen or seventeen-year-old players such as Babel and Ram Rabat have begun to enter the first team's wait-and-see roster.

Tony Browns Slotts is the top leader in the scouting department, so it is naturally his responsibility to select materials.

Recently, he has been very busy and has come and sent him every day. He has countless players' information, which makes him dizzy and has a headache every time he enters DeTok Most.

Especially when he saw Patrick Ladrew and Fred Arroyo coming together, his brows frowned tightly.

"I hope you bring me good news." Slotz curled his lips and said bitterly.

Ladru and Arroyo looked at each other and smiled.

Patrick Ladrew is an old minister in Ajax youth training and has always coached in the youth team. After Leo Benhack left early, he was transferred to serve as an assistant in youth training.

Fred Arroyo is a scout under Slotz. He is responsible for inspecting Ajax's players on loan and submitting a regular inspection registration.

These two have been busy with the same thing recently, summer amateur competition.

"Don't say it, there's really good news." Fred Arroyo laughed.

"Speak and listen."

"Aren't you having a headache for the centre-back and right-winger lately?"

"Yeah." Slots nodded.

These are also the two most urgent positions that the team needs to sign.

"In terms of central defender, I highly recommend the young central defender Vlar of Alkmaar."

Slotz nodded. He knew that this player had performed well in the amateur game and was also a typical central defender. He was just a little younger and immature, but the prospects were still worth promising.

"This player is really good, but he's a little younger. You know the current problems of our team. We need more mature and steady players, so the scouting department and coaching staff are more favoured by Julian Escud of Rennes in Ligue 1. He is about to be twenty-four and has more experience."

Patrick Ladrew shrugged, "It doesn't matter, we have a good relationship with Alkmaar, so we can talk about it first."

Obviously, he and Arroyo are optimistic about Vlaal, the central defender.

Slotz thought for a while, "I think about it again, you know, we can't recruit all the best young people in the Netherlands into the team. We have to consider whether there are enough opportunities to exercise. In the central defender, we also have Thomas Fermallen. We signed this Belgian in 2001, but we haven't played in the first team yet."

After hearing this, the two stopped insisting. For a team like Ajax, the most uncommon one is young players.

"The other one is the right winger, you must have heard of it." Arroyo smiled.

"oh?"

"The Chinese in Almele, Yang Yang."

"It's him." Slotz nodded, "Last night, Alon Moy's football online was basically discussing him. He challenged Warrendan away and scored twice. Two goals helped Almere reverse the home team. This performance was really good."

"We've seen his game live," Arroyo smiled. "His breakthrough on the right reminded me of a man."

"who?"

"Ronaldo."

"Please, the aliens are the forwards."

"I know, I mean, his extraordinary looks a lot like Ronaldo."

After Arroyo said this, Slotz suddenly remembered something and immediately signaled his colleagues to wait. He walked to the cabinet next to him full of documents and searched for a while, and soon took out a document.

"I forgot how long ago our scouts recommended him."

As he said that, Slotz handed the document to his two colleagues.

While they were watching the scout report, Slotz also played videos of the game copied by Arroyo on his computer.

The game last night was held at the Carras Stadium in Warrendan. Although it was not broadcast live to the public, at the request of Ajax, video was recorded on the spot. Arroyo specially edited Yang Yang's game highlights and copied them to the U disk.

Slotz couldn't help frowning even deeper as he watched.

If he remembered correctly, the scout report should have been put on his desk more than a month ago, but he didn't pay much attention at the time because the person who recommended him thought Yang Yang was Ronaldo II, which was judged by Slotz as a sensationalist.

But judging from the game video submitted by Arroyo, Yang Yang's breakthrough on the right side is indeed sharp, and his investment in the frontcourt, especially in defense, is very high, which is very rare among offensive players.

Although Slotz is not a head coach, he is very clear that a player who is willing to devote himself to defense without hesitation and has excellent offensive skills is regarded as a treasure by any head coach.

The reason why Ronald Koeman doesn't have a special trust in Ibrahimovic is because the Swedish center is not keen on defense.

After watching the game video carefully, Slotz found that as long as Yang Yang took the ball and hit the ball head-on, the success rate of one-on-one was almost 100%. This was simply unbelievable.

But the video also exposed many problems of Yang Yang.

"The basic skills are too poor, especially when I stop the ball for the first kick, I have a lot of ideas for passing the ball, but it is not good, and his cross is very bad."

Slotz is able to take charge of Ajax's scouting department and can see Yang Yang's strengths and weaknesses at a glance.

If it weren't for the poor basic skills, if the first stop and cross were more reliable, the player would be very outstanding. Almele would definitely score more than two goals in this game.

This is a player with obvious pros and cons.

Arroyo and Radrew looked at each other and saw the helplessness in each other's eyes.

"I listened to football online last night. Many enthusiastic fans said on the phone that Yang Yang could not play in Almere two months ago, but he has made rapid progress in the past two or three months and has become the core main force of the team."

Slotz looked at Radrew, "Patrick, you mean..."

"I think we should take a closer look at him, it's better you go there in person."

"Well, I'll think about it." Slots thought for a while and said.

Arroyo, who was standing aside, also saw Slotz's perfunctory behavior, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Tony, I know you're very busy recently, but I really recommend that you consider Patrick's proposal."

"Hmm?" Slotz also noticed something was wrong.

"I saw Gulit last night in Warrendan."

"Well, he has decided to take over the Dutch U18-age national team this summer." Slotz was not surprised.

"There are also Utrecht scout Henk Funke, Feyenoord scout Michel Becks, and several other teams who all have a high opinion of Yang Yang."

After hearing this, Slotz immediately took it seriously. Unexpectedly, someone else was eyeing him, which he had to pay attention.

"Also, I saw Pete Devither on the scene."

"Peter DeViser?" Slotz was shocked and stared at Arroyo and asked with concern: "Are you sure? Did you read the wrong person?"

"It's true that it's Carras Van Barron who comes with him." Arroyo said with great certainty.

Slotz's face changed and changed. He didn't say anything for a long time, but in the end he stood up.

"I'll call Luther Carroll right away."

After saying that, he looked at Fred Arroyo in front of him again, "Fred, please help me check it immediately to see when Almere's next game is and who the opponent is. I want to get the exact news as soon as possible."

Arroyo knew that it attracted the attention of the top scouting leader, so he dared not be careless and immediately stood up to agree.

Patrick Ladrew added, "Tony, you'd better call John Rep, too."

Slotz and Arroyo suddenly called out.

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After playing against Warrendan, Almele returned in triumph and was warmly welcomed by Almele fans, especially Yang Yang, who scored twice, once again became the team's savior.

Everyone gathered at Shenji Chinese Restaurant to celebrate again, and then went home to rest after a meal.

That night, in the super training ground, Yang Yang and Lao Bing made a post-match review, mainly targeting some of the mistakes made by Yang Yang in the game. Some were caused by poor basic skills and were difficult to improve in a short period of time, but some were Yang Yang's own problems. They should be avoided as much as possible in the next game.

When encountering problems, solving them is how Yang Yang has made continuous progress in the past three months.

The next morning, Yang Yang went to the skateboard park to conduct special training in high spirits.

Since the team stopped training for one day last night's game, Yang Yang spent the rest of his time except for lunch break, and did not return to the restaurant to help until dinner time.

After finally getting busy with the meal and having dinner, Henk Dimmel and others came to the door again.

Not long after, even John Repp came.
Chapter completed!