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Chapter 416 The Successor's Expectation



Chapter 416 The Successor's Expectation
Wenger turned his head to see Ji Dong who was thinking about the situation on the field, with a smile on his face:

In his opinion, Pellegrini coached Real Madrid in the 0910 season, which was definitely a successful season. Even Wenger has always believed that if Florentino did not put pressure on Pellegrini, if Chilean engineers could get a more relaxed coaching environment and a longer period of trust, Real Madrid would not need Mourinho at all.

Why do you say that?
One of the strongest evidences is that when Pellegrini was in charge of Real Madrid, they lost twice in the league to Barcelona, ​​but after the league ended, the gap between Real Madrid and Barcelona in the standings was only three points.

Maybe that's why everyone doesn't have the impression that two defeats to Barcelona are not just six points, because Barcelona won by six points, Real Madrid lost six points, and the difference was twelve points, and in the end they lost by three points. It means that outside of the two derby games of the century, Real Madrid performed much better than Barcelona.

Of course, the loss of the Derby of the Century, the humiliating loss of the Copa del Rey, and the continuous stop at the top [-] of the Champions League all reflect Pellegrini's flaws and shortcomings, that is, the key games, he adjusted the team's state, activated The player's fighting spirit is not enough.

But none of these can conceal Pellegrini's astonishment in his first season in charge of Real Madrid, because he has just arrived and has no impressive resume, and there are many internal problems and contradictions in Real Madrid, so these defects and deficiencies are all possible. Forgive and give him more time to make amends.

But unfortunately, Pellegrini's journey to Real Madrid came to an abrupt end after one season.

From the above cases, it is not difficult to find a very interesting problem, that is, coaching changes often represent labor pains and reorganization, and may even cause the team to experience turmoil.

Wenger has always had a clear plan for his career. He has ideals and pursuits, but he also has a career and a family, so he knows very well that he cannot stay at the age of Ferguson as the head coach of Arsenal. What he wants to do most now is to build all aspects of Arsenal, whether it is the distribution of management power of the team, or the entire tactical offensive and defensive system of the team. He must build this foundation.

And he has been cultivating the future successor, that is Ji Dong

Now Wenger has gradually handed over the training to Ji Dong to take full responsibility. He just told Ji Dong?

For example, what is his ability to deal with the relationship with the players in the team?How well does he fit in with the rest of the coaching staff?When he faces some key games, or when the team has an emergency, what about his adaptability and handling ability?

This will not be a short period of time, even though Ji Dong is about to turn 30 now, but just like his template Benitez, what he is doing now is a kind of accumulation, and the purpose of accumulation is for the future. After taking charge of himself, he can quickly take over the scepter from Wenger's hand and become the head coach of Arsenal.

In Wenger's positioning, the team's head coach is like the soul of a team, like the CEO of a multinational company. He must be carefully selected, passed multiple assessments, and has incomparably rich experience. But more importantly, he must understand and be able to successfully control the team.

But Ji Dong is thinking

After three years of accumulation, the tactical books he had read about those famous marshals had filled the entire study room, and he even had to spend more bonus points to expand the space of the study room to store More books.

Although Ji Dong came from 2013, he himself took a partially positive attitude towards Barcelona, ​​which was at its peak around 2013. He always believed that Barcelona's ball control system must have an advanced concept that surpassed other opponents, but it is impossible for any team to copy Barcelona's system, because every team has its own uniqueness.

In the past three years after traveling, Ji Dong has seen the tactical thinking and essence of many world famous coaches, and even some ordinary head coaches. He has learned many tactical ideas and ideas, including conservatives and radicals.

However, Ji Dong adopts a dubious attitude towards these people's tactical thoughts and concepts. He may agree with some of these viewpoints and deny some of them, but this does not mean that the viewpoints he agrees with are necessarily correct, while those he denies are necessarily wrong.

There is no absolute right or wrong in this world. It seems that it is difficult to define whether a head coach is conservative or aggressive, whether he is inclined to attack or defend. Ji Dong's selection criteria are always based on his own needs.

As for ball control, Ji Dong admired Cruyff's idea very much.

When many people mention Cruyff's idea of ​​ball control, they will always mention a sentence, "Keep the ball firmly under your feet, let our opponents have no control over the ball, and the game will be won."

This sentence is definitely taken out of context, and it is the result of typical media remarks. They just want to label Cruyff's ball-handling philosophy with a simple, easy-to-understand and easy-to-remember label, that is, extreme ball-handling theory.

Cruyff said that he felt that there were only two people in the middle of the midfield, which was too thin, so he likes to have three people in the midfield, which is for better defense. "I like defense more than anyone can imagine. Can't win, but don't lose either."

"There's an episode of The Simpsons where there's a football game where one side is passive and passes the ball, but they don't attack, they're obsessed with passing, they're obsessed with their possession, everything they do. It’s all about possession, which makes no sense because possession is necessary to attack and score goals through possession.”

"What I have emphasized from the beginning to the end is the passing of the ball, which constitutes possession of the ball, but unrestrained possession of the ball is not what the pass wants to achieve, simplicity is."

"It took me many, many years to realize that playing football is very simple, but it is very difficult to play simple football!"

"It's like tiki-taka. The matador wants to control the audience. He keeps using various means and methods to tease the bull, irritate him, and then he rushes up quickly, almost hitting himself. At that time, using the cover of the cloak, combined with a beautiful and graceful turn, passed the angry bull, and let him miss it."

"This is the essence of what real control wants to achieve. On the football field, the ultimate goal of the party in possession of the ball is not to control the ball, but to make the opponent pounce like a bull and reveal fatal flaws. The ball-handling side is like a matador, using simple but very clever skills and screens, passing by the opponent."

"At that moment, the opponent's defense is the weakest, because they found that they had missed the air and exposed their flaws, and they were desperately trying to slow themselves down and then fill the loopholes, while the team in possession of the ball saw through the opponent's loopholes, and desperately wanted to get themselves up faster to take advantage of this loophole. This kind of fierce collision between fast and slow will bring a pleasing and exciting scene."

"Da Vinci said that the simplest is the most complicated. I believe that the pursuit of all football coaches is the same, that is, to use the simplest way to score goals and win. This is also my pursuit!"

Ji Dong has seen the tactical thinking of many famous coaches in the world, but he really found that there has never been any head coach whose entire tactical thinking can be integrated into a system like Cruyff. He has a complete tactical thinking system.

This is also Ji Dong’s perception of him all the time. He may not be a great head coach, or he may not be a likable guy, but he is definitely a great football thinker, because he is thinking about a set of philosophies belonging to football almost all the time.

Easy, hard?not difficult!

Simple and easy?not easy!

It's as if we eat, drink, and sleep every day, it's very simple, very simple, it seems that we can do it with every gesture, but who remembers the time when I just started learning to use chopsticks to hold vegetables and learn to hold a cup to drink water? situation?

Don't forget that we have spent decades, or even a lifetime of exercise, to make eating, drinking, and sleeping easy. If we didn't spend so much time, would these things be easy?

The easiest is at the same time the hardest, because things become easy only after the most complex techniques have been mastered.

So, ball control is not the ultimate goal, simplicity is!
Going back to this game, Ji Dong felt that Arsenal's ball possession rate was a bit high, about 60%, because if you didn't give your opponent more chances, it would be like preventing that angry bull from rushing forward, and they would probably not show their flaws at all.

Another point that makes Ji Dong unsatisfied is that Cazorla's passing is too pursuit of accuracy and lacks the spirit of adventure.

Cazorla made a total of 101 staggering passes in these games, which has never been seen in Arsenal in the past few years. Among them, there were only 5 turnovers.

Ji Dong has always believed in one thing, that is, without adventure, there will never be any creativity, because the emergence of creativity itself is the result of an adventure, and without adventure, there can be no creativity.

Sneijder's creativity is good. Ji Dong didn't suppress his risk too much, and gave him more passing freedom to let him play. However, Cazorla himself was a bit too pursuing the success rate of the pass, and he was afraid of making mistakes.

John Cleese, the most creative comedian in Britain, said, "Creativity is not a talent, but a way of behavior. A creative person has a certain emotion that makes his creativity work. Anyone is fully capable of doing this."

Beckenbauer said, "A head coach must be more creative than a player, because a player's creativity can only allow himself to play on the court, but a head coach's creativity is to let Every player on the team is more creative on the court."

Because he has read a lot, Ji Dong knows a lot. He is constantly improving his tactical thinking and ideas, and he is constantly looking for the path that suits him best. However, he maintains a humble attitude to learn from the beginning to the end, even though he often looks very arrogant.

It seems that after a few years, he still hasn't changed his habit of going into the study room whenever he has time and reading all kinds of books. He is still absorbing knowledge from all sides all the time and constantly adding value to himself.

In Ji Dong's view, if some of Cazorla's passes can be more risky, although Arsenal's pass success rate will decrease and the overall ball possession rate will also decrease, but Arsenal's passes will be more sudden and changeable, which can create more threats to the opponent.

After understanding this point, Ji Dong will know where the team's improvement direction will be in the next stage.

Ji Dong once saw such an article in his coach development system, which clearly explained the core elements of a football club's success, not an outstanding head coach, nor a great chairman, nor a group of very outstanding superstars, but long-term stability.

This kind of stability includes all aspects of the team, including the chairman, including the management, including the head coach and coaching staff, as well as players, and even some important employees and staff of the club.

Throughout the history of football, the peak period of almost all great football clubs was born in a stable period.

The peak period of Real Madrid was the period of Chairman Bernabeu. Even the Five Eagles period in the 80s can be regarded as the legacy of Mendoza period; the peak period of AC Milan came from Sacchi, and Capello after Sacchi. The two can be regarded as the same line.

The same case also happened to many teams, such as Liverpool. Although Liverpool's head coach changed many times at its peak, Liverpool at that time had a very famous culture called boot room culture. From the former assistant team, this can ensure the long-term stability of the team.

If you carefully study the history of all great and successful teams, it is not difficult to find that, in fact, this kind of head coach inheritance from the boot room culture is not an isolated phenomenon, but a very common phenomenon, because all players with stable tactics Teams in the system will first consider adopting this method to ensure the unity and inheritance of the team's tactics.

Of course, this kind of inheritance does not mean that there will be no changes at all, but that it can inherit the good advantages, and then find ways to improve the shortcomings and adopt a gradual reform. This is not only applicable to a country, but also to a country. Teams, especially professional teams, basically have huge performance pressure.

The same is true of the coach, and the same is true of the players.

For all teams at their peak, if they want to ensure stability, in addition to the head coach, the stability of the player lineup is also a key, and this also involves the transfer of the team.

Stability doesn't mean you don't transfer. If you don't transfer, it means a pool of stagnant water, no new ideas and no vitality.

The so-called stability also means adopting a gradual transfer method to keep the advantages and improve the disadvantages.

And all fans know that every head coach will have his own different tactical ideas and ideas. If it is not to adopt this kind of inheritance similar to the boot room culture, the first thing a new head coach will do when he comes to power must be Reorganizing the team and introducing some players who are his own preferences and in line with his tactical philosophy will inevitably cause turmoil.

Therefore, almost all great teams at their peak often represent the team's success in terms of youth training output.

This is definitely not an accident, but an inevitability. The reason is very simple. The team is stable in all aspects. The head coach is familiar with the team's tactical system and does not easily reorganize the team lineup. The team has a group of outstanding young players who are rising. , Drive the team's internal competition and stimulate the pressure on the players in the team. Such a team is the team that is most likely to succeed.

Some people may find it strange again, how to ensure the output of youth training?

This involves many issues, but the output of youth training here does not mean that one must grow up and become a talent in the club since childhood. Such a so-called youth training concept is too narrow, because it must be understood that the greatest use of the youth training system is to cultivate usable talents for the first team, so there is no need to worry about whether this talent came to the team at the age of eight, or, as long as it is a talent for the first team, it is considered a successful youth training丨
Someone once made such a statistic, and it is also the signing strategy that teams including Lyon, Arsenal, and Porto have always pursued, that is, first-team signings are generally around 20 years old.

Why do these teams known for their black shops pursue such a strategy?

There are many reasons. Young players around 20 years old generally have formed skills and tactics and are in the rapid development stage of their careers. Therefore, the introduction of them at this time has a very high success rate, but because they are still growing rapidly, the general price Not too high, it can be said to be of high quality and low price. After being introduced to the team, they can be sold at any time after they are famous and earn the price difference.

So what if you were younger?
This involves a risk and financial control issues.

Younger players, such as Zuo Zuo, are generally well-known players with stable performance at this young level. For example, Rooney, the transfer fee is very high, because they are all called geniuses.
There is another problem. When considering high-priced signings, wealthy teams generally consider mature players first. It takes at least three years to join the team, and some even have to be 24 or [-] years old.

Everyone who does trade knows what kind of trade is the most profitable?

Fast in and fast out, there is no financial pressure, that is to say, for trade teams, they not only have to consider buying players, but also consider how long the players will be in their hands. It is best to play for a period of time after the introduction. It is the most ideal result to sell quickly after the price increase, without financial pressure, and earn the price difference. The longer you keep it in your hand, the more unfavorable it is for the team's capital operation, so fast in and fast out is The strategy pursued by all black shop teams.

That's why there is such a rule that around the age of 20 is the golden age for first-team signings

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