The Young Lion

In two years, Ajax, who climbed to the top of Europe in 1995, has no face.

At that time, the main lineup of the team that swept Europe was mostly gone. This summer, Cruyvert decided not to renew the contract, Peter Pan Ovimas went to doubt, Bogard and AC Milan Lang concubine, the most The key point is that the meritorious coach Van Gaal is also ecstatic, and his brows with Barcelona are no longer a secret.

Over the past two decades, Ajax has delivered nearly 50 players to the top five European leagues, most of which are famous players. In the eyes of European first-line clubs, Ajax is not only a Dutch giant, but also a football Talent boutique store.

In the last ten years of transfers, Ajax has earned more than 100 million US dollars. This number is for the moment. Other teams can hardly imagine.

Ajax, Feyenoord, Eindhoven, these three Dutch giants propped up Dutch football, the strength of youth training is beyond words.

Just like Real Madrid and Barcelona’s contribution to La Liga, perhaps in the general public’s consciousness, Barcelona’s La Masia is a sign of youth training. Real Madrid is not known for youth training, but in fact, Real Madrid has not been able to learn from its own youth training. In addition to the first-team talents drawn from the system, Real Madrid’s youth training has made a great contribution to the entire Spanish football, because players who have not made their first days in Real Madrid have gone to other teams. This season will send about 10 professional players to the two levels of clubs, and the accumulated number of them over the years is small, and there are not a few players in the La Liga who are from Real Madrid youth training.

The three youth training models all have their own characteristics. Ajax cannot retain genius, plus the business philosophy of Jewish background, selling people to make money is their purpose. After all, the influence of the Dutch league has limitations with the status of football. , You can’t keep it without selling it!

Although Barcelona began to enter the construction of the Dutch gang this summer, in the long run, even if Van Gaal takes office, he will promote the future team core players like Harvey from the youth training. The youth team and the first team have consistent tactics. The concept makes the youth team seamlessly integrate with the first team, so that the first team can continuously obtain talents from the youth team.

Real Madrid pursues the survival of the fittest. With the club’s “noble” background, the first team has too little patience for young players, and there are not many opportunities. Unless it is Raul, Casillas, such a blockbuster and quickly gain a foothold in the first team. Genius, otherwise even if the young players are excellent, the club does not have the patience to wait for you to mature and become the only one. However, the club’s influence and status are detached by sending talent to the other La Liga clubs. This is also a big benefit.

In Aldrich’s team building philosophy, if Millwall is to be strong, he must integrate the youth training characteristics of these three clubs, learn from each other’s strengths and weaknesses, copy the Barcelona’s first-team youth team’s consistent tactical training model, and learn Ajax’s network talent training rookies. Policy, but also to allow the youth team to have a competitive environment like Real Madrid.

A genius and a hundred mediocres are trained together. Most of them will be assimilated by mediocrity until the end.

But if fifty geniuses and fifty mediocres are trained together, the effect is completely different. The competition among geniuses stimulates the aggressiveness of mediocre talents. This will accelerate the growth of players and stimulate their potential.

Aldridge not only needs to strengthen the first team this summer, but also allows the youth team to have more potential new stars, so as to stimulate their faster growth.

Because he discovered a very bad phenomenon.

The four players Joe Cole, Ronaldinho, Ashley Cole and Villa were the most dazzling stars of hope for the Millwall youth team last season. At the age of 14-15, their performance in the youth team seems to be outstanding, but in the youth team last season, as they grew older, the gap between them and players of the same age was growing, forming a polarization .

This freed them from the 11-member big group and became a small group. This does not mean that they are ganging up on the youth team, but it is the quality that is most intuitively displayed on the court, because other teammates cannot keep up with their speed. , Kick thinking, reaction ability.

It’s impossible for them to slow down their playing speed to wait for their teammates who are obviously a few beats slower, so they have only two options, Ronaldinho and Joe Cole, and Villa in the frontcourt. Cooperate, when there is no space to cooperate, it becomes very selfish and will not pass the ball to other teammates, because they think that the choice of passing is better than trying to break through or shoot. Anyway, the effect is definitely better than giving the ball to those abilities. Teammates with gaps are much stronger.

For this reason, Najib found Aldridge and gave him advice: either, loan these four players to exercise, or transfer to the first team, train with the first team, and usually play in the reserve team.

In short, you can no longer stay in the youth team, otherwise, they will only delay their growth.

And the solution that Aldridge came up with was to find some matching teammates for them.

However, he came to the Netherlands today, but he did not plan to dig Ajax players under the age of 16, although Ajax youth camp has many future high-profile stars, such as Van der Vaart.

He came for Ajax's next wingman: Andy van der Med.

Now known as the Dutch Peter Pan Ovimas, Aldridge can't afford it. It's just that after purchasing Ovimas, Odrich can go on vacation and then wait for the team to return to the end of July for next season prepare for.

Under Andrew's arrangement, Aldridge saw Andy Van der Meade, who was about to turn 18, in a common hotel in Amsterdam.

There is no language communication problem between the two, and almost everyone in the Netherlands speaks English.

Andy van der Mede dressed neatly and deliberately cleaned up her hairstyle. The young and handsome guy was slightly nervous when he saw Audridge. Audridge could see that he was a little excited, which made Audridge feel fresh.

Because when he introduced players before, regardless of the player's age and reputation, when he first met with him, he was either skeptical or expressionless, and he didn't seem to wait for the young coach from London.

In the past three years, he led Millwall to the sky and Aldridge also has a handsome aura on his head, which makes him more sincere when he is recruiting players himself.

"Hi Andy, can I call you like this? Okay, let's sit down and talk."

Aldrich generously invited Van der Mede to sit down on the sofa, and then opened the door to depict the blueprint he outlined for him.

Come to Millwall, you are a member of the first team in the new season, start from the bench, join the team first, short one season, long two years, if everything goes well, he should be able to play the main position when he is 20 years old issue a challenge.

As for how to train him, Aldridge did not elaborate. If the other party asks, he is willing to spend more time to explain to him.

Van der Mede depressed the excitement in his heart, and his enthusiasm also cooled down a lot.

He heard that Aldridge, the young master, wanted to see himself, and thought he was valued by the other party. He went directly to Millwall and played the main role.

Now I understand that it is not the same thing at all.

But at least, his potential was affirmed, which made him a little happier after calming down.

Thinking of his treatment at the Ajax Club, Van der Mede asked, "Can you talk about my contract?"

Aldridge smiled and knew that the other party agreed, so he said to Andrew: "You talk to him."

As an agent, Andrew has done a few votes in the Netherlands. Stam, Larsen, Fanny and other players are transferred by him. In the Dutch football circle, he is also famous because he In these transfers, he played the role of matchmaking, and also won a good contract for the players. In addition, he is also the brother of Aldridge. The young players who want to play for Aldridge and dream of becoming famous naturally have him. Must understand.

Van der Med was originally signing a professional contract with Ajax this summer, but Ajax is now worried about internal and external problems. The 95 golden generation is being poached every year. This summer, the club was caught in the turmoil of coach turnover. Van Gaal The departure will be announced in a few days, the club is trying to retain the first team of the main players, and at one and a half in the youth team players such as van der Meide can not be taken care of.

Although the English club is difficult to sign the non-European Hope Star because of the labor certificate, but because it can sign professional contracts with 16-year-old players, it also benefits the English club in disguise. The Football Associations of Spain, Germany and other mainstream leagues stipulate that The contract must be after the player is 18 years old. It is such a shortfall that the English clubs have the convenience of digging corners, but too many clubs in this era have not realized that digging corners should be early, not only early, but also to dig the whole family!

Van der Mede does not have an agent at this time, and Andrew won't have much problem with him, because Andrew promised to help him get a contract with a salary of three thousand a week.

This simply made Van der Mead feel incredible.

Why can't the Dutch League retain genius?

In addition to the league's influence, the most important reason is the cost of the club. Compared with the top giants, the salary for the players is not even comparable to the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League, because the club basically makes money. Selling people and European wars, the Dutch leagues have long gone bankrupt because of the Dutch league’s own money-making ability. Therefore, the wages they give to players are limited. Players from youth teams like Van der Meide can get a few weeks’ salary. Even if a hundred pounds is very high, even ten years later, it is basically a few thousand pounds.

The weekly salary of 3,000 pounds is definitely the lowest among the first-line salary of Millwall. Even the contract signed by Ronaldinho of the youth team at the age of 16 has a weekly salary of 5,000 pounds, but he After all, Aldridge is regarded as the absolute main player of the team in the future, giving some high to understand.

After reaching an agreement with VanderMead, Audridge first bid farewell to him, Andrew also called back to the company and called an assistant to send someone to Amsterdam to accompany VanderMead from Ajax.

An apprenticeship contract between him and Ajax expired in the summer. Ajax originally planned to sign a professional contract with him, but as long as VanderMead refuses, he can become a free agent and leave.

Before the new FIFA transfer regulations came out this fall, Millwall could get a talented player like Van der Meide without spending a penny.

After discussing the matter of joining Van der Med, Aldridge and Andrew rested in the hotel that night. The next morning, the two walked out of the hotel with their travel bags and sunglasses on.

"Next stop, where to go?"

Andrew Ang looked up to the sky, looked at the weather today, and asked casually.

Aldrich opened the back door of the taxi and turned back: "PSV."