Chapter 343: The battle for talent! The entire Eredivisie is crying! Majin Buu's leveling journey! [Subscribe]

In the past, Yang Cheng always felt puzzled when he saw those scenes in costume TV dramas where people stopped people on the street to file complaints to the emperor.

How did these people who complained know the emperor's itinerary accurately? You know, leaking the emperor's whereabouts in private is not an ordinary thing.

He is simply asking for his life! If he were the emperor, he would definitely ask about the source of the news.

But when he was stopped on his way from Milan to Amsterdam and complained, how could he have the energy to investigate the source of the news? It was too big a scene! The person who took the lead in stopping him was UEFA Vice President and Dutch Football Association President Van Praag.

In addition to officials from the Dutch Football Association, three Ajax bosses, Bergkamp, ​​Van der Sar and Overmars, were also present.

Also included are PSV's CEO Thun Gebruntz and director of football Marcel Brands.

Both of these players from PSV Eindhoven are from Alkmaar.

In the past few years, Alkmaar has achieved outstanding results both in the first team and the youth team, so the top management was directly packaged by Eindhoven.

Also from Feyenoord are CEO Eric Goode and technical director Martin van Geel.

Both of them have Ajax experience and background.

It can be said that the three giants of the Dutch Eredivisie actually have very complicated relationships with each other.

And they "intercepted" Yang Cheng with such a big fanfare for only one purpose: to file a complaint!

Who to sue?

Premier League team.

This is too fucking outrageous!

As Yang Cheng said before, with the massive influx of capital, especially in the Premier League, broadcasting fees have been rising steadily, and every club has made a lot of money.

But the competition is too fierce.

There is a difference of tens of millions of pounds from the Premier League to the Championship every year. When the new broadcasting contract comes into effect, the difference will be more than 100 million.

What should the Premier League teams do? They recruit players! They recruit players like crazy!

In order to avoid relegation, they can really give up everything.

Therefore, the purchasing power of the Premier League is very, very strong.

What followed was a general surge in the value of players in the entire European transfer market, and it was getting higher and higher.

In this situation, many teams, especially those Premier League teams with good youth training capabilities, began to proceed in two steps.

On the one hand, they are competing for talents, while on the other hand, they are training their own youth training.

In fact, teams like Manchester United, Arsenal, Manchester City, Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and others started doing this a long time ago.

But now this trend is becoming more and more obvious.

Especially as the English Football Association and the Premier League strongly support youth training, UEFA's financial bill also encourages youth training, so these teams have done the math themselves.

Instead of waiting until the players are relatively mature and then spending big money on them, I would rather support youth training myself and start with young players.

So what age group of players is the most cost-effective?

In fact, if you look closely at the current Premier League, you will easily find that, except for the Bayswater Chinese, there are almost no youth training teams below the U10 age group.

Not to mention satellite academies like the Bayswater Chinese, which even have players as young as six and seven years old.

This is simply impossible for them.

One is the limitation of material selection, and the other is the lack of facilities.

Not long ago, Arsenal's Wenger said this when he was interviewed by a reporter from The Sun.

The reporter asked him why Arsenal could not continue to train young players like the Chinese in Bayswater, but instead had to keep poaching the Chinese in Bayswater?

Wenger first joked that since you can poach players, why train them yourself?

But later he explained that it was because Arsenal did not have the conditions for complete youth training.

According to a simple analogy, if the youth training base is regarded as an agent covering a certain area, Arsenal's Colney training base is like the general agent for the entire London area.

However, the 10 youth training bases of Bayswater Chinese can be delegated to district agents in various districts.

Then, through this type of district agent, we can connect with more youth training clubs in the community like capillaries.

This will then form a dense youth training network.

This has become a moat for the Chinese in Bayswater.

Other London teams can't learn from this at all.

After Arsenal and Chelsea realized what was happening, they also wanted to build satellite youth training bases, but after they built one or two, the costs remained high.

In recent years, the value of assets in London has risen sharply, and coupled with the soaring prices of players, youth training has also risen accordingly.

They have missed the best time to enter the market.

Not to mention London which is dominated by the Chinese in Bayswater, even in Manchester, Manchester City once tried to learn from it but ended up only building two buildings.

Ultimately, the cost and output are disproportionate.

Wenger said that they have done the math and found that Bayswater Chinese relies on sponsorship, player training and youth training to not only be self-sufficient every year, but also make money.

What about Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham and other teams? They also did the math and decided that instead of investing heavily, it would be better to maintain the status quo and poach players from the Bayswater Chinese youth training system every year and pay a sum of money. This would be more cost-effective and save costs.

But what is the price of this? Every year, the best and most outstanding young players are often occupied by the Chinese in Bayswater.

They can only pick up what the Chinese in Bayswater leave behind.

Of course, this is not necessarily a bad thing.

It is always inevitable that there will be pearls hidden in the ocean.

But these Premier League teams are not fools.

In London, in the Premier League, I can't compete with Bayswater Chinese. How can I compete with other clubs in Europe and even the world? With the current momentum of the Premier League, I still can't recruit young players? Therefore, all the Premier League giants, including Arsenal and Chelsea, basically don't pay attention to the echelons under the age of U12, because for them, there is not much value in investing.

Their focus is on recruiting local players over the age of 12.

At the same time, we are also searching the world for outstanding young players around 15 years old.

Therefore, we often see a news report that a young player emerges and is immediately noticed by multiple Premier League teams, who all rush to him.

Are they robbing people?

What we are fighting for is the future! Young players around 16 years old have basically formed their overall strength, which can be seen by scouts, and the probability of them becoming successful is very high.

After being recruited, they can stand out immediately after two or three years of training.

But this would be a real disaster for teams in other European leagues.

According to their disdain for Premier League teams, these damn English people are just like locusts.

No grass will grow after crossing the border!

But the biggest problem is not this.

Just like a team in the Dutch Eredivisie.

In fact, they welcome Premier League teams to cross the English Channel to poach their players.

Because they rely on this to make a living.

Without the poaching of Premier League teams, where would they get their income? The Premier League pays even more.

But the problem is, you can't just pick rookies around 16 years old.

At this age, they haven’t signed a professional contract yet, so they won’t make any money if they are poached.

Fishermen know to make the mesh of the net bigger, but you in the Premier League really want to kill them all!

The latest news is related to Ajax.

Their youth training camp talent Donyell Malen was poached by Arsenal.

He is only 16 years old!

How dare they do this? What a beast! The most outrageous thing is that Arsenal snatched Donyell Malen from many top clubs.

Including Manchester United, Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City...

Oh, by the way, Donyell Malen’s agent is Raiola! Damn, the agent has become so messed up!

Is this a coincidence?

Obviously not!

Teams like Ajax, PSV Eindhoven, Feyenoord, Alkmaar, etc., have no idea how many players are poached every year.

There's no way to stop it!

Therefore, Van Praag stopped Yang Cheng this time to complain about those European top teams.

"This time, I decided to run for UEFA president. If I am elected, I will definitely formulate stricter rules and regulations to protect these young players."

"Because at their age, going to a giant like Arsenal would mean no chance to them at all. It might even ruin their lives!"

Van Praag said indignantly.

Van der Sar and others also echoed.

They had obviously reached a consensus.

Yang Cheng also had a serious look on his face and kept nodding his head, looking like he took this matter very seriously.

But in reality?

I had already started cursing in my heart.

Get out of here, all of you!

Still feeling aggrieved? Arsenal didn't leave you any compensation?

At most, it's a little less.

Besides, wasn't Donyell Malen also poached by Ajax from another club? The big fish eat the small fish, and the small fish eat the shrimp.

At least Arsenal left you some compensation.

But when you poached Donyell Mullen from Hollandia, you didn't pay him a penny.

I was only 10 years old at that time!

When it comes to this kind of thing, no one is nobler than anyone else.

It's just a business.

It’s just that the decline of the Eredivisie is so obvious now that the players don’t see any hope and are eager to run to the top league.

Doesn’t Donyell Malen know that if he goes to Arsenal, he won’t be able to play football for a few years?

He knows.

But there will be more chances if you go!

Staying in the Eredivisie, Ajax was in such a mess in recent years that Cruyff launched the so-called revolution. As a result, because of his personal grudge with Van Gaal, he sued Ajax in court, causing a lot of controversy.

It's so ugly!

The situation of PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord is better? They are also bullying in their own team! In Yang Cheng's previous life, many fans saw that Ajax led by Ten Hag reached the semi-finals of the Champions League and thought that Ajax was awesome and was going to be revived, but what was the reality?

Don't think about it.

That revival was an accident.

Or should we say that it was a coincidence after the internal strife in Ajax! Ajax is still practicing rule by man.

There is still no complete, mature and stable management structure.

The situation is similar for Feyenoord and PSV Eindhoven.

This is why the Eredivisie is getting worse and worse! Besides, many top teams now have their own methods of training young players.

For example, Chelsea has recruited so many young talents and sent them to Vitesse to play in the Eredivisie.

This is why the Dutch Football Association has been investigating the relationship between Vitesse and Abramovich but has found nothing.

Of course, Yang Cheng definitely couldn't say all of this.

They came to complain, and besides, they didn't complain to me, so what could I say? Moreover, the key point of Van Praag's remarks was not that the youth players were poached.

Instead, he decided to run for the presidency of UEFA!

As a top student who has received nine years of compulsory education in China, Yang Cheng's reading comprehension is quite good.

But just as Yang Cheng had this thought, PSV's Thun Gebrants directly ignited the fire on Yang Cheng.

In other words, it was not Yang Cheng, but Twente.

Gebrants said that now not only are teams from the top five leagues poaching players from Dutch football, but even within the Eredivisie there are people breaking the rules.

That's Twente!

This summer, Twente first poached a 16-year-old young player named Cody Gakpo from the PSV Eindhoven youth training camp.

That's fine.

After all, Gakpo has never played for the first team and has not signed a professional contract, so he was poached.

But Twente actually poached a 17-year-old young player named Steven Bergwijn.

This is against the rules.

Bergwijn has already made an appearance for PSV's first team.

Even if it was only 11 minutes, he still played.

Moreover, he is also an international player for the Netherlands U19 and U21. He is favored and welcomed by everyone and is no less popular than Donyell Malen who was poached by Arsenal.

Yang Cheng listened to Gebrunz's indignant and tearful accusation and nodded in agreement.

At the same time, he was secretly looking at the people opposite him.

As soon as Gebrunz finished speaking, Overmars also began to complain.

Twente also poached players from Ajax's youth training camp.

17-year-old Moroccan teenager Mazrawi, 15-year-old Sven Botman, 14-year-old Yurien Tinber, 13-year-old Ryan Gravenberch...

Twente is taking advantage of Ajax and continues to take advantage of it.

The most outrageous thing is that even Matthijs De Ligt, who was highly regarded by the Ajax team and would not turn 16 until August, was forcibly poached by them through some trick.

"This player is recognized by our Ajax youth training camp as a future star player and a key target for cultivation!"

Overmars' heart bleeds when he talks about this.

When Yang Cheng heard this, he became furious and slammed the table and stood up.

"How can this be allowed? This is too unruly!"

"What the hell is Twente doing? They don't follow the rules at all, it's just a complete mess!"

"By the way, Michael, Twente's behavior must be severely punished, severely punished!"

Yang Cheng's statement embarrassed the Dutch Football Association Chairman Van Praag.

Why? If he could punish someone, he would have done it long ago.

People do dig, but it’s not mindless digging.

Just like Twente dug 16-year-old De Ligt, why not dig 17-year-old Van de Beek?

Because Van de Beek cannot be poached, he signed a professional contract.

What about De Ligt? He is not yet of age and has not signed a professional contract.

As for Mazraoui, this is purely Ajax's own fault.

Although the Moroccan player is 17 years old, he has not yet signed a professional contract.

The key point is that although Twente poached players, they also followed the rules and left compensation.

As for why the players left, is there any need to ask? Twente now has the support of the Chinese in Bayswater. Who can't see the future of this team?

On the contrary, what kind of chaos has Ajax been in over the past few years?

It makes me sad just thinking about it.

Van Praag was the chairman of Ajax for more than 20 years and created the glory of Ajax in the early 1990s.

Who could have thought that this team would end up in such a state?

Yang Cheng got angry and immediately turned to look at Eric Gould and Martin van Geel of Feyenoord.

"Tell me, did Twente also poach players from your youth team?"

"Tell me what's going on, and I'll definitely settle the score with them!"

But as soon as Yang Cheng finished speaking, Eric Gould and Martin Van Gill became embarrassed.

"Actually...actually, Twente didn't poach anyone from us." Van Gill smiled bitterly.

"No?"

Yang Cheng had an expression that said, "I absolutely don't believe it." "How could it be possible that there is no such thing? You don't have to hide it for them. Just speak out boldly. I will take care of it for you. How can I let them make a fuss?"

Fan Jier's smile was uglier than crying, "Really not."

"Ah?" Yang Cheng was stunned for a moment and turned to look at Van Praag.

The president of the Dutch Football Association was even more embarrassed.

"In recent years, Feyenoord's youth training has indeed been... a bit miserable."

Adam Crozier and Xia Qing on the side almost couldn't help laughing out loud.

Even the players from Ajax and PSV couldn't help laughing.

Why does this matter seem to be turning into a farce?

Frankly speaking, even though Yang Cheng's ninjutsu had improved by leaps and bounds in recent years, it was still quite difficult for him to endure at this moment.

How miserable is this?

Why poach players from Ajax and PSV Eindhoven instead of Feyenoord?

This is no ordinary humiliation! If Yang Cheng was from Feyenoord, he would probably go to Twente to ask clearly: Do you look down on people like this?

Why do you poach Ajax and PSV Eindhoven but not Feyenoord? We are the three giants of the Eredivisie. We are of the same blood. If you want to poach them, you have to poach them together. That's what we call fair! There is no such thing as you! Eric Gould also obviously noticed the awkward atmosphere at the scene and coughed twice.

"Although Twente did not poach players from Feyenoord, there was a lot of resentment in the entire Dutch football world."

"They have poached 19-year-old Denzel Dumfries from Sparta Rotterdam."

"Snatched 14-year-old Micky van der Ven from Volendam's youth team."

"Signed up 13-year-old Sepp van den Berg from Zwolle's youth team."

"Signed up 17-year-old Teen Kupmeiners from the Alkmaar youth team."

"Signed 13-year-old goalkeeper Barter Verbruggen from Breda."

"The 15-year-old Paul Van Heck was recruited from the youth academy of JVOZ in Zeeland."

"Signed 14-year-old Joshua Zirkzee from ADO Den Haag."

When Yang Cheng heard this, his brows immediately frowned and he looked at Van Praag again.

"Is Twente so unscrupulous that they poach players for free?"

Van Praag was extremely depressed.

Brother, no, brother, dear brother, let's not pretend to be confused, okay? You know what Twente has to do with you, I know it, and everyone here knows it.

I know and you know why I brought them here.

Can't you be more straightforward?

"In fact, Twente's poaching has caused a lot of resentment, but they are doing things within the rules, and although they poached players, they also left compensation."

"Also, they don't just poach young players. For example, Heerenveen captain Martin de Jongen moved to Twente for 1.3 million euros."

"But Heerenveen is also unhappy because they want to keep De Jong. If Twente hadn't intervened, the two sides might have renewed the contract."

Yang Cheng suddenly realized.

In his previous life, De Jong transferred to Serie A Atalanta this summer, and later became the captain of Atalanta and performed very well.

Unexpectedly, after so many twists and turns, I didn't make it to Atlanta, but it still fell into my hands.

Yang Cheng saw that the time was almost right, so he stopped talking.

"Okay, I'll go to Twente right away to find out what's going on. If it's true, I'll criticize them severely!"

Yang Cheng's tone doesn't sound like the boss of Bayswater Chinese.

But the chairman of the FIFA Supervisory Board.

After a pause, Yang Cheng turned his head and looked at Van Praag who was looking at him eagerly, and smiled slightly.

"The current environment is indeed a bit chaotic, and we really need more people like you, Michael, who have rich experience, to come out and rectify this mess!"

When Van Praag heard this, his eyes lit up immediately.

There's hope!

At least, Yang Cheng didn't object!

Yang Cheng saw that Van Praag understood what he meant and laughed inwardly.

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It was also within his expectations that Van Praag would run for UEFA president.

But Yang Cheng couldn't guarantee whether he could be selected, and he would not lower himself to participate in such matters.

Besides, why did Van Praag ask Yang Cheng to support him? Yang Cheng did not oppose his candidacy, which was already very polite.

As for whether he can be selected, it depends on his own ability.

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Had a meal with Van Praag and others.

As soon as he went out, Yang Cheng told Adam Crozier and Xia Qing that he wanted to give Twente's team a bonus.

At the very least, they did a good job.

The poaching almost made them cry!

If we look back from 2024, how did Twente pick out the outstanding young players?

Is this cheating?

But in fact, as of 2015, except for a few people like De Ligt, these players are basically not very prominent. The really good ones, like Donyell Malen, have already been poached by top teams.

Of course, a player’s growth does not necessarily depend entirely on talent.

Especially now.

The level of youth training is getting higher and higher. Talent and personal efforts are of course the key to whether a player can succeed, but the surrounding environment is also crucial, especially the atmosphere of the club.

Just like Donyell Mullen.

He is now favored by top football teams across Europe and everyone is optimistic about him.

There is really nothing wrong with the talent and the players themselves.

Raiola is very good at selecting players.

But the player ultimately did not meet Arsenal's expectations, mainly because the Gunners' football environment was not very good.

After returning to the Netherlands and joining PSV Eindhoven, he immediately played well again.

The same situation exists with the talented player Odegaard who joined Real Madrid.

After going through so many teams, it's still quite surprising that we were able to make it to the final.

Another genius, Canales, was not so lucky.

Therefore, many times, youth training is also a matter of luck.

When Yang Cheng and his party came to Enschede again, in addition to being greeted by the people of Twente, they were also warmly welcomed by the Mayor of Enschede, Van Wildhausen.

After several months, Yang Cheng is no longer just the boss of Bayswater Chinese, but also the chairman of the FIFA Supervisory Board.

This made Van Wildhausen feel very proud.

I had good foresight and contacted Yang Cheng in time.

If it had been later, I probably wouldn’t have had this opportunity by now.

After Yang Cheng acquired Twente, the team immediately fulfilled its promise.

Yang Cheng made a phone call to London Chief Sports, repaid the overdue loan, and bought back the ownership of the player, and the matter was over.

Chief Sports will definitely give Yang Cheng this face.

After buying back the ownership of the player, Twente can confidently send documents to the Dutch Football Association to prove that the club did not sell the ownership of the player to third-party companies such as Chief Sports.

The Dutch Football Association immediately stopped while it was going ahead, approved the matter immediately and clarified the matter to the public.

As for the debt owed to the Enschede City Government, it was paid off the day after the acquisition procedures were completed.

During this period of time, Twente has called a halt to the renewal of the title sponsorship of the Gerols Castle Stadium and launched a plan to expand the last stand of the stadium. It also launched a training base project at the Dickman Sports Park in the south of the city center.

The training base in Hengelo is also undergoing a transformation.

In short, with money, many things become easier to handle.

Within Twente, the management system of the Chinese in Bayswater was fully introduced.

In terms of the most important head coach, Yang Cheng strongly invited Peter Bots, the head coach of Vitesse.

So far, Peter Bots has not really produced any impressive coaching results.

His coaching stint at Graafschap at the beginning of the century was a failure, but he later had good results at Almelo Hercules, not only leading the team to promotion to the Eredivisie, but also successfully avoiding relegation.

It was because of his outstanding coaching at Almelo Hercules that he was able to go to Feyenoord to serve as football director.

Until 2010, he coached Almelo Hercules again.

He started coaching Waiters in 2013, and his results have been relatively stable.

In the past few years, Vitesse has been in financial trouble. It has been rumored that Abramovich used money to support Vitesse, which saved the team from bankruptcy.

So in terms of investment, Vitesse actually didn't have much.

But under the coaching of Peter Bots, Vitesse has always been at the top of the Eredivisie, which shows their level.

In Yang Cheng's previous life, Peter Bots coached Vitesse until January 2016, after which he was poached by the Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv, where he coached for half a year with outstanding results.

In the summer of 2016, he returned to the Netherlands and coached Ajax.

Ajax has been in turmoil in recent years, but in terms of football, results have been steadily improving under the coaching of Frank de Boer.

In the just-concluded 14/15 season, they finished second in the Eredivisie with 71 points, just behind PSV Eindhoven's 88 points.

In Yang Cheng's previous life, in the 15/16 season, the last year that De Boer coached Ajax, Ajax scored 82 points, second only to Eindhoven's 84 points, and was also the runner-up in the league.

In the 16/17 season, De Boer went to Serie A to coach Inter Milan, and Peter Bots took over Ajax, scoring 81 points, second only to Feyenoord's 82 points.

Runner-up for three consecutive seasons!

He also led the team to the Europa League final, but ultimately lost to Manchester United.

But Peter Bots' advanced pressing and ball possession tactics, as well as his passion for offensive football, have earned Ajax a rave review under his coaching.

For example, he created a five-second rule specifically for Ajax.

It's in line with Guardiola's thinking.

It means doing everything you can to get the ball back within 5 seconds after losing it.

This made Ajax, coached by Bots, the team with the strongest offensive firepower and the strongest defense in the Eredivisie at that time.

But what is most amazing is Peter Bots' promotion and cultivation of young players.

Young players such as Van de Beek, De Ligt and Frenkie de Jong were promoted and entrusted with important tasks during Peter Bots' coaching.

It can be said that this created the Ajax team that later reached the semi-finals of the Champions League under Ten Hag.

So why did Peter Bots leave Ajax? This is what Yang Cheng said just now, Ajax is a mess.

At that time, Peter Bots completely conquered everyone with his passionate offensive football and his vigorous promotion of young players.

But at that time, conflicts arose within Ajax.

Some conflicts in the board of directors were transmitted to the first team, resulting in conflicts between Peter Bots, an outsider who served as the team's head coach, and assistant coaches Spiekerman, Bergkamp and others.

Spiekman and Bergkamp are both veterans of Ajax, especially the Ice Prince, who is a legendary star.

CEO Edwin van der Sar backs the two veterans, while Overmars backs Peter Bots.

The end result was that Peter Bots left Ajax in anger and went to coach Dortmund in the Bundesliga.

It turns out that this breakup was terrible for both parties.

Peter Bots suffered a setback at Dortmund and was sacked in December.

Marcel Keizer, the head coach promoted from the second team of Ajax and also a famous player of Ajax, did not perform well in leading the team and was dismissed in December.

At that time, Ajax once wanted to invite Peter Bots back.

But in the end Ajax chose Ten Hag.

Peter Bots was unemployed for a year before taking over Leverkusen in December 2018, and later coached Lyon and PSV Eindhoven.

Overall, Peter Bots' coaching level is still very good.

Yang Cheng brought him to Twente this time because, on the one hand, his ability is indeed very good, and his technical and tactical style is also in line with Yang Cheng's positioning of Twente.

On the other hand, he is indeed good at training young players.

When Yang Cheng went to Enschede this time, he specially met with Peter Bots and had a chat about Twente's future development direction.

The two people have very similar philosophies and many of their ideas coincide with each other.

In terms of performance, Yang Cheng is also very pragmatic and does not set too high requirements.

On the contrary, Peter Bots hopes to use the Twente platform to take his coaching career to the next level.

Whether it is Nice, Atalanta, Malaga, or even Palmeiras in Brazil, Yang Cheng and his team's ability in building a team is obvious to all.

Peter Bots naturally also hopes that he can show his strengths in Twente.

In the past period of time, in addition to poaching talents in the Netherlands, Twente has also been active in Northern Europe, Eastern Europe and other regions.

For example, the 20-year-old Dutch defender Nathan Ake was bought back from the youth team of Premier League Chelsea.

The player has been at Chelsea for four or five years but has never been given a chance to emerge and now has to be loaned out continuously.

In the end he chose to return to the Netherlands and join Twente.

Yang Cheng's team spent 1.5 million euros on this.

In addition, the team also recruited 14-year-old Dutch teenager Jeremy Frimpong from Manchester City's youth team.

Signed 19-year-old midfielder Fredrik Olsnes from Norwegian club FC Herde.

The player only cost Twente 500,000 euros.

Signed 17-year-old defender Julian Ryerson from Norway Vikings.

Signed 17-year-old midfielder Amadou Haidara from the JMG Bamako academy in the Malian capital Bamako.

The transfer cost Twente 500,000 euros, and since Haidara will not turn 18 until January 31, 2016, the transfer will be made during the winter break.

Twente also signed 14-year-old Dominik Szoboszlai on a free transfer from the White City Golden Phoenix club southwest of the Hungarian capital Budapest.

Since it is an internal transfer within the European Union, even though Soboslai is only 14 years old, it is still not affected.

Just like another Hungarian player, Milos Korcz, who is only 11 years old now, but transferred from Serbia to Rapid Vienna in Austria more than half a year ago.

Now, he has transferred to Twente in the Dutch Eredivisie and entered the youth training camp for training.

At about the same time as him, there was another young player from Georgia, 14-year-old Hevicha Kvaratskhelia, who joined the team.

Twente also signed centre-forward Alexander Isak, who does not turn 16 until the end of September, from AIK in Sweden.

In addition to Swedish citizenship, the young player also has Eritrean nationality.

Signed 16-year-old Swedish-Burkina Faso centre-back Isak Heyn from Dyrholm in Sweden.

Twente also signed 17-year-old centre-back David Hanczko from FC Zilina in Slovakia.

Signed 16-year-old Morten Jurmand from Copenhagen, Denmark.

Signed 18-year-old midfielder Denis Zakaria from Swiss club Servette.

Twente also signed Ukrainian midfielder Oleksandr Zinchenko from Russian Premier League relegation team Ufa for a transfer fee of 650,000 euros.

The 18-year-old player started twice and came on as a substitute five times in previous Russian Premier League games, playing only 235 minutes and his performance was mediocre.

The team also signed 18-year-old center Dovbic from Cherashchina in Dnipro, Ukraine.

Among all the players, the one that Yang Cheng values ​​the most is the 15-year-old Erling Haaland, who the team introduced from Brune, Norway.

Haaland is actually already somewhat famous in Brüne. The Chinese youth training team in Bayswater has also been keeping an eye on him for a long time and has always kept in touch with him. After all, he is a future leader in world football.

The elder Haaland was a professional player, and he hopes that the younger Haaland will grow and improve step by step.

Once joining a top club, it is of course a step up to the top, but with it comes fierce competitive pressure, which may even make the players breathless.

This is obviously not what Haaland wants to see.

So, although he has always maintained contact with the Bayswater Chinese, Haaland Jr. has never joined the Bayswater Chinese.

But this time, after Yang Cheng acquired Twente, he called Haaland and his son and promised him a chance to play in the first team of the Eredivisie team.

This made old Haaland very excited.

This is in line with his thinking.

The Eredivisie is also close to Norway, and the level of youth training in the Netherlands is obvious to all.

After Twente was acquired by Yang Cheng, it was certain that more investment would be made, and greater efforts would be made to train young players.

Apart from anything else, every once in a while, the Twente youth team will be able to participate in some European exchange competitions, invitational tournaments and overseas training camps. The players can not only get more game training, but also become familiar with and understand the level of opponents in other leagues early on.

This will be a great help to the players' future development.

Stay in Brune? Stay in Norway?

After careful consideration, Haaland Sr. decided to bring Haaland Jr. to the Netherlands and join Twente.

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In the past few months, Bayswater Chinese's scouting network in the Netherlands, Northern Europe, Eastern Europe and other regions has been in full swing, looking for young players everywhere.

Even some who have just emerged were recruited.

This also turned Twente's first team and youth team into a multinational force.

When Yang Cheng came to inspect the Hengelo training base, he reminded them that they must take good care of these young players at all costs.

How to accommodate and create a good atmosphere, the Chinese in Bayswater have accumulated rich experience over the years.

From school to accommodation to food, Twente has already made all the preparations.

In addition to players introduced from the Netherlands, as well as players from Northern Europe, Eastern Europe and other regions, Twente also has a group of local youth players, such as goalkeeper Dromaire and midfielder Reinders.

The two players have been promoted to the first team and will continue to play a role for the team.

Among them, Reinders joined Twente's youth training camp in 2011, but in 2015, he originally planned to leave. However, after Yang Cheng acquired Twente, he chose to renew his contract and keep him.

In the next few years, Twente's team building strategy will remain the same as it is now, focusing on local youth training, combined with young players from other European countries and regions to form a young, vibrant and competitive team.

Yang Cheng stayed in Enschede for 3 days.

He not only had in-depth exchanges with Peter Bots, but also communicated with the club from top to bottom.

Old Haaland even brought his son all the way from Norway to meet him.

Yang Cheng has high hopes for Haaland.

"You are the player I like. Your future must be in London!"

Yang Cheng patted Haaland on the shoulder and gave him encouragement solemnly.

"Work hard and lay a solid foundation first. After you reach the maximum level in Twente, we will take it step by step."

"When you land in London in the future, you will surely shock the whole world!"

Playing in the Eredivisie at the age of 15?

Why not?

According to Bayswater Chinese youth training research, if a player's level reaches the U13 level, it is best to let him go to U15.

By the same token, if your level reaches U15, then go to U17.

That is to say, always skip a level or two.

Whether it is level one or level two depends on the specific case analysis, so the guidance and planning of youth training coaches are very important.

Why not U13 or U15? It's very simple. If you keep a player at that level, it means he is staying in his comfort zone, and his progress will slow down or even stagnate.

If you let him skip a grade and keep him under pressure for a long time, he will make faster progress.

Of course, we can't push things too hard.

The specific arrangements still require specific analysis.

It is definitely impossible for Haaland to become a starter in the Eredivisie.

But Yang Cheng feels that it is still suitable for him to play as a substitute, appear on the field from time to time, and stay in the second team or U18 as his main battlefield.

When he has made enough progress, he can go directly from the Eredivisie to Nice in Ligue 1, or to Malaga in La Liga for training.

In a word, it is necessary to keep him hungry and keep improving.

For example, Mbappe is about to debut in the first team.

The biggest difference between teams like Nice, Malaga, Atalanta and Twente and the Chinese in Bayswater is that the Chinese in Bayswater pursue results.

But the other teams don’t need that, their main focus is still on training players.

Of course, the prerequisite is to stay in the league, and it would be even better if we can achieve some results at the same time.

Who would refuse? But the most important task of the club is to train players.

Although he had already received Yang Cheng's promise on the phone, the promise in person still filled Haaland with fighting spirit! "Don't worry, I'll come to London to find you soon!" Haaland was already eager to try.

Of course, Yang Cheng also gave his affirmation with a smile.

But in his heart, there was still some regret.

When Haaland has played enough and is able to play for Bayswater Chinese, and when Majin Buu arrives in the Premier League, Yang Cheng will definitely not be the head coach of Bayswater Chinese.

In recent years, with the acquisition of more and more teams, Yang Cheng has become increasingly busier.

My parents in China are getting older, and it is urgent to inherit the family business.

Now, Xia Qing has begun to take over some of Yang Group's overseas business.

The group is so big, with two listed companies, there are so many things to do.

Yang Cheng is also very busy.

Especially after becoming the chairman of the FIFA Supervisory Board, Yang Cheng has more things to do.

Or it should be said that his career path is no longer limited to the football field.

Given his current status and position, it is indeed not appropriate for him to continue coaching.

Apart from anything else, what will the referee do if he meets him? Isn't this clearly bullying? Besides, Yang Cheng's track is no longer limited to going to the stadium.

He has already stood on a higher and broader stage.

Therefore, Yang Cheng had discussed with Xia Qing and Adam Crozier before. He planned to coach the team until the end of this season. If Flick could successfully take over the team, Yang Cheng would basically retire.

But this is just the idea of ​​Yang Cheng, Xia Qing and Adam Crozier.

The specific details would have to wait until he returned to London and had a good talk with Brian Kidd, Frick and others.

Having been in charge of Bayswater Chinese for so many years, Yang Cheng has some feelings for it.

At the same time, he also had complicated feelings.

His main concern now is whether Flick can take over the team smoothly and whether he can control the locker room.

This is the problem! (End of this chapter)