Sports journalists from almost all of Europe flocked here to listen to the interview between Coach Adkins and Redknapp.
Coach Adkins's reputation is rising rapidly now. Of course, most of this is due to Gu Ran. But no matter what, Coach Adkins was able to lead the English League One team Southampton to the League Cup final, so he can definitely be called a "magic coach."
Tottenham's head coach Redknapp is even more famous.
Harry Redknapp is definitely a legendary coach in England. His coaching philosophy can even be classified as world-class. The only thing that prevents Redknapp from becoming a world-class coach is that he has never coached a truly wealthy club. Even when he coached Tottenham, Tottenham was not considered a wealthy club. After he helped Tottenham to enter the top four of the Premier League and the Champions League, Tottenham did not make any major signings.
The talents of Tottenham's youth team are not outstanding and are not as good as Arsenal's youth reserves.
Lao Lei is also a cook who can't cook without rice, so his coaching results are not that dazzling.
Old Ray has been coaching low-level teams for a long time and has very few resources. Coaching Tottenham is the period in his life when he has the most resources at hand.
If Ray and Ferguson were replaced and Ray had the resources of Manchester United in 2010, then Ray's achievements would definitely be better than Ferguson's.
But there are not so many ifs in reality.
When he was young, Ray played for West Ham United. His playing career was relatively ordinary. He retired from Bournemouth in 1982 and became Bournemouth's assistant coach. In 1984, he officially became Bournemouth's head coach and remained in the position until 1992.
The coaching during this period can be said to be an unsatisfactory start to a failure.
Old Ray's ideas are very advanced, but Bournemouth simply does not have the resources to provide him with.
After repeated attempts and running-in for a long time, Bournemouth was relegated to the then Third Division, which is equivalent to the current Second Division.
Old Ray also resigned after the 92 season.
During this period, a very serious accident occurred. Lao Lei and other coaches and senior executives of the club were traveling to Italy to watch the World Cup. As a result, they encountered a car accident on the way. Four of the five people in the car died, and only Lao Lei survived.
This is equivalent to a small version of the "Munich Air Crash".
After Ray resigned, he stayed at home to recuperate for a year. During this year, he had no source of income and was extremely depressed. He thought that his life was over. However, a year later, his parent club West Ham United invited him to come back as an assistant coach.
Having once been a head coach, Ray refused to be an assistant in his heart, but in the end he overcame his pride and became an assistant coach of West Ham United.
In 1994, Ray officially became the head coach of West Ham United from the position of assistant coach.
During his coaching career at West Ham United, the team's performance quickly improved to the top of the Premier League table and even entered the Europa League.
Moreover, in this process, a large number of future legendary superstars emerged from West Ham United, such as the world's number one defender Rio Ferdinand and the genie Lamp Lamp.
Among them, Lampard is also Ray's nephew. Lampard's mother is the sister of Ray's wife. Ray and Lampard's father were teammates when they were in West Ham United, and they were teammates with a very good relationship. They also married sisters.
Of course, Redknapp, the son of Jamie Redknapp, also known as the handsome Liverpool player, is also a star, but he is not as famous as Lampard, and his strength is indeed not as good as Lampard.
In short, Ray has accumulated a lot of successful experience at West Ham United, which has made him start to think more about whether the core essence of winning or losing in football is the process (formation) or the people.
In 2001, Ray joined Portsmouth and helped them to enter the Premier League.
After successfully entering the Premier League, Ray spent several good years at Portsmouth, but in 2004, he had a huge argument with the club's CEO due to different ideas, and then Ray resigned in anger and went to Portsmouth's arch-rival Southampton. Ray wanted to help Southampton take on Portsmouth.
However, Ray did not coach Southampton for long. Before he could fully implement his tactical ideas and completely transform the lifeless Southampton, the club fell out because the then CEO of Southampton insisted on bringing in the assistant coach of the rugby world champion team.
So, Ray, who left in anger in 2005, returned to Portsmouth with the promise of more team building power, and helped Portsmouth successfully avoid relegation and brought Portsmouth to the middle of the Premier League - this is also the best result Portsmouth has achieved in nearly 50 years.
Lao Lei's coaching success rate has also been recognized by many Premier League teams.
In October 2008, Ray was officially appointed as the head coach of Tottenham Hotspur, starting his career as the Lily White.
Then, in Ray's first full season as Tottenham coach, which was last season's 09-10 season, Tottenham finished fourth in the Premier League and qualified for the 10-11 Europa League.
This is also the first time that Tottenham Hotspur has returned to the European arena after 48 years of silence.
That year, Ray was also named the Premier League Coach of the Season, becoming the second head coach in Premier League history who did not lead his team to win the championship but won the Coach of the Year award. He was also the first English coach to receive this honor since the award was established.
This season's best coach is of extremely high quality, and it is enough to illustrate Ray's status in the Premier League.
This period is the peak of Ray's coaching. The Tottenham team is very smooth inside and out, top to bottom. Although the world-class stars are not as good as the top giants, they are all super stars who can be named. From this time on, Tottenham has substantially entered the period of Bai Lily's revival.
The one who started Tottenham's revival was Ray.
By this period, Lao Lei's coaching style could already be described as a stream-of-consciousness style.
What is stream of consciousness? It means that there is no fixed form and no fixed core.
To put it more deeply, it seems to have a fixed form, but in fact it does not have a fixed form, but in essence it has a fixed form; it seems to have a fixed core, but in fact it does not have a fixed core, but in essence it has a fixed core.
Tottenham's starting formation is very simple, which is 442, but this 442 is not a long pass or a defensive counterattack, but a random position, a free man on the field. But when the opponent thinks that the position is really random, they will suddenly find that Tottenham players run and pass the ball and score goals.
Tottenham's most valuable star player now is the Dutchman Rafael van der Vaart. Ray transformed the Dutch striker, the winner of the first Golden Boy Award, into a free man in the frontcourt, which greatly expanded Van der Vaart's role and efficiency and allowed Van der Vaart to have a second spring in his career in the Premier League.
But when opponents thought that Van der Vaart was the core, they discovered that left-back Bale could also score goals, and his number of goals was almost catching up with Van der Vaart. When opponents thought that Bale was the real core, Modric just stood in the midfield and laughed foolishly.
...(End of this chapter)