Chapter 533: Young Master Huan

The investment that David Bernstein mentioned is not just the investment in the club's hardware facilities, nor is it just the investment in software such as talents, but also includes the emphasis on youth team players.

Yang Huan has a philosophy, that is, there are no two identical leaves in the world, and no two identical people.

Although youth training is theoretically aimed at producing batches of professional players as much as possible, it is impossible to require them to be exactly the same, especially with the advent of the Internet age, the phenomenon of precocity among young people is now very common.

Don’t think that the people born in the 1990s and 2000s can still be like their predecessors, playing with a football all day long, not knowing anything, having no opinions or ideas of their own, and doing everything according to the coach’s intentions.

That's impossible!

Consulting is so developed, if there is anything you don’t understand, just search on Baidu or Google, what is there that you don’t know?

Therefore, today’s youth training should not try to fool people, but should pay attention to the players’ personalities and give them appropriate autonomy.

Southampton's approach in this regard is unique in the world.

All their players, starting from the age of seven, after they officially become Saints youth players, can be allocated an Apple tablet with a club software in it. Each player will have an independent file in this software.

This file is compiled based on the player's actual situation when he entered the club.

After the players enter Staplewood, the club will enter their various data and videos of them playing into the database after their daily training sessions, after each physical examination, after each game, and even during injuries.

Based on the data in the database, players can clearly and intuitively understand everything about themselves, such as in which aspects they have improved and in which aspects they have regressed, whether they have gained weight or lost weight, how they performed in the game, etc.

All of these can be found through computer software.

In today's professional football, not to mention that most teams have not established such a database, after all, the investment is huge.

Even some very financially strong teams have established databases on youth players, but they are basically in the hands of the coaching staff, who then analyze the information and guide the players in training.

In this situation, the players have no idea what their situation is. Many times, they will even have conflicts with the coaching staff due to information asymmetry and reject the coaching staff's training arrangements.

But what Southampton did was to open the data to players for participation, so that the players could clearly know their situation, participate in or even lead their future development direction and goals.

All the coaching staff has to do is provide professional advice for the players to refer to and choose from.

Not only that, Southampton also attaches great importance to communication and contact with players' parents.

The Staplewood Youth Training Camp has a specialist who is specifically responsible for interacting with parents. At the same time, they also encourage parents to actively participate in the training of players, become part of the entire youth training system, and understand the players' training, diet and cultural learning.

Southampton even holds regular parent training courses to let parents know how they can better help their children grow and improve.

For example, the health and nutrition course is a training course that parents themselves benefit from very much and is also the most popular one among parents.

It can be said that the concept of Southampton's youth training system is indeed quite advanced, even subversive.

Because in the past, traditional youth training was controlled by the clubs.

But now, with the participation of players and parents and the openness of clubs, everything has become transparent.

In fact, this sense of participation and dominance will make players work harder and be more confident.

But behind all this is Southampton's huge investment in the youth training system every year.

This is simply unimaginable when youth training is considered a burden all over the world.

More importantly, Southampton’s youth training system is so revolutionary.

Nowadays, what should England do first to promote youth training?

Isn’t it just subversion?

Especially a subversion like Southampton that satisfies the youth training, the players, and their families, and everyone is happy, is simply the most urgent need of the English FA!

So, David Bernstein immediately put on a shameless face and asked with a smile: "Mr. Huan, can you do me another favor?"

"Help?" Yang Huan looked at the people around him. Almost everyone in the Glorious Revolution Youth Training Reform Team, including Martin Hunt, had an embarrassed look on their faces.

Isn’t it?

Whether it is Master Huan or Southampton, they have contributed both money and effort to the youth training reform in England.

Without them, what would be the point of the Glorious Revolution?

But now, people have helped you so much, but you are still not satisfied and continue to ask them for help. Don’t you think it’s a bit too much?

But what David Bernstein didn't expect was that Master Huan laughed without hesitation.

"Okay, if there is anything, as long as I can do it, I will definitely help!"

Everyone present immediately gave Young Master Huan a thumbs up in their hearts!

This Master Huan is simply the most public-spirited model boss in the English football world, oh no, in the world's professional football world!

"We hope to introduce Southampton's youth training system. I don't know..."

Everyone was suddenly embarrassed again, even David Bernstein himself was at a loss for words.

You bastard, they said they wanted to help, but you asked for too much and directly wanted to dig up their foundation.

Southampton has invested so much and built such a youth training system, and you want to introduce it with just one sentence?

Isn't it that others are setting up the stage and you are the one performing?

Unexpectedly, Master Huan was not angry at all. Instead, he hesitated for a moment and said, "It is no problem to introduce them, but how much can you invest?"

"Invest?" David Bernstein was stunned.

Although the budget of the Glorious Revolution Plan is sufficient, in reality, there are too many places to spend money, and money is needed in almost every aspect.

After all this is shared, there really isn't much spare budget left.

"Does it require a lot of investment?" David Bernstein asked the question that everyone was concerned about.

Martin Hunt coughed and nodded, "Mr. Bernstein, Southampton has invested at least tens of millions of pounds in purchasing equipment and developing software systems for the youth training system so far. It includes many aspects, especially databases and analytical algorithms."

Over 10 million pounds?

Everyone present was shocked!

This youth training system is quite high-end and classy, ​​but doesn’t it cost too much?

But on second thought, it’s no wonder. How much would a complete set of equipment cost?

Are all those ultra-high-definition cameras at the Staplewood training base just for show?

There are also computer servers. To process so much data and video recordings, how much investment is needed in software and hardware?

With such a complete set of high-end equipment, we must have high-end talents, right?

Salary is free? Bonus is free?

When you calculate it this way, the investment seems to be quite astonishing!

"The investment is not a big deal, but the annual employee and system maintenance costs are also a considerable expense, at least two to three million pounds!" What Martin Hunt said is basically reliable.

It's just a little bit exaggerated!

But this time David Bernstein wanted to back out immediately.

What the English Football Association lacks most is money. Although it has a glorious revolution plan, it cannot spend the money as it pleases.

At this moment, in the eyes of David Bernstein and others, Southampton's youth training system is the best white, rich and beautiful woman, who can be married home as long as one has money, but they are poor and have little money!

Just when David Bernstein and others were feeling depressed, Martin Hunt suddenly changed the subject.

"In fact, I think it is not necessary to introduce the entire system. Internet technology is so advanced now, we can use Southampton's system to analyze our data. In this way, we don't need to invest too much, but we can still achieve results close to Southampton's youth training system."

This is also what Southampton is currently doing in collaboration with Monaco and Atletico Madrid.

Not only the youth training system, but also the scout system, are integrating and connecting the databases.

When David Bernstein heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up. Is there such a good thing?

It seems to be the same as renting a server for other websites!

Yang Huan frowned upon hearing this. "In this way, you can save a lot of investment and maintenance costs, but the system operating costs of our Southampton will increase. I'm afraid..."

"Master Huan, don't worry, we will never let you suffer any loss!" David Bernstein immediately added a promise.

There are so many ways to prevent Southampton from suffering losses, such as the schedule arrangement...

Even though the English Football Association doesn't have much money, it still has considerable power.

Yang Huan thought about it again and nodded, "Okay, I'll help them to the end and send them off to the west!"

After finishing speaking, Master Huan slapped his thigh and said, "Okay, I agree to this!"

In fact, Young Master Huan was secretly happy in his heart at this moment!

The reason is simple. In this way, St. George's becomes one of the branches for collecting data of Southampton's youth training system.

You have to know that St. George's is England's youth training center, and its goal is Clairefontaine. In the future, it will gather the most outstanding young rookies of all ages in the UK and train with national teams at all levels.

Once Southampton has control of this set of data, doesn't it mean that without spending a penny, they will be able to clearly grasp the detailed data of all rookies and international players in England?

With this set of data, Southampton will have an amazing accuracy rate in introducing young rookies and local players. Now that local players are so valuable, this alone can guarantee that Southampton will make a fortune!

But Master Huan is a man who never shows his emotions.

Even if you are very happy in your heart, you still have to pretend to be happy on the surface, giving people the feeling that you have suffered a great loss.

Especially when David Bernstein suggested that it would be best not to mention Southampton in public, but to say that it was the FA and the Glorious Revolution Youth Training Reform Team that were determined to set up such a system.

Who doesn't know that, as the chairman of the English Football Association, David Bernstein deserves the greatest credit?

Master Huan hesitated for a while, but finally agreed reluctantly after David Bernstein begged him for a long time, but he also put forward a lot of hidden conditions that were beneficial to Southampton.

When seeing David Bernstein’s cheerful expression, as if he had found gold, Master Huan was truly sighing.

What is this?

Even after being sold, he still happily helped others count money!

As expected, technology is the primary productive force!

While the two bigwigs in the stands were negotiating a private deal, the football game on the field had already started on time.

From the beginning of the game, both sides launched a fierce battle for the midfield.

What’s interesting is that in this game, both Bielsa and Wenger used an organizing midfielder to act as a holding midfielder.

Southampton's is Toni Kroos and Arsenal's is Arteta.

It was obvious that both teams wanted to take control of the midfield from the start.

Playing at home, Southampton actively pressed and pressed after the start of the game, and played high-pressure defense very skillfully.

In particular, James Rodriguez, who replaced Modric in the starting lineup, was mentioned in the position to cruise behind center forward Drogba. The two of them simultaneously pressured Arsenal's two central defenders Koscielny and Mertesacker.

The purpose is to suppress Arsenal from the very beginning!