Chapter 840： North and South are kings

In recent years, with the influx of international capital into professional football, the importance of a club’s management system has become more and more prominent, not only including daily management, but also talent selection and introduction, and long-term planning.

Kuhn and others are all operators of large companies. They know better than anyone else that the most important thing to run a large company is how to establish an efficient management system.

If you think of football as a world, then all the teams in the five major leagues are one big company.

Throughout the past decade or so, the teams with the best performance in Europe tend to excel at the management level.

Juventus Berlusconi and Galliani under the leadership of Moggi in the first three years of the first phase of the Galaxy Battleship phase were in Milan in their golden age...

A very important reason why Mourinho's Porto was able to sweep Europa is that a brand-new business concept led by Mendes' third-party ownership agency entered the Portuguese Super League and entered European football.

Facts have proved that it is precisely the great success achieved by Porto that has greatly promoted the career development of Mendes and others.

When Pep Guardiola was in the quagmire of Barcelona, ​​he took over the team as the club’s soul standard bearer. He won the full support of the chairman Laporta and the general staff. He wanted people to give people, and resources to resources. Seeing whoever is not pleasing to the eye will be abolished, establishing Guardiola's supreme authority in Barcelona.

At the peak, Guardiola's coaching team was as many as two dozen people. After Roselle took office, the coaching team was cut down because of the reduction of the team's finances. This also triggered Guardio. The contradiction between Ra and Roselle.

As for Mourinho’s Inter Milan, let alone, he almost exhausted everything at the club, including Moratti’s financial resources, and all the resources of the team up and down. It was a gamble that it was unsustainable. Success.

After the success, Inter Milan also quickly fell.

As for Ferguson's Manchester United and Bayern Munich over the years, there is no need to say that they are definitely a model of European professional team management.

Just like Bayern Munich.

After the success of the turn of the century, with the bankruptcy of Kirch Group and the overall decline of the Bundesliga, Bayern Munich has also fallen, and there has been turbulence for several years, and it has been unable to make a difference in the European arena.

However, in the past few years, Bayern Munich is not without results.

That is, the Bundesliga Panba relies on its excellent operating system to continuously break through its own operating limits, expand its fiscal revenue, and further consolidate its position as the supreme ruler of the Bundesliga.

It can be said that after years of accumulation, Bayern Munich's dominance of the Bundesliga has almost reached its peak.

In recent years, a new vocabulary, technical director, has gradually become popular in Europe.

It can also be called a football director, sports director, any director is the same, but the meaning is basically the same.

That is, arrange a buffer position between the head coach and management.

The most famous is undoubtedly when Chelsea forcibly poached the football director from Tottenham Hotspur, Danish Frank Arneson.

It can also be said that this is the first time that the football director, or the technical director, appears in front of the fans.

So, what is it?

Many fans have always had a misunderstanding that the players and coaches standing in front of the stage should be the protagonists of the team as they should be, just like Manchester United’s Ferguson and Arsenal’s Wenger. All resources should be tilted towards them, is that really the case?

As we all know, for most teams, whether it is a player or a head coach, even if they have a contract, they are quite fluid positions.

How many years can a player play in a club?

As we all know, the most reasonable coaching cycle for a coach in a team is four years.

If you are a mature company, will you be willing to invest such amazing resources in someone who is ready to change jobs at any time, or who can only stay in the team for four years, and will either change jobs or decline in work ability after four years? ?

The answer is very very yes, impossible

Therefore, Ferguson and Wenger should not be typical. They are special cases, not the norm.

The real normality is that the head coach is just a project manager hired by the club. If you do well, you will stay, if you don’t do well, you will leave. If you are poached, it doesn’t matter. I can do it again in the shortest time. Find a suitable person to replace you.

This is the responsibility of the technical director or football director

To be offensive, from a purely management perspective, Wenger's contribution to the Premier League team is greater than Ferguson.

Why do you say that?

If you take a closer look, it is not difficult to find that Ferguson is not strictly speaking an excellent club operator.

Yes, he has a very thorough understanding of tactics, and his learning ability is very strong, but he still can’t get rid of the traditional division of labor where the boss makes money and the head coach spends money. His achievements are basically based on investment. Based on.

Once he stepped down, Manchester United immediately fell apart, which is very telling.

That is from beginning to end, no matter how successful Manchester United is at the commercial level, the management at the competitive level is a mess.

But what about Arsenal?

Regardless of the poor performance of Wenger's team in recent years, Arsenal has steadily maintained the Champions League round of 16, and Wenger's own financial control ability has ensured Arsenal's financial health and sustainable development. .

Since Ferguson led Manchester United to the triple crown in 1999, he lacked a long-term team direction.

For example, if you introduce Veron at a sky-high price, everyone knows that you want to transform the team's tactics, but what will happen?

give up halfway

Some people might say that it was because Veron was not used to it

Yes, but as long as it is a signing, there must be risks.

If Veron doesn't adapt, can't we transform the team's tactics to help Veron adapt?

In other words, if your idea is firm enough and Veron doesn't adapt, can't you change another player?

After Cristiano Ronaldo and Rooney, the team immediately built around them and won a Champions League, but after Cristiano Ronaldo switched to Real Madrid, Manchester United once again fell into a chaotic team state. inside.

In those years, it can be basically said that Manchester United was very confused on the tactical level.

Yes, Manchester United reached the Champions League final twice, but was completely beaten by Barcelona on both occasions.

Even Ferdinand himself said that Manchester United faced Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League final and was completely unable to fight back.

And look at the resume of Manchester United's two Champions League finals. Have they encountered a real strong team?

At that time in 2009, Cristiano Ronaldo was still there, and Manchester United’s luck in the group stage draw was quite good. In the knockout stage, they first met Mourinho’s first year Inter Milan, then Porto, and Arsenal in the semifinals. .

And once a year, the luck of the group stage draw was also stable. When it came to the knockout stage, we first met Marseille, and then met the unstable Chelsea led by the insecure Ancelotti. The semi-final was Schal. Gram 04.

It can be said that in those two Champions League finals, Manchester United almost never encountered a truly outstanding opponent.

But in the two Champions League finals, Manchester United completely lost to Barcelona.

Of course, reaching the Champions League final, the results are quite good, but in those few years, Manchester United's signings investment, less?

After Ferguson left, what did he leave for his successor?

It’s not Moyes’ cheating father, it’s the lineup left by Ferguson. Even if it’s the king of heaven, I have to kneel.

On the other hand, Wenger, regardless of Wenger's performance is not as good as Ferguson, but Arsenal's philosophy has always been firm and clear.

It can be said that even if Wenger resigns, as long as Arsenal’s management continues to stick to the line that the team has followed for many years, the selected coach will not be too different from Wenger, and Arsenal will not appear too much. Great turmoil.

So, what is the difference between Ferguson and Wenger?

Long-term planning

Therefore, the club needs a technical director to coordinate sports affairs, formulate long-term plans, select coaches and players that meet this set of plans, and avoid the phenomenon of changing a team of players by changing a head coach. .

Moreover, the technical director must have a deep enough understanding of the professional football market, be familiar with the head coach, understand their tactical style success and different personalities, and be the first to master various information and dynamics of the professional football to prepare the team When faced with digging a corner, any position in the company can come up with a substitute plan at any time.

In addition, he must also manage the scout team, be responsible for transfer negotiations, and establish a good relationship with the player's agent, so that when the team needs it, he can introduce it as soon as possible, or find suitable players internally.

So, what many fans are worried about is how to deal with the conflict between the technical director and the head coach?

Here, Yang Huan can only say with a smile that the head coach is selected by the technical director. What conflicts can there be?

Even if it does appear, there will only be one result, the head coach leaves.

Because in the history of professional football in the past, the necessity of the technical director has been proven time and time again.

And this time, Yang Huan made adjustments and reforms in Southampton’s management. One of the very important measures is that Peter Kenyon will leave the team and be promoted to the Miracle Football Group as CEO, and will be responsible for the management Run this business.

Ron Gurley will succeed Peter Kenyon as CEO of the Saints.

In addition, Les Reid has made outstanding contributions to the work of the club in the past period of time. His work ability has also been unanimously affirmed by Yang Huan, Peter Kenyon, Ron Gurli and Bielsa. , Is also a native British player, familiar with everything about the Saints.

Therefore, this time Yang Huan promoted Lesried to technical director and was solely responsible for coordinating the club's athletic affairs.

In this way, the management of the Saints is also determined, that is, the combination of Nicolas Cortes, Ron Gurli and Leslie, and Yang Huan will completely remove the hands and feet from the Saints. Easy to intervene in team affairs.

After listening to Yang Huan's analysis, Klaus, Michael Kuhn and others had a deeper admiration in their eyes.

Yang Huan is using a modern management system to run his Miracle Football Group and the football teams under his command.

It is completely foreseeable that with the completion of the Southampton management system reform, the management systems of several other teams will also face optimization adjustments, which will inevitably greatly enhance the competitiveness of these football teams.

And what about burgers?

I don’t know, where is Hamburg in Young Master Huan’s mind?

How does he position Hamburg?

Thinking of this, Klaus Michael Kuhn gave Alexander Otto a wink.

The latter understood, and immediately smiled at Yang Huan, "Master Huan, that Hamburg..."

Yang Huan smiled and nodded As I said, what goal Hamburg can achieve depends on how big I can be in this team. "

At the side, Claus Michael Kuhn finally couldn't help it, and asked directly, "Master Huan, what if you let you be in charge? What position can you bring the burger back to?"

After speaking, the super-rich Hamburger stared at Yang Huan with his old but turbid eyes, as if he wanted to see Young Master Huan's every move.

Yang Huan also stared at Kuhn without giving up, smiling slightly, but with a very strong self-confidence, said: "If Hamburg is in full control of me, within three years, it will return to the European stadium, and within five years it will be with Bayern Munich. Keep together, the north and the south are kings"

This last sentence immediately made Kuhn's eyes shine.

"Young Master Huan, can this be counted?"

"I never fight a battle that is uncertain" Yang Huan seemed confident.

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