Chapter 84: The Direction of the Youth Team

Chapter 84: The Direction of the Youth Team

Vazquez resigned and Jose returned. This news caused a moderate response in La Liga.

There shouldn't have been such a response. Although in 1999 Mallorca was rated as one of the eight strongest teams in the world because of their outstanding results. Although they ranked at the bottom, this was already a great achievement. honor - but no matter what, they are just an underdog team that was still in the Spanish Second Division in the 1996-97 season. At best, they can only be regarded as a mid-range team. A mid-range team has changed coaches. In today's speculation Today, coaching is commonplace, which is really not news, but Jose's achievements last season were too impressive, and taking charge of the team as the first shareholder is also a huge gimmick, so that There has been quite a lot of media attention on Mallorca in the past few days...

This news is good news for many people.

There are two lonely people at the training base of Mallorca's second team.

At the end of last season, they returned to the second team, because according to the contract, they still belonged to the second team. After Vazquez took office, he simply ignored the Mallorca second team, which was almost Jose's back garden, even if When there was a shortage of players again, there was no thought of moving players to the second team.

Although Motta and Luque have gained a lot of experience after training with the first team for a period of time and accepted the baptism of the UEFA Cup, and their performance in the Spanish Second Division has become increasingly outstanding, however, the two of them felt boring - after experiencing the UEFA Cup A big scene like the final, playing in the second division again? The gap is indeed quite large...

So although Mallorca's second team has played well this season and has maintained a top-six position in Segunda División since the beginning of the season, Luke and Motta's mood is getting worse and worse.

Fortunately for Motta, he is still young, just eighteen years old, but Luke can't wait any longer, and his performance in La Liga in the past two seasons has also impressed many La Liga teams and middle and lower La Liga teams. Although he does not have an agent yet, various scouts have begun to contact him...

Just when Luke was almost excited - he was luckier than Stankovic and heard the news of Jose's return to the club a few days later. Although Jose went abroad to buy people after that, he gave Luke a huge blow. hope.

Not leaving! Stay in Mallorca!

Luke firmly believes that Jose will not give up on him!

He won the bet.

On the afternoon of November 16, when the second team finished training, Motta and Luke saw a familiar figure under the training ground.

"Thiago, Albert, starting from tomorrow, report to the first team." Jose said simply.

Such a simple sentence made the two young players feel like they were hearing joy!

Seeing that Jose seemed to be planning to talk to Mesqueda, the head coach of the second team, Motta and Luke forcibly suppressed the joy in their hearts and said goodbye to Jose. They didn't look at each other until they were out of Jose's sight. One look, and then seeing ecstasy in each other's eyes!

"Did you see that, Albert? On the first day the boss comes back, he asked us to report to the first team!" Mota said excitedly.

"That's right, it's not when the season is about to end, but when it's just beginning!" Luke waved his fist: "I knew those old guys were just for the present, but we represent the future! Boss, he doesn't Maybe you don't know this!"

"When we join the first team, we have to work harder and become the main force as soon as possible!" Motta nodded heavily, as if he was talking to Luke, but also to himself.

"Thiago, you are right!" Luke laughed: "When the time comes, you pass the ball and I score, we will be Mallorca's best partner!"

While Luke and Motta were celebrating excitedly, Jose was chatting with Mesqueda.

"Thiago and Albert's departure... won't have any impact on the results, right?" Jose asked.

"The impact is certain, but there is no pressure, and the team's performance is good now, so it doesn't matter." Mesqueda shook his head: "The kid signed from Sares last year was good. He scored more goals on the front line. There is more to Albert, although he is not as skilled as Albert, but his sense in front of goal is very keen."

"Uh, you mean Daniel?" Jose asked after thinking for a while.

"Yes, I am not very tall, but I have a good body, and I have a sense of confrontation and grabbing points. Although there are still some shortcomings, after two years of training, I can play a good role in the first team." Mesqueda replied .

Jose nodded slightly - this was also a name he was familiar with - Daniel Guisa, who later won the top scorer in La Liga, but he is still only twenty years old, and his lack of experience is his The biggest problem, not to mention that Mallorca now has no shortage of forwards, it seems that loaning him out would be a good choice.

In Jose's impression, it was only that season that Guisa performed well, and then he joined the national team and scored in the European Cup - and then was sold to Turkey by Mallorca who had no money. ,There's no after that...

"He is a usable player, but he can't use it yet." Jose thought in his heart.

Mesqueda looked at Jose in a daze and felt a little strange. Then he looked at Jose like that, meaning - everyone is going to die, why don't you leave...

After coming back from his thoughts, Jose laughed when he saw Mesqueda looking at him like that: "No, Joao, even if I stay in the second team for a while, there's no need to drive me away, right?"

"Hmph, the second team is my territory now." Mesqueda pointed to his nose and said arrogantly.

"Okay, I won't take your place." Jose smiled and waved his hand: "Actually, I still have some things to talk to you about."

Half an hour later.

"You mean to build the training base of the Mallorca second team into a La Masia football school type? To provide talents for the first team as the highest goal?"

"I have this idea initially, but I haven't considered the consistent and effective tactics yet. There are just a few points that need to be determined."

"you say."

"Insist on ground attack and focus on training the players' passing awareness and collective cooperation awareness. Each group of players must develop a midfield core like Motta to make the entire team operate more orderly. At the same time, the players' collective running and The habit of pressing as a whole should be developed. This tactic will be the tactic I will focus on in the future. It requires players to have skilled ball control skills, passing awareness and the awareness of mutual contact on the court. Although there will be some tactical details has changed, but the general direction remains the same. During the passing process, triangle passing is the main focus and coordination awareness is the main focus. I don't need players who like to play alone. What I want is players who have excellent overall coordination. , they will be the main body of Mallorca next. As for other types of players, you can look for them in the transfer market."

Jose's approach borrowed the methods of later generations of Barcelona, ​​but changed it - although Barcelona's lukewarm back-and-forth offense was actually very boring to watch, and at the same time, their habit of besieging referees and their acting elements made many people Criticism, but in terms of the promotion and sublimation of the overall tactics, their approach is not wrong, including the overall pressing and continuous use of passing to form local advantages, which must be the correct path for the development of modern football. What is this general direction? The plug must be used, but in the details, he will be different.

Barcelona uses locally trained backbones and local players who can fill in the tactical system as soon as they arrive, plus suitable foreign players who can fill in the gaps to build the team. Jose's idea is exactly the opposite - use a locally trained system Build a framework and then introduce players in some suitable positions - when Mallorca's financial revenue cannot fully cover the deficit, buying low and selling high will be Jose's only method. To put it bluntly, he wants to build What is important is a system that can continuously bring out stars. The limelight work is done by some players who have the ability to become stars. In fact, they are not the most important players. What is important is the unknown players from the local system. In that case, Mallorca It can become a continuous star-making factory. Even if superstars are sold every year, it will not have a big impact on the team's strength!

Just like Udinese in the late 1990s, one or two extremely outstanding players can be sold for money every year, such as Bierhoff and Amoruso, the two top scorers in Serie A. However, Really important players don't get too much limelight, and they don't even know it themselves. They continue to earn income by producing stars, gradually enriching Mallorca's assets!

And there is also an advantage to doing this - the trained players are all ordinary players who can be mass-produced, so that they are not afraid of being poached by Premier League clubs who take advantage of the fact that Spain can only sign professional contracts with players over the age of 17 to poach them - France The lessons of Bregas and Pique are still fresh in Jose's mind. Using this method, he can basically prevent the players he has worked hard to cultivate from being poached by the opponent when they are sixteen years old, and he can only watch helplessly. Look - Mallorca is not as attractive and rich as Barcelona, ​​so they just treat it as someone else helping them to train mature players for free...

Jose knew that this was playing with fire, but he had no other choice - the initial capital was so much, and he used less. Even if he could make a profit every year, the huge Mallorca club in Jose's mind The inflated plan will make these incomes be sucked up like water in a sponge. Profit must be created every year, and at the same time, these profits can be used to purchase equipment. Otherwise, Mallorca will only become weaker and weaker. It's becoming increasingly difficult to make ends meet.

Although Jose can be supplemented by other investments, the damn bullhead has made it very clear before that there is only so much start-up capital, and the rest can only be made through the club - after acquiring the shares in Mallorca , Jose once tried to invest tens of thousands of dollars in the Spanish stock market, but immediately lost everything - after that, he knew this...

"Shouldn't I be the fucking protagonist of the story? I should have the aura of the protagonist anyway, and that modifier has never been of any use. Otherwise, I don't want this modifier. Just let me have the same wealth as Xiao Ming." It's not too late now, I want to go to the United States to invest in Google..."

He lamented in his heart, but he also knew that there was probably no need to talk about this kind of thing - he believed that if he invested in Google, he might lose everything inexplicably, and besides, he would always die. , it will always fall into the hands of those guys, it is better not to violate their rules.

Thinking of this, Jose gave up all unrealistic ideas, shook his head and said to Mesqueda: "That's basically it. Segunda División is also a good training place. As long as we are not relegated in Segunda División, it will be fine. The most important purpose is to train players' awareness and teamwork spirit on the court."

Mesqueda nodded. Although he didn't particularly understand Jose's thoughts, Jose's request was not impossible. It was nothing more than cultivating certain promising players in the past, but now it is to train players. It's just a collective consciousness. Geniuses are rare after all, and there are more diligent players with team consciousness.