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Chapter 103 Who is the King of Europe?

The first day after the team arrived in Dortmund, it was destined to be calm.

Nowadays, many major European leagues have ended, and the European Champions League final has not yet ignited the war. During this period of absent break, the League Cup has undoubtedly attracted more attention, especially before the League Cup, Ajax actually broke out a shocking news such as a sudden change of coach. This is indeed a very eye-catching thing.

Many journalists from all over the world are curious about Ajax's decision to change coaches, and they want to know what exactly is the reason that Ajax's management decides to change coaches?

Is Ye Qiu not good enough?

Or is Edvocart better?

Van Prager's clarification seems more weak and powerless, and is more interpreted as an attitude and compromise that has to be made in order to stabilize the current situation. Many people even doubt that without Van Prager's instruction, what dares Kornar do this?

It is obvious that not everyone is aware of the current structure of Ajax's club power. They cannot distinguish the contradictions and disputes between the board of directors and management. Therefore, they can easily adopt a conspiracy theory to look at this matter, that is, Ye Qiu will definitely be dismissed!

The Dutch media are divided into two factions, one is to support Ye Qiu's dismissal, and the other is to support Ye Qiu's retention. What is interesting is that the faction that supports Ye Qiu's dismissal is almost all the anti-Ajax media in the past, while the ones who support Ye Qiu's retention include the Amsterdam Evening Post and the Joint Daily.

The two factions wrote articles to attack each other and fought each other, without any fun, but no one could convince anyone.

These reporters are all about writing. If they attack and debate face to face, they may not be powerful. But if they write articles to debate, then they are the guys they are their strengths. Will they lose?

Perhaps considering that after being disturbed by the outside world, after Ye Qiu arrived in Dortmund, except for going to Westphalon Stadium at Dortmund in the afternoon to conduct a warm-up training familiar with the venue, Ajax stayed in the hotel for the rest of the time.

On the hotel floor where Ajax checked in, all visitors, including journalists and relatives of players, will be denied. On the day of the game, the club will be responsible for helping them come from Amsterdam to Dortmund, and then gather with the team after the game, but before the game, they will not be allowed to appear in the team's hotel.

Some media have given understanding of Ajax's arrangement similar to martial law, but some media think that Ajax is too nervous and Ye Qiu's actions are a bit dictatorial, which may arouse the disgust of the players.

Ye Qiu himself was not worried about the players' disgust, because in the hotel, he arranged a series of activities to prevent the players from being too bored, and even let them watch movies together as a pastime entertainment.

On the morning of the game, the club management team came to Dortmund together. Van Prager brought several senior executives to the hotel to visit the players, soothe the players' mood, and expressed his personal opinion in front of the players. The Ajax management team always trusted Ye Qiu and firmly believed that Ye Qiu would still be sitting in the head coach's seat next season.

After watching the players, Van Prag and Ye Qiu met privately. He did not speak of Ye Qiu's tone, nor did he mention the words Eliza had interviewed with the media. He just repeatedly told Ye Qiu that he would give Ye Qiu a brand new contract after the end of the season to completely soothe people's hearts.

"Don't worry, coaching in Ajax, leave the rest to me. Next season, I will give you a stable environment. I promise that the same thing will not happen again!" Van Prag finally gave a full guarantee.

Perhaps some people will feel that Van Prager has no say now and that he may be kicked out of Ajax at any time, but Ye Qiu doesn't think so, because Van Prager has been a chairman in Ajax for more than ten years and has extensive connections in Dutch football and Europe.

Such a person who was once regarded as a savior by Ajax fans will be dismissed by a group of people who only know how to do money?

Ye Qiu absolutely did not believe it, so he called Eliza at noon.

Keep communicating with Eliza so that you can ensure that Ye Qiu’s advance and retreat are well-founded.

"Do you really believe Van Prague's promise?" Eliza asked with a smile on the other side of the phone, she was a little suspicious.

Not to mention anything else, a year ago, when he invited Ye Qiu to coach Ajax, he had promised to give him a safe environment, but in the past year, such an environment has never happened. Ye Qiu has always been accompanied by controversy and opposition. Therefore, from Ye Qiu's perspective, Van Prague's promise is not very valuable.

Ye Qiu smiled, "If you want to talk about other things, you are better than me, but if you want to talk about playing tricks and people's hearts, you don't see it as thoroughly as me!"

"What does it mean?" Eliza didn't understand very much.

"Didn't you notice it? Is there an extra fan organization in Amsterdam recently?"

"You mean..." Eliza remembered that there was indeed an extra fan organization and it also went to the newspaper.

"Yes, it's the radical fan organization who claims to raise funds from the directors to buy back the club's shares!"

Ye Qiu knew very well that the listing of a club is a freak of deformity. Except for Manchester United, no club can make money after listing. Basically, the stocks will fall sharply as soon as they go public, and some teams even fell so much that even his grandmother didn't recognize it.

Ajax's stock is also falling, but for those directors who really hold a large number of Ajax stocks, the value of the stock is not important. They want face and Ajax's signature, so they don't care about value and always hold it in their hands.

But now the fans are quitting. They feel that your directors have exceeded their authority and you shouldn't have managed too much. I'll raise money to buy back the stocks that have fallen to the bottom at a much cheaper price than you bought at the beginning. You bastards will get out of Ajax in the future.

This is the way Van Pragher attacked!

Of course, there are still some people who don’t want to sell, but it doesn’t matter. You can’t sell it, but I want to reorganize the club. From now on, you will be your director. If you have a meeting, you will come to see the game, you will celebrate, and you will be the owner. It’s okay, but on weekdays, you will not fart me and point fingers at the team less.

After hearing Ye Qiu's words, Eliza was a little surprised. She really didn't expect that Van Prag was so powerful when playing with it. You know, if you really sell the shares, those directors will suffer a great loss. If you don't sell them, you will be shocked by Van Prag and be obedient.

"Why do you think that all this is Van Pragge's backing?" Eliza didn't believe it.

Ye Qiu smiled, and he also knew that this girl was very tough-mouthed, "I don't know, guess, but I don't believe it. For no reason, it happened so by chance that a group of fans came out to oppose the board of directors!"

After hearing this, Eliza sighed softly over there, "I don't understand these things anyway!"

"But you still have to tell me if you are still planning to stay in Ajax?"

Ye Qiu was slightly stunned after hearing this, and didn't know how to answer for a while.

In the past two years, he has invested a lot of effort and energy in Ajax. The progress and growth of every player of Ajax is inseparable from his push and efforts behind the scenes. He finally made up such a lineup and finally brought this group of players to this day.

Ye Qiu can say with certainty that as long as he is given two or three years, he can bring this Ajax to the level that he is not inferior to that of Van Gaal, because he has completely developed the overall framework of the current Ajax, and the rest is to constantly improve and adjust the parts and details.

As long as he accumulates for two or three years, this team will become a powerful force that cannot be ignored in the European League.

But Ye Qiu was also very clear that there were actually a lot of troubles in front of him.

The first thing comes from the board of directors. The management trusts him, but the board of directors does not trust him at all.

Also, in the next two or three years, will his players be poached by the outside world and leave?

All of these are what he needs to consider and are also the risk of his success.

But if Ye Qiu gave up Ajax now, he would not lack a next home, but the problem is that he had to give up everything he had put in Ajax and started again in the past two years, which made him hesitate.

Because he is too eager to prove himself!

"I understand, don't worry, I'll help you!" Eliza understood what he was thinking without hearing his answer.

"Thank you!" Ye Qiu smiled and thanked. There was a very smart woman on the other side of the microphone. She knew Ye Qiu very well.

"Time is up, Achu and I are going to the airport. See you tonight!"

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After the second expansion, the capacity of Westfaron Stadium reached 68,600 people, but because UEFA requires all seats in the final venue to be seated, the managers of Westfaron Stadium temporarily modified the South stand and expanded the seats to 52,000, while all the seats were vacant.

But when I walked into Westphalia Stadium and looked up, I saw that it was full of people. The deafening noise was floating in the entire stadium, which easily made me feel irritated and wanted to vent loudly.

Humans are such strange animals. When there are only one person or fewer people, and when there are many people and the emotions are surging, they can make two completely different actions.

Players conduct warm-up training on the court. In this open training, Ajax basically does not choose new training, but adopts some more traditional training that other teams know well, such as monkey walking, or some triangle transmission and cooperation, etc. These are Ajax's traditional training methods and are not afraid of leaking secrets.

The number of fans of Ajax and Barcelona is the same. They are divided on the north and south sides of Westphalia Stadium. UEFA occupies the president's stands and some other neutral stands. Fans who separate the two teams are afraid that there will be a conflict between fans if they accidentally occur. After all, conflicts between fans in the European League are not uncommon now, especially in the Premier League.

Today, Ajax players will wear their classic red and white jerseys, while Barcelona will wear their red and blue jerseys, which also led to fans of both teams wearing their respective team jerseys in the stands, which are very neat and spectacular.

Barcelona's performance in La Liga this season is not ideal, and the outside world has high voices about Ferrer being dismissed. He urgently needs a League Cup to make his last effort, while Ye Qiu is eager to win a League Cup to prove himself.

Long before the game, the head coaches of the two teams had already started a war of words. Ferrer said that Barcelona defeated Ajax before the season, which brought more confidence to Barcelona, ​​so he believed that his team would definitely defeat Ye Qiu's Ajax.

But Ye Qiu said in an interview that he and his Ajax will definitely prove in the game, using facts to prove that the gap between Ajax and Barcelona is not big, and they can even beat Barcelona.

The smell of gunpowder before the game was obviously continued to the game. At least Ye Qiu and Ferrer shook hands and greeted each other politely, for the rest of the time, both of them were in front of their coaching seats, watching the players on the stadium warm up.

"This is UEFA President Johnson, and CEO Olsen, German football emperor Beckenbauer, Cruyff from the Netherlands, Barcelona president Gaspart, Ajax president Van Prag, and so on, as well as Spanish and Dutch football association officials, all appeared on the rostrum of Westphalon Stadium."

"Everyone believes that this will be a battle, because the head coaches of both teams are currently facing a huge coaching position crisis. They both urgently need a championship trophy with weight to prove themselves. Therefore, neither of them will give up this League Cup championship easily!"

The live TV camera swept across the rostrum and came to the side of the court. I saw Barcelona coach Ferrer, who is the home team, and immediately put out an introduction subtitle, "Ferer's team's offense this season is indeed very good, but the results are not very ideal, which also leads to the possibility and call for him to leave Barcelona after the season!"

The camera swept again and fell on Ye Qiu's body.

Today, Ye Qiu's black trousers and casual white shirt are dressed from Eliza's handwriting, half-foot-headed, and the only jewelry on his body is the Hamilton watch on his left wrist.

"This is the youngest head coach in the history of the UEFA Cup finals. From China, Ajax coach Ye Qiu, who is only 26 years old. Although this head coach is young, he is extremely powerful. Last season, he led the second team to create Dutch football history and won the Dutch Cup championship!"

"Then he took over the first team and made drastic reforms. Before the season, many people were shocked by his large-scale purge of the stars in his playing years, believing that Ajax would be relegated by him, but after a season, he won the second place in the Dutch Eredivisie and almost reversed Eindhoven to win the championship."

"Ye Qiu spent a year telling everyone how wise it was to clean up the veterans and stars before the season. Now Ajax has become a well-known young guard in European football, and has made a youth storm, winning the appreciation and recognition of fans all over the world."

"But it is obvious that the young team led by the young head coach is not only satisfied with the Netherlands. They are targeting Europe and are launching a new impact on the UEFA Cup, and what is blocking them is the traditional European giant Barcelona."

"This game is not only a contest between Barcelona and Ajax, but also a strong collision between the old giants and the new strong teams. It is also a direct challenge from the young Ye Qiu to Ferrer who is in his prime. See who is the king of Europe!"

After the live commentator introduced this round and mobilized the enthusiastic speech of the fans, they got the starting list against both sides.

"The starting lineup for Barcelona in this game is the young player Renner who was promoted from the youth training camp. It is reported that Ye Qiu had once loved this goalkeeper before, but it was left unresolved; the defense line was Serge, Frank de Boer, Rezig and Puyor from left to right.

"The double midfielder is a fixed combination of Guardiola and Coku. The three attackers are Ovemas, Rivaldo and Luis Enrique from left to right, and the single forward is Cruivet!"

"In Barcelona's 11-man starting lineup, four players are from Ajax, and Ferrer's tactics are also derived from Ajax's direct lineup. This makes many people think that this game will be a direct dialogue between Ajax's traditional faction and the reformist faction led by Ye Qiu!"

"Ye Qiu also arranged the strongest lineup for Ajax in this game. The goalkeeper is Grim, the defense line is Abidal, Kivo, Lucio and Macon, the three midfielders are Keita, Gilberto Silva and Sneider, and the front tridents are Robben, Ibrahimovic and Van der Mede."

"Ajax's 433 tactic has undoubtedly changed in Ye Qiu's hands, especially the adjustment and changes in the midfield configuration, which has frequently appeared. How three players with different styles can reorganize in the midfield and suppress Barcelona's midfield, this is undoubtedly a major crisis facing Ajax in this game."

"And we should see that Ovemas and Luis Enrique have a very obvious role in both sides and are the most threatening areas for Barcelona's attack. Rivaldo's combination in the middle and Cruivet has repeatedly proved his strength in La Liga, and there are two midfielders composed of Coku and Guardiola behind him."
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