In Tottenham Hotspur’s scouting system, there is a set of player templates, which are specially provided to scouts to inspect players and enter player data, providing a more vivid and quantitative player data template to the coaching staff and scouts.

It is somewhat similar to the player attributes of PN football managers. The so-called template ultimately reflects some quantitative data. However, unlike PN football managers, the latter directly quantifies the player's technical details. For example, stopping the ball 18 means very high, and 8 means relatively poor, but this can only appear in the game.

One of the important reasons why games are games is that data is dead, but people live.

This is why we need to establish a player template. This template is not actually to quantify player data, but to better evaluate the players' existing strength and future development potential.

For example, what Ye Qiu now has is a player data derived from the scouting system. Patrick Roberts, 12 years old, London, has the ability to play AAA, he is the two players with the highest score in all participating in the Genius Day activities. The other is Nick Powell from Crew, who is also AA.

In this way, everyone may not have any impression, but when it comes to the world, all scouts are very cautious when evaluating AAAR and generally will not give it easily. If you gather all the players under the age of 16 in the UK now, there will not be more than ten players who have received AAAi evaluation, so it is enough to meet two in a genius day, which is enough for everyone to be surprised.

But the current AAA does not mean that it will be AAA in the future. In other words, Patrick Roberts is twelve years old. As his body grows and develops, having ball ability is a dynamic. It will change, may weaken, may maintain or even strengthen. This requires considering quite a few factors, so it does not represent the future.

The current AAAi evaluation only applies to him now, that's all

Or look at them in the simplest image, which everyone can understand and understand. That is, when you look at them playing football, you will find that they can always play very calmly when facing their peers. Nick Powell and Patrick Roberts have a very deep impression because they play football very calmly and relaxedly, and even coolly.

Only those who have really played football know that it is impossible to play casually and calmly without absolutely excellent skills. Therefore, from them, you can easily feel their extremely solid technical skills and their movements are very standardized. Even when facing pressing, your mind is clear and you can handle the ball reasonably.

Of course, they cannot be flawless, just like Patrick Roberts, who has the ability to play ball, but he also has some problems, such as his cooperation with his teammates, his overall collaboration ability, and his movements without the ball, all have flaws and shortcomings. In other words, he has super personal abilities, but his ability to read games and drive the overall abilities are relatively weak.

Then, the problem is here. He is only twelve years old and is still in the rapid growth stage, so we must make a clear prediction, that is, does his problems have room for improvement? Does he have enough time to make up for these shortcomings?

For example, if a sixteen-year-old boy has a bad basic skills in handling balls, then there is a trade-off problem at this time. If his sense of balls is very good, then congratulations, you can cultivate him in the direction of Da Inzagi or Batistuta, that is, let him directly deballs, and then he has a very bright future.

But if unfortunately, his basic skills in handling balls are very bad and his sense of not being good without balls will be basically useless, because the sixteen-year-old boy has difficulty improving his basic skills and there is no room for improvement.

So, relatively speaking, Patrick Roberts is weak, has poor teamwork ability, and has poor reading game ability, but these are not problems, because he is only twelve years old and he still has very broad development prospects, so in Tottenham Hotspur’s player template, all scouts have a very high evaluation of him, and the teams that are recommended must be signed.

There is another player, Dan Crowley, who received very high evaluations. Although only AA and Nick Powell have a certain gap in his ball ability assessment, his sense of off-ball and team cooperation are quite excellent. The coaching staff believes that he is only twelve years old and has a lot of room for development.

The so-called player template is actually to consider the player's existing abilities and combine them with the actual situation of the team. For example, Tottenham Hotspur attaches importance to technology, Manchester United attaches importance to off-ball ability, etc., comprehensively combine various factors to evaluate and weigh the player's development space, and finally find out the player's strength and potential, and then decide whether to sign the player.

So, this raises a question. How accurate is this evaluation and trade-off?

In the Ajax youth training system, through this series of evaluations and the assessment of player templates, the final accuracy rate is above 99. This must be mentioned, that is, in the evaluation of future development space, appropriate overestimation is generally given. The reason is very simple, just to avoid any player with development potential.

Of course, proper overestimation is mainly because each player has too many uncertainties in the development of the player, such as the player's own personality, his learning and absorption ability, his injury during the development process, etc., and even the player's family environment, which will affect a player's development potential, which are beyond the control of the club.

But Ye Qiu still adopts appropriate overestimation assessment methods at Tottenham Hotspur, and the consequence of doing so is that the team will invest more in youth training, because in order to ensure the future of players, players must receive cultural course training during youth training | Clubs must provide various training

As your quantitative scale is loose and overestimated properly, there will be more players who meet your requirements. More players will be, which means you will be investing more. But the only benefit of doing this is that you will not miss any potential star.

Of course, training does not mean that it can be used by you or become a talented person.

Another typical example is the talented striker Portillo of Real Madrid at the time.

This striker is definitely in youth training! It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a genius for high-quality products, and he has become a talented person. However, after entering the first team, he was frequently rented out by the club for various reasons, which eventually led to his failure to make a name for himself. This has to be said to be from Real Madrid youth training! A big loss.

In other words, Tottenham Hotspur’s youth training is to ensure the success rate, but the success rate does not mean the success of the players. These are two different things.

Because of the appropriate overestimation of the loose policy, Tottenham Hotspurs finally decided to leave fifteen players after these three days of talent day selection.

At the internal meeting of Theobord Training Base, all members of the scouting department and coaching staff, including Ye Qiu, Bobby Hams, Ricklink, Peter DeVisel, Mauro Tasotti, Roland Shepars, participated in the meeting. At this internal meeting, the focus of the discussion was the last list of remaining.

There are four players who have a very high evaluation and are the key recommendations to sign in, namely left-footed offensive player Patrick Roberts, Nick Powell with very delicate midfield skills, and Dan Crowley and Ryan Ledson who also play in the midfield. Among these four players, Nick Powell is the oldest, fourteen years old, and is about to be fifteen, while the others are twelve years old.

This is also a characteristic of Tottenham Hotspur evaluating young players. The older you are, the higher the requirements.

"Nick Powell is already able to play against the Hl8 youth team, and even the reserve team. This little guy is really impressive. I never thought that England can still cultivate such delicate players." Bobby Hams was very impressed by this English midfielder.

The key is that his left and right feet are excellent, with excellent ball sense, excellent foot skills and extraordinary ability, excellent defense ability, and even the ability to score and long shots in the back, making it a pleasure to watch him play football, but the problem is that as a midfielder, his defensive and game investment is a shortcoming and deficit.

In fact, these are normal, because in the world of football, players with very good skills often have poor defense, and many people even have weak team consciousness. Nick Powell's team consciousness is very good, but his defensive awareness and tactics are a little worse.

"Can the players, their families, and the Kru Club be done?" Ye Qiu looked at Peter Devithel.

Nick Powell was actually recommended and invited to participate in the Genius Day event by the scouting department, so the scouting department has his information. After all, if Tottenham Hotspur wants to sign in this young player, it must still coordinate with Crew Club.

Ye Qiu doesn't want Tottenham to eventually become like Chelsea, and the opponent is sued for being banned from transfer

"No big problem. I, Crew's football director Dario Gadi, and Crew's chairman, both went on the phone and they would not limit it as long as we gave them a compensation."

Nick Powell joined Crew's youth training camp at the age of five. It has been ten years since he was a full schedule. He really needs to pay Crew a compensation, but the amount is not too large. After all, a young player, 200,000 to 300,000 euros is enough, especially for Crew Club in the fourth-level league, this amount can fully satisfy their appetite.

"Sign him, I will meet him and his family later, and I will convince him." Ye Qiu nodded.

Players who are willing to participate in Tottenham Hotspur's genius day represent an intention in themselves, but Ye Qiu still has to personally communicate with every young player who is about to join the Tottenham Hotspur youth training system and their families to show Tottenham Hotspur's attention and affirmation of them.

Perhaps this is a waste of time in many people, but in Ye Qiu's view, this simple effort can be recognized by the players and their families, and will be of great help to their future play and progress at Tottenham Hotspur.

"Patrick Roberts, Dan Crowley, Ryan Ledson, how are they?" Ye Qiu wanted to stay for these four players who were recommended by the key, because if they were divided according to age, they happened to take over the class of Fabregas and others. If they entered Tottenham Hotspur now, then when they matured and entered the first team, they happened to be the first batch of youth training players trained by Tottenham Hotspur himself丨Players

"The only troublesome thing is Dan Crowley, who is currently playing in Aston Villa's youth training camp." Peter DeVisel said in a bit embarrassingly that players also tend to join Tottenham Hotspur, and he has no professional contract with Aston Villa, but he is Aston Villa's youth training player and has registered records in the FA and the Premier League.

"I will call Martin O'Neal and Aston Villa CEO Paul Faulkner in person," said Ye Qiu. In fact, to put it bluntly, it is just a matter of exchange of interests, basically a matter of compensation.

To be honest, whether it is Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, or Liverpool, they are poaching the youth training of mid- and lower-level league teams everywhere, but unlike Tottenham Hotspur, they usually target over the age of 16, because young people have basically taken their skills and are considered semi-finished products during this period.

On the one hand, Ye Qiu needs to promote localization, but on the other hand, he also needs to adhere to the team's tactical style. Therefore, he decided to lower his age, mainly targeting players aged 12 to 14. According to the situation of the selection activities in the past three days of genius days, another game will definitely be held in the summer. At that time, the age will be appropriately magnified and will be considered between the ages of seven and fourteen.

As for the age of fourteen, Tottenham Hotspur will not continue to consider it. To put it bluntly, it is still not trusting England youth training! Especially the distrust of their ability to cultivate technical players.

"In the past two months, we have passed the youth training personnel assessment and finally accepted the registration of 30 young people. Starting from mid-January of 10 years, we will train them and then arrange them to enter the Theobord training base for internships. In the future, youth training and coaching training classes will be held two times a year and will be gradually opened to countries outside England."

Youth Training丨Coach, this is the biggest weakness of English football. In Ye Qiu's opinion, this is also the biggest weakness of Chinese football.

Without excellent youth training | coaches, don’t expect to cultivate excellent talents. In the eyes of many people, youth training | coaches seem to be very simple and easy, but in fact, it is very, very difficult.

This time, I signed up for youth training丨Coaching training! There were nearly a thousand people in total, because many unemployed or amateur fans hope to pass the youth training of Tottenham Hotspur 丨Coaching training丨Finally found a job at Theobord training base and obtained the youth training丨Coaching certificate, they can even work in any professional club in the future.

But among nearly a thousand people, Tottenham Hotspur finally selected 30 people because the requirements were too high, and these 30 people did not mean that they could directly enter the work after receiving professional training. They also needed to intern at Theobord training base, that is, to play as deputy, accumulate some experience, and be familiar with the responsibilities and scope of work of a youth training coach.

According to the plan formulated by Tottenham Hotspur, it is already very fast to be able to stand alone in three years.

Many people have always believed that what Ajax relies on most is the youth training system, and in the youth training system, the most important core resource is scouts. In fact, it is wrong. Scouts are important, but what is more important is the youth training coach.

Ajax has a youth training coaching team with extremely rich experience and can provide young players with various professional guidance. This is the core resource of the Ajax youth training system and a foundation that Ye Qiu can't dig no matter how hard he is.

Ye Flying every means, he paid the price of a player analysis system, he finally barely dug out five professional coaches from Ajax, including Ricklink. Among them, Ricklink will serve as the youth training camp manager, and the other four Dutch coaches will serve as the youth team head coaches. Tottenham Hotspur’s previous youth training coaching team is barely complete.

But in the next few years, Tottenham Hotspur will pay further attention to youth training, so it is undoubtedly crucial to further improve and improve the level and experience of the youth training team, so Ye Qiu will continue to cooperate with many teams in youth training.

At present, Tottenham Hotspur has signed four teams, Ajax from the Netherlands, Rennes from France, Southampton from England, and Santos from Brazil. In the future, Tottenham Hotspur not only wants to cooperate with these teams in player transfers, youth team exchanges and competitions, youth training丨coach exchanges, learning and exchanges, etc., which are the focus of cooperation.

Only through this kind of communication can we learn from our strengths and weaknesses, and further improve and improve Tottenham Hotspur’s youth training system.

Because the most core resource of the so-called youth training system is not that you have money to develop a youth training system, but that of those who maintain this system. What is the superiority and ability of the youth training system? What plays a decisive role is to maintain the quality of the personnel in this system. Therefore, Ye Qiu will continue to insist on youth training investment in the next few years and continue to arrange some external exchanges and learning training to improve personnel quality. Because only in this way can the youth training camp of Tottenham Hotspur be able to grow rapidly and achieve results.

It is also because of this that Ye Qiu poached Bobby Hams. The greatest contribution of the Dutch elderly will not lie in cultivating players, but through teaching, cultivating those coaches who train players. This is the youth training! The core element is also a core strategy for Ye Qiu to base himself on the future.

The internal meeting was held on the afternoon of Christmas, and it was already evening when it ended.

Due to the Genius Day activities and Christmas Carnival, Tottenham Hotspur did not have a holiday on this day, and everyone will receive a generous Christmas subsidy. In addition, the carnival is also due to the carnival, and after 10 years, they will be able to receive holiday compensation in January, so everyone has no opinions and is very enthusiastic at work.

After the internal meeting, Ye Qiu took everyone from Theobord training base south and prepared to go to Tottenham District to attend the evening carnival party.
Chapter completed!