When the whole world was competing for the news that Yang Yang left Real Madrid and was speculating on which team Yang Yang planned to go to next, they didn't know that Yang Yang had appeared quietly at Amsterdam Airport.

During this period of troubled outside, he first locked himself at his home in Madrid. While training behind closed doors, he also took more time to watch Ajax's game video this season. At the same time, he kept in touch with Van Gaal and Van der Sar in Amsterdam to master Ajax's every move.

In fact, this connection has lasted for about half a year.

In the past season, Ajax finally only won the second place in the Dutch Legion, four points behind the champion Eindhoven. This was the result of Eindhoven's release after laying an advantage early in the last few rounds. Otherwise, the gap would be widened.

The Champions League was stopped in the qualifying round, the UEFA Cup was eliminated early, and the Dutch Cup only played for one round, and the league was second again. Such Ajax was indeed unsatisfactory, so the team was a little turbulent throughout the season.

The players are also worried about the current situation of the team, and many people are thinking about changing jobs.

When Yang Yang wanted to return to the national team and prepare for the World Cup, he went north halfway through the line and transferred to Amsterdam. During this period, he stayed in a hotel near the airport for a night.

Van Gaal, Van der Sar and the club's core senior executives all secretly went to the hotel to meet and discuss the preparations for the new season together.

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"Last season, the team's performance was not ideal, so relatively speaking, we did not receive as much attention as a year ago, and other teams did not poach us too much, but the situation is still not optimistic."

Van Gaal is concerned about Ajax's current situation because the team did perform too badly last season.

More importantly, there is only one year left before the three-year agreement between Yang Yang and the Supervisory Council.

Is Yang Yang confident that he will lead Ajax to play at a high level within one year?

Not to mention Van der Sar and others, even Van Gaal, who knows and is familiar with Yang Yang, thinks it is such a difficult task. Even though he has always claimed to be arrogant, he is not sure if he asks himself.

"Little Cruivet, I told you before that this kid is determined to leave the team, and we really can't persuade him." Van der Sar sighed, "We all look forward to him very much, but he just can't listen."

After Ziyech pushed forward to the winger position, Cruivitt Jr. and Sancho became substitutes for the winger position, and their performance was not bad, but unlike Sancho, Cruivitt Jr. was arrogant and obviously was not willing to be substitute and rotate.

"What's even more terrible is that Ziyech has attracted a lot of attention from the team now and is likely to leave the team."

When Van der Sar said this, he looked at Yang Yang worriedly, "If Cruivet and Ziyech left at the same time, then we would have a lot of vacancy in the frontcourt. We can only promote the young players such as Marlen, Stens."

As we all know, young players need time to train and give enough room to make mistakes, so young players are difficult to achieve results. This is well known, but next season is Ajax's key season and cannot be missed.

"Yes, Ziyech has performed quite well this season and is the team's assist king. His combat effectiveness is very important to us." Van Gaal also feels that from the perspective of the team's stability, it is important to retain Ziyech.

Yang Yang nodded, "Then let the little Cruivet leave and sell it for a good price."

After two years of reorganization, the Ajax youth training camp is also full of talents. When Keisel was coaching, he led the team to win the runner-up in the Durcher League. In the past season, the Ajax youth team won the championship in the Durcher League.

If it weren't for the fact that the first team and the youth team could not be in the same league, the Ajax youth team should be promoted to the Dutch Eredivisie.

From this point of view, it is not difficult to see that in the past two seasons, Ajax has really undergone earth-shaking changes under the control of Yang Yang, Van Gaal and Van der Sar.

Although Cruivet Jr. is very talented, it is not enough to make Ajax surrender to him.

More importantly, if Ajax makes concessions this time, then all young players will do this from now on, what should Ajax do?

"And Warbell, the boy's agent appeared in Seville a few days ago."

"Seville?"

Van Gaal nodded, "Barcelona just signed midfielder Artur from Brazil Gremio, and he wanted to build a defense line immediately afterwards. The number one signing target is Sevilla's central defender Lenglet. It is said that the transfer has made a substantial breakthrough, and Sevilla wants to introduce Wabel to fill the vacancy of Lenglet."

Wabel is the main central defender of Ajax, who is partnered with De Rigt. Both of them are pretty good and very young. Wabel is only twenty years old and is a left-footed player, which is relatively scarce.

Sevilla has always liked to introduce such potential and talented young young people to train them and then sell them at high prices. This is also Sevilla's way of survival in La Liga. More importantly, this team can not only play in the four major leagues, but also compete in European arenas for many years and perform well.

However, this is not a big problem for Ajax, because Ajax has been prepared for a long time.

"How are you talking to St. Paul?" Yang Yang asked with concern.

Previously, Van Gaal and the scout team looked for many young central defenders. Later, after careful selection, four people were selected and detailed information and videos were posted to Yang Yang. After repeated discussions, Yang Yang, Van Gaal, Van der Sar and others finally chose Sao Paulo's young central defender Militon.

The player has excellent physical fitness and fast speed. He can be competent for midfield and central defender, and even plays on the right back. He is very comprehensive, has a live foot, and has excellent passing ability. He basically meets Yang Yang's previous positioning.

"The talk was basically done, and Porto later made a splash in the middle, but we started quickly and got it done with 6 million euros." Van Gaal couldn't help but feel a little lucky when he talked about this.

He flew to Sao Paulo, Brazil to negotiate in person, and made a decision on the spot and took down six million.

"Have Maxwell helped?" Yang Yang asked with a smile.

Van Gaal nodded, "It was because of his help that it went so smoothly. Now he is our scouting network leader in Brazil and South America, specializing in finding outstanding young talents for us."

"Is there any gain?" Yang Yang asked with a smile.

Maxwell and Yang Yang have always had contacts and cooperated with each other. After retiring, he stayed in Paris for a while, but he wanted to return to Brazil. So under Yang Yang's persuasion, he became part of Ajax's Brazil scouting network. This time he was able to successfully sign Militon, and Maxwell also made a lot of efforts.

The domestic environment in Brazil is very complex, especially the football environment. With a knowledgeable indigenous person like Maxwell, it is more convenient for Ajax to introduce talents.

"At the end of last year, he went to the United States with our scouts to watch the Brazilian youth team. In March, he went to Montague, France to watch the World Youth Invitational. Several of the players were really good." Van Gaal praised.

The Montague Invitational Tournament is a traditional event. There are many similar events in France, such as the more famous one. It is also the Toulon Cup that Yang Yang once participated in, but it is only facing different age groups.

"For example, last year, Brazil u16 and Dutch u16 met in the US warm-up cup. At that time, the Dutch team had five Ajax players, so we specially arranged for scouts. The most impressive thing about the cup was Brazil's young midfielder Giovani. He was only fifteen years old at the time and scored twice in the match against the Netherlands and scored three goals in three games."

"In the Montague Invitational Tournament in March this year, we still arranged a lot of scouts. The most eye-catching one was Brazilian midfielder Renier, who scored four goals in four games and performed very well, as well as forward Gabriel Perron. Although he only scored one goal, his ability to break through the ball was excellent."

"How feasible is it?" Yang Yang asked with concern.

"They have never played for the first team of the club they are in, and they are only fifteen or sixteen years old. If we are interested and take the lead, there should be no problem, that is, the price should be sufficient and the training fee should be paid."

The route Ajax takes is different from Real Madrid.

Real Madrid is a wealthy and specializes in selecting the best geniuses, such as Vinicius, and the Santos genius Rodrigo, who has been associated with Real Madrid recently. These two players are recognized geniuses in Brazil and have proved their potential and talent, but their value is also very high, basically around 40 to 50 million euros.

Ajax definitely has no way to covet these players, so he can only choose what he can within his ability. He either starts earlier, pays for it first, then rents it back to the Brazilian club, and gives a training fee every year. When he reaches the age of 18, he will bring it back to Ajax to play for.

The advantage of doing this is that the transfer fee is not too high, which is within the range Ajax has to bear, but at a younger age, the risk is relatively high. Even if Ajax's scout is powerful, he cannot be sure whether a 15 or 16-year-old player will definitely gain a foothold in the European League.

“How much do you want?”

"All three people are around three million euros."

Yang Yang frowned slightly, which means that it would cost about 10 million euros to buy them all.

This is also the reason why Van Gaal hesitated and failed to take action.

For Ajax, it is not too much to say more, but it is not too little to say less.

"Get on the move, just scrap the lottery!

Real Madrid place heavy bets, and Ajax just scratches the cheaper ones. Who makes him lose money?

"The right guard still needs to continue looking for it." Yang Yang ordered.

Van Gaal and Van der Sar looked at each other and smiled bitterly. Now the right-back in European football is very scarce.
Chapter completed!