No one thought that with the World Cup in full swing and the Premier League not yet starting its summer training camp, Gao Shen's remarks would trigger heated discussions and controversy in the UK and then throughout Europe, causing an uproar.
The Times believes that the advanced thinking perspective is very fresh and different from the thinking of most people before.
Whether it is the FA, UEFA, or the British media, they have always regarded the Premier League as the British Premier League, so they have introduced various policies, including quota limits for their own youth training and locally trained players when registering.
etc.
Essentially, it is to protect the interests of local British players.
They believe that too many foreign players have taken away the living space of local players.
This is not only true for the Premier League, but also for other leagues, including La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1.
At best, the number of foreign aid restrictions and the rules are different.
So why restrict foreign aid?
The answer is simple: protect local players.
But on the other hand, the four major leagues, including the Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga and Serie A, have been committed to globalization in the past ten years. They rely on themselves to be the core of world professional football and want to go all over the world.
Output and obtain benefits.
Therefore, in the past few years, the proportion of overseas copyrights in the Premier League has been increasing, and has even exceeded the domestic market.
This is just the live broadcast copyright. If you include commercial sponsorship and other aspects, the current prosperity of the Premier League is supported by the huge global market. Without the global market, the prosperity of the Premier League will no longer exist.
This is basically the case in La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and other leagues, especially the top giants.
This presents an interesting contradiction.
On the one hand, you say that the Premier League is the British Premier League and that foreign players should be restricted or even rejected; but on the other hand, you desperately want to promote the Premier League to the world and earn money all over the world.
Isn't this very contradictory?
The Times devoted a lot of space to analyzing the logic behind Gao Shen's remarks and believed that this was also feasible.
Because if they were all local players and even local coaches, then the Premier League games would not be as exciting as they are now, and the technical and tactical level of the Premier League would not develop so fast.
Therefore, the contribution of foreign coaches and foreign players to the Premier League is unquestionable.
What about local players?
"In fact, Gao Shen gave the answer. He believes that the UK should vigorously develop youth training and increase the intensity of cultivating young players, so that more outstanding young players can compete with high-level foreign players, thereby improving the strength of local players in England.
level, so that the level of the national team will also improve accordingly."
The Times believes that making sophisticated ideas more market-oriented is a sustainable development path for the Premier League, English football and globalization in the future.
"Further restricting the quota of foreign aid and further suppressing foreign aid will only end up working behind closed doors, and the gains outweigh the losses."
The Times also conducted an in-depth analysis of England's investment in youth training in the past few years based on Gao Shen's words, especially the Football Association.
You know, every year a large amount of the Premier League's revenue is allocated part to lower-level leagues such as the English Championship, part to youth training, and part to the community. These are all included in the Premier League's payment bills.
So where does the FA spend its money?
Over the years, it seems that many young players have emerged in the Premier League every year, but how many of them can really become talents?
Four years ago, Walcott was born, and many people had high hopes for him. But four years later, does the current little tiger still have the same glory as four years ago?
They have been completely suppressed by their roommate Gareth Bale, right?
"What Gao Shen said is absolutely correct. To improve the level of football in England, on the one hand, it must rely on marketization and competition, and on the other hand, it must increase investment in youth training."
The Times analyzed that Germany’s last two major competitions were held locally in the previous 2006. Not to mention, this World Cup in South Africa has seen the emergence of a group of young and talented rookies such as Thomas Muller and Toni Kroos.
It left a deep impression.
This group of players is precisely the result of the reform of Germany's youth training.
In the 1990s, after consecutive failure in major competitions, a group of insightful people in Germany, led by Beckenbauer, began to think about the crux of German football, made great efforts to reform youth training, and increased investment. This formed the last two or three football teams.
In recent years, Germany's young players have begun to emerge in a great situation.
Is this a coincidence?
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But also in The Times, some media people also wrote articles to counter Gao Shen, believing that he was looking at this issue from the perspective of a foreign coach and a foreign player, which was not objective at all.
Why?
Because young players need to be trained and trained in games.
But the current Premier League is too occupied by foreign players, and young local players simply don't get a chance.
When all Premier League teams are accustomed to recruiting players from all over the world, what can the players that England has worked so hard to train do to compete with the best peers in the world?
The answer is, you can’t compete!
This is like asking a national team to play against a club team. Overall, the national team cannot beat it at all.
Why?
Because of the limited scope of talent selection, the national team is destined to lack competitiveness in certain positions.
By the same token, if there are no restrictions on the number of foreign players in the Premier League, or even if restrictions on foreign players are relaxed, the Premier League will become like Serie A back then, monopolized by a crazy influx of foreign players, and ultimately severely squeezing local young players.
"Even more serious and damaging is that all clubs will tend to buy people instead of developing them."
"The former is more trouble-free and labor-intensive, and the risk is lower, while the latter is more labor-intensive, but the risk is higher."
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Similar to what happened in The Times, in The Guardian, The Mirror, The Sun…
There are heated discussions in the UK's large and small media, TV stations and websites. Everyone holds their own positions and ideas and expresses their own opinions.
Soon, this discussion spread to the Internet, especially Twitter, and then further spread to other European countries.
Finally, almost the entire European football world and the entire Internet are talking about it.
There are those who support Gao Shen, and there are those who oppose Gao Shen, and there are still those who do not support or oppose Gao Shen.
But it is obvious that this kind of discussion has no possibility of convincing the other party and will not produce any results.
As the instigator, Gao Shen gained a large number of fans on Twitter, exploded Twitter traffic, and brought his popularity and influence to a higher level, but he didn't care at all.
Because he never thought about relying on Internet celebrities to earn a living.
His main job is still to be a head coach.
Obviously we can rely on our looks to make a living, but we have to rely on our talent!
As for the overwhelming discussions and heated discussions outside, Gao Shen chose to stay behind closed doors, but his private evaluation of this was...
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"It hurts to be so idle!"
When Lucas brought the discussion outside and asked Gao Shen for his opinion, his answer was shocking.
"Don't you think this discussion is valuable?"
"What's the value? What can we do against each other? We have this time in England, so why not stay down to earth and concentrate on youth training? Look at what England's youth training looks like."
Gao Shen was really convinced.
"Then you were speaking so enthusiastically in front of the FA?" Lucas shot back.
Well……
Gao Shen was speechless, "I can't bear to see how aggressive they are."
Lucas looked ashamed.
Okay, you have all the good things to say.
In fact, Gao Shen feels that there is no absolute right or wrong in this kind of thing.
Limiting the number of foreign aids is not a big problem in itself.
The world is never black and white.
The key is a question of scale.
But is the problem in English football now a matter of the control scale of foreign players? Is it the lack of room for growth of local British players?
Please, go and see how high the value of household registration books has increased outside?
It is obvious that England's problem is youth training.
Gao Shenming has made it very straightforward. There are very few English players playing overseas, and there are even fewer successful players. Who is the latest player to achieve success in a foreign country?
Beckham!
Then?
There is no more.
Isn't this straightforward enough?
Damn it, the players you train are not good. They won’t be competitive when they go abroad. Do you understand?
In fact, in Gao Shen's previous life, England also learned from the painful experience, so it planned to build St. George's Park and vigorously reformed its youth training. Later, Sancho, Foden, Rashford, Sterling, Stones and others emerged.
Young players.
The results of the national team also improved immediately.
But unfortunately, what the media prefers is not to analyze problems, but to criticize.
The reason is very simple. Only by quarreling can bring traffic, gain attention, and promote sales.
analyse problem?
Please, believe that most people in this world don't like to use their brains to analyze problems rationally.
They like simplicity, directness, and roughness.
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However, it is not without its benefits that there is such a big commotion outside.
That is, Fernandinho's hearing went smoothly, and the jury's answer was unanimously approved.
The reason is that they believe in their profound talent selection vision and Fernandinho's strength and potential, even though he is already twenty-five years old.
Manchester City also quickly started to apply for a labor certificate for Fernandinho and formally applied to the Ministry of Labor.
On the other hand, Yaya Toure's agent Seluk returned to Africa. After negotiating with the players for a few days, he quickly gave a reply. Yaya Toure hoped to meet Gao Shen and talk in person.
Gao Shen agreed.
The two sides held a secret exchange in Manchester that lasted for more than an hour, and finally Yaya Toure agreed to join Manchester City.
Manchester City also quickly made an offer to Barcelona and introduced the Ivory Coast midfielder for a high price of 20 million euros.
This deal once again caused an earthquake in the entire Premier League.
Everyone can see that Manchester City is too arrogant!
Although signings have slowed down this summer, Manchester City still spent 92 million euros, which is unique in European football, and Manchester City's lineup has also been greatly improved.
Not only that, as Gao Shen said before, the exciting players have not yet surfaced.
Breaking 100 million again, there is no longer any suspense.
And who can stop Manchester City from signing up like this?
