As a manager, you must first let your team understand what the team's goals are.
With a clear goal, everyone will have a direction to work towards and will not work independently.
Gao Shen told everyone very clearly that Leeds United's next goal is to return to the Premier League within two years.
"I know this is not an easy goal to achieve." Gao Shen said bluntly.
"I believe you have all seen it. We can be said to be in a state of poverty now. The youth team is seriously unorganized. The training base is very backward and terrible. Not to mention your dislike, I can't stand it myself."
Gao Shen's words made everyone present smile.
You know, in European football, Gao Shen has extremely high requirements for training facilities.
Many people even regard this profound sentence as the Bible.
"The most important purpose of training is to enhance the players' confidence. Only high-intensity and high-level training can achieve this goal and truly improve the team's actual combat level!"
Let me ask, how can a head coach who can say such things not pay attention to training facilities?
"The Thorpe Arch training base is only temporary. In the future, we will build a new, state-of-the-art modern training center and youth training center in the center of Leeds. That is our core!"
After finishing speaking, Gao Shen told everyone unabashedly, "For the time being, we have no money!"
"But after reaching the Premier League, we have it!" Gao Shen said confidently.
If this were the case, if it were another person, everyone would definitely sneer at it.
Is it interesting to go to Nima’s spicy chicken boss and draw a pie?
But this was said by Gao Shen, so it is very different.
Especially at this time, almost all media and fans around the world, and even all teams, worship Gao Shen like a god.
What time did he fail to fulfill his words?
"I know that you have done well in your respective teams before, but you may be asking in your mind, what can it bring to you after coming to Leeds United? Is it a career breakthrough? Or is it an improvement in ability? Or perhaps
Is it to make you famous?"
Gao Shen shook his head, "I'm sorry, I can't guarantee any of this."
"But what I can guarantee is that I will fight side by side with you. Together, we will create a working environment and cooperative atmosphere for Leeds United that is different from all teams. We will create a different team culture and use it to create a different working environment and cooperative atmosphere for Leeds United."
This will attract more like-minded colleagues and players.”
“We won’t be the club with the highest salary, we won’t be the most famous top club, we may not even be the team with the best results, but we will definitely be the most special and distinctive one.
The team, the club."
"I can guarantee that all the efforts that each of you put in here and everything you get will become the most unique and possibly even the most precious and cherished wealth in your future career!"
"This is my purpose of resurrecting Leeds United!"
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Gao Shen's words are very provocative.
As the most successful manager in the world, no one knows better than him the shit that happens to employees and players at the club, and how and why it happens.
He has seen and heard too many similar things.
Therefore, he wants to build Leeds United into a team in his mind and a club that he wants.
The first thing this club needs to do is to be professional and precise!
This seems simple, right?
Many people may even sneer at it and think: Damn it, what’s worth saying about this?
But if they had a deeper understanding of European professional football, they would no longer have such thoughts.
In 2021, when Gao Shen traveled through time, many people were wondering, how did the Real Madrid lottery win so well?
And Sevilla, Monaco, Leicester City...
How do these teams always land good players?
When it comes to big data, scouting systems, and professional talents, those wealthy teams are not short of money either.
Yes, that's right, there is indeed no shortage of wealthy teams.
It's like Barcelona, which is heavily in debt and keeps burning money. What's going on?
Many people question Manchester United's signings, but they probably don't know that Manchester United has long had its own scouting system and network. Their database has gathered videos and reports of thousands of players from all over the world.
In 2019, Manchester United wanted to introduce a right back. There were more than 800 candidates in the scouting system. The choices were abundant, but in the end they chose Wan-Bissaka and spent a lot of money. Fifty million pounds.
This is really something very, very outrageous, and can even be called amateurish.
This is a very important reason why Manchester United is called the club that raises prices.
It’s not that they don’t have resources, it’s that they don’t know how to make good use of their resources.
This seems unprofessional and inaccurate!
And this is the foundation that Gao Shen wants to take the lead in laying for Leeds United.
He wants to use modern business management methods to build Leeds United with professionalism and precision, so that this old and decaying team with a history of more than 90 years will take on a new look in his hands.
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After the meeting, everyone got busy.
Gao Shen and Su Qing drove out of Leeds, heading west on the M62 highway, and returned to Manchester.
Soon we passed Bradford and came to a small village called Elland.
From here, we got off the highway and headed north. After crossing Elland, we entered Halifax not far further.
This is a small town, larger than Elam, but also limited.
Like every small town in England, Halifax also has its own football club, named after the town.
This team has just won the seventh-tier English Football Northern Premier League and was promoted to the sixth-tier English Football Association Northern League.
Don't think that they are all in the Northern League, but there is one missing Super League. It seems very unimpressive.
In fact, only by entering the sixth level can you truly enter the national league category planned by the Football Association, while at the seventh level, they are all regional leagues.
Along the main road of the town and following the navigation, you can easily reach Shay Stadium, where the Halifax Club is headquartered.
If Leeds United's Elland Road stadium can be considered simple, then this stadium looks really dilapidated, with only three stands and a small parking lot in front.
It can be seen that there are not many fans driving here on weekdays.
So much so that when Su Qing parked her car in an empty parking lot, she specifically asked Gao Shen.
"Are you sure this is the place?" Her beautiful face was full of doubts.
Gao Shen looked around through the car window, nodded and said, "It shouldn't be wrong."
Su Qing curled her lips and said helplessly: "Then let me go in and take a look."
"This is your first time negotiating a player transfer. I believe you can do it. Come on!" Gao Shen encouraged with a smile.
Su Qing rolled her eyes at him angrily, opened the car door and left.
Gao Shen sat in the car bored, playing with his phone and thinking in his mind, should he send a tweet later?
Well, it’s better not to post it yourself, let Leeds United’s official Twitter account post it, retweet it yourself, give it a like, and gain popularity.
Just do it!
Gao Shen immediately sent a text message to Fernando Lucas, who was staying at Leeds United, and the two started chatting.
Before Gao Shen could study it properly, he saw Su Qing walking out, followed by a middle-aged Englishman who wanted to take her to the parking lot, but Su Qing refused, but still stood far away at the door.
Waving his hands, it looks like those salesmen in Gao Shen's previous life were holding up God, which is quite humble.
"So fast?"
As soon as Su Qing sat down, Gao Shen asked.
"There is no one inside. The club owner is also the CEO, technical director, team leader and receptionist. Just talk to him directly." Su Qing said while putting on her seat belt.
"Then what?"
"I went in and asked him if there was the player you mentioned named Jamie Vardy. He said there was, and asked me what I did. I told him that I was the secretary to the chairman of Leeds United."
"Then what?" Gao Shen was amused.
At this time, the car had completely driven out of the Shayi Stadium.
"Then there's nothing to say. I just said that he performed well and we at Leeds United wanted to buy him. He was stunned at the time, and then he started praising his players and saying how good Vardy was.
Lots of balls and stuff like that.”
Gao Shen nodded, "This is how sales are usually done. Next, you should also promote your other players."
Su Qing was happy, "Yes, but I'm not even interested, so I just made an offer, 80,000 pounds."
Gao Shen was stunned for a moment. He clearly remembered that he seemed to be talking about 150,000 pounds.
"He agreed?"
"How can it be so easy? After several offers, the final price was 100,000 pounds, so I took out the standard contract I had prepared before and signed an agreement with him, and that was it."
From beginning to end, it only takes about ten minutes.
Gao Shen smiled bitterly, isn't this a bit disrespectful of the future England international and Premier League Golden Boot winner?
But it has to be said that one hundred thousand pounds is really a sky-high price for Halifax, which has just been promoted to the sixth level.
However, it is also because Vardy did perform well in Halifax, scoring 26 goals in 33 games, showing his outstanding strength in the seventh-level league.
Vardy's fellow countryman, Harry Maguire, who came out of Sheffield United's youth academy, was not so lucky.
The 18-year-old Maguire made five appearances for Sheffield United in the English Championship last season, four times as a starter and once as a substitute, when they were already doomed to be relegated and their hearts were in disarray.
Maguire is worth 45,000 pounds, and Leeds United also offered a transfer fee of 100,000 pounds for the 18-year-old youngster.
Sheffield United, who have been relegated to League One, agreed.
From Keylor Navas to now Harry Maguire, Gao Shen has to say that it is really good to pick up leaks from teams that have been relegated from the second level.
Even more fragrant is that players from newly promoted polo teams in the second-tier league are sometimes worth quite a low price, so if you pick them up, you won't have to pay much more.
