When Gao Shen was working in a company in his previous life, he was pulled into training as soon as he became a manager. The training teacher at that time was quite famous. He said in a concise and concise manner: The so-called business management is very simple. It consists of three points: lead good people and do good things.
Gather good intentions.
The corresponding ones are: systems manage people, processes manage things, and culture manages hearts.
Don’t underestimate these three points. Many companies, even if they become Fortune 500 companies, cannot do these three points well.
After Gao Shen became a manager, he became more aware of this.
In the past life, there was a very vivid and vivid example in the field of football, Manchester United.
Ferguson is a major exception in professional football. He has profoundly influenced everyone at Manchester United, including the management.
This will inevitably bring about a problem. Manchester United relies too much on Ferguson and has never established a reasonable personnel management system and procedures for doing things.
When Ferguson was here, he was like a dictator, controlling the overall situation, but as soon as he retired, everyone discovered that Manchester United's front office was simply blind, like a headless fly.
Money is spent desperately, and I even feel a little afraid that I will spend less, but the effect is getting worse and worse.
From a fan's perspective, this is certainly a legend that is talked about.
Ferguson is simply a model for workers and a guiding light.
But from the perspective of running a club, this is a huge failure!
Even to a certain extent, in 2012, the club gave birth to a dictator like Ferguson, which is definitely a tragedy for the management.
Some people may say, isn’t it just profound?
wrong!
At Naples, Gao Shen only had the power to decide on transfers, and he had no regard for other football affairs; when he arrived at Manchester City, he served as the technical director and also had the power to decide on transfers, and rarely participated in other affairs, including youth training.
But what about Ferguson?
His brother is a scout for Manchester United, and his son is an agent. He has worked at Manchester United for decades, taking charge of all sports affairs of Manchester United, large and small, and even often reaches into the uniform team to influence many business decisions.
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Some people may think, isn't this normal?
Manchester United's success over the years doesn't just prove that many of Ferguson's decisions were right?
Yes, that's right.
Ferguson is unique, but there is only one Ferguson in the world.
Don't forget, in the field of professional football, the head coach is the most dangerous profession. All head coaches must be mentally prepared to be dismissed after taking office, because this is almost inevitable.
Running a club around a manager, no, even just building a team around a manager, is high risk.
Maybe, some people will ask: Isn't this nonsense? If you don't build the team around the head coach, then why hire someone else to do it?
This has to mention another role, technical director or football director.
What is the function of this role?
To put it simply, he is responsible for standing in a higher position than the head coach and controlling the overall situation.
When a certain player leaves the team, the head coach requests that he be able to provide one or even several replacement plans in the shortest possible time to ensure the stability of the team's overall strength.
When the team has a problem, he must be able to find out the source of the problem as soon as possible and help the head coach solve it. If it cannot be solved and the head coach is dismissed, he must consider who is more suitable to take over the team.
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The most typical examples are Southampton and Leicester City.
In those years, no matter how much Southampton sold people, their strength became stronger and stronger.
Adkins took two years to bring the Saints from League One to the Premier League. Is this achievement enough?
After being promoted to the Premier League, the Saints have been hovering near the relegation zone, which caused the management to have doubts. After contacting Pochettino, who was dismissed from Espanyol, Adkins was fired directly.
This also caused an uproar in Southampton at the time.
Haven't they fallen into the relegation zone yet?
Too heartless?
But it turns out that Adkins' replacement of Pochettino was indeed the right one.
After successfully coaching the Saints, Pochettino went to Tottenham Hotspur. What should he do?
The Saints immediately chose a head coach whose style is closest to Pochettino's, Ronald Koeman, based on the team's style and player configuration.
Sold many people?
It’s okay, just supplement them one by one, and the more you supplement, the stronger they will become.
Is this what saints are like?
Every football fan has heard of Kanter.
When Ranieri asked Leicester City technical director Steve Walsh for a defensive midfielder, Walsh recommended Kante from Caen in Ligue 1, but Ranieri refused because he felt that
Kante is too short and not suitable for the Premier League.
Afterwards, under the repeated recommendation of Walsh, Kanter came to Leicester City and completely conquered Ranieri in just one training session.
So delicious!
Of course, these are only successful cases, and naturally there are also some failed cases.
But it is not difficult to see from these that division of labor and collaboration are the future of football club management systems.
There has never been any so-called superiority or inferiority between the technical director or football director and the head coach. There is only a difference in division of labor and collaboration.
Wenger once said that he thinks the coaching staff will be corporatized and outsourced directly in the future.
This is very interesting.
How to outsource? Which company is suitable for outsourcing? Mourinho's company? Or Guardiola's group?
This requires the existence of a technical director or football director.
Specific to Leeds United, in the past year, whether it was Gao Shen, Su Qing, Lucas, Borrell, Sarri, etc., they were all close friends with Gao Shen, and they all knew what Gao Shen wanted.
They are also making suggestions for building a modern management system for Leeds United.
But at this stage, Leeds United's biggest bargaining chip is Gao Shen.
Not only Gao Shen knows it, but also Lucas, Borrell and Sarri and others.
At least now all Leeds United's first-team players are highly selected. One season has passed, how good their performance is, how good their strength is. Needless to say, the popularity of the transfer market is enough to prove everything.
But Gao Shen does not intend to let Leeds United rely too much on himself, so he has been improving Leeds United's scouting system and technical team, as well as the big data center, etc., and strives to build Leeds United into a modernly managed football club.
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Institutionalization, processization, and shaping of club culture are the directions that Su Qing and Lucas will continue to work hard in the past year and in the future.
But before that, Leeds United must survive in the Premier League.
This requires profoundness.
But Gao Shen has made a conscious decision not to interfere too much with Leeds United.
For example, when he communicated with Sarri in private, they only discussed techniques and tactics and never related to club management.
For example, when he recommends players to the club, he usually goes to Lucas and Borrell, and they also need to be inspected by scouts in advance and go through the club's recruitment process.
But, there is still a long way to go!
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Facts have once again proved that Gao Shen's involvement in Manchester City's management is not as deep as outsiders imagined.
This was evident when he handed over to Manchester City.
Some of the youth training teams were recommended by him or his assistants, but they were all hired by Manchester City.
The entire style is bred by studying the Spanish youth training style and combining it with the current situation in England.
Brian Kidd has always been the real authority in the youth training, and there is nothing to hand over in this regard.
Gao Shen has always been handling first-team matters, but Brian Kidd is also Gao Shen's assistant coach and has been helping him, so he knows many things clearly.
In the end, everyone discovered that the issue of image rights involved Manchester City and Gao Shen the most.
It's like Intihad Airways used to use the Manchester City coach and players as portraits and print and dye the fuselage for promotion, but now that Gao Shen is leaving, this is a bit troublesome.
Correction also takes time.
Gao Shen was very talkative and said he didn't care. He didn't even ask Intihad Airways or Manchester City to continue to pay the portrait fee after he left the team until the rectification was completed.
There are many similar situations like this. After all, Gao Shen has been coaching at Manchester City for three years and is the biggest star of the team. Many sponsors also let Gao Shen stand in the C position. Now that they want to "break up", there must be some problems.
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But based on the friendly negotiation and the attitude of getting together and leaving easily, there really is no big problem.
Even Mubarak and Gary Cook did not expect Gao Shen to be so easy to talk to.
"Thank you, Gao."
After the conversation was almost over, Mubarak suddenly stood up and shook hands with Gao Shen and hugged him.
"I have really learned a lot in the past three years of working with you. I also sincerely thank you for everything you have done for Manchester City. I, my colleagues at Manchester City, the players and the fans will always remember you!"
The chairman of Manchester City made a statement on behalf of the club.
"Thank you." Gao Shen took the initiative to shake Mubarak's hand.
In the past three years, Manchester City has shown all their heart to him. It is impossible to say that they have no feelings for him.
It is definitely an honor for a head coach to meet such a club owner.
Especially since this boss is not short of money, he can spend it however he likes, which is really not a pleasure.
But some things are always inevitable.
There is no such thing as a banquet that lasts forever.
"I don't plan to sell my house in Cheshire. I should come back often. If you have time, come and have tea with me." Gao Shen made a phone call gesture.
Mubarak, Gary Cook and others all nodded.
"Goodbye, everyone!"
After saying that, Gao Shen turned around and walked away without hesitation, never looking back again.
In the eyes of Mubarak and others behind him, Gao Shen walked very gracefully, but only he knew that he was still reluctant to part with him.
But that's life.
I just showed Gao Shen the statement from Manchester City and he was very satisfied with it.
Therefore, he does not plan to issue any more statements himself.
He is confident that no matter how long it takes, Manchester City fans will remember him.
And he will also remember his experience at Manchester City.
The moment he walked out of the Intihad Stadium, he did not forget to turn around and take a deep look at this magnificent football stadium.
Farewell, Intihad!
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After Manchester City issued its statement regarding Gao Shen's resignation, media and fans around the world were in a frenzy even though they had been well prepared.
Gao Shen was not idle either. He stayed at his home in Cheshire, declined all interviews, and concentrated on dealing with the Manchester City players who came to visit him or called him.
They all had to say goodbye to Gao Shen in person.
Many even thanked Gao Shen on Twitter and in the media.
This also allows people to see Gao Shen's lofty status in this Manchester City team.
It was also in this parting atmosphere that Real Madrid's luxury coaching team arrived in Manchester.
