Chapter 239 Attention from the God of Love in Liverpool! The fellows are coming!
After writing the news headline, Evelin couldn't help but paused, "...Mr. Hiller, you just said so much in one breath!"
Alan Shearer was also shocked, "What? Yes! I, I, I... what's going on? Why did I say so many words!"
Evelin asked: "Do you talk more about your professional field? Let me ask you another question. Do you think Southampton U18 team or Liverpool U18 team will win this game?
What about winning? Why do you say that?”
Alan Shearer opened his mouth, and his words became extremely fluent, "I, I, I am more optimistic about the Southampton U18 team, because, uh, well... I like the Southampton U18 team."
Evelyn:……
Alan Shearer struggled to answer such a simple question.
"Well, it seems that it's not a matter of professional or non-professional fields," Evelin said with a smile: "Then let me ask another question. Gu Ran had two head-to-head speed competitions with Sterling on the court. The first time
The first time Gu Ran's speed seemed not as good as Sterling's, but the second time, Gu Ran's speed was almost the same as Sterling's. How do you evaluate Gu Ran's performance?"
Alan Shearer's eyes suddenly lit up. After thinking for a moment, he said in a calm voice: "...I must use the word genius to describe Gu Ran. Yes, he is really a genius. You know, the increase in speed
, especially the improvement of the limit speed, even if it is only increased by 0.1 seconds, it requires a huge amount of training. But Gu was able to break through his speed limit during the game, which shows that his physical condition is extremely talented, and there is still a lot of potential left.
The potential has not been tapped.”
Hearing this, Evelin couldn't help but lick her upper lips subconsciously.
Alan Shearer continued: "Sterling is very fast, but Sterling's sprint is not as powerful as Gu Ran. I believe that as long as Gu Ran taps out his potential, it won't be long before Gu Ran's speed will improve."
More than Sterling."
Gu Ran, who was half lying next to him receiving a massage, felt a little embarrassed when he heard Alan Shearer's praise.
However, Gu Ran didn't want to interrupt at this time. If he did, Evelin would definitely get entangled.
Evelin said with a smile: "Okay, Mr. Hiller, I finally understand it now. It turns out that as long as you mention Gu Ran and analyze and explain Gu Ran, your language will be fluent and logical."
Alan Shearer was stunned for a moment, and then said excitedly: "Hiss...it seems to be true! God! This is really amazing! It turns out that I am just crazy for Gu Ran!"
Evelin also said excitedly: “Me too!”
Damn it...
Gu Ran next to her covered her face, dumbfounded:
How come you two have found a common language?
I haven't done anything!
I didn't even put my mouth in!
I think I'd better pretend to sleep...
Gu Ran closed his eyes tighter.
——The other side.
Liverpool's senior executives left the stands and temporarily returned to their exclusive lounge.
The atmosphere in the lounge was a bit depressing.
Liverpool's senior management thought that this friendly match would be a one-sided victory for Liverpool U18 against Southampton U18.
To this end, they also specially prepared three high-definition cameras to record all aspects, and also made a highlight reel of the team's wonderful performance to give to the new boss Henry and the new boss Linda as a tribute gift...
result……
The first 30 minutes were fine, and Sterling's performance was indeed exciting.
But in the last 15 minutes of the first half and injury time, it became a one-man show by the Chinese guy from the opposite side, Gu Ran!
Another overtaking on the outer lane, another magic lamp guiding the way, another super long shot, another wonderful breakthrough and involvement, and another sideways barb shot...
Damn it, Fuck...
How could such a video be shown to the new boss and his wife?
Where did the miserable Southampton discover this B2B striker who wears the No. 9 jersey and plays as a left back?
Gu Ran is simply a cruel and terrifying monster!
Compared with Gu Ran, Sterling originally had a slight speed advantage, but in the second speed duel, Sterling not only almost caught up with Gu Ran, but also made a ridiculous low-level mistake because he kicked the ball to the ground!
Gu Ran's defensive pressure is really too strong!
In other aspects, Gu Ran is much better than Sterling!
The value of 2 million pounds was suppressed by Gu Ran and only showed a value of 200,000 pounds...
Liverpool's senior executives were all sitting glumly on luxurious sofas.
Several senior executives frowned and smoked Blue Ring cigars, several senior executives drank whiskey, and several senior executives hugged their miniskirted female assistants for spiritual comfort...
At this time, a senior executive stood up and suggested: "Gentlemen, I think it's better not to send the video to the new boss and the new boss's wife. It would be bad if they get angry and withdraw their capital after watching it."
Other senior executives nodded in agreement.
Another senior executive stood up and objected, "No, no, Linda knew about this friendly match yesterday, and we also promised to show her the video. We can't keep our word, right?"
"Then why not tell them the score and just cut out the highlights of our Liverpool U18 team to fool them?"
"This is a good idea. Few of those wealthy bosses really understand football, and they may not watch the highlights we send."
As soon as this proposal came out, it was approved by most of the senior officials present.
But soon there were objections from the top management: "That's not bad! The new owner John Henry really doesn't know anything about football. What he is really interested in is baseball. The Boston Red Sox is his home team. We will show him football youth training."
He will 100% not watch the highlights of friendly matches. But! Our new boss wife Linda is an avid football fan!"
"Linda Pizzuti is of Italian descent and has been passionate about football since she was a child. Don't you know that Fenway Group was able to acquire Liverpool FC this time and help the club eliminate more than 100 million pounds of foreign debt, all because of us.
Credit goes to this young proprietress Linda!”
"Linda is not just a beautiful vase for us in Liverpool, she is the real new queen of Liverpool!"
"If you want to fool the new queen, you are simply digging your own grave!"
Another senior executive also nodded and said: "Yes, we can fool the 61-year-old bad old man John Henry, but we can't fool the 31-year-old beauty Linda who has a master's degree from MIT and owns a family real estate business.
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"Then what do you think we should do now?"
The lounge fell into silence again.
Michael Edwards, the head of data analysis at Liverpool FC, was sitting by the window, looking out the window in trance.
During the high-level debate, Edwards didn't say a word.
——In professional football clubs, the data analysis director is an inconspicuous but actually very important position.
The data analysis director is responsible for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data related to the team, and providing corresponding suggestions and even tactical decisions.
Specifically, the data analysis manager is responsible for collecting various data related to the team and the game, including players' technical statistics, such as passing success rate, number of shots, running distance, etc., not only to collect their own team's
, you also need to collect information about the opponent's team, and even go so far as to collect the opponent's defensive and offensive style, the conditions of the playing field and weather conditions, etc.
Of course, these data are not collected by the supervisor personally, but through specialized technical personnel, or by purchasing data packages provided by professional data suppliers, etc.
After the data collection is completed, it will enter the analysis stage, which is the scope of the business that the supervisor will do personally.
Data analysis is a very complex subject. It requires the use of various tools and techniques to analyze the collected data. Statistics, model building, AI learning, data mining, analysis regression, clustering classification and other methods are used to summarize and extract.
Patterns and trends in the data are extracted to provide valuable information to the coaching staff to help players and teams improve.
The reports submitted to the coaching staff must also be clear and easy to understand, which also requires the data analysis director to produce detailed reports, charts and visualization tools.
All in all, with the development of the technological era, big data has become more and more important, and the role of the data analysis director for the club has become more and more important, and the right to speak has become more and more important, almost equivalent to the existence of a behind-the-scenes strategist.
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Speaking of which, Michael Edwards is a true Southamptonian. He has heard about the legend of Southampton's "Black-haired Bell" a few days ago. He also knows that the Bucks Steel Horns won the national championship.
The winner of the competition.
However, as a newcomer to Liverpool's data analysis department, Edwards has recently focused on helping analyze and classify first-team players - including the introduction of Sterling, and his contribution to data analysis.
So he didn't have much time to pay attention to who the black-haired Bell was, and he didn't know who the so-called "Chinese dad from Southampton High School" was.
Until today.
He finally met the legendary "Dad".
Michael Edwards was deeply shocked.
Edwards was also a professional player when he was young, but he was not able to enter Southampton or other senior league teams. Instead, he only played in the reserve team of Peterborough United in the English Second Division - for a short period of time.
Throughout his career, he has never been able to play in a professional league.
He is short in stature and has poor confrontation. Although he works hard, he is never recognized by the coach.
Edwards believes that it is just that the coaching staff does not have enough vision and does not discover and tap the potential of the players. It only relies on its own subjective preferences to judge the future of the players.
After retiring, Edwards did not give up his beloved football program because of various setbacks. He was determined to work hard for more talented but unrecognized players, so he began to learn data technology analysis.
He started as a pro zone analyst in Portsmouth and later worked as a data collector and analyst at Tottenham. When Fenway Group completed the acquisition of Liverpool, Edwards came to Liverpool Football Club - and it turned out that he
This job-hopping is very wise.
John Henry, the new owner of Liverpool, may not understand football, but as a top businessman, he strongly believes in big data analysis.
The Boston Red Sox were able to win the American baseball championship again after more than 80 years, largely because Henry adopted a scientific model of big data analysis and management after taking over.
And when Edwards applied for the job with his data model, he hit it off with Henry's management ideas.
As a result, Edwards, who was originally unknown, became the director of data analysis of Liverpool Club. The entire Liverpool Club also took the lead in entering the era of data model analysis.
Many people only know the later coach Klopp. In fact, before Klopp arrived, Fenway Group had already entered the eve of renaissance since it reused Edwards' big data analysis.
Edwards, who is not very prominent now, will have more and more say in the next few years. He will be promoted to Liverpool's technical director and sports director, join the trio of transfer committees, and become the key player in Liverpool's renaissance era.
A talker in the transfer market and eventually became the best manager in the Premier League.
Future stars such as Firmino, Coutinho, Salah, Robertson, Alisson, etc. are all the work of Edwards' data analysis.
Of course, there are also Southampton players such as Mane, Van Dijk, McQueen, Lallana, Lovren, Clyne, Lambert, etc., all of whom Edwards personally dug.
Why is Southampton Club affectionately called "fellows" by Reds fans?
Because Michael Edwards, the sporting director in charge of poaching people at that time, was really a genuine Southampton fellow.
Relying on big data and the "Graham" model he participated in establishing, Edwards almost never lost money when buying and selling players. Even little-known players could be sold at high prices under his operation.
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During Liverpool's renaissance, Edwards was even revered as "The God of Love" by fans.
——Of course, these are all things for later.
Today's U18 friendly match is actually not within the scope of Edwards' data analysis work. He is here today to appreciate Sterling's speed.
but……
But he discovered another dazzling data.
Ever since Gu Ran appeared on the stage, Edwards' eyes have never left Gu Ran.
"Hey, Michael? Why haven't you said a word since you came in? What do you think? Tell us!"
All the eyes of Liverpool's senior management were focused on Edwards' slightly younger face.
"Oh..." Edwards then looked away from the window, adjusted the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and said calmly: "I was just thinking... how much will it cost to lure Gu Ran to Liverpool?"
All the Liverpool executives present were stunned.
"……What?"
"Poach Gu Ran?"
"Fake! Why didn't we think of it! This is such a good idea!"
"Haha! As expected of you, Michael! You solved our big headache with just one sentence!"
"Yes, Gu Ran is really a talented player! Players like him should not belong to other clubs, but to our giant Liverpool!"
"Hahaha! Gu Ran paired with Sterling...who else on the front line can stop the new generation of Liverpool?"
"Damn it, Fuck, I'm already dreaming about Liverpool's first Premier League title!"
"Let's not go that far. With the premise of buying Gu Ran, we can edit the highlights of this game and give them to our new queen Linda!"
"Yes! I bet Linda will fall in love with Gu Ran!"
"We spent 2 million pounds to buy Sterling, right? I don't know if 2 million pounds can buy Gu Ran."
"Those scabs at Southampton - sorry, I don't mean to offend you, Michael, I mean, those guys at Southampton Club will definitely not let go of their star of hope so easily."
"I think £3 million is definitely fine."
"Hey, 3 million pounds to buy a youth training player, this price can buy a first-class Premier League player!"
"But you have also seen Gu Ran's strength. Apart from anything else, just speaking of his speed, he can actually break through the limits during the competition! His potential is immeasurable!"
"I think this is not a question of money! We need to be more open-minded! Are we short of money at Liverpool now? No, we are short of things to make the boss and the boss's wife happy! Especially to make the boss's wife happy! Not to mention 3 million pounds, even if it is
Five million pounds, that’s worth it!”
"Haha! It makes sense!"
"Then we have decided to buy Gu Ran!"
"Let's tell Linda this incident by the way, so that it makes sense that there are highlights of Gu Ran in the game highlights."
"That's right, even if we tie today or even lose to Gu Ran, it doesn't matter! We can tell Linda that we have wanted to poach this black-haired boy for a long time."
"We can also say that this friendly match was specially organized by us to further test Gu Ran's ability."
"That's right! We can also say that even when we bought Sterling, it was to create a rival for Gu Ran. Our real goal is actually to buy Gu Ran!"
"Yes, yes, it doesn't matter even if you lose, hahaha!"
"The key is...who is going to negotiate with Gu Ran?"
Liverpool's senior management suddenly looked at each other.
Edwards cleared his throat, "Although I am the director of data analysis and poaching people is not my responsibility, but... I also graduated from Southampton High School and am considered an alumnus of Gu Ran. I think if I come forward, Gu Ran should
It won’t exclude me.”
"Aha! Great!"
"Michael! Liverpool's future depends on you!"
"Come on, Michael, we all think highly of you!"
"Thank you..." Edwards nodded.
Can anyone refuse an invitation from the giants of Liverpool?
Anyway, I don’t believe it!
Edwards is full of confidence and looking forward to the end of the game...
After the halftime break, Liverpool's senior executives, who had already discussed the countermeasures, returned to the stands with glowing faces.
Different from the previous mentality, these Liverpool executives no longer regard Gu Ran as an opponent, but as Liverpool's future main player.
Liverpool's senior executives looked at Gu Ran with eyes full of expectation.
Edwards even hoped that Gu Ran could score more goals, so that when Linda saw the highlights, she would like Gu Ran even more.
...Gu Ran felt strange.
Before the second half of the game even started, he felt that the atmosphere on the court was a little strange.
It's like... someone cares about you.
Gu Ran didn't think too much, put on his sneakers, stretched his muscles, and walked onto the court with his Southampton U18 teammates.
"Win Liverpool U18!"
"roar!!!"
With Gu Ran's two equalizing goals, the morale of the Southampton U18 team is very high.
Liverpool U18 players also returned to the field.
Both sides change sides.
Sterling stood at the forward position, his eyes involuntarily looking at the opposite left back Gu Ran.
Gu Ran smiled happily at Sterling.
Sterling suddenly felt like he was going to be eaten alive...
beep!
As the referee blew his whistle, the second half of the game began in a tense atmosphere.
Liverpool U18 team took the lead to kick off.
After the halftime break and psychological adjustment, the Liverpool U18 team significantly strengthened its attack.
This is their home court, and there are three high-definition cameras set up on the sidelines. There are also Liverpool executives in the stands who are full of expectations, so each of them must use all their strength to win this game.
The core tactics of Liverpool U18 still rely on Sterling's impact speed.
Although Sterling was severely restricted by Gu Ran in the last 15 minutes of the first half and even made a mistake that made his opponent happy, Sterling's strength is unquestionable.
In the 48th minute of the second half, the midfielder of the Liverpool U18 team used his physical advantages and foot skills to pass two defensive players of the Southampton U18 team and distributed the ball to the open area on the right.
The right wing of Liverpool U18 corresponds to the left wing where Gu Ran is.
Although it is known that Gu Ran's side is difficult to break through, Southampton U18's defensive formation on the right side is relatively stable, but the space on Gu Ran's side is relatively large.
Moreover, Sterling is also more accustomed to playing as a right winger.
When the Liverpool U18 midfielder distributed the ball, Sterling quickly started to intervene.
Southampton's left midfielder immediately retreated to defend, but Sterling passed him like he was crossing the road at four o'clock in the morning.
Sterling has also rediscovered his confidence in speed!
only……
Sterling's confidence lasted less than a second.
Before Sterling could advance the ball to the 30-meter dangerous area on the left side of Southampton U18, Gu Ran rushed towards him at lightning speed with strong winds!
This time, Gu Ran's sprint was even faster!
Almost instantly, Gu Ran rushed in front of Sterling, within reach!
Sterling was immediately numb!
The Liverpool executives in the stands couldn't help but exclaimed! There was a hint of excitement in the exclaim!
The speed and power of this sprint make your adrenaline soar!
What's even more awesome is that in the first speed duel with Sterling, Gu Ran was at least two positions behind Sterling, but in the second speed duel, Gu Ran was already on par with Sterling.
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Now this is the third speed showdown between the two!