Chapter 220 Newly arrived

"Have you decided to coach in London?"

At the dinner table in the Huang family's villa, Huang Jinsong and his wife were surprised to hear Ye Qiu say this news.

Before getting married, Ye Qiu and Huang Chu were in a long-distance relationship. Although they often contacted each other by phone, they didn't see each other for a long time. This must have had some impact on their relationship. Moreover, Huang Chu lived alone, and they were always worried.

Besides, the European football circle is a place of fame and fortune. There are countless beautiful women who are eager to climb up to the high branches of football stars and make themselves famous overnight. Young, handsome and rich like Ye Qiu is a hot commodity, and Huang Jinsong is always a little uneasy in his heart.

As a man, especially a successful man like him, he certainly knows that it is inevitable to play with each other, but he is afraid that after a long time, Ye Qiu can't stand the seduction of those women. What should he do with his daughter then?

Of course, he did not doubt Ye Qiu's love and loyalty to his daughter. The two had been in love for so long, and he could see what kind of person Ye Qiu was. It was just that sometimes, such things were hard to say, especially when the couple had been separated for a long time.

"If there is no big mistake, it should be!" Ye Qiu said with a smile.

Huang Jinsong and his wife were also very happy when they heard this good news.

They had long felt that it was not a good idea for the couple to be too far apart. Now that Ye Qiu had gone from Amsterdam to London, the two could buy a house in London and see each other every day. This was like a couple!

"Okay, let's go to London!" Huang Jinsong laughed, "By the way, Ah Chu, you might as well accompany Ye Qiu back and look for a house by the way. Dad said before that I would give you a house, so don't save money for me, understand?"

Huang Chu smiled and nodded in agreement, "We have asked Eliza to help find it. She used to run a real estate agency and knows more about this. And I have also considered it. Maybe in about a year, I also want to go back to London."

"Go back to London? Isn't Cambridge good?" Huang Jinsong asked curiously.

"It's not bad!" Ye Qiu explained with a smile, "The best hospitals in the UK are basically in London, Wellington, Guy's and St. Thomas, St. Mary's... These best hospitals are all in the city. If you enter these hospitals, it will be better for Ah Chu than staying in Cambridge."

"Yes, Dad, my mentor is going to recommend me, and I also hope to be able to stand on my own and accumulate as much experience as possible." Huang Chu followed to explain. For her, the most important thing now is experience.

Huang Jinsong nodded continuously after listening, "Then the house can't be bought in Cambridge."

"Yes, we are considering buying it around London. The city is more expensive, and basically they are row houses." Huang Chu said.

One of the interesting features of London's houses is the street row houses. Basically, there are two or three floors of this kind of house, which are connected in a row on the street and have a small garden at the back. The biggest advantage of such houses is that they are cheap.

Therefore, even in areas such as Kensington, Chelsea and Notting Hill, which are known as middle-class and wealthy areas, there are basically such houses, but for Chinese people, this kind of house is very inconvenient. After all, who doesn't want a single door and a single household?

But in downtown London, there are very few single-family villas. Some are renovated from old houses that are decades or even hundreds of years old. Although they are still very solid, they look a bit shabby, and sometimes the price and procedures for renovation are enough to give you a headache. Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, Ye Qiu and Huang Chu both think that it is better to buy in the suburbs.

First of all, the price of suburban houses is relatively cheap, and the space is large. Basically, the back garden has hundreds of square meters, which is a very common thing. Moreover, if it is in some high-end wealthy areas, it is basically a single-family house, and it will not be disturbed or affected by the outside world.

But more importantly, the public security in these suburban villages is even better than that in London.

It's not surprising to think about it. London is a big city with a large but complex population. Only a few wealthy areas have good public security. Other places are basically a mess, especially with the economic downturn in recent years, this situation is even more obvious. So if you want good public security in London, you can only go to the wealthy areas.

But it is different in small villages and towns in the suburbs. Not to mention the single-family houses, in some high-end rich places, basically no outsiders can be seen. All the houses are bought by the rich. In addition, they are single-family houses, and they can be responsible for their own home safety. However, since a large part of the local government's fiscal revenue comes from the property tax paid by the community, plus the government gives different amounts of subsidies according to the public security situation, they have made great efforts in public security.

According to government regulations, properties over 320,000 pounds pay 2,536 pounds of property tax each year. It can be imagined that this amount of money can almost support a special forces team in some wealthy villages with more than 100 households.

According to data released by the British government, the annual salary of special forces is about 13,000 pounds. If you hire a private special forces bodyguard, the annual salary is 50,000 pounds. It is conceivable that in these wealthy villages, it is unacceptable if the public security is not good.

Of course, this also resulted in the security in the rich areas getting better and better, while the security in the poor areas getting worse and worse, and polarization. However, as an ordinary resident, Ye Qiu would definitely give priority to places with good security when choosing a house.

Huang Jinsong was not familiar with the UK, and he really didn't know that there were such requirements for buying a house in London. He was immediately very surprised.

"Achu and I both work, so we don't think it's necessary to buy a bigger house. Usually two people live in it. You and my parents live there, which is three to five rooms. The most important thing is the environment and security. Usually like this You can buy a house in the suburbs for hundreds of thousands of pounds," Ye Qiu said with a smile.

For him now, hundreds of thousands of pounds is really not much, because his signing fee alone is as high as 3 million pounds. This can be regarded as a sum of money that Van Praag saved for Ye Qiu, because he is now a free agent. , if he still has a contract with Ajax, he will have to pay liquidated damages, which is equivalent to giving up the signing fee.

"Even a big garden?" Huang Jinsong asked in surprise.

Ye Qiu nodded, "Buying a house in the UK is basically a house. The square area is not calculated. Regardless of the size of the garden, it is the price of the house anyway. Therefore, in many suburbs, the garden is much larger than the house, but it is cheaper. It’s going to kill me.” After saying this, he couldn’t help but feel funny.

After all, that's how the suburbs are. If you live in the city centers of Kensington, Chelsea and Notting Hill, you won't have anything. The gardens of those townhouses are very small. How can they give you a big garden? However, the public facilities are indeed good, which is definitely not comparable to those in the suburbs and in the city.

"Then what if you buy it in London and A Chu works?" Chu Yun was most concerned about his daughter.

Huang Chu smiled and held his mother's hand, "We have a car, Mom."

Ye Qiu owns two cars, a Ferrari Enzo and a Ferrari 550. The former is driven by Ye Qiu himself, and the latter is naturally given to Huang Chu.

"Okay, since you have all thought about it, I will do whatever you want and listen to you!" Huang Jinsong was in a good mood and made the decision, "But we have to agree, I will give you the money to buy the house and renovate it!"

Although he transferred the company's shares to Huang Chu, because neither Ye Qiu nor Huang Chu was interested in returning to Huangtian Group, he still held the title of chairman. Chen Zhong took over the power of the group, and Huang Jinsong only supervised behind the scenes. Working and serving as the chairman of the foundation, coupled with some real estate he purchased in the past few years, he is not short of money at all.

In his words, unless he gambles, he will never squander all his money in this life.

Therefore, Ye Qiu certainly had no problem with the father-in-law rushing to pay.

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Sometimes I have to admire Eliza. She can quickly give you a satisfactory answer to almost anything you put in her hands.

Just like helping Ye Qiu find a house, it only took her two days to give Ye Qiu an answer.

Totteridge, a wealthy village located in north London, is 50 kilometers away from Cambridge, about an hour away. It is basically a highway, and it is only 20 kilometers away from Heathrow Airport. And most importantly, it is here It is very secluded, but the transportation is very convenient. This village is composed entirely of single-family mansions of wealthy people, and there is no problem with public security.

After Ye Qiu received the news from Eliza, he immediately took a flight to London with Huang Chu. However, after arriving at Heathrow Airport, the first thing he did was not to see a house, but to see Harling in Chelsea. Dayton training base.

This training base is just north of Heathrow Airport, only 1 km away, you can walk there, and it only takes 2 minutes by car.

He had heard that Chelsea's training base was very bad, but he never expected that when Ye Qiu saw it with his own eyes, he looked at the place in front of him in disbelief. Well, it could barely be regarded as a training ground. He shook his head and asked with a wry smile. To Eliza beside her, "Isn't this too bad?"

Harrington training ground is located in a cheap suburb and can only be reached by a narrow road.

The entrance to the training ground is two very simple iron gates. How simple is it?

The water pipe is welded into a 1-meter-high rectangle, with thinner steel bars welded inside to form two crosses. This is true for both doors, and the anti-rust paint on them has obviously peeled off, and is very mottled and rusty. You Tell me, how crude is it?

Next to the iron gate is a brick-built iron house, which houses the security guard's post and dormitory, as well as some places for storing sundries. After entering the iron house, there is a long and narrow double-story training building, and all the facilities are very rudimentary. , the dormitories are all similar to school dormitories. Although air conditioning is provided, it is still unsatisfactory.

Downstairs are the coaching staff's office, head coach's office, conference room, gym, locker room, etc.

The equipment room is arranged in a rectangular iron house next door.

Directly opposite the training building and equipment room is the parking lot, which is only used by the first team and coaching staff. The parking lot used to be two regular-sized football fields. The difference is that the drainage system and geothermal system have been added to the left area. , so it seems that the turf area is much smaller than the one on the right.

From this we can also see that Chelsea did not pay much attention to the training ground in the past. Even in Ajax, the training ground of the first team is basically equipped with geothermal and drainage systems. However, like Amsterdam, London, which has a lot of rain and snow, However, Chelsea only arranged one piece, and it was a shrunken version. It is really hard to believe that this is a powerful team in the Premier League.

There are only four turfs in the entire Harrington training ground. The first team occupies the two standard fields on the right side. The youth team is all arranged on the left side of the entrance, which is the two large comprehensive turfs behind the training building. They have no size and area. It is relatively large, and the largest one is estimated to be the size of two standard fields, but it is connected into one piece.

"It's strange that such a youth training system can produce good players!" Ye Qiu walked to the training ground of the youth team. After looking at it, he looked helpless. Moreover, he found that there were not enough security guards at the training ground. There were only two people. After getting through the phone, Ye Qiu and the others were allowed to wander around.

But it's no wonder that the entire training ground is empty, and the training building and equipment room are locked, so there is no fear of theft.

It's not that Ye Qiu thinks hardware is more important than software in youth training, but it's an attitude.

When he saw such a comprehensive training ground, he could imagine that Chelsea's youth training was to mix up players of all ages, or even players of all ages, and train directly in the comprehensive training ground. Just imagine, this kind of How chaotic does it have to be? If there are not enough coaches, there is no hope of coaching the players.

"Pini Zahavi told me before that Abramovich was also very dissatisfied with Harrington, and this place did not belong to Chelsea, but was rented from the Royal Academy in London, so he was planning to find a new training ground. , bought it to build a new and modern training base.”

As soon as Eliza finished speaking, she heard the sound of a plane landing from Heathrow Airport. There was a sudden roar and nothing could be heard. One can imagine how difficult it is to train here on weekdays. pain of.

In the past, Ye Qiu had long heard that Premier League teams were not only lagging behind mainland teams at the tactical level, but also lagging far behind the other three major leagues in continental Europe in terms of scientific player management and club software and hardware facilities. Now, Seeing the training ground of Premier League team Chelsea, he was convinced of this.

Even Chelsea is like this, but you can imagine what other teams will be like?

"The training turf for the first team is not good enough. It should be replaced immediately. It is estimated that we will not be able to make it in time for the training camp. Our training camp this summer will be arranged elsewhere. There is also the training building of the first team. I need to renovate it. The dormitory where the players take a break must be renovated. Well, there are also locker rooms, equipment rooms, and conference rooms..."

Listening to Ye Qiu sputtering a lot, Eliza listened and took out her notebook to write down. After he finally finished speaking, she put on a wry smile and said, "Please, you have said so much, no Does that mean the entire training base needs to be renovated and rebuilt?”

Huang Chu didn't understand this, but he chuckled this time.

Ye Qiu really wanted to scold her, but he knew very well that this had nothing to do with Abramovich, so he directly took out his phone, called Abramovich, and told him that he hoped to repair Harlem as soon as possible. Dayton training base.

"With the current situation of Harrington, unless it is significantly rebuilt, it is impossible to reach the level of a modern top football club. Moreover, it is so close to Heathrow Airport and is not suitable for use as a training base."

Regarding Ye Qiu's opinions, Abramovich also gave a positive reply. To be honest, he was also very dissatisfied after seeing it. He felt that this was purely a training ground for amateur teams, nothing like the Premier League football team. Team?

"The security must be caught. I really don't want our opponents to spy on every move we make at the Harrington training ground. There are also some hardware facilities, such as player and coach dormitories, conference rooms, and locker rooms. , medical rooms, etc., all need to be renovated.”

"We must create the best training environment for the players!" This last sentence is what Ye Qiu wants to say.

Why did Manchester United build Carrington? Why did Arsenal build Colney?

There is only one purpose, which is to create the most comfortable training environment for the players as much as possible, and at the same time adopt a more advanced and modern training system. This is impossible for Harrington at the moment.

The simplest one is like the set of speed detection equipment provided by Adidas to Ajax. It can detect the player's sprint speed under any circumstances based on the player's sprint process, such as the starting speed, 5 meters, The speed of 10 meters, 15 meters, 20 meters, 25 meters and 30 meters, followed by 50 meters and 100 meters.

But at the Harrington training base, this cannot be done because there is no space to arrange such a set of equipment.

Of course, nothing would be the same without this set of equipment, but the problem is that with it, the coaching staff can know more clearly the speed of each player's movement on the court. The human eye can be deceiving, and the equipment can detect The data that comes out will not, and such testing can also have the effect of predicting and detecting player injuries.

Abramovich fully supported Ye Qiu's proposal on the phone. He said that he would complete the renovation of the Harrington training base in the shortest possible time. As for the team's summer training location, they would discuss it after meeting at Stamford Bridge tomorrow. Negotiate in detail.

Ye Qiu has no objection to this. He said that he will go to Stamford Bridge on time to sign a contract with Abramovich tomorrow and attend the press conference together.

After negotiating these matters, Eliza drove Ye Qiu and Huang Chu away from the Harrington training base and headed north. At the exit of Edgware on the M1 highway, you can see the most primitive British town. flavor.

The clean roads, red-brick and white-tiled English buildings, and neat and orderly planning can easily give people a feeling of comfort, but Eliza said that the environment and air in Totteridge are better than those in Edgeway. You are much better.

Heading east from Edgware, along a narrow village road, it doesn't take long to reach Totteridge.

Unlike the densely populated Edgware, Totteridge seems relatively empty. The luxury villas with large gardens are clearly separated, with tall oak trees that block the view in the middle and high walls built, making each villa seem to be an independent little world.

Eliza has been here twice and is a little familiar with it. This time, she drove Ye Qiu and his wife directly to the gate of the villa she chose, but as soon as Ye Qiu got out of the car, he found a person opposite, staring at him.

He looks so familiar, who is it?

Ye Qiu was puzzled.