Chapter 694 Rules of the Game

Piers seems to have started preparing for the upcoming Olympics.

At least many Premier League head coaches have spoken for him, including local head coaches like Redknapp, who hope that Premier League teams can support English football more, but the top teams including Ye Qiu, Ferguson and Wenger have basically remained silent.

Among them, Ferguson even implicitly stated in an interview that he would not allow several core players in the team to participate in the European Cup and the Olympics successively, which can be regarded as a polite rejection of Piers' proposal.

Obviously, Piers is lobbying back and forth in some Premier League and Championship teams, and not only to the head coach and management, but also to the players. Among them, he gave Beckham a promise that he would do his best to bring him to the Olympics, which almost included Beckham in the 18-man list in advance.

Piers' conversation with Beckham should be after communicating with Ye Qiu, and Beckham found Ye Qiu the day after the conversation, but in addition to telling Ye Qiu that he is likely to participate in the Olympics, he also revealed a piece of information.

"You decided to retire?" Ye Qiu was a little surprised by this decision, but he didn't find it strange.

At the age of 37, although Beckham can still play for the national team and the Olympic team, in fact, except for his long pass and free kick skills, his contribution in other aspects has become smaller and smaller.

It is ironic that England, which is known for its talents, has to rely on a 37-year-old veteran in the offensive tactics of the national team. Capello's arrival did not bring much change to the England national team. The reason is very simple. The characteristics of England's players are too monotonous.

To give a simple example, in Spain, you can see both wing attackers like Navas and incisive masters like Mata. If you count Pedro, who has outstanding off-ball ability, these are three different types of players. There is also Germany. Germany has a lot of player choices, and the characteristics are also different and rich.

But in England, you will find that almost all players are very similar, Gerrard and Lampard, Aaron Lennon and Walcott on the wing, Carrick and Gareth Barry...

Of course, after the new generation came out, such as Wilshere, it was eye-catching, but in the past few years, the England national team has been too short of talent, and the technical and tactical characteristics are also very monotonous and boring, especially the lack of players with outstanding personal ball-handling ability, resulting in the team's effective offensive means having to rely on long pass masters like Beckham.

So in the past few years, some people even said that England's offensive means are one Beckham plus ten teammates.

With Beckham's aging, starting from the World Cup in South Africa, everyone gradually realized this problem. Coupled with the rise of new generation players such as Wilshere, Beckham was gradually squeezed out of the main lineup, and more served as the team's spiritual leader, and his role in the team was getting smaller and smaller.

Retirement has become a consensus of everyone, and the difference is only a matter of time.

This conversation between Ye Qiu and Beckham was after the training session, and it was already evening.

"Just like the sun, it will always set." Beckham said with a smile, he has already taken it lightly.

After all, retirement has always been linked to him in the past few years. Even after he could no longer play as a main player, there were almost reports of his retirement every year, but Beckham always insisted because he wanted to participate in the Olympics.

"Pierce told me that your strong support made him finally make up his mind, thank you!" Beckham was very grateful to Ye Qiu, because he knew very well that without Ye Qiu's words, Pierce might not have made up his mind.

As many people said, whether Beckham was selected was very controversial, but he was finally selected, and Ye Qiu's support must have played a big role.

Ye Qiu smiled faintly. He was already indifferent to such things as taking credit. If he really wanted to take credit, he would not have come this far. "What are your plans after retirement? Coaching?"

Beckham had previously participated in Tottenham Hotspur's coach training course and had obtained an A-level coaching certificate. Judging from the certificate level, he was already qualified to coach alone. Compared with a large number of unlicensed head coaches in England, at least he had a job certificate.

"That's another point I want to talk to you about!" Beckham smiled.

"Then let's go to my office!"

The two of them went up the stairs to the second floor one after the other. Passing the coaching room, Mauro Tassotti and others were still studying and discussing tomorrow's training program. Although there was no Champions League game in the middle of the week, they would welcome the Red Devils Manchester United on the weekend. Although it was a home game, it was also a highlight.

As Ferguson predicted last November, if Tottenham Hotspur is still at the top of the Premier League after the away game against Chelsea at the end of March, the 30th round of the Premier League, then the league championship this season will be completely lost.

Because before the 30th round, Tottenham Hotspur will have played all the matches against strong teams, and the opponents encountered after the 30th round are not strong, so now for Manchester United, sniping Tottenham Hotspur to win the championship has become their number one goal.

Although Tottenham Hotspur would be a waste of money for its two arch-rivals Manchester City and Liverpool if they fail to win the championship, Ferguson could not let Tottenham Hotspur win the English Premier League four times in a row, which is unprecedented in the 100-year history of English football.

Although Tottenham Hotspur is far inferior to the top teams in terms of the number of championships, the problem is that if Tottenham Hotspur is allowed to sweep the Premier League so strongly, allowing this North London team to build up its own top confidence and dominance, it will be very difficult to challenge Tottenham Hotspur again in the future.

Over the years, Manchester United and Ferguson have been consciously preparing for future successors, such as constantly introducing young rookies and metabolizing the team, but everyone knows that once Ferguson retires, no matter who the successor is, given the financial situation of Manchester United and the Glazer family, it will inevitably cause a decline in performance.

On the other hand, Tottenham Hotspur will acquire Stratford Stadium in 2012, and its financial revenue will increase by at least 150 million pounds a year. This is a conservative estimate. According to the assessment given by Deloitte, it should be around 200 million pounds, which will make Tottenham Hotspur's financial revenue exceed Manchester United and Real Madrid.

This is a team that is developing very rapidly. If Florentino used less than two years to make the debt-ridden Real Madrid become the most profitable team in Europe by selling the legacy left over from the Bernabeu period, then now Ye Qiu is going to become Tottenham Hotspur's Bernabeu.

As one goes up, the other goes down. Tottenham Hotspur's revenue has skyrocketed, while Manchester United has declined. In this case, who can still challenge Tottenham Hotspur? Especially considering that if many of Tottenham Hotspur's superstar players stay in the team, who can shake Tottenham Hotspur's competitiveness in the Premier League in the next few years?

Many people only see the present, and only see that Ye Qiu has been selling players non-stop in the past few years, but they have overlooked a very important key issue. The funds he has obtained are either invested in the team's hardware and software construction, or in some long-term income projects with strong value preservation.

To use a saying from Ye Qiu's hometown, those are investments that benefit future generations, especially with the development of London as one of the world's top financial centers, those real estate development projects will bring Tottenham Hotspur an endless stream of financial income in the future. As long as London does not fall, Tottenham Hotspur will continue to stand firm ten years later and a hundred years later.

So Ferguson said in an interview before that to defeat Tottenham Hotspur, it must be in these two seasons!

It can also be expected that Manchester United will fight Tottenham Hotspur to the end in this game, because this is Ferguson's last chance to break Tottenham Hotspur's unbeaten record and Tottenham Hotspur's unbeaten golden body, at least to shake Tottenham Hotspur's unbeaten myth.

Therefore, Ye Qiu also attaches great importance to this game. Fortunately, there is a week of rest time between the two games between Arsenal and Manchester United, so they can prepare well.

After entering Ye Qiu's office and sitting down as host and guest, Ye Qiu took out Jin Jun Mei, a famous tea from his hometown Fujian in recent years. This is a very popular black tea recently. Although Ye Qiu is not a tea tasting expert, he usually uses tea to entertain guests.

"I heard you say before that you plan to acquire a major league team in the United States. How is the progress?" Beckham watched Ye Qiu boil water and make tea, busy and happy. For him who often hangs out with Ye Qiu, he is already used to it.

"Are you interested?" Ye Qiu laughed. Beckham is still very marketable in the United States.

Beckham nodded, "I almost went to play in the American Major League before, you know that!"

"American football has developed very rapidly in recent years. Although it is still behind baseball, rugby and basketball, American football has developed very fast in recent years. It has reached the top 16 of the World Cup, won the Confederations Cup runner-up and the America's Cup. American football is developing rapidly, especially after Klinsmann became the head coach of the United States!"

Ye Qiu is familiar with Klinsmann. The coaching ability of this German head coach is unquestionable. Bayern's setback cannot explain the problem, so Ye Qiu is very optimistic about his trip to the United States, and the performance of the national team will inevitably further drive the domestic football market in the United States. So Ye Qiu has been evaluating American football since two years ago.

"We now have two choices, either New York or Miami. The former has the New York Red Bulls, while the latter currently has no professional team. Both are very promising football markets, and the Major League Soccer has also contacted us, saying that if we are willing to form a team, they are willing to give preferential treatment in various aspects, including franchise fees."

To form a major league team, you need to pay a franchise fee of 75 million US dollars, but the preferential treatment given by the major league is 25 million US dollars. If we talk further, it is estimated that it can be reduced to 20 million US dollars. This is mainly due to the current strength of Tottenham Hotspur and the influence brought by Ye Qiu.

"If you are interested, I can count you in!" Ye Qiu invited Beckham.

To be honest, it is impossible for all the cheapness and benefits in this world to be monopolized by you alone, so the truly successful people are often those who know how to share the benefits and know how to share the benefits with others.

Not only Beckham, if the time is right, if other stars in the team are interested, they can also invest and calculate the shares according to the proportion of their respective investments.

"I think Miami is better!" Beckham smiled and proposed his opinion.

This is one of the largest urban areas in the United States, and its economic strength is not inferior to other parts of the United States. More importantly, there is no major league team here. According to the plan of the Major League Baseball, major league teams will be added in the next few years. By 2020, a major league event consisting of 24 leagues will be established.

So no matter from which angle you look at it, this is a very potential investment. Even if you wait until the time is right in the future and sell the team, you can make a lot of money.

At least, in the next few decades, no matter how the US economy declines, it will still be one of the countries with the highest consumption power in the world. This is a fact that no one can deny.

After seeing off Beckham, Ye Qiu sat on the sofa in the office, thinking about another thing in his mind. To form a team in the United States was not only the idea of ​​Peter Kenyon, the CEO of Tottenham Hotspur, but also the support of Chen Zhong of Huangtian Group. He also hoped to become a shareholder of the team and further increase Huangtian Group's investment in the United States.

In fact, many people have a serious misunderstanding about the world, that is, conspiracy theory.

They will feel that the world is full of conspiracies, and even have a tendency to be masochistic. They will think that all countries in the world are targeting you. If you analyze it carefully, it is very similar to Mourinho's psychology, and the Portuguese created this mentality because of his inferiority complex.

Every country has its own national conditions and characteristics, and its own rules of the game.

Of course, the current top economic order in the world is designated by Westerners, just as the rules and arbitration of the world's top football matches are controlled by Westerners. This should not be a reason and excuse for you to think that you are bullied, because when you wanted to enter this world, you already knew the facts. You can't say that I am bullied and say you are domineering.

Yes, they are overbearing, but this has not been a matter of a day or two. They have always been so overbearing. You know, either you don't get close to them, or you have to learn their rules of the game.

Use what Ye Qiu said to Chen Zhong at the beginning, use their rules and defeat them within their rules!

This is a world of open conspiracy. Although conspiracy theories are prevalent, it is open conspiracy that dominates this world.

Ye Qiu has witnessed a very big change in recent years. That is, since China joined the WTO, it has gone from being outside the rules at the beginning to integrating into the rules and even using the rules. This is a very gratifying change, because only in this way can you be qualified to talk about defeating opponents and changing the rules.

It's like many people criticize the US trade protectionism and the US's exclusion of Chinese companies, but do they know how much of this is caused by Chinese companies not understanding the US rules of the game and rashly entering?

Every country has trade protectionism. This is the basic national condition. If you don't understand these basic national conditions and enter, this is your problem!

Does anyone know that throughout the 1980s, Japan spent $400 million on lobbying every year to ensure a trade surplus of $40 billion, which was a huge investment at the time. But in recent years, who is the biggest client of those lobbying companies under the US Capitol? It is China!

In June 2005, a scandal broke out in the United States. Republican leader Tom DeLay was suspected of a lobbying scandal with a total amount of $66 million. The content was that a group of US congressmen accepted lobbying from six casinos in Washington to prevent opponents from building new casinos, threatening their profitable transactions.

In August of the same year, when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the United States, he announced in an interview that the Chinese Embassy in the United States hired the famous Patton Boggs Company in Washington to lobby for him in the US Congress, with a monthly commission of $22,000.

This is only part of it, but from this we can see that this is a normal and very common thing, because under the framework of the US Constitution, this kind of lobbying will not be criticized, but encouraged. Therefore, lobbying is a national condition and feature of the United States. You have to learn to use it and use it well.

Since the internal reorganization of Leaf Technology, which spun off companies including Facebook and Twitter, these subsidiaries have begun to accept acquisitions from some American investment companies, sold a lot of shares, and are currently actively promoting listing. This is also a big cake that Ye Qiu threw to those American chaebols.

When you have a good relationship with these chaebols, when you have enough financial resources to influence the election of American congressmen or even the president, you can do whatever you want. This is the rule of the game in the United States!

Then maybe someone will jump out and say, you idiot, the real control of the United States is not the president and Congress, nor the big financial groups that are on the facade, but the financial tycoons behind the Federal Reserve.

This is the result of reading too many typical conspiracy theories, because Ye Qiu has always felt that Currency War is a good book, but it is only limited to reading it. Don't worship it as the truth. There are many things in it that cannot withstand scrutiny, including the so-called control of the Federal Reserve.

In the words of the predecessors, it is better to have no books than to believe in books!

In this world, the answers to all questions can only be found by yourself. Different people will find different answers, which belong to their own answers. But if you think that finding the answer is too hard and tiring, then you can also choose to accept other people's answers, but your choice will make you stay where you are forever and never know the real answer.

Not to mention, there will be many people in this world who know that the answer is not like this at all, but for some purpose and for some interests, they will do everything possible to tell you that this is the answer with various methods and evidence.

Do you believe it or not?

Anyway, Ye Qiu doesn't believe it!

Because he prefers to find the answer himself, as if he firmly believes that this world is a world with traces, full of order, and full of various rules.

Just like the development of Tottenham Hotspur in the past few years has been climbing up step by step. Finally, before everyone knows it, everyone has discovered and realized that Tottenham Hotspur has become a top giant in Europe and the world. This is the rule of the game in European football!

You can disobey the rules, like Abramovich of Chelsea, but it will be difficult for you to stay in this game system for a long time. Unless you learn these rules slowly and abide by them, you will definitely be struck out.

Running a company, running a team, or being a person are essentially the same.

Even if we magnify it, isn’t the so-called civilized world a world full of various rules?