The news that Southampton swept Argentina's River Plate team in Yokohama, Japan, and successfully defended the Club World Cup quickly swept the world and caused fans all over the world to marvel.

In the past two years, the Saints have won almost every title they can win, and they can be called the most successful team in the world, even not inferior to the Dream Three team of Pep Guardiola's time.

Not only that, but the current momentum of the saints is still quite strong.

In the Champions League, Southampton qualified first in the group, and in the Premier League, 17 consecutive wins have put the Saints firmly in control of the league leader, as many as 13 points ahead of second-placed Tottenham Hotspur, and the league title can almost be said to be in doubt.

In addition, in the League Cup, the Saints once again reached the semi-finals thanks to the outstanding performance of young players.

Although the rivals this time are Liverpool, everyone believes that as long as the Saints pay enough attention to this competition, they are fully capable of beating their opponents, reaching the final, and even winning the title.

It's fair to say that so far this season, the Saints have achieved something extraordinary.

That's why when the Saints returned to Southampton with the Club World Cup trophy in hand, thousands of Saints fans flocked to the airport to welcome the team's return with the team's glory.

Fans lined up to welcome the team and even followed the team bus all the way back to the Arena of Glory, where they watched captain Manuel Neuer, along with the club's chief executive Ron Gulley and executive chairman Nicolas Cortez, bring the Club World Cup to the club's Hall of Honour.

Although this place is still very empty, although compared to those big teams, the Saints have won few honors, but everyone believes that the Saints are still young and just on the road, and it will not be long before the Saints will be able to catch up with that big team.

When all the fans, as well as the reporters who heard the news, focused on the Glory Stadium, Yang Huan quietly appeared at the House of Saints on the side of the Royal Pier.

Sitting in front of him were Peter Kenyon, who had just arrived from Monaco, and Marcelo Bielsa, Jorge Bernardo Griffa, and Marcelo Bielsa, Jorge Bernardo Griffa, who had been invited by Yang Huan to call. Madonny.

If Peter Kenyon and Bielsa are both in the prime of life, then Griffa and Madonie are gray-haired and old.

However, these two old men are out-and-out youth experts, who have contributed to Argentine football for most of their lives, especially Boca Juniors, and the current youth training system in Southampton is also from their handiwork.

However, with the coming of Ancelotti to power and the takeover of Pep Guardiola next season, Bielsa and other older people will definitely have to step down, because the consensus reached between the Saints and Guardiola is not just for the first team coaching.

That's for the average manager, but for Pep Guardiola, he's like Bielsa.

Therefore, this time, the Saints reached an agreement with Pep Guardiola from the first team to the academy, a package settlement plan, and even in terms of player introduction and transfer operations, he has a lot of decision-making power.

This is also the reason why Yang Huan decided to buy Messi before, and he had to communicate with Guardiola first.

In fact, Southampton has been preparing for a long time.

For example, the main reason for the introduction of the goalkeeper coach of Schalke 04 in the Bundesliga was that Bielsa was not satisfied with the goalkeeper coach, and Neuer strongly recommended it, and then learned about Guardiola before finally deciding to bring it in.

Then the academy came Dutchman Juncker.

Many people's impression of Juncker should fall during the period when Van Gaal coached Bayern Munich, and after Van Gaal left class, Juncker had a short period of firefighting, which made people remember him.

But in fact, Juncker's fame in European professional football is not small, and even as early as when Van Gaal was in charge of Barcelona, Juncker was already Van Gaal's right-hand man, and he was in charge of youth training at that time.

You must know that Barcelona's youth training can have today's achievements, and stars such as Xavi, Iniesta, Valdés, and Fabregas can continue to emerge, precisely because Van Gaal vigorously promoted youth training during his Barcelona period.

Cruyff was developing youth at Barcelona at the time, so Van Gaal, who had achieved amazing success at Ajax, received an offer from Cruyff to come to? Barcelona.

Van Gaal's arrival in Spain has not only brought with him his coaching staff, but also the essence of Ajax's academy.

It is precisely because of Van Gaal's time in Barcelona, on the basis of Cruyff, to further promote the youth training, which led to the success of Barcelona's dream three team and the current La Masia academy.

Because of this, Juncker, who was working under Louis van Gaal at the time, was the director of the Dutch academy and the Barcelona academy, and his attacking philosophy of emphasizing speed and pressing was also very modern, which was very much in line with the requirements of Bielsa and Pep Guardiola.

Therefore, Southampton brought in Juncker, not only because of Gerry Pharaoh, but also to prepare for Guardiola.

And now that Juncker is here, and there is England's local youth expert Les Reid in the position of technical director, the scouting system is becoming more and more mature and stable, and Griffa and Mardoni are gradually retreating into the background at Southampton.

As for Bielsa, he is still a consultant, but in fact, he does not work for the club, but is more engaged in his research and exploration of tactical ideas.

In the past six months or so, they have lived a few days, not to mention how comfortable they are.

But now as soon as Young Master Huan invited, they immediately knew that there must be another place to use them.

Yang Huan was not verbose, as soon as the three of Bielsa arrived, they immediately got straight to the point.

"I recently bought a football team in China, and I talked to Peter, Ron, and Rice, and we decided to have the Saints and Jingcheng Guoen work together in youth training and form an academy together."

Yang Huan also recently learned about it and found out that the youth training base of Beijing Guoen was very good.

Not to mention in China, even in Asia, and even in the world, it is second to none.

As long as the Saints support Guoen's weaknesses, such as youth training concepts, equipment and coaching resources, the youth academy of Beijing Guoen will definitely be able to grow by leaps and bounds in a short period of time.

Therefore, Yang Huan's current plan is that since there is Jingcheng Guoen, there is no need for the Saints to re-engage in any youth training camps, and directly cooperate with Southampton to help Jingcheng Guoen improve the level of youth training.

In this way, not only can you save a lot of money and overhead, but you can also get into the plan as soon as possible.

"Young Master Huan, you mean, you want us to go to China?" Griffa and Madonie are human spirits, and they can see through a little.

Yang Huan nodded, "You have been in charge of the selection of young players to stay in the United States before, and you know a little bit about domestic football, and you are also youth training experts, I hope you will go to the capital and be fully responsible for the youth training camp." ”

The youth training strength of these two has been verified in Boca Juniors and in the Saints academy, and it is absolutely genuine.

What's more, they are not the kind of young people who are just starting out, they have a lot of experience in youth training, they deal with a lot of problems, and they are even more proficient.

Both of them have been working here for more than five years with Yang Huan, and they know Young Master Huan very well as a person, and they know that they will not suffer if they go to China, so after thinking about it, they agreed.

"Marcelo, I want you to go to China too."

"Going to coach?" Bielsa frowned, when Young Master Huan invited him to come, he knew that the good days were over.

In fact, for Young Master Huan, he was grateful from the bottom of his heart, because without Young Master Huan, where would he have such a lofty football status now?

But if he wants to go to China to coach the club, then it will be really ......

Of course, if Young Master Huan really asked, then he would probably find it difficult to refuse.

"No, no, no!" Yang Huan hurriedly shook his head, "You misunderstood, Marcelo." ”

'My idea is that you go as technical director and be responsible for the overall planning from the first team to the youth team, and I want to create a team that is more in line with the modern style of play, and at the same time, you will help me develop more coaches and players.

After hearing this, Bielsa frowned, "But I don't know how the transfer works, and there are other things, this ......"

Peter Kenyon, who was sitting on the side and had not said a word, smiled, "Don't worry, Marcelo, what you are worried about, Young Master Huan has already thought about it, and we will arrange someone to take care of it when the time comes." ”

After a pause, Peter Kenyon said: "Of course, considering the special environment of Chinese football, we may use some local Chinese professionals, and I hope you can cooperate well at that time." ”

Bielsa's temper, Yang Huan knows, but Yang Huan also knows the domestic football environment, there will definitely be problems here, and conflicts are inevitable.

Therefore, Yang Huan plans to go back and take charge of it himself this time, that is, he will have to run back and forth between China and Europe in the future.

There was no way, he promised Mr. Yang and his father, and I heard that the dealer was also in a hurry, so Yang Huan and Zhuang Ziqing hurried to make people, so Yang Huan was stationed in the capital, which also became a dead task above his head.

Besides, he finally entered the Chinese football world, Yang Huan is determined to work hard, at the very least, he wants to manage Beijing Guoen into a domestic benchmark, drive the development of the domestic football industry, and let other teams learn hard.

As soon as he heard that Young Master Huan was in charge personally, Bielsa had nothing to worry about.

After thinking about it, I agreed.

Yang Huan was confident that he could convince them, so after they agreed, the topic of discussion quickly moved into specific matters, such as the selection of the head coach, or the selection of foreign aids.

In terms of foreign aid, Yang Huan can be described as ambitious.

He has said before that the domestic team does not burn enough money, and the level of foreign aid introduced is not enough, which cannot stimulate the domestic ball market well, so he selected the world's first-class superstars this time.

Although it is a bit outdated in Europe, at least the strength is still there.

It is worth mentioning that Young Master Huan originally looked for a striker that Bielsa vetoed, the reason was that he was not in good shape.

After changing his mind temporarily, Yang Huan decided to challenge a bigger card.

As for the head coach candidate, Young Master Huan decided to warmly invite a head coach that he has always admired very much, whether it is his coaching ability, or his ability to cultivate and sculpt players.

What's more, the taste for Bielsa.

Therefore, as soon as the Argentine madman heard about it, he immediately agreed, saying that if he could be invited, he would definitely be better than those so-called world champion coaches.

This is also in line with Yang Huan's thoughts.

Whether it's Lippi or Scolari, their football philosophy is somewhat outdated.

Nowadays, the head coaches who represent the world's advanced tactical concepts are all in Europe, and the more famous ones, such as Pep Guardiola, Klopp, Simeone, Tuchel, and even Rodgers, have no shortage of coaching opportunities and cannot go to China.

And Yang Huan's fancy coach, talent and ability have nothing to say, in the past, whenever Yang Huan's team wanted to choose a coach, he was definitely one of the candidates, but he never waited for the opportunity.

This time, Young Master Huan decided to invite him to China to do a big job.