For a football club, the business philosophy of the academy is important!

This also has a lot to do with the club's first-team positioning, such as Real Madrid and Barcelona, who are more likely to buy stars who have proven themselves elsewhere to join the team and improve their strength.

In Xiao Yu's previous life, Barcelona also began to greatly promote academy players after the treble and after the club formed a cycle of good surnames, and even so, foreign players still occupy half of Barcelona's first team.

But among those players who claim to be from Barcelona's academy, there are also many players who are half-finished products that Barcelona has dug from other clubs, put them in the academy and sculpted them a little, so that he can integrate into the team's tactical system, and then promote him to the first team, starting as a substitute, such as Pedro and Pique.

If the Red Rebels want to become a club like West Ham and Southampton that specialises in developing young players, then sells them at a high price, and then invests in them, and survives in this way, like Sevilla in Spain, then there is no need for him to give young talents such as Kaka a raise.

Xiao Yu's attitude is very clear, with the current Red Rebels first team and youth team player reserves, at most three years, they will have the strength to win the Champions League, because three years later, this group of young people led by Kaka is just entering the peak of their careers, and at that time, which team in Europe can compete with the Red Rebels?

And Xiao Yu has always positioned the team as a future giant, so he spared no expense to build a new stadium, attract investment, and strive to operate the land around the Red Rebel Stadium, on the one hand, to expand the influence of the Red Rebel Stadium, and on the other hand, he also wanted to bring stable income to the Red Rebels.

Since it is a giant, the academy should pay attention to it, and the training of its own players also needs to be cared for, in addition, the acquisition of semi-finished products is also very needed.

A giant team, even if it is Barcelona and Arsenal, they cannot promote their own players in every position, so in the previous life, Bojan was promoted to the first team for many years, but Barcelona still never let him be the main player, Eto'o left and bought Ibrahimovic, and Ibrahimovic came to Villa after playing.

This does not mean that Barcelona does not care about Bojan's development, but he really does not have the ability to partner in the team.

So is Ismael, who is currently in the Red Rebels' first team, who still needs to be crafted and experienced.

In this way, the introduction of some semi-finished products has become the most suitable means, which can not only reduce the risk, but also improve the cohesion of the team, after all, it is undoubtedly tempting to spend a lot of money to buy big-name stars, but the price is obvious, that is, the pressure on the club's operating costs is too great.

As the football economy gradually enters a predicament, in addition to Spain's Barcelona and Real Madrid, the whole of Europe may be Chelsea and Manchester City are willing to spend a lot of money after the big boss injects money, but a team that wants to operate rationally is unlikely to operate for a long time by relying on the boss's capital injection.

So Chelsea's results began to fall after Ab stopped investing heavily, and they began to turn their recruitment targets to those who were very talented.

This is also why in the past few years that Xiao Yu has traveled, the so-called talented teenagers will spring up like mushrooms, that is because all teams in Europe have begun to pay attention to these players, and everyone is thinking that instead of spending tens of millions to buy a famous star, it is better to spend about 10 million to buy a talented young man with outstanding talent, cultivate it, and take on a big responsibility in a year or two.

Yes, Xiao Yu has money now, and he can invest tens of millions of dollars every day to buy people, but once one day, Xiao Yu can no longer continue to invest for some reason, what will the team do?

A reasonably managed team, in the case of ensuring results and management, the most reasonable attitude to recruit should be to consider their own youth training first, then consider semi-finished products, and finally consider becoming famous stars.

Some people may think that if you don't buy people with a lot of money, how can you become a wealthy family?

That's wrong!

If the buyer can buy the wealthy, then the honor of the wealthy family is really cheap enough to be wholesaled in the vegetable market!

Buying people can improve the strength and make an ordinary team transform into a strong team and become a strong team, but if you want to become a giant, you can, take out your achievements to speak, and show your influence!

Real Madrid's vigorous recruitment can lead to a galaxy battleship, and even if Inter Milan becomes a black hole of stars, they are still giants, but can other teams do it? If they didn't have that deep historical background, would they be?

Of course, in the increasingly utilitarian football world, the giants have been abused, but at least you have to have results, you have to be influential, so Arsenal and Chelsea are giants, the former focuses on youth training, greatly promotes young players, and cultivates world-class stars such as Henry, Pire, Vieira, and Cesc Fabregas.

Chelsea's strong rise in the Premier League broke the two-man rotation of Manchester United and Arsenal, and it also happened to catch the wave of the Premier League's influence spreading around the world, so Chelsea took advantage of the trend, and another point that cannot be ignored is Kenyon's promotion and planning behind it.

Xiao Yu is determined to run the Red Rebels into a wealthy family, but it is not a wealthy family built up with money, but relies on his own achievements, influence, and cultivating world-class stars, so as to climb the ladder of the wealthy family, and then operate it for a long time.

And under this business philosophy, the role of the scouting department is extremely important!

........................ "Ozil? Xiao Yu was a little surprised, he had really forgotten about this little daughter-in-law in the past few years, but soon he saw a red cross on Ozil's profile, which meant that the player had failed to be introduced.

"He currently plays for a lower club in Germany, but he has no plans to leave Germany anytime soon, and according to the reports submitted by our scouts in Germany, the player's linguistic talent is really not complimentary!" Boyas shook his head with a wry smile.

Xiao Yu remembered the helplessness of meeting Ozil when Mourinho coached Real Madrid in his previous life, and laughed out loud, I heard that Ozil is very untalented in languages, he can only know Turkish and German, English and Spanish are ignorant, and he has not learned it for a long time, which makes Mourinho, who was born as a translator, very depressed.

"Focus on him!" Xiao Yu patted Boyas on the shoulder and comforted.

Last year, there was a language trouble in the team, that is, Xiao Xiao Luo, he has a very strong Portuguese dialect, and his English is not slippery, so the club specially invited an English teacher from Portugal to let him serve as Xiao Xiao Luo's English teacher, and taught him for more than half a year before he mastered spoken English, and then slowly self-taught.

In addition to Mesut Ozil, there are several other German players in the report given by the scouting department, such as Toney? Cross, Thomas? Muller and other future German internationals, among whom Tony? Klos, who is currently in Rostock, where his father coaches the youth team, turned down an offer from the Red Rebels.

Thomas? Muller is the focus of Bayern Munich's academy, although he is still very young, he is full of potential, and he cannot be poached at all.

"Germany has invested heavily in youth programs since the World Cup and Euro Cup fiascos in '98 and 00, and over the past few years, young German talent has sprung up like mushrooms, and in a few years' time, I believe that Germany's young players will further prove the value of this youth program." In the boyas report, Germany carries more weight.

Xiao Yu couldn't help nodding, in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the German team was the ghost, but this young German team let everyone see the hope of German football, Ozil, Thomas? Muller and other youngsters of the younger generation are even more blockbusters.

On the other hand, looking at England's youth training, Xiao Yu could only shake his head and sigh!

"Luiz, I think the scouting department will collect some materials for me on the German youth program, and I hope to find an opportunity to invite Premier League clubs and some football experts to discuss the current state of youth training in England, led by our Red Rebels!"

Boyas nodded yes that it would boost the image and influence of the Red Rebels, and at the end of the day, the club would only benefit from the country's youth level.

But Xiao Yu has another concern, that is, if FIFA and UEFA really start to restrict foreign aid in the future, it may be difficult for the Premier League to continue to prosper, because frankly, England's youth training is really bad, very bad.

At a time when the world attaches great importance to technical training and advocates small-field youth training, England still stubbornly implements large-field youth training, which makes England players look big and physical, but more suitable for running than playing football.

The German players can't dig it up, and the team's scouts in France have also unearthed Karim in the Lyon academy? Benzema, but the French youngster who was given a high rating by scouts is a star that the Lyon team focuses on, and he personally feels that continuing to train in Lyon is the best, and leaving hastily may not be beneficial to his future.

In addition to these well-known stars from the past life, there are many other players in the scouting report sent by Boas this time, including Argentina's Mascherano and Tevez, the former is from the football school of the Redondo and Solari families, and Redondo's father-in-law recommended him to the Red Rebels as a strong midfielder, but the team has decided to temporarily loan him to River Plate.

As for Tevez, he is already a regular in Boca Juniors and is a hot new star in Argentina, and the Red Rebels are only focusing on him and have not thought about getting him, after all, the team is full of talent in the attacking line.

In addition, the scouting report also contains information on other players from the Red Rebels on loan, such as Alves and Thiago? Silva has both been a regular in Benfica's team, both of whom have performed well, and the team is closely monitoring their progress in the hope of recalling them back to the Red Rebels one day.

Flipping through the pages, Xiao Yu turned to the last page of the report, which listed several young players that the Red Rebels' scouting department had recently started to introduce, most of them were English players, and they would all enter the Red Rebels' academy to enrich the youth team, and several others came to try out.

The introduction of these players is basically to compensate the original club for a small amount of training fees, after the two sides have negotiated, the player will enter the Red Rebels' academy, and some players who come to try out are playing in the original club, and are invited to come to the trial by the Red Rebels' scouts, and if they finally decide to hire, the team will pay them a transfer fee.

However, the transfer fees of these players are generally not expensive, Xiao Yu basically delegates these operations to Mourinho, after all, he knows best what type of players his tactics lack, plus the operation of Boas, so Xiao Yu is roughly browsing at random.

But this time, he saw a more familiar name in the list of trial players!

(To be continued)