In Tottenham Hotspur's scouting system, there is a set of player templates, which are specially provided for scouts to scout players, and input player data, to provide coaching staff and scouts with a more visual and quantitative player data template.

Somewhat similar to the player attributes of the PN football manager, the so-called template ultimately reflects some quantified data, but unlike the PN football manager, the latter is directly quantified the player's technical details, such as stopping the ball 18, which means very high, and 8 means relatively poor, but this can only appear in the game.

One of the most important reasons why games are games is that data is dead, but people are alive.

That's why we need to build a player template for what we want to do, and it's not really about quantifying player data, it's about better assessing a player's current strength and future potential.

For example, what Ye Qiu now has in his hand is a player data derived from the scouting system, Patrick Roberts, twelve-year-old, London, AAA with the ball, he is the two players with the highest score on the ball in all the Talent Day activities, and the other is Nick Powell from Crewe, who is also AA

In this way, everyone may not be impressed, but in the whole world, all scouts are very cautious when evaluating AAAR, and generally do not give it easily, and if you gather all the players under the age of 16 in the whole of the UK now, there will not be more than ten players who have received AAAi ratings, so it ⊥is enough to surprise everyone by meeting two on a talent day.

But the current AAA does not mean that it will be AAA in the future, that is to say, Patrick Roberts is AAA at the age of twelve, but as the body grows, as he develops, the ability to have the ball is a dynamic, it will change, it may weaken, it may be maintained or even strengthened, which needs to consider quite a few factors, so it does not represent the future.

The current AAAi evaluation with the ball only applies to him now, that's all

Or to look at them with the simplest image, everyone can understand and understand the evaluation, that is, if you look at them playing, you will find that in the face of their peers, they can always play very calmly, Nick Powell and Patrick Roberts are very impressive, because they play very calmly, relaxed, and even chic.

Only people who have really played football know the way, if you want to play chic, play calmly, it is impossible to do without absolutely excellent skills, so from their bodies, you can easily feel their extremely solid skills, the action is very standardized, even in the face of the pressing, the mind is clear, and the ball can be handled reasonably.

Of course, they can't be flawless, just like Patrick Roberts, who has the ball and is AAA but he also has some problems, such as his coordination with his teammates, his overall ability to work together, and his movement without the ball, there are flaws and deficiencies, that is, he is super individual but weak in reading the game and driving the whole.

So, the question is, he is only twelve years old and is still in the stage of rapid growth, so he must make a clear prediction, that is, is there room for improvement in his problems? Does he have enough time to make up for these shortcomings?

For example, if a 16-year-old has a very bad basic skill with the ball, then there is a trade-off, if his off-ball awareness is very, very good, then congratulations, you can cultivate him in the direction of Inzaghi or Batistuta, that is, let him go straight off the ball, then he has a very bright future.

And if it is unfortunate that his basic skills in handling the ball are very bad, and his off-ball awareness is not excellent, then this player is basically useless, because the sixteen-year-old boy's basic skills are difficult to improve much, and there is no room for improvement.

So, relatively speaking, Patrick Roberts is thin, not very good at teamwork, and bad at reading games, but these are not problems, because he is only twelve years old, and he still has very broad development prospects, so in the player template of Tottenham Hotspur, all the scouts have a very high evaluation of him, and the key recommendation team must be signed.

There is another player, Dan Crowley, who is also highly rated, although he is only a certain gap to Nick Powell in terms of ball ability, but his off-ball awareness and teamwork awareness are quite good, and the coaching staff believes that he is only 12 years old and has a lot of room to develop.

The so-called player template is actually to consider the player's existing abilities in all aspects, combined with the actual situation of the team, such as Tottenham Hotspur attaches importance to technical skills, Manchester United attaches importance to off-ball ability, etc., comprehensive factors, evaluate and weigh how much development space the player still has, and finally draw the strength and potential of the player, and then decide whether to sign the player.

So, this raises the question, how accurate is this assessment and trade-off?

In the Ajax youth training system, through this series of evaluations, through the assessment of the player template, the final accuracy rate is 99. Above, this must be mentioned that in the evaluation of future development space, it is generally given an appropriate overestimation, for the simple reason that it is not to miss any player with development potential.

Of course, the appropriate overestimation is mainly due to the fact that there are too many uncertainties in the development of each player, such as the player's own personality, his ability to learn and absorb, as well as his injuries in the process of development, etc., and even the player's family environment, which will affect the development potential of a player, and these are beyond the control of the club.

However, Ye Qiu still adopts an appropriately overestimated evaluation method at Tottenham Hotspur, and the consequence of this is that the team's investment in youth training will be higher, because in order to ensure the future of the players, during the youth training, the players must receive cultural training, and the club must provide a variety of cultivation

As you loosen up your quantitative scale and overestimate it appropriately, you will have more players who meet your requirements, and more people will mean you will be more invested, but the only benefit of this is that you will not miss out on a single potential star.

Of course, cultivating it does not mean that it can be used by you, or that you can become a talent.

Another example is Real Madrid's talented striker Portillo.

The striker is definitely academy graduated! High-quality products, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a genius, and he has already become a talent, but after entering the first team, for various reasons, because of frequent loan by the club, he finally failed to play famous, which has to be said to be Real Madrid's academy! A big loss.

In other words, Tottenham Hotspur's youth training is to ensure the success rate, but the success rate does not mean that the player is successful, which is two different things.

Because of the appropriately overestimated easing policy, Tottenham Hotspur finally decided to keep 15 players from out of 50 young players from all over the UK after a three-day talent day.

In the internal meeting of Theobald training base, Ye Qiu, Bobby Harms, Rick Link, Peter De Visser, Mauro Tasotti, Roland Shepas and other members of the scouting department and coaching staff participated in this meeting, and in this internal meeting, the focus of the discussion was on the list left behind.

There are four players who are rated quite high and are recommended for signing, that is, left-footed offensive player Patrick Roberts, Nick Powell, who is very delicate in midfield, and Dan Crowley, who also plays in midfield, and Ryan Lederson, among these four players, Nick Powell is the oldest, fourteen years old, and will soon be fifteen, while the others are all twelve.

This is also a characteristic of Tottenham Hotspur's assessment of young players, and the older you are, the more demanding you are.

"Nick Powell is already capable of playing in the Hl8 youth team, and even in the reserve team, this little guy is really very impressive, I never thought that England would be able to produce such a skilled player" Bobby Harms was very impressed with the England midfielder.

The key is that he is very good on his left and right feet, excellent ball sense, good skills and passing ability at his feet, very good ability to get rid of defense, and even the ability to score and shoot from behind, which makes it a pleasure to watch him play, but the problem is that as a midfielder, he is a shortcoming and a lack of investment in defense and game.

In fact, these are very normal, because in the world of football, there are often players with excellent skills, who are very bad defensively, and even many people have a weak sense of teamwork, while Nick Powell's team awareness is very good, but the defensive awareness and tactics are a little worse.

"The players and their families, and the Crewe club, can you handle it?" Ye Qiu looked at Peter Devisel.

Nick Powell was actually recommended and invited by the scouting department to participate in the Talent Day event, so the scouting department has his information, after all, if Tottenham Hotspur wants to sign this youngster, they must still coordinate with the Crewe club.

Ye Qiu doesn't want Tottenham Hotspur to end up like Chelsea, and was sued by the other party and banned from transferring

"It's not a big problem, I've had phone calls with Dario Gadi, the director of football at Crewe, and Bauer, the president of Crewe FC, and as long as we give them a compensation, they won't restrict them."

Nick Powell joined Crewe's academy at the age of five, and it has been ten years since he was full, and he does need to give Crewe a compensation, but this amount will not be too large, after all, a young player, two or three hundred thousand euros is worth the sky, especially for the Crewe club in the fourth division, this amount can fully satisfy their appetite.

"Sign him, I'll meet him and his family in person later, I'll convince him," Ye Qiu nodded.

The player's willingness to come to Tottenham Hotspur's Talent Day represents an intention in itself, but Ye Qiu still has to personally communicate with every young player who is about to join Tottenham Hotspur's youth system and their families, in order to show that Tottenham Hotspur attaches importance to them and affirms.

Perhaps this is a redundant move in the eyes of many people, but in Ye Qiu's view, this effort can be affirmed by the players and their families, and it will be of great help to them to play and improve at Tottenham Hotspur in the future.

"Patrick Roberts, Dan Crowley, Ryan Ledson, how are they?" These four players who were recommended by the key, Ye Qiu all wanted to stay, because if they were divided according to their age group, they would just take over the class of Fabregas and others, if they entered Tottenham Hotspur from now on, then when they matured into the first team, they happened to belong to the first batch of youth players trained by Tottenham Hotspur himself

'The only problem is Dan Crawley, who currently plays for Aston Villa's Academy. Peter De Visser is a little embarrassed to say that the player is also inclined to join Tottenham Hotspur, and he has no professional contract with Aston Villa, but in the end it is Aston Villa's academy player, who has a registered record in the FA and the Premier League.

"I'll personally call Martin O'Neill and Aston Villa CEO Paul Faulkner," Ye Qiu said, but to put it bluntly, it's just a matter of exchanging interests, basically a matter of compensation.

To be honest, whether it is Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, or Liverpool, they are poaching the youth training of those middle and lower league teams or even lower leagues everywhere丨But unlike Tottenham Hotspur, they generally target those over 16 years old, because the young people during this period of time have basically formed their skills and are considered semi-finished products.

On the one hand, Ye Qiu wants to promote localization, but on the other hand, he must also adhere to the team's tactical style, so he decided to lower the age, mainly for players between the ages of twelve and fourteen, and according to the selection activities of the past three days of talent days, there will definitely be another one in the summer, and the age will be appropriately enlarged at that time, and it will be considered between seven and fourteen years old.

As for the over-fourteen, Tottenham Hotspur will not continue to think about it, to put it bluntly, it is still against the English academy! There is not a lot of trust, especially for their ability to develop skilled players.

"In the past two months, we have passed the youth training personnel assessment, and finally accepted the registration of 30 young people, from the middle of January of 10 years, we will start training for them, and then arrange for them to enter the Theobold training base for internship, and the future youth training 丨 coach training 丨 class, will be held twice a year, and gradually open to countries outside England"

Youth training丨Coach, this is the biggest weakness of English football, and in Ye Qiu's view, this is also the biggest weakness of Chinese football.

If you don't have an excellent youth coach, don't expect to be able to cultivate excellent talents, and in the eyes of many people, youth training coaches seem to be simple and easy, but in fact, it is very, very difficult.

This time, I signed up for the youth training丨 coach training! There are nearly 1,000 people in total, because there are many unemployed or amateur fans, all of whom hope to be able to get a job at the Theobold training base through Tottenham Hotspur's youth training and coach training, and after getting the youth training coach certificate, they can even go to work in any professional club in the future.

But among nearly 1,000 people, Tottenham Hotspur finally selected 30 people, because the requirements are too high, and these 30 people do not mean that they can directly enter the work after receiving professional training, they also need to intern at the Theobold training base, that is, to play deputy, accumulate some experience, and at the same time be familiar with the responsibilities and scope of work of a youth coach.

According to Tottenham's plan, they will be able to take charge on their own in three years' time, which is already very fast.

Many people have always believed that Ajax is most proud of the youth training system, and in the youth training system, the most important core resource is scouting, in fact, wrong, scouting is important, but more important is the youth training coach.

Ajax has a group of youth training coaches with incomparable experience and can give all kinds of professional guidance to young players, which is the core resource of Ajax's youth training system, and it is also a set of foundations that Ye Qiu can't dig up.

Ye Qiuqiu did everything possible to pay the price of a player analysis system, and finally reluctantly recruited five professional coaches from Ajax, including Rick Link, of which Rick Link will serve as the head of the youth training camp, and the other four Dutch coaches will serve as the head coach of the youth team, plus Tottenham Hotspur's previous youth training and coaching team, which is barely complete.

However, in the next few years, Tottenham Hotspur will further attach importance to youth training, so it is undoubtedly crucial to further improve and improve the level and experience of the youth training coaching team, so Ye Qiu will continue to cooperate with many teams in youth training.

At present, Tottenham Hotspur has signed four teams: Ajax in the Netherlands, Rennes in France, Southampton in England, and Santos in Brazil.

Only through this kind of exchange can we learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses, and can we further improve and improve Tottenham Hotspur's youth training system.

Because the core resource of the so-called youth training system is not that you have the money to make a youth training system, but the people who maintain this system, the superiority and ability of the youth training system, and the decisive role is the quality of the personnel who maintain this system, so Ye Qiu will continue to insist on youth training investment in the next few years, and continue to arrange some foreign exchanges and learning and training to improve the quality of personnel丨Because only in this way can Tottenham Hotspur's youth training camp grow rapidly and achieve results.

It is also because of this that Ye Qiu will poach Bobby Hams, the biggest contribution of the Dutch old man will not be to train players, but to train those coaches who cultivate players through teaching, which is the youth training! The core element is also a core strategy for Ye Qiu to base himself on the future.

The internal meeting was held in the afternoon of Christmas Day, and by the time it ended, it was already late in the evening.

Because of the genius day activities and the relationship between the Christmas carnival, Tottenham Hotspur did not have a holiday on this day, and everyone will get a generous Christmas subsidy, plus the carnival, and after entering 10 years, January can also get holiday compensation, so everyone has no opinions, and they are all very enthusiastic about work.

After the internal meeting, Ye Qiu took everyone south from the Theobold training base to prepare to attend the evening carnival party in the Tottenham district.

After he arrived at the White Hart Lane Stadium, Messi's father, Jorge, who also accompanied his family to the carnival, found Ye Qiu, and looking at his face, it seemed that there was no small problem.