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A very interesting scene occurred in the Spanish Second Division last season.

Real Madrid's second team Castilla was relegated from the Spanish Second Division and fell into the third level.

The second team of arch-rival Barcelona finished third in the Spanish Second Division, only behind Eibar and Deportivo La Coruna.

However, due to the inability to be promoted, they were unable to participate in the promotion play-offs and their ranking was postponed.

The second team plays in the professional league, which is a unique feature in La Liga.

It has indeed had a great impact on the training of young players, especially for some strong teams in La Liga.

There are often some strong teams with excellent youth training, whose second teams have made it to the Spanish Second Division and even achieved good rankings.

The Premier League has also discussed this.

But as we all know, there are too many clubs in England, and the Premier League belongs to the English Premier League, while the following leagues belong to the English Football Association. There are many interests involved here.

Back to La Liga.

Specifically speaking of Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​we can actually see a difference between these two top teams.

Barcelona's second team has always insisted over the years that the age of the second team players is controlled within 23 years old, but basically they are all 20 years old.

There are very few people over 20 years old.

In other words, Barcelona B is essentially still a youth team.

Real Madrid's Castilla is more like an independent football club. It is not very old, but the players are basically over 20 years old, and even 24 or 25 years old is not uncommon.

So which one is better?
It's hard to say.

For example, when Arbeloa left Castile, he was already 23 years old.

After arriving at Deportivo La Coruña, he was already a very mature player, but was signed by Liverpool after only playing for half a year.

The same is true for Carvajal.

He played for Castilla until he was 20 years old, a relatively mature age, and then transferred to Bundesliga Leverkusen. After playing for a year, he was bought back by Real Madrid using the repurchase option.

To some extent, this reflects the different youth training concepts of the two clubs.

But one thing is actually the same.

They are poaching young talents everywhere.

In the 12/13 Spanish Second Division, Real Madrid's Castilla ranked 8th and Barcelona's second team ranked 9th.

In the summer of 13, Castilla signed central defender Leandro Cabrera from Atletico Madrid and young players such as Kiko Femenía from Barcelona.

However, a group of outstanding players such as Hesse, Morata, Cheryshev and Moreno left the team one after another due to their "advanced age" or being promoted to the first team.

This resulted in an avalanche-like decline in the strength of Real Madrid B team.

Eventually you can only downgrade.

On the other hand, Barcelona's transfer market investment has not been less than 2011 million euros for three consecutive summers since 300.

Players introduced include Kiko Femenía, Rodry Rios, Joan Ramón and Denis Suárez.

Among them, Kiko Femenia was signed by Barcelona from Hercules for 200 million euros.

But after not getting a chance in the Barcelona youth team, he moved to Real Madrid's Castilla on a free transfer.

Unexpectedly, after I went there, Real Madrid Castilla was relegated.

If we talk about the three hottest young talents in European football this summer, they must be Halilovic of Dinamo Zagreb, Norwegian genius Odegaard, and Patrick Roberts who plays for Bayswater Chinese.

These three geniuses are all very young, but have already demonstrated impressive standards and talents.

Halilovic, for example, is only 18 years old but has already played for Dinamo Zagreb and the Croatian national team.

Although Patrick Roberts has not appeared in the national team, he has played for the Bayswater Chinese first team and his performance was pretty good.

Although Odegaard's club is not a big team, as the youngest scorer in the history of the Norwegian league, his talent and ability are obvious to all.

In Yang Cheng's previous life, Odegaard chose Real Madrid after careful selection.

Halilovic was signed by Barcelona for a sky-high price of 500 million euros.

But in order to convince Dinamo Zagreb, Barcelona also sent a young player from its youth training camp to the Croatian giants for free.

That is the 16-year-old Spanish teenager Dani Olmo.

Olmo has Croatian ancestry and does not get any opportunities at Barcelona, ​​so he is not opposed to joining Dinamo Zagreb.

Yang Cheng from 2024 can only say that as the president of Barcelona, ​​Bartomeu is really professional in cheating Barcelona!

But after expressing his emotion, Yang Cheng started to attack without any hesitation.

Before Barcelona signed Halilovic, Malaga had already found Dani Olmo and his family.

Malaga's new general manager, Alfonso Dias, is a 43-year-old Spaniard.

When he was young, he received youth football training in Spain, but was unable to make it.

However, in the football industry, people who are not good at playing football are often good at other things.

That's what happened with Alfonso Díaz.

After graduating from university, he returned to the football industry and first worked in the Spanish Football Association for more than ten years, mainly responsible for grassroots youth training. He can be said to have personally experienced Spain's youth training reforms and talent surge in the past decade.

In 2006, he joined Bayswater Chinese and led the construction of the scouting network in the Iberian Peninsula.

Due to his outstanding performance during his work, he was transferred to London two years later and served as deputy director of the scouting department, assisting Gary Worthington.

Over the past few years, he has made an indispensable contribution to Bayswater Chinese's global scouting network and the promotion of data-driven reforms.

Since Alfonso Diaz was familiar with the football environment on the Iberian Peninsula, he participated in the entire process of acquiring Malaga.

This time, he led a delegation to Malaga for docking and inspection, and participated in the entire acquisition process.

The plan for the football park was proposed by him and adopted by Yang Cheng.

Therefore, after acquiring Malaga, Yang Cheng promoted this Spaniard with outstanding work ability to the position of General Manager of Malaga, who was fully responsible for the future operation of Malaga.

The technical director working with him is 35-year-old Portuguese Bruno Maruta.

Bruno Maruta's football career began in the youth training of Sporting Lisbon and he played all the way to the second team. He was once a very talented player, but he suffered a serious injury during his development and retired early.

As a postgraduate student in data science at Loughborough University in the UK, he was one of the first core employees to join Bayswater Chinese Data Analysis Department and has always been Gianni Vio's right-hand man.

At the same time, he has also been an important driving force behind the comprehensive data-based reforms in all competitive departments of Bayswater Chinese in the past few years.

Both his professional ability and overall quality were recognized by Yang Cheng.

This time he also participated in the entire acquisition of Malaga.

After the acquisition was completed, Yang Cheng arranged for him to work with Alfonso Diaz to take over Malaga.

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It is no exaggeration to say that many scouts from European teams are eyeing La Masia to recruit players from Barcelona.

There is no way, who is responsible for the surge in talent in Spain in recent years?
For example, this summer, Sevilla poached Javi Romero from Barcelona.

Almeria poached Jordi Mora.

The Spaniards poached Steven Prieto.

Stuttgart poached George Spanoudakis.

Juventus poached Carlos Blanco.

Fans may find such situations fresh, but for clubs and the media, they are actually very normal.

There is a lot of movement among young players.

For Barcelona, ​​this is even more common.

They are poaching others, and others are poaching them in the same way.

What's more, Barcelona has already hidden away the best performing youth training talents among their peers.

For example, Oreo Busquets, the younger brother of Barcelona's current main defensive midfielder Busquets, was promoted by Barcelona early on, and other teams simply couldn't poach him.

and midfielder Brayma Fati.

He has a very famous younger brother, Ansu Fati, who is currently in the Barcelona youth team.

In fact, many people don’t know that Ansu Fati’s brother, Braima Fati, joined the Barcelona youth team earlier than him.

Today, the two brothers are young players that Barcelona is very optimistic about, so they are naturally protected very well.

In addition, players like Adama Traore who have performed very well should not be expected to be taken away from La Masia.

If they are poached, it will definitely be considered a dereliction of duty by Barcelona employees.

Not to mention the talented young player Denis Suarez, who was poached by Barcelona from Manchester City last year.

While signing Dani Olmo, Malaga also signed 18-year-old Grimaldo from Barcelona B.

The Spanish left-back first received youth training in Valencia, but at the age of 13 he was recruited by Barcelona to La Masia and was promoted to the second team.

But last season, he missed more than half a year due to a torn cruciate ligament, and has been a substitute since his return from injury.

However, unlike Olmo, Grimaldo has already signed a professional contract with Barcelona, ​​so Malaga will have to pay a transfer fee of 150 million euros.

The new Malaga team also has a special relationship with Barcelona.

After several rounds of negotiations, Malaga readily paid the money and Barcelona did not pursue Olmo's transfer.

At the same time, two players were "given" for free, goalkeeper Onana and center back Sergi Gomez.

The Cameroon goalkeeper didn't get many chances at Barcelona.

The 22-year-old Sergi Gomez has only one year left on his contract with Barcelona, ​​and his ability cannot be further improved to join the Barcelona first team, so he wants to transfer away and look for other opportunities.

Given his performance in the Spanish Second Division last season, joining Malaga is undoubtedly a good choice.

After all, the Chinese from Bayswater are behind Malaga now.

Bruno Maruta, who had just taken office, signed four players from the Barcelona youth team in one go and returned with a great harvest.

But he did not leave Barcelona, ​​but headed to the northwestern suburbs of Barcelona.

This was a special task that Yang Cheng had instructed him to do privately.

It can even be said to be the most important task of this trip!
……

Starting from Barcelona's Gamper Stadium, drive to Granollers, a small town in the northwest suburbs, which is about 50 kilometers.

The symbol of arriving in Granollers is seeing the world-famous Circuit de Catalunya, where the F1 Formula race is held.

This is the most perfect race track in the world!
Every year, countless racing enthusiasts come here to visit.

On the contrary, few people know about the small town of Granollers.

"Bruno, tell me, why did Mr. Yang go to so much trouble to get us to come to this small town, find an unknown club, and try so hard to sign a 7-year-old player?"

Gerardo Guzman, the chief scout of Malaga who was driving, asked curiously.

Gerardo Guzman, 39, has been the chief scout for Villarreal's youth team since he was 26.

From 2001 to 2008, he discovered a lot of young talents for Villarreal's youth team.

In 2008, he was recruited by Atletico Madrid for a large sum of money and still serves as the chief scout of Atletico Madrid's youth team.

After Malaga was acquired by Al-Thani, it began to invest heavily and was hailed as the Manchester City of La Liga. In addition to introducing many stars, it also invested in youth training. So Gerardo Guzman came to Malaga from Atletico Madrid.

But in 2013, due to unpaid wages and internal strife in the club, he chose to leave and joined Bayswater Chinese.

Unexpectedly, just one year later, he returned to Malaga as the head of scouts.

Things in the world are just so strange sometimes.

After many twists and turns, he came back and was promoted.

Although he had worked with the Chinese in Bayswater for a year, he actually mainly worked in the youth team and the Iberian Peninsula, and was not familiar with Yang Cheng.

So, he was very surprised when Yang Cheng arranged for them to go to the La Torreta Club in the small town of Granollers to find a 7-year-old boy named Ramin Yamal.

Who could make Yang Cheng never forget him?
"Didn't I say this? This player is very special. Messi baptized him and blessed him when he was only three months old."

When Bruno Maruta talked about this reason, he found it quite funny.

Has Messi enlightened you?

Can this also be a reason to sign young players?

"Isn't this too superstitious?" Guzman still felt it was not very reliable.

Although scouts often evaluate players based on their feelings and experience, there is an inherent logic behind this.

Just because this kid was blessed by Messi, you signed him?

"Mr. Yang has always done things this way, a little mysterious, but the more you get to know him, you'll find that he's always right."

Bruno Maruta has worked for the Bayswater Chinese for many years and is more familiar with Yang Cheng.

"Among us Chinese in Bayswater, we all call this the mysterious magic from the East."

This sounded mysterious, but it really scared Gerardo Guzmán.

Otherwise, how do we explain the rapid rise of the Chinese in Bayswater in the past few years?

"So does that mean we should sign everyone who has been showered by Messi?" Gerardo Guzman also seemed to have a good sense of humor.

Bruno Maruta laughed out loud. "That's fine. I can make the decision, as long as you can find the other people."

Gerardo Guzmán was speechless.

Who's paying attention to this?
If you really want to find it, it's really hard to find.

The two drove to the east of the town of Granollers.

There is a simple football field here.

But not all young players can play on this turf.

More young players were chasing and kicking the ball on the hardened field on the south side of the stadium.

La Torretta is not a professional team, and those who receive youth training here are basically migrant workers.

Once we found the club, it was easy to find the player Ramin Yamal.

His father, Mounir Nasrouri, is from Morocco, and his mother, Sheila Ebana, is from Equatorial Guinea.

My father moved to Spain with his family in 1988. He played football and later became a painter.

Sheila Ebana came to Spain from Equatorial Guinea to work. After meeting Munir, she gave birth to Yamal at the age of 18.

At the time they lived in the centre of Barcelona, ​​in the Esplugues de Llobregat district where the Ciutat Gamper and Camp Nou are located.

Because of this, by chance, at a community charity event, three-month-old Yamal was baptized by Messi.

But the good times did not last long. Not long after, his parents divorced, and his mother, Sheila Ebana, brought Yamal to Granollers in the northwestern suburbs, and sent him to La Torreta Club for youth training at an early age.

As a single-parent family, Sheila Ebana was just a waitress, and life was quite hard for the mother and her son.

Sheila Ebana was surprised when Bruno Maruta and Gerardo Guzmán came to invite them to Malaga on behalf of the club.

Her son did play well in the La Torretta team, but she had never thought about him being poached.

She was very tempted by the conditions offered by Malaga.

The team is willing to provide a monthly living allowance to help her take better care of her children.

How could Sheila Ebana say no?
The African mother's only request is two round-trip tickets from Spain to Equatorial Guinea every year.

Because they go back to Equatorial Guinea every Christmas to celebrate the New Year with their families.

After Malaga agreed, she immediately decided to take Yamal with her to visit Malaga.

This is also a routine procedure for signing young players.

You should go to the site to investigate in order to avoid being cheated.

Bruno Maruta and Gerardo Guzmán also signed agreements with Latorretta.

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After finishing their work in Barcelona, ​​Bruno Maruta and Gerardo Guzmán made a point of passing through Villarreal on their way back to Malaga.

Thanks to Gerardo Guzman's special relationship with Villarreal, Malaga successfully signed the 19-year-old Spanish midfielder Rodri from the Yellow Submarine's U18.

This young player had been playing for Atletico Madrid's youth training camp before, but in the summer of 2013, due to physical conditions and lack of strength, he was forced to leave Atletico Madrid's youth training camp and came to Villarreal.

But in Villarreal U19, his performance was only average.

That's why Yellow Submarine agreed so readily to let him go.

Among his peers in Spain, there are countless players like Rodri.

As for Rodri, he was not even a starter in Villarreal U19 last season. Now he has been spotted by Malaga and has the opportunity to play in the Spanish Second Division under the protection of a top team like Bayswater Chinese. Naturally, he will not object.

Thus, the future midfielder officially joined Malaga.

But Malaga's midfield in the new season certainly cannot rely on a player who can't even play for the youth team.

General Manager Alfonso Diaz went to Madrid to negotiate with Atletico.

Signed Ghanaian midfielder Thomas Partey from Atletico Madrid for a transfer fee of 100 million euros.

The 21-year-old defensive midfielder was loaned to Real Mallorca by Atletico Madrid last season and performed well in the Spanish Second Division.

But in Atletico Madrid this season, there is no place for Thomas at all.

The Colchoneros are full of talented players, so why do they need this player?
Of course, it is to give Malaga face.

In addition, Alfonso Diaz also brought Theo Hernandez and Lucas Hernandez from Atletico Madrid's youth training camp.

These two young rookies are both players who have performed well in Atletico Madrid's youth training camp.

Theo Hernandez is only 16 years old and has not yet signed a professional contract.

His elder brother Lucas Hernandez is already 18 years old and has just signed a professional contract. He is expected to be promoted to Atletico Madrid's second team this season.

Malaga, on the other hand, promised him a place in the first team.

As for why these players were selected, Alfonso Diaz said that Malaga is indeed in financial difficulties now.

The team has just been rescued from the brink of bankruptcy, and the next step will definitely be to recuperate in the Western Second Division.

Therefore, we can only focus on training young players.

Atletico accepted the argument.

As for young talents such as Theo Hernandez and Lucas Hernandez, after they arrived at Malaga and performed well, Malaga gave Atletico Madrid the right of first refusal in the contract.

This is different from the buyback clause that Real Madrid prefers.

The buy-back clause usually states how much money Real Madrid can pay to buy the player back within a few years.

Therefore, once a player is kicked out and his value exceeds the buyback price, Real Madrid will not hesitate to activate the clause. The most typical example is Negredo, who was bought back by Real Madrid and then sold immediately, making a profit from the difference.

This practice is actually quite cruel.

Of course, from a business perspective, there is no problem with this.

Malaga made it clear that it rejected such a clause, but agreed to give Atletico Madrid the right of first refusal.

The repurchase clause has a time limit, usually two or three years, but the right of first refusal is perpetual.

As long as the player is still in Malaga, Atletico Madrid can give priority to signing the player if the offer is the same.

This is actually not bad for Atletico Madrid.

The Bed Sheets Army is now a big club.

If Malaga can help train players in the Spanish Second Division, it would be a good deal for them to spend a few million euros to buy them back.

In addition to poaching players from Atletico Madrid, Malaga also signed 20-year-old central defender Lenglet from French Ligue 18 Nancy for euros.

Signed 17-year-old central defender Robin Lenormand from French Ligue Brest on a free transfer.

Through friendly defense, a compensation of up to 17 euros was paid to Frenkie de Jong, the 50-year-old midfielder of the Willem II youth team.

A compensation of 17 euros was paid to Ruben Dias, the 18-year-old central defender of Benfica U35.

In addition, through Bruno Maruta's channels in Portugal, Felix, who was dismissed because of his short stature, was signed from Porto's youth training camp as a free transfer.

At the same time, Malaga signed Lautaro Martínez, who will turn 17, from Lines Clube Bahia Blanca in Argentina on a free transfer.

In exchange for paying compensation, they signed the 18-year-old midfielder Lo Celso from Rosario Central's youth team.

Afterwards, Federico Valverde was signed from the Uruguayan Peñarol youth team for a very low compensation amount.

Among them, Federico Valverde's situation is particularly sensitive because he does not turn 7 until July 22.

Such a transfer is also very troublesome to arrange.

In April this year, FIFA announced a heavy fine against Barcelona, ​​banning Barcelona from transfers and signings within 4 months.

The reason is that Barcelona violated the rules by signing players under the age of 18.

Before 2009, FIFA did not have strict transfer restrictions on players under the age of 18.

But after that, FIFA began to crack down on cross-continental transfers of players under the age of 18.

Chelsea, Barcelona, ​​and even Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid have all been caught in the crossfire.

In fact, all the major football clubs have their own strategies to deal with FIFA's regulations.

For example, arranging jobs for their family members and so on.

The only difference is that no one paid attention to it before 2009. After 2009, FIFA set up a special investigation team. For all transfers of players under the age of 18, clubs must submit materials to the special investigation team for review.

There are two main reasons why Barcelona was heavily fined this time.

One is that there are too many people.

From 2009 to 2013, more than a dozen non-EU underage players joined Barcelona.

But the most important thing is the second point, Barcelona does not cooperate with FIFA at all.

With so many minors joining the team, Barcelona not only did not issue an evaluation report, but also did not conduct a review by a special investigation team.

Even after the FIFA task force informed the club, they still refused to provide supporting documentation.

Let me ask you, if we don’t punish you, Barcelona, ​​who should we punish?
It's Malaga instead.

Although the club has just experienced a bankruptcy crisis, the team management comes from Bayswater Chinese and all transfers must pass compliance review.

The relaxed conditions for transfers within the EU are that the player must be over 16 years old, so there is no problem with Ruben Dias joining, but Felix is ​​only 14 years old, which obviously does not meet the age limit.

Therefore, Malaga provided a series of materials to prove that after Felix was dismissed by Porto, he could not find a team to accept him, and Malaga was optimistic about this young player.

In addition, Felix's parents will also move to Malaga.

This was approved by the FIFA special group.

But they made it clear that they would have to provide players’ materials every year so that they could understand their movements until they turned 16.

As an Argentine player, Lo Celso is already 18 years old and has Italian nationality, so there is no problem for him to come to Spain to play football.

Lautaro Martinez is different. He does not have EU citizenship and he will not turn 8 until August 22.

Although he is over 16 years old, he is still a minor.

Therefore, Malaga also has to arrange work and accommodation for his parents, and they cannot work within the club.

It will also take some time to submit it to FIFA's special investigation team for review.

Of course, it is inevitable to smooth over the relationship.

Federico Valverde's case is the most special, as he is not even 16 years old yet.

Therefore, the club did not submit his materials, but signed the player first and then submitted them in early August.

At that time, we will cooperate with Valverde's family to complete various procedures for working in Malaga, and report it to the FIFA special investigation team for review, otherwise it will be impossible to pass.

It can be said that in order to sign these players across the ocean, Malaga also took great pains and effort, and even mobilized a lot of resources from the Chinese in Bayswater, and only then was they able to sign them.

But this approach doesn't work in Brazil.

If we say that countries like Argentina and Uruguay need to comply with the regulations of FIFA.

In Brazil, what needs to be complied with is Brazil's Bailey Act.

Players under the age of 18 are not allowed to leave Brazil and play football abroad.

Therefore, Malaga signed winger Rafinha and center back Gabriel from the youth team of Avai Club in Florianópolis, Brazil.

他们一个是96年12月14日，一个是97年12月19日。

According to the contract signed between Malaga and Avai Club, Rafinha, born in 96, will join on January 2015, 1.

Gabriel, born in 97, joined the team on January 2016, 1.

According to the agreement signed by both parties, Malaga paid a deposit for the two players, but the transfer fee will not be paid until the players join.

Of course, the transfer fee is not high.

But for a small team like Avai, it is already quite good.

While signing several players, Malaga also announced that it had signed young player Gavi from the Real Betis youth training camp in Seville, Andalusia, for a compensation of 1 euros.

This 10-year-old young player came here for the title of Bayswater Chinese.

They believe that under the management of the Chinese in Bayswater, Malaga is bound to usher in rapid development.

Just like Nice in Ligue 1 and Atalanta in Serie A.

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As the new season approaches.

Various news about Malaga have gradually settled down.

First the media informed the public, and then Malaga officially announced that the Chinese consortium had officially taken over all of Malaga's shares from Al-Thani.

Al-Thani also announced that he had reached a settlement with Blue Gulf.

On the second day after the acquisition, Malaga's new team showed everyone their strong strength.

Not only did they pay all the acquisition costs in one go, but they also paid off all the salaries owed in the past two years and all the club's debts in just one day.

Together with the acquisition costs, the total is over 8000 million euros!
One-time cash payment!
The whole of Spain was shocked!
The happiest people are the Malaga fans.

Because everyone knows that it was Yang Cheng who acquired Malaga.

The general manager of the club is the senior leader of the Chinese in Bayswater.

The entire management team is basically from Premier League giants.

Investing so much money in one go shows how much Yang Cheng values ​​Malaga.

But what really shocked everyone was the club's subsequent signings and contract renewals.

Last season, Malaga's main goalkeeper was Cameroon's black goalkeeper Kameni, who has now gone to Fenerbahce in Turkey.

However, Malaga immediately signed another black goalkeeper from the Barcelona youth team, Onana, also from Cameroon.

This has attracted the attention of the Spanish domestic media.

Could it be that Malaga has some special preference for black goalkeepers?

After all, black goalkeepers are rare in European football.

As one signing after another was announced, Malaga also quickly made an announcement to the public.

The club decided to hire Chilean engineer Pellegrini to return to the team and coach the team in the Spanish Second Division.

"We are confident that under Pellegrini's leadership, the team will be able to stand out from the Spanish Second Division in the new season and return to La Liga!"

Pellegrini also expressed deep emotion about returning to coach Malaga.

According to Spanish media, it was Yang Cheng who persuaded Pellegrini.

Malaga Daily revealed that Malaga has signed a five-year coaching contract with Pellegrini, and his annual salary remains the same as before, at 5 million euros.

This is a show of sincerity for Malaga now!

"Before leaving Spain, Yang Cheng met with Pellegrini and talked for several hours. They fully exchanged views on Malaga's future development plans."

"This led to Pellegrini agreeing to return to Malaga!"

Not only that, Malaga will not conduct any performance assessment on Pellegrini in the next three years.

"The new team hopes that Pellegrini can bring out a young and energetic youth guard in Malaga!"

However, Pellegrini also has his own requirements.

For example, he wants the team to keep 32-year-old veteran Santa Cruz.

The new Malaga team respects Pellegrini's opinion.

In addition, the club officially announced that it has renewed the contract with 19-year-old youth training player and winger Samu Castillejo and promoted the young player to the first team.

Renewed the contract of 20-year-old Spanish-Venezuelan midfielder Juanpi Aniol and promoted him to the first team.

Renewed the contract with 21-year-old youth training player, left winger Juanmi.

On a free transfer, Real Madrid signed the 28-year-old Spanish all-round defender and former Real Madrid player Miguel Torres from Olympiacos of Greece.

After leaving Real Madrid, the player played for Getafe.

In 2013, he transferred to Olympiacos of Greece for 50 euros, but still could not play in the game.

He left Greece as a free agent this summer and was forced to return to Spain to find a team.

This made him hit it off with Malaga, which was relegated to the Spanish Second Division.

Malaga needs an experienced, mature and versatile defender.

Miguel Torres is also optimistic about Malaga's future with the support of the Chinese in Bayswater.

A series of signings and contract extensions, almost all of the players introduced were young players, which made Malaga look brand new in the new season.

As the summer training camp for the new season is about to open, Malaga General Manager Alfonso Dias held a press conference at the Rose Garden Stadium to officially announce Malaga's new policies.

Three of them are the most eye-catching.

The first thing is to rectify youth training.

This is actually nothing new.

After Yang Cheng acquired Nice and Atalanta, he immediately reorganized youth training.

Among them, Atlanta’s youth training is very strong.

Although Malaga has invested a lot of money in youth training in the past few years, the youth training camps are very scattered and the level of youth training is actually not high. The biggest problem is that the team lacks a training base.

Therefore, the new Malaga team decided to build a modern training base that is comparable to the Chinese Brent Training Center in Bayswater!
More importantly, the project will be launched in the near future.

And it has been approved by the Malaga City Government.

“As the sixth largest city in Spain, with a metropolitan area of ​​over one million people, we not only want to build a training base, but also want to make it a beautiful business card for the Costa del Sol!”

As for the investment in the training base, Alfonso Diaz did not disclose it to the public, but it will definitely not be small.

In addition, Malaga's youth training camps scattered across the country, including Marbella, will undergo renovation and upgrading to fully replicate the satellite training center model of the Chinese in Bayswater.

This would be an innovation in Spain!
Because Spain does not have such restrictions on the scope of youth training selection.

Malaga’s second new policy is to fully connect with the Chinese in Bayswater, from youth training to training, from the daily management of the club to the scouting system, all-round connection and resource sharing.

This was actually within everyone's expectations.

But the real bombshell is Article 3. Alfonso Diaz announced that the club will officially launch an evaluation process to consider whether it is necessary to rebuild the Rose Garden Stadium.

And, if it really needs to be rebuilt, should it be rebuilt on the original site or built in a new location?
This simply shocked all the media reporters present!

Al-Thani had proposed building a new stadium before, which caused a sensation, but it eventually came to nothing.

Now, when the new team brings it up again, it’s obvious that something is wrong.

Alfonso Diaz revealed that the reason for such consideration is that the Rose Garden Stadium was built in 1941, more than years ago, and its various facilities are already very old and do not meet current needs.

Not only that, the fans' experience of watching the game is also terrible.

“Malaga attracts 600 million tourists from all over the world every year, many of whom are interested in Malaga football, but the old facilities of La Rosaleda will be the biggest obstacle for them to enter the stadium.”

However, Alfonso Diaz also admitted that for now, building a new stadium requires extreme caution.

"Our team will make a decision after making adequate plans and conducting research."

The last one is actually a big piece of cake to please the fans.

Because the Rose Garden Stadium simply does not have the space to rebuild.

The stadium is located in the old town, with main roads to the south and west, a school to the north, and the Guadalmedina River to the east, which runs through the city from north to south.

In this case, how to expand?

In 2024, Spain decided to build a new stadium on the original site, which would include all the municipal green space along the Guadalmedina River, and at the same time build two bridges over the river to connect it to the stadium.

Also, a school in the north needs to be relocated.

Not only is Yang Cheng bringing this up now, he will also spend a sum of money to commission a famous design company to plan and design the surrounding area and produce renderings. He wants to get this project established first.

It not only pleases the fans, but also seizes the initiative.

As for when it will be built...

Just think about it, we have to relocate the school and requisition the municipal green space, especially along the river. This is definitely a time-consuming task, so we just have to take our time!

But it would be a great distraction from the soccer park project in Alejanar.

Tell the fans: We are really planning to make a big splash. Not only is the training base investing heavily, but the new stadium is even bigger.

It's just that the construction of the new stadium is progressing slowly.

As expected, as soon as the news came out, Malaga fans were really excited!
Not only do they have to build a training base, but they also have to consider setting up a new stadium. This is definitely a sign of a major move!

Yang Cheng and Bayswater Chinese are well-known, and they are not big liars like Al-Thani.

This is simply to build Malaga into a strong team in La Liga!

Under this kind of public opinion, the transfer of shares by the fan shareholders of the Small Shareholders Association also progressed very smoothly.

Yang Cheng easily took back all the shares and completed his control over Malaga.

Of course, Yang Cheng also fulfilled his promise and arranged for Antonio Aguilera to serve as the club's independent consultant. As a fan representative, he oversaw the club's operations and was responsible for communication between the club and the fans.

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Yang Cheng is quite satisfied with Malaga's signings for the new season.

But it was not without setbacks.

For example, Malaga wanted to go to Tenerife in the Canary Islands to recruit Pedri, who was only 12 years old at the Laguna Youth Club, and invite him to join Malaga's youth training camp.

Unfortunately, after learning about Malaga's situation, Pedri and his father politely declined.

The main reasons are the imperfection of the youth echelon and the lack of training bases.

However, Yang Cheng was not discouraged.

He asked Malaga to continue to maintain private contact with Pedri and send gifts during festivals.

As long as he can use the hoe well, once the training base is built and the youth team is complete, there will be no need to worry about Pedri not coming.

After all, Malaga is one of the closest cities in Spain to the Canary Islands.

Shortly after Yang Cheng left Spain and returned to London, the Spanish newspaper Marca suddenly broke a shocking news.

Starting from the 2016/17 season, four teams, namely, Bayswater Chinese in the Premier League, Nice in Ligue , Atalanta in Serie A and Malaga in Spain's Second Division, will implement bundled investment promotion.

The most attractive ones are the jerseys and chest advertisements.

The current contract for Bayswater Chinese's jerseys and chest advertising is until the 2015/16 season.

The sponsorship contracts that Nice previously signed with Puma and Orange Telecom also expired in the 15/16 season.

"This is definitely not aimless!"

Marca revealed that Atalanta's current jersey sponsor is the Italian local brand ERREA.

The two parties have been cooperating for many years, but it has been agreed before that the contract will run until the 15/16 season and will not be renewed after expiration.

Malaga's current sponsor is Nike, but the sponsorship fee is very low and has not been announced to the public.

The five-year contract started in 2011 and will also expire in 2016.

Four clubs, different sponsors, all of which expired in 2016. This is definitely not a coincidence, but a premeditated and deliberate arrangement.

Marca revealed that Yang Cheng's football league, led by Bayswater Chinese, will for the first time simultaneously solicit investments for two major sponsorships: jerseys and chest advertising.

"This is a first in European professional football!"

Marca believes that Yang Cheng's business team feels that through this bundled investment promotion, resources can be maximized.

"Over the past year, there have been rumours that Nike and Adidas are interested in competing with Puma for the Bayswater Chinese sponsorship contract."

"Today, the astute Yang Cheng and his team hope to use Bayswater Chinese as the leader to drive the development and progress of the other three clubs."

"This will bring a new opportunity for the development of Atalanta, Malaga and Nice!"

In La Liga, jersey sponsorship and chest advertising are very cheap.

However, this bundling method is also a new challenge for sponsors such as Nike, Adidas and Puma.

"According to reliable information, all three brands will be carefully evaluated and the first investment promotion is expected to take place in the summer of 2015."

That’s one year later!
This will be a first in world football!
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