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Yang Cheng and Bayswater Chinese acquired the Brazilian club Palmeiras, and the first shot was really beautiful!
In particular, the clause that guarantees that salaries and bonuses of players, coaches and employees will never be delayed is simply a killer.

This is absolutely ZZZQ!

Whether it is the Brazilian football world, the domestic media, or even the Brazilian government, they are all very supportive of this matter.

As a very important industry in Brazil, or you can say an "export product", the chaos in Brazilian football over the past few years is obvious to all.

Even now in 2015, many chaos that are rarely seen in other parts of the world are still obvious in Brazilian football.

Yang Cheng's acquisition of Palmeiras was like a catfish, completely disrupting the Brazilian professional league.

This caused a lot of controversy.

There are many practitioners who are constantly attacking Yang Cheng and his Palmeiras.

They believe that Yang Cheng only wants to use the Palmeiras platform to buy Brazilian players at a lower price, and he is not here to help Brazilian football at all.

Some people also believe that Yang Cheng is the football colonizer of the new era, who wants to turn the Brazilian domestic league into his youth training base.

Some people even publicly accused Yang Cheng's acquisition of Palmeiras of being illegal.

Because in Brazil, all clubs are membership-based, so why should Palmeiras be special?

It can be said that the emergence of Palmeiras has caused too much controversy.

But behind the controversy, there are actually huge opportunities.

After acquiring Palmeiras, Xia Qing began to adjust the management team of Palmeiras.

After paying off the outstanding debts, President Paulo Nobre announced his departure from Palmeiras.

But first vice-president Mauricio Garriott chose to stay.

He will serve as the CEO of Palmeiras after the reorganization and will be fully responsible for the daily operations of Palmeiras.

The new president of Palmeiras is 49-year-old British Richard Warner.

Strictly speaking, Richard Warner is not an employee of Bayswater Chinese, but the financial director of Yang Cheng and Xia Qing's private foundation.

He is Xia Qing's colleague at Goldman Sachs.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, he worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Europe and South America for more than a decade, mainly responsible for overseeing investments in sports, entertainment and media groups.

Later, Goldman Sachs was interested in entering this field and poached him from PricewaterhouseCoopers.

During his time at Goldman Sachs, he also managed investments in several clubs, but they were mainly investments in professional teams in Eastern European countries such as the Czech Republic and Greece, and the amounts were not huge.

Later, he was poached by Xia Qing.

In the past few years, he has been helping to manage Yang Cheng and Xia Qing's foundation, including the office headquarters in SOHO district, office buildings in the financial city, etc. He has also participated in the acquisition of clubs such as Malaga, Atalanta and Nice.

The acquisition of Palmeiras was basically handled by Xia Qing, with assistance from Richard Warner.

Yang Cheng is very confident in Mauricio Garriott's abilities.

Especially before Christmas, when Mauricio Garriott led the team to London for inspection and docking, Yang Cheng had an in-depth conversation with him. Yang Cheng, Xia Qing, Adam Crozier and others were all very optimistic about his abilities.

For example, he pointed out that Palmeiras had been seriously hindered by the club's system in the past, and he hoped to take advantage of the opportunity of connecting with the Bayswater Chinese-based football league to promote the modernization and professionalization of Palmeiras' management system.

By introducing modern accounting and administrative operation systems, we will promote the transformation of the club's digital management, reduce the bureaucratic management model of the past, and comprehensively improve management efficiency.

Since Yang Cheng has bought back the right to use the stadium, the shackles that bound Palmeiras' hands and feet have been completely removed.

The stadium is located in the core area of ​​​​the center of São Paulo. It can be said to be the most superior stadium in the whole of South America, with a lot of room for development.

He even radically assured Yang Cheng that by 2017, Palmeiras' revenue would exceed 5 million reais.

You should know that Palmeiras' revenue does not include the commercial operating income of Allianz Park.

This is indeed a very bold commitment!
Because of this, Yang Cheng, Xia Qing, Adam Crozier and others discussed and finally chose Richard Warner.

Richard Warner's abilities are undoubtedly unquestionable, but his greatest strength lies in his character.

Both Yang Cheng and Xia Qing felt that letting Richard Warner partner with Mauricio Garriott could not only fully unleash Mauricio Garriott's abilities, but also firmly control the development direction of Palmeiras.

After several contacts, Mauricio Garriotte was quite satisfied with his new colleague.

As for the current controversy caused by Palmeiras in Brazil, Garriott does not care.

"The pioneers of reform will always be subject to more doubts and pressure!"

But where there is danger, there is opportunity.

Garriott said that at least after he contacted many businesses in São Paulo, he found that their general responses were very positive.

"They are all fed up with the messy football environment of the past!"

Chaos often also represents unpredictable risks and crises.

Moreover, Palmeiras' reforms have been warmly welcomed by players, coaches and employees.

They have been suffering greatly over the years.

"Even many club leaders called me and expressed their expectations for the reform of Palmeiras."

"All knowledgeable people know that this is the only way for the Brazilian football industry to move towards standardization and sustainable long-term development!"

"The role played by Palmeiras as a catfish is positive for them!"

There is one most obvious case.

After Yang Cheng took over Palmeiras, he immediately transferred a group of elite soldiers from the Chinese in Bayswater to Brazil, and stationed them in various departments of Palmeiras to support the framework of the entire new team.

But at the same time, we also need to recruit a lot of talents from Brazil.

For example, Palmeiras wants to recruit a chief scout who is familiar with Brazil.

After much investigation, Juarez Fisher of Fluminense was finally chosen.

This is a very experienced scout with very strong abilities.

Yang Cheng is very familiar with him, because he has been the best scout in Brazil and even in FM Football Manager for many generations.

In reality, he is indeed very good, especially when it comes to evaluating young players.

He worked at Gremio from 84 to 09, and it was he who discovered Ronaldinho.

Then moved to Vasco da Gama in Rio de Janeiro.

But he only stayed in Vasco da Gama for one year. In 11, he returned to Gremio, and in 12, he joined Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro, where he has been working until now.

When he received the call from Palmeiras, he ran from Rio de Janeiro to Sao Paulo the next day. After learning the specific job content and scope of responsibilities and asking about the salary, he agreed to join Palmeiras on the spot.

The position is chief scout.

This is not only true for Juarez Fisher.

Palmeiras is recruiting 10 technical observers from Brazil for its youth training department.

As soon as the news was released, resumes came in like snowflakes.

Why?

The most attractive thing about Palmeiras is its promise to never delay the payment of salaries and bonuses.

Moreover, the salary offered by the club is higher than the industry average.

In this case, who wouldn't want to come to Palmeiras?
After careful selection, the club finally selected 10 technical observers who met the club's philosophy and requirements.

One of them, named Marco, has worked in Sampaolo and Santos for more than 20 years and has extensive experience.

There are also teams from Gremio, Fluminense, Cruzeiro and many more.

Almost all of these 10 technical observers are experienced coaches or scouts from major Brazilian teams.

After arriving at Palmeiras, each of them will be responsible for tracking a team and assessing the players' training and game performance.

At the moment when Gareth Bale won the Ballon d'Or, Palmeiras was recruiting technical coaches, physical coaches, nutritionists, team doctors and psychologists in Brazil.

Especially psychologists.

When Yang Cheng was at Bayswater Chinese, he attached great importance to the players' psychology.

Bayswater Chinese also has a professional psychologist in each age group to track the growth and psychological changes of the players, which has achieved very good results in the past few years.

Today, it has been copied to teams such as Nice, Atalanta and Malaga.

In Yang Cheng's previous life, many players were injured due to psychological problems, but all the teams ignored this fact.

The most typical example is Ousmane Dembélé.

The growth experience of this "Internet addicted" teenager caused him to be overly dependent on games and the Internet, and even after joining Barcelona, ​​this problem was not well resolved.

From Dortmund to Barcelona, ​​no one gave him good support.

But now he is in Nice. Yang Cheng went to find out more about it. Dembele’s condition is much better than in his previous life, and he is much more cheerful.

This has allowed him to enter Nice's first team and emerge as a star.

Palmeiras' large-scale recruitment and the formation of such a large team have undoubtedly caused quite a stir in Brazil, not only in the football circle but also in the sports world, and in all industries.

For a team of this size, salaries are a considerable expense.

Is the effect really good?

Everyone is waiting to see!

Most people can be recruited from Brazil, but some cannot.

For example, the head coach.

Fans who are familiar with Brazilian football must know that Brazil’s head coach has actually never been very good.

Although there have been world-famous coaches like Zagallo, Pereira and Scolari, and Luxemburgo has coached Real Madrid, it is difficult for Brazilian coaches to achieve good results in European football.

In Yang Cheng's impression, he really didn't expect there was such a person.

This also has a lot to do with the football atmosphere in Brazil.

Perhaps, this kind of soil is really not suitable for producing coaches.

On the contrary, Argentina has quite a few famous coaches.

If Yang Cheng wants to reform Palmeiras, the first thing he needs to do is to bring them the most advanced tactical concepts in Europe.

In this case, it is obviously not possible to find it within Brazil.

If Brazil has such talents, does it still need to rely on Yang Cheng's help?
So what is the most advanced tactical concept in Europe now?
The passing and cutting of the Chinese in Bayswater, and the passing and controlling of Guardiola and Spain.

Obviously, it is the hottest one right now.

The two have many similar concepts, such as emphasis on passing, player movement, pressing and oppression, control of space, etc.

Ultimately, it can be transformed into one point.

That is the all-out attack and defense Dutch football!

If we carefully analyze the current European football scene, we will find that head coaches with advanced passing, controlling and cutting tactical concepts are often influenced by Dutch football.

Not to mention Guardiola, Yang Cheng himself was also greatly affected.

There are also people like Mourinho, Van Gaal, Tuchel, Klopp, Boas and so on.

Bielsa has influenced many people including Pochettino and Guardiola, but in fact, he himself was influenced by Van Gaal.

Or should we say that this is the answer to the technical and tactical aspects of European football now and in the next few years!
But it is really difficult to invite one of these excellent coaches with advanced tactical concepts and good at building systems to coach Palmeiras.

For example, Boas.

Even though his performance at Chelsea and Tottenham was not very good, this guy's coaching level is really quite good, and his ideas are very advanced, which is really promising.

But the problem is that his annual salary at Zenit is several million euros.

Can Palmeiras afford it?

Obviously, it's unrealistic!

Bielsa is an Argentine, and coaching Brazil itself is a bit problematic, and he is now planning to venture into European football.

After much thought, Yang Cheng found that it was really difficult to find a head coach who was willing to coach in the Brazilian league and who had advanced tactical concepts and good coaching abilities!
He discussed with the technical team several times, and after repeatedly defining the scope, he kept narrowing it down.

Finally, two goals were finalized.

One is Paulo Bento, the former head coach of the Portugal national team.

His biggest advantage is that he is Portuguese, so it is easier for him to adapt to the Brazilian football environment.

Especially in the past few years, Portuguese coaches have begun to coach in Brazil.

If Yang Cheng remembers correctly, Paulo Bento himself will also go to Brazil to coach next.

His tactical philosophy is actually more defensive, but overall it is still relatively advanced. It’s just that he is not good at building an entire system.

Then there is the Dutchman Erik ten Hag.

In fact, Yang Cheng didn't notice Ten Hag at first. He only remembered him when his name appeared on the technical team's list.

In Yang Cheng's previous life, Ten Hag should have led the Go Forward Eagles to be promoted to the Eredivisie in 13, and then went to Bayern Munich to coach the second team and learned from Guardiola for two years.

He then returned to the Eredivisie to coach Utrecht, which made him famous again, and then he coached Ajax.

But now?

He has not coached Bayern's second team for 13 years because Bayern's current head coach is not Guardiola, whom Ten Hag admires the most, but Heynckes.

After continuing to coach Go Ahead Eagles, he successfully managed to avoid relegation in the Eredivisie, but was fired due to poor performance at the beginning of this season.

But his performance when coaching the Go Ahead Eagles won the recognition of Yang Cheng's technical team.

And he is Dutch.

As for Ten Hag, Yang Cheng felt that there was no problem with his tactical concepts.

This guy is not only able to create a complete tactical system with advanced concepts, but he is also very good at training young players.

This is very consistent with Yang Cheng’s future positioning for Palmeiras.

His insistence on offensive football made it easy for him to adapt to the Brazilian league.

Everyone knows that in Brazil, if you don’t play offensive football, you will definitely be criticized.

Paulo Bento is more conservative in comparison.

Ten Hag is indeed the best choice as he is able to build a tactical system, is good at training young players, and can achieve results.

As for Yang Cheng’s previous life, when Ten Hag was coaching Manchester United…

In a word, whether it is a problem of the players and coaches, or a problem of Manchester United, let time tell.

But Yang Cheng believes that the head coach who can lead Ajax into the Champions League semi-finals must be outstanding!
So he decided to call Ten Hag.

……

After Ten Hag arrived at the Brent Training Center, Yang Cheng received him personally and took him to visit the Brent Training Center, which the Dutch had long admired.

Frick, Brian Kidd and others accompanied him.

When a group of football coaches get together, they naturally chat animatedly.

What surprised Yang Cheng was that Ten Hag was a very talkative person. He talked a lot and asked questions one after another.

After arriving at the Brunt Training Center, he was just like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden.

At first, Yang Cheng patiently introduced him and talked to him, but later he found that it was not working.

If we continue chatting like this, we'll never get to the point.

Maybe even his own assets will be exposed.

So Yang Cheng suggested going to the office.

After both parties sat down, Yang Cheng didn't say anything more and went straight to the point, expressing his wish to invite him to coach Palmeiras in the Brazilian league.

At the same time, Yang Cheng also introduced some information about Palmeiras.

For example, the club will fully connect with Bayswater Chinese and other teams in the league.

All conditions will be fully benchmarked against European teams, even the Chinese in Bayswater.

The goal of this team is to focus on young players, and there will be no performance requirements for at least two years, so the head coach can let go completely.

Ten Hag was quite resistant at first.

As the head coach of the Netherlands, although he was dismissed from Go Ahead Eagles, according to common practice, he should be unemployed for a while and wait for the next coaching opportunity.

For example, if a team changes its coach midway, or if a team wants to change its coach, they will naturally consider him.

Given his current reputation in the Netherlands, I believe he will be able to make a comeback by summer at the latest.

But the conditions offered by Yang Cheng are actually not bad.

First of all, the salary is good, and they are willing to give him more technical and tactical authority.

At the same time, Yang Cheng promised that as long as he helped to lead Palmeiras and achieved outstanding coaching results, he would help him return to European football and coach a team in the top five leagues in three years at most.

This is indeed a very attractive chip!
Given Ten Hag's current status in European football, it would be difficult for him to coach in the top five leagues within three years.

After all, the influence of the Eredivisie is very limited nowadays.

Besides, this is actually like gilding.

Now clubs all over the world want to learn from Bayswater Chinese.

It is a rare opportunity for him to have in-depth contact with and learn the entire system of the Chinese in Bayswater, which will undoubtedly be of great advantage to his future coaching.

"Eric, we are not in a hurry here. You can go back and think about it carefully and then get back to me."

Yang Cheng did not ask him to give an immediate answer.

But what surprised him was that after thinking about it for a while, Ten Hag nodded immediately and said, "I am willing to coach Palmeiras, but there is a problem. I don't know Portuguese and I am very unfamiliar with the environment of Brazilian football."

"We have considered this for you."

Yang Cheng smiled and said, "Do you know Michel Vandergaard?"

"Of course, how is he doing lately?" asked Ten Hag.

Michael van der Gaag is also a Dutch coach and is 43 years old.

He made his football debut in PSV Eindhoven's youth training camp, then went to Utrecht, and then to Maritimo in the Portuguese Super League.

In 06, he played in the United Arab Emirates for a year and retired in 07.

Half a year after retiring, he coached the second team at Maritimo and later the first team, but the results were not very good.

In the summer of 2012, he began coaching Portugal's second-tier club, Belem, and led the team to the Portuguese Super League by winning the Portuguese First Division championship.

结果在13/14赛季的葡超前5轮里，1胜4负，几乎葡超垫底。

He also suffered a sudden heart attack during the game, felt unwell, collapsed on the sidelines, and temporarily left the coaching seat.

But more than a year later, after recovering from a heart attack, he has been looking for an opportunity to return to coaching.

Why did Yang Cheng mention this person?

He and Pepe were teammates at Maritimo and played together for three years.

After preparing for his comeback, he hoped to come to Bayswater Chinese to study through Pepe's relationship.

Yang Cheng also communicated with him several times and found that he is indeed a very good talent. Not only does he have a good personality and is good at communicating with players, but he is also proficient in six languages.

At that time, Yang Cheng began to take it seriously.

If the Portuguese Super League is the first choice for Brazilian players to enter the European football scene, then Maritimo, located on Madeira Island, the hometown of Cristiano Ronaldo, is the first choice for many Brazilian players to enter the Portuguese Super League.

It was from here that Pepe and others entered the European football scene.

So, after spending 10 years in Maritimo and more than ten years in Portugal, Van der Gag is very good at communicating with Brazilians and has a certain understanding of the Brazilian football environment.

This time, when Yang Cheng thought of Ten Hag, he thought of Michel van der Gag.

He guessed that the two must know each other.

Not only because they both played in the Eredivisie when they were players, Ten Hag played for Utrecht until 96 before returning to his hometown team Twente, while Van der Gag joined Utrecht in 97.

The Netherlands is so small, it’s impossible for the two of them not to know each other.

Facts also proved that they did know each other.

When Ten Hag asked how Van der Gaag was doing recently, he was concerned about his heart disease.

"Very good!" Yang Cheng nodded with a smile. "If you take over Palmeiras, I plan to hire Van der Gag as your assistant coach. In addition, we will hire an experienced coach who is familiar with the Brazilian football environment in Brazil to be your assistant."

Ten Hag and Van der Gag are the future coaching team of Manchester United.

After listening to Yang Cheng's introduction of Van der Gag's advantages, Ten Hag obviously had no objection.

But he also thought about his coaching staff.

At the very least there is an assistant coach, a fitness coach and a goalkeeping coach.

Yang Cheng has no problem either.

The configuration of three assistant coaches is indeed a bit luxurious, but considering that Ten Hag is unfamiliar with the Brazilian environment, it is understandable.

What really surprised Yang Cheng was that Ten Hag chose Alfred Schroeder, the Dutch coach who was sacked by Twente.

Yang Cheng had heard of this person.

Speaking of which, Schroeder also made his debut in PSV Eindhoven's youth training, just like Van der Gag, but later went to Feyenoord and Twente.

He has been an assistant coach at Vitesse since 09, and later went to Twente, where he served as an assistant to Adrianse, McLaren and others.

Twente won the Eredivisie title, which was achieved by him assisting McLaren. Ten Hag has a lot of connections in Twente, and he said that if he wanted to ask Schroeder to be his assistant, there should be no problem.

In Yang Cheng's previous life, Schroeder was the assistant coach when Ten Hag coached Utrecht, and later they coached Ajax together.

The Ajax team that reached the Champions League semi-finals was the masterpiece of these two.

But his subsequent results as a sole coach of Hoffenheim were not ideal, so he went to Barcelona to serve as an assistant coach to Ronald Koeman, and later coached Ajax and Bruges alone.

In general, such a coaching team is really strong!
Of course, with three assistant coaches and the coaching team, the salary is already very high in the Brazilian league.

But as long as Palmeiras' tactical system can be built, Yang Cheng thinks it's worth it!
……

The Palmeiras deal was settled.

But Yang Cheng’s contact with Ten Hag was not just about Palmeiras.

He has another thing.

Twente!
Ten Hag and his family have a great influence in Enschede.

His father, Henni ten Haage, runs one of the largest real estate companies in Enschede.

Moreover, Ten Hag has a very high status in Twente. After returning to Twente in 96, he led Twente to defeat PSV Eindhoven and win the Dutch Cup in 01. He is at the peak of his career in Enschede.

After retiring in 02, he went directly to coach the youth team.

In conjunction with this, his father has been the treasurer of the Twente 2002 Foundation since 65.

The Twente 65 Foundation holds all the shares in Twente FC.

So, strictly speaking, Henni ten Hag is Twente's God of Wealth.

The reason why Henni ten Hag was able to take this position, in addition to the fact that he is a well-known local entrepreneur in Enschede, is that in 02 and 03, Twente declared bankruptcy because it owed 1400 million euros in taxes to the tax authorities.

But in 03, the Enschede city government provided a bridge loan of 150 million euros to save the club.

In 2007, Twente borrowed another 2000 million euros from the city government to expand the Gerols Castle Stadium.

Unexpectedly, in 11, due to construction problems caused by the construction contractor, the roof structure of the stadium became unstable and collapsed. Two young workers died on the spot and nine people were injured.

Although Twente quickly built the roof, the matter is still under investigation today, three years later.

Twente's financial situation has been a mess in the past few years.

The city government's loan has not been repaid yet, and new debts have come in. In addition, the stadium expansion project was forced to be shelved, and only three of the four sides of the stands have been completed, resulting in Twente now being heavily in debt.

On January 1, the Dutch Football Association publicly issued a warning to Twente.

Due to the worrying financial situation of the club, the Dutch Football Association requires Twente to improve the club's financial situation as soon as possible and make up a series of expenses including overdue government taxes, otherwise it will face a penalty of points deduction.

All fans' impression of the Eredivisie is more about Ajax, PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord.

But in the area around Enschede in the east of the Netherlands, Twente is the faith of the Turks.

Since 02, Twente has been on the verge of bankruptcy again and again, and has been rescued again and again.

But this was the first time I was threatened with deduction of points.

More importantly, Twente was involved in another case.

Doyen Sports, Chief Sports.

A private equity fund headquartered in London's SOHO district.

Their biggest business is investing in player ownership, also known as third parties.

This has been expressly prohibited by FIFA.

But it didn't work.

Because many European clubs are short of money.

What should you do if you have no money but want to hire someone, or if you urgently need to raise money to get through a difficult time?
Just find this kind of private equity fund, secretly sign an agreement, and sell the ownership of the players.

In 2014, Twente club chairman Joop Munstermann and vice-chairman Aldo van der Laan signed an agreement with Chief Sports.

Chief Sports paid 500 million euros to help Twente overcome the financial crisis, but Twente transferred the transfer rights of 7 players to Chief Sports, with the proportion ranging from 10% to 50%.

But these idiots were too careless in what they did.

This matter was soon exposed by the media, the Dutch Football Association began to intervene in the investigation, UEFA and FIFA both attached great importance to it, so Twente’s problem this time is very serious.

Yang Cheng is quite interested in Twente.

The club is located in the eastern part of the Netherlands, bordering Germany.

The current stadium capacity is the fourth in the Netherlands, second only to the traditional top three, and the attendance rate is always full, and the football market is very hot.

If the fourth stand is expanded as originally planned, the total capacity will exceed 4, which will exceed the Philips Stadium in Eindhoven and be second only to Ajax and Feyenoord.

With this stadium, coupled with Twente's hot football market, and more importantly, the Netherlands has almost no restrictions on foreign players.

Such policy advantages are extremely important for the football league that Yang Cheng wants to build.

Therefore, Yang Cheng wanted to try to understand what Ten Hag thought about foreign investment in Twente.

……

"Honestly, I don't know."

After listening to Yang Cheng's question, Ten Hah smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"Not only me, but in fact, everyone in Enschede, including all the Tuk people, probably doesn't know."

After a pause, the Dutch coach continued.

"You are right. My father is indeed the financial director of the Twente 65 Foundation. I can assure you that the information you have found is correct. Twente is now close to bankruptcy, otherwise it would not do such a thing."

"We went bankrupt once in 02, and we have been worried almost every year since then."

"The situation started to improve in 07, but then in 10 we succeeded in winning the Eredivisie title and the club reached its peak. But with that came a huge debt that we simply couldn't pay back!"

After all, it is his hometown team, and Ten Hag feels quite uncomfortable talking about it.

"My father told me that the club's idea at the time was to achieve better results, expand the stadium, increase match-day revenue and further increase the team's income after becoming famous, but they misjudged the situation."

"The entire Eredivisie is sinking, and Twente will only sink faster. At this time, increasing debt..."

When Ten Hah reached this point, he smiled bitterly and shook his head.

He went to Eindhoven in the summer of 09 and became an assistant coach for Rutten.

"We are all fed up with this kind of life of bankruptcy and fear. Many players are unwilling to come. Wage arrears are the norm. The key is that the team lacks competitiveness."

"But if we want to sell the club to foreign investors..."

Ten Hag stopped there, and it was obvious that this would be protested by local fans.

As for how loud the protest will be, who knows?

Yang Cheng guessed it.

Many fans in Europe are like this.

I know that the team I support is terrible, and I also know that the management is a bunch of good-for-nothings, and I even want to take a gun and kill them all.

But foreign capital is going to acquire it?
Absolutely not!

The only difference is the number of fans in this group.

Fortunately, Yang Cheng did not intend to force it.

"Eric, please give a message to your father and the Twente management for me."

Ten Hahe nodded seriously.

"I am very interested in acquiring Twente. I can pay off all debts, unpaid taxes and salaries, and even the dispute with Chief Sports, as well as UEFA and FIFA. I can handle it."

"You ask them to think about it. If they are interested, they can come to London to see me."

Ten Hag was obviously stunned for a moment.

In his impression, Yang Cheng is a world-class coach.

But at this moment, the Yang Cheng he saw was like a big shot in the world of football whose stomping of his feet could cause an earthquake!
Who is Chief Sports?

A world-renowned private equity fund and operator of third-party ownership of players.

Do you know how famous it is?

The transfers of Neymar, Falcao, James Rodriguez and others were all theirs.

More importantly, how many clubs across Europe have approached them to borrow money?

How many clubs have sold players to them?
countless!

Yes, UEFA and FIFA have banned it.

But the club is about to go bankrupt, who cares whether you ban it or not?

Only by being in the circle did Ten Hag realize how great the influence of Chief Sports is on European football.

Portuguese Nilio Lucas is the son of a Kazakh businessman. He went to the United States to study marketing communications and initially worked in an entertainment star agency.

At the beginning of the century, he returned to Europe and worked under Israeli agent Pini Zahavi, where he began to get involved in the football agency business, but the two soon parted ways.

The boss behind Chief Sports is a consortium from Kazakhstan, consisting of four brothers, who currently live in Istanbul, Turkey. Their family is mainly engaged in mining and is extremely wealthy.

Nilio Lucas used their money to engage in football agency business, third-party ownership transactions, and even club lending business.

Twente is one of their clients.

In early 2011, Chief Sports established a company in London, and its business took a direct step forward.

Ten Hahe had heard a secret in the circle before.

In January 2014, Nilio Lucas held a birthday party in an ancient church in Mayfair, London, and 1 distinguished guests from the European football world came to congratulate him.

They include Real Madrid president Florentino Perez, Barcelona president Bartomeu, Atletico Madrid CEO Gil Jr., AC Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani and his daughter.

In addition, the sports director of FIFA, the son of the chairman of Porto, the director of Fulham, the vice president of Sevilla...

You can imagine how influential this company is!

But Yang Cheng just said that he could handle it, and he said it so lightly.

Ten Hag was really shocked!
This also made him realize for the first time that Yang Cheng's power in world football might far exceed his expectations.

After figuring this out, Ten Hag said that he would definitely convey it when he returned.

……

After seeing off Ten Hah, Yang Cheng smiled slightly.

Nilio Lucas is indeed very influential and his business is very scary.

For example, in Yang Cheng’s previous life, this private equity fund directly contracted all of Monaco’s transfers.

From Falcao to James Rodriguez to Bernardo Silva.

What they are best at is buying the ownership of the players at a low price, "selling" them to a cooperating club at a high price, and after training them, "selling" them to another cooperating club at a high price.

When the player's value rises to a certain level, he will be sold to the "last buyer" who is willing to pay a sky-high price.

Some people may wonder, are those clubs that cooperate with him fools?
No, they are not stupid at all.

Because all the "buying" clubs will get a considerable share after the player's transfer, which is about 10% of the transfer fee.

Just like Falcao of Atletico Madrid.

From Porto to Atletico Madrid to Monaco, Atletico Madrid actually didn't have to pay a penny, but got a top scorer for no reason, won the league championship, and also got a share of Falcao's transfer to Monaco.

Of course, the Colchoneros have to pay Falcao's salary during his time with the club.

And James Rodriguez.

Many media said that the Colombian joined Real Madrid at a sky-high price because of Florentino Construction Company’s project in Colombia, which is actually ridiculous.

Because construction projects of that level often involve the involvement of national diplomacy.

A more reliable statement is that James Rodriguez's value has been almost driven up from Porto to Monaco with the help of the World Cup.

At this time, Chief Sports persuaded Real Madrid and Florentino to sign the Colombian midfielder at a sky-high price.

As for what's behind this, who knows?

Chief Sports is actually operating this business using a model similar to passing the parcel.

Players like Witsel, Hulk and others basically follow this pattern.

On the surface, this model seems to be good, and all parties get what they want.

Is this really the case?
In Yang Cheng’s previous life, in 2015, the Marseille club was short of money and “entrusted” the young midfielder Imbula to Nilio Lucas’ Chief Sports, hoping to drive up the price and cash out as soon as possible.

At that time, Imbula performed well in Ligue 2000. Nilio Lucas saw his potential and decided to "sign" Imbula for a transfer fee of million euros.

As long as they sell at a higher price, they will make a fortune.

At that time, Nilio Lucas meant to sell Imbula to Inter Milan and then help Galliani's AC Milan sign Kondogbia.

Kondogbia has made Chief Sport a fortune from his move from Lens to Sevilla and back to Monaco.

Unexpectedly, the Inter Milan team chose Kondogbia and were not interested in Imbula.

Nilio Lucas had no choice but to find Porto, and with the funding from Chief Sports, he helped Porto sign Imbula from Marseille for 2000 million euros.

But Imbula's performance in the Portuguese Super League was not ideal and he could not play in the game.

Seeing that the deal was about to fall through, Nilio Lucas acted decisively and brought Imbula from the Portuguese Super League to the Premier League in January 2016, joining Stoke City, which was eager to recruit players at the time.

The transfer fee is 2400 million euros.

They still made a profit on this deal.

But in just half a year, from Ligue 1 to the Portuguese Premier League to the Premier League, and even close to Serie A at one point, Imbula's performance has plummeted since then.

This is the price!
The whole incident was not investigated until later by the French newspaper Libération and made public.

Even Zidane's agent was involved in Imbula's transfer, investing 500 million euros.

I don’t know how many times the price like that of Inbra has happened.

Mangala, who was signed by Manchester City, has 33% of the shares owned by Chief Sports.

Manchester United's rising star Januzaj sold half of his image rights to Premier Sports in February 2014.

Very few fans know these secrets.

They still see more of the players' performance on the court.

Little do people know that off the court, many players have been completely capitalized.

Chief Sports’ London office is also located in the SOHO district, which is actually very close to the headquarters of the Chinese in Bayswater and the headquarters of the English Football Association.

But the Bayswater Chinese never get involved in their business.

Yang Cheng knew about many things, but he couldn't do anything about them.

To put it bluntly, in many cases like this, it’s a one-sided affair.

But if Twente is willing to accept Yang Cheng's investment, then if he comes forward, Nelio Lucas will definitely give him this face.

It's just a small matter.

As for FIFA and UEFA, the matter is even smaller.

Now that the contracts have been redeemed, the matter is settled, and they are happy to have one less thing to worry about.

……

As Ten Hag accepted Yang Cheng's invitation, the Dutchman will soon start to build his own team.

Yang Cheng took advantage of the team's one-week break to study the reorganization of Palmeiras.

Yang Cheng decided not to participate in cleaning out the team's redundant players and deciding who should stay and who should leave.

But he still identified several players for Palmeiras.

There is a saying that goes, Those who are close to the water get the moon first.

What's more, in Brazil, it is very normal for young players to transfer back and forth.

After all, the first team has such frequent turnover, not to mention the youth team.

To use a saying in Brazilian football, young players will keep popping up like radishes in a vegetable garden.

Yang Cheng first turned his attention to several teams in the same city.

The first to suffer was São Paulo.

Sao Paulo U17 goalkeeper Lucas Perry and winger David Neres were poached one after another.

Even young player Anthony, who will not turn 2 until February, was seduced away by Palmeiras.

The most outrageous thing is that Palmeiras even spared the 8-year-old young player Enderrick.

There are more than a thousand young players in the Sao Paulo youth training camp, and they may not even have noticed the departure of these four players.

Shortly afterwards, Palmeiras seduced the young Rodrigo, who was born on January 15, 01, from the Santos U1 youth team.

The youth training camps of the two clubs are located in the south and north of Tate Eco Park respectively. For Rodrigo, it is just a matter of walking a few more steps.

But with the support of Bayswater Chinese, Palmeiras' prospects are obviously better.

Right next to Santos' youth training camp, Corinthians U16 also lured away a young midfielder, Carlos Augusto.

Yang Cheng also emphasized that this left-footed player would be best transformed into a left-back.

Perhaps seeing this, many people will feel that something is wrong.

How come Palmeiras can poach whoever they want?

Is it really that easy to recruit young players in Brazil?
The answer is, yes.

Take Gabriel Martinelli, for example.

The 13-year-old young player joined Corinthians' youth training camp at the age of 9 and performed very well.

Scored 9 goals for the 66-year-old team and 56 goals in the state league gold level competition.

随后3年，他代表科林蒂安U11、U13和U15总共攻入69个进球。

From 10 to 14, he scored a total of 222 goals for the Corinthians youth team.

But in Yang Cheng's previous life, such a talented young man left Corinthians in 2015 and joined an unknown team.

Located in Ituano, a few dozen kilometers northwest of São Paulo.

why?
Because this club has a partnership with Manchester United.

In fact, it was at Ituano that Martinelli was noticed by Manchester United. He played in a friendly match for Manchester United in 17 and had four trials, but failed to join Manchester United and went to Arsenal instead.

But now, the young player has chosen Palmeiras.

Just kidding, Ituano is just a club cooperating with Manchester United, but it can attract Corinthians talents like Martinelli. Palmeiras is not only a traditional giant in Brazil, but also an alliance club of Bayswater Chinese.

With Yang Cheng and Bayswater Chinese, Nice, Malaga and Atalanta as their backers, who can't Palmeiras poach?
In Ituano's youth team, Yang Cheng rounded out a central defender named Luis Felipe.

Palmeiras have signed midfielder Emerson Royal from Ponte Preta, a club based in Campinas, north of Sao Paulo.

The 16-year-old Emerson Royal made his debut in the youth training of Sao Paulo and joined the youth training camp of Ponte Preta in the Brazilian Serie B on a free transfer in January 2014.

After conquering the state of São Paulo, Palmeiras set its sights on Rio de Janeiro.

In the Flamengo youth team, the 14-year-old Vinicius chose to join the Palmeiras youth training camp.

Also joining from Flamengo's youth team is 17-year-old midfielder Lucas Paqueta.

Gerson, a 17-year-old midfielder who plays for Fluminense, also came to Sao Paulo from Rio de Janeiro.

The 16-year-old Douglas Luiz, who plays for the Vasco da Gama youth team, also chose to join Palmeiras.

In addition, Palmeiras signed right-back Dodo from Coritiba.

Signed 18-year-old versatile forward Joelinton from Sporting Recife.

Signed 17-year-old winger Richarlison from America Mineiro.

Signed 18-year-old midfielder Arthur from Gremio.

Signed 17-year-old midfielder Bruno Guimaraes from Gremio Osasco Audax.

At the same time, Palmeiras scouts found Luis Diaz, an 18-year-old young player who had made a name for himself in the local amateur arena in Barrancas, Colombia.

Although it was a cross-border transfer, the transfer did not encounter any obstacles because Luis Diaz was already over 18 years old and had played football on the amateur field before.

With these players, plus players like Jesus from Palmeiras, Yang Cheng believes that Palmeiras will not have to worry about results in the next few years.

While Palmeiras was scouting for young talents in Brazil, Ten Hag began to gear up, recruit players, and build his own team. He was determined to go to Brazil to make a big move and prepare for coaching in the top five leagues three years later.

Yang Cheng's team faced Van Gaal's Manchester United at the Prudential Stadium in London.

This is another endless fight between dragons and tigers!

After losing unexpectedly to Burnley away from home in the last round, Manchester City has quietly narrowed the score.

In this round, the Blue Moon will face Arsenal at home.

These two strong dialogues are likely to change the trend of the Premier League this season.

(End of this chapter)