I build a giant in the Premier League

Chapter 39 Data Expert
Goalkeepers: Joe Hart, Danny Coney;
Defenders: Koscielny, Kevin Fury, Capaldi, Roger Johansson, Jose Fonte, Danny Collins, Piszczek, Skrtel;
Midfield: Modric, Huddlestone, Leon Andreassen, Gerhan Inler, Blaise Matuidi, Las Diarra;

Forwards: Ribery, Lambert, Dave Kitson, Ashley Young, Aaron Lennon.

This is the roster of Bayswater Chinese first team for the new season.

After signing Las Diarra, Yang Cheng basically closed the transfer market.

Although there are only 21 people, quality is more important than quantity, and Yang Cheng felt that it was enough.

A streamlined roster can ensure that every player gets enough playing time during the season, which is very helpful for the player's growth and improvement.

Apart from veteran goalkeeper Danny Coney, the oldest player for Bayswater Chinese in the new season is Dave Kitson, born in January 80.

He is only 24 years old.

Whether from the perspective of player training or from the team's financial situation, Yang Cheng feels that the current 21-man lineup is enough.

Of course, if there is a massive wave of injuries, there will be nothing we can do.

Compared with last season, Bayswater Chinese have indeed introduced a lot of players, but the framework of the central axis has not changed.

Joe Hart, Koscielny, Roger Johnson, Huddlestone, Modric, Ribery, Lambert, Kitson, this central axis is still there.

This is enough to ensure that the team continues the tactical framework of last season, and it is also what Yang Cheng intended.

11 players were introduced, leaving aside Jose Fonte, Danny Kone and Matuidi who were free transfers, the remaining 8 players cost 410 million pounds.

This is already a very high transfer investment for the Chinese in Bayswater.

Even in the Championship, the investment is very high.

But in terms of transfer income, the departure of six players including Martin Roland, Martin Devaney and Chambers brought the Bayswater Chinese £6 million in revenue.

Part of it was for player exchanges, and part of it was used to pay for Queens Park Rangers' stadium rental, etc.

All in all, the Chinese from Bayswater have a slight surplus in this summer's transfer market.

This is thanks to the EU.

The addition of Poland and Slovakia created a great opportunity for Yang Cheng to bring in cost-effective players such as Skrtel and Piszczek.

As for the overall strength, it depends on the integration of summer training.

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After Yang Cheng returned to London, he immediately started his busy work again.

Youth training integration is proceeding in an orderly manner.

Dan Ashworth and others have also started to get started and advance youth training related work.

The next focus is staff reduction.

According to Yang Cheng's requirements, the youth training team must ensure that every player gets more than 40% of playing time every season, which requires the coaching staff to reasonably control the number of players in each age group.

These have been scientifically discussed in Yang Cheng's previous life and verified in practice by countless teams.

According to the schedule, the task of the first year of youth training is integration and streamlining, and the elimination of some players who do not meet the team's requirements.

After completing the internal reorganization, we will recruit young players from outside for the first time next summer.

Before that, there is still a lot of work to be done.

Especially establishing cooperation with surrounding communities, schools and football organizations.

Fortunately, Yang Cheng doesn't need to worry about these things, Dan Ashworth, Gary Worthington and others will be responsible.

But the construction of the training base requires Yang Cheng's involvement.

The day after he returned to London from Le Havre, he met with people from AFL Architects in their temporary offices on the Brent Reservoir.

This architectural firm, which has become famous in recent years, is mainly known for its sports stadiums.

For example, the City Stadium in Manchester was designed and renovated by this company.

AFL Architects also attaches great importance to this training base for the Chinese in Bayswater.

When meeting Yang Cheng, they even sent out five people.

These include directors Bruce Caldwell and Marcel Ridyard, design director John Roberts, and associate director Neil Tutill, who specializes in sports and leisure.

They carefully prepared an initial design plan, including a series of hand-drawn sketches, referring to the existing topography, striving to perfectly integrate the Bayswater Chinese training base into the beautiful scenery of the Brent Reservoir.

As a novice in the field of architecture, Yang Cheng couldn't make out anything when looking at these hand-drawn sketches.

But I quite agree with the concept.

Moreover, the government and the community would certainly not be able to live with it if the scenery of the Brent Reservoir was destroyed.

AFL Architects has extensive government experience and they know how to communicate and mediate.

This would save Yang Cheng and the team a lot of trouble.

In terms of football, Yang Cheng’s requirements were very clear. There would be a total of 16 professional football fields in Phases and , and all drainage and geothermal heating would have to meet Premier League standards.

At the same time, an indoor court should be planned in advance.

As for the dormitories for the first-team players, Yang Cheng wants to build them to the standards of a five-star hotel.

When Yang Cheng was leading a team in his previous life, he didn’t like staying in a hotel the night before a game.

Especially when the hotel the club cooperates with is not ideal.

Now that we have these conditions, it would definitely be comfortable and pleasant to live in our own training base.

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After finishing his work at the training base, Yang Cheng immediately started preparing for the first team.

After being promoted to the Championship, the club's debt became more serious, but its finances were much more relaxed.

Therefore, not long ago, Yang Cheng asked Lin Zhongqiu to recruit a placement specialist to be responsible for the placement of first-team players.

But even so, he still has to do it himself and take care of the first-team players, especially the placement of new players.

He even went to the scene in person and inspected the players' residences one by one.

As the number of foreign aid increases, translators must also keep up, which also requires recruitment.

Thanks to having coached many international players and teams in his previous life, Yang Cheng is proficient in multiple languages ​​including English, Italian, Spanish, French and German, so he is not worried about communication with the players at all.

But what Yang Cheng pays most attention to is the recruitment of the coaching team.

Not long ago, Yang Cheng called Pedro Haro, the goalkeeper coach of the Spanish national youth team, and asked him about his situation in the Spanish national youth team and whether he was interested in coaching in the UK?

This was also the goalkeeping coach he had been when he coached Real Madrid in his previous life. He was very capable and was very good at training goalkeepers.

Pedro Haro comes from Atletico Madrid. His work is going well at this stage. The work in the national team is very leisurely, but the salary is not high and the value of training one's abilities is not strong.

Pedro Haro was quite tempted by Yang Cheng's invitation. Although he was a little concerned about the climate in the UK, he still chose to take the risk.

However, Yang Cheng cares most about another person.

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Hyde Park North Gate, Lancaster Gate Underground Station intersection.

Accompanied by Brian Kidd, Yang Cheng entered the five-star Royal Lancaster Hotel.

The hotel manager recognized him and came over to ask if there was anything he could do to help.

Yang Cheng went straight to the 15th floor where the apartment suite was located and found the room where the guest was staying.

This room is owned by a Chinese from Bayswater.

The people who stayed here were a middle-aged couple from Italy.

The registered male owner is named Gianni Vio, 51 years old.

After knocking on the door, Yang Cheng was greeted by a bald Italian man. The most eye-catching thing about him was the beard on his face, which was almost half white.

"Hello, Jenny, welcome to London!"

Yang Cheng greeted Gianni Vio in fluent Italian.

This made Brian Kidd on the side very impressed.

He is only 23 years old, how can he be so awesome?

It’s not enough to be good at English, French, Italian, Spanish, they’re all fine.

Toto is definitely a translation genius who was delayed by football!
After working in Bayswater Chinese for a year, Yang Cheng gave him the feeling that he was unfathomable and omnipotent.

It always took him by surprise.

Just like Gianni Vio in front of him.

God knows where this guy came from?

The reason why he came to London was because Yang Cheng bought a book about set pieces written in Italian from somewhere [Extra 30%].

There are two authors, one is the psychologist Alessandro Tetamanci, and the other is Gianni Vio, an employee of the Mestre branch of UniCredit Bank.

Yang Cheng wrote an email to Gianni Vio using the contact information in the book.

Then, the two of them got in touch.

Yang Cheng even invited Gianni Vio to London.

"Sorry, Jenny, I was out for a while and I had a lot of things to do when I came back."

As soon as Yang Cheng sat down, he took the initiative to apologize, "Is London fun?"

This was a question both to Gianni Vio and to his wife.

"It's so much fun. Thank you very much for your warm welcome, Mr. Yang." Mrs. Vio thanked with a smile.

Brian Kidd had been keeping an eye on Jenny Vio.

This middle-aged Italian man seems very introverted in his dealings with people and has the temperament of a scholar.

But his attitude towards Yang Cheng was very enthusiastic.

The two obviously have something in common.

Let’s start with the book [The Extra 30%].

Gianny Vio worked in a bank for most of his life and lived a very leisurely life.

Mestre is located next to the Italian water city of Venice and is famous for its brandy and sparkling cocktails.

Life in the small town is simple but also quite boring, and the life of a bank clerk is even more leisurely.

With nothing to do, Gianni Vio became interested and went to Coverciano, an Italian coach training class, to study. He obtained a coaching certificate and entered the coaching field.

In this respect, he is exactly the same as Surrey, who also comes from a banking background.

The difference is that Sarri chose to coach, while Gianni Vieira chose to research.

According to Gianni Vio himself, he was born with a keen sense of numbers. In addition, he dealt with numbers and data in college and work, so he developed a strong interest in various data and probabilities in football.

Especially set pieces.

His graduation thesis at Coverciano was "Set-piece tactics: the equivalent of having an extra striker who scores 15 goals a season."

It tells about his understanding and research of set-piece tactics.

These are all explained in the book [The Extra 30%].

This book is not only about data, probability and tactics, but also about the psychological confrontation between the enemy and us.

That's why the other author is a psychologist.

The two are good friends. Gianni Vio believes that reasonable set-piece tactics can help a team increase its total number of goals by 30%.

When Yang Cheng was a coach in his previous life, he was familiar with Gianni Vio, and the two had many in-depth exchanges.

He had always felt that Gianni Vio had an unusually keen intuition for data.

For set pieces alone, the Italian can come up with 4830 different tactics.

This is simply too outrageous!

But Yang Cheng felt that Gianni Vio's research on data was only used in set-piece tactics, which was a waste of his talent.

In his previous life, when he met Gianny Vio, the old man was already in his 60s and had long since run out of time and energy.

And now, he is only 51 years old and still full of energy.

Especially in the field of football statistics, which interests him.

That's why Yang Cheng got to know Gianni Vio through that book and invited him to London.

He is an expert in set-piece tactics.

But in Yang Cheng's view, he is more of a football data expert.

Most importantly, he is also a professional football coach.

And he is an Italian football coach who is a tactical master.

This made Yang Cheng even more excited about him.

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