I build a giant in the Premier League

Chapter 40 Target: Premier League

Yang Cheng is indeed a scheming bitch!
Brian Kidd thought to himself as he stood at the window of his apartment suite, looking out at the Bayswater Stadium in the distance.

This is not the first time.

Players, coaches and employees will choose this hotel for the club's reception when they come to London.

It is said to be five-star, but the price is not expensive as we cooperate in the name of the club.

Each time it is arranged on a high floor, with the windows facing the Bayswater Stadium.

This seems to remind everyone: Look, although our club is not big, we own such a large piece of land in the most prime location in the heart of London. What an amazing value!
Brian Kidd thought of this and shook the idea off with a smile on his face.

He was also tricked by Yang Cheng.

As a result, I am working harder and harder.

And what about Gianni Vio in front of him?
It was obvious that he was moved by what Yang Cheng said.

"Gianni, the world of football is changing dramatically."

"More and more cross-industry talents, experts and companies are entering the football industry."

"In 1996, Deloitte set up a sports business team in the UK to study the football industry. Every year they produce a [Football Annual Review] and a [Money League] on the Premier League."

“This has become a model for global sports business research.”

"Since then, well-known accounting firms such as KPMG and Ernst & Young, well-known investment banks such as Goldman Sachs, and major law firms have successively established sports business research teams in the UK and produce regular reports."

This means that the British football industry is attracting more and more attention from global capital.

If this is the case in the UK, then it will also be the case in Italy, Spain, Germany, France and other countries.

It's just a matter of time.

Why do these multinational organizations pay attention to football?

This proves that more and more capital is listing the football industry as an investment direction.

"In 1996, several young people in the UK founded a sports data company called OPTA. Through big data collection, statistics and analysis, they presented another equally real football world to everyone."

"They started out by recording manually in the stands, but in 2000 Sky bought the company and invested heavily in a range of advanced equipment and software upgrades."

"Now, their system can automatically collect more and more football-related data, including running distance, number of passes, etc., and you should know what these data mean to a team."

Gianni Vio certainly understood.

Sky TV not only broadcasts in the UK, but also has the rights to broadcast Serie A in Italy.

OPTA's data are widely used in Italy and even around the world.

This kind of data can be of great value to all football teams.

It can even subvert a team's training methods and game processes.

"In 2001, a British company developed an instant replay system called Hawkeye, which can be used not only in live broadcasts of games but also in training."

"We have decided to introduce this system because I hope that in training, my players can clearly know at the first time where they went wrong and what the correct decision should be."

The Hawk-Eye system was quickly adopted as a broadcasting technology for other top leagues because it allows instant replay.

But the scenarios proposed by Yang Cheng for use in training felt very novel to Gianni Vio.

But when I think about it, I feel it makes a lot of sense.

"Jenny, what I'm telling you is all about data. I want to tell you that more and more people in the fields of finance and investment analysis are entering the sports industry, and they have a keen sense of data."

"Data analysis will become very important in the future. It will even completely change football, and change the training and competition of all sports. Therefore, we in Bayswater Chinese must seize this advantage as soon as possible and build our own data analysis team."

Yang Cheng’s expectation for Gianni Vio is that he will not be confined to studying set pieces.

Bayswater Chinese is going to set up a data team and will continue to recruit people. Gianni Vio can definitely take on this responsibility and become the head of Bayswater Chinese data analysis team.

I have to say that the pie that Yang Cheng painted is really too big.

Even Gianni Vio was a little overwhelmed.

But it is indeed very tempting.

Therefore, the Italians hope to give him some time to think about it and digest it.

……

"Yang, have you told Lin about your plan to form a data team?"

After leaving the hotel, Brian Kidd asked with some amusement.

After working together for a year, he thought he had a good understanding of Lin Zhongqiu's character.

"Money is a bastard. If we lose it, we can earn it again!"

Yang Cheng spoke in a very straightforward and high-spirited manner.

"But you seem to be in debt now, and you're owing more and more." Brian Kidd reminded with a smile.

The team was already heavily in debt, and this summer they bought some land and built a training base. It was really a good time, but their debt was also increasing.

Lin Zhongqiu did some calculations and found that even if the training base was only the first phase of building the youth team and the Jubilee Park Stadium was not going to be moved for the time being, the debt would still exceed 2000 million pounds.

If this amount of debt were placed in the Premier League, it would probably be ranked high.

Why do those Premier League teams stay in those dilapidated training bases?
Isn’t it just fear of debt?
"You don't need to rush to pay back the money you borrowed with your own ability!" Yang Cheng didn't care at all.

"Besides, Brian, the data team will only have three or four people at most at the beginning. The salary won't be that high, and the investment in equipment and software won't be much. It's okay."

Brian Kidd shook his head and smiled bitterly.

He now completely understood why Lin Zhongqiu was always miserable.

Whoever works as an accountant for this young master will cry his ass off.

There are hundreds of thousands of pounds here and hundreds of thousands of pounds there. It doesn’t seem like much, but what about the reality?

Yang Cheng is really in a state of rushing time now.

The Chinese in Bayswater have too much historical debt and a weak foundation. Many things should have been achieved slowly and with accumulation.

But now, Yang Cheng can't wait any longer.

Because he knows that the Premier League is about to usher in the fastest period of rapid growth in its history.

Not only are TV rights fees growing at an alarming rate, but the global market is also growing rapidly.

Bayswater Chinese must catch this wave.

How to catch up?
Reaching the Premier League comes first!
We also need to build a combat-ready team.

Football results alone are not enough! No matter how good the football results are, if the revenue does not increase, the players you train will be poached one by one, and the players you want to introduce will end up like Pennant, who will not even look at you.

Apart from anything else, if you want to catch up with globalization, you have to at least travel abroad a few times, right?

So was the overseas training an invitation from the sponsor? Or did you pay for it out of your own pocket?

This is never a simple thing, but a series of links.

So far, Chinese business in Bayswater is a blank.

Yang Cheng had thought about attracting some sponsors in the country, but he didn't have the resources.

In this area, Bayswater Chinese needs an experienced person to take the helm.

But for now, Yang Cheng has not found a suitable one.

In other words, the people he likes may not necessarily like the Chinese from Bayswater in the Championship.

……

Time slowly moves into July.

The European Cup has finally come to an end.

Greece, led by Rehhagel, miraculously defeated host Portugal in the final and won the European Cup.

This caused an uproar around the world.

Young stars including Cristiano Ronaldo, Rooney, Robben, Cech, Lahm, Ibrahimovic and others all made their mark in this European Cup and left a deep impression.

But all this has nothing to do with Yang Cheng and the Bayswater Chinese.

He is more concerned about the journey of the new season.

In the new season, Bayswater Chinese will fight on three fronts, the Championship, League Cup and FA Cup.

Among them, the Championship still has 24 teams and plays 46 rounds of games.

The schedule starts on August 8th and ends on May 7th next year.

As always, the top two teams advance directly, and the 3rd to 6th teams play in the promotion play-offs.

Therefore, the schedule is still very tight.

More importantly, Bayswater Chinese will rent Queens Park Rangers' Loftus Road Stadium in the new season.

The team is not familiar with this stadium.

Therefore, when Yang Cheng arranged the warm-up matches, he deliberately arranged a home game to make it easier to familiarize himself with the venue.

With the arrival of two team doctors, David Favre and Rob Price, the first thing the team does after training for the new season is a physical examination, a very detailed physical examination.

Thad Fawcett and Oliver Bartlett also drew on the experience of last season, especially the schedule around Christmas, and were significantly more sophisticated when formulating their pre-season training plan.

Although the team has undergone significant personnel changes this summer, the main framework is still there.

After getting to know the team last season, the players have a deeper understanding of Yang Cheng's tactical requirements and the coaching staff's training arrangements, and have become more adaptable.

Even the new players were led by the old players and gradually adapted to the team's high-intensity training.

By the way, Yang Cheng has not appointed a captain since veteran Steve Jenkins left the team.

This position remains empty, and he needs to continue observing.

The players selected by Yang Cheng can adapt to the team's technical requirements on the technical level, it is just a matter of time before they integrate.

After 10 days of high-intensity physical reserve training, warm-up matches were arranged from mid-July.

Yang Cheng arranged a total of 7 warm-up matches, all of which were held at Loftus Road.

The arrangements for the seven warm-up matches are also very particular.

Yang Chengxian played three consecutive games against English League One and English League Two teams.

Since the team had just completed physical reserve training and the players were still adjusting, plus many of them were new to the team and not yet used to the tactics, their performance was not very ideal.

In 3 games, the results were 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss, which was not satisfactory overall.

Afterwards, Bayswater Chinese played another game against West Ham United, which failed to be promoted to the Premier League last season.

This is the second consecutive season that the two teams have played friendly matches.

The game ended in a 0-0 draw.

The last three warm-up matches are the finale and the ones that Yang Cheng attaches the most importance to. The opponents are three Premier League teams.

They are Souness's Blackburn, Curbishley's Charlton and Sturlock's Southampton.

They are all strong teams.

Charlton, like West Ham United, is a London team.

Blackburn's Souness has a very good impression of Yang Cheng, for the simple reason that Jonathan Steed has performed well for Blackburn.

If Yang Cheng remembers correctly, Steed had a good start at Blackburn in his previous life, but after Souness was sacked, his performance plummeted and he was no longer trusted.

Yang Cheng challenged the Premier League team to play against them in order to better test the team.

As a result, there was 3 draw and 1 losses in 2 games.

Lost to Blackburn and Southampton, drew with Charlton.

Among them, the score of Southampton Saints was 1 to 2, and center forward Crouch scored a goal at a crucial moment.

After 7 warm-up matches, it is already August.

There is only one week left until the start of the Championship.

Yang Cheng discusses the team’s latest situation with the coaching staff every day and studies how to solve the problems exposed by the team.

Gianni Vio's data team is just in its infancy. Currently, there is only him, and he plans to recruit two more people.

There was no way out, Lin Zhongqiu insisted on keeping the budget.

During the training process, players such as Ribery, Modric, Huddlestone, Joe Hart and Koscielny have successively renewed their contracts with the club and signed a new contract.

Yang Cheng resolutely followed the salary structure set by Xia Qing. Ribery, Modric and Huddlestone received a weekly salary of 2000 pounds, which was also the highest salary in the team.

In addition, Yang Cheng also needs to solve some other problems.

The first to be hit was the "troublemaker" Las Diarra.

　I beg for your collection! I beg for your votes, thank you so much!!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)