King’s Landing in Nottingham

Chapter 12 Barcelona Technical Poverty Alleviation

All beginnings are hard.

After the head coach was dealt with, Wei Xun's mood was not normal. After Wei Xun, the operator of the Notts County excavator, briefly enjoyed the Spanish sun, sand and enthusiastic beauty for two days in Barcelona, ​​he started a new round of excavation without stopping.

It won't work if you don't stop, the dark circles are coming out.

"It's not easy to come once, so simply spend it in Barcelona?"

Relying on the contacts that Guardiola has established for many years in Barcelona, ​​he won a chance for Wei Xun to meet with the Barcelona management.

Wei Xun hopes that Barcelona can provide some youth training for Notts County. If possible, Wei Xun hopes that Barcelona can provide some youth training coaches for Notts County.

The price is as much as it is, and the price is absolutely fair.

Barcelona's La Masia youth training camp and Real Madrid's Castilla youth training camp are the two major youth training giants in the later generations. The number of players they output for the five major league teams is the highest in Europe.

After confirming that his head coach is Guardiola, in order to allow his youth players to achieve a seamless connection after coming to the first team, Wei Xun gave up the introduction of Ajax or Southampton, Leeds United. The intention of the training team’s youth coaches turned to hire some coaches from Barcelona’s youth training camp La Masia for technical assistance.

Notts County did not have a few coaches in charge of youth training before, and transplanting a part from Barcelona as a whole can also save time in building the team's youth training framework.

In order to show his great sincerity, Wei Xun still paid Barcelona a training fee of 5 million yuan, thanking Barcelona for so many years of training Guardiola, as it is to buy road money.

With short hands and short mouths, the Barcelona executives agreed to select ten youth training coaches from La Masia’s youth training academy who are willing to go to England to work for Wei Xun. The contract period is three years to support the Notts County club. Youth training work.

Every year, many veterans retire and devote themselves to the youth training career of La Masia. There is no shortage of grassroots youth training coaches in Barcelona, ​​but these people are not free to go with Wei Xun. These three years are regarded as Barcelona leased to Notts County. Yes, it costs one hundred thousand euros a year for one person.

The price was not cheap, but Wei Xun accepted it. These people are like hens laying eggs, and they will continue to provide chicks for Notts County in the future.

What’s more unexpected is that due to some contradictions with Barcelona’s high-level leaders, the defenders of the pass-and-control football model cultivated Bila, the famous youth coach of Puyol, Xavi, Iniesta and others for Barcelona. Not planning to renew the contract with Barcelona and hope to follow Wei Xun to Notts County to start a brand new journey.

Bila’s understanding and persistence of passing control and off-the-ball running has allowed the various echelons of La Masia Youth Academy to always maintain a sufficiently high level of appreciation in the game against their opponents, and can spend half a million euros in liquidated damages. Bringing a youth training expert to Notts County, how could Wei Xun not be excited.

In the future, Bila will be fully responsible for the training and development of young players, which will undoubtedly have a profound impact on the future youth training of Notts County.

This is how the cooperative relationship is established.

When Wei Xun used money to pave the way again, it became much easier to think about meeting with the top leaders of Barcelona. When Wei Xun hoped to select some players from Barcelona's reserve team and youth teams at all levels, or loan or transfer, in order to help Notts County quickly form combat effectiveness, Barcelona management thought it over and agreed.

Wei Xun looked at what the Barcelona gang meant, and it’s okay to want someone, but the price can never be lower.

Hey, this time it must be bloodletting.

Do not look at the face of the monk to see the face of the Buddha, let alone the face of real gold and silver?

Wei Xun quickly got a list of players who could be loaned or transferred in the La Masia youth training camp.

Wei Xun searched the list eagerly for those names that are extremely loud for later generations, and he kept thinking about the possibility of taking them away.

Money is not a problem at all. It's just that there is no Harvey, Valdes, or Messi and Pedro on this list. After a careful comparison for a long time, Wei Xun found a few familiar names in the corner:

Thiago Mota, currently a midfielder of the Barcelona second team, was transferred from Brazil's Juventus club in June 1999.

At this time, Mota is still of Brazilian nationality. According to common sense, Mota, who is a non-EU player and a Brazilian national team player, would have great difficulty in applying for a British labor certification. Know that Spain has a fast track for naturalization:

If you have lived in Spain legally for two years, and your country of origin is a Latin American country, Andorra, the Philippines, Equatorial Guinea, Portugal, or descendants of Spanish Jews, you can quickly naturalize Spanish through this route.

It is June of 2001. Mota just meets the conditions of living for two years and coming from Latin America. During the offseason, he will go through the naturalization procedures and submit the labor certification application, get the labor certification before the start of the new season and obtain the qualification There should be no problems.

Here Wei Xun can only say sorry to the Italian national team, Motta can't go to your unit.

Instead of spending time in the second team of Barcelona, ​​it is better to go to England to start a new life. For the 19-year-old Motta, Notts County looks good too.

After Motta himself agreed to go to the Notts County Club, the Barcelona management was relieved. As they did not spend a penny on Barcelona when joining Barcelona and Barcelona had not signed a professional contract with Motta, Barcelona agreed to spend 60% on Notts County. Ten thousand euros training fee will take it away.

Barcelona have too many talents in the midfield, and Motta has no position yet. It wasn't until next season that Motta took advantage of several opportunities to start to emerge in La Liga, laying a solid foundation for his success in the European arena in the future.

As the son of the plane, Wei Xun was not very kind and took him away in advance. If Barcelona and Mota signed a professional contract to come back later, it would cost him more than one million.

Compared to Motta, the second player Wei Xun picked is better known: Xiao Bai, Andres Iniesta. It has been five years since the 17-year-old Xiaobai came to La Masia, but it was not until this year that he got the chance to be promoted to the second team of Barcelona.

For a young player who is eager to play for the country, there is nothing more attractive than the accumulation of experience in the game, even if it is for Iniesta to go to an unknown country, he recognizes it.

Harvey, Iniesta's friend and youth teammate, has already sat on the bench in Barcelona's first team. In every game, besides handing water, he waved a towel.

Although Iniesta himself wanted to stay in Barcelona, ​​Xiao Bai really didn't want to just go on like this, he was too eager to make the game.

As a member of the Spanish national team under the age of 17, Xiaobai's worth is much higher than Motta, and Wei Xun's request to buy him directly was flatly rejected by the Barcelona management.

In the end, Wei Xun included this future Spanish core in a curve to save the country. He leased Notts County for three years at a rental fee of 1.1 million euros. After three years, Notts County can choose to sell 1,500. It was bought out at a price of ten thousand euros.

As a Spanish player, Xiaobai can represent Notts County without complicated procedures, which saves Wei Xun a lot of operating time.

1.1 million euros can also find some practical players in La Liga. In the eyes of outsiders, it is not worth it to spend so much money on renting an unknown person. For Wei Xun, this price is a big bargain. Iniesta was the most valuable player in the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa!

Pepe Reina, the native Spanish goalkeeper of Barcelona's second team. If nothing else, the 19-year-old will be taken away by the yellow submarine Villarreal for 750,000 euros next season.

Valdez’s current main position is very stable, and Reina is like an excess of air, unable to get any chance to play.

It does take years of patience for every young goalkeeper to usher in his early days, because not every goalkeeper has the same luck as Ji'an Luigi.

Compared with Buffon and Donnarumma, who played the main force in Parma and AC Milan at a young age, this kind of opportunity is tantamount to a carp jumping through the dragon gate.

With a reasonable offer, Wei Xun promised Renner enough playing time, a transfer fee of 750,000 euros, and Renner, the evergreen football player who succeeded in Liverpool and Naples' goals, has now become New Notts County. Wei Xun is very much looking forward to his excellent performance in front of Notts County.

In the year 2001 when player mobility was not very common, most players tended to stay in their home league to play, and few people were willing to go to foreign countries to play, and this phenomenon was even more serious in La Masia.

Fortunately, Thiago Mota, Andres Iniesta, and Pepe Reina are not natives of Barcelona, ​​otherwise the trafficker Wei Xun would not be so easy.

There are still many future stars in the La Masia youth training camp, but Wei Xun does not have any bad habits for children like the boss of a certain group.

For the younger La Masia stars, Wei Xun reluctantly chose to let go. Only in La Masia can they grow into their original history.

The current youth training system in Notts County has not been established yet, and it has not been able to provide them with enough room for growth. The growth of the seedlings will undoubtedly ruin their future.

Wei Xun watched them running on the grass from the edge of the court: 14-year-old Pique, 14-year-old Messi, 12-year-old Yordi Alba, and 10-year-old Barthes Pull…

"Nostalgia...our youth..."

You can see it, but you can't feel it. Don't mention how uncomfortable it is.

After a three-day rest, Wei Xun took his harvest in Barcelona and flew back to Nottingham on a chartered flight.

The brothers David Price and Charles, who had already received the news, came to the airport in advance to greet Wei Xun and Guardiola and his party.

After a short break, Guardiola and the three players visited the repainted Meadow Lane Stadium and the Notts County Honors Showroom.

Later, the Notts County Club held a grand press conference to announce the joining of Guardiola and three Barcelona players.

"Coach Josep, look here, look here!"

"Chairman Wei, how much transfer fee did you spend in total, and whether there is any ulterior secret between you and Barcelona."

The reporters who had been waiting for a long time shot Pep Guardiola and Iniesta on the podium frantically, and Wei Xun couldn't open his eyes with the "crack" spotlight flashing.

Reporters from the British media "Daily Mail", "Daily Mirror", "The Sun", "Sky Sports" and "Nottingham Evening News" all came to the scene and soon introduced their opinions in a large page. The fruitful results of Wei Xun’s trip to Spain:

"Total Spanish, Wei Xun said that English football is not good! Notts County is ready to adopt the La Masia youth training model!"

"The transfer fee of five million pounds, and the weekly salary of fifty thousand pounds, Barcelona captain Guardiola condescends England and Notts County for the money..."

"Barça started the poverty alleviation mode, and the coaches and players all sent it."

"Barcelona supermarket opened, 14 people left the team to join the League B club Notts County, are they for money or for the future? We will wait and see."

"Superstar player, rookie coach, how to complete the transformation of double-sided Guardiola..."

"The new coach is in charge of the Magpies, and the league relegation becomes the primary goal?"

…

No matter how the major media relied on the headline to win the attention of readers, Wei Xun and the new players from Notts County had already exchanged cups at the welcome banquet.

Because there was no suitable location, Wei Xun changed the stadium conference room into a temporary private room, and all the dishes were cooked by chefs invited from London.

As the owner of a professional football club, Wei Xun can't help but think about the players: the players all use tea instead of wine. Biluochun and Longjing from China have become new topics frequently discussed by the Notts County players.

Wei Xun naturally wanted to have a drink. He and Zhao Tai, Georgia and others toasted frequently. The atmosphere on the scene quickly reached a climax. Wei Xun didn’t know if he really drank too much, and even performed the show in public. :

"I think at the beginning, Lao Tzu's team only opened, there were only a dozen people, seven or eight guns..."

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