Football: I can see player entries.

Chapter 246 Special Training for the Youth Team

Just a few days later, Li Yanqing received news that Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino had been sacked.

The manager who led the team to the Champions League final was fired by the club because he could not win the title.

To be honest, with the support Levy provided, it's already quite an achievement to have reached this point.

Kane, Alli, Son Heung-min, Eriksen...

He basically coached this group of players.

Even Li Yanqing, an outsider, felt sorry for Pochettino.

I've been stuck with an overly stingy boss.

Guess who his successor is?

"Although it hasn't been officially announced yet, it's already confirmed."

Neville was fiddling with his notebook; the guy spent most of his time dealing with these kinds of rumors outside of his work.

"It's Mourinho!"

"Levy persuaded him to go to Tottenham!"

"Jose?" This news surprised Li Yanqing somewhat.

In his memory, Mourinho has become less frugal since taking over Chelsea.

As for Tottenham's squad, putting aside the others, Dele Alli, who is jokingly called the "English Star," definitely does not meet his needs.

Not only are they unpredictable on offense, but they also have almost no defensive capabilities.

"He probably thought the other team was good at the Champions League."

"After all, Tottenham now has a squad that can reach the final, so maybe Mourinho can really make something of himself."

"Forget it, his situation won't be much better than it was at Manchester United." Li Yanqing quickly shook his head.

Why did Mourinho fail at Manchester United?

The biggest problem is that Sandezi likes to interfere in club affairs, while Levy, on the surface, doesn't seem to be directly involved.

But that's because the team basically doesn't make any signings...

As a member of the Big Six, their recruitment efforts were far less significant than Burton's.

"I think he just hasn't learned his lesson yet."

"I didn't get enough of the trouble I suffered at Manchester United."

Li Yanqing had no doubt about Mourinho's ability, but he was never very optimistic about him coaching Tottenham.

He needs someone who can truly support him, just like Abramovich did at the beginning.

"Never mind, let's not talk about him for now."

Are you really going to stay here for the holidays?

Burton's coaching staff has officially gone on holiday, but everyone except John's team has stayed.

With Lehmann in the youth academy, Neville also decided to give up his vacation.

The main need is for him to help complete his player development system.

Everything is almost perfected; now we just need to see how it performs after it's put into use.

The initial focus is on the young men in the youth training team.

There is another purpose to doing this, which is to thoroughly improve the team's selection mechanism.

If these two things can be taken care of during the holidays, Robinson can then focus on building the stadium.

It doesn't matter how big it is.

The youth team coach, Rhein, clearly did not expect that his place would become the main battlefield of the holiday.

However, he was quite supportive of Li Yanqing's idea.

Chris has already done a pretty good job with the selection process from the junior team to the youth team. The only question now is how to arrange these good second-team players.

"Let's change the rules."

"From now on, you can directly nominate players who perform well to me."

"I will come to watch the game, and if I think it's suitable, I will bring it into the first team."

"Whether to stay with the team, loan out, or sell is my responsibility."

In the past, Li Yanqing would only come to recruit a few people when he was short of manpower, and he might not even be interested in all of them.

This has led to many outstanding youth training players being forced to switch to other teams.

This arrangement is definitely better than before.

"No problem, that's for the best."

Rhine had no objections. Although this approach might not work with a different head coach, Li Yanqing's position was still relatively secure for the time being.

"Also, regarding this holiday."

"We need to borrow some players from the youth training team."

“They will receive some special training.”

"They will be divided into groups and compete against each other every two days."

"You lead one group, and Jens and Neville lead another group."

"What are you planning to do? You didn't come all this way just to help me train my youth team, did you?" The update process was fine, but when it came to training his own players, Rhein immediately became nervous.

These young men are practically his lifeblood; he wouldn't even be willing to become an assistant coach for the first team because of them.

"Let's verify the training method. Don't worry, it won't affect you."

"In addition, when you were grouping the students, you picked out all the best ones."

When he spoke the second sentence, Li Yanqing deliberately lowered his voice.

If Lyman heard this, he would definitely accuse her of deliberately tormenting him.

"Understood. A month of intensive training, then we'll see how the gap is."

"This is a good thing. Once the first team's training camp begins, they can rest for a month before entering the new league."

Rhein calculated the time and, after confirming that the team could handle it, quickly nodded.

"But aren't you going to participate?"

"Li, what were you doing during our group competition?"

“I watched the whole thing.” Li Yanqing rolled his eyes.

"I'm in charge of the data this time."

He originally planned to participate by himself, but after thinking about it, he decided it would be better to sit in the audience.

This would make it easier for him to analyze the players' condition and, incidentally, to record it.

"Okay, shall we begin now?"

"Yes......"

Half an hour later, Rhein informed Lehmann that the training plan for this month had been changed.

Everyone will be divided into two groups, A and B, with each of them serving as the head coach of their respective group.

Given Lyman's lack of experience, Neville will become his assistant.

They played a 45-minute training match every two days, for a total of ten matches.

To motivate the players to work harder, Li Yanqing even offered three first-team substitute spots as an incentive.

The goal is to select the three best-performing players during this training camp.

What exactly constitutes "good" is up to Li Yanqing to decide.

If we only mention one person, with Li Yichuan around, most of the others probably wouldn't have much fighting spirit.

But this kid has no intention of joining the first team, so we simply made up a few more spots.

The team will eventually allocate some spots to them anyway.

Lehmann was also very interested in this, and he was eager to try and defeat his first opponent in his "head coaching career" this month.

When do we start forming groups?

"Should each person choose one?"

“No, all personnel will be assigned by Rhine.” Li Yanqing’s words struck Lehmann like a bolt from the blue.

"But he is my opponent!"

"If he takes all those excellent players away..."

"That would be a better test of your skills."

"Leading a weak team is a fundamental quality of a head coach..."