Chapter 53 Data Analysis
Frederick's voice was too loud and his voice spread throughout the floor.
Zhang Yang listened several times outside the door, and he couldn't help but feel the corners of his mouth. Then he let out a long sigh, adjusted his mentality and knocked on the door.
"Dong!Dong!Dong!"
The sound of huge wooden boards hitting attracted everyone in the room. Frederick's voice finally took a rest.
Gligory cleared his throat, "Please come in!"
Zhang Yang walked in straight, smiling all the time, as if he was in a good mood, but everyone in the room knew that the knock on the door just now was definitely a reminder and protest to Frederick for reading the report.
Zhang Yang glanced at Frederick.
Frederick was a little embarrassed. No matter how bad people said something bad, they were caught by people at that time, it was not a glorious thing, but he quickly adjusted his mood and showed a shameless attitude of "I just said what's going on."
Everyone else was laughing.
"Ahem..."
Gligory coughed several times, slightly relieved the awkward atmosphere and attracted everyone's attention. Then he talked about the important matter, "Now, I'm asking everyone to come, there is an important thing to discuss."
Everyone became serious.
"You all should know that the club's financial situation has not been very good recently. We have a bank debt of £1.5 million that is about to expire and must be paid before February."
"So, sorry, Denise." Gligory looked at Wise, "I can't provide you with transfer funds this winter."
After hearing this, Denise Wise nodded, he had already been prepared.
Millwall is so poor!
In the London region, where football is brilliant, there are a lot of top teams, Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur and Fulham. Four teams almost monopolized London. There are several small clubs in the same level as Millwall, Watford, Charlton, Crystal Palace, West Ham United, etc. are all good teams.
Millwall has a century of history, but has had to face a fierce competitive environment throughout history.
This kind of competition is mainly reflected in the competition for fans.
Fans are at a disadvantage in their competition and lack of support from fans will directly affect the club's finances.
When time entered the 21st century, football commercialization developed very quickly, but Millwall never entered the top league. Needless to say, in the entire England and the entire London region, even in the Millwall area and surrounding areas, the development of the club has some stagnation.
Currently, the market value of the entire Millwall Club is only about 8 million pounds. The club has a lot of debts, and the only visible asset is the Neal Stadium. In order to have money to invest in the transfer market in July, even the home ticket income of this season was mortgaged to the bank for loans.
It is almost impossible for such a team to spend money during the winter transfer period.
What Gligoli wants to say is not just that he has no money to transfer, otherwise he won’t have to call everyone. After he talks about no transfer fee, he continues to talk about, “We need to sell the players to prepare funds.”
"Sell players?"
Wise, Frederick, and Zhang Yang, are a little unacceptable. Millwall is still in the relegation zone. If he sells his main players, it will definitely be a question whether the team can relegate.
Gligory saw everyone's surprise and sighed slightly, "I have no choice. This is the case with the club. We need to prepare funds, otherwise the debt will be due and the bank will be in trouble."
Gligory refers to account checking.
If the debt expires and the contract is not repaid for a long time, the bank has the right to send someone to check the assets of the Millwall Club. At that time, all debt situations will be exposed to the media and public.
Millwall's current economic situation is basically "demolition of the east wall and repairing the west wall". If all debts are exposed, they may face large-scale debt collection. Not to mention a lot of trouble at that time, if it affects the team's performance and prevents the team from completing relegation, the club will almost only face bankruptcy.
In contrast, selling a main player doesn't seem like a big deal.
The next few people started to discuss.
Gligory asked Wise to say the players who 'can consider selling', but as the team leader, he definitely doesn't want to sell the main players. Wise is talking about some players from the corners.
Gligory's answer is of course not good.
Those players can't sell much money at all. By the end of the season, the club will even consider allowing them to transfer freely to leave in order to reduce their salary expenses.
This made Wise very embarrassed.
There are only a few valuable players in the club. They are all main players and the team is the backbone of the league. It is too difficult to decide which one to sell.
Finally Wise said two names.
One is Jody Morris, who is the team's midfield core, Millwall's most valuable player, with a net worth of more than 3 million pounds. It can be said that one Morris is the top half of the team.
If Jody Morris is sold, it will definitely be fine for the club to pay off the debt, but if you lose the core of the midfield, it will not be certain what level the team can perform.
Wise's idea is that as long as he plays more, he can make up for the lack of Jody Morris' departure.
Others know what he thinks, probably won't be too optimistic.
Wise is a big star in the past. It is not the present. His age is there, so it is difficult to play 90 minutes. In addition, he runs less on the court.
Jody Morris is a player who is in his year of playing and can play for Millwall continuously and play all over the game. He has superb technical strength, strong level and rich experience.
If it weren't for not having a chance, he would be able to fight in the top league.
Compared with the two, Morris obviously won.
The other is forward Scott Dobby, the former West Bromwich main striker who joined Millwall this summer, with the transfer fee reaching £2 million at the time.
So far, Scott Dobby has not performed well. He only contributed a goal to the team and even kicked the penalty kick in the last game. But Wise believes that Dobby just did not adapt to Millwall's environment and his performance will definitely get better and better in the future.
If Scott Dobby is sold, who can score for Millwall in the second half of the schedule? He doesn't have the ability to replace a striker.
For this reason, Wise ranked Scott Dobby behind Jody Morris.
Wise mentioned the two players and everyone started to study them together.
Jody Morris?
Scott Dobby?
This was a difficult choice. Both of them were very important to Millwall. A few people discussed it, but there was no result.
Wise doesn't want to sell any of them.
Gligery tends to sell Jody Morris because Morris is more valuable. In addition, Scott Dobby has just joined the team, and selling now means admitting that the transfer has failed.
Frederick didn't even have a tendency. He said that Jody Morris is indispensable, then Scott Dobby can perform better, and then talked about how important the two are to the team. What will happen if they sell one of them will be. People in the room don't understand what he is going to express.
Ebenizer just listened quietly, with a faint smile on his face, looking like "what player to sell has nothing to do with me."
Zhang Yang is completely an outsider.
He has only been to the club for the second time and is just a "match instructor". He can't interfere with which player he wants to sell.
Choosing one of two is often difficult.
After thinking about it for a long time, the few people still couldn't take any attention. Ebenezer couldn't help but say, "Don't you want to ask Zhang's opinion? He is the competition instructor and is responsible for leading the team with Dennis. I think his opinion is also very important."
Several people in the room looked at Zhang Yang.
Frederick said disdainfully, "He just came to the club and couldn't even recognize the player's name. What good suggestions can he have."
Wise didn't say anything.
Gligory asked, "Zhang, what do you think? Scott, Jody, which one do you choose?"
Zhang Yang had already thought about it just now, but he felt that there was no room for words. When he heard Gligory ask, he said, "If I were asked to choose, I think selling Scott Dobby will have a smaller impact on the team."
"Why?"
"Because Scott Dobby's performance is not good." Zhang Yang began to speak with the data. "If I remember correctly, from August to now, Scott Dobby has 12 starts in the league and three substitutes, and has played for nearly 1,200 minutes in total, but he only scored one goal! Just one goal! It can be said that the team's bottom ranking in the league is also related to Scott Dobby's poor performance. If he could score a few more, maybe the team's ranking would not be so low."
Wise couldn't help but say, "But I said everything, he probably just didn't adapt..."
"Probably?" Zhang Yang asked, "Are you sure he will be able to adapt in the future? What if he can't adapt throughout the season?"
Wise pursed his lips.
There are many factors that a player does not perform well, and no one can be sure that Scott Dobby will perform well next.
Zhang Yang let everyone digest what they said just now and continued, "There is another reason I chose Scott Dobby. I have read the information about Scott Dobby. He is not a genius, but a low-level league. First, Carlisle United, a team that makes people unable to remember their names, and then he went to West Bromwich. He was 23 years old at the time. He played for four seasons with West Bromwich. He also played for two seasons with the Premier League."
Zhang Yang paced around the room and said slowly, "In the first Premier League season, he played 31 times for West Bromwich, scoring 5 goals, and his goal efficiency was not high."
"Two years later, last season, he only played five times, not because of injuries or other force majeure, but because of poor performance, West Bromwich lost his place."
"I said that he is not a genius. He is indeed able to play the main player when West Bromwich competes in the Championship, but as long as there is a choice, West Bromwich will not use him."
"At the age of 23, he played 43 times in the Champions League and scored only 10 goals. In the past few seasons, he has not scored more than 5 goals. Now he is over 28 and is a player who is almost 30 years old. He has begun to decline. Who expects him to rejuvenate his second career without adapting to Millwall?"
After Zhang Yang finished speaking, everyone in the room was silent.
About half a minute later, Gligory slapped his hands, and the others, regardless of whether they wanted to or not, also clapped their hands.
Ebenizer gave Zhang Yang a thumbs up.
Gligery turned to Frederick and said, "Do you still think he hasn't worked hard with such accurate data?"
Frederick remained silent.
He can't stop this.
Chapter completed!