Lunch was long.

The topic has changed from Ajax to Liverpool, then from Liverpool to Manchester City, and then to other teams.

Among them, what caught Yang Yang's attention was a brief speech by Tuchel himself.

The PSG coach's coaching performance was not ideal last season, especially with the strength of Paris Saint-Germain, but he won the club's contract renewal, which shows that the PSG management recognized him.

But don't think like some fans, they always think that European club owners are fools and idiots, and they are easily fooled. In fact, it's not. In today's era, no one is a fool. Every club has its own review mechanism, especially for teams like Paris Saint-Germain, the requirements for the head coach will only be stricter.

The reason why Tuchel won the contract renewal at least proves that he did a lot of things right, making the Paris Saint-Germain management feel that his coaching has a future and can see hope, otherwise who would be so stupid to give him a high salary?

Tuchel did not talk about his contract renewal, he just talked about the difficulties he encountered while coaching.

Last season, he had always hoped to try more formations for Paris Saint-Germain, so for a while, he repeatedly polished the formation, from 433 to 3412, from 4411 to 4231, and various formations were constantly switched, which made Paris Saint-Germain players unable to adapt.

You should know that the players' positions and tasks are different.

Tuchel tried 4411, and originally wanted to play more stably, but the players were not used to it, the lineup became unstable, and he was eliminated from the Champions League, which made him very depressed.

But one thing is worthy of recognition, that is, his Paris Saint-Germain is outrageously stable in the Ligue 1.

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Regarding Tuchel's question, Zidane pointed at Yang Yang with a smile.

"I think he should have the most say in this issue, because since we worked together before, he has never taken the warm-up match seriously. When coaching Ajax, he still coached Real Madrid this season. Look, he lost seven consecutive games in seven warm-up matches, but in the league, he won three consecutive games."

Yang Yang looked at Zidane gratefully, knowing that he intended to help him.

Of course, Zidane was right. Yang Yang never took the warm-up match seriously. Otherwise, he would not have arranged a large-scale rotation in each of the seven warm-up matches of Real Madrid, and adopted a different tactical style of play in each game.

Yang Yang was not surprised at Tuchel's problem at all, and his solution to the problem was very simple, that is, he would never leave the essence and grasp the core essence of things.

For example, in Ajax, he just wants to play high-pressing and oppression, whether it's 442, 433, 4231, or even 31. There's no problem in playing three defenders, but he just wants to play high-pressing and oppression.

But when it comes to Real Madrid, the problem becomes much more complicated.

Ajax can make a move, but he has some luck to win the championship last season, but Yang Yang cannot hope that the goddess of luck will favor him again and again, right?

So when he arrived at Real Madrid, he wanted to further integrate the team's tactics so that the team could adapt to more different formations and tactics, and then deal with more scenes and opponents.

"The targeted tactics are really terrible now. What impressed me the most was the North American International Champions League vs. Atletico Madrid. My idea in the first half was to control the ball, but as a result, Diego's team started to do it right and started to do it directly, which stunned my players and scored five goals in a row."

Everyone laughed suddenly. That game was really interesting.

"I was also anxious at the time. I could lose the warm-up match, but I couldn't lose it, right? So, I brought out all my money and started the second half, so I even chased four goals, but just when we were about to equalize the score or even reverse, Diego made continuous substitutions and adjusted his defense."

When Yang Yang said this, he spread his hands together and was very helpless.

It sounds very common, but in fact, only the head coaches can understand it. On the court, it would be so difficult to arrange troops and command on the spot.

"This game made me more convinced that we must adapt to more tactical play and formations, and we must make ourselves more comprehensive, and more comprehensive means more choices."

Yang Yang's words made everyone present deeply agree.

Indeed, comprehensiveness represents more choices, but not every team is qualified to pursue comprehensiveness.

For example, Atletico Madrid, the Bedding Legion can only stick to its own style and work hard to dig to the extreme, because their lineup cannot be comprehensive and excellent.

Only top teams such as Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​or teams that are not short of money such as Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain, can collect a strong lineup, be comprehensive and excellent, and have more choices.

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One lunch lasted until the afternoon.

Through long conversations, everyone also had a deeper impression of Yang Yang. They all began to believe that Yang Yang led Ajax to success was not a lucky or accident, but that he really had such strength.

A layman watches the excitement, while an expert sees the tricks.

It is absolutely great to be able to talk to many world-renowned coaches and speak in a good way.

After lunch, everyone took a short rest and took the bus to the UEFA headquarters in Nyon.

Tomorrow is the highlight of the summit, and the afternoon is just a regular party.

But what everyone unexpected was that outside the UEFA headquarters, more media reporters and fans from afar gathered, all of whom came for Yang Yang's name, which surprised everyone, and at the same time deeply admired Yang Yang's popularity.

After a happy afternoon, dinner was a banquet for UEFA hospitality.

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The next morning, after everyone finished their breakfast, they arrived at the UEFA headquarters again and started the main topics of the summit.

The discussion at the Elite Coach Summit is more about the issues of the European Football League and some issues in the game process. In addition to the topics given by UEFA, everyone will have a period of time to speak freely and can raise their own issues.

For example, Guardiola and Klopp both raised the issue of Var video referees, but what is interesting is that these two Premier League coaches have different attitudes towards Var video referees, and their opinions are also completely different.

The reason is that in the Premier League last season, Manchester City suffered a loss from the video referee and Liverpool took advantage.

Both of them think that the video referee needs to be changed, but the direction of the change is different.

This kind of conflict of views is very common in elite coach summits. To put it bluntly, each coach represents his own interests, and his butt determines his head. Naturally, they all hope to launch some reforms that are more conducive to their own.

Just like Yang Yang, he continued his previous speech at the FIFA Awards Conference, and once again raised the question of hope that UEFA can pay more attention to the current surge in transfer fees and the surge in players' annual salary in European football.

Yang Yang said frankly that Ajax is the biggest beneficiary this summer, but he still believes that such a model cannot last. On the contrary, UEFA should introduce relevant policies to control club investment and players' annual salary expenditures to avoid a vicious arms race.

Yang Yang's proposal is not without selfishness, because Ajax has already made a lot of money. Even if the club's investment and annual salary are limited, Ajax's players' value will not be low, but the living environment it faces will have to be improved a lot. Real Madrid's fiscal revenue and the club's operating nature determine that this team will never be short of money.

The ones who have the biggest opinions on Yang Yang's proposal are tycoons like Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City, so Guardiola and Tuchel both reserved Yang Yang's opinions.

To put it bluntly, if these rich teams did not spend a lot of money, what would they do to fight against traditional wealthy families?

Therefore, not allowing them to burn money or restricting them from burning money is equivalent to weakening their competitiveness in a changing direction.

Barcelona also opposed Yang Yang's proposal because the annual salary expenditure of their club players is very high. Even if they sell Cristiano Ronaldo, their annual salary expenditure is still more than 70%, which is very dangerous.

Yang Yang's view is not new. He has mentioned it before and many people have mentioned it, but it has to be said that with the surge in the value and annual salary of European football players, this issue has indeed become increasingly acute.

Ajax is definitely the alternative.

After earning 700 million euros this summer, Wei Zheng moved 200 million euros from it to Yang Yang, and at the same time, he bought out the property rights of the entire Cruyff Stadium and the two surrounding supporting buildings from the municipal government, completely integrating them into Ajax's private property.

Subsequently, the wealthy Ajax announced at the end of August that it had acquired a shopping center and a hotel next to the Cruyff Stadium. At the same time, it officially held a press conference in the Netherlands, proposing a plan to build a new city in the southeast of Amsterdam around with the Cruyff Stadium as the core, and even the most eye-catching commercial center in the entire Amsterdam urban circle.

This caused a huge sensation throughout the Netherlands.

However, due to Yang Yang's departure, Ajax's attention has weakened, so the noise caused by football in Europe and the world is not much, and many fans have never heard of this at all.

Yang Yang, Wei Zheng and others are all convinced that if this plan is realized and operates successfully, no matter whether Ajax will continue to hold the throne of the Eredivisie, or merge with Eredivisie and A to form a brand new league, Ajax will have good competitiveness and gain a firm foothold in European football.

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The entire elite coaching summit lasted until the afternoon.

Among them, a small episode appeared in the afternoon photo group stage. It was originally supposed to be the Champions League champion Yang Yang sitting in the C position, but Yang Yang stood modestly in the back row, and finally became Ancelotti and the old coach Lucescu were sitting in the center.
Chapter completed!