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Chapter 1382 You want to eat the whole Ajax team!

"Hey, Yang, congratulations! I watched the Champions League final and it was great!"

"Thank you, Edwin."

"Oh God, you know what? My biggest regret right now is retiring too early and not playing against you."

"Ha, Edgar, it's not easy to want to play? Let's make an appointment and play a game in De Tokmoster."

"That's a good idea, I'll be the referee!"

"Fuck you, can you show some face? I'm afraid it will be like this before kicking."

"Haha, I think Yang Yang's idea is good. Let us old guys play a senior game."

"To be honest, when I put on a suit, tie, and leather shoes, sometimes I almost don't know myself. After playing football all my life, I never thought that I would live like this. I feel uncomfortable when I don't play football."

"Daniel, don't complain, you are an assistant coach in the first team, and you play football a lot, okay?"

"Aren't you also coaching those young goalkeepers? Isn't it because of itchy hands?"

……

After the official meeting was over, Ajax's top executives had time to gather around to congratulate Yang Yang.

Now Yang Yang is a major shareholder of Ajax, and his reputation naturally makes Ajax proud. What's more, he is still from Ajax's youth training. Yang Yang has become more popular, and Ajax has followed suit.

Ajax's current management is basically all professional players, and all of them are from Ajax, which makes them inseparable from each other and cooperates well in work. At the same time, the football atmosphere in the team is very strong.

These are all the top world-class stars in European football back then. Although they performed their duties, they often went to the training ground to have fun. It was difficult for the first team to intervene, so they went to the youth team to bring those young players and give them some pointers.

This kind of atmosphere is excellent, and it is also part of the characteristics of Ajax's youth training.

Yang Yang still clearly remembers that the first time he came to De Tokmoorster was to participate in Ajax’s talent day selection, and this activity has a feature, that is, there will be Ajax’s first-team stars, which greatly motivates the young players participating in the selection.

Many of Ajax's youth training coaches are also from the club, including Van Basten, Rijkaard, Bergkamp and others have served as youth training coaches, which has a very great motivational effect on the young players in the youth training camp.

For example, Yang Yang, he misses those days when he was in Ajax and trained under Van Gaal and Van Basten.

I have to admit that the dead Cruyff may have selfish intentions in launching the Velvet Revolution, but to a certain extent, he did help Ajax regain the club genes and atmosphere lost in the turbulent years.

Just like Ajax today, from the management to the youth academy, the football atmosphere is very strong, which is good.

Only in such an atmosphere can Ajax be able to continuously train young players.

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After making an appointment to play a game with Van der Sar, Bergkamp and others, Yang Yang politely sent them away, and when he turned around, he found Van Gaal looking at him with a half-smile expression.

That look made his heart a little hairy.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Yang Yang was a little strange.

Van Gaal smiled, did not speak immediately, but called Yang Yang to his office.

After the two were seated, Van Gaal said coldly, "You want to eat the whole Ajax team!"

Yang Yang was slightly taken aback, and immediately raised his head to look at Van Gaal, a little surprised, but soon smiled wryly, "Am I acting so obvious?"

"It's really obvious." Van Gaal was very frank, "Your brother-in-law is really talented!"

Yang Yang's brother-in-law is Wei Zheng, a member of the current Ajax supervisory committee, and also Yang Yang's spokesperson for Ajax.

Sometimes talents are cultivated.

"He is really good. He studied in the Netherlands for many years ten years ago and is very familiar with Dutch football, especially Ajax and Amsterdam. He has been helping me with my personal affairs over the years, and he also knows professional football very well. Moreover, he now has a lot of talents and a complete team."

Yang Yang's current affairs are basically handed over to Wei Zheng. Raiola is more in charge of competitive negotiations, and Wei Zheng has worked hard over the years to make Yang Yang's golden brand shine brightly, and his investment has also done well.

Not to mention anything else, just investing in Rice Technology at the beginning, and withdrawing one after another in the past two years, Yang Yang lost his profit.

"The turmoil in the past few years and the weakness since the Velvet Revolution have made Ajax realize clearly that today's European professional football has changed, and it is no longer the European football that everyone was familiar with back then."

When Van Gaal said these words, the expression on his face was somewhat lonely and sad.

What was European football like in the past?
No one can tell.

Before the Bosman Act, European football should have closed its doors and built cars behind closed doors. Most of the clubs were mainly based on the youth training echelon, but after the Bosman Act, the flow of personnel became more frequent, and the youth training players headed by Ajax suffered a huge impact.

It can be said that this was the first time that Ajax suffered a heavy blow, because leading stars including Reziger and Kluivert failed to sell at a good price, and the club's competitiveness in European football began to suffer.

To a certain extent, the listing created the glory of Ajax at the beginning of the century. At the same time, Ajax also changed the past behind closed doors and actively introduced young talents from other European countries, Africa, South America and even the world. This made Ajax's strength at the beginning of the century.

At this point, Ajax was at the forefront of European football back then.

But after a round of prosperity, Ajax was in turmoil again. The Dutch league could not support a behemoth. Ajax quickly fell apart under the poaching of the four major leagues, and quickly fell from the peak.

In the past few years, European football has been shaped like a pyramid. Big fish eat small fish, and small fish eat shrimp. Ajax is equivalent to a small fish. It is still moist in the pool of European football. But in recent years, the situation has changed dramatically.

Just like Bazzor, this 19-year-old young player is still only a semi-finished product. If it is put into the previous situation, all the giants will continue to watch, quietly waiting for his growth and progress in Ajax, and finally sign him at the right time. The transfer fee may be higher, but at least it is appropriate and the risk is low.

Sneijder, Suarez and others all left Ajax in this way.

But it’s no longer possible now, because of the inflation in the transfer market, the player’s value has skyrocketed. Today’s Bazzol may be bought for 1000 million euros, but in one or two years, two or three years, when he matures, his value will immediately skyrocket. God knows what price he will get at that time?

Coupled with the advanced communications brought about by the explosion of information technology, young players have also begun to get in touch with the wider world. They have begun to realize that even if they are still young, they can still sign a lucrative contract with a big team, get a high annual salary early, and some even have no worries about food and clothing for a lifetime.

Just imagine, young players are human beings, with families behind them, and even most of the players are from the middle and lower classes. They all know that professional football is a bowl of youth food. If they can get a lucrative contract from a wealthy team at the age of 19, how can they refuse?Where would I consider whether this is suitable for my own development?
Bayern Munich's top executives once said that in Germany, as long as any young player receives a Bayern Munich contract, they will sign it almost without hesitation, because it represents a guarantee.

By the same token, the European giants are rich and powerful, and they are more secure than Ajax.

Therefore, when the big fish start to eat dried shrimps, the life of the small fish must be more difficult.

When Ajax began to be unable to retain young players like Bazzor, the team's entire business philosophy and youth training system had to be changed and adjusted accordingly, and it re-found its position in European football.

This process is difficult, will inevitably be turbulent, will experience severe pain, and the Ajax management is also under tremendous pressure. In this case, they are eager to make changes.

Cruyff's Velvet Revolution cannot save Ajax, but Yang Yang's 5000 million euros is a timely help.

In the past year, Wei Zheng has been working hard. On the one hand, he is doing management work, and on the other hand, he is also buying Ajax's tradable shares in the stock market. In the end, the Ajax Supervisory Board also let go and signed a formal agreement with Yang Yang and Wei Zheng.

It was stipulated in the agreement that in the next three years, if Ajax's business performance and athletic performance passed the assessment of the supervisory committee, they would agree to Yang Yang's purchase of the remaining Ajax shares at a high price of [-] million euros, and Ajax would completely become Yang Yang's personal property.

With the current market value of Ajax, [-] million euros is a relatively reasonable normal price, and there is not much premium, but the premise is that the performance and achievements must meet the requirements of the Supervisory Committee, which means that the management team headed by Yang Yang and Wei Zheng indeed has the ability to manage Ajax well.

This is also an opportunity for Yang Yang, which is why he tried so hard to persuade Van Gaal to return to Ajax, and at the same time let Wei Zheng help Menno Heron to actively develop the Chinese and Asian markets.

"As you said, today's European football has changed." Yang Yang did not hide his intentions and ambitions in front of Van Gaal. "The old style of play is no longer suitable. I need your help. Together, we can find a new way for Ajax that suits us."

"Three years? Are you sure?" Van Gaal was not sure about the time limit.

"How do you know if you don't try? Besides, even if you don't succeed within three years, at worst, you can hand over the management rights. The shares are still there, and the supervisory board is still there. I will slowly look for opportunities in the future." Yang Yang is full of confidence.

Needless to say about Van Gaal's ability, everyone is unanimously optimistic about Peter Boss. In addition, the club's transformation has begun to return to the right track. Whether it is Yang Yang, Wei Zheng, or Van der Sar and others, they are very confident.

(End of this chapter)