super storm

Chapter 36 He reminds me of someone
The busy summer season is finally here.

After an empty-handed season, the pressure on Ajax's management has doubled.

The defensive core and captain Qi Wu and the sharpest right winger in the frontcourt, Van der Meyde, both have to transfer. This has posed a huge problem for Ajax.

signings?

This is unlikely. There are many players in the first team who are facing the problem of contract renewal. Once the contract is renewed, the salary must be raised.

If a club's finances are regarded as a balance, then the transfer fee and salary budget are the two ends of the balance. If you want to raise one side, you have to lower the other end.

The reason why the management decided to sell people was also due to the pressure of the team's salary increase.

If you don't sell people, where will the money come from to raise the salaries of Van der Vaart, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Sneijder?

Selling people without spending a lot of money in the transfer market, and keeping the team competitive, and even performing better than last season, undoubtedly posed a big problem for the sports department.

Ronald Koeman has made it clear that in the new season, he will continue to promote young talents from the youth team to the first team. At the same time, he also requires the scouting department to find a group of outstanding young players to join the team as soon as possible to provide enough talent for the first team.

Even [-]- and [-]-year-old players such as Babel and Ram Rabat have begun to enter the first-team wait-and-see list.

Tony Browns Slotz is the head of the scouting department, so selection is naturally his responsibility.

Recently, he has also been very busy. Every day, he is greeted and sent, and the information of the players in his hands is unknown, which makes him dizzy. He often suffers from headaches every time he enters De Tokmoster.

Especially when he saw Patrick Ladrew and Fred Arroyo coming together, his brows were even more tightly frowned.

"I hope you guys brought me good news." Slots pouted and said bitterly.

Ladrew and Arroyo smiled at each other.

Patrick Ladru is a veteran of Ajax's youth training and has been coaching the youth team. After Leo Benhak left early, he was transferred to serve as a youth training assistant.

Fred Arroyo is a scout under Slotz's command. He is responsible for inspecting Ajax's players on loan and regularly submits an inspection application.

These two have been busy with the same thing recently, the summer amateur.

"Don't say it, there is really good news." Fred Arroyo laughed.

"tell me the story."

"Aren't you having a headache for the central defender and right winger recently?"

"Yeah." Slots nodded.

These are also the two positions where the team most urgently needs signings.

"As for the central defender, I strongly recommend the young central defender Vlaar from Alkmaar."

Slots nodded. He knows this player. He has performed well in amateur games. He is also a typical central defender. He is younger and immature, but his prospects are still promising.

"This player is really good, but he is younger. You know the current problems of our team. We need more mature and stable players. Therefore, the scouting department and the coaching staff prefer Ligue 24 Rennes' Julien Escuder. He will be [-] soon and has more experience."

Patrick Ladru shrugged, "It doesn't matter, we have a good relationship with Alkmaar, we can talk about it first."

Obviously, both he and Arroyo are very optimistic about the central defender Fral.

Slotz thought for a while, "Let me think about it again. You know, we can't recruit all the best young people in the Netherlands into the team. We have to consider whether there are enough opportunities to practice games. We also have Thomas Vermaelen in the central defender position. We signed this Belgian in [-], but he has not yet appeared in the first team."

After hearing this, the two stopped insisting. For a team like Ajax, the least scarce thing is young players.

"The other one is right winger, you must have heard of it." Arroyo laughed.

"Oh?"

"That Chinese in Almere, Yang Yang."

"It's him." Slotz nodded. "Last night, Aaron Moy's football online was basically discussing him. He challenged Volendam away and scored twice. Two goals helped Almere reverse the home team. This performance is really good."

"We've seen him play live," Arroyo smiled. "His breakthrough on the right reminds me of a guy."

"Who?"

"Ronaldo."

"Come on, aliens are front."

"I know, I mean, he's dribbling like Ronaldo."

When Arroyo said this, Slots suddenly remembered something, and immediately signaled to the two colleagues to wait a moment, then went to the side cabinet full of documents, searched for a while, and quickly pulled out a document.

"Forgot how long ago, our scouts also recommended him."

With that said, Slotz handed the document to the two colleagues.

While they watched the scouting reports, Slotz played tapes of Arroyo's games on the computer.

Last night's game was played at the Karas Stadium in Volendam. Although it was not broadcast live, at the request of Ajax, the scene was videotaped. Arroyo specially edited Yang Yang's game highlights and copied them to a USB flash drive.

Slots couldn't help frowning even deeper as he watched.

If he remembers correctly, the scouting report should have been put on his desk more than a month ago, but he didn't pay much attention at that time, because the person who recommended him thought Yang Yang was Ronaldo II, which was judged by Slots as grandstanding.

But judging from the game video submitted by Arroyo, Yang Yang's breakthrough on the right side is really sharp, and his investment in the frontcourt, especially in defense, is very high, which is very rare among offensive players.

Although Slotz is not the head coach, he is very clear that a player who is willing to spare no effort to defend and has excellent offensive ability is a treasure for any head coach.

The reason why Ronald Koeman does not particularly trust Ibrahimovic is because the Swedish center is not keen on defense.

Watching the game video carefully, Slotz found that as long as Yang Yang hits the ball head-on, the one-on-one success rate is almost [-]%, which is simply unbelievable.

But the video also exposed many problems of Yang Yang.

"Basic skills are too bad, especially the first kick to stop the ball, the pass is very thoughtful, but not good, and his cross is very bad."

Being able to be in charge of Ajax's scouting department, Slotz has sharp eyes and can see Yang Yang's strengths and weaknesses at a glance.

If the basic skills are not too bad, if the first stop and cross are more reliable, this player will be very good. Almere will definitely score more than two goals in this game.

This is a player with obvious strengths and weaknesses.

Arroyo and Ladru looked at each other, and they both saw the helplessness in each other's eyes.

"I listened to Football Online last night. Many enthusiastic fans said on the phone that this Yang Yang was unable to play in Almere two months ago, but he has suddenly improved rapidly in the past two or three months and has become the core of the team."

Slots looked at Ladrew, "Patrick, you mean..."

"I think we ought to take a good look at him, and it would be best if you went yourself."

"Well, I will consider it." Slots thought for a while and said.

Arroyo on the side also saw Slotz's perfunctory, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Tony, I know you've been busy recently, but I really suggest you think about Patrick's proposal."

"Huh?" Slots also noticed something was wrong.

"I saw Gullit in Volendam last night."

"Well, he has decided to take over the Dutch U18 national team this summer." Slotz is not surprised.

"There were scouts Henk Funk from Utrecht, Michel Beckers from Feyenoord, and scouts from several other teams. They all spoke highly of Yang Yang."

After hearing this, Slots immediately paid attention to it. He didn't expect that someone would still be following him, so he had to take it seriously.

"Also, I saw Pete DeVisor on set."

"Peter DeVisor?" Slots was taken aback, staring at Arroyo and asked with concern: "Are you sure? Did you see the wrong person?"

"It's true, Karas Van Baalen is with him." Arroyo said with great certainty.

Slots' face changed again and again, and he didn't speak for a long time, but finally he stood up.

"I'll call Luther Carroll right away."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Fred Arroyo in front of him again, "Fred, you can check for me right away to find out when Almere's next match is and who the opponent is. I want to get the exact information as soon as possible."

Arroyo knew that he had attracted the attention of the head of the scouting department, so she didn't dare to be careless, so she immediately stood up and agreed.

Patrick Ladrew added, "Tony, you'd better call John Rip."

Slots and Arroyo immediately cheered.

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After playing Volendam, Almere returned triumphantly and was warmly welcomed by Almere fans, especially Yang Yang, who scored twice, once again became the team's savior.

Everyone once again gathered at Shen Kee Chinese Restaurant to celebrate, and after eating and drinking, they went home to rest.

That night, in the super training ground, Yang Yang and Lao Bing had a post-match replay, mainly focusing on some mistakes Yang Yang made in the game. Some of them were caused by poor basic skills and were difficult to improve in a short time, but some were Yang Yang’s own problems, which should be avoided as much as possible in the next game.

Encountering problems and solving them, this is Yang Yang's way of continuous improvement in the past three months.

Early the next morning, Yang Yang headed to the skateboard park for special training in good spirits.

Due to last night's game, the team stopped training for one day today, so except for the lunch break, Yang Yang basically spent the rest of the time in training at the skate park, and did not return to the restaurant to help out until dinner time.

After finally finishing the meal, and after dinner, Henk Dimmel and others came to the door again.

It was not long before even John Rip came.

This is the first time ever.

(End of this chapter)