Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 42 The Heart of Pei Wei
Li Qiang's ability to handle affairs is indeed unreliable. In the short period of six months, he has already established relationships with some staff members of many European clubs through various means, although these people are not high-level executives in the clubs. However, the relationship between Li Qiang and them is just acquaintance, but when they are needed, these relationships will still play a considerable role immediately.

For example, just like now, Li Qiang asked Wenger's home address and phone number from Mr. Oliveira of the Monaco Club just by calling. What made Pei Wei even more happy was that Li Qiang and Wenger also met. Although it is not very familiar, at least it is not so abrupt compared with two strangers going directly to Wenger's house.

When Li Qiang made another phone call with Wenger to confirm that he was at home, Pei Wei immediately pulled Li Qiang along and hurried to Monaco.

Li Qiang is a little puzzled. He understands that Pei Wei is eager to find a head coach, but is Wenger, who has been idle at home for half a year after being dismissed by Monaco, so important?

Although there are not many well-known and talented coaches in Europe, it is not impossible to find them. Why should such a coach who has not shown any outstanding qualities be so valued?

Pei Wei, however, rejoiced in his heart that Wenger's strength is known to anyone who knows about penalty kicks. In one year, he brought Nagoya Grampus, a mid-range team in the Japanese J-League, to the Emperor's Cup champion. After taking over Arsenal, he turned this dull and unaesthetic London team into a strong European team with more offensive points, delicate style of play, and beautiful football. The fighting between dragons and tigers during the years has made all fans talk about it. You must know that from the 92-93 season to the 03-04 season, before Chelsea's strong rise after receiving a huge capital injection from Abramovich, Manchester United was basically singing a one-man show for the entire 12 years. Among them, apart from Blackburn who won a Premier League title, only Arsenal won three Premier League titles from Manchester United!
Arsenal's three Premier League titles were all won after Wenger took over.

What makes Pei Wei even more excited is that Wenger is also a coach who is best at cultivating young players. Although there are quite a few young players he introduced who were mistaken, the success rate is definitely the highest in Europe!
Vieira, Anelka, Henry, Fabregas...

These famous names could only be regarded as minor fame before being trained by Wenger, but after Wenger's seemingly magical fingers turned stones into gold, they immediately became world-class superstars!
However, this is not the reason why Pei Wei desperately wants to get Wenger.

He knew that even if Wenger could be successfully recruited to Yunjiatianyu as the head coach, Yunjiatianyu would not be able to keep Wenger for too long--when have you ever seen a small pond who can always have a real dragon?It's a pity that Wenger can definitely be regarded as a real dragon, while Yunjiatianyu can only be regarded as a small pond no matter how well developed he is.

Even if Yunjia Tianyu develops into the biggest, best, and best-performing football club in China, and even becomes the number one football club in Asia, compared with those European giants with a long history, it can only be regarded as a stream beside the sea.

Because it still lacks foundation, no matter how capable Pei Wei is, there is no way for Yunjia Tianyu to complete the road that took European giants clubs hundreds of years to complete in a few years.

Wenger is a coach with ideals, ability, and ambition. He will never be willing to work in a club in the Far East for too long—in fact, he only worked in Nagoya Grampus for one and a half years before going to Entering Arsenal, a legend unfolded.

Introducing Wenger, Pei Wei not only valued the club's performance, but also not only for Wenger to dig out a few talents for Chinese football or Yunjiatianyu.

What he values ​​is that when Wenger becomes a world-class famous coach in the future, the Chinese league he once stayed in will expand its popularity and influence in the world because of having such a world-class coach as Wenger!
The Chinese league spends a lot of money on foreign aid and foreign coaches, but there is always a lack of world-class players and world-class coaches, and the Japanese J-League, which has developed the best in Asia, was through a lot of money at the beginning. Attract past world superstars and world-class coaches and let the world know and know them quickly.

What Pei Wei wants to do is to drive the entire Chinese league through his own club and become the number one "Z" league in Asia.

Only with a good league can the football level of the whole country develop well. This has always been Pei Wei's point of view, and he also firmly believes that this point of view is correct.

This "good league" does not only refer to results, and results do not explain everything. In 2006, when he was reborn, La Liga and the Premier League basically suppressed the original world's No. [-] league, Serie A. The results of the club team in the European arena, the ability of the league to create wealth, etc., etc., have surpassed the original "Little World Cup" Serie A, but the national teams of Spain and England have always been helpless. The achievements of their national team in various competitions such as the World Cup are completely inconsistent with their league status.

Pei Wei believes that this is entirely the result of too many foreign players in La Liga and the Premier League.

Because the club doesn't care about your national team's performance, they only care about the club's performance and the income obtained through the performance - so they will bring in the best players regardless of which country they are from.

Especially with the Bosman transfer system implemented in 96, players from EU countries are not subject to transfer restrictions. Although being with good players can make the growth of domestic players faster, but to a large extent It hinders the development of domestic players.

After all, the growth of football players depends more on the game than spending time on the bench.

What Pei Wei hopes is that China's leagues can continuously cultivate fresh blood like the leagues of France, Brazil and Argentina. Only a league with hematopoietic function can make the football level of the whole country develop rapidly.

Why is Brazil strong?That's because their players are all over the world. Why is Argentina a big favorite every World Cup?Because their players are the main force in quite a few giants in Europe, but Spain, England and Italy, the three countries that have done the best in the league, have gradually begun to have a talent gap.

Pei Wei hopes that China's leagues will become a fertile ground for talent cultivation like the leagues of Brazil and Argentina, rather than a huge money-making machine like La Liga, Premier League and Serie A.

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