In recent times, Pan Yi has not only dealt with the intensive schedule during this period, but also has to deal with "harassment" from phone calls from time to time.
These calls, without exception, are from senior executives of various clubs, making appointments for meetings and the like.
They are all real high-level people! Not the kind of secretary boy who is responsible for calling people.
And most of them are from prestigious clubs!
For example, Manchester City chairman Mubarak.
For example, Tottenham director Baldini.
Another example is Bayern's chairman Rummenigge and Barcelona's director Zubizarretta.
And the Manchester United CEO Sandoko who just defeated...
Fortunately, they don't have Fan Zhiyi's "back door" approach like Crystal Palace. They can only communicate on the phone first. Otherwise, Pan Yi would be exhausted from meeting representatives from a club every day.
On the phone, Pan Yi used almost the same words and swung the two axes first.
First, you should all have heard of the team rights I want. You should think about it first. If you are not satisfied, forget it. See you all again;
Second, the season is not over yet, and I don’t want to spend time on it now. Even if both parties are interested, we will discuss it after the season is over;
The first one here eliminated Manchester United and Barcelona.
As Sandoko thought, it is unlikely that a club like Manchester United would give a newcomer enough authority right away.
Apart from anything else, although Ferguson has retired, he is still the king of Manchester United... He will still intervene in many things.
This goes against Pan Yi's request.
The situation in Barcelona is a little different, but it is almost the same for Pan Yi.
The situation within their club is complicated, with various forces fighting overtly and covertly. It seems that they don't even know who the final decision maker is when it comes to transfer operations.
Pan Yi even knew that Zubizarretta, Barcelona's football director, would be terminated within a short time of staying at the club. Wouldn't it be nonsense to talk to him?
Then there's Bayern.
They were willing to talk to Pan Yi about authority, but they couldn't tolerate the existence of uncertainties.
The Germans may just hope that there will not be too many changes. They hope to negotiate immediately and then initial an agreement.
Because they believe that if they discuss it until the end of the season, the time will be too tight and it will not be conducive to the team's preparation for the new season - what if Pan Yi signs with another club by then, or stays in Hamburg?
So Bayern is also OUT.
Of course, this is also related to Pan Yi's inner resistance. After all, if you can win ten consecutive championships comfortably at Bayern, it is really not as challenging as in a small team like Hamburg...
The remaining Manchester City and Tottenham are very sincere.
Mubarak said frankly that Manchester City wants to become a giant that can win the Champions League.
To achieve such a goal, in addition to sufficient financial investment, a Ferguson belonging to Manchester City is needed.
At present, it seems that this "Ferguson" cannot be Pellegrini.
Mubarak believes that Pellegrini has not established a stable technical and tactical system at Manchester City, nor has he been able to lay a solid foundation for the team's growth.
It can be said that compared to his predecessor Mancini, Pellegrini did not even show a head-high ability.
Pan Yi led Hamburg's performance in the Champions League quarter-finals to conquer the top management of Manchester City. Now they all believe that Pan Yi is the one who can really lead them forward.
And there is another thing about Pan Yi that attracts Manchester City, and that is his discovery and training of young players.
This is not because Manchester City thinks this can save them money, but they also want to establish a complete youth training system and continuously provide talents to the first team.
This is also the real idea of Mubarak, an "outsider", who wants to truly integrate into the local community.
If a team is dominated by foreigners and does not have native or even local people to support it, the support and recognition in the local community will be greatly weakened.
To cultivate your own "prince", you need to have a correct direction and a discerning eye to find those young talents.
After a comprehensive look, Pan Yi is simply the most suitable candidate sent to Manchester City by God at this time!
On Tottenham's side, director Baldini also expressed Tottenham boss Levy's appreciation for Pan Yi and made a promise to give higher team authority and more transfer funds.
This was actually quite unexpected by Pan Yi.
In his impression, he was cunning, strong, shrewd, stingy, a transfer genius, and always willing to spend every penny... these are Levi's labels.
A typical Jewish businessman!
Especially in the area of transfer decision-making that Pan Yi values most, Levi has always had a strong desire to control and basically has to intervene.
He was actually willing to let go for Pan Yi? This is a bit incredible.
Isn't this one of Levi's "empty-handed" methods? Let’s talk about it after we get it?
However, considering that in Pan Yi's previous life, Levi later hired coaches with strong controlling personalities like Mourinho and Conte, it seems that his words still have a certain degree of credibility.
Another point is that since Levi took over Tottenham in 2001 and became chairman, Tottenham has actually changed a lot.
As a veteran team with a long history but extremely dismal record, Tottenham has become a member of the Premier League BIG6 in recent years and has begun to have the ability to compete for Champions League qualifications and even championships. Levy's contribution cannot be erased. of.
He initially strictly controlled the team's financial situation, completed the necessary capital accumulation in the early stage, and then built Tottenham's own new stadium.
In terms of team management, Levi also knows how to give in and delegate power. Except for transfers, he will not interfere with any of the head coach's selection and tactics.
Also, he also attaches great importance to the team's youth training.
He said, "Spending money on big names is of course the easiest way to succeed, but it is not sustainable. We must consolidate the foundation of the club, and the future of the youth training team is crucial."
Sol Campbell, Harry Kane, Harry Winks, Danny Rose...etc., are all outstanding products of Tottenham's youth training camp.
Of course, when the team really wants him to spend money, he will also tear off his "stingy" label and throw out real money.
For example, he once spent 60 million pounds to buy Richarlison, and also spent 63 million pounds to buy Ndombele from Lyon.
In the ten years from 2012 to 2022, as much as one billion euros was invested in buying people, with an average of 100 million euros per year.
Whether it was worth it or not is another matter, he was always willing to spend the money.
Therefore, his stinginess is also relative, compared to richer teams such as Manchester United and Manchester City.
Because Levi is slightly different from these clubs in that he has never forgotten his identity: he is a businessman running an independent enterprise, and there is no difference in principle between football clubs and enterprises in various other industries.
Having said that, while maintaining such investment, he also built a new White Hart Lane stadium for the team, which greatly increased Tottenham's revenue and commercial appeal. It seems that you can't ask for more from Levi... …
Now it seems that both Manchester City and Tottenham have expressed their eagerness for Pan Yi.
Including the "two axes" swung by Pan Yi, they also caught them.
Permission is given to you;
It's okay to talk about it after the season, but there's no rush anyway.
So Pan Yi is not in a hurry.
As a migrant worker, the most satisfying thing is that while you are still working here, your next family will come to you one by one, so you don’t have to worry at all...
For Pan Yi, whether it is Manchester City or Tottenham, they actually meet his requirements.
In addition to the two conditions above, both Manchester City and Tottenham have mediocre historical results. This gives Pan Yi a more sufficient reason to make contributions to such a club and create a new dynasty.
Of course, if the results of the two teams are compared, Tottenham will be even worse. They have not won the top league championship since the 1960s, while Manchester City just regained the Premier League championship the year before last.
In terms of lineup, Manchester City is naturally very strong. After all, it is the same team that has just won the Premier League championship in the past two years.
Both David Silva and Aguero are well-deserved world-class stars.
It's just that such a lineup is a disadvantage in attracting Pan Yi. After all, leading so many world-class stars to win championships seems really difficult to give people the feeling of "this coach is so awesome."
After all, Mancini and Pellegrini can do it too!
The saying "tie a dog with a crown" has been around for a long time...
Even in Pan Yi's previous life, after Guardiola came to Manchester City and won several championships in the Premier League, some people still said this.
They think that Manchester City has a lot of money and the players they buy are very good, so the role of the coach is average, blah blah blah.
They have never thought that if this is really the case, then why did Manchester City choose Guardiola so firmly and give him the highest salary as a coach in the world, instead of just looking for a keyboard warrior to be the head coach?
Anyway, anyone can do it, and the salary of a keyboard warrior is only 5,000 a month...
Are the top brass at these clubs stupid?
Let's put it this way, if Manchester City is willing to let Guardiola go and Guardiola also wants to leave, look at how many big clubs in the world will immediately offer him a new contract!
That's too far.
In short, the coach is very important to a team, but Pan Yi just wants to play a more important role.
As I said before, leading a more difficult team will give you a greater sense of accomplishment after success!
Manchester City, in fact, has proven in Pan Yi's previous life that they will succeed under the leadership of Guardiola.
Although they have not won the Champions League yet, they can win four championships in five years in the highly competitive Premier League. This is also a very remarkable achievement.
In this way, it seems that Tottenham is more suitable?
Their recent results are much worse than Manchester City, and their lineup is also relatively poor.
Although there are good players like Eriksen and Lori, as well as supernovas like Kane, overall they are not as big-name as those players from Manchester City.
This is actually the reason why Tottenham have been unable to truly compete with teams such as Manchester City and Liverpool in recent years. They are still slightly inferior in terms of strength.
But isn’t that what Pan Yi likes?
Slowly train some young people to become talents, and then compete with the Premier League powers, and then fight against the European powers!
It’s just that it’s still early and everything will have to wait until the end of the season.
Maybe there will be a better choice by then?
For example...Crystal Palace?
They have less money, but the team is weaker and can challenge Pan Yi better. By the way, they can also give Fan Zhiyi some face.
But the problem is that since the last meeting, Crystal Palace seems to have forgotten about Pan Yi.
That's because after Chairman Parish listened to Pan Yi's suggestion and hired Tony Pulis to coach Crystal Palace, the team's performance improved significantly.
1:0 win over Chelsea, 3:0 win over Cardiff City, 1:0 Aston Villa, 3:2 Everton, 1:0 West Ham United...
This terrifying five-game winning streak has long since pulled Crystal Palace out of the relegation quagmire, and it has suddenly become a mid-tier team with no worries about relegation. It is about to achieve the best record in the history of Crystal Palace.
Perhaps Parrish just "likes the new and hates the old" and no longer thinks about Pan Yi.
This is normal when you think about it. Who would give up on a person who can lead the team to such a good record, create club history, and even win the title of best head coach in the Premier League at the end of the season with a score of more than ten in the league?
Who needs Pan Yi?
Pan Yi didn't think much of it.
Anyway, he has many choices. In summer, he can choose the one that suits him best.
He just felt that since he recommended such an awesome coach to Crystal Palace to avoid relegation, shouldn't Parish pay him a headhunting fee or something...
…
April 10, People’s Park Stadium.
In the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, Hamburg faced Manchester United at home.
Although there are already five goals in hand, most of Hamburg's main players have been rested, so Pan Yi still sent out many main players in this game.
The reason why it is not all the main players is because there is a Bundesliga game in Hamburg three days later. Pan Yi simply let the other half of the main players rest for a few more days, so he put on a half-rotation lineup.
Manchester United is sending all its main players.
Of course, this is not because Moyes still has any illusions about promotion. He lost the first game too badly. If he was beaten more in the away game, he really did not dare to return to Manchester.
It is precisely because of this idea that Manchester United played more conservatively than in the first game.
As for Hamburg, they won't kill anyone.
This is not necessary!
The most important thing is to be promoted. Now we still have to save more energy and energy for the Bundesliga and subsequent games. After all, everyone is really tired during this period.
Therefore, in the first half, both sides played more cautiously, created fewer opportunities, and the scene was relatively dull.
But in the second half, Manchester United still exposed their problems in wing defense.
At this time, the Hamburg players were disrespectful.
We can’t let you score a goal but not score, right?
In the 67th minute, Wu Lei received a pass from Paulinho, dribbled the ball in from the left and kicked a powerful shot, breaking the deadlock for Hamburg and expanding the total score to 6:0!
In the 81st minute, it was Wu Lei again. He received a through ball from Kante during a counterattack. He fired a wonderful volley without stopping the ball in the penalty area, giving Hamburg another victory!
In the end, Hamburg defeated Manchester United 2:0 at home, and the total score of the two rounds was fixed at 7:0. Manchester United was treated to a bottle of 7-Up.
Hamburg also officially advanced to the Champions League semi-finals, while Manchester United set another shameful record.
This is the worst defeat Manchester United has suffered in two rounds of European competition!
Of course, for this single game, the result was not bad.
After all, after a 0:5 defeat at home, only two goals were lost in the away game, which seems reasonable...
…
At the same time, the other three teams participating in the Champions League semi-finals also came out.
The battle between Real Madrid and Dortmund almost had an accident!
Dortmund, who returned home, played extremely well. They scored a goal from Royce in the 24th minute and pulled one back.
And with their morale boosted, they became more and more courageous as they fought. In the 37th minute, it was Royce again!
He scored again, scoring twice and helping Dortmund tie the total score to 2:3!
In the second half, Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti made consecutive substitutions, replacing Di Maria with Illarramendi and replacing Benzema with Varane.
It is obvious at first glance that such a move is to strengthen the defense and maintain the advantage of this ball!
And An Pang also got the result he wanted.
2:0 is the score of the whole game, Real Madrid also advanced in a thrilling way!
In the match between Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich, Bayern, playing at home, also had an advantage in the game.
Robben and Thomas Muller scored one goal each in the first and second half, allowing Bayern to defeat Paris Saint-Germain 2:0 and eliminate their opponents with a total score of 3:1 to advance to the semi-finals.
In the "Big Badby", Simeone's team had the last laugh.
Chelsea played at home, but Atletico Madrid stole one from Cork less than three minutes into the game, and then set up an indestructible bus in front of their own door.
Mourinho had no choice but to let the team launch a fierce attack, but they were slightly lacking in offensive ability and never got a good chance.
Until the 90th minute of the game, when Atletico Madrid players were losing strength and losing concentration, center back David Luiz scored from a corner kick and tied the score to 1:1.
This score also remained until the end.
Since the first leg match was 0:0 at Atletico Madrid's home court, Atletico Madrid, which had an away goal, was lucky enough to eliminate Chelsea and enter the semi-finals!
In this way, all the semi-finals of the Champions League this season will be produced.
Hamburg, Bayern, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid.
Two Bundesliga, two La Liga.
Not a single one of the Premier League’s top players who boasted loudly before the game is left.
This is obviously a slap in the face of those "Premier League whistleblowers", especially Gary Neville.
Of course, he probably doesn't care now. His face is swollen anyway, and any more swelling will just make him look fatter...
The semi-final matches were quickly drawn.
Hamburg vs. Atletico Madrid, Bayern vs. Real Madrid!
The semi-finals will be a comprehensive confrontation between Bundesliga and La Liga!
And what a coincidence, one is a duel between two traditional giants, and the other is a competition between recent newcomers.
Needless to say, there are traditional giants. Bayern is the hegemon of the Bundesliga and Real Madrid is the king of La Liga. The dialogue between the two is naturally like sparks hitting the earth.
The other side is also very interesting.
Both teams are "non-traditional strong teams with traditions."
Atletico Madrid's situation is actually a bit similar to Hamburg's. Their ancestors were rich and they also won 9 La Liga championships, but the last time was in 1996.
Of course, although Atletico Madrid has won more top league titles than Hamburg, Hamburg has also won the Champions League, which Atletico Madrid cannot match.
The two teams are also the two "civilian teams" that have performed best recently.
Hamburg is temporarily ranked first in the Bundesliga, while Atletico Madrid is ranked second in La Liga, only 3 points behind Real Madrid at the top of the list, and still has hope of winning the championship.
In other words, the four teams that have entered the semi-finals of this season's Champions League are actually the top two in the Bundesliga and the top two in La Liga.
The four teams are all very strong and very close to each other. Everyone has a chance to advance to the finals!
For Pan Yi, facing Atletico Madrid is actually a new challenge for him.
After all, although he has dealt with many defensive teams, Atletico Madrid is undoubtedly the team that has done the best defense in recent years!
In today's football, perhaps there is only one opponent that can be compared with it, and that is Mourinho's Chelsea.
And Simeone led the team to defeat them. This was the "championship and runner-up final", which shows that the champion of this defensive competition is Atletico Madrid!
…
Diego Simeone, a former Argentina national team player, the most famous moment as a player was when he was lightly kicked by Beckham in the quarter-finals of the 1998 World Cup against England.
Then Simeone fell down in an exaggerated way, causing the referee who was right next to him to decisively give Beckham a red card.
While letting the "heartthrob" leave the field early and enduring the curse of England fans, Simeone also used this method to help Argentina defeat England and enter the World Cup quarter-finals.
Of course, apart from this kind of "playing with his brain" moments, he was actually one of the best defensive midfielders in world football in the 1990s.
As a defensive midfielder, he has comprehensive skills, tough style, extremely high interception efficiency, and full defensive hardness. He is a qualified barrier in front of the team's defense, and his back-breaking offense can often help the team score at critical moments. .
And when he became a coach, he also continued the iron-blooded passion from his player days, and was good at inspiring the morale of the players and the passion of the fans.
Years of playing in Inter Milan and Lazio, the influence of the Italian football atmosphere and the tempering of the defensive midfielder position as a player also created Simeone's soft spot for defense.
In the Spanish football world where control prevails, the maverick Simeone announced a classical revival with the 4-4-2 formation that was scorned by most coaches.
In Atletico Madrid's 442 formation, the traditional four-line structure maximizes the mutual positional balance between the player lines and the horizontal and vertical utilization of the field. The tactical tasks and running routes of the players in each position are relatively clear and fixed. .
In the midfield, Simeone uses more "one-size-fits-all" players and defensive players, while the forwards rely more on the products of "Atletico Madrid's traditional outstanding strikers" - Villa and Diego Costa.
This season, they have achieved excellent results and their overall tactical system is mature, which seems to prove to a certain extent that the formation is not "outdated".
But from Pan Yi's perspective, Simeone's formation and tactical combination are not universally applicable, and can even be said to be "unreplicable."
Because when every coach chooses a team's formation and deploys tactics, he needs to consider many aspects such as the number of players in each position of the team, personal ability characteristics, and evaluation of developable positions and abilities.
It can be seen from the Atletico Madrid game that Simeone's supporting tactics have extremely high requirements for the four midfielders.
Whether it is Kok, Gabi, or Raul Garcia, Alda Turan, Thiago Mendes, they are all infinitely close to "all-round players" with both offensive and defensive abilities.
Each of them has been made by Simeone into a "jack of all trades" player who can hit the ball, attack or defend.
The high degree of integration and adjustability between players and tactical formations is the most obvious highlight that distinguishes Atletico Madrid from other teams.
The same midfielder can assume multiple positions on the field, which undoubtedly increases Atletico Madrid's tactical flexibility at both the offensive and defensive levels.
When the ball is in the midfield and backfield, the defensive midfielder with high-level tactical literacy and long-passing ability can directly cross the opponent's midfield defense line to complete the connection with the high-point forward partner. At the same time, other midfield players and another forward can surround Complete the two-point scramble and attack near the high point.
This seemingly simple and crude tactic cannot even be called an advanced tactic, but it is supported by Atletico Madrid's versatile midfield line.
It can be said that in the past three years since Simeone took charge of Atletico Madrid, he has been constantly looking for and training players who can support the smooth operation of his 442 formation.
Now, it's obviously time for Atletico to show results.
Simeone also led Atletico Madrid to attack the La Liga championship and the Champions League championship, preparing to create a glorious history that belongs to himself and to Atletico Madrid!
(End of chapter)
