"Welcome to Staplewood, dear guests from afar" When several Southampton reception vehicles, carrying Klaus Michael Kuhn and others, went south from Wembley Stadium in London to Southampton's Staplewood training base, Les Reid was there They were greeted outside the training building.
This British youth training expert, who has just been promoted to Southampton's technical director, is wearing a crisp white shirt and a scarlet tie, which makes him look a bit dazzling.
He wears a pair of glasses on his slightly bald, round head.
Seems very friendly.
This kind of affinity can be seen in almost everyone who works in youth training.
"Hello, Mr.
Reed, thank you very much for the reception."
Kuhn and others got out of the car one by one and walked up to shake hands with Les Reed one by one.
"This is what we should do, Mr.
Kuhn" Les Reed looked very polite.
This was a guest that Master Huan personally appointed, so he would naturally receive them warmly, and Master Huan would come back to treat them to dinner in the evening.
"Let me introduce to you, this is Andris Juncker, our head of youth development."
The tall, blond, middle-aged man next to him immediately stepped forward and shook hands with Kuhn and others politely.
"Junker" Kuhn frowned slightly, "If I remember correctly, you used to be Van Gaal's assistant coach" "Yes, I was Luis's chief assistant coach at Barcelona and Bayern Munich," Juncker said with a smile.
Kuhn nodded, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Andris.
I have heard Ricardo mention you many times."
"Ricardo" Juncker was a little surprised, who is it?
"Ricardo Moniz" "Oh, it's him" Junker suddenly realized.
This time it was right.
Ricardo Moniz once served as an assistant coach in Hamburg and later became the team's head coach.
"At that time, we were planning to renovate Hamburg's youth academy.
I asked Ricardo for his opinion.
At that time, he solemnly recommended you to us.
He believed that Barcelona's youth academy can achieve its current glory because of your transformation achievements.
It’s a must, and after you joined Bayern Munich with Van Gaal, you also started to transform Bayern Munich’s youth academy.”
At this point, Kuhn laughed, "He told me that if you ask anyone who is familiar with European youth training, the most famous youth training expert in Europe, Andres Junker must be in the top three."
"Excellent," Juncker said with a modest smile.
Alexander Otto and others were also a little shocked.
They didn't expect that anyone from Staplewood would be so awesome.
As early as in the car, they had already learned about Southampton's Les Reid, who was also a well-known youth training expert in the UK and even Europe.
However, they did not expect that Staplewood actually had someone hiding there.
With youth training talents like Andres Junker.
Oh, I heard that he is the team's youth training director, and he probably only took up the post this year.
There have been rumors in the media that Southampton is undergoing management reforms.
There is news that Peter Kenyon may be leaving the team, Ron Gurley will move from his original role as COO to CEO, while Nicola Cortes will remain as executive chairman and Les Reed will serve as CEO.
The team's technical director.
In that case, Andris Juncker should have arrived at that time.
"Guys, please come in."
Les Reed invited everyone into the training building with a smile.
The Staplewood training base is divided into two major training areas, one for the first team and one for the youth team.
Both are equipped with advanced hardware facilities such as training buildings and indoor training fields.
Among them, the youth team’s training area also has two professional football fields, which are used by the Southampton youth team.
One of them is also equipped with a live broadcast and multimedia system, specially provided for the youth team to participate in the European Youth Champions League, and Some other venues are used for live broadcasts of games.
The two training areas are separated after entering through the gate.
Only people can walk in the middle, and vehicles cannot pass through.
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In the middle of the two areas, there are some shared facilities and venues, such as the data analysis and research center, the medical and rehabilitation center, and the indoor football stadium that is popular among players.
The first place Kuhn and others visited was the training building of the Saints first team.
Kuhn and others also visited this training building, which is famous in European football, with the mentality of a pilgrimage to learn.
However, because the first team went to London to participate in the Community Shield, the training building was very empty and there were almost no people. .
But Kuhn and others were surprised by the hardware facilities of the training building.
Not to mention anything else, just the simplest room for players to rest, it is completely completed according to the standards of a five-star hotel.
"Our players' room has just completed a new round of renovations, which were completed in full compliance with the requirements of sleep expert Nick Littlehalus.
Although a lot of money was invested, the players' response was very good, so, in We will continue to renovate the rooms in the youth team’s training building over the next year.”
Kuhn, Otto and others were surprised to hear this.
This matter has been reported by the media before, and it is said that more than seven figures were invested in the renovation.
But Southampton has such courage After visiting the players' rooms, they came to a gate.
The gate is very ordinary, but what is different is the sign erected at the gate.
It reads, "Non-players, please do not enter."
"This is the exclusive area for players reported by many media reporters."
Alexander Otto was immediately interested and wanted to push the door open and take a look inside, but he couldn't push it open.
"Hey, why is it locked?"
Les Reed smiled and nodded: "Yes, the players' exclusive area was proposed by Master Huan.
It is very popular among the players.
Except for the players of the first team, no one has a key and no one is allowed to enter. " "What's in there?"
Kuhn also asked with great interest.
Not only him, but everyone around him showed curious expressions.
Who knows, Les Reed shook his head helplessly and said: "Frankly speaking, I don't know either."
Everyone suddenly burst into sweat.
Even the technical director doesn’t know what’s inside, it’s quite mysterious.
"I'm very surprised, Mr.
Reed."
Kuhn asked curiously: "What if the players discuss something detrimental to the team inside?
Doesn't the club care?"
Les Reed nodded, "Yes, we won't care."
"Why" "This is the most basic form of trust.
The players believe in us, so they join Southampton and entrust their precious careers into our hands, so we also fully believe in the players."
When Les Reed said this, he changed the topic, "Of course, even if there are players who really want to be detrimental to the team, there are twenty or thirty players there, can they all join?
If so, then I believe it must be The club really has a problem” When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but nod their heads.
This is indeed the truth, isn't it?
Compared to Southampton, a player's career is the most precious.
"Is this Master Huan's idea?"
Kun asked again.
"Well, yes" Les Reed nodded.
Kuhn said no more, just took a deep look at the door, and followed Les Reed to turn elsewhere.
Heads spinning around the first-team training building, they are all stunned by the investment Southampton have put into their training facilities.
They had only seen some reports and heard about some things in the media before, but only when they saw it with their own eyes did they realize that Southampton was so advanced and its concepts were so advanced.
But when they left the first-team training building and walked into the data analysis and research center, they were even more surprised.
Different from the empty training building, the offices of the Data Analysis and Research Center were brightly lit and everyone was working intensively.
The two people leading them were not Marcus Dusatoy and Howard Hamilton who had been reported in the newspaper.
These are two of Southampton’s top figures in data analysis.
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"I'm sorry, everyone, they are busy preparing the data analysis results of the game that just ended.
After the team returns to Southampton, Bielsa will hold an analysis discussion and will use it then, so we don't have it.
Way to go in and visit.”
Kuhn and others also understood this.
But I was surprised in my heart.
I didn't expect that Southampton would have to analyze the pros and cons just after the game.
This is really efficient.
"Although there is no way to get in, Hamburg has contacted us before and intends to introduce our data analysis system.
Therefore, I can reveal here that many rumors in the outside media are inaccurate."
"Inaccurate" Kuhn looked at Les Reed in surprise.
"Mr.
Reed, what do you mean?"
Les Reed smiled confidently and calmly, "I mean, they underestimated our system."
"What?"
Kuhn and others were all shocked.
This system has been rumored by the media to be amazing, and it is still underestimated.
"In the past four years, our database has completed the accumulation of player data in Europe, and has also initially completed the collection of player data in several other continents such as Asia and South America.
I can say that any one of you can name it.
Players with different names can find their data here.”
Having said this, Lesrid smiled and said, "We may even be more familiar with and understand their players than their coaches."
Kuhn, Otto and others looked at each other in shock.
How could this be possible?
Les Reed received a call from Yang Huan before and knew that Master Huan meant to shock this group of fan representatives.
Therefore, he was not polite.
After saying "wait a moment," he nodded to Andres Juncker behind him.
The latter immediately knocked on the door and walked into the office.
He turned around and came out after a while, with an extra document in his hand.
Les Reed took the file and looked at it, "This is Cesc Fabregas' data from the Community Shield match just now.
You can take a look."
Kuhn and others quickly took it and turned it over.
The first page shocked them all.
In the past, the player-related data they saw in the media and newspapers, and even in the hands of club staff, at most was the player's running distance, number of passes, success rate, interceptions, steals, passes, etc.
Threat balls and more.
If there were more, it would be equipped with passing route maps and running heat maps.
But all of this is simply inferior compared to the data analysis of Southampton in front of me.
“Thanks to the improvement in broadcasting levels in recent years, especially ultra-high-definition broadcasts, we can get more game data, and generally speaking, the data we get from broadcasters in every game is often from fans.
What we see is more than ten times, or even dozens of times, because what we need is everything captured by each shot in ninety minutes.”
I have to say that Kuhn and others were really shocked.
Because they can't imagine how much work this requires This is too scary, right?
As far as this data analysis ability is concerned, looking at the football world around the world, oh, no, the sports world around the world, who can compare with: