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Chapter 85 The direction of the youth team

Vasquez resigned and Jose returned. The news caused a big and small response in La Liga.

There shouldn't have been such a response. Although Mallorca was once rated as one of the eight strongest teams in the world for its outstanding results in 1999, although it was at the end of the ranking, it was already an amazing honor - but no matter what, they were just a weak team that was still in the Spanish Second Division in the 1996-97 season. At most, they can only be regarded as a mid-range team. The mid-range team changed coaches. In today's current coach speculation, it is not a big news. However, Jose's achievements last season were too impressive, and taking charge of the team as the first shareholder can be regarded as a huge gimmick. Therefore, there were quite a few media who followed Mallorca in those days...

This news is good news for many people.

There are two lonely people on the training base of Mallorca Team 2.

At the end of last season, they returned to the second team because they still belonged to the second team on the contract. After Vasquez took office, he ignored the Mallorca second team, which is almost Jose's back garden. Even when he was missing players, he did not have the idea of ​​transferring players in the second team.

Although Mota and Luke's experience increased a lot after training for a while in the first team and being baptized in the League Cup, their performance in the Spanish Second Division became more and more outstanding, but they felt boring - after experiencing the big scene in the League Cup final, playing in the Spanish Second Division again? The gap is indeed quite large...

So although Mallorca second team played very well this season and has maintained a top six position in the Spanish Second Division since the beginning of the season, Luke and Mota are in a worse and worse mood.

Fortunately, Mota is still young, just eighteen years old, while Luke is a little unable to wait. His performance in the Segunda Division in the past two seasons has also attracted the attention of many Segunda Division teams and La Liga mid- and lower-level teams. Although he does not have an agent yet, various scouts have begun to contact him...

Just when Luke was almost tempted - he was lucky than Stankovic, and he heard the news of Jose returning to the club a few days later. Although Jose went abroad to buy people later, he gave Luke great hope.

Not leaving! Stay in Mallorca!

Luke firmly believed that Jose would not give up on him!

He won the bet.

On the afternoon of November 16, when the second team finished training, Mota and Luke saw a familiar figure under the training ground.

"Thiago, Albert, starts tomorrow and report to the first team." Jose said simply.

Just such a simple sentence made the two young players feel as if they had heard fairy music!

Seeing that Jose seemed to be planning to talk to the second team's head coach Mesqueta, Mota and Luke forced to suppress the joy in their hearts and said goodbye to Jose. They didn't look at each other until they walked out of Jose's sight, and then they saw ecstasy in each other's eyes!

"Did you see, Albert! On the first day of the boss' return, let's go to the team to report!" Mota said excitedly.

"Yes, it's not when the season is about to end, but when the season is just beginning!" Luke waved his fist: "I knew that those old guys were just now, and we represent the future! The boss couldn't have no idea about this!"

"We must work harder to go to the first team and play the main force sooner!" Mota nodded heavily, as if he was talking to Luke, or to himself.

"Tiago, you're right!" Luke laughed: "When you pass the ball, I score the goal, we will be Mallorca's best partner!"

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While Luke and Mota were celebrating excitedly, Jose was chatting with Mesqueta.

"Thiago and Albert's departure... will not have any impact on the results, right?" Jose asked.

"The impact is certain, but there is no pressure, and the team's performance is good now, it doesn't matter." Mesqueda shook his head: "The boy signed from Salez last year is good, and he scored more goals on the front line than Albert. Although he is not as good as Albert, he feels very sharp in front of the goal."

"Uh, are you talking about Daniel?" Jose asked after thinking about it.

"Yes, I'm not tall, but I'm in good health, have a sense of fighting and grabbing points. Although I'm still a little short of it, I can play a good role in the first team after two years of exercise." Mesqueda replied.

Jose nodded slightly - this is also a name he feels familiar with - Daniel Guysa, a player who later won the La Liga top scorer, but he is only 20 years old now, and lack of experience is his biggest problem, not to mention that Mallorca is not short of strikers now, and it seems that loaning him out would be a good choice.

In Jose's impression, Guysa performed well in that season, then scored in the national team and scored goals in the European Cup - and then he was sold to Turkey by the lack of money Mallorca, and then, there was no more...

"I'm an available player, but I can't use it now." Jose thought to himself.

Mesqueda looked at Jose in a daze, feeling a little strange, and then he just looked at Jose, meaning - everyone is about to be finished, why don't you leave yet...

Come back to my senses from my thoughts and seeing Mesquida look at him like that, Jose smiled: "No, Ruoan, even if I stay in Team 2 for a while, there is no need to drive me away, right?"

"Hmph, Team 2 is my territory now." Mesquida pointed to his nose and said arrogantly.

"Okay, I won't steal your position." Jose smiled and waved his hand: "Actually, I still have some things to talk to you."

Half an hour later.

"You mean, to build the training base of Mallorca II into the type of Lamacia Football School? I think the first team is the highest goal?"

"I had this idea at the beginning, but I haven't considered the tactic that is consistent and effective, but there are a few points that need to be determined."

"you say."

"Adhere to the ground offense, focus on training players' passing awareness and collective cooperation awareness. Each group of players should train a midfield core like Mota, so that the entire team can operate more orderly. At the same time, the players' collective running and overall pressing habits must be developed. This tactic will be the tactic that I will focus on in the future. It requires players to have proficient ball control skills and pass awareness and the awareness of mutual adaptation on the court. Although there will be some changes in tactical details, the general direction remains unchanged. During the passing process, the main focus is on the triangular pass and the coordination awareness. I don't need players who like to fight alone. What I want is players with excellent overall cooperation, and they will be the main body of Mallorca. As for other types of players, you can search in the transfer market."

Jose's approach has been changed by the way of Barcelona in later generations. Although Barcelona's warm-hearted back and forth attacks are actually very dull, their habits and acting elements of siege referees have been criticized by many people. However, in terms of overall tactic advancement and sublimation, their approach is not wrong, including overall pressing and continuous use of passes to form local advantages, it must be the correct path for the development of modern football. This general direction is something that Jose must use, but in terms of details, he will be different.

Barcelona uses local training to create a backbone and local players who can fill the tactical system as soon as they come, and to build a team with suitable foreign players who check for omissions and fill in the gaps. Jose's idea is the opposite - building a framework with a local training system and then introducing players in certain suitable positions - when Mallorca's fiscal revenue cannot completely make up for the deficit, buying low and selling high will be Jose's only means. To put it bluntly, what he wants to build is a system that can continuously produce stars, and the show-off work allows some players who are capable of becoming stars to do it. In fact, they are not the most important players. What is important is those unknown local system players. In that way, Mallorca can become a continuous star-making factory. Even if they sell superstars every year, it will not have much impact on the team's strength!

Just like Udinese in the late 1990s, every year, he can sell one or two players who perform very well, such as two Serie A top scorers, Bielhof and Amoruso. However, the truly important players will not be too popular, and they don’t even know that they are constantly creating stars to earn income and gradually enriching Mallorca’s assets!

And this also has an advantage - all ordinary players trained can be mass-produced, so that they will not be afraid of being exploited by Premier League clubs that Spain can only sign professional contracts with players over 17 to poach people - the lessons of Fabregas and Pique are still fresh in Jose. Using this method, the players he has worked hard to train can basically be avoided being poached by the opponent at the age of 16, and he can only watch it - Mallorca is not as attractive and rich as Barcelona, ​​just treating it as others helping him train players for free and mature...

Jose knew that this was also a playful game of fire, but he had no other choice - the initial funds were so much, and some were less used. Even if he could make a profit every year, Jose's huge plan to expand the Mallorca club would make these incomes sucked clean like water entering a sponge. He had to create profits every year and use these profits to purchase equipment. Otherwise, Mallorca would only become weaker and weaker and less profitable.

Although Jose can be supplemented by other investments, the damn bullhead has made it clear before, there is only so much start-up capital, and the others can only be made through clubs. After obtaining shares in Mallorca, Jose tried to invest tens of thousands of dollars in the Spanish stock market, but lost everything immediately - after that, he knew this...

"Shouldn't I be the protagonist of the story? I should have the protagonist's halo, and that modifier has never been useful. Otherwise, I don't want this modifier anymore. Just let me have the same wealth as Xiao Ming. It's still time to go to the United States to invest in Google..."

He lamented in his heart, but he also knew that this kind of thing was probably nothing to talk about - he believed that if he invested in Google, he might lose everything inexplicably. Besides, he always wanted to die and always fall into the hands of those guys. It would be better not to violate their rules.

Thinking of this, Jose gave up all unrealistic ideas and shook his head and said to Mesqueta: "It's basically that's it. The Spanish Second Division is also a good place to train. Next, in the Spanish Second Division, it's enough to not be relegated. Training the players' awareness and team spirit on the court is the most important purpose."

Mesqueda nodded. Although he did not particularly understand Jose's idea, Jose's request was not impossible. It was nothing more than training certain promising players in the past, but now it is just to train the players' collective consciousness. Genius is rare after all, while more players who work diligently and have a team-oriented consciousness are needed.
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