Chapter 533(1/2)
What David Bernstein mentioned is not only investment in club hardware facilities, but also investment in software such as talents, but also emphasis on youth team players.
Yang Huan has a concept, that is, there are no two identical leaves in the world, nor are there two identical people.
Although youth training theoretically requires batches of professional players as much as possible, it is impossible to require them to be exactly the same, especially with the advent of the Internet era, the phenomenon of young people premature intelligence is very common now.
Don’t think that the current post-90s and post-00s can still play with a football all day like the old seniors before, without knowing anything, having no opinions or ideas at all, and doing it entirely based on the coach’s intentions.
That is impossible!
If you are so developed, what do you don’t know? If you are a Baidur or Google, what do you don’t know?
Therefore, don’t want to fool the youth training now. You have to pay attention to the personality of the players and give them appropriate autonomy.
Southampton's approach in this regard is the only one in the world.
After all of them, after they officially became Saints youth training players at the age of seven, each of them can be assigned to an Apple tablet with a club software, and each player will have an independent file in this software.
This file is edited based on the actual situation of the players entering the club.
After players enter Staplewood, after every training session, after each physical examination, or after every game, or even during injury, the club will enter their various data, as well as their kicking videos, into the database.
Players can clearly and intuitively understand everything about themselves based on the data in the database, such as in which aspects they have made progress, in which aspects they have regressed, whether their bodies have become fat or thin, how they perform in the game, etc.
All of these can be found through computer software.
In today's professional football world, let alone most teams have not established such a database, after all, they have invested a lot.
Even a very small number of teams with strong financial resources have established databases for youth training players, but they are basically in the hands of the coaching team. After analysis by the coaching team, they will guide the players in training.
In this case, the players have no idea what they are like. Many times, they will have conflicts with the coaching team when information is not equal, and exclude the coaching team's training arrangements.
However, Southampton's approach is to open up data to players to participate, so that players can clearly know their situation, participate or even dominate their future development direction and goals.
All the coaching staff needs to do is provide professional advice and let players make reference and selection.
Not only that, Southampton also attaches great importance to communication and contact with players' parents.
There are specialists in the Stapletwood youth training camp who are specifically responsible for interacting with parents. At the same time, they also encourage parents to actively participate in the training of players and become part of the entire youth training system to understand players' training, diet and cultural learning.
Even Southampton will hold some parent training courses regularly to let parents know how they can better help their children grow and improve.
For example, health nutrition courses are the training courses that parents themselves benefit from and are the most sought after by parents.
It can be said that this set of concepts in the Southampton youth training system is indeed quite advanced and even subversive.
Because in the past, traditional youth training was controlled by the club.
But now, the participation of players and parents and the opening of the club have made everything transparent.
Even this sense of participation and dominance will make players work harder and more confident.
But behind all this is Southampton's annual investment in the youth training system.
This is simply unimaginable when the whole world regards youth training as a burden.
More importantly, Southampton's youth training system is too subversive.
Nowadays, what should England do first to promote youth training?
Isn't it just subversion?
Especially the subversion of Southampton, which is similar to Southampton, which satisfies youth training parties, players, and players' families, and everyone is happy. It is simply the most urgent need of the FA!
So, David Bernstein immediately asked with a shy face and smiled, "Sir Huan?, I wonder if I can do me another favor?"
"Help?" Yang Huan looked at everyone around, including Martin Hunter, almost all the people in the Glorious Revolutionary Youth Training Reform Team, looked embarrassed.
Not?
Whether it is Young Master Huan or Southampton, for England's youth training reform, it can be said that it is really both money and effort.
If it weren't for them, what would you do to revolutionize the glorious revolution?
But now, people have helped so much, and you are not satisfied, and you still have to continue asking for help. Don’t you think it’s a bit too much?
But what David Bernstein did not expect was that Master Huan laughed without hesitation.
"Okay, if there is anything, as long as I can do it, I will definitely help!"
Everyone present immediately gave a thumbs up to Young Master Huan!
This Young Master Huan is simply the English football world. Oh, no, he is the most urgent model boss in professional football in the world!
"We hope to introduce this youth training system in Southampton, I don't know..."
Everyone was embarrassed again at this moment, and even David Bernstein himself couldn't continue to say anything.
You guys, they said they wanted to help, but you were fine. The lion spoke up and wanted to poach others' foundation.
Southampton has invested so much and established such a youth training system. Do you want to introduce it in just one word?
Isn’t this someone else setting up a stage, are you performing?
But he didn't know that Young Master Huan was not angry, but instead pondered for a moment, "There is no problem in introducing it, but how much can you invest?"
"Invest?" David Burnstant was stunned.
Although the Glorious Revolution Plan has a sufficient budget, in fact, there are too many places to spend money and almost every aspect of it costs money.
After this sharing, there is really not much spare budget.
"Does it take a lot of investment?" David Bernstein asked a question that everyone is concerned about.
Martin Hunter coughed at this time and nodded, "Mr. Bernstein, Southampton has established a youth training system so far, solely (a system that has invested at least tens of millions of pounds to purchase equipment and develop software systems, which includes many aspects, especially databases and analysis algorithms."
Over ten million pounds?
Everyone present was shocked!
This youth training system is high-end, elegant and upscale, but it costs too much, right?
But when I thought about it, it’s no wonder, just that whole set of equipment costs how much?
Are there so many ultra-high-definition cameras in the Steptwood training base?
There is also a computer server. How much does it take to process so much data and video recordings?
With such a complete set of high-end equipment, there must be high-end talents, right?
Salary is not worth money? Bonus is not worth money?
After doing this, it seems that the investment is really amazing!
"The investment is not much. The annual employee and system maintenance costs are also a considerable expense, which costs at least two or three million pounds!" What Martin Hunter said is basically reliable.
It's just a little exaggerated!
But David Bernstein wanted to give up at this moment.
What the FA lacks the most is money. Although it has a glorious revolutionary plan, it cannot help but spend the money.
At this moment, in the eyes of David Bernstein and others, Southampton's youth training system is the best white and rich beauty. As long as you have money, you can marry them home, but they can't stand them being a short-lived penis!
Just when David Bernstein and others were depressed, Martin Hunter changed the subject.
"Actually, I think there is no need to introduce a whole system. Now that the Internet technology is so developed, we can borrow Southampton's system to analyze our data. In this way, we don't need to invest too much, but we can also achieve results that are close to Southampton's youth training system."
This is what Southampton is currently working with Monaco and Atletico Madrid.
Not only the youth training system, but also the scouting system, are also integrating and opening up the database.
When David Bernstein heard this, his eyes lit up. Is there such a good thing?
It seems to be the same as renting a server on someone’s website!
When Yang Huan heard this, he frowned, "In this way, you can save a lot of investment and maintenance costs, but our Southampton system operating costs will be increased, which is probably..."
"Master Huan, don't worry, we will definitely not let you suffer a loss!" David Bernstein immediately added a promise.
There are too many ways to prevent Southampton from suffering losses, such as schedule...
Although the FA has no money, the power is still quite good.
Yang Huan thought about it again and nodded, "Okay, help people to the end, and send Buddha to the West!"
After saying that, Young Master Huan slapped his thigh and said, "Okay, I agree to this!"
In fact, Young Master Huan was secretly happy at this moment!
The reason is very simple. In this way, St. George became one of the sub-stations for the Southampton youth training system to collect data.
And you should know that St. George is the English youth training center, with the goal of Clay Fontaine. In the future, the most outstanding young rookies from all ages in the UK will be gathered to train with national teams at all levels.
Once Southampton controls this set of data, doesn’t that mean that you can clearly grasp the detailed data of all rookies and internationals in England without spending a penny?
With this set of data, Southampton will have an amazing accuracy in introducing young rookies and local players. Now that the number of local players is so valuable, this alone can ensure that Southampton makes a fortune!
But who is Mr. Huan? His joy and anger are not reflected in his expression.
Even if I feel very happy, I still have to pretend to behave on the surface, giving people a feeling of suffering a great loss.
Especially when David Bernstein proposed that it would be better not to mention Southampton in public, just to say that the FA and the Glorious Revolutionary Youth Training Reform Team were determined to form such a system.
Who doesn’t know that, as the chairman of the FA, David Bernstein has taken great contributions?
To be continued...