Chapter 1415 Leader

The final of the Club World Cup is Real Madrid’s last battle before the winter break. After the Club World Cup, the team held a celebration banquet and Christmas banquet in the honor room of the Bernabeu, and the whole team began to enter the Christmas holiday.

There are no major events in 2017, so the Christmas holiday is relatively long, but Real Madrid will still start training after Christmas, and many players, including Yang Yang, have undergone physical strengthening training early and entered the winter break early. Adjustment, so the coaching staff's holiday requirements for players are also relatively high.

With the experience of last season, the team is more experienced in handling this season, and the arrangements given by the coaching staff are more targeted.

At the very least, the team is doing its best to ensure the self-discipline and state of the players.

Before Christmas, Yang Yang got a week's vacation, he can relax well, he only needs to maintain his state and adjust his body during this period of time. He decided to take his wife and children to the south where the climate is warmer. .

David Silva invited him to go to the Canary Islands for vacation, Suarez, Marcelo and others all brought their families to go, Yang Yang also decided to go with him, his impression of the Canary Islands still stayed for a few years before, but it's still nice to go there for the winter.

However, before heading south, Yang Yang headed north and flew to Amsterdam.

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The situation in the Eredivisie this season is a bit surprising.

Eindhoven, who performed well last season, has finally experienced turmoil after being poached by many giant teams. Currently, it only ranks third in the Eredivisie, scoring 34 points in 17 rounds of the league and winning 9 of 7. The record of one draw and one loss clearly shows the problems of this team.

Eindhoven only conceded eight goals in seventeen rounds. The defense is the best in the Eredivisie, but it only scored 25 goals. The offense can only rank in the middle and lower reaches of the Eredivisie. It can be seen that this team attack is problematic.

Ajax currently has 37 points, ranking second in the Eredivisie standings, with 11 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses, scoring 35 goals and conceding 13 goals. The season was even worse, because last season the team had 13 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses in the first half and scored 41 points.

This comparison is somewhat unfair. After all, the turnover of personnel, especially the departure of players such as Milik, did have an impact on Ajax, but it is undeniable that the coaching of Peter Bosch can only be regarded as quite satisfactory.

There is a saying that is right, a match against each other, or a challenge to the strong, can really test the technical and tactical level of a team, and Ajax's performance in the strong dialogue this season can only be said to be Moderate.

The Champions League qualifiers were 1-1 at home and 1-4 on the road, losing to Rostov, especially the away game. It can be said that Ajax suffered heavy losses, because if Ajax can reach the Champions League group stage, Ajax will lose a lot. Sri Lanka can get at least about 20 million euros in benefits, but unfortunately, the team stops at the periphery.

This is cheap Eindhoven's sworn enemy, because they swept the Eredivisie in the Champions League prize money.

The Champions League was frustrated, and Ajax moved to the Europa League. In the group stage, they won four wins and two draws and remained unbeaten. They performed well. However, it should be noted that Ajax’s group stage opponents are basically not strong. The opponent with a headache is Celta Vigo in La Liga, but this team has performed poorly this season and is currently only ranked 13th in La Liga.

But in any case, at least Ajax's performance is still stable.

Of course, although Pete Bosch is quite satisfactory in terms of coaching performance, he spares no effort in the training and promotion of young players.

At present, young players in the team can basically get a lot of opportunities. Young players such as Kluivert Jr., Van de Beek, De Jong, and De Ligt have been promoted to the first team one after another, and they have also received opportunities one after another. The newly joined Ndombele is also emerging in the new season. The Brazilian left back Jorge and the local midfielder Rosario, who came from Almere, have also performed well. These are all worthy of recognition.

In the technical and tactical system, Pete Bos solved some problems that existed in De Boer in the later period, such as the attack in the frontcourt and the problems in the midfield, but it still did not get sorted out. Became the best player in the first half of Ajax, and even the entire Eredivisie.

The 24-year-old Ajax captain has successfully attracted the attention of the four major league teams such as Naples and Frankfurt with his outstanding performance this season, and the one who is most interested in him is precisely the former Ajax. Everton coached by Ronald Koeman.

Ajax coach De Boer, who left at the end of last season, almost brought in Klassen after taking charge of Inter Milan, but Ajax kept the midfielder, and in November, De Boer was dismissed. Inter Milan fired, and the intention to introduce Klassen was gone.

However, during the winter break this year, there are also many teams that are eager to make a move for the captain of Ajax. This time Yang Yang went to Amsterdam in person, and the most important task is to determine the transfer of the team during the winter break.

Peter Bosch has made it clear that he wants to keep Klassen, because he is the core of the current team's midfield.

In terms of finances, Ajax earned 50 million euros from selling people this summer, and its finances are relatively comfortable, so there is no need to sell people during the winter break. Whether it is the management or the coaching staff, they are more inclined to keep Klassen. .

Of course, the most important thing at the moment is the player's own opinion. Pete Bosch said he can convince Klassen.

But Ajax's crux remains unchanged.

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"Pete Bosz has indeed brought a lot of changes. He focuses on actively pressing and pressing opponents, but the problem is that our back line lacks strong points, which easily exposes the shortcomings of our back line, especially in some areas. This problem is especially serious when the strength is equal, or when you are challenging a strong team."

Van Gaal sees the team's current situation very clearly and knows where the problem lies.

"Let's not say anything else, let's say that the home game against Celta Vigo was almost overturned. We couldn't attack for a long time at first. We scored in the last stage of the first half, and scored two goals in three minutes in the second half. The lead was three-to-zero, but after 75 minutes, I started to lack physical fitness, and I was beaten twice by the opponent, and in the end, it was even more pressing."

Speaking of that game, Van Gaal was still in shock.

Van der Sar, Edgar Davis and Overmars are all like this, which shows that winning that game is extremely dangerous.

If that battle is not won, Ajax's group title will be lost.

"Then start to introduce high-level young defenders." Yang Yang said naturally.

"I've been investigating and tracking it all the time." Edgar Davis shook his head and sighed, "But you know, players in European football today are generally soaring in value. It is reported that many teams are With blockbuster transfers brewing, the European transfer market next summer will be even crazier."

Ajax's management is also worried.

Many people think that the soaring transfer fee affects the giants or the first-tier European teams, but in fact, under the layer-by-layer transmission, the teams in the middle and lower leagues with weaker pressure resistance tend to live better. difficult.

Let's put it this way, for the middle and upper reaches of the four major league teams, at best it is a matter of eating or drinking porridge, but for Ajax, it is a little careless debt, and may even be involved in a debt crisis. It is difficult to extricate oneself.

"Jorge is really good, we will increase the cultivation and reuse of him in the second half of the season, as well as the youth team teenager De Ligt, all of us are very optimistic about him, if he can rely on his performance, if he can stand firm in the first team The heel should be able to improve the problem of the back line, as well as the midfield, Ndombele is indeed quite good, and young players such as Van de Beek and De Jong are also worth looking forward to, but these will take time." Bergkamp analyzed, He is an assistant coach for the first team, but also part of the technical team.

The management knows the abilities and potentials of several young players in Ajax, but it is not a simple matter to promote young players in a team. Players need to rely on games to prove and perform. Own.

If a player can't get the trust of the locker room and the ability to make his teammates believe, even if he is placed on the court and can't get the trust and passing of his teammates, what can he do?

"The young players are too expensive now, and they can easily exceed one million, or even several million euros. We can't afford to gamble, at least we can't gamble now." Van Gaal is also under a lot of pressure.

"Peter Bosch can maintain the current situation, but he can't bring any surprises. We can only take one step at a time to help him slowly straighten out the current problems of the team, but I am not optimistic about him. It can transform the team.”

As an experienced world coach, Van Gaal is very clear that what Ajax needs now is a transformation.

Although transformation comes from the accumulation of quantitative changes, the head coach who can bring transformation to the team often has his own special features, but he cannot see these things in Peter Bosch.

No successful manager is simple, like Pep Guardiola and Mourinho, or Zidane, who has risen to prominence in the last two seasons, they all have their own unique skills, or their own uniqueness. place.

Without these, what can be used to transform the team?

Peter Bosz brought more changes to Ajax, but he couldn't bring changes to the team.

And such a quantitative change is of little use to Ajax, because once the players are trained, they will be poached as soon as they turn around. Once the personnel are lost, Ajax's combat effectiveness will be greatly affected, and the team's performance has since then been slumped.

Therefore, now Ajax has no way to pursue more, and it is impossible to introduce players that other strong teams fancy. It can only be on this road that seems to be correct, but I don't know how long it will take. Keep going and keep waiting patiently.

Van Gaal had a vague feeling, "We are starting to increase our efforts to cultivate young players from this season. According to the current situation, this season and next season are both painful periods. The team brings changes, then we change coaches."

"According to the law, two years later, when our group of young players began to emerge and shine, they need an excellent leader to lead them and lead Ajax to complete the transformation."