87 The champion cannot be eaten as a meal

"The strength of the team?"

When the kicker's reporter threw the question to Yang Cheng at a press conference to announce the joining of the new player, the young Chinese coach immediately laughed.

"I am very satisfied with the team's formulation this season. We have effectively invested all the transfer fees to improve the thickness of the lineup. This can make us more calm in dealing with multi-line battles in the season and facilitate us to achieve more brilliant results. I think every penny the team invests in the transfer market is worth the money!"

The reporters were a little uproared by Yang Cheng's inexplicable confidence, but after experiencing the glory of last season, they are now more suspicious than questioning, because the success of Peron, Barack, Nedved, Fanny, Denilson and others have proved Yang Cheng's vision, and he has almost never missed it.

"With Rutz and Kadletz's departure this season, Bremer's aging, the defense must have undergone major changes. Do you think the new group of players led by Kosch, Kyle and Lucio can continue their outstanding performance last season?" The reporter of the Photo News asked with concern.

Yang Cheng is still laughing. He always smiles when facing the media, which makes it easier to win others' favor.

"I have confidence in them!" He said firmly and confidently, "We have started trying to change blood in the Bundesliga last season, and the results are also good. After a season of tempering, I believe that the players are fully prepared."

"Can you reveal your main lineup for the new season?" Another reporter asked with a smile.

Yang Cheng immediately shook his head, "To be honest, I don't know either!"

After laughing, Yang Cheng continued: "In fact, I don't have any so-called main lineup. In my team, every player is very important and has the main player, so I never think that who is the main player and who is the substitute, nor who is the player, nor who is the player, they are the same!"

"Then can you comment on the six players you recently joined?"

Yang Cheng nodded with a smile: "Of course, Henrik Larson is definitely an outstanding scoring machine. He has that ability, but the previous coaches don't know how to use him; Schneider has rich experience in the league, and his joining can greatly improve our team's right offense and defense."

"Salihamidic's wing assault ability is excellent; Flins will be a reassuring midfielder; Dede's offensive ability in the back row of the left can bring more changes to the team's platoon formation; Qiwu's joining will make the team's defense more complete."

All the good words and commented on the player specifically, without any comparison, which immediately made the reporters on the scene dissatisfied, thinking that Yang Cheng did not say some more gimmick words as they wished.

However, the Chinese head coach is obviously not ready to meet the requirements of these media people. After a haha, he signaled the press officer to start delaying the time. After a while, the press conference will be over. After the team gathers tomorrow, the players will be arranged to meet with the media and fans, and a simple signing ceremony will be held.

After leaving the press conference, Yang Cheng went straight to the conference room. Frederick, Werner Melze and other club executives have been waiting for him here.

"Our meeting this time is mainly to be able to formulate preparations and game plans for the Bundesliga this season. Mr. Yang Cheng, the club currently has a transfer budget of $4 million. Do you really decide to close the transfer market?" Frederick took the lead in making a speech.

Of the $4 million transfer budget, 2 million was saved from the sold players, and the other $2 million was drawn from the club to buy players for Yang Cheng, but unexpectedly, Yang Cheng has spent $3 million so far this season.

"No, but I suggest that the club can use this money to improve the facilities of the training ground and the facilities and environment of the youth training camp, because I found that the club's youth training camp is too backward and should be improved as much as possible to respond to the upcoming youth training regulations of the German Football Association!" Yang Cheng suggested.

As a participant in the German Football Association youth training program, Yang Cheng knew very well that the requirements for the club of this youth training program were all rigid and strict regulations. If the current youth training software and hardware of Kaiserslautern were used, there would be no time to deal with it.

Werner Melze is now a staunch supporter of Yang Cheng. He immediately stood up and supported: "According to my investigation, if we start to improve youth training now and wait until the Football Association has strict regulations, the funds can be saved at least 50 yuan. So I support Yang Cheng's decision to comprehensively transform the youth training system from this season!"

The youth training program includes hardware facilities and software facilities. Needless to mention the hardware facilities, the price will definitely increase when the 36 professional teams in Germany start to purchase those hardware. As for software facilities, the most important thing is those youth training coaches with professional coaches certificates. When the youth training program is announced, the salaries of those people will definitely increase.

Before everyone can finalize all this, not only will Kaiserslautern follow up to benefit, but he may also become a typical youth training model for the German Football Association and receive some bonuses and subsidies.

Frederick looked at everyone attending the meeting, and nodded and agreed to the matter.

After the storm at the end of last season, coupled with the fact that it has been suspected of making profits in player transfers in the past and recently, Frederick has been cut off most of his real power in the club and has more titled as a chairman, but the actual power is scattered in the hands of Yang Cheng and Merce.

With Yang Cheng's support, Melce also rose and the situation was rising. Recently, it is possible to announce his participation in the 1998 club presidential election. He has been very excited about his election. So far, no one has expressed his support to stand up and he may even be elected directly.

"The next is a discussion on the team bonus issue in the new season!" Frederick announced the next issue.

Werner Mertzer then stood up and wrote on the blackboard the three online games Kaiserslautern will participate in this season, namely the Bundesliga, the German Cup and the European Cup Winners.

Among these three games, Kaiserslautern is undoubtedly the Bundesliga, but after the schedule of the new season was released, Kaiserslautern encountered general pessimism among fans, because their first game of the new season was a away challenge to Bayern Munich.

It was definitely a hellish game!

With the resolution of the internal strife in Bayern Munich and the deepening of Trapatoni's tactical concept, Bayern Munich's strength this season has made great progress. With appropriate signings, the team's strength this season is even better than last season. It is really unlucky to challenge him away.

As for the European Cup Winners, it is obvious that the outside world is not optimistic about Kaiserslautern this season. The biggest competitors of this team this season are Chelsea in the Premier League, Vicenza in Serie A and Real Betis in La Liga, and Nice in Ligue 1, Loda in the Netherlands and Boa Vista in Portugal are obviously not enough to shake the teams in the four major leagues.

"I propose to join the German League Cup and the European Super Cup!" Yang Cheng suggested.

Everyone looked at him and felt strange that these two events have always been pre-season warm-up matches. Although some teams also attach great importance to it, in fact, the real battlefields are in leagues and European competitions.

"As I said before, we should not give up any game or any event, so we must cultivate the awareness that players attach great importance to every event, so I think we should not ignore the German League Cup and the European Super Cup!" Yang Cheng said with a whisper.

"Besides, both cups have generous bonuses. If we can get this bonus, we can draw a part of the bonus to reward players for their hard work. This will not only give players fighting spirit, but also encourage them to play with all their strength. Why not do it?"

Some people support Yang Cheng's proposal, and some oppose it, and the opponents are nothing more than that, Kaiserslautern has no such precedent before. If you set such precedent rashly, you may have some bad effects.

"Precedents can be changed. The key is to adapt to the times. With the implementation of the Boseman Act, players' personal awareness has been greatly improved. I dare not say that clubs must be subject to players because players still cannot fight against clubs. But at least, only when there is good cooperation between the club and the players can a team be able to form good combat effectiveness."

Speaking of this, Yang Cheng smiled realistically and asked: "What do you think players work hard to play football for?"

"This is a profession. From the day they entered professional football, they all knew very well that they had to use football to support themselves and their families, and at the same time lay the foundation for their future life after retirement. Champions can never be used as food. Once they have no money, there are more athletes who sell championship trophys and medals at a low price!"

"So I think that if you want to stimulate players and make them cohesive, you cannot act according to the original principles in a constant manner. Instead, you should give them all kinds of incentives and rewards, and bonuses are just one of them!"

But when Yang Cheng said something, Frederick retorted: "But the club also has club management difficulties!"

"I understand!" Yang Cheng said with a smile, "So I suggest that the floating rewards, the higher the team's performance, the higher the league ranking after the season, the higher the cup ranking, the more bonus the players will get. If we are empty after a season, they will only get a guaranteed bonus."

After hearing this, Werner Melzer immediately agreed, "I agree that such a bonus system can greatly stimulate the players' desire to perform, so that they can understand that efforts and gains are proportional!"

But more board members seem to be unhappy because they are used to being stingy and are not willing to split up a piece of the club's income to serve as bonuses for players.

However, Yang Cheng always sticks to his position. At the same time, he also used various reasons to convince the board of directors, and finally reached a preliminary consensus and decided to temporarily try out for one season to see how the season will be effective before making a decision.

"If this matter is learned by the outside world, the entire German football world will definitely criticize our team's approach!" A member of the board of directors shouted indignantly.

Yang Cheng looked dissatisfied with this. High bonuses can definitely stimulate the players. He always believed this, and the club did not lose, but the income was a little less. As long as the team's performance was good and the income was stable, the club's finances would not be affected.

What I worry about when running a club is unrest, changing orders every day, buying and selling players at will, the team's skills and tactics and player team changes every season, and then a large number of players buy and sell a large number of players, and the team's performance is not guaranteed, which is the most likely culprit that leads to the team's financial collapse.

At this meeting, Yang Cheng put forward some of his business suggestions for the club, which were analyzed based on his knowledge in his previous life, but the board of directors adopted one or two of them, and the rest were temporarily shelved.

Yang Cheng was powerless to do anything about this because he also knew that the board of directors would not give him more than one head coach. They are now holding up Mercece because they are worried that Yang Cheng will be in a difficult situation and are not subject to the jurisdiction of the board of directors. Yang Cheng hopes to build a stable coaching environment.

From the current point of view, the cooperation between Melze and Yang Cheng is quite tacit, at least much better than Frederick's time. Melze at least knows football better than Frederick.

After the pre-season high-level meeting, it was already evening.

Yang Cheng walked out of the stadium office and returned directly to the Tillingen training ground. Paul Bayer, Tim Hank, Chris Schmidt, Grald Elman, Mullensteen and Monitz all arranged the first training class after the team reassembled tomorrow on the training ground.

When they saw Yang Cheng coming, they all came up to meet him.

After a season of getting along, they were all impressed by this young head coach. Not to mention anything else, they were grateful for Yang Cheng's care for them.

It was like before the end of last season, Yang Cheng applied for a higher salary contract for each of them through his own efforts. The years were the same as Yang Cheng, and it was 2 years, which immediately made these coaches more convinced by Yang Cheng.

"How is it? You're listless and it's tiring to deal with those old antiques?" Elman is a legendary goalkeeper of Kaiserslautern. He naturally knows the temperament of those guys on the board and jokes.

"I would rather lead the team to have a big fight with Bayern than negotiate with them again. What do you think?" Yang Cheng said with a wry smile.

Everyone burst into laughter.

"By the way, Paul, have all the new players arrived?" Yang Cheng asked with concern.

Paul Bayer nodded and said, "Everything has arrived, the latest one is Ziwu. He has not yet undergone Chris' physical examination and plans to be conducted tomorrow."

"Where is the residence? Let's see what they need. Didn't the club specially arrange a staff member to be responsible for this matter?" This was also Yang Cheng's request. He hoped that someone would specifically help the players deal with off-field affairs so that the players could play for the team with peace of mind.

"It's all done, Larson's wife has been 8 months old. The club will contact nearby hospitals to do a good job of nursing."

"Good job!" Yang Cheng praised with a smile.

Next, Yang Cheng went to various places in the training ground to inspect the training facilities, paying attention to some links that may have made mistakes, and even did not let go of some small corners.

"Okay, Yang Cheng, don't worry about our work, but the new season is about to begin. I wonder if you should treat us to a meal?" Tim Hank saw that Yang Cheng was going to go into the locker room and immediately grabbed him.

"Eat?" Yang Cheng was stunned, "That's simple, how about Iso Rabella?"

"Can you sit so many people at your No. 1 table?" Monitz asked with a smile.

Yang Cheng shrugged. Since he met Fritz Walter at Isora Bella, Table 1 has become Yang Cheng's exclusive seat, which also means that Yang Cheng's role in this team is above all players. In order to attract him to eat in the restaurant, Tony Viccino is said to have started learning to cook Chinese food.

"Why go to your house? I heard it is a pretty good villa. We haven't seen it yet!" Paul Baier smiled and said everyone's thoughts.

Yang Cheng looked embarrassed, "I haven't been there myself!"

After returning from China to Germany, he traveled around the world and was busy. After returning yesterday, he was busy preparing for war. Last night, he slept in his original dormitory and had no time to see the small villa that Kaiserslautern rented for him.

In addition, the club also specially equipped him with an Audi A3, the car he used for commercial shooting. It is said that it was specially given to Yang Cheng by Audi, which made everyone envious and sigh that being a head coach is a good life. If you have a car and a house, you will be short of a woman.

Yang Cheng’s villa is two blocks away from the Autbach Street. If you drive by yourself, you will arrive in less than 10 minutes.

"This villa is good, but it's too big. Living alone seems a little empty!" After coming to Yang Cheng's three-story villa with a large garden courtyard, Paul Bayer criticized after a visit.

"Yes, it's always unsafe to live alone. The hourly workers only come every day and sleep alone at night. It's inevitable that they are lonely!" Monitz also made fun of him with a smile.

Yang Cheng shook his head helplessly, knowing that the group of married guys were deliberately scolding him, but for some reason, at this moment, two figures suddenly appeared in his heart for no reason, one was Heidi Krum and the other was Sienna Miller, who appeared almost at the same time.

Both are rare beauties, but Chunlan and Qiuju are good at playing, which makes it difficult to choose.
Chapter completed!