King's Landing Nottingham

Chapter 104 Brother, You've Worked Hard

Chapter 1 Brother, you have worked hard

No one knew what Wei Xun experienced outside the house last night, but the staff who returned to the apartment after the night shift said that there was a person kneeling vaguely at the door of Chairman Wei's apartment.

There is even a revelation from the unscrupulous brother-in-law Huang Miao that his sister asked him for a washboard at night, saying she needed to do laundry.

The Notts County base is all equipped with washing machines, and there is no washboard at all.Huang Yingying is still a pregnant woman, and it is inconvenient for her to lower her waist. Zhao Tai is very clear about the magical effect of this washboard.

Damn Huang Miao, actually went to a place where Chinese people live last night, bought a brand new washboard, and gave it to Huang Yingying...

Zhao Tai couldn't help sighing, brother, you've worked hard.

In fact, things like kneeling on the washboard are not the most tormenting Wei Xun, "I have broken several keyboards on my knees, the washboard is nothing!"

What really bothered Wei Xun was Guardiola's proposal to buy a central defender.

The half-time championship is not only a compliment to Notts County's performance in the first half of the season, but also puts forward higher requirements for Notts County's performance in the second half of the season.

Notts County's tactics have been well known by all opponents, and the difficulties in the second half of the season will be far greater than before.If you want to let go and attack, you can't lay mines in the defense. Guardiola's request is only one, and it is enough to buy an excellent central defender. If possible, two are also fine.

In terms of quantity, Wei Xun's task in this transfer period is very simple, but he can't stand Guardiola's high requirements: he has a young age, rich game experience, and strong confrontation ability. To paraphrase later generations, what Guardiola wants is actually It is a "black and hard" with a stable appearance.

There are quite a lot of people like this in Wei Xun's mind, such as Maguire, Van Dijk, Koulibaly, Manolas, etc., but now, these people are still young children. Can't pass.

Unable to withstand Chairman Wei's "worse-hearted" plea, Marotta and Paratici were dispatched.Marotta went back to Italy to help Wei Xun search for some good central defenders as candidates, while Paratici went to Sutton United to discuss matters related to the establishment of a satellite club, and by the way brought the four players who supported them this time. , settle down early, and join their joint training earlier.

Rather than fighting for the winter transfer, it is better to say that Paratic and Marotta are trying to escape Wei Xun's clutches and take a hand in finding suitable players.

Mr. Pat Devlin, who is in charge of notts county player excavation, also commanded his scout team to get busy. They will first conduct an emergency screening of the central defenders collected in the first half of the season, and at the same time send several Scouts, expand the selection area, and go to Northern Ireland, Germany, and France to find players who meet Guardiola's requirements.

When playing, the age is basically between 23-30 years old;
Rich experience, this experience Guardiola has no special requirements, professional league experience is enough, the top league is the best, low-level is also fine, as long as it can satisfy him;
Strong confrontational ability, this is a bit of a talk, it has to be judged by the data and videos collected by the data analysis center and Mr. Pat Devlin. Physical data alone cannot fully define a player’s confrontational ability .

Just do what you said, Wei Xun took three steps along the way and made two steps at the same time, and finally he just trotted and arrived at the data analysis center.

After Antolin Gonzalo participated in the data analysis course at the University of Nottingham, his sensitivity to numbers, his love and dedication to data were all discovered.As the chief data analyst and director of the Data Analysis Center in Notts County, he has numerous fans for his work attitude and management style.

The player competition scoring system, growth expectation system, injury warning, etc., were all developed by the team led by him.

The current data analysis center not only has talents proficient in sports data analysis dug from the Cologne Institute of Physical Education, but also computer talents dug from the University of Nottingham, Coventry University, and Oxford University. A team of thirteen young people , full of energy, they are the "earliest" wave of diners in Notts County restaurants every day.

"Boss, we have already shared data with the scouting center and Huaxin Sports Management Company. Most of the data is still being entered. Among the existing player data on our local area network, there are some who can play the central defender position. 190 seven players."

"190? That's a lot, that's a lot, Antolin, you've done a good job, everyone has worked hard..."

Wei Xun patted Antolin Gonzalo on the shoulder as a kind of encouragement to him. Now is not the era of information explosion like later generations. Every player's data requires a lot of time and energy.

Collect, confirm, correct, reconfirm, match video and information, formally file, enter electronic and paper libraries...

Every step is extremely cumbersome and requires careful and patient operation, which is not easy.

Wei Xun was lamenting the hardships Antolin and the others had in their work, while Antolin was recalling all the things he had with Wei Xun.

Without the insight of the boss, I might still be working as a grassroots coach in Spain. I might do data analysis in the future, but it may not be so early.

After all, participating in data analysis training courses and purchasing high-performance computers all require a lot of expenses, which is really unaffordable with the meager salary of a grassroots coach.

Therefore, Antolin Gonzalo was very grateful to Wei Xun, and booked a house in the Notts County base early, and moved in after the completion of the construction.

A successful career, but also a fruitful love, Antolin Gonzalo and a local salesman in the Notts County fan shop have a hot fight, have fallen in love, and seem to be settling down in Nottingham.

With computers these days, Wei Xun felt a little uncomfortable just watching them operate them, let alone actually operate them.I used it for a while when China first popularized the Internet more than ten years ago, but now I don't show my timidity.

The data analyst sitting in front of the computer directly screened according to Wei Xun's requirements, aged 23-30, with professional league experience of 150 games or more, and after screening, there were only 92 players who met the requirements.

23岁的利兹联主力中卫里奥·费迪南德、28岁的国际米兰后卫萨内蒂、23岁的罗马中卫萨穆埃尔……23岁的切斯特菲尔德中卫卡尔·沃顿、24岁的北安普顿中卫乔·马克、28岁的米德尔斯堡中卫乔治·约翰逊、29岁的朴茨茅斯中卫帕克·莱利。

In addition to those players who played in the low-level leagues at the end of the list, other famous stars such as Rio Ferdinand, Samuel, Stam, Nesta, Cannavaro, Desailly, Thuram, etc., now It is simply impossible to play for Notts County.

Fundamentally speaking, the searched players basically cannot come to Notts County, which shows that the player database of the data analysis center is still not large enough, and the coverage is not enough, and the league level of Notts County is indeed relatively low.

"Antolin, how many countries does our player database cover now?"

"If the clubs in the UK and Northern Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and other countries can participate in the UEFA Champions League, we will also collect some data, but those are relatively fragmented."

Hearing what Antolin Gonzalo said, Wei Xun understood that Notts County only has some player data from the five major leagues in the future, and Notts County has basically no data on players from other countries and small and medium leagues.

It's no wonder that most of the players found by the system are stars. Those who have played steadily in the five major league teams, except for stars, are world-class superstars.In their eyes, Notts County in the second division is not attractive, and the players know how to make a choice.

"Antolin, if you have time, you can discuss with the old man and extend our tentacles to Portugal and some countries in Eastern Europe and Northern Europe, such as the Czech Republic, Iceland, Sweden and Yugoslavia. The players there are still very good. , we must gradually roll out our scouting network and data network.”

"No problem, boss, we will sort out a list as soon as possible, and send it to your office again before three o'clock in the afternoon..."

"Thank you, Antolin. After finishing the transfer, take time to take everyone out for team building. The club will reimburse you in full. If you have time, organize everyone to exercise more. Find Dr. Zhang to recuperate. Try to stay up late as little as possible. Your health is important and there are not enough people. , just recruit again, don’t worry about the money, just go to Manager Zhao.”

Under the watchful eyes of the employees of the data analysis center, Wei Xun fled as if fleeing. He was afraid that if he didn't leave again, he couldn't help it.

If you treat them sincerely, they will also treat you sincerely. This is the principle of comparing hearts with hearts.

When leaving, Wei Xun printed out a list of players who might be bought, and went to Guardiola.

He planned to circle people first, and then continue to make calls. Anyway, he had to decide on the candidates as soon as possible. The NO.12 League Two was about to start again, and there was not much time left for Notts County.

PS honestly and shamelessly ask for some monthly tickets and recommendation tickets, thank you brothers.

(End of this chapter)