Super Marshal

At nearly noon, a Lufthansa Airbus plane slowly landed at Munich Airport.

In order to conceal his identity, Gao Han sat in the first class cabin and was accompanied by Cantarero and Sergio Garcia. After getting off the plane, he sat directly on the tarmac and was specially arranged by Bayern Munich to receive him. The car left the airport.

The person who came to pick him up was Christian Nellinger, the German international who had played for Bayern Munich, Dortmund and Kaiserslautern and other teams. He was also the newly appointed team leader of Bayern Munich.

Although it was their first meeting, Gao Han was well-known and he was the new coach of the team. Nellinger did not dare to neglect him and specifically told the driver to drive all the way south, pass the Allianz Arena, and then go to the Sebena training base.

Gao Han was new here and was unfamiliar with the place, so he naturally followed his arrangements.

Along the way, Nellinger enthusiastically introduced the traffic situation in Munich.

It turns out that Munich Airport is far away from the city and is located in the northeastern suburbs. The Allianz Arena is in the northern suburbs of the city. As for the Sebena training base, it is in the southern suburbs of the city. It can be said that they are far apart.

Taking the expressway from the airport, we soon arrived near the Allianz Arena, but we could only see the white stadium appearance from a distance, which looked like a round hovercraft, and we couldn't get any closer.

"That's the Allianz Arena. It's currently shared between us and 1860 Munich, but we've always wanted to win over 1860 Munich's shares and use this stadium as our exclusive home ground." From the passenger seat, Nellinger pointed at the Allianz Arena and introduced.

"The exterior of the stadium is white now, but when we play at night, it will turn red. If it's Munich 1860, it will be sky blue, which is very beautiful."

"I've heard of this, but I haven't seen it yet." Gao Han replied with a smile.

Nellinger also seems quite proud. This stadium can be called the most dreamy stadium in European football today.

Passing the Allianz Stadium area, continue all the way south to the Sebena training base.

Gao Han is not in a hurry.

After he met with Pochettino a few days ago, Bielsa's disciple agreed on the spot to coach the Chinatown team. He didn't even make many demands in terms of salary. Gao Han officially signed a contract with him yesterday. Coaching Contract.

Although Pochettino is still young and has no coaching experience, Gao Han is very optimistic about him. Being able to invite him to coach the Chinatown team has put aside one thing in his mind. The only thing left is to find a qualified player for the team. of operators.

But Gao Han has handed over to Mendes to take charge of this matter.

After doing this, the Chinatown team can finally relax for the time being.

"By the way, Christian, how is Robben's transfer going?" Gao Han asked with concern.

Nellinger quickly turned back from the front row, "I don't know the specific situation very well, but I heard that the progress is going very smoothly. Chelsea has relented. Mr. Hoeness will go to London to negotiate in person. There should be good news."

Gao Han nodded and Chelsea was willing to let go, so the final obstacle was just the price gap between the two parties.

"Has Thomas arrived?" Gao Han asked again.

"We've arrived, right at the Sebena training base."

Gao Han hummed and said nothing more.

Gao Han originally made an agreement with Bayern Munich's three giants to provide an assistant coach who is familiar with the Bundesliga. After the three giants returned to the Bundesliga, they began to look for them, but they failed to find a suitable candidate. Later, when negotiating with Hoeness, Gao Han proposed On to Thomas Tuchel.

He met this coach when he was in Coverciano and kept in touch with him since then. Tuchel often consulted Gao Han on some issues and even went to Milan twice within six months for advice and visited Inter Milan's training.

So Hoeness got in touch with Tuchel. As soon as the latter heard that Gao Han was coming to Bayern Munich to coach and was interested in inviting him to be an assistant coach, he agreed on the spot.

Thomas Tuchel's career resume is not impressive. Even in Germany, he may not even be considered a second-rate player, but he has rich coaching experience. Even though he is only thirty-four years old, he is already in the field. He coached the youth team in Stuttgart for five years and coached Augsburg for two years as youth team coach and first team assistant coach.

It can be said that Tuchel has very rich coaching experience and is also very familiar with the situation in the German league.

More importantly, Gao Han trusted Tuchel in many contacts.

Sometimes, this trust is more important than anything else.

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The Sebena training base is located in the southern suburbs of Munich. Two streets across from it is the Munich 1860 training ground.

Along Sebena Strasse is a long row of three-storey low buildings, where Bayern Munich's office headquarters is located.

Since it was not during the league or training period, and it was noon, there was no one outside the gate of the office building.

The driver drove the car directly outside the gate. Nellinger greeted Gao Han and the other two people to get out of the car, and then got directly into the office building.

Inside the building, Beckenbauer and Rummenigge had already led the crowd there. When they saw Gao Han arriving, they immediately greeted him.

"Welcome to Bayern Munich." Beckenbauer laughed and extended his hand from a distance.

"Thank you, Franz."

Beckenbauer immediately took the initiative to introduce Gao Han to other people present, including Bayern Munich's financial director Karl Hopfner, head of the scouting team Wolfgang Dremler, youth training director Werner Cohen, along with members of management and the board of directors, singled out Adidas CEO Herbert Hainer as first vice chairman of the board.

After getting to know Bayern Munich's senior management, Gao Han realized a very interesting phenomenon, that is, most of Bayern Munich's core management are former retired stars, including the scouting team, youth training department and technical department.

But in some operational departments, such as the Ministry of Finance and the Commercial Operations Department, they are all filled by external professionals, and many of them have been working for a long time. For example, Financial Director Hopfner, who has already worked at the club. More than twenty years.

Gao Han once heard that Manchester United and Bayern Munich are the two healthiest business benchmarks in European football. The difference is that Manchester United focuses more on business, while Bayern Munich is more traditional.

Now, after getting to know Gao Han at Bayern Munich, Gao Han also understands the meaning of this sentence.

At the very least, everyone present has a deep understanding of professional football, so it is much easier and more convenient to communicate about many things.

Bayern Munich attaches great importance to youth training and has a complete youth training echelon and talent training system. However, there are only eight fields in total in the Sebena training base. The first team occupies the best two fields, and the remaining five are standard and A small field is provided for the youth team, which seems a bit crowded.

Regarding the doubts raised by Gao Han, Rummenigge smiled and said that the team has also noticed that it is considering building a youth training center, but this requires a large amount of funds, so it takes time to prepare.

"Actually, in our entire youth training system, not many can come to Sebena to train. Most of them train in our fifteen cooperative clubs, such as Unterhaching. He is our most important Partners, the youth training is doing quite well.”

Gao Han understands this youth training model because it is also mainstream in European football.

For example, Inter Milan has dozens of youth training partner clubs throughout Italy.

So far, the Chinatown team is still a youth training partner club of Atletico Madrid.

But what really attracted Gao Han was the slogan at the entrance of the youth training camp.

"I am who I am."

This sentence sounded simple, but it made Gao Han stop and think deeply.

"This was a slogan put forward by Karl and Uli when we were promoting the reform of the youth academy in 1995, and we have been implementing it to this day." Beckenbauer introduced with a smile.

Gao Han smiled and nodded appreciatively at Rummenigge, but secretly sighed in his heart that people who know football are different after all.

Many teams develop youth training and often focus on building the best hardware facilities, poaching the best youth training coaches, and recruiting the best youth training directors. However, it is easy to overlook the most important thing, the concept.

Concept sounds very imaginary, invisible, intangible, and illusory. It sounds like chicken soup for the soul, but in fact, it is the core, or should be said to be the soul, of guiding a club's youth training.

In terms of hardware facilities, youth training coaches, etc., it is not difficult to build them. It can be done with a lot of money, but concepts are very difficult. It not only affects the youth training of a club, but also affects the coaches here. Impact every player produced here.

I am who I am.

This sounds like an insignificant statement, but in fact it reveals a unique temperament that is incompatible with the traditional giant Bayern Munich.

Or should I say, it emphasizes the player's personality.

After all, it is a century-old brand!

Gao Han thought with great admiration.

Accompanied by a group of management, Gao Han visited Sebena's youth training and first-team training facilities before returning to the conference room in the office building. At this time, Uli Hoeness also happened to call from London. .

"Uli asked me to convey it," Rummenigge looked at Gao Han with a smile, "He has negotiated the last terms with Chelsea. The contract will be officially signed this afternoon. For 30 million euros, Robben belongs to us!"

When they heard the news, everyone cheered in unison.

Gao Han also secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as Robben comes, most of his ideas will be realized.

When Beckenbauer and others looked at Gao Han, there was a hint of relief in their eyes, because they all knew that without Gao Han, they would not be able to convince Robben at all, because it is impossible for the Dutch flying hero to go to a team that cannot play in the Champions League. Team.

When Bayern Munich contacted the intermediary privately, Robben did not consider Bayern Munich at all. In the end, Gao Han persuaded the Dutchman at Robben's wedding, which facilitated the transfer deal.

With Robben here, Bayern Munich will be even more powerful in the new season.

"Well, Robben's transfer is gratifying, but we still need to make persistent efforts." Beckenbauer said encouragingly.

Everyone nodded and applauded.

"Next, let's talk about the restructuring ideas for this summer." Rummenigge said.

Everyone suddenly looked at Gao Han.

Gao Han was already familiar with this kind of scene and smiled calmly.

"Before I come up with my thoughts, I would like to take the liberty of asking, what is the transfer budget of Bayern Munich this summer?"

Beckenbauer and Rummenigge looked at each other, then looked at Hopfner.

"According to the decision of the board meeting, we can allocate a transfer budget of up to 100 million euros, which is already our limit."

"What about the transfer proceeds from selling players?"

"Leave it to you."

In other words, Bayern Munich's budget of 100 million is a net investment.

Everyone immediately looked at Gao Han with concern, because they knew that this 100 million transfer budget was already the biggest gamble in Bayern Munich's history.

But it's not surprising, because Bayern Munich currently doesn't have a star that can do anything.

100 million is neither too much nor too little. Robben spent 30 million on one, leaving only 70 million euros.

But Gao Han thought about it in his mind and nodded: "That's enough. I promise that after using this 100 million, I will build a strong European-level team for you."