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Chapter 594 I am me

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

In order to cover up, Gao Han, who was sitting in the first class cabin, got off the plane, accompanied by Cantalero and Sergio Garcia, who were traveling with him, took the reception car specially arranged by Bayern Munich on the tarmac and left the airport.

The one who came to pick up the plane was German international Christian Nellinger, who had played for Bayern Munich, Dortmund and Kaiserslautern. He is also the leader of Bayern Munich, who has just taken office.

Although it was the first time we met, Gao Han was famous and the team's new coach. Nellinger did not dare to neglect and specifically reminded the driver to go south and pass through the Allianz Stadium and then go to the Sebenna training base.

Gao Han was a newcomer and was not familiar with the place, so he naturally arranged it with him.

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 Stadium is located in the northern suburbs of the city, and the Sebena training base is located in the southern suburbs of the city, which is very far apart.

Take the expressway from the airport and soon you will reach the vicinity of the Allianz Stadium, but you can only see a white field appearance like a circular hovercraft from afar, and you can no longer get closer.

"The Allianz Stadium is there. Now we use it together with Munich 1860, but we have always wanted to win the shares of Munich 1860 and use this stadium as our unique home stadium." Sitting in the passenger seat, Nellinger pointed at the Allianz Stadium from afar and introduced.

"The appearance of the court is now white, but at night, if ours will turn red. If it is Munich 1860, it will be sky blue, which is very beautiful."

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

Nellinger also looks quite proud. This stadium is the most dreamy stadium in European football today.

Passing through the Allianz Stadium area, continue to head south to Sebena Training Base.

Gao Han is not in a hurry.

A few days ago, after he met Pochettino, Bielsa's disciple agreed to coach Chinatown on the spot, and did not even make too many requirements for salary. Gao Han officially signed a coaching contract with him yesterday.

Although Pochettino is still young and has no coaching experience, Gao Han is optimistic about him. He was able to invite him to coach Chinatown. He was also giving up one thing in his mind. The rest is to find a qualified operator for the team.

But Gao Han has already left Mendes to take charge of this matter.

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

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

Nellinger quickly turned around from the front row, "I don't know much about the specific situation, but I heard that the progress is going well, and Chelsea has already let it go. Mr. Heness went to London to negotiate in person, and there should be good news."

Gao Han nodded and Chelsea was willing to give in. Then the final obstacle was the price difference between the two sides.

"Have Thomas arrived?" Gao Han asked again.

"It's already here, right at the Sebena training base."

Gao Han nodded and said nothing.

At the beginning, Gao Han and the Big Three Bayern Munich agreed to equip a assistant coach who was familiar with the Bundesliga. After the Big Three returned to the Bundesliga, they began to look for it, but they could not find a suitable candidate. Later, when negotiating with Heness, Gao Han mentioned Thomas Tuchel.

He met this coach when he was in Covelciano and has contacted him a lot since then. Tuchel often consulted Gao Han on some issues, and even went to Milan twice within half a year to seek advice and visited Inter Milan's training.

So Henes contacted Tuchel. When the latter heard that Gao Han was coming to Bayern Munich to coach, he was interested in inviting him to be an assistant coach. He would not agree, so he agreed on the spot.

Thomas Tuchel is a man with a career experience that is not conspicuous. Even in Germany, he may not even be considered a second-rate player, but he has rich coaching experience. Although he is only 34 years old, he has coached the youth team for five years and coached in Augsburg for two years, serving as the youth team head coach and first-team assistant coach.

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

More importantly, Gao Han trusted Tuchel very much during many contacts.

Sometimes, this kind of trust is more important than anything else.

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Sebena training base is located in the southern suburbs of Munich city, opposite two streets, and is the training ground in Munich 1860.

Along Seberna Street is a long row of three-storey low-rise buildings, where Bayern Munich's office headquarters are located.

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

The driver drove the car directly outside the gate. Neilinger called Gao Han and the other two to get out of the car and went straight into the office building.

In the building, Beckenbauer and Rummenigge had already led the crowd there. As soon as they saw Gao Han arrive, they immediately came up.

"Welcome to Bayern Munich." Beckenbauer extended his hand with a laugh from afar.

"Thank you, Franz."

Beckenbauer immediately took the initiative to introduce others to Gao Han, including Bayern Munich's financial director Carl Hopfner, scouting team leader Wolfgang Dremler, youth training director Wiener Cohen, as well as management and board members, especially highlighting Adidas CEO Hulbert Heine, who is the first vice chairman of the board.

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

However, in some business departments, such as the Ministry of Finance and the Commercial Business Department, they are all recruited by external professionals, and many of them have worked for a long time, such as the Finance Director Hopfner, who has been working in the club for more than 20 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 pays more attention to business, while Bayern Munich prefers tradition.

Now, after getting to know the high-altitude cold in Bayern Munich, Gao Han also understands the meaning of this sentence.

At least, everyone present has a deep understanding of professional football, and it is much easier to communicate many things.

Bayern Munich pays great attention to youth training and has a complete youth training echelon and talent training system. However, there are only eight venues in the Seberna training base, and the first team occupies the best two. The remaining five standards and a small-sized venue are all provided for youth teams, which makes it a bit crowded.

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

"In fact, in our entire youth training system, not many people can come to Sebena to train, but more are training in our fifteen cooperative clubs. For example, Ontehaxing, who is our most important partner and does a good job in youth training."

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

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

So far, Chinatown has been a youth training cooperative club at Atletico Madrid.

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

"I, that's me."

This sentence sounds simple, but it makes Gao Han stop and ponder.

"This is the slogan proposed by Carl and Uli in 1995 when we promoted the reform of the youth training camp, and we have been implementing it to this day." Beckenbauer introduced with a smile.

Gao Han smiled at Rummenigge with appreciation and nodded, but sighed in his heart that people who understand football are different.

When many teams develop youth training, they often focus on creating the best hardware facilities, poaching the best youth training coaches, and finding the best youth training directors, but it is easy to ignore the most important thing, concept.

Ideas sound very empty, invisible, intangible, illusory, and sound like chicken soup for the soul, but in fact, it is the core of guiding a club's youth training, or it should be said that it is the soul.

It is not difficult to create hardware facilities, youth training coaches, etc., and you can do it by spending money, but ideas are very difficult. It not only affects the youth training of a club, but also affects the coaches here, and even every player trained here.

Me, that's me.

This sounds like a sentence without any trace, but in fact it reveals a maverick temperament that is inconsistent with the traditional wealthy family of Bayern Munich.

Or it should be said that it emphasizes the personality of the player.

It's a century-old brand after all!

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 of the office building. At this time, Uli Heness 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 clause with Chelsea and officially signed the contract this afternoon, with 30 million euros, Robben belongs to us!"

When everyone heard this news, everyone cheered in unison.

Gao Han also breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as Roben comes, his ideas will be fulfilled.

The look of Beckenbauer and others looking at Gao Han was somewhat relieved, because they all knew that without Gao Han, they could not convince Robben at all, because the Dutch Panther could not go to a team that could not play in the Champions League.

When Bayern Munich was in private contact with the middleman, Robben did not consider Bayern Munich at all. In the end, Gao Han convinced the Dutch at Robben's wedding, which led to this transfer deal.

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

"Okay, Robben's transfer is gratifying, but we still need to continue to work hard." Beckenbauer said with encouragement.

Everyone nodded and applauded.

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

Everyone immediately looked at Gao Han and thought of him.

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

"Before I come up with my ideas, I would like to take the liberty to ask, what is Bayern Munich's transfer budget this summer?"

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

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

"What about the transfer income of selling players?"

"It's up to you to dominate."

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 transfer budget of 100 million yuan was the largest gamble in Bayern Munich's history.

But it is not surprising, because Bayern Munich currently has no star who can make a comeback.

One hundred million, not too much, not too little, not too little, one Robben spent 30 million, leaving only 70 million euros.
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