25 days before the start of the first game…
Exactly as you heard it, I'll use what's left before the season starts to begin the youth team project, this team was really screwed now that I think about it, I mean, it didn't even have a fucking youth team!
But hey, that's what I'm here for, to rebuild this team, now speaking clearly, this is a project that, although I'm not an engineer, I estimate will be somewhat expensive but it doesn't compare to the magnitude that the stadium will be.
The complexity of building a youth team is not as easy as finding a group of wonderkids and suddenly, buuuuummm! to break it in the premier league, no, it's not that easy.
Indeed, we will have to get those kids but at the same time we will have to get several youth coaches in charge of different things, goalkeeper coach, corner kick coach, defensive coach, free kick coach, etc, and that's just to start.
Then I would continue renting a field with the official measurements of the league (the size varies depending on the team), and all that just to build the base of the youth team, because now comes the really complicated and difficult part, developing talent.
Truly, screw all those novel protagonists who all they did was simply hire talent and wait for it to develop on its own, no, that's not how the development of a player's talent works, it's not possible for you to simplely sign a young player(below 20 years old) and developed on his own, without good coaches, a good system or even the simple fact that the player likes or not the city, I want to create a youth football system that is capable of developing high quality players even if they are not those ones of my past life.
Dear God, many players were successful because of a specific coach they met on the teams they played for or a person close to them gave them some advice, there are simply too many factors but that doesn't stop the fact that with money and effort I want to create a system that limit the risk of players stagnating to a minimum and maximize their full potential.
So to start…
"Rose! Contact Buro Happold and Sir Robert McAlpine please!" I said with a more cheerful tone after some depressing thoughts, no, neither Buro Happold nor Sir Robert McAlpine are people, they are companies, the first mentioned is a professional services company that offers engineering consultancy, design, planning, project management and consulting services for buildings, infrastructure etc, and the second one is a construction and civil engineering company, these companies in my past life built Arsenal's Emirates Stadium.
I requested that Rose contact them not to build the stadium yet, but to begin the construction of the youth facilities as well as an additional project of creating a top-level training facility for the main team, place where there will be certain chiropractors since I wouldn't like to see some careers ruined because of a harrowing injury.
Of course I already have a nearby land purchased, here in South Yorkshire (where Doncaster is), a land with a total cost of £375,000, enough for 20,000 square meters of land, 6000 square meters will be used to construct a building of 6 floors (1000 square meters per floor) where youth athletes will reside and at the same time where they have access to things such as gyms, sports equipment, nutritionists, training classrooms, tutoring rooms, etc, the building will cost approximately just over 1 million pounds sterling (1997 pounds to be specific) this without counting the costs of employees and others, a total expenditure of approximately 1.7 millions of pounds in pure construction.
In addition to these facilities, they will have several football fields next to the facilities. The fields will be of different sizes depending on the age, although from the age of 14, professional size fields will be used, obviously they are pure fields, not a complete stadium so the cost is not as high as you might think but we will have to hire some extra gardeners...
Of course, apart from these fields there will be some fields exclusive to the main team but which will be next to those of the youth team.
The construction of these things should be complete by next year's summer market, basicly1 year, although the truth is that at the moment they are locating capable employees available for that date approximately, in addition to looking for the respective coaches who will be available (free agents)by the time to be in charge of these young people, the youth teams will begin to operate from next summer.
By the way, I forgot to mention it but...
Tomorrow the official announcement will be made that the club has been bought and the press conference introducing me is in 2 days, and at the end of it there will be a small presentation of the new signings, Puyol, Ibrahimovic and Ashley Cole...