The Young Lion

Millwall's signing work is far from over, and Andrew is even more active than Aldridge. After leaving Italy, he went to Northern Europe and brought back two players who have not yet signed a formal player contract for Aldridge. players.

The 21-year-old Ole Solskjaer, who has not yet made his debut in Molde, and the 17-year-old Jesper Glenshire.

There are still a few candidates to add to Aldridge's lineup, and there is still a heavyweight transfer in the pipeline.

Although there are already two goalkeepers at the goalkeeper position, the regular configuration of the first team is considered safe, so Aldridge picked a 17-year-old Richard Wright.

In the rougher League One, it is normal to store a few more forwards. Aldridge only spent 10,000 pounds to get the abandoned player Kai, who was produced by the Saints Southampton youth training, from the English semi-professional club Podick Town. Wen - Phillips to the Lions Den stadium.

Bradford is still working hard in the second division, and Aldridge poached their rising central defender Dean Richards with 250,000 pounds.

Long before the start of the World Cup, after Aldridge finalized the transfer of Southgate, he sent out the second offer to other clubs, which was to buy the opponent's striker from Feyenoord in the Netherlands: Henrik- larson.

Although Feyenoord can be regarded as a top team in the Dutch First Division, they seem unable to compete with clubs like Ajax in terms of financial resources. To put it bluntly, they are just smaller than the mainstream leagues. The team has a glorious facade.

Aldridge’s first purchase price was 500,000 pounds. The other party refused, but the tone was not very sure. When Aldridge raised the price to 1 million pounds, the other party immediately started further negotiations on the price, and the final transfer price was fixed at 1.25 million pounds above.

The agreed price was set half a month ago, after the start of the World Cup.

If it is the beginning of July now, Feyenoord will definitely hit Aldridge hard, at least insisting that he will not let go of 2 million pounds.

When Millwall officially announced many blockbuster signings, especially Southgate, Thuram, and Makelele's transfer prices of more than 2 million pounds, those belatedly sold players to O'Neill. Derich's club realized: This 18-year-old nouveau riche is a spendthrift fool!

A year ago, the British transfer record was just created by Manchester United, Roy Keane for 3.75 million pounds.

You know, last summer, the total investment of the 22 Premier League teams in the transfer market did not exceed 60 million pounds!

Aldridge is in charge of a League One team in Millwall, almost as much as the transfer investment of three Premier League teams!

But this transfer has fallen into a stalemate. On the one hand, Larsson is representing Sweden in the World Cup. On the other hand, he is hesitating whether to join a club in the second tier of England. Generous salary contract and release clause.

Larsson's wait-and-see and hesitation gave Feyenoord a chance to repent. After the World Cup, Feyenoord immediately sent someone to Sweden and privately expressed to Larsson, who was returning home for vacation, that he would refuse to transfer.

At the same time, Aldridge also went to Sweden. He didn't need to talk to Larsson. Millwall's investment this summer has shown the ambition of this team, and it is mainly based on the youth team. Sen is about to turn 23, and while he is certainly a young player elsewhere, there is no doubt that he will be an important player for the team at Millwall, and in terms of name and quality, he will also be a part of this team. The backbone of the team.

The Feyenoord club backfired. If they didn't send someone to persuade Larsson, maybe Larsson might not necessarily join Millwall, but they backtracked after allowing the player to transfer, just to beat Aldridge more A sum of money, which makes Larson disgusted and disgusted. Players are commodities. This is a cold fact, but no player will really treat himself as a commodity, especially a famous player.

Aldridge finally reached an agreement in Sweden to shake hands with this humble and low-key striker. In the new season, the Swedish striker will attack Millwall!

Since the League One kicked off on August 12, the team training session will be in late July, and Larson, who participated in the World Cup, Aldridge informed him that he can come to the team to report in the first week of August .

On July 19th, Aldridge looked at the list of players in his hand in the office and felt that the signings were over.

goalkeeper:

Casely-Keller.

Hans-Jogel-Butter.

Richard Wright.

Defender:

Gareth Southgate.

Yap-Stamm.

Dean Richards.

Marco Materazzi.

Lilian Thuram.

Gianluca Gianluca Gianluca.

Lucas Neal.

Midfielder:

Patrick Vieira.

Pawel Nedved.

Gennaro - Ivan - Gattuso.

Claude Makelele.

Michael Barak.

forward:

Robert Pires.

Jesper Glenshire.

Bernd-Schneider.

David Trezeguet.

Luca Tony.

Luther van Nistelrooy.

Henrik Larson.

Kevin Phillips.

Ole - Solskjaer.

There are 24 players in the first team.

Aldridge looked at the list and fell into contemplation. The full-backs seemed a little weak. There were only three people in the concept, but Lucas-Neill and Zambrotta were both sides. He played as a full-back, and later changed to a midfielder for the national team, but Aldridge wanted to make him a midfielder directly, otherwise it would be too wasteful.

Aldrich can rely on the team's three generals on the central axis, Southgate in the defense, Nedved in the midfield, and Larson in the front line.

It’s just that the position of the winger is slightly weak. Glenciel is still young. If Pires and Schneider are injured, Nedved can take care of it on the left, but there are fewer offensive starting points on the right. Aldridge After thinking about it, he really didn't want to put his hopes and energy on some untalented players.

When it comes to transforming a team, one has to go step by step. To deal with a league like the League One, wide crosses are tried and tested. If you want to play technically, rough fouls will collapse the team at once. Therefore, the traditional side Road tactics must never be abandoned. Even in the Premier League, this will be one of the important tactics in the next two decades. However, the role of wide crosses will gradually be shared with full-backs from traditional full-backs. This is also the development of modern football. Trends, diversification and comprehensiveness of player roles.

Aldridge was talking about right, right, right, and then he thought of a person, although it was impossible to dig, but he could borrow it first.

Just do what you want, Aldridge plans to visit the old Scottish man who was proud of last season.

Recently, the Millwall club has gradually calmed down. This month has been a roller coaster for the fans.

First, the club sent the team up to the coaching staff and then down to the first team for a major cleaning.

Then, news of the club's signings came one after another. Although for Millwall fans, only stars like Southgate were familiar with the signings, it was encouraging enough. What is better than poaching Derby? What's more insane about the opponent's captain?

Aldridge made a deal that quickly allowed him to get support from the fans!

This is similar to the stars of the later generations of Frentino who came to power to dig out his rivals.

And some fans roughly calculated the funds Aldridge invested in the transfer this summer, and got an astonishing figure: 12.6 million pounds!

This is an exciting number!

How much did Manchester United invest in the summer transfer market last year? A mere 3.75 million.

What about the year before last?

1.1 million.

Obviously, the arithmetic cannot be calculated in this way, because Aldridge is tearing down and rebuilding the entire club. The transfer of Premier League teams every summer is just to supplement the lineup. It is rare to replace the lineup that hurts the muscles and bones, and it is only as big as Blackburn. Sprinkling money can be considered a big deal, but it is only the introduction of a few stars whose strength has been affirmed.

At least the writers of the football column are not optimistic about the results of Aldridge's investment this summer. No one paid attention to Millwall, but Aldridge's repeated big moves made people have to look sideways.

Aldrich was waiting for someone outside the club, intending to ask Andrew to guide him out of London. Aldrich knew the way no better than a tourist.

Soon, Andrew arrived in front of the club in a high-end car, and smiled at Aldridge, Where do you want to go?

Manchester, I want to visit the manager of Manchester United.

Andrew looked surprised. After pondering for a moment, he shook his head and said, It's not easy. I'll ask someone to help me first.

After speaking, he got out of the car, went to the club to make a phone call, and then drove Aldrich to the train station in London.

He bought three train tickets to Manchester at the train station. Aldridge was curious about who the third train ticket was for, but he didn't ask.

In the waiting room, Aldridge saw a man in a suit and leather shoes, wearing a pair of rimmed gold-rimmed glasses, with curly hair but not sloppy. He looked refined and polite, and when he came to Andrew, he hugged him with a smile , and then formally walked in front of Aldridge, stretched out his hand and said with a smile: Jason Ferguson, it's a pleasure to meet you. I have always heard Andrew mentioning you before. You are a legend of the Hall family.

This compliment was too blatant, Aldrich reached out to shake his hand and said with a smile, Aldrich-Hall, Jason, Ferguson, could it be, oh, Mr. Ferguson is your father, right?

Jason Ferguson nodded with a smile, then extended his hand, and the three of them prepared to board the train to Manchester together.

I called my family just now, and my father happens to have time to see you.

Aldridge thanked him with a smile, and couldn't help thinking a lot after getting on the train.

He didn’t expect Ferguson’s son to meet Andrew.

But after careful recollection, he probably understood the reason.

Jason Ferguson is Ferguson's favorite son. After the establishment of the Premier League, Jason worked on Sky Sports, but in the football circle, he is just Ferguson's son, and leaving the football circle, Jason is worthless. Compared to the fact that the Hall family has real money, Andrew has an independent brokerage company. In London, it is not surprising that Jason and Andrew know each other at the same age. It is even conceivable that Jason is flattering Andrew.

Aldridge knows how this Jason Ferguson will come, and even the time and space that Aldridge has experienced, from the Manchester United board of directors being notified by Ferguson that Stam will be sold 6 hours later, Stam transferred Going to Lazio, which made the Manchester United board angry and shocked. Even Sir Bobby Charlton was dissatisfied with Ferguson, and behind the transfer, there was Jason Ferguson. Sky TV joined a management company in Manchester. Although Ferguson caused many troubles, they were all covered up by Ferguson, who loves his son deeply.