The Young Lion

Southgate, who came to Millwall 11 years ago, was honorably retired at the Lion King Stadium. The official retirement ceremony and follow-up activities held by Millwall for Southgate have become the most famous in European football and even the recent world football. focus of attention.

It has to be said that the momentum created by Millwall's blood has made the club very humane emotionally, not that the giants in the hearts of most fans always turn their faces and deny people, and loyal veterans cannot start and finish in a club.

On June 3rd, Southgate's bronze statue was unveiled on the square east of the Lion King Stadium. His bronze statue will stand permanently within the Lion King Stadium for tourists to appreciate, for the younger generation and the next generation In the future, countless generations of New Wild Lion members will learn to admire.

Carter, who single-handedly organized these activities, was originally a behind-the-scenes person, but at the end of this series of official activities of Millwall, the widespread positive influence he received made him successfully get rid of the shadow of Adam in the past.

In the past, people always said that Millwall was Aldrich's puppet, but now, people can feel Carter's presence, influence, and contribution to the club's progress. Carter is leading Millwall's commercialization into a new and ambitious era.

Fleet Street portrayed Carter as an ambitious man with a lot of money.

He described this newly launched business plan as a strategy of global hegemony in the green world.

Millwall was no longer satisfied with the local market a long time ago. After all, the local market has been close to saturation for a long time, and the unsaturated part. It's new fans. To change slowly with population growth.

After all, like Manchester United. Fans of giants like Liverpool and Arsenal have very traditional beliefs at home, and they will not change course because Millwall has been suppressing other giants.

But the overseas market is different. With the development of TV broadcasting, especially the development of third world countries and regions, and the improvement of life, there is a huge market waiting for others to occupy.

Millwall has established football schools or training camps in more than 30 countries and regions. And it is still investing a lot of money to build new base areas, using these as a base, radiating the countries or regions where they are located, and cultivating their fan groups.

This is not just a high-profile declaration of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger: We have 50 million fans in Asia!

Such a declaration is very false, most of it is for the sponsors to listen to, it is not a fool, but after all, it is raising the bargaining chip. Now, Millwall is really going to try its best to cultivate and attract more real fans. Once this kind of work has reached a qualitative change. The rewards would be enormous.

At the same time, Millwall also made frequent moves in the transfer market.

Form partnerships with other clubs. Some second-tier league clubs directly became the satellite clubs of Millwall. In less than three weeks, Millwall burned nearly 25 million pounds overseas, and sent many working teams to cooperate with those cooperative clubs. Start exchanges and teach the successful experience of Millwall youth training players. Most of the money is to buy young and talented players, but not to let the players come to the Millwall club. They directly choose to rent them out and own the players. If the club needs it in the future, if someone agrees with the signing standards, they can be directly transferred back to the club, but if they cannot meet Millwall's signing requirements, they can cash out and recover their investment at an appropriate time.

Most of them are players born in 1987. In the summer of 2005, they were around 18 years old, which is in line with Millwall's investment philosophy.

For example, Fellaini, Menet of the French Four Little Swans, Khedira of Germany and so on.

Compared with the previous two summers, Chelsea had the audacity to sweep everything in the transfer market, which caused everyone in the football world to feel insecure, even the giants. In the summer of 2005, Millwall didn't know about other players. But their situation is much better, much more stable than before.

Poachers will always exist, but it has only been a year since Millwall players renewed their contracts last season. It is extremely difficult to poach corners. In addition, I have just witnessed Southgate's retirement. Considering the strength of Millwall's success in defending the double crown last season, no heavyweight players in the team have the idea of ​​​​moving.

Real Madrid chairman Florentino has already learned the lessons of past failures and focused on strengthening the defense. However, Millwall officials directly rejected his intention to buy Ramos.

Then?

There is no more.

Everything is calm.

This shows one thing. After getting the news, Ramos himself did not have the idea of ​​moving back to Spain to play for Real Madrid.

And Chelsea's tentative poaching again turned into self-inflicted humiliation.

Even the unknown members of the Millwall youth team will not be interested in Chelsea's invitation, as if going to Chelsea is walking into a black hole vortex, and will sink and disappear in it.

Young players are a little bit taboo against Chelsea, because apart from having to bear the reputation of being a traitor, this is a psychological pressure that most of them cannot bear now. On the other hand, it is difficult for Chelsea to see their success. Focusing on the green field, under Mourinho's coaching, it is almost impossible to see Chelsea cultivating young players. Glenn Johnson, who left Millwall, became an invisible man in Chelsea, compared to Eriksson's coaching season The decline in the attendance rate is too obvious.

Millwall's summer is proceeding in an orderly manner. In the Premier League, one event shocked the world.

June 22.

Manchester United delisted from the London Stock Exchange!

June 28.

The Glazer family, which owns more than 90% of the shares, initiated a compulsory acquisition. On this day, Manchester United completely became the private property of the Glazer family!

At the same time, Manchester United, the second richest football club in the world, became the most indebted club in the world overnight!

Of course, debt and poverty are two concepts.

In the capital market, it is normal for companies to have debts.

It is precisely because the Glazer family regarded this investment as a capital game that they were able to mobilize capital in a way that ordinary people do not understand, and completed this shocking acquisition. They did not use their own assets as collateral, nor did they themselves He has the capital to acquire Manchester United with his own financial resources, but he used Manchester United as collateral before the acquisition was successful, and successfully raised funds to take over Manchester Old Trafford in one fell swoop. When the acquisition was completed, Manchester United also The mortgage was completed, and a sensational huge debt was incurred.

Manchester almost fell into riots. Countless Red Devils fans protested against the American occupation and clamored for the Glazer family to get out!

Even the fan base has a tendency to split, because according to tabloid reports, the club was acquired this time, and Ferguson played a role in fueling the flames, or he was suspected of luring wolves into the house!

Of course, those who stand up and talk without back pain can say that the club's debt is normal, and there is no need to make a fuss.

However, from an objective analysis, Manchester United's profitability has not fluctuated much due to the Glazer family's entry and the change of boss.

If there was an operating income of 150 million pounds in the past year, and the growth rate was 10%, then next season, Manchester United's operating income will be 165 million pounds. However, Manchester United needs to pay off debts, so it has to take part, for example, 30 million pounds. Well, they're £15m less than last season.

The core of the problem is that the money received by the Edwards family and other shareholders of Manchester United from the sale of Manchester United shares belongs to them personally.

However, the Glazer family did not use their own financial resources to fill this financial vacancy. Instead, they used mortgage loans. Own Manchester United.

In this process, due to the addition of huge debt expenses, Manchester United's competitiveness will inevitably be affected, because European football has completely entered the era of capital!

The Manchester United fans protested, on the one hand, out of the maintenance of tradition. Most overseas fans actually don't care about the identity of the boss, but the British do!

The traditional giants Manchester United have become the private property of the Americans!

This is unacceptable to the vast majority of local Manchester United fans. This kind of resentment definitely surpasses whether Chelsea fans care about whether the boss is a Russian rich man. After all, Abramovich parachuted into Stamford Bridge as the savior, and the Glazer family is the image of vampires portrayed by the tabloids. To use Manchester United to make money!

On the other hand it is very realistic.

Millwall has just completed the double defending of the League Champions League, and the replacement is almost complete, and it will enter an era of incomparable prosperity!

Even without mentioning Millwall, even Chelsea in West London have already ridden on the head of Manchester United.

How can Manchester United fans not have a sense of crisis?

To improve the competitiveness of the club, of course it will cost money!

However, Manchester United became the most indebted football club in the world overnight!

How can you bear it?

Arsenal can bear it. They are building a new stadium. After the completion of the new stadium, their financial income will improve significantly, and the future will get better and better. There is a prospect of vigorous development.

But what about Manchester United?

Obviously it was a rich, very, very rich club. In the past, the fans fought against the Edwards family!

Because Edwards is too stingy, when Manchester United was rich and other clubs were burning money, although Manchester United was not shabby, they seldom had absolute big investment, and one of them made Ferguson's vision controversial, yes , is the Veron bought at a sky-high price, but Rooney, who bought a lot of money last season, made up for this, but the average total investment per season, Manchester United's expenditure is not in line with their world status, especially in terms of financial resources. .

In the past, people who had money held back and were reluctant to spend it ruthlessly. In the future, they may want to spend it but have no big money to spend it. (to be continued...)

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