The Young Lion

Thank you Thieves and for your reward! ——

Millwall, who returned to London with the European Champions Cup trophy, not only stimulated the fans of Millwall, but also stimulated the two neighbors in London.

Chelsea won the European Cup Winners' Cup a few days earlier, and Arsenal defeated Newcastle United in the FA Cup to win the season's double.

After these two clubs have been struggling for many years, they suddenly became stronger and could show off trophies, but that neighbor, Millwall, who was gnashing his teeth so much to hate, actually brought Europe's supreme big Ear cups are back!

London fans are proud.

In this year, English football has nothing to do with Liverpool or Manchester. Three trophies in domestic competitions, two were collected by Arsenal, one was won by Millwall, and the most influential European Champions Cup was also won by Millwall. Back, Chelsea won the European Cup Winners' Cup as an English team after Millwall won the European Cup Winners' Cup last year.

London is not only the focus of English football, but also the focus of European football.

This makes Fleet Street think even more arrogantly: English football is back to its peak!

After a series of activities such as the huge parade for winning the championship, the celebration at the home court, and the interaction with the fans, etc. lasted for a week, finally, the players packed their bags and went home, and some of them went directly to the national team to report and prepare for the World Cup in France .

Millwall's management has not yet entered the holidays, and Adam is busy dealing with sponsors, not just the old contract to be renewed. New sponsors are also coming in. Conservative estimates before the start of the new season. Millwall will have more than 20 commercial partners, and sponsorship revenue will more than double compared to last year.

The new sponsorship of the team's chest advertising has been finalized, Standard Chartered Bank defeated all competitors, and Puma's jersey sponsorship was also successfully concluded on the condition of doubling the contract.

Everything is booming in Millwall, with their excellent competitive performance driving the growth of commercial value, and at the same time their tireless publicity and excellent record have begun to reap rich rewards.

Just the number of registered members on the official website has exceeded 300,000, and the club has also received letters from fan organizations in other countries. Help them set up a Millwall-approved team foreign website.

This year is the World Cup year. Aldridge, as a football insider, does not want to stay in the UK, especially in London, because he will be harassed, invited to some programs, even invited to commentate guests on the spot, post-match comments and interviews, and so on. Be self-aware and won't stick to you like a dog's plaster. But the tabloids are different, those paparazzi are always annoying you have to say a few words before you stop. Then the next day will repeat the trick.

Carter invited Aldridge to travel to Switzerland in the summer, and Aldridge agreed after thinking about it, but it was not time for him to leave. This was a group trip, and Aldrich would bring some friends with him.

Leo training base.

The youth team does not have a holiday, but the summer training is more relaxed.

Some homesick players have been approved to take a leave of absence to return to their hometowns.

Aldridge and Andrew stood at the side of the deserted court, watching the 7vs7 half-court match on the court.

Now those young players look at Aldridge's eyes completely changed.

What used to be respect is now awe.

Aldridge doesn't know what kids like Aguero, Messi, and Ronaldo are afraid of him.

It is estimated that they won the Champions League by themselves, and the coaching level has improved a lot at once, which made them afraid of Aldridge involuntarily.

Inside the stadium is a group of u15 youth teams playing football. After the World Cup, they will represent Millwall in the first Millwall Charity Cup. The leaders are 13-year-old Ronaldo and 15-year-old De Rossi.

Watching Ronaldo play football makes people anxious.

Cristiano Ronaldo is very strong in training, he is not afraid of anything, and he just likes to be the protagonist, but his ability is absolutely crushed among his peers, so he has already jumped to the u16 echelon in normal training, playing with players under the age of 16 train together.

There are many problems that he wants to get rid of.

One of them is that he likes to play football in his own way.

In layman's terms, it is a person playing on the court, and you can often watch him dribble, dribble, dribble, and then pass the ball to the open space after being cornered by a defensive player, but his teammates often don't run well. , it’s not that the teammates don’t have the consciousness to move, but the teammates don’t know when Ronaldo will pass the ball. When he passes, no one receives it, and Ronaldo will complain loudly, thinking that his teammates have not kept up with his rhythm

This phenomenon is changing little by little, which is also the reason why Aldridge let Ronaldo skip training. It is true that his peers can't guard against him, and they can't keep up with him, but talented players who are two or three years older than him are It's different. His physical condition restrains Ronaldo, which makes his personal performance continue to be reduced. Ronaldo gradually realizes that his style of play is unreliable, and he is slowly improving. At least he is serious and hardworking when practicing personal skills with Mullenstein Too much, often secretly practice at night.

The situation of Messi and Aguero is relatively ideal. There is no doubt about the technical talents of the two. The teammates take good care of them. The two usually keep themselves safe and receive the most care. They always win applause and praise on the training ground. Their lives are very nourishing. Occasionally, Aldrich will take them out shopping and eating. After all, they are Coming to Europe from South America, at such a young age, we should take them out to see the world, get familiar with the familiar environment, and strengthen their sense of belonging.

When the players started to rest, De Rossi ran over. He unscrewed a bottle of water and took two sips. While wiping his sweat, he asked Aldridge: Boss, are you coming to the game in summer?.

What game? The World Cup?

No, Charity Cup.

Aldrich shook his head and said, No, I'm going on a trip.

De Rossi was very depressed. He was the captain of the team sent by Millwall this time.

Andrew laughed beside him and said, You don't intend to let him see your performance in the game and bring you to the first team next season?

De Rossi scratched his head and said, Isn't that possible?.

Aldridge rolled his eyes, laughed twice and didn't speak.

Of course not.

With his 15-year-old stature, what is he doing in the first team?

Playing in the Premier League is abused. Playing in the reserve team is abolished.

Are you confident of winning the championship?

Andrew stared at De Rossi with a playful look.

De Rossi frowned and thought for a moment, then said, It should be fine.

He looked back at his teammates.

The kid on the front line is Ronaldo.

The midfield relies on him and Jenas.

Anyway, just press the opponent to attack.

After he left. Aldridge turned his head to Andrew and sighed: When you were 15 years old, were you just as crazy?

Andrew shrugged and smiled.

Have you thought it through?

After being urged, Aldrich sighed and said with a wry smile: It seems that Millwall's supermarket is really about to open.

Andrew interjected: I think this is a good thing. These players have won the club's highest honor, and they won the league championship last year. To be honest, their aggressiveness will be a question. Besides, the club sells people to give Newcomers make room, otherwise why do you have a youth team? Since they want to leave, you force them to stay, they are not happy, and you feel awkward when you see them.

Aldrich stared straight at Andrew, and asked, I've sold out everyone, so I'm going to relegation next season?

Andrew also asked back: Do you need me to tell you about your ability to cultivate players?.

Aldridge pouted.

Starting on the second day after winning the European Champions Cup, it was not surprising that all the buying offers from the major European giants were delivered to Millwall.

Who's on the want list?

Even Bout. There are also as many as three first-tier clubs bidding, while other players are named. All are connected with the real giants.

Nedved, Larsson, Southgate, Schneider, Bout, Pirlo and Makelele will stay with the broker.

Except for Shevchenko who was planning to leave before, the other three also had a decision to leave. It was a decision, not an idea, and the idea may have been in their minds long ago.

Trezeguet also wants to go to Italy. He thinks he has conquered England, and it is time to go to Serie A, the touchstone of the striker, to meet new challenges.

Elguera's agent is his uncle. As a Spaniard, he wants to let Elguera go to Real Madrid to wear a noble jersey, and Elguera also has such intentions.

Capdevila's desire to leave is not due to competitive factors. He cannot adapt to life in London. Apart from playing football, he has almost no activities outside of work here, because he cannot integrate into the environment here, and he cannot bear it. The weather in London, or the sunny Spain, is what he yearns for more. Aldridge has no doubts about his reasons, because the club he offered to transfer to was Deportivo, not the other two Real Madrid that wanted to buy him. And Barcelona, ​​if he wants to enter the giants, he will go to Real Madrid as a substitute. If he wants to shake Carlos' main position, it is estimated that there will be no hope within five years.

There was one other person who wanted to leave too, Barack.

He came to the club four years ago, but Pirlo, who came to the team three years ago, put him on the bench, especially since Pirlo has grown older and his body has strengthened to cope with the density of the game. More compressed the number of appearances of Ballack.

The main three midfielders established by Aldridge, Makelele-Pirlo-Nedved, each performed their duties perfectly. Ballack was indeed just a substitute in Aldridge's plan, but Ballack didn't want to play as a substitute. In order to enter the German national team faster.

In particular, he can't see the hope of becoming the main force naturally. Millwall's three midfielders are all in their prime, and Pirlo is only 20 years old. Unless someone leaves or is seriously injured, Ballack can sit Stabilize the main force.

Aldridge couldn't blame Ballack for his thinking, especially if he had spoken to him openly.

The other party is not a man whose heart is higher than the sky and whose fate is thinner than paper. It is really Millwall who is full of dragons and tigers. He can't see the day of his career. It is not his strength, but Aldridge's problem. Aldridge prefers Pirlo. With the creativity of Makelele’s defense and the protection of Makelele’s defense, unless in special circumstances, he does not need to delay the playmaker’s core to allocate more abilities to ensure the defense line, but to use offense to compress the opponent’s offense, which is itself a kind of More successful defense!

The transfer should be fast rather than slow, but in the year of the World Cup, we have to wait until the end of the World Cup to operate. Aldridge first suppressed these transfers, and at the same time was preparing for the departure of these players.

Ahead of the World Cup in France, Aldridge has one more place to go before he goes on vacation.

Brussels, Belgium.

A business meeting room in a hotel.

There are high-backed chairs at both ends of the long table, and an abbreviation of an English letter is written on the front of the chair.

On the back of the first chair on the left hand above the head is written: a.

There are chairs like b, i, j next to it.

In the middle, two adjacent chairs have m written on them.

The door of the meeting room was pushed open, and people kept coming in. They looked elegant in suits and leather shoes, and checked the letters after finding the letters on the back chairs.

On the chairs on both sides of the long table, it is clear that the chairman of Barcelona is sitting on the chair with the letter b, and the chairman of Ajax is sitting on the chair with the letter a.

Galliani, Moratti, Moggi, Sanz, etc., there are 13 people sitting here, and next to the only vacant seat, Manchester United Chairman Edwards stared at the letter on the chair with a frown: m .

Got it wrong?

It should be l.

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While the 13 people were waiting, there were footsteps outside the door. They turned their heads and saw a young and handsome blond youth striding into the meeting room with one hand in his pocket, turned around and closed the door, and then went straight to Edwards. Pull out the chair and sit down.

Edwards stared in disbelief as if seeing a ghost, Aldrich Hall! Why did you appear here?

Aldridge spread his hands and asked back: Why? So you hope that the chairman of Liverpool is here?

Edwards said harshly: Millwall doesn't deserve to be here!

Aldridge smiled without saying a word.

Galliani said calmly: Millwall is England's champion team and has also won the European Cup. The impact of the past two years on European football cannot be ignored.

Aldridge and Galliani looked at each other tacitly.

No, no, Millwall is not at our level.

Edwards is still holding on.

Galliani said helplessly, Then let's vote.

After the representatives of Real Madrid, Juventus, Inter Milan and Milan raised their hands in agreement, the chairmen of other clubs also raised their hands one after another. Although not all of them, Barcelona disagreed, but there were still ten votes in support.

Aldridge turned his head to look at Edwards. The other party had no choice but to acquiesce that Millwall replaced Liverpool to join their meeting this time.

Aldridge looked around at the representatives of various wealthy clubs, some were lobbied by Galliani, and some wanted to do business with Millwall so that Aldridge canvassed for it in the same way.

In any case, Millwall came here, regardless of whether he has rich background and background, at least, he is playing games with the rich.

In the summer of 1998, Marshal Aldridge's first generation of Wild Lions swept across Europe.

G14 is brewing the European Super League, which opened the prelude to the war with UEFA.

The eternal best in history England team failed in France.

The Lion King Stadium is expected to be completed, less than two years away

Volume 4: The Throne of Champions - The Finale

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