The Young Lion

Thank you Thieves for your reward!

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The club's signings are still ongoing. Aldridge has followed many young players through the scouting network of Andrew's agency. This database is very large in Andrew's company. For others, even if they get these The data is not particularly useful, because there are too many players to examine one by one, but after reading the data, Aldridge has a bottom line in his mind.

In the early morning, the weather was a bit sweltering, and Aldrich and Ivan were jogging in the park. After the jogging, they rested against the fence beside the Thames River. Ivan handed Aldridge the handkerchief she had just wiped off her sweat. Aldrich hesitated for a moment, but still took it, wiping the sweat off his face naturally.

Before changing it, he would not hesitate at all, but after some things were clarified, he felt weird in his heart.

Even if the two of them played together this summer and were inseparable, there seemed to be nothing embarrassing, after all, they were too familiar.

Will the club run around Asia and not affect the new season?

Ivan asked with some concern.

Aldridge breathed a sigh of relief, and said lightly: No way, business development sometimes requires the team to make some sacrifices. If you don't take advantage of the momentum of the Champions League just won the championship to gain popularity, you may not be able to achieve the best results if you have to reschedule in the future. Effect.

If you consider it purely from competitive factors, Aldridge does not support the team's preparations for the summer to go to Asia. The impact of the time difference and the distraction of the players from commercial activities are not good factors for the new season. However, from The long-term goal of the club is to expand business channels and international influence of the club. This is the only way to go. And the timing is also very rare. The team has just won the Champions League, and the new era of rapid development of media communication. This time to open up the market is the best time to catch up with the popularity of the rich.

Yiwen smiled at him and said, Do you need me to accompany you?

Aldridge said without turning his head: No. I heard that my popularity in Asia is not low.

The Millwall Club has launched a trip to Asia in late July. The new European champion will play five friendly matches in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and Singapore, with an average stay of two days in each place. Although Millwall lost a lot of main players in the summer, there are Larson, Nedved and other players in the lineup, plus Aldridge, an alternative football idol of the new generation who is already very popular. When Millwall arrived at the Tokyo airport, the enthusiasm of the whole city was ignited. European players who had never been to Asia were frightened by the sight of the crowds: they thought the Japanese were crazy!

Although the friendly match is said to be the first and second in the friendship match,

But Millwall is strong, especially their technical and physical advantages. In five consecutive friendly matches, he won five consecutive victories without playing hard. Aldridge followed the old habit and replaced 11 players in the first and second half of the team. Take this opportunity to also inspect the status of the players.

The trip to Asia is actually a way to collect money. On the one hand, it promotes the club to attract fans, and on the other hand, it directly reaches cooperation agreements with sponsors.

However, some sponsors really made Aldridge feel speechless.

Big companies in Japan and South Korea hope to help their players land in the Premier League by sponsoring Millwall. They pay the transfer fee and salary, as long as the players can wear the Millwall jersey.

Faced with such a proposal, Aldridge directly refused without hesitation. Although it would increase Millwall's income and have an unplanned idler in the team, it would smash the signboard and make Millwall suffer criticism. Be a slave to money.

It was the beginning of August when I returned to London. The new season of the Premier League will start on August 14. Millwall does not need to participate in the Community Shield game, just waiting for the league to start.

Aldridge checked the progress of the team's signings in the office.

The club's working team brought back Viana from Portugal, and brought back three people from France. Except for Le Talay, who belongs to the category of injured Zhongyong, the other two will be well-known figures in the future. The first is Warcraft. Drogba, the 20-year-old Drogba is different from other stars who showed their talents early, but he is not a late bloomer. Before the age of 20, he was always in a state of playing around. It was not until the age of 20 that he began to really Realizing that he has to make a living by playing football, when Millwall's work team sent him an invitation and proposed a contract, he readily agreed, because he had tried out many big clubs in France, but the result was rejected .

The other is 17-year-old Patrice Evra.

From the German amateur side, Millwall brought back defender Christoph Metzelder, who will be 18, and midfielder Hanno Balic, who is 17.

Two Spanish players returned to their home country in the summer, and Millwall brought back a younger player from Spain, 17-year-old Joaquin Sanchez Rodriguez.

Aldridge planned to go around the youth team and select a few substitutes to join the first team, but just as he walked out of the office door, he saw Gudjohnsen standing at the door with a hesitant look on his face.

Is there something wrong?

Aldrich asked curiously. During the trip to Asia, Gudjohnsen seemed to be preoccupied, but Aldrich didn't care, and he was not the kind of person who would ask about everything.

Gudjohnsen nodded heavily, as if he had made up his mind.

Aldrich turned around and walked back to the office. After Gudjohnsen sat down, Aldrich also went around behind the desk and waited for the other party to express his intentions.

Boss, in the new season, I will still be a substitute, right?

Hearing such a question, Aldridge sighed in his heart. In fact, he hoped that all these players would have no thoughts and just be puppets.

He nodded and said: Yes, although I don't want to say this, you are not the first choice in the offensive four-man team, but you have potential, at least you have to have a better understanding with your teammates, then you have Strength competes for the main position, you need to be patient.

Gudjohnsen said after a moment of silence: But I think more games will allow me to continue to improve.

Aldridge fell into contemplation, and the disadvantages of the young team lineup were also reflected.

Young substitute players see no hope!

At least Gudjohnsen has no advantage at all in the competition with Larsson, Ronaldinho, and Ruud. Even if his personal ability has been achieved, tacit understanding is still a problem.

These main players are young, how many years will it take for him to make his debut?

Barack's departure is derived from this.

Aldrich is also free and easy. He asked softly, Have you made up your mind?

Gudjohnsen nodded.

Well, I agree with your transfer, and the club will list you. Good luck in the future.

Aldrich stood up and formally shook hands with the other party. Gudjohnsen held Aldrich's right hand with both hands, and said in a deep voice, Boss, although I have only been here for a year, I am very grateful for your help to me.

Aldridge smiled and shook his head.

Grateful, grateful, grateful, he is appreciated by quite a few players. But this is not what he wants most...

On the contrary, if the other party can stay, Aldridge will be grateful to the other party in his heart, just like Glenshire. Listen to Aldridge's advice, have a stable chance to play every season, and perform desperately once you play.

On the night Gudjohnsen was brought to market, Aldridge got another bad news.

Millwall's working team asked the Red Star Belgrade to buy the opposing young player Vidic, and the club agreed to let it go. But the player refused.

The opponent will definitely not be able to obtain a labor certificate, and it is impossible for Aldridge to apply for a genius clause for a defender. If the FA approves it, the back door will be too open.

The plan proposed by Millwall is to introduce the opponent and then loan him to Belgium. Vidic was granted an EU passport three years later and returned to Millwall.

But Vidic does not accept such an arrangement.

Aldridge didn't feel too disappointed. If he missed it, he missed it. If he still has a chance in the future, he can win the opponent again.

The next day, when Aldridge appeared on the sidelines of the youth team's training field, the atmosphere of the entire training field changed, and the youth players trained as hard as they had been pumped.

Najib joked to Aldrich: Why don't you come to work part-time as the head coach of the youth team.

Aldridge was thinking about the team roster for the new season.

Now he doesn't need to pile up too many players to enter the first team, because the active players are all getting older, and the rotation doesn't need to be too frequent, and he can definitely play more games than two years ago or three years ago.

Basically, it is enough to ensure that there are rotation players in each position. Unless there are large-scale injuries, otherwise, a roster of 23 or 24 people is enough for a season.

Aldridge turned to Nagy and said, Call Ashley over.

Najib turned to say a few words to his assistant not far away, and Ashley Cole, who was running back and forth with his teammates on the field, was called over alone.

In front of Aldrich, Ashley Cole smiled excitedly.

Why are you laughing?

Aldrich felt strange.

Ashley Cole said hehe: Boss, you asked me to go to the first team, right?

Huh? How do you know?

Because the first team is short of people.

Aldridge pouted, Capdevila's transfer undoubtedly made Ashley Cole very happy, the same thing is not uncommon in the club, Trezeguet and Shevchenko transfer, who is the most Happy? Fanny!

In the new season, you will enter the first team roster, train with the first team, if you can't enter the game roster, you will play the reserve team game, don't be too happy too early.

Ashley Cole nodded quickly when he heard the words. He turned his head and secretly made faces at Joe Cole and David Villa, as if to show off.

Joe Cole and Villa gave him a middle finger at the same time from the bottom of their hearts.

Grass, if we weren't young, we would have gone to the first team a long time ago!

Aldridge then called Paul Ferreira to the front and also informed the other side of entering the first team in the new season.

He does not intend to draw central defenders from the youth team, because central defenders need to be physically strong. Among them, excellent young central defenders under the age of 18 must go through a process of tempering, and Mills of the first team is weak offensively and defensively strong. Let him play as a substitute for Schneider, and his offensive power will be greatly reduced. It is no problem to let him play as a central defender when necessary. In addition, there is also a jack-of-all-trades Neal who can also play a central defender. After Erguera left, the central defender position There will be no shortage of people.

Aldridge was pacing back and forth on the sidelines, Ferreira and Cole were talking, they were already excited at the moment, while other players stared at them with envious eyes, and at the same time looked forward to Aldridge Roll call to yourself.

Aldridge is thinking, the midfielder is not counted as the attacking midfielder, there are still four players, Gattuso and Lampard are on the bench, there is no need to make extra additions, Nedved's position, do you need a substitute?

If the Czech iron man does not rotate, he can really stick to it.

Aldridge finally shook his head, forget it, Ronaldinho can also play in that position, occasionally changing tactics, even without an attacking midfielder in rotation.

Gudjohnsen, who was originally planned on the front line, is leaving, and there are many clubs seeking to buy him. The key is how he makes a choice, and he will definitely leave.

Aldrich suddenly raised his head and asked Najib, How about that Larmor?

The former Liverpool prodigy came to Millwall for a year, what has become? ()