The Young Lion

Thank you Thieves for your reward! ——

The expansion of youth team players will never be published on the club's official website, and there will be no news. The media is not interested in reporting, and the club also wants to keep a low profile. It brings mental pressure to the players, and on the other hand, it also prevents the mentality of young players from being out of balance due to attention.

Due to being distracted by player transfers some time ago, the progress of signings this summer was unsatisfactory. When the signings ended, Millwall only introduced four young players outside the local trial training.

Franck Ribery of France is the first, and Reyes, who finally chose Millwall in Sevilla and Millwall, is the second. McFadden and Richardson also joined one after another. They are both 16 I'm afraid he won't be able to make any contribution to Millwall's first team for at least three years.

Millwall sold 11 players in the summer, of which 4 were first-team players and 7 were u20 players. The departure of 4 first-team players had a certain impact on the club, while the departure of 7 u20s had a negative effect on the other People and clubs make a huge difference.

That man ran to Liverpool with a bitter face on behalf of his club.

Aldridge spent the summer working at Liverpool's remote command club. The living room at home has almost turned into a studio, where he talks with various people.

Today's guest is David Moyes.

Moyes was extremely depressed.

Millwall sold 7 U20 players, at least 4 of whom were players with whom he had a cooperative relationship in the past two years.

He led Preston to gain a firm foothold in League One, and is preparing to show off his ambitions in the next season and fight for the Premier League.

But the strength of his team is really unsightly. It's not that it's rotten. But no matter how great the ability is, there is a limit to how strong it is.

The club is reluctant to spend money to buy people. They don't have the scouting system that Millwall has all over Europe and even outside of Europe.

If you spend money to buy some players who are in their prime but with limited strength, the club thinks that this is a loss-making business. At the beginning, Moyes was asked to fight the fire halfway to take office, just to save money, and he didn’t give him a penny, but Moyes caught up with him. Aldridge hit the line with great luck, relying on loan players to bring Preston into the League One. And in the second year, they were only 6 points away from reaching the promotion play-offs.

The club executives not only admired Moyes, valued Moyes, gave him all powers except money, and even supported Moyes' continuation of the combat policy of loaning players to help the team work hard.

In short, if you don’t want money, you can do whatever else you want.

Moyes also resigned to his fate. His ability to lead the team has been affirmed by the British football world, and many first-tier clubs have invited him. But not let him take charge of the team, but as an assistant coach. Moyes doesn't want to depend on others, and he is determined to break out of the sky by himself, even if he is helping the young players of Millwall with tears in his eyes, he doesn't care.

No matter how hard and tiring, as long as he can lead the team to the Premier League, everything will be different.

Preston executives also gave Moyes a promise that as long as you get to the top league, we will definitely give you a large transfer budget, and you can build the team as you like.

This brings us to the conflict between the Premier League and the lower leagues. The prosperity of the Premier League is based on sacrificing the interests of the lower leagues. Before the establishment of the Premier League, the broadcasting rights of England’s fourth-tier leagues were packaged and sold together. The Premier League broke away from the control of the FA. Portals and TV broadcasters have also contributed to this situation behind the scenes. They are willing to give the Premier League super high broadcast fees. The days are getting harder and harder, this phenomenon has continued and worsened, which directly led to the promotion of the British Championship to the play-off finals worth more than 100 million pounds more than ten years later! It is no exaggeration for the English Championship team that has been promoted to the Premier League to call it an overnight success. Similarly, the contradiction between the local league and the Premier League is getting deeper and deeper and irreconcilable.

Moyes works conscientiously. For clubs without money, there is no special emphasis on the summer transfer period, just tinkering with the lineup.

But Moyes has an ambition. He renewed his contract and left some key players, and also reserved some positions for the players he had in mind, and these players were the ones he had worked with, such as Cahill, Bresciano, dun

He likes these players very much. He has cultivated excellent tactical discipline and professionalism in Millwall.

However, Millwall sold them all to Leeds United in the summer.

Before Moyes came to Aldridge, he called O'Reilly to inquire about the possibility of loaning those players. O'Reilly turned him down with ease and pleasure.

What an international joke.

Leeds United just bought someone out on loan?

They still have to play in the UEFA Cup in the new season, and O'Reilly still feels that there is not enough manpower.

At least they have to support a 30-man lineup. Who makes them have more young players.

Then O'Reilly communicated with Moyes for a long time, asking about the specific situation of those players when they played under Moyes. Clear.

Moyes helped Millwall's young players level up, and then Millwall sold off those who had achieved little success in leveling up to make money, and Moyes had to share his experience with O'Reilly so that the opponent could use it handy .

Thinking about it, Moyes was so sad that he wanted to cry.

Aldridge can't stand Moyes today, the other party is often distracted, it seems that Millwall sold a few young players, he sold Moyes' son.

After Moyes adjusted his state and squeezed out a smile, he went straight to the topic and explained the purpose of his visit.

Still have to loan players.

Millwall's sale of so many young players directly disrupted Moyes' summer preparation plan.

His frustration is understandable.

If he can continue to loan Cahill, Bresciano and other players, there will be almost no problem with the team's running-in.

But he will now fill the vacancies of those established candidates. Then loan players from Millwall. Even if those new players have strength. It is still leveling from scratch.

Aldridge and Moyes discussed in detail about loan players.

He thinks he is quite interesting to Moyes.

Knowing that Preston is stingy, the wages of the players on loan in the past were paid by Millwall.

As long as Moyes can help with leveling and a little money, we don't care.

Other coaches also want to rent Millwall players, but Aldridge is still unwilling to rent to the other party.

Just prepare to leave it to Moyes, how interesting!

Aldridge finally gave Moyes five players. When recommending these five players, Aldridge only said one sentence: use it well. The League One Championship is just around the corner!

Moyes' heart was bleeding: If you give it to me, I can rest assured.

He is most afraid of coming on loan for a season, and Millwall will sell them out next season, and then give him a new batch of little demons to re-train this infinite loop mode. Is it human work?

Parker, Carrick, Jeffers, Matthew Taylor, Drogba.

These five players are all midfielders, and Moyes wants to rent a defender to use. It's a pity that Millwall's own defensive line is in a hurry, and Aldridge can only say sorry to Moyes.

When Moyes got up to say goodbye. Another guest came to the door, and Aldrich happened to open the door by the way, and found that it was Klinsmann and Jensen.

They greeted Moyes with a nod, and then Aldrich sent Moyes out of the house, then walked into the living room and smiled at Klinsmann and Jensen: The old man just died a little bit.

Klinsmann and Jensen didn't care about this. They came to discuss the preparation plan for the new season with Aldridge.

The first team left four players, two defenders, and two offensive players. The club does not plan to introduce replacements from outside. You go to the youth team and the reserve team in the past two days to find 4 to 6 replacements to enter the first team. Team, next season's schedule will be more difficult than we imagined.

Aldridge doesn't have to play tricks when talking to his own people.

Klinsmann and Jenson nodded at the same time.

G14 coerced UEFA and asked for a greater profit share from the Champions League. UEFA is quite obedient. Not only does the Champions League expand, it guarantees that the giants will basically not miss this feast. game.

The top 32 will be divided into 8 groups, with the top two qualifying.

The round of 16 will be divided into 4 groups, with the top two qualifying.

After the top 8, the knockout round will be played.

In other words, if you want to reach the top 8, you have to play one more group stage than in previous years, 6 games!

Aldridge does not agree with UEFA doing this from the bottom of his heart, but at the g14 summit, Adam came back after participating this year and said that other giants are very much in favor.

If you can play 6 more games, you will earn 3 more tickets, and you will definitely get more broadcast fees.

If you only look at the immediate interests, then naturally you can calculate it this way.

But how much does that add to the load on the team?

How much impact will it have on the domestic league and cup competitions?

Most of the rich bosses don't care much about this, making money is the kingly way.

The command of the team before the season is temporarily handed over to Klinsmann. As for when Aldridge can return to the team, it depends on when Melanie gives birth to the child, and it is estimated that it will be within a few days.

After Klinsmann and Jensen left, the next day, they came to the Leo training base together. The two found Najib, and the three first had a conversation, and then came to the sidelines to watch the players' training.

Speaking of the past period of time, it was a turbulent period for the youth team, so many people left, and a group of newcomers came.

But these young players are also used to it.

Especially the lower echelons, every year old people go, new people come, and those who leave are basically eliminated in the competition.

Even someone like Vassell who transferred to Leeds United, in the minds of the remaining players, is a kind of elimination.

Being able to stay in Millwall means that they have the opportunity to wear the jersey of the first team of Millwall, step directly on the stage of the top arena, and play against the top teams in Europe, instead of going to Leeds United to compete in any league Top four, show off in the UEFA Cup and stuff like that.

The young players also know that their leader is going to be a father, so he can't be seen in the summer, and the tabloids can see pictures of Aldridge appearing on the streets in Liverpool every day.

So when Klinsmann and Jenson and Najib stood on the sidelines together, the young players knew what was going on.

The club has sold so many people, and the transfer market has not brought in capable stars. There is no doubt that the club is preparing more opportunities for young people like them.

It is also the tradition of Millwall that makes more and more young players willing to join Millwall's youth training camp. Here, as long as you have the strength, you can get ahead. It is by no means empty talk, but something that can be fulfilled. promise.

Seeing the young players training harder than usual and showing themselves, Najib and the two assistant coaches on the sidelines showed knowing smiles. (to be continued...) ()