The Young Lion

Reality has a strong irony.

There are many little stories that come out of East London.

For example, Millwall dismissed Chelsea’s offer of £50 million, Henry was indifferent to the annual salary of £10 million, and Millwall executives, led by Adam, mocked Chelsea for paying Johnson £10 million after drinking in a bar. .....

Millwall's treatment of Johnson's transfer is very calm inside the club, because Johnson is the bottom, the most marginal, and the least concerned figure. His existence or non-existence has almost no impact.

The Wild Lions fans ridiculed him with a contemptuous attitude, leaving Millwall for money? This is not a departure after losing the competition. He didn't even have a competition and wanted to make a lot of money, giving up the bright future he might have in Millwall.

In addition to contempt, he will also say in a sarcastic tone: He has contributed to Millwall, Chelsea is very rich, it is great! Henry was bought by us for 10 million pounds back then. Now we have sold Johnson to Chelsea for 10 million pounds. We can use this 10 million pounds to find the next Henry.

The deal has also divided the fan base, with some fans believing that Millwall should not have sold players to arch-rivals Chelsea.

The rebutters have two points of view. The first is that feng shui has taken turns. Millwall used to lure away young talents from rival West Ham United with high salaries. Today Chelsea can also use this method to get away from Millwall. Poaching, can this be avoided? Second, if the player is not sold to Chelsea, Johnson has already torn his face. When he publicly declared that he would join Stamford Bridge. Keep him on the team. When the fans see him, don't they feel as disgusted as if they ate a fly?

Aldridge did not accept an interview, but Fleet Street learned of his attitude through some sources.

Johnson? He originally hoped that Schneider would have a good development prospect in Millwall when Schneider was about to turn 30, but now, everything has changed. It is impossible for him to take over Millwall's No. 7 jersey, He won't make Glenn Johnson's name special, go. Then go, in a few years, we can see who takes the No. 7 shirt left by Schneider and the right back Position, at that time, must be a top three player in the world at the same position, because what Millwall pursues is perfection.

Just entered mid-July, Millwall team training kicked off, Aldridge returned to the team on the first day, in addition to cleaning up Johnson, at the end of the training. He called Xiao Luo to the office, and looked at Xiao Luo's slightly fat belly. Question: One month, can it disappear?

Ronaldinho squeezed the fat on his waist embarrassingly, and said firmly, Two weeks!

I'm afraid he's going to sweat a lot in the gym.

Aldrich took out a string of shell necklaces from the drawer and handed them to him, saying: Earl carefully selected these after picking up shells at the beach, strung them into necklaces, and specially gave them to you. Thank you for your guidance before the end of last season. He plays football.

Xiao Luo looked surprised, and immediately took the necklace with a smile. When he lowered his head to admire, he found that the inside of the moderately sized and beautifully textured shell was engraved with words crookedly, obviously not from the hands of the master, it must be Earl's The little guy carved it himself.

A string of necklaces, the letters inside each shell form a sentence.

King of the world - Ronaldinho.

Ronaldinho wore it directly around his neck and matched it with his training T-shirt. It didn't feel very coordinated, but he liked it very much. He laughed and said, I just played with him casually and didn't teach him anything.

Since Aldridge came back to coach last season, his two sons have been training with the youth team. Ronaldinho sometimes runs around when he has nothing to do. He has a good relationship with Earl and plays with him when he is bored. That's all.

After Ronaldinho left, Aldridge inquired about the progress of the transfer part in the office.

Before his holiday is over, the club has finalized the list of signings.

There is no need to worry about the front line, and the back line does not need signings, but now that Johnson is missing, it is reluctant to say that there are hidden dangers in the part of the full-back. Newcomers are needed, and it should be possible to promote the 17-year-old Ramos, but he is still weak, especially on the other side, and Baines is not very old.

On the midfield line, before the end of last season, Aldridge asked Jenson to find a substitute in the midfield. It must be mainly young people. After all, Alonso's age is at that level, and he is willing to serve as a substitute for Alonso. That is naturally younger than Alonso.

The results given by Jenson really continued the true nature of Millwall's team building style.

Others basically buy players now, or buy players in the past.

Millwall, and Arsenal, are basically the future of buying players.

Aldrich took a look at the person Jansen had in mind, and he was quite satisfied.

Sporting Lisbon youth training twin stars.

Moutinho and Veloso.

It was originally a choice between the two, and Aldridge directly asked the team to bring both of them.

One is Veloso, who has just turned 17, and Moutinho will not be 17 until September.

Veloso can be trained as a substitute for De Rossi in the future, and Moutinho can be trained as a substitute for Alonso.

Sporting Lisbon probably noticed the storm that Chelsea was blowing up in the Premier League, and they refused to let go at first, and they just didn't want to let people go.

However, when the two players heard that Millwall was interested in them, they were obviously moved.

So since the beginning of July, they have been negotiating, and the tug-of-war over the transfer fee has been deadlocked.

The Sporting Lions demanded £20 million.

He also kept saying: Glen Johnson, you sold Chelsea for 10 million pounds, that is just a mediocre kid, and our players are veritable geniuses.

Is this retribution?

So fucking ironic.

Anyway, Glenn Johnson has a record of playing in the Premier League, the two boys of Sporting Lisbon. The appearance record in the professional league is zero!

Boss. Lisbon's tone is very firm. The bottom line is 15 million pounds.

Fuck, give it to him! End it sooner! The more you delay, the greater the variables!

Aldridge hung up the phone angrily.

At this moment, GBP/EUR is almost 1:1.5.

£15 million equates to almost €23 million.

Buy two 17-year-old boys.

It is estimated that the media who have been laughing at Chelsea recently are about to turn their guns and laugh at Millwall.

However, Aldridge does not regret it, things in the transfer market have always changed rapidly, and. Millwall is very popular. If you wait for other clubs to complete the main signings, and then find out the main target of Millwall’s attack later, maybe there will be spoilers to intervene. At that time, 15 million pounds may not be available. down.

In that situation, Millwall didn't want to suffer a big loss, and the transfer would be ruined.

But what about the team's plans for this season?

Wasn't it still affected?

He is about to go to North America to play a warm-up match, and Aldridge doesn't like to delay the transfer for too long.

He wants transfer activity to be shut down when the team flies to the United States. Prepare for the new season with peace of mind.

Today's planned work is over, and Aldrich is ready to get up and go home. At this time, someone knocked on the door of his office.

Seeing that it was Klose, Aldridge smiled and asked the other party to sit down. Klose looked more relaxed, and after sitting down, he began to chat with Aldrich, talking about many things in the past.

Boss, I think the promise you made to my parents back then has been fulfilled.

Boss, I have had a great time in Millwall these years. You let me see the most beautiful scenery. Although I am not the master most of the time, I have learned a lot of valuable experience.

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Hearing Klose's words, Aldridge was not in a heavy mood, and in the end he said in silence, You want to go, right?

Klose nodded slightly.

Aldrich was in a trance.

At this time, he was in a very different mood from Lampard when he proposed to leave.

On the contrary, he can understand Klose.

In front of Lampard is a 31-year-old Nedved this summer, two years, at most two years, Lampard is unwilling to wait.

And just 25-year-old Klose, in front of him is Henry who is about to turn 26.

If there is no problem with Henry's condition and no injuries, Klose has almost no possibility of taking the lead.

The original layer of window paper had not been pierced in the summer of 2002. It was not until Klinsmann helped Klose up last season, and at the end of the season, Aldridge put him on the bench again, and Klose also Recognized the reality.

It's not that he doesn't want to compete, or that he lacks courage.

In the past season, he was more stable than other starters. He scored 19 goals in the league, which is already a very good number of goals. However, compared with Henry in the past few seasons, the gap between this number of goals is Double digits!

It's no longer a question of whether he can take over if he waits.

A genius conceals countless geniuses, and the competition between giants is so cruel.

Aldridge sighed blankly, When I brought you to Millwall back then, I originally thought that today you would be Millwall's number one striker, and no one can shake you.

Plans can never keep up with the rapid changes.

Henry, who couldn't ask for it repeatedly, was not in Aldrich's original plan, because one, two, and three failures made him think that there was no possibility of having any relationship with Henry. However, after a twist, he finally got Henry, and this changed Audrich. Qi initially had all the ideas for Klose.

Although Klose can still play as a winger, it would be too unfair to him if he is forced to play as a winger, because being able to play and top are two different things.

On the winger, he can't compete with the future Ronaldo, and now Ronaldinho, at the center, a Henry, how many center forwards left Millwall in despair?

Aldridge is more open-minded in mentality. Compared with the lack of strikers due to the departure of Shevchenko and Trezeguet, at least Ruud van Nistelrooy, Drogba, and now Klose who left later, they are very good. But at least the main core of Millwall has not been shaken.

Such a situation is the same as before.

Where do you want to develop in the past?

Aldridge asked.

Klose shook his head and said with a smile: I don't have any specific ideas yet, but I don't want to stay in the Premier League anymore because I don't want to play for Millwall's league rivals. If we meet in the European war in the future, I also hope that Millwall Wall fans don't boo me.

Aldridge smiled and said: No, at least, I haven't seen Millwall fans booing Trezeguet, Shevchenko, and Elguera. Even when Pirlo and the others came back last season, the fans booed Didn't boo them.

No, I can't compare with them. They have brought great glory to Millwall. My contribution here is insignificant.

It's not right to say that. You have been a player we can rely on all these years. Maybe the statistics in one season are not gorgeous, but the contribution must be great.

A stable substitute, a good substitute player, will be very effective. It is impossible for a team to rely on 11 players to win the world, let alone 70+ games in a season like Millwall in the past few years. the match of.

The little carpenter was about to leave, and Aldridge invited Klose and his girlfriend to have dinner at home in the evening, wishing him a smooth future. (to be continued..) ()