The Young Lion

When Millwall returned to London from America, the club had a guest.

Moyes.

This time, Moyes came to Millwall with cash.

He hopes to buy Lescote and continue to loan Ribery and Rooney.

Moyes was out of luck, just in time when Everton had no money. Before him, Everton was in a good financial situation. Unfortunately, after buying a few batches of good players, they could only participate in the relegation game. It becomes difficult, and the excellent performance last season can only make him come here to buy a player.

Although Lescott has good potential, there are already better ones in the same position.

Aldridge intends to focus on training Thiago Silva. At the same time, Barzagli and Neil are too stable. The original attitude towards Lescott is to rent out and retain ownership, waiting for him to appreciate more in the future, but Considering Lescott's personal opinion, Aldridge still decided to sell him, so that he could get together and get together. At this time, he didn't want to quarrel with the players in the future because of the possible future earnings of several million pounds. After all, he stayed in the team. Either the contract period is consumed, or wages have to be paid, which is also an expense.

After selling Lescott to Everton for 5 million pounds, Aldridge, who wanted to keep Ribery in the team, talked with Scarface specifically, and the main position of Everton and Millwall are limited. In the choice of substitute, Ribery chose to continue to go to Everton, at least Everton also has a European war, and Aldridge helped him win a new contract. During the loan period, Ribery played in Everton. bonus.

Rooney also doesn't want to stay in the team and play as the last forward substitute. Originally, Aldridge wanted to keep him by his side and teach him patiently for a season, because Rooney was unbanned in the national team, and Aldridge would call Rooney into the team in the second half of the year. It is an important chess piece in the European Cup next year, and it can even be called the most variable chess piece in Aldrich's European Cup. However, Rooney went to Aldridge's home for three consecutive days and almost begged. Choose to let him return to his hometown team to play on loan for a season, at least, his number of appearances is guaranteed.

Before Rooney left, Aldridge told him a lot at home. Yiwen kept watching, waiting for Rooney to nod countless times and leave. Yiwen lamented, It feels like you are his father.

Aldrich was taken aback for a moment, and sighed old-fashionedly.

The energetic Lu Xiaopang worried him a lot. He was at Everton last season. There is another trick - the whore scandal, his freckled face has become a household name in the UK, in the eyes of Aldrich, he is still a child... like Ronaldo dyed his hair and put on earrings to pretend to be cool, Rooney If you don't pursue those things, you just want to have fun. The methods are different, and they are all immature.

On second thought,

players in this regard. How can there be any maturity and immaturity?

Villa came to London at the age of 14, Schneider came to the team at the age of 20, and Nedved came to the team at the age of 21. Nearly ten years have passed, there is no scandal, there is no scandal, and he has kept himself clean. When do you expect Rooney to change his gender?

Oh, I hope he won't be bored.

Aldridge could only sigh.

He was also young. Who doesn't have reverse psychology?

Millwall's training in North America this time worked well, although they lost to Inter Milan in the first game. Then he won the second game against Lyon, but in the friendly match, he never paid attention to the result, only the effect.

The direct economic benefits of the trip to North America are actually not as good as they used to go to Asia to pan for gold, but developing the North American market is an unswerving job, which is a long-term investment, especially unlike the Asian market where the entire Premier League is Actively developing, the invasion of the North American market is carried out by a very small number of clubs alone. Millwall has laid a good foundation before. Although the benefits are not obvious, it can wait until the football market in the United States becomes broad in the future. 10 years When the post-Premier League booms in the North American market, Millwall now lays the foundations that will put them five steps, ten steps, or more ahead of other teams.

As the new season draws closer, the signings of various powerful players are basically over.

Last season's league champion Manchester United sold Beckham. In order to fill the vacancy on the right, Ferguson first failed to compete with Barcelona for Quaresma, and then brought the Spanish star, 22-year-old Joaquin, to Old Trafford. In the position behind Beckham, although Joaquin does not have Beckham's precise guidance of Beckham's arc stunt, his flank breakthrough is more efficient than Beckham's. Instilling awareness and strengthening his body in Valencia over the years, his arrival has allowed Manchester United to minimize the negative impact of Beckham's departure on the right.

At the same time, Ferguson was patient with Barthez to the limit, and finally made up his mind to get rid of the buttery player, and bought American goalkeeper Howard to replace him. The biggest changes in Manchester United's main lineup in the new season are these two points.

Arsenal continued to live a life of frugality. The five veterans of the prestigious defense at the time had completely come to an end. Except for the main players Campbell and Toure, the professor continued to supplement young defenders. The cheap Senderos arrived and Seaman's goalkeeper position was handed over. A newcomer, another good goalkeeper of this era in Germany: Lehmann, at the same time, the professor will naturally continue to select potential stocks from his talent base France, the full-back Clichy came to the Arsenal, only costing Arsenal A mere 250,000 pounds, and an important signing, which is extremely controversial, is that Arsenal stealed Cesc Fabregas from Barcelona.

The Spanish media is about to fry the pot, and they have asked the Football Association to amend the loopholes in the regulations, so that Spanish talents are always lost abroad. There was Millwall before, and Arsenal later. Millwall’s style has been much better in the past two years. , now they will negotiate with the club in private to reach a mutually satisfactory terms, and pay a few million extra pounds. Millwall doesn't care, and cares more about reputation and image. Be kind to others on the transfer fee.

Liverpool is tinkering and not doing much, and it seems that life is getting more and more petty.

The most popular player in the transfer market is Chelsea, because they have money.

There is one fact that cannot be changed.

Without money, there must be no champions!

Countless people said money can't buy champions at this time, and they didn't realize what kind of money the wealth brought by Abramovich was.

In the past, not counting Spain, the situation in Italy was only in the Premier League, Leeds United, Chelsea, Newcastle United, Everton, Liverpool, when they all invested heavily, maybe two or three, three or four seasons. The total investment will be more than 100 million pounds.

However, in the first year of taking charge of Chelsea, Abramovich spent the sum of years invested by others in the transfer market!

This kind of money has a completely different level from the money that was talked about in the past.

It's just that many people don't realize it.

Chelsea bought two full-backs, Johnson and Bridge, bought Makelele and Gremi from Real Madrid, bought Veron from Manchester United, bought Mutu from Parma, and bought Kean from Inter Milan. Respo, a player in their fantasy lineup, although they only bought one Crespo, they have already bought many players that the team dreams of, which also shows their courage from the side.

Especially in terms of the generosity towards players, Chelsea is quietly changing the old pattern of player treatment in European football, just like after they bought Duff, they gave the Irish winger a weekly salary of 70,000. , is close to the second grade of 80,000 weekly salary, which can only be obtained by players like Schneider, while in Manchester United and Arsenal, no more than 5 people can get a weekly salary of more than 70,000.

Chelsea has become the leader in the transfer market of the Premier League. The total transaction volume of the Premier League in the summer is less than 200 million pounds, and Chelsea occupies half of the country. At the same time, every big investment they make makes other clubs ecstatic, making the entire market unprecedented. Active, Southampton holds 7 million pounds and can find 7 players.

When Eriksson led Chelsea to win the Premier League Asian Cup in Malaysia, he returned to London and said brazenly: Chelsea has undergone earth-shaking changes from the past. We already have the strength of a world-class team. Our goal It will be all the titles, the league, the FA Cup, the Champions League, but our aim now is to qualify for the Champions League.

Leaving aside Eriksson's high-profile remarks that give people the feeling of being anticlimactic, he has not even entered the Champions League, and he is just thinking about the championship, not to mention whether he has forgotten that England has one more cup than other countries: The League Cup, after all, is a stage for strong teams to train and is not taken seriously.

But his remarks did not receive a positive response in front of the Premier League powerhouses.

Eriksson seemed to have issued a gauntlet, but unfortunately no one paid attention to him.

As for Fleet Street’s tour of the Premier League in the new season, especially when commenting on the summer signings, the debate on Chelsea is the biggest. On the one hand, it is believed that Chelsea’s strength has undergone a qualitative change, and on the other hand, it is believed that there are many hidden dangers in Chelsea. It is doubtful how a new coach and new players can make a team quickly stable and full of combat effectiveness, especially to reach the height that these players should have.

The defending champion Manchester United makes people want to find faults and seems clichéd. Ferguson has always lived like this. The problem for Manchester United is: they do not have top players in many positions, but they can perform very well in Manchester United. And the top players they are determined to buy seem to be out of tune with Manchester United, such as Veron.

When it was the turn of Arsenal and Millwall, Fleet Street's evaluation was consistent: three years later, we will talk about their signings this summer.

The new season of the Premier League, the curtain opened.

Millwall's first London derby is at Stamford Bridge. (to be continued) ()