The Young Lion

Many people think that Mourinho was only picked up by Chelsea after winning the Champions League in 2004. It seems that the Champions League final was regarded as an interview assessment.

This is wrong.

And obviously.

May 27 is the Champions League final. In the original history, Mourinho officially took office on June 2, with less than a week in between.

Even if Abramovich is a complete layman, he will not rush to make a decision that has a major impact on the club within a week.

As a rich man in charge of tens of billions of pounds of business, early investigation, deliberation, and deliberation, this kind of work is a necessary process, and decisions are made when the head is hot. This kind of person is impossible to achieve great things. It takes a long time to investigate to buy a player. , It will not be determined by the performance of a game, let alone the coach?

When did Chelsea's coaching process begin?

It started after the New Year, because Chelsea bid farewell to the league championship, and it was impossible to catch up with Arsenal and Millwall in the standings.

Abu gradually became strangers to Eriksson.

The personnel in the club can see their status changes from many details.

Eriksson naively thought that if he won the Champions League, he could save his coaching position, which is also a wrong idea.

In the process of Chelsea entering the knockout rounds and playing the Champions League, Eriksson's club status plummeted, such as the seating arrangement on the plane, accompanying officials, players, coaches, plus team doctors and other staff, 24 rows of seats, Eric Sen was moved from the 8th row to the 18th row, and at that point, he knew he was starting to be sidelined.

Also from then on. Chelsea's ongoing football revolution has also ruled out Eriksen.

New Years. The alien Ronaldo took the initiative to come to London to watch the match between Chelsea and Liverpool. And asked to meet with Abramovich, Abramovich notified the Real Madrid club, which angered Florentino, and gave Ronaldo a notice not to act rashly, but the alien still violated the helm of Real Madrid and took the initiative to report Chelsea throws an olive branch, suggesting that they are willing to join Abramovich's revolutionary army at Stamford Bridge!

same period. Chelsea's new Peter Kenyon took office. The former Manchester United executive and Abramovich are planning to bring Beckham back to London. Kenyon has a close relationship with Beckham. After he and Ferguson turned against each other, the person who must leave is Beckham, not Ferguson, so Kenyon is confident in bringing Beckham back to London.

Beckham also made his own remarks at the end of March. Hinting he could return to the Premier League when the time comes.

The time is ripe. What Chelsea does not have for the time being is a mature football business platform.

Don't say that poaching Beckham is just a bold idea. Even if Beckham himself agrees, his entire management team behind the scenes will prevent Beckham from taking action. Well, when Chelsea paid for the Millwall superstars, the first one to react was not the Millwall club, but the sponsors who had a cooperative relationship with them. They would not be happy to see a commercial contract under their banner The top stars of the club have gone to Stamford Bridge. At least, these international corporate sponsors will not allow Chelsea to become a real giant.

In England, if the management excludes the head coach from the plan of building the team, either the head coach is completely emptied, or the future of the head coach has become a foregone conclusion. The latter is Eriksson's situation.

Before Mourinho led his team to eliminate Manchester United and Lyon, and was about to start a battle with Deportivo, he became one of the hottest candidate coaches in Europe.

At that time, Florentino was also chasing Mourinho, and although Chelsea's coaching scope included Mourinho, there were other candidates. For example, in April, in the VIP box at Stamford Bridge, Monaco coach De Shang and Ajax technical director Van Gaal both sat there to watch the Chelsea-Everton game and had a photo with Kenyon.

Real Madrid's pursuit of Mourinho is sincere, because Florentino has met a strong opponent in the campaign, Sabarino, a wealthy lawyer from Madrid, who leads a business consortium that includes 18 influential people. A member of the royal family, Sabarino offered in his campaign platform: Beckham must go and I will listen to offers for him.

Real Madrid's poor performance in the season makes Florentino must bring fresh force to the team, and Mourinho, who is in the limelight, is one of his candidates.

Due to the joining of Real Madrid, Chelsea also paid more attention to Mourinho and increased their attention. Naturally, Mourinho's agent Mendes took advantage of the situation.

Therefore, when the Champions League semi-finals were in full swing, Chelsea's representatives and Mourinho's agent Mendes had a secret meeting in Spain, and the meeting lasted seven hours!

During the period, Porto handed over a complaint to FIFA, condemning Chelsea for reaching out to Mourinho. FIFA is very embarrassed. They are very decisive about seducing players, but seducing the head coach, it is hard to say Within the scope of their trial, because the transfer of players is clearly stipulated in the industry, and there is no transfer for the head coach, it is the same as the operation mode of many companies in the society. Let's go, then change jobs. The economic disputes in the middle can only be done according to the contract regulations. Chelsea is not bad at buying out the wealth of Mourinho's contract.

Before May, Mourinho struck a deal with Chelsea, which simply postponed Eriksen's final trial until the final outcome of the Champions League front.

Abramovich wants Eriksson to leave, but if Eriksson really created a miracle and led Chelsea to win the Champions League, then it would be a very hasty decision to fire such a coach, which would make the club with There was a huge rift in the relationship between the fans.

After Chelsea was eliminated from the Champions League by Millwall, Eriksson's fate was finally decided, and there is no possibility of any other changes, and Chelsea's dressing room, complaining and attacking Eriksson , reported vividly.

The reason why Chelsea locked Mourinho in advance, in addition to the fact that Mourinho has no shortage of suitors, the addition of Real Madrid is an important factor that catalyzed this result, so Chelsea acted first to avoid dust in the season Once it's settled, the major powerhouses will start preparing for next season and change coaches. Then, Mourinho will have more choices at that time, and I'm afraid Chelsea's chances of winning will not be too high.

And Mourinho gave up going to Real Madrid to take up his new post because he was not the most important one in Real Madrid's coaching list. Chelsea's great sincerity moved him and made him eliminate Deportivo. He couldn't help being a little bit flustered. At the celebration meeting for Porto to celebrate the two consecutive league titles, he directly invited his assistants and goalkeeper coaches to coach at Chelsea. The news spread like wildfire since then, and Porto began to look for Mourini. The ideal candidate for Austria's replacement is Real Madrid coach Queiroz.

This is why Fleet Street described Aldridge and Mourinho as rivals!

It can be called a coincidence to meet in the Club Intercontinental Cup final for two consecutive years, but the upcoming Champions League final is just the beginning!

The beginning of the war!

Next season, Mourinho will coach Chelsea.

Chelsea and Millwall are bitter rivals.

Mourinho and Aldridge will start a head-to-head confrontation in the Premier League.

The prelude to this battle between dragons and tigers is the Champions League final, **, which will be in the future Premier League.

When Aldridge met Mourinho again at the Schalke Stadium, the two shook hands at the end of the point, then separated and walked to their respective coaches' benches.

Mourinho was the same as last year, standing on the edge of the coach's bench with one hand on the ceiling of the coach's bench, he looked cold and sharp, while Aldridge stood in front of the coach's bench with his head held high and solemn.

One, for his first Champions League title.

One, for his fifth Champions League title.

The two have different starting points and experienced different eras.

At the time point when they meet on this peak stage, the pursuit is even more different.

What Mourinho pursues is first.

What Aldrich wants today is actually the third.

Millwall has four Champions League titles.

If they win the cup today, Millwall will have five Champions League trophies.

One less than Milan and Real Madrid.

It will no longer be tied with Liverpool Ajax for third place, and will be the only third place in the history of the Champions League!

In the last game of the 10th anniversary of coaching, many relatives and friends of Aldridge came to the scene, and the number of Millwall fans far exceeded the number of Porto fans who came to the scene!

2004 was a young coach year in modern football.

Benitez has completed two championships in three years in La Liga.

Ancelotti has won the two most important titles of the UEFA Champions League for two consecutive years in Serie A.

Didier Deschamps was a blockbuster in Europe.

The madman Mourinho took the European second-tier league as a springboard to the world.

Aldridge, the young coach ten years ago, has not stopped now. He stands on the pinnacle of achievements of countless contemporary coaches.

His pursuit, I am afraid no one can understand, or no one dares to imagine.

His footsteps have already stepped into the long river of history, and he has fought against countless football sages in the spring and autumn travel!

Millwall had no crown and no name for a hundred years.

Aldrich is now going to use his own time to overthrow the accumulation of hundreds of years of all European giants, the brilliance created by the efforts of several generations and countless people!

It is with such a mind and goal.

Aldridge didn't care who the opponent was.

Stop me overlord! Destroy it! (to be continued..) ()