010 Spend a lot of money before borrowing from someone
Millwall's recruitment work is far from over. Even Andrew is more active than Aldridge. After leaving Italy, he went to Northern Europe and brought back two players who have not signed formal player contracts for Aldridge.
players.
The 21-year-old Ole Solskjaer, who has yet to make his debut in Molde, and the 17-year-old Jesper Grenjaer.
There are still a few candidates left to replenish Aldridge's lineup, and there is also a heavyweight transfer in the pipeline.
Although there are already two people at the goalkeeper position, the first team's regular configuration of three people is considered safe, so Aldridge picked 17-year-old Richard Wright.
In the rougher English League One, it is normal to stock up on a few more forwards. Aldridge only spent 10,000 pounds to buy the discarded player Key, who was produced by the Saints Southampton youth training, from the English semi-professional club Bodwick Town.
Vin Phillips was brought to the Lion's Den.
Bratford were still struggling in the second division, and Aldridge poached their rising star centre-back Dean Richards for £250,000.
As early as before the start of the World Cup, after Aldridge finalized Southgate's transfer, he sent out his second offer to other clubs, which was to Feyenoord in the Netherlands to purchase the opponent's striker: Henrik -
Larson.
Although Feyenoord can be regarded as a top team in the Dutch Eredivisie, they cannot compete with clubs like Ajax in terms of financial resources. To put it bluntly, they are just smaller teams than mainstream leagues.
The team just has a glorious appearance.
Aldridge's first purchase price was 500,000 pounds, but the other party refused, but his tone was not very sure. When Aldridge raised the price to 1 million pounds, the other party immediately launched further negotiations on the price, and the final transfer price was set at
for over £1.25 million.
This agreed price was set half a month ago, after the World Cup started.
If it were now early July, Feyenoord would definitely hit Aldridge hard, insisting on at least 2 million pounds and not letting go.
When Millwall officially announced many blockbuster signings, especially Southgate, Thuram, and Makélélé, all with transfer prices of more than 2 million pounds, those who sold players to the Olympics were belatedly.
Only then did Delic's club realize: This 18-year-old upstart is a fool who spends money like water!
A year ago, the British transfer record was just set by Manchester United, Roy Keane for 3.75 million pounds.
You know, last summer, the combined investment of the entire 22 Premier League teams in the transfer market did not exceed 60 million pounds!
Aldridge takes charge of Millwall, a League One team, which almost equals the transfer investment of three Premier League teams!
But this transfer has reached a stalemate. On the one hand, Larsson is representing Sweden in the World Cup, and on the other hand, he is hesitant to join a club in the second-tier English league. Even though Aldrich has offered
Generous salary contract and termination terms.
Larsson's wait-and-see and hesitation gave Feyenoord the opportunity to go back on their word. After the World Cup, Feyenoord immediately sent people to Sweden to privately express their hope to Larsson, who was returning home for vacation, that he would refuse the transfer.
At the same time, Aldridge also went to Sweden. He doesn't need to talk too much to Larsson. Millwall's investment this summer has demonstrated the ambition of this team, and it is mainly based on the youth army. Larsson
Sen is about to turn 23 years old. Although he is definitely a young player in other teams, there is no doubt that in Millwall, he will be an important player for the team, and in terms of reputation and strength, he will also be the best player for this team.
The backbone of the team.
Feyenoord club backfired. If they didn't send someone to persuade Larsson, Larsson might not have joined Millwall, but they went back on their word after allowing the player to transfer, just to knock Aldridge more
A sum of money, this made Larson disgusted and disgusted. Players are commodities. This is a cold fact, but no player will really treat himself as a commodity, especially a famous player.
Aldridge finally shook hands with the humble and low-key forward in Sweden and reached an agreement. In the new season, the Swedish forward will attack the city for Millwall!
Since the English League One kicks off on August 12, the team training session will be in late July. Larson, who participated in the World Cup, was informed by Aldrich that he could report to the team in the first week of August.
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By July 19, Aldridge looked at the player list in his office and felt that the signings were over.
Goalkeeper:
Casserly-Keller.
Hans Jörg Butt.
Richard Wright.
Defender:
Gareth Southgate.
Yap-Stam.
Dean Richards.
Marco Materazzi.
Lilian Thuram.
Gianluca Zambrotta.
Lucas-Neill.
Midfield:
Patrick Vieira.
Pavel Nedved.
Genaro-Ivan Gattuso.
Claude Makelele.
Michael Barak.
forward:
Robert Pires.
Jesper-Glenchard.
Bernd-Schneider.
David Trezeguet.
Luca Tony.
Ruud van Nistelrooy.
Henrik Larsson.
Kevin Phillips.
Ole Solskjaer.
There are 24 people in the first team.
Aldridge looked at the list and fell into deep thought. The full-backs seemed a little weak. There were only three people in the idea. However, Lucas Neal and Gianluca Zambrotta were both on both sides, and Makelele was originally the same.
He played as a full-back, and later switched to a defensive midfielder for the national team, but Aldrich wanted to directly turn him into a defensive midfielder, otherwise it would be too wasteful.
Aldridge can rely on the team's three central axis players, including Southgate in the defense, Nedved in the midfield, and Larsson in the forward line.
It's just that the position of the full midfielder is slightly weak. Grenchar is still young. If Pires and Schneider are injured, Nedvěd on the left can take care of it, but there is no starting point for attack on the right. Aldrich
After thinking about it, he really didn't want to put his hopes and energy on some untalented players.
When it comes to transforming the team, we have to take it step by step. To deal with leagues like English League One, crosses from the wing are tried and true. If you want to play technically, rough fouls will collapse the team all of a sudden. Therefore, the traditional winger
Road tactics cannot be abandoned. Even in the Premier League, this will be one of the important tactics in the next twenty years. However, the role of wing crosses has gradually been shared with the full-backs from the traditional full-backs. This is also the development of modern football.
Trends, diversity and comprehensiveness of player roles.
Aldrich kept saying right, right, right, and then he remembered a person. Although it was impossible to dig him out, he could borrow him first.
Whatever he wants to do, Aldrich plans to pay a visit to the old Scottish man who was so successful last season.
In recent times, Millwall Club has gradually calmed down. This month has been a roller coaster for fans.
First, the club carried out a purge of the team from the coaching staff down to the first team.
Then, news of the club’s signings came one after another. Although for Millwall fans, only stars like Southgate were familiar to them, it was inspiring enough. What could be better than poaching Derby
Which one is even more crazy about the opponent's captain?
Aldridge made a trade that quickly gained him fan support!
This is similar to how Fiorentino came to power to poach rival stars in later generations.
Some fans roughly calculated the funds Aldridge invested in transfers this summer and came up with an astonishing figure: 12.6 million pounds!
This is an exciting number!
How much did Manchester United invest in the summer transfer market last year? A mere 3.75 million.
What about the year before last?
1.1 million.
Obviously the arithmetic cannot be calculated like this, because Aldridge tore down the entire club and rebuilt it, and every summer transfer of the Premier League team is just to replenish the lineup. It is rare to replace the lineup with a broken lineup, and it is only as big as Blackburn Rovers.
Spending money can be regarded as a big deal, but it only brings in a few stars whose abilities are recognized.
At least the football columnists are not optimistic about the results of Aldridge's investment this summer. Originally, no one paid attention to Millwall, but Aldridge's continuous big moves have made people pay attention.
Aldrich was waiting for someone outside the club, planning to let Andrew guide him out of London. Aldrich didn't know the way any better than a tourist.
Soon, Andrew drove a high-end car to the front of the club, smiled at Aldrich and said, "Where do you want to go?"
"Manchester, I want to visit the manager of Manchester United."
Andrew looked surprised. After pondering for a moment, he shook his head and said, "This is not easy. I'll find someone to help first."
After saying that, he got out of the car, went to the club to make a phone call, and then drove Aldrich to the London train station.
He bought three train tickets to Manchester at the train station. Although Aldrich was curious about who the third train ticket was for, he did not ask.
In the waiting room, Aldrich saw a man in a suit and tie, wearing a pair of rimmed gold glasses, with curly but not sloppy hair. He looked polite and polite, and he smiled and hugged Andrew when he came to him.
, then formally walked up to Aldrich, stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "Jason Ferguson, nice to meet you. I have always heard Andrew mention you before. You are a legend of the Hall family."
This compliment was too explicit. Aldrich stretched out his hand to shake hands with the other person and said with a smile: "Aldrich Hall, Jason Ferguson, could it be that, oh, Mr. Ferguson is your father?"
Jason Ferguson smiled and nodded, then extended his hand and the three of them prepared to board the train to Manchester.
"I called home just now. Father happens to have time to see you."
Aldrich smiled and thanked him. After getting on the train, he couldn't help but think a lot.
He didn't expect that Ferguson's son would meet Andrew.
But after careful recall, he roughly understood the reason.
Jason Ferguson is Ferguson's favorite son. After the establishment of the Premier League, Jason worked for Sky Sports. However, in the football circle, he is just Ferguson's son. Without the football circle, Jason is worthless.
Compared to the fact that the Hall family has real money and Andrew has an independent brokerage company, in London, it is not surprising that Jason and Andrew are of similar age and know each other. It is even possible to imagine that Jason is fawning over Andrew.
Aldridge knew how capable Jason Ferguson was, and even in the time and space Aldridge had experienced, Stam transferred to Manchester United 6 hours after Ferguson informed the Manchester United board of directors that Stam would be sold.
will meet Lazio, which made the Manchester United board of directors angry and shocked. Even Bobby Cha
Sir Alex Ferguson was dissatisfied with Sir Alex Ferguson, and behind this transfer was Jason Ferguson. At that time, he had left Sky TV and joined a Manchester agency, although he had created a lot of trouble for Ferguson.
It was a disaster, but it was covered up and calmed down by Ferguson, who loved his son deeply.
