Millwall, who returned to London with the European Champions Cup trophy, not only stimulated Millwall fans, but also stimulated the two London neighbors.
Chelsea won the European Cup Winners' Cup a few days early, and Arsenal defeated Newcastle United in the FA Cup to win the double crown this season.
After these two clubs had been fighting each other for many years, they suddenly hardened up and were able to show off trophies. But that hated neighbor Millwall actually took the European supremacy with him... The Big Ear Cup is back!
London fans are proud.
In this year, English football had nothing to do with Liverpool and Manchester. Of the three domestic trophies, two were won by Arsenal and one by Millwall. The most influential European Champions Cup was also won by Millwall. Back, Chelsea won the European Cup Winners' Cup as an English team after Millwall won the European Cup Winners' Cup last year.
London is not only the focus of English football, but also the focus of European football.
This makes Fleet Street think even more arrogantly: English football is back at its peak!
After a series of activities such as the grand parade to win the championship, celebrations at home, interactions with fans and so on, which lasted for a week, the players finally packed their bags and went home. Some went directly to the national team to report and prepare for the World Cup in France. .
Millwall's management has not yet entered the holiday season. CEO Adam is busy dealing with sponsors. Not only the old contract needs to be renewed, but new sponsors are also arriving one after another. It is conservatively estimated that Millwall will be ready before the start of the new season. There will be more than 20 business partners, and sponsorship revenue will more than double last year.
The new sponsorship of the team's chest advertisement has been finalized. Standard Chartered Bank defeated all competitors, and Puma's jersey sponsorship was successfully renewed on the condition of doubling the contract.
Millwall is prospering, and their excellent competitive results have driven growth in commercial value. At the same time, their tireless publicity and excellent results have also begun to receive generous returns.
The number of registered members on the official website alone has exceeded 300,000, and the club has also received letters from fan organizations in other countries to help them establish a foreign website for the team recognized by Millwall.
This year is the year of the World Cup. As a football insider, Aldridge does not want to stay in the UK, especially London, because he will be harassed. Invitations to some programs, even invitations to on-site commentary guests, post-match comments and interviews, etc. Newspapers are self-aware and will not stick to you like dog-skin plaster. But tabloids are different. Those paparazzi will always annoy you and have to say a few words before you give up. Then they will do the same thing again the next day.
Carter invited Aldrich to travel to Switzerland in the summer. Aldrich agreed after thinking for a while, but it was not time to leave yet. This was a group trip, and Aldrich would bring some friends with him.
Leo training base.
There is no holiday for the youth team, but training is more relaxed in the summer.
Some players who were homesick were allowed to take leave to go back to their hometowns.
Aldrich and Andrew stood on the edge of the deserted court, watching the 7vs7 halftime match.
Now the way those young players look at Aldrich has completely changed.
It used to be respect, now it's awe.
Aldridge doesn't know why kids like Aguero, Messi, and Ronaldo are afraid of him.
Probably because he won the Champions League, his coaching level suddenly improved a lot, which made them involuntarily fear Aldridge.
Inside the stadium is a group of U15 youth teams playing football. After the World Cup, they will represent Millwall in the first Millwall Charity Cup. The leaders are 13-year-old Ronaldo and 15-year-old De Rossi.
Watching Ronaldo play football makes people anxious.
Cristiano Ronaldo is very strong in training, not afraid of anything, and he just likes to be the protagonist. However, his ability is absolutely crushing among his peers, so he has jumped to the U16 echelon in daily training, with players under 16 years old.
Train together.
There are many problems that he needs to correct.
One of them is that he likes to play football his own way.
In layman's terms, it means a person is performing on the court. You can often watch him dribbling the ball, dribbling the ball, dribbling the ball to break through, and then being forced into a desperate situation by the defensive players and then passing the ball into the open space, but his teammates often cannot get in place.
, it’s not that teammates don’t have the awareness to move, but that teammates don’t know when Ronaldo will pass the ball. When he passes the ball and no one receives it, Ronaldo will complain loudly, thinking that his teammates have not kept up with his rhythm.
....
This phenomenon is changing bit by bit, which is why Aldrich asked Ronaldo to skip training. His peers can't guard him and can't keep up with him, but talented players who are two or three years older than him can't keep up with him.
It’s different. Ronaldo’s physical condition has restrained him, causing his personal performance to be continuously reduced. Ronaldo has gradually realized that his playing style is unreliable, and is slowly improving. At least he is practicing his personal skills with Meulensteen seriously.
More often than not, I often practice more secretly at night.
The situation of Messi and Aguero is relatively ideal. There is no doubt about their technical talent. The technical moves they can make are far more comfortable and coherent than those of their peers. In addition, they are the youngest and the oldest in the echelon.
Their teammates take better care of them. The two usually keep to themselves and receive the most care.
, they always won applause and praise on the training ground, and their life was very smooth. Occasionally, Aldridge would take them out for shopping and eating. After all, they came to Europe from South America and were so young, so they should always take them with them.
They go out to see the world, become familiar with the environment, and strengthen their sense of belonging.
When the players began to rest, De Rossi ran over. He took a bottle of water, opened it and took a few sips. While wiping his sweat, he asked Aldridge: "Boss, are you coming to the game in the summer?"
"What game? World Cup?"
"No, charity cup."
Aldrich shook his head and said, "No, I'm going to travel."
De Rossi was very depressed. He was the captain of the team sent by Millwall this time.
Andrew smiled beside him and said, "Are you planning to let him see your performance in the game and bring you to the first team next season?"
De Rossi scratched his head and said: "Is this impossible?"
Aldrich rolled his eyes, laughed twice and said nothing.
Of course it's impossible.
With his 15-year-old body, why would he join the first team?
Playing in the Premier League is a waste. Playing in the reserve team is a waste.
"Are you confident of winning the championship?"
Andrew stared at De Rossi with a playful look on his face.
De Rossi frowned and thought for a moment before saying, "That should be okay."
He looked back at his teammates.
The guy on the front line is Cristiano Ronaldo.
The midfield relies on him and Jenas.
Anyway, just press your opponent and attack.
After he left, Aldrich turned to Andrew and sighed: "Were you also this crazy when you were 15 years old?"
Andrew shrugged and smiled.
"Have you thought it through?"
After being urged, Aldrich sighed and said with a wry smile: "It seems that the supermarket in Millwall is really going to open."
Andrew said: "I think this is a good thing. These players have all won the club's highest honors, and they won the league championship last year. To be honest, their aggressiveness will be questionable. Furthermore, the club sells people to
Make room for newcomers, otherwise why would you set up a youth team? Since they want to leave and you force them to stay, they will be unhappy and you will feel awkward when you see them."
Aldrich stared directly at Andrew and asked: "I sold out everyone, will I be relegated next season?"
Andrew also asked: "Do you still need me to tell you about your ability to develop players?"
Aldrich pouted.
On the second day after winning the European Champions League, not surprisingly, all the purchase offers from major European clubs were sent to Millwall.
Who is on the want list?
Even Bute has as many as three first-tier clubs looking to buy him, and the names of other players are all linked to real giants.
Those who have definitely stated to their agent that they will stay are Nedved, Larsson, Southgate, Schneider, Bute, Pirlo and Makelele.
Except for Shevchenko, who had been planning to leave before, there were three others who had also made the decision to leave. It was a decision, not an idea. The idea may have been in their mind for a long time.
Trezeguet also wanted to make a career in Italy. He believed that he had conquered England and it was time to face a new challenge in Serie A, which is the touchstone of forwards.
Helguera's agent is his uncle. As a Spaniard, he wants Helguera to go to Real Madrid and wear a noble jersey. Helguera also has this intention.
Capdevila's desire to leave is not due to competitive reasons. He cannot adapt to life in London. Apart from playing football, he has almost no activities outside of work because he cannot integrate into the environment here and cannot tolerate it.
He yearned more for the weather in London than the sunny Spain. This was the reason why Audrey
Qi didn't doubt his reason at all, because the club he proposed to transfer to was Deportivo La Coruna, not the other two clubs Real Madrid and Barcelona who wanted to buy him. If he only wanted to enter a wealthy club, he would go to Real Madrid just as a substitute.
It is estimated that there will be no hope of shaking Carlos' main position within five years.
There is another person who also wants to leave, Barak.
He came to the club four years ago, but Pirlo, who came to the team three years ago, put him on the bench. Especially as Pirlo got older and strengthened his body to cope with the intensity of the game.
Ballack's number of appearances has been further reduced.
The main three midfielders established by Aldridge, Makelele-Pirlo-Nedved, each perform their duties perfectly. Ballack is indeed just a substitute in Aldridge's plan, but Ballack does not want to be a substitute.
In order to enter the German national team faster.
In particular, he has no hope of becoming the main force naturally. Millwall's three midfielders are all in their prime, and Pirlo is only 20 years old. Unless someone leaves or is seriously injured, Ballack can sit on the bench.
Stabilize the main force.
Aldrich couldn't blame Barak for his thoughts, especially when the other party talked to him openly and honestly.
The opponent is not a person with high ambitions and a thin life. In fact, Millwall is full of dragons and tigers. He cannot see the day of success. It is not a problem of his strength, but of Aldridge. Aldridge prefers Pirlo.
With his creativity, coupled with the protection of Makelele's defense, unless under special circumstances, he does not need to delay the playmaker to allocate more abilities to ensure the defense line, but uses offense to compress the opponent's offense, which itself is a kind of
A more successful defense!
Transfers should be done quickly rather than slowly, but in a World Cup year, you have to wait until after the World Cup to start operations. Aldrich first suppressed these transfers and was also preparing for the departure of these players.
Before the World Cup starts in France, Aldridge has one more place to go before he goes on vacation.
Belgium, Brussels.
Business conference room in a hotel.
There are high-backed chairs at both ends of the long table, with an English abbreviation written on the front of the chair.
On the back of the first chair on the left hand side of the head is written: a.
There are chairs such as b, i, j next to it.
In the middle, two adjacent chairs have m written on them.
The door to the conference room was pushed open, and people kept walking in. They were elegantly dressed in suits and leather shoes. They found the letters on the chairs on the back and took their seats.
On the chairs on both sides of the long table, it is clear that the president of Barcelona is sitting on the chair with the letter B, and the president of Ajax is sitting on the chair with the letter A.
Galliani, Moratti, Moggi, Sanz, etc., a total of 13 people are sitting here, and next to the only vacant seat, Manchester United Chairman Edwards frowns and stares at the letter on the chair: m
.
Is that a mistake?
It should be l.
liverpool.
While the 13 people were waiting, there were footsteps outside the door. They turned around and saw a handsome young man with blond hair striding into the conference room with one hand in his pocket, turned around and closed the door, and then walked straight to Edwards.
Pull out the chair and sit down.
Edwards looked like he was seeing a ghost, his eyes widened and he said in disbelief: "Aldrich Hall! Why are you here?"
Aldridge threw up his hands and asked: "What? So you prefer the chairman of Liverpool to come here?"
Edwards said sternly: "Millwall doesn't deserve to be here!"
Aldrich smiled and said nothing.
Galliani said calmly: "Millwall is England's champion team and has also won the European Champions Cup. Its impact on European football in the past two years cannot be ignored."
Aldrich and Galliani looked at each other tacitly.
"No, no, no, Millwall is not at our level yet."
Edwards still persists.
Galliani said helplessly: "Then let's vote."
When representatives from Real Madrid, Juventus, Inter Milan, and AC Milan raised their hands first to express their agreement, the presidents of other clubs also raised their hands one after another. Although not all of them, Barcelona did not agree, but they still had ten votes in support.
Aldridge turned to look at Edwards, who had no choice but to acquiesce that Millwall would join their meeting instead of Liverpool.
Aldridge looked around at the representatives of various wealthy clubs. Some were lobbied by Galliani, and some wanted to do business with Millwall, so Aldridge canvassed votes in the same way.
No matter what, Millwall came here, no matter whether they have the background and background of a wealthy family, at the very least, they are playing games with a wealthy family.
In the summer of 1998, the first generation of Wild Lions under Marshal Aldridge swept across Europe.
g14 is brewing the European Super League, kicking off the war with UEFA.
The forever "best in history" England team failed in France.
The Lion King Stadium is expected to be completed in less than two years...
Volume 4: Throne of Champions - End
Next volume: Prelude to the Dynasty (To be continued...)
