There are many little stories circulating in East London.
For example, Millwall dismissed Chelsea's offer of 50 million pounds, Henry was indifferent to the annual salary of 10 million pounds, and Millwall's senior management, led by Adam, laughed at Chelsea after drinking in the bar for actually paying 10 million pounds for Johnson.
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Millwall's treatment of Johnson's transfer was very calm within the club, because Johnson is the lowest, most marginal, and least noticed figure, and his presence or absence has almost no impact.
And the Lions fans laughed at him with contempt, leaving Millwall for money? This is not a departure due to failure in competition. He didn't even compete at all, so he wanted to make big money and gave up on Millwall.
The bright future you may have.
In addition to being disdainful, he will also say in a sarcastic tone: He has contributed to Millwall. Chelsea is very rich, which is great! We bought Henry for 10 million pounds back then, and now we have 10 million pounds.
Sterling sold Johnson to Chelsea, and we can use these 10 million pounds to find the next Henry.
This deal has also created divisions among the fan base, with some fans believing that Millwall should not sell players to arch-rivals Chelsea.
The counter-arguers have two opinions. The first is that the situation has changed. Millwall used to lure young talents from the youth training of rival West Ham United away with high salaries. Today, Chelsea can also use the same method to lure away young talents from Millwall.
Poaching, can this be avoided? Second, if players are not sold to Chelsea, Johnson has already broken his face and openly declared that he would join Stamford Bridge. Keep him in the team. When the fans see him, don’t they?
Will it make you feel as sick as if you ate a fly?
Aldridge did not grant an interview, but Fleet Street learned of his attitude through a number of sources.
"Johnson? He originally hoped to have good development prospects in Millwall when Schneider was about to turn 30, but now, everything has changed. It is impossible for him to take over the No. 7 jersey of Millwall.
He won't make Glen Johnson's name special, leave. Then leave. In a few years, we can see who takes over the No. 7 jersey and right back left by Schneider.
Position, at that time, it must be a player among the top three in the world at the same position, because Millwall is pursuing perfection."
In mid-July, the Millwall team training kicked off. On the first day after Aldridge returned to the team, in addition to cleaning up Johnson, at the end of the training, he called Ronaldinho into the office and looked at Ronaldinho.
Luo Wei slightly had a fat belly and asked: "Can it disappear in a month?"
Ronaldinho pinched the fat around his waist embarrassedly 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 it to him, saying: "Earl carefully selected this after picking up shells at the beach, strung it into a necklace, and specially gave it 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 it, he found that the inside of the medium-sized shell with beautiful textures had words engraved on the back. It was crooked. It was obviously not the hand of a master. It must be the one from Earl.
The little guy carved it himself.
A necklace, 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 felt uncoordinated, but he liked it very much. He laughed and said: "I just played with him casually and didn't teach him anything."
After Aldridge returned to coach last season, his two sons have been training with the youth team. Ronaldinho sometimes goes to hang out when he has nothing to do. He and Earl have a good relationship, and he plays with him when he is bored.
That's all.
After Ronaldinho left, Aldridge asked the transfer department about the progress of signings in the office.
Before the end of his vacation, the club had finalized the list of signings.
The forward line is worry-free, and the back line does not need to recruit, but now Johnson is missing. As for the full-back, there are hidden dangers, but it is barely possible. After all, Neil can play full-back, but from a long-term development perspective, it is still
New players are needed, and it should be possible to promote the 17-year-old Ramos, but with only him, he still looks weak, especially on the other side, Baynes is not too old.
In the midfield line, Aldrich asked Jenson to find a substitute for the midfielder before the end of last season. It must be mainly young people. After all, Alonso's age is such that he is willing to serve as a substitute for Alonso.
He is naturally younger than Alonso.
The results given by Jenson indeed continued the essence of Millwall's team building style.
Others basically buy players in the present or in the past.
Millwall, as well as Arsenal, are basically buying players for the future.
Aldrich took a look at the person that Jenson had chosen and was quite satisfied.
Sporting Lisbon youth academy twins.
Moutinho and Veloso.
It was originally one of the two options, but Aldridge directly asked the team to bring both of them.
One is Veloso, who has just turned 17, while Moutinho will not turn 17 until September.
Veloso can be trained as De Rossi's substitute in the future, and Moutinho can be trained as Alonso's substitute.
Sporting Lisbon probably sensed the storm caused by Chelsea in the Premier League and refused to let him go at first.
However, when the two players heard that Millwall was interested in them, they were obviously interested.
So they have been negotiating since the beginning of July, and the tug-of-war over the transfer fee has been in a stalemate.
The Sporting Lisbon Lions are asking for £20 million.
He kept saying: You sold Glen Johnson to Chelsea for 10 million pounds. He was just a mediocre kid, but our players are genuine geniuses.
Is this retribution?
So damn ironic.
Anyway, Glen Johnson has an appearance record in the Premier League, and those two boys from Sporting Lisbon have zero appearance record in the professional league!
"Boss, Lisbon's tone is very firm. He insists that the bottom line is 15 million pounds."
"Fuck, give it to him! End it as soon as possible! The longer you delay, the greater the changes will be!"
Aldrich hung up the phone angrily.
At the moment, the pound-to-euro ratio is about 1:1.5.
15 million pounds, equivalent to almost 23 million euros.
Buy two 17-year-old boys.
It is estimated that the media, which has been laughing at Chelsea recently, will soon turn their guns and laugh at Millwall.
However, Aldridge has no regrets. Things in the transfer market have always been changing rapidly, and Millwall has become a big success. If other clubs have completed the main recruitment work, they will look back and find out that Millwall's main attacker is
Target, maybe there will be spoilers involved, and by then, even the 15 million pounds may not be available.
In that situation, Millwall does not want to suffer a big loss and the transfer will be ruined.
But what is the team’s plan for this season?
Aren't you still affected?
He is about to go to North America to play a warm-up match, and Aldridge doesn't like the transfer to be delayed for too long.
He hopes that when the team flies to the United States, the transfer activity will be closed so that he can prepare for the new season with peace of mind.
Today's planned work was over, and Aldrich was about to get up and go home. At this time, someone knocked on the door of his office.
Seeing that it was Klose, Aldrich smiled and asked the other party to sit down. Klose looked more relaxed. After sitting down, he started chatting with Aldridge and talked about many things in the past.
"Boss, I think the promise you made to my parents back then has been fulfilled."
"Boss, I have lived a very happy life in Millwall these years. You have allowed me to see the most beautiful scenery. Although I am not the master most of the time, you have taught me a lot of valuable experience."
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Hearing Klose's words, Aldrich was not in a heavy mood. Finally, in silence, he said: "You want to leave, right?"
Klose nodded slightly.
Aldrich looked dazed.
At this time, he had completely different emotions than when Lampard proposed leaving.
On the contrary, he can understand Klose.
In front of Lampard is Nedved, who will be 31 years old this summer. Two years, at most, is two years. Lampard is not willing to wait.
But Klose, who has just turned 25, is facing Henry, who is about to turn 26.
If Henry is in good condition and has no injuries, Klose has almost no possibility of playing.
Originally, this layer of window paper had not been pierced in the summer of 2002, until Klinsmann helped Klose to the position last season. At the end of the season, Aldrich 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.
This past season, he was more stable than anyone else in the starting lineup. 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 is
Double digits!
This is no longer a question of whether he can rise to the top if he waits.
One genius can cover up countless geniuses, and the competition between wealthy families is so cruel.
Aldridge sighed with a dull look in his eyes: "When I brought you to Millwall, I originally thought that today you would be Millwall's number one striker, and no one can shake it."
Plans can never keep up with changes.
Henry, who had repeatedly failed to get what he asked for, was not in Aldrich's original plan, because he thought there was no possibility of Henry with him after two or three failures. However, through twists and turns, he finally got Henry, and this changed Aldrich.
Qi initially had all his thoughts about Klose.
Although Klose can still play as a winger, it would be too unfair to forcefully keep him as a winger, because "being able to play" and "top" are two different things.
On the wing, there is no competition for the future Cristiano Ronaldo, the current Ronaldinho, and one Henry at the center. How many centers from Millwall have left in despair, shouldering the burden and choosing to leave?
Aldridge's mentality is relatively open-minded. Compared with the lack of frontline due to the departure of Shevchenko and Trezeguet, at least Ruud van Nistelrooy, Drogba and now Klose who left later are very good.
But at least Millwall's main core has not been shaken.
This situation is exactly the same as before.
“Would you like to develop somewhere?”
Aldrich asked.
Klose shook his head and smiled: "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 will
Wall fans, don’t boo me.”
Aldridge smiled and said: "No, at least, I have never seen Millwall fans booing Trezeguet, Shevchenko, and Helguera. Even when Pirlo and the others came back last season, the fans also
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 wrong to say that. You have been a player we can trust over the years. Your statistics may not be gorgeous in one season, but your contribution must be great."
A stable substitute and a good substitute player will have a very obvious effect. It is impossible for a team to conquer the world with 11 players, let alone 70+ games in a season like Millwall did in the past few years.
game.
The little carpenter was about to leave, and Aldrich invited Klose and his girlfriend to have dinner at home in the evening, wishing him smooth sailing in his future development. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!
