The Young Lion

Before the arrival of the club training day on the 21st, Aldridge received Jansen and his party from the Netherlands who came to London in London. A total of thirteen new coaches will join the Millwall club.

Aldridge took this group of people to visit the club, and then established a new club coaching team, two new youth team coaches, two reserve team coaches, and there are 9 people left. Jenson is Aldridge's assistant coach. The team coach left 4 more people, and 4 more people formed an intelligence collection team.

This group is dedicated to observe the team's league opponents, and to study the opponents in the next game, including the state of the opponent's players, the strengths and weaknesses of their skills and tactics on the field. At least three days before the start of the game, Aldridge must receive such a report .

After settling down the coaching staff, Aldridge came to a renovated hotel not far from the team's training ground, accompanied by Adam and other club staff.

This hotel was bought in the name of the club, and it will no longer be open to the public. The interior decoration is simple, mainly because the facilities needed by Aldrich's roll call are all comprehensive, and the team's new medical department and restaurant are all in the hotel.

Even in 1994, it was hard to imagine that English football despised medical treatment. Many traditional and powerful team doctors in clubs, or sports trainers, were mostly a kind of loyalty reward for club staff to work all the year round.

Even as a fan, who can imagine that a worker who manages the turf will become the team doctor of a top team when he gets old?

This is naturally related to the football club's consistent conservative style.

Later, Redknapp Jr., who played for the Red Army for ten years, was abandoned by the team, but he chose to go out for medical treatment because he could not bear the team's quack doctors. Such behavior is deviant for traditional English football clubs. Therefore, the ten-year hero was abandoned and left sadly.

Aldridge is not as conservative as the English club in his bones, nor does he intend to integrate into the wrong tradition. He needs the most advanced and professional medical department to ensure the health of those players who are worth millions or tens of millions of pounds now and in the future!

It is simply unreasonable to hand over a player worth millions of pounds to someone who is not even a quack doctor, but it is still a common phenomenon in English football.

After visiting the hotel, Aldridge left Adam and planned to talk about the construction of the future team. Although everything is empty talk before the results are released, he needs to remind Adam.

I looked at the situation of the new stadium that has been put on hold, and I have an idea. The stadium has not yet taken shape. It is better to transform it into a new training base. The new stadium is looking for another place, and the construction scale must accommodate at least 50,000 people. , the surrounding area must be able to drive commercial development...

Aldrich's words made Adam unable to continue. In the end, he could only helplessly say to the young boss: Sir, I have made a financial budget. To be honest, we will not carry out any unplanned construction at present and maintain the ball. The current operation of the team is two years at most. The current team funds can only maintain the team's operation for two years. Even if we are promoted to the Super League in two years, we still cannot continue to operate. Of course, if the Hall family has a follow-up capital injection, It's all different.

Aldrich raised his head in thought after hearing the words, he was still anxious.

The current salary level of the team is already that of the top teams in the Premier League.

Although the highest weekly salary in the Premier League is tens of thousands of pounds, more players are only a few thousand pounds, and most of them are even less than a thousand pounds. A dozen players who stayed in the reserve team,

The salary burden after one year is probably among the top ten in England, and Millwall's ability to make money is definitely not one-tenth that of Manchester United.

Only by selling tickets, the small stadium may not even have an income of 3 million pounds a year. As for the sales of football peripherals, how much can you expect to earn through sales channels that cannot even go out to East London?

TV broadcasts, game bonuses, which are pitifully small in the League One.

Therefore, Aldridge has only one way left.

It's not even like what he said to Barnett before, three to five years, he only has one year, if he can't be promoted next season, he will not only lose Makelele, Thuram, Lal Sen, top players like Nedved may not even have the funds to make a comeback.

In the end, Aldridge didn't talk about any future plans with Adam, and it seemed too ambitious to talk about it any more. Let's wait until this time next year to see everything.

Andrew has been very busy in the past few days. He has resigned from the Millwall club and is concentrating on working as an agent. He has signed many players in one go. These are also new players from Millwall. As an agent, He is well versed in the responsibilities of this line of work, not only extracting player transfer income and salary commissions, but also providing players with legal obligations, financial management, life, and future planning.

These players are not yet well-known in England. Even Southgate is just a standard player with strength. Andrew and his staff are busy in East London. Fortunately, the Hall family invested here, and some real estate It is very convenient to deal with businessmen, arrange comfortable apartments for these new players, and provide translators for players who do not understand English. As long as the players need it, even if it is a call girl, Andrew will help arrange it after warning.

With Andrew's meticulous help, many players who made big money at a young age began to feel the benefits of their agents.

The World Cup has just ended, but Larson did not return to the team according to the date after Aldridge's extended vacation. On the 21st, this player who was admired by young players appeared on the team's training ground.

Aldridge's team can be said to be newly formed, but no one feels alone. Germany's players include Bout, Schneider, Ballack, Holland has Ruud van Nistelrooy and Larsson, who came from the Eredivisie , several young players in Italy will not feel lonely, but Nedved from Eastern Europe may have difficulty integrating into the team, but because he is already a member of the national team and he is gentle, many players surround him beside him.

Aldridge walked towards the training ground with the coaching staff. Like other coaches, he was wearing the club's traditional dark blue sportswear.

Andrew, who was beside Aldridge, was in a suit and leather shoes. He came here just to complete some work procedures with Aldridge. There are several translators who need to be arranged in the coaching staff to help players who do not understand English quickly integrate into the team environment.

Is the FA going well?

Well, Pavel is already a member of the national team, and there is no need to invite famous people to be lobbyists. He submitted the materials and added 100,000 pounds. Everything will be settled. Don't worry, there will be no clues left. As long as Pavel performs well, no one will Go through old cases.

Andrew whispered in Aldrich's ear.

Aldridge is relieved. Nedved does not have an EU passport, so he needs a work permit to transfer to England. Although he is a member of the national team, his appearance record obviously does not meet the requirements. But in fact, the 75% appearance standard is not rigid. There is a lot of room for flexibility, and there are still countless unspoken black gold in English football. When Aldridge submits the materials to the FA, it will be a matter of course for Andrew to operate from the side.

If Nedved was a youth team player, no matter how much black money he had, he might have difficulty transferring, but after all, he is a member of the national team and has a bright future, even if Czechoslovakia disintegrated two years ago. But Aldrich believes that Andrew's 100,000 pounds of black gold played a key role. Millwall, a small temple, has a negative reputation for the entire English football world, and there is no attraction to pay attention to on the field. .

Naturally, no one cares about the players introduced.

Before walking into the training ground, Andrew explained a few words to several translators, and then waved goodbye to Aldridge.

Seeing Aldridge walking over with a group of people wearing coach shirts, the players on the training ground automatically stood in two rows. Many of them were young players aged 17 or 18, full of hope for the future, but not Relying on talent and arrogance, facing the young head coach and owner, everyone respects him.

It’s a bit like a gang fight. Aldridge led the coaches to the players. The coaches behind him also formed a row. Aldridge stood alone in front of him like the leader. The team met collectively, and Aldridge needed an ingenious opening speech.

Like the head of a reviewing troop, he walked from the left to the right of the two rows of players, made eye contact with each player with a calm expression, and nodded slightly.

After walking this circle, Aldridge came to the front of the players and spoke softly.

Millwall has a history of 109 years, and a history of 109 years.

English top-flight titles: Zero.

English League Cup: Zero.

FA Cup: Zero.

Moreover, he has never participated in the three major European cups.

Congratulations, you have come to a club with a century-old history but no champions!

Aldridge's words were very light and slow, and only the last sentence was said in a very solemn tone, and he deliberately used the simplest English to narrate, which made the players on the team who had just learned English understandable.

Among the 26 members of the first team, only Beckham and Phil Neville seemed absent-minded. They came here on loan for exercise. Naturally, they looked down on this notorious club that had not won a championship for a century.

But the other 24 players looked different, and the young players looked at each other, as if they had just realized what kind of club Millwall was.

Aldrich suddenly stretched out his hands solemnly and asked, Aren't you happy?

The players are dumbfounded.

What the hell is there to be happy about? !