The Young Lion

At the beginning of May, Millwall sat at home and ushered in the last round of the League One opponent: Swindon.

In the past two months, Millwall has a brilliant record. In 13 league rounds, it has achieved eight wins, four draws and one loss. It has locked in the League One championship six rounds ahead of schedule, and its points have reached a record 104 points. If it wins the final battle , then the points record will be refreshed to 107 points.

The top scorer in League One has fallen on Larson without any suspense. He scored a terrifying 38 goals in the 39 games he participated in League One. His scoring efficiency is close to one goal per game, and he ranks second in the scorer list The number of Trezeguet goals also reached an astonishing 28, and the assist king is Schneider, with 21 assists also breaking the League One record.

This was not just a season of rebirth for Millwall, it was an extraordinary season.

The opponent in the final battle, Swindon, this season can be regarded as an extraordinary season.

After being relegated from the Premier League to the First Division last season, before the final round, Swindon ranked fourth from the bottom in the League One, only 2 points away from Sunderland, which ranked fifth from the bottom. The stadium defeated Millwall, who maintained an unbeaten record of 19 wins and 3 draws in the first 22 home games this season, and pinned their hopes on West Brom, who was a guest at Sunderland, the black cat, to defeat Sunderland, even if it was West Brom. It is meaningless to tie Sunderland and Swindon to win, because the goal difference between them and Sunderland is too much, with 15 points.

The league championship has already been in the bag, and Aldridge faces the final battle with the same strategy as the past two months: sending substitute players to the field to exercise as much as possible.

In the past two months, Aldridge, who has been proud of the spring breeze, not only has a prosperous career, but also seems to have ushered in spring in his love field. Since he met the sports hot girl Melanie, he will date her after work and talk on the phone every day before going to bed. There is a posture like paint and glue.

Recently, the Spice Girls filmed their first single in London, and they are preparing to make their official debut in the UK. Naturally, there are fewer opportunities for the two to meet each other, and Aldridge doesn't care. That said, the really busy summer transfer period will be.

The Premier League ended the penultimate round of the league earlier. The leader Blackburn and the second-placed Manchester United have a small victory at home. In the standings, Manchester United is 2 points behind Blackburn. The final game will be in the middle of the month Going on, Manchester United challenged the Hammers away to help West Ham United, and Blackburn was a guest to the Red Army Liverpool. The situation is not too bad for Manchester United. After all, they are far better than Blackburn in terms of goal difference. If there is a draw, as long as Manchester United wins away, they will stage a reversal to win the championship.

The championship has reached the final round, and the suspense of the Premier League championship has made the outside world full of expectations.

At this time, the attention of the media is naturally attracted by the Premier League championship, especially Dalglish led the team back to Anfield, and it is possible to win the league championship trophy that Liverpool has been away for five years. The unscrupulous media even asserted that the Red Army would nostalgia and allow Dalglish to defeat arch-rival Sir Alex Ferguson.

At the same time, Manchester United also caused criticism and speculation from the media. After Cantona was suspended, Manchester United repeatedly missed the opportunity to overtake Blackburn in key battles. Everyone knows, but they can't win Leeds United, Tottenham, or even the mediocre Chelsea at home, without even scoring a goal, which makes the outside world focus on Manchester United's striker.

Don't look at Manchester United scoring the most goals in the Premier League. In fact, there is a lot of moisture. It just scored 11 goals in two rounds against Ipswich Town, which was relegated in advance, and lost 2:3 in an away game.

9 balls at home created a record massacre, but only got 3 points in points.

Therefore, when Ferguson was repeatedly asked how to change the weakness of the striker, especially the weakness of the striker in key battles, Ferguson mentioned a name familiar to the media: Henrik Larsson.

The old fox praised Larson greatly, thinking that Larson should go to Old Trafford to wear the Red Devils jersey. His technical characteristics are completely in line with Manchester United's tactical system. In Manchester United, Larson can create great achievements.

Therefore, when Aldridge attended the press conference for the final game of League One as usual, reporters from more than 30 media outlets raised their hands one after another. As soon as Aldridge sat down firmly, someone asked directly: Hall Sir, Manchester United are very interested in Larsson, will Millwall sell Larsson in the summer?

The scene of the press conference became quiet in an instant, dozens of pairs of eyes were fixed on Aldrich, and the reporters were holding pens in their hands, ready to write down every word Aldridge said.

It was obviously the final match of League One, but no one cared.

Almost all reporters cursed inwardly: F-uck! League One is already over! The only suspense is who will be relegated between Swindon and Sunderland, and who will break out in the play-offs and get the last ticket to the Premier League!

What they are more interested in now is whether Larsson will put on the Red Devils jersey!

Larson, that is a super striker who can score close to 40 goals in League One in a single season. Even though there is a huge gap between League One and the Premier League, Larson is still young. If he goes to Manchester United, he can score nearly 40 goals in a single season. If you score more than 15 goals, you will definitely be a big star in the future.

The crux of the matter is: will Millwall sell?

But can they keep it?

Will this young marshal lose his composure because he was poached?

News, it's all news!

At the silent press conference, Aldridge glanced back and forth with a calm expression, and found that the reporters sitting in the audience were like good students who were listening carefully, and were about to record his words in their notebooks. Every pair of eyes looking at him turned green. .

Aldrich pondered for a moment, then Yoyo said, Ferguson said he loved Larson? Really?

true love!

The reporters in the audience roared in unison.

Damn, if you sell it or not, tell me quickly!

Aldrich blinked, and said in a low and magnetic voice: Love is a sweet pain, and sincere love is never a smooth road.

After saying that, Aldridge calmly stood up from his seat, and strode away from the scene.

More than 30 reporters in the audience fell into petrification like a bolt from the blue.

Two sentences were circling in their minds at the same time.

The first sentence: What-the-F-uck!

The second sentence: What-the-hell?

What the fuck is he doing? !

At the press conference where needles could be heard, all the reporters were dumbfounded.

Thomson of The Sun is definitely a liberal arts student. He was the first to react and shouted: Shakespeare!

Everyone turned to look at Thomson, staring at him like a knife, as if they were asking: What do you mean? !

What Mr. Hall just said was a famous quote from Shakespeare.

The press conference was blown up!

Reporters whispered to each other asking if their peers understood what it meant.

The reporter who had recalled it frowned tightly, unable to understand the mystery in Aldrich's words.

Is the love between Millwall and Larsson just being tested, or is it that Manchester United, the third party, will not be easy to win the love?

Some reporters scratched their heads when they thought about it, but this is just an ambiguous speculation. It can be understood in any way. It is estimated that if you want to know the answer, you have to split Aldrich's head.

Aldrich, who left the press conference, suppressed a smile. He had mastered the experience of dealing with the media.

He must not be led by the nose by the media. In the past, interviews or press conferences were conducted in the form of one question and one answer. If he was passive, he would only be led by the nose by the media. Now he must be proactive.

As for the players.

Just in the first week of May, the club had renewed the contracts of all the first-team players. Based on their performance last season, all players received a salary increase ranging from 3,000 to 10,000 pounds!

This is a substantial salary increase, and it comes with a signing fee of 20,000 to 50,000.

Aldridge has really spent a lot of money. Although the season is not over yet, the club's income has roughly been calculated.

Throughout the season, the sales of jerseys have skyrocketed, earning almost half a million pounds, the home attendance rate is close to full, and each game has an income of just over 200,000 pounds. After one season, the income is close to 5 million pounds. Although not much, but combined with the prize money of the game, there are more than 400,000 pounds.

After excluding the cost, Aldridge found that the 30 million pounds he injected last year, in addition to spending nearly 13 million pounds on the summer transfer, had a balance of nearly 20 million pounds on the club's books. This was unexpected to him, so he quickly finalized the player's He doesn't feel bad about the contract and a substantial salary increase. The long-term benefits of being able to extend the player's contract for one year are immeasurable.

In addition to the new sponsorship fee in the summer and the fixed share income from the Premier League broadcast next season, Aldridge can even come up with a transfer budget of 5 million pounds in the summer.

For this summer, Aldridge is also ambitious, he needs to lay a more solid foundation for the future.