The Young Lion

At the end of October, the cold wind blew, and the footsteps of winter were getting closer and closer, but European football was full of flames.

The Millwall first team boarded a passenger plane flying to Barcelona for the third round of the Champions League group stage.

They were sitting in the first-class cabin, Aldridge was sitting on the window and watching the scenery with his face sinking like water. He was upset.

In the middle of this month, the players who finished the national team journey on the FIFA match day returned to the team. As a result, Trezeguet was injured when playing for France. He needs to be cured for five weeks, and other internationals have returned to the club exhausted.

There will be a World Cup next summer. At this time, players recruited by the national team will have to work hard to get tickets for the World Cup if they have the opportunity, and some internationals destined to miss the World Cup will also do their best for national honor or a silver lining.

Especially the international players like Shevchenko, Nedved, Larsen, who have traveled to the national team for a long journey back and forth, are very affected.

The FIFA virus caused Millwall to lose points against weak players in the last two rounds of the league.

Away with Coventry, the home team defeated Crystal Palace in the London Derby.

Manchester United scored big scores in two consecutive rounds. In the game against Barnsley and Xie Wednesday, Manchester United scored a total of 13 goals and only lost one goal. Not only was the goal difference close to Millwall, but also Directly, the gap between the two teams' points was opened by two points.

The league only played 13 rounds, which seemed irrelevant. During the same period in the League Cup, Millwall continued his good luck, drawing to the relegated Nottingham Forest last season and easily defeating his opponent at home to advance to the quarterfinals.

What worries Aldridge is the FIFA virus. Millwall can play only about 1.5 sets. With the young players, some people in the national team are fighting to enter the 23-man roster, while others are The main force of competition, especially in the national team of traditional powers, this causes players to consume very much when they go to the national team.

Before leaving Barcelona, ​​Aldridge held a fire from yesterday.

Despised, despised, and even made Adrige feel trampled on dignity!

The Barcelona coach Van Gaal published the Spanish football press.

Van Gaal’s original words were: In view of the backwardness of English football, it’s no big deal for Millwall to become a Premier League champion. As a 21-year-old head coach, he did well, but the European Champions Cup is a very different stage. He must be very good now. Proud, but after two games, he will know the gap between Millwall and Barcelona.

In the long report, Millwall was worthless by Van Gaal, not only disparaging Millwall's achievements, but also despising Aldridge, even disdain to regard Aldridge as an opponent, he felt that Millwall and Barcelona met Is an opportunity for Millwall to learn, and an opportunity for Audric to learn from him.

As for Millwall who defeated Barcelona six months ago to win the European Cup of Champions, Van Gaal was blunt: the British defeated the British, Barcelona should have won, but no, Barcelona should have won the league, nor, so Rob Sen is gone, and the head coach who is really rich enough to come here is right. I am talking about myself.

How arrogant can this be said?

There are a lot of lunatics in the coaching profession. Mourinho, who is famous in the future, is a model, but Audridge feels that Van Gaal is 100 times more arrogant than Mourinho!

Mourinho entered Chelsea, to be fair, it is indeed a championship coach "condescending" coaching the team, he is a bit crazy.

But Van Gaal went to Barcelona to pursue his new career. The press conference said bluntly: I have won more honors in Ajax in six years than in Barcelona in 100 years!

The Dutch coach who now has a "football tyrant" in the media's evaluation made Aldridge anger.

From this, he finally focused his attention on Barcelona and Van Gaal.

Ten years later, fans who knew Van Gaal knew that he looked down on English football and was arrogant and arrogant. Even if Ferguson opened up several generations of the Red Devils and won the European Championship twice, Van Gaal still despised Ferguson’s Achievement, I think that no famous coach can match him. In the words, Ferguson's achievements were obtained in the Premier League, which proved nothing.

After the plane took off and looked at the beautiful clouds outside the window, Aldridge calmed down suddenly.

Is this **** thing a psychological war?

Van Gaal defies himself, angers himself, and makes Millwall play aggressive football even if he plays away.

Aldrich felt his chin left and right, and suddenly sighed, "I was almost fooled. Uh, even if the other person said everything in my heart, wouldn't it be cheaper if I lost my mind?"

As he muttered to himself, someone near him suddenly approached him, reaching out to him friendly and saying, "Mr. Hall, would you mind me sitting down next to you?"

Aldrich looked up. There was no one next to him. It didn’t matter if he sat for the other party. Anyway, there was a problem with the crew.

He shook hands with the other party only when the other party wanted to change seats.

I'm a celebrity. Some people recognize it on the plane. There's nothing to be fussed about.

"This is my business card. Introduce yourself. My name is Smith Carter."

Aldridge took a look at the other party’s business card and realized that the other party might have deliberately found himself.

Executives of the British Standard Chartered Bank.

"Uh, what's your job?"

"Oh, I plan to go to Barcelona to watch the game, it is Millwall's game."

"Then you should go again tomorrow."

"It's nothing. I'll take a break for myself and play in Barcelona for a day."

"Mr. Carter, if you have something, please explain directly. I don’t like to spend time with conversations that are not salty."

Carter is a talented man, dressed in suits and leathers, and has an age of about forty. He looks very mature and attractive.

He made a special trip to check Millwall's itinerary today and went to Barcelona with Millwall. Fortunately, Millwall did not have a charter flight. This did nothing but reflect his sincerity, and also prevented Audric from refusing his door-to-door contact.

Carter then opened the door and told Aldridge his intention.

Actually want to cooperate with Millwall.

Next summer, Millwall’s two important sponsorship contracts will expire.

One is jersey sponsorship. The club has already been renewed with Puma. In addition to this kind of sponsorship, the industry is nothing more than a few international first-tier brands, the most famous of which are Adidas and Nike.

The second is the advertisement on the chest of the jersey. There is no movement on the side of Balek Bank. It seems that it is not planning to renew the contract in the summer.

Carter is on behalf of Standard Chartered Bank to fight for the new shirt chest advertising sponsorship, becoming Millwall's partner.

"According to the information we have received, Balek Bank has no intention of renewing the contract with Millwall. They want a more influential publicity platform, such as the naming rights of the Premier League."

Aldridge listened most of the time and did not make any remarks. This kind of thing was supposed to be in charge of Adam. He also told Adam very clearly. However, if someone came to him to find him, he could not dispel the other party’s interest.

If you say you want the other party to go to Adam, you might be suspicious.

"Can you show me the introduction of Standard Chartered Bank?"

Aldrich felt that there was nothing to do on this flight anyway, so let's talk about it.

Carter came prepared to explain the situation of their company to Aldridge.

Although Standard Chartered Bank is headquartered in London, it is a British bank, but its banking business is within the scope of globalization. On the contrary, there are few customers in the UK.

Therefore, they chose Millwall, the most important factor to consider is the influence of propaganda outside the UK.

"I think you should go to Manchester United."

Aldridge looked at the Standard Chartered bank introduction document and said casually.

"It's true that Edwards is asking for too much. We want to have long-term partners, and we can't be sure of Manchester United's prospects."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

Carter's expression was slightly surprised, and then he smiled and said: "Don't you know yet? In the English football circle this should not be a secret. Martin Edwards wants to sell Manchester United. The FA is obstructing, but they are helpless, so they have already Start contacting the government to suppress it."

Aldridge froze for two seconds and shook his head: "I haven't heard that because I don't care about the political struggle of the club, and I'm not interested in other clubs' equity transactions."

"Oh, in your capacity, of course you don't care about this."

Standard Chartered Bank is not sure that Manchester United's prospects are valid.

If Aldridge remembers correctly, it should be during this period that media tycoon Murdoch is brewing Manchester United’s acquisition case, which will be officially launched next year, and the purchase price will exceed 600 million pounds!

But the British government came forward to obstruct the acquisition, and the Edwards family missed the time when Manchester United sold the highest price.

In fact, this kind of deal looks like nonsense to foreign fans. If the club changes its boss, the government can control it? Buy one and sell one, Tongsuo has no bullying, why?

But Manchester United is, after all, a symbol of British football. People’s concepts have not changed. There is no such thing as “capitalism” in the football industry ten years later.

It is no exaggeration to say that if the Hall family is not local to London, even if it is a non-London family in the UK, the acquisition of Millwall will be rejected by the fans and even set off a huge opposition movement.

This has nothing to do with whether outsiders can revitalize the team, but a question of ownership.

The club belongs to the community and belongs to the fans. This old concept is deeply rooted, not the owner of the club!

The commercialization of Manchester United made the fans hate because they blatantly turned the football club into a money-making tool. Edwards became the first salary-receiving chairman in football history, turning a charity job into a role of a migrant worker, not only In this way, the FA's regulations specify the nature of the club's non-profit organization, but Manchester United still pays dividends annually.

In the development of commercial football, Manchester United is the leader, the first to eat crabs, and the most controversial.

However, when the club became a joint-stock company, the FA or the government disappeared.

The Edwards family became smart after Murdoch’s acquisition, and waited a few years to secretly complete the equity transaction to sell Manchester United. When the FA and the British government reacted, all transactions have been completed and the water is difficult to recover.

Aldrich closed the documents in his hand and said lightly: "Can you explain the reasons for the cooperation of Standard Chartered Bank? You want to sponsor Millwall, but I think you should have competitors, I don't want to sit down and start, I just want to know , Why did you beat your competitors?"

Carter talked freely and said confidently: "I am a person who believes in a visionary vision. I try my best to promote this cooperation because we want to be a long-term partner of Millwall and firmly believe that Millwall will bring us a good Market effect."

"The reason for faith?"

"First, Millwall has a strong financial background. The Hall family is still looting countries in Southeast Asia. The result of this financial war has been irreversible, and the Hall family conservatively estimates that it already has more than one billion pounds of assets. Although you are not involved in this, I believe that as the owner of Millwall, you will not lack financial support. Judging by your devotion to this team, you will not watch the team decline, and will continue Maintaining the competitiveness of the team may not guarantee a Premier League title every year, but after you lead the team to the European stage, I think that Millwall will stay on this stage for a long time to come. Second, Millwall is now a potential stock. The sooner you start, the greater the profit. Third, Millwall’s own propaganda efforts. During my research on Millwall, I found that you are trying to use the emerging Internet to make propaganda influence. Almost every website about football has your advertisement. In other words, becoming a sponsor of Millwall’s chest advertising, our bank itself has publicized it through the Internet."

Aldridge turned his head to stare at Carter, and suddenly smiled, saying something that made Carter confused.

"It turns out that in your eyes, you are Bole, and Millwall is a Maxima."