The Young Lion

It is normal for professional football clubs to have young players on loan to exercise, but Aldridge is very strict in this regard. In the past few seasons, players who could not play in Millwall, such as Fan last season Nigeria played very few times, and there were also low-level teams who wanted to loan him, but Aldridge refused after considering it.

He couldn't let the tragedy like Ramall repeat.

The loan of players is to gain game experience, exercise and improve their abilities, but this has a big premise, that is, the players have a place in the loan club team and can play their strengths, if technical players like Lamore are rented out The high-playing high-passing long-play team plays the role of high center. Obviously, the player will not gain any experience in the game, and the failure of the loan will also hurt confidence, which is contrary to the original intention of the loan.

Because of this, Aldridge needs to communicate in depth with Moyes to understand the opponent's tactical assumptions, the role of players on the field, so that he has a deep bottom in his heart, and then make a judgment based on the characteristics of the players: whether it is suitable for players to exercise on loan.

Moyes is a Scots, the birthplace of short pass and tactics, and a hometown of football that pays attention to teamwork. Under the concept of Scottish miner culture, the Scots emphasize the team, the whole and the unity, although Moyes will not show in the future. Too much fine football coaching style, but at least it is not a simple and crude football style.

In front of Aldridge, the champion coach, Moyes is more like a primary school student. When elaborating his tactical ideas, he always uses a questioning tone and seems to be consulting Aldridge.

Aldrich just couldn’t hear. He was very self-aware and wouldn’t really put up a shelf for the other party. Maybe Moyes was asking for advice now, but he wanted to come afterwards. The other party is about 15 years younger than himself. Not convinced? Aldrich didn’t know, but there was no need to claim himself as a master.

After Aldridge understood Moyes's coaching ideas, Moyes spoke out the first name he wanted to rent and shocked Aldridge.

Ronaldinho.

Aldrich kept shaking his head, shaking his head constantly, his mouth repeated: NO, NO, NO...

It's as if someone is here to rob his baby.

Not to mention, Ronaldinho really looked like Aldridge’s baby pimple at Millwall.

The whole team, from the first team to the youth team, coaches and players, everyone knows that Audridge is the most rigorous training for Ronaldinho. When Ronaldinho is still in the youth team, Audridge will have time To see him training, from time to time he has to be called to the sidelines to instruct alone.

Ronaldinho is also the least afraid of Aldridge among all players. As long as it is not training time, Ronaldinho dared to play a joke on Aldridge, dared to go to his house to steal food and eat, and repeatedly made Audridge "embarrassed" For example, playing the mascot and pulling Audridge to dance on the sidelines.

But this kind of relationship makes everyone understand how high Aldridge's expectations of Ronaldinho and how good Ronaldinho's relationship with Aldrich!

Ronaldinho did not appear in the first team's official game after his stunning appearance in the FA Cup final last season. Everyone knows that this is Audric's more cautious approach to Ronaldinho's growth, so he has a transition to the reserve team. To avoid being directly destroyed by the fierce confrontation in the Premier League.

On this road, many players who had high hopes from Aldridge have traveled, such as Pirlo and Shevchenko. When they came to the team, their technical ability was enough to play the game, but in order to adapt them to the English football environment, You must come over step by step in the youth team and the reserve team to judge whether you are on the Premier League stage according to the results.

To say, among the players who Millwall did not play, who is the most eye-catching? Naturally, Ronaldinho, his first show was so amazing, but was also put on the reserve team by Aldridge, the outside world is looking forward to Ronaldinho's performance after officially on the Premier League stage.

So Moyes wanted to rent Ronaldinho, and Aldridge refused if he didn't want to. He didn't say he was afraid that the opponent would be used up. At least, Aldridge plans to let Ronaldinho appear in the first-team list in the second half of the season.

Moyes was a little disappointed. He had known Ronaldinho's performance in the reserve team and lamented that Millwall was so talented. Is such a good player actually resting on the reserve team to brush data? Is it interesting?

He then proposed many names. Aldrich deleted one by one. Some of them were young. Some of them were technically incompatible with Moyes' tactical concept. In the end, he only agreed to the loan of four players.

Goalkeeper Paul Robinson, full-back Paul Ferreira, frontcourt Mark Bresiano and Tim Cahill.

They are all players around the age of 18, and their physical fitness is better than other young players. They will not lose in confrontation, but such a loan is a bit troublesome for them, because the club will ask them to take time to come back every week to receive special items. Technical guidance, this is the case for Tony who was loaned out in the first half of the season. Every week, he will return to the club training ground to be trained by Moniz alone, 2-4 hours each time.

Moyes left with satisfaction. On the basis of not spending a penny on the club, he strengthened the team lineup in the winter. When he started his coaching career, he was very happy to get the help of Aldridge. At the same time I also keep this kindness in my heart. After all, he is a rookie in the coaching profession. Other clubs do not dump him. They will not worry about lending players to him. Even if they are willing to lend, they will also ask for a rental fee or bear the player's rental period. wage.

Aldridge found the four players on the second day and discussed the loan with them. In this regard, he was more democratic and would communicate frankly with the player instead of imperatively making the player obey the club arrangement. If the player does not agree , Aldridge will not force, after all, the loan period is half a season, players have to go to a strange environment, which directly affects their lives.

Fortunately, these four players have agreed to loan, because they are really invincible in the youth league, the opponent is rare, and the youth team competition is also very fierce. Those 16-17 young players, some of them sit firmly in the main position, perform Much better than them, like Alonso, Pedretti...

As soon as the conversation with Paul Ferreira ended, the door of the office was not closed. Someone rushed in from outside. Before seeing anyone, he smelled sweaty.

"Boss!"

Ronaldinho appeared in front of Aldridge in a sweat shirt wearing a winter jersey. Before Aldrich asked, he shouted with joy, "23 goals, 26 assists! I did it!"

Aldridge was almost stunned by him, and he laughed stunnedly: "Strange, before you returned to Brazil, you scored 19 goals and 26 assists. Did you score four goals in the first game you just returned?"

Ronaldinho walked to the corner to open the refrigerator, took a bottle of mineral water from it and opened it to drink. As soon as the reserve team's game was over, he ran all the way. His teammates thought he was crazy. The referee just finished blowing the whistle. I saw Ronaldinho ran for 90 minutes and resurrected and flew away.

In the winter, there was still steaming on his head. He drank a bottle of mineral water in one breath, then exhaled happily, with a happy expression on his face: "Frank and the German are very interesting. I gave them a lot today. Ball, eh, boss, why didn’t you send Frank and Leo to the reserve team earlier?"

Aldridge smiled silently, holding his arms to the ceiling.

Dare to feel that Lampard and Klose sent Ronaldinho assists in the reserve team.

"They are disciplined and will return to the first team sooner or later. Okay, you start training with the first team tomorrow and perform well. I will give you the opportunity at the appropriate time, but you have to remember that you are prepared from If you don’t want to go back, don’t let your performance decline.”

"Relax, boss, are you cooking at home tonight?"

"Why? You want to rub your rice again?"

Xiao Luo smiled and then ran out like another gust of wind.

From the preparation for the FA Cup match with Preston, the Millwall coaching staff began to adjust the tactical thinking of the second lineup. The road returned to the 442 they had played before, and they were conservative, similar to just playing with them. Arsenal.

The defeat of Preston was a crush in strength, but the first leg of the League Cup semi-finals was completely different from the Middlesbrough match.

Aldridge still sent a substitute lineup to let the main players rest. At the riverside stadium, Millwall's backup lineup scored a 0:0 away game.

This is a good result, not losing at home, returning to the home game to determine the outcome, at least occupy the profit at home.

When the Premier League's battle reignited, Aldridge really put Ronaldinho on the roster and was a starter.

On the day before leaving for St. James's Park Stadium, at the pre-match press conference, there were plenty of questions for reporters.

"While encountering a two-game losing streak in the Premier League and widening the gap with Manchester United points to 9 points, has Millwall started to shift its focus? For example, concentrate on playing the Champions League, or try the FA Cup three consecutive championships!"

Aldrich talked freely and said at random: "The policy of my coaching team is never to give up any official game, so Millwall will play every game well, there is no so-called shift of focus, that is the performance of the weak. Even if Manchester United have won the Premier League championship, we will still take the rest of the game seriously, because the game itself has other meanings than victory or defeat."

"So Millville will send the strongest lineup against Newcastle United tomorrow?"

Hearing this problem, Aldridge smiled strangely and said lightly: "I can tell you the starting lineup tomorrow. Goalkeeper: Bout, guard: Neil, Materazzi, Elgra, Capdevila , Midfielder: Grenchar, Gattuso, Barak, Ronaldinho, Forwards: Van Nistelrooy, Good Johnson. This is the formation and starting list that Millwall will play tomorrow. "

The scene was silent.

The reporter who asked the question raised his hand again and said depressively: "This is completely contradictory to what you just said. Millwall played against the bench. This is the sign of giving up the Premier League defending. Does Millwall care about three? The bad effects of a losing streak? This is a very heavy blow to morale!"

Aldrich shook his head and said: "No, the game is not played, you can not arbitrarily conclude that Millwall will definitely lose. Of course, Dalglish is a great coach, and Newcastle United also has the offensive football factor , I remember when Keegan coached, Newcastle United was called the most beautiful football in England. Shearer was still the threatening killer. He will definitely cause us trouble."

"Since you also know that Newcastle United is not easy to deal with, why do you let the substitute players play? The main players have rested for so long, why not let them play?"

"Uh, to be honest, because I want the main players to play a more critical game, for example, the next round of focus battle with Liverpool!"

As soon as Aldridge's voice fell, the reporters who had gone back to the taste stopped talking.

Handsome, there is something in this remark.

Isn't this just contempt for Newcastle United?