As we get to the end of the season, the more the manager's job becomes, especially for a manager like Aldridge who leads the team and still has a trophy to fight for.

Returning home on Sunday night, his parents entertained the Puskas at home, and for the past year, Puskas had lived a very regular life, except for recuperating in the hospital on weekdays, and watching a football game every week, but basically never leaving London, he would be the focus of attention wherever he went, and Arthur was inseparable from him, taking him around the city as a guide.

At the dinner table, Arthur proposed to go on vacation abroad together in the summer, to travel around the tourist resorts of the Mediterranean, but the Puskas could not refuse, so they had to agree.

This made Arthur excited, and he immediately called Barnett and said to his son domineeringly: Lao Tzu is going to travel with his friends and get a large yacht.

Barnett has been in the United States since the beginning of the year, last year he began to cash out his investment in Southeast Asia, at the beginning of this year to complete the withdrawal of Southeast Asian investment, and then transferred to the international capital market, he met many Wall Street financial speculators in the United States, just like the second attack on the football field, Barnett withdrew the investment, is a reminder from Aldrich, then in turn, on behalf of Aldrich is not optimistic about the market prospects in Southeast Asia, it just so happened that Barnett heard some rumors on Wall Street, International financial speculators are going to make a big splash in Asia, and Barnett will naturally have to get a piece of the pie.

So, Barnett reluctantly told Arthur: I don't own a yacht, and I don't have any spare money to buy it in the near future, so I can only borrow one from a friend.

Arthur doesn't care about that, as long as he has it, it doesn't matter who he is.

Barnett quickly contacted his friends in Europe. Finally "borrowed" a luxury yacht. The price is the exchange of information. Let friends join the financial war that is being prepared.

Aldrich is so focused on his work that there aren't many things outside of work that can distract him, Melanie's Spice Girls group has become popular in Europe, and now rarely stays in London, most of the time performing in various parts of the UK, and also going to other European countries, in the second half of the year, it will go all out to hit the US market, if it can be successful. Next year, they will embark on a world tour, and the two will get together less and leave more, just talking on the phone every night to talk about the latest situation.

But in the scope of work, there are really a lot of trivial things that Aldrich needs to worry about.

There are people digging into the wall every day, and now it's not just the players who are digging Aldridge, but even their coaches are being seduced.

Benitez has always had invitations from Spanish teams, but he has no intention of leaving, and coaches from the Netherlands such as Jensen have also been contacted by the Dutch club, and they don't want to move for the time being, because they don't think they have Aldridge's capital. Once you go back to coach the team, you don't get a good job and you off, do you want to come back to Millwall? After all, they are not yet thirty years old.

However, the 30-year-old Najib's youth team has also been selected by League One teams. Perhaps Najib's 96 FA Youth Cup champions were able to connect seamlessly with Millwall's first team, which despite failing to reach the FA Youth Cup final this season, they still won the Youth League ahead of schedule, plus in the friendly matches between Norway and France.

On top of that, poaching Najib may also be accompanied by poaching a few good seedlings from Millwall's youth team.

However, the outside world obviously does not understand the relationship between Naji and Aldrich, in a sense, the two are brothers, Najib is a senior brother, Aldridge is a junior brother, but the two have diametrically opposite characteristics, Aldridge has no patience for training in the initial stage, he likes to fiddle with tactics and let some powerful players become his pawns, while Nagy is the opposite, he leads the team alone with less passion, too calm, but meticulous about cultivating players to grow.

The two were a match made in heaven, Nagy turned down all offers without looking at them, and the calmer he was, the less likely he would be to run to coach the first team in a hot head, which would expose his shortcomings.

Besides, he is not a person who likes to be in the limelight.

Going to Old Trafford in midweek, Aldridge did not bring the full main force, Stam has been relegated to the reserve team, Millwall and Manchester United have also reached a transfer agreement, since Aldridge and Ferguson had a verbal conflict at the lion's den stadium, Ferguson has not been in contact with Aldridge again, Manchester United has also been quite tough and directly opened a transfer offer of 15 million pounds, Adam still wants to bargain, because Manchester United's first offer is this number, negotiations, Millwall of course has room to bargain.

However, Aldridge directly asked Adam to agree to the offer.

This offer has equaled the transfer value record of the world, although it will be surpassed by aliens in the summer, but it is still the first value of the defender player in the world, Aldridge is not guilty of entanglement with Manchester United on the transfer fee, after all, the price is what he personally offered, he is a person who abides by the rules of the game, and there is no need to go back on his word.

Both clubs have kept the transfer a secret, and when the season is officially over, Stam will go to Manchester for a medical check-up and will announce his arrival once it is approved.

Until then, neither Manchester United nor Millwall want to upset the morale of the military by announcing it early.

How to say that Manchester United still have to keep the second leg of the league and the Champions League semi-finals, once Stam's transfer is announced, what do Manchester United's two central defenders think? Who will be kicked out of the squad next season?

But Millwall's side just can't hold the fire, Stamm, the absolute main force, did not appear in the squad in a row, Fleet Street didn't think there was any big problem at first, rotation or injury, no matter what the reason, it was normal to miss one or two games, but after the scene of Stamm being sent to the reserve team was photographed by reporters, it quickly caused an uproar.

Fleet Street speculates that there are two possibilities, first: discipline, and Stam may have been punished for violating team discipline. Second: a transfer, either Stam is no longer in Millwall's future plans, or Stam wants to transfer and turns against Aldridge, and the young boss punishes the Dutchman with an iron fist and sends him to the reserves.

This is the reason why Aldridge was angry with Manchester United before.

Millwall's season is not over, Manchester United is digging into the wall, success or not. Manchester United don't have much of an impact. But Millwall would have been hurt. Especially disturbing the morale of the military.

Aldridge also wants Stam to leave with dignity, but at this stage, he must make Stam disappear from the first team's view and send a clear signal to the players: Stam is no longer one of us!

Otherwise, his teammates look at Stam every day, but Aldridge doesn't use him, which obviously causes a lot of suspicion, and this suspicion is contagious. It's not a good thing.

Aldridge was on the sidelines at Old Trafford early before the FA Cup kick-off, just over 20 minutes before the start of the game.

Instead, he sat in the stands behind the dugout and chatted with ITV's on-site reporters.

"Is Larson injured?"

'No, he was just a little tired and I asked him to stay in London to rest and prepare for the weekend's league game.

"Hehe, is it to help him hit the European Golden Boot?"

'That's a big honour for a goalscorer because he has a chance to fight for it and of course I'll help him. His team-mates want to help him achieve that goal, but Larsson is not the kind of player who is selfish. He tops the scorers' charts this season and ranks third in the league in assists. ”

"Can you talk about Stamm? He played in the reserve team yesterday and helped Millwall reserves to victory, he is in good form, why not use him? The league, the European competition, today's FA Cup, he disappeared from the squad. ”

Aldrich looked around at the Theater of Dreams, and finally smiled lightly: "His heart is no longer in Millwall." ”

ITV's on-site reporters were stunned, they didn't expect to get such exciting news from Aldrich's mouth.

Aldridge just thinks that instead of letting the outside world speculate all the time, it is better to pierce the back window paper, and end the public opinion turmoil as soon as possible, which can also stabilize the team's morale.

"You mean he's going to transfer?"

"Yes. He wanted to join the big clubs, a bigger, stronger and more attractive team than Millwall in his mind. ”

The ITV reporter spun around and asked, "Is it Spain or Italy?" ”

He felt that there was no better team in England than Millwall.

Aldridge shook his head and said: "I can't say this, what I can tell you is that the transfer conditions have basically been agreed, but in order to respect this transfer, Millwall will not reveal Stam's next home until the end of the season." ”

"That's why Stam was sent to the reserves?"

"That's to keep him in shape, maybe people on the outside think he's very strong, I should continue to use him at this time because he hasn't gone at least yet, but I coach the team more about team unity and I can't imagine a player who is not here in my lineup, it's like you see a squad of ten of your own people plus a betrayer, and that destroys our unity."

"Betrayer? Is that your assessment of Stam going to transfer? ”

Aldridge nodded and said: "Yes, because he chose to transfer when the team needed him the most, I don't mean that I have to stay at Millwall for the rest of my life, but, we are in the most important moment of the season, his transfer will have a negative impact on the team, this is a betrayal, I don't want to see him again until the end of the season, although I am very grateful for his contribution to the team over the past three years, but for now, I think it is better for him to stay away from my team as much as possible, and when he leaves at the end of the season, I will wish him the best of luck. ”

After all, ITV is not a live TV broadcaster, and even if it gets first-hand hot news, it is impossible to release it in the first place, after all, the media network is still in a blank period at this time, and mobile phones are only used for texting and making calls.

So the FA Cup semi-finals are about to begin, and the fans' attention is still on the field.

There was so much that the Millwall fans didn't understand, and they even put up signs in the Old Trafford stands: Please let Stam come back!

They only speculated that Aldridge and Stam had a conflict, and until the truth was known, they preferred the team to face the next schedule with the strongest lineup.

As for Stam, he has been an important part of Millwall's transformation from League One to Premier League champions in the past three years, and his importance to the team is deeply understood by every Lions fan.

But in today's FA Cup semi-final, Aldridge fielded a half-main and half-substitute line-up.

Goalkeeper: Bout.

Defenders: Mills, Elguera, Southgate, Zambrotta.

Midfielders: Frank Lampard, Makelele, Ballack, Nedved.

Forwards: Shevchenko, Phillips.

Aldridge played the 4312 formation that the team does not often play.

In fact, he doesn't want the team to only play 433 or 4231, strong teams often switch back and forth in a variety of formations, face different opponents, have more changes, and always play a fixed tactical system, which is not necessarily a good thing, because after playing for a long time, the thinking will be rigid, and the ability to adapt at critical moments will be lacking.

Today's opponent is Middlesbrough, Brian Robson's team performed well last season, this season introduced a number of heavyweights, Ravanelli, Juninho, Emerson, etc., they began to pursue attack, rather than defending first and then attacking, which directly led to the decline of their record, because last season they were promoted horses, the opponent despised them, they played defense and counterattack one hit one accurate, this season the opponent attaches more importance to them, before their new lineup and new tactics are formed, the opponent plays them counterattack, and also plays one accurate, The price Robson paid in grinding in formation and experimenting with new tactics was relegation in the standings.

It was also related to the fact that they cancelled the game against Blackburn Rovers without permission, and they were directly deducted three points, which was also the first time in the history of the Premier League that a team was deducted points, even if Leeds United were later deducted points due to finances, but that was in the second tier. (To be continued......)