Whether as a manager or as a club owner, Aldridge likes to make friends, not only to expand the network and contacts in the football circle, but also to expand the space for cooperation for the development of the club.

What do a group of leaders talk about when they get together? Football, of course.

Aldrich is not the kind of person who will nod his head when an old-timer tells him that one plus one equals two.

He would retort to the old-timers that discussing the problem of one plus one in chemistry or physics may not really equal two!

It is also his mentality of not pretending to be a student and listening to teachings that allows him to communicate with his peers without difficulty.

Arsene Wenger told everyone in public about his acquaintance with Aldrich.

Monaco had a poor away record when he was in charge, and Aldridge, who was still a teenager, first met Arsene Wenger and said bluntly: "You don't have enough players to play football with the same tactics at home and away with the same tactics."

At home, the fans shouted at the home team and put pressure on the visitors.

The area of the pitch, the turf of the pitch, and the friction of the ball rolling directly affect the players' sense of the ball, and the away team is obviously not as advantageous as the home team.

The home team has the advantage of waiting for work.

Vice versa.

Arsene Wenger is romantic, so the focus is on highlighting his style of play, both home and away, so when players are unable to beat the disadvantages of the away game, it is only natural that they will not perform well.

After this acquaintance was told by Wenger himself, everyone smiled.

Wenger pointed at Aldridge and smiled: "He's a Skywalker and always has a lot of ideas, and what he's achieved in the last two years. It proved the feasibility of his theory in practice. ”

Aldrich doesn't like to be touted. I feel like my face is on fire. He waved his hand to Wenger to stop holding himself up.

But then, while watching the opening match of the European Championship, everyone chatted, and Aldridge had a verbal battle with many of the coaches present

Halilhodzic: What do you love about young players?

Aldridge: Because my age and background of not playing football is an Achilles' heel. Imagine me telling a 26 or 7 year old striker how to move, and if he has a good temper, he laughs it off, if he has a bad temper. He will say with his mouth, or he will curse in his heart: You are fine, right? What do you know? I don't care about you

"Whether it's a full-back or a winger, they should drop back to participate in the defense, not to ask them to be as good as the defenders, but they need to at least compress the space of the attacking team through reasonable positioning and defensive posture, cut the opponent's attacking formation, and block the passing path of the ball carrier."

'Luiz, yes, you're right, if you have two full-backs who are super good at assisting. Maybe you don't dare to put too much force into the opponent's attack, so your offensive players may not have that much pressure on the defense. However, you need at least a very defensively minded midfielder to protect the space, as Dunga did with Brazil, a player who needs both defensive skill and defensive awareness and experience. ”

"I disagree, Mr. Guy Roux, I don't argue that talented star players who make a threat on their own can break the team, but we now often see players with great skills at their feet dribbling the ball and bringing the ball to a bunch of defenders in front of them and then passing the ball out, which leads directly to the problem: it gives the opponent time to set up the defensive formation. What I'm advocating is fast and concise, players can directly accelerate to start and break through the defenders, so it makes sense, but if a player holds the ball and plays on the spot with two foot skills, steps on the bicycle twice, doesn't dribble forward in order to pass people, spins two laps on the spot and so on, the visual sense is very exciting, very elegant, and the audience will give applause, but how long will it take? 2 seconds? 5 seconds? How many seconds did it take for a player to rush from the second half to the front court? Within 10 seconds. In other words, a player may give the opponent enough time to set up a defensive formation in order to get past the opponent, while also targeting your attacking players, causing your overall attacking threat to plummet. ”

"Oh, that's not reliable. If it is a two-midfield formation, both midfielders are very attack-minded players, and the threat of two people coming forward together is indeed greater than one person, but once the ball is lost and counterattacked, the door is wide open in the middle, and the back line will be shaky. ”

Aldrich argued with these leaders in a red face, and even had a tendency to take turns in battle, but the onlookers watched with relish.

Especially Arsenal vice-president David Dane, he seems to have seen the scene when he first met Arsene Wenger, very godly.

Arsene Wenger first met David Dane at a social gathering almost eight or nine years ago, and at that dinner, Wenger performed a solo performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which became David Dayne's deepest memory, and made him move the idea of asking Wenger to coach Arsenal from then on, and he felt that this romantic Frenchman fit everything about Arsenal.

Everyone said they were tired, and the ball was watched, and England was forced to draw 1:1 by Switzerland in the first game at home.

Drinking and chatting about some anecdotes in the football circle, there are also complaints about the players, complaining about the Bosman Act implemented by UEFA, especially coaches like Guy Lux who coaches small clubs and rely on selling players to make a living.

It is difficult to say whether the Bosman Act is right or wrong, this is a subject left to football history researchers to delve into, but the most intuitive thing is that after the Boseman Act, not only the Eredivisie and Ligue 1, most teams that rely on the development of players to survive, but also the small teams in the middle and lower reaches of Europe's major leagues went bankrupt hundreds in the following decade, and then a Russian billionaire took over Chelsea's investment, but directly or indirectly saved many clubs from going bankrupt.

Aldridge was slightly drunk and returned to the hotel with Melanie by the arm, and for several days he had to watch the game with a group of coaches. It's to go on a sightseeing tour with Melanie in France. In the evening, I returned to the hotel and it was raining and cloudy. The days are free, and they are almost a little happy.

In mid-June, Aldridge sent Melanie back to China to continue working, while he stayed in France.

However, when the semi-finals were over, Aldridge decided to return home early.

Because, Millwall's captain, Southgate, became England's new sinner.

He had to go back to London to protect his players.

In fact, he thought that history would be shifted. But when he saw Southgate kick the penalty into the goalkeeper's arms in front of the TV, his face became very worried.

"I'm sorry, guys, I'm going back to London."

After greeting the leaders, Aldrich walked out.

But Wenger and Dane followed him.

Dane was the driver, and Wenger and Aldridge sat in the back seat of the car, and the car drove a little slowly, making Aldridge realize that the two had "bad intentions".

"I was going to talk to you about it after the European Championships, but now that you're going back, I'll talk about it now. Aldrich. I'm going to London when I've got the things settled in Japan, but I want two Millwall players. ”

Wenger's words caused Aldridge to turn his head and stare at him. Asked: "Why didn't you say it earlier?" If you want to dig up my people, I will definitely not come. ”

"That's why I'm saying it now. Think back to what you told me two years ago? ”

Aldrich laughed, a little self-deprecating.

Heavenly Dao cycle, retribution is not happy.

Two years ago he asked Wenger to sell Thuram to him, and today Wenger is going to dig people back again, and there is interest attached to it.

However, this is in line with Arsene Wenger's style, who intervened in the club's transfer operations before he even took over at Arsenal, just as he did before he moved to Monaco.

"Who?"

"Vieira and Pire."

"One is my main force, and the other is my main substitute, Arsna, isn't it a little ruthless?"

Aldrich laughed angrily.

Dane, who was driving, had been observing the expressions of the two in the rearview mirror, and he was a little nervous.

He hired Arsene Wenger, so naturally he wanted to bring him the players he wanted, but Arsenal others came forward, and it was estimated that it would be in vain.

Millwall is also a London team anyway, and it is a team that stands up and proclaims itself the king of London, how can it sell the main force to Arsenal!

Wenger also knew that it would probably be yellow to let Dane come forward in this matter, so he came to be a lobbyist himself.

'How many years does Patrick Vieira have to play as a substitute at Millwall before you give him the main man? The Italian lad you helped up at the end of last season should be the main midfielder in your future plans, right? As for Pire, it's true that I'll have you sell him to me a bit of a strongman, but Millwall has no shortage of replacements, right? ”

Aldridge turned his head to stare at Arsene Wenger and asked, "Have you already made private contact with my players?" ”

Dane, who was driving, immediately clarified: "No! Not really! We're not going to do such dirty things! ”

Aldridge rolled his eyes and said lightly: "I have always respected my players, I will try to keep them and persuade them to stay, but the conditions offered by Arsenal, I will tell them through my agent, if they want to leave, then you can give me a satisfactory offer." ”

"Ten million pounds, pack for two."

Arsene Wenger smiled.

Aldrich shook his head and said, "Impossible. They have four years left on their contracts with Millwall, one is 23 and the other is 20, and what you want to buy is the 10-year backbone of the arsenal, 10 million pounds? Arsèna, I'm not alarmist, the rules of the money game in the transfer market have changed, we just wait, just this summer, you will see what the top stars are worth, and this is just the beginning. ”

Since the end of the league in May, rumours have been rife in the transfer market.

In the Premier League, Manchester United will compete in the Champions League next season because of winning the championship, and their income will naturally be higher than last year, which also makes them rich.

Ferguson was not satisfied with the early decision to finalize Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, and in mid-May he secretly presented Aldridge with a £10 million offer: to buy Larsson.

Fortunately, Larsson was not interested in the transfer and refused directly.

But United are still looking for a super-striker, with Eric Cantona turning 31 next season.

The outside world is rumored to be close to Manchester United is the Brazilian genius Ronaldo, Manchester United and Barcelona at the same time to bid for the Brazilian goalscorer in the Eredivisie PSV Eindhoven.

This is not far from the record transfer value of AC Milan in the world of football, buying Lentini for 13 million pounds.

And Ronaldo has two seasons in Eindhoven, the first season is amazing, scoring more than 30 goals, most of the second season is recuperating from injury, and the rest of the time is in conflict with the club's manager, and the performance of last season is not worth mentioning, so in fact, such a transfer value is not his peak value embodiment, and the sensation created is self-evident.

After the failure of the bid to buy Ronaldo, Manchester United turned to Alan Shearer, who has been the top performer in the Premier League for several years, and the current process shows that United will only wait for the end of the European Championship to announce Shearer's arrival, and the two sides are only close to signing the contract.

In a few days, there will be a turning point in this transfer, Kevin Keegan's intervention has caused Ferguson to rub shoulders with England's talented players again, the last time it was Gascoigne, this time it will be Alan Shearer, and Shearer's transfer value will set a new transfer record in world football: 15 million pounds!

In this context, even though the popularity and public evaluation of Pire and Vieira cannot catch up with Shearer, if the discerning Wenger thinks that the two are only worth 10 million pounds together, then Aldridge will not remember the old relationship and choose to let go, even if he falls out with the player.

Wenger dares to ask these two people, and he must be confident that he can persuade the two to join Arsenal, after all, they are both French, and Wenger has been coaching in France for a long time, Pire and Vieira have long heard of Wenger's name, coupled with Arsenal's rich background, Millwall has always been a small temple that can't keep the big god.

In any case, Aldridge made a deal with Arsene Wenger and took a different position.

He bought Thuram with real money from his own pocket.

Arsene Wenger wanted to buy Aldridge's players and spent Arsenal club money. (To be continued......)