Thanks for the reward of "Death of the Thief"! ――

17 April 2003.

On this morning, Aldridge drove his two sons to the Leo training base, which is very large, and the youth team has long been separated from the first team, so Aldridge's arrival was not noticed by the first team players.

He first took his two sons to the youth team, handed over Bert and Earl to his brother Najib, and left without saying a word.

"Just treat them as ordinary kids who come here to train, don't take it seriously, maybe they're just interested in it."

On this day, Aldridge's two sons officially entered the Millwall youth system for training, and they were treated the same as many of the children who came here, without a single coach and no special guidance

At 9 o'clock in the morning, Millwall's official website released the latest news, head coach Klinsmann was fired by the club, Millwall thanked Klinsmann for his coaching efforts from July last year to mid-April this year, bringing Millwall three championship trophies, Community Shield, European Super Cup, Toyota Cup, and wishing Klinsmann good luck in the future.

At the same time, it was announced that former coach Aldridge would return to the head coach position for an undecided term.

Millwall didn't hold a press conference, but the official website must have been watched by the major media on Fleet Street, and as soon as the news was released, it caused a huge wave!

"Forget about the SARS virus! The most sensational news is here: Sir Hall is back in the position of Wild Lion! ”

"The Premier League championship has reversed! With a difference of 4 points in five rounds, the Wild Lions counterattacked to defend their title. What's impossible? ”

"Manchester United, Arsenal, tremble!"

"The King is back! The lion's return to the top is just around the corner! ”

One stone stirs up a thousand waves. Just lost to Manchester United at Old Trafford, many fans of East London Millwall were depressed, but when they suddenly heard this explosive news, they immediately checked in many ways, until they opened Millwall's official website in front of the computer to confirm the authenticity of the news, and immediately some fans rushed out of the house and left the bar. He even ran away from work.

Countless Lions fans came to the periphery of Leo's training base, unfurled banners, and sang songs. Aldrich's name was called, and his return was warmly welcomed, and the pomp and circumstance was unprecedented.

The whole Millwall team at the training ground trained seriously, that hard attitude. Fall into the eyes of the coaching staff. It really feels refreshed.

And they take it for granted.

Aldrich, even if he didn't show up in person, was enough to have such magic.

Stramaccioni woke up in the morning when he received a call from Jenson asking if he wanted to take a part-time job, and when it became clear that he was going to the Millwall coaching staff, he replied without a word: "I can't ask for it!" ”

I really came to the training base at Millwall, lamented the huge size of the training base, and was even more excited when I saw one football superstar after another. And what shocked him the most was the crowd of foreign exchange at the training base.

Those people were excited and happy, as if their lives had been turned upside down.

This. It's personal influence.

It is also the charm of Aldrich.

Stramacioni was so envious that he forgot for a moment to ask Jenson what kind of work he should do.

Jensen is very busy, and even though he is back at Millwall, he still needs to re-understand the internal situation of the team, especially the training content, how the system works.

Boas, on the other hand, is even busier, as he has to sort out the team's internal statistics for this season's player list in the shortest possible time, and also compare the comprehensive statistics of the past few seasons to give this scientific number to Aldridge sitting in his office.

This time back to the Wild Lions, Aldridge's work state and thinking are completely different from when he became the owner in 94.

He doesn't have to do everything himself, he will find a lot of reliable helpers, delegate authority, and divide the work of his own work to his assistants, so that his work will be easier, and then he will spend more time with his family.

Even if it is a job like studying an opponent, he will not bother to do it himself, he will pass on his method experience to Stramaccioni, let the handsome Italian do it, he only needs to grasp the big picture.

On the training ground, the players began to become distracted after a period of serious training, and they were all expecting to see Aldridge, but the young coach never showed up.

At half past eleven in the morning, before the end of the training, Boas returned to the training ground, whispered a few words to Jensen and handed him a stack of papers, and Jensen nodded with a stern expression.

Then he beckoned the whole team to assemble.

When all the players in the first team stood in front of him, Jenson said in a solemn tone: "Joe Cole. ”

Joe Cole froze, then raised his hand to signal that he had heard.

'From the afternoon, you go to the reserve team to train, or, if you don't come to train, you can inform your agent and the club will let you move away during the transfer period this summer.

A bolt from the blue!

All the players in the first team were staring with disbelief on their faces.

They feel that the young marshal will definitely rectify discipline when he comes back, not because Klinsmann is not strict in governing the army, but because Klinsmann has been under the pressure of public opinion on Fleet Street, and he has some of his own difficult appearances, how can he offend the players again?

After the young marshal returned, he didn't meet with the players to catch up, and directly waved the butcher knife!

The first knife fell, and it was the English genius Joe Cole, who was called N years!

With the whole team present, Joe Cole was full of disbelief and lost his voice: "Impossible! How could the boss give up on me? ”

Abandon?

That's right, he hasn't really made a name for himself at Millwall, and to leave now is to be abandoned!

Jensen's face did not change, and said coldly: "Sir Hall's original words are: You have more energy to fight with others outside, jealousy and brawls, the club is not difficult for you, you go." ”

Joe Cole has not made a big mistake in his career over the years, and his private life is well known. Grabbing a parking space with someone will be rude, and it is not the first time that a big fight for the third version of the girl is not the first time, and sometimes the nose and face are swollen and the headlines are laughed at. More or less will affect Millwall's reputation.

Dogs can't change eating, Aldrich has no interest in educating others, he used to be fined and warned, and now, he doesn't have that patience.

Talented?

Millwall can't buy geniuses, although there are certainly them, but not many.

Joe Cole yelled reluctantly, "I'm not alone? He, he. He, he, doesn't he all have scandals outside? Why not give me a chance? ”

The person Joe Cole points to is Ronaldo. There's Frank Lampard, there's Ashley Cole, and even, there's Cristiano Ronaldo.

This time. It's a bit of a fuss.

Jenson stepped forward. Stretched out his hand and pressed it on Joe Cole's shoulder, and said lightly: "Stay here, you have no future, the reality in front of you is that you can only have a chance if you leave." ”

Joe Cole's expression changed, gritting his teeth and still not reconciled, so he left. It's like a lost dog.

He was even more reluctant when he came to Millwall. What is Millwall? What is he?

In the past three years, he has rejected the temptation of Manchester United and the olive branch of Arsenal, but he did not expect to end like this at Millwall!

But Jensen's words, he still listened.

Yes, he did not look like he had any chance of staying at Millwall.

As an offensive player, the competition in the Millwall team is extremely cruel, not to mention that the older generation still has good combat power, and in the competition in the new generation, he does not have any upper hand, and it may be a waste to continue to stay in Millwall.

Joe Cole left with resentment and humiliation, without uttering any resentful curses or angry words, and the reality before him was: Where to leave Millwall?

After Joe Cole left, there was silence on the training ground, and the players did not panic like a rabbit and a fox, but were more shocked.

Because they looked at Joe Cole's back, as if they saw clearly: a person's destiny was changed in this way.

'Frank Lampard.'

When Jenson called out Lampard's name, Lampard fell into an ice cellar and stared at him in disbelief.

Could it be that the second knife of the leader will be cut on his body?

Frank Lampard composed himself and raised his hand.

Jenson pulled one out of a stack of papers and handed it out, and Lampard stepped out to catch it, looking down at it, and at the top was a written notice.

Warning within the team plus a penalty of two weeks' salary.

Underneath the written notice is a stack of negative off-pitch reports about Frank Lampard, all of which are facts, not chasing, because Frank Lampard is in those stories, not just fabricated.

Lampard exhaled and felt himself break out in a cold sweat.

He returned to the team with Wen Jiàn, only to be fined, which was much luckier than Joe Cole.

It's not that Aldridge has a double standard, it's true that Joe Cole is involved in worse off-field right and wrong, and Frank Lampard is just a playboy scandal who shows up in a nightclub party out of place.

Xiao Luo, Ashley Cole, Johnson, Ronaldo, these four also received punishment notices one after another, and only Xiao Luo took the text with a smile.

Finally, Jenson pronounced Southgate's name in a slightly heavy tone.

This made the whole team players unexpected, Southgate, who had nothing to do off the field, actually had to be punished?

Southgate came out of the queue, and Jenson didn't have any more text in his hand, he just asked: "Sir Hall asked, are you dissatisfied with the penalty of two weeks' salary?" ”

Southgate shook his head and said, "Obey the leader's decision." ”

He knew in his heart why Aldrich punished him in front of the whole team, because he didn't play the role of captain!

This season, Southgate was also caught in a dilemma, he could not ignore Larsson's abandonment, and he was psychologically resistant to Klinsmann, but he just didn't break out, choosing not to act on the captain's position as a dressing room leader, neither warning the England players to restrain their off-field behaviour nor standing up when cohesion within the team was declining.

For him, wouldn't it be a deeper betrayal of Larsson to gather the whole team to cater to Klinsmann?

How many players came to the team in the summer of '94? 22 people!

Everyone who left, Southgate remembers, before and after, a total of 17 people left!

Who is left?

He, Larson, Nedved, Schneider, Bout.

5 people, only 5 people!

Ask him a hundred times, between Klinsmann and Larson, who he chooses to stand for, and he will answer the same answer a hundred times: Larson!

The iron-clad battalion and flowing soldiers, a team, can fight side by side, from penniless to brilliant together, how can you ignore the love of the past ten years?

If this situation had been placed on another team, the captain would have made a revolution a long time ago!

Jenson disbanded the team after the final penalty was issued.

Xiao Luo leaned up and licked his face and asked, "Where is the head?" I invited him to lunch. ”

Hearing this, Jensen smiled and said, "I advise you not to invite, look for scolding, wait, wait for him to finish training you in the afternoon, and then invite him to dinner." ”

Xiao Luo looked puzzled, raised the text in his hand, and said, "Isn't this all fine?" What else do you need to train? ”

"Heh, these few months, do you think your watch can satisfy your boss?"

"Alas, that's not"

"What? Looking for an excuse? ”

"Forget it, I'd better honestly wait for him to lecture me in the afternoon."

Stramaccioni looked at Jensen with a look of adoration on the sidelines, originally thinking that the assistant coach would not have much authority in the team, but he could feel that these players also had a heartfelt respect for Jensen.

After all, Jensen also came to the club in the summer of '94 and has been working hard for the first team, and this respect is well deserved. (To be continued......)