520 began to recruit
Henry, who was in France, listened to the sound of the disconnection on the phone, and the whole person fell into an ice cellar.
He was confused and panicked.
He was angry and wronged these days!
The renewal conditions given to him by the club were too chilling for him.
The agent, for his part, conveyed Juventus' sincerity.
The transfer fee has been opened to £40 million!
The personal treatment is also very good, and even Juventus manager Moggi called him and joked that he had already found a new home for him in Turin.
Henry felt like he was going to be forced away by Millwall!
So he was unhappy and a little angry.
He doesn't want to go, even if he doesn't have the perception of Larsson, at least when he can win Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Manchester United, and the opponents who have been known as top teams in Europe in the past two years, he understands that in Millwall, he can achieve the great things that others look up to!
European Golden Boot, Champions League Golden Boot!
As a winger, did he fantasize about it before? Do you dare to dream like this?!
And all this was given to him by Aldrich.
Therefore, when his head spoke in a cold tone as if announcing his death sentence, he could not bear the sudden blow, and the whole person panicked.
Aldrich asked him to return to the team tomorrow, but he hung up the phone, immediately packed his luggage and rushed to the airport, and immediately returned to London!
At the same time, in the office building of Leo's training base, Aldrich hung up the phone and put the phone in his pocket, and Henry's agent was suddenly stunned.
Then he yelled at Aldrich.
"Hall, you're so shameless about this! Ruined Henry? You even said to destroy him! What's going on in your head? Let Henry transfer now. £40 million! You've made £30 million on him in two years! ”
That's right. Two years ago. Thierry, who is the highest value in the club's history, is worth £10 million when he transfers.
Aldridge didn't pay attention to this man at all, he was different from many managers with a lot of power, he himself had absolute authority at the club, and he couldn't take all the power into his own hands, so the negotiation with the player's agent was left to Adam.
At first, he was reluctant to sit at the negotiating table with Andrew in order to avoid suspicion.
"Hold a press conference. It was announced that Thierry Henry would stay in the team and that he would complete his contract at Millwall. ”
Aldridge dropped the sentence and turned away, behind him, the agent was still roaring, and even grabbed Adam by the collar and shouted: "You go and persuade that madman, you don't want 40 million pounds, what do you want?" What more? ”
Adam pretended to say, "To be dignified, to be dignified by the club." ”
The agent ran out of Adam's office and called Henry, hoping that Henry would not come back to the club.
But as soon as his phone rang through, Henry, who was already sitting in a taxi and rushing to the airport, said in a heavy tone without waiting for him to speak first: "It's all over together." I'm going back to the club now to renew my contract, that's all. Don't call me again, I just want to play calmly. ”
Henry knew that he could not go, and that he could not leave as free.
In that case, he could become the biggest traitor in Millwall club history!
He didn't want his glory years at Millwall to end like this.
I don't want to recall this eventful time in the future, but it will be accompanied by the spitting of all the Lions fans!
The £30,000-a-week salary was a bit shabby compared to his performances last season, but Henry couldn't imagine him breaking with the club as a 'Judas'.
Henry's agent saw that his deeds were about to be revealed, so he simply did not do anything, and made a big fuss at the official press conference at Millwall, and the scene was very lively!
Before Adam could say a word, the agent rushed into the scene, picked up the microphone and frantically insulted Aldrich.
"Hall, he said he was going to destroy Henry! Just because he didn't want Henry to play for another team! Is such a manager still worthy of respect? ”
He shouted unscrupulously here, smeared Aldrich, tried to exacerbate the conflict between Henry and Millwall, and became the end that Henry had to go.
And the reporters on the scene are also happy, they are worried about the lack of news, this drama is really timely!
Adam didn't stop the other party, anyway, what Aldridge said on the phone with Henry in the office couldn't be corroborated.
What if Henry and his agent come forward together?
As long as Adam and Aldrich deny it, who can prove that what they say is true?
And Adam had enough confidence to announce that Henry was on the team.
After the agent couldn't make a fuss and was finally asked out of the scene by the security guards and followed by a large group of reporters, there were still many reporters at the scene, and everyone had to listen to what Millwall's side said.
Adam announced on the spot that Thierry Henry would stay and complete his contract with at least two years for Millwall.
When asked by reporters on the scene about Millwall's blocked contract extension with Thierry Henry, Adam replied frankly: "We have prepared a £50,000-a-week contract for Thierry Henry, which was the Premier League's maximum salary last year, and we think this contract is enough to show our sincerity. But Thierry Henry's agent asked for £75,000 a week, and there were a series of floating clauses, including £500,000 for the club to pay after Henry won the league's top scorer, Millwall couldn't accept the terms they offered, we don't deny Henry's importance, but he can't be above the team, break our wage system, and at the same time bring instability to the dressing room, so our contract extension can't go smoothly. ”
"Since there is no agreement on a contract extension, why should Millwall not sell Henry? After Real Madrid's exit, Millwall received an offer of up to £40 million from Juventus, didn't that impress Millwall? Or is what the agent said true? Hall wants to ruin Henry and keep Henry in the club? ”
Real Madrid's exit came after Figo's transfer, and Florentino came to London yesterday to do the most difficult thing in another way. It's not like Juventus, which can get real money.
Adam shook his head and said, "We signed a four-year contract with Henry two years ago. So. He's going to work for Millwall for four years and we're going to keep him and let him continue to play for Millwall and keep working, what's wrong with that? Is it true that the contract is null and void? If the contract is not binding, it is not Millwall who now go to offer David Beckham, which Manchester United refuses. Manchester United are also trying to destroy Beckham? Or if we go to offer Owen, Liverpool will not sell, keep Owen, and Liverpool will destroy Owen? Your assumptions, and the words of the broker, are nonsense. ”
In previous years, the pre-season training team has always started with a relaxed or scrappy kick-off.
But this year's pre-season training has seen Millwall appear to be hanging in a dark cloud.
Aldridge regretted his hasty decision and felt he should have Adam hold a local press conference when the team left for Asia three days later.
Well, the players have just returned. The training ground almost became a circus.
On the periphery of the training base, reporters flocked to the training base. A large number of fans with complicated expressions are paying attention to them.
Italy internationals such as Andrea Pirlo have not yet returned to the team, they can go directly to Asia to join the team in a week, although only Zambrotta officially played among them, but the others, after all, went to the Netherlands and Belgium with Italy, and did not play, didn't they train? Is it just a relaxing vacation?
So give them the necessary time to rest, it is right, and it is a little less.
With a disorganized squad and players in high spirits, no one wants to be surrounded by reporters on their first day back at the club, and they know from experience that as soon as they leave the club, there will be a lot of reporters who want to interview them about Thierry Henry's transfer rumours or club decisions.
Nedved and Gareth Southgate took the lead in jogging along the pitch without being supervised, while the other players followed one after another to warm up.
Aldridge was a little irritated and handed over the training to Klinsmann, who went back to his office.
In the office, he uses other work to distract himself.
Team recruitment!
Recruitment for the local academy has been completed and the younger echelons have been replenished, but Najib has told him a reality: not optimistic.
In England, there are really not many good players.
This situation is complicated to say, because it includes, the impact of race, culture, economy, environment and especially the extension of the football industry on young players!
The most intuitive point is that children are interested in football in the growth stage, so who will he imitate to play football?
Basically every city has a team, and if they grow up supporting local teams and often go to watch these teams play, then the style of play will naturally be imitated by the stars in the supporting team.
In other words, the English super-large environment is confrontational, and the skills are rough, extending to the tactical, team and so on, which is actually affecting the new generation bit by bit.
Europe is not big, and the boundaries between countries are sometimes blurred, but here, there are very different football styles and talent training, except for the system and institutional problems of the entire football environment, style is a point that cannot be ignored.
So, while Spain, Germany, Italy, and France can all produce a generation of leaders, England's talent is dying, and the Premier League, the top league, is to blame, and the region's traditional style of football is also deeply affected.
When the core of the football philosophy in this land is to advocate the style of fierce confrontation and wide opening and closing, it is impossible to expect the next generation to become delicate and gorgeous under the influence of such an environment, and to show the masterful level of overcoming rigidity with softness.
So England's top flight standard homegrown players are mass-produced!
It's like a processing plant producing the same batch of products of the same specification and the same model.
They have strength, yes, but it's hard to see what makes them unique, there is no need for 11 similar or similar characters on the football field, often only those individuals with their own characteristics unite together, form complementarity, play their own characteristics, and then become rich and powerful.
This phenomenon is regrettable, so the outside world criticizes Millwall for not being local enough, and Aldridge has always scoffed at it.
It's not that he looks down on England, it's that history has given the answer.
Even though it is Manchester United in the glory of history, is Ryan Giggs from England? Is York from England? Schmeichel, Stam, Johansson, Keane
Or more convincingly, the decline of the England national team, gathering the strongest players from all over England to get out of the outside of the outside, also reflects a lot of information from the side.
Because of this, a player like Joe Cole who is praised as a genius will be paid special attention to Millwall, but when it comes to the real level of talent, Joe Cole and foreign hopefuls seem to be half a pound or two, not to mention how talented they are.
The club has established a lot of football schools in Europe and Africa in the past two years, but this kind of investment will not have an immediate effect, it is impossible to build a school last year, and send one or two talents this year, so part of Aldrich's recruitment work is to rely on himself to replenish the young fresh blood of the club.
He picked up the phone and wanted to call Andrew, using the other party's scouting intelligence network, and unexpectedly, Andrew came to the door in person at this time. (To be continued......)