As the sun fell, Aldridge whistled in his mouth and kept shouting at the players who came up to the training ground with short passes.

"Robert, don't wait where you are! Get out of the air! The pitch is huge, do you want to dance in place? ”

"Lucas, press up, do you see where Claude is? You take one step further and you've sealed Michael's ball lane! ”

"Pavel, there is no good line in front of you, and when you are caught again, don't blindly break through, just split the ball to both sides or pass it back! As the heart of the midfield, your first priority is not to lose the ball, if you make a wrong pass, it can be fatal! ”

The players on the training ground sweated profusely and worked diligently under Aldridge's supervision to ensure that every bit he asked for perfection was achieved.

When training was over, Aldridge disbanded the team without much nonsense, and he and his colleagues in the coaching staff picked up the balls on the training ground one by one and put them away.

When everything was cleaned up, and it was getting dark, Aldrich went under the shade of the tree and lit a cigarette, and Jenson leaned over, curious to find that Aldrich was frowning, as if he had a worry hidden in his heart.

"What's wrong? Not happy? We won the game the day before yesterday. Five wins, two draws and one loss in the first eight rounds, and we are the top team in the standings. ”

Aldridge scratched his head and sighed: "I'm thinking about whether it's time to unleash the team's attacking ability. But there are some fears that the newly established defensive system will collapse. ”

Two days earlier, before the FIFA matchday, Millwall won 2-0 at home to a weakly Burnley side, a game that was not a dazzling one, and Millwall created few chances, but they were all taken up.

When facing a team that is passive defensively, or a team that is solid defensively, Millwall's chances of attacking on the counter-attack are increasingly slim, and the attacking play of positional battles is slightly conservative, so the atmosphere has been a bit dull lately.

Aldridge didn't ask and knew that like Pire, Schneider must want to go deeper into the enemy's hinterland to show his talent, and Nedved, an iron man who can't run to death, is also a large-scale movement from the penalty area to the penalty area.

Aldrich, however, hesitated.

The main squad have played seven league games without conceding a single goal, which is a welcome defensive effect, and Aldridge believes that even with this conservative style of play, they will be able to qualify for the Premier League at least one play-off at the end of the season, not to mention winning the title and promoting to the Premier League.

But the players are obviously not satisfied, and the young and dreamy players want to show more talent.

Aldridge is not satisfied, attacking football is the trend in football, but it is necessary for defense to bring championships, he is just worried that this step forward will not destroy the solid foundation of the past.

With only eight rounds of the league and not even a fifth, Aldridge planned to make the next adjustment halfway through the league, but the oppressive atmosphere of the team made him face a choice at the moment.

"I think we can give it a try, and the training reports from the last two months show that at least the improvement of the main squad in terms of teamwork and passing and receiving is obvious.

Jenson said.

Aldridge thought for a moment and nodded, he knew that he did not have absolute authority in the team, and winning would be a win, but as long as the slightest thing happened that made the players resist in their hearts, maybe he, the manager who was only 18 years old, would have an irreparable rift with the players.

"Mr. Hall, there's your number!"

The training ground staff shouted in the distance, Aldrich said a brief goodbye to Jenson, walked back to his office, picked up the phone, and heard a familiar voice that surprised him and then dawned on him.

The professor is going to Japan!

Just outside the club's main entrance, stood a slender middle-aged man, none other than Arsène Wenger, who had been sacked for the first time in his coaching career.

He gazed thoughtfully at Millwall's old club building, as if looking for something to interest him.

"Arsène!"

Aldridge waved at Wenger across the road, and Wenger turned around with a smile on his face.

It was dinner time and Aldridge invited Arsene Wenger to his home.

Barnett had already lived in West London, and Andrew had only come home once in a while, and Arthur and Amelia were the only two in the huge villa, and they were very happy to see Aldrich bring back a guest.

At the dinner table, Arthur solemnly thanked Wenger, who was taken care of during the time Aldridge studied abroad and spent time in France.

After dinner, Aldridge invited Wenger to his study.

"Monaco didn't have a good start to the season, so I got out of class, but I'm lucky, I've already had a club ask me to coach, Aldridge, you're so smart, can you guess where I'm going to coach?"

Although Wenger's tone was relaxed, the bitterness in his words was audible to Aldrich.

After all, he left a club that he had coached for five years.

Where is his next stop?

Aldridge certainly knows that the Nagoya Whales of the Japanese J-League.

But he smiled and shook his head, pretending not to know.

He knew he didn't need to be unpredictable at every turn, and that would do him no good except to be able to show off.

Moreover, he doesn't want to go into this topic, there are many reasons for Monaco's poor record, and Aldridge's high price and high salary poaching defender Thuram is also a factor.

Wenger leaned back in his chair and said lightly: "I will go to Japan at the end of the month." ”

After saying that, Aldridge didn't answer, Wenger looked at him suspiciously, and asked, "What?" Aren't you surprised at all? ”

Aldrich shrugged and pouted, "Well, I was surprised, so I couldn't speak." ”

"Hypocrisy! Forget it, let's talk about your team, I came to London this time to see your team. ”

Arsene Wenger held hot tea in his hand and stared at Aldridge with a smile in his eyes.

Before he arrived, he didn't expect Aldridge's side to be at the top of League One, although there was almost no gap between them and even the top of the table on goal difference.

But it was enough to surprise Arsene Wenger, after all, this is a newly formed team, and it is mainly young players, and it is absolutely impossible to lose just one game after eight games.

Aldridge knew everything, and Wenger wanted to talk about anything, and he said it in a big way, including his team building philosophy, tactical system, and even the club's business vision beyond the scope of the manager.

However, Millwall remain in the second tier of the league and the conversation eventually returned to the Premier League's top game.

'Yesterday I watched an England match at Wembley and before the game there was something that struck me as incredible. Aldridge, why do people in this country seem to hate Manchester United? The Manchester United I used to know in France was probably the most popular team in England. ”

Wenger frowned, puzzled by the question.

He sat in the stands and waited for the game to start, but half an hour before the game, the stands at Wembley Stadium resounded with the repetitive singing.

"If you hate Manchester United, then you stand up!"

As a result, in the repetitive wave of singing that continued to grow in momentum, in less than ten minutes, the fans stood up!

Aldrich laughed helplessly.

"This question is very complicated, but Manchester United is indeed the most popular team in the UK, let's put it this way, there are 22 teams in the Premier League, and there must be a lot of die-hard fans in each team, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, etc., but the fan base in the UK is larger, those ordinary fans, fans who watch TV at home, fans who do not belong to community football clubs, will naturally like Manchester United, when TV broadcast entered thousands of households, it was the glorious moment when Busby Boy rebuilt his dynasty, Coupled with the fact that Manchester United players were the core of England's generation when they reached the World Cup, Manchester United had the largest number of fans in England. ”

"So the fans at Wembley will hate Manchester United?"

"Where's Wembley?"

"London."

"London fans almost hate Manchester United, there are more factors, including political factors, Manchester is absolutely loyal to the Queen, economically, Manchester, the former world factory is gradually declining, but London is open and pompous and diverse, traditional and cultural, Manchester is old-fashioned, London, hehe, this is the opposition between cities, Arcena, you will understand all this in the future, just like Manchester and Liverpool are only half an hour away, but they are two very different cities, The hostilities are more indescribable than mortal enemies. ”

Arsene Wenger muttered: "Is this the birthplace of modern football? ”

In the 100-year history of English football, if football is just an ordinary sport, or a game, it is impossible to grow and develop, and it is not enough to make football the most popular sport in the UK.

Football is war in times of peace.

Behind it are sparks of passion from politics, culture, tradition, economy, history, people's hearts, etc.

If you look at the map of the United Kingdom, you can almost always find the grievances and hatreds that football has set off there.

English football is never lonely, because it's full of smoke!

Aldridge and Arsene Wenger spoke again about some of the teams that are in the limelight in the Premier League right now.

There is no need to talk about Manchester United, who have won two consecutive titles, the Reds Liverpool have long been famous in Europe, Leeds United and Newcastle United are in the ascendant, but there is a team that Wenger and Aldridge have been discussing for a long time.

That is, last year, only four points behind Manchester United, league runners-up Blackburn.

It's a team with no background, and the population of a small town is only 100,000.

But the speed of the rise in a short period of time is jaw-dropping.

Aldridge is willing to talk more about the reason for this team, the most important thing is the development of future football trends.

Golden Dollar Football!

Who is the originator of England's Golden Dollar football?

By no means Chelsea in 10 years' time.

It's Blackburn!

Steel magnate Jack Walker returned to his hometown to take charge of Blackburn Rovers, injecting £30 million into the club, transforming a team that couldn't even afford to play away from home and train fares, and had the strength to challenge for the title of champion.

£30 million may be just a transfer fee for a top star in 10 years, but in the early 90s, £30 million was just the way to turn a team around!

Blackburn Rovers brought in Liverpool King Dalglish to coach, and the team has brought in a number of first-class players, almost all of them at the level of European national teams.

Blackburn Rovers came close to winning the league title last season, with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton in the team unstoppable, and last season's UEFA Cup saw Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich beat them.

This is the impact of the golden dollar on football, and with the Boseman law about to open a new era in football, the traditional rules of football will be changed drastically.

Although Aldridge also brought 30 million pounds of capital injection to Millwall, he may not be able to continue to invest a lot of money, and Aldridge needs to plan a lot in order to meet the source of this period of change in football.

PS: Thanks for the "take off the slippers" tip!

Two shifts a day from tomorrow.