The movie to watch at night is Leonardo starring in "The Man in the Iron Mask", Aldridge sits on the seat with a bucket of popcorn and waits for the movie to start, De Rossi sits next to him, Messi and Aguero are not interested in the movie, and they are drowsy after sitting down, or it may be sleepiness caused by overeating.

At the beginning of the movie, De Rossi leaned over and grabbed a handful of popcorn in his hand and asked, "Boss, is this movie about the real thing?" ”

Aldrich shrugged and said: "I don't know, I don't have a high education, and I don't know anything about French history, but movies, they must be two different things from history, at least the background of the times in the plot of the movie is wrong, the time in the movie is 1662, these people are in the Palace of Versailles, this is nonsense, the Palace of Versailles only began to be built in 1664." ”

"Huh? Don't you don't know history? ”

"But I've been to Versailles."

He and De Rossi watched and talked, and the two spoke in a low voice that would not disturb others.

Chatting and chatting, De Rossi suddenly said: "Boss, are you going to Japan at the end of the month?" ”

Aldridge replied in wonder, "yes, who doesn't know about it?" ”

At the end of the month, Millwall will leave for Japan to compete in the Toyota Cup.

De Rossi turned his head and licked his face and smiled, "Take me with you, too!" I want to see the world. ”

Aldrich looked strange and said, "Do you think that going to Japan is called seeing the world?" Isn't it because you want to be lazy and go on a trip to play? ”

De Rossi was poked into his heart and calculated, but he was also thick-skinned and said: "Of course not! I'm a pacesetter in training! Isn't Japanese football very popular in recent years? Didn't England legend Lineker play in Japan? Isn't Brazil captain Dunga also in Japan? ”

Aldridge pouted: "Don't think that you can hide your evil thoughts by saying a few star names. Don't worry, of course, I'll take you with me when I go to Japan. ”

De Rossi's eyes lit up and he asked, "Really?" ”

"There's no need to lie to you, it's not just you. Your teammates will go. ”

De Rossi suddenly looked unpleasant, and sighed: "It turns out that I can go if the plan is drawn?" I knew that I wouldn't tell you. ”

"Huh."

When the movie ended, Aguero woke up in a daze, yawned and his eyelids were still fighting, he stood up and walked out, Aldrich grabbed him, crying and laughing: "You want to get lost yourself." ”

The exit was on the left, but Aguero turned to the right

Messi woke up after being hit on the leg by Aguero, stood up and rubbed his face and said: "The movie is so good." ”

Aldridge pulled Messi's wrist up and put his hand on Aguero's shoulder. Then he said, "Don't get lost." ”

He and Aguero are more like confused eggs now, and Aguero still has eye droppings in the corners of his eyes!

As they walked out of the cinema, Aldrich and the three boys were about to take a taxi back, but several reporters with cameras clicked and snapped in front of them, and smiled at Aldrich after filming. Wave goodbye.

To say goodbye is actually just a cover-up. The paparazzi ran to the corner and hid to continue to observe where Aldrich and they would go next. Even if Aldridge got into a taxi, they followed closely until it was confirmed that the four Aldridge had returned to the club community before giving up tracking.

Aldrich didn't feel at ease, but the news he saw in the newspaper the next day made him almost spurt out a mouthful of blood!

The lace tabloid vaguely pointed out that Aldrich had a "pedophile"!

Some of the big newspapers that also got the news still have a professional ethic, from Aldridge taking young players out to dinner and watching movies, in-depth analysis of Millwall's youth success.

Aldrich had to ask Andrew to come over and help send lawyer's letters to some newspapers.

There is no way, the young marshal's private life has begun to be suspected.

The outside world thinks his girlfriend is just a shield. He's either gay, or he might really be a pedophile.

Another day later, Millwall held an official press conference.

The club's CEO, Adam, publicly announced that all the following echelons of Millwall's first team have reached a sponsorship agreement with the British company Umbro, the reserve team. The youth team's training and match clothing and equipment are provided by Umbro.

The news shocked English football and even the entire European football world to pay close attention.

Millwall even reserves, youth teams can be favored by sponsors?

The sponsorship contract is for two years, £1,000,000 per year!

This is already higher than many of the Premier League's lower reaches of the first team shirt sponsorship!

Umbro's commercial representatives are full of confidence in this cooperation.

They believe Millwall's success has been due to the success of the academy, with statistics from the past two seasons showing that Millwall's youth and development teams have seen between double and triple the average attendance figures.

In addition to Millwall's fans, other fans are also interested in paying a low ticket price to attend their games, and may have seen one of the future superstars up close before he became famous.

The Millwall reserve team has won the reserve league championship in a row, and the youth team has won three consecutive youth league championships and two youth FA cups, which is an important reason why Umbro is willing to invest in them, not to mention that the Millwall youth team will also play against the youth team that is strong in Europe when playing in Europe, which has created a lot of influence and topics.

The giants of all walks of life were shocked.

Millwall's reserves and youth teams are packaged to generate profits, and they are not petty gains.

Other giants are jealous, but even giants such as Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern and other giants with excellent youth training, they dare not say that the youth team record and the number of talented seedlings can compare with Millwall.

The most important thing is that maybe there is still chaos within the giants, the first team is worried about the pressure of results, who can take care of the youth team?

Aldridge has adhered to the development of the youth policy and committed unwaveringly, and after four and a half years, he has laid the prototype of a complete system, and as long as the first team can continue to be successful, it will also drive the future commercial benefits of their reserve team and youth team.

CEO Adam is so ambitious that he plans to at least double the price of his sponsorship contract with Umbro when Millwall moves into the new stadium two years later!

Aldridge is happy to see the club have an extra income, even though Millwall made 14 million pounds in last season's earnings report. They must have earned more than £60 million this season, as they have made more than £80 million from selling people in the summer alone, and although the salary increase for the players has increased the cost of spending, as long as the record can be maintained, the club's income and expenditure excluding transfer income can be balanced.

But this is not enough, far from enough, the current scale of the club has been unable to support the huge consumer market, after the completion of the new stadium, the new stadium around the overall diversified commercial chain will make the club's income have a qualitative leap.

Following the announcement of a new sponsorship contract, Millwall announced a trip to Japan for the end of the month. Not only will they play the final at the National Stadium in Tokyo, but they will face the Copa Libertadores champions, Vasco da Gama from Brazil.

At the same time, Millwall reached a friendly match agreement with the Japanese Football Association, and Millwall will bring two echelons with them when they travel to Japan. One youth team, one junior team. Two friendlies are played the day before the Toyota Cup race. The opponents are Japan's U21 and national junior teams.

In recent years, Japanese football has been vigorously revitalized, in addition to attracting late superstars to join in the league to increase public attention and enthusiasm, the emphasis on youth training is more down-to-earth step by step.

Perhaps these two friendly matches between the youth team and the youth team do not have much intuitive value, but the influence that can be driven behind them cannot be evaluated by monetary interests, including the encouragement of young people, the stimulation of football thinking for the people, and so on.

Among them, sponsors are responsible for connecting people behind the scenes. The Millwall youth team played against the European giants' youth teams, and it was Aldridge who took the initiative to apply to play against each other, but with the Japanese Football Association, he really didn't think about letting Millwall's young players use the Japanese youth echelon to train. It doesn't feel necessary, even though Japanese football is developing at a high speed, it is not strong enough to be impressive, and Millwall is also a tourist mentality.

However, the other party took the initiative to invite, and some companies gave sponsorship, and Aldrich had no reason to refuse.

Millwall have a league game to play before heading for Japan, again in the London derby against Tottenham Hotspur to the north.

This London derby was rendered as a clash between the "last hero" and the "new king".

Fleet Street likes to make headlines and make news.

This is not between Millwall and Tottenham, who themselves are not the kings of the old days.

It's about the contrast between Tottenham's new boss George Graham and Aldridge Hall.

Around the time Aldridge was in charge of Millwall, Graham's Arsenal was in decline, and the last game that Graham led Arsenal to play was eliminated by Aldridge's Millwall.

Graham was then sacked, and after being banned from coaching by the FA for a year, Graham made a comeback to take charge of Elland Road, but unfortunately it was no longer dominant, and Leeds United's record was mediocre.

Moreover, Millwall has conflicts with Leeds United, and Aldridge does not fake the opposing coach every time he plays Leeds United.

The reason for this is that Leeds United fans racially racially discriminated against Millwall's players when they first appeared in the Premier League, and it was very serious, and there was a lot of racism in the stands.

Like Makelele is still lingering, as long as he plays Leeds United, he is very energetic, even if he eats cards on the field and gets off the red card, he doesn't care, Aldridge never accuses him, and will defend him after the game, players are also people, they need to vent their anger, and in certain situations, Aldridge will turn a blind eye.

Millwall's fans used to be very troublesome, but they were very open to racial issues, because East London was the most explorige area, everyone was used to friends of different skin colors, although there were a few extreme fans who had racist tendencies.

Aldridge and Graham have not spoken a word or shook hands in the past two years, and Aldridge is because the opponent is the manager of Leeds United, and Graham is estimated to be humiliated by Aldridge's war of words when he was out of class at Arsenal.

Fleet Street fanned the flames before the game to provoke the old grudge between the two, after all, the two are now in different positions, the London derby!

It's a pity that Aldridge is not fooled, Graham is in a worrying situation, Tottenham is unlucky and ranked in the bottom half, and he has no capital to provoke Millwall.

In such an over-exaggerated "big game" from the outside world, Millwall sat at home to defeat Graham's Tottenham 3-0, and Ruud van Nistelrooy scored a hat-trick in the game, probably because Henry's return from injury put him under pressure, and he used his explosive form to defend his main position in the game.

After winning the 15th round of the Premier League, Millwall traveled to Moscow, and after all substitutes, they held a draw, and won 4 and drew 1 in the Champions League group stage, leading the second place in the group stage with 4 wins and 1 loss in 5 games.

After the European War, they began to prepare for the trip to Japan to participate in the Toyota Cup. (To be continued......)