Aldridge's pre-season plan has been hit by reality again.

Next season will play in the European Cup Winners' Cup, although he does not pay attention, but wants to familiarize the team with the different national football styles, so he plans for the pre-season warm-up match, in addition to inviting Celtic to play a friendly match in London, he also plans to fly the whole team to France and Monaco to play a game, and then go to Spain to play a game against Deportivo La Coruna, and finally return to London to play two domestic friendly matches.

Before the Olympics, Andrew finalized Rivaldo's transfer to Europe, Rivaldo joined Deportivo La Coruna in Spain in the summer, and at the same time, because of this relationship, Andrew helped Millwall and Deportivo Deportivo to have a friendly match, and the friendly match in Monaco was finalized by Aldridge and Tigana when he was in France.

Scottish football is the originator of the short-pass style, which is not the background of the miners' culture that is not Scottish united, and Aldridge's purpose in inviting Celtic is also to let Millwall experience the overall style of Scottish football.

However, when August arrived, Aldridge had to cancel the two friendlies between Monaco and Deportivo La Coruna.

Because the team's post-training tests showed that his players were too tired.

With the exception of only a few players who participated in the European Championships, most of the other players went to the United States to participate in the Olympics and returned to the club almost without a break.

However, Millwall's players are all young, so they are naturally the target of the Olympic teams of various countries.

As a result, he can no longer fly with his players to France and Spain for away friendlies.

Benitez moved to London. He immediately became one of Aldrich's assistant coaches.

But he was shocked on the first day of training.

Aldridge and the returning players were talking and laughing. Training is like getting together and playing a game of football. Easy is easy, but it's hard to get into the hall of elegance, it's a mess.

After training, Benitez asked puzzled: "That's how you train your players?" ”

Aldridge sighed: "Of course not, but you have to understand what the players need most, they have just gone through a period of physical exaltation and are very tired, so. Giving them intense training now won't have any effect and will affect the whole season. ”

The next few days were spent in a relaxed atmosphere for the Millwall players.

When the first opponents, Celtic, arrived at the Lions' Den, Aldridge put players who played in the European Championships and Olympics in the summer on the bench and cobbled together a dynamic squad for the friendly game.

He did that against promoted Sunderland and Everton, giving his players as much rest as possible.

In three friendlies, Millwall lost all three games, not because of how bad the form was. It's the opponents who are very serious.

In mid-August, the day before the Community Shield was launched. Millwall held a press conference.

Aldridge was relaxed in attendance and was asked about Millwall's summer preparations, saying that everything was planned and that friendlies were not won or lost.

Millwall have been quiet this summer, with the exception of a deal with the FA on a loan move from Wembley, with plans for a new stadium yet to come out and a loan deal yet to be finalised.

Fleet Street has been laughing at Arsenal lately, and as Arsenal's neighbours, Thomson of The Sun asked Aldridge bluntly at a press conference: "Mr. Hall, have you heard of Arsène Wenger?" ”

In the past few days, there have been headlines in the London media to humiliate Arsenal.

Arsène - Who? 》

The reporters in the audience snickered, and most of them were ready to listen to Aldrich say something provocative to his neighbor.

Aldrich, however, let them down.

Arsene Wenger came to the Lions' Den twice to watch the game, but it was not enough to make the outside world remember him.

Sighing, Aldrich couldn't stand the silly arrogance of Fleet Street.

"Have you heard of Glenn Hoddle? And George Weah, and, forget it, just these two. ”

The reporters in the audience looked at each other, and Richard frowned and said, "Mr. Hall, I don't understand what you mean." ”

Hoddle is the new coach of the England national team, Weah is the man of both world football and European football last year, how can no one know the truth?

Even if Aldridge doesn't listen to anything outside the window, he should always remember Hoddle who played against him in the Premier League!

Aldridge sighed again and said rather boredly: "Then you should ask Hoddle and Weah if they know who Wenger is." ”

Journalists are still confused.

"Mr. Hall, can you explain why?"

Aldridge held his head and sighed helplessly: "If I remember correctly, the only league title in Hoddle's career was won under Mr. Arsene Wenger. When Weah won the Ballon d'Or, who was he most grateful for? It's Wenger, whom you are constantly laughing at and sarcastic. ”

The audience was silent, and Aldrich got up and left.

The British media is like this, Yelang is used to being arrogant, proudly laughing at others, and taking his ignorance as his personality.

In the final analysis, it is because Wenger is still in Japan, and if Wenger is still in France, the British media may not be so disrespectful.

Arsene Wenger has won just one league title at Monaco, but he has also had a good record in European competition, which is already better than many English coaches.

Fleet Street lifted a stone to shoot itself in the foot, and put his face on it to find someone to smoke, but they didn't care, anyway, it's all news, how much is the face worth?

The next day, Aldridge played the Community Shield at Wembley, and Aldridge still used the lineup from the warm-up, half main and half substitute.

Manchester United's squad is more neat, at least in terms of summer preparations, and United are better prepared than Millwall.

At least England didn't even qualify for the Olympics, and there were no Manchester United players in the England national team, so their players were given plenty of time to rest.

A full house at Wembley Stadium. Aldrich did not stand on the sidelines and command. Instead, sit quietly. Even if the situation on the field was unfavorable, he never got up once.

At the end of the game, the in-form Manchester United lifted the Community Shield with a narrow win over Millwall thanks to a goal from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

After the game, Aldridge was criticized and ridiculed by the outside world, believing that his team was terrible when he fought with all kinds of bulls and snakes in English football in the summer.

And that's just the beginning.

In the opening match of the Premier League, Millwall rushed to the away game and Southampton played 0:0.

Four days later. Lost 1-2 at home to Middlesbrough.

This is the end of a two-year unbeaten home streak.

In addition to the Millwall lineup is still half the main force and half substitute due to poor tacit understanding, Middlesbrough is not what it used to be, and the team has introduced a lot of powerful players, such as Juninho, Ravanelli, Emerson, etc., so that Middlesbrough has a strong momentum after the start of the league.

Millwall's poor form continued, with a hard-fought penalty win over fourth-tier side Bristol City in the Carabao Cup.

Millwall's performances from the friendly at the beginning of August to the third round of the league at the end of August have left critics dumbfounded!

This Nima fell to the ground too quickly, right?

Comets hit the Earth not so fast!

The parties began to fall again, and the voices of Manchester United defending their title rose higher and higher.

All because of the first game of the season. Manchester United's handsome guy Becky completed a super lob shot in the middle circle.

Millwall, while not falling into the relegation zone, are actually not too far off.

Aldridge is going to compete for the title this season. But it's up to the players to win the title, so he's concerned about the condition of the players.

After almost a month of training, the players who didn't have enough time to rest in the summer are getting better and better.

In training, they have surpassed the best form of last season in all indicators, and psychologically they have relieved their boredom and fatigue from the game, and they have accumulated a sense of hunger and thirst for the game day after day!

After a successful Carabao Cup match, the team was on the training pitch and every player was in top form, so Aldridge was finally sure that their season could begin!

Aldridge was in attendance at a press conference ahead of the weekend's home game against Coventry.

He's been trampled on a lot lately, and it's not everyone who can poop and pee on his head, and some roadside tabloids have faked news that Aldridge has created a crisis of confidence in the dressing room, and Millwall could poach a heavyweight before the transfer window closes.

The reporters raised their hands to ask questions, one asking if the dressing room conflict was true, and the other asking if the players would want to flee Millwall

Aldrich didn't answer anything, and only said one sentence at the end.

"Millwall's pre-season warm-up is over."

The next day, Fleet Street collectively criticized Aldridge's arrogance, and even laughed at his naïve excuses.

Aldridge entered the stadium early before the start of the day's game and the fans in the stands were enthusiastic, and despite their first defeat at home in two years, they remained steadfast in their support.

In England, fans have a relatively clear definition, the first is supporters, no matter how good or bad the team's record is, supporters never give up, the second is fans, they don't have a particularly firm position, whoever looks good in football likes whom, before Manchester United, they may like Liverpool or Tottenham, and when Manchester United blows a storm of youth, they turn to like Manchester United, and the third is just followers, where there are stars, which team is the most eye-catching, their eyes are focused there.

Before Aldridge took over, Millwall's latter two fans would not like Millwall, so despite the small stadium, the crowd of spectators was a staunch supporter of the club, who didn't care what the outside world said about Millwall, and they didn't waver in their support for the team because of their results, they were a solid force for the long-term survival of a club.

Although Millwall now has a lot of fans and followers, once Millwall's record declines, they will turn away without care.

Aldridge walked up to the stands, step by step in the direction of the box, on the VIP stand at the lower edge of the box, where the environment was slightly better, the seats were not crowded, and in the top row of seats behind the aisle, sat Arthur and Puskash and Evan.

Puskas has spent most of the past six months recuperating in England and his condition is well managed, at least most of the time he is sober and in his right mind, and at the start of the season, he wanted to watch Aldridge play in charge, so he came to the Lion's Den.

But in order to prevent him from getting into trouble, Aldridge still asked his friend Evan to help take care of it, and the staff in the stadium will also be on call.

Arthur didn't find it enjoyable to watch the game in the box, so he sat next to him.

And very fortunate that Arthur had watched the "battle of the century" between Hungary and England at Wembley as a child, and for him, Puskas was the king of the generation in memory.

"Hey, Aldridge, your team doesn't seem to be doing well."

Puskas didn't give Aldrich any face, and said with a smile.

Aldridge pouted and said, "You just sit here and watch, take a good look at what my team is like, let's discuss it after the game." ”

"Little one, you said it yourself, don't forget."

Puskash smiled and then turned back to chat with Arthur, Arthur, as a father, naturally saw how much Puskas recognized and appreciated Aldridge's attitude, and happily introduced the players in Millwall's team to Puskas, talking about what they could do on the field.

For example, Nedved has become the superman in Arthur's mouth, an iron man who can hit the ball with a football and a goal!

Aldrich had a brief conversation with Evan before walking down the aisle.

Players from both sides came on, and Millwall officially used their strongest squad of the season to face the visiting underdogs Coventry.

Goalkeeper: Bout.

Defenders: Schneider, Stam, Southgate, Capdevilla.

Midfielders: Makelele, Pirlo, Nedved.

Forwards: Larsson, Trezeguet, Shevchenko. (To be continued......)