The expressions of the players are wonderful!

Stunned, suspicious, worried, sluggish, dazed

It seems that all the players have a cloud in their hearts.

What is there to congratulate such a club that has been in the past 100 years of honors for coming here? And what is there to be happy about?

Aldridge's eyes swept over the players in front of him, and a smile appeared on his handsome face.

He shrugged and smiled, "Actually, when I first took over this club, I probably had a similar expression to yours. I'd love to ask my family, why didn't they buy the damn Manchester United? Not England's king of Europe, Liverpool? Why don't you let me stand on the turf of Highbury? For what? yes, for what? You should be at Juventus, Real Madrid, AC Milan or Roma Lazio. Just ten minutes after I was comfortably soaking in the bath, I figured it out. ”

At this, Aldridge paused, and in front of him, even Beckham and Phil Neville, who had a mindset that it was none of their business, stared at him intently.

All 26 players wanted to know what Aldridge figured out.

Aldridge put away his smile and said seriously: "If I were the manager of Manchester United, Liverpool, or Arsenal, I think even if I won the Premier League next season or won the European Champions Cup, but so what? People will still talk about the legendary Busby, people will still remember Shankly's Red Army, and who would dare to compare with Chapman's contribution to Europe? When I became a champion coach, I couldn't be proud, I couldn't show off, otherwise someone would tat me on the shoulder and say, "Aldrich, what are you?" When Manchester United rebuilt the dynasty from the Munich air disaster, when Paisley led Liverpool to win nearly 20 championship trophies in 9 years, and climbed to the top of Europe three times, even if it was Arsenal, Graham was commendable in recent years, and Aldridge, you kid is a proud fart! Oh, if we are in a wealthy family, it will be so sad, we will never be able to surpass our predecessors, our miracles, our glory, more or less scattered by the past history, so, I want to congratulate you on coming to a club without a crown for a hundred years, this is the most suitable place for me and you to create miracles and their own legends! ”

Looking at Aldridge, who raised his head and was high-spirited, the players looked at each other, as if a scorching fire had risen in everyone's eyes.

Who wouldn't want a legend of their own?

Aldridge continued: "Coming to Millwall, this is the right choice for you. If I were a talented player like you, I wouldn't lick my face and beg to join the giants, what are I going to do there? Look at people's eyes and whisper? Sitting on a cold bench? In garbage time, teammates have already lost their morale and are fighting alone? And then at the end of the season like a clown watching the main players lift the trophy? What's the point of having a champion like that? The champion of charity, the champion of rubbing, Lao Tzu is not rare! Lao Tzu just wants to pick up the trophy with his own hands, and then take out the medal to show off! ”

Hearing this, the 26 players already resonated, and many people nodded their heads involuntarily!

Aldridge suddenly smiled, his demeanor became relaxed, he paced in front of the player, and said lightly: "The outside are laughing at me for spending more than 10 million pounds to buy a circus, hehe, I don't mind, not at all, because it won't be long before your performance on the pitch will tell the world that you are the best players, no, stars, superstars!" Forget Maradona, Platini, Mateus, Zico, Van Basten, in the next ten or twenty years, European football, world football, you are the protagonists! You are the superstars that everyone knows! At that time, you must be a rich man with a lot of money, a green hero admired by fans, and even an enviable beauty around you, maybe more than one. Later, you will be legends that people talk about. Of course, I may have a time to look away, but I think, more than 20 of you, at least a dozen of them should not be difficult, after all, talent is one in ten thousand, and the rest of them are eliminated, and they can only look back on the past decades later, and regret themselves infinitely in the mirror, but don't complain about God, who let this kind of loser live up to God's talent? Ninety-nine percent of the sweat, people with perseverance can do it, but too many people who are willing to work hard, but do not have your one percent of the talent, so if you fail to leave a brilliant figure on the green field because of slackness, it is really sighing, oh no, there is nothing to sigh about, self-abandoning people who do not want to make progress, shit is not as good. ”

These words surprised more than two dozen players.

They never imagined that Aldridge would praise them like this, maybe players in their twenties like Nedved and Larsson would not be fooled by Aldrich's rhetoric, but the other seventeen or eighteen-year-old players, they are still young players with dreams, and they are naturally excited, eager to start training now, and then play football in one breath to the World Cup final to win the championship

"From now on, you will call me Chief, Gareth."

As soon as Aldrich called out to Southgate, the other party immediately shouted: "Boss, what's the matter?" ”

Aldridge threw the captain's armband to him from his pocket, and Southgate was stunned for a moment, only to hear Aldridge say: "Gareth is the captain of the team, Henrik." ”

Larson asked, confused, "Boss?" ”

Aldrich pointed at him and said, "Henrik is the vice-captain. Then, Pavel, you are the third captain. ”

Nedved looked a little surprised, but nodded emphatically.

Aldridge's face suddenly became solemn again, and he said in a deep voice: "My requirements for the team are very simple, first, discipline, and second, unity. There are no privileged players in the team, not now, not in the future, no matter on or off the pitch, you can come to me if you encounter any difficulties, one thing you need to remember is that no matter what problems arise in the team, you can only solve them within the team, playing football is your career, not only your technical ability, but also your professionalism and ethics. Do you understand? ”

All the players said in unison: "Understood! ”

Aldridge turned to the side, waved to the coaches behind him, and then introduced to the players: "Meet the members of the coaching staff." This is Jenson Bernard, my assistant coach, these four are Barb, Craig, Tolop, Leao, they are the first team coaches, the other coaches and so on in different training programs you know one by one, don't underestimate them because they look young, I can tell you that they are from Ajax and they have been coaches there for four years or more, and they will train you to be the top stars in the world, don't doubt that. ”

The 26 players were in awe to hear that the young coaches were all from Ajax, and the standard of training at Ajax was among the best in Europe.

After the official meeting, Aldridge gave the order, and the team began training, first jogging around the field to warm up, and he stood aside to watch the performance of the players.

The three captains took the lead, and the other players did not dare to be lazy, and the 26 people jogged around the field in an orderly manner.

As if he were in the clouds, the young Barak whispered to Schneider, who was slightly smaller than him, "Hey, I'm afraid I'll never forget this day for the rest of my life." ”

Schneider frowned and said, "I didn't even know that I had the talent to become a top star." ”

He is both 21 years old and previously played for the German second division.

For them, the first official meeting with Aldrich at the training ground became an indelible fragment of their memory.

Aldrich naturally inspires them, but at the same time he knows that a future will inevitably become a reality.

England can't keep these people!

Even though in the 70s, since Tottenham won the League Cup, Europe has entered an era of English domination, Liverpool, Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa have reached the top of Europe a total of seven times, not counting the other two major cup championships, but five years after the Heysel tragedy, English football has been hit hard, Liverpool, who returned to the Champions League for the first time after the ban was lifted in 91, did not even pass the qualifiers, plus Taylor's report made English football clubs reduce their investment in the transfer market in order to renovate the stadium, It has greatly reduced the competitiveness of clubs in England.

In the era when English clubs did not participate in the three major European cups, Serie A rose to prominence and gradually became the well-deserved first league in Europe, and this era of Serie A dominating the Europa League happened to be the era when the players under Aldridge grew up.

For example, Nedved, if it weren't for the fact that he didn't have an EU passport and Italy's restrictions on the transfer of non-European players, he probably wouldn't have considered coming to Aldridge at all, even if Aldridge had experienced the time and space, Nedved still risked a fake passport to go to court to land in Serie A, for players of their time, Serie A is the highest stage for masters.

Aldridge stood on the sidelines, and Jenson teased him, "I didn't know you were talking so deceptively. ”

Aldrich said without changing his face: "I'm telling the truth, big truth!" ”

Jensen smiled and suddenly said solemnly: "Next season, it's not easy, the Premier League announced that there will only be 20 places in the Super League next season, so next season, there will be four teams in the Premier League relegated, and we are in League One, there are only two promotion places, which will be more competitive than before." ”

Thinking of this, Aldrich also felt a little unlucky, it can be said that it was bad luck.

The Premier League has been planning to reduce the number of Premier League places since its establishment in 92, from 22 teams to 20, but damn it, it's not last year, it's not the year after that, it's next season, and Aldridge is just in time.

This makes competition fierce in League One next season, and Aldridge found plenty of competition in front of him yesterday when he did a cursory analysis of the competitive situation for next season.

Three teams relegated from the Premier League last season: Sheffield United, Oldham, Swindon.

I am afraid that Swindon's embarrassing record of conceding 100 goals in the Premier League last season will make it difficult for this team to be competitive in League One, and the other two teams should not be underestimated.

In addition, there are not many who have the strength to surpass in the first division: Middlesbrough, Reading, Bolton, Wolves, Derby County, Watford and so on.

With only two promotion spots next season, it won't be easy to get out of the enlistment.