As the old saying goes, the new year has a new atmosphere, and time has spanned from 1999 to 2000, which is not only a new year, but also a new century, and a thousand years!

At such a historic moment, Arsenal FC also has a historic big move.

Deputy Chairman Dane and manager Arsene Wenger proudly announced: Arsenal are building a new stadium!

Many Gunners fans rushed to celebrate each other, and there was a momentum of sprinkling flowers to celebrate the joy of the big run, after all, Highbury's capacity made it difficult for Gunners fans who enjoyed "beautiful football" to get a ticket.

It's just that I don't know how much sadness and tears are hidden behind the pride of Wenger and Dane.

Arsenal does not build a new stadium, do not get a larger capacity stadium, gradually, Arsenal will fall from the Premier League title group to the middle, this is not alarmist, with the rise in prices, stadium tickets are also rising, Arsenal even if it is located in London, the gap between ticket revenue and Manchester United every season is gradually widening, this season conservatively estimated, the gap has been opened more than 10 million pounds!

The difference in the level of 10 million pounds, and then developing, may be 20 million pounds, 30 million pounds.

Without the new stadium, there will be a gap of hundreds of millions of pounds between Arsenal and Manchester United in ten years.

What can hundreds of millions of pounds bring to the club?

The most intuitive is competitiveness.

With such a cutthroat competitive situation, Arsenal's plans for a new stadium are imperative.

Of course, they don't have to compare themselves to Premier League champions Millwall, who have already earned a new stadium as human traffickers and have a guaranteed record. In a few months, we will be able to inspect the new stadium.

In other words. Arsenal are a traditional giant. Already behind Manchester United, Millwall has at least five years of development.

What is five years?

That's because Millwall started breaking ground on the new stadium almost five years ago.

Arsenal only announced that it would build a new stadium, and the specific stadium design, site selection, sponsors, loans and other specific businesses are still in preparation, but. Their words are more credible than those of other mid-stream club presidents.

Like the chairman of Everton who talks about building a new stadium every year, Toffee fans know that he is farting.

Among the Premier League owners, Aldridge is certainly not the richest, and he can't say too much about being richer than him, but there are still a lot of big money, such as Arsenal's major shareholders, all of whom are richer than him, and some are even richer than Hall's entire family.

But in the plan of building a new stadium, they are all following the most basic principle of running a business: living within their means.

This directly led to the fact that both Wenger and Dane knew in their hearts that the next few years would follow. No, many years. Arsenal should cut back on food and clothing, open source and reduce expenditure!

Therefore, when he visited the Lions' Den in the FA Cup quarter-finals, Arsene Wenger sent a substitute line-up.

There is no way, the battle between the Premier League 3-6 places for the last two Champions League places is too tragic, with six rounds left in the league, and Wenger must make a trade-off.

In the first half of the season, he met Millwall in the Carabao Cup, opting for an all-out squad to knock them out.

Then, they were beaten by Tottenham Hotspur, north London rivals, and then, with the Carabao Cup not coming to an end, Martin O'Neill did another miracle, leading Leicester City to win the first title in England in the 21st century.

Probably affected by the lesson in the first half of the season, Wenger simply sent a substitute to play today, concentrate on playing in the league, and enter the Champions League to get the Champions League profit share, which is more important than anything else.

As the countdown to the end of the season begins, Millwall has seen a burst of attendance at any home game, and the FA Cup may have been linked to the second half of the competition, but in the league, there is little suspense about Millwall's success in defending the title, but fans still flock to the stadium every home game day to support the team and keep their tickets for the day as souvenirs.

Because Millwall's official first-team games at the Lion's Den are one less game, in the summer, barring any surprises, they will move into a new stadium, and now it is time to say goodbye to the Lion's Den.

In the FA Cup quarter-final with Arsenal, Aldridge and Arsene Wenger were in the dugout, the Lion's Den pitch was screaming, and the fans' energy was spent in singing and shouting, they didn't seem to care much about the progress of the game, just to be here at the end of the Lion's Den Stadium, enjoy the atmosphere here, and next season, everything will be different.

Millwall almost sealed the win in the first half, with goals from Ramour and Glen Charles making the gap between the two teams' benches even more intuitive.

Arsene Wenger could not do anything about the game, the main squad still had a number of hidden dangers, and the substitute line-up was even more embarrassing.

Take a look at Millwall's substitute lineup, change the team emblem, change the name, and it is estimated that you can play in the Premier League and be in the middle!

He turned to his assistant and complained, "Why do Millwall have so many good players who don't need money?" ”

Most members of the Arsenal coaching staff opted for silence.

I can't envy it.

Someone said in a serious way: "Hall's vision for talent and the ability to develop players are indeed rare in the world. ”

"Is there any trick to this?"

Arsene Wenger racked his brains to understand the secret of Aldridge's development of players, no, it should be the secret recipe for digging good seedlings.

Developing players, he doesn't think he's under Aldridge.

The key is where to get so many good seedlings to cultivate!

"Well, uh, I've done a survey, like Nedved, Glenschal, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and other players in the first team, all of them were scouted from second-rate leagues, and quite a few of them were scouted by Hall when they didn't even enter the formal youth system, such as Villa, Brazilians Ronaldinho, Vicente, Joaquin. There is also a part of it that seems incredible to us, Klose, Phillips, who is third in the Premier League's scorer list this year and has scored almost 30 goals, they were discovered by Hall from the amateur league, and some players who have not yet made a name for themselves, like Franck Ribery and Drogba. One was abandoned by Lille. One was denied a visa by Paris Saint-Germain. The one who just scored, Ramour, who was also a player who was abandoned by Liverpool, was instead recruited by Hall to Millwall. ”

Wenger couldn't figure it out even when he scratched his head.

Amateur league, the outcast of other clubs, and the gold rush of second-rate leagues.

This Nima, to put it mildly, is Aldrich's discernment. It's hard to hear, this guy is a strange thing that specializes in collecting scrap copper and rotten iron and turning waste into treasure!

Arsene Wenger has been a bit neurotic lately.

What he thinks about is how to improve his hematopoietic ability, but after wandering around the youth team for a month or two, he is really a little disheartened, no matter how fine the processing procedure is, but the texture of the material itself is not up to par, and the quality of the material is not up to par?

It's time to do big things with little money.

The Barcelona have recently seduced Overmars, and even Overmars himself has lamented the team's miserable experience of two Champions League cups in interviews and wants to change leagues to meet the challenge.

Wenger really can't sit still, but he has no confidence to keep people. It's impossible for the club to remain indifferent to the transfer fee, but the season isn't over yet. The league is going to fight for four, and the League Cup is also on the way to the semifinals, but there is a scandal in the team that the big general is leaving, no, it's not a scandal, it's true, Peter Pan Ovemas himself has already expressed his position.

Arsenal is very good, but Lao Tzu can't afford to wait for the Champions Cup!

Arsene Wenger is thinking about how to recruit more star seedlings, while Aldridge is thinking about how to accelerate the development of young players in the team.

Successful teams do not take the initiative to change, but must strengthen the stimulation of internal competition, through internal competition to maintain a high level of competitiveness and even self-improvement, this season AC Milan is a counterexample, after winning the championship last season, this season lack of internal strength supplements, it is more obvious in the league, Juventus and Lazio out of the championship group.

Aldridge looked inside the pitch with his chin propped up, wondering if he would be sending some players on loan to first-tier clubs next season.

Like Klose and Glen Char, they can stay in the team, and as long as the main team is injured, they can immediately go up.

But players like Vicente, Joaquín and Villa are no longer enough to gain enough experience in cup competitions.

Aldridge's biggest fear of the situation is that it is easy to go out on loan, and he is afraid that after the loan is gone, the player will not want to come back.

Klose scored twice in the second half, Van der Meyde scored a hat-trick of assists, and Millwall's substitutes won a hearty 4-0 victory.

However, the on-site commentator was merciless in lashing out at the two teams at the end of the game.

"Millwall, Arsenal, what the hell are you doing with the FA Cup, the oldest and most influential in England? This is the 1/4 finals, and everyone is looking forward to the two teams to stage a peak showdown, and as a result, the two teams tacitly sent a substitute lineup to play this peak matchup, the peak bench showdown! The FA should punish these two teams for their lack of respect for the FA Cup, for their lack of respect for the fans, for their lack of respect for all the spectators! ”

Aldridge certainly didn't know what the commentator said, he calmly shook hands with Wenger after the game, Wenger lost the game, it didn't seem to be affected too much, but there should be no shortage of loss, at least on the face.

It's not that they don't respect the FA Cup, before the 90s, the FA Cup did have a higher influence than League One, but in the Premier League era, how much did the FA Cup broadcast cost? How much is the bonus? Can I play in the Champions League to win the championship?

All teams should be pragmatic, to put it bluntly, they are on par with the money, and where there is more money, we will focus on it.

Aldridge was asked after the game about the commentator's anger, and he looked inexplicable.

"I'm not sleepwalking, am I? Millwall seemed to have won the game and advanced to the semi-finals. If we lose the game and hear someone accuse us, I think it's normal, but if we win, do we still have to be scolded? What is the rationale for this? ”

Aldrich scoffed at unfounded accusations.

There is only one truth on the football field: winning is everything.

Lao Tzu led the team to win the game, you should praise, criticize, and be embarrassed, because Lao Tzu won the game, so you can not buy it, get out!

The next day, the Lions fans cheered after Millwall's FA Cup semi-final opponents were revealed.

Good luck in the FA Cup.

The opponent in the semi-finals is Aston Villa!

With the FA Cup substitute battle over, Millwall's eyes turned once again to European competition.

In preparation for the second leg against Bayern Munich, Millwall has been secretive, refusing training interviews, as if they were going to conduct some secret experiments.

In the pre-match press conference of the Champions League, Aldridge also said that Millwall will try to end the suspense quickly at home, and he spoke loudly, with great bravado and confidence.

"We scored one goal for Bayern Munich, and Bayern Munich had to score three goals to bring the game back to the starting point! We go in two, Bayern Munich goes in four, we go in three"

"Ahem, Mr. Hall, we all understand what you're saying."

The reporters in the audience had to interrupt Aldrich, who was "declaring war" with his body movements.

Aldrich paused, and then said calmly: "Since you all know the way, then I have nothing to say, see you later." (To be continued......)