Millwall travel to Monaco for the UEFA Super Cup at the weekend, which began with a single-game tie-off and was played before the start of the new European competition, returning to the tradition of playing the game as a continuation and end of last season's European competition.

Therefore, Millwall chose to play the third round of the league in midweek instead of their UEFA Super Cup opponents Chelsea, who adjusted the game time to December to make up the match, after all, their opponents are Manchester United, if they play Manchester United in midweek and Millwall at the weekend, it will be the devil's schedule.

But Millwall can't adjust their schedule like that, they still have to go to the Toyota Cup in the winter, and they can't compress the game into the time frame of the Premier League.

Prior to his visit to Coventry, Aldridge received feedback from Barnett.

Cameron found it, and the intervention time is very good, because the other party has lost the election in the past two years last year, and it is not a career trough, but it has not yet reached the stage of soaring, and it is definitely the best time to get in a relationship at this time.

Merkel on the German side also found it, because the other party is a female politician who is more conspicuous, and her party has just lost the election, which is also a good opportunity.

As for Obama, he is already a governor in the United States, and Barnett asked partners in the United States to focus on funding Obama's career, but everyone is skeptical, because Obama is a black man, and in these years, women's participation in politics and black participation in politics is not a new thing, but when it comes to the position of supreme leader, not many people dare to believe it.

Aldridge didn't say anything about it, it was up to man to make things happen, and he didn't want to get involved too much in this kind of thing. That would make you tired.

Schneider wants to invest in red wine. It just so happened that Larson and Nedved also had a hobby of collecting wine. In addition to these three people, Schneider also brought in compatriots Bout and Klose, plus Sothgate and Makelele, the seven of them heard that they invested almost two million pounds, Klose did not have that much money, Schneider generously lent him it. Schneider has confidence in Klose and believes that he will have no problem making millions of pounds a year in the future.

Originally, Schneider also asked Aldridge to participate in the shares, but Aldridge politely refused, he did not want to have a relationship of interest with the players other than football, and besides, his account was used to make a portfolio in the financial market except for three million pounds for expenses and emergency purposes, and it was also entrusted to Barnett's company to manage.

On the day Villas-Boas reported to the club, Millwall was preparing to travel for an away game and Aldridge had just attended the pre-match press conference. At the door of the office, Boas, who was dressed in a suit and leather shoes, looked serious.

"Hello."

Aldridge formally shook hands with the other side, and Boas was only a year younger than him. But Boas clearly admired Aldrich, and after holding Aldrich's hand, he became nervous, and did not even let go of Aldrich's hand for a while.

When Aldridge smiled and looked at his hand, Boas was embarrassed and hurriedly sent away.

Pushing open the door of the office, Aldrich stretched out his hand and said, "Come in and sit down, although you were recommended by Bobby, I didn't hire you for the sake of his face, I hope you can show your skills so that I can trust you." ”

Boas followed Aldrich into his office, surveyed the layout, and his eyes swept away when he saw five family portraits of Millwall on the wall and a new framed photo in the row below.

In the new season, Aldridge has two more photo frames in his office, one is a family photo of the new season, and the other is a group photo of the whole team of Millwall in last season's Champions League final.

These are simply symbols of the history of Millwall during the Aldridge era, and when you look at these photos, you naturally think of the accolades that this team has won.

Aldrich poured him a glass of water and placed it on the coffee table of the receptionist, while Boas sat on the single sofa and Aldrich sat on the couch, and he asked straight to the point: "What kind of work did you do with Bobby before?" ”

As soon as Boas picked up the water glass, he immediately put it down again, and hurriedly said: "I am responsible for collecting intelligence, observing the opponent's players, analyzing their personal characteristics, team technical and tactical style, strengths, weaknesses, and then sorting out this information and handing it over to the coaching staff." ”

Aldridge nodded unsurprisingly, which is what Boas does best.

When Mourinho was at the helm of Chelsea, the outside world dug deep into the reasons for his success, one of which caused a sensation when it was later revealed, that is, an intelligence report by Villas-Boas, which was about 20 pages long, and made a comprehensive analysis of the opponent, and the opponent was only a team in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League, which shows how serious his work attitude is, and having such people work for the team is the guarantee of a team's success, although the outside world usually does not pay attention to such people.

Although he admired Boas's work attitude and ability, Aldrich said: "But in the work of intelligence gathering, Millwall has five such intelligence officers. ”

He gestured to the other party with a slap, when he first took charge of the team, there were only three people in the intelligence work, from collection to analysis, and the whole process of submitting the first team's tactical conference room, these three people were completed, and then the team played many games, and also expanded such workers, and now there are five people just collecting intelligence, two of them are responsible for foreign intelligence, like Millwall played the Champions League last season, and a month before the game, such intelligence officers appeared in the stands of the opponent's team games in a row, observing the opponent's state and style of play on the spot, technical and tactical characteristics, and so on.

Villas-Boas immediately said eagerly: "I can also build a database of players for the team, which is what I am good at, so that in the game, if the opponent uses an unfamiliar player, my intelligence can provide the most direct help to the team on the field." ”

Aldrich spread his hands and said, "But we also have such a database. ”

Boaston looked stunned, as if his merits were not special here at Millwall.

Player database. Lots of clubs and coaches private. Both.

Villas-Boas's player database information. In what came to be known as the database of any professional football organization in the world, it was more detailed than the database of any professional football organization in the world, and if he was not a coach, he could have worked for a professional football organization or compiled data for a football game company.

Aldridge didn't want to hit the other party, he looked at Boas, who had nothing to say, smiled and asked, "Did you come to Millwall just to be an intelligence officer?" ”

Boas was silent for a moment and then said astringently: "No, I want to learn to be a coach, but I always have to contribute first." to be able to study here. ”

Aldridge said: "Well, you join the club, you don't need to collect intelligence, but after the club's intelligence information is sorted out and submitted to the first team, you look at it first, and if you think there are deficiencies, or areas that can be improved, then you can bring it up and help the club's intelligence collection work to be more perfect, and after you get acquainted with it." Also helps to be responsible for updating the player database, most rearly. In the first team's training, you can be responsible for the individual training sessions. ”

Boas didn't react for three seconds, and then asked, "You, did you hire me?" ”

Aldridge nodded with a smile and said frankly: "If you want to be a coach, then of course you have to start with the simplest coaching work, if I let you do the work you were good at before, when will you achieve your ideals?" ”

Boas's heart was greatly moved, and he repeatedly promised that he would do all the work well, and Aldrich stood up and shook hands with the other party again, a little bit of encouragement.

Villas-Boas wanted to go with the team to watch the team play away after completing the induction process, and Aldridge readily agreed, and the enthusiasm for the work was a positive element.

Being young has never been a problem for Millwall.

In the game against Coventry, Millwall played a new formation, 442, or 4411.

Aldridge had to change the team's formation and play because the medical department gave him a bad message.

Andrea Pirlo is out for three months due to injury, while Larsson is even longer, four months.

It was announced that the two main forces bid farewell to 1998

Away from home, Coventry's tactics were simple, which was to play defensive counter-attack, and they knocked down the strong Chelsea in their opening game, only to beat Nottingham Forest in the second round, and lost by a goal by one goal, returning to their home stadium to face Millwall, who had just beaten Manchester United, Coventry shrank again and ran for a draw.

Their conservative timing is very appropriate, it just so happened that Millwall's two main players were out due to injury, the attacking power was sharply reduced, and Aldridge changed the formation of the play, this game used Frank Lampard and Makelele two midfielders, a midfielder, the attack relies on two wing-backs, Ronaldo and Glen Char, and the front line is partnered with Ruud van Nistelrooy and Nedved, Nedved is more like a shadow striker.

The team's defence was fine, but the attack was not as good as it could be, especially in the attacking battles, and the efficiency of the attacking back stages was low, with Millwall and Coventry City stunted to a point in 90 minutes.

Practicing new formations and tactics, always have to pay the price of the game, if you don't practice, you can't see the problem of playing a weak team, if you play a strong team, Millwall's summer blood change plus the main force is injured, and then use the unrestrained 433, it will definitely not be able to play the previous effect.

After the early third round of the league, Millwall headed for Monaco, while Aldridge went to Switzerland to participate in the Champions League group stage draw.

At the same time, Millwall submitted an application to the FA to hire Klinsmann as an assistant coach of the team, but Klinsmann did not have a coaching certificate, hoping that the FA would be accommodating.

Jurgen Klinsmann is an old acquaintance of the Premier League, and the FA also needs more internationally renowned football figures to come to England, and Millwall is not embarrassed at this point.

Prior to the Champions League group stage draw, the FA had approved Millwall's application.

The incident left two other clubs in London extremely depressed.

Tottenham were one of them, with Jurgen Klinsmann moving to Millwall after leaving White Hart Lane.

Arsenal is the second, Dane hopes that Arsenal will also rent Wembley for the Champions League, Highbury only has a capacity of 30,000, which is enough for the Champions League in terms of specifications, but the money is less, if you can go to Wembley, the ticket revenue will at least double, plus the attention of the game at Wembley, it can also play a great role in the promotion of the club, Millwall's influence has increased rapidly, and playing European games at Wembley is an obvious factor.

However, the FA rejected Arsenal's application.

Wembley has been loaned to Millwall, the partnership between the two parties is also good, the FA makes money, Millwall also makes money, and also contributes to the improvement of English football in Europe, the Champions League will be expanded next season, and Millwall earned points for the Premier League just last season's unbeaten title.

If you lend it to Arsenal again, the FA will have to terminate the loan agreement with Millwall, otherwise, will the FA still go to UEFA to negotiate that they should not schedule Arsenal's schedule with Millwall's schedule on the same day? Or will the home and away games be staggered?

Originally, there was nothing to do, but the FA rejected Arsenal because they didn't want to find trouble. (To be continued......)