Southgate, who came to Millwall 11 years ago, was honorably "discharged" at the Lion King Stadium, and the retirement ceremony and follow-up activities held by Millwall officials for Southgate have become the focus of attention in European football and even in the recent world football.

I have to say that the momentum created by Millwall's blood has made the club very humane emotionally, rather than most fans who always turn their faces and don't recognize people in their hearts, and loyal veterans can't start and finish well in a club.

On June 3, on the plaza east of the Lion King Stadium, Southgate's bronze statue was unveiled, and his bronze statue will stand permanently in the Lion King Stadium for visitors to admire, learn and pay homage to the younger generation, the next generation and countless generations of new Lions members in the future.

Carter was a man behind the scenes, but Millwall's official series of events ended with widespread positive influence that allowed him to escape the shadow of Adam.

In the past, people would always say that Millwall's CEO was Aldrich's puppet, but now, people can feel Carter's sense of presence and influence in the club, and his contribution to moving the club forward.

Fleet Street portrays Carter as a careerist with a desire to devour the sky.

He described the new CEO's business plan as a strategy of "global domination in a green world".

Millwall was no longer satisfied with the home market for a long time, after all, the home market was largely in a state of near-saturation for a long time, and the unsaturated part. It's an emerging fan. Change slowly as the population grows.

Like Manchester United, after all. Fans of giants like Liverpool and Arsenal have a very traditional belief in their home country, and they will not change their course because Millwall has been suppressing other giants.

But the overseas market is different, the development of television broadcasting, especially the development of third world countries and regions, the improvement of life, there is a huge market waiting for others to occupy.

Millwall has established soccer schools or camps in more than 30 countries. And they are also investing money to build new "bases", using these as bases to radiate the countries or regions where they are located, and cultivate their own fan bases.

It's not just a high-profile statement: we have 50 million fans in Asia!

That kind of declaration is very empty, most of them are said to sponsors, not to be fooled, but in the end, it is to raise the bargaining chips, and now, Millwall is really trying to cultivate and attract more and more real fans, and once this kind of work comes to a qualitative change. The payoff will be immense.

At the same time, Millwall have also made frequent moves in the transfer market, establishing partnerships with other clubs. Some second-rate league clubs have directly become Millwall's satellite clubs, Millwall in less than three weeks, burned nearly 25 million pounds overseas, and sent a lot of work teams to communicate with those partner clubs, to teach Millwall youth training players successful experience, most of the money, is to buy young and talented players, but do not let players come to Millwall club, directly choose to go out on loan, have player ownership, the club needs in the future, If one of them agrees with the criteria, they can go straight back to the club, but if they can't meet Millwall's requirements, they can cash out and recoup their investment in due course.

Most of these are players born in '87, in the summer of '05, around the age of 18, which is in line with Millwall's investment philosophy.

For example, Fellaini, Mene in France's Four Little Swans, Germany's Khedira and so on.

Compared to the previous two seasons in the summer of Chelsea in the transfer market with a sweep of the boldness, the whole football world even the giants are no exception to everyone in danger, in the summer of 05, the situation of other families, Millwall does not know, but their situation is much better, much more stable than before.

Digging the foot of the wall will always be there, but Millwall's players have only been a year after the contract renewal last season, and it is extremely difficult to poach corners, plus they have just witnessed Southgate's retirement, which is also a baptism of thought for internal players, and considering the strength of Millwall's success in defending the double last season, no heavyweight player in the team has the idea of moving the nest.

Real Madrid president Florentino has been learning from past failures and focusing on strengthening the backline, but Millwall officials have rejected his intention to buy Ramos.

And then?

No then.

Yiqiē is very calm.

This says one thing, Ramos himself has no intention of moving back to Spain to play for Real Madrid after getting the news.

And Chelsea's tentative poaching again turned into a self-inflicted humiliation.

Even the unknown members of Millwall's youth team would not be interested in Chelsea's invitation, as if going to Chelsea was a black hole vortex that would sink and disappear in it.

Young players are a bit taboo about Chelsea, because in addition to having to bear the stigma of being a traitor, which is the psychological pressure that most of them can't bear now, on the other hand, it is difficult to see the day when Chelsea is coming out, even though they are rich, but the focus is on the green field, under the coaching of Mourinho, it is almost impossible to see Chelsea in the development of young players, Glen Johnson, who left Millwall, has become invisible in Chelsea, compared to the decline in appearance rate in the season when Eriksen was in charge.

The summer at Millwall went on and on, and in the Premier League, one event shook the world.

June 22nd.

Manchester United withdrawn from the London Stock Exchange!

June 28th.

The Glazer family, which owns more than 90% of the shares, launched a compulsory takeover, and Manchester United became the private ownership of the Glazer family on this day!

At the same time, Manchester United, the second richest football club in the world, became the most indebted club in the world overnight!

Of course, indebtedness and poverty are two different concepts.

In the capital market, it is normal for companies to have liabilities.

It is precisely because the Glazer family regards this investment as a capital game, so they can leverage the capital in a way that ordinary people do not understand, and complete this shocking acquisition, they are not collateralized by their own assets, and they themselves do not have the capital to acquire Manchester United with their own financial resources, but before the acquisition was successful, Manchester United was used as collateral, and successfully raised funds, and entered Old Trafford in Manchester in one fell swoop, and at the same time as the acquisition was completed, Manchester United also completed the mortgage, And saddled with sensational huge debts.

Manchester almost fell into a riot, and countless Red Devils fans protested against the entry of the Americans, clamoring for the Glazer family to get out!

Even the fan base has a tendency to split, because according to the tabloids, the club was bought this time, in which Ferguson played a role in fueling the flames, or he was suspected of leading the wolf into the house!

Of course, people who don't have back pain while standing and talking can say that it's normal for the club to be in debt, and there's no need to make a fuss.

However, objectively analyzed, Manchester United's profitability has not fluctuated much because of the entry of the Glazer family and the change of owners.

If there had been £150 million in operating income in the past year and a growth rate of 10%, then next season, Manchester United would have had £165 million in operating income, but if United need to pay off their debts, they have to come up with a part, say £30 million, then they will have £15 million less than last season.

At the heart of the matter is that the money from the sale of shares in Manchester United by the Edwards family and the other shareholders of Manchester United belongs to them.

The Glazer family did not use their own financial resources to fill this financial gap, but used mortgage loans, in other words, for a long time after that, Manchester United continued to repay the debt, just to let the Glazer family "justify" the crisis to own Manchester United.

In this process, due to the huge increase in debt expenditure, Manchester United's competitiveness will inevitably be affected, because European football has completely entered the era of capital!

Manchester United fans protested, on the one hand, out of the maintenance of tradition, most overseas fans don't really care about the identity of the owner, but the British do!

The traditional giants Manchester United have become the private property of the Americans!

This is unacceptable to the vast majority of local Manchester United fans, and this resentment definitely exceeds whether Chelsea fans care whether the owner is a Russian billionaire, after all, Abu is parachuted into Stamford Bridge as a savior, and the Glazer family is a vampire image portrayed by the tabloids to use Manchester United to make money!

On the other hand, it is very realistic.

Millwall has just completed the double defense of the league and Champions League, and the renewal is almost complete, and they are about to enter an era of incomparably strong!

Even without mentioning Millwall, even Chelsea in west London are already riding on Manchester United's head.

How can Manchester United fans not have a sense of crisis?

To improve the competitiveness of the club, of course, it costs money!

However, Manchester United became the most indebted football club in the world overnight!

How can you bear it?

Arsenal can bear it, they are building a new stadium, and after waiting for the completion of the new stadium, the financial revenue will improve significantly, and the future will be better and better, and there is a prospect of vigorous development.

But what about Manchester United?

Obviously it was a rich, very, very rich club, but in the past, the fans were fighting against the Edwards family!

Because Edwards is too stingy, when Manchester United is financially strong, when other clubs are burning money, Manchester United is not shabby, but there are few absolute big investments, one of which also made Ferguson's vision controversial, yes, it is the sky-high purchase of Veron, but last season's large investment to buy Rooney, but the average total investment per season, Manchester United's spending is not in line with their world status, especially in terms of financial resources.

In the past, there was money that was reluctant to spend it, but in the future, it may be that you want to spend it but you don't have a lot of money to spend. (To be continued......)