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The club's recruitment is still ongoing, Aldridge has been following a lot of young players through Andrew's agency's scouting network, this database is very large in Andrew's company, and for others, even if they get these data, it is not particularly useful, because there are too many players, one by one can not be examined, but Aldridge has a bottom in his heart after reading the information.

Early in the morning, the weather was a little hot, Aldrich and Evan were jogging in the park, and when the jogging was over, the two rested against the fence by the Thames, Evan handed Aldrich her handkerchief that had just wiped her sweat to Aldrich, Aldrich hesitated, but still took it, and wiped the sweat on his face naturally.

Before he did it, he didn't hesitate at all, but after some things were clarified, he felt weird in his heart.

Even if the two of them play together this summer, they are inseparable from each other, and it seems that there is nothing to be embarrassed about, after all, they are too familiar.

"The club runs around Asia, doesn't it affect the new season?"

Evan asked, a little worried.

Aldridge breathed a sigh of relief and said lightly: "No way, commercial development sometimes requires the team to make some sacrifices, and if you don't take advantage of the momentum of winning the Champions League to gain popularity, you may not be able to achieve the best results if you have to rearrange the time in the future." ”

If purely from the perspective of competitive factors, Aldridge does not support the team's summer preparations to go to Asia, and the time difference has affected the players and distracted them from business activities. This is not a good factor for the new season, however, from the club's long-term point of view, to expand business channels and the club's international influence, this is the only way, and the opportunity is also very rare, the team has just won the Champions League, the new era of rapid development of media communication, this time to open up the market, is the best time to catch up with the popularity of the giants.

Evan smiled at him and said, "Do you need me to accompany you?" ”

Aldrich said without looking back, "Excuse me." I've heard that I'm not low in Asia. ”

Millwall FC embarked on a swift trip to Asia in late July. The new European champions will be in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Guangzhou. Singapore played five friendlies. The average stay in each place is two days. Although Millwall lost a lot of key players in the summer, there were players such as Larsson and Nedved to press the lineup. Coupled with Aldridge, a new generation of football alternative idol who is already very popular, Millwall detonated the enthusiasm of the whole city when he arrived at the Tokyo airport, and the sight of thousands of empty alleys frightened European players who had never been to Asia: they thought the Japanese were crazy!

Although the friendly match is the first and the second match, Millwall's strength is strong, especially their skills and physical advantages, five consecutive friendly matches, in the case of not playing hard, achieved five consecutive wins, Aldridge continued the old habit, replaced the whole team of 11 in the second half, and took this opportunity to also inspect the state of the players.

The Asia Tour is actually a money-making process, on the one hand, promoting the club to attract fans, and on the other hand, reaching cooperation agreements directly with sponsors.

However, some of the sponsors really left Aldrich speechless.

Big business in Japan and South Korea wants to help their players land in the Premier League by sponsoring Millwall, and they pay transfer fees and salaries as long as they can wear Millwall shirts.

Faced with such an offer, Aldridge did not hesitate to refuse directly, although it would allow Millwall to increase his income and add an idle person to the team, but it would smash the signboard and make Millwall under fire and a slave to money.

Back in London, it was already early August, the new Premier League season kicks off on 14 August, and Millwall don't have to play in the Community Shield, just waiting for the league to start.

Aldridge checks in his office on the progress of the team's recruitment.

The club's work team brought back Viana from Portugal and three from France, except for Le Tale who belonged to the category of injured Zhongyong, the other two were all well-known figures in the future, the first was the monster Drogba, the 20-year-old Drogba showed his talent early unlike other stars, but he was not a late bloomer, until the age of 20, he was in a state of "playing around", until the age of 20, he began to really realize that he had to make a living by playing football, When Millwall's team offered him an offer and a contract, he readily agreed, as he had tried out for a number of big clubs in France, only to be turned away.

The other is 17-year-old Patrice Evra.

From the German amateur side, Millwall brought back defender Christopher Metzeld, who is about to turn 18, and midfielder Hanno Balic, who is 17.

Two Spaniards returned home in the summer, with Millwall bringing back a younger player from Spain, 17-year-old Joaquin Sanchez Rodriguez.

Aldridge was going to go around the youth team and pick a few substitutes to join the first team, but as soon as he walked out of the office door, he saw Gudjohnsen standing in the doorway with a hesitant look on his face.

"Something?"

Aldrich asked curiously, during the trip to Asia, Goodjohnsen seemed preoccupied, Aldrich didn't care, he was not the kind of person who had to ask everything.

Goodjohnsen nodded heavily, as if with great determination.

Aldridge turned around and walked back into his office, and when Goodjohnsen sat down, Aldrich walked back behind his desk and waited for the other party to speak.

"Boss, I'll still be a substitute in the new season, right?"

Hearing such a question, Aldridge sighed in his heart, in fact, he hoped that these players would have no thoughts and just be puppets.

He nodded and said: "Yes, although I don't want to say that, but you are not the number one choice in the offensive foursome, but you have potential, at least you have a better understanding with your teammates, then, you have the strength to compete for the main position, you need to be patient." ”

Gudjohnsen was silent for a moment before he said: "But I think more games have allowed me to continue to improve. ”

Aldridge was deep in thought, and the shortcomings of the team's young squad were also reflected.

There is no hope for the young substitutes!

At least Goodjohnsen was with Larson. Xiao Luo, Vanney has no advantage in the competition, even if his personal ability is reached, tacit understanding is also a problem.

These main players are young, how many years does he have to stay up before he can get ahead?

That's where Barak's departure began.

Aldrich was also free and easy, and asked softly, "Have you made up your mind?" ”

Goodjohnsen nodded.

"Okay, I agree with your transfer, the club will put you on the list, in the future, good luck."

Aldrich stood up and shook hands formally. Goodjohnsen took Aldrich's right hand with both hands. He said in a deep voice: "Boss, although I have only been here for a year, I am very grateful for your help to me. ”

Aldrich smiled and shook his head.

Gratitude, gratitude. Grateful. He was appreciated by a number of players. But that's not what he wants

On the contrary, if the other party can stay, Aldrich will be grateful to the other party in his heart. Just like Glen Shire, he listened to Aldridge's advice, played consistently every season, and worked hard once he was on the pitch.

On the night Gudjohnsen was thrust into the market, Aldrich got another piece of bad news.

Millwall's team approached Red Star Belgrade for a young player, Nemanja Vidic, and the club agreed to let him go, but the player refused.

The other party will certainly not get a labor certificate, and Aldridge will not be able to apply for a genius clause for a defender, so if the FA were to pass, the back door would be too open.

Millwall's proposal was to bring them in, then send them on loan to Belgium, and three years later Vidic would get an EU passport and then return to Millwall.

But Vidic did not accept such an arrangement.

Aldridge didn't have too much loss in his heart, he missed it, and if he still had a chance to win the other party in the future.

The next day, when Aldridge appeared on the sidelines of the youth team's training ground, the atmosphere of the entire training ground changed, and the young players worked hard as if they were playing chicken blood.

Najib joked to Aldridge: "Why don't you be the head coach of the youth team part-time?" ”

Aldridge has the squad in mind for the new season.

Now he doesn't have to pile up too many players to enter the first team, because the age of the current main players has gone up, the rotation does not need to be too frequent, and he can definitely play more games than he did two or three years ago.

Basically, there are rotations in every position, and unless there is a large number of injuries, a 23 or 24-man squad is enough for a season.

Aldridge turned to Najib and said, "Call Ashley over." ”

Nagy turned to his assistant not far away, and Ashley Cole, who was on the pitch doing a roundabout run with his team-mates, was called alone.

Coming to Aldridge, Ashley Cole smiled excitedly.

"What are you laughing at?"

Aldrich thought it strange.

Ashley Cole said, "Boss, you're telling me to go to the first team, right?" ”

"Huh? How do you know the way? ”

"Because there's a shortage of people in the first team."

Aldridge pouted, Capdevilla's transfer undoubtedly made Ashley Cole happy, the same thing is not uncommon in the club, Trezeguet and Shevchenko transfers, who is the happiest? Fanny!

'You're going to be in the first-team squad for the new season, training with the first team, and if you can't get in the squad for the game, you're going to play in the reserves, don't get too happy.'

Ashley Cole nodded hurriedly when he heard this, and he turned his head and made a covert grimace at Joe Cole and David Villa, as if showing off.

Joe Cole and Villa both gave him the middle finger in the back of their hearts.

Grass, if it weren't for our young age, we would have gone to the first team a long time ago!

Aldridge then called Paolo Ferreira in front of him and also informed him of his entry into the first team for the new season.

He does not plan to draw a central defender from the youth team, because the central defender needs to be physically strong, and the outstanding young players of the central defender who are under the age of 18 must go through a process of grinding, and Mills of the first team is weak in attack and strong in defense, let him play Schneider as a substitute, the offensive power will be greatly reduced, and it is no problem to let him play as a cameo central defender when needed, plus there is a jack-of-all-trades Neil can also play central defender, after Elguera leaves, there will be no shortage of people in the central defender position.

Aldridge was pacing back and forth on the sidelines, Ferreira and Cole were talking, they were already excited at the moment, and the other players were staring at them with envy and hatred, hoping that Aldridge would name him.

Aldridge is calculating, the midfielder is not counting the midfield position, there are still four players, Gattuso and Lampard play as substitutes, there is no need to make extra additions, Nedved's position, do you need to be substituted?

If the Czech Iron Man hadn't rotated, he would have been able to hold on.

Aldridge finally shook his head, forget it, Xiao Luo can also play in that position, occasionally change tactics, and don't have a forward midfielder when rotating.

Gudjohnsen, who was originally planned to be in the front line, is leaving, and there are many clubs that want to buy him, the key is how he chooses, and he will definitely go.

Aldridge suddenly looked up and asked Najib, "What happened to that Ramour?" ”

What has become of the former Liverpool prodigy who has been in Millwall for a year? (To be continued......)