After traveling to the United States, Millwall officially announced the closure of the transfer market.

No more players will come, and no more players will leave.

Three players have gone, three players have come, and the entry and exit are balanced, and Millwall, after returning to Aldridge as the manager, has also returned to the form of the future of the player, unlike last summer, when Aldridge spent a lot of money to bring a world-class star like Nesta to the team.

The squad left over from last season is not a temporary lineup, but has great potential, and this summer has been dominated by steady dìng over.

The topic of rebuilding has been talked about since last summer, and now it is about achieving the goal in a down-to-earth manner, and the team has not changed much, there is a lot of turmoil, and it is reasonable.

Millwall is dominated by most of the veterans as the pillars, and the new generation of third-line successors is also ready, Ronaldo, Robben, Villa, Rooney, Ribery on the front line, Alonso in the midfield, De Rossi, Kaka, and Silva on the back line, Lahm, Baines, Ramos, and Ramos, insisting on nitpicking, and Joe Hart in the youth team in the goalkeeper position.

This trip to the United States, in addition to the warm-up games, there is also the cooperation and exchange between Millwall and several NBA clubs in the United States, which can be called keeping pace with the times, learning and exchanging professional knowledge, especially in physical training.

Just when Millwall's North American training was as scheduled, Milan City, Moratti's mansion, ushered in the arrival of an English football figure.

Abou and Moratti also know each other, and he came to Milan to ask Moratti for advice on how to run a club.

At least in Abu's view, Moratti is the closest person to him.

Abu doesn't like the Premier League's management model.

in Italy. A coach is a coach. The power is in the dressing room. The role of manager is filled by someone else and is controlled by the owner, whereas in the Premier League, the role of coach and manager is most of the time, and the more traditional the club, the clearer the delineation becomes.

Clubs like Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger, and a number of other English traditions. The club made a budget, the head coach made a decision, and for example, Liverpool was acquired by a foreign owner, which opened the curtain of "palace fighting" similar to Italy and Spain.

Now the outside world is waiting for Chelsea's defeat and Abu to be disgraced in the Premier League, as the Newcastle United boss said: "We have invested more than £200 million over the past few seasons, but our honour room is still empty, and Abou will soon understand that money cannot buy a title.

Abu was unimpressed. It ignores the old traditions of England.

It is understandable that he is psychological.

Buy a club and pay off your debts. There is also the renovation of the stadium and the revamping of the academy system, which he has spent almost 300 million pounds.

He saved a club.

He will come up with a huge transfer budget for the team.

And then, he was not allowed to meddle in the team's transfer operations?

What is the rationale for this?

Tradition?

To hell with tradition!

In this regard, Moratti is actually very similar to him, however, in Italy, Moratti is ridiculed at best for spending money wrongly, but no one will accuse him of spending money on his chosen players is wrong, this is the Italian tradition, just like AC Milan's Lao Bei If he specifies who to buy, and finally buys a parallel goods, the unlucky one must be that the coach is not good enough, and no one will accuse Lao Bei of spending money to force the team into a burden.

Moratti gave Abu a warm welcome and shared his experience at Inter Milan for many years.

At the end of the conversation, Abu suddenly asked, "Sir, there is something I don't quite understand, in my eyes, AC Milan and Inter Milan's mutual hatred should far surpass Chelsea and Millwall, however, AC Milan and Inter Milan have not blocked club transactions in recent years, and even, it seems to be very frequent, but in English football, if Chelsea wants to get Millwall's players, it will be a very low probability." ”

Abu deliberately used the word "frequent", because the club itself has two transfer periods in a season, the summer is the main one, and the winter is tinkering, and it is impossible for a team to buy and sell 10 people this year and 10 people next year, on average, 2-4 transactions in a season are about the same, no matter more, it can only mean that the team has been unstable for a long time!

It is in this context that if you can trade with each other 3 times in 5 years, it can be called frequent, after all, there are too many teams in European football, even if the top teams are counted with one hand, but after all, this market is huge to the global scope.

Moratti smiled and played: "Didn't Chelsea just get a Millwall player? ”

Abu frowned lightly and said lightly: "To be honest, this deal, I just threw stones to ask for directions, and made a trial to see if things are absolute." ”

Abu was ridiculed by the outside world as a wronged leader, but the outside world did not understand Abu's attitude towards Millwall's side.

He wants Thierry Henry, Ronaldo, Cristiano Ronaldo, Nedved, Nesta, Ashley Cole.

But Andrew, the agent of most of the players, directly told him an answer: impossible.

Abu thought it was a question of commission, but given his friendship, he could only ask vaguely, but Andrew told him indifferently: "You can try to make an offer, no matter how much you offer, Millwall will not agree, unless you offer a price that is not only crazy, but will make you laugh at the whole world for ten or twenty years." ”

For example, if he buys Thierry Henry for £200 million, and then gives Henry a contract that is absolutely hard to refuse, then why don't Millwall sell the player?

The premise is that Thierry Henry will be impressed, and secondly, Millwall FC will not be blinded by emotion, 200 million pounds, which will allow them to lay a more solid future, in the eyes of the club, no player is indispensable, the most important thing is only profit and loss considerations.

At this time, basically more than 100 million pounds, plus contract expenses, Chelsea really dare to make such a deal, except that the fans will be shocked. Adore. 鄙shì and so on and crazy. But the vast majority of people in the real football community will laugh at Chelsea.

Why?

How much does Chelsea earn in a year?

They may have had a player at the cost of three or four years of gross earnings, not thinking about the impact such a detached player would have on the dressing room, and the financial horror deficit alone has entrenched the impression that Chelsea are toys in the hands of the rich.

Abu didn't really care about Glen Johnson's arrival, because the kid was a nobody, not in the list of reinforcements he had drawn up at all, but the team did need full-backs, so he threw a stone and tried to knock on Millwall's door. 5 million pounds was rejected, Abu directly doubled and then offered, but Millwall agreed.

But then, he tried to make an offer for Ronaldo and Nesta, offering 30 million pounds for the former and 40 million pounds for the latter, all of which were directly rejected by Millwall without exception.

Millwall did not publicize it because the team had to prepare for the game and did not want the players in the team to appear in the soap opera of transfer news again.

Abu didn't understand.

In his opinion. In the football circle, how can there be any old and dead relations between clubs?

Real Madrid and Barcelona do not have the same turnover of players. Enrique's defection to the Camp Nou, Figo's move to the Bernabeu, AC Milan and Inter Milan were in a fair and easy player deal, and Millwall was also poached from bitter rivals West Ham United.

What can't you do here at Chelsea?

Moratti saw Abu with a tangled face and sighed: "What Chelsea bought from Millwall, to explain in cold words, is garbage in Millwall's eyes. So, you can take that player, but a few days ago you heard that Klose was negotiating with Bayern Munich to make a £20 million offer and didn't get any response from Millwall, why? Because Klose is not garbage, he is a quality product. Inter Milan and AC Milan do have a deal to save zài, but we will never give our main players, the players in the plan to each other, even if we can't keep them, we will not give them to mortal enemies, but if it is an insignificant little person, where he likes to go, interests will be considered first. In other words, Millwall sells you players that you can buy elsewhere and may be cheaper, and they make that money, and who suffers? And, they sell you little people, give you 11 of these little people, what if Chelsea has money? Competitive in front of Millwall? Is it a level? ”

After Moratti finished speaking, he sighed again in his heart.

Millwall is a hot talent pool for the entire European giants, and it would have been difficult for such a club to survive.

Because the European powers will divide and dismember them before they rise completely!

Just like Ajax, who claimed to rule the next decade of football.

With Millwall, the European giants did the same.

In the summer of '98, half of Millwall's main team was divided, according to the expected development, even if Millwall will not collapse, but as long as the results are frustrated, they will basically be fixed in the grade of the first-class teams in European football, because they will not be able to continue to have most of the top players for a long time! Can't maintain a stable top lineup!

However, Aldridge, who lost the league championship in 98, regained the league championship in the new season after losing half of the team's main team, and the Champions League only fell in the penalty shootout in Munich, which was the semi-final.

That season should be the most critical season for Millwall to really take off and be at the fork in the road of fate!

If they fail, there will be no subsequent dynasty.

But they succeeded, gave the players confidence, and the outside world began to redefine them, and for the next three seasons, the league and the Champions League were monopolized at the same time, which made Millwall completely sit in the position of a giant, which is difficult to shake.

This is exactly what Aldridge is great in the eyes of European football people.

Now, world-class players will be interested in an offer from Millwall, who can also have top players for a long time.

In the past, it was impossible to keep people.

Now, it is the elimination of the team's internal competition, or the "untimely" talent of the same period who has to leave Millwall.

They are even more confident than the average giant, and it is also because of Aldridge's survival, because the players are hungry for honor and know that under this young coach, they have the best hope of reaching the height of legend!

Like the England international Frank Lampard who Inter Milan just welcomed this summer, if Millwall has room for him to take the position, he will never leave the Apennines, although in a sense he is also leaving, which Millwall hopes to keep, but compared to the injury after being poached in the past, Lampard's departure will not even make Millwall frown.

Abu was still a little unwilling, and broke the casserole to ask the end.

"What if I want to make a splash? What about running a transfer like Figo? Was Millwall also indifferent? Will they have a lot of choices? ”

Moratti smiled bitterly and shook his head: "You haven't understood Millwall's attitude, Millwall itself is contemptuous of Chelsea, they don't care if you take some waste, like, if AC Milan take a reserve team mediocrity from here, I will gladly agree and humiliate them after receiving AC Milan's check." But if AC Milan wants to compete with Real Madrid for Ronaldo, even if it is a higher bid than Real Madrid, I will not agree, because the outcome will be the opposite, and after the moment I receive the check, AC Milan will laugh at me, and all AC Milan people will use this as a victory to hit Inter Milan. Therefore, no one will discuss whether Real Madrid is worth the money spent on Figo, only the ridicule of Real Madrid members for Barcelona's victory, and Barcelona's humiliation and anger. If you want Millwall to have the next Figo, you have to do at least two things, firstly, Chelsea deserve a star of Figo's calibre, and secondly, Chelsea have a special appeal than Millwall. ”

Abu pondered that the last two points were the key points.

To put it bluntly, Chelsea is substantially competitive, as for the special attraction, everyone is in London, and it is too far-fetched to insist on the geographical location or something, and the only special place may only be money. (To be continued......)