Ahead of the club's training day on the 21st, Aldridge hosted Jensen and his party from the Netherlands in London, with a total of thirteen new coaches set to join Millwall.

Aldridge took the group on a tour of the club, and then established a new team of club coaches, two new youth team coaches, two reserve team coaches, and the remaining nine people, Jenson was Aldridge's assistant coach, the first team coach left four more people, and four people formed the intelligence team.

This group is dedicated to observing the team's opponents in the league, studying the opponents for the next game, including the form of the opponent's players, the technical and tactical advantages and disadvantages on the field, and Aldridge must receive such a report at least three days before the start of the game.

After settling in the coaching staff, Aldridge was in a converted hotel not far from the team's training grounds, accompanied by Adam and other club staff.

The hotel was bought in the name of the club, and it will no longer be open to the public, with a simple interior decoration, mainly because Aldrich has all the facilities he needs, and the team's new medical department and restaurant are in the hotel.

Even in '94, it's hard to imagine the disdain for medical care in English football, where many of the traditional and powerful team doctors, or athletic trainers, are mostly a loyal reward given by the club to their staff for years of service.

Even as a fan, who could have imagined that a turf manager would become the "team doctor" of a top team when he got older?

This is naturally related to the consistent conservative style of football clubs.

Redknapp Jr., who later played for the Reds for ten years, was abandoned by the team, but because he couldn't stand the team's "quacks" and chose to go out for medical treatment by himself, this behavior is "deviant" for traditional English football clubs, and therefore, the ten-year hero was abandoned and left gloomily.

Aldridge doesn't have the conservative nature of an English club, and he doesn't have the intention of fitting into the wrong traditions, he needs the most advanced and professional medical department to ensure the health of players who are worth millions of pounds or millions of pounds now and in the future!

It's unthinkable to put millions of pounds worth of players in the hands of people who don't even count as quacks, but it's still a commonplace phenomenon in English football.

After touring the hotel, Aldridge left Adam to talk about the future of the team, and although everything was empty until the results were announced, he needed to give Adam a wake-up call.

"I looked at the situation of the new stadium that was shelved for construction, and I had an idea, the stadium has not yet taken shape, it is better to transform it into a new training base, and the new stadium is looking for another place, and the construction scale should be at least 50,000 people, and the surrounding area should be able to drive commercial development."

Aldridge's words made Adam unable to continue, and he could only helplessly say to the young owner: "Sir, I have made a financial budget, to be honest, at present, we do not carry out any plans to build extraneously, maintain the current operation of the team, at most two years, the current team funds can only maintain the operation of the team for two years, even if it is promoted to the Super League in two years, we still can't operate, of course, if the Hall family will have follow-up capital injection, everything is another matter." ”

Aldrich raised his head and pondered when he heard this, but he was still in a hurry.

The current salary level of the team is already that of the top teams in the Premier League.

Although the Premier League has the highest weekly salary of tens of thousands of pounds, but more players are only a few thousand pounds, most of them are not even a thousand pounds, overall, Aldridge's first-team players, plus more than a dozen players who have not been sold to stay in the reserve team, the salary burden in a year is probably in the top ten in England, and Millwall's ability to make money is certainly not one-tenth of Manchester United.

Relying only on selling tickets, that small stadium may not even have an income of 3 million pounds in a year, and as for football peripheral sales, even East London can't get out of the sales channel, how much money can you expect to make?

Television broadcasts, match bonuses, which are pitifully rare in League One.

So, Aldrich was left with only one way out.

It's not even like he said to Barnett before, he only has one year in three to five years, and if he can't be promoted next season, he will not only lose top players like Makelele, Thuram, Larsson, and Nedved with zero returns, but I am afraid that he will not even have the funds to make a comeback.

Aldridge didn't talk to Adam about any plans for the future in the end, and it would be too ambitious to talk about it, so let's wait until this time next year.

Andrew has been very busy in recent days, he has left Millwall FC to concentrate on working as an agent, signing a lot of players in one go, these are also new players at Millwall, as an agent, he has been well versed in the responsibilities of this industry, not only to extract player transfer income and salary commission, but also to provide players with legal obligations, financial management, life, and future planning.

These players are not well-known in England, even Southgate, is still just a standard quality player, Andrew and his staff are busy in East London, fortunately, the Hall family invests here, and it is very convenient to deal with some real estate developers, for these new players to arrange comfortable apartments, for players who do not understand English with translators, as long as the players need it, even if it is a call girl, Andrew will help arrange it after a warning.

With Andrew's meticulous help, many young players who have made "big money" have begun to feel the benefits of their agents.

The World Cup had just ended, but Larsson did not return to the team according to the date after Aldridge's extended holiday, and on the 21st, the player who is admired by the young players appeared on the team's training ground.

Aldridge's team can be said to be newly formed, but no one feels lonely, German players have Bout, Schneider, Ballack, the Netherlands and Ruud van Nistelrooy and Larsson transferred from the Eredivisie, several young players in Italy will not feel lonely, but Nedved from Eastern Europe may have difficulty integrating into the team, but because he is already a member of the national team, plus he is gentle, there are many players around him.

Aldridge walked towards the training ground with the coaching staff, who, like the other coaches, wore the club's traditional dark blue tracksuit.

Andrew was in a suit and leather at Aldridge's side, and he was here just to complete some work with Aldridge, and there were a few interpreters to be assigned to the coaching staff to help the players in the team who did not speak English to quickly integrate into the team environment.

"Is it going well on the FA's side?"

"Well, Pavel is already a member of the national team, and he doesn't need to invite celebrities to be lobbyists, he submitted the materials plus 100,000 pounds, everything is done, rest assured, there are no traces left, as long as Pavel performs well, no one will look through the old case."

Andrew whispered in Aldrich's ear.

Aldridge put his mind at ease, Nedved does not have an EU passport, so he needs a labor certificate to transfer to England, although he is a member of the national team, but the appearance record obviously does not meet, but in fact, the 75% appearance standard is not rigid, there is a lot of room for flexibility, and now there are countless tacit black gold in English football, Aldridge submits materials to the FA at the same time, let Andrew operate from the side, and it is a matter of course.

If Nedved were a youth player, even if he had more black and gold, it would be difficult to transfer, but after all, he was a member of the national team and had a great future, even if Czechoslovakia broke up two years ago. But Aldridge believes that it was Andrew's £100,000 black gold that played a key role, and that Millwall's small temple was a negative profile for the entire English football scene, with no attraction to pay attention to on the pitch.

Naturally, no one cares about the players they bring in.

Before walking into the training ground, Andrew said a few words to the interpreters and waved goodbye to Aldrich.

Seeing Aldridge coming with a group of people wearing coaching shirts, the players on the training ground automatically stood in two rows, many of them are still 17 or 18-year-old young players, full of hope for the future, but not arrogant, facing the young head coach and owner, each with respect.

It's a bit like a gang fight, Aldridge brought the coaches to the players, and the coaches behind him also fought in a row, Aldridge stood alone in front of him like a leader, his face was calm, and for the first time he met the whole team collectively, Aldridge needed a unique opening statement.

He walked from the left to the right of the two rows of players as if he were the head of a parade, making eye contact with each player with a calm expression and nodding slightly.

After the lap, Aldridge came directly in front of the players and spoke softly.

"Millwall has a 109-year history, and in those 109 years of history.

English top flight champions: zero.

English League Cup: nil.

FA Cup: Zero.

Moreover, he has never participated in the three major European cups.

Congratulations on coming to a club with a 100-year-old history and zero champions! ”

Aldridge's words were very light and slow, only the last sentence was said in a very solemn tone, and he deliberately used the simplest English to make it understandable to the players in the team who had just learned English.

Of the 26 first-team members, only David Beckham and Phil Neville were absent-minded, who had come on loan to work out and naturally looked down on a club that had not won a title for a century and had a bad reputation.

But the other 24 players looked different, with the young players looking at each other as if they realised what kind of club Millwall was.

Aldrich suddenly solemnly stretched out his hands and asked, "Aren't you happy?" ”

The players are stupid.

What the is there to be happy about?!