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As the reigning Premier League champions, Millwall's summer signings have naturally received a lot of attention.

But judging from the recruitment process announced by the club, the Lions fans are numb.

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Thinking back to how beautiful Aldridge was when he first took charge of the team, the League One team became the team with the highest transfer expenditure in England that summer, and more than 10 million pounds were thrown away, which was very inspiring.

But in the next two years, either only two or three people will be bought, or there will be zero investment in the transfer market, looking at this year's defending champions, the finances are also abundant, after all, the new Premier League broadcast contract share has risen sharply, plus the team is going to play the Champions League, the financial resources are rolling, not to mention the huge amount of money that Stamm and Phillips contributed to the club after the departure of 18 million pounds.

No one thought that Millwall, who had little money, would spend less than £3 million on first-team transfers in the summer!

Duff for 2 million, Gudjohnsen for free, Van der Meyde for free, Klose for £100,000.

If Aldridge is the new takeover of this team, he will definitely be scolded by the fans.

However, everyone seems to be used to living like this, and in the media street interviews, the fans reacted lightly, neither disappointed nor satisfied with the club's recruitment work.

At the press conference, reporters chased Aldridge fiercely. I would like to request more news materials.

The Daily Mail's Richard asked bluntly: "Will Millwall bring in players next?" ”

In fact, Millwall brought in quite a few players in the summer. But they all went to the youth team to report. This kind of recruitment, Fleet Street does not pay attention to at all, teams all over England will replenish the youth team in the summer, there are too many young faces coming and going, who is interested in caring about these "children"? Unless it's a young player who has performed exceptionally well in the Youth League and FA Youth Cup that season, it will make extra headlines in the mainstream newspapers.

Aldridge leaned back in his chair and said calmly: "Millwall's transfer door for this season has officially closed, there will be no players leaving and no more first-team players will be brought in. ”

When the reporters heard this, they immediately looked at each other.

They were all anxious for Millwall!

Richard said with a hint of concern: "Compared to the investment of other strong teams in the Premier League in the summer. Aren't Millwall worried about competitiveness for the new season? To tell the truth, Millwall's investment is not even a fraction of the investment of other strong teams. ”

Faced with this question, Aldrich fell into silence.

In addition to bringing in Stam in the summer, Manchester United also brought in Sheringham, and the transfer market invested around 20 million pounds.

Liverpool's squad was already strong enough, and tinkering also spent five million pounds to bring in five players, Friedel, Dundee, Riddle. The £150,000 transfer fee for free Staunton and Goodnersson is not worth mentioning.

The most eye-catching is the London team, which spends money one by one.

Tottenham have brought in Roman Veiga. David Ginola, Les Ferdinand, Jose Dominguez, it cost £8 million to take two key players from Newcastle United alone, plus two other players, Tottenham spent almost £15 million in the summer.

Tottenham's sworn rival Arsenal, Arsene Wenger is very hopeful for his first full season in charge, and in the summer transfer market, the Arsenal board of directors has also been generous, in addition to the transfer of several young players under a million pounds, Wenger brought Emmanuel Petit from his old club Ligue 1 champions Monaco, Luis Boamot from Lisbon, and the most notable transfer is Wenger's transfer from Ajax to Peter Pan Overmars to Highbury, worth 7 million pounds, Arsenal have spent more than £13 million so far in the summer.

Millwall's sworn enemy Chelsea, Bates continued the policy of borrowing too much into the transfer market, in addition to the transfer of less than one million pounds, Chelsea brought back a young defender Barbayaro from Belgium, Dutch international De Huye, French defender Lambaud, free transfer high salary attracted Poyet, using the Bosman law to bring in Norwegian high school striker Flo at an ultra-low price of 300,000 pounds, the most heavyweight transfer is that they bought back Lesaux from Blackburn who left four years ago, when they left, The transfer fee for Le Sox was 700,000, and Chelsea bought it back four years later for 7 million, and Chelsea spent around £14 million in the summer.

None of these three clubs have been able to make up for half of their investment in the transfer market, with Chelsea and Arsenal having spent more than £10 million in the transfer market for two consecutive years, and are in dire need of results to boost their earnings.

Unconsciously, one of Arsenal and Chelsea has the capital to regain its glory, and the other has accumulated strength bit by bit and embarked on the road to rise.

The reason Aldrich's silence is that he has a clear perception of reality.

The other teams have gotten stronger, but will Millwall just stand still?

Of course not, just look at the main lineup, although Millwall has gone Stam, but the other players are still growing and improving, experience, skills, team tacit understanding, etc., Millwall's starting 11 should be stronger than last season, because they have experienced the baptism of the championship.

But a team doesn't just rely on 11 starters, it needs to have substitutes, substitutes who can play.

In this regard, Millwall is lacking, and Aldridge also admits in his heart that if players like Van der Meyde and Duff are sent to play, their expectations must be very low.

Sighing, Aldridge spread his hands and said: "In this way, you all think that Millwall's recruitment work is not good, then, please do me a favor, I have 10 million pounds here, you tell me, who should I buy?" I hope this is a professional discussion, not a nonsense. You name some of the names that come to Millwall to make my team stronger. Or. These players can quickly integrate into Millwall's tactical system. ”

When Aldrich asked him this, the reporters were speechless.

Everyone looked pensive, and after thinking about it carefully, maybe it was really like what Aldridge said, it was not that they didn't have money to buy people, but that they had become famous stars, and they might not be easy to buy them.

In Millwall's tactical system, many of the characters are elusive.

The organizational role of the front waist is greatly weakened. Wingers are not like wingers, and center forwards do not stand on the pile, although full-back assists are not new, but a full-back who can attack and defend, how can it be so easy to find?

If you want to say which link is the weakest, it must be the goalkeeper.

But Bout is still young and his performance is stable.

All you can say is that he can't make more world-class saves, but he's more consistent than his predecessor Keller, and he can surprise you occasionally, which is pretty good. The Premier League does not yet have a Golden Glove award, but Bout beat Schmeichel last season. Seaman, James and other recognized excellent goalkeepers will become the best goalkeeper in the Premier League, and his strength is also affirmed, but he is not so famous, which leads to the impression that he is not particularly strong.

The reporters couldn't answer Aldrich's question.

Accusing Millwall of poor signings, they also couldn't give particularly good advice.

Most of them have a strange feeling, even if Ovemars is given to Millwall, Ovimars is stronger personally, but he does not seem to be able to replace Shevchenko's winger position, even if Ronaldo, who is the most popular, is used to replace Trezeguet, you will feel that it does not necessarily mean that Millwall will be stronger.

This is the combination of the player's style of play and the team's technical and tactical system, which has nothing to do with the strength of the player, but is a question of the overall integrity of the puzzle.

Because Millwall's tactical philosophy is different, Aldridge's team style is very different from the mainstream, which directly leads to the players he needs are very special in terms of ability.

Better than Overmars, is he stronger? Aldrich will say: Very strong!

But even if Aldrich was given an Overmars for free, he would feel like a hot potato.

How long will it take to change his habit of taking the ball down? How long did it take for him to settle into the tactical system, passing the ball instead of too much dribbling? It is also necessary to train him in the winger position to outflank and steal the goal, and get closer to the goal.

Half a season, a season? Or longer?

Aldridge doesn't know what to do, especially when this kind of player is already a star.

It's like falling in love and sending a good person card: you are very good, but we are not suitable.

Because of this, Aldridge also has a headache, he can't find a substitute who can fight, he can only give young players more opportunities, anyway, to buy other players who seem to be powerful, it also takes a long time to run in and integrate.

So he basically doesn't consider players over the age of 23, because after the age of 23, most players are unable to make more changes in their technical ability and playing habits, and the training is just to maintain the condition, which is better, also because of the improvement of experience awareness.

The reporters all frowned and got up and left their seats.

One by one, they seemed to be in a heavy mood, and they were all thinking about the same problem.

Is Millwall really weird?

There are really no famous stars outside who can play in them?

Aldridge's tactical system is so special

The four rookie players were dumbfounded, and it was a memorable press conference.

Our head coach directly confused the reporters.

Although this is not a fierce verbal exchange like a group of tongue wars, these reporters came happily and left with a heavy heart, as if they had undergone a baptism of thought, and Aldridge's image in the hearts of these four players seemed to be a little fuller.

The next day, Leo Training Base.

The expansion resulted in a brand new building, almost tripling the size of the training hotel they had been staying in for the past three years.

The first-team players walked out of the building in their training jerseys, laughing and talking.

Aldridge chatted with several coaches on the sidelines.

Muhrensteen and Moniz were particularly excited today, having returned from a holiday in the Netherlands to find out that there were so many good seedlings at the club, and they were simply driven crazy with excitement.

Vicente, for example, was already outstanding at the age of 16 with his speed and footwork, and the coaches knew at a glance that he was a manufactur.

This is enough for Mulensteen and Moniz, the former is the technical director, the latter is the technical coach, they have to develop different training plans according to the characteristics of the players, so the two and Aldridge chatted for a while and then went to the youth team to observe the players, and through a period of observation to study the corresponding technical training program.

"Hey, wait a minute, you guys come here first, there are still four players here that you need to focus on."

Mulensteen trotted halfway before turning around and smiling, "Okay, we'll come back later." ”

After that, he and Moniz ran to the youth team again (to be continued......)