At dawn, Aldrich drove to a hotel near the Lion's Den Stadium at night.

It was also Millwall's property, and when he took over the club, the rent-and-buy-and-rebuild hotel was initially used as a place for Millwall's indoor training, and later became a place similar to the club's internal clubhouse.

He used to swim regularly indoors here for two years and had a long Monday night beer night with his coaches.

In the last two years, I have come relatively little, because I want to stay at home and spend time with my family when I have free time.

He parked his car in the parking lot outside the hotel, walked into the hotel alone, and took the elevator to the fifth floor, where there was a small bar, and the staff had finished work, and at this time a person was sitting in the bar drinking alcohol.

When Aldrich sat down beside him, he pushed a glass of wine in front of Aldrich with an envelope.

Klinsmann, who was already slightly drunk, looked frustrated, and when he noticed that Aldrich had not picked up his glass, he said excitedly: "In the envelope is my resignation letter." ”

Aldrich reached out and pressed it on his wrist to stop him from drinking.

Klinsmann suddenly laughed nervously.

Smiling and smiling, he lowered his head and pressed his forehead against his other arm.

"Aldrich, I'm sorry, I didn't live up to your expectations, I"

"Jurgen, it's not over yet, even if this season is empty, you still have one season to spare, at least in the past three months, your coaching results are obvious to all, and they are developing in a good direction."

In fact, it is. Looking at the efficiency of grabbing points in the last three months, Millwall is the first in the league, but they dropped the chain in December.

There are 5 rounds left in the league. Even if the title defense fails, the gap between the title and the championship will not be obvious.

Klinsmann looked down and laughed: "Aldridge, no, I don't have time, I can feel it, in the dressing room, many players don't want to talk to me anymore." Even if it's face-to-face, it's just a kind of respect for the feelings of working together in the past, what do I say? Nobody wants to listen, and I, thanks to them, moved to another team. I'm afraid you'll have already turned against me. No one stabbed me in the back, which gives me the greatest respect. Aldrich, this job, I can't do it, I really can't do it, I'm not you, there aren't many people in the Millwall dressing room who really obey me, no. I now ask myself, what can I do to convince these glorious players? Or not. ”

Klinsmann's tone was rather pathetic.

Aldrich closed his eyes. I suddenly remembered a mocking report by the Fleet Street tabloid two months ago.

After Klinsmann abandoned Larsson, Larsson has been silent, trained diligently, and did not make any remarks to the outside world, and in the team, it was more like he isolated himself, and rarely communicated with his teammates.

After a long time, the reporters outside also understood the situation.

Larsson obviously had a cold war with Klinsmann, and the core of it was that if the manager didn't use me, I would ignore the manager.

But Larsson didn't make any trouble, not once, he was like a transparent man who didn't play, only trained at Millwall.

In order to exaggerate the contradictions within Millwall's team, Fleet Street used tabloids to play on the topic.

Roughly speaking, Larsson's conversation with Klinsmann is virtualized.

Klinsmann: Obey me!

Larson: Why?

Jurgen Klinsmann: I'm a World Cup winner! European Cup winners!

Larsson: We're a club, we can't play in the World Cup and the European Championships, I have five league titles, I have four Champions League titles, why?

Klinsmann: I have a league title too! I also have a League Cup! Plus, I conquered the Premier League as a German!

Larsen: I conquered Europe as a Swede!

The intention of the unscrupulous tabloids must be to fan the flames, because Larsson himself is not resisting Klinsmann, if Klinsmann reuses him, Larsson will immediately put on the battle without saying a word, and show the fighting spirit to die on the battlefield.

This idea is crooked, but the content of this virtual dialogue has a certain practical significance.

Millwall have a lot of players in the team full of honors, and if you want to impress them, the manager needs to have a very high capital.

This is also the biggest problem for Aldridge's departure last summer, please outsiders, try to ask, in today's football, which coach has the honor of this group of players? And once the outsider leads the team to a decline in performance and can't balance the intricate network of relationships in the locker room, I am afraid that there will be countless swords and swords immediately, just like Klinsmann said, the player will stab in the back! Immediately there will be a bloody picture.

It is to borrow Klinsmann's past work at Millwall to make a certain reluge.

So Millwall was calm, but it was too quiet, and it became a dead silence.

If you don't explode in silence, you die in silence.

The Millwall dressing room did not erupt, but now it was moving towards death in silence.

Klinsmann had difficulty even communicating with his players.

What's the use of listening to him?

Speaking of which, can communication make the team win?

Moreover, Klinsmann's insistence on trusting Klose and abandoning Larsson's approach really broke the hearts of many people.

This confidence to continue the victory and rebuild the glory is not visible in Klinsmann in the dressing room, and it has also come to a strange fork in the road.

And this group of big-name players, Klinsmann has a kind of jealousy that he can't provoke.

Aldridge put his hand on Klinsmann's shoulder and comforted him softly: "To be honest, now I feel that I didn't think it through last year, and what you carried was heavier than I expected. ”

On the surface, last summer and the summer of '98 were almost the same, in the summer of '98, half of the main team was gone, and in the summer of '02, four Dingding heroes were gone.

But the reality is still very different.

In '98, there weren't many big names left in Millwall's squad.

In 98, the foundation of the rise of the second generation of wild lions. Nedved, Larsson and Southgate are still between 25 and 28 years old. It is the golden age that can definitely carry the team forward, plus Pirlo, Xiao Luo and other rising stars are ambitious, and the dynasty created by the second generation of wild lions is not accidental, there is a certain inevitability.

And last summer. Not to mention Southgate is 32, Larsson is over 30 years old, and even Nedved is still seriously injured. At this age, the player's own fitness becomes the main focus of energy, let alone more dedication, even if it can take into account the overall situation of the team. But it's also very limited.

Aldridge miscalculated the context of last summer's team's construction. It should not be a simple replacement, it is by no means normal, but there must be a new king to be supported on the throne!

There are no rules, and the same is true within the team!

In this period of time when Southgate, Larsson, and Nedved began to take a curtain call, the invisible competition within Millwall had already quietly kicked off.

Like the front line, there is no one to shake the team. No one can question the iconic figure who carries the banner of the king. Henry, of course!

But Klinsmann made Henry make a certain sacrifice to support Klose to the throne.

And the competition in the midfield is also very cruel, Alonso, Lampard, Nedved, and Kaka, even if it is impossible to correct a new king at once, but at least there must be a clear attitude, when Aldridge was still in the position of head coach two years ago, the new king after Nedved is none other than Kaka, of course, now Kaka is not qualified to get the starting and main force of the stable dìng, but you have to give him a signal to make him understand that if you want to stand in Nedved's position and succeed Millwall's iconic midfielder, You have to pay more, work hard, and fight!

However, the competition in the midfield of Millwall is extremely chaotic, and even in the post-Gattuso era, defensive midfielders have been kicked out of the arena for the top position, which is also a change that Klinsmann has to make in order to balance the excessive number of big players in the midfield, and this has also laid the groundwork for his betrayal today.

The same is true of the back line, Nesta is very strong, but Nesta is not an iconic figure of Millwall, if he stays at Millwall for ten years, with his ability, he will become an unforgettable figure in Millwall's history, but Nesta is now 27 years old, and the king of the next generation of defenders has not yet surfaced.

There needs to be a clear order within a team, and this kind of control is even more demanding of the manager, and Aldridge did not take this aspect into account until last summer, and it was not until Klinsmann led the team for nearly a season that he figured out the cause of the problems that broke out in Millwall, which is a problem that can only be seen by an onlooker.

Inside Millwall, which cannot be seen by the outside world, in fact, this disorderly internal attrition and open and secret fighting is the reason for the obvious decline in the team's combat effectiveness, and it has little to do with the advantages and disadvantages of what skills and tactics, because half of the world-class team, no matter how the formation and playing style change, there is no gap between the abyss.

"Aldrich, I also love Millwall, I like it here, so, I quit, I can't accept the fact that I ruined Millwall little by little."

Klinsmann looked up, turning his head to look at Aldrich for the first time, and there were two obvious tear streaks on his face.

Aldridge suddenly felt a little guilty, he was always bold, which made it easy to ignore many objective facts, and Klinsmann's words cut his heart like a knife.

It can't be blamed that Klinsmann dared to take over the position of Millwall, a super strong team, and that kind of temptation was thrown to Klinsmann by Aldrich.

Aldrich shook his head slightly, lowered his gaze, his eyes fell on the glass of wine, and said astringently: "I don't accept your resignation, tomorrow, Millwall will officially announce the dismissal of you." ”

Klinsmann stood up, whispered two words, and walked out.

"Thank you."

Thanks for what?

Was Millwall sacking him, will he be given contract compensation?

Of course not.

It was Aldrich who maintained his dignity.

If Klinsmann resigns, it proves that he is afraid, withdrawn, and has no confidence to continue to work, which in the eyes of the outside world is a kind of cowardice and even self-denial.

Just like Keegan, who led LinkedIn Gran to resign voluntarily after losing to Germany, he himself admitted that he lacked ability.

Being a head coach is not a job, the first thing is to ask others to obey you!

You yourself have no confidence, who do you expect to convince you?

If Millwall sacked Klinsmann, it would more or less cover up Klinsmann's failure in this coaching.

Tilting his head and drinking the wine, Aldrich pulled out his lighter, lit a cigarette, and burned the letter.

Five minutes later, Aldridge pulled out his phone and called Jenson, saying only one word.

"Tomorrow with me will return to the Lion." (To be continued......)